Posted

Aug 9th 2007

Mood

Disappointed

Music

Moon over the Castle - Masahiro Andoh

You know, It's something I've been mullng over awhile. In the old mother goose rhymes, and other little such stories, vulpine were cast as villians. Intillectual villians, who usually at least defeated the so-called "heroes," through such things as flattery, or, in the Unfortunate Case of the Gingerbread Man, deception, and gradually swimming lower in the water. There's also the classic Pinnochio, in which one of the villians was cast as a Fox. pretty sneaky boy, too. (Of course, this may have only been the Disney Version(s))

But then, In the modern era, you have Vulpine cast as heroes. Sonic's best friend is a Two-tailed Fox. Disney's Anthro version of Robin Hood; Robin was a Fox, Marian was a Vixen. There's another theme...Robin's adversary, the Sheriff of Nottingham, was cast as a Wolf...that's strange. I've heard that one somewhere else. Hm. Let's See. FOX McCloud, and WOLF O'Donnell. huh.

As I get older, I see the jury seems to be split on whether the Fox is a hero or villian. Usually, when the Hero is a lesser animal, the Fox can be cast as the badguy. When the Hero is the Fox, the Villian tends to, naturally, be a larger animal. The Wolf seems like a natural; After all, the Fox, while technically not a dog, is very doglike, and the wolf is much larger and stronger, yet looks somewhat similar. And the Wolf character, in a Wolf/Fox confrontation, is usually protrayed larger, and at times, more muscular, while the Fox is smaller and slighter of stature.