Basic Trope: Poodles are portrayed as vicious.
- Straight: Mister Muffykins, a pet poodle, is a vicious Angry Guard Dog.
- Exaggerated:
- All poodles are Ax-Crazy.
- Muffykins isn't just vicious, he's a Hellhound and a Card-Carrying Villain who has been known to kill others for fun.
- Downplayed: Muffykins is just a Punch-Clock Villain who's only doing his job.
- Justified:
- Muffykins had bad owners that treated him this way.
- Poodles were originally bred as hunting dogs — it's In the Blood.
- Inverted: Poodles are portrayed as Big Friendly Dogs.
- Subverted: Muffykins is trained to bark at and chase intruders, but never actually hurts them...
- Double Subverted: ...until he becomes rabid, making him a danger even to his owner.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes poodles are vicious, and sometimes they aren't.
- Averted:
- There aren't any poodles.
- Poodles aren't portrayed as vicious and evil.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The Big Bad owns a vicious pet poodle thinking nobody will suspect a cute dog to be so dangerous.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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