History IronicEcho / AnimatedFilms

* In a positive spin, ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', the song "Everything Is Awesome" is originally played for irony, yet by the end of the movie, everything ''is'' awesome.

** After the Wolf makes a thinly-veiled threat at Puss, the latter retorts "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death!". Much later, after ensuring that Puss is absolutely terrified of him, the Wolf throws his line back at him: "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death, right? But you're not laughing now." [[spoiler:Becomes even more ironic with TheReveal that the Wolf is [[TheGrimReaper Death with a capital "D"]], and Puss frivulously wasting his lives and arrogantly believing himself to be above all consequences is ''precisely'' why Death decided to hunt him down; the line being a direct insult just makes things more personal]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'': "Sorry about this, calendar..." First uttered by [=SpongeBob=] in a cheerful and optimistic tone [[spoiler:and again by Plankton in a happily smug, evil tone]].

** Then of course, there is this line.
--->'''Syndrome:''' After all...[[spoiler:[[WhamLine I am your biggest fan]].]]

** ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': Winston tells Frozone, Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible that the reason the world doesn't like superheroes is because of "perspective" (people see destruction, they see superheroes, they blame superheroes). Later, Evelyn (Winston's cynical sister [[spoiler:and true villain of the film]]) points out that her brother has a "childish perspective" -- [[FreudianExcuse "Superheroes go away, mommy and daddy go away."]]

** "You stay. I go. No following." In the first act, it's Hogarth urging the Giant to stay in the woods and not follow him home, knowing it would upset the townspeople otherwise. In the third act, the Giant says this to Hogarth just before rocketing into the upper atmosphere [[spoiler:to intercept a nuclear missile that had been launched at the town]].

'''Kim:''' People who kidnap you boyfriend?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' has young Simba going into an elephant graveyard, proclaiming, "Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha!" After the TimeSkip and adult Simba's return to his kingdom, Nala taunts him by repeating "I laugh in the face of danger", complete with laugh.

*** And on that topic, this scene also has a visual variant of the trope. When Scar realizes his henchmen had turned on him after overhearing his betrayal, the former gives an OhCrap expression, which is the exact same expression his brother Mufasa made right before Scar threw him off the cliff to his death. LaserGuidedKarma, indeed!

** When Kovu initially pretends to defect from the Outlanders and join Simba's pride, he pleads to Simba, "Judge me know for who I am". Later, when Simba exiles Kovu for allegedly planning an ambush on him, he tells him "When you first came here, you asked for judgement, and I pass it now."

** A cross-entries example: In the first movie, Timon told Simba "You gotta put your past behind ya" in the first movie. In the sequel, after coming back to his senses, Simba tells Zira: "Let it go, Zira. Its time to put the past behind us".

** And later when Rabbit's plan backfires when he gets lost in the woods himself and Tigger rescues him, claiming that "Tiggers never get lost.

** When Winnie tries to get her dad's white hat, she is met by Archibald, who asks how the hat got all the way out on the street. Later, as Winnie [[spoiler:tries to distract Archibald while the Boxtrolls dismantle his machine,]] she asks him the same question.
** "You bit me, with your mouth" is first said by Winnie to Eggs, then [[spoiler:by Archibald to Winnie]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Darla's advice to Danny is to make his act "big and loud"; in the end of the movie, thanks to Darla's jealous meddling, his act along with the other animals indeed ends up big and loud.
** The line "How does the kitty cat go?" is first spoken menacingly by Max to Danny, then reversed on him when [[spoiler:Danny sends Max flying on a punctured Darla balloon float.]]
* Early in TheFilmOfTheBook of ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', the mayor of Swallow Falls comments that he wants the townspeople to look at him and say "That is one big mayor," as in someone important. Later in the film, during the reopening of Chewandswallow, an audience member says the exact same words, [[spoiler:but referring to the mayor's [[FatBastard very evident obesity.]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Ernesto De La Cruz's catchphrase, "Seize your moment!". Since Ernesto is his hero, Miguel uses it all the time, especially to gather the courage to do risky things like following his dream to become a musician. Repeated in a fiendishly sinister tone [[spoiler:[[BrokenPedestal by Ernesto himself]], to justify his actions after confessing to having murdered Hector and stolen his songs to Miguel]].
* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' has the phrase "New arrival", which is first used when Victor [[spoiler:and later Mayhew]] arrive in the Land of the Dead. It's given a sinister tone after [[spoiler:Lord Barkis accidentally kills himself by drinking the poison meant for Victor in an ironic toast to Emily. This makes him fair game to the dead, who descend in an angry mob to carry out a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', there is an actual ''mute'' Ironic Echo. Gromit wants to leave his truck to help Wallace, but Phillip shakes his head "no", keeping him in. A minute after, when [[spoiler:Wallace transforms]], Phillip wants to shelter in the truck, but Gromit shakes his head in the same fashion and keeps the doors closed.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' has a scene near the beginning where Kuzco fires Yzma for trying to run the country behind his back, and rattles off a HurricaneOfEuphemisms for being fired ("'You're being let go.' 'Your department's being downsized.' 'You're part of an outplacement.' 'We're going in a different direction.' 'We're not picking up your option.' Take your pick. I got more.") Near the end of the film, Yzma has Kuzco cornered, and rattles off a similar HurricaneOfEuphemisms for death.

'''Yzma:''' I ''know''. It's called a cruel irony, like my dependence on ''[[StealthInsult you]]''.

* In ''Animation/HappyHeroesTheStones'', the line Happy S. tells a kid who is pretending to be him, "Next time, leave the dangerous stuff to me, okay?", comes back to him when a policeman captures a robber Happy S. tries to deal with, with the policeman repeating this line. Happy S. had lost his powers, but is still willing to help chase after bad guys.

** Also, there's the Wolf's "[[DoesntTrustThoseGuys Never trust a bunny]]" line. The first time, during his story, he's saying this to Twitchy after they make the mistake of trusting the ditzy Boingo for directions to Granny's house, causing them to end up in a cave inhabited by bats. Here, the line is used in the context of navigation (well, he DOES tell them the route involves going [[ExactWords over the woods and through the river]]). When Flippers makes TheReveal that Boingo was the BigBad, the Wolf repeats this line, but this time referring to Boingo's deceptive appearance.

** "That's for ______. And that's for everything else" Spoken by Astrid, when she [[spoiler: hit Hiccup twice for keeping secrets]], again when [[spoiler:Hiccup drops her off after taking her to fly, only this time she kisses him the second time, instead of hitting him]], and one last time at the end when [[spoiler: she kisses him again]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', there are a multitude of great examples.

** This exchange in the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 second movie]], which is a reversal of a similar one in the first.
--->'''Buzz:''' Woody, you're not a collector's item, you're a '''child's plaything'''. '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Are. A TOY!]]'''\\
'''Woody:''' For how much longer? One more rip and Andy's done with me!
** "You have saved our lives. We are eternally grateful."

--->''"It's my word against yours."\\

** And in the DirectToVideo sequel: "Genies can't kill anyone... But you'd be surprised [[FateWorseThanDeath what you can live through...]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' has the unprecedented use of IronicEcho between a few seconds in regards to Z and General Mandible. As such, both are to be posted:
-->'''General Mandible:''' [Z has broken through to the surface where Mandible and his soldiers wait for them to be drowned] Let go! Don't you understand? It's for the good of the colony!
-->'''Z:''' What are you saying? We are the colony!
-->''[Mandible is about to strike Z when Cutter knocks him aside]''
-->'''General Mandible:''' Cutter, what are you doing?
-->'''Colonel Cutter:''' Something I should have done a long time ago.
-->''[extends his hand to the worker ants]''
-->'''Colonel Cutter:''' *This* is for the good of the colony, General.'''
-->'''General Mandible:''' You useless, ungrateful maggot! [[IAmTheNoun *I* am the colony!]]
* During his VillainSong in ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', Rasputin says, "Dasvidaniya, Anya, your Grace, farewell!” as he plans to complete his revenge by killing Anastasia. Just before Anastasia smashes his SoulJar and kills him, she says, "Dasvidaniya!"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'': When a kid [[CowTipping tips a cow]], he mockingly shouts, “That’s called cow tipping! Haw, haw, haw!” Otis and friends, wanting revenge, follow him to his house. They sneak inside the window and into the boy’s bedroom, where they then knock him off of his bed. Otis shouts, “That’s called boy tipping! Haw, haw, haw!”

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': After finding out that the original Batman is a millionaire playboy, Joker mockingly calls Bruce "a little boy in a playsuit crying for mommy and daddy." During the climax, Terry [=McGinnis=] insultingly mocks the Joker by calling his jokes [[BoringInsult lame]] and that he's nothing but a stupid, overgrown manchild compared to the supervillain he thinks he is. Joker spent his career trying to get the OG Batman to laugh with him, but the new Batman defeats him by laughing ''at'' him. After all, a comedian's ArchEnemy and worst nightmare is TheHeckler.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': When Judy first meets Nick and is tricked into helping him with one of his cons, he brushes her off with "It's called a hustle, sweetheart." Later, after revealing she's [[CaughtOnTape recorded him talking about how much money he's made illicitly]], and threatens him with charges of tax evasion, she smugly throws the line back in his face. [[spoiler: And at the movie's climax, she says it again after revealing to the BigBad that she's just had an EngineeredPublicConfession via the same method.]]
** The latter two examples are also accompanied by this exchange.
--->"It's my word against yours."\\
"Actually, it's ''your'' word against yours."

* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', after the Wolf makes a thinly-veiled threat at Puss, the latter retorts "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death!". Much later, after ensuring that Puss is absolutely terrified of him, the Wolf throws his line back at him: "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death, right? But you're not laughing now." [[spoiler:Becomes even more ironic with TheReveal that the Wolf is [[TheGrimReaper Death with a capital "D"]], and Puss frivulously wasting his lives and arrogantly believing himself to be above all consequences is ''precisely'' why Death decided to hunt him down; the line being a direct insult just makes things more personal]].

* From ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'': Upon seeing Wiggins, his manservant, not realizing what a "proper English greeting" was ("Ooh! gift baskets!"), Radcliffe sighs, "And he came so highly recommended." Cut to the end, where Radcliffe is arrested for attempted murder and being carted back to England in chains. Wiggins dabs at his eyes with a handkerchief and sighs, "And he came so highly recommended." Bonus points for [[TalkingToHimself Wiggins and Radcliffe having the same voice actor]].

** Similarly, during the Wolf's initial CurbStompBattle, he knocks Puss's sword away and mockingly tells the terrified cat to "pick it up", making it clear that Puss has no chance of winning. [[spoiler:When they square off again, Puss manages to disarm Death of his scythes and tells him to "pick it up", as he's accepted that he can't win, but won't stop fighting regardless.]]

* In the first act of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':

'''Dash:''' Which is another way of saying no-one is.

--->'''Syndrome:''' And when everyone's Super... no-one will be.

'''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kuzco]]:''' What's the big deal? Nobody's ''that'' heartless! ''([[LampshadeHanging sucks in his lips realizing what he just said]])''

'''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kuzco]]:''' What's the big deal? Nobody's ''that'' heartless! ''(LampshadeHangingsucks in his lips realizing what he just said)''

'''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kuzco]]:''' What's the big deal? Nobody's ''that'' heartless! ''(LampshadeHanging sucks in his lips realizing what he just said)''

'''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kuzco]]:''' What's the big deal? Nobody's ''that'' heartless! ''(LampshaeHanging sucks in his lips realizing what he just said)''

'''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kuzco]]:''' What's the big deal? Nobody's ''that'' heartless! (sucks in his lips realizing what he just said)

'''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kuzco]]:''' What's the big deal? Nobody's ''that'' heartless!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', there is an actual mute Ironic Echo. Gromit wants to leave his truck to help Wallace, but Phillip shakes his head "no", keeping him in. A minute after, when [[spoiler:Wallace transforms]], Phillip wants to shelter in the truck, but Gromit shakes his head in the same fashion and keeps the doors closed.

** Also, there's the Wolf's "[[DoesntTrustThoseGuys Never trust a bunny]]" line. The first time, during his story, he's saying this to Twitchy after they make the mistake of trusting Boingo for directions to Granny's house, causing them to end up in a cave inhabited by bats. Here, the line is used in the context of navigation (well, he DOES tell them the route involves going [[ExactWords over the woods and through the river]]). When Flippers makes TheReveal that Boingo was the BigBad, the Wolf repeats this line, but this time referring to Boingo's deceptive appearance.

** When young Simba says "When I'm King, I can do whatever I want," it's clearly a sign of his immaturity. When ''Scar'' says a variation much later, we know exactly why the Pride Lands went to hell under his rule.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', after the Wolf makes a thinly-veiled threat at Puss, the latter retorts "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death!". Much later, after ensuring that Puss is absolutely terrified of him, the Wolf throws his line back at him: "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death, right? But you're not laughing now." [[spoiler:Becomes even more ironic with TheReveal that the Wolf is [[TheGrimReaper Death with a capital "D"]], and Puss frivulously wasting his lives and arrogantly believing himself to be above all consequences is ''precisely'' why Death decided to hunt him down]].