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* WilyWalrus: Walruses portrayed as villains, jerks, or antagonists.

-->-- "'''[[https://youtu.be/N1pYGvplG5Q Snuff Out the Light]]'''", CutSong from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''

* CrankyCrabs: Crabs are depicted as temperamental and territorial.

* EyeballPluckingBirds: Ravens and other scavenging birds that will ''always'' go for the eyeball of both living and dead animals.

* AngryAngryHippos: Hippopotamuses that are portrayed as particularily aggressive and brutish creatures.

* AnimalStampede: Hundreds of herbivores running together and trampling everything in their path.

* BewareOfViciousDog: A dog who hates everyone and everything.

* CirclingVultures: Vultures circling around someone when they're at death's door.
* ClamTrap: Clams and other bivalves can bite people or trap them in their shells.

* CreepyCamelSpider: Solifugids portrayed as hyperaggressive desert terrors, often well beyond what they are in reality.

* EyeballPluckingBirds: Ravens and other scavenging birds will ''always'' go for the eyeball of both living and dead animals.
* FeatheredFiend: Evil birds.

* FliesEqualsEvil: The arrival of flies, mosquitoes, wasps, or other creepy crawlies to indicate something horrible is about to happen.

* FoulWaterfowl: Geese, ducks, and swans are depicted as aggressive animals.

* HeadButtingPachy: The unrealistic portrayal of Pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs headbutting things.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Reptiles are evil.

* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Giant, destructive, man-eating rodents are featured in some horror movies.

* ScrewballSquirrel: Squirrels are depicted as aggressive and sadistic.

* SinisterStingrays: Rays are shown in an ominious and devilish light.

* SpiderSwarm: Swarms of improbably social spiders moving -- and hunting -- as one.

* ThreateningShark: Sharks portrayed as evil, vicious man-eaters.

* VolatileTasmanianDevil: Tasmasnian Devils are portrayed as AxCrazy and unpredictable creatures.

* YouDirtyRat: Rats are dirty and disgusting.

* {{Megalodon}}: A large, prehistoric shark.

* AlluringAnglerfish: Anglerfish used in media for surprise value.

* PteroSoarer: Generally, these tweaks make the pterosaurs scarier and nastier.

* PricklyPorcupine: Porcupines and hedgehogs who are mean, or with SpikesOfVillainy.

->''Bats and owls and coiled sea dragons''\\
''Crocodile and carrion beasts''\\
''Swirling in the growing darkness''\\
''Join us in the coming feast''\\
''Spectre, wraith, and apparition''\\
''Spirit, demon, phantom, shade''\\
''Salamander serpents, dog-faced devils''\\
''Dance and watch the dying sunlight fade!''
-->--"'''[[https://youtu.be/N1pYGvplG5Q Snuff Out the Light]]'''", CutSong from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''

** AntAssault: Ants portrayed as the source of trouble.
** BeeAfraid: Bees are portrayed as abhorrent invaders.
** BigCreepyCrawlies: Giant insects and arachnids.
** BugsHeraldEvil: The use of insects, arachnids, or other arthropods to indicate a greater evil.
** CreepyCentipedes: Centipedes portrayed as frightening and unnerving monsters.
** CreepyCockroach: Cockroaches depicted as vile, filthy or unpleasant creatures.
** DreadfulDragonfly: Giant, vicious dragonflies.
** FliesEqualsEvil: The arrival of flies, mosquitoes, wasps, or other creepy crawlies to indicate something horrible is about to happen.
** GiantEnemyCrab: Outsized, dangerous crabs.
** MacabreMothMotif: Moths depicted as a bad omen.
** MessyMaggots: Something gross can be easily be pictured as even grosser if swarms of maggots are covering it, while characters that happen to be maggots themselves have this gross trait often magnetized towards them in their personality.
** MosquitoMiscreants: Mosquitoes being portrayed as either evil or annoying.
** MothMenace: Threatening (and often giant) moths and butterflies.
** ScaryScorpions: Scorpions portrayed as terrifying, dangerous and aggressive, often far more so than they actually are in real life.
** ScaryStingingSwarm: Insects who come in swarm have stings that kills.
** SpidersAreScary: Spiders portrayed as terrifying, venomous and dangerous, often far beyond any threat they actually pose in real life.
*** CreepyCamelSpider: Solifugids portrayed as hyperaggressive desert terrors, often well beyond what they are in reality.
*** GiantSpider: Impossibly large spiders are especially scary.
*** SneakySpider: Spiders are portrayed as cunning and devious (though not every SneakySpider is actually a villain.)
*** SpiderSwarm: Swarms of improbably social spiders moving — and hunting — as one.
** TermiteTrouble: Termites portrayed as a terrifying invisible force that rapidly disintegrates wood.
** WickedWasps: Wasps portrayed as mean or evil.

* BatScare: When characters who are exploring an apparently-deserted location unexpectedly disturb a colony of winged animals.

** BrutalBirdOfPrey: Birds of prey are portrayed as menacing and scary.
** CirclingVultures: Vultures circling around someone when they're at death's door.
** CockyRooster: Roosters depicted as fierce, aggressive birds or with a smug, snobbish attitude.
** CreepyCrows: Crows depicted as creepy animals associated with unpleasant things.
** EyeballPluckingBirds: Ravens and other scavenging birds will ALWAYS go for the eyeball of both living and dead animals.
** FoulWaterfowl: Geese, ducks, and swans are depicted as aggressive animals.
** KidnappingBirdOfPrey: Predatory birds that snatch people from the ground and carry them off into the sky.
** OminousOwl: Owls portrayed as creepy or scary.
** PeskyPigeons: Pigeons depicted as filthy and unpleasant, sometimes evil and malevolent, creatures.
** VileVulture: Vultures are portrayed as amoral and villainous.

** FedToPigs: Feeding (usually dead) people to domestic pigs.

** AlluringAnglerfish: Anglerfish used in media for surprise value.
** PainfulPointyPufferfish: Fictional pufferfish seen stabbing things with their spikes.
** PikePeril: Pike portrayed as evil or vicious.
** PiranhaProblem: Piranhas portrayed as far more vicious than they are in reality.
** PsychoElectricEel: Electric eels portrayed as much more powerful/dangerous PsychoElectro than they really are.
** SlipperyAsAnEel: Eels depicted as sly, conniving, and untrustworthy creatures.
** ThreateningShark: Sharks portrayed as evil, vicious man-eaters.
*** {{Megalodon}}: A large, prehistoric shark.
* FoulFox: Foxes portrayed as aggressive, cruel, or even outright evil.

** HeadButtingPachy: The unrealistic portrayal of Pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs headbutting things.
** PteroSoarer: Generally, these tweaks make the pterosaurs scarier and nastier.
** RaptorAttack: Unrealistic or inaccurate portrayals of Dromeosaurid dinosaurs.
** SavageSpinosaurs: Spinosaurid theropods are portrayed as scary predators.
** TemperCeratops: Ceratopsian dinosaurs described as being akin to bulls and rhinos; temperamental and aggressive by herbivore standards.
** ToughArmoredDinosaur: Thyreophoran dinosaurs portrayed as formidable, aggressive, and [[DumbDinos frequently dim-witted]] juggernauts.
* PricklyPorcupine: Porcupines and hedgehogs who are mean, or with SpikesOfVillainy.

** MaliciousMonitorLizard: When monitor lizards in a work are portrayed as evil.
** NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Crocodilians depicted as evil man-eaters.
** SnakesAreSinister: Snakes portrayed as creepy or evil creatures.

** VillainHoldsTheLeash: When the villain's pet is the reason they're a threat.

* WarElephants: Elephants as BeastsOfBattle.

* FedToTheBeast: Feeding people to either monsters or man-eating animals.
** FedToPigs: (Usually dead) people or monsters being fed to pigs.

* AntAssault: Ants portrayed as the source of trouble.

* BeeAfraid: Bees are portrayed as abhorrent invaders.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Giant insects and arachnids.

* BugsHeraldEvil: The use of insects, arachnids, or other arthropods to indicate a greater evil.

* CreepyCentipedes: Centipedes portrayed as frightening and unnerving monsters.
* CreepyCockroach: Cockroaches depicted as vile, filthy or unpleasant creatures.

* DreadfulDragonfly: Giant, vicious dragonflies.

* EyeballPluckingBirds: Ravens and other scavenging birds will ALWAYS go for the eyeball of both living and dead animals.

* FliesEqualsEvil: The arrival of flies, mosquitoes, wasps, or other creepy crawlies to indicate something horrible is about to happen.

* GiantEnemyCrab: Outsized, dangerous crabs.

* MacabreMothMotif: Moths depicted as a bad omen.

* MessyMaggots: Something gross can be easily be pictured as even grosser if swarms of maggots are covering it, while characters that happen to be maggots themselves have this gross trait often magnetized towards them in their personality.

* MosquitoMiscreants: Mosquitoes being portrayed as either evil or annoying.
* MothMenace: Threatening (and often giant) moths and butterflies.

* ScaryScorpions: Scorpions portrayed as terrifying, dangerous and aggressive, often far more so than they actually are in real life.
* ScaryStingingSwarm: Insects who come in swarm have stings that kills.

* SpidersAreScary: Spiders portrayed as terrifying, venomous and dangerous, often far beyond any threat they actually pose in real life.
** CreepyCamelSpider: Solifugids portrayed as hyperaggressive desert terrors, often well beyond what they are in reality.
** GiantSpider: Impossibly large spiders are especially scary.
** SneakySpider: Spiders are portrayed as cunning and devious (though not every SneakySpider is actually a villain.)
** SpiderSwarm: Swarms of improbably social spiders moving — and hunting — as one.

* TermiteTrouble: Termites portrayed as a terrifying invisible force that rapidly disintegrates wood.

* WickedWasps: Wasps portrayed as mean or evil.

** FoulWaterfoul: Geese, ducks, and swans are depicted as aggressive animals.