Aloysius O'Hare

Aloysius O'Hare, or also simply known by his surname O'Hare or just Mr. O'Hare, is the main antagonist of Illumination's 3rd feature film The Lorax. He is the greedy and manipulative mayor of Thneedville, the founder of O'Hare Air, Morty and McGurk's boss, and Ted Wiggins' arch-nemesis.

He was voiced by Rob Riggle.

Intentional Bad Qualities

 * 1) He's mainly there to give Ted's story some dramatic tension which the original source material didn't have.
 * 2) He's a stereotypical "evil powerful corporate man" who gives businessmen everywhere a bad name, complete with having surveillance equipment across the town and goons who and silence anyone that he deems could be a threat to his immoral enterprise.
 * 3) There's no proper reason for him to exist since the source material didn't have a true villain, and was mainly a cautionary tale showing that corruption and greed could happen to anyone meaning he’s filler.
 * 4) *Or as an alternate, they could have used the villains they already had; an entire family's worth of them. Why wasn't the Once-ler's family the corrupt business owners of Thneedville? They had more personality and interesting traits than him and actual history.
 * 5) Despite being the "main antagonist" of the film, he gets only approximately twelve minutes of screen time, since most of the film takes place in the Lorax flashback. This doesn't give him nearly enough personality to truly be called a "character".
 * 6) His character design looks pretty uncanny, to the point where he looks like an evil Edna Mode down to the hairstyle.
 * 7) He's terrible at his villain role. He always threatens Ted and the others, but he never takes any actual precautions, and when he does, they never work for very long, and he's constantly treated as non-threat by the other characters.
 * 8) Idiot move: When the people of Thneedville found out the truth about the Truffula trees, he ordered for Ted's final remaining truffula seed to be destroyed... right in front of the townsfolk supporting the return of trees, which leads to him not only losing his business but also getting impeached and being sent flying away. Yeah, smooth move O'Hare.

Good Qualities

 * 1) His fate was honestly amusing, and he deserved to be called a "greedy dirtbag".
 * 2) Say what you want about him, but you have to give him credit for having serious determination in keeping his business alive. Too bad it's not enough to save his character overall.
 * 3) Rob Riggle does a decent job voicing him.
 * 4) He is clearly supposed to be disliked as the greedy, callous man he is.

Trivia

 * He has been featured in some and spawned a few Internet memes, especially with his phrase "Let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and... c'mon, who's with me? Eh?" and "I'm Frankenstein's head ON A SPIDER'S BODY!".

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