Does anyone have ideas on what to call a tag for
this trope and similar?
It’s somewhat common in FiM and I realized after noticing the mouse in
>>246389 that it would be difficult to find such background events when looking for them. I’ve been looking at predator-prey-related tags lately and that trope really doesn’t seem to fit existing tags (predation apparently is actually for when eating, predator and prey mostly are used to point out griffon-pony relationships, etc.). Do note, while oddly-specific, it clearly is a
trope as TvTropes points out: real flying carnivores do not swoop in horizontally to grab living prey from land, and it’s done because actually showing an eagle drop a turtle onto a rock to smash it then ripping its guts out would be…a little unsafe for Saturday mornings.
Ideally, any such tag would cover any predator carrying off living prey for presumed consumption, not just birds, so it’d also capture that time something in Discord’s dimension grabbed Post Haste, and deal with a lot of implied vore scenarios, for good searching/filtering.
Relatedly, I’m not sure what to do about the ‘predator’ and ‘prey’ tags.