Thread:Love Robin/@comment-28278646-20160621173737/@comment-366087-20160622193425

First, be careful of what information is narrative and which is hyperbole. The latter is most usually delivered by character dialog. Characters do not always know everything.

For example, Dr. Drakken said about Shego: From those two lines, it is a popular and persistent fanon that Shego is a ninja (makes note to double check her tags). Since Shego has never substantiated or validated those comments, her being a ninja is essentially hyperbole. Perhaps to Drakken she seems like a ninja, but everything else about her says otherwise; she fights like a brawler dependent on her Glow powers more than any martial artist.
 * "Ninjas make more noise than you do."
 * (in response to "you're no ninja") "Oh, but She[go] is."

Another example is if I say "there is no sun," because where I live it is hardly ever sunny and blue. Now is that narrative fact, or my personal hyperbole? Even if that seems to be true where I live, is it a universal fact? Do I know what the weather is like in other parts of the world?

So what Muldoon says is very easily his opinion and hyperbole. In addition, when he died we cut from the scene, so we have nothing to say that raptor was doing anything less than a straight kill. Now in the first 5 minutes, Dr Grant gave a much more narrative exposition when he was telling the boy about how raptors operate.

Now, certain animals can fixate or imprint on a prey, hunting them almost to the exclusion of all else. That same trait is used with hounds to track specific targets.

So care must be given to ensure that any motivations about animals are NOT from US, but from their story's narrative, with character dialog being highly suspect as potential hyperbole.

As an example of an animal villain is Orca (Orca). The narrative showed us witnessing the death of his mate and prematurely born child at the hands of the whaling crew. The camera closed in on its eye as it watched and the music swelled. The narrative delivered to us in that moment the animal's motivations, a human-like sense of revenge, which the story then proceeded to unfold for us. Orca qualifies as a villain.