OFF!! OFF!! OFF!! OFF!! OFF!!
These are tropes pertaining to members of the clade Pinnipedia, AKA seals, walruses, and sea lions.
This index is for tropes about the animal seals, not the concealed kind of seals. As such Personal Seals, Supernatural Sealing, Sealed Evil in a Can, Seal the Breach, and Hand Seals do not go here. The Walrus Was Paul also does not go in this index, as it is a trope for things that were intended to be nonsensical rather than literal walruses. Also, it has nothing to do with the singer Seal.
Tropes:
- Ball-Balancing Seal: The tendency in fiction for seals or sea lions to balance balls, usually on their head or nose.
- Monstrous Seal: Seals portrayed as aggressive, dangerous predators.
- Selkies and Wereseals: A magical seal/sea lion than can turn into a human after shedding its seal skin.
- Semiaquatic Species Sailor: Semi-aquatic anthropomorphic animals such as seals and walruses are portrayed as sailors/pirates/captains.
- Sluggish Seal: Seals, walruses, and sea lions stereotyped as slow or lazy creatures.
- Sweet Seal: Seals portrayed as sweet and cuddly animals.
- Tailfin Walking: Seals or walruses walking upright on their tailfins, though it's justified since the tailfins are their feet.
- Warm-Hearted Walrus: Walruses portrayed as heroic or lovable characters.
- Wily Walrus: Walruses portrayed as villains, jerks, or antagonists.
