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The Tale of Mr Tod

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The Tale of Mr Tod	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Tale of Mr Tod is a children's book by Beatrix Potter. This is a story about not-nice people. It is about Tommy Brock, and Mr. Tod.Mr. Tod is a fox that has many houses, and is very rarely at home in any of them.Benjamin Bunny has a family of very young little bunnies. While he and his wife Flopsy are out, his father, Old Mr. Bouncer, who is supposed to be watching the baby rabbits, plays host to Tommy Brock, a badger who bemoans the lack of frogs, pheasants' eggs, and other game. Tommy Brock manages to steal the young rabbits while Old Mr. Bouncer is asleep, after having a cabbage cigar. Benjamin and Flopsy return to discover Mr. Bouncer asleep and the babies gone, and Old Mr. Bouncer initially denies having let anyone inside the rabbit hole. The smell of badger is too strong for either Benjamin or Flopsy to believe that, and Flopsy slaps Mr. Bouncer.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Benjamin finds Tommy Brock's bootprints and immediately begins to track him. He follows the trail to what turns out to be one of Mr. Tod's houses, but then he smells fox, hears something break, and flees. Coincidentally he seems to have followed just where Tommy Brock has gone. He notes evidence of the badger's recent passing through the area, including a mole trap and bits of a burlap sack caught on a briar. He encounters his cousin Peter, and enlists his assistance in retrieving his young. It turns out Peter saw Tommy Brock with a burlap sack, but had no idea what was in it other than it was squirming, though Tommy Brock claimed they were caterpillars.Peter surmises that since Tommy Brock has eaten something, that Benjamin's babies are alive and the badger will probably save them for breakfast. Knowing of Tommy Brock's habit of staying in any of Mr. Tod's vacant houses, Peter deduces he's gone to the one on Bull Banks, at the top of Oatmeal Crag.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })They stop by Peter's sister Cottontail's home, and she reports having watched a winded Tommy Brock rested twice in the distance while lugging the sack. Benjamin implores Peter to hurry up and continue on their way, lest they get there too late.They make it to the fox's house on Bull Banks, and peer in the kitchen window. They see a table set in preparation for someone's supper. Then they go to the bedroom window and observe Tommy Brock in Mr. Tod's bed, and Peter remarks that Tommy Brock has gone to bed in his boots. They return to the kitchen window and try getting it open but it's too dark. When the moonlight shines into the window, they see the oven. When they shake the window, the oven door shakes. The baby rabbits are alive and shut up in the oven!Having no way of getting in the house, the two rabbits decide to dig a tunnel in order to get inside. By the end of the night they had got under the kitchen floor. When they exit the tunnel to clean themselves off they hear a fox barking, and foolishly dart back into it.Fortunately Mr. Tod, in the worst of humors, is not aware of their presence, due to the overpowering stench of badger. He's too busy being annoyed by having broken a very precious china plate, the state of his other homes, and a jay bird that was warning other animals of the fox's approach. He goes to his house, unlocks it, and finds the tablesetting, and then he finds Tommy Brock sleeping in his bed. He ponders beating up the badger with a walking stick and a coal scuttle, but thinks instead finally that he'll play a nasty prank on Tommy Brock instead.Tommy Brock pretends to be asleep, all while Mr. Tod gets a clothesline, and sticks part of the clothesline out the window, then goes outside and ties the end to a tree. He trips over the tunnel made by Benjamin and Peter, but thinks it's Tommy Brock's doing. There's a hook on one end of the clothesline and he goes back in the house with a pail of water, and suspends the clothesline above the bed with the full pail of water, on the part of the bed where curtains are supposed to hang from. He goes to untie the rope from the tree, but finds it too tight, so he gnaws it with his teeth for nearly twenty minutes. When the rope finally gives way it knocks him over with the force, but he hears no screams. So, he thinks Tommy Brock is dead. He thinks of all the cleaning he will have to do, and walks back into the house, only to find Tommy Brock sitting at his kitchen table, pouring himself some tea. Tommy Brock throws the scalding hot tea all over Mr. Tod, which provokes the fox to attack him. The two combatants make a mess of the kitchen, and eventually roll out the door, still wrestling and cursing. Peter and Benjamin take the opportunity to retrieve the baby rabbits and beat a hasty retreat. They make it home, and Flopsy gives back the rabbit tobacco she'd confiscated from Mr. Bouncer for being negligent, and the old rabbit is forgiven. The baby rabbits are none the worse for wear, though hungry.Written in 1912, it can be read here.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_1133e720	comment	Fat Slob: Even by Tod's standards, Tommy Brock is gross. He breaks into other people's houses, gluts himself on any food he can find, then goes to bed with his muddy boots still on. Doesn't help that, in line with real badgers, he has a strong smell.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Mr. Tod doesn't confront Tommy Brock directly at first and instead tries to play a nasty prank instead. It takes Tommy Brock throwing scalding tea in his face to goad the fox into an actual fight.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Although most of Potter's books involve anthromorphic predators going after anthromorphic prey, The Tale of Mr. Tod is darker than most, largely by focusing on the lives of the deeply unpleasant antagonists. The prose is also a little more complex than in most of Potter's tales.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: The story ends in a violent fight between Mr. Tod and Tommy Brock, which ultimately allows Peter and Benjamin to save their children.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_27a58d30	type	Carnivore Confusion
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_27a58d30	comment	Carnivore Confusion: An anthropomorphic badger wants to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: It's not obvious what happens to Tod and Brock in the end; they literally roll out of the book fighting each other tooth and nail. The narrator hopes they roll off a cliff.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Mr. Tod to the rabbits. When Benjamin finds him at the stick house, he immediately bolts in fear. In The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, the mere mention of the fox makes Mr. Bouncer jumpy.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_357ccbd1	type	Kung-Shui
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_357ccbd1	comment	Kung-Shui: The entire kitchen gets wrecked in the fight between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_505ff63	type	Bag of Kidnapping
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_505ff63	comment	Bag of Kidnapping: Tommy Brock captures the baby rabbits in a sack.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Tommy Brock is friendly with adult rabbits, although they don't trust him. But then, he's not dangerous to a full grown rabbit.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_61d054a0	type	Animal Stereotypes
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_61d054a0	comment	Animal Stereotypes: Averted, Mr. Tod, Tommy Brock and the otters are portrayed more along the lines of how foxes, badgers and otters would actually act than along the stereotypes.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_6a4f3cf7	type	Took a Level in Dumbass
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_6a4f3cf7	comment	Took a Level in Dumbass: Benjamin's father, who was the most capable character in The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, successfully rescuing Peter and Benjamin, is now stupid enough to invite a predator into the burrow, and lie badly about it. He's implied to have gotten senile in his old age.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: 'Tod' is an antiquated British word for fox while 'brock' is an antiquated British word for badger; Mr. Tod and Tommy Brock are respectively a fox and a badger.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: Tommy Brock eats, among other things, wasp nests, frogs, worms, pheasant eggs, pig nuts, and rabbit pie.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: Tommy Brock, a filthy and foul-smelling wanderer who eats whatever he can get his hands on, vs. Mr. Tod, who dresses like a country gentleman and carries a fancy walking stick.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Benjamin married his cousin Flopsy.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Tale of Mr Tod / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, who were Action Survivors at best in their own stories, are the main heroes in this one.
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The Tale of Mr Tod / int_ab497c22	comment	Predators Are Mean: Mr. Tod is highly unpleasant, and the Otters are so bad even other predators aren't willing to live near them.
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