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  • Ace Attorney has three characters like this, except all of them turn out to be the culprits in their respective cases.
    • Acro is constantly loved and flapped around by birds. These birds even attack Phoenix when he starts accusing Acro of murdering the ringmaster (he did, but he was aiming for someone else). The birds desert Acro when he's at his most intense, but come back afterward.
    • In the third game, Dahlia Hawthorne is similarly accompanied by a trio of butterflies most of the time. Said butterflies explode when Dahlia's true nature is revealed.
    • The second Investigations game has Souta Sarushiro/Simon Keyes, an animal tamer from the same circus as Acro. His complete and utter love for the animals around him convinces everyone — Edgeworth included — that he's innocent of the murder in the prison. He’s the client for the second case, so Edgeworth has to defend him. It's all a facade. He has absolutely no sense of trust in anyone except for a single assassin and his seeing-eye dog. Everyone else is just someone to be used to get his revenge on the conspiracy that ruined his life, and his breakdown at the very end of the game reflects that with all the animals beating him up. And while techincally he's not lying about not being the killer for the murder in the prison, he most certainly manipulated the real killer into taking action.
    • Played straight with a defendant and heroic cutie Sasha Buckler from Dual Destinies. She adores every creature and has a sweet bond with the whale, which she adorably sings to sea shanties, uses an anchor-shaped whistle to issue tricks to her whale, and even wears arm floats when she can swim. Also played straight with her equally pretty predecessor, Azura Summers who is shown using a whistle to sing with her whale friend. Then there's her boyfriend who is another seemingly Nice Guy culprit. Of course there's the fact he never actually killed the victim and the supposed murder was a total accident, not to mention, he does genuinely like all the animals in the aquarium save for one orca he blames for the death of his girlfriend, the aforementioned Azura. He later makes amends with that orca when he learns Azura actually died due to the heart condition she had. So in a sense he's somewhat Double Subverted.
  • Gundham Tanaka from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is a very strange example of this, as although he is a world-renowned animal trainer and lectures anyone who will listen on the proper treatment of animals, he also believes he is a powerful Dark Wizard, aspires to rule the world, and refers to his hamsters as 'The Four Dark Devas of Destruction' This shows even in his execution scene, as the first thing he does before facing his literally incoming death is to put his hamsters out of the stampede's range so they won't be harmed.
  • Rapunzel is this in the Dark Parables series, being the blessing conferred upon her by the nature goddess Flora. She not only gets along with everything living, but she has Swiss-Army Tears which can heal all injuries, and is immune to the Enemy Of All Living Things powers of her little sister Belladonna.
  • Darkstalkers: B.B. Hood is a funny case — plants sprout around her, and butterflies and moles like her far more than is normal, but she does not get along with wolves. (It should be noted that she has a lot of "cute" traits and a less-than-cute personality.)
  • The eponymous protagonist of Dropsy. Humans see his monstrous appearance and are convinced he's a Monster Clown (he's not), but animals generally like him and trust him implicitly — indeed, his dog and the other two Loyal Animal Companions he picks up during the game are necessary to solve puzzles, and Dropsy cares for them in turn. Dropsy also seems to be able to understand their speech, though he is mute himself.
  • The player character in the Endless Ocean games is this, as he/she befriends and learns about various sea life by petting it. The second game subverts it a little by allowing you to get attacked, but you defend yourself with a stun gun which explicitly has healing properties rather than anything lethal.
  • In Fable if you get your good rating high enough, butterflies start flying around you. If you get your evil rating high enough, flies do the same.
  • The "Animal Friend" perk in Fallout makes you this (somewhat). The first rank of it makes it so animal enemies won't attack you. The second makes animals attack enemies (except other animals, which they already do anyway making the 2nd rank practically useless).
  • Hermes, before he became Fandaniel in Final Fantasy XIV is a tragic example. He loves all his creations in Elpis, and is incredibly distraught when his fellow Ancients decide which lives or dies. When one of his creations, Meteion, reports that every star in the universe her sisters visited is either dead, dying, or destroyed immediately upon arrival and snaps, Hermes himself becomes overwhelmed by existentialism and allows Meteion to escape to the edge of the universe, kickstarting the conflict of the main storyline of the first eight years of the game.
  • Henry from Fire Emblem: Awakening. He is even able to communicate with animals and plants alike!
  • Princess Kenny in South Park: The Stick of Truth has two abilities that call on animals. One calls a unicorn, and the other involves him singing to summon a swarm of rats. He is a princess, after all. The trope is parodied if the player messes up the action commands they have to do to make the abilities work, however, and can result in Kenny being impaled by the unicorn or devoured by the rats.
  • Touhou Project:
    • Reimu Hakurei, the main protagonist, has shown to feed wild animals by hand, summon birds via whistle, and when the fairies tried to trick her into walking into a lake fish spontaneously formed a bridged under her feet.
    • Satori Komeiji. Thanks to her ability to read minds, all animals love her since she can understand them. Of course, that same ability makes her feared by humans and youkai who don't like having their mind read like an open book.
    • Kasen Ibara, the one-armed, horned hermit, has several exotic pets, and handles all animals well.
  • Warcraft: In World of Warcraft, there is a Druid only glyph by the name of "Glyph of Charm Woodland Creature", which "Allows the Druid to befriend an ambient creature, which will follow the Druid for 1 hour."
  • Yes, Your Grace: Princess Cedani is natural at taming wild animals, with her record by the end of the game consisting of a snail, a hedgehog, a fox and a bear cub. Unfortunately, she's also a Chronic Pet Killer and the last of the list is the only one that can potentially still be alive by the end of the game.

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