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We've all heard of Aesop's Fables. Although very little is known about the man himself, hundreds of his stories still survive after millennia. Arguably the best known of these stories is The Tortoise and the Hare. In case you're one of the very very few people who've somehow avoided reading or being told this story, it goes as follows: A tortoise and a hare decide to have a race, and for obvious reasons the hare thinks he is certain to win. The hare has such a strong belief in this scenario that when he is halfway finished the race (or almost finished, or right at the start, depending on which version you know), he decides to have a nap, during which the tortoise passes him and wins. The, well, aesop? "Slow and steady wins the race." Because of the story's fame, it's no wonder it is so influential. Many modern-day works (typically for young children) have similar storylines, sometimes with more than one "hare", but almost always with only one "tortoise", usually the protagonist. The hare(s) will beat the tortoise for most of The Big Race, but then something will happen that causes the tortoise to win. The hare(s) will often be a Last-Second Showoff, and the tortoise will invariably be a Determinator. The tortoise will likely be the blue oni to the hare's red. It's also worth mentioning that the original story has been subject to much Alternate Aesop Interpretation, the other aesop being "don't get too cocky". Sub-Trope of Underdogs Never Lose. Compare The Big Race, Dark Horse Victory, Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat. As the trope name spoils how the race will turn out, all spoilers are unmarked. Examples |
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"The Hare and the Pineapple" builds up the expectation that the pineapple will find a way to beat the hare, with the animals even discussing how the hare will likely make a mistake out of arrogance. The pineapple doesn't even move, and the hare wins. | |
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Deconstructed for a gag in the The Simpsons episode "Bart the Mother": Marge takes the family to the Family Fun Center, where one of the activities they do is go-kart racing. Marge is going a steady, sensible pace, while out of fun, Lisa gives her a taunt. She replies back with the trope name word-for-word. All of the other racers, including Homer, Bart, and Milhouse, all lap her... twice. Even though she's far behind, she tries to force herself to not be tempted to go faster: | |
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The Thomas & Friends episode, "Edward the Great" has the engines challenge Spencer, the Duke and Duchess of Boxford's private engine to a race to the Duke and Duchess' summer house. When Edward is assigned to deliver a set of furniture to the summer house, Gordon and James are worried that Edward will lose the race, since Spencer is a sleek and fast express engine who managed to beat even Gordon's record, but Thomas and Percy believe in Edward, due to Edward's kind personality. Thanks in part to Spencer having to make several stops, such as the Duke and Duchess buying tea and cakes from Wellsworth Station and taking photographs of the countryside (Spencer also falls asleep during the latter), Edward manages to overtake Spencer and win the race. | |
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Looney Tunes: Averted with Cecil the Turtle, who in the three shorts that he raced Bugs Bunny was slower and more consistent, but the reason he always won was because he was a much better trickster than Bugs. Bugs did win the race in the third outing ("Rabbit Transit") but he loses the cartoon as he's arrested for speeding. |
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At least two The Backyardigans episodes have this plot: "Race Around the World" has Austin, Pablo, Tyrone, and Uniqua in a multisport race that involves hurdles, snowboarding, and rowing. Pablo is great at hurdles, Tyrone at snowboarding, and Uniqua at rowing, but Austin is terrible at each one. At the end of the race, the tape is too strong for Pablo, Tyrone, or Uniqua to break, but Austin cuts it with a pair of scissors, thereby winning the race. "Horsing Around" has Uniqua, Pablo, and Tyrone as jockeys in a horse race. Pablo and Uniqua both insist that they have the best horse this side of the Mississippi, but Tyrone's tiny donkey is the definition of The Alleged Steed. However, Pablo and Uniqua are often so busy arguing about who is better than the other, they forget about the race until Tyrone passes them, resulting in Tyrone winning by a nose. |
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Magolor says this word-for-word in Kirby's Return to Dream Land. | |
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The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race sees Brother Bear enter a car race in a small, slow, red car. There are four other cars, all of them large and fast: one orange, one yellow, one green, and one blue. The drivers of the large cars make fun of Brother because his car is so slow. At first, the yellow car is in first, and its driver boasts about how he will win and fails to see a pothole, which destroys the car. Then the orange car takes the lead and its driver brags about how he will win, not realizing that he is driving his car off a cliff. The driver of the green car assumes it is now between him and the blue car, so he pours tacks onto the road, puncturing the blue car's tires. When he's almost at the finish line, he sees a fast-food restaurant and decides to have a burger. In waiting for his burger, he unknowingly gives Brother enough time to pass him and win the race. | |
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The Noddy Shop had a musical retelling of The Tortise and the Hare in the episode "The Big Race" called "Slow and Steady" that was all about this trope. | |
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In the "Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away Volume 1: Aliens" story "The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku" this is humorously subverted by One Eye, who takes his time arriving to the Mêlée à Trois only to end up swallowed by a sandworm before any of the other combatants even realize he's there. | |
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In the Pocoyo episode "The Great Race", Pocoyo, Elly and Sleepy Bird participate in a race. The former two keep competing with each other during it and ultimately break their vehicles on accident by doing so. They then combine the parts of those vehicles so as to finish the race together, but when they get to the finish, it is revealed that the slow and steady Sleepy Bird has already won. | |
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The Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! episode "Rush Hour" has the title character learning an important lesson in patience when he enters a Floaty Boats contest where he builds his boat too quickly and it falls apart. | |
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The Witch of Knightcharm: This is LaTasha's strategy for surviving a lethal obstacle course at the evil Wizarding School she's stuck in. LaTasha doesn't think any of the rewards for coming in first are worth risking her life for, so she plans to just let the frontrunners in her heat slug it out ahead of her while she slowly and steadily works her way through the course. That way she'll increase her chances of reaching the end alive, which is what she actually cares about. Luban takes the trope to a much darker place, choosing instead of get into the front of her heat and then slow down to work on murdering everyone behind her. Heat winners automatically 'win' orientation no matter how slowly they go, so if she can take out the rest of her heat, then she can 'run' the rest of the course at a snail's pace and still get the victory she needs. |
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Ninjago: The episode "Ninjaball Run" is basically this with a prize of $5000 which the ninja need to win to help to pay a friend's rent but since there are no rules in the race where there's bound to cheating in the competition. Metaphorically, the ninja are the "tortoise" since they don't perform so well at the beginning of the race and Lloyd, another ninja who entered separately to improve chances of winning, was disqualified in the middle of the race. Garmadon and his mooks are the "hare" metaphorically, "cheating" to try to win for himself. The ninja and Garmadon cross the finish line at the same exact time, The ninja actually wins due to a vehicle accessory that was added on by Jay on the hood and since there are no rules about that. | |
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Parodied in one SpongeBob SquarePants episode about a snail race. While SpongeBob and Squidward bring normal snail pets, Patrick brings a rock. It predictably doesn't move while the other snails race forward, but Gary (SpongeBob's snail) went berserk and runs out of the race line and injures himself in the end, while Squidward's snail (who's close to winning) runs to Gary instead to help him. While everyone (including the spectators) is distracted with the 2 snails, it then cuts to Patrick's rock somehow crossing the finish line. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Zigzagged in Fall Weather Friends: the ponies are having a race called "The Running of the Leaves" to help the autumn leaves fall. Rainbow Dash and Applejack are mad at each other and are on a vicious cycle of cheating due to thinking the other cheated, so they end up being tied for last place. Twilight starts off slow but then runs to prevent herself getting puffed out, and she wins a prize... but it's not first place either. Played with in May The Best Pet Win!, with a literal turtlenote Tortoise!: Rainbow Dash is holding a competition between various animals to see which one is worthy of becoming her pet. Given that this is Rainbow Dash, this incldes a race through a gorge. Rainbow Dash specifies that "whoever crosses the line with me" wins. As it so happens, an avalanche occurs, half-burying her. All animals speed past and fail to notice her, except the turtlenote Tortoise!, which rescues her and carries the injured pony over the finish line, thus winning the race. |
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Parodied in The Stinky Cheese Man with the story "The Tortoise and the Hair". The rabbit bets that he can grow one of his hairs faster than the tortoise can run. They both go so slow, the story ends before the race does. | |
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In Linkara's History of Power Rangers review of Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, he cites that Flurious, one of the four villain groups of the series, took this approach by not getting too involved in the fighting and letting the others factions duke it out amongst themselves. Indeed in the end the Fearcats and Kamdor were destroyed by the Rangers, Miratrix was sealed away in the jewel Kamdor was originally stuck in (by Kamdor's own hand no less) and Moltor was majorly weakened in his fight with Mack. When he tried to go to to Flurious for help, Flurious destroyed Moltor outright and takes the crown before acquiring the remaining jewels, allowing him to go to achieve his full-powered form, thus making him the last villain to be stopped. | |
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