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Amplified Animal Aptitude

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Amplified Animal Aptitude	comment	Ordinary animals in fiction have a significantly increased intelligence, and often physical ability as well. Not necessarily the Talking Animals. Not the Civilized Animals and Funny Animals. Just the wild and domestic animals encountered in stories where humans are the main characters. Such animals can frequently clearly understand everything humans say, understand human emotions, read, figure out how to solve problems on their own, and so forth. Often they can use tools with great dexterity as well, using paws or mouths. This is also true for cases in which the animals can talk to each other (so the audience can hear them) but are common animals in the eyes of any humans in the film. Beyond that, they will, if they belong to a human, also circumvent their natural instincts in order to aid or protect their humans. This trope is often associated with Nearly Normal Animal characters; in fact, how â€œnearly normalâ€� an animal is can be measured by how much â€œamplified aptitudeâ€� it has. See also Animal Talk, Friend to All Living Things, Timmy in a Well, Action Pet, and Most Writers Are Human. See Uplifted Animal, for when it's deliberately done in-universe. Not to be confused with Mysterious Animal Senses. Not to be confused with Tropey the Wonder Dog, which is about metaphorical dogs.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_148f217e	comment	Nancy Drew games: Loulou the Parrot from The Curse of Blackmoor Manor is smart enough to play complex word games, translate Latin, and play pranks on Nancy Drew. Even for an octogenarian, that's shrewd. Her granddaughter Coucou, from Ransom of the Seven Ships, continues the family tradition of genius. The game-playing monkeys on the island aren't slouches either. Inverted by Mr. Mingles, the Pomeranian from Resorting To Danger. It'd take a phenomenally stupid animal to get into half the predicaments — trapped in a dumbwaiter, locked in a safe, sucked up a pneumatic delivery tube — that pesky puffball manages to stumble into.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_14ea47e2	comment	Boo Boom! The Long Way Home: all five animals accompanying Boo-Boom (a cat, a dog, a horse, a rooster and a bee) are clearly more intelligent than their real life counterparts, being able to understand what humans say and willingly helping Boo-Boom to find his parents, as well as protecting him form harm, since they know he won't make it on his own.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar: Mercedes Lackey usually uses magic as an excuse for her intelligent animals. Companions are actually angels in horse form, for example, and kyree are Uplifted Animals; both are fully as smart as humans and notable for having large heads and broad foreheads. Tayledras bondbirds and Shin'a'in warhorses are closer to normal animals. The product of very long breeding programs with magic used to nudge them along the way, they are not people like Companions or kyree. Bondbirds are larger than normal corvids and birds of prey, smarter and quite social, forming tight emotional bonds with their human partners, to whom they can speak telepathically. The smartest ones speak in full sentences, understand deception and can make real plans. The warhorses meanwhile are big, ugly brutes with incredible stamina and intelligence that's changed their behavior so they're less like horses and more like smart dogs, which are exhaustively trained on a wide array of commands and can use their own judgement. Meanwhile, regular Shin'a'in horses are also special but in ways more feasible for smart horses, and seem to be purely the product of long breeding projects.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_1b49ce18	comment	The Aristocats are cats that can paint, play music, and apparently can legally inherit.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_2179055c	comment	The Gorilla from Cromartie High School shows questionable signs of intelligence. It is implied that he can use a computer and he is able to make his own sushi. The students at Cromartie even go as far as to say that the Gorilla is smarter than them.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_22dfb2a	comment	All Dogs Go to Heaven, obviously all the characters, especially the dog who fears going to hell.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_23945975	comment	Pretty much every hero's animal companion in a Disney Animated Canon film is an example of this, though the comedic scale ranges with them. This is completely inverted, however, in the case of Moana's Heihei, an idiotic rooster that provides no character for Moana to really interact with.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_24ffd341	comment	A junkyard cat called "Jack Bauer the Cat" in an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It seemed to be street-smarts personified, albeit a totally normal cat otherwise.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_261159e9	comment	Oliver & Company: cats and dogs are both depicted as very intelligent. Georgette, for example, understands that she's a high-class dog, and is able to put on make-up and groom her fur all by herself.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_261c8d3f	comment	Most of the animals in The Simpsons are completely normal, except for Laddie the dog, the turtle from Terrapin Wax, and Itchy & Scratchy (though they're justified since they're cartoons within a cartoon).
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_27f86cfb	comment	Downplayed in The One and Only Ivan. Ivan is a gorilla who grew up in a human house before being put in a small cage in a circus-themed mall for over a quarter century. His best friend is an old elephant who was with a circus for much of her life before ending up in the same mall. Long-lived and intelligent animals, they can more or less understand English even if they don't quite understand humans, and can speak to each other. When a new baby elephant, Ruby, is brought to join them she doesn't seem to understand most of what humans say, though she picks up on her name easily enough. There's also a year-old dog who also understands English and has less justification for it. Ivan's big moment of un-gorilla-like aptitude is his attempt to save Ruby with his art - having heard about zoos and seen them in commercials, he tries to paint a collage of a zoo with Ruby in it and laboriously figures out and copies the letters H O M E. It's still very hard for humans to figure out that this was done with intention, since to most of them his art is fully abstract.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_28508de	comment	Winx Club: Blooms pet rabbit Kiko is shown to completely understand her, despite not being able to speak himself.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_2eb5ea5f	comment	The original Dirty Pair series had "Algernon", a mouse with enhanced intelligence and the ability to command other mice (a la Krosp from Girl Genius), developed as a security system. Algernon went rogue and took over the heroines' headquarters building before he was stopped by the Pair.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In the Naruto fanfiction Sugar Plums the main character get's a cat she named Danny who is clearly smarter than a normal cat as he's able to find her when she's captured. It's clearly stated a few times that he isn't a summons because when he takes damage he doesn't disappear into smoke. It's implied he's a nin-neko, though never confirmed in story.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: Cats are an essential element in fighting Plague Zombie monsters, and are classified into three categories: Grade C cats that are basically the ordinary cats, Grade B cats that are Grade Cs that underwent special training, and Grade A cats, that are both bred and trained for their desirable qualities. In Chapter 1, a Grade A cat is seen gesturing to humans to be quiet while their boat is going through a Plague Zombie ridden area (the comic is titled after the in-universe Rule #1 on what to do to avoid attracting the attention of a closeby Plague Zombie).
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_32503658	comment	Lassie, naturally, can not only understand human speech, but can also bark in some sort of code that humans understand to mean Timmy in a Well.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_33681782	comment	Les Voyageurs Sans Souci: All animals are able to communicate among themselves and have human-level intelligence which let them perform complex tasks. An eagle-owl is able to figure out how to lock one door despite obviously lacking hands to turn the key. And TimoleÃ³n (a dog) runs his owner Captain Albatros' store in the absence while he is away.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_35e05f2a	comment	Merle, Ruby's pet crow in Of Red Petals and Black Feathers, shows far more emotion than Ruby, is able to wear a foam finger on its arm, take offense to people forgetting to mention it when introducing people to Ruby, and is generally as intelligent as a human. There is a reason for this: After having merged with Fiddlesticks when she was young, part of Ruby's spirit had to be split off to make room. Merle isn't Ruby's pet, it is part of Ruby, specifically the part of Ruby that was split off, which is why it shows far more emotion than her: because it is made up of the majority of her emotions.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_3651bc0c	comment	Juju from The Princess and the Frog. He seems to possess the same level of sapience as Mama Odie's animals friends.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_381bd9cf	comment	In the Franny K. Stein book series, Franny's dog Igor has intelligence comparable to a monkey or an ape.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_39418789	comment	Roadkill from Comix Zone can be released to get by obstacles and hit the switches that turn them off, then return to Sketch. In the backstory mentioned, Sketch never specifically trained Roadkill to do anything at all.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_396d99e5	comment	All the animal characters in Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown's Mrs. Murphy Mysteries series.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_3ac755dd	comment	Beauty and the Beast has an aversion: Phillipe runs from the wolves instead of defending Belle (which, while sensible, is not how a Loyal Animal Companion normally behaves in fiction), and while she tries to talk to sheep, they clearly are more interested in eating her book than reading it.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Hermione's cat, Crookshanks. Subverted as it's later revealed that it's half Kneazle, a magical creature. The owls seem like ordinary owls but they have the magical ability to find whomever the mail they carry is addressed to. There's also the issue of how being a parselmouth works, if all snakes aren't intelligent. Played with in one of the series' earliest scenes, when Mr. Dursley sees cat-McGonagall looking at a sign, and has to remind himself that cats can't read.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_3c912cc2	comment	Repede from Tales of Vesperia. He's a dog who's perfectly capable of understanding human speech, and is an extremely capable fighter, being able to wield a sword held in his teeth, and being able to unleash artes that are just as flashy and deadly as those of the human characters.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_4088fa38	comment	Stratos 4 has Alice, an old cat who is the pet of Rin and Ran Mikuriya. Alice, who is also nicknamed "Admiral," definitely shows a comprehension of what's going on (especially as shown in her occasional captioned cat-noises), including watching the news, displaying emotion rather clearly, and trying to smuggle herself or stow away on a plane in order to fly to the skies herself (though it's a Running Gag that she keeps on being found and removed from said planes). She even has an encounter with several other cats that display a similar level of intelligent thought, including a kitten whom she adopts. This is parodied in the short "Stratos 4.1".
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Harry's dog Mouse is a Temple Dog, scion of a magical Foo Dog and a normal dog. It's been heavily implied that he's both more intelligent and considerably more powerful than his (Wizard) owner. The short story "Christmas Eve" in particular shows this pretty well: Mouse has to help Harry assemble a bike when Harry can't interpret the instructions, understands Harry's reference to A Christmas Carol and receives considerable respect from the Faerie Queen Mab. However, he is still a dog. He can't speak, although he understands (and apparently reads) perfectly well, he works the Big Friendly Dog schtick so as not to frighten the Muggles, and his idea of a perfect afternoon involves a ride in the car, a long belly-rub and plenty of treats. Mister, Harry's 30 pound pet cat appears to be at least be on the high end of animal intelligence. However nothing has ever indicated he is magical or supernaturally intelligent, though something could be made of the fact that he is the only creature Dresden has ever found who looks identical to normal under his Wizard Sight.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: One could think Bebop's crew's dog Ein is an example, but he really is an Uplifted Animal. However, this trope is played straight in the episode "Mushroom Samba" (Trope Namer of Mushroom Samba) with a cow whom Ein thanks (getting a "you're welcome" in return).
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_45a29545	comment	All The Secret Saturdays' pets understand them. Justified, because Fisk, Zon and Komodo are all cryptids who look like ordinary animals, but aren't.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Gaspode the Wonder Dog (later just Gaspode), who can talk (but nobody pays any attention, because dogs can't talk). Moving Pictures also gives us Laddie, who plays a superintelligent dog onscreen but whose Real Life conversation consists mostly of 'Good boy Laddie'. And Men at Arms establishes that the regular street dogs of Ankh-Morpork (who are not stated to have enhanced intelligence) have their own Guild, with scary but depressingly familiar politics. Gaspode's human speech, however, gives him the edge over them because he can say "Sit!" and "Bad dog!". Subverted in The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents, in which even ordinary (non-Changeling) rats and cats are presumed to have languages of their own. The subversion is that Rat consists largely of body language (e.g. a submissive crouch for "sir"), while Cat is equipped mainly for swearing. It is also limited to actual rat social behavior, which while quite complex isn't any good for abstract ideas (and according to the Author's Note is somewhat toned down from reality to stay believable).
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_47dfc6f	comment	In Total Drama, some animals—especially squirrels—can understand humans. During the safari challenge, raccoons combine into a Raccoon mecha that shoots raccoons at people. These unusual abilities are invariably Played for Laughs.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_48cf61a6	comment	Superfriends: Wonder Dog understands Wendy and Marvin. And Gleek the Monkey understands Zan and Jayna.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_48d44b5a	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage): Even before he mutated, Splinter was remarkably intelligent for a rat, mimicking Yoshi's movements to the level that he became just as good a martial artist as him after mutating.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_49340431	comment	Both played straight and parodied by Cheddar of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the adorable pet corgi of Captain Holt. He has been trained to retrieve unusual objects, but is often treated by the cast like some kind of mastermind when he is in fact merely a cute corgi, highlighted in the episode named after him.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_4965fb90	comment	Incredibles 2 has Rocky the Raccoon, a raccoon scavenging the Parr family's garbage. Jack-Jack mistakes him for a criminal and starts a fight, and Rocky puts up a better show against him than Syndrome did in the original movie. He also shows the ability to plan and use the environment to his advantage, like turning over a barbecue to make a smoke bomb.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_4ad8ff86	comment	The Messenger Series: Favour is all-but-stated to have human-level intellect and reasoning ability, which is required for his role as an immortal being who chooses the heroes who will help him eradicate evil and misery. He appears to be able to manipulate a person's spatial awareness, senses, dreams, even the technology they're using to communicate, and sometimes Rose wonders if the thoughts in her head are her own or Favour communicating with her. In his original life, he was still portrayed as an unnaturally intelligent horse who was able to figure out what danger was coming to the villages and save them with some help from a thirteen year old boy. He, rather than the boy, was the one celebrated by the villages as the hero.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_4b356e7c	comment	Comet, the horse from The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., is a blatant parody of this trope. Not only does Brisco's steed perform some unlikely feats of intelligence on camera, but Bruce Campbell regularly refers to even less-plausible things Comet had been doing, before its rider whistled for it.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_4be1bdd0	comment	It's possible to use the telepathy in the Golden Sun games on animals, whose thoughts are always at least as comprehensible as human ones, and often show the animals as more insightful than the people. Golden Sun: The Lost Age has an extensive trade quest based on what can be uncovered of the wants of a group of animals (some of whom even deliberately use the telepathy to be conversational).
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_4cc32015	comment	Blip the monkey in Space Ghost understands Jan and Jayce.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_4d1ba412	comment	The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Judy, Doctor McNinja's gorilla receptionist, can read and write, drive cars, and is in general treated like a human character. Yoshi the raptor mount is somewhat more animalistic, but is able to communicate with Judy and understand concepts like writing, even if he can't read. Later, when fully sapient dinosaurs take over the world in a Bad Future alternate timeline, they try to make him intelligent, but even then he has rather limited linguistic abilities and is only capable of You No Take Candle-style speech.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_52744882	comment	Every dinosaur the humans-in-dino-bodies encounter in Dinoverse that doesn't just try to kill them is ridiculously bright. In the first two books they mostly just have keen emotional intelligence and group dynamics, with understanding of things like jealousy, reconciliation, gratitude, and amicably ending a relationship. Leptoceratopsians are also able to use mimicry. Still, they clearly don't understand everything the humans are doing or telling them. The next two books ramp it up. Hypsilophodons help a human-in-a-Hypsilophodon-body collect material to build a raft and row and hit a predator with clubs, all from watching him, wanting to help, and copying him. A family of Acrocanthosaurs rescues one member mired in mud by forming a dinosaur chain and pulling her out together. There is also the case of Hook/Junior, a Deinonychus who over the course of less than a week of watching, learns to make fire, splint injured limbs, and is even able to, if not read, than at least has some understanding of the markings scratched into rock walls. He also fakes a limp on his own initiative. Hook/Junior, unlike all the others in the series, is noted to be unusually smart by the human characters. It's even implied that saving him and letting him rejoin Deinonychus society leads to dinosaurs surviving to modern times as an entire civilization, in an alternate universe.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5283bd72	comment	In Protector of the Small, Daine is a secondary character and lives at the palace. Consequently, all animals in and around the palace, from horses to sparrows, get smarter. The flock of sparrows that Kel feeds recognizes her as their benefactor; they defend her from enemies and can understand basic instructions. Her horse Peachblossom is basically sentient, and even a stray like Jump has given himself a name. In Lady Knight, Daine alters all the animals in the refugee camp so they can communicate through body language/signals to make up for the camp being critically understaffed, which unsettles almost everyone, especially when they learn what palace animals are like.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: J. R. R. Tolkien uses this in his Middle-earth stories. While the most prominent such creatures — the giant Eagles, Wargs, and Huan — are special cases and probably not mundane animals, it's hinted in various stories that ordinary mammals and birds are intelligent and may talk to each other. Some characters learn the speech of birds or of all animals (though, granted, Legolas in The Lord of the Rings can "hear" the "speech" of rocks and plants). Very well-bred horses are often depicted as understanding what their riders say, especially when ridden by elves. Then there are the talking crows in The Hobbit and the "Lay of Leithien," Beorn's Partially Civilized Animal servants/friends, and the inner monologue of the fox (good grief, travelling hobbits!) in The Fellowship of the Ring. Just how seriously we're supposed to take all this is never spelled out, though we never see Carnivore Confusion even in the Blessed Realm.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5916ae31	comment	Penny's dog Brain is smarter than her uncle and saves his life several times per episode. This is not as true in the movie, though.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5921531a	comment	Koromaru the dog from Persona 3 can summon a Persona, fight using a knife held in his teeth, and understands human speech perfectly. That should be more than enough to qualify.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5921531b	comment	The fox in Persona 4 can apparently read the emas left at the shrine where it lives and cares about the upkeep of the shrine. To the point where it issues side quests to the protagonist to grant the wishes written on the emas and bring in more offerings.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5bb5ff95	comment	Jorel's Brother: The dog Tosh is able to speak normally, is wise and can often be the Only Sane Man. The three ducks Gesonel, DanÃºbio and FabrÃcio are also very intelligent for their species and speak like people, though in their case, it's justified since they were revealed to actually be aliens, not regular Earth ducks.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5c783167	comment	Gaspode the Wonder Dog (later just Gaspode), who can talk (but nobody pays any attention, because dogs can't talk). Moving Pictures also gives us Laddie, who plays a superintelligent dog onscreen but whose Real Life conversation consists mostly of 'Good boy Laddie'. And Men at Arms establishes that the regular street dogs of Ankh-Morpork (who are not stated to have enhanced intelligence) have their own Guild, with scary but depressingly familiar politics. Gaspode's human speech, however, gives him the edge over them because he can say "Sit!" and "Bad dog!".
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5e17f6cd	comment	Averted in The Animals of Farthing Wood being that they were all realistic animals, and while they all spoke to each other, they never understood humans and mistrusted them all equally except The Warden of White Deer Park, who was vouched for by the Park residents as being a man with the animals' safety first in mind.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5e41eec2	comment	And, of course, Pluto, the one Mickey Mouse character who isn't a Funny Animal, but is still rather intelligent and can understand (if not speak) English.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_5e629cf6	comment	All animals appearing in Lady and the Tramp. It might even be an accepted part of that world, considering how the dogs are talked to and that the two Italian chefs take so much time to prepare a meal and music for the title characters.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_607f6b7	comment	Inspector Gadget: Penny's dog Brain is smarter than her uncle and saves his life several times per episode. This is not as true in the movie, though. Mad Cat (Doctor Claw's henchcat) also fits the mould, but For Great Evil. At times the not-so-good doctor has ordered Mad Cat to launch guided weapons. Cats Are Mean, but missiles?
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_610a28dd	comment	Nana from Peter Pan is a dog intelligent enough to babysit a trio of human children.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_627507ac	comment	In Rio, Blu, while unable to fly, can turn on a computer, ride a skateboard, and open his own cage. The rest of the birds can sing, dance and play samba music on simple musical instruments. Monkeys are smart enough to distract tourist with tricks while the other monkeys pick their pockets.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_629cd094	comment	Justified in Dragon Age: Origins: the Mabari War Hounds actually are as intelligent as humans, having been originally bred by Telvinter magisters. In fact, they're often said to be smarter; after all, they know better than to speak, and "Dog," your party's war hound, is smart enough to easily understand human speech. A few characters have full conversations with him, and the player character seems to understand his barks as well. In Dragon Age II, the Hawke family Mabari learns to play cards.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_690edccd	comment	Doctor Dolittle learned how to speak with animals from his parrot, Polynesia, and pretty much every animal has a language.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive features Ryshadium. They are bigger, stronger, faster, and smarter than any other kind of horse by far. They even choose their own riders and are apparently very picky. They can't speak, but do understand speech to some extent. Their increased intelligence and size seems to come from a bond with Spren, something that exists in a few other places around the planet. Khriss, something of an in-universe researcher/scientist even speculates that they might be sapient.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_6ba20f54	comment	Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat and her siblings can read Chinese characters and write calligraphy using their tails.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_6ba74c71	comment	Jep the monkey from Return to Mysterious Island can open panels with a screwdriver, take clay impressions of engraved inscriptions, fly a kite, air-surf on a steampunk hover pad, and secure rope ladders and bridges with sturdy knots. At no time is Mina shown actually training him to do any of these things.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_6cb2d709	comment	The owls in Harry Potter are either much smarter than normal owls to be able to serve as messengers, finding the intended recipient no mater where they are; or magical. Magical is probably the better bet.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_6ded2929	comment	AstroLOLogy: In "Monkey on the Moon", Aquarius is prepping a monkey for travel to the moon, but the monkey won't take anything seriously, so Aquarius copies his own intelligence into its brain to make it smarter. It works a little too well when the monkey tricks Aquarius into taking the rocket to the moon instead.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_6fd4e61f	comment	Animal Farm plays this trope straight, where the animals (mostly the pigs) are shown to be highly intelligent when they speak English, devise battle plans, design windmills, form a complex government, carry out purges, etc.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender has strange combo-animals that fall under this trope and/or behave like ordinary one-type animals. Appa is a straight example: he flat-out seems to understand everyone. Jun's mount didn't seem to understand humans. The Giant Badger-Moles in "The Cave of Two Lovers" like music and apparently understood Sokka enough to allow him to ride them to safety. Avatar Roku's dragon and the old Fire Lord Azulon's dragon seemed to understand them. Momo is a deliberate subversion. When Katara and Sokka are incapacitated from illness, Katara asks Momo to bring water. Momo understands the "go get" part but spends the entire episode bringing back random objects, no matter how slowly Katara speaks and tries to communicate 'water'. In an episode of Avatar, a messenger hawk is intercepted by a bigger hawk. The larger hawk was able to tie up the smaller hawk with a couple of ribbons, take the message, and fly it back to its owner. The messenger hawk example is the only one that doesn't fit the usual pattern: animals with bending powers (sky bison, badger-moles, dragons, maybe lion-turtles) have human or near-human intelligence. Others are just animals - however, companion animals like Momo are consistently able to tell human friends from neutral humans from enemy humans, with an appreciation for when someone changes categories, and react to them accordingly. Most animals vocalize if spoken to, as if responding. Momo clearly understands some things... just not everything. "The Tales of Ba Sing Se" is a shining example of this trope; go to the recap page for the details.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_746814ae	comment	Pal, the dog in Arthur.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_74a12cd5	comment	Rex in Inspector Rex was highly intelligent for a dog and seemed capable of understanding whatever was said to him and, though he was a trained police dog, seemed capable of following complex instructions with no training whatsoever. He was also capable of outsmarting humans when the situation called for it, particularly when ham rolls were on the line.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout's Dogmeat is a downplayed example. In most areas he's just a well-trained guard dog, but he also recognizes guns, medicine and ammunition well enough to fetch them when asked. While it's not impossible that he's been professionally trained, given the state of the world it's unlikely.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7b82aa31	comment	The dogs in 101 Dalmatians. They worked out a long-distance communication system among themselves!
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7c038c18	comment	Perry the Platypus in Phineas and Ferb. He can't speak and does nothing but stand around on all fours whenever the kids are around, but when he sneaks away he lives a double life as a secret agent, as do most of the other animals who work at the Agency.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: Sometimes, the animals understand perfectly what is going on in the human world. This usually happens on the radio (i.e. "The Frog" (where a tomcat calls for Mrs. Davis' pet cat Minerva via telephone), "Selling the House Next Door" (Miss Brooks babysits a dog, a cat, a frog and an actual baby), and "Minerva's Kittens" ("Minerva's husband" faints when he's told he's a father). It occasionally happens on television too, such as in "Blue Goldfish" where Mr. Boynton greets his pet frog Macdougall and the amphibian gives his typical "glug" in return. Or in "The Magic Christmas Tree" and "Citizen's League" where Minerva reacts to talk of fish or mice.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7d122312	comment	Dino and Hoppy from The Flintstones understand their humans, and so do most of the animal-based appliances in that world.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7d271ad1	comment	Archimedes, Merlin's "highly educated" owl, in The Sword in the Stone. Sir Ector suspects that Merlin has him under a spell. Archimedes is insulted at the notion.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7db6dc25	comment	In Gawayn, the quester's horse Griselda is shown at times to be able to understand what the characters around her are saying by her reactions. Sometimes, she is even seen doing things such as reading a newspaper.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7f82538d	comment	In Krypto the Superdog, Krypto understands all humans, and the only reason Kevin understands him is that there's a translator device. Also capable of understanding humans and each other despite breed and species differences: Ace the Bat Hound, Streaky the Super Cat, and the pets of Batman's villains. Lastly, the Dog Stars not only communicate through breed differences, but each hails from a different planet. On top of that they pilot their own spacecraft.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7fbd6753	comment	In Thunder Cats 2011, Team Pet Snarf (a cat-dragon creature) cannot speak, but clearly comprehends speech, and has a grasp of the events around him, enough to become frightened when an enemy proposes that his owner Lion-O Duel to the Death.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_7fc1aff4	comment	Stray (2022): Even if one assumes their Robot Buddy B-12 is translating everything into some sort of cat speech, the Cat is incredibly intelligent, able to understand complex plans and tasks and having at least a rudimentary understanding of technology.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_824366c0	comment	The Pet Avengers! Subverted with Ms. Lion though, who while able to communicate with the others on the team is as dumb as a stack of hammers.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_82a29abe	comment	G-Force: The eponymous trained secret agent rodents are capable of complex hand coordination, bipedal movement, physical display of human emotions (which shouldn't be possible), and computer hacking skills (as in the case of the star-nosed mole, Speckles). While all these abilities are (partially) justified by government animal experimentation, it fails to explain why the ordinary pet store animals, such as guinea pig Hurley and Hamster Bucky, are just as capable of these feats of intelligence as the G-Force team. Then towards the end of the movie, the unit's leader, scientist Ben, confesses that the team are not genetically enhanced animals as previously told, but ordinary ones Ben took in and trained for the team. WTF doesn't begin to describe it.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_83d41855	comment	Downplayed in Gargoyles in regards to Bronx. He is bright and can follow simple commands but he is still in essence like a dog. In the episode "City of Stone" for example, while he's wary of Demona and guards the stonified Elisa, all Demona has to do is scratch him behind his ears to get him to not attack her. Bronx was otherwise content to stay where he was while Demona sabotages Xanatos's plan and monologues out loud about it because Bronx didn't understand what she was saying or doing.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_8459db7e	comment	Mousehunt. Let's put it this way: secret agents are not as cunning as this mouse.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_84b520e9	comment	The Thing: "The Thing Goes To The Dogs" features a supposedly-normal dog who, at one point, stands on her hind legs to play charades with the main characters.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_86c3beca	comment	Subverted in Girl Genius, where Krosp the talking cat is a mad scientist's creation, endowed not just with intelligence and speech but also the ability to command all other cats, creating an unseen army of spies, messengers and saboteurs wherever he goes. Emphasis on "mad": cats obey Krosp, but they're animals. They're not sapient, they can't reason, and if they understand their orders they have an attention span of seconds. Well, it's not quite right to say he has the "ability" to command cats. That was his intended purpose, but the only problem that was solved by creating Krosp was the issue of communication. Cats can understand him and vice versa, but he still has to get their attention, get them interested enough to do what he's asking, and care enough to do it for long enough to actually finish the job. Seeing as they're cats, it was this last one especially that caused problems. According to Krosp himself, he easily gets their attention and gets them interested — he's apparently got epic-level charisma as far as cats are concerned — but he can't always make them understand what he wants, and then the attention span causes them to forget about what he told them to do.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_89578e4b	comment	Molly Moon has her pet pug, Petula saving the day quite a few times.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_8bd02a57	comment	Justified in Ghost Trick: In the ghost world animals can perfectly communicate with humans since human and animal souls are no different to each other, and since there's no language barrier in the world of the deadnote Souls communicate by directly beaming and interpreting their abstract thoughts. The only "barriers" between humans and animals is the latter's lack of understanding of more human concepts. For example: Missile, a small Pomeranian, is perfectly able to communicate with Sissel in the ghost world, all while maintaining his ordinary dog behavior like loudness, upbeat oblivious attitude, and fierce loyalty to his owner.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: "The Super Dog From Krypton": When Superboy runs into Krypto for the first time, Clark notes that mysterious dog seems strangely intelligent for a dog, being able to understand everything humans say and do. "Supergirls Super Pet": Even before gaining powers, Supergirl's cat Streaky is able to have complex and even introspective thoughts. Also true for the Dog Stars, who are not only different dog breeds, but from different planets. Translation Convention is at play for some of that, but they do pilot their own spacecraft.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Koromaru the dog from Persona 3 can summon a Persona, fight using a knife held in his teeth, and understands human speech perfectly. That should be more than enough to qualify. The fox in Persona 4 can apparently read the emas left at the shrine where it lives and cares about the upkeep of the shrine. To the point where it issues side quests to the protagonist to grant the wishes written on the emas and bring in more offerings.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Rufus the naked mole rat from Kim Possible was able to understand and read English as well as go WAY out of the way to save his human, Ron, and managed to figure out which buttons to push to release the bonds holding the heroine and sidekick. In the episode 'Naked Genius', he became even smarter when he accidentally had Project Phoebus used on him, infusing him with the intelligence of the smartest men on the planet along with taking the villain of the day's (Doctor Drakken) intellect, making it so the blue madman was unable to do more than doodle at the level of a kindergartener. It was only for that episode, as the effects eventually wore off on all parties.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_929cef3c	comment	Daine, the protagonist of The Immortals has wild magic with all animals. Through her, we learn that Tortallan animals can understand humans to an extent but can't communicate with them, and in some cases could communicate with each other—but (since it's not played totally straight) they never get that kind of idea until they meet Daine. Prolonged exposure to Daine increases their intelligence to sentience, but it's often a stressful and unhappy experience for them. Her pony Cloud is completely sentient, as is the leader of a wolf pack that took Daine in after her mother's death. Daine is troubled when talking to the wolf later and discovering that he understands tool use, even if his lack of thumbs means the applications are limited.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_948b60da	comment	Hit-Monkey: The entire premise of the series is a Japanese macaque with an uncanny talent for assassination.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_9799ebfe	comment	In Back to the Future Part III, Doc's 1955 dog Copernicus seems to be at an almost human level of intelligence at times. For starters, after Doc finishes reading the letter that his future self wrote to Marty, Copernicus seems to be rather sad about Doc being Trapped in the Past. In addition, Copernicus is the one who discovers Doc's tombstone, and he seems to realize what it says.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_97a9afc3	comment	While the title rats in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH are justifiably this trope, thanks to their lab-enhanced intellects, ordinary animals like crows, owls, and Mrs. Frisby herself (a common field mouse) also talk to one another.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_986cb4dc	comment	All the dogs from Balto. They talk to each other but humans hear only barking. They also understand that it is their duty to deliver the medicine to sick people, and seem to be aware of the consequences of their potential failure.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_98744614	comment	Brave: Regular example: Angus the horse, who seems to understand everything Merida says. The other examples were magically enhanced: the witch's crow can hold a conversation, Mor'du the demon bear is incredibly strong and ignores any attacks against him, and the enchanted Queen Elinor, also a bear, has more realistic strength but retains her human intelligence. Zero-Context Example: What can Angus do that real horses can't? What can Mor'du and Queen Elinor do that real bears can't?
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_98fac99c	comment	"Supergirls Super Pet": Even before gaining powers, Supergirl's cat Streaky is able to have complex and even introspective thoughts.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_9be94553	comment	The Herculoids all understand Zandor, Tara and Dorno. Possible subversion: they're all alien animals(?), and we don't know if they are sapient and just unable to utter human speech.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has notoriously clever ravens; some ravens are capable of vocalization and most ravens can be and are trained to carry messages between castles. Also, direwolves are considerably bigger than their extinct real-life counterparts and have tangential intelligence related to their owner's capacity to Warg.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_9dafba17	comment	Rin Tin Tin, hero of many a movie throughout the silent film era, was portrayed as this. In Clash of the Wolves, he often seems nearly sapient. He makes the tactical decision to separate away from the wolf pack to lure the wolf-killing posse after him, thus saving the rest. He is later clever enough to decoy the posse after him, thus leading them to his master, who is wounded and needs help. He is tasked with delivering a message from the hero to the hero's girlfriend, but when he sees the bad guy the desire for "revenge" overtakes him and he attacks the bad guy instead. For a while he trots around in some weird dog booties, but when he finds himself unable to ascend a slide, he is smart enough to rip the dog booties off, after which he makes it up a slide. He also knows how canteens work, as shown when he dips a canteen in a pond to fill it up, then brings it to his master to give him a drink.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_9f634f15	comment	The Littlest Hobo: The doggy protagonist seems to understand human speech, as well as concepts like tape recorders. An entire episode revolves around two scientists trying to get hold of him to find out just how smart he is; he has no interest in their work, and better things to do. In the end, the answer seems to be "smarter that the scientists."
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_9fa025d	comment	Boney from Mother 3. Unlike Ness's dog King, Lucas's dog is extremely competent. He's fast, is strong enough to cause damage to metal, and is even capable of using items on battle (Hell, he's using a Saltwater Gun effectively even though he has no hands). In Chapter 4, he's able to normally walk as a human for long periods and fooling the guards into thinking he's human. It is also implied that Boney understands human speech.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_9fa6a1e6	comment	The protagonist of Dogsbody is a sentient star in the form of a dog, so it's not surprising that he's as smart as a human and takes a month or so of observation to learn to understand human speech. 'Normal' dogs and cats can talk to each other in depth. Most of them can't understand more than a few words of human language and several dogs mostly say "Hallo!" a lot and can't understand the significance of some of them looking similar to each other, but there's a dog descended from a hound of The Wild Hunt who can comprehend English when it's spoken slowly and can also make plans for the future.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_a54eef52	comment	While most of the characters' pets in Hetalia: Axis Powers can't speak (Iceland's pet puffin is an exception), they are clearly capable of thinking and have the ability to understand what people are saying.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_a609791a	comment	The title character of Scooby-Doo talks at human level, albeit in Third-Person Person, and like Quacker, in an animal-like voice.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_a7a2020	comment	The cats in the book (and movie) Felidae are shown to be able to read and understand how certain machines are used. It's pointed out that learning these things takes time, and that not all cats bother with the task, though just about all of them understand humans.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_a86b7660	comment	Due South: Diefenbaker, the deaf half-wolf was just as much Fraser's partner as Ray.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_a979dd4a	comment	The eponymous kangaroo of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo not only showed a remarkable understanding of English, but would often imitate human behaviors like playing a piano or the drums.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_aac68a8	comment	Almost every animal in Thunderstone is far smarter than it has any right to be. Arushka's horse Moshi "knows what you're gonna do, even before you do it" and understands any verbal command. Dolly the sheepdog can track her puppies across a vast desert without help. Prince the hawk brings Arushka a rock of thunderstone to show her that a huge deposit is nearby, and leads Chip, Kwan and Geneva to Arushka and Sundance when they're trapped in a cave.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_aeb84363	comment	Harry's dog Mouse is a Temple Dog, scion of a magical Foo Dog and a normal dog. It's been heavily implied that he's both more intelligent and considerably more powerful than his (Wizard) owner. The short story "Christmas Eve" in particular shows this pretty well: Mouse has to help Harry assemble a bike when Harry can't interpret the instructions, understands Harry's reference to A Christmas Carol and receives considerable respect from the Faerie Queen Mab. However, he is still a dog. He can't speak, although he understands (and apparently reads) perfectly well, he works the Big Friendly Dog schtick so as not to frighten the Muggles, and his idea of a perfect afternoon involves a ride in the car, a long belly-rub and plenty of treats.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_af2a147e	comment	Pip from Enchanted. Justified since it is a parody of the Disney Animated Canon.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_b0028436	comment	An established rule in the universe of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is that gaining a Stand grants intelligence and sapience to the animal that gains it. This has applied to an orangutan, a Boston terrier, a hawk, a rat (actually two of them), a flower with a cat's mind, and a colony of zooplankton.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In an episode of Invader Zim, a pig is somewhat able to ride a motorcycle.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_b8c8f953	comment	Scratch Fury (Destroyer of Worlds) is a hyperintelligent cat in PvP. PvP is not a "funny animal" strip, and Scratch is the only animal to be depicted this way. (There's a recurring basset character that ranges in intelligence between "real basset hound" and "human moron", depending on whichever would be funnier.)
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_b94ae31e	comment	Gromit from Wallace & Gromit. He's clearly more observant and grounded in reality then his smart but spacey owner Wallace.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_bac7740b	comment	Subverted in The Jerk, where a stray dog wakes up Navin Johnson, who asks what's wrong, and believes the dog is trying to tell him to motel is on fire. As Johnson wakes everyone else up, he's say he'll call the dog "Lifesaver." When it turns out to be a false alarm, one of the other guests tells him to call the dog ""$#!thead". The dog gets that name for the rest of the movie.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_bb797bc0	comment	Wolf in The Journey of Natty Gann demonstrates an implausible capacity for reason: not only does he recognize the part Natty played in his escape from a dogfighting ring (by opening a door for him), he repays her by presenting her with a freshly-killed rabbit when she's starving in the woods, and proceeds to follow her around warning her of impending danger and performing acts of altruism like defending a farmer's chicken coop from foxes for no apparent reason beyond repaying the farmer and his wife for helping Natty. At times, Wolf seems like the smartest character in the whole movie.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_c24091cf	comment	How to Train Your Dragon: Toothless turns out to be pretty smart for a dragon, understanding Hiccup's spoken commands, able to create art (even if it's just a jumble of lines), and the concept of forgiveness, sparing those who chose to spare him even if they had tried to kill him before.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_c4282b71	comment	Owlowiscious, Twilight Sparkle's pet owl in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, is extremely intelligent and a capable assistant librarian, and manages to save Spike from a full grown dragon. Practically all animals on the show are fully sapient and may exhibit civilized traits, even the ones who cannot talk. Fluttershy can communicate with them and treats them just like people.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_c7912cea	comment	Jimmy Two-Shoes: This trope makes animals even harder to spot since every character other than Jimmy and Heloise (maybe) is a monster. In Jimmy and the Big House it seemed the only difference between animals and people is if they could talk. Cerbee (explicitly called a dog despite looking nothing like one was intelligent enough to give an Aside Glance and such, while in one scene the others talked before Molotov reminded him he couldn't.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin: Unlike most fictional parrots, Iago talks in the first person. It's implied in the movie that Jafar actually used magic to make him smarter. Abu clearly understands what Aladdin says and his chatter is semi-intelligible. However, he does not understand the concept of personal property, stealing from everyone.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_d62bc996	comment	Tom and Jerry as well as Butch the dog and any other animals appearing in their cartoons have easily human intelligence.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_db2eaaa1	comment	Chuy the pig from The Book of Life, reacts like a human to the Rodriguezes' song attempts, and drops consecutively larger pots and plants on them.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: One issue revolves entirely around a cat with superpowers, much to her owners' nigh-total obliviousness. One of them is convinced she's smarter than she looks, the other isn't.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_de914841	comment	The title character of Ollo in The Sunny Valley Fair may just be a ball of clay, but lives in a house and helps his friends.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_defedb34	comment	Blanca from Shadow Hearts: Covenant, who is not only a domesticated wolf raised from a puppy, but is also a full party member enough to make combos with other allies. He also can use items, cast magic, and hide from guards by standing on his hind legs.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_e109762	comment	Albert, Trey's pet pig from College Road Trip can play chess, solve a Rubik's cube, turn on the bathtub, beg and even knows how to use a toilet.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_e5ff30a8	comment	Adiboo: Magical Playland: All the animal characters display human-like intelligence. One of the birds even blows you a kiss if you've been feeding them a lot.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_e8595ff9	comment	And the tradition continues in Tangled, which features the emotive chameleon, Pascal, and the horse, Maximus, who happens to be more competent than his own rider, the (presumable) captain of the guard. Over the course of the film, he is shown tracking his quarry by scent, locating secret passages, and even 'sword fighting', all of this more competently than the humans who are supposed to be 'his' masters. It's no surprise then, that at the end of the film Maximus is made the actual leader of the kingdom's guards.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_e86ee9b9	comment	And then there's Rex the Wonder Dog. Despite being an ostensibly normal dog, Rex had a job as a photographer, drove cars, and once nuked a T-Rex. Rex has since been officially recognized both in and out of story as being a very remarkable individual and nothing even close to a normal dog.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_ea4f62db	comment	Brian from Family Guy is a dog that speaks perfect English, walks on two legs, drinks alcohol, and is generally more intelligent than anyone else on the show. He might well be a parody, as he not only talks, but also interacts with other people the way normal humans would, and this is never pointed out by anyone. And, if his instincts don't get the best of him, he usually takes the role of Only Sane Man in the show. But he is one of only a handful of such animals shown, as most animals are shown to be just like regular ones. Two notable exceptions are the monkey in Chris's closet and the dog that replaced Brian in one episode when the Griffins believed Brian was getting too old. Also Brian's gay cousin, Jasper, but for some reason, not all of his other relatives.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_eaa08c0e	comment	Overcooked! has Kevin the dog. Kevin can only say "Bark," but he's clearly understood by the Onion King, and he knows how to fly a helicopter.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_ec24be81	comment	Bolt: the eponymous dog understands that he's considered a hero with superpowers. However, he actually believes he has these powers and does not understand that he's just playing in a television series.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_ec25a849	comment	While Doug was one of the more realistic Nicktoons, Porkchop qualifies for this trope. Besides participating in Even the Dog Is Ashamed jokes, he could do things such as play Barnyard Chess, limbo dance, and fly a kite. Yet maybe only his owner can understand him, because in a court case no one else can decipher what he has to say.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude / int_f1360d68	comment	In Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Fuunsaiki (Master Asia's horse) can pilot a Mobile Fighter, put on a Mobile Trace System, and operate an outboard motor.
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Dinoverse / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Dirty Pair / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Doctor Dolittle / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Dogsbody / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Farming Life In Another World / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Fire Bringer / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Follow My Leader / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Franny K. Stein / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Gerald's Game / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Good Dog, Carl! / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
InCryptid / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Les Voyageurs Sans Souci / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Lords and Ladies / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Palae-oh-no / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Protector of the Small / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Revenge of the Sith / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Immortals / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Messenger Series / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The One and Only Ivan / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Story of Doctor Dolittle / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Trumpet of the Swan / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Wolves of the Beyond / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
PathfinderTales	seeAlso	Amplified Animal Aptitude
WildRide	seeAlso	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Esper Mami (Manga) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (Manga) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Mitsuboshi Colors (Manga) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Squid Girl (Manga) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG (Roleplay) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Sky Tides (Roleplay) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
ALF / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
America's Got Talent / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Dog with a Blog / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Flipper / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Fury: The Brave Stallion / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Inspector Rex / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Jikuu Senshi Spielban / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Lassie / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Mad About You / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Littlest Hobo / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Thunderstone / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Arimaa (Tabletop Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Adiboo: Magical Playland (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Comix Zone (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Elite Beat Agents (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Milk Crisis (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Nancy Drew (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Never Alone (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
No Delivery (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Overcooked! (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Return to Mysterious Island (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Saturday Night Slam Masters (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Sorry, We're Open (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Stray (2022) (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Sword of Elpisia (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Uncle Albert's Adventures (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Do NOT Take This Cat Home (Visual Novel) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Crown & the Flame (Visual Novel) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
AstroLOLogy (Web Animation) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
A Redtail's Dream (Webcomic) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
CinemaSins (Web Video) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series (Web Video) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Tucker Budzyn (Web Video) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Diamond and Dazzle (Webcomic) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Gronk (Webcomic) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Planeta Absurdo (Webcomic) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Search for Henry Jekyll (Webcomic) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
A Close Shave / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
A Monster in Paris / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Baymax! / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Birdman / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Birdman (1967) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Bolt / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Boo Boom! The Long Way Home / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Brave / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Conan the Adventurer / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
DC League of Super-Pets / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Encanto / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Felidae / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Gawayn / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Growing Up Creepie / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Harley Quinn (2019) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Hit-Monkey / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Horseland / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Incredibles 2 / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Katy La Oruga / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Monsters vs. Aliens / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
101 Dalmatian Street / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Polly Pocket / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Primal (2019) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Rango / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Ratatouille / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Rescue Heroes / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Rio / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Rugrats in Paris / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Tangled / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Brave Little Toaster / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Corsican Brothers	seeAlso	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Grinch (2018) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Legend of Calamity Jane / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Mighty Hercules / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Puppy's Further Adventures / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Rescuers Down Under / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Thing / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Una pelÃcula de huevos / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Up / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
We Bare Bears / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
Furcadia (Video Game) / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude

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