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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: A hero is born...]] |
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4 | Toby Alone is a children's book written by French author Timothee de Fombelle, and translated into English by Sarah Ardizzone. |
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6 | In december 2023, a cartoon series has been released in France. |
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8 | !!This work contains examples of the following tropes: |
9 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Leo [[spoiler:kidnapped Elisha to force her to marry him]]. |
10 | %%* AxCrazy: Leo becomes a subtle version of this in the second book.%%How? |
11 | * BadBoss: Joe Mitch and later Leo Blue. Joe ''encourages' bullying among his workers and later hires Leo to conduct slave raids against the Grass people. |
12 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Berenice "Bernie" Alzan, who love bashing the heads of inmates and study the bruises. |
13 | * DreadfulMusician: Mano Asseldor, leading to him being the BlackSheep of his family. |
14 | * EvilFormerFriend: Leo to Toby, after he joined the side of Joe Mitch. |
15 | * FaceHeelTurn: Leo betrays Toby and becomes a [[spoiler: cruel, [[FantasticRacism racist]] dictator]]. |
16 | * FantasticRacism: The Grass persons are often looked down to by the Tree people, many of whom who think they are evil (or cannibalistic). Leo Blue even made a plan to [[spoiler:[[FinalSolution murder all of the Grass persons]] by setting fire to the Prairie]]. |
17 | * GiveGeeksAChance: Sim used to be a complete nerd who had no time to date. That is, until pretty Maya Alnorell appears at his door. They fall in love and soon marries each other. |
18 | * HeelFaceTurn: |
19 | ** Nils Amen when he [[spoiler: pretends to be Toby to distract the searchers from finding Toby]]. |
20 | ** Leo Blue when he [[spoiler: joins the good side]] and [[spoiler: later kills Joe Mitch]]. |
21 | * IncestantAdmirer: [[spoiler: Leo to Elisha]], [[SurpriseIncest unaware of the fact]] that [[LongLostRelative she's his half-sister]]. She does not return his feelings. |
22 | %%* InsaneEqualsViolent: Leo qualifies for this.%%How? |
23 | * {{Lilliputians}}: All of the Tree people and the Grass people are tiny humanoids no more than a few centimeters tall. |
24 | * LostLenore: Downplayed, as Norz Amen is not a prominent character. Norz's wife Lili Amen dies prior to the book events due to DeathByChildbirth, leading to Norz mourning and neglecting his son Nils. |
25 | * NoBloodForPhlebotinum: Joe Mitch and other people fighting for the Tree Stone and the Balina. |
26 | * MouseWorld: All the characters are either tiny Tree people or equally tiny Grass people, capable of going their whole lives in the branches of a single oak or in a tiny patch of grass. |
27 | * ObliviousAdoption: Toby found out that [[spoiler: Sim and Maya Lolness are not his biological parents.]] |
28 | %%* Sadist: Joe Mitch. |
29 | * StupidEvil: Joe Mitch is an extreme example of this, unable to even speak like a normal person or speak his own full name. {{Lampshaded}} by Sim. |
30 | * SurpriseIncest: Downplayed as it is [[IncestantAdmirer unrequited]]. [[spoiler: Leo falls in love with Elisha, only to know that [[LongLostRelative she is his half-sister]] later.]] |
31 | * TreetopWorld: Apart from the period where Toby lives alongside the Grass people, the entire story is set in a single oak tree home to a civilization of minuscule people. However, Sim, Toby's father, hypothesizes that ''other'' trees might exist. |
32 | * UnmournedDeath: Sim Lolness wasn't moved at all by the death of Maya's mother, his burdensome mother-in-law. He kept doing his routine activities until his wife Maya called him out. |
33 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Toby to Leo, and also when he thinks Elisha left him. |
34 | -->Elisha! Whose side are you on! You've deserted me! And so has Leo! [[{{Angst}} Why don't friends last for life?]] |
35 | * {{Yandere}}: Ilaya. She decides to [[spoiler: [[IfICantHaveYou murder Toby]]]], who she is in love with when Toby decides to leave the Prairie and leave her [[spoiler: to rescue his family and Elisha]]. |
36 | ** Granted, Toby unintentionally and indirectly causes [[spoiler: the death of Ilaya's fiance Vidof]]. |
37 | ** Also Leo to Elisha. He [[spoiler: kidnaps her to the Nest and [[StalkerWithACrush stalks her]] as "Shadow"]]. |
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