Basic Trope: Someone doesn't allow animals.
- Straight: Alice wants to bring her dog Bob to stay at a hotel, but the hotel doesn't allow pets.
- Exaggerated: The hotel doesn't allow any animals whatsoever to wander onto its property, not even wild birds and insects.
- Downplayed: The hotel's policy is "No dogs except guide dogs".
- Justified:
- The hotel previously tried to allow pets, but had trouble with pets who weren't housebroken, were destructive, etc.
- The hotel staff don't want to risk being sued in case someone is allergic to one of the pets.
- Charlie is the mayor of Tropopolis and he creates legislation that demands that all hotels follow this rule.
- Inverted:
- Some talking animals form a secret society and ban humans.
- The hotel only allows guests who bring their pets.
- Subverted: Alice wants to bring Bob into the hotel, but is stopped by Chris, the receptionist, who says pets aren't allowed. However, a bellhop named Danny reveals they've changed the rules, and pets are now allowed.
- Double Subverted: ...But only pets that are confined to a cage or tank, so dogs still aren't allowed.
- Parodied: Bob can talk and accuses whoever made the policy of being bigoted against dogs.
- Zigzagged: The hotel allows some species of pet, but not others, and it seems completely arbitrary what species are allowed and which ones are not (for instance, dogs are not allowed, but cats are fine, and mice are allowed, but not rats).
- Averted:
- Alice does not bring Bob to the hotel.
- The hotel does allow pets.
- Enforced:
- The writers decide to create a scenario where Emily is forced to go to a hotel where pets are not allowed.
- Lampshaded: "None of these hotels allow pets. Sorry, boy, it looks like you're staying in a kennel."
- Invoked: Emily persuades the owners of the hotel not to allow pets.
- Exploited: Emily hates animals, so she deliberately seeks out places that disallow pets.
- Defied: The hotel owners decide to allow pets.
- Discussed: "Will they allow me to bring my dog in?"
- Conversed: "Hardly any hotels in real life allow pets, and even fewer allow them in fiction."
- Implied: When Alice walks towards the entrance of the hotel with her dog, the receptionist glares in her direction.
- Deconstructed:
- Animals are not allowed, unless they work on behalf of the hotel.
- The hotels change this when animals are turned into a labor force and are forced to wear collars that define them as second class citizens, or even just outright slaves.
- Reconstructed:
- Animals that do not accept the rules imposed on them by their human masters are exiled from society, imprisoned, or killed.
- When the animal handlers are fired, the pets have to follow suit.
- Played for Laughs: Alice tries to sneak Bob into the hotel, leading to all kinds of wacky antics.
- Played for Drama: There is a racist sign which reads, "No dogs or Asians".
- Played for Horror: Animals that are brought into these hotels, upon discovery, are killed and then cooked as entrees for guests.
Back to No Animals Allowed, but don't bring your pets.
