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Balto

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Balto	label	Balto
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Balto	comment	Balto is a 1995 animated movie produced by Steven Spielberg, based loosely on the 1925 serum run to Nome. It was the third and final feature produced by Spielberg's animation studio, Amblimation. It is directed by Simon Wells with the screenplay by Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser, David Steven Cohen and Roger S. H. Schulman and the story by Ruby and Lesser.The plot involves a large number of children in Nome, Alaska who are sick with diphtheria. The only way to get life-saving medicine to the remote town is through a team of sled dogs. When the capable but completely self-absorbed lead dog, Steele (voiced by Jim Cummings), gets his team lost, saving the town falls on the shoulders (so to speak) of a wolf-dog hybrid named Balto (voiced by Kevin Bacon). He's accompanied by a Russian goose named Boris (voiced by Bob Hoskins), a female Husky named Jenna (voiced by Bridget Fonda), and two hydrophobic polar bears named Luk and Muk (voiced by Phil Collins).It spawned two Direct to Video sequels: Balto II: Wolf Quest (2002) and Balto III: Wings of Change (2004).
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Balto / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Balto / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Balto gets one when he realizes Steele has marked every tree in the forest to prevent them from getting home, and he doesn't know the way.
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Balto / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Balto / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Steele cements his Jerkass cred during his first round of bullying Balto by saying he "has a message for [his] mother," and then starts howling. Tellingly, this is the only time Balto gets visibly angry in the entire film.
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Balto / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Balto / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Downplayed. Nome is slightly too far south in Alaska for polar bears like Muk and Luk.
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Balto / int_17dbe19a	type	Internalized Categorism
Balto / int_17dbe19a	comment	Internalized Categorism: Balto dislikes his wolf heritage as much as the town due to being rejected and bullied for it, and tries to distance himself from his wolf heritage as much as possible (from shunning a passing pack's friendly greeting, to grimacing when Boris tells him that "maybe, a wolf can" survive the journey). It isn't until he's able to embrace his wolf side that he's able to save the town.
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Balto / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Balto / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Realistically, Muk and Luk couldnâ€™t live in the woods around Nome, since polar bears mostly inhabit the frozen Arctic sea during winter and only travel to the northernmost fringes of Eurasia and North America during the summer months, with the nearest Alaskan polar bears living a good 500 miles away from Nome. Furthermore, polar bears evolved to depend on a largely marine diet, especially on prey animals rich in fat such as seals, and tend to struggle literally living off the land, which is why many individuals starve to death during the summer months. Worst still, Balto 2 shows them still hanging around Nome in spring.
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Balto / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Balto / int_19da8a03	comment	The Incurable Cough of Death was actually not just a Hollywood clichÃ© to show that the kids are sick - coughing is a symptom of Diptheria.
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Balto / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Balto / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Balto is fond of uttering Jenna's name like it's the most important thing in the world. It's very cute.
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Balto / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Balto / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Steele, and to a lesser extent, Balto, to the rest of the sled dogs. This is another inaccuracy, because the choosing of a lead dog on mushing teams was something done very carefully by the dog-driver, and never left to chance (which it certainly is in the movie).
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Balto / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Balto / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: After Steele realizes Jenna's falling for Balto, his dislike for him grows from simple bullying to pure hatred.
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Balto / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Balto / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Rosy's father is initially justified in his reluctance to have her interact with Balto, since he's just protecting her as best as he can.
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Balto / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Balto / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: To each other, anyway. The humans don't understand them.
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Balto / int_1f3fe142	type	Alternate Animal Affection
Balto / int_1f3fe142	comment	Alternate Animal Affection: Balto takes a page out of The Lion King (1994)'s book and has Balto and Jenna nuzzle the other's neck as a substitute for a hug or a kiss. They also accidentally bump noses a couple of times, and it's treated like an Accidental Kiss.
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Balto / int_1fb9864	type	Liminal Being
Balto / int_1fb9864	comment	Liminal Being: Balto is both a wolf and a dog, or, from another point of view, neither.
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Balto / int_21af4dc3	type	Heroic Dog
Balto / int_21af4dc3	comment	Heroic Dog: Balto proves he's this when he sets out to find Steele's team to help bring home the medicine, and eventually succeeds.
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Balto / int_22b3deaf	type	Toothy Bird
Balto / int_22b3deaf	comment	Toothy Bird: Boris, a goose is shown with teeth a few times.
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Balto / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Balto / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The bottles Balto shows Jenna that he uses to create his own aurora borealis. Jenna uses those same bottles to guide the sled team home after everyone else has given up.
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Balto / int_23747fd7	type	Ironic Fear
Balto / int_23747fd7	comment	Ironic Fear: Muk and Luk are afraid of the water. They mention that it's the reason they are shunned by the other polar bears. Even more funny is that while they are still cubs, they are utterly terrified of the grizzly bear that attacks them halfway through the first movie. In reality polar bears grow up to be much larger than grizzlies and are far more aggressive.
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Balto / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Balto / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Rosy among humans, Jenna among the dogs. Rosy is the only human who knows that Balto isn't dangerous just for being part wolf. Jenna is the only denizen of the town (besides Balto) not to worship the snow Steele kicks up just for being the fastest runner. She's also the only dog to see through Steele's story regarding Balto and the medicine.
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Balto / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Balto / int_243cbd0d	comment	Star tends to get loud and carried away with his excitement, which Kaltag usually Dope Slaps him for.
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Balto / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Balto / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Balto suffers one from Steele after his Villainous Breakdown. Justified, as Balto refuses to fight out of fear of destroying the anti-toxin.
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Balto / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Balto / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Early on in the movie, as Jenna, Sylvie, and Dixie are talking, a passing husky eyes them up and has to have his leash yanked by his owner. This Husky is supposedly modeled after an unused character design for Balto himself.
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Balto / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Balto / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: When Steele crashes his sled, the team's musher hits his head and instantly knocked out for several days in the middle of a blizzard. Other than an easily missed muttering when he's pushed on the sled, he never regains consciousness, so we don't know if he survived the return trip to Nome or needed body parts amputated due to frostbite.
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Balto / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
Balto / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Jenna straight up attacks a grizzly bear that was about to kill Balto.
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Balto / int_2c467b4b	type	Stop Drowning and Stand Up
Balto / int_2c467b4b	comment	Stop Drowning and Stand Up: Muk and Luk are told this by Balto, leading to Muk making a speech about the "shame of the polar bears who fear the water".
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Balto / int_2d0b9eea	type	Beary Funny
Balto / int_2d0b9eea	comment	Beary Funny: Muk and Luk, the polar bears, mainly serve the role of Plucky Comic Relief.
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Balto / int_302d0881	type	I Am What I Am
Balto / int_302d0881	comment	I Am What I Am: Only when Balto learns to embrace his wolf heritage does he realize there is nothing he can't do.
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Balto / int_30d4f2a	type	Narcissist
Balto / int_30d4f2a	comment	Narcissist: Steele. Jenna sums it up best talking with Dixie:
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Balto / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Balto / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: When Rosie sees Balto outrace Steele to retrieve her hat, she teases him about doing something that insane to show off for a pretty girl and begins putting him into the harness as she tells him she's sure Jenna would like having him on her team.
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Balto / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Balto / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The husky Togo was lead sled dog in the actual event, but is nowhere in the movie.
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Balto / int_348e5217	type	Lap Pillow
Balto / int_348e5217	comment	Lap Pillow: As Rosy's parents hold vigil at her bedside near the end of the film, her father is sleeping with his head in his wife's lap.
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Balto / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Balto / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Balto and Jenna become a couple at the end after he returns with the medicine. The sequels focus on two of their offspring.
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Balto / int_3669898	type	Undertaker
Balto / int_3669898	comment	Undertaker: Subverted. We're led to believe that the guy making coffins for the children is one of these, but then it's revealed that he's actually the carpenter that made Rosy's sled earlier in the film. It's quite an effective scene.
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Balto / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Balto / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Seems to be part of Steele's motivation at the end. When he returns to town after he sabotages the return of the sled team, he tells Jenna that Balto is dead, and made him promise to take care of her before he died. Even returning her bandana she had given Balto, and that Steele had torn off in rage, as proof. She sees right through him.
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Balto / int_3835d082	type	Spaghetti Kiss
Balto / int_3835d082	comment	Spaghetti Kiss: Steele attempts to flirt with Jenna by bringing her a sausage chain and suggesting that they start on opposite ends, but Jenna is not interested.
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Balto / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Balto / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: After learning Balto marked the way back to town, Steele intentionally gets the entire dog team lost, potentially dooming all the kids and the other dogs... because Steele was kicked off the team, and couldn't get the glory all to himself.
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Balto / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Balto / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Steele's story regarding Balto and the medicine once he gets to the boiler room. In particular, he claims to have carried four dogs on the sled and three on his back — he then does a quick, private calculation on his claws, probably vaguely aware of the fact that there were only six dogs other than himself. Jenna knows that Balto would never do such a thing and doesn't fall for his story, not one bit.
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Balto / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Balto / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Dixie, especially when she wants to impress Steele: for example, saying "magnesium" instead of "magnificent."
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Balto / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Balto / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Steele never makes a secret of his attraction to Jenna, but it's clear she'd be uninterested even if Balto weren't in the picture.
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Balto / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Balto / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Star. If the poor pup so much as opens his mouth, he will get hurt, be it the other dogs or even inanimate objects. Except for his final scene at the end. Boris also suffers more than his fair share of slapstick, as do the polar bears.
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Balto / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Balto / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Basically all of Alaska, and also the scene where some of the medicine breaks onto the ice and scatters golden serum everywhere. Also hard to not be overtaken by the sheer beauty of the Northern Lights throughout the movie.
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Balto / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Balto / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Steele does this to Balto when taunting him for being a wolf/dog hybrid.
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Balto / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Balto / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Most of the local dogs (with Steele as the ringleader), as well as the humans, have a very low opinion of Balto, because he's part wolf. Averted on the part of the wolves. A local pack surveys Balto from a hilltop, howls cordially, and seems interested in him, but Balto turns away.
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Balto / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Balto / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Thank you, Balto. I would have been lost without you."
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Balto / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Balto / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When Balto passes by the carpenter's shop, he notices the carpenter hard at work on building something. It's not until the man sets it against the wall that it's clear it's a child-sized coffin, which he places next to two others.
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Balto / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
Balto / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Steele is displeased, to put it mildly, when he catches on to the fact that Jenna prefers Balto over him. This only makes him even more hateful of Balto, to the point that he sabotages his own team in an effort to ensure Balto can't succeed in leading them home.
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Balto / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Balto / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The movie begins with a live-action scene, and ends with one.
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Balto / int_550e75cd	type	Braving the Blizzard
Balto / int_550e75cd	comment	Braving the Blizzard: Severe winter weather conditions are what prevent the antitoxin cure for diphtheria from reaching Nome, Alaska by sea and air — and the nearest rail station is 600 miles away in Nenana. A sled dog team is put together to retrieve the antitoxin, but as the weather worsens the team becomes lost. Canine hero Balto sets off through the terrible snowstorm to find the lost sled dog team and lead them back to Nome safely.
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Balto / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Balto / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Pretty much everything in the movie is wrong about the real Balto. For one thing, there were about twenty sled teams, and Balto didn't even run the most dangerous part, he just ran the last leg. Balto getting the most fame and praise for his heroism — it was widely agreed upon that Togo should have gotten the credit, which Togo tried to address — is actually part of a longstanding controversy that this movie actually made worse. Balto's coloring was, ironically, much closer to Steele's in Real Life, to the point where if you knew nothing about this film, you'd think Steele was Balto and vice-versa. This, too, had a modern redress in popular culture, with an episode about Balto in Molly of Denali illustrated with his correct fur pattern. Balto — and Togo, for that matter — had no wolf ancestry; they were completely purebred Siberian Huskies. Arguably the worst, however, is the complete omission of not just Togo but their driver, Leonhard Seppala, who was hailed as a hero and was for a good while one of the most famous men in Alaska and, briefly, the United States.
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Balto / int_56563927	type	Noble Wolf
Balto / int_56563927	comment	Noble Wolf: Balto is a noble wolf-dog but his problems are caused by being stereotyped as a Savage Wolf. The townfolk believe him to be dangerous ("He might bite you, honey. He's part wolf.") when he's truly a Nice Guy and a loyal friend.
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Balto / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Balto / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Steele has one of these when he gets back to the village alone, acting like Balto attacked him and demanded the medicine. He just keeps hamming it up from there.
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Balto / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Balto / int_5707e92c	comment	Feather Fingers: Boris and later Stella in Balto III: Wings of Change sometimes use their wings like hands whenever they gesture.
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Balto / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
Balto / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Balto and Boris have fairly bushy brows.
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Balto / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Balto / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Subverted. Steele accidentally causes himself to fall off a very high cliff while fighting with Balto but survives likely due to hitting several ledges on the way down instead of a sheer drop. Averted at the end of the movie, however, where Steele survives the movie's events and is reduced to an outcast once his crimes are finally exposed. Balto also suffers a subverted one later, surviving due to deep snow.
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Balto / int_6134738	type	Find the Cure!
Balto / int_6134738	comment	Find the Cure!: Balto's quest revolves around him delivering the diphtheria antitoxin to Nome ASAP.
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Balto / int_6265e75a	type	Rump Roast
Balto / int_6265e75a	comment	Rump Roast: When Steele barges in on Jenna and Balto in the boiler room to make unwanted advances on Jenna, she tricks him into backing up against the boiler door and burning himself so she and Balto can escape. Unfortunately, they barely make it out the door before Steele crashes through it after them.
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Balto / int_631399c1	type	Siding with the Suffering
Balto / int_631399c1	comment	Siding with the Suffering: Star, Nikki and Kaltag happily brownnose Steele and join in his bullying of Balto (though not as obsessively) for the first half of the movie, mocking his half-wolf status and in Nikki's case knocking him down during the race to see who'd be the best lead dog to retrieve the medicine. However, once Balto finds the team after Steele got them lost and Steele starts attacking Balto unprovoked no less and almost breaking the medicine that the kids in Nome will die if they don't get. They quickly switch over to Balto's side, even smiling as Balto takes on position as lead dog. (Zig-Zagged in that it's revealed that they resent Steele and trash him behind his back and most likely joined in bullying Balto to avoid Steele harrassing them.
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Balto / int_634fba64	type	Prohibited Hero Saves the Day
Balto / int_634fba64	comment	Prohibited Hero Saves the Day: Balto is not taken or wanted on the medicine run (in spite of having been the fastest canine in a race) due to the town's discrimination against half-wolves. He tracks down the sled team and leads them home after his rival, Steele, gets them lost.
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Balto / int_6381b11	type	Game-Breaking Injury
Balto / int_6381b11	comment	Game-Breaking Injury: After the fight with the bear, Jenna is revealed to have injured her leg in the fight and can't continue, despite having been running just before. Justified, though, as Balto had nearly drowned, and in real life someone's adrenaline would've kept them from succumbing to the pain right away.
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Balto / int_647ce68	type	Family-Unfriendly Violence
Balto / int_647ce68	comment	Family-Unfriendly Violence: The bear attack nearly leaves Balto dead. Steele's beatdown of Balto after suffering from the 'get extremely violent' form of Villainous Breakdown.
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Balto / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Balto / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: When Balto reaches his Despair Event Horizon after falling off a cliff along with the crate of medicine, he covers his face with his paws and sobs softly. That is, until the appearance of the white wolf spirit and the memory of Boris's words of encouragement give him his Heroic Second Wind.
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Balto / int_65ae74ae	type	Collective Death Glare
Balto / int_65ae74ae	comment	Collective Death Glare: After being defeated by Balto and thrown off a cliff, Steele returns to Nome claiming that the wolf-dog made a Faceâ€“Heel Turn and left the sled dog team to die in the wilderness. When Balto returns home safe and sound with both Steele's squad and the medicine supplies, Steele's lie immediately catches up to him and even one of his greatest admirers (a Spitz she-dog named Dixie) is horrified by his deceit. She slaps a bone off his mouth, which lands in front of the entrance of the city's main boiler room (the main hub of Nome's dogs) and the very group of (understandably pissed off) dogs which used to admire Steele at the very beginning of the movie.
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Balto / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Balto / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: The angsty and self-doubting Balto is melancholic, the kind and compassionate Jenna is phlegmatic, the Grumpy Old Man Boris is choleric, and the Plucky Comic Relief Muk and Luk are sanguine.
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Balto / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Balto / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: At the beginning, Balto is an outcast who's feared and hated for his wolf heritage, while Steele is a Jerk Jock who has the entire town eating out of his paws. After Steele sabotages his team's effort to get back into town though, and Balto ends up bringing the medicine home, Balto is lauded as a hero for decades after his death, while Steele is shunned for his callousness.
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Balto / int_6ada388a	type	Russian Guy Suffers Most
Balto / int_6ada388a	comment	Russian Guy Suffers Most: Boris the Russian snow goose has the Butt-Monkey status in this film.
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Balto / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Balto / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: After Steele gets his sled team hopelessly lost and causes their sled to crash and their musher to get knocked unconscious, and the other dogs to turn to him for guidance, he shuts down completely, and can only sit there shivering until Balto comes along.
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Balto / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Balto / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Bob Hoskins voiced Boris in the first movie, only to be replaced by Charles Fleischer in the sequels. In other words, Boris is voiced by both Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit.
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Balto / int_71dfdccc	type	Brush-Off Walk-Off
Balto / int_71dfdccc	comment	Brush-Off Walk-Off: When Balto succeeds in bringing the sled team home with the diphtheria antitoxin, all of Nome's dogs realize that Steele has been telling them bald lies. They already knew Steele was a Glory Hound, but this is a blatant dereliction of duty, which is unforgivable by dog standards. All the dogs turn up their noses and turn their tails toward Steele, and leave the storage barn silently. Steele has become a disreputable pariah in their view.
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Balto / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Balto / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover (as seen on this page) depicts Balto as black and gray in contrast to the movie, where he's brown and cream. (Ironically, the real Balto did have black and white fur, so the poster is more historically accurate than the movie.) The cover of the reissue tried to fix this by giving him a more accurate color scheme, but also slips up by showing him with white sclerae (he actually has yellow) and giving him a too broad muzzle and nose.
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Balto / int_73731600	type	Lecherous Licking
Balto / int_73731600	comment	Lecherous Licking: Steele licks his lips while leering at Jenna.
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Balto / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Balto / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: Steele very briefly convinces Jenna that Balto is dead by showing her the bandanna she gave him, but immediately blows it by saying that Balto "made me promise to take care of you." Jenna knows that Balto would say no such thing, and she immediately sees straight through Steele's Blatant Lies.
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Balto / int_7ec8506d	type	Animal Talk
Balto / int_7ec8506d	comment	Animal Talk: The humans can't understand the animals, but the dogs can understand English perfectly well. Among the animal cast, Muk is generally the only one who can understand his brother Luk's mumbling, but Boris finds, to his dismay, that he's beginning to learn it himself.
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Balto / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Balto / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The film opens with Steele running a neck-in-neck sled dog race, charge into a dangerously narrow pass against his musher and teammate's warning, and then, when he realizes he still can't out-run his opponent on his own merit, snaps his jaws at a dog from the other team knowing he'll flinch and thus cause the entire team to tangle up and turn over. The musher of the opposing sled then yells out an enraged "STEELE!", showing that he has done this before. The whole scene shows what lengths Steele will go just to win.
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Balto / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Balto / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Steele is prone to dramatics and decidedly unsubtle about how highly he thinks of himself. But then, it's Jim Cummings — no one expected otherwise. Star tends to get loud and carried away with his excitement, which Kaltag usually Dope Slaps him for.
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Balto / int_8269c61	type	TheLadysFavor
Balto / int_8269c61	comment	The Lady's Favor: Jenna gives Balto her red bandana when they part ways on his quest. Steele is only able to convince Jenna - briefly — that Balto's dead by showing her said bandana, knowing that she would believe Balto would never part with it otherwise.
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Balto / int_83ab1b39	type	The Tragic Rose
Balto / int_83ab1b39	comment	The Tragic Rose: Rosy, the ill girl. Not only does she live to tell the tale, but she's the Narrator All Along.
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Balto / int_84762bed	type	Product Delivery Ordeal
Balto / int_84762bed	comment	Product Delivery Ordeal: A sudden spread of diphtheria is endangering the lives of many children in Nome, including a girl who has befriended the protagonist. A large supply of medicine is planned to be sent to Nome, and due to severe weather conditions, the only possible way to do the delivery is via sled transport. But the sled dogs get stranded and it's up to Balto and his friends to finish the job. The dogs' leader (Steele) runs away out of arrogance, so Balto is the one who guides the remaining dogs across the remainder of the path (including a perilous ice cavern with falling stalactites).
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Balto / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Balto / int_85557b38	comment	Also Reality Is Unrealistic in that people assumed the old woman in the beginning of the film (the adult Rosy) couldn't possibly have still been alive in the 90s. The events depicted happened in 1925, so someone who was young like most of the Diptheria patients could have easily still been alive, well into their 70s-90s. note Although Miriam Margoyles, who plays adult Rosy, was born in 1941, long after when the serum run took place.
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Balto / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Balto / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: While nothing actually happens between Balto and Jenna when he shows her the crawlspace under the hospital, Sylvie's commenting on it certainly makes it sound as if she believes otherwise. It's likely to go over the heads of younger viewers, but it's pretty clear to adults what she's alluding to:
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Balto / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Balto / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The movie is based off of an actual sled run in 1925, often called the "Great Race of Mercy", which carried diphtheria antitoxin almost seven hundred miles to stop an epidemic. The real Balto was simply the lead dog on the last sled team, and went through near whiteout conditions. However, the longest and most hazardous run was the third-to-last leg of the relay, led by another dog named Togo, who led his team on a 91-mile journey that included crossing the perilous ice of Norton Sound. Balto's team was the team that arrived in Nome, so they got most of the credit. This is the source of controversy surrounding the serum run and continues to this day by historians and mushers — most mushers today consider Togo to be the true hero of the race but the real Balto really has been immortalized with a statue in Central Park, depicted with a medal awarded to Togo, no less. Also Reality Is Unrealistic in that people assumed the old woman in the beginning of the film (the adult Rosy) couldn't possibly have still been alive in the 90s. The events depicted happened in 1925, so someone who was young like most of the Diptheria patients could have easily still been alive, well into their 70s-90s. note Although Miriam Margoyles, who plays adult Rosy, was born in 1941, long after when the serum run took place. The Incurable Cough of Death was actually not just a Hollywood clichÃ© to show that the kids are sick - coughing is a symptom of Diptheria. A good number of the extras (the humans, anyway) are native Alaskans. Nome had a sizable population of Alaskan Natives. Although the real Balto was neither part wolf nor a stray, the townspeople hating on him in the film was possibly derived from the real Balto's owner, who apparently thought very little of him and eventually sold him to a novelty museum, where he lived in bad conditions until a Cleveland businessman found and rescued him. Of all of the liberties that the film takes with Balto's story, one surprising accuracy was that he was often seen playing with a goose.
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Balto / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Balto / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Steele is lead dog on the most prestigious, successful sled team in town, and the dogs of Nome fawn over him and treat him like a celebrity. Subverted with the humans (who believe he's losing his edge, much to Steele's fury) and his own teammates, who are disgusted with him behind his back.
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Balto / int_889cff96	type	Quirky Miniboss Squad
Balto / int_889cff96	comment	Quirky Miniboss Squad: Nikki, Kaltag and Star in the first movie. Nuk, Yak and Sumac in the 2nd. Both squads get better.
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Balto / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Balto / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Steele gets one near the closing of the first film. He ends up getting lost in a blizzard and having the very dog he's spent the entire movie tormenting coming to try and save him. He then loses the fight without Balto attacking once, falling off a cliff. When he gets back to Nome and tries to lie to everyone, the one female in town he actually wants sees straight through his lies and calls him out on it. While he does get a small break from it, when Balto returns it really kicks in. He instantly gets a mass Death Glare from every dog in Nome, the dog who'd been trying to get his attention the entire movie slaps him in the face, he's reduced to a hated outcast by all those who'd looked up to him throughout the movie, and to top it all off, the one he hates most is now the town hero. A deleted scene would've carried this a tad further where the dog on the sled team he'd treated worst told him off and tore his prized Golden Collar off. Another deleted scene would have had his role in the story end with him falling down a coal shaft, presumably to a genuine Disney Villain Death.
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Balto / int_8cd87c20	type	Cartoony Tail
Balto / int_8cd87c20	comment	Cartoony Tail: Balto has the common, taper off-to-a-point variety.
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Balto / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Balto / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Balto gets attacked by a giant grizzly at one point. Averted with Muk and Luk, though they still manage to be a handful sometimes for Boris.
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Balto / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Balto / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: By Humiliation Conga, Steele's defeat is directly brought about by his own actions. Had he just helped Balto get back to Nome, he'd have gotten fame (Balto would've gotten more, but he still would have received some nonetheless), but by betraying and lying to the entire town, he ended up becoming a hated outcast.
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Balto / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Balto / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Big Damn Nuzzle: Balto and Jenna get one at the end in lieu of a kiss, but it's played out just as dramatically.
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Balto / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Balto / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Steele has one when Balto arrives to help the sled team. He was a Smug Snake before this but when Balto arrives, he goes completely out of his mind, trying to kill him, all the while looking completely psychotic. After he loses, he continues to appear insane until he returns to the boiler room and is back to his Smug Snake mode, or at least until Balto safely arrives in Nome, resulting in everyone finally turning against him and is ultimately reduced to an outcast. It's hinted at earlier during several scenes where Steele nearly loses his cool when enraged, this is just the time he actually snaps.
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Balto / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Balto / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Nikki, Kaltag and Star get theirs upon witnessing Steele callously endanger the medicine just to pick a fight with Balto, as well as brutally attacking him like a crazed lunatic. They start having sympathy for the wolf-dog because of this, and after Steele falls off a cliff, they promptly abandon him and follow Balto instead.
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Balto / int_97af4479	type	Ill-Timed Sneeze
Balto / int_97af4479	comment	Ill-Timed Sneeze: Star sneezes in the first film, resulting in an avalanche.
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Balto / int_9a27e096	type	Whispered Threat
Balto / int_9a27e096	comment	Whispered Threat: Balto has proven himself in a test run, but Glory Hound Steele dismisses the result, calling for his usual squad to prepare for a Fetch Quest. When Balto argues that he deserves to be on the team, Steele gets in his face and starts insulting him until Jenna intervenes, angrily pointing out that the important thing is that the medicine gets through. Steele agrees that the mission is paramount, but mutters one parting shot at Balto.
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Balto / int_9af96ec2	type	Acrophobic Bird
Balto / int_9af96ec2	comment	Acrophobic Bird: Boris is rarely seen flying, even when it would be helpful to do so. In the third film it's finally explained that he is a literal acrophobic bird.
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Balto / int_9b5b5a14	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!
Balto / int_9b5b5a14	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!: Steele is the most popular sled dog in Nome, which means he's able to cheat his way and not get called out for it. At least not until the end.
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Balto / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Balto / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: How Steele survived falling down a tall mountain side, slamming into several shelves on the way down, with no visible injury, is anyone's guess. Clearly the film needed him to be the villain for a while longer, or the poor bastard would have been dead within the first impact.
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Balto / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
Balto / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Rosy tries interacting with Balto, but her father is reluctant to have her interact with him due to the town's Half-Breed Discrimination. It gets to the point where he briefly keeps her from explaining Balto's true feelings.
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Balto / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
Balto / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: Balto taking over as lead dog is a brief one, but no less awesome for it. Star's presenting of the harness and the swell of the music is very poignant.
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Balto / int_a070f751	type	Canine Confusion
Balto / int_a070f751	comment	Canine Confusion: Balto's Adaptational Species Change results in him being an unusually tame stray, bordering on feral, wolf-dog. The narrative treats it as Half-Breed Discrimination that all the humans are scared of Balto, however real wolf-dogs are notoriously risky (never mind ones not reared by humans). The real Balto was a purebred pet husky (or a malamute, depending on the source). Jenna is a red husky. While this is a color allowed by the Breed Standard, red huskies are more brownish than Jenna's dark red. Steele is an Alaskan malamute with Icy Blue Eyes. However, malamutes cannot have blue eyes. Malamutes only have brown eyes.
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Balto / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
Balto / int_a1154544	comment	Grumpy Old Man: Boris is a grouchy and somewhat cantankerous goose who's a fair bit older than Balto.
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Balto / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Balto / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	â€¦And That Little Girl Was Me: The Framing Device for the movie is a grandmother telling her granddaughter the story of Balto while searching for Balto's statue in Central Park. At the end of the movie, they find the statue, and the grandmother says to it, "Thank you, Balto. I would've been lost without you," revealing that she was the same "Rosy" from the story.
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Balto / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Balto / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: "Reach for the Light", which plays during the credits, is performed by Steve Winwood and co-composed by James Horner.
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Balto / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Balto / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: The real Balto had black fur, not grey.
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Balto	hasFeature	Balto / int_a4414a05
Balto / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Balto / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: The reason Balto is a wolfdog in the movie while he was a purebred Siberian husky in real life: the creators wanted to make him an outcast among humans and other dogs alike and to give him an inner turmoil by having him be ashamed of his wolf half, making his victory all the sweeter in the end. As mentioned above, both adults and children where infected in the real event, but the film changes it to only children to play more on adult fear. The medicine was also delivered to Nome by no less than a dozen mushers, who would carry it part of the way and then pass it off to the next musher, from checkpoint to checkpoint. Here, apparently only one dog team gets selected to run all 600+ miles to get the serum and then back again. Evidently, Balto rescuing and leading the one dog team on which the entire town rests its hopes back into Nome makes for more dramatic story-telling than Balto simply helping one team in a long chain of mushers make their next checkpoint. (Or just carrying it for the last stretch like he did in real life.)
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Balto	hasFeature	Balto / int_a5f0752f
Balto / int_a6689882	type	Freeze Sneeze
Balto / int_a6689882	comment	Freeze Sneeze: When Balto is trapped and drowning in icy water and Muk and Luk dive in to rescue him, Boris sticks his head underwater to look for them, and comes up with his head incased in ice. Then he sneezes and the ice shatters.
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Balto / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Balto / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Balto bumps noses with Jenna accidentally when they first meet.
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Balto	hasFeature	Balto / int_a82ff02f
Balto / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Balto / int_a8559a9f	comment	Balto's coloring was, ironically, much closer to Steele's in Real Life, to the point where if you knew nothing about this film, you'd think Steele was Balto and vice-versa. This, too, had a modern redress in popular culture, with an episode about Balto in Molly of Denali illustrated with his correct fur pattern.
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Balto / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Balto / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Nikki, Kaltag and Star are Steele's yes-dogs in his presence, but the moment he's out of earshot they insult him behind his back, and they ultimately leave him for Balto.
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Balto / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Balto / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Implied. When Balto first sees Jenna at the sled race in the beginning, the camera lingers for a good few seconds on his face as he stares at her while smiling.
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Balto / int_a9d70c96	type	Icy Blue Eyes
Balto / int_a9d70c96	comment	Steele is an Alaskan malamute with Icy Blue Eyes. However, malamutes cannot have blue eyes. Malamutes only have brown eyes.
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Balto	hasFeature	Balto / int_a9d70c96
Balto / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Balto / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Steele's pride and wrath, both of which ultimately ruin him completely.
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Balto / int_aceca6cc	type	Light Equals Hope
Balto / int_aceca6cc	comment	Light Equals Hope: The telegraph station at the edge of town has a red lantern lit outside its door that acts as a guide light for the final dog team, and to signal the townsfolk that the team has attained its checkpoints en route. After many hours without a message from the nearest checkpoint, nor any sight or sound of the finishing team, the telegrapher sadly extinguishes the lantern, believing the antitoxin relay has failed. And then, after the telegrapher extinguishes the lantern, and the rest of the town turn out their lights in defeat, Jenna sets up a number of colorful broken bottles and a lantern before a hill outside of town, so it can mimic the aurora borealis, symbolizing how she is the only one who still has hope that Balto will come home.
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Balto / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Balto / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Boris gets a major one (complete with gulping) when he sees the bear after backing up into it and feeling something furry behind him.
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Balto / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Balto / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Boris tends to be this, especially when dealing with Balto's antics or Muk and Luk's tomfoolery.
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Balto / int_aec3e0b8	type	Glory Hound
Balto / int_aec3e0b8	comment	Glory Hound: Steele, literally. Jenna even calls him one at a certain point.
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Balto / int_b064dff9	type	White Wolves Are Special
Balto / int_b064dff9	comment	White Wolves Are Special: The mystical wolf that comes to Balto when he's at the bottom of the cliff and has lost all hope in himself, and inspires him to embrace his wolf heritage at last, is naturally pure white. The sequels revealed that she was Balto's mother and was named Aniu, but Word of God states this was not the intention in the first film and the wolf was merely a metaphor for Balto's wolf side.
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Balto / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Balto / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The sled team, at first supportive of Steele's fight and wagering against Balto, decide it's going too far when he actually bites Balto, and react with horror when Steele violently knocks the crate full of fragile jars of anti-toxin over in his rage. For all their flaws, they clearly cared more about getting the medicine through than Steele ever did.
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Balto / int_baa1d4b	type	I Can Explain
Balto / int_baa1d4b	comment	I Can Explain: Steele says the words verbatim when the other dogs turn against him after Balto and the team return with the medicine, proving his story about their deaths was all a lie. Naturally, they shun him.
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Balto / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Balto / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: At the beginning of the film, Steele was the town hero and Balto the hated outcast. At the end of the film, Balto is the town hero and loved by everyone while Steele, due to his own lies, is now the hated outcast.
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Balto / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Balto / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Despite his mistreatment by the town, Balto is loyal and selfless to a fault.
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Balto / int_c59d9a4b	type	Half-Breed Discrimination
Balto / int_c59d9a4b	comment	Half-Breed Discrimination: Balto is bullied by the other dogs for being part wolf.
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Balto / int_c74f0537	type	Girls Stare at Scenery, Boys Stare at Girls
Balto / int_c74f0537	comment	Girls Stare at Scenery, Boys Stare at Girls: When Balto shows Jenna his simulation of the aurora borealis through use of a bunch of colorful broken bottles and a lantern, she remarks that it's beautiful. He agrees while staring at her, leading to them almost touching noses before they hear noises overhead (above the floorboards that they're hiding under).
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Balto / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Balto / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the ice cave, Star ends up looking through a bunch of icicles that distort his features. The last one makes him look like ET (another Spielberg property), complete with voice. When Steele brings a string of sausage links by to woo Jenna, he suggests she start on one end and he on the other and that they meet in the middle and see where it goes, putting aside what he's getting at, he's clearly trying to re-enact the spaghetti-eating scene from Lady and the Tramp.
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Balto / int_c9693e92	type	Karmic Shunning
Balto / int_c9693e92	comment	Karmic Shunning: At the end of the film, the Nome residents abandon Steele once the latter's crimes are exposed.
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Balto / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Balto / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The man conducting the serum run with the dogs is never named. Presumably, he's supposed to be Leonhard Seppala, who delivered the serum in the real Great Race of Mercy, though he doesn't really resemble him.
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Balto / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Balto / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: While going through a dark forest on their quest to find the sled team, Balto suddenly hears sounds and gets a bad feeling. Viewers are given the POV of whatever is following them watching Balto from afar, the only sound present being faint breathing. Trying to brush it off, Balto takes another step before hearing sounds again as he turns and barely catches the glimpse of something huge hiding behind some trees. By the time a giant grizzly does show up about a minute later, most kids had probably already pissed themselves.
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Balto / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Balto / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Averted, actually. While the principal human characters are white, at least half the extras are obviously comprised of native Alaskans. One little girl (and her family) can even be seen◊ among the recovering children during the film's closing segments. This is actually Truth in Television - Nome had a very sizable native population, and the surrounding areas were also affected. (Some think even more so.)
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Balto / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Balto / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Balto is the name of the protagonist and the film.
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Balto	hasFeature	Balto / int_ce27dc3f
Balto / int_ce60aef3	type	Heroic Resolve
Balto / int_ce60aef3	comment	Heroic Resolve: Balto gets this when he realizes that he should be proud of his wolf half and it allows him to pull the medicine all the way up the cliff he fell down to safety.
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Balto / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Balto / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Jenna gets blown off by the other dogs when she calls out Steele on his Blatant Lies.
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Balto / int_cfa546f4	type	Mother Russia Makes You Strong
Balto / int_cfa546f4	comment	Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Boris invites himself on Balto's quest to go get the medicine on account of this.
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Balto / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Balto / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: While it only defeats him temporarily, Steele attempts to pull Balto over a cliff by pulling at Jenna's bandana around his neck, but ends up falling himself when it loosens.
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Balto / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Balto / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Jenna calls Steele out on his hatred of Balto getting in the way of getting the medicine needed to save the town and what a Glory Hound he is. Though in this case, Steele's just playing the hero and is actually the Big Bad.
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Balto / int_d5316706	type	Prematurely Marked Grave
Balto / int_d5316706	comment	Prematurely Marked Grave: Played completely seriously. After word reaches Nome that Steele's sled team has been lost, Balto comes across the town carpenter building coffins for all the sick children.
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Balto / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
Balto / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: After Balto is pulled from a frozen lake, Jenna keeps him warm by curling up around him.
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Balto / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Balto / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Steele is beloved as the town hero among the dogs and the leader of his team, but is in actuality a conceited and selfish Glory Hound who's not as good at racing as he seems.
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Balto / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Balto / int_dae5c997	comment	Jenna, who attacks a bear about to kill Balto and saves his life.
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Balto / int_dc7c48c6	type	Historical Downgrade
Balto / int_dc7c48c6	comment	Historical Downgrade: The unnamed musher of Steele's team is knocked unconscious when the sled falls down an icy slope, and stays passed out for the rest of the journey home. It should probably go without saying that the man on the real serum run, Leonhard Sappala, was a proactive guide to his dogs.
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Balto / int_e34dc01f	type	Pulling Your Child Away
Balto / int_e34dc01f	comment	Pulling Your Child Away: The titular hero is reimagined as half-husky, half-wolf and Nome's resident outcast. When Rosie, a local girl and the mistress of Balto's crush Jenna, tries interacting with him, her father warns her not to interact with him due to the town's Half-Breed Discrimination and promptly pulls her away.
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Balto / int_e3ada02f	type	Gender Equals Breed
Balto / int_e3ada02f	comment	Gender Equals Breed: Realistically averted. Balto is half dog, half wolf, and treated as such. According to the sequel, it's his mother who was a wolf — this is heavily implied in the first film too, as Steele tells Balto at one point that he has a message for his mother, then proceeds to wolf-howl in a mockingly exaggerated way.
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Balto / int_e3bd37f2	type	Scared of What's Behind You
Balto / int_e3bd37f2	comment	Scared of What's Behind You: When Boris is lecturing the polar bears, he thinks he's getting through to them when they start looking afraid... then he bumps into the huge grizzly bear that had been the real source of their fear.
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Balto / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Balto / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Balto was a purebred husky who only helped pulling the sleigh the last distance back to Nome. The real hero was actually another husky named Togo, the runt of his litter who surprised everyone with his strength and intelligence, and who pulled the sleigh for the longest and most hazardous distance (while he was 12 years old no less) until his exhausted self had to let Balto do the finishing miles. Being the one who actually led the sleigh into the town of Nome however, Balto was recognized as a hero more than Togo was. Additionally, the real Balto was neutered early in his life. He never fathered any pups, making the sequels pure fiction. He also looked◊ dramatically different from the movie version, being mainly black and much less slender. He looked more like Steele than the movie Balto.
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Balto / int_e4c0e740	type	Free-Range Pets
Balto / int_e4c0e740	comment	Free-Range Pets: A bunch of dogs are allowed to walk around town on their own without anyone batting an eye. Balto is the exception because he looks more wolf than dog.
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Balto / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Balto / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Nothing will stop Balto from bringing the medicine to the children of Nome—not Steele, not the harsh Alaskan wilderness, and not dangerous treks through frozen caves.
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Balto / int_e6a8bbd0	type	Telegraph Gag STOP
Balto / int_e6a8bbd0	comment	Telegraph Gag STOP: A lot of it during the telegraph transmission scenes.
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Balto / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
Balto / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: Luk and Muk dispense licks to Balto and Boris at several points in the movie.
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Balto / int_e79b033c	type	Scooby Stack
Balto / int_e79b033c	comment	Scooby Stack: Done briefly by the dogsled team, in two groupings, after a near-miss caused by a loose stalactite.
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Balto / int_e7bffa82	type	Sarcastic Devotee
Balto / int_e7bffa82	comment	Sarcastic Devotee: Boris again, to Balto. He snarks at Balto for being brash (and calls him an idiot for responding to Steele's taunts), but loyally stays at his side and gives him valuable advice.
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Balto / int_e8497e34	type	Adaptation Species Change
Balto / int_e8497e34	comment	Adaptation Species Change: Balto being a wolf-dog hybrid was invented for the film. The real Balto was a purebreed husky.
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Balto / int_e9414ca3	type	Sled Dogs Through the Snow
Balto / int_e9414ca3	comment	Sled Dogs Through the Snow: The movie is a fictitious telling of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome with a lot of dog sledding in the film, from the beginning to the actual relay.
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Balto / int_e9fb50be	type	Redheads Are Ravishing
Balto / int_e9fb50be	comment	Redheads Are Ravishing: A canine example. Balto's Love Interest Jenna has vivid red fur, and is designed to be the most beautiful out of the female dogs shown in Nome.
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Balto / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Balto / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: At one point, Jenna tricks Steele into backing up into the boiler and singeing himself under the tail. Since he's a dog, his buttocks aren't the most important thing he's packing back there.
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Balto / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Balto / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Balto pulls this to rescue Steele's team by trekking out into the wilderness on his own to find them. Steele is less than receptive. Jenna, who attacks a bear about to kill Balto and saves his life.
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Balto / int_ec1a1233	type	Running Gagged
Balto / int_ec1a1233	comment	Running Gagged: Comes in at the end where he finishes Kaltag's admiration speech of Balto by adding "They should build a statue of him!" Cue Kaltag looking like he's about to punch him as usual, making Star cower, but then Kaltag smiles and says "...you said it."
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Balto / int_ecfbba60	type	Fee Fi Faux Pas
Balto / int_ecfbba60	comment	Fee Fi Faux Pas: Boris tells Balto "You will die like a dog! Ooh... no offense..." while trying to talk him out of going after Steele and his team.
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Balto / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Balto / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Steele calls Balto "Bingo" toward the start of the film.
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Balto / int_f22d3416	comment	Anti-Sneeze Finger: Nikki does this to Star to prevent triggering a cave-in, his previous sneeze having caused an avalanche. Unlike most other examples, it actually stops the sneeze permanently instead of resulting in a giant sneeze when the finger is removed. Not that it matters much since the cave-in is soon afterward triggered by the sled thudding hard on the cave's uneven icy floor.
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Balto / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Boris to Balto, all the time. Muk and Luk think his anger at them is due to this, but he mostly just finds them annoying.
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Balto / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Balto / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Balto earns his big time. He started the movie the hated outcast who was constantly being chased away from the one he loved, with the movie's Jerkass Big Bad trying to ruin his life, and being unable to accept himself as a dog or a wolf. He has to go on an epic adventure through a blizzard, facing horrible danger at every single turn, and ultimately getting the tar beaten out of him by Steele, but in the end, he saves the entire town and is honored as a hero. On top of that, he finally accepts what he is and manages to get the love of his life. Sure, the next film shows there are some dogs who still make fun of him for his wolf half, but his life is a lot happier than it was.
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Balto / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Balto / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: Oh, this movie has a doozie. Shortly after Balto takes over the sled team, Steele marks every tree on the way to get them lost. Balto has a momentary Freak Out and runs too fast, which results in him and the medicine falling off a dark and seemingly endless cliff. The town shortly thereafter gives up hope of getting the medicine they need to save the children, and put out all their lights one by one.
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Balto / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Balto / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Boris, Muk, and Luk help Jenna return to Nome after she's injured saving Balto from the grizzly bear, leaving Balto on his own to help the sled team and recover the medicine for the final third of the film.
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Balto / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Balto / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Star finishing Kaltag's sentences and getting punched for it. At one point he sees what's coming and punches himself before Kaltag gets to it.
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Balto / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Balto / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: A Deleted Scene had Star, the henchman that Steele treated the worst, do this. He tore off Steele's collar (which was a racing prize he'd won) because he didn't deserve it.
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Balto / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
Balto / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Muk and Luk are cuddly, goofy-looking polar bear cubs.
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Balto / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Balto / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The animation of the dogs running, including muscle and fur movement, is done gorgeously through a big portion of the film. Bonus points for it all being hand drawn. The makers also studied snowstorms to make them look realistic in the film. Just about everything in this movie is well-researched, from dog sledding to Morse messages to the antiquated medicine bottles in the doctor's office. They also put special attention into the symptoms and progression of diphtheria, to rather terrifying effect.
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