Basic Trope: Animals really hate a character.
- Straight: Whenever an animal approaches Mariko, she kicks it.
- Exaggerated:
- All animals avoid Mariko like the plague, even the spiders and snakes.
- Every living thing that comes into contact with Mariko dies.
- Downplayed: Mariko just glares or pokes animals.
- Justified:
- Mariko is evil incarnate, and her presence can kill anything that comes into contact with her.
- Mariko outright hates animals and loves to torture them.
- Mariko is a Walking Wasteland.
- Inverted:
- Friend to All Living Things and Licked by the Dog.
- Mariko loves all kinds of cute and cuddly animals, even a baby grizzly bear.
- Mariko comes from a long line of monster hunters, and her aura can repel pests and dangerous creatures due to her purity of heart and fierce protectiveness.
- Subverted: Mariko is petting a cute, little dog in her lap...
- Double Subverted: ....Then pulls out a gun and shoots it in the head.
- Parodied:
- Mariko approaches a duck, which immediately flies away from her and heads for the south... in the summer.
- Alternatively: Mariko is so dangerous, not even the predatory animals will fuck with her and hide from her whenever she appears.
- Zig Zagged: Mariko kicks a dog, then apologizes and pets him.
- Averted: Mariko doesn't like animals, but she doesn't go out of her way to harm them.
- Enforced: "Hey, let's get those animals to attack that girl!"
- Lampshaded:
- Mariko: "OW! That dog just bit me!"
- "Man, those cats really don't like you..."
- Invoked: Mariko carries a rifle every time she goes into the forest.
- Exploited: Mariko is easily tracked by the trail of angry, frightened, or dead animals in her wake.
- Defied: Mariko decides to befriend every animal by giving them food and petting them.
- Discussed: "You're scary. No wonder every animal hates you."
- Conversed: "Man, that girl's not really good with animals, is she?"
- Deconstructed:
- Mariko decides to become a part of a nature-loving society, which is why the animals view her as a savior as the people protecting their homes.
- Mariko has trouble getting along with nature, because of a traumatic incident with a wild animal that happened to her years ago.
- Reconstructed:
- But Mariko gets tired of being a hippy and decides to burn and destroy the animals' homes.
- Then Mariko decides to seek revenge and starts to hunt and kill every animal that she sees and hears.
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