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* [[Creepy Crows]]: Played straight during the part where Dot was lost in the gully. Averted with the crow who was one of the animals that are discovering the kangaroo.
* [[Crosscast Role]]: The Kangaroo is clearly played by a male in the live action footage.
* [[The Cutie]]:
** Dot.
** Some of the forest animals.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Dot's parents and grandfather are worried about Dot. Her mother even cries over Dot.
** Dot also had this during the opening credits, when she got lost in the
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: The Bunyip Song.
* [[Disney Death]]: One of the frogs at the end of the song "I'm a Frog".
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* [[Downer Beginning]]/[[Dream Sequence]]: During the opening credits, Dot was crying when she got lost in the gully. After the opening credits, Dot thought "Please mother, I won't be long." with "long" echoing. But it turns out that she's dreaming. Dot was actually at her house.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: The sleepy koala has this twice.
* [[Eat the Camera]]: The bunyip during the song "The Bunyip Song".
* [[Expy]]:
** Dot is [[Heidi]]: They are barefoot and cuties. (Except that Dot has parents and grandfather, while Heidi has a grandfather and aunt.)
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The titular characters. (Although Dot has no eyelashes, she was averted when Dot behaves like a normal human girl. The kangaroo however plays straight with being the Girly Girl.)
* [[Toon Transformation]]: Inverted to Live-Action Transformation; the kangaroo turns from animated to live-action when she left.
* [[Toothy Bird]]:
* [[Wangst]]: Dot cries for the kangaroo and wants her to come back in the ending.
{{quote|'''Dot''': She's not here. She's gone. Where are you? Come back. Come back. Come back.
'''Willy''': Dot. Dot, please don't be sad. Your kangaroo must have her freedom. Must live her own life. She's going home and her home is the bush. (begins to leave) Kangaroo must have her freedom. ("freedom" echoing; followed by chirps as the sad music begins to play) (the kangaroo turns live action)
'''Dot''': Kangaroo! Kangaroo, come back! KANGAROO! COME BACK! OH, KANGAROO! Oh, kangaroo. Kangaroo. (begins to cry) I love you so much. (sobs) Come, come back, please. (cries) Oh, kangaroo. Kangaroo? ([[Downer Ending|Dot weeps as the scene cuts to the end credits]])}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
** Dot's basket appeared once and never seen again throughout the film.
** In the end, Dot's parents and granduncle disappear immediately just as Dot was about to have the kangaroo meet her parents before she realized that the kangaroo disappeared.
*** As for the kangaroo in the end, [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Willy as he tells Dot that the kangaroo must have her freedom and she's going home.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Dot is shown to have a fear of snakes and she got encountered by it.
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