While she has a rather intimidating appearance, she actually turns out to be very good natured and gentle to Crimvael when she has sex with him. Averted with Elza from Interspecies Reviewers.One episode of Doraemon has a clan of spotted hyenas menacing an African elephant calf Nobita befriended as well as Nobita and Doraemon themselves.The former is rather smug and elitist, though reserved, while the latter is a misogynist, classist asshole. The final season of the series introduces his brother Jiro and father Juzo.However, he's also neurotic and dysfunctional in ways that can harm others unintentionally and almost makes himself party to serious financial crimes. Inverted by Haida the Spotted Hyena, who is one of the few characters who isn't mean or rude to Retsuko, and in the Netflix series develops a crush on Retsuko.Compare The Hyena, which is a character who's constantly laughing (and who may or may not be a literal hyena). Despite this, it frequently clashes with Scavengers Are Scum in Real Life, however, spotted hyenas are mostly hunters, and in the wild, lions will take any opportunity to steal kills from them and kill them as they are often rivals for territory.Ĭontrast King of Beasts, Panthera Awesome, Noble Wolf, and Heroic Dog since hyenas are often made out as the Unpleasant Animal Counterpart to big cats and wild dogs. The spotted hyena is the largest, strongest, and smartest hyena, very rarely scavenging, and living in large clans with a clear hierarchy. Although when these other species do appear, they aren't always portrayed as negatively as the spotted hyena. This may be because the hyena's signature trait - that laughing sound - is actually only made by the spotted ones. This trope does not only apply to actual hyenas, but humans or other creatures that use hyena symbolism comparing a character with an unpleasant laugh to a hyena is particularly common in fiction, to the point that there's a trope named after it.įictional hyenas are mostly spotted hyenas striped and brown hyenas are much, much rarer, and aardwolves (a purely insect-eating species) are still practically unheard of. Thankfully, these have become slightly more common in recent years, even though it is still somewhat rare. These hyenas also have a fondness for laughing and a fear (and hatred) of lions.ĭue to the omnipresence of this trope, good hyenas in fiction pretty much only exist as a deliberate subversion. The majority of the time, however, they're depicted as dirty, smelly Villainous Gluttons. They are often depicted as either insane Ax-Crazy sadists, as stupid Dirty Cowards, as a horrific Monster Clown, as a Super-Persistent Predator, or as the occasional Terrible Trio. Hyenas are frequently portrayed as evil in fiction. Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails
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