History WesternAnimation / TheWindInTheWillows1983

* EveryoneHasStandards: In "The Weasels' Trap", Ratty and Mole come to the Chief’s aid when he gets his leg caught in a trap. The idea of being trapped at all is so horrific to the animals that they’re willing to set aside their personal prejudices to help.

* WhatTheHellHero: Toad gets a ''blistering'' one from the others in "Fighting Fit", when it turns out that he'd received consultation letters from the railway company, but [[WhatAnIdiot stuffed them into his cupboard rather than respond to them]].

* AdaptedOut: The character Otter, and the chapters ''The Further Adventures of Toad'', ''Wayfarers All'', and [[EnsembleDarkhorse ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'']] were all left out of the film, but subverted by the TV series in which Otter is a main character and all three chapters were adapted as episodes

* BigEater: Toad, period. Going on an hour's journey, in his opinion, requires equipping oneself with several sandwiches, a cake or two, a few packets of biscuits, a tin or two of soup, etc, etc.

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: A season-long arc about a railway being built through the forest most of the animals called home. [[spoiler: Luckily the ground is unstable because of the tunnels made by Badger’s ancestors, so it's abandoned.]]

** It is not shown how Toad escaped from his bedroom.

* AdaptationExpansion: Three episodes are adapted from chapters of the book not covered in the film - “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, “Wayfarers All” and “The Further Adventures of Toad”. Each one gets additional story material and scenes added to the original plot.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Badger confronting the Stranger in “Unlikely Allies”, who is implied at the end to be Satan himself. The Stranger immediately decides to move on.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In “Badger’s Remedy”, when Mole accidentally eats a poisonous toadstool and is gravely ill, even the Chief Weasel helps find ingredients for the antidote. When Ratty asks why he’s helping, his response indicates that even ''he'' doesn’t fancy the idea of somebody dying slowly and painfully, as Mole is at that moment:
-->”Well, I dunno. I ‘spose a straight fight’s one thing, or a bang on the ‘ead with a cudgel, but… poison…”
* EveryoneHasStandards: In “The Weasels’ Trap”, Ratty and Mole come to the Chief’s aid when he gets his leg caught in a trap. The idea of being trapped at all is so horrific to the animals that they’re willing to set aside their personal prejudices to help.

* LaserGuidedKarma: “The Weasels’ Trap” has the Chief Weasel set a potentially lethal beartrap for Badger as revenge for foiling a robbery. He ends up walking into it when his henchman moves it without telling him, injuring himself the same way he’d hoped to hurt Badger.

* PetTheDog: As horrible as they can get sometimes, the weasels sometimes help our heroes out, such as finding ingredients to cure Mole, looking for Portly and helping to foil the Stranger’s attempt to take over Toad Hall.

* ChandelierSwing: Toad does this during the battle at Toad hall.

* PetTheDog: As horrible as they can get sometimes, the weasels sometimes help our heroes out, such as finding ingredients to cure Mole, looking for Portly

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: A season-long arc about a railway being built through the forest most of the animals called home. [[spoiler: Luckily the ground is unstable because of all of the animals' tunnels and burrows, so it's abandoned.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In “Badger’s Remedy” Mole accidentally eats a poisonous toadstool and is gravely ill, even the Chief Weasel helps find ingredients for the antidote. When Ratty asks why he’s helping, his response indicates that even ''he'' doesn’t fancy the idea of somebody dying slowly and painfully, as Mole is at that moment:

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In “Badger’s Remedy” Mole accidentally eats a poisonous toadstool and is gravely ill, even the Chief Weasel helps find ingredients for the antidote. When Ratty asks why he’s helping, his response indicates that even he doesn’t fancy the idea of somebody dying slowly and painfully, as Mole is at that moment:

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Mole accidentally eats poisonous mushrooms, even th Chief Weasel helps find ingredients for the antidote. When ask why he is being so nice, he says something like "A good honest dirk or cudgel is one thing, but poison...that's just wrong."

* {{Bookends}}: The film starts with the opening of a brown leather-bound book and ends with the book closing at the end of the credits.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Mole accidentally eats poisonous mushrooms, even th Chief Weasel helps find ingredients for the antidote. When ask why he is being so nice, he says something like "A good honest dirk or cudgel is one thing, but poison...that's just wrong."

* ManChild: David Jason explained in interviews that he played Toad this way, allowing him to be likable despite his wild irresponsibility.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Toad disappears when Mole tries to visit Badger in the Wild Wood, arguably the scariest sequence in the movie.

* ManChild: Toad's flamboyant but short-lived enthusiasm for his varied crazes are akin to a child being initially excited over a new toy, but getting bored with it pretty quickly. In addition, he is a terrible sportsman, and effectively throws tantrums when beaten or outperformed at anything.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the novel, the weasels are cowards who run and only appear in the third act. Here they have a greater presence, and manipulate, steal from, menace, and even attack whoever they can. In a case of AdaptationalBadass as well, they stand and fight when the main characters come to take Toad Hall back. Also unlike their book counterparts they aren't "tamed" since in the subsequent TV show they make regular attempts to either kidnap Toad for ransom or con him out of Toad Hall.

* BadassGrandpa: Badger's threatening stature in his introduction is not just a front to show he prefers a solitary life. He will wallop you one if you're not careful.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the novel, the weasels are cowards who run and only appear in the third act. Here they have a greater presence, and manipulate, steal from, menace, and even attack whoever they can. In a case of AdaptationalBadass as well, they stand and fight when the main characters come to take Toad Hall back.

* AdaptedOut: The character Otter, and the chapters ''The Further Adventures of Toad'', ''Wayfarers All'', and [[EnsembleDarkhorse ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'']] were all left out of the film.
** This was ultimately subverted by the TV series in which Otter is a main character and all three chapters were adapted as episodes

''The Wind in the Willows'' is a 1983 [[AnimatedAdaptation stop-motion animated adaptation]] of [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Kenneth Grahame's classic novel]]. Produced by [[Creator/CosgroveHall Cosgrove Hall Films]] for Creator/ThamesTelevision, it was first aired on Creator/{{ITV}} in Great Britain on the 27th of December 1983. [[NoExportForYou Internationally, it was released in cinemas, distributed by]] Creator/TheCannonGroup [[NoExportForYou in North America and by Communications and Entertainment Limited (CEL) in Oceania]]. It was well-received by critics and audiences alike, which resulted in it getting a television series by Creator/ThamesTelevision and a sequel, the latter of the two this time focusing on Mr. Toad.