Basic Trope: A child that acts wild, and is often raised by animals.
- Straight: Oscar is a kid that lives in the jungle, and was raised by wolves.
- Exaggerated:
- All of the animals in the jungle raise Oscar.
- There's a whole group of wild children living in the jungle!
- Downplayed:
- Oscar is a Funny Animal that was raised by non-anthropomorphic animals, and acts somewhat feral as a result.
- Oscar's parents are still present in his life, but he has developed a strong bond with the wolves and considers them to be his second family.
- Justified:
- Oscar's parents died or abandoned him somehow, and Oscar was found by some wolves that decided to take him in.
- Truth in Television
- Inverted: An animal is raised by people and begins to act more humanlike.
- Subverted: A wolf notices Oscar abandoned as a young child, and decides to leave him.
- Double Subverted: And then a monkey comes and adopts him instead.
- Parodied:
- Oscar grows up and lives a civilized life, but he's even identified as a wolf in some legal papers.
- Oscar is just a rebellious youngster, and yet he's treated like he was actually raised by animals.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No humans are raised by animals.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The wolves decide not to raise Oscar, and possibly even decide to eat him instead.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: After Oscar grows up, he finds it difficult to adjust to civilized life.
- Reconstruction: Without knowledge of nearly ALL ASPECTS of human society, Oscar’s rehabilitation is slow and painstaking, but he manages to adjust.
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