my wife is very right, the guy in Ran who, having been ordered to kill his lord’s wife and bring her head, instead bring the head of a fox statue and upon being called on this very seriously responds basically “wow she must have been a fox in disguise” (and in response to the statue bit being pointed out is like “not only did the fox turn into a human it also turned itself to stone?? how devious foxes are”) is the best character