Basic Trope: Weasel characters (and/or other mustelid species represented) being portrayed as sneaky, evil, and/or cowardly.
- Straight: Walter the Wily Weasel is evil and sneaky, and is also a Dirty Coward.
- Exaggerated:
- Walter the Weasel is a depraved monster whose evil deeds tower above all the other villains of the setting.
- All weasels are portrayed this way.
- Downplayed:
- Walter is cowardly and rather sneaky, but not necessarily evil.
- Walter is a Jerkass but otherwise good-aligned.
- Walter isn't an actual weasel, but does have a lot of weasel motifs.
- Justified: Walter has some Freudian Excuse to explain why he acts this way — for example, he ran away from home at an early age and had to steal to get by in life.
- Inverted: Weasel Mascot
- Subverted:
- Walter turns out to be a pretty nice guy.
- Walter has a Heel–Face Turn.
- Double Subverted: ...Or so we thought.
- Parodied: Walter the Weasel is a Large Ham Card-Carrying Villain who communicates mainly through elaborate musical numbers about how he likes to Kick the Dog.
- Zig-Zagged: Some weasels are portrayed as evil, while some aren't.
- Averted:
- There are no weasels.
- Weasels aren't evil.
- Enforced:
- "We need the Big Bad to have a entertaining henchman to balance out some of the villainy, what species should it be?" "How about a weasel?"
- A common Animal Stereotype, as well as Good Animals, Evil Animals.
- Walter is based on an existing character who is an evil weasel, such as the Toon Patrol.
- Lampshaded: "I should have known he'd betrayed us — he's a weasel." "It couldn't have been more on the nose if he had been a literal mole."
- Invoked: The Corrupter tempts weasels with the promise of power and wealth.
- Exploited: The Big Bad has weasels as henchmen, due to their craftiness.
- Defied: Walter becomes a better weasel.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why are weasels always the bad guys?"
- Deconstructed: Weasels are discriminated against in society for this reason.
- Reconstructed: Less than pure evil weasels fight for their civic rights and show that they're not all that bad — but those who are bad are really bad.
- Played for Laughs: Weasels are Laughably Evil.
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