These are tropes related to nonhuman primates, including monkeys, apes, and lemurs.
Although humans are primates, tropes related to humans should go under Humans Are Indexed, Characters, or some other, more specific index.
Tropes
Categories
- Apes in Space: Apes and monkeys sent into space.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti: Ape-like cryptids.
- Cymbal-Banging Monkey: A horrifying-looking wind-up toy monkey.
- Everything's Better with Monkeys: Monkeys gratuitously inserted in all sorts of work due to their appeal.
- Killer Gorilla: Great apes, especially gorillas, stereotyped as aggressive and violent beasts.
- Killer Space Monkey: An ape-like hostile alien.
- King Kong Copy: An Expy of the most famous movie ape, King Kong.
- Maniac Monkeys: Evil, aggressive or otherwise threatening monkeys.
- Mischief-Making Monkey: Monkeys are trouble-making pranksters.
- Monkey King Lite: An Expy of Sun Wukong, the monkey protagonist of Journey to the West.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Three monkeys, covering their eyes, ears and mouth respectively.
- Monkeys on a Typewriter: A thought experiment suggesting that given infinite time, monkeys pushing random keys on a typewriter can write a literary masterpiece by chance.
- Powersuit Monkey: A monkey or ape with a human job, usually as a comedy gag.
- Primate vs. Reptile: A giant primate and a giant reptile duking it out.
- Sea Aping: Brine shrimp as instant pets advertised as being primate-like.
- Son of an Ape: An insult aimed at humans comparing them to non-human apes, especially by non-primate beings.
