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4 | ''The Three Robbers'' (''Les trois brigands'' in French / ''Die drei Räuber'' in German) is a [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] {{picture book|s}} written and illustrated by Creator/TomiUngerer. It was initially published in English language in 1961 when Ungerer worked in the USA. French and German versions (the first languages of Ungerer) soon followed. |
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6 | It tells the story of three black-clad highwaymen who terrorize and rob coach travellers. Their life of crime changes the day they find a lone orphan little girl named Tiffany and decide to shelter her. |
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8 | The story was [[AnimatedAdaptation adapted]] into an American [[https://youtu.be/dcbaDAtjCN0 animated short]] by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then into a [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers German feature animated film]] in 2007. |
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10 | !!This book provides examples of: |
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12 | * BabiesEverAfter: Over time, the orphans that the robbers found and helped have grown into adults and founded families and even an entire city. |
13 | * {{BFG}}: One of the robbers (named Dominik in the film) uses a blunderbuss to hold the travellers at gunpoint in order to rob them. |
14 | * BigFancyCastle: The robbers end up buying a big castle to house all the orphans that they find. |
15 | * CharacterDevelopment: Tiffany convinces the robbers to give up their highwaymen ways and use their formidable wealth to help orphans. |
16 | * CoordinatedClothes: Once they're brought to the castle, the orphans all start wearing red versions of the Three Robbers' outfits (instead of black). |
17 | * TheHighwayman: The story is initially about three robbers who terrorize travellers and rob them. |
18 | * InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The three robbers all look identical, and there's no mention of them being triplets, let alone brothers. |
19 | * MoneyDumb: The robbers have accumulated a colossal wealth over the years with what they robbed, but as Tiffany finds out, they don't know what to do with it. She ends up convincing them to create a big orphanage in a castle. |
20 | * NoNameGiven: The robbers are not named in the book. |
21 | * OrphanageOfLove: The castle the robbers buy to house the orphans that they find becomes one. The kids are so well treated that, once they're adults and come to found a city, they build three big towers the roofs of which have the same shape as the robbers' hats to honor their memory. |
22 | * SinisterSchnoz: At least one of the robbers has a pointy nose in the book. |
23 | * TechnicolorBlade: The metal part of the double sided axe is red. |
24 | * TerribleTrio: A trio of robbers. |
25 | * WeaponBasedCharacterization: Each one of the robbers has a distinctive weapon: one has a bellows to blow pepper into the eyes of the coaches' horses, another has a big red double sided axe to demolish the coaches' wheels, and the third has a [[{{BFG}} blunderbuss]] to threaten the travellers in order to rob them. |
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