Not Tropeworthy: Nutty Squirrel

This is basically just a list of squirrels in fiction. Some examples:

• One of the Green Lantern Corps Members was Ch'p, a squirrel-like alien.

• Hammy from Over the Hedge.
• Scrat from Ice Age is a sabretoothed squirrel.
• Twitchy from Hoodwinked!.
• Though not a direct example, the dogs from Up are— SQUIRREL!— very easily distracted.
• Squirrels appear as recurring animals in various Disney Animated Canon movies such as Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, and especially The Sword In The Stone.

• Pip (technically a chipmunk) from Enchanted.

• The black squirrels of Mirkwood Forest in The Hobbit.
• The book The Fire Within, supposedly about dragons, has more to do with squirrels.
• The Redwall series features several squirrel characters.
• Subverted in the second Wild Cards book, Aces High. A homeless woman who has the power to communicate with woodland creatures orders hundreds of squirrels to run under the wheels of a car on a mountain road, causing the car to skid out of control on their carcasses and crash — all so that she could get revenge on the car's driver.

• Magic: The Gathering features squirrels on quite a few of their cards. See here for examples. You can even make a whole deck revolve around squirrels. A winning move that's banned in certain tournaments is where you kill your opponent by having an infinite number of squirrels magically appear out of a tree continuously.
• Dungeons & Dragons got Ratatosk (flying squirrel people living on Yggdrasil in Planescape), Kercpa (normal-sized sentient wild squirrels, from Dragon Magazine) in AD&D era. In 3.5, Monster Manual features carnivorous flying squirrels and "Skiurids"—evil squirrel demons that harvest nuts soul acorns from people.
• GURPS had a supplement, 'Illuminati University'. The campus featured squirrels. And vampire squirrels. And mugger squirrels.

Haven't done an exact count (I'll do that later), but from what I can tell, a large majority of the examples are just "squirrels appear in this work".

Opening. Squirrels exist is not a trope. Motion to cut.

Sounds like a plan.

While I think there's a possibility for a squirrel trope as one of the Animal Stereotypes, this is indeed written and used as a textbook case of People Sit On Chairs. Supporting motion to cut.

Going by the Laconic, seems the original intention was "Squirrels, Played for Laughs", but everyone ignored that distinction. I recall there being a similar trope about cheese here not long ago.

Anyway, support cut.

That I think is covered by the Screwy Squirrel trope.

EDIT: NVM, I was completely and utterly wrong...

I would be for transforming this into squirrel stereotypes, usually zany, nutty and screwy like Conkers and 'Screwy Squirrel'.

edited 21st Feb '16 9:59:16 AM by Memers

Cut.

^^ Yeah, that name is still a problem. At least the new image indicates that it's not an animal-exclusive trope.

I would be fine with transforming this into squirrel stereotypes though which would take a YKTTW. They tend to fall into two categories. Crazy, which goes with the name 'nutty' or 'screwy', and/or sarcastic.

edited 21st Feb '16 10:27:43 AM by Memers

This is yet more evidence that merely renaming "Everything's (Comparative) With (Animal)" wasn't halfway enough to fix many of those tropes, as I was saying years ago.

I assumed from the title that it was about squirrels loving nuts. Maybe that is tropeworthy? Then again, we don't have pages for monkeys loving bananas or cats loving milk.

Not really; that would be this trope.

Pretty sure some cat species are lactose intolerant, so them loving milk sounds like a trope.

I think Stock Animal Diet covers it pretty well.

Common Animal Stereotypes of squirrels already exist as tropes. This one is pretty much "squirrels exist". Motion to cut.

agree. cut.

Cut List time!

Send it to the taxidermist.

obliterate it

Is that enough consensus to cut this?

edited 27th Feb '16 10:14:38 AM by Lymantria

I would hope so.

One matter of concern: Nutty Squirrel has 71 inbound links and the ptitle redirect has 27. Does those numbers preclude a straight Cut Listing? If so, what trope do we redirect them to?

edited 27th Feb '16 4:56:14 PM by Prfnoff

Animal Stereotypes?

That sounds good.

edited 28th Feb '16 1:10:14 PM by Lymantria

Just cultist it.

Even with that many inbounds? (The ptitle, by the way, appears to be a ghost wick, so it can't be Cut Listed.)

edited 29th Feb '16 10:42:17 AM by Prfnoff