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    Aloysius O'Hare
    "I say let it die!" "Let it die, let it die!" "Let it shrivel up and- Come on, who's with me, huh?"
    Gender: Male
    Type: Stereotypical greedy man with state-owned business
    Age: 40s
    Species: Human
    Portrayed by: Rob Riggle
    Status: Overthrown by the people of Thneedville
    Media of origin: The Lorax (2012)


    You greedy dirtbag! - Cy The O'Hare Delivery Guy

    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.

    Why He’s Intentionally a Greedy Dirtbag, and O'Hare Purified Air Deserved To Be Discontinued

    1. Just like Mayor Augustus Maywho and Larry Quinn from the live action adaptations of The Grinch, and The Cat in the Hat, he mostly exists in this movie just to give the audience someone to root against that the books did not have.
      • He's mainly there to give Ted's story some dramatic tension that the original source material didn't have. Even 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky's adaptation of Horton Hears A Who! didn't invent its own villain and instead stuck to the villain from the original book, the Sour Kangaroo, and to Blue Sky Studios' credit, the book they were adapting, Horton Hears A Who! had an established antagonist, that being the Sour Kangaroo, so they didn't have to deal with the problem that affects The Lorax, The Grinch and The Cat in the Hat.
    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 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; he was mainly a cautionary tale showing that corruption and greed could happen to anyone meaning he's filler.
      • Or as an alternate, they could have used the villains they already had; an entire family's worth of them. Why weren't the Once-ler's family the corrupt business owners of Thneedville? They had more personality and interesting traits than him and his actual history.
    4. Despite being the "main antagonist" of the film, he gets only approximately 12 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".
    5. His character design looks pretty ugly and uncanny to the point where he looks like a male and an evil Edna Mode down to the hairstyle from Pixar's The Incredibles.
    6. He has spawned way too many unfunny internet memes; like the last reason above, people compare him to Edna Mode too much. Heck, there's even a meme where Adam Sandler's face is on his head.
    7. He's terrible at his villain role. He always threatens Ted and the others, but he rarely takes any actual precautions; when he does, they never work for very long, and he's constantly treated as a non-threat by the other characters.
      • 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.

    Let It Grow 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. Some have argued that he and his company saved Thneedville from the destruction caused by the Once-Ler and his family as his empire helped turn Thneedville into a prosperous city-state.
    4. Although he's not part of the original source material like reason #1 says, he is much more tolerable that Larry Quinn and Mayor Augustus Maywho.
    5. He is clearly supposed to be disliked as the greedy, callous man he is. Nonetheless, he can be seen as just a funny, incompetent villain.
    6. Rob Riggle does a decent job voicing him, making some memorable quotes.
      • "I'm Frankenstein's head ON A SPIDER'S BODY!"
      • "Nah! Haha, I say let it die!" "Let it die, let it die!" "Let it shrivel up and-" "Come on, who's with me, huh?"

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    Trivia

    • He has been featured in some and spawned a few Internet memes, especially with his hilarious 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!".
    • It is unknown what happened to O'Hare after the movie, but it may be possible that he died after his jet helmet crashed somewhere, in that case, he definitely did shrivel up and die, just as how his part in the song went.
    • Despite being heavily capitalist, his government could actually be described as a mix of capitalism and socialism as his corporation is state-owned.
    • He became a meme by "advertising" Movistar in Latin America.

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