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8	[[caption-width-right:313:Maybe monkeys can get away with lounging on the ground, but elephants must be held to a higher standard.]]
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10	-> ''I meant what I said, and I said what I meant!''
11	-> ''An elephant's faithful, one-hundred percent!''
12	-->-- '''Horton''', ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg''
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14	Thanks to its size, the movements of an elephant tend to be slow and ponderous. While it's impossible to know whether an elephant's inner life is more somber and dignified than, say, that of an [[PlayfulOtter otter]], it certainly ''looks'' that way. This impression of elephants is compounded by the fact that elephants are observed engaging in what appears to be reverence for their dead. It seems likely that they are aware of their own mortality, given that when encountering fallen members of their kind, elephants will pause and observe, to the point of picking up and inspecting loose bones they might find. The [[ElephantsNeverForget prodigious memory]] of elephants also makes it seem that their lives must be more burdened by history and the past than animals with less powerful memories, which exist more "in the moment".
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16	An anthropomorphized elephant or mammoth will typically be honorable and stoic. A young elephant may be more playful, but is unlikely to be a willful troublemaker. Ironically, while in RealLife female elephants tend to be the most involved in the complex social behaviors which make them so easily identified-with, fictitious elephantine heroes tend to be males -- perhaps because something so massive and thick-skinned as an elephant seems masculine even when the beast is female.
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18	Some aspects of RealLife elephants, such as their excellent memories, may be portrayed widely in fiction, while other aspects, such as the feeling of UnstoppableRage and lust males feel during ''musth,'' may be played down. [[BerserkButton Except in the case]] [[ElephantsAreScaredOfMice they encounter]] [[YouDirtyRat dirty rats]].
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20	Compare GenialGiraffe, another friendly animal that is often seen together with elephants. The polar opposite of the CruelElephant.
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28	* In ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'', the president of [[WhatExactlyIsHisJob whatever company the characters work at]] is an elephant. He's kinda forgetful and a little incompetent, but he's a NiceGuy and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, especially when compared to folks like [[StayInTheKitchen Hog Honcho]]/[[DubNameChange Director Ton]], [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Scatherine/Tsubone]], and [[CloudCuckoolander Boss Buffalo/Yagyū]]. It should be noted, though, that [[NobleBirdOfPrey Eaglette/Washimi]], one of Retsuko's best friends, is the President's [[VisualPun personal secretary]], so how much of this is his normal behavior and how much of this is Eaglette pulling strings to help her friend have a good time at work is unknown.
29	%%* ''Anime/BeastWarsNeo'': Big Convoy, ''Anime/BeastWarsII''[='=]s Santon, and the toy-only Ironhide.
30	* ''Anime/TheJungleBook'': Hathi the elephant, like his book counterpart, is the temperate but righteous leader and lawgiver of the jungle.
31	* In ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'', hospital administrator [[MeaningfulName Elephas Rex]] refuses to turn away patients. It turns out that he is [[spoiler:a former war criminal who [[TheAtoner hopes to die having saved more lives than he took]]]].
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35	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': Master Paopao is an anthropomorphic elephant who loves to advocate peace, is known for his fairness when holding court trials, and is all-around friendly.
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39	* ''AudioPlay/BenjaminBlumchen'': The hero eponymous hero is a [[TalkingAnimal talking elephant]] with a strong sense of justice and a GentleGiant personality.
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43	* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', elephants (including the [[BeastMan loxodon]]) are usually Green or White, the colours most invocative of honour. Still, as LightIsNotGood, the loxodon of Mirrodin were brute bigots [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity incapable of acknowledging moral complexity]].
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47	* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Brother Warth is a member of [[HopeSpringsEternal the Blue Lantern Corps.]], hand picked by its leader.
48	* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': in the comic adaptation of "Bedlam in the Big Top," (Gold Key #9, "The Phantom Clown"), Velma finds out that Bertha the circus elephant never responded to commands because she's a German elephant and responds only to German commands. Velma uses this in getting Bertha to help defeat the Phantom Clown.
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52	* ''Animation/ThirtyEightParrots'': Elephant is shy, bookish and [[ApologizesALot constantly apologizing]].
53	* ''Animation/AdventuresOfMowgli'': Hatkhi from the Soviet adaptation is a very respected and dignified authority figure, akin to a lawkeeper, and with none of the goofy traits of his Disney counterpart.
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57	* In ''Fanfic/KaijuRevolution'', the Skull Island Mammoths are a species of kaiju-sized mammoth that are generally peaceful and serve an important role in the island's ecosystem by creating large game trails that are utilized by many of the native plants and animals.
58	* Martha the mammoth from ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' is amongst the animals rescued for the titular park in ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth''. Much like in the series she's originally from, she's a gentle soul [[spoiler:and she even ends up being used to combat against a rogue female t. rex that the story's villains attempt to use to cause chaos at the park for the sake of their own plans]].
59	* Most of the prehistoric elephants rescued in ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'' prove to be largely friendly and agreeable [[GentleGiant gentle giants]]. Martha in particular is every bit the kindly GentleGiant that she was in the original ''Prehistoric Park'' (even managing to sympathize and form a bond with JerkWithAHeartOfGold security chief Nikolai). But just to be safe, all the adult males are largely kept separate from the youngsters and adult females at the park, [[CruelElephant just in case]].
60	* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', Funkfreed (the sword-turned-elephant belonging to Spandam of Cipher Pol 0) comes into the possession of [[SelfInsert self-insert]] hero Cross. He proves to be quite a friendly individual when he's working with the Straw Hats, if a bit of a [[BloodKnight bruiser]], which is why he was never satisfied with having [[DirtyCoward Spandam]] as a wielder.
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64	* Tika from ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsTheIslandPrincess'' is a downplayed version. While she is generally sweet-natured and kind, she does have rather [[SpoiledBrat bratty moments]], such as going out of her way to sabotage Ro and Antonio's relationship.
65	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'': The title character is playful but never malicious. The Matriarch invokes this trope ("We elephants have always walked with dignity.") but is actually a CruelElephant behind her [[FauxAffablyEvil dignified facade]]. [[MamaBear Mrs. Jumbo]] plays it straighter, [[HumansAreBastards not that it helps her]].
66	* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': Manny is an honorable mammoth. He feels morally obligated to return a human baby to his family even though he knows that the child could one day grow up to be a mammoth-killer, and although he's grouchy and reclusive at times, he's definitely the most principled and moral of the main characters.
67	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', Hathi is like an honorable, respectable (if not too bright) [[StiffUpperLip British army officer]].
68	* The [[DevelopmentHell sadly unreleased]] movie ''The Legend of Tembo'' was going to be about an African savanna elephant who is taken away from his home and is sent to India to be turned into one of the war elephants used by Hannibal during his crossing of the Alps.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': Tantor may be a CowardlyLion, but when his friends are in danger he [[LetsGetDangerous overcomes his fear]] and helps them.
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73	* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' has Fridge taming an elephant that helps them in fighting Van Pelt.
74	* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' has the elephants play a more important role, with them becoming PhysicalGods who had shaped the jungle into its current state. They become grateful to Mowgli rescuing one of their calves, and they in turn help him put out the fire he accidentally started near the end of the movie.
75	* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Behemoth -- a {{Kaiju}} who resembles a cross between a mammoth and a ground sloth -- plays with this; he's portrayed as destructive under [[TheCorrupter Ghidorah's]] command, but [[spoiler:later proves to be a docile and beneficial creature once Godzilla takes charge, [[FertileFeet restoring much of the Amazon rainforest just by walking around]]]]. Though only appearing in a few scenes, [[EnsembleDarkHorse he's become a fan favourite]], in large part for his weird, striking design.
76	* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'': This incarnation of Hathi is more true to his book counterpart, being a benevolent ruler of the jungle. He saves Mowgli from a tiger pit and later gathers the other elephants to help the boy defeat Shere Khan [[spoiler:in return for showing him the hunter who shot part of his tusk off]].
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80	* Creator/BillPeet's ''Literature/TheAntAndTheElephant'' features an elephant who goes out of his way to help animals in trouble, though only one -- the ant -- shows any gratitude.
81	* In ''Literature/{{Babar}}'', the elephants live in TheGoodKingdom, while the rhinoceroses seem to be a military dictatorship ruled by an InsaneAdmiral.
82	* In ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}'', elephants are the most spiritual animals in the Bravelands, telling the future by touching the bones of dead animals. The past is very important to them, and they love telling stories. Just like in real-life, a matriarch leads them and lets the herd make decisions together.
83	* ''Literature/TheCalfOfTheNovemberCloud'': As he and his calf are fleeing from hostile, cattle-thieving warriors, Konyek comes upon one couple of elephants. Even though he knows that they could easily him and his calf, even without meaning to, Konyek is not frightened because he has seen how gently and carefully they treat their own babies. And, indeed, not only do the elephants help the kid and his calf survive a flood but they and their baby also help Konyek clear his name when his tribe has been tricked into thinking he stole the calf and ran away. Konyek called the female elephant Yoyo (Masai for ''mother'') and the male Leng-aina (meaning both ''elephant'' and ''of the Long Arm''). When their calf was born, Konyek also baptized it as Ol-Kulto (''caterpillar).
84	* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'': Mammoths and other prehistoric proboscideans are all portrayed this way. One particular mammoth, Bigtusk, is one of the leading Habitat Partners.
85	* Creator/DrSeuss wrote of Horton, an elephant who was always faithful, 100%. He both [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho safeguards a tiny, invisible world]] and [[Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg incubates an egg in his custody]].
86	%%* ''Elmer the Patchwork Elephant'' is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin an elephant named Elmer]] who for some reason [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife is colored like a rainbow patchwork quilt]].%%Is he honorable?
87	* In ''Literature/TheEnormousCrocodile'', by Creator/RoaldDahl, the eponymous CardCarryingVillain's attempts to prey on children are all foiled by four friendly animals, the fourth one being Trunky the Elephant, who gets rid of him once and for all by grabbing him with his trunk and [[HurlItIntoTheSun hurling him into the sun.]] (It's a kids book; CartoonPhysics apply.)
88	* In ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', Hathi is a wise (and honorable) Lord of the Jungle, who follows orders from nobody. [[spoiler:Except for Mowgli, sending him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
89	* ''[[Franchise/MickeyMouse Mickey and Donald in the Tickle Grass]]'': said tickle grass lies in a valley underneath the shack of a miserable old man who [[EvilIsPetty hates the sound of laughter]]. He plows the glass, nut the tears of Mickey and Donald attracts the attention of a pair of kindly elephants named Moe and Joe, who soak up the water of a magic spring to regrow the glass. And then they have a [[GoodIsNotSoft word]] with the old man...
90	* Stella, the old circus elephant in ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'', is good friend with the gorilla Ivan. She's reserved and doesn't have Ivan's willful denial of how bad their situation is, and tells him stories. When the Big Top Mall gets a new baby elephant, Ruby, Stella tries to protect and soothe what is to her a traumatized child, but Stella has an injured foot with a recurrent, untreated infection that she soon [[DeathByNewberryMedal dies of]]. As she's dying she starts to ask Ivan to promise her something, but stops herself, knowing a promise is forever and he's as powerless as she is. He knows she wants Ruby to have a better life somewhere else and promises anyway.
91	** Ivan also has the impression that bull elephants are like [[GentleGorilla silverback gorillas]] - stoic, dignified, rarely angry except in protection of their families. If Stella knew otherwise, she didn't tell him.
92	* The mammoths in ''Literature/QuestForFire'', particularly the chief mammoth who [[InterspeciesFriendship befriends the human protagonist]]. They are intelligent and loyal creatures who defend said protagonist and his companions from a CannibalTribe.
93	* The Oz book sequels by Ruth Plumly Thompson introduce Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Oz. While noted for his ostentatious vanity, he is also a brave and clever soldier of fortune, who will never desert a friend in need, and valiantly rescues people from danger.
94	* ''Literature/ReynardTheFox'', a [[OlderThanTheyThink 12th century parody]] of [[TheLowMiddleAges Medieval Feudalism]] where [[AnimalStereotypes carnivores are nobles and herbivores are peasants]], the elephant was allowed to join the royal court because of his great intelligence.
95	* Creator/RichardScarry: Polite Elephant is a GentleGiant who exists to teach kids good manners by example.
96	* {{Justified}} in the ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'' novels, in that all elephants seen are tamed ones used for carrying people and objects, and they're naturally brave and loyal. ''But'' they're also intelligent and with long memories, and if provoked long enough [[CruelElephant they will take a cruel revenge]].
97	%%* The ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' novels feature an elephant named Tantor.%%And?
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101	* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' features Martha the mammoth. She first appears unsuccessfully trying to aid her sister, who has died falling in a pit trap made by early humans. Later, although she becomes an outcast from the African elephant herd the park attempts to bond her with, [[spoiler:she stands up to Matilda, a young ''T. rex'', when Matilda targets the matriarch's calf]], leading to her being accepted into the herd.
102	* In ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', a Columbian mammoth [[SummonBiggerFish saves James Lester from a Future Predator]] in one episode. At the beginning of the episode he'd been making jokes about selling the mammoth for ivory. At the end of the episode, he brings it treats and cements his status as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
103	* In ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'', honor seems to increase in the proboscidean family tree as it gets closer to modern elephants.
104	** In "Mammoth Journey", female woolly mammoths and their young live in family groups that stick together and quietly help each other when facing predators and climatic hardships. The most unprovoked aggression seen consists of an adult male in musth chasing off a herd of bison with a mildly threatening trot, and an older bull scaring two cave lions out of his way when he migrates south (though said lions were feeding on [[IAmAHumanitarian a human carcass]]).
105	** ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotheriidae Deinotherium]]'' in "Next of Kin", in contrast, are sadistic bullies that seem to revel on [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman chasing hominids]] out of waterholes or because they are on heat. Bear in mind that this is as much elephantine behavior as the one exhibited by the mammoths. The series gives all positive traits to one lineage and all negative traits to the other, who also happens to be [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute the uglier, less elephant-looking one.]]
106	** The goofy-looking ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeritherium Moeritherium]]'' in "Whale Killer" are [[GentleGiant perfect pacifists]] that don't really look or act like elephants. One is chased by the threatening ''[[MonsterWhale Basilosaurus]]'', but unlike most prey animals in the series it is given the chance to escape.
107	* The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' have two elephant-looking kaiju, Zuruzula from ''Series/UltramanEighty'' and Gazebo from ''Series/UltramanTowardsTheFuture'', neither of them which are hostile or violent. The former is a harmless zoo animal who was accidentally transformed into a monster after being exposed to [[TheCorruptor Minus Energy]], and even in it's giant state Zuruzula is never seen attacking the city or destroying buildings, only using it's trunks to blast high-pressure jets of water at UGM planes when they attack him, in self-defense, resulting in Ultraman Eighty purging the Minus Energy from inside him turning Zuruzula back to a zoo animal. The latter is a forest guardian protecting the environment and defending his own territory, causing Ultraman Great to put him into a DeepSleep rather than killing it.
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111	%%* ''Nellie the Elephant'', a British folk song that later received an AnimatedAdaptation.%%ZCE
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115	* Literature/TheBible: A likely candidate for the Behemoth, a biblical creature mentioned in the Literature/BookOfJob, is the now extinct giant Syrian elephant. Described to show the limits of man's power against God's nature, Behemoth is described as the most powerful land animal on the planet. In particular, the wording used to describe its greatness imply both physical and intellectual might. It's so big it has to use trees for shade and has giant horns/tusks it can gore the Leviathan with -- certainly a beast that shouldn't be trifled with. Yet it spends its days peacefully in the fields and swamps, eating grass as the smaller beasts play around it, showing that it's a GentleGiant herbivore if left in peace.
116	* UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}}: The Buddha was an honorable elephant in several of his previous lives, and the popularity of white elephants in UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}} has to do with Buddha taking the form of a six-tusked white elephant.
117	* Myth/HinduMythology: Played entirely straight, as elephants often symbolize wisdom, grace, power and kingliness. Eight divine elephants carry the world on their backs, and a white four-tusked elephant is the mount of the storm god Indra. The elephant-headed god Ganesha, one of the most popular gods in Hinduism, removes obstacles and gives people good luck, as well as protecting children.
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121	* Horton the Elephant is the main protagonist of ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'', which adapts both ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' and ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'', among other Seuss books. Here, he is called upon to guard the Whos and sit on Mayzie's egg at the same time, presenting a moral dilemma as to which innocent life to protect.
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125	* ''VideoGame/BoogieWings'' have elephants as one of your steeds that you can ride on and kick ass with.
126	* The WWII-set game, ''VideoGame/Commando2'' have the start of the Thailand mission, where you can commandeer an albino elephant as a ride. The elephant is invulnerable to enemy gunfire and assists you in trampling over the Japanese and German occupiers around the stage.
127	* ''VideoGame/ElephantQuest'': The title character is both stoically determined to regain his hat, and loyally prepared to undergo {{Side Quest}}s for his friends while he does so. Averted with the other elephants, who are excitable ApatheticCitizens.
128	* ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass'' tells the story of Issaries' quest to make peace between the Big-Teeth (sabretooth cats) and Long-Noses (mammoths). It's specifically noted that the Long-Noses didn't cause the war and are only fighting back in self-defense. Unlike their enemies, they care about Long-Nose fallen being given their rightful DueToTheDead, and [[spoiler:will not try to treacherously attack Issaries after he helps them]].
129	* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 3'' have an elephant frozen in the ice caves, which is on your side - once you release said elephant, it will give you a ride while stomping on incoming enemy zombies.
130	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' Donphan is known for clearing roads after disasters, while Cufant and Copperajah are both known to help humans with heavy lifting. Copperajah is even [[WellIntentionedExtremist Chairman]] [[WealthyPhilanthropist Rose's]] signature Pokémon.
131	* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' has some elephant villagers throughout the series, and many of them are [[NiceGuy nice animals]], even [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold the Cranky or Snooty elephants]].
132	* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': The elephant-headed god Ganesha is a guardian that shares his kill benefits even better to his nearby teammates. He's also able to slow down while granting protections to his teammates.
133	* ''VideoGame/FarCry4'': In a franchise known for EverythingIsTryingToKillYou when it comes to wildlife, elephants stand out for being the one animal that won't try to harm Ajay unless he attacks them- the only humans that they attack unprovoked are Royal Army troops. With the right skill, it's even possible to ride on their backs and deliver a FoeTossingCharge at enemies and vehicles.
134	* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy''. Chloe and Nadine's PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure is healed when they work together to save a female Asian elephant pinned under a stone column that [[BigBad Asav's]] men blew over with their explosive weaponry. They then have a PetTheDog moment riding the elephant back to her family, but once they're reunited, the elephants don't do anything more to help the girls, and Nadine has to warn Chloe not to step too close to them, otherwise the [[CruelElephant bull]] "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Will. Kill you]]."
135	* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/{{Syberia}}'', the Youkol tribe had domesticated mammoths and had lived in a symbiotic relationship. It is said that even to this day they live off the remains of mammoths frozen in ice. [[spoiler:In ''Syberia II'', it is revealed that mammoths are still living on the far away land of Syberia. When Kate and Hans finally arrive there, the mammoths are immediately friendly towards Hans, who mounts one and rides away.]].
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139	* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Even after Dave ends up scaring him, Eunice the elephant abruptly stops rampaging when he runs up to Asia.
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143	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'' cartoon "Mumbo Jumbo" features Tiny, the ant's forest lodge brother (local 202). Tiny protects the ant from the aardvark at all costs upon hearing the call "zimbala zoombala."
144	* WesternAnimation/BozoTheWorldsMostFamousClown befriends Hercules, the circus elephant. Hercules comes to the rescue after Bozo and Butch are held captive by two thugs who stole the circus receipts.
145	%%* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Raj.
146	%%* ''Franchise/CareBears'': Lotsa Heart elephant.
147	%%* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Woolie.
148	%%* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': Dolores.
149	%%* ''WesternAnimation/EllaTheElephant'', based on the books by Carmela D' Amico and Steven Henry.%%ZCE
150	* Shep is the pet elephant of WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle, whom George says is "a big peanut-loving puppy dog."
151	* ''WesternAnimation/GoliathII'' is about a [[AnimalsNotToScale mouse-sized]] elephant who wants to get the respect of his pompous father.
152	* Fumbo the mighty jumbo is among the friends (and accomplices) of WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch.
153	%%* ''WesternAnimation/JungleJunction'': Ellivan.
154	* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'', Constable Hu is an elephant ByTheBookCop. He has occasionally been an antagonist, for instance in "The Midnight Stranger", when he bans kung fu entirely, but will graciously admit his mistakes when they become apparent.
155	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheLargeFamily'', a slice of life show focusing on a town full of antropomorphic elephants.%%ZCE
156	* ''WesternAnimation/JourneyThroughTheJungleOfWords'' has Schnoz Ali, who is said to be a well-known explorer, as [[JunglePrincess Dualot]] said: "Who ''doesn't'' know Schnoz Ali?"
157	* ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'':
158	** Gaja and his father Aman, who appear in the episode "Guitar to Sitar", are both very kind elephants who help Carmen play a song on the sitar for her mother's birthday.
159	** Maktao grows to be one in "Me and My Elephant."
160	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' has the Pride Lands' local African elephant family, which consists of these. Particularly Ma Tembo, the matriarch, and Mtoto, a young calf who looks up to Beshte and hopes to grow up into a hero like him.
161	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': ''Hobo Bobo'' is a pint-sized elephant who gets tired of lugging logs all the time so he runs off to America seeking his fortune. It becomes a misadventure for him and in the end he winds up exactly where he started, albeit in a different locale. In a later cartoon he becomes a baseball star after an umpire invokes AnimalAthleteLoophole.
162	%%* ''WesternAnimation/MamaMirabellesHomeMovies'': Mama Mirabelle and her son Max.
163	* The elephant of the ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' cartoon "The Helpless Hippo" is the hero's loyal steed and alerts him of any trouble in progress.
164	* In ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'', Spear and Fang hunt and kill an injured woolly mammoth for food and insulation. The rest of the herd come across the dead mammoth's remains and track down Spear and Fang to the cave where they're hiding for the night, upon which the herd attacks the two of them relentlessly. As it seems, though, what they really wanted was a tusk of the dead mammoth, which the herd leader picks up; they bring the tusk to an ElephantGraveyard to mourn him.
165	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRuffAndReddyShow'': The story arc of "Pinky the Pint-Sized Pachyderm" featured elephants who come to assist the heroes and Pinky while giving the villain Scary Harry Safari his just desserts.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'': In "WesternAnimation/ElmerElephant", the title character is a heroic anthropomorphic elephant who saves his LoveInterest Tilly Tiger from a fire.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': In "Bedlam in the Big Top," Scooby gets an elephant at the circus to help Daphne snap out of a hypnotic trance. The elephant soaks up a trunk full of water and douses Daphne with it.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': The Elephants from the elephant village notably subvert the "ElephantsNeverForget" stereotype, since while they're wise they also have [[ForgetfulJones very poor memories]], which they are apparently infamous for. They're also pacifistic to the point that they prefer to solve their problems by meditating until the answer comes to them rather than act straight away. [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes But that doesn't mean they're complete pushovers]].]]
169	* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': In "Jerry-Go-Round", an elephant loyally defends Jerry from Tom after [[AndroclesLion Jerry pulls a nail from the elephant's foot]]. In the earlier "Jerry and Jumbo," Jerry paints a baby elephant (and later its mother) to look like him and royally troll Tom.
170	* [[WesternAnimation/CBBears Undercover Elephant]] is a dedicated but none-too-bright detective. He is assisted and sometimes hindered by Loudmouse.
171	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', every elephant whom Eliza befriends has played this trope straight.
172	* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'': Lumpy and his mother are both kind and heroic Heffalumps (elephant-like creatures) =- in stark contrast with the other, villainous and most likely imaginary Heffalumps of the rest of the franchise.
173	* WesternAnimation/YogiBear helps hide a runaway circus elephant from two cruel circus guards in "Hide and Go Peek."
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177	* The Oakland Athletics baseball team uses an elephant as its mascot, as well as one of its alternate names.
178	* Real elephants are used in Indian temple processions to carry gods, and some of them are sacred animals that bless devotees.
179	* Elephants are not really as noble-hearted as you might think for such intelligent organisms; adolescents have been known to kill rhinos and other animals for amusement.[[labelnote:Note]]Though it's now believed that such behaviors often stem from orphaned teenage gangs of elephants who have grown up without guidance from older elephants, essentially the pachyderm version of juvenile {{delinquents}}. It's become more common as poaching of elder, bigger-tusked elephants has increased.[[/labelnote]] There are even claims that elephants occasionally indulge in [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]] both with members of their species and with other creatures. On the other hand, they are social animals and do have something similar to human empathy, especially toward their fellows or young.
180	* Elephants are one of the few animals that display something akin to 'funerary rituals', like gently touching dead elephant heads with the trunk, or putting dirt and branches on them. They will still do this to elephant skulls after the carcass has decomposed to the bone, and they can apparently not only recognize them, but also distinguish them from the bones of other animals which don't elicit the same gestures. They've also been observed doing the same with dead humans.
181	* The Asian elephant is the national animal of UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}, and is highly revered there for its intellect and diligence. Elephants are commonly used to carry heavy loads and [[HorseOfADifferentColor people]] in Thailand to this day. White (albino) elephants are considered sacred and are associated with the Thai royal family, and every white elephant born in Thailand legally belongs to the King.
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