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** Also Farnsworth and Pete, but to lesser extents.
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* BirthdayEpisode: More like a birthday ''movie''; a majority of the events in the movie take place during the boy Eric's birthday.
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* MoodWhiplash: While pulling the train toward the mountain, Tillie and the others sing a cute song about you can do anything if you try...but when they start climbing up the mountain...things get..pretty creepy.
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** And then in the song, we have the line "When pandemonium is all around" as the camera focuses on…a ''panda''.
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* NoNameGiven: Eric's sister is not identified by name through the movie, but the credits reveal her name to be [[spoiler:Jill]].Jill.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: KathSoucie is the voice of Tillie.Tillie as well as Missy the ballerina.
** FrankWelker is Rollo the Clown, Jeepers the Monkey, Farnsworth the Shiny Engine, and Jebediah the Old Engine.
** PeterCullen is Pete the Big Engine.
** FrankWelker is Rollo the Clown, Jeepers the Monkey, Farnsworth the Shiny Engine, and Jebediah the Old Engine.
** PeterCullen is Pete the Big Engine.
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* StealthPun: "For Pete's sake, Pete, watch that smoke!"
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* KarmaHoudini: In spite of the fact that the Tower was an overall JerkAss to everyone (''especially'' Tillie), he is last seen asleep on the job.
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Blue Eyes has been split into different tropes (Icy Blue Eyes, Innocent Blue Eyes, Creepy Blue Eyes, etc) as per this thread
because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well.
because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well.Deleted line(s) 31 (click to see context) :
* BlueEyes: Tillie.
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* AnthropomorphicFood: The apples and oranges that the train is taking to all the little boys and girls.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: The train has to get over the hill by sunrise.
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* {{Determinator}}: She thinks she can.
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* NonIronicClown: A toy clown assumes leadership of the toys after the engine stalls out and asks other passing engines for help.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Nothing is ever stated about what became of the broken-down train in the book. However, the 1991 film shows that [[spoiler: a doctor engine was notified of what'd happened, and took the broken down engine back to the train yard.]]
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** Whoopi Goldberg is the Tower.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: There's one here, named Jeepers.
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* BigBad: The Nightmare Train.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The old engine is called Jebediah, the broken-down engine is Georgia, the shiny new engine (here a diesel) is Farnsworth, the strong engine is Pete, and the titular Little Engine That Could is Tillie.
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*GenderFlip: The Tower, which was a male in the first movie, is a female here.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Isabella from ''Phineas and Ferb'' is the Little Engine.
** Jamie Lee Curtis is Beverly the Clown.
* KidsAreCruel: Two boys pick on Richard. They even steal his grandfather's watch from him.
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*PieInTheFace: This is a favorite of Beverly the Clown's.
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* AwardBaitSong: ''Nothing Can Stop Us Now''
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* DisneyDeath: Tillie
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* MeaningfulName: ''Grump''ella the Bonneted Bird is a total grump.
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* AmbiguousGender: Though the gender of the Little Engine is not revealed in the story, both film adaptations have passed it off as female.SurvivalMantra: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
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''The Little Engine That Could'' is a famous children's story, used to teach children the value of optimism and perseverance. The story is said to be a metaphor for the American dream.
An early published version of the story, "Story of the Engine that Thought It Could", appeared in the New York ''Tribune'', April 8, 1906, as part of a sermon by the Rev. Charles S. Wing.
A version of the story appeared in the six-volume Bookhouse Books, which were copyrighted in the United Kingdom in 1920 and sold in the United States by door-to-door sellers. Although this version contained no author attribution, it was edited by Olive B. Miller and published in Chicago. The Bookhouse version began, "Once there was a Train-of-Cars, and she was flying merrily across the country with a load of Christmas toys for the children who lived way over on the other side of the mountain."
In the 1941 Disney movie ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'', the work train taking the circus animals to their destination pulls its cargo up a hill repeating the well known saying, "I-Think-I-Can-I-Think-I-Can," and rolls down the hill saying, "I-Thought-I-Could-I-Thought-I-Could"
The best-known incarnation of the story ''The Little Engine That Could'' was written by "Watty Piper", a pen name of Arnold Munk, who was the owner of the publishing firm Platt & Munk. Arnold Munk was born in Hungary; as a child, he moved with his family to the United States, settling in Chicago. Later he moved to New York. Platt & Munk offices were at 200 Fifth Avenue till 1957, when Arnold Munk died. Munk used the name Watty Piper both as an author of children's books and as the editor of many of the books that Platt & Munk published. He personally hired Lois Lenski to illustrate the book. This retelling of the tale ''The Pony Engine'' appeared in 1930. The first edition attributes Mabel C. Bragg as the originating author. However, Mabel C. Bragg, a school teacher in Boston, never claimed to have originated the story.
In 1954, Platt & Munk published another version of ''The Little Engine That Could'', with slightly revised language and new, more colorful illustrations by George and Doris Hauman. A 1976 rework featured art by Ruth Sanderson.
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* AmbiguousGender: Though the gender of the Little Engine is not revealed in the story, both film adaptations have passed it off as female.
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* BlueEyes: Tillie.
* CanonForeigner: Chip the bird, the boy Eric and his sister, the Tower and the Doctor engine.
* HeyItsThatVoice: KathSoucie is the voice of Tillie.
* JerkAss: The Tower. Good ''God''.
* NoNameGiven: Eric's sister is not identified by name through the movie, but the credits reveal her name to be [[spoiler:Jill]].
* NonHumanSidekick: Chip the bird.
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[[folder:The 2011 Film Adaptation]]
* AllStarCast
* GreenEyes: Little Engine.
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An early published version of the story, "Story of the Engine that Thought It Could", appeared in the New York ''Tribune'', April 8, 1906, as part of a sermon by the Rev. Charles S. Wing.
A version of the story appeared in the six-volume Bookhouse Books, which were copyrighted in the United Kingdom in 1920 and sold in the United States by door-to-door sellers. Although this version contained no author attribution, it was edited by Olive B. Miller and published in Chicago. The Bookhouse version began, "Once there was a Train-of-Cars, and she was flying merrily across the country with a load of Christmas toys for the children who lived way over on the other side of the mountain."
In the 1941 Disney movie ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'', the work train taking the circus animals to their destination pulls its cargo up a hill repeating the well known saying, "I-Think-I-Can-I-Think-I-Can," and rolls down the hill saying, "I-Thought-I-Could-I-Thought-I-Could"
The best-known incarnation of the story ''The Little Engine That Could'' was written by "Watty Piper", a pen name of Arnold Munk, who was the owner of the publishing firm Platt & Munk. Arnold Munk was born in Hungary; as a child, he moved with his family to the United States, settling in Chicago. Later he moved to New York. Platt & Munk offices were at 200 Fifth Avenue till 1957, when Arnold Munk died. Munk used the name Watty Piper both as an author of children's books and as the editor of many of the books that Platt & Munk published. He personally hired Lois Lenski to illustrate the book. This retelling of the tale ''The Pony Engine'' appeared in 1930. The first edition attributes Mabel C. Bragg as the originating author. However, Mabel C. Bragg, a school teacher in Boston, never claimed to have originated the story.
In 1954, Platt & Munk published another version of ''The Little Engine That Could'', with slightly revised language and new, more colorful illustrations by George and Doris Hauman. A 1976 rework featured art by Ruth Sanderson.
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* AmbiguousGender: Though the gender of the Little Engine is not revealed in the story, both film adaptations have passed it off as female.
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* BlueEyes: Tillie.
* CanonForeigner: Chip the bird, the boy Eric and his sister, the Tower and the Doctor engine.
* HeyItsThatVoice: KathSoucie is the voice of Tillie.
* JerkAss: The Tower. Good ''God''.
* NoNameGiven: Eric's sister is not identified by name through the movie, but the credits reveal her name to be [[spoiler:Jill]].
* NonHumanSidekick: Chip the bird.
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[[folder:The 2011 Film Adaptation]]
* AllStarCast
* GreenEyes: Little Engine.
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