History Fridge / ABugsLife

** Praying mantis males get their heads eaten off by the females after mating. No wonder Manny opted to marry a butterfly instead!

** Praying mantis males get their heads eaten off my the females after mating. No wonder Manny opted to marry a butterfly instead!

** Why did Hopper fall for Flik's [[Main/BatmanGambit Batman Gambit]] at the film's climax and mistake the real bird for another fake one? Well, Flik probably knew that, because of his [[Main/VillainousBreakdown Villainous Breakdown]], Hopper's rage had blinded him from realizing the true terror of the situation until it was too late for him to escape his own fate.

** Why did Hopper fall for Flik's [[Main/BatmanGambit Batman Gamit]] at the film's climax and think that the real bird was another fake one? Well, Flik probably knew that, because of his [[Main/VillainousBreakdown Villainous Breakdown]], Hopper's rage had blinded him from realizing the true terror of the situation until it was too late for him to escape his own fate.

** Why did Hopper fall for Flik's [[Main/BatmanGambit]] at the film's climax and think that the real bird was another fake one? Well, Flik probably knew that, because of his [[Main/VillainousBreakdown]], Hopper's rage had blinded him from realizing the true terror of the situation until it was too late for him to escape his own fate.

* A little of both: remember those terrifying dinosaurs from ''Franchise/JurassicPark''? Most of them died out millions of years ago, sure, but the ones that didn't are still around; they just got ''very small'' (and grew more feathers). At the appropriate scale, they can be just as scary.
* Now that Flik has industrialized his colony, how long will it be before the ants overharvest and deforest (degrass?) the island?

* At the end, if you look, you see Molt dodging into the grass, not flying away, so he's not actually abandoning his brother. Just another feature that shows he's not evil. But at the same time he literally 'jumps out of his skin'. He's shed his old life. Now he can be a good guy, and become the Strong Man of the circus!

** Rosie is a black-widow spider. She makes reference to her 12th husband dying. [[note]]It's the norm for female black widow spiders to kill the male after sex. Sure, that doesn't necessarily imply that it's the reason he died, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar but still...[[/note]]

** While reading Fast Food Nation it hit me that the story of the Ants realizing there are way more of them than there are of Hopper and his crew is [[AnAesop An Aesop]] for the viewers; until we band together and stand up to the tiny minority that control the majority, we're just picking food for them.

** Rosie is a black-widow spider. She makes reference to her 12th husband dying. [[hottip:*:It's the norm for female black widow spiders to kill the male after sex. Sure, that doesn't necessarily imply that it's the reason he died, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar but still...]]

* A little of both: remember those terrifying dinosaurs from ''Film/JurassicPark''? Most of them died out millions of years ago, sure, but the ones that didn't are still around; they just got ''very small'' (and grew more feathers). At the appropriate scale, they can be just as scary.

** Also, the fridge horror only works if you actually thought they survived. This troper never saw this scene as anything else than outright murder. Of course, if you start bringing physics into this movie, lotsa stuff starts making less sense. Like Flick being afraid of falling down the cliff when ants are so small they'd survive a fall from any height and so on.

** Rosie is a black-widow spider. She makes reference to her 12th husband dying. [[hottip:*:It's the norm for female black widow spiders to kill the male after sex. Sure, that doesn't necessarily imply that it's the reason he died, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar but still]]...]]

* A little of both: remember those terrifying dinosaurs from ''JurassicPark''? Most of them died out millions of years ago, sure, but the ones that didn't are still around; they just got ''very small'' (and grew more feathers). At the appropriate scale, they can be just as scary.

* A little of both: remember those terrifying dinosaurs from ''JurassicPark''? Most of them died out, sure, but the ones that didn't are still around; they just got ''very small'' (and grew more feathers). At the appropriate scale, they can be just as scary.

* A little of both: remember those terrifying dinosaurs from ''JurassicPark''? Most of them died out, sure, but the ones that didn't are still around; they just got ''very small'' (and grew more feathers). And at the appropriate scale, they can be just as scary.

** The origin of Thumper's name. It's for irony value. He's named after ''[[{{Bambi}} a cute, fluffy little bunny-rabbit]]''.