Babe: Difference between revisions

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Rex, who eventually warms up to Babe.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]:

The sheep spoke very slowly, for it was a cold fact of nature that wolves were ignorant, and nothing would convince them otherwise. }}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Babe is a "babe" i.e, "baby" because of his naivety. Rex and Duchess because of their rank and place in the farm's hierarchy.

*** ''Really'' averted in ''Ace'', where the titular character starts as a cute piglet, but the narrative explicitly and several times mentions how he grows as time passes. At the end of the book, he's ''huge.''

* [[Parental Bonus]]: A particularly eyebrow raising one, again care of Ferdinand, this time describing his attempts to take over the rooster's role:

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Fly keeps an eye after Babe and mothers him like he was one of hers. And after Fly's pups are sold, Babe comforts her with just this.

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Ferdinand. In fact, he's not in the original book and was invented for the movie specifically to fill this role.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: The main reason for the enimity between sheep and dogs.