History WesternAnimation / ChickenRun

* AmbitiousButLazy: Subtly implied with Mrs. Tweedy. She is never shown contributing any manual labour to the farm, leaving it entirely to her husband (except to kill chickens that don't lay eggs_, and instead spends much of the day sat inside calculating their numbers and complaining about their minor but adequate profits. Even when she eventually decides to turn their business from eggs to pies, rather than making and cooking the pies herself, she invests in a giant automated machine that will do all the work for her.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Rocky starts falling for Ginger after they dance during the "Flip, Flop, Fly" scene. Though he might have been a little interested beforehand at how hard she was to impress contrary to what he was used to.

** When Mr. Tweedy briefly catches the chickens all doing press-ups in unison, Bunty is doing hers one-handed.

** Mrs. Tweedy telling Mr. Tweedy "It's all in your head", which he repeats to himself even when he starts noticing things that would have clued him into the chicken's plot much earlier. [[spoiler:By the time he catches onto their plan to escape, it's already too far enough along for him to prevent it.]]

* ANaziByAnyOtherName[=/=]PuttingOnTheReich: Due to the film paying homage to prisoner of war stories, [[KnightOfCerebus Mrs.]] [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Tweedy]] serves as a clear stand-in for a Nazi prison officer or dictator Adolf Hitler. She initially keeps her chickens for their eggs and only kills the ones that have stopped laying, reflecting how the Nazis initially exploited their prisoners for labour and killed those who couldn't work, but eventually decides she will earn more profits from killing the chickens than keeping them alive, even plotting to put them in a literal gas chamber.

->''"NOW LET THAT BE A LESSON TO THE LOT OF YA'! '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO-CHICKEN! ESCAPES!]] [[TemptingFate FROM! TWEEDY'S! FARM!]]'''"''

* {{Fanfare}}: With kazoos!

* StockBritishPhrases: Since it's a British film, there are a lot of these.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName[=/=]PuttingOnTheReich: Due to the film paying homage to prisoner of war stories, [[KnightOfCerebus Mrs.]] [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Tweedy]] serves as a clear stand-in for a Nazi prison officer. She initially keeps her chickens for their eggs and only kills the ones that have stopped laying, reflecting how the Nazis initially exploited their prisoners for labour and killed those who couldn't work, but eventually decides she will earn more profits from killing the chickens than keeping them alive, even plotting to put them in a literal gas chamber.

* ''In all of my life, I never seen such a fantastic... '''[[BaitAndSwitchComment load of TRIPE!]]'''''
* "You want to get every chicken in this place out of here AT THE SAME TIME?!"

--> '''Bunty:''' In all my life, I've never heard such a fantastic... [[SuddenlyShouting LOAD OF]] '''''[[SuddenlyShouting TRIPE!]]'''''

%%* StockBritishPhrases: Since it's a British film, there are a lot of these.

* EmpathicEnvironment: [[spoiler:When Rocky is revealed as a fake after running away and his poster is connected -- Ginger puts the two bits together -- a thunderstorm starts. It is still raining as Ginger is in her [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]]. It then becomes sunny again when she has a EurekaMoment.]]

%%* {{Fanfare}}: With kazoos!

* {{Hypocrite}}: Mrs. Tweedy boasts that every grocer in the county will be stocked with her "homemade" chicken pies, and proudly advertises them as such on the billboard that Rocky sees later. This is despite the fact that the pies would actually be entirely mass-produced by an automatic machine - which isn't even Tweedy's own patent or invention - making any pies she produces the exact opposite of homemade.

* LetMeGetThisStraight: Uttered verbatim by Rocky when making sense of Ginger's plan, combined with SuddenlyShouting: "You want to get every chicken in this place out of here AT THE SAME TIME?!"

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Due to the film paying homage to prisoner of war stories, Mrs. Tweedy serves as a clear stand-in for a Nazi prison officer. She initially keeps her chickens for their eggs and only kills the ones that have stopped laying, reflecting how the Nazis initially exploited their prisoners for labour and killed those who couldn't work, but eventually decides she will earn more profits from killing the chickens than keeping them alive, even plotting to put them in a literal gas oven.

** [[spoiler:When Mrs. Tweedy has supposedly beheaded Ginger with her axe while on the string of lights, it is revealed that not only did Mrs. Tweedy miss Ginger, but she cut the wires between the two of them and falls as a result. To top it off, she falls into the warehouse and plugs up the gravy tank, causing the pressure to build until it blows up the pie machine she had built up her entire plot around.]]

->''"NOW LET THAT BE A LESSON TO THE LOT OF YA'! '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NO-CHICKEN! ESCAPES![[TemptingFate FROM! TWEEDY'S! FARM!]]'''"''

->''"Now let that be a lesson to the lot of ya'! [[TemptingFate No chicken escapes from Tweedy's farm!]]"''

* AmbitiousButLazy: Subtly implied with Mrs. Tweedy. She is never shown contributing any manual labour to the farm, leaving it entirely to her husband, and instead spends much of the day sat inside looking at their numbers and complaining about their minor but adequate profits. Even when she eventually decides to turn their business from eggs to pies, rather than making and cooking the pies herself, she invests in a giant automated machine that will do all the work for her.

* HypocriticalHumour: When Fowler first meets Rocky, he comments "I don't like the look of this one. ''His eyes are too close together!"'' in spite of the fact that, as a staple of the Aardman art style, ''every single characters’ eyes'', including Fowler's own, are too close together.

* HypocriticalHumour: When Fowler first meets Rocky, he comments "I don't like the look of this one. ''His eyes are too close together!"'' in spite of the fact that ''every single characters’ eyes'', including Fowler’s, are too close together.

* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: When Rocky shoots eggs at Mrs. Tweedy during the climactic escape, a stray thrown egg winds up knocking the scissors out of Ginger's hand.

* LoudGulp: The chickens gulp in unison (swallowing the heaps of chicken feed they all had in their mouths) after Ginger tells them that the food they've been eating was to fatten them up for slaughter.

* FeetFirstIntroduction: Ginger and Mrs. Tweedy.

** Then there's Rocky's very first line:
-->'''Rocky:''' [[spoiler:[[NonSequiturThud Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, you've been a wonderful audience.]]]]

** Then there's Rocky's line under NonSequiturThud:
-->'''Rocky:''' [[spoiler:[[FakeUltimateHero Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, you've been a wonderful audience.]]]]

** Well, for Fowler's reaction to Rocky, go to AmericaWonWorldWarII. The funny thing is, Rocky is indeed a ''mixed flavour'' leaning towards ''flavour 2''. Quite frankly, Rocky actually [[FridgeBrilliance is also indeed "overpaid, over-sexed and over here"]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The whole thing is a gleefully unashamed rewriting of prisoner of war stories, with the prisoners becoming chickens and the Nazis becoming the Tweedys.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Mrs. Tweedy may as well be called Hitler with the chickens as Jews, including a ''gas oven''.

** In the film the chickens are visibly seen to have teeth in their beaks. Real chickens don’t have teeth.

* ImStandingRightHere: Fowler complains out loud about having to share his bunk with Rocky, while Rocky is lying right next to him. Rocky hits back by saying that Fowler wasn't his first choice of bedmate, either.

* FunnyAnimal: On the anthropomorphic scale the chickens are funny animals. They have the shape and proportions of real chickens (barring a few human-like traits such as FeatherFingers), but their intelligence, speech, and behavior are almost just like humans. Nick and Fletcher are also funny animals because of their realistic size despite having more human-like proportions than the chickens; The guard dogs are examples of regular animals because they walk, bark, and behave like actual dogs do.

** When Mr. Tweedy is trying to repair the pie machine [[spoiler:after Rocky saves Ginger from it, he gets it working, but then it stops again.]] As he [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo presses a button on it]], it sends a jet of gravy right at Mrs. Tweedy behind him and it hits her in the face. In retaliation she kicks him in the backside. And before that, he plugs in two cables and it [[AshFace covers Mrs. Tweedy's face in smoke]].

** The Video Game adaptation borrows its mechanics from ''VideoGame/MetalGear''.

** The Video Game adaptation borrows its mechanics from ''Franchise/MetalGear''.

** After [[spoiler:the bottom half of Rocky's poster is revealed showing him being fired out of a cannon, Mac says, in her Scottish brogue, "Oh, a cannon. Aye, that gives ye thrust."]]

* SarcasmBlind: When Mrs. Tweedy answers her husband's question about the pie machine making apple pie, he says his favourite.

* SarcasmBlind: When Mrs. Tweedy answers her husband's question about the pie machine making apple pie, he says his favorite.