Basic Trope: Pigs are portrayed as intelligent.
- Straight: Peter the Pig is very smart.
- Exaggerated:
- Peter knows literally everything.
- There are many pigs in the work, and they're all very smart.
- Downplayed:
- Peter can be rather smart, but isn't too high above average.
- Peter isn't a real pig, but he is still a smart person who has some pig-related motifs.
- Justified: Truth in Television: pigs are fairly smart animals.
- Inverted:
- In some cases, Messy Pig and/or Gluttonous Pig can be inversions.
- Paul is Too Dumb to Live.
- Subverted:
- Peter is believed to be smart, but is really just a messy, gluttonous, and relatively unintelligent pig.
- Peter was Obfuscating Intelligence.
- Double Subverted:
- Peter is later revealed to be a Bunny-Ears Lawyer who has some quirks but is actually rather smart.
- Peter was also Obfuscating Stupidity.
- Parodied: A piece of bacon made from Peter is considered the smartest thing in the universe.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Peter is rather good at some things, but not at others.
- Some pigs are portrayed as intelligent, and some aren't.
- Averted:
- There aren't any pigs shown.
- Pigs aren't portrayed as particularly intelligent.
- Enforced:
- To teach the audience that pigs are a fairly smart animal species.
- It's a more positive Animal Stereotype about pigs.
- Lampshaded: "I told you pigs were smart!"
- Invoked: Alice rescues Peter from a farm and educates him.
- Exploited: Alice keeps Peter the Pig so he can tell her all the test answers for her upcoming tests.
- Defied: Pigs are potentially quite smart but are forbidden from getting an education.
- Discussed: "You're gonna fail the test unless you have a mind of a pig."
- Conversed: "Why is that pig so smart?
- Implied: Peter isn't actually characterized, but he seems to be looking around like he knows what's going on.
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