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* [[Meaningful Name]]: The last name of the human family who owns the house where the Clock family lives? The Lenders.
* [[The Millstone]]: Peagreen's two main functions in the movie is to be sarcastic and to [[Distressed Dude|get into trouble so the others will need to rescue him.]]
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* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Exterminator Jeff is a rather nice, friendly man who's fascinated by the Borrowers and is only helping Potter because he's been hired as a pest exterminator.
* [[Retro Universe]]: Seems to be set in one, complete with [[Zeppelins From Another World]] visible in the sky.
* [[Shout Out]]: The exterminator's appearance is not only a tribute to [[Ghostbusters]], but also to [[Arachnophobia]], which featured John Goodman as an exterminator.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Mr. Potter's starts early, but it never ends. By the end of the film, he seems to care about nothing except killing those Borrowers at any cost.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: The film's setting contains elements of the US and the UK with the use of both American and British actors adding to the ambiguity of it all.
* [[You Can't Miss It]]: John Goodman's character rudely asked a receptionist for directions to a room in the building and she replied by giving him a lot of complicated instructions, ending with "walk quickly". Later on, the Kid Hero politely asked for the same thing and this time she said "take the elevator to the top and walk straight ahead - "You can't miss it".
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* [[Race Lift]]: Professor Mildeye. In the books, Mildeye was a villainous [[Roma|Rom]]. In the movie he's a pompous scientist played by [[Stephen Fry]]. Basically the two characters have nothing in common apart from the name and the role as antagonist.
* [[Screening the Call]]: Arrietty is stated to have inherited a natural gift and thirst for adventure from her father. Pod, however, refuses to let her go out Borrowing, and unlike his book counterpart won't let himself be talked into it. He turns out to have his reasons.
* [[Soft Spoken Sadist]]: While she at first just seems to be a socially-awkward [[The Stoic|Stoic,]] Jenny reveals herself to be one. While Mildeye is simply interested in catching the Borrowers [[For Science!]] (and for personal glory), Jenny wants to kill and cut them up for the hell of it.
{{quote| '''Jenny:''' ''(pulling out a scalpel)'' Does this mean I get to dissect the little skebangas?<br />
'''Mildeye:''' ''(looking at the scalpel)'' I have to say I find it a little disconcerting that you had that quite so readily to hand. }}
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