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[[Walt Disney]] is famous for characters who are a [[Friend to All Living Things]], which always lead to a signature moment. This is the moment where for some reason, [[Woodland Creatures|sweet woodland critters]] [[All Animals Are Domesticated|help the heroine with tasks that birds and deer wouldn't normally do]]. Maybe the animals hang around just to chirp a sweet song to make the heroine smile while she's working. Or maybe they show up to celebrate a particularly happy moment with their Friend. Usually accompanied by some whimsical musical arrangement or singing (expect the animals to sing back). This moment is common in the early [[Disney Animated Canon]] (and some [[Mary Poppins|live action too]]).
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== [[Film]] ==
* A classic example is in ''[[Nine to Five]]'', when Lily Tomlin's character is fantasizing about poisoning her boss, with a group of Disney-esque animals watching and encouraging as she prepares to do so. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19GOqAeT6Q Watch it here]. She's even wearing a Snow White costume!
* Giselle in Disney's ''[[Enchanted]]'' starts off as a straight example of [[Friend to All Living Things]], but when she ends up in the [[Real Life|Real World]] and summons cockroaches, pigeons, flies and rats to clean the apartment...[[Fridge Logic|yes, you read that right]]. Cockroaches and rats are a lot cleaner than most people give them credit for (both stay clean in much the same way as your average house cat does) but it's still pretty [[
* In ''[[Shrek]]'', Fiona ends up singing with a bird... then she causes it to explode with a high note, so she cooks its eggs for breakfast.
** Done again in the third movie, when (Shrek's version of) Snow White sends the mob of animals she gathers charging at some guards, to [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "Immigrant Song," no less.
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** What really makes it disturbing is that the viewer knows all along that she was going to do this. You can't help but feel a glimmer of hope in this song... and then she viciously murders the innocent bird. Which Roger proceeds to devour.
*** Francine is the adopted daughter of Chinese chefs, so she's been around a lot of dead birds.
* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'', Princess Clara (an [[Expy]] of [[Disney Princess
** Then she kills the last of the critters so he won't tell the others.
* The Woodland Critters from ''[[South Park]]'' are a subtler, but clear parody of this... Stan realizes this when they tell him they want to bring about the birth of the Anti-Christ (a much less-subtle [[Take That]] at Disney).
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