Puppies in Paradise/Tropes

*Puppies in Paradise* (or PIP for short) is a web series project created by ArtziiDubz in 2023 on Deviantart. This series is about a world of cute and tiny anthropomorphic puppy creatures called the island puppies living on an island paradise while they also wanted to explore the rest of the world around them. The main island puppies are Eden, Sammy, Jannah, Lucy, Arca, Ray, Olive, and Mac. It is basically a slice of life show filled with cute tiny puppies living in their daily life. This series took inspiration from other nostalgic cute animal shows such as *Canimals, Littlest Pet Shop (2012),* and *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.*

These are some Tropes for *Puppies in Paradise*.

## **Tropes**

* **Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal**: It mostly depends on each island puppy like Ray, who wears sunglasses on the top of his head and Flora, who wears a bow on her hair fluff.

* **A Dog Named "Dog"**: There is a samoyed island puppy named "Inu", which is Japanese for “dog”.
	+ Mac has his rubber duck toy named "Ducky".

* **Action Fashionista**: While Lucy is definitely a fashionista, she can kick some butt when necessary.

* **Action Girl**: Arca, Lucy, Jannah, and many of the other female island puppies can surprisingly kick some serious butt when necessary.

* **Ageless Birthday Episode**: Subverted in "Jannah's Birthday Party" where Jannah told all of the island puppies that she's 39 years old now.

* **Alliterative Title**: Puppies in Paradise.

* **Amazing Technicolor Wildlife**: While most island puppies have standard natural fur colors that match their dog breed, Some island puppies are multi-colored that doesn't match it's dog breed colors.

* **Ambiguous Gender**: Remi, Patches, and many of the other background island puppies are all gender neutral since most of them are referred to with “they/them/their” pronouns.

* **Amusing Injuries**: The Pom Triplets suffering from a lot of injuries are all played for laughs.
	+ Many of the other island puppies injuries are mostly all for the sake of comedy as well.

* **Animals Not to Scale**: According to ArtziiDubz, The island puppies in particular are much smaller in scale to mice and rats than an actual dog’s scale.
	+ Hilariously, even the eldest Island Puppies are very small as well.

* **Babysitting Episode**: In the webisode “Meet The Pom Triplets”, Arca was babysitting Sue, Lizzy, and Mia, but all three of them caused a lot of trouble.

* **Badass Adorable**: Many of the island puppies can be cute badasses when they need to.
	+ Most notably Arca, who can Took a Level in Badass when necessary.
* **Bait-and-Switch**: In the end of "Hidden Gems", it's silhouette looks like the giant creature is eating the island puppies up, but it turns out that it's just eating melons.

* **Barefoot Cartoon Animal**: Most of the island puppies are barefooted and never wear shoes.

* **Battle Discretion Shot**: When Lizzy, Sue, and Mia gets mad at Mac for taking the remote, The fight was never shown on screen.

* **Beach Episode**: The season 5 webisode "Summertime Fun" Where all of the island puppies where getting ready to go on a beach on a summer day.

* **Berserk Button**: Never criticize Lucy’s fashion taste. It won’t be pretty.
	+ Sue really doesn't like it when others call her “Cute”.
	+ Ray is usually calm and chill around his friends, but if they make fun of his Sunglasses, he will definitely get mad.
	+ Don't give Mia sour candy or raisins. She doesn't enjoy them.
	+ Don't threaten Arca’s friends, Mac, or The Pom Triplets in front of her. You will regret it.

* **Beware the Nice Ones**: Even though Jannah is the most energetic and nicest puppy, she really won't hesitate to beat someone up when they upset her or betray her.
	+ While Arca can be a kind-hearted and sweet puppy, you really shouldn't mess with Mac, The Pom Triplets, or even her friends. Because you will get a beat down from her.
	+ Ray is normally chill and laid back towards others, but when someone insults his sunglasses, he will definitely get pissed off.

* **Birthday Episode**: The webisode “Jannah’s Birthday Party” where Jannah has told everyone that today is her birthday and they all wanted to celebrate her most special day ever with a concert.

* **Big Eater**: Sammy loves to eat a lot of delicious food he sees and he never gained weight from eating.
	+ The exception is dog meat and spicy hot foods.

* **Big "SHUT UP!"**: It happens about most of the time.
	+ When The Pom Triplets started bickering loudly about what movies they want to watch on DVD, Mac tried to tell them to stop, but they didn't stop and continued arguing until Arca shouted "QUIET!!!!!"
	+ Arca gives one to Jannah and Lucy after they continue to argue and fight.
	+ When all of the island puppies start arguing in "Camp F.E.A.R", Eden tells them all to shut up.
* **Bittersweet Ending**: In the end of "Growing Beast", The whole island paradise has been destroyed, But Mia finally calms Pibbles down and turns it back to normal.
	+ The end of "A Singing Competition", Jannah didn't win and was kicked out for cheating, But she still thinks that it was fun.

* **Butt-Monkey**: Most of the island puppies have their moments but mostly Arca since she constantly gets teased by her friends for being scared of anything and being pushed around by The Pom Triplets and Mac even if she tries to take care of them and frequently gets into scary situations.

* **Camping Episode**: The webisode “Camp F.E.A.R” where all of the puppies go camping with The Pom Triplets included.

* **Cartoon Creature**: Pibbles the tiny ball thing.

* **Cheaters Never Prosper**: Double Subverted in "Shock and Aww" When it looks like Eddie is going to get disqualified for cheating, he actually won a trophy. And then it turns out he gets disqualified anyways for cheating at bowling at the end.

* **Cheer Up Episode**: The season 1 webisode “Sparks of Joy” where Jannah gets sad and she doesn’t know why.

* **Christmas Episode**: The webisode special “The Holly Jolly Puppy”.

* **Cloudcuckoolander**: Flora the Poodle is the most craziest, cheerful island puppy who uses a lot of random imaginations in her head that she even invoked this. She’s also seen as the weird one who is unaware of things.
	+ Jannah could also qualify as one.

* **Cowardly Lion**: Although Arca can be a nervous and timid puppy, she can do anything she can to protect her friends from danger.

* **Cowardly Yellow**: Arca has yellow eyes and she’s a timid puppy.

* **Color-Coded Characters**: Many of the island puppies wear different colored shirts to tell which is which.

* Eden - Dark Red.
* Sammy - Orange.
* Jannah - Baby Blue.
* Olive - Dark Blue.
* Arca - Black.
* Mac - Grey.
* Lucy - Hot Pink.
* Ray - Purple.
* Sue - Light Orange.
* Lizzy - Light Blue.
* Mia - Lavender.
* Patches - White with Blue Overalls.
* Remi - Purple with Sparkles.

* **Cute, but Cacophonic**: Mac may be an adorable little beagle, But when he screams or cries, he lets out a really loud, high-pitched squeal that echoes the room.
	+ Even though Jannah is the cutest cocker spaniel, her singing voice is annoyingly loud.

* **Dance Party Ending**: In the end of "Jannah’s Birthday Party", all of the island puppies gather around the party and start dancing to the music.

* **Dark Horse Victory**: In the webisode "The Great Pup Race" Both Ray and Sammy were going to win the race when suddenly, the winner was an unnamed island puppy who won the race.

* **A Day in the Limelight**: The season 2 webisode "Quietest Dogs have the Loudest Minds" focuses more on Olive.

* **Deathbringer the Adorable**: One of the island puppies named “Dread” is anything but dreaded.

* **Delicious Distraction**: Sammy always gets distracted with food
	+ Mia usually gets distracted with candy.
	+ Mia: I’m looking I’m looking I’m loo- \*Gasp\* Is that a lollipop?!

* **Denser and Wackier**: Downplayed; The later seasons is not as wacky, but it's pretty silly at times.

* **Dog Stereotype**: There are some island puppy breeds that has some behavior stereotypes.
	+ Averted with Flora the Poodle since she's actually the most craziest yet sweetest island puppy in the island paradise.

* **Dream Episode**: The webisode “Home Sleep Home” is about all of the island puppies getting ready for bed and starts dreaming about all the weirdest things.

* **Duck!**: In the webisode "The Cursed Forest", Arca warns Mac to duck his head only for Mac to think that she finds his rubber duck.
	+ Arca: Mac, Duck!
	+ Mac: You found Ducky?
	+ Arca: No! I meant "Duck" as in "Duck your Head"!

* **Ears as Hair**: Lucy and Jannah have ears as their hair and they treat them like they’re hair sometimes.

* **Ensemble Cast**: There are a total of eight main cast of the island puppies; Eden, Sammy, Jannah, Arca, Ray, Olive, Lucy, and Mac.

* **Everyone Has Standards**: Eden can be a cocky main protagonist, but he still truly cares for his friends deep down.
	+ Lucy can be pretty sassy and bossy at times, but she still treats her friends with respect and kindness.

* **Everything's Better with Rainbows**: Flora the Poodle has a rainbow colored shirt and a rainbow colored house.

* **Exactly What It Says on the Tin**: It's about tiny puppies living in an island paradise.

* **Expressive Ears**: The island puppies with upward ears does this.

* **Facepalm**: Lizzy does this at one point when dealing with Mia's ditzy nature.
	+ Arca did this when Mac whines about not getting what he wanted.

* **Face Your Fears**: Arca basically overcomes her cowardice in most webisodes when fighting off creepy, scary things.
	+ Mia overcame her fear of the dark once in the webisode "Night In and Light Out".

* **Fake-Out Fade-Out**: In "The Island Puppy Squads" after the island puppies all fail to capture the villain from running away, it faded to black and the end credits started playing until Mac stopped it with the record scratch saying "No! This isn't how it ended!".

* **Fan Girl**: Jannah is that to Ms. Pupphadilla; one of the most famous Island Puppy Popstar to ever exist in puppywood.

* **Feud Episode**: In the webisode “Break It 'Till you Make It”, Lucy and Jannah got into a fight after destroying each other's things.

* **Fire-Breathing Diner**: Sammy turns red, hot and sweaty and his mouth bursts into flames after eating a chicken salad with mixtures of different hot spices and sauces in it that Riley gave him instead of the salad he asked for.

* **The Food Poisoning Incident**: All of the island puppies especially Sammy got sick from eating macaroni ranch salad which have tiny maggots in it.

* **Fooled by the Sound**: Arca mistakes Sammy’s stomach growling for a giant monster sound.

* **"Freaky Friday" Flip**: In the webisode "Puppy Swap", Ray and Jannah accidentally touched a device which swaps there bodies.

* **Furry Reminder**: The island puppies can sometimes do most dog-like behaviors like growling, barking, biting, sniffing to find things, running on four legs, and chasing their tails.
	+ The puppies tend to chew on bones whenever they’re bored or anxious.
	+ The puppies can shake their whole bodies whenever their fur is soaking wet.

* **Gadgeteer Genius**: Racket. Even though he’s just a minor character, he sure does let the other main characters help him a lot with building different gadgets and machines.

* **Genki Girl**: Jannah, with her super energetic and cheery personality and her passion for singing.
	+ One of the Pom Triplets Mia could also qualify, Though not as much as Jannah.
	+ Flora the Poodle is prone to this due to her very colorful and hyperactive personality.

* **Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!**: Sue does this to Mia when Mia panics about how they’re lost in the woods and will never get back home.
	+ Mia: We're lost in the woods?! We'll never get home! \*gibberish crying\*
	+ Sue: \*Slap Mia\* Mia, get it together! We can find our way out of here!

* **"Getting Ready for Bed" Plot**: The webisode "Get Some Sleep, Mac" shows that the island puppies are trying to get Mac to go to bed, but he refuses to.

* **Girly Bruiser**: Both Jannah and Lucy can be girly, but they can still kick butt.

* **Girl Posse**: Parodied with the three popular puppy girls Tilly, Milly, and June who were all meant to be parodies of the “mean girls” of the 2000s and always believe they are better than the rest and they all even talk in a valley girl accent.

* **Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak**: Jannah can be pretty cute and girly, but she has no issue with fighting and getting her paws messy.
	+ While Lucy is a girly fashionista, she has no problem with beating someone up when necessary.
	+ Mia is a girly white pomeranian who didn’t mind getting into a fight just like her other two sisters.
	+ Flora is a pretty cutesy poodle who has no problem with getting messy.

* **Green Around the Gills**: When Mac starts feeling motion sick, his whole face turns green.

* **Growling Gut**: Sammy's stomach does this when he’s hungry.
	+ [The sound of a stomach growling]
	+ Sammy: Sorry, guys. I haven’t been eating all day.

* **Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal**: All of the island puppies wear only shirts and sometimes some skirts underneath and accessories.

* **Halloween Episode**: The webisode “All Tricks, No Treats” takes place on Halloween Night where all of the island puppies are excited for Halloween except for Arca.

* **Hollywood Tone-Deaf**: Jannah is a Downplayed Example; While she's not a terrible singer, she's just a very loud one.

* **I'm Okay!**: Done twice.
	+ When Sue accidentally tripped onto a twig and tumbles down over the steep hill and hit a tree, she tells Lizzy and Mia in the distance that she’s ok.
	+ Sammy got hit by a boomerang and he told the others that he’s ok.

* **I Am Not Weasel**: Arca, who is an Alaskan Malamute, is constantly mistaken for a "Husky Dog" which kind of bothers her.
	+ The Pom Triplets were mistaken for "Three Small Chow Chows Kids" or "Tiny Baby Arctic Foxes" which they reply with "WE. ARE. WHITE. POMERANIANS!!"

* **Innocent Blue Eyes**: Mac has adorable blue eyes and he’s very innocent.

* **Iris Out**: Almost every webisode endings have that but with a paw print symbol.

* **iPhony**: The “iPup” is a parody of the iPhone.

* **Jump Scare**: Played for Laughs in the beginning of the Halloween special short where Eden jumps onto the screen and loudly growls at it.

* **Kids Shouldn’t Watch Horror Films**: In the webisode “Movie Fright”, Arca babysits The Pom Triplets including Mac and the 4 Puppies wanted to watch a horror film called “ZomDog”, But Arca told him that they shouldn't be watching that because it's a scary movie.
	+ However, The Pom Triplets and Mac didn't listen to her and proceeded to sneak into the movie theater to go and see that horror film. Then they ended up getting nightmares afterwards.

* **Leeroy Jenkins**: Sue does this on multiple occasions when Lizzy tries to make a plan.

* **Lovable Coward**: Arca may be an insecure and timid puppy, but she is the most endearing one in the island paradise. In fact, her easily frightened nature is very adorable.

* **Madness Mantra**: Eden shouted in his head "I'M A SNOWCONE! I'M A SNOWCONE! I'M A SNOWCONE! I'M A SNOWCO-"

* **Mama Bear**: Arca is like that to Mac and The Pom Triplets whenever they get hurt.

* **Miracle-Gro Monster**: Mia has a super tiny ball thing named “Pibbles” that grows bigger and bigger every time it eats corn.

* **Motor Mouth**: Flora is prone to this.

* **Movie-Theater Episode**: The webisode “Cinema Disaster” combines this trope with a **Babysitting Episode** where Arca takes Mac and The Pom Triplets to go to the movie theater while she babysits them, but it turned out that Mac and The Pom Triplets ended up causing a huge, loud mess at the movie theater.

* **Music Soothes the Savage Beast**: In the webisode "Growing Beast" when Pibbles grows bigger and tries to destroy the island for more corn, Mia quickly grabs the flute and plays a tune to calm Pibbles down and turns it back to a tiny ball again.

* **Nervous Wreck**: Arca ALWAYS acts like this when she’s really terrified.

* **Nice, Mean, and In-Between**: Mia is nice, Sue is kinda mean, and Lizzy is in-between.

* **No Name Given**: Most of the background island puppies haven’t got their own names.

* **Odd Name Out**: The three popular puppy girls; Tilly, Milly....and June.

* **One-Episode Fear**: Mia was afraid of the darkness in the webisode "Night In and Light Out", But now she overcame it in the end of the webisode and was never brought up again.

* **Only One Finds It Fun**: Inverted in the webisode "The Paws Club" where all of the island puppies (except for Eden) finds The Pom Triplets puppet club enjoyable.

* **Pink Means Feminine**: Subverted; while Lucy does wear a hot pink shirt, she only wears it because she just feels like it.

* **Power Outage Plot**: The season 4 webisode “Night In and Light Out” where the Island Puppies find out that all of the electricity went out and they all have to figure out how to make it work again. One of the Pom Triplets Mia is afraid of the dark, but she needs to learn how to face her fears.

* **Precious Puppies**: Almost all of the island puppies are very precious and adorable.

* **Prone to Tears**: Arca did this when she was a child. She grew out of it when she got older.

* **Pun-Based Title**: “Movie Fright” is a pun on “movie night”.
	+ “Home Sleep Home” is a pun on “home sweet home”.
	+ "Shock and Aww" is a pun on "shock and awe".

* **Punctuated! For! Emphasis!**: Mia: “I. HATE. SOUR. CANDY!”

* **Quizzical Tilt**: The Pom Triplets do that sometimes when they’re confused.

* **Rage Breaking Point**: When Jannah and Lucy continue to argue and fight, Arca has finally had enough of both of them and doesn't hide her anger anymore.

* **Ridiculously Cute Critter**: Almost all of the tiny island puppies. especially Mac and The Pom Triplets.

* **Rule of Cute**: Two Words: Tiny. Puppies.

* **Same-Sex Triplets**: The Pom Triplets (Lizzy, Mia, and Sue) are a trio of white pomeranian island puppies that are all female and they sometimes all tend to talk at the same time and cause a lot of trouble.

* **Show Within a Show**: The Pom Triplets and Mac wanted to watch a movie on DVD called “ZomDog”, But Arca told them that they shouldn't be watching those types of movies because it is an R-rated horror movie. So Arca put on a DVD for them called “Unica”. A children’s show about a unicorn and a gummy bear teaching kids about basic education similar to any other preschool shows.

* **Sugar Bowl**: The Island Puppy Paradise is a mild example; While it is a pretty happy place, It's actually not too overly sweet.

* **Sick Episode**: The webisode “Mac Gets a Cold” where Mac really wanted to go to the amusement park, but gets a cold and Arca told him that he has to stay in bed until he gets better.
	+ The webisode "Sammy's Sniffles" where Sammy got sick and he has a very giant sneeze that causes a destruction to almost every puppy houses.

* **Slice of Life**

* **Sneeze of Doom**: Sammy has an incredibly loud, booming sneeze that causes property damage whenever he’s sick or has an allergy.

* **Spoiled Brat**: Mac sometimes acts like that when something doesn't go in his way.

* **Stronger Than They Look**: Most of the island puppies can be tiny and cute looking, but they can be surprisingly tough when taking down even the biggest things.

* **Superhero Episode**: The season 2 webisode “The Island Puppy Squads” where all of the island puppies gained superpowers after Mac’s wish happened and they all became superheroes so they all dressed up in superhero outfits to fight crimes. However, their powers ended up going horribly, horribly wrong.

* **Sweet Tooth**: One of The Pom Triplets Mia really loves candy and sweet treats.

* **Team Mom**: Arca acts quite motherly towards Mac and The Pom Triplets.

* **Tertiary Sexual Characteristics**: Most of the female puppies have visible eyelashes while the male puppies do not.
	+ Averted with the genderless island puppies since they are neither male or female.

* **The Cutie**: Mia is one of the sweetest and cutest white pomeranian out of her two siblings.

* **The Fashionista**: Lucy is really obsessed with fashion.

* **The Nose Knows**: The island puppies all have an incredibly good sense of smell to finding things.

* **The Quiet One**: Olive is a quiet Pug who can say a few lines throughout the show.

* **Title Drop**: In “The Island Puppy Squads”, all of the superhero island puppies said this one line "We are The Island Puppy Squads!".

* **Tomboy and Girly Girl**: Sue is a sporty tomboy and her other sister Mia is a bubbly girly girl.
	+ Arca is kind of tomboyish to Jannah and Lucy’s girly girls.

* **Through a Face Full of Fur**: The island puppies could somewhat blush through their fur.

* **Totem Pole Trench**: Lizzy, Sue, and Mia all did that one time to disguise themselves.

* **Trip to the Moon Plot**: In "Puppies at the Moon", All of the island puppies goes to a rocket ship for a trip to the moon.

* **Tuft of Head Fur**: Eden, Arca, Sue, Lizzy, and Mia all had that.

* **Two Girls to a Team**: Averted; There were actually three main female island puppies to a team; Jannah, Lucy, and Arca.

* **Vacation Episode**: The webisode “Vacation in Paradise” is about all of the island puppies packing their bags and getting ready to go on a vacation on Puppywood at a hotel.

* **Valley Girl**: The three popular puppy girls Tilly, Milly, and June all have voices like that.

* **Vomit Discretion Shot**: Mac gets motion sick on a road trip and then vomits out of the car window. His puke is not shown on screen.

* **Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises**: All of the Island Puppies have that sometimes whenever they’re scared, shocked, or surprised.

* **World of Funny Animals**: This series is that, but only with tiny talking puppies.

* **Your Television Hates You**: After Misty got fed up with all of the bugs in her garden, She goes into her house to watch some TV to keep the mind off of it only for the TV to show channels about bugs.