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Horton Hears a Who!

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Horton Hears a Who!	comment	Horton Hears a Who! is a 1954 children's book by Dr. Seuss that tells the tale of how Horton the Elephant will protect a speck at all costs, believing that a whole city of people exists on it. Though the entire Jungle of Nool derides him for it, he holds on to his belief and must protect the speck with the town of Whoville, facing against a Sour Kangaroo and her friends trying to rid of it.Rare for Seuss, the book is a sequel to his 1940 Breakthrough Hit Horton Hatches the Egg. It was dedicated to a Japanese friend of the author, Mitsugi Nakamura. In fact, Seuss intended for the story to serve as a metaphor for the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II.The book was eventually adapted into a 1970 animated special by MGM Animation/Visual Arts. Later on, a 2008 animated film from Blue Sky Studios was released that changes and expands on a lot of aspects of the book. The book's plot also makes up a sizable part of the plot of the stage musical Seussical.Not to be confused with Horton Hears The Who, which is a) a bootleg CD of The Who and b) a pun so obvious it has been made several other times independently.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_17556439	comment	Baby See, Baby Do: In the book and special, the joey in Sour Kangaroo's pouch imitates his mother's "Humph".
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Horton Hears a Who! / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Kangaroos in the same jungle as elephants and apes. Also, people on a dust speck, when you think about it... The film also has Mrs. Quilligan, a Russian Palooski, in the tropical Jungle of Nool.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Horton Hears a Who! / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: At the part of the story where Horton is being roped and caged, itâ€™s mentioned that they beat and maul him
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_352151a3	comment	Recursive Reality: Horton discovers a whole world in a tiny dust speck.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Horton, simply because the city of Whoville resides on a speck, in the Jungle of Nool. Resident empathetic elephant is thus enormous compared to them, unfortunately, so is local control-freak Sour Kangaroo.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Horton Hears a Who! / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The Reveal that Vlad has just dropped the clover containing Whoville into a thousand-mile wide field of clovers.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Horton Hears a Who! / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Sour Kangaroo is the queen of this.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_5532b579	type	Acoustic License
Horton Hears a Who! / int_5532b579	comment	Acoustic License: The climax of the story has the entire worldwide (speckwide?) population of Whos making as much noise as they can in a last ditch attempt to be heard by animals other than Horton. It doesn't work, until the addition of the shout of one small child makes all the difference.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Horton Hears a Who! / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: A person's a person, no matter how small.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
Horton Hears a Who! / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: From our perspective it looks like animals and a tiny world, but from the whos' perspective they are on a planet that could be destroyed at any minute by cosmic forces too powerful to comprehend, complete with entities so big and powerful that they see the planet as a mere speck of dust. (Except for Horton, who learns to care about their tiny planet.)
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_8cd3d091	type	Repetitive Name
Horton Hears a Who! / int_8cd3d091	comment	Repetitive Name: Vlad Vladikoff.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Horton Hears a Who! / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: The reveal that Vlad has just dropped the clover containing Whoville into a thousand-mile-wide patch of identical clovers.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_aae5831b	type	Disproportionate Restitution
Horton Hears a Who! / int_aae5831b	comment	Disproportionate Restitution: Horton, after being vindicated after the Whos are confirmed to exist, Easily Forgives the other animals that harassed him the entire story without getting so much as an apology. The book and 2008 film at least implies the kangaroos will help protect the Whos as redemption, though in the 1970 animated special all he gets is a musical number before the animals make their leave.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_b1033d4a	type	Maniac Monkeys
Horton Hears a Who! / int_b1033d4a	comment	Maniac Monkeys: The Wickersham brothers.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_bcf61e25	type	The Last Straw
Horton Hears a Who! / int_bcf61e25	comment	The Last Straw: In all versions of the story, Jojo's shout ("YOPP!") is the final sound that pushes the sounds of the Whos bursting out of the clover.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Horton Hears a Who! / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Horton's elephant-bird child from the previous story doesn't appear at all in this.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Horton Hears a Who! / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: Vlad drops Horton's clover into a field of clovers, and Horton has to sort through over 3 million clovers to find it.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Horton Hears a Who! / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Subverted in the book and in Seussical because everyone in the Jungle of Nool thinks that Horton is a tad off his rocker for hearing a Who.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Horton Hears a Who! / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Horton's practically the Trope Codifier for people who read this book as a child. Same goes for the main Who, who can't get anyone else in town to believe they are on a speck of dust until the bird drops the clover.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Horton Hears a Who! / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Horton. Sour kangaroos, weak bridges, open valleys, villainous vultures, flat cliffs, snowy mountain tops, losing the speck amongst miles of similar-looking clovers, and mobs of animals trying to rope and cage him, will. Not. Make. Him. Stop. Physically or emotionally - despite people telling him to stop believing in the Whos, Horton doesn't stop. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent. The Sour Kangaroo is equally determined to stop Horton, to the point of siccing an angry mob on him.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_eeb4f505	type	Lilliputians
Horton Hears a Who! / int_eeb4f505	comment	Lilliputians: Whos, who are only a few microns high.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_f081b6bc	comment	Emo Teen: Jojo.
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Horton Hears a Who! / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: All the "villains".
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Horton Hears a Who! / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Horton Hears a Who! / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Jane Kangaroo, due to lack of evidence, only recognizes Horton's claims as nonsense to disturb the peace in Nool. The Kangaroo and her cronies' actions to preserve this peace leads them to the point they would unwittingly commit genocide to relieve Horton of an apparent self-destructive delusion. The 1970 Wickersham Brothers are especially this. While the book originals are following the command of the Sour Kangaroo out of her authority, the special's Brothers are defensive patriots wholeheartedly going against what they perceive as an insidious, seditious conspiracy against the ways of life for everyone in the jungle.
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