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* AdoptiveNameChange: Defied: When Olga is adopted, her owners consider renaming her to Greta or Gerda, but she dislikes those names, thinking they sound boring, so she writes her name on the floor of her cage.
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* CatsAreMean: Downplayed example. Noel is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold but he's not ''evil''.
* ComicBookTime: No matter whether it gets a SettingUpdate or not, Olga and Boris will always remain young guinea-pigs and never age. Karen the guinea pigs' owner will never age.

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* CatsAreMean: Downplayed example. Noel is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold but he's and not outright ''evil''.
* ComicBookTime: No matter whether it gets a SettingUpdate or not, Olga and Boris will always remain young guinea-pigs and never age. Karen the guinea pigs' owner will never age.age either.
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* CatsAreMean: Downplayed example. Noel is more of a {{Jerkass}} but he's not ''evil''.

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* CatsAreMean: Downplayed example. Noel is more of a {{Jerkass}} JerkWithAHeartOfGold but he's not ''evil''.
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* BigEater: Olga da Polga is nearly always hungry and can eat quite a lot.


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* HowWeGotHere: The first book starts with Olga in a pet shop and other guinea pigs.
* LighterAndSofter: While it was already a light and fluffy story, the picture books are even softer in tone than the original book. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as they're aimed at a younger audience.

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* FireForgedFriends: Olga is initially jealous of Fircone and Raisin, two hamsters, but she quickly gains respect for them after they stand up to Noel the cat.
* FirstAppearance: Boris did not appear until "Olga Meets Her Match".

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* FireForgedFriends: Olga is initially jealous of Fircone and Raisin, two hamsters, hamsters who appeared in a later book, but she quickly gains respect for them after they stand up to Noel the cat.
* FirstAppearance: Boris did not appear until "Olga Meets Her Match".
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* LongRunner: Published from 1971 to 2002.



* SequelGap: The books stopped publication in 1982, and then returned 20 years later in 2002, if you ignore the trade paperback-sized omnibus editions.
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[[caption-width-right:209:And now to tell you about some tropes my human owners know about...]]
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It was popular, but not quite as popular as ''LiteraturePaddingtonBear''.

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It was popular, but not quite as popular as ''LiteraturePaddingtonBear''.
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It was popular, but not quite as popular as ''Literature/{{Paddington}}''.

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It was popular, but not quite as popular as ''Literature/{{Paddington}}''.
''LiteraturePaddingtonBear''.



* CatsAreMean: Downplayed example. Noel is more of a {{Jerkass}} but he's not ''evil''.



* FirstAppearance: Boris did not appear until "Olga Meets Her Match".



* SchrodingersCanon: It's never been confirmed if it's in the same continuity or canon as ''Literature/{{Paddington}}'' or not.

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* NoAntagonist: The story is very SliceOfLife, and although Noel the cat can be obnoxious at times, he is not a BigBad or even villainous.
* SchrodingersCanon: It's never been confirmed if it's in the same continuity or canon as ''Literature/{{Paddington}}'' ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'' or not.


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* SliceOfLife: The biggest conflicts come from misunderstandings or Olga's tall tales, not earth-shattering conflict.

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'''Olga da Polga''' is a guinea pig created by Michael Bond.

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'''Olga da Polga''' is a guinea pig created by Michael Bond.
Bond. She is a guinea pig noted for telling tall tales in the style of Baron Munchausen (re-tellings of events that her human owners get up to).

It was popular, but not quite as popular as ''Literature/{{Paddington}}''.



* ComicBookTime: No matter whether it gets a SettingUpdate or not, Olga and Boris will always remain young guinea-pigs and never age.

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* ComicBookTime: No matter whether it gets a SettingUpdate or not, Olga and Boris will always remain young guinea-pigs and never age. Karen the guinea pigs' owner will never age.
* CoolOldGuy: Or rather, cool old ''tortoise'', as Graham the tortoise, is old, but has a different, unique way of looking at the world.
* FireForgedFriends: Olga is initially jealous of Fircone and Raisin, two hamsters, but she quickly gains respect for them after they stand up to Noel the cat.
* LongRunner: Published from 1971 to 2002.
* SchrodingersCanon: It's never been confirmed if it's in the same continuity or canon as ''Literature/{{Paddington}}'' or not.
* SequelGap: The books stopped publication in 1982, and then returned 20 years later in 2002, if you ignore the trade paperback-sized omnibus editions.
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'''Olga da Polga''' is a guinea pig created by Michael Bond.

!!Tropes present in this series include:
* ComicBookTime: No matter whether it gets a SettingUpdate or not, Olga and Boris will always remain young guinea-pigs and never age.
* TheMunchausen: Olga, and her boyfriend Boris, are both prone to exaggerating and fabulism in the story for otherwise mundane things.

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