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.
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• 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."