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1''Strike'' is a 2018 British feature-length stop motion animated film directed by Trevor Hardy and produced by Gigglefish.
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3Mungo Morrison is a young mole in the town of Diggington who dreams of winning the World Cup in Moscow. As he begins working in his father Garth's gold mine, he has difficulties confessing to his father that he would rather pursue his footballing dream. Meanwhile, a mobster known as "The Boss" and his lackeys try to purchase the mine, threatening the town of Diggington. Mungo and his best friends, another mole named Ryan and Hedy the badger, do what it takes to save their hometown.
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6!!''Strike'' provides examples of:
7* HundredPercentHeroismRating: Control is an elderly rat who is beloved by all the townsfolk of Diggington. [[spoiler: Unfortunately he is also TheMole for the BigBad.]]
8* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ryan is an overweight mole who openly shows romantic interest in Maggie the bunny.
9* BreakTheCutie: Mungo enters this since [[spoiler:the death of his father]]. He loses interest in his daily activities and has gotten afraid of [[spoiler:leaving his mother alone]].
10* BigEater: Ryan. He is particularly enamored with workplace vending machines.
11* {{Catchphrase}}: The Boss telling his lackeys to Make Him Happy. At the end when he is finally foiled its reversed to the Boss shouting "I'm Not Happy".
12* CatsAreMean: The Boss is an evil white cat sporting a mustache, and serves as the [[BigBad Big Bad]] of this story.
13* ChefOfIron: Mungo's mother does martial arts moves while preparing food, and she uses these skills against Zenya.
14* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: the Boss has a pet mouse that he frequently abuses. Eventually the mouse gets its revenge twice. First time by pressing the button to send the Boss into his own pond filled with piranhas. The second time when the Boss and Zenya are in a blimp and the mouse fires a large fireworks rocket at it.]]
15* DumbMuscle: Louie, a large surly cow lacking in the brains department and a henchman to the Boss.
16* EvilCorporation: Raven Corp. which is buying up mines, and headed by the Boss.
17* FemmeFatale: Zenya, a sexy Russian Mink and one of the two henchmen for the Boss.
18* FunnyAnimal: All characters are anthropomorphic animals.
19* GadgeteerGenius: Hedy is good at inventing and fixing machines, and goes to work doing this in the Diggington mine.
20* MadeofIron: [[spoiler: The Boss can somehow survive his own Piranhas, and still stand, with just his legs gnawed to the bone.]]
21* MemorialStatue: At the ending, [[spoiler:Garth is posthumously honoured with a statue at the entrance of the mine, along with another one for Mungo who is still alive.]]
22* TheMole: [[spoiler: Control is secretly working for The Boss of Raven Corp. and is sabotaging the Diggington mine, and later on blows it up, killing Garth.]]
23* NotSoStoic: Hedy is usually calm and collected and speaks in a monotone, but can shout her support for Mungo in the soccer games.
24* OverlyLongGag: The Boss uses a TV inside a car to talk with the villagers, the only thing is that the tv takes so long to come up that one of his henchmen falls asleep, a cow grows long hair, a rabbit woman gets pregnant and births multiple children, and three men get old and die.
25* PiranhaProblem: The Boss' lair has a body of water populated with fierce piranha.
26* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The post-credits scene has The Boss and his lackeys deciding what their filmed message should be, while the camera is very low on battery.]]

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