Basic Trope: An animal known for being slow is shown to move fast.
- Straight: A snail can move at 60+ miles per hour.
- Exaggerated:
- A sloth is shown to move 100+ miles per hour.
- All of the otherwise slow animals are shown to move fast.
- Downplayed: A gila monster is shown moving somewhat faster than it would in real life.
- Justified: The animal in question is genetically enhanced in some way.
- Inverted: A cheetah is shown moving at only 10 miles per hour at most.
- Subverted: Mr. Snail's perceived speed was due to him being on the roof of a Lamborghini.
- Double Subverted: The Lamborghini's 100 MPH only provided a third of Mr. Snail's perceived speed of 300 MPH.
- Parodied: A cheetah challenges a snail to a race, expecting an easy win, but to the cheetah's surprise, the snail zips away in a cloud of dust.
- Zig-Zagged: A turtle moves insanely fast in the water, but typically slow on land.
- Averted: There are no animals moving faster than they do in real life.
- Enforced:
- Having slower animals actually move slowly would make everything an Overly Long Gag, and the creators wanted to avoid that.
- To subvert Animal Stereotypes.
- Lampshaded: "Did I wake up on Opposite Day or something? How can a snail move that fast!?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: A starfish with Super-Speed challenges a barracuda to an absurdly high stakes race, leaving the barracuda expecting to win due to starfishes' slow speed.
- Defied: A character finds and smashes a whole supply of sloth speed serums to make sure they aren't ingested by any sloths.
- Discussed: "You ever hear about a fast turtle? Yeah, imagine that. An animal often associated with slowness going fast."
- Conversed: "There's something weirdly cool about seeing a character based on a slow animal move really fast."
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