Basic Trope: A character treats someone or something like a baby and gets attacked.
- Straight: Alice sees a Precious Puppy and starts petting it while saying Baby Talk about how cute it is, only for the dog to bite her on the fingers.
- Exaggerated:
- A Running Gag is Alice getting attacked by everything she shows affection to.
- Alice is Too Dumb to Live and starts infantilizing a potentially dangerous animal, such as a wolf, which gets her severely injured or killed.
- Downplayed: The dog doesn't attack Alice, but does clearly get angry.
- Justified:
- The dog is sapient in some way, and being treated like a baby is the dog's Berserk Button.
- Alice is evil, and the dog is an Evil-Detecting Dog.
- Alice is just a Naïve Animal Lover who doesn't know how to actually interact with animals, and/or Animals Hate Her.
- The animal thought that Alice's fingers were its food.
- Inverted:
- The dog enjoys it when Alice starts using Baby Talk towards it.
- The dog hates it when Alice talks to it like an adult.
- The dog enjoys it when Alice talks to it like an adult.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: The dog suddenly goes on a rant about how it hates being treated like a baby.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn't treat anyone like a baby.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Alice is quite literally The Chew Toy, and she ends up getting bitten every time she pets an animal, which is all played for Amusing Injuries.
- Played for Drama: Alice is attacked by an animal that ends up severely injuring or killing her.
Aren't you a cute little troper! Yes, yes you are! (bites) OUCH!!
