History Headscratchers / Balto

** Most likely RuleOfFunny.In balto one when balto gets trapped under the ice why did he blow on it

** Most likely RuleOfFunny.
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* What was with Duke in the third film? He acted like he liked the sled dogs and Balto but was trying to put them out of the job. I get the point was he wasn't a straight up villain but his MO clashes so strongly with his personality that his character is far too conflicted. He doesn't fit the role he was put in due to his personality.
** His MO wasn't "putting the dogs out of their jobs" so much as hoping to introduce a faster, more reasonably convenient means of delivery service to and from Nome. Empathy and competition are ''not'' mutually exclusive. It's not like the man had any idea that the concept of "career pride" exists within the animal community.

* In ''Wolf Quest'', it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that Aleu's siblings would all be adopted except her. I mean, I understand that they went with the explanation of Aleu looked more like a wolf from Balto while her siblings took on a more husky appearance from Jenna, but the physical looks of all the pups doesn't really make up for the fact that they're all still genetically wolfdogs like Balto. It can be forgiven because the movies take place in 1920's Alaska where they likely didn't know much about breed stability (wolfdogs are incredibly hard to care for at best or outright unsuitable to be pets at worst due to their temperaments and heightened prey drive in comparison to your run-of-the-mill domestic dog) and were likely running on "Balto is famous and now he's sired a litter of puppies". But still, the point still stands: Aleu looked like a wolf, but still had dog blood in her veins; her siblings looked like dogs, but still had wolf blood in their veins.
** You said it yourself, the other pups looked like huskies and she didn't. People wanted the Huskies, not the one that looks like a mutt.
** Some of the potential pup-adopters may also have been worried that she'd be mistaken for a wolf and shot, as nearly happened a little later in the film. Bad enough to lose your dog to it being hit by a car, by pure accident; having it shot by someone out of ignorance would be even more awful.

** The Bear totem in the second film represents "inner knowing", the sort of insight that derives from self-reflection rather than communication with others. Grizzly bears in this franchise may be extremely reticent by custom and/or nature, and their totem's symbolic meaning arose from this.

** Some of the potential pup-adopters may also have been worried that she'd be mistaken for a wolf and shot, as nearly happened a little later in the film. Bad enough to lose your dog to it being hit by a car; having it shot by someone would be awful.

** Attitudes to wildlife were very different a hundred years ago. "Do Not Feed The Animals" wasn't really a thing; it's entirely plausible that the townsfolk might tolerate a couple of cute orphan bear cubs begging for scraps, purely for the entertainment value. The fact that human-acclimated bears generally end up having to be ''shot'' once they're older and seen as dangerous wouldn't discourage them.

** Some of the potential pup-adopters may also have been worried that she'd be mistaken for a wolf and shot, as nearly happened a little later in the film.