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* AccidentalAesop: Don't let a relative who may be going senile look after your children.

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* 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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* AccidentalAesop: Don't let a relative who may be going senile look after your children.
* 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. (Baby ones, however...)
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* OlderAndWiser: Peter and Benjamin, having learned from their mistakes as children, are much more sensible this time around.

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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Implied. Cottontail has married a black rabbit and moved to live on the hill. When Peter and Benjamin arrive, the husband pretends not to be home, although Benjamin sees his ears peeping out of the hole. Peter, however, tells him not to make a fuss about it. The implication is that neither Peter nor Benjamin's families approved of the marriage, but Peter is at least willing to let it slide.



* 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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* 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. It would be clarified later that, while both survived, Mr. Tod lost poorly (see CurbStompBattle above)
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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.

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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: The book 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.


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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.

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* CarnivoreConfusion: An anthropomorphic badger wants to eat anthropomorphic baby rabbits.



* 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.

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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.



* 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.

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