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* [[Greed]]: Pretty much the cause of the Once-ler's actions, especially when the Thneeds start to take off.
* [[Green Aesop]]
* [[Harsh Life Revelation Aesop]]: As the Onceler tells the boy who comes to visit him, when no one cares about others, there are dire consequences. Or, as he puts it, "Unless someone like you cares an awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not." The titular character tried to convince the Onceler to not cut down the Truffula trees to make Thneeds because it would hurt the wildlife, including the Humming Fish that choke from the factory fumes. In the TV adaptation, the Onceler keeps saying what is the harm in cutting down one tree, and later justifies that he has to keep making Thneeds so his employees will still have work. Eventually there are no more Truffula trees, the Lorax leaves, and the Onceler's fortune goes up in smoke as his family leaves and he has to shut down the factory. The Onceler was able to save ''one'' Truffula seed and gives it to the child, asking him to care and rebuild the forest. It won't be easy, given the TV adaptation states it will take ten years for the seed to sprout and ten more for it to become a sapling, and one tree by itself can't become a grove. But someone has to try.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Nearly happens in the TV special following the Once-ler's second [[Ignored Epiphany]] (see below). But then, it's averted, ''hard,'' when the Once-ler's secretary informs him that the price of his company's stock had gone up more than $27. At that point, he goes into his tirade.
* [[Heel Realization]]: The Once-ler in the end {{spoiler|after the forest's destruction.}} By the time the boy visits him, he's had plenty of time to reflect on his mistakes.
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