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* FantasticRacism: The rats are portrayed as racist dictators against the living toys in the film, committing a sort of genocide against toys by forcing children to give them up, only to then burn them (the toys are living beings in the film, not inanimate objects). Likewise, the toys and humans are racist towards the rats and treat them as stupid, uneducated and dirty (with the exception of Mary, who fears the rats but doesn't hate them).
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* TokenBlackFriend: Sticks, a Black doll portrayed as a Jamaican stereotype, is this to Gielgud and Tinker. While Gielgud and Tinker seem to like Sticks, Sticks still bears the brunt of most of the insults and abuse in the film, and is the least-developed character out of the 3 dollhouse toys. Adding to this trope, Sticks has a sassy attitude and a thick accent, although perhaps slightly subverted in that his race is never mentioned or verbally spoken of by any of the characters. The only thing distinctive about Sticks is that he plays the drums; he mainly exists for comedy relief and to serve as a sidekick for N.C., the (white) Nutcracker Prince.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Mary is quite full of herself and mean to her little brother, Max. Despite Uncle Albert bringing the dollhouse and nutcracker for both children, Mary refers to the nutcracker doll as "my nutcracker" and she is constantly slapping Max's hands away or pushing him away whenever he even tries to touch a toy in the house. Mary even has a "not like other girls"-type song number in which she describes being lonely and ignored for her imaginative beliefs, and when the Snow Fairy refers to Mary as "special and unique", Mary gets a bizarrely wide, eerie grin on her face.
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* SociopathicHero:
** The Nutcracker Prince, or "N.C." as he prefers to be called, is almost at once extremely rude to Mary for the sake of hurrying his mission, snapping at her for complimenting his hat, getting angry when she calls him a "nutcracker", destroying pillows in her room, refusing to give her any time to get dressed, and mocking his comrades, especially Sticks, whom he refers to as "the most unreliable person I've ever met".
** N.C. orders his comrades to push the Rat King out of the open hatch on a helicopter, which would lead both the Rat King and probably Gielgud as well to a very brutal, nasty death.
** The Nutcracker Prince, or "N.C." as he prefers to be called, is almost at once extremely rude to Mary for the sake of hurrying his mission, snapping at her for complimenting his hat, getting angry when she calls him a "nutcracker", destroying pillows in her room, refusing to give her any time to get dressed, and mocking his comrades, especially Sticks, whom he refers to as "the most unreliable person I've ever met".
** N.C. orders his comrades to push the Rat King out of the open hatch on a helicopter, which would lead both the Rat King and probably Gielgud as well to a very brutal, nasty death.
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* SympatheticPOV: There are moments where it becomes apparent verbally and visually that the Rat People are discriminated against, made to live in the sewers, and are considered stupid and dirty. A strangely poignant scene arises where the Rat King woefully quotes Shakespeare and Mary compliments him for being "not unintelligent... for a rat." The Rat King perceives the comment as her being condescending, unable to realize that Mary was actually complimenting him.
* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: The film plays around with this trope quite a bit. At some moments the Rat King is fun, eccentric, a talented dancer, an intellectual and an interesting character to view. At other times, he's decapitating a character's head and burning living creatures in a giant crematorium.
* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: The film plays around with this trope quite a bit. At some moments the Rat King is fun, eccentric, a talented dancer, an intellectual and an interesting character to view. At other times, he's decapitating a character's head and burning living creatures in a giant crematorium.
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* RatMen: The Rat King has numerous henchmen, who are all anthropomorphic rats in Nazi attire. He also, strangely, has a trashy anthropomorphic rat mother (the Rat Queen) who wears multiple coloured wigs and has an Old South accent.
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* RatMen: The Rat King has numerous henchmen, who are all anthropomorphic rats in Nazi attire. He also, strangely, has a trashy anthropomorphic rat mother (the Rat Queen) who wears multiple coloured wigs and has an Old South Italian-American accent.
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* DoubleEntendre: Gielgud makes a BallsGag when his crotch is hit, remarking "ooh, my bananas!" and moaning.
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* BallsGag: Yes, in a film featuring Nazi and Holocaust imagery, there's still time for Gielgud to cry out in pain, "my bananas!" after the Rat King falls unconscious and somehow hits his head into Gielgud's... well, like he said, his "bananas".
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* RatMen: The Rat King has numerous henchmen, who are all anthropomorphic rats in Nazi attire. He also, strangely, has a trashy anthropomorphic rat mother (the Rat Queen) who wears multiple coloured wigs and has a British an Old South accent.
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* YouDirtyRat: The bad guys are rats... and Nazi analogues.
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* YouDirtyRat: The bad guys are rats... and Nazi analogues. At one point a man even shouts verbally to the Rat King, "you'll never be nothin' but a dirty ''RAT''!", which the Rat King responds to by grabbing the man's neck and slamming his head down on a tabletop to crack a walnut.
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* HostileTerraforming: Downplayed. The rats are burning toys to din the sky so the surface world is more suitable for them.
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* HostileTerraforming: Downplayed. The rats are burning toys to din dim the sky so the surface world is more suitable for them.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: The film is aesthetically beautiful and incorporates copious amounts of glitter and sparkles, particularly in scenes with the Snow Fairy, who wears a gown fashioned out of silver foil that glitters brilliantly when she moves. The intro credits also feature sparkly rainbow traditional ornaments.
* PimpedOutDress: Max burns a Snow Fairy Christmas ornament's dress, prompting Mary to repair it with tinfoil. The real Snow Fairy later comes to life, wearing Mary's dress, which features enormous layers of silver and platinum that glitter and sparkle in the ambient lighting.
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* RodentsofUnusualSize: The Rat People in the film are human-sized, thus as adults towering over Mary and NC. During moments of hiding, the rats reduce themselves to the size and appearance of ordinary sewer rats.
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* RodentsofUnusualSize: RodentsOfUnusualSize: The Rat People in the film are human-sized, thus as adults towering over Mary and NC. During moments of hiding, the rats reduce themselves to the size and appearance of ordinary sewer rats.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Max since he is basically Fritz form the book and the ballet.
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* AMischiefOfMice: The rats in the film are portrayed as overtly villainous, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, except for the brief mention the the Rat King is more intelligent than he gives himself credit for.
* AnAsskickingChristmas: The film's climax features a physical battle between the children/toys and the rats within the factory, as well as bike chases through the sewers involving machine guns.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Max since he is basically Fritzform from the book and the ballet.
* AnAsskickingChristmas: The film's climax features a physical battle between the children/toys and the rats within the factory, as well as bike chases through the sewers involving machine guns.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Max since he is basically Fritz
* EekAMouse: Mary and just about every other human in the film is frightened by the rodents... understandable, considering the nightmare fuel aspect of CGI-generated giant teeth, enhanced ugliness and sharp claws.
* MouseTrap: At one point Max, after disobeying the Rat King and refusing to publicly break toys, is stored in a giant human-sized mouse trap serving as a jail cell of sorts.
* RatKing: The film's main villain is quite literally perhaps the best example of this - not only is "Rat King" his apparent name, but he is an anthropomorphic rat with large teeth he can conceal and then bring out to monstrous proportions. He also wants to rule the world after his kind have been shunned from society for so long.
* RatMen: The Rat King has numerous henchmen, who are all anthropomorphic rats in Nazi attire. He also, strangely, has a trashy anthropomorphic rat mother (the Rat Queen) who wears multiple coloured wigs and has a British accent.
* ResourcefulRodent: The one likeable quality about the Rat King is that he underestimates his own intelligence; he can build flying machines, professionally dance, take photography, quote Shakespeare and speak Latin, among other things.
* RatMen: The Rat King has numerous henchmen, who are all anthropomorphic rats in Nazi attire. He also, strangely, has a trashy anthropomorphic rat mother (the Rat Queen) who wears multiple coloured wigs and has a British accent.
* ResourcefulRodent: The one likeable quality about the Rat King is that he underestimates his own intelligence; he can build flying machines, professionally dance, take photography, quote Shakespeare and speak Latin, among other things.
* RodentsofUnusualSize: The Rat People in the film are human-sized, thus as adults towering over Mary and NC. During moments of hiding, the rats reduce themselves to the size and appearance of ordinary sewer rats.
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* WickedCultured: The Rat King proves to have a large and elegant vocabulary in "The Lights Go Out," even speaking in Latin for one line.
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* WickedCultured: The Rat King proves to have a large and elegant vocabulary in "The Lights Go Out," even speaking in Latin for one line. At one point Mary even throws the villain a compliment (while they're both waiting to board an elevator), stating, "you're not unintelligent... for a rat", to which the Rat King rolls his eyes and replies, "oh, please."
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* DarkReprise: If you listen closely, "The Lights Go Out" has a similar melody to Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Reed Flutes," albeit in a minor key in some parts. Needless to say, "Dance of the Reed Flutes" was not originally about Nazi rat men plotting to fill the world with darkness.
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* DarkReprise: If you listen closely, "The Lights Go Out" has a similar melody to Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Reed Flutes," albeit in a minor key [[{{Tonality}} key]] in some parts. Needless to say, "Dance of the Reed Flutes" was not originally about Nazi rat men plotting to fill the world with darkness.
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* {{Gonk}}: The Rat Queen as she appears as a human with a rat’s face.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Several of the characters sport this since the film is set in TheRoaring20s.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Several of the characters sport this since the film is set in TheRoaring20s.
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* SteamPunk: Only applies to the rat machinery and architecture.
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* SteamPunk: Only applies to the rat machinery and architecture. architecture such as the helicopter and for a very dark example, the factory that burns toys.
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* MoodWhiplash: TheMovie. This film takes the Nutcracker story... and combines it with Holocaust imagery, but with a pretty shoddy execution; it's too dark to be considered whimsical, but it's also too dumb and awkwardly written to be taken seriously, resulting in a complete tonal mess.
