Basic Trope: Birds such as ducks, geese, and swans are portrayed as aggressive and/or dickish.
- Straight: Jarred the Goose is a Jerkass who honks at everybody he sees.
- Exaggerated:
- Downplayed: Jarred is fairly snarky and has a somewhat abrasive personality, but is mostly just a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Justified:
- Jarred was mistreated when he was younger, causing him to act cruelly.
- Jarred lives his life in fear of being attacked and/or killed by predators, so he acts defensive to protect himself.
- This has some degree of Truth in Television to it. Most species of waterfowl are known for being aggressive animals, especially when threatened.
- Inverted: Jarred goes out of his way to help others.
- Subverted: Jarred turns out to be Good All Along.
- Double Subverted: But Good Is Not Nice, and he has a serious Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Parodied:
- Jarred is a cute, non-intimidating duckling who still acts very aggressive. It just makes him even more adorable.
- Jarred commits the heinous crime of...bothering a lemonade stand owner by asking for grapes he knows they don't have.
- Zig-Zagged: Ducks are good, swans are evil, geese are somewhere in the middle...usually.
- Averted: Geese don't appear in the story.
- Enforced: The writers are scared of geese, so they naturally depict them this way.
- Lampshaded: "Jarred really gets my goose. Or rather, the goose is gonna get me!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Charlie, a greedy land developer, successfully manages to bulldoze the wetlands by pointing to the frequent goose attacks there.
- Defied: The second Jarred starts causing trouble, the local Fluffy Tamer is brought to the area to calm him down.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Ducks are cute and swans are graceful, but geese are complete dicks."
- Implied: There is a "Beware of Goose" sign, but no waterfowl are actually seen.
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