Basic Trope: A character who can control animals to aid them in battle.
- Straight: Claire fights her enemies using swarms of bees.
- Exaggerated: Claire fights her enemies using swarms of tigers.
- Downplayed: Claire is a master swordswoman whose dog aids her in combat.
- Justified:
- Those are intelligent bees, and they serve her willingly.
- Claire has been blessed by the bug god.
- Inverted: Animals Hate Him
- Subverted: Claire is seen controlling a swarm of bees with her mind, but it turns out her power is actually Mind Control.
- Double Subverted: However, her mind control isn't strong enough to work on people, so she uses it only on animals, resulting in this trope.
- Parodied:
- Claire has bees fetch her drinks, buy newspapers and put her clothes on.
- Claire can summon the bees...but can't actually control them.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Claire lives on a space station and has never seen a live animal in her life.
- Enforced: The author thought it would be cool to work his favorite animals into his Magical Girl Warrior story.
- Lampshaded: "FLY, MY LOYAL UNDERLINGS!!!... Yeah, that's pretty much my job 'round here."
- Invoked: Claire creates a suit that would enable her to control animals.
- Exploited: The Big Bad sends animal rights groups after Claire.
- Defied: Big Bad takes all Claire's bugs down with a flamethrower.
- Discussed: "Ugh, there are mosquitoes everywhere! Pity I can't just tell them to get off me!"
- Conversed: "She can control animals? Isn't that a bit... dunno, cliche?"
- Implied: Legends tell about Lady Claire, who was always accompanied into battle by swarms of insects.
- Deconstructed: Keeping all those animals fed, with a place to live, rest and sleep is troublesome, not to mention that you can hardly train them in combat.
- Reconstructed: With a lot of practice, Claire makes combat bugs work, and with this success, money for all the rest flows.
- Played For Laughs: The villain is deadly afraid of bees and merely seeing Claire with them makes him run away screaming like a little girl.
- Played For Drama: Claire is deadly afraid of bees and has to overcome it if she wants to use her ability properly.
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