1 | '''Basic Trope''': Skunks that are either shown spraying something, or smelling bad by default - usually with no stimulus required to activate their scent glands. |
2 | * '''Straight''': |
3 | ** [[MeaningfulName Stinky]] the Skunk drives people off with his scent. |
4 | ** When the [[SavageWolves Big Bad Wolf]] shows up, Stinky sprays at him to save his friends. |
5 | ** Whenever Stinky gets too stressed or worried, he sprays at his friends. |
6 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
7 | ** Stinky's scent is so bad, it makes even him disgusted to the point of losing his lunch or making him pass out. |
8 | ** Stinky's scent is foul enough to [[DeadlyGas cause death]]. |
9 | ** Whenever Stinky sprays, it's a literal [[{{Fartillery}} Fart Bomb]] that causes death to everything around him. |
10 | * '''Downplayed''': |
11 | ** Stinky is smelly, yes, but it's only really bad when he sprays a target with his scent glands. Otherwise he just smells 'a bit off'. |
12 | ** Stinky rarely sprays, and only does when he needs to. |
13 | * '''Justified''': [[TruthInTelevision Skunks produce noxious-smelling chemicals as a natural defense mechanism.]] |
14 | * '''Inverted''': |
15 | ** Stinky sprays out pink clouds of flowery perfume. |
16 | ** Or, standard skunk musk is considered attractive in this setting. |
17 | ** Everything stinks ''but'' skunks. |
18 | * '''Subverted''': |
19 | ** Stinky doesn't smell all the time. |
20 | ** Stinky is about to spray his friends because they stressed him out, but then he is told to stop, and he stops. |
21 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
22 | ** Stinky only sprays and smells when he's ''really'' ticked off. |
23 | ** Stinky stops, only for someone to encourage him to spray them and he does so anyways... |
24 | * '''Zig Zagged''': |
25 | ** Some skunks constantly smell bad, others don't. |
26 | ** A single skunk's smell can go from bad to good to bad again. |
27 | * '''Parodied''': The smell can be smelled on the other side of the world, and maybe even from space! |
28 | * '''Averted''': |
29 | ** Skunks don't smell in this setting, as with domesticated skunks who have their scent glands removed. |
30 | ** Skunks don't even exist in this setting. |
31 | * '''Enforced''': The writer has a fear of skunks, so he decides to write skunks as EliteMooks. |
32 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
33 | -->'''Bob''': [[{{Squick}} Eeeww!!!]] Who ran over a skunk?! |
34 | -->'''Stinky''': No one ran over me. I'm stinking up the room. |
35 | * '''Invoked''': [[WackyFratboyHijinks Bob and his drunk friends tease Stinky]], and he eventually gets fed up and gives them what they asked for. |
36 | * '''Exploited''': BigBad uses Stinky to stink up the TheHero's team. |
37 | * '''Defied''': |
38 | ** Stinky decides to conserve his stink for when he really needs it. |
39 | ** Stinky gets his scent glands surgically removed. |
40 | * '''Discussed''': "How could something so little and cute smell so bad?" |
41 | * '''Conversed''': "I got sprayed last week. It was horrible." |
42 | * '''Implied''': People hold their noses in Stinky's presence, but no one mentions his odor. |
43 | * '''Deconstructed''': Skunks are ostracized as AlwaysChaoticEvil, because EvilSmellsBad, even if such stereotypes are far from the truth. |
44 | * '''Reconstructed''': Skunks find better roles in society eventually, and their stink is found useful as a deterrent to not just themselves, but others. |
45 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Stinky sprays a group of people by accident, who then have to [[NakedPeopleAreFunny bathe]] in [[TomatoSkunkStinkCure tomato paste]] to get rid of the smell. |
46 | * '''Played For Drama''': [[TheWoobie Stinky feels sad because no one likes him]]. |
47 | * '''Played For Horror''': BigBad Stinky the Evil Skunk Emperor and his army of evil-and-mephitid-all-over Mooks [[{{Fartillery}} fart out]] venomous, disgusting smells that makes every of the animals but skunks suffocate to death from poisoning. Their farting gas are toxic enough to cause [[ApocalypseHow planetary apocalypse]]. |
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