Fantastic Mr. Fox: Difference between revisions

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* [[Be Yourself]]: Deconstructed. Mrs. Fox forcing her husband to not Be Himself is what kicks off the plot, and his [[Snap Back]] has fairly dramatic consequences, including {{spoiler|her regretting their marriage}}. The benefit of following this trope is ambiguous.

* [[Big Thin Short Trio]]: Boggis, Bunce and Bean (One fat, one short, one lean).

* [[Big, Thin, Short Trio]]: Boggis, Bunce and Bean (One fat, one short, one lean).

* [[Bishonen]]: Kristofferson is somewhat like [[Furry Fandom|the fox version]] of this, with a tall, thin build (perfect for [[Waif Fu]]), [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|light-colored fur]], and a soft-spoken [[Celibate Hero]].

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Best emphasized by Mr. Fox's toast. While earlier he was toasting to their victory, at the end he simply toasts to their survival.

** {{spoiler|Of course. It's away from predators and it's within walking distance of an endless food supply, which is so massive that the meager amounts of food needed to feed everyone would easily go unnoticed. It makes perfect sense. They're actually ''better off'' than they were before.}}

* [[Bratty Half Pint]]: Ash is actually older than his cousin, but fits this trope to a T, at least until character development kicks in.

* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Ash is actually older than his cousin, but fits this trope to a T, at least until character development kicks in.

* [[The Cameo]]: Wes Anderson as Weasel, Owen Wilson as Coach Skip, Mario Batali as Chef Rabbit and Adrien Brody as Rickity the Field Mouse.

** In an interview, Bill Murray jokes that he also stood in for the wolf during filming.

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* [[Hot Mom]]: Mrs. Fox is apparently this in-universe for the animal characters.

** And a [[Furry Fandom|prominent]] few of the viewers.

* [[How Do You Like Them Apples]]: Mr. Fox is shown biting into an apple at the beginning of the film, shortly before getting trapped and setting off the plot.

* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: Mr. Fox is shown biting into an apple at the beginning of the film, shortly before getting trapped and setting off the plot.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Subverted. The only humans portrayed in a negative light are the three greedy and incredibly wealthy farmers, and even then, Bean is the only farmer who is really ''evil''.

** Bean also has the tunnel vision, intense focus, and general demeanor of a violent alcoholic with a hair trigger. Plausible for someone who is said to live on his own hard cider.

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* [[No Smoking]]/[[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: Averted in place of [[Smoking Is Cool]] (see below). In fact, when one character confuses containers of ''very'' hard cider for apple juice, his error is ''enthusiastically corrected'' by others.

* [[Off the Wagon]]: Actually stated by Mr. Fox when he's apologizing to his wife about stealing birds again. Has nothing to do with the tobacco or alcohol in the film.

* [[One Dimensional Thinking]]: Down, until the siege.

* [[One-Dimensional Thinking]]: Down, until the siege.

* [[One Last Job]]: Narrative basis of the story, exact words used. Goes about as well as expected.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Owen Wilson's character of Coach Skip functions as this, appearing apparently only to explain (if at all) the rules of Whackbat.

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* [[Scars Are Forever]]: {{spoiler|Mr Fox's tail becomes detachable, permanently. Also the cut Mrs. Fox gives him that remains throughout the film.}}

* [[Second Face Smoke]]: Present if a little modified in Mr Bean's critique of a freestyle song.

* [[Shout Out]]: One of the songs is from another animated film with foxy leads, Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney)|Robin Hood]]''. There's also nods to that other [[Oceans Eleven|caper movie]] where George Clooney's character gives up his thievery to be with his wife, only to fall back into it and put everyone in danger.

* [[Shout-Out]]: One of the songs is from another animated film with foxy leads, Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney)|Robin Hood]]''. There's also nods to that other [[Oceans Eleven|caper movie]] where George Clooney's character gives up his thievery to be with his wife, only to fall back into it and put everyone in danger.

** There's also one to [[Rebel Without a Cause]]: During one of Mr. and Mrs. Fox's arguments, Kylie appears wearing a red blanket, quoting Dean's famous speech "You say one thing, he says another, and everybody changes back again!", only missing the infamous "You're tearing me apart!".

** The shop outside which Fox and Kylie steal the motorbike is called [[Paddington Bear (Literature)|Padington]] Cycles.

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* [[The Stoic]]: Boggis and Bunce, especially Bunce, whose sour expression never changes once. Bean tries to be like this, but he has a [[Hair-Trigger Temper|violent temper]] that comes out more than once.

* [[Supreme Chef]]: Rabbit, voiced by Mario Batali.

* [[Take Me Instead]]: Mr. Fox at first decides to hand himself in to save the others -- {{spoiler|until he hears his son, who is being kidnapped by Rat, cry for help.}}

* [[Take Me Instead!]]: Mr. Fox at first decides to hand himself in to save the others -- {{spoiler|until he hears his son, who is being kidnapped by Rat, cry for help.}}

* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Rat seems to consider himself this, though how much the third requirement actually applies is questionable.

* [[Time Skip]]: The intro is two years (twelve fox years) before the rest of the film.

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* [[Tunnel King]]

* [[Two of Your Earth Minutes]]: Time in the film is often measured in both human and fox measurements (e.g. two human years is equal to twelve fox years).

* [[The Unfavourite]]: Ash considers himself this, seeing himself inferior to his athletic and more popular cousin, and his father's attitude towards said cousin doesn't help. Which leads to [[Bratty Half Pint]] (see above).

* [[The Unfavourite]]: Ash considers himself this, seeing himself inferior to his athletic and more popular cousin, and his father's attitude towards said cousin doesn't help. Which leads to [[Bratty Half-Pint]] (see above).

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Throughout the movie, every possible cuss word that could have been possibly used is literally replaced with the word 'cuss'. Leads to a very funny moment when the word is seen grafittied on a city wall.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Fox tries to [[Forced Meme|force]] one.

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