1 | '''Basic Trope''': A creature who attacks on your behalf as a weapon. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice fights by sicking her dog on her foes. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Everyone fights each other by sending trained animals, robots or some other creature which obeys their commands after them. |
5 | ** {{Mon}} fighting |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice has the power to call animals to her aid, but usually fights with more conventional weapons. |
7 | * '''Justified''': Alice isn't a trained fighter or very strong, but her dog's loyal and perfectly capable of tackling her foes. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': |
9 | ** Alice has to [[EscortMission escort her dog to safety]]. |
10 | ** Alice has an armadillo that can block enemy attacks for her. |
11 | * '''Subverted''': Alice sicks her dog on Bob... [[IncompetentGuardAnimal but since it wasn't trained as an attack dog he just sits there.]] |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': Bob sneers and attacks Alice, which causes her dog to leap to his master's defence. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': |
14 | ** Alice looks completly defenceless until she snaps her fingers to call in her CanisMajor. |
15 | ** Alice uses her dog [[CrossesTheLineTwice as a]] ''[[GrievousHarmWithABody club]]''. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Alice has her dog attack, other times it simply runs away when a fight breaks out. |
17 | * '''Averted''': Alice just uses a gun. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': The show's creators wanted to include the dog as a SeriesMascot and needed a way to make sure it didn't look like he was there just to sell toys. |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "[[OhCrap Uh-oh]]...nice doggy...?" |
20 | * '''Invoked''': Alice trains her dog as an attack dog so she can use him as a concealed weapon (since being accompanied by a dog wouldn't be very unusual). |
21 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
22 | * '''Defied''': Using animals or any other semi-intelligent creature as a weapon is strictly forbidden by animal rights laws. The few people who try it have to deal with {{Animal Wrongs Group}}s. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "Is she armed?" "She has a fully loaded dog pointed at us." |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "Why does that character have a trained dog?" "[[RuleOfCool Because trained dogs are cool.]]" |
25 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob calls out Alice for making her pet fight her battles for her. |
26 | * '''Reconstructed''': Alice points out that dogs are simply wolves which have been bred to get along with humans; she's not making it do anything that it wouldn't do on instinct. |
27 | * '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice's dog frequently ignores her commands or gets distracted by sticks and balls thrown by enemies. |
28 | * '''Played For Drama:''' Alice's beloved pet is slowly becoming more violent and bloodthirsty. Can she protect herself without letting her dog become a monster? |
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30 | OK, AttackAnimal; Stay! ...there's a good PotHole. Yes you are! |
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32 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
33 | %% |
34 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
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