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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Published in 1946, the book can easily be read as an allegory of nuclear war.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Published in 1946, the book ''Comet in Moominland'' can easily be read as an allegory of nuclear war.
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* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Most of the time in the animated adaptations when Snufkin is shown playing his harmonica, he holds it by the sides rather than between the thumb and forefinger with the other hand on the back, which is the correct way.

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* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Most of the time in the animated adaptations when Snufkin is shown playing his harmonica, he holds it by the sides rather than between the thumb and forefinger with the other hand on the back, which is the correct way. It also changes key according to the song being played.
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* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Most of the time in the animated adaptations when Snufkin is shown playing his harmonica, he holds it by the sides rather than between the thumb and forefinger with the other hand on the back, which is the correct way.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the ''Tales from Moominvalley'' story "The Fir Tree", the Moomin family is woken up during hibernation by a Hemulen who only tells them that Christmas is coming. As the Moomins normally hibernate all throughout winter, they've never celebrated Christmas before, and with no further context, they assume that Christmas is the name of an evil spirit. They then learn of various Christmas traditions from their neighbors (decorating a tree, preparing a Christmas dinner, giving presents), but misunderstand the point and interpret them as rituals to protect themselves from the wrath of Christmas.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the ''Tales from Moominvalley'' story "The Fir Tree", the Moomin family is woken up during hibernation by a Hemulen who only tells them that Christmas is coming. As the Moomins normally hibernate all throughout winter, they've never celebrated Christmas before, and with no further context, they assume that Christmas is the name of an evil spirit. They then learn of various Christmas traditions from their neighbors (decorating a fir tree, preparing a Christmas dinner, giving presents), but misunderstand the point and interpret them as rituals to protect themselves from the wrath of Christmas.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the ''Tales from Moominvalley'' story "The Fir Tree", the Moomin family is woken up during hibernation by a Hemulen who only tells them that Christmas is coming. As the Moomins normally hibernate all throughout winter, they've never celebrated Christmas before, and with no further context, they assume that Christmas is the name of an evil spirit. They then learn of various Christmas traditions from their neighbors (decorating a tree, preparing a Christmas dinner, giving presents), but misunderstand the point and interpret them as rituals to protect themselves from the wrath of Christmas.
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* BittersweetEnding: ''Moominvalley in November''. While none of the characters find the happiness they were looking for, they do find some closure, and in the end they all leave the valley to continue their own lives. Except for Tofte, who has come to accept that his idealized reality is not real, but still waits for the family to come home.

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* BittersweetEnding: ''Moominvalley in November''. While none of the characters find the happiness they were looking for, they do find some closure, and in the end they all leave the valley to continue their own lives. Except for Tofte, Toft, who has come to accept that his idealized reality is not real, but still waits for the family to come home.
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* ''Villian in the Moominhouse'' (1980) Almost every Moomin character is {{Back for the Finale}} in the last entry of the original Moomin stories, as Little My tries to find the source of a strange person in Moominhouse. The only one not translated so far, and unique in that the images are photographs of a diorama created by Jansson and her partner arranged in different scenes, rather than illustrations.


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* ''Villian ''Villain in the Moominhouse'' Moominhouse'', (also known as ''An Unwanted Guest'') (1980) Almost every Moomin character is {{Back for the Finale}} in the last entry of the original Moomin stories, as Little My tries to find the source of a strange person in Moominhouse. The only one not translated so far, and unique in that the images are photographs of a diorama created by Jansson and her partner arranged in different scenes, rather than illustrations.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: The basic Moomin philosophy in a nutshell -- when faced with doing something in a mundane but practical way, or a fun but inefficient way, nine times out of ten they'll go for the fun way. The result being that they don't get much done, but at least have a good time while not getting it done. This trope its particularly prominent in the comic strip and in the 1969 live-action series -- in the latter, it gets extremely bizarre when Moominmamma decides to pick hard-to-reach apples by ''firing at them with a shotgun'' instead of, say, getting a ladder.

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The basic Moomin philosophy in a nutshell -- when faced with doing something in a mundane but practical way, or a fun but inefficient way, nine times out of ten they'll go for the fun way. The result being that they don't get much done, but at least have a good time while not getting it done. This trope its particularly prominent in the comic strip and in the 1969 live-action series -- in the latter, it gets extremely bizarre when Moominmamma decides to pick hard-to-reach apples by ''firing at them with a shotgun'' instead of, say, getting a ladder.ladder.
** In ''The Moomins and the Great Flood'', the Moomin family finds an amazing home carved inside a mountain, where the interior is made almost entirely of sweets: a pool of lemonade to drink, ice cream snow, cotton candy grass, marzipan rocks, and chocolate bushes. Moomintroll begs Moominmamma to let them stay here, but quickly comes to regret it: this place has only sweet stuff to eat or drink, and by the next day, Moomintroll and Sniff have gotten sick from having so much sugar. There's also an artificial sun that was a nice change of pace from the rainy weather they'd been enduring for so long, but makes it hard to fall asleep since it never goes down.


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* SavageWolves: In ''Moominland Midwinter'', Sorry-oo the dog idolizes wolves, howling at the moon for their attention and believing that joining their pack will make him strong... but he gets a nasty case of BrokenPedestal when he actually encounters a wolf pack, as the wolves turn out to be vicious predators who attempt to kill him. He's only rescued by the timely arrival of the winter sports-loving Hemulen.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It’s never established exactly what part of Finland the valley is in. The coordinates for the lighthouse in the penultimate book would put it in the gulf of Finland, but the distance from the valley to the lighthouse is also not mentioned. The characters have visited locations that exist in the real world, such as the Riviera.
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* GrubTub: In the first book, ''The Moomins and the Great Flood'', Moominmamma, Moomintroll and Sniff encounter a kind, elderly man who owns a LevelAte park with almost everything made of candy. Moomintroll and Sniff eat so much that they get a stomach ache and a toothache respectively. Moominmamma inquires whether there is a pool with hot soup somewhere; the man sadly says that he only has one pool of whipped cream and one pool of jam.

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