History PlayingWith / FunnyAnimal

** Leo was originally a human, but was hit by BalefulPolymorph that completely turned him into a lion. However, he still retains some of his human mannerisms, like talking and standing on two legs.

* '''Exaggerated''': Leo the lion wears clothes including pants and shoes, owns his own shop, is a highly respectable citizen in his mostly human town, and is never ever referred to as a lion nor ever shows any lion like behavior.

* '''Exaggerated''': Leo the lions wears clothes including pants and shoes, owns his own shop, is a highly respectable citizen in his mostly human town, and is never ever referred to as a lion nor ever shows any lion like behavior.

** Leo is an alien that appears like the Earth lions but has evolved to a humanlike form.

* '''Exaggerated''':
** Leo the lions wears clothes including pants and shoes, owns his own shop, is a highly respectable citizen in his mostly human town, and is never ever referred to as a lion nor ever shows any lion like behavior.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Leo the lions wears clothes including pants and shoes, owns his own shop, is a highly respectable citizen in his mostly human town, and is never ever referred to as a lion nor ever shows any lion like behavior.

** Leo was originally a human, but was hit by BalefulPolymorph that completely turned him into a lion. However, his still retains some of his human mannerisms, like talking and standing on two legs.

** Alternatively: Leo the Lion becomes a hippy and decides to live with a pride of wild lions like they do.

** The author's a [[FurryFandom fur-fan]]

* '''Downplayed''': Leo is mostly human and is referred to as such, but has [[LittleBitBeastly some animal traits]].

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Leo is a talking lion that acts human, but is still forced to live in a cage at a zoo and is forced to perform demeaning tricks for the humans. He begs to be released and treated like a normal human, but is constantly told by the zookeepers that he's just an animal and doesn't have the same rights as the humans. He eventually goes mad hearing this and escapes and goes on a murderous rampage, killing hundreds. He is eventually sedated and put to sleep by animal control.
* '''Reconstructed''': Leo's race has evolved from lions to a human like state. Humans, realizing that Leo and his race are no different than them, decide to give them human being status and give them the same protection under the law that humans get. Leo learns the ways of the humans and becomes friends with many of them. Leo learns to wear clothes and hold down a job, eventually buying and owning his own shop and becoming a well respected citizen of his town.

* '''Invoked''': A mad scientist genetically alters animals to apppear and act like humans to serve as his companions because he gets very lonely.

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* '''Justified''': Leo is an alien that appears like the Earth lions but has evolved to a humanlike form.

* '''Subverted''': The human characters talk about meeting their friend, Leo the Lion, and talk about him like an actual human. When we see Leo, he's just a regular lion.

* '''Enforced''': "We need animal characters to keep the kids happy, but we need them to do human things to make them relatable."

* '''Defied''': Leo the Lion gets MagicPlasticSurgery to make himself look human.

* '''Invoked''': A mad scientist genetically alters animals to apppear and act like animals to serve as his companions because he gets very lonely.

** FurService

* '''Conversed''': "These characters look like animals, but they act like humans. [[FurrryConfusion Doesn't that ever get confusing]]?"

* '''Conversed''': "These characters look like animals, but they act like humans. Doesn't that ever get confusing?"