Basic Trope: Horses and other animals used as mounts aren't portrayed as needing basic care.
- Straight: Jim's Cool Horse, Horace, is portrayed as more of a machine than an animal — Horace can run for long distances without ever needing to stop, doesn't need to sleep, doesn't seem to need to eat, always follows commands, and isn't scared by anything.
- Exaggerated: Horace is outright The Needless.
- Downplayed: Horace occasionally needs to eat/sleep/take breaks, but much less often than a real horse would need to.
- Justified:
- Horace is a Mechanical Horse.
- In more downplayed cases, Horace is especially well-trained.
- Horace isn't actually a regular horse, but a creature that really can go a while without needing to take breaks.
- Inverted: Horace is a Moody Mount who is extremely difficult to train and needs to take more frequent breaks than normal.
- Subverted: Jim is riding Horace for a while, but Horace finally starts getting tired and needs to take a break.
- Double Subverted: After a very short time, Horace is ready to go again.
- Parodied: Jim simply refuels Horace at a gas station when he needs to.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Horace needs to take frequent breaks, like any animal would.
- Enforced: Acceptable Breaks from Reality — Horace needing to take breaks would impede on the plot too much.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Have you noticed that in fiction, horses tend to behave a lot more like machines than actual animals?"
- Deconstructed: Horace is actually being overexerted, and starts showing signs of this occurring.
Ride for several miles without stopping back to Automaton Horses.
