Friend to All Living Things/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Animals like Alice a lot.

  • Straight: Whenever Alice tries petting an animal, they accept it because they like her.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Alice is always, without exception, seen with a huge bunch of animals.
    • Alice never gets sick, because even bacteria and viruses are fond of her.
  • Justified:
    • Alice controls some kind of magic that make animals like her immediately.
    • Alternatively: Alice works with animals of various sorts constantly, and knows how to read their body language, as well as what postures are threatening and which aren't.
  • Inverted:
    • Enemy to All Living Things or Animals Hate Him
    • Omnicidal Maniac
    • Alternatively: Alice is a cold-hearted and intimidating woman, and tends to find kindred spirits in rather unnerving creatures. She can get a yellowjacket to perch on her fingers without much effort, snakes love to climb on her, and she's constantly followed by spiders.
  • Subverted: Alice pets a cat... but it hits her immediately, seeming angry.
  • Double Subverted: ... but it turned out the cat just wanted to play. Cats are funny like that.
  • Parodied:
    • A polar bear seems to be hundreds of miles from its natural habitat for the sole purpose of trying to get Alice to rub its tummy.
    • Alternatively: Alice is a friend to all kinds of animals, and her definition of "cute" includes things that give some of her friends the crawlies. She's rather put-off that they had such a poor reaction to the tiny little snakes.
  • Deconstructed:
    • Because Alice has got such a good bond with animals, she has trouble making human friends.
    • Alternatively: Alice attempts to befriends the predator species only makes her end up as their next meal.
  • Reconstructed:
    • However, she keeps on trying and eventually, she finds someone with the same problems.
    • Alternatively, she stops trying and decides she is fine with it the way it is.
  • Zig Zagged: Whenever animals are around Alice, they switch between being kind and being mean.
  • Averted: Animals don't love Alice more than they would love someone else.
  • Enforced: "Hey, we need a likeable character! Let's make her loved by animals!"
  • Lampshaded:
    • Alice: "Hey, animals surely seem to like me."
    • "You must spend a fortune on pet food."
  • Invoked: Alice always brings food with her so animals surround around her.
  • Defied: Alice avoids the outside as much as possible out of fear that the animals will run to her.
  • Discussed: "You know, animals really seem to feel comfortable around you."
  • Conversed: "Don't you think that character is a bit too liked by animals to be normal?"

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