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* SequelDisplacement: This one is much better known in the mainstream than ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg''. In fact, there are some who are aware of the other book that think it's a sequel to ''Hears a Who!'' instead of the other way around.

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* SequelDisplacement: This one is much better known in the mainstream than ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg''. ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'' and especially ''[[Literature/HortonAndTheKwuggerbugAndMoreLostStories Horton and the Kwuggerbug]]''. In fact, there are some who are aware of the other book stories that think it's they're a sequel to ''Hears a Who!'' instead of the other way around.around (especially since ''Kwuggerbug'' only got an official book release in 2014).
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When works are interpreted as being allegories for political issues (most often ones of war) at the time of the writing, with no prompting from the author. If it's confirmed to be an allegory by Seuss, then it's not an example


* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical:

** It's an allegory for how the Japanese were being treated after WWII; the book is even dedicated to a Japanese friend, Mitsugi Nakamura. There's shades of TheAtoner here, as during the war Seuss did his share of anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons which he came to deeply regret.

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** The story was an allegory for Fascism, corporatism and capitalism, but many perceived it as one for [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion abortion]].

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** The story was an allegory for Fascism, corporatism and capitalism, Fascism but many perceived it as one for [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion abortion]].



* MisaimedFandom: Because the story's Aesop asserts the universal worth of people, even the seemingly insignificant, the book became very popular among the pro-life movement and some believe it's ''about'' being pro-life[[note]]This probably isn't helped by Horton also starring in a book about [[Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg dutifully hatching an egg]][[/note]], despite the official meaning (as per Dr. Seuss' wife) being about fascism, corporatism and capitalism and the fact that Dr. Seuss himself was pro-choice.



** Some pro-life activists think this book was anti-abortion. Not only was Dr. Seuss pro-choice but the book was published two decades before Roe v. Wade. According to his wife, the central allegory is about ''fascism, corporatism and capitalism'' -- "a person's a person, no matter how small" refers to big shot governments and businesses stepping on the common worker. At one point a pro-life group actually tried to use the line as their slogan, until Mrs. Geisel sued them.
** It's also an allegory for how the Japanese were being treated after WWII; the book is even dedicated to a Japanese friend, Mitsugi Nakamura. There's shades of TheAtoner here, as during the war Seuss did his share of anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons which he came to deeply regret.

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** Some pro-life activists think this book was anti-abortion. Not only was Dr. Seuss pro-choice but the book was published two decades before Roe v. Wade. According to his wife, the central allegory is about ''fascism, corporatism and capitalism'' -- "a person's a person, no matter how small" refers to big shot governments and businesses stepping on the common worker. At one point a pro-life group actually tried to use the line as their slogan, until Mrs. Geisel sued them.

** It's also an allegory for how the Japanese were being treated after WWII; the book is even dedicated to a Japanese friend, Mitsugi Nakamura. There's shades of TheAtoner here, as during the war Seuss did his share of anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons which he came to deeply regret.
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For YMMV items related specifically to the [[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho1970 1970 TV special]], go [[YMMV/HortonHearsAWho1970 here]].

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!!YMMV tropes for the [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho book]]:

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!!YMMV tropes for For YMMV items related specifically to the [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho book]]:[[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008 2008 animated film]], go [[YMMV/HortonHearsAWho2008 here]].
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* SequelDisplacement: This one is much better known in the mainstream than ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg''.

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* SequelDisplacement: This one is much better known in the mainstream than ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg''. In fact, there are some who are aware of the other book that think it's a sequel to ''Hears a Who!'' instead of the other way around.




!!YMMV tropes for the [[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho film]]:
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Sour Kangaroo really just consider sacrificing her own son just to order an ignorant genocide on Horton's friends? Or did she immediately decide against it and just pretend to consider it?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The visual development team went to great lengths to recreate Seuss's drawing style for CGI and it really shows, from the [[NoodlePeople rubbery characters]] to the oddly-proportioned buildings with inexplicable wrinkles on them, to the various nods to Seuss's entire body of work.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/JohnPowell's entire score. The way it takes [[GenreRoulette bits and bobs of everything]], from traditional symphonic orchestrations to world music and even some pop-production sounds, has a definitive looseness which fits Dr. Seuss's visuals to a tee.
** "Into Whooville," which transitions ''seamlessly'' from symphonic music to a bizarre mix of mambo and South Asian. Good luck getting it out of your head, especially since a loop of it is used for the DVD menu music.
** "Mountain Chase." The temp track for the sequence was [[Music/EnnioMorricone "The Ecstasy of Gold"]], and you can definitely tell the influence. It can easily be mistaken for something Morricone himself wrote.
* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** For some, Horton's AdaptationPersonalityChange makes him this. While Creator/JimCarrey's performance was praised, applying a lot of his signature zany traits to someone like [[GentleGiant Horton]] didn't really make a good combination. One animator even [[TakeThat not-so-affectionately]] referred to him as "that drunk guy at a party with a lampshade on his head who's trying way too hard to make people laugh."
** Similarly Jane/Sour Kangaroo is either a funny insecure antagonist that proves to have a noble side in the end, or an unlikeable KarmaHoudini. This is especially the case for her more extremist 2008 movie incarnation.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** Everyone randomly breaking into a chorus of "I Can't Fight This Feeling Any More" at the end.
** The whole Anime-styled ImagineSpot of Horton's as he imagines having powers used to defeat the Sour Kangaroo and the monkeys with the "power of the clover".
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Sour Kangaroo punting Katie out of the jungle like a football -- [[HypocriticalHumor after saying she's concerned for the children's safety]] -- is kind of cruel. One of Horton's students commenting "IT'S GOOD!" (a term used for football) makes it kind of funny.
%%* EnsembleDarkHorse:
%%** Katie, the weird yellow puffball.
%%** [[EvilIsCool Vlad Vladikoff]].
%%* EvilIsCool: Vlad.
* FanficFuel:
** The reveal at the end that the Jungle of Nool (and Earth as a whole) is just one speck, like Whoville, among numerous others, floating in outer space.
** When [=JoJo=] is revealed to have a wonderful singing voice.
** What's become of life in Whooville after the Whos find a new home on the clover in the montain in the jungle of Nool?
* FranchiseOriginalSin: The film's creative team relate Sour Kangaroo's EasilyForgiven status to the original book, stating Seuss was not a comeuppance writer. While this was true to some degree (Seuss ''did'' punish some of his most unlikeable characters when repenting or enabling them did not benefit the story's message, including [[Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg Horton's two]] [[Literature/HortonAndTheKwuggerbugAndMoreLostStories previous antagonists]]), the book's Sour Kangaroo, while still a JerkAss, committed far less atrocities and changed her ways as soon as Horton was vindicated, while the film's Sour Kangaroo comes off more as a PlayedForLaughs HateSink, making her HeelFaceTurn seem more dubious.
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: [[spoiler:Jojo's singing voice. Being voiced by Music/JesseMcCartney undoubtedly helped]].
* OlderThanTheyThink: The film got an understandable backlash from Seuss fans for modern references like "Who Phones" and "[[Website/MySpace WhoSpace]]," presumably unaware that Seuss himself made references to computers in his later books, and some of his books had {{Bland Name Product}}s like "General Who-lectric" in ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.
* SoOkayItsAverage: While not regarded to be an amazing film, it is generally agreed that it isn't anywhere near as bad as the [[Film/TheCatInTheHat previous Dr. Seuss film]], with many seeing it as an alright kids film that is for the most part, true to the original book.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Dr. [=LaRue=]. She appears in exactly three scenes in the movie, and there's nothing much of her character development. This despite the fact that, until Vlad dropped the clover into the clover field, she was the only other Who besides the Mayor to understand the truth about their world. She notably doesn't even come to the Mayor's defense when he's being mocked for his claims.
* TheWoobie:
** Rudy, the little baby joey that has to stay in his {{jerkass}} mother's pouch and do as she says. It's hard not to feel sorry for the poor fella.
** Jojo, who is so afraid of letting down his dad that he ''took a vow of silence''.
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* DevelopmentHell: The film came along after Creator/DrSeuss' widow declared that all future film adaptations of his work would exclusively be animated, as a result of the widely-panned ''[[Film/TheCatInTheHat Cat in the Hat]]'' live-action movie. As such, they worked to adapt Seuss's visuals to animation in a way that also stuck when [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination]] took on ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' a few years later.
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Both of these are misuse; the first one is just a common Rainbows And Unicorns joke, and the second is just "actor plays another role where something vaguely similar happens"


* HilariousInHindsight:
** In Katie's clover world, everyone is a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies. One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the {{cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie attempt to eat a rainbow. However, the show did not feature lepidopteran defecation of any sort in its near decade-long run.
** All the Whos live in a SmallSecludedWorld that can only communicate to the outside through limited means. The Mayor's wife, Sally O'Malley, who's voiced by Creator/AmyPoehler, says that she doesn't know the feeling of being watched by a giant elephant. [[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Seven years later...]]
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* Sugar/DevelopmentHell: The film came along after Creator/DrSeuss' widow declared that all future film adaptations of his work would exclusively be animated, as a result of the widely-panned ''[[Film/TheCatInTheHat Cat in the Hat]]'' live-action movie. As such, they worked to adapt Seuss's visuals to animation in a way that also stuck when [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination]] took on ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' a few years later.

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* Sugar/DevelopmentHell: DevelopmentHell: The film came along after Creator/DrSeuss' widow declared that all future film adaptations of his work would exclusively be animated, as a result of the widely-panned ''[[Film/TheCatInTheHat Cat in the Hat]]'' live-action movie. As such, they worked to adapt Seuss's visuals to animation in a way that also stuck when [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination]] took on ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' a few years later.
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* Sugar/DevelopmentHell: The film came along after Creator/DrSeuss' widow declared that all future film adaptations of his work would exclusively be animated, as a result of the widely-panned ''[[Film/TheCatInTheHat Cat in the Hat]]'' live-action movie. As such, they worked to adapt Seuss's visuals to animation in a way that also stuck when [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination]] took on ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' a few years later.
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** When JoJo is revealed to have a wonderful singing voice.
** What's become of life in WhoVille after the Whos find a new home on the clover in the montain in the jungle of Nool?

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** When JoJo [=JoJo=] is revealed to have a wonderful singing voice.
** What's become of life in WhoVille Whooville after the Whos find a new home on the clover in the montain in the jungle of Nool?



* SoOkayItsAverage: While not regarded to be an amazing film, it is generally agreed that it isn't anywhere near as bad as the [[Film/TheCatInTheHat previous Dr. Seuss film]], with many seeing it as an alright kids film that is for the most part, faithful to the original book.

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* SoOkayItsAverage: While not regarded to be an amazing film, it is generally agreed that it isn't anywhere near as bad as the [[Film/TheCatInTheHat previous Dr. Seuss film]], with many seeing it as an alright kids film that is for the most part, faithful true to the original book.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: While not regarded to be an amazing film and has received some backlash from some for its deviations from the source, it is generally agreed that it isn't anywhere near as bad as the [[Film/TheCatInTheHat previous Dr. Seuss film]], with some considering it to be the best of the Dr. Seuss film adaptations.

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* SoOkayItsAverage: While not regarded to be an amazing film and has received some backlash from some for its deviations from the source, film, it is generally agreed that it isn't anywhere near as bad as the [[Film/TheCatInTheHat previous Dr. Seuss film]], with some considering many seeing it to be the best of the Dr. Seuss as an alright kids film adaptations.that is for the most part, faithful to the original book.
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* SequelDisplacement: Thanks to its adaptations, the book is much better known than its prequel, ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg''.

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* SequelDisplacement: Thanks SoOkayItsAverage: While not regarded to be an amazing film and has received some backlash from some for its adaptations, deviations from the book source, it is much better known than its prequel, ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg''.generally agreed that it isn't anywhere near as bad as the [[Film/TheCatInTheHat previous Dr. Seuss film]], with some considering it to be the best of the Dr. Seuss film adaptations.
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** In Katie's clover world, everyone is a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies. One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the {{cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie attempt to eat a rainbow. However, the show did not feature lepidopteran defecation of any sort in it’s near decade-long run.

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** In Katie's clover world, everyone is a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies. One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the {{cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie attempt to eat a rainbow. However, the show did not feature lepidopteran defecation of any sort in it’s its near decade-long run.
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** In Katie's clover world, everyone is a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies. One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the {{cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie attempt to eat a rainbow. However, the show has yet to feature lepidopteran defecation of any sort.

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** In Katie's clover world, everyone is a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies. One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the {{cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie attempt to eat a rainbow. However, the show has yet to did not feature lepidopteran defecation of any sort.sort in it’s near decade-long run.

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* AlternateAesopInterpretation:
** The story was an allegory for Fascism, corporatism and capitalism, but many perceived it as one for [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion abortion]].
** It works as an allegory for Isolationist foreign policy too.
* MisaimedFandom: Because the story's Aesop asserts the universal worth of people, even the seemingly insignificant, the book became very popular among the pro-life movement and some believe it's ''about'' being pro-life[[note]]This probably isn't helped by Horton also starring in a book about [[Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg dutifully hatching an egg]][[/note]], despite the official meaning (as per Dr. Seuss' wife) being about fascism, corporatism and capitalism and the fact that Dr. Seuss himself was pro-choice.




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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical:
** Some pro-life activists think this book was anti-abortion. Not only was Dr. Seuss pro-choice but the book was published two decades before Roe v. Wade. According to his wife, the central allegory is about ''fascism, corporatism and capitalism'' -- "a person's a person, no matter how small" refers to big shot governments and businesses stepping on the common worker. At one point a pro-life group actually tried to use the line as their slogan, until Mrs. Geisel sued them.
** It's also an allegory for how the Japanese were being treated after WWII; the book is even dedicated to a Japanese friend, Mitsugi Nakamura. There's shades of TheAtoner here, as during the war Seuss did his share of anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons which he came to deeply regret.



* AlternateAesopInterpretation: The story was an allegory for Fascism, corporatism and capitalism, but many perceived it as one for [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion abortion]].



* MisaimedFandom: Because the story's Aesop asserts the universal worth of people, even the seemingly insignificant, the book became very popular among the pro-life movement and some believe it's ''about'' being pro-life[[note]]Probably not helped by the fact that Horton also stars in a book about [[Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg dutifully hatching an egg]][[/note]], despite the official meaning (as per Dr. Seuss' wife) being about fascism, corporatism and capitalism and the fact that Dr. Seuss himself was pro-choice.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical:
** Some pro-life activists think this book was anti-abortion. Not only was Dr. Seuss pro-choice but the book was published two decades before Roe v. Wade. According to his wife, the central allegory is about ''fascism, corporatism and capitalism'' -- "a person's a person, no matter how small" refers to big shot governments and businesses stepping on the common worker. At one point a pro-life group actually tried to use the line as their slogan, until Mrs. Geisel sued them.
** It's also an allegory for how the Japanese were being treated after WWII; the book is even dedicated to a Japanese friend, Mitsugi Nakamura. There's shades of TheAtoner here, as during the war Seuss did his share of anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons which he came to deeply regret.
** It works as an allegory for Isolationist foreign policy too.

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