Basic Trope: Seals are portrayed as violent, aggressive, and dangerous, especially larger seals such as leopard seals.
- Straight: Samantha the seal is a large leopard seal, and the main antagonist of the work. She is very aggressive and predatory.
- Exaggerated:
- Seals are Always Chaotic Evil.
- Samantha is a Complete Monster that only ever does evil acts for the thrill of it.
- Downplayed:
- Samantha is simply a Punch-Clock Villain that's only doing what she needs to do to get by.
- Samantha is a heroic character, but Good Is Not Soft and she can be quite dangerous if she needs to be.
- Justified: The main characters of the work are animals that seals eat, such as fish, squid, otters, or penguins.
- Inverted: Sweet Seal
- Subverted: Samantha is The Dreaded throughout, but when she actually appears onscreen, she's actually very nice.
- Double Subverted: And then she reveals that she was Faux Affably Evil.
- Parodied:
- The main antagonist of the work is an adorable baby harp seal.
- The musician Seal plays a seal-themed antagonist.
- Zig-Zagged: There are some good seals, and some evil seals in the work.
- Averted: There are no seals.
- Enforced:
- Can fall under What Measure Is a Non-Cute? and/or Predators Are Mean - "Leopard seals must be evil because they eat cute animals like penguins, right?"
- The work is a Public Service Announcement on the dangers of harassing wildlife, with seals being used as an example for their deceptive cuteness.
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