Basic Trope: Peafowl are shown to be very proud.
- Straight: Peter the Peacock has high respect for himself.
- Exaggerated:
- Peter very firmly believes that it's all about him.
- All peafowl are shown to be very arrogant.
- Downplayed:
- Peter is very confident in his own feathers, but isn't arrogant and genuinely cares about his friends.
- Peter isn't an actual peacock, though he does have peacock-themed motifs.
- Justified: Peter has a god complex of some sort.
- Inverted: Peter has very low self-esteem.
- Subverted: Peter reveals that he only pretended to have a lot of respect for himself - he actually has a lot of issues with his body image.
- Double Subverted:
- Which was also a lie.
- Alternatively, he gets a "You Are Better Than You Think You Are" reassurance and has more self-esteem later on.
- Parodied: Peter even has his own "I Am Great!" Song about himself.
- Zig-Zagged: Peter tends to switch between being proud of himself and having low self-esteem.
- Averted:
- There aren't any peafowl in the work.
- Peafowl aren't shown to be arrogant.
- Enforced:
- A somewhat common Animal Stereotype.
- Peter is supposed to be based on an existing character that falls under this trope, such as Lord Shen.
- Possibly even a way to have An Aesop on why being arrogant is a bad thing.
- Lampshaded: "Peter seems very proud of himself."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Just because I'm a peacock doesn't mean I have to be vain!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "If peacocks had human intelligence, do you think they'd typically be the show-offy type?"
- Deconstructed: Peter's friends are upset by how little he cares about anyone other than himself, and stop wanting to be around him.
- Reconstructed: Peter apologizes, and decides to change for the better.
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