Basic Trope: A person seeks revenge on an animal for having done something bad to them.
- Straight: Bubba Selkzer is a fur trapper who spends his life hunting for a wolverine who tore up his cabin.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob was bitten by a duck when he was in a petting zoo as a child. He now devotes his time to shooting any duck he sees, including ducklings.
- Bubba hunts down the wolverine for nibbling a piece of meat off a huge beaver that Bubba was eating for dinner.
- Downplayed: Alice is rivals with Mrs. Gertrude’s cats, who constantly eat the birds in her garden and pee over the patio.
- Justified: Bubba was dying of hypothermia and needed shelter before discovering the wolverine ruined his cabin. This risked his life and the happiness of his family.
- Inverted:
- After being dumped in a junkyard, Fido the dog searches the world for his abusive owners and tries to kill them.
- The wolverine is a Super-Persistent Predator who keeps stalking Bubba.
- Animals Hate Him
- Subverted: Bubba was actually just hunting a random wolverine.
- Double Subverted: That grizzly, on the other hand...
- Parodied:
- John’s sister Kate was eaten by an alligator. He immediately yells, “For Kate!” and pops an alligator floatie with a needle when he sees one.
- Charlie treats his sister's cat like a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis, as he's convinced that it makes his life difficult on purpose.
- Zig-Zagged: Bubba suffers a lot of Motive Decay about just why he keeps trapping wolverines.
- Averted: Bubba does not try to hunt down any specific animals.
- Enforced: The producers really like Moby-Dick and force a Whole-Plot Reference to it.
- Lampshaded: "Still hunting that wolverine, huh, Bubba? Well, that didn't work out too well for Ahab.."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Nah. The cabin was insured, anyway. I'd just end up dead, probably."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bubba mysteriously gets angry when he sees wolverines and often tries to kill them.
- Deconstructed: Bubba finds that Vengeance Feels Empty and that hunting down the wolverine puts him in a lot of trouble.
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