These are tropes related to mammalian animals. Tropes related to specific types of mammals that have their own subindex should go on the subindex, not here.
While humans are mammals, tropes related to humans should go on Humans Are Indexed (For humans in general), Characters, or some other, more specific index.
Likewise, for tropes related to rabbits, dolphins, horses, monkeys and primates, cats, dogs and wolves, or rats and rodents, see their own indices.
Tropes
Categories
- A Load of Bull: Minotaurs, bull-men and other anthropomorphic cattle.
- Angry, Angry Hippos: Hippopotamuses are portrayed as particularily aggressive and brutish creatures.
- Baa-Bomb: Exploding sheep for absurdist comedy.
- Bad Ol' Badger: Badgers portrayed as vicious, foul-tempered brutes.
- Bambification: Animals portrayed as much more sweet, cuddly and sanitized than in real life; usually happens to the cuddlier sort of mammals.
- Bat Out of Hell: Exaggeratedly monstrous bats.
- Bat People: Either humanoid bats or humans with bat-like characteristics.
- Bears Are Bad News: Bears portrayed as violent and dangerous animals.
- Beary Friendly: Bears portrayed as friendly, cuddly chaps.
- Beary Funny: Bears portrayed as funny, lovable goofs
- Bloodsucking Bats: Bats portrayed as blood-drinking menaces.
- Boxing Kangaroo: Kangaroos' preference for using their hands to fight exaggerated in to their being literal red-gloves-and-all boxers.
- Brainy Pig: A pig who is very intelligent.
- Brutish Bulls: Bulls portrayed as aggressive, violent and far from bright.
- Bull Seeing Red: The mere sight of red objects can drive bulls into rampaging anger.
- Cattle Drive: A common Western plotline involving the moving of large herds of cattle across dangerous country.
- Constantly Lactating Cow: Cows and other livestock can always be milked.
- Counting Sheep: Counting sheep, usually jumping over a fence, to fall asleep.
- Cow Tipping: People sneaking on cows sleeping on their feet and tipping them over.
- Creepy Hairless Animal: Hairless versions of normally hairy creatures portrayed as creepy and unsettling.
- Cruel Elephant: Elephants portrayed as evil, aggressive or just jerks.
- Drill Mole: Moles tunneling with literal drills.
- Elephants Are Scared of Mice: Elephants are irrationally afraid of small rodents.
- Elephants Never Forget: Elephants provided with prodigious, sometimes supernaturally so, memories.
- Everything's Better with Cows: Gratuitous cows for humor.
- Everything's Better with Llamas: Gratuitous llamas for humor.
- Extreme Omni-Goat: Goats can eat anything — literally anything.
- Fed to Pigs: Disposing of a body by feeding it to pigs.
- Full-Boar Action: Dangerous pig- or boar-based monsters.
- Genial Giraffe: Giraffes portrayed as easygoing and friendly folk.
- Gluttonous Pig: Pigs portrayed as voracious and indiscriminate eaters.
- Gruesome Goat: Goats portrayed as aggressive or Satanic creatures.
- Heinous Hyena: Hyenas portrayed as vicious, underhanded, cowardly or otherwise unpleasant creatures.
- Honorable Elephant: Elephants portrayed as wise, just and respectable folk.
- Hood Hornament: Hunters displaying their kills by tying them down across their hoods; usually restricted to mammalian big game.
- Huggy, Huggy Hippos: Hippos are portrayed as cute and loveable.
- Kangaroos Represent Australia: Kangaroos used as visual symbols of Australia.
- Kangaroo Pouch Ride: People riding around in kangaroo pouches.
- Mammoths Mean Ice Age: Mammoths used as visual symbols of cold, barbarism or the last glaciation.
- The Marvelous Deer: Deer portrayed as as mystical and magical creatures.
- Messy Pig: Pigs portrayed as messy, dirty and slovenly creatures.
- Mole Men: People who live Beneath the Earth and look like mole/human crosses.
- Mole Miner: Moles and burrowing rodents who live and act like human miners.
- Monster Whale: Whales as gigantic Sea Monsters who swallow ships and people whole.
- Monstrous Seal: Seals portrayed as aggressive, dangerous predators.
- Moose Are Idiots: Moose portrayed as dimwitted saps.
- Panda-ing to the Audience: Gratuitous pandas for audience appeal.
- Playful Otter: Otters portrayed as genial beasts always up for games.
- Puzzling Platypus: Platypi's supposed chimerical nature played up as extremely puzzling or nonsensical.
- Rascally Raccoon: Raccoons portrayed as thieves and rogues.
- Rhino Rampage: Rhinos portrayed as gigantic brutes always ready to charge down anything that gets them mad.
- Screwball Squirrel: Squirrels portrayed as hyperactive goofballs or aggressive sadists.
- Shell Backpack: The shells of creatures such as armadillos portrayed as as removable accessories.
- Smelly Skunk: Skunks depicted with emphasis on their defensive sprays, often simplified as them just smelling really bad.
- Snake Versus Mongoose: Mongooses and snakes are depicted as enemies, or opposing motifs.
- Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying: Mammals portrayed in very inaccurate ways.
- Sweet Seal: Seals portrayed as sweet and cuddly animals.
- Sweet Sheep: Sheep portrayed as sweet and cuddly animals.
- Tomato Skunk Stink Cure: Sprayed by a skunk? You'll want to bathe in a literal tub of tomato juice to make the smell come off.
- War Elephants: Elephants as Beasts of Battle.
- Warm-Hearted Walrus: Walruses portrayed as heroic or lovable characters.
- Weasel Mascot: Some sort of small mammal used as slightly more exotic Team Pet than a cat or a dog.
- Wicked Weasel: Wasels portrayed as shifty, untrustworthy creatures.
- Wild West Armadillo: Armadillos used as visual symbols of The Wild West.
- Wily Walrus: Walruses portrayed as villains, jerks, or antagonists
