Basic Trope: A sapient mode of transportation.
- Straight: Charlie the cowboy has a horse named Horace, who is a Talking Animal.
- Exaggerated:
- Horace is a Funny Animal that allows Charlie to ride on his back.
- Charlie has many modes of transportation, all of which are sapient.
- Downplayed: Horace is a Nearly Normal Animal and gets some moments such as Even the Dog Is Ashamed.
- Justified:
- Horace is genetically modified to be able to talk.
- A Magical Native American cast a spell on Horace, giving him the ability to talk.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Horace is seemingly a normal horse until one day he suddenly talks to Charlie in perfect english to tell him to get off.
- Double Subverted: It was a dream sequence.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Horace has an Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag.
- Averted: Horace is a completely normal horse.
- Enforced: "We need Charlie to have a companion. How about his horse?"
- Lampshaded: "Did that horse just talk?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Charlie's rival bribes Horace to betray him at a key moment.
- Defied: Horace's sapience lets him make it clear: he does not want to deal with some ape riding him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: It's left unclear whether Horace is sapient or whether Charlie is just imagining him as such.
- Played for Laughs: Charlie the Cowboy is an Idiot Hero. Horace is the brains of the operation.
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