Basic Trope: An orangutan who is smart.
- Straight: Oscar the orangutan is The Smart Guy.
- Exaggerated: Oscar isn't just smart, but omniscient.
- Downplayed:
- Oscar is somewhat smarter than average.
- Oscar is the smartest in his gang of killer apes, but considering the other members' intellect, that's not saying a whole lot.
- Justified: Truth in Television - many primates, including orangutans, are well-known for their intelligence.
- Inverted: Oscar is a Dumb Muscle, possibly even to the point in being Lethally Stupid.
- Subverted: Oscar was Feigning Intelligence.
- Double Subverted: However, his twin brother Orville is actually smart.
- Parodied: Oscar works at a science lab, even though he's in a setting where anthropomorphic animals are otherwise nowhere to be found. His colleagues don't even bat an eye.
- Zig-Zagged: Oscar is often portrayed as a Dumb Muscle, but occasionally there are hints that he's a Genius Bruiser that he's not as dumb as he acts.
- Averted: Orangutans don't appear in the work.
- Enforced: Orangutans are well-known in some myths and even in real life for being highly intelligent, so the creators wanted to add a bit of Shown Their Work.
- Lampshaded: "An orangutan is smarter than me?"
- Invoked: Orangutans are used as subjects in an Uplifted Animal experiment.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I feel like primates in general are often depicted as smart, but orangutans are the most prone to that."
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