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Playful Otter
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Otters are rather funny-looking animals, what with their long, slender bodies, cute faces, and the way they crack clamshells on their bellies. But what makes them even more adorable, is their playful demeanor. Otters often wrestle, slide and play with their food — actually, they mostly use those fun activities as a way to improve their survival tactics. But still, it's a fun way to do it! When used in fiction, otter characters are usually Fun Personified. They are usually depicted as playful, energetic, kind-hearted, optimistic and laid-back, sometimes even mischievous. Otters spend a lot of time in water, so expect them to be good swimmers, who love to have fun in water. Sometimes this overlaps with Surfer Dude (but otters are usually much more clever, rarely The Ditz). Often there can be a playful antagonism with beavers such as the boistrous otters getting in the way of the workaholic rodents engaged in their usual serious labors. To recap, if an otter is portrayed in fiction with a joyous, playful or mischievous personality, it's this trope. Truth in Television, except for the Surfer Dude part. Also, they sound like squeaky toys. Compare Sweet Seal, Warm-Hearted Walrus, Weasel Mascot, and Frisky Ferret. |
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Marlene from The Penguins of Madagascar, the spin-off TV series of the DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar, is the token girl character to go alongside the four male penguins. | |
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Finding Dory: Towards the end of the film, Marlin, Nemo and friends enlists the help of a bunch of friendly otters to start a "cuddle party" in the middle of the streets, in order to stop the Marine Institute's Transport from taking Dory away. It works. | |
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Oona: Oona's closest friend is Otto, an otter she saved from an oyster net when he was a pup. Otto accompanies Oona on her treasure hunts, and knows tricks such as sit, roll over, walrus (where he stuffs long objects in his mouth to look like walrus tusks), and pufferfish (where he holds his breath and swells up his cheeks). | |
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Magic: The Gathering: Lutri, The Spellchaser is a hybrid between an otter and an elemental — if that seems like an odd combination to you, welcome to Ikoria. It has the otter's classic playful and mischievous streak, combined with a fascination with magic and the ability to duplicate any spell it can "catch." The fact that it will only become your Companion if you have no more than one of any card in your deck, however, implies that it's easily bored and will only forge an eludha bond with a similarly spontaneous mage. It immediately became the most popular of all fifteen Companion creatures before it was even released, but that might have less to do with it's cuteness than the fact that it's abilities make it a Game-Breaker in Commander format; Lutri actually holds the distinct honor of being the first creature banned from a format before it was acutally released. | |
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Every book in the Redwall series features several otters. Usually led by one named Skipper, they tend to dress and talk like local Seafaring People. The Redwall wiki describes them as playful. The most playful one would probably be Cheek from Mattimeo. They also have a penchant for using ambushes and javelins, and are absolutely not to be trifled with. Of the various good species, otters are probably the third most dangerous (after badgers and hares). | |
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Kylie in Windfall has her moments, though the trope is more often reserved for her younger cousins. | |
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The absolutely adorable (and mischievous) fenlings of The Belgariad. | |
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A Sunday strip of Kevin & Kell showed an otter doing a boring office job, with the punchline that this was his vacation from being a Playful Otter. | |
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The uncut version of the MythBusters episode "Ping Pong Ball Flotation" featured a scene where the progression of the attempt to raise the sunken boat was slowed further when a nearby otter swam up into the boat and stole one of the ping pong balls. | |
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When Mercer Mayer created the Little Critter Spin-Off LC and the Critter Kids, one of the critter kids was a Surfer Dude otter named Slick Rick (no, not that Rick). | |
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Buizel and Floatzel, introduced in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, are also based on otters with a bit of weasel thrown in. | |
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Otter of the Franklin books and Animated Adaptation is shown as being this. | |
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The Wind in the Willows: Otter is probably the Trope Codifier, always willing to lend a hand and always friendly except if you screw over his friends as a rabbit found out when he was braving the wildwood. The only other character to brave the wildwood is Badger. | |
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Animalympics features among its athletes a Surfer Dude otter named Dean Wilson. His chosen style in freestyle swimming involves surfing on his own tail, and he turns springboard diving into a Disney Acid Sequence. Fer shyuuuure! | |
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The protagonists of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas are of course, otters, who are playful and kind-hearted folks, and sing really well to boot. The Jim Henson puppet adaptation is a Christmas special with a huge following. | |
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The Mad House of Otter in The Book of the Dun Cow are careless, sloppy enemies of the fierce but courageous weasels. | |
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Spyro: A Hero's Tail: Spyro meets an otter Surfer Dude who needs his help to refill a drained pond with water so he can surf again. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Hermione learns her patronus takes this form when she manages to produce a corporeal one and it happily bounds around the room. | |
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Episode 2 of the Kemono Friends anime gives us Small-clawed Otter, who employs this trope in full. She's an otter, she plays with everything she can get her hands on, tries to find the fun in everything they're doing, among other things that make her a full-blown otter. | |
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The titular characters of PB&J Otter. | |
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Mystara has the Jorries, otters with fish-like tails. While sapient, they're described as generally behaving like ordinary otters, relaxing in fair weather and frolicking in storms. They tend to have a good rapport with sailors, and come to the rescue of those in danger on the open sea. | |
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Pip and Pop, the rather playful otter duo from Bear in the Big Blue House. | |
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Oshawott, the water starter in Pokémon Black and White and the sequels. Although it does fight if attacked, it still has a playful side as well. Its evolutions, Dewott and Saumurott, avert it, because they're tougher and stronger and not playful. Buizel and Floatzel, introduced in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, are also based on otters with a bit of weasel thrown in. |
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Sylas in Armello is an inversion of the archetype. In a game that is already easy to describe as "A Song of Ice and Fire but with cartoon animals instead", Sylas the otter has by far the darkest backstory, which has left him as a hollow, hateful husk motivated solely by a desire to murder the one responsible for his cruel fate. | |
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Mr. 13 of One Piece subverts this trope. He's a small brown otter in sunglasses and a white onesie with purple spots... who also happens to be an agent of the criminal organization Baroque Works. He's at his most dangerous with his two bladed shell weapons and his partner the violent vulture Ms. Friday at his side. | |
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Jak and Daxter has Daxter who was turned into an Ottsel (half otter, half weasel). He's a funny bumbling sidekick and a major Butt-Monkey whenever he gets a bit annoying. | |
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In Killing Bites, Yui Okawa is an otter beastwoman who runs an eating show channel on Youtube. She's cheerful, ditzy and energetic, but enters the King of Killing Bites tournament to eat the other competitors as she fights them. Faced with a giant alligator-man, she suffers from incontinence out of happiness and keeps getting distracted while striking goofy poses but outwits him at every turn and chokes him out cold after further transforming into a psychotic-looking Siamogale melilutra giant otter. | |
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Scrambles the Tequila Monster from Questionable Content, an alcohol induced hallucination that haunts the cast in the form of a giant purple otter. | |
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Cabin Pressure: As per the Alphabetical Theme Naming of each episode, Douglas, Martin and Arthur find themselves visiting Ottery St. Mary, and, as per the Running Gag, start playing games to entertain themselves — namely, trying to work out how many otters they could use to fill up their plane. That said, the "playful" aspect is played with in a story Douglas makes up to impress Arthur: he claims that the Saint Mary the eponymous town is named after was consumed alive by wild otters, but in the more modern, family-friendly artistic depictions, the otters are just gathering around her feet lovingly. | |
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The animated series version of Little Bear has a group of playful otters that show up occasionally. | |
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In the South Park episode "Go God Go", various future timelines include hyperintelligent otters as one faction. | |
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Happy Tree Friends: Russell the sea otter started out as an inversion of this, keeping to himself and rarely interacting with other characters. As time progressed, however, he became more social and joined in on fun activities every now and then. | |
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Amar from Mythic Ocean is an otter-like deity of joy and friendship, with the playfulness, cheer, and bit of a well-meaningly mischievous streak one would expect from a god with their domains. | |
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In the Winnie the Pooh book Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the only new character is an otter named Lottie, who was described in a preview article as "feisty". | |
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Doki: Fico the otter is described as the "wild card" of the main cast. | |
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Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] has the Juggle Pup and R&R Seal Dream Eaters, who are a otter-seal mixture with gambling as their theme. They're always happy chaps who treat the battlefield as a game, and their Limit Break has them and Sora play a game of dice. | |
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Heaven's Design Team: One chapter is devoted to the creation of the sea otter. Even as it explains how all the adorable things otters do are adaptations to help it survive (like holding hands with other otters to keep from drifting away, and keeping a rock in a pouch in their fur to break open shellfish for eating), Neptune and Shimoda are overcome with Cuteness Overload. | |
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