Basic Trope: An animal that can remove its stripes or spots.
- Straight: Larry the Leopard can remove his spots as if they were stuck to his body.
- Exaggerated: All leopards have removable spots.
- Downplayed: Larry's spots are normally not removable, but some sort of condition makes them so.
- Justified:
- Larry is actually a species which naturally has removable spots.
- Larry is an unusual leopard who was born without spots, so he has false spots painted on.
- Inverted: Leo the Lion has spots painted on him that can't be removed.
- Subverted: Larry's spots get washed off, but it turns out he has spots underneath.
- Double Subverted: But then they fall off too.
- Averted:
- Larry cannot remove his spots.
- Larry doesn't have spots.
- Enforced:
- Rule of Funny.
- Larry the Leopard and Terry the Tiger are played using the same base costume, the spots just hadn't been securely affixed during that take.
- Lampshaded: "How can he take his spots off?"
- Invoked: A scientific experiment gives Larry the ability to remove his spots.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
