Line #38 WebAnimation/HowToKillAMockingbird


1	''[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mockingbird How to Kill a Mockingbird]]'' is a 12 minute-long Flash movie made by Anthony Scodary and Nico Benitez. It centers on a book report of ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' made by a little boy who didn't read past the first chapter, and instead decides to make up his own narrative about Scout Finch being a robot who clashes with pirate captain Boo Radley, an army of Ninjas, and a mechanical monster known as the Mockingbird over a buried treasure.
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3	!!This Flash movie provides examples of:
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5	* AbnormalAmmo: The guns on Boo Radley's laser sword shoot out other swords.
6	* AchillesHeel: The only way to kill a Mockingbird is [[spoiler: by hitting it with the moon]].
7	* AllPowerfulBystander: Zeus watches the nine year battle between the pirates and the ninjas [[JerkassGods and laughed, 'cuz he's immortal]].
8	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse. The boy interprets Boo Radley as a {{pirate}}, Scout as a [[RoboticReveal robot guy in disguise]], and Calpurnia as a MagicalNegro slave.
9	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Line of Time gives us this order of events: Ancient China (where the ninjas lived) the invention of fire, days of yore, Boo Radley being born (from an egg), Jesus, the French Revolution, dinosaurs, the Great Depression, the Age of Pyramids, recent times. That's right: dinosaurs are more recent than the French Revolution.
10	* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: The book ''How to Kill a Mockingbird'' is written in "African".
11	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Everybody, for the (final) ultimate climactic battle
12	* BearsAreBadNews: Bears that are on ''[[IncendiaryExponent fire]]''.
13	* CallASmeerpARabbit: The Mockingbird isn't a small little bird that imitate the sounds of other animals; it's a massive, flying, mechanical monstrosity from outer space that can only be killed by getting smashed with the moon.
14	* CompletelyOffTopicReport: The central gag
15	* DetonationMoon: It's the only way to [[spoiler:kill a Mockingbird.]]
16	* DeusExNukina: The pirates use "all the nuclear explosions in the world" to blow the moon into the mockingbirds.
17	* EnemyMine: Happens twice, first the Pirates and Scout team up against the Mockingbirds, then the Ninjas join the alliance
18	* EveryBodyDiesEnding: Subverted/Downplayed. ''Almost'' everyone dies, but the survivors include Scout and Calpurnia.
19	* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: The pirates ride on the backs of flying [[ThreateningShark sharks]]... That are on fire!
20	* GiantFlyer: The Mockingbird is a giant cyborg-bird monstrosity with two heads, one of which is that of [[Series/WheelOfFortune Pat Sajak]], and blades like those of a helicopter. [[RunningGag And it's on fire.]] Cold fire.
21	* GratuitousNinja: You probably wouldn't expect ninjas to show up in an animation based on ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''. Even more so, you'd expect them to be found in Feudal Japan, not Ancient China.
22	* ImperialChina: Ostensibly. According to the book report, this is the home of ninjas and predates the discovery of fire ([[RunningGag even though everything is on fire]])
23	* IncendiaryExponent: The sharks and bears are on fire, and the Mockingbird is on "cold fire".
24	* LargeAndInCharge: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The first Mockingbird eventually summons an army of other Mockingbirds that are described as being "even bigger and blacker than ''him''."
25	* LaserBlade:
26	** Boo Radley's laser sword with guns on it.
27	** The mockingbird can shoot [[Franchise/StarWars lightsabers]] out of its mouth. [[OverlyLongGag Lightsabers that are on fire.]]
28	* LensFlare: The flying pirate ship has a lens flare and motion blur, which is [[LampshadeHanging mentioned]] by the narrator.
29	* MadeOfIron: The pirates can survive [[ItsRainingMen falling a million feet to the ground below]], because they're pirates.
30	* MagicalNegro: Calpurnia, the mysterious slave woman.
31	* {{Ninja}}: The characters encounter an army of ninjas in Ancient China.
32	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Quite possibly [[ExaggeratedTrope one of the most over-the-top examples ever made]]. The ninjas can transform into dinosaurs and presidents, and the pirates wield laser swords with attached guns (that shoot other swords), to name just a couple examples.
33	* OminousFloatingCastle: Which doubles as a time machine.
34	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: They're actually ninjas who transformed themselves into presidents. Wait, not presidents, volcanoes.
35	* {{Pirate}}: Boo Radley is actually a pirate, with a whole crew of pirates working with him.
36	* PiratesVersusNinjas: In one of the earliest examples of this trope (possibly one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s), the pirates travel to Ancient China and end up warring with ninjas for nine years.
37	* PyrrhicVictory: The mockingbirds are apparently defeated, but almost everyone dies.
38	* RealTrailerFakeMovie: The April Fools trailer for a fake sequel, ''How 2 Kill a Mockingbird: [[RevengeOfTheSequel Return of the Revenge]]''. SerialEscalation appears to be in full effect.
39	* RidiculouslyPotentExplosive: All of the nuclear explosives in the world (which, in the movie, appeared to be a few dozen at most) were somehow powerful enough to blast the moon out of orbit and completely destroy it, using its fragments to kill the Mockingbirds. Realistically, even if you detonated every nuke ever built at once on the surface of the moon, you'd just get a bright explosion and a new crater.
40	* RoboticReveal: Scout is actually a robot guy.
41	* RuleOfCool: The narrator is prone to amending parts of the story on the fly based on this trope. He even refers to the PiratesVersusNinjas sequence as "the most awesome final battle to end all battles", making it clear that his priorities lie in making this story as cool as possible.
42	* RuleOfFunny: The RuleOfCool is used to such a ridiculous extreme that it ends up becoming hilarious.
43	* SamusIsAGirl: Completely inverted. Scout turns out to be a badass robot guy.
44	* SkyPirate: Boo Radley and his crew.
45	* SmokeShield: Not only was the mockingbird unharmed, it had grown another head, which was even bigger-looking.
46	* SoBadItsGood: [[InvokedTrope Intentionally]].
47	* SoundInSpace: But they really didn't care at that point.
48	* SpacePirates: The pirates go into space for the final battle.
49	* StuffBlowingUp: It happens a lot, with the same stock effect.
50	-->'''Narrator''': The pirates are like, "We're going to explode!" And then they exploded, just like they predicted.
51	* TheJuggernaut: The Mockingbirds are seemingly completely indestructible until their weakness is discovered.
52	* TimeTravel: The characters use a time-traveling castle to travel to Ancient China.
53	* TimeSkip: There is a nine year time skip during the ninja vs. pirate battle.
54	* TropeCodifier: Given how old the short is, it could probably be this for PiratesVersusNinjas and NinjaPirateZombieRobot.
55	* VisualPun: Dill is played by a pickle.
56	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The ninjas transform into dinosaurs, fireballs, volcanoes, and [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent presidents]].
57	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never explained what happened to the treasure after the Mockingbird stole it. Apparently everyone just forgot about it because they were so obsessed with [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge getting revenge on the Mockingbird]].

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