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* [[Animal Stampede]]: All of the animals do this when they say that there's danger.
* [[Animal Stampede]]: All of the animals do this when they say that there's danger.
* [[Art Shift]]: The Aboriginal cave drawings in The Bunyip Song.
* [[Art Shift]]: The Aboriginal cave drawings in The Bunyip Song.
* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]: Willy Wagtail is shown to be friendly to Dot, but in real life, willie wagtails are aggressive to humans.
* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]:
** Willy Wagtail is shown to be friendly to Dot, but in real life, willie wagtails are aggressive to humans.
** The emus are all brown and have yellow beaks; they're even shown without wings. In real life, they are brown with pale blue necks and show through their sparse feathers and the shafts and the tips of the feathers are black. They even have wings.
*** Averted in the book; the emu have their appearences.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The kangaroo shows Dot on how everything does.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The kangaroo shows Dot on how everything does.
* [[Beserk Button]]: Mr. Platypus dislikes books written about him.
* [[Beserk Button]]: Mr. Platypus dislikes books written about him.
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* [[Big Good]]: The kangaroo.
* [[Big Good]]: The kangaroo.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Played straight with Dot falling inbetween two trees and stepping on something sharp; averted with the kangaroo successfully climbing off the cliff and in the book with Dot having her dress torn to rags and scratching her bare legs and feet till they bled and the kangaroo having her mouth bleeding.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Played straight with Dot falling inbetween two trees and stepping on something sharp; averted with the kangaroo successfully climbing off the cliff and in the book with Dot having her dress torn to rags and scratching her bare legs and feet till they bled and the kangaroo having her mouth bleeding.
* [[Book Ends]]: The opening and ending scenes feature Dot crying. Both of which are Tear Jerkers.
* [[Book Ends]]: The opening and ending scenes feature Dot crying.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Played straight in the book, where Dot, the kangaroo and her joey say goodbye to each other. Averted in the film, where the kangaroo just left for her home.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Played straight in the book, where Dot, the kangaroo and her joey say goodbye to each other. Averted in the film, where the kangaroo just left for her home.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Dot in the ending.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Dot in the ending.
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: A pair of eyes appear during The Bunyip Song.
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: A pair of eyes appear during The Bunyip Song.
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: The bunyip, Mrs. Platypus, the ducks, the owl and the crows.
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: The bunyip, Mrs. Platypus, the ducks and the crows.
* [[Character Title]]/[[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]
* [[Character Title]]/[[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Willy Wagtail. (Although that he's a smart bird.)
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Willy Wagtail. (Although that he's a smart bird.)
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* [[Kangaroo Pouch Ride]]: Dot was given a ride in the kangaroo's pouch and she sang a song about it and the song's called "In the Pouch of a Red Kangaroo". In the book it was called "As a Dear Big, Bounding Kangaroo".
* [[Kangaroo Pouch Ride]]: Dot was given a ride in the kangaroo's pouch and she sang a song about it and the song's called "In the Pouch of a Red Kangaroo". In the book it was called "As a Dear Big, Bounding Kangaroo".
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: While played straight because the setting is Australia, the kangaroo's actress was averted; her actress was British.
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: While played straight because the setting is Australia, the kangaroo's actress was averted; her actress was British.
* [[Kick the Dog]]:
* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: The kangaroo does this.
* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: The kangaroo does this.
* [[Mama Bear]]: The kangaroo acts as a mother figure to Dot besides being her guide.
* [[Mama Bear]]: The kangaroo acts as a mother figure to Dot besides being her guide.
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** The kangaroo rats singing "One Day When I Was Walking". (Inverted to Those Two Girls.)
** The kangaroo rats singing "One Day When I Was Walking". (Inverted to Those Two Girls.)
** The platypuses.
** The platypuses.
** In the book, there were two willie wagtails.
* [[Thunder Equals Downpour]]: It does this near the ending of the Council of the Animals scene.
* [[Thunder Equals Downpour]]: It does this near the ending of the Council of the Animals scene.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The titular characters. (Although Dot has no eyelashes, she was averted when Dot behaves like a normal human girl. The kangaroo however plays straight with being the Girly Girl.)
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The titular characters. (Although Dot has no eyelashes, she was averted when Dot behaves like a normal human girl. The kangaroo however plays straight with being the Girly Girl.)
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