Basic Trope: A spider that is portrayed as friendly rather than scary.
- Straight: Sally the Spider is known for being kind.
- Exaggerated:
- Sally is an All-Loving Hero.
- Spiders are an Always Lawful Good species in the work.
- Downplayed:
- Sally is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and/or Affably Evil at worst. "Friendly" is a stretch, but she's certainly not an inherently bad spider either.
- Sally has various spider-themed motifs rather than necessarily being an actual spider.
- Justified: Sally is aware that spiders have a bad reputation, and wants to avoid those stereotypes.
- Inverted: Spiders Are Scary
- Subverted: Sally is actually Faux Affably Evil.
- Double Subverted:
- Though, she eventually learns to be nicer.
- Sally's reputation is that of Spiders Are Scary, but it turns out she just has the animal equivalent of Face of a Thug and is a good character despite appearing scary.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some spiders are friendly, but others aren't.
- Depending on the Writer, Sally can be more or less friendly.
- Averted: There aren't any spiders.
- Enforced:
- To avoid typical Spiders Are Scary characterization.
- A way of adding Dark Is Not Evil in many cases.
- Author Appeal, if the author likes spiders and wants others to know they're not that dangerous.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Friendly Neighborhood Spider, man!
