Willie the Whale

Willie the Wale is the main protagonist of the 1946 Disney short film, The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, a segment of the 1946 animated film, Make Mine Music.
Willie was a normal whale; except he loved to sing and had a divine voice and sang to all sailors. In particular Tetti-Tatti, a impresario, famous talent scout and met owner, believed that Willie had devoured an opera singer, and with three sailors set out to "save the singer in danger", which makes it into the newspaper. This is spotted by Whiey the seagull, Willie's good friend, whom mistakes it as Tetti-Tatti wanting to seek him out sing at his met rather than Tetti-Tatti wanting to "rescue" the Opera Singer he believes to be inside Willie.
Whitey the Seagull, brings a newspaper to Willie announcing Tetti-tatti searching for him and believe that Willie's talent has been recognized at last and he will become a really famous singer, this causes great excitement among the other sea creatures, who start singing for joy.
With Whitey's help, Willie meets up with Tetti-tatti's ships and sings a brilliant performance under Tetti-Tatti's ship. The sailors are ordered to shoot the harpoon at Willie to rescue the opera singer, but the trio of mariners, realize the singing is coming from the whale himself and give up on harpooning him, instead just listening to him, Tetti-Tatti becomes hysterical and tries to harpoon Willie himself, but is stopped by the three sailors whom try to stop the stubborn impressario. As Willie showcased his ability to show in three different voices, the senile Tetti-Tatti came to the conclusion that Willie had devoured three singers and again tried to harpoon Willie, but was stopped by the sailors.
A timeskip seems to happen where we see that Tetti-Tatti seems to finally realize that Willie was the one singing all along as Willie (playing in Aida) puts on a brilliant performance to rave reviews from thousands of people at the met, even becoming a famous star. But, unfortunately, it is than revealed this was simply a dream Willie was having and in reality, Tetti-Tatti just shot the harpoon at the whale killing Willie. Following this Tetti-Tatti is tackled and restrained by the sailors to prevent him from doing any more harm.
As a despondentWhitey mourned the death of his friend, the narrator comforted him by showing that Willie had ascended to Heaven, forgave the deluded Tetti-Tatti, and now performs in Heaven's largest met, and happily sings to sold out crowds , his dream having finally come true.
== Notes ==
* Willie the Whale's sad fate is hinted by the title card of the The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, showing a tragedy mask.
* Oddly many DVD covers of the film showing Willie the Whale singing at Tetti-Tatti's tet with Tetti-Tetti conducting.
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