History WesternAnimation / Leo

* DefrostingIceQueen: Jayda starts out as typical spoiled RichBitch kid, but after opening up to Leo, she gets a lot more humble and openly friendly to the rest of the class, inviting everyone to her birthday while before she struggled to even invite a single person.

* WhamLine: As Leo meets Jayda's party animals in the Everglades, he confides with them about his experience with the fifth grade students, and how he fears his funeral will be worse than Hammy #3 (a deceased hamster who's funeral was unenthusiastic). But then some local older lizards chime in:
-->'''Old Lizard #1''' Why are you talking about your funeral?\\

'''Old Lizard #2:''' So what? We live to like, 110.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Mrs. Salinas introduces Leo and Squirtle to the class, the students are not impressed, and one asks if they eat, sleep, and poop in the same place. Squirtles clarifies that he poops where ''Leo'' sleeps.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Most of the humans are designed with semi-realistic proportions, except the kindergarteners, which have huge, spherical heads with massive fish eyes on the sides of their heads, and round teeth. It's lampshaded when there's a slideshow showing some of the older kids as they looked in kindergarten, and immediately followed by how they look now.

** Leo’s turtle roommate is named [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Squirtle]]. Leo himself might also be a case of this as his full name is [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]]. Leo even lampshades this at one point, where he prefers to be referred as such as his full name is to "Ninja Turtley".

-->'''Old Lizard #1''' Hey. Why are you talking about your funeral?\\

-->'''Lizard #1''' Hey. Why are you talking about your funeral?\\

'''Lizard 2:''' So what? We live to like, 110.

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** Fair enough, we ''did'' already see it in the trailers.

-->'''Lizard #1''' Hey. Why do you keep talking about your funeral?\\

* InnocentInnuendo: When Leo tries to count up how old he is with his toes and fingers, but runs out, he asks Squirtle if there's anything else he can count with, but Squirtle replies, "I'd tell you, but there's kid's around.". After a {{beat}} moment where he imitates Groucho Marx, [[BreakingTheFourthWall he says to the camera, "I was talking about his tail!".]]

* MixAndMatchCritter: Leo is supposedly a ''tuatara'', but he also has the coloration of an iguana, the tongue and camouflage abilities of a chameleon and the can stick to walls and regenerate his tail like a gecko.

** The montage of the previous times Leo and Squirtle were taken home by the students has backgrounds styled like watercolor paintings.

* BaitAndSwitch: One of the lessons Leo imparts on a child is how just crying about something isn't really going to help much, so suck it up. And, at first, the child seems to take the lesson to heart. [[spoiler:But, the child shows that she was just pretending, and brings out a biology text book to show the benefits of crying, and Leo walks away with a ItsOkayToCry. Later on, the child ends up using Leo's words in her history presentation, and even later, Leo lets out a cry and comes to agree that he feels the benefits of letting himself cry.]]

* TalkingAnimal: It's established in this universe all animals are of human intelligence and can talk (or at least, all vertebrates can, as insects aren't seen to talk at any point, but they're still shown to be intelligent), but have an unspoken rule to never talk to humans. Leo accidentally reveals he can talk to a kid, but finds there's a lot of benefits that come with it and continues to do so with every other kid in the class, because it feels good to help them.

* InnocentInnuendo: Leo tries to count up how old he is, but he runs out of fingers and toes. Squirtle suggests one another thing he could count up with, but he can't specify because there's kids around. After a {{beat}} moment where he imitates Groucho Marx, [[BreakingTheFourthWall he tells the audience]] that he meant Leo's tail.

** Near the beginning of the movie, Mrs. Salinas is starting her yearly reading of ''Literature/CharlottesWeb''. Squirtle bemoans the book because it always gets the kids teary-eyed, and crying is for weaklings (with Leo agreeing). When Ms. Malkin replaces her, one of the first things she does is suck up the book in her portable vacuum. [[spoiler:At the end of the year, Ms. Malkin ejects the book from the vacuum and finishes it; Leo and Squirtle also get tearful at the ending, Squirtle loudest of everyone in the class (with snot bubbles coming out of his nose).]]

* CharacterInTheLogo: The version of the logo seen in the trailers and the beginning of the film have a silhouette of Leo lounging in the O.

* LogoJoke: The bars surrounding the Netflix logo are a bright green.

** The trailer reveals that Leo’s turtle roommate is named [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Squirtle]]. Leo himself might also be a case of this as his full name is [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leonardo]]. Leo even lampshades this at one point, where he prefers to be referred as such as his full name is to "Ninja Turtley".

*** Leo also yells “Sweet mother of Godzilla” when he’s accidentally flung into the wall.

* MelancholyMusicalNumber: "When I Was Ten", after Ms. Malkin drops Leo off at the Everglades, and lies to the fifth-graders that he left on his own accord, the kids are dissapointed because they never got to thank Leo for helping them get through, and lament through song about how things were easier when they were 10 and younger.