Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea: Difference between revisions

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Lisa. She accepts Ponyo pretty easily, works with the elderly, and even defends weeds from (suspected) pesticides.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Ponyo. She is a 5-year-old, after all.

* [[Gonk]]: The baby. Of all the places to avert [[Generic Cuteness]]. (A very mild example.)

* [[Green Aesop]]: Although not entirely: the point seems to be that despite pollution, [[Humans Are Bastards|humans are NOT bastards]] -- at least not individually.

* [[Hot Dad]]: Fujimoto, Glam-rock star of the sea. In the Finnish dub, he is voiced by Ismo Alanko, who is literally a rock star (by Finnish standards).

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]:

** Played straight with Ponyo and Sosuke at first.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Subverted and [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]]. Fujimoto is resentful towards humans for polluting the sea, yet when Ponyo falls in love with Sosuke he is forced to rethink. By the end he sees how, despite doing some messed up stuff as a whole, humans individually can be nice guys. Probably not incidentally, Ponyo's first encounter with humans is a trawling ship ''cleaning up'' junk and sludge from the ocean.

* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Only children can see that the waves have eyes... And only a single one of the elderly ladies seems at all confused at the fact that Sosuke's goldfish has a ''human head''.

* [[Iris Out]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Fujimoto mentions offhandedly that he plans to eradicate human civilization by using magic to create a new era of sea life. This is quickly derailed by Ponyo in her eagerness to return to the surface. As a result, prehistoric fish appear (specifically Devonian, even though he mentions the Cambrian Explosion) but humanity goes on.

* [[Large Ham]]: Ponyo, with emphasis on '''HAAAAAAAAAM!!!'''

* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: Fujimoto is rather fond of clown-like striped suits.

* [[Running Gag]]: "'''[[No Indoor Voice|HAM!!!]]'''"

* [[Scenery Porn]]: [[Captain Obvious|It's a]] [[Studio Ghibli|Ghibli]] [[Captain Obvious|movie]]. Though it's a different flavor than usual.

** Fujimoto's ship looks like a boat crossed with a [[Castle in The Sky|flaptor]].

** The old ladies' knick-knack shelf has a mini-[[Spirited Away (Anime)|bird god]] in it.

** The little girl, Kumiko, who Ponyo drenches with water, resembles a young [[Kiki's Delivery Service|Kiki]].

** The family with the baby resemble Satsuki, Mei and their father from [[My Neighbor Totoro]].

* [[Sleep Cute]]

* [[Soft Water]]: Waves fell all over the city, but little apparent damage was wrought.