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• Awesome Music: Randy Newman's Copland-esque score is fit for an epic of miniature proportions.
• Ear Worm: The little flute-sounding song that some ants are performing for the circus bugs.
• Fandom Rivalry: It has one with Antz, because both are animated bugs movies released in 1998. Antz is more adult-oriented while A Bug's Life is more family-friendly.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Hopper and Flik. Some people couldn't explain why they kept watching their No-Holds-Barred Beatdown scene repeatedly when they were children, they sure can as they got older.
• Genius Bonus: Those familiar with black widow spider mating habits might view some of Rosie's lines in a different light. See also Getting Crap Past the Radar.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Hopper's speech about falling grain became surprisingly relevant now that Kevin Spacey faced dozens of allegations in 2017.
• Moral Event Horizon: He had been extorting food from the ants for years, but Hopper crosses this when he decides he's going to murder the queen.
• Needs More Love: In the Pixar Canon, this film seems to be the most forgotten.
  • In the documentary The Pixar Story John Lasseter, and many of the other animators give off a sense that this movie is an Old Shame. One of the animators explained that they spent more time trying to make the movie better than Toy Story, instead of simply trying to make the film good in its own right.
  • It worked out in the end, despite a couple of cold hard truths. This particular movie is very touching.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: One of the reasons why the film is still talked about is the production feud between it and Antz.
• Values Resonance: The ants standing up for themselves against the grasshoppers aged well.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Francis
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The computer animation was a step up from the first Toy Story and still holds up.
• What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: Hopper's speech about "keeping those ants in line." It's been regarded as a metaphor for everything from the distribution of wealth to the alleged "New World Order."
• The Woobie: Flik.

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