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* EveryoneHasStandards: When Jefferson strikes the mentions of slavery from the Declaration, Dickinson is clearly in focus with an uneasy expression shaking his head, and he shortly afterwards suggests they might as well have left it in since he [[spoiler: wrongly]] believes that he's about to sink the Declaration anyway and it would've been better to have stuck to their principles.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: When Jefferson strikes the mentions of slavery from the Declaration, Dickinson is clearly in focus with an uneasy expression shaking his head, and he shortly afterwards suggests they might as well have left it in since he [[spoiler: wrongly]] believes that thinks he's about going to sink the Declaration anyway and if it's going to lose, it would've been better might as well lose while sticking to have stuck to their its principles.
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* HypocriticalHumor: It's not uncommon for actors to sing the line "We sing Hosannah, Hosannah, in a sane and lucid manner, we are ''cool!''" in a very angry, bombastic manner.
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** It's not uncommon for actors to sing the line "We sing Hosannah, Hosannah, in a sane and lucid manner, we are ''cool!''" in a very angry, bombasticmanner.manner.
** When he and Adams are yelling at each other, his last insult is to call Adams "[[EvilLawyerJoke Lawyer!]]" Historically speaking, John Dickinson was ''also'' a lawyer.
** It's not uncommon for actors to sing the line "We sing Hosannah, Hosannah, in a sane and lucid manner, we are ''cool!''" in a very angry, bombastic
** When he and Adams are yelling at each other, his last insult is to call Adams "[[EvilLawyerJoke Lawyer!]]" Historically speaking, John Dickinson was ''also'' a lawyer.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Well, it ''was'' verging on impossible for a collection of colonies with a ragtag army to beat what was then the greatest military in the Western world and the greatest navy ever to rule the seas. It's only with the benefit of hindsight that Adams' plan looks like anything other than lunacy at first blush.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Well, it ''was'' verging on impossible for a collection of colonies with a ragtag army to beat what was then the greatest military in the Western world and the greatest navy ever to rule the seas. It's only with the benefit of hindsight that Adams' plan looks like anything other than lunacy at first blush. He also recognizes that the states are taking some of the privileges they get as British colonies for granted and aren't considering that a successful rebellion means ''losing'' them.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dreamily staring out the window and thinking of home, when asked he offhandedly perfectly foretells the weather for the rest of Congress by sticking a wet finger out the window. He's an incredibly intelligent and capable man when he can be made to focus on the here and now.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dreamily staring out the window and thinking of home, when asked he offhandedly perfectly foretells the weather for the rest of Congress by sticking a wet finger out the window. He's an incredibly intelligent easily distracted and capable man doesn't consider Congress his highest priority, but when he can be made he's able to focus on the here and now.present he makes up for his attention problems by being just ''that'' good.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He storms into Independence Hall, gives Congress a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, and then musically demands that they debate independence. Congress as a whole either ignores him to continue a circular argument as to whether they should open up a window in the heat or keep them closed to keep out the flies, or exasperatedly tells him to sit down and shut up already.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He storms into Independence Hall, gives Congress a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, and then musically demands that they debate independence. Congress as a whole either ignores him to continue a circular argument as to whether they should open up a window in the heat or keep them closed to keep out the flies, or exasperatedly tells him to sit down and shut up already. He's a fairly eloquent man of deep principles who's [[JerkassHasAPoint right more often than not]], but his utter bluntness and contempt for anyone who refuses to listen to him turns even sympathetic ears against him.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dreamily staring out the window and thinking of home, when asked he offhandedly perfectly foretells the weather for the rest of Congress by sticking a wet finger out the window.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dreamily staring out the window and thinking of home, when asked he offhandedly perfectly foretells the weather for the rest of Congress by sticking a wet finger out the window. He's an incredibly intelligent and capable man when he can be made to focus on the here and now.
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* {{Irony}}: He [[spoiler: comes to the decision to support independence, despite being aware his constituents do not]] by reading the works of Edmund Burke, who argued that a representative owes their voters judgment rather than obedience and that he betrays them if he sacrifices judgment to popular opinion. Burke is one of the most important conservative thinkers in the Western tradition and spent basically his entire career as a political theorist lambasting what he saw as ingrates trying to turn the world upside down and destroy the divinely-appointed social order; his inspiring [[spoiler: the creation of one of the most important bastions of liberal democracy in the history of the world]] is deliciously ironic.
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* TheBusCameBack: Was PutOnABus when his illness takes a turn for the worse but is brought back toward the end to break Delaware's tie
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* TheBusCameBack: Was PutOnABus when his illness takes a turn for the worse but is brought back toward the end to break Delaware's tietie.
* DelicateAndSickly: Is deathly ill from cancer, which historically would kill him at age 55 in 1784.
* DelicateAndSickly: Is deathly ill from cancer, which historically would kill him at age 55 in 1784.
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* SecretlySelfish: Adams accuses him of only wanting to preserve his own position among the upper-class. It later becomes clear that while this is partially true, he is also acting in what he believes to be the colonies' best interest.
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-->'''Jefferson''': But I ''burn'', Mr. A!
-->'''Adams''': So do ''I'', Mr. J!
-->'''Adams''': So do ''I'', Mr. J!
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* OriginalPositionFallacy: In ''But, Mr. Adams'', he happily sings along with the others' lame excuses... until he realizes that leaves ''him'' as the only candidate for writing the declaration, and at this point Adams isn't taking no for an answer.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When John defends the slavery clause and insists on slavery being explicitly condemned in the Declaration, South Carolina's Edward Rutledge calls him out, noting that even though the Northern states don't own slaves,[[note]]Metaphorically--slavery was legal and common in the North, but did not reach the ''industrialized'' levels that the South had[[/note]] they make quite a profit from importing them into the Colonies just before the "Molasses to Rum" musical number:
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When John defends the slavery clause and insists on slavery being explicitly condemned in the Declaration, South Carolina's Edward Rutledge calls him out, noting that even though the Northern states don't own slaves,[[note]]Metaphorically--slavery was legal and common in the North, but did not reach the ''industrialized'' levels that the South had[[/note]] they make quite a profit from importing them into the Colonies just before the "Molasses to Rum" musical number:number- though it should be noted that John Adams ''personally'' opposed slavery; it's just that Massachusetts didn't.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: He's got nothing against John Adams (aside from some justified annoyance at Adams being his obnoxious self), does nothing except argue with Adams and use his vote as he sees fit, and argues against independence because he genuinely believes that it's going to fail and get a lot of people killed- not an unreasonable position when you consider the power of the British Empire.
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* {{Realpolitik}}: His stance on slavery. Sure, it's a problem, but America can't tackle both the problem of independence and the problem of slavery at the same time. The colonies ''needed'' to work together and save the civil war for when Britain wasn't invading.
