Kindly Vet: Difference between revisions

While humans have to deal with [[Dr. Jerk]] and suffer under the [[Depraved Dentist]], animals are often much luckier. When the beloved [[Team Pet]] gets ill or [[Kick the Dog|kicked]], his owners will waste no time getting him to a veterinarian who will go the extra mile to make sure that [[And Your Little Dog, Too|your little dog]] comes out A-okay. When not a [[Friend to All Living Things]], even a vet cast as frightening ([[Humans Are Cthulhu|usually from the animal's point of view]]) turns out [[Cruel to Be Kind|to be just doing his job]]. In other times, animals in fiction have this uncanny ability to understand that this human is trying to help them, not that they appreciate getting shots in any case.

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Subverted with Seishiro Sakurazuka in CLAMP's ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'', who is a ruthless assassin under the kindly vet façade.

* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Ran suspects her mother of infidelity and tails her as she meets with a handsome-looking man; Conan deduces that he's a vet and shouts this out moments before Ran opens a can of whoopass on him.

* There's a kindly vet in ''[[Georgia Rule]]'', too. So kindly, he's the only one who can resist sleeping with Lindsay Lohan. It makes sense in context. Sorta.

* The eponymous hero of ''Corky Romano'' probably qualifies in personality, although in some cases the pets might have been less fortunate in regard to practice.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Taken to the logical extreme in ''[[Discworld]]''. Before Dr. Mossy Lawn appeared, ''your'' best bet to get cured by a human in Ankh-Morpork was Doughnut Jimmy, a horse doctor. After all, doctors get paid whether or not their patients died. Horse doctors, however, are paid to get results since their patients are thousands of dollars worth of investments whose owners may want to have [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|a word]] with you in the backalleys if they keeled over under your care.

** In his novel ''[[Job A Comedy Of Justice|Job: A Comedy of Justice]]'', Alexander Hergensheimer's fate is to be decided by a being who is above God and Satan. Alex is rather scared to be brought before this being, so the being kindly uses Alex's memories of bringing his dog to a [[Kindly Vet]], with Alex as the dog.

* Dr. Aybolit from the Russian poem ''Aybolit'' and its multiple adaptations is the epitome of this trope.

 

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Which doesn't stop them being a little dubious when he turns up in a later episode as Homer's doctor...

* In ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' sequels, Rob becomes one.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==