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Similar to [[Animal Jingoism]]. Also see [[Animal Stereotypes]].
There is a tendency, especially in animated works involving animal characters, often [[Funny Animal
This trope is invoked whenever a work attempts to inform the audience who the good guys and who the bad guys are based solely on their species.
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* [[Predators Are Mean|Many Predators]]
* [[You Dirty Rat|Rats]]
* [[Ravens and Crows]] (though ravens are [[Guile Hero
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Reptiles, especially Snakes]]
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|Sharks]]
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* ''[[Cats and Dogs]]'': A movie in which cats were evil and try to [[Take Over the World]] and dogs were good trying to [[Saving the World|save the world]]. In the sequel, however, some of the cats are actually good, but the villain is still a cat.
* The first ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'' movie had the armies of Aslan and the Witch pretty much divided among these lines. In the second movie, however, nearly all of the non-humans of Narnia (minus a Hag, Werewolf, and Black Dwarf) fight together, and a minotaur sacrifices himself to save the monarchs.
* [[Science Fiction]] variation: in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] 3'' [[Big Bad]] Boris the Animal and his (otherwise unseen) race, the Boglodites, are [[
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