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** When Robin first tells Nick about his mother, the limited details he gives paints a dark picture for the older fox. Robin never gets the impression that Nick thought his mother was a StrugglingSingleMother [[StrugglingSingleMother Struggling Single]] [[SingleMomStripper Mom Stripper]].
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* DirtyCop: {{Deconstructed}}. Judy has odd ties with Mr. Big beyond long-time friends with his MafiaPrincess. The two have a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ CodeOfHonor where he [[MoralityPet doesn't do anything illegal around her]] so she isn't [[ByTheBookCop obligated]] to look into him. At most, she is willing to give Fru-Fru a warning beforehand if they had evidence against her father. Nick doesn't think it's a nuanced as that when he first finds out.
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* DirtyCop: {{Deconstructed}}. Judy has odd ties with Mr. Big beyond being long-time friends with his MafiaPrincess. The two have a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ CodeOfHonor where he [[MoralityPet doesn't do anything illegal around her]] so she isn't [[ByTheBookCop obligated]] to look into him. At most, she is willing to give Fru-Fru a warning beforehand if they had evidence against her father. Nick doesn't think it's a nuanced as that when he first finds out.
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* ExtyYearsFromPublication: The majority of the FanFic takes place in May and June of 2017, the same year the first few chapters of were posted ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse''.
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->''Judy never meets Nick on that fateful day at Jumbeaux’s ice-cream parlor. In fact, she doesn’t meet him until much later. However, her life still ended up getting turned upside down. It seems Nick isn’t the only fox who managed to get into her heart.''
-->--Summary from Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11430660 Fox in the Bunnyhouse]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' FanFic written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/BookWorm07 BookWorm07]], being the [[OneBookAuthor sole work by the author]].
In this fanfiction, Judy Hopps joins the ZPD at a time where mammals aren't going missing throughout Zootopia. ForWantOfANail, Judy rescues an orphaned baby fox on her first real assignment, changing her future by adopting the kit as her son, [[OriginalCharacter Robin Hopps]]. Only after a few years does she meet Nick Wilde when the predators start to disappear and go savage, but now they have seven-year-old Robin in their lives to protect... [[DramaticIrony but they don't know the other knows the kit.]]
Uploaded to Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn starting on July 7th, 2017, ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' was [[CompletedFic completed]] February 24th, 2021, ending with a wordcount of 101,626 across twenty-four chapters. The story went dormant after Chapter Fourteen in May 2018 but returned with the remaining ten chapters in February 2021. Goes to show that a Dormant Fic isn't always a DeadFic.
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!! ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' contains examples of:
* ActionMom: Judy becomes this once she adopts Robin and is given actual police work. She is willing to do anything for Robin; whether it's telling anyone from her father to the mayor to suck it or [[spoiler:fighting a savage fox and a flock of sheep terrorists to get her son back.]]
* ActuallyIAmHer: Nick doesn't find out Judy is Robin's mother until the second to last chapter. Judy [[PlayedForLaughs Plays it For Laughs]] by ObfuscatingStupidity until she lets her son introduce them each other, resulting in the following of Robin's dialogue interspersed with Nick's InnerMonologue.
-->“Mom,” ''[[FlatWhat wait, what?]]'' “this is one of my best friends, Nick. Nick,” ''hold on'' “this is my mom,” ''come again?'' “Officer Judy Hopps” ''there is no way'' “with the ZPD.”
-->Judy said nothing, a [[SmugSmiler sly smirk]] curling one side of her muzzle.
** To a lesser extent, Judy tries to find Otterton by finding the creator of the pawpsicles. While she does meet Nick in the process, she [[SubvertedTrope doesn't connect the two]] and gives up on that lead. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubverted At least]] until Mr. Big presents her with Nick and tells him he's a ConArtist and the one responsible for making the Pawpsicles.]]
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Fru-Fru introduces Judy to Mr. Manchas so he can chauffer Robin to the Big Estate so he can be watched while Judy is away at work.
* AdaptationalLateAppearance: Nick doesn't appear until Chapter Ten, prefaced by TheStinger of the previous chapter.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Chief Bogo. When Judy stands by her decision of adopting Robin, he gives her paid leave to adjust her living situations, [[JustifiedTrope Justifying]] his leniency because he can't fire a woman for having a child, and giving her the chance to further her career for her child's sake. Following the big TimeSkip and gaining seven years of respect for Judy, he comes to recognize her as one of his most competent and valued officers (but still [[GoodIsNotNice gets snappy sometimes]]).
* AdaptationalTimespanChange: It takes seven years for the conflict of the movie to arise.
* AdaptedOut
** [[ChekhovsGunman Duke Weaselton]] has no involvement in the endangerment of Fru-Fru's life nor the night howler plot, and doesn't appear at any point in the FanFic.
** Due to having access to the police database, Judy never encounters [[SluggishSloths Flash Slothmore]] to run limo plates for her, neither is she shown stopping him for [[DrivesLikeCrazy drag racing]].
** Lionheart's wolves are never so much as mentioned, but {{Implied}} to be involved as the Missing Mammals incident is even occurring in the first place.
* AdoptionDiss: {{Inverted}}. Robin's peers don't bully him for being adopted (just other reasons), but some of Judy's family were initially unsupportive of her decision to adopt him.
* AdoptionIsNotAnOption: {{Averted}} hard with this story. In fact, Judy adopting Robin was a somewhat impulsive option. [[spoiler:She puts it on the table years later, when she asks her husband Nick what he thinks about adopting a second child.]]
* AdoptiveNameChange: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Helen Foxgrove never completed her grandson's birth certificate before she died, so Judy ends up naming him Robin when she adopts him.
* AffectionateNickname: Robin gets a few.
** Judy calls Robin her little "Bottlebrush" due to his fluffy tail.
** [[TheCynic Nick]], a bit uncomfortable at first with the kid's name meaning JustLikeRobinHood, takes to calling him "Red".
---> “Don’t worry about it, Red, it’s a compliment to be given a ''[[{{Pun}} Nick]]''-Name.”
** Clawhauser also takes to calling him "Blue Eyes".
* AgeLift: As the AdaptationalTimespanChange adds seven years to the story, Judy and Nick are now thirty-one and thirty-nine instead of twenty-four and thirty-two for the majority of the FanFic. [[spoiler:The HappyEnding sees the Hopps-Wilde family celebrating Nick's forty-second birthday.]]
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: {{Averted}}. At one point Judy recalls her experience celebrating her coworker [[HonorableElephant Francine]]'s 33rd birthday, and by doing the math, [[spoiler:Nick is celebrating his 42nd birthday at the story's end.]]
* AggressiveCategorism: Lots of mammals consider all foxes [[FoulFox foul]], [[CunningLikeAFox cunning]] creatures not the be trusted, with some {{Jerkass}}es unable to see an infant fox as nothing more than a future criminal. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], some of the {{Hypocrite}}s preaching this are doing things worse than anything any fox does in in this story.
* AllLovingHero: [[spoiler:After narrowly surviving Bellwether and her cronies' attempt on her and her son's lives, Judy still gives her detainees [[TheMedic medical attention]] for the wounds they sustained from Nick going [[ChemicallyInducedInsanity savage on them]].]]
* AllForNothing: A low-stakes example. Judy tries to find out who created the Pawpsicle Mr. Otteron bought, but can't and gives up on that lead and — from questioning Yax and then Mr. Big — learns that Manchas was the last to see Emmit Otterton. [[spoiler:When Mr. Big recognizes the Pawpsicle and brings Nick in to tell Judy what he knows about Otteron, Judy is already ahead of him and that information is useless.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The kids in Robin's after-school soccer team avoid playing with him. When Robin tries to [[ChildrenAreInnocent give them the benefit of the doubt]] and tell them he knows how to play, his teammates tell him they won't play with him because their parents told them foxes are liars and cheats. Their harsh words lead Robin to skip his afterschool activities from then on, instead hanging out with Nick.
* AlmightyMom: On-duty Officer Judy Hopps gives the mayor TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for proposing a bill set to oppress her son when he's older should it pass.
* AnonymousPublicPhoneCall: {{Defied}} by [[spoiler:[[TheStoolPigeon Officer Swinton]] when she leaks Manchas' condition to [[AlphabetNewsNetwork ZNN]], as to identify herself as a reputable source for the claim predators are going savage. This [[HoistByHisOwnPetard bites her in the ass]] as it leads Internal Affairs directly after her for publicizing confidential medical records.]]
* ApatheticClerk: The receptionist at child services doesn't bother with arranging an interview or doing a background check on Judy when she requests to adopt Robin; the sheep is just glad that the fox will be some one else's problem. Judy even {{Lampshades}} this apparent error.
* AscendedToCarnivorism: With her son's nutritional needs and the hassle of having to cook separate dishes, Judy started eating food with crickets in it. What started as a [[IAteWhat mistake]] turned into a frugal decision (with a hint of GuiltyPleasure).
* BerserkButton: Seeing others experience FantasticRacism becomes a bigger trigger for Judy than [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating her]]; directing it towards her son makes her ''[[MamaBear livid]]''.
* BigWhat: [[ToBeContinued Chapter Twenty ends]]/[[PreviouslyOn Chapter Twenty-One begins]] with one. [[spoiler:Judy gives it when Nick bluffs that her son is ''his son''.]]
* BlandNameProduct
** “For a headache, I usually just take a couple Tylionol.”
** Alligatorade. Come on, that one's not even a mammal pun; it's a reptile! ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment And Gatorade is already named after gators!]]''
* BlindedByTheLight: To buy time until the TranquilizerDart subdues Manchas, Nick sets his cellphone's flashlight to [[EpilepticFlashingLights strobe setting]] to disorientate the savage jaguar until he loses consciousness.
* BluffingTheAuthorities: PlayedForLaughs and [[PlayedForDrama Drama]]. [[spoiler:Following Robin's kitnapping, Nick lies to Judy ([[DramaticIrony who he doesn't know is Robin's mother]]) that ''he's his father'' so she'll let him help rescue him. Judy know its BlatantLies and makes Nick [[SnowballLie dig himself deeper]] to find out what his intentions with her son are.]]
--> “Unfortunately, falsely claiming [[spoiler:guardianship over a minor]] to a law enforcement officer is a punishable offence – six months jail time.”
* BoxedCrook: Nick doesn't help Judy because she {{Blackmail}}ed him. [[spoiler:He helps her because ''Mr. Big'' is forcing him to do so.]]
* BystanderSyndrome: {{Averted}}. Robin was rescued after a noise complaint was made from a neighborhood where this trope is often {{PlayedStraight}} as the residents rarely call the police for anything less than a shooting.
** {{Averted}} again when [[spoiler:a mouse witnesses Robin being being abducted by one of Bellwether's goons and sends a phone recording to the police.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Judy gives one to her father once he finds out about Robin, as his first reaction was to believe the six-week-old fox broke into her apartment and ask her if she was ArmedWithPepperSpray.
* CaughtOnTape: [[spoiler:An overlooked mouse records Jesse's abduction of Robin with his phone. Within hours Amber alerts are being issued and the footage of the kitnapping shown across the news.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: {{Averted}}. The characters are using their phones at their disposal, from using the flashlight to [[BlindedByTheLight stun savage mammals]] to [[spoiler:catching a child abduction on video and alerting the police.]]
* ChekhovsGun
** The fox repellant. Despite Judy's [[SymbolicWeaponDiscarding vehement disposal]] of it, it is brought up by Stu over voice call in the next chapter, prompting Judy to unleash an [[CallingTheOldManOut argument with her father]].
** The Pawpsicles. Robin starts visiting Nick's stand by the time Judy is assigned to the Emmitt Otterton case. Since she doesn't recognize the Pawpsicle Emmitt is pictured holding, her investigation into their seller will lead her to meet Nick for the first time. She doesn't connect the Pawpsicles to Nick... [[spoiler:but Mr. Big does.]]
** Judy's lucky carrot pen. Judy's use of it is idly mentioned throughout the story, but its recording function doesn't get used until Bellwether's EngineeredPublicConfession.
---> “Our [[SarcasmMode lovely mayor]] was quite chatty when she believed her audience would either be dead or savage within the hour.”
* ChekhovsGunman: Renato Manchas. Shortly after Judy adopted Robin, Manchas was assigned to escort Robin to and from his godmother Fru-Fru and godcousin Ju-Ju. After a few years the Missing Mammal incident arises, and he is the last to see Mr. Otterton before [[HeKnowsTooMuch being turned savage himself]], per {{Canon}}. [[spoiler:ForWantOfANail, he is successfully subdued by the police before he can be taken to Cliffside, but a [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]] leaks his savage state to the news before the missing mammals are located.]]
* ChemicallyInducedInsanity: {{Subverted}} with [[spoiler:Nick. Him and Judy are caught completely off guard by the reveal of the night howlers, gets shot by Bellwether with the intention that he'll [[FedToTheBeast maul Judy and Robin to death]] for her. While he does go savage the calm, rural location for the planned murder gives Nick the reprieve to recognize the scent of a fox kit on Judy and Robin, turning PapaBear when Bellwether direct him after Judy.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Robin has been a curious and kind kit his whole life for all the reader sees of it. Judy [[LampshadeHanging defends with this point]] when she gets astounded by bigots who see him as a FoulFox even when he's only months old.
** When Judy first told Robin that some mammals buy anti-fox products because they fear foxes and that Grandpa Stu used to be one of those mammals, Robin's first action upon seeing Stu again was to hug him and promise he'll never scare him.
** When his soccer teammates [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer avoid him at their first after-school practice]], he assumes they think he doesn't know how the play and tries to explain to them hes has experience playing with his cousins in Bunnyburrow. He doesn't expect [[KidsAreCruel their real reasoning]].
** When Robin first tells Nick about his mother, the limited details he gives paints a dark picture for the older fox. Robin never gets the impression that Nick thought his mother was a StrugglingSingleMother Struggling Single]] [[SingleMomStripper Mom Stripper]].
* ChildrenRaiseYou: Judy's new motherhood teaches her a lot not just about raising a child as a first time mom, but also the prejudice foxes and other predators experience.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [=BookWorm07=] ends most of the chapters on one to immediately continue the next chapter. Possibly the most egregious was the one before the story went dormant for two years, [[spoiler:Mr. Big orders his bears to bring in Nick to find out what he knows about Emmitt's disappearance.]]
* ComeAlone: When [[spoiler:Judy finds out that her son has been kidnapped]], a [[MysteriousStranger blocked number]] requests this in a text.
--> ''Have you lost something? Try the old warehouses; I hear the breeze off the water is to die for in the Savanna heat. No police.''
* CompletedFic: Completed on February 24th, 2017; after 3 years, 7 months, 17 days (for half of which it was feared to be a DeadFic).
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Judy begins to contemplate on who is supposed to take care of Robin while she is at work, she gets a second meeting with Fru-Fru ([[TheDriver and Kevin]]) who thanks her for [[IOweYouMyLife saving her life]] and offers to share the live-in nanny she hired in anticipation for her [[BabiesEverAfter unborn daughter]].
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Robin's biological family is dead by the FanFic's beginning.
* CoolDownHug: Judy gives one to Manchas when he recounts to her what happened when he chauffeured Otterton.
* CruelElephant: Jerry Jumbeaux Jr, more so than {{Canon}}. Here he successfully kicks a [[FreeRangeChildren Free-Range]] seven-year-old out of his store, all while insulting him and his mother, solely because of his species.
-->“I don’t accept stolen money. Now you need to get out or I’ll call the cops; you’re holding up the line.”
* CunningLikeAFox: {{Downplayed}} with Robin. He isn't as sly of a fox as Nick is, and is really only ever deceitful out of childish concerns to DontTellMama. Nick [[SherlockScan immediately reads into]] Robin's worries about telling his mom about his bullying, chalking it up as an instinctual deceptiveness of a fox.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' furthers upon the themes of FantasticRacism from ''Zootopia'', exploring SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism while being presented with {{Tragedy}}, gun crime, sex work, [[WouldHurtAChild child endangerment]], and systematic problems that are bad enough without TheChessmaster making it worse. Plus Mr. Big's Gram-mama isn't the only one dead and gone, and neither hero nor villain [[NeverSayDie refrain from acknowledging death]]. That's not to say it's devoid of humor or idealism however.
* DeathByAdaptation: Mr. Wilde and any acknowledgment of his absence is absent from ''Zootopia''. Here, it's explained away that he was killed in a hit and run before Nick can even remember.
* DeathByChildbirth: Robin's biological mother died giving a natural birth to him at home.
* DeathByDespair: Robin's biological grandmother is concluded to have [[PassedInTheirSleep Passed In Her Sleep]] due to this.
--> '''Judy:''' A heart attack? At fifty-six?
--> '''Bogo:''' [[TruthInTelevision It's been known to happen.]] [[JustifiedTrope It's also not too uncommon for older mammals to]] [[LampshadeHanging pass away from heartbreak shortly after the death of a loved one.]]
* DeathByIrony: {{Discussed}}. [[spoiler:Upon finding out Judy has a fox for a son, Bellwether plans on darting Robin so he could maul his mother to death.]]
--> [[spoiler:''What better way to promote the necessity of [[ShockCollar Tame Collars]] than ZPD’s darling Judy Hopps, a mammal who loved predators and firmly believed in their goodness, [[{{Matricide}} killed by her own savage son.]] After all, every good initiative needs a [[InspirationalMartyr martyr]] at the head.'']]
* DeathByOriginStory: Robin's biological family.
** The father, Sam Swiftfoot, was [[CarFu killed by a car]] six months [[NewChildLeftBehind before his son was born.]]
** The mother, Linda Foxgrove, faced DeathByChildbirth thus leaving her newborn for her mother to care for.
** The grandmother, Helen Foxgrove, [[DeathByDespair died of a broken heart]] a month after loosing her daughter.
* DeathGlare: Stu receives two from his wife and daughter once he suggests [[ArmedWithPepperSpray pepper spraying]] [[WouldHurtAChild an infant fox]].
--> Bonnie didn’t say a word to her husband’s argument but the glare she gave him spoke volumes.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Zootopia's child services is unable to pickup an orphaned infant (or at least one from the WrongSideOfTheTracks) from the police for hours, and once they find out its a fox, the baby is immediately written off as a burden until they grow out of the system. A receptionist openly admits to Judy of keeping a roster of where foxes are juggled between so no one orphanage is "burdened" more than another.
* TheDiaperChange: After calling in to Clawhauser her findings of a deceased vixen and an orphaned kit, Judy spends the wait for an ambulance giving the unnamed Robin a diaper change and a bottle of formula. This also gives her the opportunity to identify the kit as a male.
* DirtyCop: {{Deconstructed}}. Judy has odd ties with Mr. Big beyond long-time friends with his MafiaPrincess. The two have a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ CodeOfHonor where he [[MoralityPet doesn't do anything illegal around her]] so she isn't [[ByTheBookCop obligated]] to look into him. At most, she is willing to give Fru-Fru a warning beforehand if they had evidence against her father. Nick doesn't think it's a nuanced as that when he first finds out.
--> “So, Carrots. Was it the dismal pay of a {{beat cop}} or the raging speciesism that made you turn to the mob?”
* DisappearedDad: Nick's father was killed in a hit and run when he was a kit. Robin's father was also struck and killed at a red light before he was even born.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Only after impulsively adopting a month-year-old fox kit does Judy realize she doesn't know how to be a mother beyond her BigSisterInstinct, let alone one for a child that isn't a rabbit, and her boss expects her to have dropped of said child to foster care and be at work in five minutes.
-->[[GoshDangItToHeck “Carrot sticks.”]]
** [[spoiler:After Bellwether shoots and turns Nick savage, she becomes irate when he won't attack Judy... and feebly runs for her life when the fox targets her, getting chased down and mauled a fair bit. {{Exaggerated}} when Jesse and Woolter come in unarmed to pull Nick off of her, leading Nick to see the rams as bigger threats and turn his ire to them.]]
* DistantFinale: {{Downplayed}}. Half of the final chapter is set three years later.
* DontTellMama: PlayedForDrama.
** Nick kept his profession as a ConArtist a secret from his mother until he was thirty, cutting contact out of shame once she found out.
** Robin starts to treat the most innocent of things with this regard when he learns about the FantasticRacism towards foxes; he gets the impression that if [[FoulFox all foxes are criminals]], then his mother would have to arrest him for being a criminal.
* DownerBeginning: The first two chapters sees Judy (a [[NewMeat rookie cop]] that has been stuck as a TrafficWarden for six weeks) being given her first assignment, only to find a crying orphaned infant alone in a rundown apartment with his dead grandmother, all hinging on an unassuming noise complaint that [[BystanderSyndrome very well might not have been made]].
* TheDriver: Mr. Manchas becomes this for Robin, chauffeuring the kit to stay with Fru-Fru while Judy is away at work. When Manchas isn't available, [[ThoseTwoGuys Raymond or Kevin]] fill in for him.
* DramaticIrony: Hoo boy, there's a lot.
** The biggest source of it is how long it takes Nick to find out that Judy is Robin's adoptive mother. He doesn't connect the dots until Robin spells it out for him in Chapter Twenty-Three; ten chapters after meeting Judy at Jumbeaux's and thirteen from when he first met Robin.
*** When Nick finds Judy [[spoiler:setting off to confront Robin's kitnappers, he convinces her to take him with for the rescue by saying he's his father, not knowing he's talking the mother of the child he's claiming custody of. Despite knowing his [[BlatantLies Blatant Lie]], she caves because of the obvious concern he has for Robin.]]
*** Before Robin formally introduces Judy and Nick to each other, the [[ObfuscatingStupidity now-knowledgeable Judy]] teases the still-oblivious Nick [[spoiler:for lying to her about being Robin's son and knowing his mother, using ExactWords that Robin's mother won't press charges and will allow them to keep contact.]]
** When Judy observes the sanitation violations at Jumbeaux’s Ice Cream Parlour, she makes a mental note to not bring her son there, unaware that he was there and refused service two days before.
*** In further {{Irony}}, during that same visit Judy blackmails Jumbeaux into serving a Jumbo Pop to Nick, unknowingly securing the resources for the manufacturer of the Pawpsicles' she was trying to track down until she considered it a dead lead.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Wilde family. The DisappearedDad died when his son was young, the StrugglingSingleMother is stuck in a DeadEndJob as a waitress, and a [[CynicismCatalyst traumatic event]] leads the son to leave home. TheRunaway keeps tabs with his mother as he becomes a ConArtist behind her back, lying to her for eighteen years until his secret's blown and he cuts ties out of shame.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Robin Jedidiah Hopps.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: PlayedWith. Judy and Nick arrive at the abandoned warehouse were [[spoiler:Robin is being held hostage]], Judy sets her carrot pen to record before confronting the unidentified culprits. Inside, they are surprised to get Bellwether EvilGloating about TheConspiracy they never even knew existed.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: [[spoiler:Having sprung her trap, Bellwether [[EvilGloating monologues]] to Judy her plan to kill her by having her mauled to death by Nick, painting her as an InspirationalMartyr for her plans. Thinking she means to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, Judy argues she wouldn't be able to fool medical examiners and she's crazy if she expects Nick to go savage on her whim. Bellwether answers with nothing more than a CheshireCatGrin as Judy takes the DramaticPause to put all the pieces together.]]
--> [[spoiler:“Did the penny just drop, rabbit?”]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Nick, but {{Downplayed}} as he's just a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. After [[TheRunaway running away from home]], he still called his mother every week and visited on holidays for eighteen years, until she found out he was a ConArtist and he dropped contact with her; the guilt of doing so eating him alive for the next nine years until [[spoiler:they reunite after he turns his life around.]]
* EvilOrphanageLady: The [[FantasticRacism Fantastically Racist]] sheep receptionist at Zootopia's child services office, who [[{{Implied}} implies]] all the orphanages in the city share her sentiments. The ewe vehemently voices her grievances with having to deal with orphaned foxes, inadvertently convincing Judy that [[OrphanageOfFear Zootopia's foster care system]] is not the best choice.
-->"[[TheDreaded Not another one!]]" [...] "We just got rid of the last one not even six months ago."
* EvilUncle: {{Downplayed}} with Jadon, the eldest in Judy's litter. His first response to seeing the kit that his sister adopted is a fox is to ask her if her senses have all gone to mush and remind her of the [[NoodleIncident Gideon Grey incident]].
* ExactWords
** [[spoiler:Judy tells Bellwether in no uncertain terms that she'll fight her ShockCollar bill until her dying breath to protect her son from GovernmentExploitedCrisis. Bellwether promptly decides to [[JoinOrDie take her by her word]].]]
** On a lighter note when [[spoiler:Judy chastises Nick for lying to her that he's Robin's father, she is ObfuscatingStupidity that [[ActuallyIAmHer she is his mother]] as she assures him that Robin's mother won't hold it against him and will allow them to keep their IntergenerationalFriendship.]]
* ExtyYearsFromPublication: The majority of the FanFic takes place in May and June of 2017, the same year the first few chapters of were posted ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse''.
* FailedASpotCheck
** Acting Mayor Bellwether proposes to Chief Bogo and Officer Hopps a mandate for enforcing {{Shock Collar}}s on predators, expecting Judy's support as a fellow small prey mammal. This backfires and [[BrokenPedestal destroys the rabbit's opinion of her]] because Dawn never bothered to learn that Judy is the proud mother of a fox.
** [[spoiler:Jesse fails to check a bathroom before abducting Robin from it, leading for a video of an eye-patched ram abducting a fox kit to spread across the news.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:[[ColdSniper Doug]]]]:''' [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging He said he forgot to check all the stalls were empty.]] Personally, I think [[ExaggeratedTrope he forgot to check at all.]]]]
* FaintInShock: Stu Hopps [[DeterioratesIntoGibberish sputters]] and falls back when Judy confesses over video call that she adopted a fox.
* FalseDichotomy: [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Ostracized]] from a post-game ice cream celebration, Robin convinces himself with just two options with the $20 his mother gave him — buy some ice cream without his [[TheBully bully]] teammates ''or'' not buy anything and disappoint his mother with the truth — when he could easily lie after using the money to buy something else or just [[MoneyToThrowAway get rid of it]].
* FamilyThemeNaming
** It is {{Implied}} that Bonnie and Stu name the kits in each litter with AddedAlliterativeAppeal. Two of Judy's littermates are named Jadon and Jill.
** Fru-Fru and her daughter Judy, nicknamed "Ju-Ju".
* FanCreatedOffspring: Robin. Of the adopted variety, as he is not biological related to any main characters.
* FishOutOfWater: Judy had some parenting experience helping raise her younger siblings, but a becoming a full-time mom for a child [[InterspeciesAdoption of a different species]] is new waters for her at first.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: A positive example, Judy raises Robin into a [[GoGetterGirl Go-Getter Guy]], encouraging him to become a mold-breaker like she is in whatever his GoalInLife will be.
* ForWantOfANail: Depending on that the missing mammals incident and the night howler crisis doesn't occur for another seven years after Judy becomes a police officer, ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' centers on WhatIf Judy and Nick hadn't met under the same circumstances, and Judy had the experience of a decorated officer and proud mother of a fox kit once they do. Further deviations arise from this, such as that [[spoiler:the police got to Manchas before Lionheart's wolves could, Judy never drove Nick away with careless words or turns in her MedalOfDishonor, and that Nick and Judy don't find out about the night howlers until they're at Bellwether's mercy.]]
* FormerBigot: overcome their prejudices differently from how they do in the film.
** Judy Hopps overcomes her instilled FantasticRacism as she does in the movie, but not because of seeing the damages her [[InnocentBigot careless words]] can do but because of seeing the hatred people can have against a defenseless newborn just because of his species and coming.
** Chief Bogo lives by AnimalStereotypes when Judy's new on the job; she's convinced that the only reason he didn't fight her offer to take care of Robin until child services were available was so he wouldn't want to care for a FoulFox for the night. But over the years, as Judy puts it, “[as she] kept proving him wrong about rabbit stereotypes, he started to question other stereotypes he had always taken at face value.”
** Stu Hopps comes to recognize his attitude towards predators (namely foxes) after it strains his relationship with Judy when he naïvely suggested she would have to use self-defense on a one-month-old fox. He goes an awkward struggle in his efforts to accept Robin as his new grandson and regain his daughter's trust, expanding his horizon such as by starting a business partnership with Gideon and banning Fox Away products from the Hopps burrow. After a few years he's become more rational (albeit still a bit of a NervousWreck) by the time of the night howler crisis, as he is only concerned by the physical threat of a savage mammal could pose and not just by their existence as a predator.
* FourthDateMarriage: {{Averted}}. [[spoiler:Nick and Judy [[MarryForLove tie the knot]] after about two years of dating.]]
* GettingTheBabyToSleep: Her first night with the then-unnamed Robin, Judy was "stuck trying every trick in the book to get him back to sleep" until "he finally, finally, drifted off" and she [[CuddleBug cuddled up]] to him as a makeshift crib. Despite the hours of sleep lost, in the morning Judy finds it to be the best rest she had since moving to Zootopia.
* TheGhost: Despite their importance to the plot, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Mayor Lionheart]] and [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine Dr. Honey Badger]] are never directly seen or heard from, only relayed through secondhand accounts and the results of their action. Additional characters like [[IdolSinger Gazelle]] or [[ForgetfulJones Nangi]] are only given off mentions by [[FanBoy Clawhauser]] and [[NewAgeRetroHippie Yax]].
* GiveHimANormalLife: Judy's decision for adopting Robin and raising him as her son as opposed to him being pushed around a bunch of [[OrphanageOfFear orphanages]] for eighteen years.
* GiveTheBabyAFather: After a couple of years, Judy started dating with hopes that she'd be able to find a prospective father figure for Robin. By thirty-one, "she had had eight prospective bucks and eight failed first dates." [[spoiler:She finally gives him that father by thirty-three.]]
* GoodWithNumbers: ZigZagged. Robin can handle second grade multiplication questions (his mother taught him how to after all) but finds trouble with division. Nick starts spending time away from his scams to help him through his math textbooks.
* GossipyHens: When first taking the as-of-then unnamed Robin home, Judy and him become the subject of two on the subway. The zebra Sherly and the deer Janet shamelessly spout bigoted theories of Robin's parents and how its InTheBlood for [[AggressiveCategorism foxes to be criminals]] until Judy [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gets in their faces about it]].
* HappilyAdopted: Judy and Robin deeply care for each other and anything that could ruin their family of two is a great fear for them both. [[spoiler:For a birthday present, Robin and Judy give Nick joint custody.]]
* HappyEnding: [[spoiler:Nick and Judy Wilde, ten-months-married, celebrating the former's birthday. finalizing Nick's custody of Robin, Judy brings up the idea [[HereWeGoAgain adopting another]].]]
* HatesBeingCalledCute: Judy indicates [[AffectionHatingKid Robin gave this response]] when she told him he looked cute in his new soccer uniform; Clawhauser sarcastically asks [[LikeFatherLikeSon where that behavior came from.]]
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Robin's plans to have ice cream to celebrates with his soccer teammates turns to this. This is [[KickTheDog further delayed]] by [[CruelElephant Jumbeaux]] kicking him out of his shop, leaving Nick's Pawpsicle stand as the next option.
* {{Het}}: Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Judy gets such a bad reputation serving as a TrafficWarden for six weeks straight that, Mayor Lionheart gets upset that she's seen as nothing more than a [[MeddlesomePatrolman Meddlesome Patrolwoman]].
--> '''Chief Bogo:''' The mayor has been a rather annoying thorn in my hide for the last few weeks. Constantly asking why the first gradate of his ‘Mammal Inclusion Initiative’ is getting such bad reception because all she’s doing is pissing taxing paying mammals off with her high ticket count.
* TheHerosBirthday: {{Inverted}}. [[spoiler:The story ends with Nick celebrating his birthday with his new wife and son.]]
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard
** [[spoiler:Officer Swinton is easily found out as a [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]] because she told ZNN who she was to convey her credibility as a police officer.]]
** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Bellwether]] does some EvilGloating before turning Nick savage and having Judy FedToTheBeast, only for Nick to attack her and her {{Mook}}s and Judy to survive with an EngineeredPublicConfession.]]
* HoldYourHippogriffs
** Rabbits sometimes use the indefinite pronouns "everybunny" and "somebunny" in reference to other rabbits.
---> '''Bonnie Hopps:''' Jadon! When I told [[RacistGrandpa Pop Pop]] not to talk like that, that includes ''everybunny''!
** [[spoiler:Amber alerts are issued when a ''kit''napping occurs.]]
* HonoraryUncle
** Judy and Fru-Fru become godmothers of each other's child, with Robin and Ju-Ju becoming godcousins.
** Robin calls [[ReformedBully Gideon Grey]] his "uncle Gid".
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Acting Mayor Bellwether expects Judy Hopps to [[WeCanRuleTogether support her proposal]] for a ShockCollar mandate due to her being a small prey animal from the conservative podunk of Bunnyburrow. Because of this and having FailedASpotCheck, she ends up poking the MamaBear and Judy vows to become her most vocal critic.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: {{Implied}} to be {{Averted}}. [[spoiler:HappilyMarried, Judy [[AdoptionIsNotAnOption considers adopting a second child]] before conceiving one with Nick, possibly because that is impossible for their InterspeciesRomance.]]
* HugAndComment: PlayedForDrama in a {{Flashback}}. After Judy told Robin how his grandpa Stu felt about foxes before his HeelFaceTurn, Robin hugged Stu and assured him he doesn't have to be afraid of him, and he'll do everything he can to make his grandpa feel safe. Stu broke down crying and apologizing that his past actions made his grandson feel he had to promise him something like that.
* IAteWhat: ZigZagged. After Robin started eating solid food and a particularly draining day at work, Judy accidentally reheated and ate from [[UnfortunateItemSwap a bowl of Robin's carrot cricket stew instead of her regular carrot stew.]] Following a crisis of [[PostWakeupRealization realizing what she ate]], ''[[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam realizing she liked it]]'', and panicking over whether [[SelfInducedAllergicReaction she had poisoned herself or not]], composes herself and soon enough eating crickets becomes a GuiltyPleasure for the rabbit.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Despite the format of Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn numbering a work's chapters by nature, each chapter is titled "Chapter [cardinal number]"... [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except for the first chapter]], which uses the numeral "1" instead of the lingual "One".
* IDoNotOwn: A disclaimer written in some way is included in the author's note at the beginning of each chapter. The following is at the start of Chapter 1:
--> Disclaimer: Zootopia and all it's characters belong to Disney (sigh)
--> This fanwork and any of my OC's belong to me (Muhahahaha)
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:Doug sends Jesse to abduct Robin so Judy can be LuredIntoATrap to kill her and use her murder as an InspirationalMartyr.]]
* ImaginedInnuendo: Nick expects Robin's mother, who he assumes to be a disadvantaged vixen, would own handcuffs for [[KinkyCuffs only one reason]].
* ImpliedDeathThreat: PlayedWith. When Nick asks "Carrots" how she got involved with Mr. Big, Judy tells him “[[HatesBeingNicknamed [he's] going to want to refrain from calling [her] Carrots]].” [[ThatCameOutWrong Recognizing]] his fearful expression at their limo driver and that he's under the impression she's a DirtyCop, she does a VerbalBackspace to calm him down.
--> “Sweet cheese and crackers! Not like that! I’m not about to sic Raymond on you Nick, so you can calm down.”
* INeverToldYouMyName: Judy asks Fru-Fru how she knew her name to [[NearAndDearBabyNaming name]] her unborn daughter after. Fru-Fru's explanation of how her daddy "had her researched" (and her [[GiantMook polar bear chauffeur]]) tips Judy off that the shrew is a MafiaPrincess, but gratefully chooses not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
* IronicName: A sloth librarian named Mr. Speedster.
* InSpiteOfANail: Follows many StationsOfTheCanon despite the changes to the timeline and characters' pasts.
** Judy and Nick first meet in Jumbeaux's where the former advocates for the latter. Judy is not there because she's suspicious of Nick, but because she's suspicious of [[ActuallyIAmHim the Pawpsicle vendor]].
*** Despite being unable to identify the vendor as Nick and get his witness testimony, Judy still makes it to the Mystery Springs Oasis using the information she got from Mrs. Otterton.
** The missing mammals are still found and savage mammals break the news, albeit the other way around this time.
** Narrowly thwart a NearVillainVictory, making it out alive with an EngineeredPublicConfession from Bellwether
* InnocentBlueEyes: Robin's most distinguishing feature is his eyes, with his namesake due to their comparison to robin eggs. The trope name even gets {{Title Drop}}ped in the epilogue's prose.
* InstantSedation: {{Averted}}.
** It takes a few moments for Judy's TranquilizerDart to knock the savage Manchas out, for which Nick buys time for by using his [[BlindedByTheLight phone flashlight]].
** [[spoiler:When Judy tranquilizes a savage Nick, it takes as short while for him to stop tenderizing Woolter’s shoulder with his teeth. Woolter has the gall to [[VillainWantsMercy plead for her help]] as they wait for Nick to loose consciousness.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The 39-year-old Nick befriends the 7-year-old Robin, the kit turning the DefrostingIceKing into a ParentalSubstitute.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Judy Hopps, a European rabbit, adopts a red fox kit, naming him Robin Hopps.
* KidsAreCruel: At his first soccer practice, the other kids on Robin's team [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer refuse to pass the ball to him]]. After the game, they make it clear that their parents told them foxes are not to be trusted, and they would never play with a FoulFox.
* KidsHateVegetables: {{Inverted}}. Being raised by a rabbit has given Robin an affinity for carrots.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: In Chapter Four, Judy [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggeration]] of this trope, explaining that some mammals leave their child [[TheNameless unnamed]] a few months until they can gauge an appropriate one once their personality comes in. She also [[PlayedStraight plays it straight]] herself, as a second later she finds herself having to name the fox kit in the middle of his adoption process.
* LastNameBasis: Despite respectively being the grandfather to her goddaughter and having him as her son's [[TheDriver chauffer]] for seven years, Judy politely calls Mr. Big and Mr. Manchas by their surnames. PlayedStraight with Mr. Big, but [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious she calls him Renato when Manchas gets shot with a night howler pellet]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Robin ends up adopting a few of his mother's CharacterTics; his nose twitches when he's curious or scared, he binkies out of excitement, he's [[GoodWithNumbers good at multiplication]].
* LipLosses: Judy ends up nervously biting her lip to the point of bleeding when worrying about how she's tell Chief Bogo she'll be late for work because she adopted the fox kit she was expected to give to child services.
* ALizardNamedLiz
** Linda and Helen ''Fox''glove.
** Robin's second grade teacher, a beaver named Mrs. Flattail.
** [[spoiler:Portia Swinton, a PolicePig and [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]].]]
** [[spoiler:Eugene Smalls, an overlooked businessmouse.]]
** Dr. ''Wolf''sbane, a she-wolf overseeing [[spoiler:Nick's recovery from night howler poisoning.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: {{Subverted}}. [[spoiler:Nick tells Judy that Robin is his son so she'll let him help her rescue him from his kitnappers. This is BlatantLies and he's completely oblivious that's he's making this claim to Robin's GlamorousSingleMother.]]
--> “He’s my son!” [[spoiler:Nick]] blurted.
--> “''[[BigWhat What?!]]''”
* LuredIntoATrap
** Bellwether instructs Doug to dart Manchas once the police has connected him to Otterton's disappearance, wanting carnage.
--> ''“And make sure there are casualties this time,”'' a tinny voice could be heard from the speaker, ''“we’ve made them worried, now we need to make them afraid.”''
** Bellwether arranges another one [[spoiler:specifically to take out Judy after she vows to protest her ShockCollar bill [[ExactWords until her dying breath]]. She plans this by [[IHaveYourWife kitnapping Robin]] to have her ComeAlone to a place where she'll turn Robin savage and have Judy [[DeathByIrony mauled to death by her son she's come to rescue]].]]
* MakingRoomForBaby: Judy moves out of the Grand Pangolin Arms, buying a larger flat in a condominium building to raise Robin in.
* MamaBear: Judy becomes fiercely protective of Robin, doing everything from adopting him to keep him away from [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices Child Disservices]], lashing out at anyone mistreating him for being a fox, or [[spoiler:going rogue to rescue him from his kitnappers.]]
* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: {{Downplayed}}. Mrs. Wilde, who sought to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the FoulFox stereotype, was left distraught when she found out her son [[ThenLetMeBeEvil gave in]], became a ConArtist, and kept it secret from her for years.
* MandatoryMotherhood: Judy has occasionally stopped and considered how this is with [[ExplosiveBreeders rabbits]], especially after growing attached to and adopting Robin. She knows that NotWantingKidsIsWeird even for her, and expected finding herself a nice buck and having a few kit sometime in the indeterminate future until Robin came along.
* MeaningfulEcho: A few are made with the [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} original work]].
** Like Nick as a child, a woodchuck is the one to reveal the bullies' [[KidsAreCruel true colors]] to Robin.
--->"Even though you're a ''[[ParentheticalSwearing fox]]''?"
--->"Why would we pass the ball to a ''fox''?"
** [[CruelElephant Jumbeaux Jr.]] tells Robin he doesn't need [[AggressiveCategorism his kind]] "skulking around during daylight hours" and to go find an ice cream parlor in their [[WrongSideOfTheTracks "part of town"]].
** Judy's EmptyCopThreat of jailtime against Nick for [[spoiler:[[BluffingTheAuthorities lying to her that he's Robin's father]] emulates how she {{Blackmail}}s him for tax evasion in the film.]]
** Judy and Nick's final lines in the story are a near perfect recital of their final exchange with each other in the film, [[spoiler:now under the context of a HappilyMarried couple [[BabiesEverAfter considering a second child.]]]]
---> “I love you, you know that?”
---> “Do I know that? Yes, yes I do.”
* MeaningfulName: Judy gave Robin a LineOfSightName, inspired by the kit's InnocentBlueEyes as they reminded her of robin eggs. She also choose the middle name Jedidiah (Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, "beloved of the Lord") as she vows to love him as her child.
** {{Discussed}} by both Gideon Grey and Nick Wilde when they learn Robin's name. Both were RightForTheWrongReasons as they assumed he was NamedAfterSomebodyFamous to foxes, [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973 Robin Hood]]; Judy hadn't known of the character until Gideon told her and she found a DoubleMeaning in her son's name.
* MistakenForProstitute: Judy, indirectly. Nick comes to the conclusion that Robin's mother is a vixen [[SingleMomStripper working as a hooker.]] He ends up voicing his theory to Judy when the truth is the exact opposite: Robin's mom a rabbit police officer.
* MistakenFromBehind: Robin mistakes a rabbit for his aunt Jill sent to pick him up at the train station. While confused how a fox confused a rabbit for his aunt, the doe offers to help him find her, which Robin politely declines.
* TheMobBossIsScarier: {{Deconstructed}} by Judy. [[spoiler:She correctly deduces that Nick has no logical motive to be TheInformant unless Mr. Big is [[BoxedCrook forcing him to]] under threat of getting iced. She assures Nick its just a bluff as Mr. Big's CodeOfHonour and [[MoralityPet respect for Judy]] makes is so he would never kill someone for failing her lest that weight on her conscience.]]
* MommasBoy
** Robin loves Judy as his mother dearly. The idea of losing her love becomes a fear for him.
** Nick is to a lesser extent, as despite being estranged from his mother for nine years, he still cares about her and transacts money into her bank account. [[spoiler:Once Judy and Robin [[ReformedCriminal turn his life around]], he finds the emotional strength to reconcile with her.]]
* MythologyGag
** Happy Town is a WrongSideOfTheTracks seen in concept art for the film. This was where Nick's father had his clothing store before both were cut during production.
** Judy recalls her [[RacistGrandpa Pop-Pop]]'s opinions of foxes and how they're "[[RedIsViolent red devils]]", alluding to a DeletedScene. True to self, Pop-Pop voices that foxes are red because they are made by the devil when his great-grandson Robin visits Bunnyburrow for the first time.
** Mayor Swinton was the CorruptPolitician in earlier scripts for the movie who remained a DevelopmentGag as an extra at the DMV and a prison officer. [[spoiler:Here, Officer Portia Swinton is a [[TheStoolPigeon whistleblower]] for the predators going savage before the missing mammals are found.]]
** [[ShockCollar Tame Collars]], removed from ''Zootopia'' when it was made LighterAndFluffier, are discussed with Bellwether's plans to mandate all predators above the age of twelve to be fixed with one.
* NeverGivenAName: Robin was never given one by his birth family before he was orphaned, possibly due to cultural reasons.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Bellwether does this out of her obsession to kill Judy for propaganda. Both Judy and Nick were nowhere on her trail and completely oblivious to the night howlers' existence when they are LuredIntoATrap with [[IHaveYourWife Robin as bait]], where Bellwether reveals herself to give a MotiveRant uncovering TheConspiracy for them and giving a EngineeredPublicConfession of a magnitude no-one expected.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: {{Defied}} by the child services' ApatheticClerk. When Judy [[LampshadeHanging points out there should be]] a social worker to run a background check before she can adopt Robin, the sheep admits there should be one to do that but she's skipping it so she doesn't have to deal with a fox in the foster system and get it over with; Judy [[SuppressedRage suppresses her rage]] at the gross lack of procedure in handling a child's custody.
* OCStandIn: A case with a cut character turned DevelopmentGag from the film, [[spoiler: the pig warden/Mayor Swinton. Officer [[NamedByTheAdaptation Portia]] Swinton, who [[TheStoolPigeon whistleblows]] the savage Manchas to the media.]]
* OneDoseFitsAll
** {{Averted}} as Judy is specified to use a dosage meant for large mammals to [[TranquilizerDart tranquilize]] Manchas after he goes savage. [[spoiler:It takes a medium mammal dart for her to stop Nick from attacking Woolter.]]
** Bethwether decides to [[DefiedTrope work around this trope]] when [[spoiler:Robin's kitnapping becomes too publicized for her to turn him savage on Judy without suspicion.]]
---> [[spoiler:“All anyone knows right now is that a fox was kitnapped by a nobody ram, we’ll roll with that – stage it as a kitnapping [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone wrong]]. The son ‘[[DeadlyEuphemism accidently]]’ overdosed on tranquilizers and Judy, [[FiveStagesOfGrief not paying attention in her grief]], fatally shot by the kitnapper during his escape attempt.”]]
* OriginalCharacter: The staple example is the {{Deuteragonist}} Robin Hopps, the adopted FanCreatedOffspring of Judy Hopps. In addition to him, there are a few named {{Bit Character}}s as well.
* ParentalSubstitute: Nick starts filling in the absent father role in Robin's life before he even first meets Judy.
* ParentsAsPeople: Not just Judy's parents but Judy herself. They can be worried about their children and their means to take care of them, whether their reasons be irrational or justified. They can make mistakes that threaten their children's opinions of them, or their opinions of their children can shape each others actions.
* PassedInTheirSleep: Judy finds the body of a middle-aged fox who died this way in response to a noise complaint call. Coroners determine that Helen Foxgrove died about twenty-four hours before Judy made the discovery, with [[DeathByDespair heartbreak syndrome]] ruled as likely cause for her early death.
* PhonyVeteran: A [[LemonyNarrator snide line]] indicates that Bonnie's father, Pop-Pop, spends his days "talking of his time in the war (which never actually happened)". Note the AmbiguousSyntax for whether his service or the war as a whole is fictional.
* PosthumousCharacter: Robin's biological father, mother, and grandmother, as well as Nick's father.
* PrecisionFStrike: As Bellweather gives her [[EvilGloating villainous monologue]] explaining her plans for using {{Shock Collar}}s to "tame" predators as a safety precaution, [[GoshDangItToHeck Judy]] explodes with a “That’s bullshit!”
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Judy and Nick are never explicitly stated in ''Zootopia'' or by WordOfGod to be an OfficialCouple (just {{Ship Tease}}d), but it is a OneTruePairing [=BookWorm07=] agrees with and incorporates into the latter half of ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse''.
* PunnyName: ''The Starry Night'' was painted by [[Creator/VincentVanGogh Vincent van Goat]].
* RaisedByGrandparents: {{Downplayed}}. After his biological mother died, Robin was cared for by his maternal grandmother until she died from [[DeathByDespair heartbreak]] just a month later.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
** Judy gives one to a pair of GossipyHens who start spouting cruel words at the sight of her with an orphaned fox kit. After [[SarcasmMode asking how her personal life became their business]], Judy explains the circumstances and asks them to show some compassion and not [[FantasticRacism judge a mammal based on their species]]. Sherly [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk doesn't take Judy's words to heart]] however, and says just because she's the mayor's naïve AffirmativeActionGirl doesn't mean [[ShutUpKirk she can tell them how to act]] and [[SpeakIllOfTheDead the city's better off with two less foxes]].
** She gives another to [[CorruptPolitician Mayor Bellwether]] when she [[BigBrotherIsEmployingYou expects the ZPD to sponsor]] a ShockCollar mandate for all predators above twelve. Judy calls out the idea for what it is: an anti-predator agenda in a GovernmentExploitedCrisis with no plans of being overturned. She ends up shoving her phone with a picture of Robin into [[LackOfEmpathy Bellwether]]'s face to guilt her before storming out of the mayoral office.
---> '''Chief Bogo:''' “I think we’re done here, ''[[ParentheticalSwearing Mayor Bellwether]]''. Officer Hopps expressed my opinion beautifully, [[BerserkButton if less diplomatically.]] You can safely assume that the ZPD will not now, or ever, support your mandate if you choose to go through with it.”
* RecruitTheMuggles: ZigZagged. Judy is reluctant to bring Nick along as anything more than TheInformant because she doesn't want to put a civilian in harm's way. Nick is a NonActionGuy but doesn't want to abandon Judy when things get dire. Mr. Big doesn't want Nick to fail his granddaughter's godmother. [[spoiler:Judy takes whatever help she can get when she sets off to confront whoever kitnapped her son.]]
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Averted. [[spoiler:Judy saves Bellwether and her minions from Nick [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard after they turned him savage]], treating their wounds after arresting them.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Nick correctly assumes Robin has a MeaningfulName; however its not because his mother likes folklore but just because his InnocentBlueEyes reminded her of robin eggs.
* TheRunaway: Nick ran away the day [[CynicismCatalyst he was muzzled]], keeping tabs with her as he became TheArtfulDodger until she [[DontTellMama found out the truth]]. Following the TimeSkip, he hadn't seen her in nine years and still feels guilt over how he worried her.
* ScaryLibrarian: {{Inverted}}. The elderly sloth at the library Robin goes to is a CoolOldGuy who tells good jokes ([[SluggishSloths even though he takes a while to get to the punchline]]).
* {{Shipping}}: The story is tagged with the {{Het}} ship [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Judy%20Hopps*s*Nick%20Wilde/works Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde]], coming into play the later chapters after they meet again in Chapter Fifteen.
* SingleIssueLandlord: Ms. Armadillo doesn't care when one of her tenants suddenly comes back with a child or that they're a fox; she just wants to make sure Judy didn't lose her key and knows that despite the new addition the complimentary delousing is still only once a month.
* ShoutOut
** Robin is a MeaningfulName in fox culture due to a [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973 Hero of Sherwood]]. Judy only learns the importance of it after reconciling with [[ReformedBully Gideon]].
*** Additionally, Nick Wilde's mother is named as Marian.
** When Nick first meets Robin, he vaguely recognizes his t-shirt to display a SupermanSubstitute, "[=SuperBunny=] or other."
** One of Robin's favorite cousins is named [[Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit Peter]].
* ShootingLessonsFromYourParents: An [[InvertedTrope inversion]] where the parent isn't teaching their child how to use weapons, but to stay safe from ones marketed for use against the child. In a {{Flashback}}, Judy warns Robin about anti-fox products, gently explaining that some mammals are afraid of foxes and others sell them weapons telling them it will make them safe, [[TurnTheOtherCheek but those mammals are wrong]]. Judy is initially conflicted over whether to tell her son about the [[HarmfulToMinors hate in the world]] or [[CoverInnocentEyesAndEars not]], but her police training helps her determine that weapon safety trumps keeping him [[ObilviousToHatred oblivious]] and [[WouldHurtAChild vulnerable]].
* ShowWithinAShow: ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' is ostensibly the adaptation of Myth/RobinHood within the story. Judy becomes enamored with ''The Hero of Sherwood'' and it becomes her and Robin's favorite bedtime story.
* SmallParentHugeChild: {{Discussed}}. As a seven-year-old, Robin is already mother, set to become twice her size once he's an adult fox. Judy tells him that (like his cousins) he isn't allowed to drive the Hopps' tractor until they're thirteen, even if he's tall enough by then.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Several.
** Whoever made the noise complaint for an orphaned fox kit's crying. If it weren't for them, Judy never would've found let alone adopt Robin.
** [[CruelElephant Jerry Jumbeaux Jr.]] oddly has a bigger role than in the movie but nonetheless serves two big impacts, being involved with Nick's first meeting with Robin and later Judy. She also questions Jumbeaux for her current lead on Otteron's disappearnce, [[DramaticIrony asking him if he sells Pawpsicles or knows who does]].
** [[spoiler:[[PolicePig Portia Swinton]], TheStoolPigeon that leaks evidence of Manchas going savage to Zootopia News Network, believing it too dangerous for the police to keep it a secret while they investigate,]]
** [[spoiler:[[BitCharacter Eugene Smalls]], a little mouse that goes overlooked as Jesse abducts Robin from the train station bathroom. Eugene gets it all CaughtOnTape and his video breaks the news in hours.]]
* SmellsOfDeath: Judy immediately smells the deceased Helen Foxglove when she [[OpenSaysMe gets into]] Apartment 5B. {{Discussed}} further in that the ZPD Academy has a mandatory class on scent training to recognize the five stages of decay.
* SpoofsRUs: Judy goes shopping for baby supplies at Kits "R" Us in Chapter Seven, and recalls past experiences with a subsidiary dedicated to rabbits, Bunnies "R" Us.
* StrugglingSingleMother: {{Downplayed}} with Judy. At first she's a FishOutOfWater when it comes to raising Robin, but after sorting things out with Fru-Fru's help and a few years to settle, her financial situations are stable and her biggest concern is [[GiveTheBabyAFather finding him a paternal figure]].
** Nick also naturally assumes this of whoever Robin's mother is due to his own mother's experiences.
* StationsOfTheCanon: Everything up to Judy's hire; Judy saving Fru-Fru from being crushed; predators go missing through out Zootopia; Judy meets Nick at Jumbeaux's during the Missing Mammals incident; Otterton is tracked from Mystery Springs Oasis to Manchas, who also gets darted; a news conference is made after the savage mammals are uncovered; more predators are turned savage as Bellwether becomes mayor, causing panic in the city; Judy and Nick uncover the truth of the night howlers; and Bellwether and her cronies (possibly [[KarmaHoudini sans Doug]]) get arrested. Other stations such as Judy reconciling with Gideon and Nick joining Judy on her investigation also occur, but out of order from the movie's series of events.
* StagParty: Of DistaffCounterpart. After the TimeSkip, Judy attended her coworker [[HonorableElephant Francine]]'s birthday party that devolved into a premature bachelorette party at a [[RedLightDistrict male strip club]] celebrating the elephant's engagement.
* TheStoolPigeon
** [[spoiler:News of savage mammals breaks when a police officer tips off [[AlphabetNewsNetwork ZNN]] with medical records Manchas' savage state.]]
*** In the aftermath of that, [[spoiler:Dr. Honey Badger confesses her involvement with the fourteen missing mammals being held at Cliffside.]]
** [[spoiler:After Bellwether and her associates are arrested, the other sheep accept plea deals to testify against her and identify the night howlers as the serum's active ingredient.]]
* StripperCopConfusion: A rare example born not from visual misconception but from an ImaginedInnuendo FromTheMouthsOfBabes. Nick assumes only one thing when Robin naïvely mentions his mother is physically active and handcuffs "mammals who were naughty" at her job.
-->With no vixens on the force (not like they’d ''let'' one on the force) and, based off the information he’d pieced together from what the kit had told him, no mate at home, that left only one option.
-->Robin’s mom was a hooker.
* SweetSheep: {{Averted}}, every one in here is a {{Jerkass}}.
* SwitchingPOV: The third person perspective of the story follows Judy for the first eight chapters, but starts to look over the shoulders of characters in the middle of Chapter Nine.
* SymbolicWeaponDiscarding: The second Judy realizes the Fox Away repellent is in her UtilityBelt when she brings Robin home, she chucks the can down her apartment's garbage chute with a promise.
-->“Don’t worry, sweetheart. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you, especially not with an Anti-Fox product.”
* TakeCareOfTheKids: A non-fatal example. When Mayor Bellwether starts proposing oppressive measures as the number of savage mammal attacks continue to rise, Judy decides to send Robin away to live with their family in Bunnyburrow. [[spoiler:He gets kitnapped before he can board the train.]]
--> '''Chief Bogo:''' Hopps! Where are you going?
--> '''Judy:''' To get my son out of this city. There’s going to be rough seas ahead, Chief, and I want him on solid land when the storm hits.
* TakenOffTheCase: Chief Bogo takes Judy off the Missing Mammals case before leaving to arrest Mayor Lionheart, [[JustifiedTrope justifying]] that Manchas' nature as a family friend would make her involvement open to debate as conflict of interest in court.
* TheEnd: '''[[LeFilmArtistique FIN]]'''
* ThinkNothingOfIt: PlayedForLaughs.
--> '''Nick:''' Don’t mention it. Seriously, don’t. I’m a salesman, I can’t have my reputation questioned.
--> [...]
--> '''Robin:''' Thank you, Nick!
--> '''Nick:''' [[BrickJoke I told you not to mention it.]]
--> '''Robin:''' Mention what?
--> '''Nick:''' [[AmbiguousSyntax Exactly!]]
* TimeSkip: There are several in and between chapters, the most egregious is the "Seven Years Later" in the middle of Chapter Nine. Another sizeable "Three Years Later" prefaces the DistantFinale.
* TrafficWarden: In {{Canon}}, Judy only spends her first two days giving tickets. Here, she's been stuck for a month and a half doing a DeadEndJob until Mayor Lionheart steps in and orders Chief Bogo to give her a real assignment.
* TranquillizerDart: A ChaseScene with Manchas is {{Averted}} as Judy, an experienced and equipped officer, utilizes her tranq pistol to subdue the jaguar.
* TraumaCongaLine: On his first day of soccer practice, Robin learns that some people will see him as nothing but a FoulFox when he gets [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer shunned by his teammates]], kicked out of an ice cream parlor while trying to [[HeartbreakAndIceCream distract himself]], all while his [[InsaneTrollLogic child logic]] tells him that his mother will think he's a criminal too.
* UmpteenthCustomer: Assuming Robin has a StrugglingSingleMother as he did as a child, Nick tries to pull one out of pity for Robin to give him a Pawpsicle for free, specifically [[GreaterNeedThanMine the spare he keeps for himself]].
--> “What is this?” he questioned the kit dramatically, paw on chest as if affronted, “Don’t you know?” Not waiting for an answer, he continued immediately, “Winners of the special Pawpsicle don’t pay! You are ''bestowed'' this honourable stick of frozen liquid as my hundredth and one customer!”
* TheUnReveal: Even if the reader hasn't seen the original work, Bellwether's antagonism is made apparent to them before it is to the heroes. Bellwether doesn't even get revealed as the BigBad due to being caught in a lie this time, but by intentionally revealing herself to Nick and Judy just to [[EvilGloating Evil Gloat]] for her NearVillainVictory.
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Woolter pleads to Judy to help him as Nick bites into shoulder, even though he was part of the plot to turn Nick savage and have Judy and Robin FedToTheBeast. Nonetheless, Judy [[AllLovingHero helps and treats his wounds]].]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Officer Swinton is presented as this. A PolicePig working in Records that becomes a [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]] for Manchas turning savage, expresses the belief it is too dangerous for the publis should the police keep a possible epidemic of predators going savage a secret while they investigate. In the aftermath of her actions, Chief Bogo admits she had the courtesy to redact Manchas' identifying information from the leaked bloodwork.]]
* WhatADrag: [[spoiler:Bellwether tried to hide in her car when the [[ChemicallyInducedInsanity turned-savage]] Nick turns on her, only to be pulled out [[ByTheHair By The Wool]] and thrashed about until her minions get him off of her.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
** Emmit Otterton is only given an off mention by Nick as Judy explains to him she has TakenOffTheCase. While he isn't brought up again, it's a ForegoneConclusion that he was cured along with the other mammals poisoned with night howlers.
** The exact results of [[spoiler:Internal Affairs' investigation into Swinton for leaking a civilian's medical records]] aren't covered, but Chief Bogo assures Judy that legal action will be taken against her.
** A literal example, [[spoiler:Eugene Smalls is only seen for the one segment where he CaughtOnTape Robin's kitnapping.]]
** True to the film, [[ColdSniper Doug Ramses]] is [[KarmaHoudini never stated to face justice for his crimes]]. His last appearance is when Bellwether calls him to [[spoiler:berate him for Jesse getting CaughtOnTape and letting Robin's kitnapping become breaking news.]]
* WhamLine: Several are given, often as TheStinger for chapters.
** [[spoiler:Blowing out smoke, the mob boss intoned simply, “Find Wilde.”]]
** [[spoiler:Nick ([[BluffingTheAuthorities lying]]) that he's Robin's father.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: ZigZagged with [[BigBad Beltwether]]. [[spoiler:She has Robin kitnapped so she can lure Judy into a trap where they dart Robin, have him maul her to death, and use the {{Matricide}} as a PropagandaPiece.]] [[spoiler:When the kitnapping goes too public for them to go with the initial plan, Bellwether decides to [[SubvertedTrope just shoot her dead]] and play it off as a hostage situation gone wrong.]] [[spoiler:''[[DoubleSubverted However]]'', when Judy arrives with Nick despite being told to ComeAlone, Bellwether ends up HoistByHerOwnPetard when she follows her {{Sadist}} desires to have Nick kill both of the Hopps.]]
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: ZigZagged for Robin. Initially {{Downplayed}} as his maternal grandmother is the only one seen or mentioned (albeit [[PosthumousCharacter posthumously]]), but gets {{Defied}} once Judy adopts him and Bonnie and Stu become his new grandparents.
* WouldHurtAChild
** Stu Hopps by proxy. When he sees his daughter in a room with a fox kit that isn't even two months old, he asks Judy if she [[ArmedWithPepperSpray has the Fox Away]] he gave her. [[MamaBear Judy]] and even [[InnocentBigot Bonnie]] [[CallingTheOldManOut do not approve.]] Eventually, [[HeelFaceTurn after accepting his new grandson]], Stu is remorseful for ever considering such a thing.
** Bellweather and her cronies. [[spoiler:Upon learning about Judy's son, she arranges Jesse to abduct Robin and [[IHaveYourWife lure Judy into a trap]] after turning him savage. When circumstances would make Judy's death too suspicious that way, she decides to simply overdose him with tranquilizer and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shoot her dead.]]]]
* WrongSideOfTheTracks: [[IronicName Happy Town]], a neighborhood that had ambitious plans that were never realized. It ends up a decrepit slum for predators that the bus routes avoid and gets the occasional police call to report a shooting.
* YearX: {{Averted}}. The date of Mr. Otterton's disappearance is provided as May 6, 2017.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Judy gave an impassioned one to Nick after Mr. Big [[BoxedCrook boxed]] him into helping her. When Nick started making a SelfDeprecation jab over her having to associate with a fox, Judy interrupted and chewed him out for his cynicism with such determination that it left Nick speechless.
-->“That’s not it at all!” The rabbit exclaims, “Also, you shouldn’t talk down about yourself like that! There are enough mammals out there spouting things they know nothing about like it’s the gospel truth. You don’t need to be preaching to the choir and adding your voice to the fight.”
* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: When Bellwether has Nick and Judy cornered and reveals herself as [[spoiler:Robin's kitnapper]], she is constantly belittling Judy as she explains TheConspiracy to her and [[{{Dehumanization}} demammalizes]] Nick as her pet.
* YoureNotMyFather: {{Lampshaded}}. [[spoiler:Judy considers the possibility of this occurring when she informs Robin of her starting to date Nick, admitting its unlikely given their IntergenerationalFriendship. Any worries [[AvertedTrope are for naught]] as Robin readily accepts Nick as his mother's boyfriend and later father.]]
-->--Summary from Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11430660 Fox in the Bunnyhouse]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' FanFic written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/BookWorm07 BookWorm07]], being the [[OneBookAuthor sole work by the author]].
In this fanfiction, Judy Hopps joins the ZPD at a time where mammals aren't going missing throughout Zootopia. ForWantOfANail, Judy rescues an orphaned baby fox on her first real assignment, changing her future by adopting the kit as her son, [[OriginalCharacter Robin Hopps]]. Only after a few years does she meet Nick Wilde when the predators start to disappear and go savage, but now they have seven-year-old Robin in their lives to protect... [[DramaticIrony but they don't know the other knows the kit.]]
Uploaded to Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn starting on July 7th, 2017, ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' was [[CompletedFic completed]] February 24th, 2021, ending with a wordcount of 101,626 across twenty-four chapters. The story went dormant after Chapter Fourteen in May 2018 but returned with the remaining ten chapters in February 2021. Goes to show that a Dormant Fic isn't always a DeadFic.
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!! ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' contains examples of:
* ActionMom: Judy becomes this once she adopts Robin and is given actual police work. She is willing to do anything for Robin; whether it's telling anyone from her father to the mayor to suck it or [[spoiler:fighting a savage fox and a flock of sheep terrorists to get her son back.]]
* ActuallyIAmHer: Nick doesn't find out Judy is Robin's mother until the second to last chapter. Judy [[PlayedForLaughs Plays it For Laughs]] by ObfuscatingStupidity until she lets her son introduce them each other, resulting in the following of Robin's dialogue interspersed with Nick's InnerMonologue.
-->“Mom,” ''[[FlatWhat wait, what?]]'' “this is one of my best friends, Nick. Nick,” ''hold on'' “this is my mom,” ''come again?'' “Officer Judy Hopps” ''there is no way'' “with the ZPD.”
-->Judy said nothing, a [[SmugSmiler sly smirk]] curling one side of her muzzle.
** To a lesser extent, Judy tries to find Otterton by finding the creator of the pawpsicles. While she does meet Nick in the process, she [[SubvertedTrope doesn't connect the two]] and gives up on that lead. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubverted At least]] until Mr. Big presents her with Nick and tells him he's a ConArtist and the one responsible for making the Pawpsicles.]]
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Fru-Fru introduces Judy to Mr. Manchas so he can chauffer Robin to the Big Estate so he can be watched while Judy is away at work.
* AdaptationalLateAppearance: Nick doesn't appear until Chapter Ten, prefaced by TheStinger of the previous chapter.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Chief Bogo. When Judy stands by her decision of adopting Robin, he gives her paid leave to adjust her living situations, [[JustifiedTrope Justifying]] his leniency because he can't fire a woman for having a child, and giving her the chance to further her career for her child's sake. Following the big TimeSkip and gaining seven years of respect for Judy, he comes to recognize her as one of his most competent and valued officers (but still [[GoodIsNotNice gets snappy sometimes]]).
* AdaptationalTimespanChange: It takes seven years for the conflict of the movie to arise.
* AdaptedOut
** [[ChekhovsGunman Duke Weaselton]] has no involvement in the endangerment of Fru-Fru's life nor the night howler plot, and doesn't appear at any point in the FanFic.
** Due to having access to the police database, Judy never encounters [[SluggishSloths Flash Slothmore]] to run limo plates for her, neither is she shown stopping him for [[DrivesLikeCrazy drag racing]].
** Lionheart's wolves are never so much as mentioned, but {{Implied}} to be involved as the Missing Mammals incident is even occurring in the first place.
* AdoptionDiss: {{Inverted}}. Robin's peers don't bully him for being adopted (just other reasons), but some of Judy's family were initially unsupportive of her decision to adopt him.
* AdoptionIsNotAnOption: {{Averted}} hard with this story. In fact, Judy adopting Robin was a somewhat impulsive option. [[spoiler:She puts it on the table years later, when she asks her husband Nick what he thinks about adopting a second child.]]
* AdoptiveNameChange: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Helen Foxgrove never completed her grandson's birth certificate before she died, so Judy ends up naming him Robin when she adopts him.
* AffectionateNickname: Robin gets a few.
** Judy calls Robin her little "Bottlebrush" due to his fluffy tail.
** [[TheCynic Nick]], a bit uncomfortable at first with the kid's name meaning JustLikeRobinHood, takes to calling him "Red".
---> “Don’t worry about it, Red, it’s a compliment to be given a ''[[{{Pun}} Nick]]''-Name.”
** Clawhauser also takes to calling him "Blue Eyes".
* AgeLift: As the AdaptationalTimespanChange adds seven years to the story, Judy and Nick are now thirty-one and thirty-nine instead of twenty-four and thirty-two for the majority of the FanFic. [[spoiler:The HappyEnding sees the Hopps-Wilde family celebrating Nick's forty-second birthday.]]
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: {{Averted}}. At one point Judy recalls her experience celebrating her coworker [[HonorableElephant Francine]]'s 33rd birthday, and by doing the math, [[spoiler:Nick is celebrating his 42nd birthday at the story's end.]]
* AggressiveCategorism: Lots of mammals consider all foxes [[FoulFox foul]], [[CunningLikeAFox cunning]] creatures not the be trusted, with some {{Jerkass}}es unable to see an infant fox as nothing more than a future criminal. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], some of the {{Hypocrite}}s preaching this are doing things worse than anything any fox does in in this story.
* AllLovingHero: [[spoiler:After narrowly surviving Bellwether and her cronies' attempt on her and her son's lives, Judy still gives her detainees [[TheMedic medical attention]] for the wounds they sustained from Nick going [[ChemicallyInducedInsanity savage on them]].]]
* AllForNothing: A low-stakes example. Judy tries to find out who created the Pawpsicle Mr. Otteron bought, but can't and gives up on that lead and — from questioning Yax and then Mr. Big — learns that Manchas was the last to see Emmit Otterton. [[spoiler:When Mr. Big recognizes the Pawpsicle and brings Nick in to tell Judy what he knows about Otteron, Judy is already ahead of him and that information is useless.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The kids in Robin's after-school soccer team avoid playing with him. When Robin tries to [[ChildrenAreInnocent give them the benefit of the doubt]] and tell them he knows how to play, his teammates tell him they won't play with him because their parents told them foxes are liars and cheats. Their harsh words lead Robin to skip his afterschool activities from then on, instead hanging out with Nick.
* AlmightyMom: On-duty Officer Judy Hopps gives the mayor TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for proposing a bill set to oppress her son when he's older should it pass.
* AnonymousPublicPhoneCall: {{Defied}} by [[spoiler:[[TheStoolPigeon Officer Swinton]] when she leaks Manchas' condition to [[AlphabetNewsNetwork ZNN]], as to identify herself as a reputable source for the claim predators are going savage. This [[HoistByHisOwnPetard bites her in the ass]] as it leads Internal Affairs directly after her for publicizing confidential medical records.]]
* ApatheticClerk: The receptionist at child services doesn't bother with arranging an interview or doing a background check on Judy when she requests to adopt Robin; the sheep is just glad that the fox will be some one else's problem. Judy even {{Lampshades}} this apparent error.
* AscendedToCarnivorism: With her son's nutritional needs and the hassle of having to cook separate dishes, Judy started eating food with crickets in it. What started as a [[IAteWhat mistake]] turned into a frugal decision (with a hint of GuiltyPleasure).
* BerserkButton: Seeing others experience FantasticRacism becomes a bigger trigger for Judy than [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating her]]; directing it towards her son makes her ''[[MamaBear livid]]''.
* BigWhat: [[ToBeContinued Chapter Twenty ends]]/[[PreviouslyOn Chapter Twenty-One begins]] with one. [[spoiler:Judy gives it when Nick bluffs that her son is ''his son''.]]
* BlandNameProduct
** “For a headache, I usually just take a couple Tylionol.”
** Alligatorade. Come on, that one's not even a mammal pun; it's a reptile! ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment And Gatorade is already named after gators!]]''
* BlindedByTheLight: To buy time until the TranquilizerDart subdues Manchas, Nick sets his cellphone's flashlight to [[EpilepticFlashingLights strobe setting]] to disorientate the savage jaguar until he loses consciousness.
* BluffingTheAuthorities: PlayedForLaughs and [[PlayedForDrama Drama]]. [[spoiler:Following Robin's kitnapping, Nick lies to Judy ([[DramaticIrony who he doesn't know is Robin's mother]]) that ''he's his father'' so she'll let him help rescue him. Judy know its BlatantLies and makes Nick [[SnowballLie dig himself deeper]] to find out what his intentions with her son are.]]
--> “Unfortunately, falsely claiming [[spoiler:guardianship over a minor]] to a law enforcement officer is a punishable offence – six months jail time.”
* BoxedCrook: Nick doesn't help Judy because she {{Blackmail}}ed him. [[spoiler:He helps her because ''Mr. Big'' is forcing him to do so.]]
* BystanderSyndrome: {{Averted}}. Robin was rescued after a noise complaint was made from a neighborhood where this trope is often {{PlayedStraight}} as the residents rarely call the police for anything less than a shooting.
** {{Averted}} again when [[spoiler:a mouse witnesses Robin being being abducted by one of Bellwether's goons and sends a phone recording to the police.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Judy gives one to her father once he finds out about Robin, as his first reaction was to believe the six-week-old fox broke into her apartment and ask her if she was ArmedWithPepperSpray.
* CaughtOnTape: [[spoiler:An overlooked mouse records Jesse's abduction of Robin with his phone. Within hours Amber alerts are being issued and the footage of the kitnapping shown across the news.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: {{Averted}}. The characters are using their phones at their disposal, from using the flashlight to [[BlindedByTheLight stun savage mammals]] to [[spoiler:catching a child abduction on video and alerting the police.]]
* ChekhovsGun
** The fox repellant. Despite Judy's [[SymbolicWeaponDiscarding vehement disposal]] of it, it is brought up by Stu over voice call in the next chapter, prompting Judy to unleash an [[CallingTheOldManOut argument with her father]].
** The Pawpsicles. Robin starts visiting Nick's stand by the time Judy is assigned to the Emmitt Otterton case. Since she doesn't recognize the Pawpsicle Emmitt is pictured holding, her investigation into their seller will lead her to meet Nick for the first time. She doesn't connect the Pawpsicles to Nick... [[spoiler:but Mr. Big does.]]
** Judy's lucky carrot pen. Judy's use of it is idly mentioned throughout the story, but its recording function doesn't get used until Bellwether's EngineeredPublicConfession.
---> “Our [[SarcasmMode lovely mayor]] was quite chatty when she believed her audience would either be dead or savage within the hour.”
* ChekhovsGunman: Renato Manchas. Shortly after Judy adopted Robin, Manchas was assigned to escort Robin to and from his godmother Fru-Fru and godcousin Ju-Ju. After a few years the Missing Mammal incident arises, and he is the last to see Mr. Otterton before [[HeKnowsTooMuch being turned savage himself]], per {{Canon}}. [[spoiler:ForWantOfANail, he is successfully subdued by the police before he can be taken to Cliffside, but a [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]] leaks his savage state to the news before the missing mammals are located.]]
* ChemicallyInducedInsanity: {{Subverted}} with [[spoiler:Nick. Him and Judy are caught completely off guard by the reveal of the night howlers, gets shot by Bellwether with the intention that he'll [[FedToTheBeast maul Judy and Robin to death]] for her. While he does go savage the calm, rural location for the planned murder gives Nick the reprieve to recognize the scent of a fox kit on Judy and Robin, turning PapaBear when Bellwether direct him after Judy.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Robin has been a curious and kind kit his whole life for all the reader sees of it. Judy [[LampshadeHanging defends with this point]] when she gets astounded by bigots who see him as a FoulFox even when he's only months old.
** When Judy first told Robin that some mammals buy anti-fox products because they fear foxes and that Grandpa Stu used to be one of those mammals, Robin's first action upon seeing Stu again was to hug him and promise he'll never scare him.
** When his soccer teammates [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer avoid him at their first after-school practice]], he assumes they think he doesn't know how the play and tries to explain to them hes has experience playing with his cousins in Bunnyburrow. He doesn't expect [[KidsAreCruel their real reasoning]].
** When Robin first tells Nick about his mother, the limited details he gives paints a dark picture for the older fox. Robin never gets the impression that Nick thought his mother was a StrugglingSingleMother Struggling Single]] [[SingleMomStripper Mom Stripper]].
* ChildrenRaiseYou: Judy's new motherhood teaches her a lot not just about raising a child as a first time mom, but also the prejudice foxes and other predators experience.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: [=BookWorm07=] ends most of the chapters on one to immediately continue the next chapter. Possibly the most egregious was the one before the story went dormant for two years, [[spoiler:Mr. Big orders his bears to bring in Nick to find out what he knows about Emmitt's disappearance.]]
* ComeAlone: When [[spoiler:Judy finds out that her son has been kidnapped]], a [[MysteriousStranger blocked number]] requests this in a text.
--> ''Have you lost something? Try the old warehouses; I hear the breeze off the water is to die for in the Savanna heat. No police.''
* CompletedFic: Completed on February 24th, 2017; after 3 years, 7 months, 17 days (for half of which it was feared to be a DeadFic).
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Judy begins to contemplate on who is supposed to take care of Robin while she is at work, she gets a second meeting with Fru-Fru ([[TheDriver and Kevin]]) who thanks her for [[IOweYouMyLife saving her life]] and offers to share the live-in nanny she hired in anticipation for her [[BabiesEverAfter unborn daughter]].
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Robin's biological family is dead by the FanFic's beginning.
* CoolDownHug: Judy gives one to Manchas when he recounts to her what happened when he chauffeured Otterton.
* CruelElephant: Jerry Jumbeaux Jr, more so than {{Canon}}. Here he successfully kicks a [[FreeRangeChildren Free-Range]] seven-year-old out of his store, all while insulting him and his mother, solely because of his species.
-->“I don’t accept stolen money. Now you need to get out or I’ll call the cops; you’re holding up the line.”
* CunningLikeAFox: {{Downplayed}} with Robin. He isn't as sly of a fox as Nick is, and is really only ever deceitful out of childish concerns to DontTellMama. Nick [[SherlockScan immediately reads into]] Robin's worries about telling his mom about his bullying, chalking it up as an instinctual deceptiveness of a fox.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' furthers upon the themes of FantasticRacism from ''Zootopia'', exploring SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism while being presented with {{Tragedy}}, gun crime, sex work, [[WouldHurtAChild child endangerment]], and systematic problems that are bad enough without TheChessmaster making it worse. Plus Mr. Big's Gram-mama isn't the only one dead and gone, and neither hero nor villain [[NeverSayDie refrain from acknowledging death]]. That's not to say it's devoid of humor or idealism however.
* DeathByAdaptation: Mr. Wilde and any acknowledgment of his absence is absent from ''Zootopia''. Here, it's explained away that he was killed in a hit and run before Nick can even remember.
* DeathByChildbirth: Robin's biological mother died giving a natural birth to him at home.
* DeathByDespair: Robin's biological grandmother is concluded to have [[PassedInTheirSleep Passed In Her Sleep]] due to this.
--> '''Judy:''' A heart attack? At fifty-six?
--> '''Bogo:''' [[TruthInTelevision It's been known to happen.]] [[JustifiedTrope It's also not too uncommon for older mammals to]] [[LampshadeHanging pass away from heartbreak shortly after the death of a loved one.]]
* DeathByIrony: {{Discussed}}. [[spoiler:Upon finding out Judy has a fox for a son, Bellwether plans on darting Robin so he could maul his mother to death.]]
--> [[spoiler:''What better way to promote the necessity of [[ShockCollar Tame Collars]] than ZPD’s darling Judy Hopps, a mammal who loved predators and firmly believed in their goodness, [[{{Matricide}} killed by her own savage son.]] After all, every good initiative needs a [[InspirationalMartyr martyr]] at the head.'']]
* DeathByOriginStory: Robin's biological family.
** The father, Sam Swiftfoot, was [[CarFu killed by a car]] six months [[NewChildLeftBehind before his son was born.]]
** The mother, Linda Foxgrove, faced DeathByChildbirth thus leaving her newborn for her mother to care for.
** The grandmother, Helen Foxgrove, [[DeathByDespair died of a broken heart]] a month after loosing her daughter.
* DeathGlare: Stu receives two from his wife and daughter once he suggests [[ArmedWithPepperSpray pepper spraying]] [[WouldHurtAChild an infant fox]].
--> Bonnie didn’t say a word to her husband’s argument but the glare she gave him spoke volumes.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Zootopia's child services is unable to pickup an orphaned infant (or at least one from the WrongSideOfTheTracks) from the police for hours, and once they find out its a fox, the baby is immediately written off as a burden until they grow out of the system. A receptionist openly admits to Judy of keeping a roster of where foxes are juggled between so no one orphanage is "burdened" more than another.
* TheDiaperChange: After calling in to Clawhauser her findings of a deceased vixen and an orphaned kit, Judy spends the wait for an ambulance giving the unnamed Robin a diaper change and a bottle of formula. This also gives her the opportunity to identify the kit as a male.
* DirtyCop: {{Deconstructed}}. Judy has odd ties with Mr. Big beyond long-time friends with his MafiaPrincess. The two have a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ CodeOfHonor where he [[MoralityPet doesn't do anything illegal around her]] so she isn't [[ByTheBookCop obligated]] to look into him. At most, she is willing to give Fru-Fru a warning beforehand if they had evidence against her father. Nick doesn't think it's a nuanced as that when he first finds out.
--> “So, Carrots. Was it the dismal pay of a {{beat cop}} or the raging speciesism that made you turn to the mob?”
* DisappearedDad: Nick's father was killed in a hit and run when he was a kit. Robin's father was also struck and killed at a red light before he was even born.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Only after impulsively adopting a month-year-old fox kit does Judy realize she doesn't know how to be a mother beyond her BigSisterInstinct, let alone one for a child that isn't a rabbit, and her boss expects her to have dropped of said child to foster care and be at work in five minutes.
-->[[GoshDangItToHeck “Carrot sticks.”]]
** [[spoiler:After Bellwether shoots and turns Nick savage, she becomes irate when he won't attack Judy... and feebly runs for her life when the fox targets her, getting chased down and mauled a fair bit. {{Exaggerated}} when Jesse and Woolter come in unarmed to pull Nick off of her, leading Nick to see the rams as bigger threats and turn his ire to them.]]
* DistantFinale: {{Downplayed}}. Half of the final chapter is set three years later.
* DontTellMama: PlayedForDrama.
** Nick kept his profession as a ConArtist a secret from his mother until he was thirty, cutting contact out of shame once she found out.
** Robin starts to treat the most innocent of things with this regard when he learns about the FantasticRacism towards foxes; he gets the impression that if [[FoulFox all foxes are criminals]], then his mother would have to arrest him for being a criminal.
* DownerBeginning: The first two chapters sees Judy (a [[NewMeat rookie cop]] that has been stuck as a TrafficWarden for six weeks) being given her first assignment, only to find a crying orphaned infant alone in a rundown apartment with his dead grandmother, all hinging on an unassuming noise complaint that [[BystanderSyndrome very well might not have been made]].
* TheDriver: Mr. Manchas becomes this for Robin, chauffeuring the kit to stay with Fru-Fru while Judy is away at work. When Manchas isn't available, [[ThoseTwoGuys Raymond or Kevin]] fill in for him.
* DramaticIrony: Hoo boy, there's a lot.
** The biggest source of it is how long it takes Nick to find out that Judy is Robin's adoptive mother. He doesn't connect the dots until Robin spells it out for him in Chapter Twenty-Three; ten chapters after meeting Judy at Jumbeaux's and thirteen from when he first met Robin.
*** When Nick finds Judy [[spoiler:setting off to confront Robin's kitnappers, he convinces her to take him with for the rescue by saying he's his father, not knowing he's talking the mother of the child he's claiming custody of. Despite knowing his [[BlatantLies Blatant Lie]], she caves because of the obvious concern he has for Robin.]]
*** Before Robin formally introduces Judy and Nick to each other, the [[ObfuscatingStupidity now-knowledgeable Judy]] teases the still-oblivious Nick [[spoiler:for lying to her about being Robin's son and knowing his mother, using ExactWords that Robin's mother won't press charges and will allow them to keep contact.]]
** When Judy observes the sanitation violations at Jumbeaux’s Ice Cream Parlour, she makes a mental note to not bring her son there, unaware that he was there and refused service two days before.
*** In further {{Irony}}, during that same visit Judy blackmails Jumbeaux into serving a Jumbo Pop to Nick, unknowingly securing the resources for the manufacturer of the Pawpsicles' she was trying to track down until she considered it a dead lead.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Wilde family. The DisappearedDad died when his son was young, the StrugglingSingleMother is stuck in a DeadEndJob as a waitress, and a [[CynicismCatalyst traumatic event]] leads the son to leave home. TheRunaway keeps tabs with his mother as he becomes a ConArtist behind her back, lying to her for eighteen years until his secret's blown and he cuts ties out of shame.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Robin Jedidiah Hopps.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: PlayedWith. Judy and Nick arrive at the abandoned warehouse were [[spoiler:Robin is being held hostage]], Judy sets her carrot pen to record before confronting the unidentified culprits. Inside, they are surprised to get Bellwether EvilGloating about TheConspiracy they never even knew existed.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: [[spoiler:Having sprung her trap, Bellwether [[EvilGloating monologues]] to Judy her plan to kill her by having her mauled to death by Nick, painting her as an InspirationalMartyr for her plans. Thinking she means to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident, Judy argues she wouldn't be able to fool medical examiners and she's crazy if she expects Nick to go savage on her whim. Bellwether answers with nothing more than a CheshireCatGrin as Judy takes the DramaticPause to put all the pieces together.]]
--> [[spoiler:“Did the penny just drop, rabbit?”]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Nick, but {{Downplayed}} as he's just a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. After [[TheRunaway running away from home]], he still called his mother every week and visited on holidays for eighteen years, until she found out he was a ConArtist and he dropped contact with her; the guilt of doing so eating him alive for the next nine years until [[spoiler:they reunite after he turns his life around.]]
* EvilOrphanageLady: The [[FantasticRacism Fantastically Racist]] sheep receptionist at Zootopia's child services office, who [[{{Implied}} implies]] all the orphanages in the city share her sentiments. The ewe vehemently voices her grievances with having to deal with orphaned foxes, inadvertently convincing Judy that [[OrphanageOfFear Zootopia's foster care system]] is not the best choice.
-->"[[TheDreaded Not another one!]]" [...] "We just got rid of the last one not even six months ago."
* EvilUncle: {{Downplayed}} with Jadon, the eldest in Judy's litter. His first response to seeing the kit that his sister adopted is a fox is to ask her if her senses have all gone to mush and remind her of the [[NoodleIncident Gideon Grey incident]].
* ExactWords
** [[spoiler:Judy tells Bellwether in no uncertain terms that she'll fight her ShockCollar bill until her dying breath to protect her son from GovernmentExploitedCrisis. Bellwether promptly decides to [[JoinOrDie take her by her word]].]]
** On a lighter note when [[spoiler:Judy chastises Nick for lying to her that he's Robin's father, she is ObfuscatingStupidity that [[ActuallyIAmHer she is his mother]] as she assures him that Robin's mother won't hold it against him and will allow them to keep their IntergenerationalFriendship.]]
* ExtyYearsFromPublication: The majority of the FanFic takes place in May and June of 2017, the same year the first few chapters of were posted ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse''.
* FailedASpotCheck
** Acting Mayor Bellwether proposes to Chief Bogo and Officer Hopps a mandate for enforcing {{Shock Collar}}s on predators, expecting Judy's support as a fellow small prey mammal. This backfires and [[BrokenPedestal destroys the rabbit's opinion of her]] because Dawn never bothered to learn that Judy is the proud mother of a fox.
** [[spoiler:Jesse fails to check a bathroom before abducting Robin from it, leading for a video of an eye-patched ram abducting a fox kit to spread across the news.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:[[ColdSniper Doug]]]]:''' [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging He said he forgot to check all the stalls were empty.]] Personally, I think [[ExaggeratedTrope he forgot to check at all.]]]]
* FaintInShock: Stu Hopps [[DeterioratesIntoGibberish sputters]] and falls back when Judy confesses over video call that she adopted a fox.
* FalseDichotomy: [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Ostracized]] from a post-game ice cream celebration, Robin convinces himself with just two options with the $20 his mother gave him — buy some ice cream without his [[TheBully bully]] teammates ''or'' not buy anything and disappoint his mother with the truth — when he could easily lie after using the money to buy something else or just [[MoneyToThrowAway get rid of it]].
* FamilyThemeNaming
** It is {{Implied}} that Bonnie and Stu name the kits in each litter with AddedAlliterativeAppeal. Two of Judy's littermates are named Jadon and Jill.
** Fru-Fru and her daughter Judy, nicknamed "Ju-Ju".
* FanCreatedOffspring: Robin. Of the adopted variety, as he is not biological related to any main characters.
* FishOutOfWater: Judy had some parenting experience helping raise her younger siblings, but a becoming a full-time mom for a child [[InterspeciesAdoption of a different species]] is new waters for her at first.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: A positive example, Judy raises Robin into a [[GoGetterGirl Go-Getter Guy]], encouraging him to become a mold-breaker like she is in whatever his GoalInLife will be.
* ForWantOfANail: Depending on that the missing mammals incident and the night howler crisis doesn't occur for another seven years after Judy becomes a police officer, ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse'' centers on WhatIf Judy and Nick hadn't met under the same circumstances, and Judy had the experience of a decorated officer and proud mother of a fox kit once they do. Further deviations arise from this, such as that [[spoiler:the police got to Manchas before Lionheart's wolves could, Judy never drove Nick away with careless words or turns in her MedalOfDishonor, and that Nick and Judy don't find out about the night howlers until they're at Bellwether's mercy.]]
* FormerBigot: overcome their prejudices differently from how they do in the film.
** Judy Hopps overcomes her instilled FantasticRacism as she does in the movie, but not because of seeing the damages her [[InnocentBigot careless words]] can do but because of seeing the hatred people can have against a defenseless newborn just because of his species and coming.
** Chief Bogo lives by AnimalStereotypes when Judy's new on the job; she's convinced that the only reason he didn't fight her offer to take care of Robin until child services were available was so he wouldn't want to care for a FoulFox for the night. But over the years, as Judy puts it, “[as she] kept proving him wrong about rabbit stereotypes, he started to question other stereotypes he had always taken at face value.”
** Stu Hopps comes to recognize his attitude towards predators (namely foxes) after it strains his relationship with Judy when he naïvely suggested she would have to use self-defense on a one-month-old fox. He goes an awkward struggle in his efforts to accept Robin as his new grandson and regain his daughter's trust, expanding his horizon such as by starting a business partnership with Gideon and banning Fox Away products from the Hopps burrow. After a few years he's become more rational (albeit still a bit of a NervousWreck) by the time of the night howler crisis, as he is only concerned by the physical threat of a savage mammal could pose and not just by their existence as a predator.
* FourthDateMarriage: {{Averted}}. [[spoiler:Nick and Judy [[MarryForLove tie the knot]] after about two years of dating.]]
* GettingTheBabyToSleep: Her first night with the then-unnamed Robin, Judy was "stuck trying every trick in the book to get him back to sleep" until "he finally, finally, drifted off" and she [[CuddleBug cuddled up]] to him as a makeshift crib. Despite the hours of sleep lost, in the morning Judy finds it to be the best rest she had since moving to Zootopia.
* TheGhost: Despite their importance to the plot, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Mayor Lionheart]] and [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine Dr. Honey Badger]] are never directly seen or heard from, only relayed through secondhand accounts and the results of their action. Additional characters like [[IdolSinger Gazelle]] or [[ForgetfulJones Nangi]] are only given off mentions by [[FanBoy Clawhauser]] and [[NewAgeRetroHippie Yax]].
* GiveHimANormalLife: Judy's decision for adopting Robin and raising him as her son as opposed to him being pushed around a bunch of [[OrphanageOfFear orphanages]] for eighteen years.
* GiveTheBabyAFather: After a couple of years, Judy started dating with hopes that she'd be able to find a prospective father figure for Robin. By thirty-one, "she had had eight prospective bucks and eight failed first dates." [[spoiler:She finally gives him that father by thirty-three.]]
* GoodWithNumbers: ZigZagged. Robin can handle second grade multiplication questions (his mother taught him how to after all) but finds trouble with division. Nick starts spending time away from his scams to help him through his math textbooks.
* GossipyHens: When first taking the as-of-then unnamed Robin home, Judy and him become the subject of two on the subway. The zebra Sherly and the deer Janet shamelessly spout bigoted theories of Robin's parents and how its InTheBlood for [[AggressiveCategorism foxes to be criminals]] until Judy [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gets in their faces about it]].
* HappilyAdopted: Judy and Robin deeply care for each other and anything that could ruin their family of two is a great fear for them both. [[spoiler:For a birthday present, Robin and Judy give Nick joint custody.]]
* HappyEnding: [[spoiler:Nick and Judy Wilde, ten-months-married, celebrating the former's birthday. finalizing Nick's custody of Robin, Judy brings up the idea [[HereWeGoAgain adopting another]].]]
* HatesBeingCalledCute: Judy indicates [[AffectionHatingKid Robin gave this response]] when she told him he looked cute in his new soccer uniform; Clawhauser sarcastically asks [[LikeFatherLikeSon where that behavior came from.]]
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Robin's plans to have ice cream to celebrates with his soccer teammates turns to this. This is [[KickTheDog further delayed]] by [[CruelElephant Jumbeaux]] kicking him out of his shop, leaving Nick's Pawpsicle stand as the next option.
* {{Het}}: Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Judy gets such a bad reputation serving as a TrafficWarden for six weeks straight that, Mayor Lionheart gets upset that she's seen as nothing more than a [[MeddlesomePatrolman Meddlesome Patrolwoman]].
--> '''Chief Bogo:''' The mayor has been a rather annoying thorn in my hide for the last few weeks. Constantly asking why the first gradate of his ‘Mammal Inclusion Initiative’ is getting such bad reception because all she’s doing is pissing taxing paying mammals off with her high ticket count.
* TheHerosBirthday: {{Inverted}}. [[spoiler:The story ends with Nick celebrating his birthday with his new wife and son.]]
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard
** [[spoiler:Officer Swinton is easily found out as a [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]] because she told ZNN who she was to convey her credibility as a police officer.]]
** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Bellwether]] does some EvilGloating before turning Nick savage and having Judy FedToTheBeast, only for Nick to attack her and her {{Mook}}s and Judy to survive with an EngineeredPublicConfession.]]
* HoldYourHippogriffs
** Rabbits sometimes use the indefinite pronouns "everybunny" and "somebunny" in reference to other rabbits.
---> '''Bonnie Hopps:''' Jadon! When I told [[RacistGrandpa Pop Pop]] not to talk like that, that includes ''everybunny''!
** [[spoiler:Amber alerts are issued when a ''kit''napping occurs.]]
* HonoraryUncle
** Judy and Fru-Fru become godmothers of each other's child, with Robin and Ju-Ju becoming godcousins.
** Robin calls [[ReformedBully Gideon Grey]] his "uncle Gid".
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Acting Mayor Bellwether expects Judy Hopps to [[WeCanRuleTogether support her proposal]] for a ShockCollar mandate due to her being a small prey animal from the conservative podunk of Bunnyburrow. Because of this and having FailedASpotCheck, she ends up poking the MamaBear and Judy vows to become her most vocal critic.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: {{Implied}} to be {{Averted}}. [[spoiler:HappilyMarried, Judy [[AdoptionIsNotAnOption considers adopting a second child]] before conceiving one with Nick, possibly because that is impossible for their InterspeciesRomance.]]
* HugAndComment: PlayedForDrama in a {{Flashback}}. After Judy told Robin how his grandpa Stu felt about foxes before his HeelFaceTurn, Robin hugged Stu and assured him he doesn't have to be afraid of him, and he'll do everything he can to make his grandpa feel safe. Stu broke down crying and apologizing that his past actions made his grandson feel he had to promise him something like that.
* IAteWhat: ZigZagged. After Robin started eating solid food and a particularly draining day at work, Judy accidentally reheated and ate from [[UnfortunateItemSwap a bowl of Robin's carrot cricket stew instead of her regular carrot stew.]] Following a crisis of [[PostWakeupRealization realizing what she ate]], ''[[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam realizing she liked it]]'', and panicking over whether [[SelfInducedAllergicReaction she had poisoned herself or not]], composes herself and soon enough eating crickets becomes a GuiltyPleasure for the rabbit.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Despite the format of Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn numbering a work's chapters by nature, each chapter is titled "Chapter [cardinal number]"... [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except for the first chapter]], which uses the numeral "1" instead of the lingual "One".
* IDoNotOwn: A disclaimer written in some way is included in the author's note at the beginning of each chapter. The following is at the start of Chapter 1:
--> Disclaimer: Zootopia and all it's characters belong to Disney (sigh)
--> This fanwork and any of my OC's belong to me (Muhahahaha)
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:Doug sends Jesse to abduct Robin so Judy can be LuredIntoATrap to kill her and use her murder as an InspirationalMartyr.]]
* ImaginedInnuendo: Nick expects Robin's mother, who he assumes to be a disadvantaged vixen, would own handcuffs for [[KinkyCuffs only one reason]].
* ImpliedDeathThreat: PlayedWith. When Nick asks "Carrots" how she got involved with Mr. Big, Judy tells him “[[HatesBeingNicknamed [he's] going to want to refrain from calling [her] Carrots]].” [[ThatCameOutWrong Recognizing]] his fearful expression at their limo driver and that he's under the impression she's a DirtyCop, she does a VerbalBackspace to calm him down.
--> “Sweet cheese and crackers! Not like that! I’m not about to sic Raymond on you Nick, so you can calm down.”
* INeverToldYouMyName: Judy asks Fru-Fru how she knew her name to [[NearAndDearBabyNaming name]] her unborn daughter after. Fru-Fru's explanation of how her daddy "had her researched" (and her [[GiantMook polar bear chauffeur]]) tips Judy off that the shrew is a MafiaPrincess, but gratefully chooses not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
* IronicName: A sloth librarian named Mr. Speedster.
* InSpiteOfANail: Follows many StationsOfTheCanon despite the changes to the timeline and characters' pasts.
** Judy and Nick first meet in Jumbeaux's where the former advocates for the latter. Judy is not there because she's suspicious of Nick, but because she's suspicious of [[ActuallyIAmHim the Pawpsicle vendor]].
*** Despite being unable to identify the vendor as Nick and get his witness testimony, Judy still makes it to the Mystery Springs Oasis using the information she got from Mrs. Otterton.
** The missing mammals are still found and savage mammals break the news, albeit the other way around this time.
** Narrowly thwart a NearVillainVictory, making it out alive with an EngineeredPublicConfession from Bellwether
* InnocentBlueEyes: Robin's most distinguishing feature is his eyes, with his namesake due to their comparison to robin eggs. The trope name even gets {{Title Drop}}ped in the epilogue's prose.
* InstantSedation: {{Averted}}.
** It takes a few moments for Judy's TranquilizerDart to knock the savage Manchas out, for which Nick buys time for by using his [[BlindedByTheLight phone flashlight]].
** [[spoiler:When Judy tranquilizes a savage Nick, it takes as short while for him to stop tenderizing Woolter’s shoulder with his teeth. Woolter has the gall to [[VillainWantsMercy plead for her help]] as they wait for Nick to loose consciousness.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The 39-year-old Nick befriends the 7-year-old Robin, the kit turning the DefrostingIceKing into a ParentalSubstitute.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Judy Hopps, a European rabbit, adopts a red fox kit, naming him Robin Hopps.
* KidsAreCruel: At his first soccer practice, the other kids on Robin's team [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer refuse to pass the ball to him]]. After the game, they make it clear that their parents told them foxes are not to be trusted, and they would never play with a FoulFox.
* KidsHateVegetables: {{Inverted}}. Being raised by a rabbit has given Robin an affinity for carrots.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: In Chapter Four, Judy [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggeration]] of this trope, explaining that some mammals leave their child [[TheNameless unnamed]] a few months until they can gauge an appropriate one once their personality comes in. She also [[PlayedStraight plays it straight]] herself, as a second later she finds herself having to name the fox kit in the middle of his adoption process.
* LastNameBasis: Despite respectively being the grandfather to her goddaughter and having him as her son's [[TheDriver chauffer]] for seven years, Judy politely calls Mr. Big and Mr. Manchas by their surnames. PlayedStraight with Mr. Big, but [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious she calls him Renato when Manchas gets shot with a night howler pellet]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Robin ends up adopting a few of his mother's CharacterTics; his nose twitches when he's curious or scared, he binkies out of excitement, he's [[GoodWithNumbers good at multiplication]].
* LipLosses: Judy ends up nervously biting her lip to the point of bleeding when worrying about how she's tell Chief Bogo she'll be late for work because she adopted the fox kit she was expected to give to child services.
* ALizardNamedLiz
** Linda and Helen ''Fox''glove.
** Robin's second grade teacher, a beaver named Mrs. Flattail.
** [[spoiler:Portia Swinton, a PolicePig and [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]].]]
** [[spoiler:Eugene Smalls, an overlooked businessmouse.]]
** Dr. ''Wolf''sbane, a she-wolf overseeing [[spoiler:Nick's recovery from night howler poisoning.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: {{Subverted}}. [[spoiler:Nick tells Judy that Robin is his son so she'll let him help her rescue him from his kitnappers. This is BlatantLies and he's completely oblivious that's he's making this claim to Robin's GlamorousSingleMother.]]
--> “He’s my son!” [[spoiler:Nick]] blurted.
--> “''[[BigWhat What?!]]''”
* LuredIntoATrap
** Bellwether instructs Doug to dart Manchas once the police has connected him to Otterton's disappearance, wanting carnage.
--> ''“And make sure there are casualties this time,”'' a tinny voice could be heard from the speaker, ''“we’ve made them worried, now we need to make them afraid.”''
** Bellwether arranges another one [[spoiler:specifically to take out Judy after she vows to protest her ShockCollar bill [[ExactWords until her dying breath]]. She plans this by [[IHaveYourWife kitnapping Robin]] to have her ComeAlone to a place where she'll turn Robin savage and have Judy [[DeathByIrony mauled to death by her son she's come to rescue]].]]
* MakingRoomForBaby: Judy moves out of the Grand Pangolin Arms, buying a larger flat in a condominium building to raise Robin in.
* MamaBear: Judy becomes fiercely protective of Robin, doing everything from adopting him to keep him away from [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices Child Disservices]], lashing out at anyone mistreating him for being a fox, or [[spoiler:going rogue to rescue him from his kitnappers.]]
* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: {{Downplayed}}. Mrs. Wilde, who sought to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the FoulFox stereotype, was left distraught when she found out her son [[ThenLetMeBeEvil gave in]], became a ConArtist, and kept it secret from her for years.
* MandatoryMotherhood: Judy has occasionally stopped and considered how this is with [[ExplosiveBreeders rabbits]], especially after growing attached to and adopting Robin. She knows that NotWantingKidsIsWeird even for her, and expected finding herself a nice buck and having a few kit sometime in the indeterminate future until Robin came along.
* MeaningfulEcho: A few are made with the [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} original work]].
** Like Nick as a child, a woodchuck is the one to reveal the bullies' [[KidsAreCruel true colors]] to Robin.
--->"Even though you're a ''[[ParentheticalSwearing fox]]''?"
--->"Why would we pass the ball to a ''fox''?"
** [[CruelElephant Jumbeaux Jr.]] tells Robin he doesn't need [[AggressiveCategorism his kind]] "skulking around during daylight hours" and to go find an ice cream parlor in their [[WrongSideOfTheTracks "part of town"]].
** Judy's EmptyCopThreat of jailtime against Nick for [[spoiler:[[BluffingTheAuthorities lying to her that he's Robin's father]] emulates how she {{Blackmail}}s him for tax evasion in the film.]]
** Judy and Nick's final lines in the story are a near perfect recital of their final exchange with each other in the film, [[spoiler:now under the context of a HappilyMarried couple [[BabiesEverAfter considering a second child.]]]]
---> “I love you, you know that?”
---> “Do I know that? Yes, yes I do.”
* MeaningfulName: Judy gave Robin a LineOfSightName, inspired by the kit's InnocentBlueEyes as they reminded her of robin eggs. She also choose the middle name Jedidiah (Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, "beloved of the Lord") as she vows to love him as her child.
** {{Discussed}} by both Gideon Grey and Nick Wilde when they learn Robin's name. Both were RightForTheWrongReasons as they assumed he was NamedAfterSomebodyFamous to foxes, [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973 Robin Hood]]; Judy hadn't known of the character until Gideon told her and she found a DoubleMeaning in her son's name.
* MistakenForProstitute: Judy, indirectly. Nick comes to the conclusion that Robin's mother is a vixen [[SingleMomStripper working as a hooker.]] He ends up voicing his theory to Judy when the truth is the exact opposite: Robin's mom a rabbit police officer.
* MistakenFromBehind: Robin mistakes a rabbit for his aunt Jill sent to pick him up at the train station. While confused how a fox confused a rabbit for his aunt, the doe offers to help him find her, which Robin politely declines.
* TheMobBossIsScarier: {{Deconstructed}} by Judy. [[spoiler:She correctly deduces that Nick has no logical motive to be TheInformant unless Mr. Big is [[BoxedCrook forcing him to]] under threat of getting iced. She assures Nick its just a bluff as Mr. Big's CodeOfHonour and [[MoralityPet respect for Judy]] makes is so he would never kill someone for failing her lest that weight on her conscience.]]
* MommasBoy
** Robin loves Judy as his mother dearly. The idea of losing her love becomes a fear for him.
** Nick is to a lesser extent, as despite being estranged from his mother for nine years, he still cares about her and transacts money into her bank account. [[spoiler:Once Judy and Robin [[ReformedCriminal turn his life around]], he finds the emotional strength to reconcile with her.]]
* MythologyGag
** Happy Town is a WrongSideOfTheTracks seen in concept art for the film. This was where Nick's father had his clothing store before both were cut during production.
** Judy recalls her [[RacistGrandpa Pop-Pop]]'s opinions of foxes and how they're "[[RedIsViolent red devils]]", alluding to a DeletedScene. True to self, Pop-Pop voices that foxes are red because they are made by the devil when his great-grandson Robin visits Bunnyburrow for the first time.
** Mayor Swinton was the CorruptPolitician in earlier scripts for the movie who remained a DevelopmentGag as an extra at the DMV and a prison officer. [[spoiler:Here, Officer Portia Swinton is a [[TheStoolPigeon whistleblower]] for the predators going savage before the missing mammals are found.]]
** [[ShockCollar Tame Collars]], removed from ''Zootopia'' when it was made LighterAndFluffier, are discussed with Bellwether's plans to mandate all predators above the age of twelve to be fixed with one.
* NeverGivenAName: Robin was never given one by his birth family before he was orphaned, possibly due to cultural reasons.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Bellwether does this out of her obsession to kill Judy for propaganda. Both Judy and Nick were nowhere on her trail and completely oblivious to the night howlers' existence when they are LuredIntoATrap with [[IHaveYourWife Robin as bait]], where Bellwether reveals herself to give a MotiveRant uncovering TheConspiracy for them and giving a EngineeredPublicConfession of a magnitude no-one expected.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: {{Defied}} by the child services' ApatheticClerk. When Judy [[LampshadeHanging points out there should be]] a social worker to run a background check before she can adopt Robin, the sheep admits there should be one to do that but she's skipping it so she doesn't have to deal with a fox in the foster system and get it over with; Judy [[SuppressedRage suppresses her rage]] at the gross lack of procedure in handling a child's custody.
* OCStandIn: A case with a cut character turned DevelopmentGag from the film, [[spoiler: the pig warden/Mayor Swinton. Officer [[NamedByTheAdaptation Portia]] Swinton, who [[TheStoolPigeon whistleblows]] the savage Manchas to the media.]]
* OneDoseFitsAll
** {{Averted}} as Judy is specified to use a dosage meant for large mammals to [[TranquilizerDart tranquilize]] Manchas after he goes savage. [[spoiler:It takes a medium mammal dart for her to stop Nick from attacking Woolter.]]
** Bethwether decides to [[DefiedTrope work around this trope]] when [[spoiler:Robin's kitnapping becomes too publicized for her to turn him savage on Judy without suspicion.]]
---> [[spoiler:“All anyone knows right now is that a fox was kitnapped by a nobody ram, we’ll roll with that – stage it as a kitnapping [[GoneHorriblyWrong gone wrong]]. The son ‘[[DeadlyEuphemism accidently]]’ overdosed on tranquilizers and Judy, [[FiveStagesOfGrief not paying attention in her grief]], fatally shot by the kitnapper during his escape attempt.”]]
* OriginalCharacter: The staple example is the {{Deuteragonist}} Robin Hopps, the adopted FanCreatedOffspring of Judy Hopps. In addition to him, there are a few named {{Bit Character}}s as well.
* ParentalSubstitute: Nick starts filling in the absent father role in Robin's life before he even first meets Judy.
* ParentsAsPeople: Not just Judy's parents but Judy herself. They can be worried about their children and their means to take care of them, whether their reasons be irrational or justified. They can make mistakes that threaten their children's opinions of them, or their opinions of their children can shape each others actions.
* PassedInTheirSleep: Judy finds the body of a middle-aged fox who died this way in response to a noise complaint call. Coroners determine that Helen Foxgrove died about twenty-four hours before Judy made the discovery, with [[DeathByDespair heartbreak syndrome]] ruled as likely cause for her early death.
* PhonyVeteran: A [[LemonyNarrator snide line]] indicates that Bonnie's father, Pop-Pop, spends his days "talking of his time in the war (which never actually happened)". Note the AmbiguousSyntax for whether his service or the war as a whole is fictional.
* PosthumousCharacter: Robin's biological father, mother, and grandmother, as well as Nick's father.
* PrecisionFStrike: As Bellweather gives her [[EvilGloating villainous monologue]] explaining her plans for using {{Shock Collar}}s to "tame" predators as a safety precaution, [[GoshDangItToHeck Judy]] explodes with a “That’s bullshit!”
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Judy and Nick are never explicitly stated in ''Zootopia'' or by WordOfGod to be an OfficialCouple (just {{Ship Tease}}d), but it is a OneTruePairing [=BookWorm07=] agrees with and incorporates into the latter half of ''Fox in the Bunnyhouse''.
* PunnyName: ''The Starry Night'' was painted by [[Creator/VincentVanGogh Vincent van Goat]].
* RaisedByGrandparents: {{Downplayed}}. After his biological mother died, Robin was cared for by his maternal grandmother until she died from [[DeathByDespair heartbreak]] just a month later.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
** Judy gives one to a pair of GossipyHens who start spouting cruel words at the sight of her with an orphaned fox kit. After [[SarcasmMode asking how her personal life became their business]], Judy explains the circumstances and asks them to show some compassion and not [[FantasticRacism judge a mammal based on their species]]. Sherly [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk doesn't take Judy's words to heart]] however, and says just because she's the mayor's naïve AffirmativeActionGirl doesn't mean [[ShutUpKirk she can tell them how to act]] and [[SpeakIllOfTheDead the city's better off with two less foxes]].
** She gives another to [[CorruptPolitician Mayor Bellwether]] when she [[BigBrotherIsEmployingYou expects the ZPD to sponsor]] a ShockCollar mandate for all predators above twelve. Judy calls out the idea for what it is: an anti-predator agenda in a GovernmentExploitedCrisis with no plans of being overturned. She ends up shoving her phone with a picture of Robin into [[LackOfEmpathy Bellwether]]'s face to guilt her before storming out of the mayoral office.
---> '''Chief Bogo:''' “I think we’re done here, ''[[ParentheticalSwearing Mayor Bellwether]]''. Officer Hopps expressed my opinion beautifully, [[BerserkButton if less diplomatically.]] You can safely assume that the ZPD will not now, or ever, support your mandate if you choose to go through with it.”
* RecruitTheMuggles: ZigZagged. Judy is reluctant to bring Nick along as anything more than TheInformant because she doesn't want to put a civilian in harm's way. Nick is a NonActionGuy but doesn't want to abandon Judy when things get dire. Mr. Big doesn't want Nick to fail his granddaughter's godmother. [[spoiler:Judy takes whatever help she can get when she sets off to confront whoever kitnapped her son.]]
* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: Averted. [[spoiler:Judy saves Bellwether and her minions from Nick [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard after they turned him savage]], treating their wounds after arresting them.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Nick correctly assumes Robin has a MeaningfulName; however its not because his mother likes folklore but just because his InnocentBlueEyes reminded her of robin eggs.
* TheRunaway: Nick ran away the day [[CynicismCatalyst he was muzzled]], keeping tabs with her as he became TheArtfulDodger until she [[DontTellMama found out the truth]]. Following the TimeSkip, he hadn't seen her in nine years and still feels guilt over how he worried her.
* ScaryLibrarian: {{Inverted}}. The elderly sloth at the library Robin goes to is a CoolOldGuy who tells good jokes ([[SluggishSloths even though he takes a while to get to the punchline]]).
* {{Shipping}}: The story is tagged with the {{Het}} ship [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Judy%20Hopps*s*Nick%20Wilde/works Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde]], coming into play the later chapters after they meet again in Chapter Fifteen.
* SingleIssueLandlord: Ms. Armadillo doesn't care when one of her tenants suddenly comes back with a child or that they're a fox; she just wants to make sure Judy didn't lose her key and knows that despite the new addition the complimentary delousing is still only once a month.
* ShoutOut
** Robin is a MeaningfulName in fox culture due to a [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973 Hero of Sherwood]]. Judy only learns the importance of it after reconciling with [[ReformedBully Gideon]].
*** Additionally, Nick Wilde's mother is named as Marian.
** When Nick first meets Robin, he vaguely recognizes his t-shirt to display a SupermanSubstitute, "[=SuperBunny=] or other."
** One of Robin's favorite cousins is named [[Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit Peter]].
* ShootingLessonsFromYourParents: An [[InvertedTrope inversion]] where the parent isn't teaching their child how to use weapons, but to stay safe from ones marketed for use against the child. In a {{Flashback}}, Judy warns Robin about anti-fox products, gently explaining that some mammals are afraid of foxes and others sell them weapons telling them it will make them safe, [[TurnTheOtherCheek but those mammals are wrong]]. Judy is initially conflicted over whether to tell her son about the [[HarmfulToMinors hate in the world]] or [[CoverInnocentEyesAndEars not]], but her police training helps her determine that weapon safety trumps keeping him [[ObilviousToHatred oblivious]] and [[WouldHurtAChild vulnerable]].
* ShowWithinAShow: ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' is ostensibly the adaptation of Myth/RobinHood within the story. Judy becomes enamored with ''The Hero of Sherwood'' and it becomes her and Robin's favorite bedtime story.
* SmallParentHugeChild: {{Discussed}}. As a seven-year-old, Robin is already mother, set to become twice her size once he's an adult fox. Judy tells him that (like his cousins) he isn't allowed to drive the Hopps' tractor until they're thirteen, even if he's tall enough by then.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Several.
** Whoever made the noise complaint for an orphaned fox kit's crying. If it weren't for them, Judy never would've found let alone adopt Robin.
** [[CruelElephant Jerry Jumbeaux Jr.]] oddly has a bigger role than in the movie but nonetheless serves two big impacts, being involved with Nick's first meeting with Robin and later Judy. She also questions Jumbeaux for her current lead on Otteron's disappearnce, [[DramaticIrony asking him if he sells Pawpsicles or knows who does]].
** [[spoiler:[[PolicePig Portia Swinton]], TheStoolPigeon that leaks evidence of Manchas going savage to Zootopia News Network, believing it too dangerous for the police to keep it a secret while they investigate,]]
** [[spoiler:[[BitCharacter Eugene Smalls]], a little mouse that goes overlooked as Jesse abducts Robin from the train station bathroom. Eugene gets it all CaughtOnTape and his video breaks the news in hours.]]
* SmellsOfDeath: Judy immediately smells the deceased Helen Foxglove when she [[OpenSaysMe gets into]] Apartment 5B. {{Discussed}} further in that the ZPD Academy has a mandatory class on scent training to recognize the five stages of decay.
* SpoofsRUs: Judy goes shopping for baby supplies at Kits "R" Us in Chapter Seven, and recalls past experiences with a subsidiary dedicated to rabbits, Bunnies "R" Us.
* StrugglingSingleMother: {{Downplayed}} with Judy. At first she's a FishOutOfWater when it comes to raising Robin, but after sorting things out with Fru-Fru's help and a few years to settle, her financial situations are stable and her biggest concern is [[GiveTheBabyAFather finding him a paternal figure]].
** Nick also naturally assumes this of whoever Robin's mother is due to his own mother's experiences.
* StationsOfTheCanon: Everything up to Judy's hire; Judy saving Fru-Fru from being crushed; predators go missing through out Zootopia; Judy meets Nick at Jumbeaux's during the Missing Mammals incident; Otterton is tracked from Mystery Springs Oasis to Manchas, who also gets darted; a news conference is made after the savage mammals are uncovered; more predators are turned savage as Bellwether becomes mayor, causing panic in the city; Judy and Nick uncover the truth of the night howlers; and Bellwether and her cronies (possibly [[KarmaHoudini sans Doug]]) get arrested. Other stations such as Judy reconciling with Gideon and Nick joining Judy on her investigation also occur, but out of order from the movie's series of events.
* StagParty: Of DistaffCounterpart. After the TimeSkip, Judy attended her coworker [[HonorableElephant Francine]]'s birthday party that devolved into a premature bachelorette party at a [[RedLightDistrict male strip club]] celebrating the elephant's engagement.
* TheStoolPigeon
** [[spoiler:News of savage mammals breaks when a police officer tips off [[AlphabetNewsNetwork ZNN]] with medical records Manchas' savage state.]]
*** In the aftermath of that, [[spoiler:Dr. Honey Badger confesses her involvement with the fourteen missing mammals being held at Cliffside.]]
** [[spoiler:After Bellwether and her associates are arrested, the other sheep accept plea deals to testify against her and identify the night howlers as the serum's active ingredient.]]
* StripperCopConfusion: A rare example born not from visual misconception but from an ImaginedInnuendo FromTheMouthsOfBabes. Nick assumes only one thing when Robin naïvely mentions his mother is physically active and handcuffs "mammals who were naughty" at her job.
-->With no vixens on the force (not like they’d ''let'' one on the force) and, based off the information he’d pieced together from what the kit had told him, no mate at home, that left only one option.
-->Robin’s mom was a hooker.
* SweetSheep: {{Averted}}, every one in here is a {{Jerkass}}.
* SwitchingPOV: The third person perspective of the story follows Judy for the first eight chapters, but starts to look over the shoulders of characters in the middle of Chapter Nine.
* SymbolicWeaponDiscarding: The second Judy realizes the Fox Away repellent is in her UtilityBelt when she brings Robin home, she chucks the can down her apartment's garbage chute with a promise.
-->“Don’t worry, sweetheart. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you, especially not with an Anti-Fox product.”
* TakeCareOfTheKids: A non-fatal example. When Mayor Bellwether starts proposing oppressive measures as the number of savage mammal attacks continue to rise, Judy decides to send Robin away to live with their family in Bunnyburrow. [[spoiler:He gets kitnapped before he can board the train.]]
--> '''Chief Bogo:''' Hopps! Where are you going?
--> '''Judy:''' To get my son out of this city. There’s going to be rough seas ahead, Chief, and I want him on solid land when the storm hits.
* TakenOffTheCase: Chief Bogo takes Judy off the Missing Mammals case before leaving to arrest Mayor Lionheart, [[JustifiedTrope justifying]] that Manchas' nature as a family friend would make her involvement open to debate as conflict of interest in court.
* TheEnd: '''[[LeFilmArtistique FIN]]'''
* ThinkNothingOfIt: PlayedForLaughs.
--> '''Nick:''' Don’t mention it. Seriously, don’t. I’m a salesman, I can’t have my reputation questioned.
--> [...]
--> '''Robin:''' Thank you, Nick!
--> '''Nick:''' [[BrickJoke I told you not to mention it.]]
--> '''Robin:''' Mention what?
--> '''Nick:''' [[AmbiguousSyntax Exactly!]]
* TimeSkip: There are several in and between chapters, the most egregious is the "Seven Years Later" in the middle of Chapter Nine. Another sizeable "Three Years Later" prefaces the DistantFinale.
* TrafficWarden: In {{Canon}}, Judy only spends her first two days giving tickets. Here, she's been stuck for a month and a half doing a DeadEndJob until Mayor Lionheart steps in and orders Chief Bogo to give her a real assignment.
* TranquillizerDart: A ChaseScene with Manchas is {{Averted}} as Judy, an experienced and equipped officer, utilizes her tranq pistol to subdue the jaguar.
* TraumaCongaLine: On his first day of soccer practice, Robin learns that some people will see him as nothing but a FoulFox when he gets [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer shunned by his teammates]], kicked out of an ice cream parlor while trying to [[HeartbreakAndIceCream distract himself]], all while his [[InsaneTrollLogic child logic]] tells him that his mother will think he's a criminal too.
* UmpteenthCustomer: Assuming Robin has a StrugglingSingleMother as he did as a child, Nick tries to pull one out of pity for Robin to give him a Pawpsicle for free, specifically [[GreaterNeedThanMine the spare he keeps for himself]].
--> “What is this?” he questioned the kit dramatically, paw on chest as if affronted, “Don’t you know?” Not waiting for an answer, he continued immediately, “Winners of the special Pawpsicle don’t pay! You are ''bestowed'' this honourable stick of frozen liquid as my hundredth and one customer!”
* TheUnReveal: Even if the reader hasn't seen the original work, Bellwether's antagonism is made apparent to them before it is to the heroes. Bellwether doesn't even get revealed as the BigBad due to being caught in a lie this time, but by intentionally revealing herself to Nick and Judy just to [[EvilGloating Evil Gloat]] for her NearVillainVictory.
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Woolter pleads to Judy to help him as Nick bites into shoulder, even though he was part of the plot to turn Nick savage and have Judy and Robin FedToTheBeast. Nonetheless, Judy [[AllLovingHero helps and treats his wounds]].]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Officer Swinton is presented as this. A PolicePig working in Records that becomes a [[TheStoolPigeon Whistleblower Wilma]] for Manchas turning savage, expresses the belief it is too dangerous for the publis should the police keep a possible epidemic of predators going savage a secret while they investigate. In the aftermath of her actions, Chief Bogo admits she had the courtesy to redact Manchas' identifying information from the leaked bloodwork.]]
* WhatADrag: [[spoiler:Bellwether tried to hide in her car when the [[ChemicallyInducedInsanity turned-savage]] Nick turns on her, only to be pulled out [[ByTheHair By The Wool]] and thrashed about until her minions get him off of her.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
** Emmit Otterton is only given an off mention by Nick as Judy explains to him she has TakenOffTheCase. While he isn't brought up again, it's a ForegoneConclusion that he was cured along with the other mammals poisoned with night howlers.
** The exact results of [[spoiler:Internal Affairs' investigation into Swinton for leaking a civilian's medical records]] aren't covered, but Chief Bogo assures Judy that legal action will be taken against her.
** A literal example, [[spoiler:Eugene Smalls is only seen for the one segment where he CaughtOnTape Robin's kitnapping.]]
** True to the film, [[ColdSniper Doug Ramses]] is [[KarmaHoudini never stated to face justice for his crimes]]. His last appearance is when Bellwether calls him to [[spoiler:berate him for Jesse getting CaughtOnTape and letting Robin's kitnapping become breaking news.]]
* WhamLine: Several are given, often as TheStinger for chapters.
** [[spoiler:Blowing out smoke, the mob boss intoned simply, “Find Wilde.”]]
** [[spoiler:Nick ([[BluffingTheAuthorities lying]]) that he's Robin's father.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: ZigZagged with [[BigBad Beltwether]]. [[spoiler:She has Robin kitnapped so she can lure Judy into a trap where they dart Robin, have him maul her to death, and use the {{Matricide}} as a PropagandaPiece.]] [[spoiler:When the kitnapping goes too public for them to go with the initial plan, Bellwether decides to [[SubvertedTrope just shoot her dead]] and play it off as a hostage situation gone wrong.]] [[spoiler:''[[DoubleSubverted However]]'', when Judy arrives with Nick despite being told to ComeAlone, Bellwether ends up HoistByHerOwnPetard when she follows her {{Sadist}} desires to have Nick kill both of the Hopps.]]
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: ZigZagged for Robin. Initially {{Downplayed}} as his maternal grandmother is the only one seen or mentioned (albeit [[PosthumousCharacter posthumously]]), but gets {{Defied}} once Judy adopts him and Bonnie and Stu become his new grandparents.
* WouldHurtAChild
** Stu Hopps by proxy. When he sees his daughter in a room with a fox kit that isn't even two months old, he asks Judy if she [[ArmedWithPepperSpray has the Fox Away]] he gave her. [[MamaBear Judy]] and even [[InnocentBigot Bonnie]] [[CallingTheOldManOut do not approve.]] Eventually, [[HeelFaceTurn after accepting his new grandson]], Stu is remorseful for ever considering such a thing.
** Bellweather and her cronies. [[spoiler:Upon learning about Judy's son, she arranges Jesse to abduct Robin and [[IHaveYourWife lure Judy into a trap]] after turning him savage. When circumstances would make Judy's death too suspicious that way, she decides to simply overdose him with tranquilizer and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shoot her dead.]]]]
* WrongSideOfTheTracks: [[IronicName Happy Town]], a neighborhood that had ambitious plans that were never realized. It ends up a decrepit slum for predators that the bus routes avoid and gets the occasional police call to report a shooting.
* YearX: {{Averted}}. The date of Mr. Otterton's disappearance is provided as May 6, 2017.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Judy gave an impassioned one to Nick after Mr. Big [[BoxedCrook boxed]] him into helping her. When Nick started making a SelfDeprecation jab over her having to associate with a fox, Judy interrupted and chewed him out for his cynicism with such determination that it left Nick speechless.
-->“That’s not it at all!” The rabbit exclaims, “Also, you shouldn’t talk down about yourself like that! There are enough mammals out there spouting things they know nothing about like it’s the gospel truth. You don’t need to be preaching to the choir and adding your voice to the fight.”
* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: When Bellwether has Nick and Judy cornered and reveals herself as [[spoiler:Robin's kitnapper]], she is constantly belittling Judy as she explains TheConspiracy to her and [[{{Dehumanization}} demammalizes]] Nick as her pet.
* YoureNotMyFather: {{Lampshaded}}. [[spoiler:Judy considers the possibility of this occurring when she informs Robin of her starting to date Nick, admitting its unlikely given their IntergenerationalFriendship. Any worries [[AvertedTrope are for naught]] as Robin readily accepts Nick as his mother's boyfriend and later father.]]
