Predators Are Mean: Difference between revisions

* The ''[[Redwall]]'' series tends to do this a lot, with the villains almost always being predatory or omnivorous species such as weasles, foxes, stoats, hawks and other 'vermin' species, and explicitly eat meat-often making comments about eating the hero or hero's friends. The heroes, however, are never said to eat any kind of meat, fish being the only animal they will consume, otherwise being completely vegetarian, even though mice, badgers, hedgehogs and otters, commonly featured among the heroes, are omnivores. This does bring morality into question as there has been at least one talking, intelligent fish.

* Brilliantly handled in ''[[Watership Down]]'', where the the rabbits refer to their multitude of predators as "''u embleer hrair''" - "The Stinking Thousand." The rabbits live in constant fear and hatred of their predators, casting them as demon-like entities in their mythology. But when confronted with the wanton destruction that humans inflict for no comprehensible reason, they acknowledge that their predators only kill because they have to and that they are struggling for survival not unlike themselves.

* Perhaps one of the most famous examples is ''[[Three Little Pigs]]''. The villain is a [[Big Badass Wolf|Big, Bad Wolf]] who huffs, and puffs, and- well, you know the story. Anyways, the three little pigs defeat him at the end of the story. In reality, however, pigs and wolves are both omnivores, like humans, eating both animal and plant material.

** This is very well understood in the older version of the story, where the only surviving pig cooks the wolf for dinner.