Basic Trope: Seals are cute, friendly characters.
- Straight: Samuel the seal is friendly, cute, and the protagonist of the work.
- Exaggerated:
- Seals are Always Lawful Good.
- Samuel is an All-Loving Hero.
- Downplayed:
- Samuel is on the side of good, but can be a bit of a Jerkass at times.
- Samuel is on the villains' side, but he's Affably Evil enough to be lovable regardless.
- Justified: Samuel was raised to be friendly, and he decides he wants to stay that way.
- Inverted: Monstrous Seal
- Subverted: Though Samuel acts nice, he is Faux Affably Evil.
- Double Subverted:
- But Cute Is Evil.
- Alternatively, he has a change of heart.
- Parodied: Samuel always has a group of people fawning over him. He may or may not find them annoying.
- Zig-Zagged: Samuel is a cute seal who is nice to some characters, but a total jerk to others.
- Averted: There aren't any seals.
- Enforced: Many species of seals are rather cute, and often in fiction, Beauty Equals Goodness.
- Lampshaded: "Seals are always trustworthy. Just look at that cute widdle face!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited:
- Samuel uses his natural cuteness to sway people into doing whatever he wants.
- Bob needs to distract Alice, so when he notices Samuel, he says "Look, a seal!" knowing the Cuteness Proximity will distract her.
- Defied: Samuel hates being called cute and tries as hard as he can to present himself as a tough guy.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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