Line #4 PlayingWith/AnimalNemesis

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A person seeks revenge on an animal for having done something bad to them.
2	* '''Straight''': [[MountainMan Bubba Selkzer]] is a fur trapper who spends his life hunting for a wolverine who tore up his cabin.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Bob was bitten by a duck when he was in a petting zoo as a child. [[DisproportionateRetribution He now devotes his time to shooting any duck he sees]], [[WouldHurtAChild including ducklings]].
5	** Bubba hunts down the wolverine for nibbling a piece of meat off a huge beaver that Bubba was eating for dinner.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Alice is rivals with [[CrazyCatLady Mrs. Gertrude’s]] cats, who constantly eat the birds in her garden and pee over the patio.
7	* '''Justified''': Bubba was dying of hypothermia and needed shelter before discovering the wolverine ruined his cabin. This risked his life and the happiness of his family.
8	* '''Inverted''':
9	** After being dumped in a junkyard, Fido the dog searches the world for his abusive owners and tries to kill them.
10	** The wolverine is a SuperPersistentPredator who keeps stalking Bubba.
11	** AnimalsHateHim
12	* '''Subverted''': Bubba was actually just hunting a random wolverine.
13	* '''DoubleSubverted''': That [[BearsAreBadNews grizzly, on the other hand...]]
14	* '''Parodied''':
15	** John’s sister Kate was eaten by an alligator. He immediately yells, “For Kate!” and pops an alligator floatie with a needle when he sees one.
16	** Charlie treats his sister's cat like a SitcomArchNemesis, as he's convinced that it makes his life difficult on purpose.
17	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bubba suffers a lot of MotiveDecay about just why he keeps trapping wolverines.
18	* '''Averted''': Bubba does not try to hunt down any specific animals.
19	* '''Enforced''': The producers really like ''Moby-Dick'' and force a WholePlotReference to it.
20	* '''Lampshaded''': "Still hunting that wolverine, huh, Bubba? Well, that didn't work out too well for Ahab.."
21	* '''Invoked''': ???
22	* '''Exploited''': ???
23	* '''Defied''': "Nah. The cabin was insured, anyway. I'd just end up dead, probably."
24	* '''Discussed''': ???
25	* '''Conversed''': ???
26	* '''Implied''': Bubba mysteriously gets angry when he sees wolverines and often tries to kill them.
27	* '''Deconstructed''': Bubba finds that VengeanceFeelsEmpty and that hunting down the wolverine puts him in a lot of trouble.
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34	%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
35	%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
36	%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???

Context PlayingWith / AnimalNemesis