Basic Trope: Cartoon reindeer resemble generic forest deer.
- Straight: The leading reindeer of Santa Claus's sleigh, Tropedolph, is small, brown-colored, and has a white tail.
- Exaggerated: Reindeer don't even exist! Tropedolph is just referred to as a deer.
- Downplayed: Tropedolph has a big bulky body like a real reindeer, is colored brown like a forest deer.
- Justified:
- The story takes place in an alternative universe where reindeer never evolved and Tropedolph was the result of cloning a forest deer.
- Santa's reindeer are a separate species from wild reindeer.
- Inverted: Bombi, a forest deer living in a North American forest is big, bulky, and gray-colored.
- Subverted: Tropedolph turns out to just be an alien that landed in the North Pole.
- Double Subverted: However, the real Tropedolph looks identical to alien Tropedolph.
- Parodied: Tropedolph lives in a North American forest and just comes to work at Santa's workshop during the holiday season. All of the Other Reindeer pick on him for looking nothing like them.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Tropedolph is big, bulky, and gray-colored like an actual reindeer.
- Enforced: The creator (or his audience) grew up on the Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials.
- Lampshaded: "Are you sure Tropedolph is actually a reindeer?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: To hide himself from being seen by the townspeople, Tropedolph takes off his red nose and is indistinguishable from the forest deer.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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