History Film / MuppetsMostWanted

* EasilyForgiven: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] - Kermit forgives the Muppets rather quickly for not noticing that Constantine had stolen his identity, but he DOES call out Fozzie and Walter for not noticing.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Muppets feel awful when they discover that Constantine switched places with Kermit and that they didn't notice. Even more so when Kermit's about to be arrested for real, they realize they've been taking him for granted for a majority of the film.

* BluffTheImpostor: [[spoiler:Piggy]] does this when both Constantine and Kermit show up at the same time. [[spoiler: The one who ''hesitated'' over the marriage proposal, she concluded, had to be the right one]].

* BrideAndSwitch: [[spoiler: Constantine pulls this, distracting Piggy]] with a marriage proposal, and then telling the rest of the crew that he's [[QuittingToGetMarried disbanding the Muppets to settle down with her]].

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Walter, upon seeing Dominic [[spoiler: bribing critics with suitcases full of money: "Where does he keep all those suitcases?"]]

* CurbStompBattle: Constantine vs [[spoiler: Dominic/The Lemur]]
** Miss Piggy vs [[spoiler: Constantine]]

** Aside from the opening song, the running of the bulls gag, and [[spoiler: keeping Constantine's helicopter from taking off with his nose]], Gonzo doesn't really do much in this film (he gets a considerably larger amount of things to do in the extended edition, though).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The fact that Constantine constantly calls Dominic #2 and that the notorious criminal "The Lemur" is the second greatest thief in the world]] should get people to add two and two together.
** Also that [[spoiler: his e-mail address (shown on the business card) is lemur_sint_spendida@mail.com.]]

** The song "I'm number one" continuously reminds Dominic that he will always be TheDragon and nothing more as long as Constantine's pulling the strings. [[spoiler: The lines "Dance Monkey Dance" and "Now step aside, this ain't your show" foreshadow Dominic being the Lemur, his attempt at usurping the roll of BigBad from his boss, and the CurbStompBattle that ensues.]]
** Constantine calls Dominic his "monkey". [[spoiler: A lemur is a type of lower primate.]]

* GlassCannon: Constantine is utterly unstoppable in a fight as long as he can keep up his momentum, taking out guard after guard before they can react. [[spoiler: Piggy]] can still easily overpower him, though.

* IdiotBall: Virtually all of the Muppet cast who isn't Animal and eventually Walter. In all fairness the physical differences between [[spoiler: Constantine and Kermit]] are pretty subtle, but "having a cold" in regards to having a different voice doesn't make sense. If Kermit had a different voice because of said cold, shouldn't he be resting instead of doing a weeks/months long tour? Even if Kermit was being a {{Determinator}} and overcoming his "cold" then how does that explain how un-Kermit-like he's been acting, going from being tough yet reasonable to "do whatever the hell makes you happy" attitude? [[spoiler: The real]] Kermit is justifiably pissed off at the rest of the cast.
** Sort of a JustifiedTrope as from their perspective not only are they getting a ''huge'' upswell in freedom to perform but are also getting a rave reviews [[spoiler: really just Dominic bribing the audience and papers]] because of it. Said factors start feeding their egos so altogether while "Kermit" might be acting a bit off they don't have any real reason to suspect or look into whatever's going on.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Bobby Benson's babies]] help Constantine and Dominic at one point, but don't get any consequences. [[spoiler: Though they are shown in the gulag with the Muppets and various celebrity cameos during the finale, but it's not said whether they are there because of their crime or just there to be part of the finale, although they aren't wearing Gulag clothes.]]

* NeverMyFault: Downplayed, as Fozzie appears to be quite embarrassed by this, but when Kermit asks Fozzie why he didn't notice that he - Fozzie's ''best friend'' - had his identity stolen by a criminal, Fozzie tries to justify his mistake ("He looked like you and talked like you! Well, okay, he didn't talk like you, but he said he had a cold!"). Then, when Kermit gets angrily yells at Fozzie and Walter for not noticing like Animal did, Fozzie says that it's not as bad as it sounds (Walter, meanwhile, admits that it is indeed as bad as it sounds).

-->'''Rowlf:''' "The bad guy is ''Dominic Badguy''!"

* PerformanceAnxiety: Constantine gets hit hard with this on the Muppets' opening night, to the point of passing out onstage.
** [[BlatantLies It was vertigo!]]
** He gets over it pretty quickly, though.
* ProductPlacement: Fozzie is eating a meal from Subway (with the drink cup's logo prominently displayed on screen) and this is actually a plot point. [[spoiler: The avocado from his sandwich landed on the picture of Constantine in the newspaper he was reading, which helped him and Walter to realize that "Kermit" was Constantine the whole time.]]
** In RealLife, Subway did a tie-in, offering bags.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: Nadya arrests Kermit for escaping from the gulag (though it seems his arrest has more to do with leaving before the gulag revue ended). She only lets him go after Walter, Fozzie and Gonzo ask her to arrest them, too. Used as a gag on the blooper reel when Kermit then asks her how the hell she got through customs with a foreign army (apparently she had a small problem, but only because she was carrying fruit).]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The whole subplot about Dominic being the Lemur. All it amounts to is a CurbStompBattle between Constantine and Dominic.]]
* RunningGag: When it's time for Jean's breaks, he ''takes'' them, no matter where he is, or what is happening. Up to and including his vacation.
** Constantine blowing things up with a remote detonator. Could double as a [[spoiler: ChekhovsGun or a BrickJoke]], except that, by then, is no longer played for laughs.

* ScaryTeeth: Constantine has bear trap-like metal teeth (which he somehow manages to keep retracted most of the time), which he uses to intimidate Foozie, Walter, and Animal, and later to quickly chew his way out of a net during the finale.

-->'''Scooter''': So uh, what do we do now?
-->'''Fozzie Bear''': Well, we're together again. We got the theater and all our fans are back.
-->'''Rowlf''': Actually, those were extras.
-->'''Fozzie''': I saw a few tapping their toes.
-->'''Scooter''': Yeah, those were paid dancers.
-->'''Fozzie''': Oh.

** Kermit's cell, with its sexy Piggy poster [[spoiler: hiding a partly-finished escape tunnel]] is [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption awfully familiar]]. (Then again, Nadya says [[spoiler: it's the first escape everyone tries]].)
** Nadya says goodnight to the gulag prisoners one by one, and they back to her, like Series/TheWaltons.
-->'''Nadya:''' Goodnight, Creator/DannyTrejo.

** The scene where [[spoiler: Constantine attempts to steal the Crown Jewels]] reeks of ''Film/MissionImpossible'' complete with [[spoiler: Dominic]] descending from the ceiling and doing acrobatics to avoid the moving lasers.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Or ''not'' say in this case. [[spoiler: The gulag inmates instantly realize it's not Constantine when Kermit thanks them for the improvised crown. Constantine ''never'' thanks anyone for things.]]
** And again when Piggy identifies the correct frog [[spoiler: as the one whose response to "Will you marry me?" is not a confident yes, but an [[CannotSpitItOut inability to spit it out]].]]

* SpinningPaper: A series of UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers announcing [[spoiler: the wedding]] culminating in a copy of ''The Times'' which {{lampshade}}s the NewsMonopoly with a headline about how it's such a slow news day the Muppets are getting the front pages. Other sequences start with the spinning, blurred newspaper, but end with a TV on which the Muppet Newsman reads a report.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A lot of the trailers and commercials showed bits and pieces of [[spoiler: the wedding]]. One TV spot released at the very beginning of 2014 even had [[spoiler: Miss Piggy in the background, visibly wearing a veil]]. Entirely justified, since that climax was where most of the action was, but it's still jarring and could also be a factor in the film's underperformance.
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Both Muppet and human characters have the apparent ability to transport themselves clear across Europe at the drop of a hat, while at other times their trips between locations are explicitly shown to take more than a day. See ArtisticLicenseGeography for the absurd details.
** Averted, mostly, in the extended version, where Kermit makes an offhand comment that he has been in the gulag for months, explaining the plot. However, Fozzie, Walter and Animal are able to get from Dublin to Siberia and back again with Kermit in two days time, so not completely averted.
* VillainDecay: At the beginning, Constantine takes out a small army of armed Russian soldiers. By the end, [[spoiler: Piggy simply grabs hold of him and thrashes him against the walls of his helicopter's cockpit]]. Of course, as Piggy says, he might be the world's most dangerous frog, but he's still just a FROG.

* WhyDidntIThinkOfThat: When Walter tells Fozzie that [[spoiler: Dominic has been bribing their audiences and critics into liking the show]], Fozzie wonders why they'd never tried that before.

* WithThisRing: [[spoiler: The ring Constantine proposed with was also a bomb. Honeydew conveniently had Beaker in a bomb attracting suit, which resulted in a tug-of-war to get the ring off of Piggy before the bomb went off.]]
* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: [[spoiler: Defied. Nadya goes to arrest Kermit after he leads the biggest prison breakout in Russian history, but she decides to let him stay free after seeing how [[ThePowerOfFriendship devoted his friends were to him]].]]

--> '''Constantine''': Once she's served her purpose, ''kaboom''. It will be bacon for breakfast.

* NeverMyFault: When Kermit asks Fozzie why he didn't notice that he - Fozzie's BEST FRIEND - had his identity stolen by a criminal, Fozzie tries to justify his mistake ("He looked like you and talked like you! Well, okay, he didn't talk like you, but he said he had a cold!"). Then, when Kermit gets ANGRY and yells at Fozzie and Walter for not noticing like Animal did, Fozzie says that it's not as bad as it sounds (Walter, meanwhile, admits that it is indeed as bad as it sounds).

* PatterSong: "Interrogation Song". [[WordOfGod Ty Burrell even confirmed this in an interview.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Every scene involving the inmates rehearsing for the revue, what with the insanely tight undergarments and midriff baring shirts.
** For that matter, the pin-up of Piggy Kermit kept in his cell. Um... that's an awfully racy picture for a kid's movie. (Fun fact, it's actually from the 1996 ''Muppets Parody Calendar'', and is riffing on a Guess Jeans ad with Claudia Schiffer.)

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Muppets feel awful when they discover that Constantine switched places with Kermit and that they didn't notice. Even more so when they realize they've been taking Kermit for granted for a majority of the film.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Muppets feel awful when they discover that Constantine switched places with Kermit and that they didn't notice.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Walter feels awful when he discovers that Constantine switched places with Kermit and that he didn't notice. The rest of the Muppets feel this way too when Walter apologizes on everyone's behalf.

* JerkassBall: The Muppets (except for Animal and Walter), letting their own egos getting the better of them to the detriment of their stage show and treating Kermit rather inconsiderately. Both of these elements are specifically being encouraged by Dominic to prevent them from noticing that Constantine is not Kermit. Thankfully, they all drop it by the end.

* OutOfFocus: Bobo, Rizzo, and Robin get hit with this pretty hard as all three of them have a smaller role here.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Walter feels awful when he discovers that Constantine switched places with Kermit and that he didn't notice.

* BSODSong: "Something So Right" Where Miss Piggy has second thoughts about being married to Kermit (alias Constantine) so suddenly, and the rest of the Muppets are forlorn about Kermit (alias Constantine) leaving them to be married, and start to wonder if their freedom is really worth it.

* DemotedToExtra: Depressingly {{lampshade}}d by Rizzo and Robin before they just leave the movie entirely.

* OutOfFocus: Rizzo and Robin are still background characters. Rizzo's only line is him [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] how Walter's inclusion has pushed more established characters like himself (and Robin) into the background.
** Walter himself, as well. Until he and Fozzie discover the truth about Constantine at the beginning of the final act, he's barely in the movie, with only a few lines here and there.
** Also Bobo and Uncle Deadly, who go from fairly major characters to just brief cameos near the end.
** Aside from the opening song, the running of the bulls gag, and [[spoiler: keeping Constantine's helicopter from taking off with his nose]], Gonzo doesn't really do much in this film (he gets a considerably larger amount of things to do in the extended edition, though).
** Fozzie doesn't really do much until he and Walter discover the truth about Constantine.

The follow-up to 2011's ''Film/TheMuppets'', ''Muppets Most Wanted'' follows... well, Franchise/TheMuppets (who else?) as they tour Europe, only to become ensnared in a caper as they encounter Constantine, a crime boss who bears an incredible resemblance to Kermit. The film sees the return of ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords'' alumni James Bobin and Bret [=McKenzie=], as well as ''Film/TheMuppets'' co-writer Nicholas Stoller. Creator/JasonSegel is completely unaffiliated with this movie. The film stars Creator/RickyGervais, Creator/TinaFey, and Creator/TyBurrell.

** As does the new version of "Together Again," "Together Again Again."

--> I'm THE Usher.

* BigDamnHero: When Constantine catches Walter and Fozzie figuring out that he's stolen Kermit's identity, Animal pounces on him.

* BluffTheImpostor: [[spoiler: Piggy]] does this when both Constantine and Kermit show up at the same time. [[spoiler: The one who ''hesitated'' over the marriage proposal, she concluded, had to be the right one]].

** In fact, the very beginning where [[spoiler: they just finished filming the first movie]] it's hard to tell where the fourth wall starts and ends (or if it even exists at all).

* [[BlackWidow Black Widower]]: Constantine is set to become this to Miss Piggy near TheClimax with [[spoiler:a wedding ring which was also a time bomb explosive]]. Luckily, she gets saved by [[spoiler:Bunsen's magnetic bomb attracting vest]]. See ChekhovsGun below.

* OrphanedReference: The Disney+ version cuts a verse from Constantin's song "I Can Give You What You Want", in which he promises to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext give Piggy both a kangaroo and a cockatoo]] should she desire it. This makes the final chorus--which just repeats the words "cockatoo" and "kangaroo"--completely baffling nonsense.

-->'''Muppets:''' "We're doing a sequel! How hard can it be?"
-->'''Rowlf:''' "We can't do any worse than ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather III]].''"

-->'''Kermit:''' "You mean all this time I've been locked in a Russian gulag, no one - not one single person from the Muppets except Animal noticed I'd been replaced by an evil criminal mastermind?!"

* WorkingTitle: One of the few instances of this being part of the film itself! ''We're Doing a Sequel'' calls the film '''The Muppets Again!''', purely because they don't know about Constantine and Dominic using the Muppets as stooges!

** In the end, everyone sings the hit song from ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' "Together Again"...again.

** Music/CelineDion appears to help Piggy sing her [[AwardBaitSong Celine Dion number]]

* CurbStompBattle: Constantine vs [[spoiler: Dominic/The Lemur.]]

* DistinguishingMark: The difference between Kermit and Constantine is the mole on Constantine's face.

** Also Mildred Huxtetter (the purple upper-class woman Muppet) made a couple of cameos in the movie after not being seen properly as a main Muppet since the Muppet Show ended.

** Blind Pew returns as a Gulag prisoner. This is his first appearance in a long time since he was last seen walking through a burning tavern more than 20 years ago in ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' (1996)

The follow-up to 2011's ''Film/TheMuppets'', ''Muppets Most Wanted'' follows...well, Franchise/TheMuppets (who else?) as they tour Europe, only to become ensnared in a caper as they encounter Constantine, a crime boss who bears an incredible resemblance to Kermit. The film sees the return of ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords'' alumni James Bobin and Bret [=McKenzie=], as well as ''Film/TheMuppets'' co-writer Nicholas Stoller. Creator/JasonSegel is completely unaffiliated with this movie. The film stars Creator/RickyGervais, Creator/TinaFey, and Creator/TyBurrell.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Kermit and Piggy in a nutshell. Piggy seems more in love with the ''[[InLoveWithLove concept]]'' of being married to him and Kermit's definitely not as gung-ho to rush into things (this was a minor subplot in the previous film, and a RunningGag through the series), but Constantine's manipulation of Piggy causes her a lot of doubts, and Kermit is seen with a rather...interesting...pin-up of Piggy in his cell. Not to mention ''how'' Kermit manages to tell Constantine off.

** Likewise, Constantine plays Piggy for a fool by pretending to be the willing suitor Kermit usually ''isn't.'' Piggy is really happy to be getting what she wanted...but starts to have second thoughts about it all when it's nearly too late.

** For that matter, the pin-up of Piggy Kermit kept in his cell. Um...that's an awfully racy picture for a kid's movie. (Fun fact, it's actually from the 1996 ''Muppets Parody Calendar'', and is riffing on a Guess Jeans ad with Claudia Schiffer.)

-->'''Scooter:''' "Two Kermits?! ...Well, that explains a lot."
-->'''Rowlf:''' "I knew no one could have a cold for that long."
-->'''Pepe:''' "Or have that cheesy an accent, okay."

** The Muppets harbor an escaped convict, which even if you don't know they're a criminal is a big no-no, and are never punished for it.