History WesternAnimation / CareBearsMovieIIANewGeneration

** The opening is rather frightening once one gets old enough to understand the significance of it. Dark Heart is pursuing a ship full of orphaned babies with the intention of destroying it and drowning them and the implication that he's the one who orphaned them in the first place.

* SurprisinglyCreepyMoment: Much of the movie is adorable kids' fare, until the part where Dark Heart (in human form) nearly drowns and Christy saves him. After catching his breath he tells her (in kid-friendly terms) that she would've let him drown if she knew what was good for her, and she bitterly remarks that the only difference between them might be that she wouldn't. That's a pretty dark moment, and one likely to fly over the target audience's heads.

* AMinorKidroduction: The movie begins with the Care Bears and the Care Bear Cousins as cubs. They become their current age during the second half of the movie in a number aptly named "Growing Up".

* NoNameGiven: It's never explained just who - or ''what'' - the Great Wishing Star is. Little Star Buddy and Little Heart Buddy apparently work for him, and he seems to be narrating the film, but beyond that? Not so much as a hint.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the movie, True Heart makes an impassioned plea to the audience watching the movie to show and tell the world how much they care [[spoiler:in order to save Christy after Dark Heart accidentally zaps her]].

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: True and Noble Heart are the senior Care Bear and Cousin and implied to be the strongest--and possibly as powerful as ''all the other Bears and Cousins combined''. Dark Heart is willing to face the entire Family minus True and Noble at Care-A-Lot but retreats once they show up, and True and Noble are confident they can beat him alone when they hunt for him afterward and confront him at the climax. Their strength is also shown by [[LawofChromaticSuperiority the color of their beams]]: while the Care Bear Stares of the other bears are rainbow-colored, True and Noble's Stares are [[LightEmUp pure white light]].

* GoodIsNotSoft: After driving off Dark Heart from Care-A-Lot, True and Noble Heart decide to ''hunt him down and kill him'' (though [[NeverSayDie not in those words]]) and actually succeed in destroying [[FightingAShadow his shadow]]. It's only due to Christy they consider trying to redeem him at all instead of fighting him.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Dark Heart before his HeelFaceTurn.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Christy]]

* GoodHurtsEvil: Dark Heart flinches away from the rainbow beam the Great Wishing Star uses to summon the Care Bears. In general, kindness and good emotions seem to make him physically uncomfortable.

* BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler: Dark Heart, near the end.]]

* StockSubtitle: It's a hybrid of "New" and "The Next Generation".

* CorruptTheCutie: As with the book spirit in the first book, this is Dark Heart's schtick: starting with Christy, he begins turning the kids at the summer camp evil.

* HatePlague: Rogue campers run around uprooting trees and snickering evilly after Darkheart begins to kidnap the bears. Whether he is influencing the camp directly by being there or if the camp is only one of many places suffering from the loss of the Care Bears is unknown.

* LittleStowaway: In Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, baby Swift Heart stows away in True Heart's backpack while True Heart is going on a mission to Earth.

* {{Protectorate}}: Christy treats the twins as this. She even notes that, after she's become the camp champ, no one pushes them around anymore because "I won't let 'em!"

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Dark Heart in human form. [[spoiler:Them turning normal is the first sign that he's turned into a real human.]]
* SealedGoodInACan: The Care Bears and Cousins are trapped in crystals of a chandelier until Christy frees them.

** True Heart and Noble Heart have a parental role to the cubs, and they seem to share a room, if not a bed.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When he's fully explaining to Christy about his plan to confront True Heart and Noble Heart, Dark Heart stands up and boasts that then there'll be nobody left to stop him...problem is, he does his grandstanding in the middle of a boat on the camp's lake, and this action proceeds to upset the boat badly enough that Dark Heart stumbles and falls out, hitting his head on the boat's side, and he would have drowned right there if Christy hadn't jumped in to save him.

* VillainousFriendship: Dark Heart and Christy.[[spoiler: And despite being a villainous one, it's still a friendship that ends up redeeming Dark Heart.]]

* YearInsideHourOutside: The Bears and Cousins have the above-mentioned TimePassesMontage, which suggests the passage of ''years'', in what appears to be the same ''month'' that John, Dawn, and Christy are at their miserable camp. One can only assume that time passes differently in Care-a-lot, but it looks really weird.
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