Dumbo (character)

Dumbo is the main protagonist of in the 1941 of the same name and 2019 remake. He's also one of the main protagonists in The Plushy Movie 3: Patamon's Awakening, pt. 2 and The Plushy Movie 4-7. He is a small elephant and the son of Mrs. Jumbo. Dumbo is most famous for his giant floppy ears, which give him the ability to glide in the air. 
== Appearences ==
* Dumbo (1941)
* Oliver Goes to The Circus (1988)
* House of Don Bluth (1999)
* Happy New Year from House of Don Bluth (2000)
* House of Mouse (2000 film)
== History ==
=== Dumbo ===
In his debut, after being delivered by Mr. Stork, he is named "Jumbo, Jr." by his mother Mrs. Jumbo, and all the other female elephants remark on his cute looks. The baby elephant then sneezes after the Elephant Matriarch tickles him on his trunk and reveals that his ears are much larger than average. As soon as his big ears are revealed, he is teased by the other female elephants, who call him "Dumbo". After Dumbo's mother closes the door to their stalls, she wraps up Dumbo in his own ears and they rest peacefully. Dumbo later takes part in setting up the circus tent with his mother and the other elephants and circus animals at night as they arrive at their destination.
The next day, Dumbo takes part in the opening parade for the circus with his mother and the other elephants, but accidentally trips on his ears and falls in a mud puddle, thus, causing everyone to laugh at him. A few moments later, Dumbo is given a bath by his mother and they spent time playing with one another. Once people come into the circus for a tour to see the circus animals, Dumbo gets laughed at by some boy bullies and his ears are pulled by a boy who wanted to tease him, thus, considered a laughingstock to them. When his mother tries to protect him, she is believed to be mad, and is captured and imprisoned by the Ringmaster and his guards. Dumbo is left by himself feeling sad, while the other elephants laugh at him and regard him a disgrace. When Dumbo tries to have a hay meal with the other female elephants, they give him the cold shoulder and he walks away without a friend in the world until he meets his soon-to-be best friend, Timothy, whom he was afraid of at first when Timothy scared all the elephants for picking on Dumbo, but then, Dumbo and Timothy become friends when Timothy offers to help him get his mother out of the clink.
Timothy, having overheard the teasing Dumbo endures earlier, decides to help Dumbo become a circus star. The first attempt ends in failure, as Dumbo once again accidentally trips on his ears while attempting to jump to the top of a "Pyramid of Pachyderms" as the climax resulting collapsing the big top and all of the elephants injured, he then emerges his trunk through a hole on the big top swinging his flag, but it break in half due to the collapse of the big top leaving him swinging what's left of his flag. The failure results in the circus making Dumbo into a clown, which depresses him and makes him a real laughingstock to the circus, the people, the clowns, and the other elephants. To cheer him up, Timothy takes Dumbo to visit his mother, but the visit ends too soon.
Later, Dumbo and Timothy accidentally become drunk when they drink water that has been accidentally mixed with alcohol due to the clowns' clumsiness. Both begin hallucinating; seeing Pink Elephants. When they awaken, they somehow end up in a tree after meeting some crows, who are amused by an elephant being in a tree and tell them about their situation. After getting back down to the ground while falling from the tree, Timothy wonders if Dumbo either jumped or climbed up to the tree until he finally comes to believe that Dumbo flew (due to one of the crows' ironic suggestion), thus, amusing the crows and making them sing "When I See an Elephant Fly". But after Timothy tells them Dumbo's sad story, they feel sad and bad about their earlier action and decide to help Dumbo use his ears as wings to fly and to use the "magic feather" as a token to encourage and increase Dumbo's confidence. Dumbo is finally seen flying in the air, much to Timothy and the crows' amazement and delight.
At the circus' next stop, during the act, Dumbo is able to fly without the help of the magic feather after accidentally losing it and after Timothy begs him to open his ears.
At the end of the film, it is shown that Dumbo's mother has been released and the two share their own private car, they then wave goodbye to the crows who are standing in an electric pole.
=== Dumbo's Circus ===
During the launch of the Disney Channel in 1983, Dumbo's Circus premiered. It is a live-action/full-body puppet show that aired the same time as Welcome to Pooh Corner. Dumbo, now a teenager, is able to talk. Dumbo also has new friends, such as Lionel the Sideshow Lion (and his Chief Lieutenant), Q.T. the Calliope-Playing Orangutan, Fair Dinkum the Ringmaster Koala (and his sergeant), Sebastian the Ventriloquist Alley Cat, Lilli the Detective/High-Wire Cat, Barnaby the Magician/Clown Dog, and others as well.
=== Oliver Goes to the Circus ===
=== House of Don Bluth ===
=== Happy New Year from House of Don Bluth ===
=== House of Mouse (2000 film) ===
=== House of Mouse ===
Dumbo has made several cameo appearances in the television series House of Mouse. In the series' premiere, he flew in front of the spotlight projector, causing Mickey Mouse's spotlight to disappear.
He also appears in Mickey's House of Villains and along with the other guests locked in the club's kitchen and held captive as the villains take over.
=== The Plushy Movie ===
Lila first appeared to Dumbo. Lila has never saw an elephant with big ears before. Dumbo shows Lila that his big ears has a meaning to it by flying. Lila was impressed. One day, Margaret Burton entered the circus tent without knowing that Dumbo is in there. Margaret feels startled when she heard Dumbo. They talked for awhile, then Margaret shown Dumbo Secondary, which frightens him. One night, Laetitia came to Dumbo, telling him that he must possess Thirstary. He does so, but questions it. Detective Pikachu came into Dumbo's tent. And Dumbo starts to fall in love with Detective Pikachu, which makes Pikachu question it. Does he love Dumbo as well? Joy (Napping Princess) came into the tent after she felt betrayed by Melvin the Martian. Dumbo helps her overcome her trauma. He does a performance in the circus that Joy is really impressed of. But Dumbo, after the performance, found a type of crystal. And inside that crystal is Jirachi, a Pokemon that can make any wishes come true. Jirachi gives Joy the mechanical egg, but no key. So they must go to the Four Realms to get it. So they, along with Kanaria, Hinaichigo and Margaret, goes to the Four Realms. There they first gone to the Realm of Amusement, where they find the Mice and Mother Ginger, torturing them. Then to the Realm of Sweets where they met the Sugar Plum Fairy, who has a plan to overthrow the Realm of Amusement. But, a key needs to be included. They can't find the key in the Four Realms. So after a while, they get captured by General Sweet Mayhem, who takes them to the Sistar System, ruled by Queen Watevra Wata-Nabi. Detective Pikachu has the key, so he gives the key to Dumbo. Now Joy, Dumbo, Jirachi, Kanaria, Hinaichigo and Margaret gotten out of the Sistar System and into the Four Realms. Joy opened the egg and finds a music box. Joy was not expecting a music box. Then they give the Sugar Plum Fairy the key and makes her army of Toy Soldiers. But, she betrays them and puts them into the dungeon. Joy found a way out of the dungeon and they took that way. A mouse came to them and that gave Margaret an idea. They sneak into the palace without Margaret (she's getting an army of mice and Mother Ginger). Morgana joins when he heard that they got captured by the Sugar Plum Fairy. When he saw Dumbo, he didn't notice that he joined the group. But Morgana, as always, foul mouths him and that gets Dumbo upset. But Dumbo told Morgana they have to get to the palace before it's too late. So they sneaked in. Plan failed when Dumbo sneezed and the Toy Soldiers suspects it was them and they start to attack. Whenever they try to escape the castle, they found Sakura instead. They saved her and flee the palace, the Toy Soldiers following them. They attack. Then after the battle, Mary Poppins comes along and they gone into space where they have to defeat the Future Patamon and his army of raptors. Dumbo unwittingly kills the Future Patamon and feels guilt after that. But Patamon tells Dumbo to fight until the very end. Dumbo does so. They go into the Mirror World and fights the Queen of Darkness and Drosselmeyer. But they found out that Yuuko Ichihara is the one that's controlling all the worlds. They attack her until Tenma Tsukamoto defeats the IT. Mary Poppins dies, letting Dumbo receive the Rosa Mystica, to the Rozen Maidens' disbeliefs. Dumbo loses his mother from Thanos's renegade until Detective Pikachu brought back some of the worlds with the Infinity Gauntlet. It is noted that Dumbo knows Noir, this is shown when Dumbo holds the Soldat Watch and met Kirika Yuumura, member of Noir. He's more and willing want to be part of Noir. In The Plushy Movie 4: The Case of Pikachu, Dumbo is shown being in love with Detective Pikachu. Dumbo has feelings for him. He did the same to Dumbo. Laetitia tells the Prophecied Ones, including Dumbo, that they must go to the Truth. But first they must receive Firstary, Secondary and Thirstary to accomplish that. In The Plushy Movie: The Truth, The Adjudicator unleashes hell into the world, and they must fight her to the very end. After the battle, Laetitia tells them that they should not have met each other when the worlds has collided. Dumbo gets upset when Detective Pikachu dies. He has a burden for him, then he leaves to go home, to Asia.
=== Cameos ===
In the 1950s, Dumbo and Timothy made an appearance in the animated opening of the Mickey Mouse Club.
In The Great Mouse Detective, Dumbo made a brief cameo as a bubble blowing toy when Basil, Dawson, and Olivia were investigating a toy shop.
Dumbo makes two brief cameos in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. His first cameo is at the beginning of the film, where he flies in front of R.K. Maroon's office, much to Eddie Valiant's shock. Mr. Maroon mentions that he has rented Dumbo from Disney along with half the cast of Fantasia, and the best part of it is that they work for peanuts (literally in Dumbo's case as Maroon gave him some before he flew off). His second cameo is at the end of the film, during the final scene where he is seen shaking Eddie's hand as he flies back to Toontown along with the rest of the Toons.
Dumbo made a brief cameo appearance in Bonkers, episode "Of Mice and Menace", which introduced the villain Flaps the Elephant. He is shown crying at the police station because Flaps had stolen his flag.
Dumbo also makes a cameo appearance in Flubber, seen on Weebo the Robot's computer monitor.
In Lilo & Stitch, Dumbo made a brief cameo as a toy on Lilo's easel.
Dumbo makes a cameo in the form of a silhouette at the end of The Lion King 1½.
== Voices ==
* Katie Leigh (1985–present)
* Frank Welker (vocal noises in Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
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