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Basic Trope: Non-mammalian animals have hair.

  • Straight: Betty the Sparrow has entire brunette human-like hair, tied into a ponytail, despite being a bird.
  • Exaggerated: Every non-mammalian, including fish, mollusks, insects, and plankton, have some sort of hair on them.
  • Downplayed: Betty just has a tuft of hair.
  • Justified:
    • Betty used to not have any hair, until a genetic engineering experiment went wrong.
    • Betty's hair is actually made of feather.
  • Inverted: Wilma the Wolf has hair, while Betty doesn't.
  • Subverted:
    • It turns out that Betty was wearing a wig.
    • Raindrop the Frog's hair is actually made out of skin.
  • Double Subverted: Raindrop actually has hair, she's just hiding it with her skin.
  • Parodied:
    • Betty just has hair to make fun of non-mammalian characters with hair.
    • The birds have hair, but the mammals don't.
  • Zig Zagged:
    • Betty the Sparrow's hair constantly falls off, but then grows back.
    • Betty the Sparrow has hair, but her mother doesn't.
  • Averted: Betty the Sparrow does not have hair.
  • Enforced: Betty just has hair to be more human.
  • Lampshaded: "Why does Betty have hair when she's a bird?"
  • Invoked: "Betty, would you like some hair tonic to impress the boys?"
  • Exploited: "Oh, Betty, it would be better if you had hair!"
  • Defied: "Why hair? Hair is pointless!"
  • Discussed: "Non-mammalians aren't supposed to have hair, silly."
  • Implied: Even though Raindrop shaved her hair off, there are still several strands left.
  • Deconstructed: Tired of being an outcast of her bird community, Betty shaves her hair off.
  • Reconstructed: The bird community starts accepting Betty's hair and she grows it back.
  • Played for Laughs: "Here, a bird with hair! Isn't that funny to the kids?"
  • Played for Drama:
    • Excited for the prom, Betty grows hair to impress her crush, Jackson the Crow. However, Jackson becomes disgusted of Betty's hair and ignores her. Now Betty is strongly depressed and can't go to the prom.
    • Betty's bird community fears her hair and starts hunting her down like she's a monster.


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