Aloysius O'Hare

"You've got a beautiful town here, Ted! I can't think of any reason you'd want to leave town again. Ever."

- Aloysius O'Hare to Ted Wiggins

Aloysius O'Hare is the main antagonist in the animated adaptation of The Lorax. He is voiced by Rob Riggle.

He is the mayor of Thneed-Ville, who has no intention of leaving any traces of the Lorax's world. Taking advantage of the degenerating environmental conditions around Thneed-Ville, O'Hare created a way to package and sell clean oxygen. Now he's rich and powerful, and he has a stake in keeping Thneedville from being green.

Biography
As early as late teenhood, he got his money-making idea when he saw one of the billboard workers coughing on smog while wondering who will make "the next best thing" after the thneed factory had to shut down for good. Years passed, and O'Hare made a fortune selling oxygen tanks for a machine he designed to keep the otherwise smoggy air fresh for Thneedville residents, but in order to sell what people used to get for free, O'Hare's air company went great lengths to keep the locals from leaving town, thus finding out the alternative to his methods is replanting the trees. Because of that, a boy named Ted Wiggins made an enemy out of this so-called "elected hero" when the he tried to get a real tree so he could impress the girl of his dreams. When Ted spoke for the trees (as though a part of the Lorax was within him) by tearing down the walls of the town to reveal the truth and showing the last tree seed as a start of many much-needed changes for the all-artificial town of Thneedville, O'Hare tried in vain to get the citizens on his own side, revealing his true nature in the process by threatening to fire his delivery man Ci and singing that the seed should die. For that, everyone saw O'Hare for the greedy scoundrel he really was, and they impeached him by having him blasted off in a jet-helmet by his own henchmen. It is unknown what happened to O'Hare (more likely He got killed in a crash).