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** Happens to Nemo at the start of the film, where her father dies. She becomes withdrawn and refuses to sail anymore, or interact with anyone.
** Philip reveals that this happened when his brother Peter got married. Even though he knows that Peter was an adult and free to marry the woman he loved, Philip still felt abandoned, and gave up his dreams of grandeur and adventure. {{spoiler|His sleepless nights also led to Flip being unable to wake up and forget who he is.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gag]]: Flip mentions offhandedly that a lot of Canadians dream about flying on giant geese. When it turns out the last door before the sea of nightmares is in one of these dreams, Nemo gets the idea to "borrow" a goose named Bob from the dreamer.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** Philip's lockpicks. Knowing that what she takes with her to bed will appear in the real world, Nemo asks politely to borrow them for school. {{spoiler|She uses them, and imitates Philip's catchphrase, "Who, Houdini? Me Houdini" when busting Flip out of dream prison.}}
** Pig's ability to swallow and regurgitate objects. As Agent Green points out, {{spoiler|he swallowed one pearl and gets it to Nemo when she thinks she had to sacrifice her Pearl to save Flip from the nightmare.}}
* [[Cool Uncle]]: Philip wants to be this, but he knows that he is a boring person. He's also not equipped to take in his preteen niece. When he does lose his temper at her, he admits that he is at a complete loss on how to handle her grief, and his. The end of the movie shows that {{spoiler|thanks to Nemo helping Flip wake up}}, he has become this role, with confidence.
* [[Face Your Fears]]: Philip is revealed to be afraid of the water, or sailing, which makes his buying a boat for Nemo a sweet gesture. That his brother drowned at sea didn't help. {{spoiler|He dives into the stormy ocean, without his life jacket, to rescue his niece from suffering the same fate.}}
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* [[Relative Button]]: It's revealed that {{spoiler|Flip's button is the night that Peter left him. When Nemo innocently suggests that he could use the pearls to return to the real world, Flip says he doesn't want that. It was Peter leaving that caused Philip to stop sleeping and for Flip to not wake up. The thought of returning to that pain causes Flip anguish and he says he needs to go find a dream that has a bar.}}
* [[Shoo the Dog]]: Realizing that {{spoiler|he can't enter the Sea of Nightmares and Nemo will die if she goes in alone, Flip tosses away the yarn on his hand and makes her wake up, telling her not to come back to the Sea.}}
* [[Stealth Mentor]]: Implied with Agent Green at the end of the movie; she congratulates Nemo for {{spoiler|facing the nightmare and using her pearl to save Flip, realizing that her uncle's dream self waking up was more important than reuniting with her dead father. Agent Green implies that she played the part of the [[Hero Antagonist]] to help Flip return to the waking world and for Nemo to process her grief.}}
* [[Tomato In The Mirror]]: Flip refuses to believe that {{spoiler|he is Philip the doorknob seller, and Peter's brother. While he's very muted about it, it's the realization that he didn't wake up because Peter left him, in the real and the dream world. He goes to an apocalypse dream to party after forcing Nemo to wake up and telling her the Sea is too dangerous to navigate alone. It takes the Bureau spreading news that Nemo returned to the Sea of Nightmares once she got to bed for Flip to snap out of it, fly a plane, and provide backup for her.}}
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