Basic Trope: Living skeletons that are portrayed as friendly.
- Straight: Sammy the Skeleton is very kind, and he enjoys spending time with his human friends Alice and Bob and his brother Cal C. Am.
- Exaggerated:
- Sammy is an All-Loving Hero.
- Skeletons are an Always Lawful Good species in the work.
- Downplayed:
- Sammy isn't actually a skeleton, but does have a Skeleton Motif and is a nice person.
- Calling Sammy "friendly" would be a bit of a stretch, though he is still on the side of good.
- Only some parts of Sammy's body are skeletal.
- Justified:
- Sammy wants to break away from the stereotypes of skeletons being evil.
- Sammy was raised to be nice, and wants to stay that way.
- Sammy was once human and was always a nice person, and becoming a skeleton didn't change that.
- Inverted: Skeletons are portrayed as evil.
- Subverted: Although Sammy acts nice, he reveals himself to be Evil All Along.
- Double Subverted:
- But then he has a Heel–Face Turn later.
- Or, despite being evil, he's still Affably Evil.
- Parodied: Sammy is a skeleton Halloween decoration that gets treated as a character.
- Zig-Zagged:
- There are some friendly skeletons in the work, and some evil skeletons.
- Sammy is in a Heel–Face Revolving Door.
- Averted: There aren't any skeletons in the work.
- Enforced:
- The work features monsters as its main characters and is aimed at children (or is otherwise Lighter and Softer), so it makes sense that a friendly skeleton would be included.
- Sammy was inspired by an existing character of this type, such as Jack Skellington or Skull Boy.
- Lampshaded: "Sammy proves that you don't even have to have a heart to be nice."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Being a living skeleton, Sammy can do a lot more without getting injured - this can include slapstick gags, or even going through dangerous passageways.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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