History WesternAnimation / ChickenRunDawnOfTheNugget

* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: When she finds Dr. Fry wandering around with a decorative egg stuck on his head (courtesy of the rescue team), [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] scoffs that he's as worthless as a headless...and then screams "chicken!" as she sees Ginger and Rocky.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] becomes increasingly unhinged after discovering that Ginger, [[spoiler:her old nemesis]], has infiltrated the farm, and eventually literally comes after her with an ax.

** Reginald presents [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] with a small black ring box, and she coyly comments that this is so sudden, [[UnholyMatrimony suggesting he's proposing to her]]. It's actually just the new dip his restaurant chain cooked up for the nuggets.
--->'''[[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]]:''' Mm, sweet...

* DeusAxMachina: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] procures a classic red fire axe to attack the chickens in the film's climax.

* FirstNameBasis: Reginald Smith and [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] call each other by their first names.

** [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy appears in flashbacks and a dream sequence in the first half of the film before she reappears in person as the mastermind behind Fun-Land Farms.]]

* GoldDigger: Dr. Fry has a fortune and lots of land, but [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] claims she actually fell in love with his mind... which, along with the other resources, provides the means to enact a lucrative business plan. She's also seen putting the moves on her prospective business partner Reginald Smith, targeting him as a future husband once Fry is no longer useful to her.

* GrandStaircaseEntrance: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] makes her first entrance descending a long open spiral staircase, with a side-order of BitchAlert even before Ginger and the audience [[spoiler:see and recognise her face]]. The effect is (deliberately) slightly undermined because the entrance goes on a little too long; the investor, Reginald Smith, is even shown checking his watch while he waits.

** All of the characters who originated in the first film have this reaction upon seeing [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]]. Ginger has flashbacks; Rocky, Nick and Fetcher gasp; Mac and Bunty scream; Babs screams then faints.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy's]] plan to make a fortune with the nugget was going perfectly well until Molly got captured and taken to the farm, leading to Rocky, Ginger, and the others breaking in to rescue her.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[spoiler:The return of Mrs. Tweedy]] was kept under wraps during development, and in the film itself, the revelation doesn't occur until just past the halfway point, with it being treated as a major twist. Despite this, it was revealed ahead of time by the first teaser trailer, and remained a prominent selling point in most of the trailers and marketing.

** [[spoiler: After Frizzle is fitted with a collar that brainwashes her, Molly curls up into a corner and begins to cry as the scene appears to phase out. The camera suddenly zooms back in as Molly stands up and refuses to give in to despair, promising Frizzle that she'll come back for her before running off to find an exit.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler: One of the chickens at Fun-Land Farms tries to walk up a slide that Molly is using, followed by more of them doing it. It then quickly becomes apparent that they're being brainwashed.]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Several of the chickens at Fun-Land Farms can be seen getting themselves into accidents and generally acting weird [[spoiler: a few minutes before it's made clear they're being mind-controlled.]]

* OhCrap: All of the characters who originated in the first film have this reaction upon seeing [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]]. Ginger has flashbacks; Rocky, Nick and Fetcher gasp; Mac and Bunty scream; Babs screams then faints.
** Likewise for [[spoiler: Mrs. Tweedy when she first sees Ginger, the chicken who previously destroyed her entire operation.]]

* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Somehow, [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy survived the grinder and batter machine. Of course, this is after she's already survived a pie machine explosion and having a barn door dropped on her.]]

* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:To top getting blown up by her pie machine and getting crushed by a giant door in the first movie, Mrs. Tweedy manages to survive ''getting fried'' by her nugget maker.]]

* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Somehow, [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy survived the grinder and batter machine]].

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler: A few of the chickens at Fun-Land Farms can be seen acting strange not long before it's revealed they're being brainwashed.]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Several of the chickens in Fun-Land Farms can be seen mindlessly getting themselves into accidents [[spoiler: a few minutes before it's made clear they're being mind-controlled.]]

* FoodPorn: Despite the [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath horrifying context]] behind it, the chicken nuggets [[spoiler:that Mrs. Tweedy produces to demonstrate her plan to Reginald Smith]] with ''do'' look pretty tasty. Though perhaps that only makes the context ''more'' unsettling.

* FoodPorn: Despite the [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath horrifying context]] behind it, the chicken nuggets [[that spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy produces to demonstrate her plan to Reginald Smith]] with ''do'' look pretty tasty. Though perhaps that only makes the context ''more'' unsettling.

* FoodPorn: Despite the [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath horrifying context]] behind it, the chicken nuggets that Mrs. Tweedy produces to demonstrate her plan to Reginald Smith with ''do'' look pretty tasty. Though perhaps that only makes the context ''more'' unsettling.

* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy has to turn the settings on the mind control collar all the way UpToEleven, which haven't been tested yet, before it starts to have an effect on Ginger. Even then, Ginger is able to briefly resist the effects.]]

** This isn't the [[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus first time]] someone with bright orange hair (or in this case, feathers) is named Frizzle.

** This isn't the [[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus first time]] someone with bright orange hair (or in this case, feathers) is names Frizzle.

* IronicEcho: When Ginger tries to lecture her daughter early on, Molly says that she isn't the boss of her. [[spoiler:Later, when Ginger is under the influence of a mind-control collar, she says the same thing to Molly when she tries to convince her that they need to escape.]]

--->'''Reginald''' :...and sour.

** Molly climbs into one of the buckets the chickens use when they're farming as a younger chick. [[spoiler:
She ends up climbing into one of the fast-food buckets on an upwards conveyor belt to reach the mind-control-collar remote.]]

--->'''Reginald''':...and sour.

** Molly climbs into one of the buckets the chickens use when they're farming as a younger chick. [[spoiler: She ends up climbing into one of the fast-food buckets on an upwards conveyor belt to reach the mind-control-collar remote.]]

* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: When Rocky swings towards her, [[spoiler: Mrs. Tweedy]] steps aside and gives a loud, "Hah!", confident in having outwitted him...only to find her axe being yanked out of her hand with the rope.

-->'''Reginald''':...and sour.

* BlindWithoutEm: Mac loses her glasses in the corn silo, and says she "cannae see a sausage" without them.

** Rocky also drives attention to himself to give Ginger and Molly time to escape by dancing in front of the main three human antagonists. After he notices that they managed to escape, he stops dancing and starts running away.

* GrandStaircaseEntrance: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] makes her first entrance descending a long open spiral staircase, with a side-order of BitchAlert even before Ginger and the audience [[spoiler:see and recognise her face]]. The effect is (deliberately) slightly undermined because the entrance goes on a little too long; another character is even shown checking his watch while he waits.

* HypnoTrinket: With the exceptions of Molly and Frizzle, all chickens brought to Fun-Land Farms are outfitted with mind control collars.

* InelegantBlubbering: Nick and Fetcher are prone to this, especially when Molly refers to them as her uncles.

* ParentalLoveSong: "My Sweet Baby" is about Ginger and Rocky's affection for their daughter, Molly. The lyrics and the visuals indicate that they love her despite how terrifying her fearless nature is for them and wish she wouldn't grow up so soon.

* DrawAggro: While trying to convince Molly to escape, Ginger gets spotted by Mrs. Tweedy, who instantly recognizes the bane of her existence. Glancing quickly to the side, Ginger guesses that her nemesis hasn't seen Molly and races towards her to distract her.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: When she finds Dr. Fry wandering around with a decorative egg stuck on his head (courtesy of the rescue team), [[spoiler: Mrs. Tweedy]] scoffs that he's as worthless as a headless...and then screams "chicken!" as she sees Ginger and Rocky.

** Rocky introduces popcorn-making early in the film, [[spoiler: and it is the key to an improvised escape by the end]].
** Babs brings her knitting, as always. [[spoiler: She ends up knitting bindings for a guard who spots her, Mac, and Bunty so that the chickens can check the security camera feed for Molly undisturbed.]]
** Rocky lassoes the villain's axe when he swings onto the catwalk to save Ginger and Molly. [[spoiler: Later, Rocky is stuck holding on to his wife and daughter as Mrs. Tweedy encroaches on them, and the axe swings back and hits her in the face, saving the chickens.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Fowler is mostly offscreen while he sets up the zipline the group is using for their getaway. As the villain is threatening the heroes with an axe, he slides in on the zipline, hitting [[spoiler: Mrs. Tweedy]] in the face.

** When [[LeeroyJenkins Rocky]] prepares to launch himself into Funland Farms to rescue Molly (without a plan), he tells Ginger that "sometimes you've just got to take a leap". Ginger repeats the sentence as she sees Rocky [[spoiler: preparing to leap into the fray, saving her from having to choose between rescuing Molly from Mrs. Tweedy or keeping the brainwashed chickens out of the grinder.]]

* OhCrap: All of the characters who originated in the first film have this reaction upon seeing [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]]. Ginger has flashbacks; Mac and Bunty gasp, and Babs faints.

* AffectionateNickname: Rocky refers to Ginger as "Ginge" a few times (quite a step up from the belittling and sexist terms like "doll", "doll face", and "angel cakes"), and they both refer to Molly as "Mollypod." Molly calls Nick and Fetcher "Uncle Nick" and "Uncle Fetch".
* AgeProgressionSong: "My Sweet Baby" by Music/PalomaFaith plays after the title card, during which Molly grows from infant to toddler to young child to 11-year old.

* AmusingInjuries: Happens to Fowler for the most part. And also to Rocky at points.

* BadNewsInAGoodWay: Rocky launches himself into Funland Farms to rescue Molly, getting zapped by the electric fence, attacked by the robotic animal "guards", and sucked into a vent in the process. Mac says that at least they know some necessary details about the place now.

--->'''[[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]]:''' Mm, sweet and sour.

* TheCaper: The film parodies many of the tropes of the classic caper/heist movie, as the heroes assemble a team (of chickens and rats) to break into a target installation, assigning each of them a speciality.
* CatapultNightmare: Ginger after having a nightmare about Mrs. Tweedy stealing Molly.
* ChekhovsGun: Okay, Chekhov's [[spoiler:popcorn. Rocky introduces popcorn-making early in the film, and it is the key to an improvised escape by the end]].

** Reginald presents [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] with a small black ring box, [[UnholyMatrimony suggesting he's proposing to her]]. It's actually just the new dip his restaurant chain cooked up for the nuggets.

* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Somehow, [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy survived the grinder]].
* OhCrap: All of the characters who originated in the first film have this reaction upon seeing [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]].

* ShoutOut: Plenty to ''Series/MissionImpossible''. At one point, a plagiarism-free version of the theme plays when the chickens break into Fun-Land Farms.
-->'''Nick''': It's an impossible mission!
-->'''Fetcher''': Shouldn't that be the other way 'round?

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The mind-control collars seem to suppress chickens' memories in addition to altering their emotions. Neither [[spoiler:Frizzle nor Ginger]] remember who Molly is after they've been collared, or anything else besides that [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul they love [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy]] and being happy at Fun-Land Farms.]] The effect wears off as soon as the collar is removed, leaving the wearer unable to remember what they said and did while under the collar's influence.