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Traditionally, cartoons, comics and other stories featuring animals as major characters are treated as light, whimsical, funny entertainment for small children, not serious works for their elders. While adults may enjoy such works, they are primarily marketed toward children, and are careful to avoid material considered either too explicit for children or too serious and sophisticated for children to understand. While such works still might contain some conflict adversity, or even [[Disney Death]], it is always at a level considered "Family Friendly" and "Safe for Kids".
Also, until recent advances in CGI, anthropomorphized animimals in visual mediums were mostly confined to rather silly looking costumes, cartoons and comics. These features were generally associated with less serious children's stories, and therefore weren't going to be all that big on more "mature" topics like violence. [[Talking Animal
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These stories involve animal characters ranging from [[Largely Normal Animal]] to [[Petting Zoo Person]] on the [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism]]. They frequently take place in a [[World of Funny Animals]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== Comics ==
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* ''[[WE 3]]'', by [[Grant Morrison]], is about three talking animals trying to find their way home; the covers feature "missing pets" notices written in childlike style. Kids'll love it, right? Sure! Except for the scenes featuring the cybernetic animal soldiers literally ''tearing apart the soldiers meant to come kill them'', the part where {{spoiler|the rabbit ''explodes while hurling itself at a car''}}, and all sorts of graphic violence in between. Oh, and it's being adapted into a movie directed by the guy who made ''[[
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== Roleplaying Games ==
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== Video Games ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Watership Down]]''. The introductory animation has animals being killed, and this continues throughout the movie. At one point Bigwig is trapped by a snare around his neck and is clearly suffering. The original warren the protagonists come from is a moderately harsh dictatorship, and Efrafa (General Woundwort's warren) is much worse.
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[[Category:Funny Animal Tropes]]
[[Category:Animal Anthropomorphism Tropes]]
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