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Christmas Eve" ( Noch pered Rozhdestvom, 1832) by Nikolai Gogol (from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka) No Celebrities Were Harmed: Charlie's voice is based on Ed Wynn (best known as the voice of the Mad Hatter in Disney's Alice in Wonderland). The animated specials produced by both Rankin/Bass and GoodTimes Entertainment have given Rudolph different sets of parents:

Nathaniel Dominy, an anthropology professor at Dartmouth College (Robert L. May's alma mater), published a scholarly paper on Rudolph's red nose in the open access online journal Frontiers for Young Minds in 2015. In the paper, Dominy noted that reindeer eyes can perceive shorter wavelengths of light than humans, allowing them to see ultraviolet light; ultraviolet light, however, is much more easily scattered in fog, which would blind reindeer. Thus, Rudolph's red nose, emitting longer-wavelength red light, would penetrate the fog more easily. A summary of Dominy's findings was released in an Associated Press article on December 22. [35] Cast and characters [ edit ] Characters Michael Fry and T. Lewis have given Rudolph another brother in a series of Over the Hedge comic strips: an overweight, emotionally damaged reindeer named Ralph, the Infra-Red nosed Reindeer, who is referred to as Rudolph's older brother. Ralph's red nose is good for defrosting Santa's sleigh and warming up toast and waffles; he enviously complains about his brother Rudolph's publicity and his own anonymity. And Your Reward Is Edible: Near the end of the 1954 sequel Rudolph Shines Again, after Rudolph develops a selfless attitude and saving two rabbits from a group of rabbits. Santa decides to change Rudolph from working on toys and helping fill his sleigh (the latter was chosen by Santa's eight reindeer out of spite), to making Rudolph become an "Honorary Taste Tester" beginning the next Christmas season. Judging by Rudolph's thought bubble in the original illustration ◊, he's overjoyed to taste out various Christmas candy and sweets. Anti-Villain: While he's not a pleasant person, he has a perfectly understandable, if selfish, reason for trying to stop the New Year from coming — he's been alive for almost a thousand years, and he is understandably terrified of death.Not So Above It All: Despite being a wise and kingly figure, he's in such discomfort with a toothache that he practically passes out when Hermey pulls out a giant drill to give him a root canal. He even utters "Mommy" just before he faints. DC Comics, then known as National Periodical Publications, published a series of 13 annuals titled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 1950 to 1962. [24] [25] Rube Grossman drew most of the 1950s stories. [26] The Cameo: He gets cameo appearances in three other Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, The Year Without A Santa Claus, and Rudolph's Shiny New Year.

Vocal Evolution: Billie Mae Richards' voice for Rudolph subtly but noticeably changes to sound less stuffy and pouty in the first two sequel specials to reflect Rudolph maturing as a person. Strangely, Rudolph's voice does not change as he grows into a stag in the original special. In the film remake of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), The Grinch disguises his dog, Max, as Rudolph for his plan to disguise himself as Santa Claus and steal everything in each house in Whoville, to stop Christmas from coming. He also changes Rudolph's story saying, he hates Christmas and is gonna steal it. He then yells "Action!" through a megaphone. But Max takes off the fake red nose the Grinch had put on him. The deuteragonist of the 1964 special. One of Santa's many elves who works year-round making toys, he harbors a desire to become a dentist instead.

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Reasonable Authority Figure: Compared to the other judgemental adults (sans Mrs. Donner and Yukon) that Rudolph meets in the special, Moonracer is downright nice in comparison, if stern and imposing. While he refuses to let Rudolph and his friends live on The Island of Misfit Toys (since they're not toys), he does let them stay overnight in a cozy cottage to rest up in exchange for promising to tell Santa about the misfit toys so they can find homes, even though he must know that should they succeed, he'll be left alone on the island. To say nothing of his generosity in giving a group of abandoned toys a place to call home in the first place. Downplayed. The Rankin-Bass Rudolph tends to see more direct action and conflict than in the books or DC comics, and while he's no superhero in the making, he proves formidable enough to come out on top against his opponents or at least make an effort to stand up to them, such as The Bumble and Winterbolt and his snakes.

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In the original special, her character theme is "There's Always Tommorow", which is first heard when she and Rudolph have a heartfelt conversation during the reindeer games. She later performs this song to cheer up Rudolph and to lift his spirits up. Jerkass Realization: In the first issue of the DC Comics series, after he temporarily loses his ability for his nose to glow (due to the cold weather and red nose telling on him) and catches a cold. Rudolph is reduced to a sobbing mess as he is talking with a Gopher expressing remorse for how he treated everybody at the North Pole and realizing he might not make it that Christmas Eve. While he gets better, when he notices Santa still being unhappy with how he treated everyone. Rudolph is reduced to tears as he apologizes to Santa and his reindeer, with Santa deciding to remove him from The Naughty List and actually insists on becoming Santa's headlights for that year. Ascended Extra: In the 2001 sequel The Island Of Misfit Toys, Clarice has a larger role complete with her own subplot about learning how to fly like Rudolph. Such as Rudolph training her how to fly, a sequence of Rudolph and Clarice dating during Santa's Christmas Party, and Clarice alongside Rudolph chasing The Toy Taker inside a Peppermint Mine.

Adaptational Sympathy: Not that Rudolph getting bullied for his nose didn't already make him sympathetic, but the Rankin-Bass special shows how really troubled his life was when even his own father and Santa Claus treated him like crap—that and getting hunted by a giant Christmas-hating abominable snowman. And I Must Scream: At the end of the special, Winterbolt transforms into a tree after Lilly destroys his scepter. In Rudolph's Shiny New Year, he use his own nose and the story behind it to demonstrate to Happy why he shouldn't be ashamed of the things that make him unique (i.e. his giant ears). When Rudolph questions why he would want to steal toys, Mr. Cuddles corrects him that he only wanted to save them from being forgotten by their owners. He tells them the story of how his owner forgot him, but Santa assures that Steven still remembers him. Mr. Cuddles apologizes for his actions, and returned all of the toys he had stolen, redeeming himself. He is repaired by Queen Camilla, and is delivered to Steven's daughter by Santa. She wakes to see him and hugs Mr. Cuddles when Steven, now a fully grown adult, looks down to see him.All of the Other Reindeer: Hermey's peculiar desire to become a dentist instead of a toy-making elf gets him ostracized by his fellow elves and the Head Elf. Naturally, he and Rudolph instantly hit it off once they find common ground with each other. Jerk Ass Has A Point: Subverted. While it was true he would have been ostracized if his red nose was discovered, him forcing Rudolph to wear the fake nose only made things worse and it is the very thing that drove his son away. Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the special, Santa has known Rudolph since the day of his birth. While he doesn't bully Rudolph, he doesn't approve of his red nose after it is accidentally revealed during the reindeer games. He does slowly start warming up to Rudolph's red nose once he becomes a young adult. In the original story and non-Rankin Bass adaptations (except the 1998 feature film), Rudolph doesn't meet Santa until Christmas Eve, when the jolly old elf is having a difficult time delivering presents due to the fogginess not only making it difficult to travel (such as almost falling of his sleigh after bumping into trees), but causing houses and rooms to become very dark, making Santa almost trip on household items in the middle of his delivery. The titular reindeer finally meets him after Santa has a "Eureka!" Moment when he notices Rudolph's nose fully lighting up his bedroom as he's sleeping. He also doesn't shun Rudolph for his red nose, as he did in the 1964 special. In Rudolph's Shiny New Year and Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas In July, he's portrayed similar to his original counterpart from the first two Rudolph books. In the original 1939 illustrations, Rudolph is seen crying early in the story near a tree after the reindeer make fun of his nose. A close-up of Rudolph crying is also seen, complete with Rudolph's tears dropping between the text. At first, the Toy Taker stumbles upon a home and steals several toys inside, and used his hypnotic flute and guided them to his blimp. The Toy Taker proceeded to steal more toys across neighborhoods, leaving children with nothing to play with.