History WesternAnimation / TheRugratsMovie

** While travelling through the forest, the babies barely just miss the rangers patrolling the area. Downplayed as they were heading towards the rangers hut anyway as they thought a wizard who could help them lives there.

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: At the climax, the monkeys corner the babies, but suddenly flee. The babies cheer... only to turn and see a huge vicious wolf slowly stalking them ready to pounce. Thankfully, Spike saves them just in time.

Taking place between the show's fifth and sixth seasons, the plot concerns the Rugrats having to deal with an unhappy amount of changes that have come as a result of the birth of Tommy Pickles's (Creator/EGDaily) new baby brother, Dil (Creator/TaraStrong), who's unable to speak. Tommy feels he's being neglected by his parents Stu (Jack Riley) and Didi (Melanie Chartoff) in favor of Dil, and Chuckie Finster (Creator/ChristineCavanaugh), Angelica Pickles (Creator/CherylChase) and Phil and Lil [=DeVille=] (Creator/KathSoucie) dislike Dil. Things get worse when the babies get stranded in a mysterious territory named Skull Territory with Stu's new toy, the Reptar Wagon (Music/BustaRhymes), being pursed by a Vasto Wolf and a bunch of monkeys who've escaped from a traveling circus. Will the babies learn to cope with Dil and make it back home?

* AlwaysABiggerFish: When the babies are confronted by the circus monkeys on the bridge, but something scares the monkeys away. After the babies stop cheering, they comes face to face in horror with an unintentional savior who then attempts to [[FromBadToWorse kill them]]: Scar Snout the V-Wolf.

* BigBad: Scar Snout the Vasto Wolf, an evolved species of wolf provides the biggest and darkest threat the babies have ever faced in the entire series, given his vicious and ravenous demeanor.

** Spike, just as the V-Wolf is ready to pounce.

* BigDamnMovie: The show never had the babies going on ''this'' kind of adventure. Most of their adventures within the show were purely in the imagination of the babies, or were adventures through relatively mundane environments that would seem fascinating and new to a young child. The film, on the other hand, has them literally lost in a mysterious territory named Skull Territory.

* CanineConfusion: This movie has a wolf that has dew claws on its back feet due that the wolf is a Vasto Wolf has developed unique features, which is a trait only found in some dogs; regular Grey Wolves never have dew claws on their back feet. It also [[IncorrectAnimalNoise sounds like a big cat.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: The Banana Bros Circus is traveling by rail to their next venue when the monkeys hijack the train, due to the negligent owners both leaving it unattended to get coffee. It crashes into Skull Territory. The primates disappear from the story until the third act when the babies come across the wreck of the train. At first, the monkeys are playful, but become savage when Dil is covered in banana puree until the V-Wolf scares the monkeys away when they got to the bridge. They redeem themselves when they reunited with their circus owners while the babies reunited their parents.

** [[spoiler: Spike who saves the babies from the huge Vasto Wolf, ending with both of them falling off the bridge and over a waterfall. Fortunately, Spike manages to survive by landing at the bottom of the bridge.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: Scar Snout the Vasto Wolf, [[spoiler: who's been dragged off the bridge by Spike into the river.]]

* EverybodyCries: The babies cry, including Angelica, when [[spoiler: [[DisneyDeath Spike falls off the bridge]] while protecting them against the V-Wolf]].

** The V-Wolf that Spike pulls Angelica away from in the beginning [[BigBad returns to menace the kids later.]] The V-Wolf itself is subtly foreshadowed by the remarks about Little Red Riding Hood by the babies when they first get lost.

** When the V-Wolf sneaks up on Angelica in the woods after her roller skate breaks, Spike pulls her out of the way just in time, saving her life. Spike goes on to save all the babies from the wolf in the climax (and even stops the wolf before it can bite Angelica again).

* InfantSiblingJealousy: Early in the film, Tommy doesn't get along with his newborn brother, Dil at first. Tommy hates how much noise Dil makes and feels his parents are neglecting him to focus on his brother. He and his friends trying to send Dil back to the hospital is how they end up lost in Skull Territory. By the end of the film, Tommy realizes how much he loves Dil, and his BigBrotherInstinct often appears in the post-movie seasons of the TV series.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Angelica, sort of. Despite being mean to the babies and Spike, kicking the babies out the door in the wagon causing them to get lost, and attempting to track them down for inadvertently stealing her doll, she is very distraught to see Spike nearly taking his life to protect her and the babies from the wolf, even distracting the V-Wolf when he almost kills Spike which helps him defeat the V-Wolf, crying out of remorse for her previous behavior towards him and tearfully concurring to the babies' wish to the 'wizard' to bring Spike back. She is also relieved to see Spike alive along with the others.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Chuckie is the first to realize that abandoning Tommy and his younger brother Dil in the dark forest of Skull Territory (out of frustration with the latter) was a terrible mistake. It drives him to convince the twins that they need to go back for them.

** The babies the second time they hear Scar Snout the V-Wolf howl in the distance (the first time it happened, it looked like Tommy did it), and then again when he actually appears on the bridge.

* PredatorsAreMean: Scar Snout the V-Wolf. The one trait that puts it more on the evil end of the scale is that it spends most of the movie [[EatsBabies specifically targeting the babies]]. During its fight with Spike in the climax, Angelica blows as raspberry at it and it actually takes notice of this, turns around and is ready to bring his jaws down on her, making this wolf seem exceptionally [[EvilIsPetty petty]] in addition to being mean.

* RunawayTrain: When the Banana Brothers stop their Monkey Circus train at a railway station for a coffee break, the unsupervised monkeys climb aboard the steam locomotive and start it up, causing it to speed out of control along the tracks until it approaches a sharp curve and derails in Skull Territory.

* SavageWolves: An evolved wolf named a Vasto Wolf that stalks and tries to kill the babies but fails when he tries to kill the guests in the Reptar truck instead after falling in the spider pit along with them in Legend of the Reptar.

** [[spoiler:The babies all shout "Spike!" in horror when they realise Spike is about to fall off the bridge with the V-Wolf as same in Rugrats: Legend of the Reptar when the Reptar truck and the other Reptar truck was about to be sent over the cliff]]
* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: At the climax, the monkeys corner the babies, but suddenly flee (a few of them got eaten by the V-Wolves in Legend of the Reptar). The babies cheer... only to turn and see a Vasto Wolf slowly stalking them ready to pounce. Thankfully, Spike saves them just in time.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The biggest and deadliest threat the babies ever encounter comes in the hungry and DeadSerious form of Scar Snout, an evolved wolf. He is a very scary antagonist from a kid's cartoon franchise. He's made even worse by the fact that this is a shared universe with ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' where most animals are sapient and aware of humans.

* WouldHurtAChild: The hungry Scar Snout hunts five babies (including a newborn) and a toddler throughout the movie until he accidentally drags another Reptar truck with Joe inside when Spike drags him to cliff (bridge in the movie) then falls into the spider pit (he manages to land on top of the other truck who gets caught in the vines of the spider pit) and tries to eat the guests from the Reptar truck from the other side instead in Rugrats: Legend of the Reptar.
* YouNeedABreathMint: When the V-Wolf is stalking Spike and Angelica. Angelica, oblivious to the V-Wolf, smells its breath and thinks it's from Spike. Spike notices the wolf and quickly manages to drag the unsuspecting Angelica out of the wolf's clutches.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: When the babies are confronted by the monkeys on the bridge, but suddenly the monkeys started flee in fear because they noticed a huge sapient predator that is on the other side of the bridge: a Vasto Wolf named Scar Snout, who scares them away, and tries to eat the babies.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Banana Bros Circus is traveling by rail to their next venue when the monkeys hijack the train, due to the negligent owners both leaving it unattended to get coffee. It crashes into Skull Territory. The primates disappear from the story until the third act when the babies come across the wreck of the train. At first, the monkeys are playful, but become savage when Dil is covered in banana puree until they start to flee in fear when they got to the bridge because they noticed the Vasto Wolf on the bridge in order not to get eaten by the V-Wolf. They redeem themselves when they reunited with their circus owners while the babies reunited their parents.

* RunawayTrain: When the Banana Brothers stop their Monkey Circus train at a railway station for a coffee break, the unsupervised monkeys climb aboard the steam locomotive and start it up, causing it to speed out of control along the tracks until it approaches a sharp curve and derails in the forest.

* BigDamnMovie: The show never had the babies going on ''this'' kind of adventure. Most of their adventures within the show were purely in the imagination of the babies, or were adventures through relatively mundane environments that would seem fascinating and new to a young child. The film, on the other hand, has them literally lost in the wilderness.

* CanineConfusion: This movie has a wolf that has dew claws on its back feet, which is a trait only found in some dogs; wolves never have dew claws on their back feet. It also [[IncorrectAnimalNoise sounds like a big cat.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: The Banana Bros Circus is traveling by rail to their next venue when the monkeys hijack the train, due to the negligent owners both leaving it unattended to get coffee. It crashes into the woods. The primates disappear from the story until the third act when the babies come across the wreck of the train. At first, the monkeys are playful, but become savage when Dil is covered in banana puree.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Scar Snout the Vasto Wolf, [[spoiler: who's pulled off the bridge by Spike into the river.]]

* EverybodyCries: The babies cry, including Angelica, when [[spoiler: [[DisneyDeath Spike falls off the bridge]] while protecting them against the wolf]].

** The wolf that Spike pulls Angelica away from in the beginning [[BigBad returns to menace the kids later.]] The wolf itself is subtly foreshadowed by the remarks about Little Red Riding Hood by the babies when they first get lost.

** When the wolf sneaks up on Angelica in the woods after her roller skate breaks, Spike pulls her out of the way just in time, saving her life. Spike goes on to save all the babies from the wolf in the climax (and even stops the wolf before it can bite Angelica again).

* InfantSiblingJealousy: Early in the film, Tommy doesn't get along with his newborn brother, Dil at first. Tommy hates how much noise Dil makes and feels his parents are neglecting him to focus on his brother. He and his friends trying to send Dil back to the hospital is how they end up lost in a forest. By the end of the film, Tommy realizes how much he loves Dil, and his BigBrotherInstinct often appears in the post-movie seasons of the TV series.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Angelica, sort of. Despite being mean to the babies and Spike, kicking the babies out the door in the wagon causing them to get lost, and attempting to track them down for inadvertently stealing her doll, she is very distraught to see Spike nearly taking his life to protect her and the babies from the wolf, even distracting the wolf when he almost kills Spike which helps him defeat the wolf, crying out of remorse for her previous behavior towards him and tearfully concurring to the babies' wish to the 'wizard' to bring Spike back. She is also relieved to see Spike alive along with the others.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Chuckie is the first to realize that abandoning Tommy and his younger brother Dil in the dark forest (out of frustration with the latter) was a terrible mistake. It drives him to convince the twins that they need to go back for them.

** The babies the second time they hear Scar Snout the wolf howl in the distance (the first time it happened, it looked like Tommy did it), and then again when he actually appears on the bridge.

Taking place between the show's fifth and sixth seasons, the plot concerns the Rugrats having to deal with an unhappy amount of changes that have come as a result of the birth of Tommy Pickles's (Creator/EGDaily) new baby brother, Dil (Creator/TaraStrong), who's unable to speak. Tommy feels he's being neglected by his parents Stu (Jack Riley) and Didi (Melanie Chartoff) in favor of Dil, and Chuckie Finster (Creator/ChristineCavanaugh), Angelica Pickles (Creator/CherylChase) and Phil and Lil [=DeVille=] (Creator/KathSoucie) dislike Dil. Things get worse when the babies get stranded in the forest with Stu's new toy, the Reptar Wagon (Music/BustaRhymes) and a bunch of monkeys who've escaped from a traveling circus. Will the babies learn to cope with Dil and make it back home?

* BigBad: Scar Snout the wolf provides the biggest and darkest threat the babies have ever faced in the entire series, given his vicious and ravenous demeanor.

** Spike, just as the wolf is ready to pounce.

* PredatorsAreMean: Scar Snout the wolf. The one trait that puts it more on the evil end of the scale is that it spends most of the movie [[EatsBabies specifically targeting the babies]]. During its fight with Spike in the climax, Angelica blows as raspberry at it and it actually takes notice of this, turns around and is ready to bring his jaws down on her, making this wolf seem exceptionally [[EvilIsPetty petty]] in addition to being mean.

* SavageWolves: An evolved wolf named a Vasto Wolf that stalks and tries to kill the babies.

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: At the climax, the monkeys corner the babies, but suddenly flee (a few of them got eaten by the V-Wolves). The babies cheer... only to turn and see a Vasto Wolf slowly stalking them ready to pounce. Thankfully, Spike saves them just in time.

** [[spoiler: Spike who saves the babies from the huge vicious wolf, ending with both of them falling off the bridge and over a waterfall. Fortunately, Spike manages to survive by landing at the bottom of the bridge.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: Scar Snout the wolf, [[spoiler: who's pulled off the bridge by Spike into the river.]]

* SavageWolves: One that stalks and tries to kill the babies.

** [[spoiler:The babies all shout "SPIKE!" in horror when they realise Spike is about to fall off the bridge with the wolf.]]
* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: At the climax, the monkeys corner the babies, but suddenly flee. The babies cheer... only to turn and see a huge vicious wolf slowly stalking them ready to pounce. Thankfully, Spike saves them just in time.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The biggest and deadliest threat the babies ever encounter comes in the hungry and DeadSerious form of Scar Snout the wolf. He is a very scary antagonist from a kid's cartoon franchise. He’s made even worse by the fact that this is a shared universe with ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' where most animals are sapient and aware of humans.

* WouldHurtAChild: The hungry Scar Snout hunts five babies (including a newborn) and a toddler throughout the movie.
* YouNeedABreathMint: When the wolf is stalking Spike and Angelica. Angelica, oblivious to the wolf, smells its breath and thinks it's from Spike. Spike notices the wolf and quickly manages to drag the unsuspecting Angelica out of the wolf's clutches.

* MissedHimByThatMuch: When Stu is speeding his car after Grandpa Lou lost the kids, he's right behind the mattress delivery truck that the babies are currently inside of. The truck door opens briefly, but Stu isn't watching the road at that moment, as he's talking to Grandpa. ("We'll never find the babies with this jerk in front of us!") Then the truck door closes shut just as Stu turns his attention back to the road. Then as Stu passes the truck, he [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently causes it to swerve and crash through the guard rail and plunge into the forest]]. Good thing the truck driver jumped out just in time and the truck was full of mattresses to protect the babies.

* UnconventionalFoodUsage: Tommy, who [[InfantSiblingJealousy is jealous of the attention his newborn brother Dil has been getting]] and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling annoyed]] by his [[ProneToTears crying]], smears mashed banana on Dil so that [[RaisedByWolves the monkeys will raise him instead of his family]]. However, he changes his mind and decides to keep Dil with the Pickles family after all.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Drew not making sure the door to Stu's house shuts properly after dropping Angelica's bag inside is what allows the Reptar wagon to just roll outside, setting the whole mess in motion.

* MyLittlePanzer: Stu thought it was a good idea to install real flamethrowers on the Reptar Wagon. He only decides against it after he accidentally sets Grandpa Lou's shirt on fire while testing it.

* NatureIsNotNice: The woods that the babies get lost in are big and dark woods. The babies almost fall over a waterfall, Dil gets taken away by escaped circus monkeys, and also a wolf stalks and almost kills the babies.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Tommy mistakes the pocket watch Stu gave him for a compass, but somehow manages to get some mileage out of using it as one.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The biggest and most deadly threat the babies ever encounter comes in the hungry and DeadSerious form of Scar Snout the wolf. He is a very scary antagonist from a kid's cartoon franchise. He’s made even worse by the fact that this is a shared universe with ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' where most animals are sapient and aware of humans.

* KnightOfCerebus: Scar Snout the wolf brings a noticeably more tense atmosphere and would've killed the babies had Spike not been around. [[spoiler: He is also the only Rugrats antagonist that is seemingly KilledOffForReal.]]

* PredatorsAreMean: Scar Snout the wolf. The one trait that puts it more on the evil end of the scale is that it spends most of the movie [[EatsBabies specifically targeting the babies]]. During it's fight with Spike in the climax, Angelica blows as raspberry at it and it actually takes notice of this, turns around and is ready to bring his jaws down on her, making this wolf seem exceptionally [[EvilIsPetty petty]] in addition to being mean.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Banana Bros Circus is travelling by rail to their next venue when the monkeys hijack the train, due to the negligent owners both leaving it unattended to get coffee. It crashes into the woods. The primates disappear from the story until the third act when the babies come across the wreck of the train. At first, the monkeys are playful, but become savage when Dil is covered in banana puree.

* CoolCar: The Reptar Wagon. Downplayed, it's still a children's toy that needs to be pushed to move, but it's a NotZilla-shaped wagon that's very effective as an onroad and offroad vehicle, the arms can be extended to perform a swing-turn on a pole, becomes a boat with a propellor as "Aqua Reptar", deep-sounding voice clips via Stu's edited recordings, and prior to him removing them, [[PlayingWithFire mounted]] [[MyLittlePanzer flamethrowers]].

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: The Japanese dub keeps "Get Set, Ready, Go!" and "Witch Doctor", as well as TheStinger, in English.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:After the closing credits, we see Grandpa sleeping in the Reptar Wagon...[[HereWeGoAgain which the goat then accidentally knocks onto the road.]]]]

** Drew had very legitimate points about his brother Stu's career choice. With no insurance, savings and is barely capable of supporting his family before Dil was born, he is merely trying to look out for his brother and his family. Not to mention, Stu's pigheaded attitude makes it seems like he isn't thinking about his family's future either and is banking too much in a probably cause. He was incredibly lucky he manage to get success by the time the next movie came along.

** The Circus Monkeys.