Basic Trope: Someone insults a human by calling them (or comparing them to) an ape or monkey.
- Straight: Archer, a tiger-person, regularly refers to humans as "hairless apes".
- Exaggerated: Archer always insists that all humans are actually apes/monkeys, even though he knows for a fact that they aren't.
- Downplayed: Archer does occasionally compare people to apes/monkeys, but only as an insult.
- Justified: Humans are actually closely related to monkeys and apes, so it's understandable that a non-human would compare them to primates as a result (especially in the case of Archer, who is an anthropomorphic tiger and has likely seen a monkey before).
- Inverted:
- Someone compares a monkey or ape to a human.
- Archer compares humans to monkeys and apes in praise, because he believes that monkeys and apes are rather smart animals.
- Someone calls Archer a son of a tiger.
- Subverted:
- Archer calls a person a "hairless ape", but he reveals he was really being Innocently Insensitive and was just calling them this because he has no idea what a human actually is.
- Archer is about to call someone a monkey/ape, but stops because "that would be an insult to monkeys and apes".
- Archer, M.D. was talking in the medical context of an affliction that affects all primates, humans no exception.
- Double Subverted:
- It turns out he was lying.
- After Archer learns what people are, he still compares them to monkeys when he's mad at them.
- "...Still, you are acting like a monkey."
- Parodied: Archer insults an anthropomorphic monkey by comparing him to monkeys. It takes him a moment to realize why that's not really an "insult" anyway.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody ever compares humans to primates.
- Enforced: "You know, if there's some sort of non-human who doesn't like humans in any way, they're almost always gonna compare people to apes - Archer believes that humans are inferior to Beast Men, so why not have him say so?"
- Lampshaded: "What are you doing, you stupid little apeman?!?!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Archer, if you call another person a "hairless ape", I'm not letting you play with the ball of yarn tonight."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Archer believes Beast Men are superior to humans, so why in the world is he calling people "apes" as an insult? Aren't there primate-like Beast Men, too?"
- Implied: Someone mentions that the last time they met Archer, he compared them to a primate.
- Played for Laughs: Archer calls a human a monkey. Said human climbs to the top of a tree and eats fruit from it, before saying "No I'm not."
- Played for Drama: Archer ends up being More Insulting than Intended, because he calls someone a monkey despite "monkey" being an offensive term to that racial group.
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