History WMG / HappyFeet

** The regular penguins aren't all cruel, but at one point when Mumble is trying to sing, one shouts out "You're spoiling it for everybody!"

Mumble looks like he never fully matures, which might mean he was sterile. Maybe Erik's birth parents died while he was still an egg, and Mumble and Gloria chose to raise him since they couldn't have a chick of their own.

HappyFeet took its cues on penguin behavior, pre-Mumbles, from MarchOfThePenguins -- both the French and the English editions. But anyone who's seen ''March of the Penguins'' knows that there are ''good reasons'' for the old traditions.

[[WMG: The true ending that got cut involved alien abduction and resources being drained from the Earth in a [[HalfLife Combine]] like plot.]]

Or maybe they'll be in ''Happy Feet III.''

* It's actually refreshing to see an Acceptance Aesop that isn't about homosexuals.

* Jossed, there's none. The antagonists are skua.
** It's more like the iceberg in the archetypal conflict of Penguin (instead of Human) versus Nature. The Skua showed up for one scene.
** That's right; the Skua aren't really antagonists; for the most part they're just assholes.

* The true ending that got cut involved alien abduction and resources being drained from the Earth in a [[HalfLife Combine]] like plot. That would have UnfortunateImplications for either gays or closets.

*** This troper, suffering from Asperger's himself, and tired of all the religious/anti-religious controversy about whether Mumble was an analogy to being gay or not, thinks that this explanation makes the most sense, especially considering that the penguins make a big deal about how he hatched, and how, after Mumble was taken to "Mrs. Astrakhan", Mumble's mom says "So he's a little different--I've always kinda liked different." I've been referred to (behind my back when people thought I couldn't hear) as "A little different."
** It sure makes a lot more sense than the 'gay' theory. After all, Mumble isn't gay - he actively tells Gloria he'd like to have an egg with her sometime - and the Adelie Amigos, if a little wacky, aren't gay; you see them hitting on the ladies quite a few times, and Lovelace isn't gay either. Not only does Mumble demonstrate Autistic qualities, other people demonstrate the current reactions to the Autistic - his parents send him to a special teacher, only to find that while she certainly brings out his talent (she tells him to look deep inside himself) it's not the talent they had wanted. The regular penguins aren't all cruel, but at one point when Mumble is trying to sing, one shouts out "You're spoiling it for everybody!" Several penguins are rather patronising, not treating him like an adult. It's actually refreshing to see an Acceptance Aesop that isn't about homosexuals for once.

Mumble looks like he never fully matures, which might mean he was sterile. His birth parents died while he was still an egg, and Mumble and Gloria chose to raise him since they couldn't have a chick of their own.

Mumble looks like he never fully matures, which might mean he was sterile. Erik was adopted after his birth parents die before he hatched, and Gloria and Mumble chose to raise him since they couldn't have a chick of their own.

Given how he overreacts over everything (to a ridiculous extreme), that would explain a lot.

** It sure makes a lot more sense than the 'gay' theory. After all, Mumble isn't gay - he actively tells Gloria he'd like to have an egg with her sometime - and the Adelie Amigos, if a little wacky, aren't gay; you see them hitting on the ladies quite a few times, and Lovelace isn't gay either.
//Not only does Mumble demonstrate Autistic qualities, other people demonstrate the current reactions to the Autistic - his parents send him to a special teacher, only to find that while she certainly brings out his talent (she tells him to look deep inside himself) it's not the talent they had wanted. The regular penguins aren't all cruel, but at one point when Mumble is trying to sing, one shouts out "You're spoiling it for everybody!" Several penguins are rather patronising, not treating him like an adult. It's actually refreshing to see an Acceptance Aesop that isn't about homosexuals for once.

[[WMG: Eric is an idiot.]]
Let's face it. He thinks that emperor penguins can learn how to fly. He ignores how Mumble, Gloria, Ramon, Seymour, and Ms. Viola care about him and latches on to Sven as his hero. He runs off due to something embarrassing happening to him, but they didn't constantly pick on him for it or treat him as vermin of some sort. He was still accepted by everyone, despite not dancing.
* Jossed! He's not an idiot. He's just young.

Let's face it. He thinks that emperor penguins can learn how to fly. He ignores how Mumble, Gloria, Ramon, Seymour, and Ms. Viola care about him and latches on to Sven as his hero. He runs off due to something embarrassing happening to him, but they didn't constantly pick on him for it or treat him as vermin of some sort. He was still accepted by everyone, despite not dancing.

* Jossed

* Jossed

* The true ending that got cut involved alien abduction and resources being drained from the Earth in a [[HalfLife Combine]] like plot. As a straight person, I'm beginning to wonder what coming out is like if this is the case O_o'''

* As much as I hate to do this, it could easily be read as a metaphor for Aspergers Syndrome. Mumbles seems to be wired differently from the other penguins, and excels at a skill they find strange. His father is also 'a little bit weird' (Autistic disorders are believed to be hereditary to some extent) and eventually he learns to bond with others by having their different skills work together.