No monkeying around with these tropes.
These are tropes related to nonhuman primates, including monkeys, apes, and lemurs.
Although humans are primates, tropes related to humans should go under Humans Are Indexed, Characters, or some other, more specific index.
Despite the names, the tropes Butt-Monkey, Spot Monkey, Underground Monkey, Iron Butt Monkey, We Named the Monkey "Jack", Grease Monkey, Curious as a Monkey, Designated Monkey, Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys, Karmic Butt-Monkey, and Skill Monkey don't usually have anything to do with primates and do not belong here.
Tropes
Categories
- Apes in Space: Apes and monkeys sent into space.
- Bare-Bottomed Monkey: Primates are humorously depicted with big bare backsides.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Ape-like cryptids.
- Big-Hearted Bigfoot: Bigfoot is portrayed as a kindhearted or heroic figure
- Cymbal-Banging Monkey: A horrifying-looking wind-up toy monkey.
- Dung Fu: Apes and monkeys are often depicted throwing feces.
- Eastern Zodiac: The monkey is the ninth animal of the zodiac.
- Erudite Orangutan: Orangutans depicted as smart.
- Gentle Gorilla: Gorillas who are portrayed as peaceful and easygoing.
- Intelligent Primate: Primates are portrayed as intelligent, often civilized individuals.
- Killer Gorilla: Great apes, especially gorillas, stereotyped as aggressive and violent beasts.
- Killer Space Monkey: An ape-like hostile alien.
- King Kong Copy: An Expy of the most famous movie ape, King Kong.
- Maniac Monkeys: Evil, aggressive or otherwise threatening monkeys.
- Mischief-Making Monkey: Monkeys are trouble-making pranksters.
- Monkey King Lite: An Expy of Sun Wukong, the monkey protagonist of Journey to the West.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Three monkeys, covering their eyes, ears and mouth respectively.
- Monkeys on a Typewriter: A thought experiment suggesting that given infinite time, monkeys pushing random keys on a typewriter can write a literary masterpiece by chance.
- Nue: A chimeric yokai that is stated to have the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the limbs of a tiger, and the tail of a snake.
- Powersuit Monkey: A monkey or ape with a human job, usually as a comedy gag.
- Primal Chest-Pound: A character beats their chest like a gorilla.
- Primate Versus Reptile: A giant primate and a giant reptile duking it out.
- Sea Aping: Brine shrimp as instant pets advertised as being primate-like.
- Silly Simian: A primate is added to bring humor to the situation.
- Son of an Ape: An insult aimed at humans comparing them to non-human apes, especially by non-primate beings.
