Honorable Elephant/Playing With

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  • 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.
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  • 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."