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* DropTheHammer: John Henry wields some enormous hammers to drive home railroad spikes.
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* BornDuringAStorm: There's thunder and lightning as John Henry is born, appropriate as he seems to be a supernatural being.
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* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.
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* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.hammer.
* VillainyFreeVillain: The Inky-Poo, with the only threat it poses being robbing the local workers of their jobs, due to it being able to easily hammer down railroad spikes at a fast speed.
* VillainyFreeVillain: The Inky-Poo, with the only threat it poses being robbing the local workers of their jobs, due to it being able to easily hammer down railroad spikes at a fast speed.
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* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.
* WinBackTheCrowd: This was one for Pal himself. For years, he had made a series of films with a stereotypical black child named Jasper. This sufficiently less offense film helped gain Pal a bigger audience with African Americans.
* WinBackTheCrowd: This was one for Pal himself. For years, he had made a series of films with a stereotypical black child named Jasper. This sufficiently less offense film helped gain Pal a bigger audience with African Americans.
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* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.
* WinBackTheCrowd: This was one for Pal himself. For years, he had made a series of films with a stereotypical black child named Jasper. This sufficiently less offense film helped gain Pal a bigger audience with African Americans.hammer.
* WinBackTheCrowd: This was one for Pal himself. For years, he had made a series of films with a stereotypical black child named Jasper. This sufficiently less offense film helped gain Pal a bigger audience with African Americans.
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Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.
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* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.hammer.
* WinBackTheCrowd: This was one for Pal himself. For years, he had made a series of films with a stereotypical black child named Jasper. This sufficiently less offense film helped gain Pal a bigger audience with African Americans.
* WinBackTheCrowd: This was one for Pal himself. For years, he had made a series of films with a stereotypical black child named Jasper. This sufficiently less offense film helped gain Pal a bigger audience with African Americans.
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''John Henry and the Inky-Poo'' is a 1946 cartoon written and directed by George Pal, using Pal's "WesternAnimation/{{Puppetoons}}" style of stop-motion animation that employed carved wooden puppets.
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''John Henry and the Inky-Poo'' is a 1946 cartoon animated short film (7 minutes) written and directed by George Pal, using Pal's "WesternAnimation/{{Puppetoons}}" style of stop-motion animation that employed carved wooden puppets.
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* ManVsMachine: One of the most famous instances of this trope, as John Henry competes against the steam hammer and wins, only to die at the end of the race.
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* ManVsMachine: ManVersusMachine: One of the most famous instances of this trope, as John Henry competes against the steam hammer and wins, only to die at the end of the race.
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Compare "WesternAnimation/TulipsShallGrow", another highly regarded Pal short.
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* BittersweetEnding: John Henry wins his race, only to die.
* DropTheHammer: John Henry wields some enormous hammers to drive home railroad spikes.
* DualWielding: John Henry swings away with one hammer in each hand.
* DualWielding: John Henry swings away with one hammer in each hand.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Really, it probably would have been better for John Henry to have found something else to do with those muscles.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Really, it probably would have been better for John Henry to have found something else to do with those muscles.muscles.
* StopMotion: Pal's "Puppetoons" animation that involved posing intricately carved wood puppets.
* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.
* StopMotion: Pal's "Puppetoons" animation that involved posing intricately carved wood puppets.
* SuperStrength: Holy crap, John Henry sure can swing a hammer.
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It is based on the legend of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore) John Henry] "the steel-drivin' man", a black laborer who pounded hammers on the railroad in the post-bellum American South. In this version of the story John Henry is not just the world's greatest swinger of hammers but a mythical giant rather reminiscent of Myth/PaulBunyan. When a mechanical steel-driving machine threatens to put all the railroad laborers out of work, John Henry sets out to beat the machine in a race. He does, pounding rail spikes faster than the machine and crossing the finish line first, but he collapses and dies immediately afterward.
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It is based on the legend of [https://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore) John Henry] Henry]] "the steel-drivin' man", a black laborer who pounded hammers on the railroad in the post-bellum American South. In this version of the story John Henry is not just the world's greatest swinger of hammers but a mythical giant rather reminiscent of Myth/PaulBunyan. When a mechanical steel-driving machine threatens to put all the railroad laborers out of work, John Henry sets out to beat the machine in a race. He does, pounding rail spikes faster than the machine and crossing the finish line first, but he collapses and dies immediately afterward.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The John Henry legends may or may not have been based on a real person who engaged in a race against a steam-driven power hammer, but in any case, John Henry is usually presented as a regular human being, who had a wife. As noted above, this cartoon presents him as a supernatural giant, Paul Bunyan style.
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* BornAsAnAdult: Not just an adult, but a 12-foot-tall giant. The story opens with John Henry's mother apparently in labor, but after a clap of thunder and lightning, John Henry appears full-sized, and greets his mother with "My name's John Henry, woman!"
* GrayRainOfDepression: It's raining in the aftermath of John Henry's death.
* ManVsMachine: One of the most famous instances of this trope, as John Henry competes against the steam hammer and wins, only to die at the end of the race.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The John Henry legends may or may not have been based on a real person who engaged in a race against a steam-driven power hammer, but in any case, John Henry is usually presented as a regular human being, who had a wife. As noted above, this cartoon presents him as a supernatural giant, Paul Bunyan style. Additionally, while most versions of the legend have John Henry hammering drills into rock in order to blast with explosives, this cartoon has him hammering railroad spikes.
* PyrrhicVictory: Really, it probably would have been better for John Henry to have found something else to do with those muscles.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It's raining in the aftermath of John Henry's death.
* ManVsMachine: One of the most famous instances of this trope, as John Henry competes against the steam hammer and wins, only to die at the end of the race.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The John Henry legends may or may not have been based on a real person who engaged in a race against a steam-driven power hammer, but in any case, John Henry is usually presented as a regular human being, who had a wife. As noted above, this cartoon presents him as a supernatural giant, Paul Bunyan style. Additionally, while most versions of the legend have John Henry hammering drills into rock in order to blast with explosives, this cartoon has him hammering railroad spikes.
* PyrrhicVictory: Really, it probably would have been better for John Henry to have found something else to do with those muscles.
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''John Henry and the Inky-Poo'' is a 1946 cartoon written and directed by George Pal, using Pal's "WesternAnimation/{{Puppetoons}}" style of stop-motion animation that employed carved wooden puppets.
It is based on the legend of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore) John Henry] "the steel-drivin' man", a black laborer who pounded hammers on the railroad in the post-bellum American South. In this version of the story John Henry is not just the world's greatest swinger of hammers but a mythical giant rather reminiscent of Myth/PaulBunyan. When a mechanical steel-driving machine threatens to put all the railroad laborers out of work, John Henry sets out to beat the machine in a race. He does, pounding rail spikes faster than the machine and crossing the finish line first, but he collapses and dies immediately afterward.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The John Henry legends may or may not have been based on a real person who engaged in a race against a steam-driven power hammer, but in any case, John Henry is usually presented as a regular human being, who had a wife. As noted above, this cartoon presents him as a supernatural giant, Paul Bunyan style.
It is based on the legend of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore) John Henry] "the steel-drivin' man", a black laborer who pounded hammers on the railroad in the post-bellum American South. In this version of the story John Henry is not just the world's greatest swinger of hammers but a mythical giant rather reminiscent of Myth/PaulBunyan. When a mechanical steel-driving machine threatens to put all the railroad laborers out of work, John Henry sets out to beat the machine in a race. He does, pounding rail spikes faster than the machine and crossing the finish line first, but he collapses and dies immediately afterward.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The John Henry legends may or may not have been based on a real person who engaged in a race against a steam-driven power hammer, but in any case, John Henry is usually presented as a regular human being, who had a wife. As noted above, this cartoon presents him as a supernatural giant, Paul Bunyan style.
