Basic Trope: The varying portrayals of werebeasts.
- Straight: Bob is turned into a werelion, and as a result can assume lion form when it's the full moon, or can undergo Voluntary Shapeshifting.
- Exaggerated: There are plenty of werebeasts within the work - various types of werecats, weredogs, werelizards, werebirds, wereinsects, and even weirder things like wererobots. All of them are very different.
- Downplayed: Bob is turned into a werecoyote - slightly different from a werewolf.
- Justified: Like lycanthropy, therianthropy has a lot of variants and the differences can easily depend on who is being infected with it.
- Inverted:
- Bob is a lion that can turn into a human on the full moon.
- Bob turns into the moon whenever he sees an animal.
- Subverted: Bob believes he is a werebeast... but after being bitten by one, nothing happens.
- Double Subverted: Until the next full moon, that is.
- Parodied: Bob becomes a harmless, cute animal such as a wererabbit. In rabbit form, all he wants to do is eat copious amounts of vegetables.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There are no werebeasts.
- Enforced: "Werewolves are cool, but not all of them should be werewolves so to say - why don't we have other werebeasts around?"
- Lampshaded: "Huh, I thought there were only werewolves."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Therianthropy is specifically designed to not exist - anyone infected with it will always turn into a werewolf, and nothing else.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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