Line #190 Headscratchers/Rango


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3	!!Jake Vs the Hawk
4	* Why is Jake afraid of that bird? The guy's got a friggin machine gun.
5	** Hawks are a natural predator of snakes, and are extremely fast. Even if Jake managed to shoot Metalbeak, that doesn't mean she wouldn't have been able to get in a fatal stab with her beak or talons. It's also implied that this is just a very deeply ingrained phobia for him, since as soon as he thought a hawk was coming, he bolted for his life without even checking to make sure what it was first. Natural panic reflexes and all that.
6	** Also, there are reports of bears surviving gunshot wounds. A bird is basically a flying bear to Jake.
7	** Yet, judging by everyone's actions, Jake could apparently have been killed with a single bullet from a freakin peashooter of a gun (Rango's gun barrel fits inside Jake's gun barrel)? Jake is about the same size as the hawk. Now that don't hold water. By all accounts a snake with reflexes as fast as lightning and a gatling gun should have been able to turn that hawk into KFC with ease. I'm guessing the reason lies somewhere in the fact that the hawk acted like an animal (screeching, never speaking and apparently hunting others for food) and this natural behavior provoked primal fear in all of the "unnatural" cast.
8	*** The hawk wasn't killed directly by the bullet. She was killed by the domino effect the bullet caused, resulting in getting crushed by the water tower, and the townsfolk were well aware of it. Their amazement was at Rango's supposed aiming skills and foresight.
9	** On the couple of occasions Rango had the opportunity to shoot Jake, Rango had his revolver point-blank against Jake's head. That would have most certainly been fatal.
10	** It doesn't matter: Rango can't bring himself to kill (at first). It's well foreshadowed: he has a clean shot at Metalbeak but changes his mind and shoots the licorice rope instead.
11	** Phobias don't have to make sense anyway. Why do you think so many people are afraid of things like non-venomous spiders?
12	*** As someone already said, it's instinctive, though, it ain't just Metalbeak he's afraid of—It's predatory birds in general.
13	!!Reptilian Belly Button
14	* Why does Rango have a belly button? Chameleons are born from ''eggs'' and [[ArtisticLicenseBiology don't have an umbilical cord.]]
15	** Some species of chameleons actually DO give birth live, although not the kind Rango appears to be.
16	** He shows the villagers the bellybutton and treats it like a scar with a heroic story behind it. Probably a good example of FridgeLogic.
17	** Maybe it really ''is'' a scar of a wound from a past (though probably not-so-heroic) incident. It just looks like a navel due to its position and appearance.
18	** Worse than that is the fact that all adult females have [[NonMammalMammaries breasts]], despite some of them not even being mammals.
19	** Reptiles do actually frequently have something like a belly button. The yolk has to be absorbed, after all.
20	*** That could be his cloaca, though his is in a strange spot, as cloaca are at the base of the tail.
21	!!Walkin' Trees, MaybeMagicMaybeMundane?
22	* What was up with the walking trees? This troper understands that the other weird images Rango had were hallucinations, but in the end what they did was very real.
23	** Just some fantasy tossed into the mix. Considering these animals wear clothes, walk around, and are pretty intelligent, that shouldn't be too far-fetched.
24	*** I could accept walking cacti. IJBM that they ''suddenly'' move when, per Beans, they'd never so much as twitched before. The {{Funny Animal}}s were consistent throughout the movie.
25	** I too can accept that the cacti can travel. What I cannot comprehend is how they were turning the valve to the water pipe during the climax. The only reason I can think of as to why they'd do such a thing is because they followed the instructions of Rango and/or the Armadillo, and that seems quite farfetched.
26	** The entire scene after he crosses the highway is weird. Not to mention Roadkill somehow surviving what happened to him. I don't think it's all that big an issue. No offense.
27	** Perhaps it was the Spirit of the West bringing them to life.
28	!!Jake's Venom
29	* Why does Jake only utilise his venom once, just as a threat? It's established that he ''has'' it, but afterwards he just constricts everything. [[SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying Rattlesnakes aren't even constrictors!]]
30	** Well as for constricting, a sentient snake might come up with the idea even if he has poison, also can't see how else he can grab someone.
31	** Not to mention that his venom would most likely be fatal. Not so good when you're just trying to force a person to do something.
32	** It could also be a form of FridgeBrilliance. Rattlesnakes can only produce so much venom. And, in RealLife, rattlesnakes would (mostly) rather avoid wasting their venom on everything that bothers them (Venomous snakes primarily use their venom on their food). Jake, like real rattlesnakes, relies on his size and intimidating personality to strike fear into his enemies.
33	** And some venomous snakes do constrict their prey to hold them in place while they bite them.
34	** Most of the time he doesn't need to. He has a machine gun. The only two exceptions are both when he's caught off guard by a man with a gun.
35	!!The Water Jug
36	* During the chase scene, there's only one peccary pulling the water jug on what appears to be a very rickety cart. That's fine because the jug is empty, but wouldn't they have needed a bigger cart and more animals to pull it in order to fool the audience until the Big Reveal?
37	** There was only supposedly a small amount of water in it so, not necessarily.
38	!!Beans' Broken Switch.
39	* Why does Beans' "survival instinct" of freezing never kick in when she's ''actually in danger''?
40	** To paraphrase the film: "Her switch is just broken."
41	** Maybe Beans, as the hard-boiled but lonely rancher she is, only feels genuinely threatened in social situations, but never in situations where her life is actually at risk, since she's shown she can stand up for herself. Which would make it a bit of FridgeBrilliance if that were the reason.
42	** That theory is now canon to this troper. Notice that every time it pops up, with the exception of the time she was faking it to get Rango to kiss her, she is in a state of agitation due to social interaction.
43	!!That Big Eye
44	* What the ''hell'' was that thing in the aquifer?
45	** ''Oneoffius Jokietus''.
46	** Um....a very confused Franchise/{{Godzilla}}?
47	** A misplaced Goliath frog?
48	** It also bugs me, I understand that's supposed to be a joke, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment but is a joke that comes from nowhere and doesn't make much sense]]. My best guess is that it references the toad who falls victim to Metalbeak at the beginning of the film. His eyes were very similar and he could disguise himself as a rock, so there you have a (bus-sized, for no apparent reason) toad disguised as an entire cave wall. "That's a big one" indeed.
49	** It is an alligator. Of the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment big lipped]] kind.
50	** A Coyote looking for food. With a Weird Eye disorder
51	** Sauron
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53	* What was that giant eye in the underground cavern that Rango was leading his posse in? I was hoping for a giant beast to show up, but it...[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment doesn't.]]
54	** BigLippedAlligatorMoment; defines it all.
55	*** Perhaps ''it is'' an alligator (they are known to live in sewers after all), making it a literal example?
56	** Took me a while to recognize it as a probable shout-out to the original ''Shrek'' (watch the scene where Donkey's exploring the castle), but that's strictly an out-of-universe answer: within the story ti's as baffling as ever.
57	!!Ride, Excelsior!
58	* Where did their roadrunners come from the second time Rango's posse "rides"?
59	** I kind of just assumed, now that they knew ''where'' they needed to go, they went back and got them offscreen.
60	!!The Spirit of the West
61	* Just ''who'' or ''what'' is the Spirit of the West? For the purposes of the story, anyway. Is it... God? Just some guy poking around the desert for whatever he could find, who just ''happened'' to be dressed like The Man with No Name that day (things like the "chariot and golden guardians" remaining constant)? And he and Rango being able to communicate... I know, I know, [[MST3KMantra it's a movie, I should really just relax]]...
62	** Perhaps he was a real spirit, this was just a form that made the most sense to Rango because he's such a movie buff.
63	** Western movies often feature an [[SpiritAdvisor animal guide]] which appears to a human in need of guidance. It's fitting that an animal in need of guidance would see a human guide.
64	** I always thought of him as a badassified version of Clint Eastwood ([[LawyerFriendlyCameo well, in everything but name). He sees a talking animal, he gives the little guy a motivational speech. Rango, being just an animal, [[HumansAreCthulhu sees him as a godly figure]]. The fact that he isn't fazed by a talking chameleon and gives exactly the kind of advice that Rango needed can be chalked up half to RuleOfCool, and half to him being badass. Alternatively, Rango doesn't really understand human speech and hears what he needs to hear because he's hallucinating, misinterprets what he hears or fills in the blanks. But I prefer the "Clint Eastwood-expy is being nice to an animal that looks like a cowboy and looks like he needs a piece of advice". It's no less believable than talking animals...]]
65	!!How to relaod a Gatling gun without hands (or feet)
66	* How does Rattlesnake Jake ''reload'' his gun? Seriously, reloading that thing would be hard enough with hands, let alone with his mouth, presumably.
67	** He seems to have ammo rounds coiled around him, so it may automatically reload. That still leaves the question of what happens when he runs out of reserves, though.
68	** Very carefully.
69	!!Where'd the Poncho Come from?
70	* Where did Rango get that poncho for his showdown with Jake at the end?
71	** RuleOfCool.
72	** Probably grabbed it off a clothesline when he got back in town. That's basically how he got his first cowboy hat.
73	!!Non-Flyin' birds
74	* I noticed a lot of the supporting cast members are avian (the Native American crow, the burrowing owls, the nondescript bird with an arrow through one eye, the grossly undersized turkey, etc). Why don't (or can't) they fly?
75	** Well you said it yourself. They CAN'T fly. The turkey is, well, a turkey, Arrow Eye is a chicken, and Wounded Bird is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a wounded bird]], so one would assume it's not just his leg that's messed up. As for the owls, burrowing owls tend to walk rather than fly, and are better equipped for that, but as we never see them travel it's sort of a moot point, although they DID get up in that tree that one night, and were on top of the building too, so they probably DO fly. In any case, I think it's safe to assume that, if they're not flying, it's because they can't, or just don't bother.
76	!!Isn't Wounded Bird out of place?
77	* Gunslingers and other townspeople of the Old West were not in very good terms with native Americans. How is it possible for Wounded Bird to be there like that?
78	** Maybe it's like an inverse of [[Literature/{{Discworld}} "black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green".]] When all your friends are a different species, an odd name and different customs don't seem like such a big deal.
79	*** Could be so. Although, the bad terms between native Americans and the townspeople were the result of white people conquering the natives' lands.
80	** There was plenty of peaceful interaction between Native Americans and white settlers; it was usually when economic factors got involved (discovery of gold on Indian lands, or too many settlers moving into the area) that violence broke out. The rest of the time, well, life must go on.
81	** Not to mention the possibility that Native American and Western settler animals didn't have the same problems with each other that humans have had.
82	** I always thought it was a playful nod to the Western trope of mystical Indian guide, like Tanto and the like, so I never really examined it too deeply.
83	!!More to the point, why isn't almost ''everyone'' Native American?
84	Most of them seem to be species native to Nevada - Jake in particular ought to be Native, logically speaking, since rattlesnakes certainly didn't migrate from Europe. Rango wouldn't be because chameleons don't come from the USA, but he's an outsider anyway.
85	!!Where'd they get their disguises from?
86	* Where the HECK did the posse get all the outfits for the thespian act? (They borrowed some of the clothes from each other, but for instance, the mariachi owls' clothing and instruments; headwear for Furgus the bird, Buford the toad, Ambrose the owl and Doc the rabbit; the pope outfit for Wounded Bird etc.)
87	** [[{{Hammerspace}} Same place the owl got the electric guitar.]] Where did he plug that thing in, anyway?
88	*** [[{{Over9000}} Miles]] of extension cords? Who knows.
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90	!!Rango's name
91	* What was Rango's real name?
92	** Somewhere (right now I cannot remember where...) is a source that says it's Lars.
93	*** Rango's real name isn't ever revealed.
94	*** In the film's credits, Johnny Depp is listed as the voice of "Rango/Lars". This doesn't necessarily mean that Rango's real name is Lars; it probably means that Johnny Depp voiced a minor background character whose name was Lars, in addition to Rango.
95	*** WordOfGod is that the above is true. Lars was a minor background character voiced by Depp. Rango had no name before the movie began.
96	*** Lars is actually the guy who drives the car where Rango originally was at the beginning of the movie.
97	!!Some Questionable Posse Members
98	* Why are Wounded Bird and Sergeant Turley both in the posse? One wouldn't think that a Native American crow and a chicken war veteran with a [[EyeScream horrific]] injury caused by an arrow to the head would want to associate with one another. Granted, I don't think they actually speak to each other in the movie, but still.
99	** Sgt. Turley doesn't seem to realize that he has an arrow stuck in his head. Plus, I don't see why he would have a problem with Wounded Bird anyway since none of the other townspeople seem to have a problem with him.
100	** Since ALL the characters except Rango are of species native to America, Wounded Bird's "native American"-ness seems to be nothing but a style choice for him, so there's no reason for the others to have a problem with him.
101	** Also note Sgt. Turley's uniform. It's Confederate. The Confederacy never really had a chance to have much enmity with the Indians.
102	** Just because Turkey was shot by Indians doesn't mean he hates all Indians. First off, he may be aware that there are multiple tribes, and not blame the ones who were uninvolved in the battle where he got his injury. Second, he might not even blame people from that tribe, because he has such a jolly, un-angry personality.
103	** And lastly, the DVD features imply that the arrow injury has nothing at all to do with Indians. It might be self inflicted. Under Turkey's character description, his "hidden talent" is listed as "archery."
104	!!The Water Bank
105	* Okay, so, the bank's vault door is entirely transparent as shown over the course of the film. So, how in the heck did Mr. Merrimack hide the fact that the town was down to only 6 days of water, EVER?
106	** Well, it's in the back of the bank, behind a locked grate, so Mr. Merrimack and the other employees just probably never let anyone back there. Thus, no one sees it until Beans mentions it.
107	!!Halleluja!
108	* Why do the townsfolk exclaim, "Hallelujah?" "Hallelujah" is not some random exclamation for rejoicing or even celebrating salvation; it's a contraction of [[GratuitousForeignLanguage "Hillel lu Yahweh!" (Praise be to Yahweh!)]] Gratuitous Hebrew aside, it makes no sense in the context of a CargoCult.
109	** Erm... Because thousands of people in America and probably elsewhere use Hallelujah as a normal exclamation for rejoicing? Not everyone is exactly aware of what it means. You know that, right?
110	*** And a lot of (religious) people who do know what it means use it for that sort of an expression anyway. Not to mention that the whole point of it was to present the bringing forth of water as a near-religious event, with the mayor as the priest.
111	** A background character was very clearly seen holding a Bible early on in the movie. Rango mistakes the woman asking for an autograph and he opens it and signs it, with "The Old Testament" being very clearly visible. This indicates that, yes, at least some of the townsfolk do follow Abrahamic religions.
112	!!The Jenkins Brothers?
113	* So what the hell ''did'' happen to the Jenkins Brothers?
114	** They died of infection.
115	** This troper got the impression that Rattlesnake Jake killed them.
116	*** Jake really did kill them, it's official information.
117	!!Who robbed the bank?
118	* So the Mayor and his goons were the ones who really robbed the bank, right? Was the arrival and attempted bank robbery by those hillbilly rodents just a coincidence, or did the Mayor set that up too? Because if he didn't tip them off to begin with (which is clear that the Mayor didn't, since the rodents don't mention any tip) and the rodents didn't dig into the bank, the Mayor wouldn't have had a scapegoat to pin the crime on, and it would have drawn suspicion towards him, since he has more water than anyone else in town.
119	** The town was in a drought, anyone could and would be desperate enough to rob the bank.
120	** It's possible the Mayor or one of his goons gave an anonymous tip-off about the bank's water supply to the rodent family after they disposed of the water.
121	!!The Water Dumping
122	* So who exactly was dumping water to the desert? Was it the Mayor? If it was, why did he do it? Okay, he didn't want the townspeople to have water, but couldn't he have hidden it somewhere for himself and his cronies to use instead of wasting it?
123	** Yes, it was the Mayor. This troper suspects that he did hoard some for himself, given how comfortably he was living, but that he couldn't find anyplace to store/hide ''all'' of it. Even the bank water jug was too small for that much. He probably took as much as he could hide for himself and figured the only safe way to hide the evidence was to let the rest be dried up in the desert.
124	!!The Water-valve
125	* Since the water came from a larger pipe in the human city, why was the pipe that lead to Dirt still active? No humans lived in the desert anymore, so why hadn't the humans dismantled that pipe? And even if there was some reason not to do it, won't they soon notice some of their water is going to waste, and close down the pipe leading to Dirt again? The Mayor was smart enough to ration the water usage, giving Dirtonians only a small amount of water once a week. But now they're spending enough water to maintain an ''artificial lake'', so it seems inevitable the humans will notice it.
126	** The valve that stopped the water to Dirt was an emergency cut off valve. It's possible that the pipeline is intended to stay on all the time and not off.
127	*** Why would a water company keep a pipeline that leads to a ghost town in the middle of nowhere on all the time? Surely they would've at some point noticed that no human being has been living there (or paying his water bills) for the last 100+ years?
128	** Well, I cover many local government and water authority meetings. Maybe out west they have tighter standards, but in the North East where pipes are a hundred years old, constructed of materials ranging from plastic, to steel, to terracotta for who knows how many miles they tend to call it a good year if they lose only 18% of all water in their network. Note that the Mayor, long lived as he was, only released water on Wednesdays. It might be that through trial and error he picked up that there was a limit he could safely release to the town before it got noticed. Maybe the safety valve was turned off a few times, and he had his boys just turn it back on, i.e. how they knew where to find it.
129	!!Not much to know in a terrarium.
130	* If Rango spent his entire life in the terrarium, then just how exactly does he know anything about ''anything''? In such a limited environment, you'd think he wouldn't know anything about the world aside of what he saw in his terrarium. Not even the commonly used names of various stuff...
131	** Maybe he was kept in the family's living room and saw the tv whenever they turned it on.
132	*** That does seem the most logical answer, with his acting fixation.
133	!!Beans vs Angelique
134	* What could have happened between Beans and Angelique? That would have been interesting to know.
135	** [[LesYay Ex-lovers?]]
136	*** And now I want fanfic. Maybe that's how Angelique knows about Beans' [[strike:rash]] birthmark. Though, according to the [[http://www.rangomovie.com/ official website]], their feud is because of "an awkward love pentagon with three of the Jenkins Brothers".
137	*** These two things are not mutually exclusive.
138	** It's a fairly common joke that the less female characters there are in a cast, the less they'll get along, their hackles thrown up at not being the only girl anymore. (See ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s depiction of Princess Leia and Mon Mothma's meeting: "Finally another woman. I don't like her.")
139	** DesignatedGirlFight.
140	!!Jake's Gun, again
141	* How does Jake's weapon actually ''work''? Does it fit over his actual rattle, or was it attached to his tail a la the hawk's metal beak?
142	** I was under the impression that he's a cyborg.
143	** ''Extremely'' precise muscle control?
144	*** SteamPunk cyborgs actually wouldn't fit all that badly with the setting. This troper figured the rattle was severed and the gun attached in its place, hooked up to the muscles and tendons in his tail in the same way as the fingers of artificial hands are hooked up in order to allow him to fire it. Still no idea how he loads it, though ...
145	!!How's Wounded Bird Doing?
146	* What happened to that Native American raven character that got shot by Jake at the end? The last we see of him is him landing in a heap of crates and saying "that was a bad idea".
147	** Well according to the novelization, he survived.
148	*** Holy crap, there's a novelization?
149	*** [[http://www.sterlingpublishing.com/catalog?isbn=1402784430 Yes.]]
150	*** The Blu-Ray Extended Edition shows him alive and well, and wearing a cast.
151	*** He's shown at the end of the film, with a cast, working as the lifeguard for the swimming hole.
152	!!Raoul Duke
153	* Just ''what'' did Raoul Duke say when Rango smacked into the Red Shark's windshield? It sounded a ''little'' like "I knew it!" but... it went by so fast...
154	** He did say it, but beforehand he said something like, "Not again!" It makes it that much more funny if you've seen the film or read the book referencing it.
155	** According to the Blu-Ray subtitles, he's saying "It's another one!" followed by "I knew it!" He's saying it because Rango is a reptile, as a reference to a scene in ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' when he hallucinates being in a "reptile zoo."
156	!!How they're keeping the water
157	* So... did Rango basically re-route the water supply for the ''entire city of Las Vegas'' to Dirt?
158	** One of dozens of conduits. Las Vegas has auxiliaries and backups and backup auxiliaries, as you might expect from a large city built in a desert.
159	!!
160	* One little thing I find odd. So, the Mayor and Rattlesnake Jake were in cahoots together all along, and even when Beans ''still'' refused to sign over the deed to her Daddy's ranch to the Mayor, Jake ''attempts to kill her''. Now, we fast-forward to the showdown: Jake ends up using all of his ammo firing at the moles on their bats, leaving Rango with the perfect opportunity to finish him off [[IronicEcho with one bullet]]; at this point, we see the look in Jake's eyes that he's underestimated Rango, and realizes he pretty much just set himself up for his own demise. But then, the Mayor holds Rango up at gunpoint, and threatens to finish both him and Beans off if he doesn't drop his gun and surrender... and Jake ''still'' looks worried/concerned at this point. But why? As far as he's concerned, since he and the Mayor were working together, and he himself had already attempt to kill Rango and Beans once before, wouldn't he see the Mayor's actions as good timing? I mean, he's a cold-blooded (literally) gunslinger, and again, he and the Mayor were already in cahoots, so I don't really get quite why Jake looks as if he's concerned about the Mayor threatening to knock off Rango and Beans if Rango doesn't comply with him.
161	** He's probably still worried that Rango would be able to pull his trigger before the Mayor could return fire; he's still got the barrel ''in between his eyes'', after all.
162	** That and I doubt Jake is the sort who's regularly on the receiving end of a gun, with someone as fully prepared to kill him as Rango was with their finger on the trigger. This was a guy who, not twenty-four hours ago, Jake had humiliated and told he didn't have "killer" in his eyes. Now it's there, and Jake has the gun in his face. It's no surprise Jake was so shaken.
163	** On top of this, if you watch Jake when Rango's giving over his gun, he noticed that Rango did something to the chamber but he doesn't say a word. He's not just shaken, he's a bit awestruck at Rango's transformation and he's curious about what he's going to do next. You'll notice that he doesn't react remotely in the same way when the Mayor pulls a gun on him, despite knowing from the start that he's 'killer' enough to do it.
164	!!Where'd they get the fruit?
165	* During the scene where Rango first gets dressed in a cowboy suit, they put a bowl of fruits on Beans' head when she freezes. But wait a minute... they are running out of water, and yet they have fresh fruits?
166	** It could be artificial decoration. Given what we've seen of other foodstuffs (beans and marshmallows), they're 'normal' sized and the fruits are ridiculously tiny.
167	*** No, Beans is shown to be eating it, so they weren't artificial fruits. That said, it's not clear what fruits those were but there are some cacti (like some species of ''pitaya'' and ''opuntia'') that do produce fruits, so maybe it was fruiting seasons for said cacti. Another expo is would be that is that there is some trade in the town of Dirt.
168	!!The Thespian Act
169	* Why exactly they needed to go with the whole play thing when approaching the water thieves? There was only 3 of them there (or so they thought), so why bother?
170	** It seems like something similar to how sting operations work in RealLife. I mean, if they the sheriff and his posse arriving to confront them after their recent robbery, they may have already started up a fight before Rango even issued their arrest. Disorienting them and catching them off guard seemed like a better way to (eventually) stick them up and arrest them.
171	!!Rango's Lies and Informing Jake
172	* Just how did Rattlesnake Jake know about EVERY lie Rango said, including the one about them being brothers and Rango using his venom as a sweetener? I find it hard to believe that after the townsfolk came back heartbroken from the posse, they would spend the remaining time (before Jake's arrival) on talking with each other about it, and that it would ''somehow'' reach Mayor's ears during that short period.
173	** Perhaps the Mayor planted someone on his staff as an informer to keep tabs on Rango as sheriff? After all, Dirt went through sheriffs like a sick person goes through hankies, and the Mayor was determined not to let anyone figure out what really was happening to the water, so maybe one of the Mayor's goons was discretly observing Rango and informed the Mayor, who probably also shared some of his more "amusing" tales with Rattlesnake Jake.
174	!!Wouldn't Beans be mad at Rango?
175	* Maybe it's because I've seen other movies where similar situations have arisen, but does anyone besides me find it just a ''little'' odd that there was absolutely no conflict between Beans and Rango upon his return? We know she eventually develops feelings for him, and I would think Rattlesnake Jake calling him out on his charades would have upset her deeply - the Mayor locks them in the bank vault to drown him, and the first thing she does when he unties and ungags her is throw herself to him because he came back. What? She doesn't call him out on lying about lying and deceiving? Did she forget Jake exposed him? She invested feelings in him, it seems to me that she would at least be a little upset with him about that... or maybe it was an intentional subversion and the writers just wanted to wrap the movie up at that point, I don't know.
176	** She'd kinda been having a bad day right up until his voice distracted the villains. He saved her unknowingly, then went ahead and faced down Jake - and outsmarted him - and brought back the water. However hurt and betrayed she felt before, the events of the previous few minutes had proven a lot about him.
177	!!Taking Pappy and the Boys
178	* Why did the Father of the Mole Family and his two sons agree to go back to Dirt as prisoners with Rango at the end of the chase scene, after TheReveal that there wasn't any water? Indeed, the first time Rango tried to arrest them, the Father's reaction was basically to call out reinforcements to ZergRush the heroes. Since they still had the advantage of number and clearly showed they wanted to kill the heroes, why did they surrender (as it's implied, since they're tied up when they arrive in Dirt)?
179	** Even though they were criminals, the movie seems to imply that the mole family knew when to fold when they were under arrest by law enforcement. Before the chase, they thought Rango and his posse were ambushing them to try to steal the water from them, which is why they reacted with hostility. It wasn't until after they found out the water jug was empty that they figured out who Rango was and decided to come quietly.
180	!!WTH happened to the other guy?
181	* It's stated that Rattlesnake Jake used to never come to Dirt due to his fear of the hawk. So how did Amos, Rango's predecessor as sheriff, get killed by Jake? What reason would they have had for even meeting each other?
182	** My guess is Amos was more of a hothead "I'm-gunna-clean-up-this-here-one-horse-town" who went out to confront Jake directly, and... well, his tenure as sheriff lasted all of three days, so you see how well ''that'' worked. Rango is a cautious, thoughtful fellow, and, while it's hardly a DefeatEqualsFriendship situation, Jake seems to respect that...which is why once their quarrel was done he showed no animosity towards the new sheriff, leaving (fairly) peaceably.
183	!!Who killed Merrimack?
184	* Who is responsible for killing Mr. Merrimack and messing with the emergency shutoff valve? The movie implies that it's the Mayor, because there are footprints with distinctive red mud at the site of Mr. Merrimack's murder and the shutoff valve, and the muddy boots are later found in the Mayor's possession, but the Mayor is in a wheelchair (and is never shown wearing boots for that matter). We see at the climax that the Mayor is not faking his inability to walk, so who did wear the boots? Was it Bad Bill or one of the Mayor's other various henchmen?
185	** It seems to be Bad Bill's boots. Also, one does not have to directly murder someone to be responsible for said murder. Having a henchman of his do the direct kill would also keep suspicion away from him.
186	!!More on Jake's gun.
187	* If Rattlesnake Jake gets ejected by the water current below him when Rango returns to duel him, why doesn't his gun fail to fire when he started shooting at the "hawk"? A gun with wet powder can't shoot.
188	** Jake's gun uses cartridges as ammunition. The powder is sealed inside a metal shell, so the odds of the powder getting wet are extremely slim at best.
189	!!Beans's "Defense"
190	* Why is Beans's act of freezing in place considered to be a "defense mechanism" or a "survival reflex"? She cannot move at all in this state, making her incredibly vulnerable to getting severely harmed or killed by anything.
191	** Part of the fight-or-flight response is that your muscles briefly tense up in preparation to flee or defend yourself. She might have some disorder that causes her body to stay tensed up and rigid far longer than it's supposed to. In a sense, it ''is'' her "survival reflex", it's just not working correctly.
192	!!Why was this released under the Nickelodeon Movies label? It is not really aimed at children nor is it related to any Nickelodeon series.
193	* Because Nickelodeon Movies is Paramount's animation studio? Plus, ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'' also isn't related to any Nickelodeon series and also features plenty of WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids moments.

Context Headscratchers / Rango