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* ValuesDissonance: In these modern, environmentally friendly times, a man who commits mass deforestation (such as a cutting down every single tree in North Dakota and Kansas, which were previously covered in old growth forest) and driving any animals who get in his way to extinction, Paul doesn't seem quite as heroic. And in some of the earlier stories the loggers seem pretty unconcerned when some black loggers go missing, reasoning that since it was the Year of the Black Snow, finding them would be impossible.
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* ValuesDissonance: In these modern, environmentally friendly times, a man who commits mass deforestation (such as a cutting down every single tree in North Dakota and Kansas, which were previously covered in old growth forest) and driving any animals who get in his way to extinction, Paul doesn't seem quite as heroic. And in some of the earlier stories the loggers seem pretty unconcerned when some black loggers go missing, reasoning that since it was the Year of the Black Snow, finding them would be impossible.
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* FountainOfExpies: Many folklorists consider characters like Pecos Bill, Old Stormalong, Joe Magerac, and others to be imitations of Paul Bunyan. Not all of them are giants, but all of them are blue collar workers with superhuman abilities.
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Folk song scholars first recorded versions of John Henry in 1909 and 1913, thus predating Paul Bunyan’s big break.
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* FountainOfExpies: Many folklorists consider characters like John Henry, Pecos Bill, Old Stormalong, Joe Magerac, and others to be imitations of Paul Bunyan. Not all of them are giants, but all of them are blue collar workers with superhuman abilities.
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* FountainOfExpies: Many folklorists consider characters like John Henry, Pecos Bill, Old Stormalong, Joe Magerac, and others to be imitations of Paul Bunyan. Not all of them are giants, but all of them are blue collar workers with superhuman abilities.
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This in of itself is a myth that has been disproven by many folklorist. Also fleshing out memetic badass.
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* NewerThanTheyThink: While there were a few tales of a legendary logger named Paul Bunyan, much of the Bunyan myth was created in the 20th century as part of an advertising campaign for a lumber company. Paul Bunyan has been cited as an example of "fakelore", or a modern story being passed off as myth.
* NewerThanTheyThink: While there were a few tales of a legendary logger named Paul Bunyan, much of the Bunyan myth was created in the 20th century as part of an advertising campaign for a lumber company. Paul Bunyan has been cited as an example of "fakelore", or a modern story being passed off as myth.
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** This extends to Fabian "Saginaw Joe" Fournier, the man with the unique distinction of being the most likely inspiration of Paul Bunyan. Known for his love of drinking, headbutting people and allegedly biting ''through pillars of wood'' with his double-rowed teeth, Fournier had his own fair share of wild myths, usually him doing the three aforementioned activities.
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** It's even brought up in the Rankin-Bass version, where Panhandle Pete is the giant who's obessed with felling every damn tree in the country, and Paul points out that not only can you NOT cut down every tree, you have to actually replant the ones you do cut down or "you'll wind up in a whole heap of trouble".
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** It's even brought up in the Rankin-Bass version, where Panhandle Pete is the giant who's obessed obsessed with felling every damn tree in the country, and Paul points out that not only can you NOT cut down every tree, you have to actually replant the ones you do cut down or "you'll wind up in a whole heap of trouble".
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--> '''Cale''': "..."PS: I'll write soon* soon." *sighs* We're gonna miss that boy...
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* FountainOfExpies: Many folklorists consider characters like John Henry, Pecos Bill, Old Stormalong, Joe Magerac, and others to be imitations of Paul Bunyan. Not all of them are giants, but all of them are blue collar workers with superhuman abilities.
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* TearJerker: In the Disney version, we have Paul finally deciding to leave his hometown behind after helping it grow to prosperity. One morning, the town wakes to find a giant letter in the town square explaining that he'd headed out west to find more room and heed his call as a lumberjack, which is read by Cale Mcnab, the person who first laid eyes on Paul, and was his surrogate father as much as anyone was.
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** Even sadder if you realize that Paul never returned, after his work was finished and he realized he'd become outdated, he exiled himself in Alaska, and his adoptive town never saw him again.
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** Even sadder if you realize that Paul never returned, after his work was finished and he realized he'd become outdated, he exiled himself in Alaska, and his adoptive town never saw him again.
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** It's even brought up in the Rankin-Bass version, where Panhandle Pete is the giant who's obessed with felling every damn tree in the country, and Paul points out that not only can you NOT cut down every tree, you have to actually replant the ones you do cut down or "you'll wind up in a whole heap of trouble".
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* FountainOfExpies: Many folklorists consider characters like Pecos Bill, Old Stormalong, Joe Magerac, and others to be imitations of Paul Bunyan. Not all of them are giants, but all of them are blue collar workers with superhuman abilities.
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* UglyCute: Many of the Fearsome Critters, most notably the Squonk.
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Not only is that incorrect, but it is zero context.
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* MemeticBadass: One of the first.
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* NewerThanTheyThink: As noted above, while there were a few tales of a legendary logger named Paul Bunyan, most of the Bunyan myth was created in the 20th century as part of an advertising campaign for a lumber company. Paul Bunyan has been cited as an example of "fakelore", or a modern story being passed off as myth.
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* NewerThanTheyThink: As noted above, while While there were a few tales of a legendary logger named Paul Bunyan, most much of the Bunyan myth was created in the 20th century as part of an advertising campaign for a lumber company. Paul Bunyan has been cited as an example of "fakelore", or a modern story being passed off as myth.
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* NewerThanTheyThink: As noted above, while there were a few tales of a legendary logger named Paul Bunyan, most of the Bunyan myth was created in the 20th century as part of an advertising campaign for a lumber company. Paul Bunyan has been cited as an example of "fakelore", or a modern story being passed off as myth.
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* ValuesDissonance: In these modern, environmentally friendly times, a man who commits mass deforestation (such as a cutting down every single tree in North Dakota and Kansas, which were previously covered in old growth forest) and driving any animals who get in his way to extinction, Paul doesn't seem quite as heroic. And in some of the earlier stories the loggers seem pretty unconcerned when some black loggers go missing, reasoning that since it was the Year of the Black Snow, finding them would be impossible.
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* ValuesDissonance: In these modern, environmentally friendly times, a man who commits mass deforestation (such as a cutting down every single tree in North Dakota and Kansas, which were previously covered in old growth forest) and driving any animals who get in his way to extinction, Paul doesn't seem quite as heroic. And in some of the earlier stories the loggers seem pretty unconcerned when some black loggers go missing, reasoning that since it was the Year of the Black Snow, finding them would be impossible.impossible.
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