How to Kill a Mockingbird

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"How To Kill A Mockingbird" is a 12 minute-long Flash movie made by Anthony Scodary and Nico Benitez. It centers on a book report of To Kill a Mockingbird made by a little boy who Did Not Do the Research, leading to Crazy Awesome results.

Tropes used in How to Kill a Mockingbird include:

• Abnormal Ammo - The guns on the pirates' laser swords shoot other swords.
• Achilles' Heel - The only way to kill a Mockingbird is by hitting it with the moon.
• Alternate Character Interpretation - And how.
• Detonation Moon - It's the only way to kill a Mockingbird.
• Deus Ex Nukina
• Did Not Do the Research - In multiple ways. Intentionally. The kid writing it only read the first chapter.
• Everything's Better with Dinosaurs
• Everything's Worse with Bears - Bears that are on fire.
• Everything's Even Worse with Sharks / Flying Seafood Special - The pirates ride on the backs of flying sharks.
  • That are on fire.
• Giant Flyer - The Mockingbird is a giant cyborg-bird monstrosity with two heads, one of which is that of Pat Sajak, and blades like those of a helicopter.
  • And it's on fire.
    • Cold fire
• Imperial China
• Incendiary Exponent - The sharks and bears are on fire, and the Mockingbird is on "cold fire".
• Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja
• Kill'Em All - Surprising, no?
• Laser Blade - The pirates' laser swords with guns on them. The mockingbird can shoot lightsabers out of its mouth.
  • Lightsabers that are on fire.
• Lens Flare - The flying pirate ship has a lens flare and motion blur, which is mentioned by the narrator.
• Made of Iron - The pirates can survive falling a million feet to the ground below, because they're pirates.
• Magical Negro - The mysterious slave woman.
• Ninja
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot - Quite possibly one of the most over-the-top examples ever made.
• Ominous Floating Castle - Which doubles as a time machine.
• Our Presidents Are Different - They're actually ninjas who transformed themselves into presidents. Wait, not presidents, I meant volcanoes.
• Pirate
• Pyrrhic Victory - The mockingbirds are apparently defeated, but almost everyone dies.
• Robotic Reveal - Scout is actually a robot guy.
• Rule of Cool
• Rule of Funny
• Sky Pirate - Boo Radley and his crew.
• Smoke Shield - Not only was the mockingbird unharmed, it had grown another head, which was even bigger-looking.
• So Bad It's Good - Intentionally.
• Sound in Space - But they really didn't care at that point.
• Space Pirates - The pirates go into space for the final battle.
• Stuff Blowing Up
• Time Travel
• Time Skip - There is a nine year time skip during the ninja vs. pirate battle.
• Trope Codifier - Given how old the short is, it could probably be this for Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot.
• Visual Pun - Dill is played by a pickle.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting - The ninjas transform into dinosaurs, fireballs, volcanoes, and presidents.
• You Fail Linguistics Forever - The book "How to kill a Mockingbird" is written in "African".