Why are badgers usually the baddie?

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in kids films and TV shows, why are badgers usually portrayed as baddies?

I don’t have any particularly negative views regarding badgers but so often they’re the bad guy.

Foxes I get. They’re little shits. Badgers though?

AIBU?

I want to watch fictional badgers

any recommendations, please?

Because they’re nasty little cunts. ‘Come and have a go fuckers’ is so accurate 😂

I ❤️ badgers. I think they're awesome.

I think it's cos they look like they've got a robbers mask on

They raid the nests of ground nesting birds. Try telling a badger it's a red listed species - they don't differentiate.

They also kill new born lambs. You can usually tell when it's a badger that has done it as they tend to take the head off.

They also eviscerate (and therefore kill) hedgehogs

Love this.

I grew up on an island where there are no foxes and no badgers. As far as I'm concerned badgers are mythical creatures. I thought the same about foxes then saw one crossing a roundabout early one morning so have had to accept they are real.

I NEED the laughing emoji for this!!!!

It’s the stripes. It looks cute and easily identifiable in a picture.

#stoptheBrontecull

Foxes aren't real. The creature you saw at the roundabout was the guardian of the cross roads. HTH

I once saw a fox with no tail and I really wanted to know what’d happened. Sadly he/she legged it down the street before I had chance to introduce myself.

Redwall. My kids loved the Redwall books & I think there was a film too.

I saw one having a go at a cat - poor cat legged it and the happily badger chased it down.
They look like cute snuffly bears but have the souls of cane corsos

@Wonderknicks thank you

@FruAashild I see foxes all the time but I've still never seen a badger in real life!

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I need to know when the badger has been the bad guy. Can only think of Mr and Mrs Badger and their 2 small badgers , very welcome guests at the feast, welcome back every day

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I live in Sweden. The Swedes are NOT fans of badgers. The Swedes tend to be very rational people. But throw a badger into the mix and all hell breaks loose.

People famously are said to put knäckebröd (savoury hard crackers) in their shoes if they suspect a badger to be nearby, on the grounds that if a badger attacks, it will hear the knäckebröd break, assume they have broken the victim’s bone, and stop their attack.

One time there was a whole drama round our way due to suspected badger, as another way to deal with them is to have a dude pee in your garden. Where we live doesn’t really have fences so there’s not much privacy for a potential anti-badger-wee-hero, so it caused quite the to-do, trying to figure out who would do it.

I wish I was making this up. I am not.

Yep! Agree with the above, and don’t even get me started on Hedgehogs, I put some food out for the ungrateful little shit in our garden and it ran at me and started attacking my shoe - you know you’ve failed spectacularly in life when a hedgehog attacks you, have you ever seen how quick those little monsters can run? 😱 so both Badgers and Hedgehogs can jog on as far as I’m concerned 😂

They are the baddies for the same reason that Englishmen are always baddies. Badgers have impeccable British accents, as anyone who's ever chatted with one will know.

I genuinely can’t think of any other examples apart from Tommy brock. They’re usually wise old badger types?

I was woken up one night by the sound of something crashing about it in our bin area. I went downstairs fully expecting to see a fox but instead found a badger glaring at me whilst chowing down on a baguette from our now totally obliterated food waste bin. I wasn't going to argue with it.

Plus our neighbours cat called Marmite was attacked by a badger. We were watching TV one night and suddenly heard the neighbour shouting 'don't hurt Marmite, leave Marmite alone.' It was quite surreal.

FWIW, I still like badgers. They make cute whickering sounds and are barrel like.

At least we don’t have honey badgers.

Now that’s a vicious bastard.

Well Tommy Brock is a baddie.

But Wind in the Willows, the animals of Farthing Wood, Fantastic Mr Fox, Badger's Parting Gifts and man other stories feature the badger as a positive character. Usually a kindly and wise, if slightly grumpy, old man.

This might explain a lot. Weebl's song will drive you mad.