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Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a young boy caught vandalizing a marine theme park. His social worker manages to find a way that he can escape punishment, by helping out at the underwater attraction. Over time he befriends Willy, an orca whale kept in the park after being captured and taken away from his family.
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Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a young homeless boy caught vandalizing a marine theme park. His social worker worker, Dwight, manages to find a way that he can escape punishment, punishment by helping out at the underwater attraction. Over time he befriends Willy, an orca whale kept in the park after being captured and taken away from his family.
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Moving the animated series' examples to its own page. Also getting rid of the sordid complaining and snark towards it
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Even so, the film managed to spawn three sequels: ''Film/FreeWilly2TheAdventureHome'' (1995), ''Free Willy 3: The Rescue'' (1997) and a non-canon reboot, ''Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove'' (2010) with Bindi Irwin in the leading role. There was also, believe it or not, an animated adaptation of the series produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} in the 1995-96 season, and a ''really'' weird one at that.
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Even so, the film managed to spawn three sequels: ''Film/FreeWilly2TheAdventureHome'' (1995), ''Free Willy 3: The Rescue'' (1997) and a non-canon reboot, ''Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove'' (2010) with Bindi Irwin in the leading role. There was also, believe it or not, also an animated adaptation of the series produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} in the 1995-96 season, and a ''really'' weird one at that.
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* CluelessAesop: The whole notion of freeing an animal who was forcefully taken out of his environment and separated from his family to live a life in captivity doesn't exactly work out too well when one remembers that this film was made possible by using an animal who actually ''was'' forcefully taken out of his environment and forced to live a life in captivity (although animatronics were used for scenes where Willy was actually in danger). Producers likely realised this as animatronic whales were used for the sequels.
** Also, releasing a captive animal to the wild is potentially dangerous because they haven't learned the necessary survival skills, and indeed, Willy's actor Keiko died several years after being released, never fully being free of human contact and assistance. While he could feed himself he always sought out humans and didn't join any nearby pods. The film does handwave this a bit early in the film when Rae says Willy was captured at "too old" of an age to be trained, implying he knows how to survive in the wild.
** Also, releasing a captive animal to the wild is potentially dangerous because they haven't learned the necessary survival skills, and indeed, Willy's actor Keiko died several years after being released, never fully being free of human contact and assistance. While he could feed himself he always sought out humans and didn't join any nearby pods. The film does handwave this a bit early in the film when Rae says Willy was captured at "too old" of an age to be trained, implying he knows how to survive in the wild.
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* CluelessAesop: The whole notion of freeing an animal who was forcefully taken out of his environment and separated from his family to live a life in captivity doesn't exactly work out too well when one remembers that this film was made possible by using an animal who actually ''was'' forcefully taken out of his environment and forced to live a life in captivity (although animatronics were used for scenes where Willy was actually in danger). Producers likely realised this as animatronic whales were used for the sequels.
**sequels. Also, releasing a captive animal to the wild is potentially dangerous because they haven't learned the necessary survival skills, and indeed, Willy's actor Keiko died several years after being released, never fully being free of human contact and assistance. While he could feed himself he always sought out humans and didn't join any nearby pods. The film does handwave this a bit early in the film when Rae says Willy was captured at "too old" of an age to be trained, implying he knows how to survive in the wild.
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!!The cartoon contains examples of:
* AnimatedAdaptation: As stated before, this one was ''very'' strange even by the standards of 90's animated adaptations. Let's see, Jesse turns out to be a "[[SpeaksFluentAnimal Truth]][[MagicalNativeAmerican -Talker]]", there's a LostWorld-style island where (supposedly) recently extinct Arctic animals (ie. Wooly Mammoths) thrive in secret, and, well... there's an antagonistic character called "The Machine". He is a cyborg who lives in a big techno-submarine underwater and wants to wreck the environment, but has a huge grudge against Willy; in his CorruptCorporateExecutive identity of Rockland Stone, Willy had interfered with his first submarine and hurled him into a propeller, [[EmergencyTransformation forcing the cyborg implants onto him to keep him alive]]. No, this was real; you can see him at around the 18 second mark in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMXKb9OAVE the opening credits]]. Because why not replace the "let's keep Willy away from humans who want to mistreat him" conflict from the films with "there's an underwater ''Franchise/GIJoe''-reject villain who hates Willy and wants to destroy him, Jesse, the environment and the [[LastOfHisKind last enclave]] of Ice Age megafauna"?
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Machine's alter-ego, Rockland Stone.
* HumansAreBastards: The Machine and the humans who do his dirty work for him in the cartoon.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Machine's alter ego before [[spoiler:Jesse got proof linking him to weapon smuggling]].
* AnimatedAdaptation: As stated before, this one was ''very'' strange even by the standards of 90's animated adaptations. Let's see, Jesse turns out to be a "[[SpeaksFluentAnimal Truth]][[MagicalNativeAmerican -Talker]]", there's a LostWorld-style island where (supposedly) recently extinct Arctic animals (ie. Wooly Mammoths) thrive in secret, and, well... there's an antagonistic character called "The Machine". He is a cyborg who lives in a big techno-submarine underwater and wants to wreck the environment, but has a huge grudge against Willy; in his CorruptCorporateExecutive identity of Rockland Stone, Willy had interfered with his first submarine and hurled him into a propeller, [[EmergencyTransformation forcing the cyborg implants onto him to keep him alive]]. No, this was real; you can see him at around the 18 second mark in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMXKb9OAVE the opening credits]]. Because why not replace the "let's keep Willy away from humans who want to mistreat him" conflict from the films with "there's an underwater ''Franchise/GIJoe''-reject villain who hates Willy and wants to destroy him, Jesse, the environment and the [[LastOfHisKind last enclave]] of Ice Age megafauna"?
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Machine's alter-ego, Rockland Stone.
* HumansAreBastards: The Machine and the humans who do his dirty work for him in the cartoon.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Machine's alter ego before [[spoiler:Jesse got proof linking him to weapon smuggling]].
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* HumansAreBastards: Subverted. The only human who's really a jerk is Dial; the whalers who captured Willy in the first place were acting on Dial's orders. To a lesser degree, the kids who beat on the walls of Willy's tank could count but none of the adults present were doing anything to correct their behavior, either.
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* HumansAreBastards: Subverted. The only human who's really a jerk is Dial; the whalers who captured Willy in the first place were acting on Dial's orders. To a lesser degree, the kids who beat on the walls of Willy's tank could count but none of (or the adults present were doing anything who do nothing to correct their behavior, either.behavior), but they're almost certainly not aware that they're potentially harming WIlly by their actions, so they're at worst being negligent.
