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* [[A Boy and His X]]/[[Interspecies Friendship]]: The titular characters.
* [[Angry Guard Dog]]: The dingoes.
* [[Animal Stampede]]: All of the animals do this when they say that there's danger.
* [[Art Shift]]: The Aboriginal cave drawings in The Bunyip Song.
* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]: In the Council of the Animals scene, there was a rabbit. Rabbits
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The kangaroo shows Dot on how everything does.
* [[Beserk Button]]: Mr. Platypus dislikes books written about him.
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* [[The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Willy saying to Dot that the kangaroo was going home (which is the bush) and must have her freedom.
* [[Cowardly Lion]]: Dot has odiophobia and the kangaroo has cynophobia. (Kangaroos are well known to be prey of dingoes.)
* [[Creepy Crows]]:
* [[Crosscast Role]]: The Kangaroo is clearly played by a male in the live action footage.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Dot's parents and grandfather are worried about Dot. Her mother even cries over Dot.
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* [[Disney Villain Death]]: One of the dingoes does this.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: A willy wagtail named Willy Wagtail.
* [[Downer Beginning]]
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: The sleepy koala has this twice.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: The kangaroo having a cut and bleeding after climbing off the cliff.
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* [[Grumpy Bear]]: Mr. Platypus.
* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Dot touched a bandicoot and scaring him and she laughed at him but the bandicoot doesn't think it's funny.
* [["I Am" Song]]: "[[Frogs and Toads|I'm a Frog]]", "[[Everything's Better with Platypi|Platypus Duet]]" and "[[Bluebird of Happiness|Clickety-Click]]".
* [[Intellectual Animal]]
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]
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* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: The kangaroo does this.
* [[Mama Bear]]: The kangaroo acts as a mother figure to Dot besides being her guide.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: The kangaroo first appeared when she pokes Dot in the elbow, startling her.
* [[Ominous Owl]]: During the part where Dot got lost in the gully. Later averted when the owl named Mopoke was just singing his song for he's a [[The Owl-Knowing One|great artist]].
* [[Parental Love Song]]: Dreamtime; the opening credits song.
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* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Dot.
* [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Mopoke says that he's just a singer at night. This included the song "[[
* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: Dot. In the book, the kangaroo fed Dot some [[Applied Phlebotinum|berries]] which Dot had to keep eating in order to prolong the effects. In the film, she fed her a root and the effect was permenant, but she must not eat anymore of that and the warning is "If you eat too much, you'll know too much."
* [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: After Dot got in the kangaroo's pouch, she sings the song "In the Pouch of a Red Kangaroo". The ducks sing a song about themselves being thirsty and frightened called "Quack Ducks". The platypuses show Dot on how it's done with their appearences, what they do and how they're discovered in the song "The Platypus Duet".
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