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* FullNameBasis: Everybody calls Tommy Brock, Tommy Brock, never Tommy or Mr. Brock.
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* CurbStompBattle: Although the fight between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod had no end in the book, in response to a letter from a reader Beatrix Potter said that Mr. Tod lost the fight very badly - he suffered a torn ear and lost most of the fur on his tail, whereas Tommy Brock only tore his coat and lost a boot.
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* AdultFear: Poor Flopsy, in ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends'' adaptation which shows her crying over knowing that her babies haven been captured.
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* AdultFear: Poor Flopsy, in WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends adaptations shows her crying over knowing that her babies haven been captured.
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* AdultFear: Poor Flopsy, in WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends adaptations ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends'' adaptation which shows her crying over knowing that her babies haven been captured.
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* DirtyCoward: Mr. Tod doesn't confront Tommy Brock directly at first and instead tries to . It takes Tommy Brock throwing scalding tea in his face to goad the fox into an actual fight.
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* DirtyCoward: Mr. Tod doesn't confront Tommy Brock directly at first and instead tries to .to play a nasty prank instead. It takes Tommy Brock throwing scalding tea in his face to goad the fox into an actual fight.
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* DirtyCoward: Mr. Tod doesn't confront Tommy Brock directly at first and instead tries to . It takes Tommy Brock throwing scalding tea in his face to goad the fox into an actual fight.
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* KungShui: The entire kitchen gets wrecked in the fight between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
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* TheDreaded: Mr. Tod to the rabbits. When Benjamin finds him at the stick house, he immediately bolts in fear. In WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends, the mere mention of the fox makes Mr. Bouncer jumpy.
* EvilVersusEvil: The book culminates in a knock-down, drag-out fight between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
* EvilVersusEvil: The book culminates in a knock-down, drag-out fight between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
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* TheDreaded: Mr. Tod to the rabbits. When Benjamin finds him at the stick house, he immediately bolts in fear. In WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends, the mere mention ''mention'' of the fox makes Mr. Bouncer jumpy.
* EvilVersusEvil: Thebook culminates story ends in a knock-down, drag-out violent fight between Mr. Tod and Tommy Brock Brock, which ultimately allows Peter and Mr. Tod.Benjamin to save their children.
* EvilVersusEvil: The
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* SlobsVersusSnobs: Tommy Brock, a filthy and foul-smelling wanderer who eats whatever he can get his hands on, vs. Mr. Tod, who dresses like a country gentleman and carries a fancy walking stick.
* CarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badger wants to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.
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* CarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badger wants to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.
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* CarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badger wants TheDreaded: Mr. Tod to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.the rabbits. When Benjamin finds him at the stick house, he immediately bolts in fear. In WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfPeterRabbitAndFriends, the mere mention of the fox makes Mr. Bouncer jumpy.
* EvilVersusEvil: The book culminates in a knock-down, drag-out fight between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
* EvilVersusEvil: The book culminates in a knock-down, drag-out fight between Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod.
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* 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.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: This Although most of Potter's books is pretty terrifying since this involves involve anthromorphic predators going after anthromorphic prey, The Tale of Mr. Tod and Tommy Brock trying to eat is darker than most, largely by focusing on the baby bunnies that have been captured. Doesn't help by how worried sick Flopsy is throughout lives of the story.deeply unpleasant antagonists. The prose is also a little more complex than in most of Potter's tales.
* FatSlob: Even by Tod's standards, Tommy Brock is gross. He breaks into other people's houses, gluts himself on any food he can find, then goes to bed with his muddy boots still on. Doesn't help that, in line with real badgers, he has a strong smell.
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* 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. He's implied to have gotten senile in his old age.
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* 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. He's implied to have gotten senile in his old age.age.
* UncertainDoom: It's not obvious what happens to Tod and Brock in the end; they literally roll out of the book fighting each other tooth and nail. The narrator hopes they roll off a cliff.
* UncertainDoom: It's not obvious what happens to Tod and Brock in the end; they literally roll out of the book fighting each other tooth and nail. The narrator hopes they roll off a cliff.
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* CarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badgers wants to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.
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* CarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badgers badger wants to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, who were [[ActionSurvivor Action Survivors]] at best in their own stories.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, who were [[ActionSurvivor Action Survivors]] at best in their own stories.stories, are the main heroes in this one.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Tommy Brock eats, among other things, wasp nests, frogs, worms, pheasant eggs, pig nuts, and rabbit pie.
* AffablyEvil: Tommy Brock is friendly with adult rabbits, although they don't trust him. But then, he's not dangerous to a full grown rabbit.
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* 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!"
* 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!"
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* AnimalStereotypes
AnimalStereotypes: Averted, Mr. Tod, Tommy Brock and the otters are portrayed more along the lines of how foxes, badgers and otters would actually act than along the stereotypes.
*BagOfKidnapping
BagOfKidnapping: Tommy Brock captures the baby rabbits in a sack.
* DarkerAndEdgier: This books is pretty terrifying since this involvesMr 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 haveCarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badgers wants to turn vegetarian and eat my own tail!"anthropomorphic baby rabbits.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: This books is pretty terrifying since this involves
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* 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.
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* PredatorsAreMean
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* PredatorsAreMeanMeaningfulName: 'Tod' is an antiquated British word for fox while 'brock' is an antiquated British word for badger; Mr. Tod and Tommy Brock are respectively a fox and a badger.
* PredatorsAreMean: Mr. Tod is highly unpleasant, and the Otters are so bad even other predators aren't willing to live near them.
* PredatorsAreMean: Mr. Tod is highly unpleasant, and the Otters are so bad even other predators aren't willing to live near them.
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* 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
* VitriolicBestBuds
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* 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.
* VitriolicBestBudsit. He's implied to have gotten senile in his old age.
* VitriolicBestBuds
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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!
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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 Tod'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!
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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.
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.
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Fortunately Mr. Todd, Tod, 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 Tod 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.
Tommy Brock pretends to be asleep, all while Mr.
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* 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.
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* CivilizedAnimal: Mr. Todd Tod has several houses, and has all the normal things you'd find in a house. He and Tommy Brock also wear full clothes.
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