Basic Trope: A normally herbivorous animal starts eating meat.
- Straight: Bob the Bunny starts eating meat.
- Exaggerated: All of the herbivorous animals start eating meat.
- Downplayed:
- A normally omnivorous animal switches to a carnivorous diet.
- Bob only eats meat on occasion.
- Justified:
- Bob was curious to know what meat tasted like.
- Bob can digest meat properly (for example, he's a Funny Animal).
- Bob was very hungry and desperate.
- Bob had to do something with the body...
- Truth in Television: A herbivorous animal is about as vegetarian as its options.
- It's a Scavenger World, and no scavengers are considered scum. Even herbivores scavenge carrion.
- Bob was adopted by carnivores, so he continues to eat meat because that's what he has been doing all his life.
- Inverted: Alice the Alligator switches to eating plants.
- Subverted: Bob tries meat, but decides he doesn't like it.
- Double Subverted: ...In fact, he loves it.
- Parodied: A person who is a vegetarian tries meat for the first time, and the situation is treated as this.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Animals eat their ordinary diets.
- Enforced:
- Denise, Bob's suit actor, had the not that wacky craving of eating meat rich meals, and the producers, not having the budget to hide this, threw it in.note
- The producers were unaware that the animal they're depicting is actually a herbivore in real life.
- Lampshaded: "Don't rabbits usually eat plants?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob decides to remain a vegetarian.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Fradisks are carnivorous by nature, so aren't this trope themselves, but their binomial nomenclature, Sciurus Fradiscus
, indicates that it must have happened in a predecessor species. - Deconstructed: Bob's digestive system isn't set up for meat, and he has difficulties with eating it.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob is genetically modified to become a carnivore.
- Bob decides to continue eating plants on occasion, at least often enough to support his digestive system.
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