Headscratchers / Balto III: Wings of Change

• What was with Duke? He acted like he liked the sled dogs and Balto but was trying to put them out of the job. I get the point was he wasn't a straight up villain but his MO clashes so strongly with his personality that his character is far too conflicted. He doesn't fit the role he was put in due to his personality.
  • His MO wasn't "putting the dogs out of their jobs" so much as hoping to introduce a faster, more reasonably convenient means of delivery service to and from Nome. Empathy and competition are not mutually exclusive. It's not like the man had any idea that the concept of "career pride" exists within the animal community.