Basic Trope: An cephalopod is portrayed as a weird, funny creature.
- Straight: Otto the Octopus is a funny, cute creature.
- Exaggerated: The entire cast consists of funny octopus, squid, and cuttlefish.
- Downplayed: Otto is The Comically Serious, and is mainly a realistic octopus.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted:
- Otto is a terrifying Tentacled Terror.
- Otto is an extremely serious and boring octopus who Cannot Tell a Joke.
- Subverted: Otto seems funny at first, but then strangles a man to death.
- Double Subverted:
- Otto may be evil, but is Laughably Evil and is funny even as he kills people.
- This strangling was part of a comedic act, and the man's death was unintentional.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Otto is sometimes funny, sometimes creepy.
- Averted: Otto provides no comic relief.
- Enforced: The execs need a Funny Animal that is also smart and dextrous enough to help with the plot.
- Lampshaded: "Octopuses are so adorable, am I right?"
- Invoked: Bob trains Otto to do tricks for comic relief.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Octopuses may be funny, but they're hard to take care of, and Bob ends up killing Otto because he's not prepared to deal with him.
- Reconstructed: Bob recognizes that octopuses are too hard to take care of as pets, and contents himself with watching their amusing antics at aquariums.
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