Basic Trope: The biology of an animal doesn't match that of its real-world counterpart.
- Straight:
- Exaggerated:
- Cats can use their tail to fly.
- Arthropods have internal skeletons.
- Dogs use their hind legs to move like humans do when running or walking.
- Cats are smaller than mice.
- Crabs and snakes can breed and make hybrid babies.
- Downplayed: Some animals have their realistic counterparts with minor quirks.
- Justified: The work is set in an alternate universe where the laws of biology are different.
- Inverted: The biology of an animal exactly matches its real-world counterpart.
- Subverted :
- Biology with animals seemed like they changed, but it was just a figment of Alice's wild imagination.
- The series is actually set on an alien planet, and animals have biology similar to humans is just scratching the surface.
- Double Subverted: ...
- Which actually became true as it shows that what she dreamt of was way ahead of its time.
- The planet is actually Earth after horrible mutations.
- Parodied: Every animal has been mutated to have reversed biology of their realistic counterparts to have unique quirks of their own.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some animals are faithful to their realistic counterparts while some other animals are known for being quirky or surreal.
- Animals are both faithful to their realistic counterparts while they have several quirks that defy some of their biological attributes.
- Averted: Animals don't differ in anything coming from their biology. Nor are their biological instincts a part of their personality, body shape, and more.
- Enforced:
- Rule of Cool
- "We wanted to make a show where animals can go against their typical counterparts."
- Lampshaded: "I wonder how that doe had antlers and gave birth without being mutated nor born with it. It sounds like something from a cartoon."
- Invoked: A Mad Scientist sets out to create animals that are radically different from others of their species.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: A group of scientists fix the mutant parts of animals to match their real-life counterparts.
- Discussed: "Why are there some animals that go against their biological instincts as if some nutcase we know was right about coyotes being able to fly now or something like that?"
- Conversed: "I wonder how caterpillars are able to use their eyes and tongues as arms. It's probably just a kids' cartoon.
- Deconstructed: The quirks of animals are highly improbable for their lifestyle/environment, causing the population of the said species drastically decrease and become endangered species.
- Reconstructed: The natural evolution makes the animals adapt themselves for their quirks to continue their lifespan."
- Played for Laughs: The quirks from these animals are done in a comedic style.
- Played for Drama: The animals had quirks in their biologies because they were exposed to nuclear radiation.
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