Basic Trope: Elephants are dignified, refined, and benevolent.
- Straight: Eleanor is a Gentle Giant, and leads her elephant herd with wisdom and kindness.
- Exaggerated: Eleanor is the undisputed Queen of the Beasts.
- Downplayed:
- Eleanor is fairly serious and sensible.
- Eleanor is usually sensible and good-natured, but she does have flaws and can sometimes be selfish.
- Justified: Elephants are intelligent creatures, with a very complex social structure.
- Inverted:
- Eleanor likes to spend her time alone, trampling anything and anyone in her path and eating humans' crops.
- Eleanor is a Cruel Elephant
- Subverted: Eleanor turn out to be not as kind as she seems.
- Double Subverted:
- But she is really a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and/or always defers to the matriarch of her herd.
- Alternatively, Eleanor seems to be doing something mean, but it's to protect her calf or otherwise prevent harm.
- Parodied: Eleanor forces all of the other creatures of the savannah to have a dainty tea party with her in her garden as baroque music plays.
- Zig Zagged: Eleanor's behavior is very inconsistent.
- Averted:
- Elephants are not treated any differently than any other animal.
- No elephants mentioned in this particular work.
- Enforced: "We admire these large, yet complex animals. Let's write a story about them!"
- Lampshaded: "Wow, Eleanor, you sure are wise. Is it because you never forget?"
- Invoked: Eleanor is chosen to be the matriarch of her herd.
- Exploited: The local creatures live together in peace and harmony due to Eleanor's leadership, so the Big Bad tries to assassinate her.
- Defied: Eleanor is a terrible leader, and cares more about getting food and access to the best bulls than about the well-being of her family.
- Discussed: "Elephants are such beautiful creatures!"
- Conversed: "But watch out; sometimes it pays to Beware the Nice Ones."
- Implied: Eleanor never appears, but the other animals speak well of her.
- Deconstructed: A human assuming elephants are nice is promptly trampled, as they are wild animals.
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