Honorable Elephant/Playing With
- Basic Trope: Elephants are dignified, refined, and benevolent.
- Played Straight: Eleanor is a Gentle Giant, and leads her elephant herd with wisdom and kindness.
- Exaggerated: Eleanor is the undisputed Queen of the Beasts.
- Justified: Elephants are intelligent creatures, with a very complex social structure.
- Inverted: Eleanor likes to spend her time alone, trampling anything and anyone in her path and eating humans' crops.
- Subverted: Eleanor is a Rebellious Spirit, possibly with some Jerkass tendencies towards other animals.
- Eleanor is more chaotic than lawful.
- Double Subverted: But she is really a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and/or always defers to the matriarch of her herd.
- Alternatively, Eleanor seems to be doing something mean, but it's to protect her calf or otherwise prevent harm.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Parodied:
- Lampshaded:
- Averted: Elephants are horrible creatures.
- No elephants mentioned in this particular work.
- Enforced: "We admire these large, yet complex animals. Let's write a story about them!"
- Invoked: Eleanor is chosen to be the matriarch of her herd.
- Defied: Eleanor is a terrible leader, and cares more about getting food and access to the best bulls than about the well-being of her family.
- Discussed: "Elephants are such beautiful creatures!"
- Conversed: "But watch out; sometimes it pays to Beware the Nice Ones."