Basic Trope: Chickens (especially roosters) are portrayed as arrogant and violent.
- Straight: Robert the Rooster is a hypermasculine Jerk Jock who mistreats almost everyone he encounters.
- Exaggerated:
- Robert fights with everyone for no apparent reason.
- All the chickens are Always Chaotic Evil.
- Downplayed:
- Robert isn't always very friendly, but is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and is mostly on the side of good.
- Robert is a Boisterous Bruiser. While he is rather friendly, he's loud and rowdy.
- Justified:
- Truth in Television: Real Life roosters are sometimes known for being aggressive.
- Robert was raised this way, and may not necessarily know any better.
- Gender Inverted: Henrietta the Hen is an Alpha Bitch.
- Inverted: The rooster is funny instead of aggressive
- Or roosters and chickens are presented as the total opposite with being arrogant or violent.
- Subverted: Turns out that Robert was actually acting.
- Double Subverted: He ends up Becoming the Mask later on.
- Parodied:
- In a World of Funny Animals, movie studios specifically ask for roosters to play cocky, macho characters.
- Robert's "bad deeds" amount to poking the poodle, but he still boasts about them anyway.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Robert is in a Heel–Face Revolving Door.
- Some roosters are portrayed as friendly in some way, but some aren't.
- Averted:
- There are no roosters in the work.
- There isn't anything too unusual about roosters in the work.
- Chickens and roosters aren't presented as cocky or violent in the slightest.
- Enforced:
- The writer of the series was once attacked by a rooster, so this is based on their own personal experience.
- It's based on a common Animal Stereotype.
- Can also be a satire of Testosterone Poisoning.
- Robert is supposed to be an Expy of another rooster known for being arrogant.
- Lampshaded: "He's pretty cocky."
- Invoked: Robert's family raises him to be this way.
- Exploited: Big Bad uses Robert to distract the heroes.
- Defied: Robert realizes that his behaviors are unacceptable, and works to have a change of heart.
- Discussed: "Why does Robert always act so mean towards us?"
- Conversed: "I wonder why roosters are often the Jerk Jock characters in works that involve animals."
- Implied: Robert is never seen, but other characters mention him being mean and unlikable.
- Deconstructed: This becomes a stereotype associated with roosters that Robert is unfairly believed to be.
- Reconstructed: Over time, roosters become more widely accepted in society.
- Played for Laughs: Robert manages to be a Laughably Evil character who suffers from Testosterone Poisoning.
- Played for Drama: The story focuses on Robert's main victim attempting to avoid him.
- Played for Horror: Robert is more than just arrogant and violent - he's also Ax-Crazy.
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