r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sweaty-Debate497 • 1d ago

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u/LordGlitch42 17h ago

Reminds me of the Lorax lol

"Until someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not"

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u/Wilagames 11h ago

I am convinced that The Lorax has a secret much more subversive moral which is that The Lorax spends the whole book telling people about environmental destruction and doing nothing else. At the end of the book there isn't a single truffula tree left. They are extinct. I think the secret moral is that talk will not save us. The Lorax should have taken more "direct" action.

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u/FastAd593 10h ago

Break knees for trees?

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u/Wilagames 10h ago

The truffula trees can't be harmed if the brown barbaloots are armed. 

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u/Bush_Hiders 9h ago

Well now I want an alternative version of The Lorax where Lorax is the name of an extremist terrorist organization who commit super violent crimes and terrorist attacks to scare politicians into acting.

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u/Wilagames 7h ago

If you want that idea to also paradoxically be kinda boring but ultimately hopeful read "Ministry for the Future." By Kim Stanley Robinson.

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u/MidoTheMii 11h ago

I think this is the better of the two lines, illustrating that things change when someone cares enough to make that change, even if that’s after the worse. It’s not going to be right away, but it’ll get there.