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* '''Played for Laughs''': Harry still keeps his natural hunger, and on occasion tries to take a bite out of Zoe. Zoe always manages to elude him, and the two maintain a friendship as if nothing were abnormal about it.

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* '''Justified''': In this setting, animals have grown beyond the need to hunt each other for food, so them becoming friends can occur.

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** Harry and Zoe have known each other since pup/foalhood, as far as they can see they are part of the same pack/herd.

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* '''Defied''': [[FantasticRacism "I'm not making friends with a predator! What if he tries to eat me or something?"

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* '''Defied''': [[FantasticRacism "I'm not making friends with a predator! What if he tries to eat me or something?"something?"]]



* '''Implied''': A hyena and a zebra are recurring extras that receive little to no characterization, but they are often seen acting friendly with each other.



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'''Basic Trope''': Two species ordinarily in a predator/prey relationship [[InterspeciesFriendship become friends with each other]].
* '''Straight''': Harry the hyena makes friends with Zoe the zebra.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** [[InterspeciesRomance Harry the hyena and Zoe the zebra are in a romantic relationship]].
** PredatorTurnedProtector
** There are several predator and prey animals that are best friends with each other.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Harry the hyena and Zoe the zebra are casual acquaintances and mostly get along okay, but aren't necessarily friends.
** Pete the polar bear becomes friends with Zoe the zebra. The two species don't ''actually'' share a predator/prey relationship on account of them [[MisplacedWildlife not even living in the same ecosystem]], but the scenario still plays out.
* '''Justified''': In this setting, animals have grown beyond the need to hunt each other for food, so them becoming friends can occur.
* '''Inverted''':
** AnimalJingoism
** Two species that are ordinarily in a symbiotic relationship are bitter enemies.
* '''Subverted''': Harry and Zoe are mistaken for friends, but it turns out they don't actually know each other.
* '''Double Subverted''': They become friends later on.
* '''Parodied''': Clara the cow makes friends with a sentient blade of grass.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Whether or not Harry and Zoe are friends seems to depend on the writer.
* '''Averted''': No predator/prey animals make friends with each other.
* '''Enforced''': The story wants to set up AnAesop on how it's okay to have friends different than you.
* '''Lampshaded''': [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 "Hyenas and zebras living together! Mass hysteria!"]]
* '''Invoked''':
** Someone introduces Harry and Zoe to each other, and tells them about how much they have in common.
** Harry doesn't want to be seen as [[HeinousHyena "bad" because of his species]], so he makes friends with a prey animal to make himself look better.
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* '''Defied''': [[FantasticRacism "I'm not making friends with a predator! What if he tries to eat me or something?"
* '''Discussed''': "I guess it's a good sign when they haven't tried to eat each other yet."
* '''Conversed''': "How come the zebra and the hyena are best friends in that one cartoon? I thought hyenas ate zebras in real life!"
* '''Played for Drama''':
** Harry and Zoe want to be friends, but FantasticRacism looks down on positive interspecies relationships - especially between animals that have predator/prey relationships in reality.
** Zoe finds out that Harry is only friends with her in order to make himself look better (as described in Invoked), and this strains their friendship.
* '''Played for Horror''': Harry is trying to be friends with Zoe, but has a nearly irresistible HorrorHunger and keeps trying to eat her.
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