History Anime / PorcoRosso

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* IWorkAlone: Porco's refusal to join the Italian air force.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The sky pirates.

->''"I'd much rather be a pig than a fascist."''
-->-- Marco Pagot

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Porco tells Fio he's a known womanizer who lives on a small island in a tent. Her response? "That's OK, I like camping."

* LennonSpecs: Porco Rosso wears these as well. You never actually see him (in present time) without them, except once - in a mirror, and he's squinting. When they break, he has such a shiner underneath that it doesn't count. So no, you never see Porco's eyes until Fio kisses him.

Miyazaki had expressed interest in making a sequel. He planned to set it in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, and Porco would have been older.

->''"I'd much rather be a pig than a facist."''

* JustPlaneWrong: Porco's plane is identified as a Savoia S-21. That's a real plane, but it doesn't look like the one in the movie; the real one was a biplane rather than a monoplane. It was also pretty much the flying equivalent of TheAllegedCar-- difficult and unforgiving to fly, to the point that only one pilot ever had any success with it.

* OliveGarden: Every stereotype you know about pre-WWII Italy is milked, although it's done so well you can't complain.

* AuthorAppeal: Miyazaki ''loves'' Italy and aviation (see MeaningfulName).
** Also pigs.

* AlternateHistory: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film is set in [[{{Ruritania}} a monarchy in the Adriatic]] that, aalthough Italian-speaking and in the process of [[DayOfTheJackboot a Fascist takeover]], is ''not'' part of Fascist Italy proper. They appear to give refuge to Porco and [[DieselPunk seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy]], whereas Fascist Italy (as well as the native Fascists) wish to arrest the former and crack down on the latter. This is further evidenced by the nation's blue-yellow-blue tricolour and its Fascist movement's love for green and purple, which make Yugoslavia or Greece equally unlikely locales. Also, they have [[FictionalCurrency a lizard in a military uniform on their money]].

* AlternateHistory: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film is set in [[{{Ruritania}} a monarchy in the adriatic]] that, although everyone speaks Italian and that is in the process of [[DayOfTheJackboot a Fascist takeover]], is ''not'' part of Fascist Italy proper. They appear to give refuge to Porco and [[DieselPunk seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy]], whereas Fascist Italy (as well as the native Fascists) wish to arrest the former and crack down on the latter. This is further evidenced by the nation's blue-yellow-blue tricolour and its Fascist movement's love for green and purple, which make Yugoslavia or Greece equally unlikely locales. Also, they have [[FictionalCurrency a lizard in a military uniform on their money]].

* AlternateHistory: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film is set in [[{{Ruritania}} a monarchy in the adriatic]] that, although everyone speaks Italian and that is in the process of [[DayOfTheJackboot a Fascist takeover]], is ''not'' part of Italy proper. They appear to give refuge to Porco and [[DieselPunk seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy]], whereas Fascist Italy (as well as the native Fascists) wish to arrest the former and crack down on the latter. This is further evidenced by the nation's blue-yellow-blue tricolour and its Fascist movement's love for green and purple, which make Yugoslavia or Greece equally unlikely locales. Also, they have [[FictionalCurrency a lizard in a military uniform on their money]].

* AlternateHistory: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film is set in a monarchy in the adriatic that, although everyone speaks Italian and that is in the process of [[DayOfTheJackboot a Fascist takeover]], is ''not'' part of Italy proper. They appear to give refuge to Porco and [[DieselPunk seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy]], whereas Fascist Italy (as well as the native Fascists) wish to arrest the former and crack down on the latter. This is further evidenced by the nation's blue-yellow-blue tricolour and its Fascist movement's love for green and purple, which make Yugoslavia or Greece equally unlikely locales. Also, they have [[FictionalCurrency a lizard in a military uniform on their money]].

* AlternateHistory: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film is set in a monarchy in the adriatic that, although everyone speaks Italian and that is in the process of [[DayOfTheJackboot a Fascist takeover]], is ''not'' part of Italy proper. They appear to give refuge to Porco and [[DieselPunk seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy]], whereas Fascist Italy's seen cracking down on both. This is further evidenced by the nation's blue-yellow-blue tricolour and its Fascist movement's love for green and purple, which make Yugoslavia or Greece equally unlikely locales. Also, they have [[FictionalCurrency a lizard in a military uniform on their money]].

* AlternateHistory: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film is set in a monarchy in the adriatic that, although everyone speaks Italian and that is in the process of [[DayOfTheJackboot a Fascist takeover]], is ''not'' part of Italy proper. They appear to give refuge to Porco and [[DieselPunk seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy]], whereas Fascist Italy's seen cracking down on both. This is further evidenced by the nation's blue-yellow-blue tricolour and its Fascist movement's love for green and purple, which make Yugoslavia or Greece equally unlikely locales.

* AlternateHistory: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film is set in a monarchy in the adriatic that, although everyone speaks Italian and that is in the process of DayOfTheJackboot a Fascist takeover]], is ''not'' part of Italy proper. They appear to give refuge to both Porco (who's wanted for desertion in Italy) and [[DieselPunk seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy]]. This is further evidenced by the nation's blue-yellow-blue tricolour and its Fascist movement's love for green and purple, which make Yugoslavia or Greece equally unlikely locales.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Curtis -- pointedly known as "The American" -- and his well-meaning but ham-handed attempt to curtail some rudeness. When a couple of loudmouth reporters try to interview Porco in the middle of Gina's song, Curtis walks over, hoists them into the air, carries them away, and then slams them down at another table with a parting warning to shut up, inadvertently causing a much larger scene than the one he was trying to prevent.

* SingleWomenSeeksGoodMan: Fio and Gina see past Porco's rough traits and love him as a good person.

* NoPlaceForMeThere: Porco seems to feel this way about human society due to his guilt and his curse. He does live alone on an island after all.

** The night before the big dogfight, Porco is seen manually inspecting and polishing the machine gun rounds he bought. This was something some WWI fighter pilots actually did - tolerances on the machines that made the bullets weren't very good back then, so they had to make sure that the rounds they loaded into their guns would actually fit the barrel and not jam.