Often seen in conjunction with Carnivore Confusion. Subtrope of Good Animals, Evil Animals and Always Chaotic Evil. There are still a few ways to avoid this though, the most famous being with the fish-eating characters who are often spared sympathy thanks to their targets being non-sapient (see No Cartoon Fish for more about that trope). The more anthropomorphic they are shown to be the more likely they are to overhunt. Sapient Eat Sapient is a justified case of this, since there are sapient predators that know what they are doing and sapient prey that has a right to live. When the story focuses on a prey animal, there's not a lot of ways to keep predators from being monstrous. On the other hand, to the mouse, what the owl is like inside isn't as relevant as that it's trying to eat you. This trope may be one of The Oldest Ones in the Book, despite predators serving a vital ecological role (no apex predators=too many herbivores=ecosystem completely collapses), or needing to eat meat to live. This is a common way to deal with predators in talking animal fiction like World of Mammals or World of Funny Animals. (Sometimes, their prey actually defeats them!). In works involving talking animals, carnivores almost always fail to catch their prey. And even if the main character is a dog, that is the Villain Protagonist at best. For instance, if the heroes are mice, often Cats Are Mean if the main character is a squirrel, then Dogs Hate Squirrels. The predator's desire to eat the prey makes the predator a villain, or at least, a Designated Villain. In fiction, particularly if the prey can talk, carnivores are often evil, and all the heroes are herbivores.
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