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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