History WesternAnimation / ChickenRunDawnOfTheNugget

** Reginald presents 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.
--->'''Mrs. Tweedy:''' Mm, sweet...\\

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

** Mrs. Tweedy slams the door to the courtyard into a poor guard, who is seen wobbling in the background before slumping down.

** 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.

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

** 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 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: 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 restaurant man, Reginald Smith, is even shown checking his watch while he waits.

* HijackedByGanon: The film at first sets up [[MadScientist Dr. Fry]] as the new BigBad, being responsible for the mind control collars and all the operations at Fun-Land Farms, with Reginald Smith of [[KitschyThemedRestaurant Sir Eat-A-Lot]] as the GreaterScopeVillain. [[spoiler:Then halfway into the film, Dr. Fry introduces Smith to his wife, Mrs. Melisha Tweedy, the original BigBad of the first film and the real brains behind the new farm.]]

** The first movie was set in 1959, according to the filmmakers themselves. In the prologue of this film, a newspaper reporting on the destruction of Tweedy's Farm has an explicit publication date of November 4th, 1953.

* SpannerInTheWorks: 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: 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.

* FearlessInfant: Molly has been wild and adventurous even when she was a chick, much to her parents' dismay.

** During their first meeting, Frizzle tells Molly that "it's you and me, kidda, all the way." Molly repeats the phrase when explaining why she came back for Frizzle after her friend was put under brainwashing.

** All of the characters who originated in the first film have this reaction upon seeing 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.]]

* StealthPun: Ginger is a rather overprotective parent, making her daughter "Molly-coddled".

* AmbiguousSituation: As in the first film, it is not clear if the humans know that the chickens can talk, or if they can even understand them at all. There are multiple scenes where the chickens are sneaking around, and try to stay silent to avoid alerting the humans, but it isn't explicitly shown from the humans' perspective whether they hear their actual words or simply [[AnimalTalk the sounds of them crowing and clucking]]. [[spoiler:The only human characters who are definitely aware the chickens are intelligent are Mrs. Tweedy, who learned her lesson from the first film, and Dr. Fry, since his whole invention relies on the fact that the chickens can feel emotions like fear and happiness.]]

* OutOfControlPopcorn: [[spoiler:The gang use the corn silo and the heat from the sun's light to make a vast amount of popcorn so vigorous that it blasted them out]].

* AnAesop: You should always be honest with your child about your reasons for protecting them. If you don't give them some idea why certain things are dangerous, they'll probably just do them and find out the hard way.

* AmbiguousSituation: As in the first film, it is not clear if the humans know that the chickens can talk, or if they can even understand them at all. There are multiple scenes where the chickens are sneaking around, and try to stay silent to avoid alerting the humans, but it isn't explicitly shown from the humans' perspective whether they hear their actual words or simply [[AnimalTalk the sounds of them crowing and clucking]]. [[spoiler:The only human character who is definitely aware the chickens are intelligent is Mrs. Tweedy, who learned her lesson from the first film.]]

* AnAesop: You should always be honest with your child about your reasons for protecting them. If you don't give them some idea why certain things are dangerous, they'll probably just do them and find out the hard way.

--->'''Mrs. Tweedy:''' Mm, sweet...
--->'''Reginald''': ...and sour.

* BookEnds: The movie begins with Rocky telling Ginger about how their current life is their "happy ending". When he brings it up again in the end, she coins it as a "happy ''beginning''".

** At one point, Molly escapes her playpen by digging out a tunnel with a spoon, much like Ginger's first escape attempt in the previous film's introduction.
** "We mustn't panic... We mustn't panic..."
** Babs, Bunty and Mac resort to attacking a security guard when they find themselves cornered, just like how they attacked Mr. Tweedy in the last film's climax.
** The chicken that’s selected to be made into nuggets has the number 314 on her collar. The same number is notable as being the first three digits of pi - a reference to the chicken pies that were planned to be mass produced in the first film.
** Ginger says [[spoiler:"Bye-bye, again" just before she foils Mrs. Tweedy's plans to turn the chickens into nuggets]].
** In the first film, Mrs. Tweedy falls into her pie machine's safety valve, leading to the machine's destruction. In this film, [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy falls into the grinder, overloading it and causing her to be covered in breadcrumbs.]]
** Babs still somehow believes the island is their "'oliday". [[spoiler:A brainwashed Ginger would refer to her adventure as a '''oliday''.]]
** Just like the ending of the first movie where [[spoiler:the chickens used their flying machine to create their new houses, they use the salvaged remains of Fun-Land Farms technology to improve their own lives]].

--->'''Ginger''': It's go time.\\
'''Babs''': It's alright. [[ToiletHumor I went before we left.]]

* 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.
* FairyTaleMotifs: There are several elements from ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'', such as the child protagonist disobeying their parent(s) to explore the world beyond their home, only to end up in a PleasureIsland themed trap which transforms the attendees into a valuable commodity. She even gets a best friend who's akin to Candlewick who wants to have fun, inspires the protagonist to make questionable choices and [[spoiler:ends up falling prey to the nefarious manipulations of the twisted theme park]].

** Early on, Rocky introduces popcorn to Molly and calls it “the answer to all life’s problems.” [[spoiler:When the chickens are stuck in the corn silo, they get the idea to create popcorn to boost them out of there, with Ginger calling it “the answer to all life’s problems” as well.]]

* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: This is what the Fun-Land Farms collars do - they brainwash chickens into being happy all the time, so that they are more willing to get turned into nuggets and their meat tastes better.

* HereWeGoAgain: Bunty says this when she sees Ginger get a shifty look in her eye after seeing the deforestation and the convoy of lorries on the island.

* HonoraryUncle: Nick and Fetcher hold this position in regards to Molly. It's actually somewhat relevant to the plot, since the rats only agree to help infiltrate Fun-Land Farms once they learn Molly is stuck there - when they think it's just Rocky in there, they aren't too fussed.

* HypnoTrinket: All chickens brought to Fun-Land Farms are outfitted with mind control collars. Molly and Frizzle manage to escape it when Frizzle decides she doesn't like the look of the collar-fitting machine and jumps onto an "already-collared" part of the conveyor belt. However, when Dr. Fry sees that Frizzle doesn't have a collar on, he comes to force one on her personally, though luckily, he still misses Molly.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Rocky tells Ginger that there's no need to worry with him on the job of looking after their daughter...and immediately asks what to do in a panic when Molly begins breaking the eggshell.

* LetsMeetTheMeat: The Fun-Land Farms deliberately invoke this, using mind control collars to keep the chickens in a state of blissful happiness as they're led to their deaths.

** Rocky's LeeroyJenkins charge into Fun Land Farms has him showcasing all the various defences keeping intruders out to the others by painfully enduring each and every one, from electric fences to robotic exploding ducks. He's still conscious and moving by the end of it all.

* MundaneUtility: When they get back to the island, one of the robot ducks with laser vision gets repaired...and put to use as a popcorn heater.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The mind control effects from the collars are so strong, they can get [[spoiler:Ginger to say with complete earnesty that [[{{Jerkass}} Mrs. Tweedy]] is the loveliest woman in the whole world.]]

* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:This is ultimately Mrs. Tweedy's real intention with Fun-Land Farms and the chicken nuggets. Being humiliated and ruined in the first film thanks to Ginger, Mrs. Tweedy doubles down on the chicken business by investing in mind control technology and high security to destroy the chickens' free will before making them happily walk to their deaths, with revenue being a secondary goal. Upon seeing Ginger again, Mrs. Tweedy decides to make the chicken slaughter a lot more personal.]]

--->'''Nick''': It's an impossible mission!
--->'''Fetcher''': Shouldn't that be the other way 'round?

** [[spoiler:Instead of chicken pot pies like last time, Mrs. Tweedy]] plans to turn the birds into chicken nuggets, calling it “the dawn of the nugget”.

* GlassSMackAndSlide: During the pursuit of the Fun-Land Farms' truck, Rocky landing on the skateboard sends Fowler flying into the rear window, where his face ends up smushed against the glass before sliding.

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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy becomes increasingly unhinged after discovering that Ginger, her old nemesis, has infiltrated the farm. She gets double points ''again'' for coming after her with not just any ax, but the '''same''' ax she used in the first film.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy becomes increasingly unhinged after discovering that Ginger, her old nemesis, has infiltrated the farm, and eventually literally comes after her with an ax.]]

* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: Oddly averted. The film opens with a recap of the first movie narrated by Rocky, and despite Ginger being recast, Julia Sawalha's voice is still heard in these scenes; she is even credited.

''Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget'' is a 2023 British stop-motion comedy film by Creator/AardmanAnimations and the sequel to the 2000 film ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. It is directed by Sam Fell (''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'', ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'') and co-written by original screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick (''WesternAnimation/{{Smallfoot}}''). Original cast members Creator/JaneHorrocks, Creator/ImeldaStaunton, Lynn Ferguson, and Creator/MirandaRichardson will reprise their roles from the first film, joined by new cast members Creator/ThandiweNewton, Creator/ZacharyLevi, Creator/BellaRamsey, Nick Mohammad, Romesh Ranganathan, Daniel Mays, Creator/PeterSerafinowicz, and Creator/DavidBradley.

* LeeroyJenkins: Rocky tends to charge into danger head-on, as seen by his attempt to catapult into the Fun-Land Farms headquarters; he immediately gets electrocuted and comically injured by all the high-tech security.

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

* FreudianSlip: During a MotiveRant to [[spoiler:her new investor, Mrs. Tweedy]] boasts that [[spoiler:she will finally have revenge, referring to Ginger and the other chickens that escaped from her in the previous film. The investor isn't sure what she means, so Tweedy quickly clarifies that she meant to say "revenue".]]

* GrandStaircaseEntrance: 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.

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

* PleasureIsland: Inside the new farm is a play pen filled with joyful entertainment for the chickens as well as plentiful amounts of food to engorge in. However, it's simply a ruse to produce flavourful tender meat from said chickens.

* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy's relationship with Dr. Fry is much closer to this trope than her previous marriage was. Fry does not seem to fear or resent his wife at all, but instead supports her ambitions and shares in her passion for cruelty towards the chickens.]]
* WeNeedADistraction: Rocky resorts to giving a random, funky dance performance in front of [[spoiler:Mrs. Tweedy and her staff to give Molly and Ginger some time to escape]].

** Rocky also draws attention to himself by dancing for the three main human antagonists to give Ginger and Molly time to escape. After he notices that his family is safely gone, he stops dancing and starts running away.

* EurekaMoment: The heroes are trapped [[spoiler: in a corn silo]] with no apparent way out when the villain turns on the grinder. As the corn begins to sink under their feet, Rocky remembers that [[spoiler: popcorn is made out of corn]] and comes up with an idea to boost them out. It takes Ginger a few seconds, but she has the same "lightbulb" moment.

* AnAesop: You should always be honest with your child about your reasons for protecting them.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The inside of Fun-Land Farms is bright and colorful, there are vast quantities of food that the chickens can eat as much as they want, and they do nothing but play around all day. Of course, this isn't down to charity. [[spoiler:It's so the chickens are not stressed out when they get slaughtered for nuggets, resulting in more tender and tasty meat.]]

** Rocky also draws 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.