Size comparison of various extinct proboscideans.
This index is for tropes about elephants and their relatives (mammoths, mastodonts, gomphotheres, deinotheres, etc.), all belonging to the order Proboscidea.
Despite the names, Going to See the Elephant, Elephant in the Living Room, Pink Elephants, and the tropes that uses words that could also mean body parts of an elephant, Trunk Shot, Punk in the Trunk, Tree Trunk Tour, and Raven Hair, Ivory Skin, do not belong here.
Compare Elephantine Fiction for works that primarily feature elephants.
Tropes:
Related:
- Cruel Elephant: Elephants portrayed as evil, aggressive, or just plain mean.
- Elephant Graveyard: A legendary place of barren land where elephants instinctively go when they're nearing their end.
- Elephants Are Scared of Mice: Elephants are irrationally afraid of small rodents.
- Elephants Never Forget: Elephants provided with prodigious memories (sometimes on supernatural levels).
- Honorable Elephant: Elephants portrayed as wise, just, and respectable folk.
- Mammoths Mean Ice Age: Mammoths used as visual symbols of cold, barbarism, or the last glaciation.
- War Elephants:Elephants as Beasts of Battle.
