Cruel Elephant

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"There are no animals more misunderstood than elephants; they are naturally savage, wary, and revengeful; displaying as great courage when in their wild state as any animal known."

— Samuel White Baker, "The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon"

Elephants, including the mammoth, are usually seen being wise and honorable. They're herbivorous, intelligent and come off as the gentle giants of the savanna. Not all elephants in fiction are characterized like this, though. With their size, their formidable-looking tusks, and their ability to overpower just about any other animal they encounter, elephants can just as easily been seen as intimidating, and they are often portrayed as such in fiction. Consequently, there are numerous portrayals in fiction of elephants that are aggressive, hostile, and at least morally ambiguous. These elephants like to throw their weight around, usually depicted as bullies or The Brute, though they're just as capable of being intelligent, making them the Xenophobic Herbivores at worst.

Antagonistic elephants in fiction are rarely portrayed as outright evil, but they will often be unstoppably aggressive and ready to charge at anybody who so much as looks at them funny. If they get sufficiently agitated, they'll go berserk and try to trample and crush the unfortunate protagonists, while also possibly trying to spear them with their tusks. The intelligence and wisdom common to most sympathetic portrayals of elephants is usually nowhere to be found in these cases, unless the writer is playing up the It Can Think angle. War Elephants are especially prone to this sort of portrayal. Either way, if the characters in a story encounter an angry elephant, it's a sure sign that something really bad is about to happen. And Heaven help them if they manage to piss off an entire herd. While violent and aggressive elephants in fiction aren't Always Male, they're more likely to be on average than fictional elephants as a whole, presumably because it's the males who have the biggest, scariest-looking tusks. May also overlap with Evil Versus Evil if they co-exist with dirty rats.

There is some Truth in Television, as adolescent male elephants have been known to bully and kill rhinos and other animals for their amusement.^NoteThis is likely due to poachers killing older elephants, who take charge in educating and disciplining youngsters. Orphaned baby elephants, without guidance from elders, essentially grow up into the savannah equivalent of teenage delinquents, known for abnormal displays of aggression to other animals, and humans as well. As for why rhinos—it turns out that rhinos are really, really stupid. Male elephants also go into a state called musth (caused by a periodic increase in male reproductive hormones), which makes them extremely Hair Trigger Tempered and aggressive toward both people and other animals.

Elephants also account for the most deaths in zoos on a yearly basis. The Elephant Database has records of more than 250 elephants that killed at least one human. ^note Keep in mind that some of this is not due to outright aggression, but the simple fact that elephants are very big and powerful animals. Even a simple flick of the trunk can easily crush a keeper. "An elephant never forgets" is literal advice for zookeepers, as in "Don't mess with an elephant, because one day, somehow, they'll get you back, and the consequences will be deadly." Heck there’s more truth to this as elephants were used as methods of torture and execution.

The Evil Counterpart to Honorable Elephant. Mammoth, mastodon and deinothere examples often overlap with Prehistoric Monster. For smaller animals with very similar personalities, see Rhino Rampage, Angry, Angry Hippos and Brutish Bulls. For an even bigger monstrous mammal, see Monster Whale.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Beast Wars Neo: Elphaorpha is a massive, sadistic Blentron who is not only The Brute, he's so strong he can punch holes through space to allow the Blentrons to instantly travel across the universe. His alt-mode is a mash-up between an elephant and an orca whale. And he can also spit Hollywood Acid from his mouth. Charming.
• Digimon: Mammothmon fits this to a T, despite being the same type as many of the good guys.
• In Toei Animation’s Doggie March, an elephant is one of the evil Killer the Tiger’s minions, and it is very aggressive, nearly murdering a dog named Goro before being taken down by him, as well as attacking several other dogs.
• Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen has Lord Odorom's henchman, General Ganbosu the elephant demon who leads armies of golems and delights in destroying human cities. He's a formidable fighter in battle as well - his Ear Wings gives him the ability of flight as he engaged Nobitania in a mid-air Sword Fight (Nobitania having the Take-Copter). After Nobitania cuts off one of his ears and removes his flight abilities, Ganbosu instead transforms into a building-sized gigantic behemoth.
• Dragon Ball Super has a pink elephant called Rumsshi serving as the Destroyer Deity of Universe 10. He's a lazy and vain jerkass god who tends to disregard his counterpart Gowasu's advice, yells at fighters that lose or hits them with his trunk, and refuses to acknowledge that Beerus and Goku saved his life when Zamasu tries to kill him. He's even worse in the manga, where he threatens to stomp on Gowasu despite the fact that their lives are linked.
• In Happy Science movies, elephants are always depicted as villains. Given the organization's Buddhist roots, it's often a reference to Nalagiri, an angry elephant sent by Devadatta to crush Buddha.
  • The Golden Laws: Devadatta and his group try to assassinate the Shakyamuni Buddha by letting loose an enraged elephant in the town he's in and wait for it to crush him. However, the elephant stopped as it was about to stomp him before backing down, getting on its knees, and crying.
  • The Laws of Eternity: Right after Ryuta gives Niches a blistering speech about how the "freedom" he speaks about is wrong and makes people unhappy, a demonic elephant named Bihimoss, controlled by Hisler, shows up to crush Ryuta and his friends.
• Generally, Elephants seem to be antagonistic in the Kimba the White Lion franchise.
  • The elephants in episode 25 of the 1965 anime are massive bullies to every other animal of their preservation center, they believe that the weaker animals deserve to die and keep stealing their food. Once the humans realize if they're not dealt with, the other animals will die, they decide to wipe them out. Naturally, the other animals in the preservation center all hate them and don't care if they die in the slightest, so Kimba tries his best to save them. It doesn't work and a herd of over 400 elephants are shot dead, with the only survivors being a baby and his mother.
  • Pagoola and Bizo are fit this trope to a T. Pagoola is a giant bully who hates humanity, abuses and throws his weight around smaller animals, gets offended at the smallest insult and demands respect from everyone around him even when he's trying to kill them. And his son, Bizo, uses his father's influence to get away with bullying smaller animals, running away crying to his father whenever someone stands up to him. Whenever one or the other gets upset, Pagoola commands a flock of elephants to destroy everything and everyone that did it. In episode 25 of Leo the Lion, Bizo basically tries to get away with letting Leo's wife die just for the fun of it, and when Rune and his human friends stop him, Pagoola orders a flock of elephants to kill the humans.
• Mammothman from Kinnikuman is one of the strongest Chojins working for Super Phoenix, is a cruel and powerful mammoth-humanoid who survived hibernation by using his tusks to drain other passerbies of their lives. In combat he's not afraid to use his tusks and nose to tear his opponents apart. Subverted when he's betrayed by his two remaining companions and goes out heroically.
• Magi: Labyrinth of Magic: During the Balbadd Arc, Marukkio offers the king the service of three super-powered warriors from the Kou Empire, who're actually three humanoid Dungeon monsters hybrids. The first, En Tai, is a huge, downright abominable elephant humanoid with multiple tentacle-like trunks, a truly destructive fighting style and a brutal, violent personality who tries to violently crush Alibaba during their battle.
• One Piece: Jack "the Drought" is one of the top-ranking officers of Kaido's Beast Pirates, whose Devil Fruit lets him turn into a mammoth. He's a crazy and violent Blood Knight who enjoys wanton destruction and mass murder, who devastated the Mink's kingdom for no real reason. He's the first pirate revealed to have a bounty of 1,000,000,000 or more berries in the series.
• 3×3 Eyes: The Lotus-Eater Machine arc reveals that Kaiyanwang's army is composed by hordes of elephant-like humanoids lead by Ganesha, the Wu of Kaiyanwang. Ganesha is portrayed as conceited towards humans and lesser demons alike, arrogant, bloodthirsty and treacherous, with not a single redeeming trait aside from his loyalty towards his lord, which, again, is motivated by the fact that his immortality relies on the health of Kaiyanwang.
• Zoids: Downplayed, as the Elephander is a neutral machine and though it was built by a criminal empire for the purpose of flaunting it's might, it's later stolen by a Defector from Decadence. The machine's first driver is a haughty jackass, however, playing into this imagery.

Comic Books

• The Magicians (2022): The Big Magician, an anthropomorphic elephant magician, is a Jerkass who forces a group of frogs into being pawns in his schemes, tricks the children of a village into giving him food in exchange for "toys" (actually the aforementioned frogs temporarily changed into toys), and is rather abrasive toward his fellow magicians.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Before the Continuity Reboot removed him, one of the primary villains was the immortal Mammoth Mogul. The Alternate Company Equivalent to Vandal Savage, he's a power-hungry Evil Sorcerer whose ambitions of conquest arguably make him the Greater-Scope Villain of the original comic's continuity. Despite this, he conducts himself with an upper-class etiquette. And much like Savage in one continuity, a version of him in a Bad Future undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
• Earl from Sweet Tooth: The Return shows that this and Honorable Elephant are not mutually exclusive. He's an ultimately good hearted elephantine Beast Man who just wants to protect his friends, but he's also a Horrifying Hero that does not hesitate to brutally maim or kill enemies. Gus and Penny like and fear him in roughly equal measure.

Fan Works

• In A Different Lesson, we have Wei Chang, an elephant overseer at the Jade Palace who comes across as a Hate Sink initially. While he has good reason to not have a high opinion of Tai Lung, he is excessively cruel in his disciplining of the snow leopard, and flat-out misogynistic towards Tigress. Indeed, Master Shifu doesn't seem to like him either, and when Tai Lung attacks him for insulting Tigress(whereas before he was shrugging off Chang's treatment of him), Shifu considers Tai Lung's actions justified and fires Chang. However, later on, we learn that Chang actually has a wife and son, and he's a lot more affectionate towards them than he is towards Tai Lung and Tigress, therefore making him a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. And then the possessed Vachir comes to visit him and... well, let's just say that Chang goes from being a straight-up Jerkass to a Jerkass Woobie very fast.
• In Kaiju Revolution, the Diretherium is a species of elephant kaiju native to Skull Island that appears to be in a permanent state of musth, making them highly aggressive towards anything and everything they see.
• In Prehistoric Earth, an adult male deinotherium undergoing musth proves to be a particularly dangerous obstacle for the titular park's rescue team in their mission to rescue australopithecus and other prehistoric species of ape. Similarly, an adult male woolly mammoth ends up briefly menacing a neanderthal before being goaded further past its Rage Breaking Point into charging at two members of the rescue team for the sake of going through the time portal used to travel through time and bring prehistoric animals back to the safety of the park in the present.
• In Prehistoric Park Reimagined, the rescued adult bull woolly mammoth George is first introduced in his home time period in an already very angry mood due to the (in his mind) very unwelcome presence of a neanderthal man in his territory. The later sound of an apparent rival mammoth bull in his territory (in reality the sound of park rescue team worker Alice playing a recording of a male elephant's bellowing) only makes him angrier to the point of outright charging at nearby rescue team member and Guest-Star Party Member Will, which proves exactly what Alice was hoping to get him to do so he'd subsequently end up barreling right through the subsequently summoned time portal. And even once he's settled into his new home paddock at the park, he noticeably makes a clear effort at keeping himself as isolated from the rest of his paddock's inhabitants as possible in favor of keeping to himself.

Film — Animation

• Dumbo: Most of the circus elephants except Dumbo and his mother are rude, shallow, and snobby. Their leader prides herself on being a Honorable Elephant, despite her cruelty to Dumbo. There are also the Pink Elephants that Dumbo hallucinates, though they're not as cruel so much as they're otherworldly and nightmarish.
• Ice Age: Subverted with Manny. He initially comes off as a Jerkass woolly mammoth who doesn't care what happens to Sid and is anti-social, however proves himself to be a good person at heart and hates the brontotheres who try to kill Sid for fun while also being revealed to have a truly tragic Dark and Troubled Past involving him previously having a wife and young son who ended up brutally killed by a tribe of humans. Through his Character Development over the film he proves himself to be an Honorable Elephant instead.
• Leo the Lion has Maximus, the Big Bad elephant who wants to take over the jungle.
• The Sword in the Stone: During their Wizard Duel, Madam Mim turns into an elephant to try to defeat Merlin. Naturally, he turns into a mouse in response, causing her to briefly flee in terror.
• Zootopia has an elephant called Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. who owns an ice cream store which provides the Jumbo-pop for Nick's pawpsicle hustle. He's rude, prejudiced against foxes and refuses to serve them, and not particularly concerned about health code violations in his store.

Film — Live-Action

• The Elephant Man: Merrick supposedly got his moniker because his mother was attacked by a wild elephant when she was pregnant, which people in-universe claim is the reason for his deformities - this was a common bit of folk belief during the Victorian Period, when the movie is set. As we only see the elephant attack happen in Merrick's imagination, it's unclear if there's any truth to it. In real life, his mother was supposedly frightened (though not physically attacked) by a circus elephant while pregnant, though this story may be apocryphal.
• Jumanji: At one point after one of the characters roll the dice, the board makes a stampede of animals appear, among them being rampaging elephants.
• The Last Circus features a female elephant named Princesa who gets aggressive whenever she sees her caretaker Ramiro with another woman. Later Ramiro reveals that the elephant killed his wife.
• Syfy Channel Original Movie: Mammoth involves scientists encountering a woolly mammoth perfectly frozen solid in ice, which they must keep cold at all times to showcase in a museum. An alien parasite unleashed from a probe finds its way into the mammoth's corpse and possesses it, causing the zombified proboscidean to go on a murderous rampage. Did we mention it can suck out a human's life force with its trunk?
• The Return of the King deliberately invokes this with the Mumakil: they sport aggressive appearances and the film's sound designers avoided using trumpeting sounds, so that the audience doesn't go "oh no the poor elephant!" when they get killed at Pelennor Fields.
• Roar: An elephant not only shattered a boat for seemingly no reason out of anger, but also in Real Life broke Tippi Hedren's leg with its trunk during a scene in which it grabbed her.

Literature

• Discworld: In Soul Music, the roadie to the Band with Rocks In is a strangely shaped troll called Asphalt, who is extremely short and wide in shape. He explains this is down to his previous career as a zookeeper tending to elephants, who derived amusement from sitting on him. Repeatedly.
• One of the very first encounters in the Fighting Fantasy adventure, Caverns of the Snow Witch is a wooly mammoth, which has an impressive SKILL of 10 and can easily trample all over players with a low SKILL stat, effectively ending their adventure in two pages. Fortunately the mammoth is a skippable encounter (players can instead take a short cut and fight a pair of far easier wolves instead).
• Franny K. Stein: The Fran That Time Forgot has Franny enter a Bad Future where her teenage self is creating an army of five-eyed elephant monsters.
• Frank Belknap Long's cosmic horror novella The Horror From The Hills introduces Chaugnar Faugn, The Elephant God, to the Cthulhu Mythos. Chaugnar Faugn is disturbingly elephant-like in some regards, but distinctly alien in others, with ears resembling bat wings and a Lamprey Mouth he uses to drain the blood of his victim.
• Journey to the West: The Yellow-Tusked Old Elephant/White Elephant is the former mount of a Bodhisatva who escaped to the human world to have some fun as a man-eating, soul-sucking monster, terrorizing a whole mountain range alongside the Blue-Haired Lion King and the Golden-Winged Peng King.
• The Jack London story A Relic of the Pleistocene has the protagonist and his dogs unexpectedly attacked by a surviving Woolly Mammoth in a remote part of late 19th-century Alaska. The dogs are killed, and the protagonist vows revenge.
• Sandokan: Referenced and downplayed. There are two cautionary tales warning to not provoke elephants, for they are intelligent and calm but, being intelligent, also capable of cruel retaliations if provoked long enough:
  • One elephant had the habit of reaching with its trunk into the windows of various houses, knowing the locals would give him gifts... All except for a seamstress, who'd instead sting him repeatedly as a game until the day the elephant showed up with a trunk full of water and sprayed her at full power.
  • An elephant conductor had the habit of breaking coconuts on his elephant's head, knowing he could take it and ignoring his annoyed grumbles. One day, however, the elephant grabbed the coconut and broke it on his head, killing him.
• Underworlds: Mammoth, one of the fire monsters from the Babylonian Underworld, attacks the children and later on aids Loki in destroying Pinewood Bluffs.
• Winnie the Pooh: Heffalumps are scary elephant-like creatures who are believed to enjoy stealing honey. Fortunately for Pooh and his friends, they are imaginary (at least in the original book — at least two adaptations make them Real After All, though the later adaptation changes them to Honorable Elephants).

Live-Action TV

• Power Rangers / Super Sentai:
  • Power Rangers Zeo had Tough Tusks, Louie Kaboom's first Monster of the Week. The elephant-like robotic monster was tasked by Louie to steal the Gold Ranger's remote control. His Chouriki Sentai Ohranger counterpart, Bara Mammoth, was basically the same.
  • Power Rangers in Space featured Elephantitan who attacked the building where Professor Phenomenus' new plutonium fuel was stored. His Denji Sentai Megaranger counterpart, Elephant Nezire, was basically the same.
  • Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: Elestomp was sent by Loki to destroy Marine Bay via a massive earthquake. His Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV counterpart, Earth Vibration Saima Beast Ganemuuja, was even worse as he need the life force of young children to use his power at full strength. He also tried to burn the GoGoV alive with his "Fires of Hell" attack.
• Walking with Beasts: While most of the proboscidean family fit into the Honorable Elephant archetype, the Deinotherium from "Next of Kin" are portrayed as sadistic bullies that seem to revel in chasing hominids away from waterholes or because they are in musth. Bear in mind that this is as much elephantine behaviour as that exhibited by the mammoths. That mammoths get the positive elephantine traits and deinotheres get the negative ones may have a lot to do with which animal is cuter.

Newspaper Comics

• The Far Side:
  • Becoming a rogue in his later years, Dumbo terrorized the world's airlines.
  • Another comic has a pair of elephants about to toss a van full of panicking tourists off a cliff. "On the count of three, Vinnie. Ready?"
  • A few strips set in Hollywood Prehistory show mammoths antagonizing cavemen - sometimes accidentally, sometimes not. In one such strip, a mammoth notices a squashed caveman on his foot and grumbles, "I thought I smelled something." (Some publications tried to Bowdlerize it to "You know, I heard something squeak." If anything, that still carries the grim implication that it callously ignored the cry of that poor caveman being crushed to death...)
• Many editorial cartoons critical of the Republican party draw an anthro elephant standing for it.

Tabletop Games

• Planescape The Maelephant is a type of fiend that has the head of a demonic elephant. In addition to their fearsome strength, they can blow a cloud of "mind toxin" out of their trunks that poisons everyone inside it and causes them to temporarily forget their abilities. They often form contracts with powerful evil beings to act as guards, being willing to stand watch for years at a time.
• Magic: The Gathering has Frankie Peanuts, an elephant mob boss seen intimidating a terrified human.

Video Games

• Asura's Wrath: Gohma Crushers are giant elephant-like Gohma, which are the will of Gaia that actively tries to kill humans and consume their souls.
• Arena.Xlsm: Elephants are one of tougher animal enemies.
• Dwarf Fortress has the famous tale of Boatmurdered, a Succession Game that spiralled into by far one of the absolute hilariously worst disasters imaginable in the history of the game, even by Dwarf Fortress standards. Right from the very beginning of the game, a pack of murderous elephants rampaged against the dwarves, and the players found it impossible to permanently get rid of them until they found a way to funnel molten magma into the surrounding lands around the city of Boatmurdered itself. After that, the landscape quickly turned to a sea of elephant, goblin, and dwarf skeletons being rampaged by more murderous elephants!
• EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist: The first boss is an elephant under the animal enraging-effect of the bracelet. It gets better after the fight. The fight serves as a demonstration of Zophy's strength: while other characters have only their repertoire of attacks for the fight, Zophy can casually pick up and toss around a fully sized aggressive elephant!
• For the most part, Far Cry 4 and Far Cry Primal avert this, since the majority of Asian elephants/Steppe Mammoths aren't hostile towards Ajay/Takkar unless they attack them first. The Bloodtusk Mammoth in Primal plays it straight, however. Apart from being a massive Elder Mammoth with two additional tusks, it spends its entire screentime in an Unstoppable Rage, plowing through carnivores, hunters, and other plant eaters alike. The Bloodtusk Mammoth is notable for being the only Beast Master hunt that ends with Takkar having to kill it, because the rest of the Oros Steppe Mammoths are untameable in general.
• If you're unlucky enough in Fear & Hunger: Termina, you will come across Chaugnar, a humanoid beast with an elephant-like head that chases you through the bunker and is capable of blowing out your eardrums with the sheer noise of its trunk. The worst part? That thing used to be Abella.
• God of War: Ascension: One of the numerous enemy types Kratos faces are the Juggernauts, humanoid elephants that are first introduced rushing on screen doing a Foe-Tossing Charge on innocent civilians. They're belligerent, attacking with clubs as well as tusks and trunks, and in order to kill one, you have to hack through the thick skin on top of that Juggernaut's head until you expose its brain. Basically War Elephants gone humanoid and sadistic.
• Gryphon Knight Epic: One of the enemy types you face is a gigantic elephant.
• Horizon Forbidden West: One of the new machines is the Tremortusk, a massive, highly aggressive combat class machine that resembles a four-tusked mammoth that's bristling with guns. And if the guns or tusks don't get you, its massive, pounding feet will.
• Jade Empire: The elephant demons are some of the nastier enemies in the game, between their massive hit points and deceptively fast wide-arc attacks. They combine this with Honorable Elephant, however, as they are also the only type of demon that are not entirely evil, like one being the right-hand man of the benevolent fox deity.
• Krut: The Mythic Wings subverts this with Ka'Cha, the forest deity who's a gigantic, sentient elephant. As soon as you enter his domain, Ka'Cha reacts with hostility. After the inevitable boss battle, Ka'Cha is revealed to be a guardian deity doing his job, who distrusts outsiders due to the elephant tribe welcoming the rock ogres in the past - leading to their kind being utterly massacred.
• While not literally an elephant, Lewis Legend from Lollipop Chainsaw is associated with elephants. His motorcycle resembles an elephant when turned into a Mini-Mecha, and his leather jacket has an "Elephant Rock" patch on the back. He is also the most sadistic of The Dark Purveyors, being a trigger-happy zombie who, according to his title card, is influenced by screams of agony.
• Mega Man has some pachyderm Reploids as enemies.
  • Mega Man X: Flame Mammoth is one of the eight Maverick generals to originally defect with Sigma in his war on humanity. He's characterized as an arrogant and cocky Reploid who looks down on those smaller and weaker than them. He's one of the least sympathetic Maverick bosses in the game.
  • Mega Man Zero: One of the enemies in the first game is Maha Ganeshariff, who's based off the Hindu god Ganesha. While serving humanity's interests, he is an enforcer for a regime that actively suppresses Reploids and is at odds with the Resistance Zero is part of.
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduces Great Tusk, the Quaking Earth Titan and the past Paradox form of Donphan. Not only is it even more aggressive and violent than Donphan, but the Scarlet Book says that it attacked and killed someone. Violet has Iron Treads, the future Paradox form of Donphan. Like Great Tusk is it a violent and dangerous beast which also killed one of the original Paldean Caldera explorers, but instead of being a primitive monster it is a mechanical beast.
• Resident Evil: Outbreak: File #2 has the "wild things" scenario, which shows the effect of the t-Virus on the zoo of Racoon City. The boss of this section is a giant zombie elephant called Oscar. Once the star attraction of the Raccoon Zoo, he's now nothing but a bloodthirsty juggernaut that will not stop until it kills everything in its path.
• Rivals of Aether features Loxodont, a minor character who takes over the throne to the Fire Empire after the assassination of Emperor Renburn and the disappearance of his sons, Zetterburn and Forsburn, and turns it into a dystopian dictatorship. He uses technology to render himself seemingly immortal, earning him the title of Endless Emperor. He is important to Clairen's back story, as she tries to overthrow him alone, but is defeated and saved by an unknown individual who then allows her to go back in time to when the game takes place, before the princes' disappearance, so she can try and save the empire from Loxodont.
• Shin Megami Tensei gives us Girimehkala, who in Sri Lankan folklore was Mara's mount, and has a single eye that curses whoever looks in it. His SMT incarnation is best known for his ability to repel most or all physical attacks and throw Mudo skills around in addition to using slashing attacks. He's also one of the demons the Demi-Fiend uses in his infamous Optional Boss battle in Digital Devil Saga.
• Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time:
  • Miss Decibel, a British elephant and Le Paradox’ right-hand woman. While usually quite affable, she has a nasty temper and uses her musical abilities to hypnotise and damage opponents.
  • Chapter 3 has woolly mammoths as flashlight guards, who works for The Grizz and will attack the player on sight.
• Spyro the Dragon:
  • Spyro: Year of the Dragon: Small mammoths are enemies in Frozen Altars. They return in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, in Monkey Monastery.
  • Spyro: A Hero's Tail has Spyro getting captured by a woolly mammoth henchman of Red's.

Visual Novels

• Max's Big Bust: A Captain Nekorai Tale has several scenes involving Mall Mammoth, a series of b-movies about a carnivorous mammoth rampaging through malls.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies introduces the character Phony Phanty, a devilish elephant who is one of two mascots (the other being a lawyer rhino named Bum Rap Rhiny) for an anti-false charge campaign started during the Dark Age of the Law.

Web Animation

• Among the Creatures of Grimm in RWBY are the Goliaths, two hundred-foot tall demons that exist only to destroy. They're particularly dangerous compared to other Grimm not just because of their size, but their intelligence. The Goliaths are old enough to know better than to attack just any humans they find for fear of reprisal, so they regularly prowl around the outskirts of civilization waiting for the opportune moment to crush everything beneath them. Volume 7 introduced Megoliaths, the mammoth cousins to the Goliaths who terrorize the frozen continent of Solitas.

Webcomics

• While Pankrator Jagganoth from Kill Six Billion Demons isn't literally an elephant, he is very heavily associated with them (most notably, wearing a helm resembling a demonic mammoth skull) and definitely has elephantine physical traits like having tusks and being absolutely huge. He's an Omnicidal Maniac (kind of), and an insanely brutal Person of Mass Destruction with absolutely zero regard for collateral damage.

Western Animation

• Animal Crackers: Eugene the elephant is The Bully who always hogs the watering hole, beats up anyone who stands up to him, and stomps on petunias in his free time.
• Babar and the Adventures of Badou: Blacktrunk is an evil pirate captain and the most notable elephantine villain in the franchise.
• Ben 10: In "Washington B.C.", a mixture of this and Raising the Steaks occurs when Doctor Animo uses his transmodulator to revive a stuffed woolly mammoth corpse in the natural history museum before setting it on Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max. Ben promptly ends up doing battle against it.
• Bonkers featured Flaps the Elephant as one of the series' few recurring villains.
• Danger Mouse: In "One of Our Stately Homes is Missing," Hannibal Hogarty used a herd of elephants to push the Duke of Bedbug's mansion into the sea and to his island hideout where he holds the mansion for ransom.
• Futurama: In "Less than Hero", one of the animal henchmen of supervillain the Zookeeper is "an elephant that never forgets... to kill!" During the Zookeeper's attack at the natural history museum, the elephant is shown eating one of the museum workers.
• Jason And The Heroes Of Mount Olympus: Mars, the god of war, is depicted as an anthropomorphic elephant. Unlike the other gods, he’s quite short-tempered and standoffish, and rather dismissive towards Jason, but he’s still on the side of good guys.
• The Legend of Tarzan: In "Tarzan and the Rogue Elephant", an elephant herd is chased out of their home by Mabaya, an elephant who has gone rogue, going into a blind rage and trampling everything in his path, all while never even speaking. This also leads Tantor to believe that he might become a rogue elephant himself.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Bart Gets An Elephant", Bart ends up getting an elephant called Stampy, who's surly and destructive with a habit of shoving people up his mouth. The family believes this is because he's unhappy so they send him to a sanctuary to be with his kind. Despite this Stampy ends up headbutting the elephants there while Bart cheers him on. The sanctuary representative says that he is happy, but much like humans some elephants are just jerks. Afterwards Homer starts headbutting the representative.
  • In "Skinner's Sense of Snow", a flashback to the Vietnam War by Skinner shows a fellow soldier escaping from a Vietnamese prison and being seized and eaten by an elephant, which according to Skinner ate his entire platoon. Yes, really.
• Timon & Pumbaa:
  • Ned the Elephant, a recurring antagonist, plays the image of an Honorable Elephant being influential and well-respected, but is really an arrogant, snobbish, belligerent jerk who delights in bullying and humiliating the duo.
  • In one Rafiki's Fables episodes, a mouse has the same problem with another group of elephants, so he wants to be respected by becoming other species.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Sappy Stanley from "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?" is an elephant who serves as the episode's antagonist. Stanley was once a famous American cartoon star, whose cartoons consisted of him being hit on the head by coconut-throwing chimpanzees. One of which, "Which Way to the Arctic?" was nominated for a Shloskar award in 1958. When Stanley lost the award to Bugs Bunny's "Knighty Knight Bugs", he left American cinema for France and became a big star there, spending decades plotting his revenge on Bugs. During Bugs Bunny's Zherry award ceremony, Stanley kidnaps Bugs, steals his Shloskar, and frames Daffy Duck for the crime, leaving Buster and Babs to find the real culprit and prove Daffy's innocence. Stanley himself is a parody of Terrytoons cartoon character Sidney the Elephant, a.k.a. Silly Sidney. A cartoon featuring this character (called "Sidney's Family Tree") was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject in 1958, but lost to, yep, you guessed it, "Knighty Knight Bugs".
• What's New, Scooby-Doo?: The Monster of the Week of "Safari, So Good!" are shape-shifting demons, one of which takes the form of an aggressive elephant that unsuccessfully tries to capture Daphne. Although it turns out to be just a normal elephant covered in glowing make-up and hypnotized into acting vicious, just like the rest of the "demons".

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