Basic Trope: Scavengers are portrayed as evil and dishonorable.
- Straight: In the work "The Adventures of Leo the Lion", vultures are the primary antagonists.
- Exaggerated: Every scavenging species is portrayed as Always Chaotic Evil. Odd, considering lions have also been known to scavenge on occasion...
- Downplayed:
- The vultures are only secondary antagonists or Punch Clock Villains.
- Calling them "scum" is certainly a stretch, but they aren't necessarily "good" either.
- Justified: There's some kind of Fantastic Racism or Animal Jingoism between scavengers and non-scavengers in the work.
- Inverted: Scavengers are portrayed as heroes, or at least more heroic than predators.
- Subverted: Leo meets a vulture that he becomes friends with.
- Double Subverted: The vulture betrays him.
- Parodied: A lioness tells her cub, "Hunt well, or you'll end up like him" while pointing to a vulture eating a carcass, in a similar manner to how parents in real life sometimes tell the same things to their children regarding garbagemen.
- Zig-Zagged:
- The vulture that betrayed him then has a Heel–Face Turn and genuinely changes for the better.
- Some scavengers in the work are dishonorable, but some aren't.
- Averted:
- There are no scavengers in the work.
- Scavengers are relatively decent characters.
- The work is set in Scavenger World where everyone is a scavenger, good or bad.
- Enforced: A form of Good Animals, Evil Animals: "If the heroes are already predatory species, how do we let the audience know which ones are the bad guys?" "Make the bad guys scavengers."
- Lampshaded: "Vultures sure are mean, aren't they?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: A scavenger overhears this trope being discussed and lays down a "Reason You Suck" Speech against predators: "At worst, I'm a thief. At best, you're a murderer. Since when was the former worse than the latter?"
- Discussed: "When did we start treating scavengers so badly?"
- Conversed: "I almost never see the scavenger cast as the hero. Why is that?"
- Implied: A character mentions interacting with unpleasant scavengers.
- Deconstructed: Scavengers are ostracized by the rest of the characters in the work, causing the friendly ones to feel discriminated against.
- Reconstructed: However, over time scavengers become more welcomed in society.
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