Not Good with People/Playing With

Basic Trope: They're great with any living thing - except humans.

• Straight:
  • First type: Alice is a sweet-natured girl who can talk to - and understand - animals and plant life as if they were human, but when it comes to interacting with people of her own species, she panics.
  • Second type: Bob is a savage hunter in the jungle who's learned to live off the fat of the land, but is distrustful of humans.
• Exaggerated:
  • First type: Alice can communicate with anything living, but passes out when a human being so much as looks her way.
  • Second type: Bob is a Hunter of His Own Kind.
• Justified:
  • First type: Alice spent so much time learning how to talk to animals that she didn't learn to talk to humans.
  • Second type: Bob has some past hurt in his life.
• Inverted: Animals Hate Him
• Subverted:
  • First type: The companions run into Alice, who they expect to be very sheltered. She greets them warmly and helps them out with no trouble at all.
  • Second type: The gruff hunter greets the intruders with reasonable, if not extreme, warmth.
• Double Subverted:
  • First type: ...in order to get them to quickly be on their way and not try to convert her.
  • Second type: ...But only because he knows if they're going to try something, it won't be if he's on guard.
• Parodied:
  • First type: The naive Alice goes on a rant about various social injustices that either never existed, barely existed, or have since been fixed.
  • Second type: Bob turned his back on humanity because of a very minor misunderstanding that could have easily been resolved.
• Deconstructed: What Is This Thing You Call Love?
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Both types get along well with other people.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: Go away! Me not get along very well with other two-legs.
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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