Basic Trope: Owls are intelligent.
- Straight: Olivia the Owl is very smart.
- Exaggerated: Olivia even knows all of the secrets to the universe.
- Olivia is The Omniscient
- Downplayed: Olivia is rather intelligent, but not necessarily a genius.
- Justified:
- The story is set in Ancient Greece, which is where the stereotype of owls being associated with wisdom came from.
- Olivia always pays attention in class.
- Inverted: Owls are portrayed as Too Dumb to Live.
- Subverted: Olivia was only pretending to be smart.
- Double Subverted: She's actually a lot smarter than that.
- Parodied: All owls wear graduation caps and glasses at all times.
- Zig-Zagged: Some owls are portrayed as intelligent, but some aren't.
- Averted: There are no owls in the work.
- Enforced: A common Animal Stereotype.
- Lampshaded: "A bird is smarter than me - I can't believe it!"
- Invoked: A Mad Scientist augments an owl's brain to give it super intelligence.
- Exploited: Since Olivia is the smartest in the story, she is often the one to solve problems.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I wonder where the stereotype of owls being intelligent came from - they're not necessarily any smarter than other birds in real life."
Back to The Owl-Knowing One, hoot-hoot!
