Basic Trope: A fleeing group of animals foreshadows danger
- Straight: Bob sees a bunch of deer running out of the forest and realizes that there is a fire.
- Exaggerated: Bob sees animals of all types running out of the forest because someone is cooking something.
- Downplayed: Only one deer runs away.
- Justified: The deer are scared of fire.
- Inverted: The deer are suicidal and run towards the fire.
- Subverted: The deer stay in the forest during the fire...
- Double Subverted: ...because they got there by running away from another fire.
- Parodied:
- The deer have fire drills on Fridays.
- A deer yells "Fire! Run!"
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There is a fire, but the deer are all killed in it.
- Enforced: "We have a bunch of animals that we want to use in a scene, so can you write a stampede into there?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: A hunter starts a fire and shoots all the animals as they run away.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: "Thankfully, there were no animals in the forest during most of the fire."
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