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Basic Trope: An animal that can communicate freely with human beings, but can also communicate with other animals.

  • Straight: Fido is a dog who can communicate with humans, but can also communicate with other animals.
  • Exaggerated: Fido is a dog who can communicate with humans of every nationality, and with other animals.
  • Downplayed: Fido speaks English and Dog, but when he speaks English he speaks it very poorly.
  • Justified: Fido was taught to speak English by a little girl who Speaks Fluent Animal.
  • Inverted: Alice is a girl who Speaks Fluent Animal.
  • Subverted: Fido initially only barks, but in one scene he appears to be talking, but it's really just Bob throwing his voice.
  • Double Subverted: Afterwards, however, Fido speaks for real.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zigzagged: ???
  • Averted: Fido is a Talking Animal who cannot communicate with other animals.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "I speak English and Dog!"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Fido serves as a translator between dogs and humans.
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: "Can you still bark too?"
  • Conversed: "I know a cartoon with a dog who talks and barks!"
  • Implied: ???
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???

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