The same plot was featured in "Dumbo", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Jonathan Livingston Seagull","The Boy With Green Hair", and TV series "Mork and Mindy" (originally, Mork was banished to Earth as punishment for his nonconforming ways), and "The Flintstones" (same with Mr. Gazoo); "The Munsters"' Marilyn suffers the slings and arrows of being different from the rest of the family; "Peanuts"' Charlie Brown is constantly penalized for being a misfit; and E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan" tells the story of a trumpeter swan who's "different": born without a voice. And that's not to mention every book, stage, and screen version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"! This "rejected cornerstone" plot line has been around forever...and it always works!
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