Basic Trope: A park ranger is portrayed as crazy, especially if they're also Ax-Crazy.
- Straight: Richard the forest ranger is an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer.
- Exaggerated:
- Richard is a forest ranger, as well as an Omnicidal Maniac.
- All of the park rangers are portrayed as antagonistic.
- Downplayed:
- Richard is a Cloudcuckoolander, but ultimately is pretty harmless.
- Richard is a Jerkass park ranger who has a tendency to threaten to harm people when he's upset, but doesn't really go through with it.
- Justified: Richard specifically chose his job as a forest ranger in order to find easy places for Disposing of a Body in the woods.
- Inverted: Richard is a sane park ranger who has to survive against a (group of) psychotic, murderous camper(s).
- Subverted: Richard raises a hatchet in a menacing way... but he's actually just cutting down an old tree.
- Double Subverted: He later kills someone with that same hatchet.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Richard is a relatively ordinary forest ranger.
- Enforced: "We need a villain for our Don't Go in the Woods-themed horror film, why don't we have a park ranger turn out to be the slasher?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Park rangers are often really messed-up people in these kinds of movies."
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