Basic Trope: A horse or other mount refuses to be ridden or otherwise given commands.
- Straight: Horace the horse always bucks off anyone who tries to ride him.
- Exaggerated: Horace the horse goes as far as to trample anyone who even tries giving him a command.
- Downplayed: Horace the horse will usually let someone stay on his back, but he refuses to be given commands.
- Justified:
- Horace was abused at some point in his past, making him distrustful of anyone who attempts to command him.
- Horace hasn't been trained yet, so he's unfamiliar with commands and doesn't particularly enjoy it when someone suddenly jumps on his back.
- The person trying to ride Horace doesn't understand horse behavior and is doing things incorrectly.
- The mount is a donkey/mule, which have a reputation of being more stubborn than horses.
- Horace is an evil-detecting horse who can tell that the person trying to ride him isn't as trustworthy as they seem.
- Inverted: Horace is much more cooperative than a real horse would be.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Bob tries to ride several different animals as mounts, but they keep bucking him off. Bob then tries to ride a car... which also bucks him off.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- No one tries to ride any animals.
- Horace is mostly cooperative.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "I wouldn't attempt to ride that horse if I were you."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Well, you'd be mad if someone suddenly jumped on your back too, wouldn't you?"
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: No one is ever seen attempting to ride Horace or give him commands, but many of the ranch-hands tend to stay away from him.
Try not to let the horse buck you off at Moody Mount.
