History Literature / TheTaleOfMrTod

* CarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badgers wants to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.

* TookALevelInBadass: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, who were [[ActionSurvivor Action Survivors]] at best in their own stories.

* AnimalStereotypes
* BagOfKidnapping
* DarkerAndEdgier: This books is pretty terrifying since this involves Mr Tod and Tommy Brock trying to eat the baby bunnies that have been captured. Doesn't help by how worried sick Flopsy is throughout the story.
* CarnivoreConfusion
* CivilizedAnimal: Mr. Tod has several houses, and has all the normal things you'd find in a house. He and Tommy Brock also wear full clothes.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Tommy Brock.
-->"I might have to turn vegetarian and eat my own tail!"

* PredatorsAreMean

* TookALevelInDumbass: Benjamin's father, who was the most capable character in ''Literature/TheTaleOfBenjaminBunny'', successfully rescuing Peter and Benjamin, is now stupid enough to invite a predator into the burrow, and lie badly about it.
* VitriolicBestBuds

They make it to the fox's house on Bull Banks, and peer in the kitchen window. They see a table set in preparation for someone's supper. Then they go to the bedroom window and observe Tommy Brock in Mr. Todd's bed, and Peter remarks that Tommy Brock has gone to bed in his boots. They return to the kitchen window and try getting it open but it's too dark. When the moonlight shines into the window, they see the oven. When they shake the window, the oven door shakes. The baby rabbits are alive and shut up in the oven!

Fortunately Mr. Todd, in the worst of humors, is not aware of their presence, due to the overpowering stench of badger. He's too busy being annoyed by having broken a very precious china plate, the state of his other homes, and a jay bird that was warning other animals of the fox's approach. He goes to his house, unlocks it, and finds the tablesetting, and then he finds Tommy Brock sleeping in his bed. He ponders beating up the badger with a walking stick and a coal scuttle, but thinks instead finally that he'll play a nasty prank on Tommy Brock instead.

Tommy Brock pretends to be asleep, all while Mr. Todd gets a clothesline, and sticks part of the clothesline out the window, then goes outside and ties the end to a tree. He trips over the tunnel made by Benjamin and Peter, but thinks it's Tommy Brock's doing. There's a hook on one end of the clothesline and he goes back in the house with a pail of water, and suspends the clothesline above the bed with the full pail of water, on the part of the bed where curtains are supposed to hang from. He goes to untie the rope from the tree, but finds it too tight, so he gnaws it with his teeth for nearly twenty minutes. When the rope finally gives way it knocks him over with the force, but he hears no screams. So, he thinks Tommy Brock is dead. He thinks of all the cleaning he will have to do, and walks back into the house, only to find Tommy Brock sitting at his kitchen table, pouring himself some tea. Tommy Brock throws the scalding hot tea all over Mr. Tod, which provokes the fox to attack him. The two combatants make a mess of the kitchen, and eventually roll out the door, still wrestling and cursing. Peter and Benjamin take the opportunity to retrieve the baby rabbits and beat a hasty retreat. They make it home, and Flopsy gives back the rabbit tobacco she'd confiscated from Mr. Bouncer for being negligent, and the old rabbit is forgiven. The baby rabbits are none the worse for wear, though hungry.

* CivilizedAnimal: Mr. Todd has several houses, and has all the normal things you'd find in a house. He and Tommy Brock also wear full clothes.

Benjamin Bunny has a family of very young little bunnies. While he and his wife Flopsy are out, his father, Old Mr. Bouncer, who is supposed to be watching the baby rabbits, plays host to Tommy Brock, a badger who bemoans the lack of frogs, pheasants' eggs, and other game. Tommy Brock manages to steal the young rabbits while Old Mr. Bouncer is asleep, after having a cabbage cigar. Benjamin and Flopsy return to discover Mr. Bouncer asleep and the babies gone, and Old Mr. Bouncer initially denies having let anyone inside the rabbit hole. The smell of badger is too strong for either Benjamin or Flopsy to believe that, and Flopsy slaps Mr. Bouncer.

* KissingCousins: Benjamin married his cousin Flopsy.

This is a story that BeatrixPotter wrote about not-nice people. It is about [[AffablyEvil Tommy Brock]], and [[FantasticFoxes Mr. Tod]].

This book contains examples of the following tropes:

* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies

Tommy Brock pretends to be asleep, all while Mr. Todd gets a clothesline, and sticks part of the clothesline out the window, then goes outside and ties the end to a tree. He trips over the tunnel made by Benjamin and Peter, but thinks it's Tommy Brock's doing. There's a hook on one end of the clothesline and he goes back in the house with a pail of water, and suspends the clothesline above the bed with the full pail of water, on the part of the bed where curtains are supposed to hang from. He goes to untie the rope from the tree, but finds it too tight, so he gnaws it with his teeth for nearly twenty minutes. When the rope finally gives way it knocks him over with the force, but he hears no screams. So, he thinks Tommy Brock is dead. He thinks of all the cleaning he will have to do, and walks back into the house, only to find Tommy Brock sitting at his kitchen table, pouring himself some tea. Tommy Brock throws the scalding hot tea all over Mr. Todd, which provokes the fox to attack him. The two combatants make a mess of the kitchen, and eventually roll out the door, still wrestling and cursing. Peter and Benjamin take the opportunity to retrieve the baby rabbits and beat a hasty retreat. They make it home, and Flopsy gives back the rabbit tobacco she'd confiscated from Mr. Bouncer for being negligent, and the old rabbit is forgiven. The baby rabbits are none the worse for wear, though hungry.

Peter surmises that since Tommy Brock has eaten something, that Benjamin's babies are alive and the badger will probably save them for breakfast. Knowing of Tommy Brock's habit of staying in any of Mr. Todd's vacant houses, Peter deduces he's gone to the one on Bull Banks, at the top of Oatmeal Crag.

* PredatorsAreMean

Mr. Todd is a fox that has many houses, and is very rarely at home in any of them.

* KissingCousins: Benjamin marries his cousin Flopsy.

Fortunately Mr. Todd, in the worst of humors, is not aware of their presence, due to the overpowering stench of badger. He's too busy being annoyed by having broken a very precious china plate, the state of his other homes, and a jay bird that was warning other animals of the fox's approach. He goes to his house, unlocks it, and finds the tablesetting, and then he Tommy Brock sleeping in his bed. He ponders beating up the badger with a walking stick and a coal scuttle, but thinks instead finally that he'll play a nasty prank on Tommy Brock instead.

Peter surmises that since Tommy Brock has eaten something, that Benjamin's babies are alive and the badger will probably save them for breakfast. Knowing of Tommy Brock's habit of staying in any of Mr. Todd's vacant houses, and deduces he's gone to the one on Bull Banks, at the top of Oatmeal Crag.

* ClothesWearingCartoonAnimal

* CivilizedAnimal

This is a story that BeatrixPotter wrote about not-nice people. It is about [[AffablyEvil Tommy Brock]], and [[FantasticFoxes Mr. Todd]].

Benjamin finds Tommy Brock's bootprints and immediately begins to track him. He follows the trail to what turns out to be one of Mr. Todd's houses, but then he smells fox, hears something break, and flees. Coincidentally he seems to have followed just where Tommy Brock has gone. He notes evidence of the badger's recent passing through the area, including a mole trap and bits of a burlap sack caught on a briar. He encounters his cousin Peter, and enlists his assistance in retrieving his young. It turns out Peter saw Tommy Brock with a burlap sack, but had no idea what was in it other than it was squirming, though [[BlatantLies Tommy Brock claimed they were caterpillars]].

* ExtremeOmnivore: Tommy Brock. "I might have to turn vegetarian and eat my own tail!"

This is a story about not-nice people. It is about [[AffablyEvil Tommy Brock]], and [[FantasticFoxes Mr. Todd]].