Friend To All Living Things / Western Animation

Just one "I Want" Song away from Transforming into a Disney Princess.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Aang, as the Avatar, automatically bonds with animals and spirits of all types. His successor, Korra from The Legend of Korra, was the first person to ever tame a polar bear dog and became quick friends with Pabu. Avatar Wan could also fall under this: after not eating for days he finds a Catdeer caught in a net; instead of eating it he rescues it from a group of hunters. This Catdeer resultingly becomes his loyal companion Mula. Wan was devoted to protecting all life, as when Raava and Vaatu were fighting he wanted them to stop due then endangering the lives of animals and spirits.
  • Other Air Nomads seem to follow in Aang's tradition. His grandchildren especially all seem to have this trait to varying degrees. Jinora is able to bond with the spirt animals as she first meets them, Ikki is able to organize a tea party with baby sky bison after first meeting them, and Meelo goes from playing with a single flying lemur to training an entire flock of them to land in sync.
• Betty Boop — and since Everything Talks in her cartoons, "living things" encompasses everything from bedroom furniture to trees and flowers.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: While it's not a guarantee, many animals the Planeteers encounter seem to realize they're here to help and treat them in a friendly manner.
• Casper the Friendly Ghost has the titular character try to make friends with anyone (humans and animals). At least most of the cartoons will have Casper trying to befriend an animal.
• Chip Chilla: Even though the titular animals are chinchillas, they befriend birds, and their housepet is a ladybug.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • Numbuh Three loves animals (showing maternal affection towards some of them) and they adore her. Even the Crazy Cat Lady's trained attack cats show affection toward her, much to the villain's dismay.
  • Numbuh One seems to have a way with animals too in "Operation: F.E.R.A.L.", where he befriends a herd of Rainbow Monkeys (large ones) and at the end of the episode, sics them on the Delightful Children.
• The Cramp Twins:
  • Dirty Joe is a magnet for animals who like him for the way he smells. However, he seems rather indifferent towards them and flees when a herd of animals are chasing after him.
  • Lucien's case depends on the episode. He loves animals and sometimes he gets along with them, but he usually doesn't have much luck. In "Homeless Joe", he only attracts animals after he makes himself smell bad.
  • Lucien's friend Tony is better with animals than him because of his upbringing. He tamed Mrs Winkle's puppies with relative ease and helped them befriend Lucien.
• Mocked again in Drawn Together, where one team loses their food privileges and makes do by tricking Princess Clara into singing so they can eat the adorable woodland creatures that show up whenever she does. Also a subversion, as Princess Clara is not very friendly.
• Missy from The Fairly OddParents! is very kind and friendly to everybody regardless of their character and she even has butterflies fluttering around in the episode "Finding Emo."
• To a certain extent, Emily from the children series version of The Future is Wild. Then again, it's more like she's the friend of species she wants to be friends with, though almost invariably any animal species she wants to contact with becomes friendly with her.
• Grojband: Laney appears to be friendly to all animals, even feral flame rats and bees.
• Jana of the Jungle often communicates with the animals of the rain forest, and they obey her commands, especially when innocent people need to be rescued.
• Kaeloo: The titular character is a Nature Lover who loves animals, plants and even non-living things. This aspect of her character is taken so far that one time, a mutated giant insect tries to attack her friends and Kaeloo stops Mr. Cat from killing it because it deserves to be loved.
• Blythe Baxter from Littlest Pet Shop (2012) loves to spend time talking and interacting with the LPS regular residents and any visiting pet that stops by as the episode's guest animal of the week.
• Charlotte from Making Fiends is so good that even Vendetta's artificially created fiends cannot help but become her friends.
• Mia from Mia and Me is able to bond with unicorns in Centopia, which are said to be shy around most other elves, and also understands their language. Panthea's pet cat, Ziggo, also seems less hostile towards her compared to other characters that aren't Panthea. This aspect of her character is even more pronounced during the second season, when Mia is staying at her grandfather's farm during her summer vacation, getting along with the animals there and even bonding with a horse that had difficulty trusting humans due to his bad experiences with his previous owners.
• Molly of Denali: Tooey is an animal whisperer who takes good care of multiple huskies. He wishes to be a musher like his father someday.
• In Moral Orel, who better than God to have this power? In the opening sequence, a bluebird lands on God's finger and it has to be flicked away.
• Mr Krbec and his Animals: Kindly Mr Krbec loves animals. He has a tom-cat, befriends an owl and a jackdaw and later becomes a beekeeper. In turn, his animals adore him.
• Mr Scatterbrain in The Mr. Men Show is always seen with an animal friend which he pulls out of nowhere.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Fluttershy certainly gets along with the animals, acting as a loving mother figure to everything in the animal kingdom. Justified, as it's her job to care for the animals surrounding the town, be they cute bunnies or the guardian of the underworld. And even animals who have never met her before fear her stern gaze or a harsh scolding from her; everything from a full-grown dragon to a cockatrice that was turning her to stone has backed down. Her tendencies gets explored in the episode "Bats!", where Fluttershy tries to defend fruit bats from being driven off of Applejack's farm, even when they are going to destroy her crops. While it takes some persuasion, Fluttershy is ultimately portrayed as in the right. "The Best Night Ever" reveals that it's actually Serious Business for her. She becomes determined to make friends with all the animals in the Gala's Garden whether they like it or not.
    Fluttershy: You're...going to LOVE ME!
  • Spike as well, though not to the intensity of Fluttershy. He stands up to other dragons to defend baby phoenixes at the cost of the friendship with them he desperately wanted, he's absolutely delighted by the sight of the breezies, and he's very possibly the first Equestrian ever to actually trust, befriend, and stand up for a changeling. Even his relationship with the ponies counts, as most dragons are irreverent to ponies at best.
• PAW Patrol: Birds really like Marshall.
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Penelope Pitstop often uses animals to escape her perils.
• Samurai Jack: Unless he's hunting for food or needs to defend himself, Jack shows all animals he encounters, both Earthly and otherworldly, plenty of respect that they seem comfortable around him.
• Parodied in an episode of The Simpsons: Homer Simpson briefly has a spiritual awakening after seeing God in a dream had while skipping church. As he talks to Lisa about this, several animals light on his hands and shoulders. Smash Cut to Homer in the shower, the animals still there.
  Homer: Guys, please, will you give me five minutes?
• All The Smurfs (1981) in general are friends of all animals (except Azrael) and animals try to help them, although Papa Smurf and Nat are the more nature-oriented.
• Stan Marsh of South Park is a more jaded and snarky example, but he definitely qualifies, even more so than Butters. He refused to shoot a rabbit as early as Season 1, gave up entirely on meat for baby cows, and was the only one determined to stop the Japanese from killing whales and dolphins. The Stick of Truth calls back on this with his dog Sparky accompanying him in battle, and he feels guilty when he decapitates the head of a zombified version of Princess Kenny's unicorn. In "Woodland Critter Christmas", he (reluctantly) protects the Woodland Critters from an evil mountain lion. He is dismayed to learn the mountain lion he killed had cubs and is even more horrified when the Critters were trying to give birth to the Anti-Christ and were actually Satanic Worshipers. He does end up teaming up with the mountain lion cubs.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars has Jar Jar Binks, of all people, befriending a sea monster to help stop a Separatist occupation.
• Ezra Bridger from Star Wars Rebels can use the Force to bond with animals, including savage creatures like fyrnocks. As the seasons pass he improves greatly, surpassing his mentor in the scope and depth of connection, and by Season 4, he's gotten strong enough to attract wild animals Disney Princess-style even when he's not consciously trying to. Unusually for this trope, he's also used it with The Dark Side, channeling his anger and fear into nearby creatures to drive them mad with rage and sic them on enemies.
• Rose Quartz from Steven Universe saw the beauty in all things, no matter how "gross" or undesirable others might view them, which caused her to lead a rebellion against her Homeworld to defend Earth and all its life from being wiped out. It's ultimately deconstructed however, as Rose views all non-gem life largely the same, either as something cute and silly that she can have fun with or something simple and helpless that she needs to protect. When confronted with the fact that humans experience the same complexity and intensity of emotions that gems do, she has no idea how to react.
  • Steven Quartz Universe himself seems to have inherited his mother's love of life in all its forms. He's quick to establish a bond with Lion, befriends a goat which he names "Steven Jr", and even holds a door open for a crab at one point. He treats humans, Gems, and animals all with the same degree of respect.
• Inexplicably, Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) is able to make the pigeons of New York do his bidding, and his kindest moments in the series are usually with animals.
• Friend to Other Living Things example: In Tom and Jerry, all nonhuman, non-cat animals instinctively side with Jerry and will protect him from Tom's attacks.
• Total Drama:
  • Bridgette is a vegetarian, finding creatures to be friends and not food. In World Tour she befriends a bear.
  • Beth, being raised on a barn, also gets along well with many of the animals. Her favorite one is her pet pig whom she calls Big Bertha. She even claims to have signed up for Total Drama Island so she can find a boy who likes barn animals as much as her.
  • Izzy seems to get along better with animals than people, befriending prairie dogs, camels, beavers, and a snake with ease (although the last one bit her).
  • A very interesting twist on Alejandro's character. While he usually feigns friendship with nearly every contestant, up until they out live their usefulness and he betrays them, he does have an unusual handle over animals.
  • From the second generation cast, Dawn is arguably one of the biggest examples of this on the show. She spends most of her free time interacting with various creatures. Even the mutant animals seem to like her.
  • From the third generation cast, there's Ella, who can tame animals just by singing to them.
• Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: Ennui is liked by animals without trying. This helps him catch rabbits easily in "Down And Outback" and put the rings on a narwhal's horn in "Lord Of The Ring Toss". However, there are also animals who fear the Goths, like komodo dragons.
• Transformers:
  • Prowl of Transformers: Animated isn't only a male-version, he's a giant alien robot. The savage Dinobots listen when Prowl speaks (... well, sometimes). He even has a room with a hole in it that has a tree growing through.
  • Beachcomber, from the original cartoon, seems to have a special connection with birds, and even learned their language!
• The Kratt brothers in Wild Kratts; no animal is even slightly wary of these two humans.
• Zeta from The Zeta Project is a rare male robot example. Animals can sense the hostile intent of several humans in the series, but since Zeta is an Actual Pacifist and gentle person, they gravitate to him.

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