Basic Trope: A very big dog that is very friendly.
- Straight: Weighing 75 kilos (165,35 lb), Firulais is very friendly, and is the best friend of Alice, the 3-year-old girl of the family.
- Exaggerated: Firulais weighs 150 kilos (330,69 lb) , but is a Big Fun that doesn't stop people from having Cuteness Proximity on him.
- Downplayed: He weighs 60 kilos (132,28 lb), and although he is not particularly affectionate, he is very patient with Alice.
- Justified :
- Firulais is a German Shepherd, Newfoundland, Saint Bernard, Standard Poodle or another breed that is like that.
- Firulais has always received a lot of love, so he has the same amount of love.
- Inverted: Firulais is either small, bad-tempered, or both.
- Subverted: When someone comes home, Firulais starts running towards them barking loudly...
- Double Subverted: ...only to attack them with love!
- Parodied: When someone comes to the house, Firulais greets them with a tray of cupcakes with the inscription "Be my friend!" that he has made himself.
- Zig-Zagged: Firulais is normally a good, well-trained dog... except for when mailmen come to the door. But the family manages to train him a bit more for that too. Except on a certain day, when he nearly bit Alice. But it was just once, and Firulais is back to normal afterward.
- Averted: There are no dogs in the story.
- Enforced: The creator had a dog of these characteristics when he was little.
- Lampshaded: “Firulais is like that thanks to all the love under all that fur.”
- Implied:
- Invoked: Alice's parents actively look for a big dog, in hopes of finding a friendly one at the same time.
- Exploited: Evulz comes to Alice's house, and Firulais doesn't stop him due to him being a Big Friendly Dog.
- Deconstructed: Like with Exploited, Big Friendly Dogs can often prove detrimental due to their bigness or friendliness.
- Defied: Firulais is big, but wasn't trained to be friendly, as the owners want to be warned of danger.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ??
