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Basic Trope: A character can experience the world through senses of other animals.

  • Straight: Evil Overlord Evulz can see through the eyes of his crows as long as they're in a hundred kilometers' range.
  • Exaggerated: Evulz can see through eyes of all the birds all around the world at once.
  • Downplayed: Evulz can make use of better eyesight of his pet crow, as long as he's touching its feathers.
  • Justified: Evulz has supernatural powers letting him enter anyone's mind.
  • Inverted: Crows can see through Evulz' senses.
  • Subverted: Evulz claims that he can spy on heroes by crows, but when the heroes capture one of the birds, the "crow" turns out to be just a robot with a camera sending video to Evulz' lair.
  • Double Subverted: However, Evulz does have real animal spies - the robot crows are for his Dragon to use.
  • Parodied: Evvie uses her pet dog to watch cartoons while she's at school.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Evulz has no supernatural powers.
  • Enforced: "He's got to spy on them somehow, that will make the show creepier." "Sure, but with what? It's Medieval European Fantasy, not sf." "How should I know? Just give him some evil magic powers over crows or something."
  • Lampshaded: "Every bird you can see is my slave, you hapless so-called hero. I can see you everywhere, anywhere, whatever you do."
  • Invoked: Evulz performs a rite to give him ability to see through birds' eyes.
  • Exploited: Evulz uses his ability to know where the heroes are and how they plan to beat him.
  • Defied: The heroes inject Evulz with Anti-Magic serum that cuts his link to birds.
  • Discussed: "But what if he can spy on us through animals?" "Well, then we're pretty much done for."
  • Conversed: "Of course he's always one step ahead of the heroes - he can spy on them using crows, remember?"
  • Implied: Old legends about Sealed Evil in a Can say that it can see through the eyes of crows.
  • Deconstructed: Crow senses are unlike human senses, not to mention that their eyes are set differenty than human, which means that while Evulz can see through crows' eyes, he can't understand what he's seeing.
  • Reconstructed: With long hours of practice, he manages to use his gift effectively.
  • Played For Laughs: By spending too much time in crows' heads, Evulz starts developing taste from food fished out of garbage, to his dragon's bafflement and squick.
  • Played For Drama: By spending too much time in crows' head, Evulz slowly starts to lose his own identity.

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