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Tropes:
* [[The Aloner]]
* [[Anvilicious]]: [[In
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Santosh Patel's lesson on the savagery of animals goes through a thorough list -- and ends with guinea pigs. Which are genuinely domesticated.
* [[A Boy and His X]]: A Boy And His Tiger.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Pi, after being rescued, at least with Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: See [[Garden of Evil]].
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Pi initially assumes that Orange Juice the orangutan will be helpless against the hyena, but she surprises him by a snarling display and by whacking the hyena on the head. {{spoiler|[[Now
* [[Death By Pragmatism]]: While the ship was sinking, Pi was thrown into a lifeboat by the sailors in hopes that they would be able to save ''themselves''. To clarify, the hyena was in the boat, and they threw him in to distract it.
* [[Direct Line to the Author]]: The framing story of the author meeting Pi and being told his story is set up this way.
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* [[No Party Like a Donner Party]] / [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: {{spoiler|Pi comes across a French man who eventually tries to kill and eat him. After he's killed by Richard Parker, Pi finds himself eating a bit of him unconsciously.}}
** {{spoiler|In the alternate "the animals were people" story, the cook advocates eating the sailor out of practicality, but seems to enjoy eating humans for its own sake. And when he's killed, Pi eats out his liver and heart.}}
* [[Now
* [[Ocean Madness]]
* [[Oh Crap]]: Pi initially tries as hard as he can to save his friend Richard Parker from drowning and get him on his lifeboat. {{spoiler|Just as he succeeds, he realizes the fatal truth: Richard Parker is also ''A TIGER''.}}
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