Basic Trope: An animal that is small and attractive but has a loud cry that repels people.
- Straight: Alice is a kitten with a meow like a lion's roar.
- Exaggerated: Alice's meow can literally cause deafness, but she can fit in a teacup.
- Downplayed: Alice is a kitten, but she meows like an adult cat.
- Justified:
- Alice's species depends upon a loud roar to intimidate predators above their weight class.
- Alice is a breed such as a Siamese which is known for having a particularly raucous meow.
- Inverted: Alice is a lioness, who mews like a kitten.
- Subverted: It turns out the roaring was not coming from Alice, but from an actual lion.
- Double Subverted: ...Whose cubs also have loud roars.
- Parodied: The kitten inexplicably plays a pop song and everyone reacts like it is a bloodcurdling yowl.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice sometimes roars, sometimes mews, and sometimes meows.
- Averted: Alice mews like a normal kitten.
- Enforced: Alice had a habit of meowing loudly and inopportunely. It was left in as justifiable comic relief.
- Lampshaded: "How could such a little cat make such a loud noise?!"
- Invoked: Alice hears a lion roar and tries to imitate it.
- Exploited: "Step right up! Hear the loudest cat in the world! Twenty dollars each!"
- Defied: Alice's person, Bob, disciplines her so she doesn't roar like a lion.
- Discussed: "The neighbour's cat sounds like a lion and she's only a kitten!"
- Conversed: "I'm still processing the fact that the main character's cat roars like a lion!"
- Implied: We hear a roar, and all that can be seen is a little cat.
- Deconstructed: Alice's roars for a kitty cat brought fear to her neighborhood, which then extends to the whole world. Alice is then treated as a wild animal despite her domesticated look.
- Reconstructed: Turns out, Alice's loud roars for a domesticated kitty cat can help fend off unwanted people away from Bob's house.
- Played for Laughs: Bob has Alice roar at Charlie as a practical joke.
- Played for Drama: Alice feels sad because nobody likes her.
- Played for Horror: Alice's roar serves as a Jump Scare.
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