Line #100 WesternAnimation/FlushedAway


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3	->''"You can get yourself out of here, and you will. Never forget: the blood of the courageous St. James clan flows through your veins."''
4	-->--'''Roddy St. James'''
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6	''[[https://www.dreamworks.com/movies/flushed-away Flushed Away]]'' (2006) is the third and final collaboration between Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and Creator/AardmanAnimations, using CGI to replicate Aardman's trademark {{Claymation}} style of animation.
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8	An upper-class fancy rat named Roddy St. James (Creator/HughJackman), after a mishap with a sewer rat called Sid (Creator/ShaneRichie), ends up flushed down from his swank Kensington home into the [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer underworld of vermin]] beneath London. Desperate to get home, he encounters Rita Malone (Creator/KateWinslet), who is on the run from an unscrupulous crime lord called The Toad (Creator/IanMcKellen), who royally despises all rodents equally, and wants them put on ice... literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey (Creator/AndySerkis and Creator/BillNighy), to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin -- that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog (Creator/JeanReno). Can Roddy stop the Toad's evil plan and get back home?
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11	!!''Flushed Away'' provides examples of:
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13	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewers appearing more spacious than in real life is possibly justified, as the characters seen there are ''rats''. Also justified in that it's the London sewer, which, like the Paris sewer, is absurdly spacious in RealLife.
14	* AccidentalMisnaming: After mishearing Roddy's protest of "I'm an innocent bystander!", many start referring to him as ''Millicent'' Bystander. Oh, and Rita's grandmother keeps calling him Music/TomJones.
15	* AccidentalPervert: Roddy, trying to reach for the paperclip in Rita's back pocket when they're tied back to back in the Toad's fridge, accidentally grabs... [[SomeonesTouchingMyButt something else of hers.]]
16	-->'''Rita:''' ''(through grated teeth)'' In the POCKET! In the ''POCKET!''
17	** Not long after, Roddy gets to see a little more of [[MsFanservice Rita]] than he wanted.
18	* ActionGirl: Rita is a female and does her share of fighting.
19	* ActorAllusion:
20	** Whitey, voiced by Creator/BillNighy, has a button on his front in the shape of a V symbol that those familiar with the ''Film/{{Underworld\|2003}}'' movies would recognize.
21	** [[Creator/HughJackman Roddy]] briefly considers a Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} costume when picking what clothes to wear.
22	** Creator/JeanReno plays ''a frog''. (For those not in the know, Frog is a (not very) derogatory term for a Frenchman, just like Limey is for an Englishman.)
23	** In the Brazilian dub of the movie, the fish that asks Roddy if he's seen his father was voiced by Gustavo Pereira, who also did the voice of [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]].
24	* AdvertisedExtra:
25	** Despite his actor being third billed in the opening credits and appearing in trailers and promotional pictures, [[BigBad Le Frog]] does not appear until about two thirds into the movie.
26	** Downplayed with Sid, who frequently appears in trailers and promotional pictures but has very little screentime in the actual movie. However, he's a case of SmallRoleBigImpact, as he's the reason Roddy's in the sewers to begin with.
27	* AffablyEvil: Le Frog. The only reason he seems to put up with the Toad ''at all'' is because they're cousins.
28	** The Toad himself as well, initially. When he and Roddy first meet, the Toad is more than happy to show his collection of royal memorabilia, and acts very civil with him. Then Roddy [[BerserkButton calls his collection "amusing"]], not "diverting" like the Toad had hoped. And ''then'' Roddy accidentally breaks a good number of the Toad's collection, and a visibly angry Toad orders him to be frozen with Rita.
29	--> '''The Toad:''' Ice [Roddy]! Ice them ''both!''
30	* AllCGICartoon: Aardman's first feature to be completely computer-animated, as technology at the time would not allow for that much water to be composited into a stop-motion film.
31	* AllForNothing: Subverted. Rita falls into this when she learns that the ruby she’s spent years trying to get for her family [[spoiler:was a fake all along]]. But as promised, Roddy [[spoiler:gives her a real ruby along with an emerald from his family’s jewel collection upon returning to Kensington]].
32	* AmbiguousSituation: Rita’s brother Liam suggests calling Spike and turning Roddy over for a reward, but Rita angrily dismisses this idea before she goes after Roddy [[PoorCommunicationKills (the latter having overheard and misunderstood their conversation)]]. One of Spike’s men later mentions having an anonymous tip-off to Roddy and Rita’s whereabouts. The identity of this caller is not revealed, opening the possibility that it was Liam.
33	* AmericansAreCowboys: Features an obnoxious American tourist with a cowboy hat and Texan drawl.
34	* AmusingInjuries: Cryonics and Spike. Roddy, too, when he suffers '''five consecutive [[GroinAttack strikes to the groin]]''' in an attempt to follow Rita after escaping the Toad's fridge.
35	* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Deconstructed. In the beginning of the film, Roddy is shown to be a lone rat in a wire cage with little substrate, which is not encouraged when owning pet rats in real life. Though Roddy is [[spoiler:initially]] happy with this lifestyle, [[spoiler:he gradually realises how boring and lonely it actually was, and Rita's mother later discusses with him how unhealthy it is for a rat to live alone]].
36	* AssholeVictim: It's hard to argue about the Toad.
37	* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Rita]], during the climax.
38	%%* BambooTechnology
39	* BananaPeel: Defied (quite dramatically; "Careful, Whitey! That's a BANANA SKIN!") by Spike and Whitey... who play it straight with slugs immediately afterwards.
40	* BigBadDuumvirate: The Toad and Le Frog, though the latter only shows up later on in the film.
41	* BigEater: Le Frog and his henchmen. They even put having dinner ahead of going after Roddy and Rita.
42	* BigScrewedUpFamily: That of the Toad.
43	* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:When showing Rita around his home,]] Roddy [[InsistentTerminology insists that his “master bedroom” is not a cage]], and that the lock and bars are merely a "proper" home security system. [[spoiler:Rita is not convinced.]]
44	* BondGunBarrel: The James Bond gun barrel sequence is referenced in a sight gag where Roddy shoots at a DVD with a suction cup gun.
45	* BreakTheFake: [[spoiler:Roddy smashes Rita's prized ruby to prove that it's fake. Rita, furious that she spent all those years trying to retrieve that ruby for her broken family, only to now discover it was a fake all along, attacks Roddy in a rage.]]
46	* BrickJoke: After [[spoiler:Roddy breaks the fake ruby]], a distraught Rita laments that her father “broke every bone in his body” trying to get it. When we eventually see him in the flesh, he uses a wheelchair and is covered in casts all over, indicating that Rita wasn’t being hyperbolic.
47	* BritishRoyalGuards: An American couple teases a guard in the [[MouseWorld sewer rat version]] of London.
48	* ButtMonkey: Roddy suffers comedic misfortunes at first, followed by Spike who stays consistent all throughout the film.
49	* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Lots of [[TakeThat potshots]] to the French abound here.
50	-->'''[=Le Frog=]:''' Okay, men! To action!\
51	'''[=Le Frog's=] Men:''' ''(raising both arms)'' ''WE SURRENDER!''\
52	'''[=Le Frog=]:''' No! Not ''that'' one, you idiots! The ''kung fu'' thing!\
53	'''[=Le Frog's=] Men:''' Ahhhh.
54	** It should be noted that Le Frog's voice actor is the Spanish-French Creator/JeanReno. The directors at Aardman felt that Le Frog would have been more of a caricature and less of a character if he was voiced by an Englishman faking a French accent, so they sought out the services of Jean. [[SelfDeprecation He was more than happy to help.]] And the result is '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5xO5Ru32s hilarious]].'''
55	* ChekhovsGun:
56	** [[spoiler:"Those floodgates won't hold forever, you know!"]]
57	** Pretty much anything having to do with [[spoiler:the World Cup Final.]]
58	** [[spoiler:Liquid nitrogen. Roddy and Rita are almost frozen with it, and Roddy uses it in the climax to freeze the giant wave brought on by everyone using the bathroom at halftime and save Ratropolis.]]
59	* ComedicSociopathy:
60	** Let's face it; watching Roddy suffer '''''five''' [[GroinAttack groin attacks]] '''in a row''''' is hilarious.
61	** Also occurs in-universe with Le Frog: "I find everyone's pain funny but my own. I'm French!"
62	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: While ziplining over the water, Roddy accidentally pantses Rita, exposing her mid-thigh-length boxers, much to her embarrassment.
63	* ConnectedAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rita knows Sid, much to Roddy's dismay.]]
64	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The ninja frogs working for The Toad lose in spite of outnumbering our heroes. Justified in that they're shown not to be as competent as they claim to be.
65	* DemonicDummy: Spike invokes it when he brings out 'The Persuader' (a creepy nutcracker doll) and does a mock ventriloquist act with it, which scares Whitey into exclaiming "The Persuader's alive, Spike!" as if it were a PerversePuppet.
66	* DisasterDominoes: When Toad is showing Roddy his collection. Toad is...less than pleased, to say the least.
67	-->'''The Toad:''' Ice him! Ice them ''both!''
68	* TheDragon: [[BigBadWannabe Le Frog]] is the second-in-command to Toad.
69	* {{Eagleland}}: The loud tourists who confuse UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball with [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball the other football]].
70	-->'''Loud American Tourist:''' Where's the helmets? Which one's the quarterback? C'mon, pick up the ball! Pick up the ball! Agh! These Brits don't know the first thing about football!
71	* EurekaMoment: Roddy has one, accompanied by a SpitTake, when Sid tells him [[spoiler:he won't make it to half-time if he drinks too much, leading him to piece together the Toad's plan]].
72	* EveryoneHatesMimes: Played with. A French frog mime tapes a cellphone to his body and flips the screen so Toad's face is shown. Every word he says the mime acts it out like he's physically there (though some actions don't work to his intention like saying "dance" or dramatically turning around). He's basically projecting the BigBad and giving the heroes a little interaction.
73	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Toad seems to really love his tadpoles.
74	* EvilDuo: Spike and Whitey are two of the Toad's henchmen and are always seen together.
75	%%* EvilIsHammy: [[Creator/IanMcKellen The Toad]]. That is all.
76	* EvilSoundsDeep: Parodied when the Toad is talking to his legion of tadpoles and he regularly switches back and forth between a deep, booming voice when talking about his evil plans and a sweet little baby voice when talking directly to the tadpoles, only to accidentally talk in the baby voice when Spike and Whitey return before correcting himself.
77	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The majority of the film takes place in about three days just before the day of the World Cup Finals.
78	%%* FatBastard: Fat Barry.
79	* FatIdiot: Subverted with Sid, who quickly realizes that Roddy is trying to trick him and sends him down the toilet instead.
80	--> '''Sid:''' You ''plunker!'' You think I don't know a ''toilet'' when I see one?! You were gonna ''flush'' me down the loo!
81	* FieryRedhead: Rita has red hair and can be temperamental.
82	* FishOutOfWater: Roddy is flushed down his owners' toilet (by the one he tried to get rid of) and winds up ejected from his posh home and into the miniature cities of the sewers.
83	* FlashbackMontageRealization: [[spoiler:When Roddy realizes the Toad's plan.]]
84	* ForcedFromTheirHome: The film's plot starts when Roddy tries to trick Sid into jumping inside a toilet to flush him away. Sid catches on and turns the tables on Roddy, pushing him inside the toilet and flushing him out of the house and into the sewers.
85	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
86	** Roddy pretending to be Music/TomJones, singing like his for the benefit of Rita's senile grandmother. The closing gag ends with Jones himself singing "What's New, Pussycat?" over the credits.
87	** Earlier in the movie, the great flood was mentioned by Prophet Harold. Near the end of the film, the flood ''almost'' happens.
88	** Roddy's first words in the movie are "When the cat's away, the mice shall play!" [[spoiler:In the stinger, when Roddy's owners return from their vacation, it turns out they brought a cat home with them (much to Sid's horror).]]
89	* FreakOut: Roddy repeatedly when he realizes he's in the sewer and trying to snap out of it by slapping himself:
90	-->'''Roddy:''' I want to go home! (in deep voice) Pull yourself together! (in loud voice) I can't! I'm-- [[SuddenlyShouting FRIGHTENED!]] (slaps himself three times) [[RageBreakingPoint Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!]]
91	* FrenchJerk: Le Frog. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]].
92	-->'''Le Frog:''' I find everyone's pain funny but my own... I'm ''French!'' Heh heh heh...
93	* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Practically all the characters.
94	* FunnyPhoneMisunderstanding: Rita, in a fit of rage [[spoiler:after Roddy destroys the fake ruby]], fires crayons at Roddy bow-and-arrow-style, the latter using a cell phone as a shield. This ends up dialing the number of a Chinese restaurant. In a panic, Roddy tries to tell the waiter he's being attacked by Rita, only to wind up almost pushing through with an order.
95	-->'''Roddy:''' Yes, I'm being attacked by a madwoman! She's got ''crayons!''
96	-->'''Waiter:''' Chicken chow mein…with, uh, wonton?
97	-->'''Roddy:''' No, '''crayons!'''
98	-->'''Waiter:''' No wonton! You want rice? Fried or white?
99	-->'''Roddy:''' Uh, fried. No, wait!
100	-->'''Waiter:''' ''You want wonton or '''what?!'''''
101	-->'''Roddy:''' ''[[spoiler:(sees a depressed Rita)]]'' Uh…cancel that order. ''(hangs up)''
102	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Rita's pants slide down, revealing her boxers, which are blue with white horizontal stripes.
103	* GreekChorus: The slugs. Their songs have some degree of relevance to whatever is currently happening in the story often enough that some of them could be considered narration. The "Bella Notte" parody is a good example.
104	* GroinAttack:
105	** Roddy has several unfortunate impacts to his nether regions upon arrival in the sewer, hitting his groin on pipes, hammers, and a huge boot that highlights the trope to the extreme, capped off by being hit by a stray soccer ball.
106	** Spike as well, during the ChaseScene.
107	** Inverted during the ChaseScene when Ladykiller is catapulted backwards and lands crotch-first in Thimblenose Ted's face.
108	* GrossoutFakeout: Roddy is [[FunWithFlushing flushed down the toilet]] and ends up holding onto a brown lump. He recoils, but then it turns out to have been a chocolate bar.
109	-->'''Roddy:''' Phew!
110	* GrossOutShow: Naturally, there's a significant bit of potty humor, given the fact that Roddy arrived in Ratropolis from being flushed down the toilet, and most of the film's action takes place in a sewer.
111	* HammerSpace: Rita is able to stuff both [[spoiler:the ruby and emerald Roddy gives her to provide for her family ''and'' build a new ''Jammy Dodger'']] in her pockets. Both of these are about the same size as her hands and they don't stick out at all.
112	* HarmlessFreezing: Played with. The Toad traps anyone who dares irritate him by freezing them with liquid nitrogen, encasing them in a perfectly clear ice-cube. He intends to do the same to Roddy and Rita, but they escape, causing Spike and Whitey to suffer the same fate. Their frosty prison is immediately broken by Toad and commands them to chase after Roddy and Rita, which they do. Very stiffly.
113	%% * [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Several times with Roddy and Rita.
114	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Twice, once with Spike, another with The Toad.
115	* HourglassPlot: The movie begins with Sid, a thuggish sewer rat, invading the wimpy Roddy's home and makes a total pushover out of him. [[spoiler:Following his experiences down the sewers, Roddy returns as a hardened, bitter rat with a foul temper and a commanding personality, whereas Sid's time living Roddy's old, luxurious lifestyle rubs the edge out of him and he's reduced to being an even bigger wimp than Roddy used to be, with the latter now pushing ''Sid'' around instead. ]]
116	%%* HurricaneOfPuns
117	* IAteWhat: While having dinner, the slugs inform Roddy (in song!) that what he thought was rice was actually maggots.
118	-->'''Roddy:''' ''(disgusted)'' Well, that explains why it all ran to one side when I put the salt in.
119	* IChooseToStay: During his journey to get back home, Roddy and Rita end up falling in love, to the point where [[spoiler:Roddy decides to give up his lavish lifestyle as a house pet and stay in the sewers with her (which turns out to be a great choice when his former owner brings home a pet cat at the end of the film)]].
120	* IdenticalStranger: It's not obvious at first, but Roddy and Sid are actually very similar in their looks, save for the fact Sid is overweight. [[spoiler:It's indicated that Tabitha will not notice the difference when she returns from her holiday to find Sid in Roddy’s place, especially since she was overfeeding Roddy at the beginning.]]
121	* IgnorantAboutFire: At one point, Roddy's hair catches fire and he doesn't notice until Rita points it out.
122	* InjuredLimbEpisode: It doesn't take up much of the plot, but Rita's dad is seen with [[spoiler:all four limbs in casts]].
123	* InnocentBystander: Roddy ''tries'' to paint himself as one, saying the exact words. Unfortunately, everyone else thought he was introducing himself as [[MondegreenGag "Millicent Bystander"]].
124	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Roddy tries to do Rita "a favor" [[spoiler:by showing her that the ruby she’s been desperately trying to get is actually a fake. He does this by smashing it to pieces right in front of her]]. By the time he realizes what he just did, Rita is attacking him in a rage.
125	* {{Irony}}: In the voiceover commentary, the directors noted multiple times that there's something hilariously ironic about small characters [[VocalDissonance having disproportionately low voices]]. Also, this bit:
126	-->'''Mr. Malone:''' You cheeky little monkey! I won't have no son of mine ''acting the rat!''\
127	'''Rita:''' We Malones ''never'' go back on our word.
128	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Upon meeting the Toad, Roddy and Rita have different ideas about what's more offensive about his wit:
129	-->'''Toad:''' And who is this? Is your new boyfriend a waiter?\
130	'''Rita:''' Boyfriend?!\
131	'''Roddy:''' ''Waiter?!''
132	* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/IanMcKellen and Creator/JeanReno previously appeared together in ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode''; the former as Leigh Teabing, the latter as Captain Bezu Fache.
133	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Sid initially faces no repercussions for invading Roddy's home and even trashing it quite a bit, to say nothing of him throwing Roddy into the sewers, potentially away from his home forever. However, [[spoiler:Tabitha comes home with a new "friend": a ''cat'']]. Cue OhCrap from Sid.
134	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After [[spoiler:the failure of the Toad's plan]], Le Frog and his men are seen [[spoiler:attempting to hitchhike back to France]]. [[spoiler:Spike and Whitey]] apparently knew when to fold it too.
135	%%* TheKlutz: Roddy. A good chunk of his dialogue consists of him apologizing in some form or another.
136	* LampshadeHanging: See MoodMotif, below.
137	* LargeHam: [=LeFrog=]. Also, Ian [=McKellen=] as the Toad.
138	* LastSecondJokeProblem: The film ends with [[spoiler:the Toad being defeated, Roddy and Rita getting together (resolving Roddy's loneliness), and Sid taking Roddy's place so that Tabitha still has a pet rat. However, Tabitha brings home a "new friend" for "Roddy": a ''cat'']].
139	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The slugs provide the MoodMotif of spooky music when Roddy first finds himself in the sewer and is freaked out. They stop when Roddy turns and realizes they're doing it.
140	** ''Every time'' music plays in this movie, it's either the slugs or a character doing it. They loved this joke.
141	** As the protagonists are sailing away, the ninja frogs pop up menacingly in the foreground of the shot, accompanied by a quick French accordion burst... then one of the frogs turns and continues playing the same accordion, much to the annoyance of Le Frog, who promptly slaps him silly.
142	* LonelyRichKid: Roddy is a prime example, being the pet of a rich family who doesn't have any friends.
143	* LonersAreFreaks: When living alone as a pet, Roddy spends his time with his owner’s dolls, even speaking to them as if they were real people. When thrust into the sewer, he has no real idea how to interact with other rats and desperately wants to return home. His CharacterDevelopment involves him realizing that real relationships and a life on the outside is better than his lonely, literally caged life in Kensington.
144	* MacGuffin: The master cable Rita steals from the Toad and subsequently wears as a belt. Also, the ruby the Toad stole from Rita that she steals back.[[spoiler:..which Roddy destroys after revealing it to be fake.]]
145	* MaleGaze: There are a handful of jokes about Rita's posterior, not to mention one shot of her shaking at The Toad's cronies during the riverboat chase. And who can forget her pants falling down?
146	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: The Toad, and to a lesser extent Le Frog. Roddy had shades of this in his suit and wealthy background (he lives in Kensington, incidentally). In fact, Toad is delighted to discover Roddy shares his high-class background...at first.
147	-->'''Toad:''' Huzzah! A man of '''quality!'''
148	** Possibly a subversion, though, since most of the Toad's collection is actually tourist souvenir crap that somehow ended up in the sewers, which is probably the reason why Roddy wasn't really impressed by it. Also, let's not forget that he couldn't recognize the [[spoiler:fake]] ruby, something that Roddy did by just looking at it.
149	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Rita is the oldest of ''thirty'' or so children. But then, they are ''[[FurryReminder rats]]''.
150	* MaybeEverAfter: Though the two are [[spoiler:clearly romantically interested in each other]], the end of the movie isn't really clear if [[spoiler:Roddy and Rita have started a relationship or not]].
151	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Whitey. See also TokenGoodTeammate below.
152	* MirrorCharacter: Aside from being "[[ManOfWealthAndTaste men of wealth and taste]]", the Toad and Roddy were also pets from an upper class home (in Toad's case, [[spoiler:royalty]]) who found themselves discarded into the sewer (though in Roddy's case, [[spoiler:it wasn't his family's decision]]).
153	* MissingMom: It's never explained how the Toad got so ''many'' children.
154	* MistakenForThief: When Roddy arrives, Rita claims that he stole the ruby the baddies are looking for and is an international jewel thief. This lie fools the baddies, and Rita's brother Liam, who also believe his name is [[GenderBlenderName Millicent]] [[MisterStrangenoun Bystander]] due to Whitey mishearing "an innocent bystander".
155	* MistakenForFlatulence: Subverted. A balloon makes a rude noise as it deflates, and Spike accuses Whitey of farting. It turns out that Whitey ''did'' fart; he was taking the opportunity.
156	-->'''Spike:''' Eww! ''Whitey!''\
157	'''Whitey:''' I saw an opportunity, and I seized it.
158	* MockingMusic: After [[spoiler:Rita leaves Roddy's house]], the trio of slugs [[spoiler:that had escaped the sinking of the ''Jammy Dodger'']] appears and starts singing Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely". An annoyed Roddy shuts the window on them.
159	* MoodMotif: Spoofed, in an [[RuleOfCool awesome]] and ridiculously cute fashion, when the slugs provide the music during Roddy's first encounter with the ''Jammy Dodger''.
160	* MouseWorld: The film follows the convention of rodents and other small creatures having their own society mimicking that of humans.
161	* MsFanservice: Rita. Unlike most examples, it seems to stem less from her physical appearance than her badass persona. Even the scene where her pants fall down isn't played in a sexy way (Roddy's AccidentalPervert moment in the fridge is up for debate, though).
162	* NationalAnimalStereotypes: Many of the residents of the sewer are various British stereotypes, except for Le Frog; his henchmen are a bunch of CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys and a mime.
163	* NeverTrustATrailer:
164	** Roddy's hamster butlers -- Gilbert and Sullivan -- appeared in an early trailer. They were removed when Aardman realized that they actually made no sense, from both a thematic and practical view (though they still appear in the film's tie-in video game).
165	** The trailer also gives plenty of spotlight to Sid, making it look as if he's a main character. In the actual movie, Sid is a talking PlotDevice.
166	* NobodyPoops: Averted. This aversion actually forms part of the Toad's plan, [[spoiler:as he intends to open the floodgates when everyone uses the bathroom at half-time to flush Ratropolis away.]]
167	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The frog mime is named Marcel, an homage to famous French mime Creator/MarcelMarceau.
168	* {{No Flow in C\|GI}}laymation: This movie (which was in production before ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'') was originally intended to be a traditional claymation movie like ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', but Aardman couldn't find a way to animate flowing water convincingly in claymation.
169	* OhCrap:
170	** A fly hovering above Le Frog and his men mutters the kid-friendly version "oh, bother," just moments before they all try to eat him.
171	** Roddy has this reaction when he realizes that even though [[spoiler:the ruby was a fake]], he probably shouldn't have [[spoiler:broken it in front of Rita]].
172	** [[spoiler:Roddy and Rita in the climax when they hear toilets flushing in the distance.]]
173	** [[spoiler:Everyone when they see the giant wave coming towards them.]]
174	** [[spoiler:Sid has one when Tabitha comes home and reveals her new pet cat.]]
175	** Roddy when he accidentally destroys all the Toad's royal memorabilia.
176	--->'''Roddy:''' Oh, heaven help me!
177	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Hugh Jackman as Roddy. Only happens once.
178	* OutOfContextEavesdropping: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:When Rita's brother Liam falls for Spike's fake wanted poster of Roddy, he tells Rita and her father of a plan to sell him to the Toad and gain a fortune. Rita, knowing it's a sham, sarcastically recites this plan... ''just'' as Roddy is carrying dishes back into the kitchen, where this discussion is happening. He hears her recital and decides to steal Rita's boat as revenge. This [[LaserGuidedKarma bites him back later]] when Rita tells him off for stealing her boat and accuses him of sneaking around.]]
179	%%* ParentalBonus
180	* PricelessMingVase: Roddy accidentally destroys Toad's entire collection of [[strike:cheap Buckingham Palace gift shop knick-knacks]] priceless royal family memorabilia.
181	* PoorCommunicationKills: Rita sarcastically pretends to be tempted by her brother’s plan to turn Roddy over to the Toad, then scolds him for even suggesting the idea. Roddy overhears only the first part of this conversation and assumes that Rita is planning to betray him, prompting him to hijack the ''Jammy Dodger'' and leave.
182	* RaceForYourLove
183	* RedIsHeroic: Rita, who has red hair and owns a ruby that she stole back from the Toad. It turned out though that the ruby was a fake one made of glass.
184	* RedRightHand: Thimblenose Ted's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin thimble nose]].
185	* RoadTripRomance: Over the course of the film, [[spoiler:Roddy and Rita warm up to each other, eventually culminating in the former deciding to stay in Ratropolis with her]].
186	* RunningGag: The slugs punctuate several moments throughout the movie, musically and otherwise.
187	* ScavengedPunk: The sewer world is built all out of human materials. Just check out those eggbeater jet-skis or the ''Jammy Dodger'', for example.
188	* SendMeBack: After Roddy pieces the Toads's ultimate plan [[spoiler:to [[TitleDrop flush away]] all of Ratropolis and everyone in it by opening the sewer floodgates when everyone uses the bathroom at halftime during the World Cup final]], Roddy quickly asks Sid to [[spoiler:flush him back into the sewers, bequeathing his home and lavish former lifestyle to the latter to sweeten the deal]].
189	* ShakingTheRump: Both Rita and Roddy taunt the bad guys by shaking their rears.
190	* ShoutOut: The film is ''loaded'' with them.
191	** One of the Toad's frozen victims is wearing the same clothes as [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]], and is in the same stance as Han when he was [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack frozen in carbonite]].
192	** At the beginning of the film when Roddy browses for a movie to watch, the DVD titles are mostly comprised of Creator/DreamWorksSKG and Creator/DreamworksAnimation films... and then there's ''[[Film/Batman1989 Ratman]]'', ''[[Film/BatmanReturns Ratman Returns]]'', ''Ratman Returns Again!'', ''[[Film/ApocalypseNow Puckered Lips Now]]'', ''[[Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding My Big Fat Greek Bottom]]'', ''[[Film/FiddlerOnTheRoof Piddler On the Roof]]'', ''Film/DeathInVenice II'' directed by Music/RobZombie, ''[[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest Once Upon a Time in a Vest]]'', ''[[Film/AClockworkOrange A Clockwork Potato]]'', ''[[Film/AFistfulOfDollars A Fistful of Dullards]]'', ''[[Film/GoneWithTheWind Goon with the Wind]]'', ''[[Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight In the Heat of the Fridge]]'' and so on.
193	** As Roddy is first going through the pipes, he runs into a small fish that asks, "[[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Have you seen my dad?]]"
194	** A fly squeaks out "[[Film/TheFly1958 Help me!]]" before the Toad eats it.
195	** A cockroach is seen reading ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis''.
196	** At one point, Spike says, "To the ratmobiles!", complete with spinning background, Spike and Whitey's heads zooming toward and away from the camera, and even the ''music sting'' from ''Series/Batman1966''.
197	** When Roddy falls down after Rita punches him for [[spoiler:breaking the fake ruby]], a drawing of WesternAnimation/{{Shaun\|TheSheep}} can be seen.
198	** As stated in ActorAllusion, the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', given Hugh Jackman, who voices Roddy, [[ActorAllusion portrayed Wolverine.]] The Wolverine outfit cones from [[ComicBook/XMen the comics]], rather than [[Film/XMenFilmSeries the films]], though. (Bonus points for him giving a snarly face when posing with it.)
199	** To Film/JamesBond -- Roddy has a throwaway bit involving firing a suction cup dart gun through the hole of a DVD.
200	*** A movie titled ''Film/{{Die\|AnotherDay}} [[Film/NeverSayNeverAgain Again]] Film/{{Tomorrow\|NeverDies}}'', go figure. That scene also has numerous DVD cases with punny titles (''[[Film/TwelveAngryMen 12 Angry Folks]]'', ''[[Film/AFewGoodMen A Few Good Puns]]'') or straight-up Creator/DreamWorksAnimation films.
201	** A newspaper clipping referencing a mysterious veggie monster terrifying local gardeners (''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', also by Aardman).
202	*** There's a Gromit Pez-dispenser head in the interior of the ''Jammy Dodger''.
203	*** Also, in Tabitha's room at the beginning, you can see a stuffed Gromit (and also a stuffed [[Franchise/{{Madagascar}} Alex the lion]] by the window as well).
204	*** And there's three stuffed bunnies from ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit''.
205	** [[Film/{{Caddyshack}} The candy bar that Roddy clings to in the sewer]] (although the DVD commentary maintains this one is a coincidence).
206	** And then, of course, there's Music/{{S\|exPistols}}id.
207	** The henchman Thimblenose Ted's face accessory may be referencing another henchman, Tsjuido from Anime/SpeedGrapher.
208	** Aside from the Wolverine outfit, he also pulls out [[WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit Wallace's]] shirt and sweater vest, a diving suit, [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone's outfit]], [[Franchise/HarryPotter a wizard's outfit]], and settles on Music/ElvisPresley's spangled outfit.
209	** [[Film/MaryPoppins "Feed the flies, tuppence a bag!"]]
210	** [[spoiler:The ''Jammy Dodger'' sinks like the T-800 in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.]]
211	** Overlaps with DoneTheResearch, the road signs in the sewers are completely accurate for layout, typeface and colouring.
212	** When Roddy is sent flying off a Spinning Teacup ride, he flies through a laundry line and ends up with it as an outfit. Cue this from three rats:
213	--> "Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is that guy wearing my underpants?"
214	%%* SlapSlapKiss: Roddy and Rita.
215	* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Spike tends to take great pleasure in the pain and suffering of others and tends to be the smart one when compared to his partner, Whitey, who is a MinionWithAnFInEvil and considered to be the nicest guy in the film.
216	* SoccerHatingAmericans: An American tourist rat is watching the World Cup final game along with the other rats in the underground city. He asks why there's no helmets, no quarterback, and why no one is picking up the ball.
217	-->'''Tourist:''' Aw, these Brits don't know the first thing about football!
218	* SoftWater: Roddy falls from some unspecified height, which is portrayed as an abyss. When he finally lands, he hits water and is unharmed. Said water barely goes up to his knees. And he's a rat.
219	* SpaghettiKiss: In a short gag, two slugs are seen eating a plate of spaghetti and look like they're about to kiss when they're eating the same noodle... only for the female to suck on her end too hard, resulting in her devouring the other slug along with the noodle.
220	* SpitTake: Done by Roddy when Sid mentions that he's waiting to go to the bathroom at half-time...which leads into him [[EurekaMoment realizing]] [[spoiler:that the Toad is waiting until half-time, when ''everyone'' will use the bathroom, to drown all the rats by opening the floodgates]].
221	* TheStinger: At the start of the end credits we cut back to Sid just as the family returns home.[[spoiler:..with a new cat!]]
222	* StopFauxtion: The film was made with CGI, but was made to resemble Aardman's stop-motion SignatureStyle. The main reason for making it CGI was that the water effects and underwater scenes would have been difficult if not impossible to implement with real stop motion.
223	* SurroundedByIdiots: The Toad's evil rants are pretty much ''built'' on this trope. Le Frog seems to feel this way about his ninja team and definitely feels this way about his cousin the Toad.
224	* SwappedRoles: This happens between [[spoiler:Roddy and Sid, when they meet up again in Roddy's home. At the start of the movie, Roddy was a fancy rat with no experience regarding the outside world while Sid was a rough-and-tough rat who was perfectly fine forcing Roddy to take his orders, but after Roddy ends up in the sewers, the latter ends up going soft from his new life of luxury while the former TookALevelInBadass and became a strong sewer hero, eventually culminating in Roddy ''requesting'' Sid to flush him down the toilet again to save all of Ratropolis]].
225	* TakingYouWithMe: Attempted by the Toad.
226	* TastesLikeDisdain: After [[spoiler:driving Rita away in a moment of DontYouDarePityMe over his refusal to admit how much of a LonelyRichKid he really is, Roddy returns to the living room of his house to find Sid, the sewer rat who flushed him down the toilet into the sewers in the first place, watching the World Cup final and eating cheese puffs right in front of him. Sid, despite having humiliated Roddy in front of Rita earlier, cheerfully offers Roddy a cheese puff, only for Roddy to [[TranquilFury calmly]] crush the Puff into orange powder in his grasp. Sid offers him another one, which he snaps in half, and a third, which he just throws away over his shoulder, before SuddenlyShouting at Sid to move over and let him sit on the sofa. This is a positive example of the trope, since it shows that Roddy GrewASpine from his time spent in the sewers, and is no longer going to let Sid push him around or try bribing him anymore]].
227	* TemptingFate: Spike expresses his distaste for happy endings at the end of the film, saying he prefers unhappy endings with lots of violence. Pain ensues moments after.
228	-->'''Whitey:''' [[SincerityMode Are-are you happy now, Spike?]]
229	* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Rita's grandmother thinks that Roddy is Music/TomJones after hearing him being called a 'peeping tom'. Amusingly, he is quite happy to play along with it.
230	* TitleDrop: Le Frog, during his cousin's exposition dump. Then the Toad repeatedly when outlining his EvilPlan.
231	-->'''The Toad:''' I'll be the one laughing when every last revolting rat is ''FLUSHED AWAY!''
232	* ToiletTeleportation: An inadvertent one is how the plot starts.
233	* TokenGoodTeammate: Whitey, despite being one of the biggest of Toad's thugs and being paired up with Spike, is actually one of the friendliest characters in the movie and is only working to pay the bills. [[spoiler:He also loves happy endings.]]
234	* TongueOnTheFlagpole: The evil Toad and his French cousin Le Frog get their tongues frozen onto a large pipe containing liquid nitrogen [[spoiler:after Roddy smashes it apart to freeze the tidal wave Toad sent to drown the rats of Ratropolis. After being unfrozen, it's implied that the Toad was arrested while Le Frog and his henchmen hitchhiked back to France.]]
235	%%* TookALevelInBadass: Roddy, in spades, becomes more competent and formidable as the movie goes on.
236	* {{Tsundere}}: Rita. Best exemplified by Le Frog:
237	-->'''Le Frog:''' I like a woman with a little ''fire. (Rita slaps him shortly after kissing her hand)''
238	--> '''Le Frog:''' You're going to ''pay'' for that, my little chocolate ''croissant!''
239	* UptownGirl: Gender-inverted. Rita and her family live down in the sewers, while Roddy comes from a posh suite on the surface. [[spoiler:It ends with him giving up his lavish lifestyle to stay with her.]]
240	* UglyAmericanStereotype: A recurring background character is an American rat tourist in a cowboy hat engaging in typical obnoxious tourist behavior, like teasing a Royal Guard, or watching the World Cup final and criticizing the players for not knowing the first thing about football…''American'' football.
241	* VisualPun:
242	** A "frog" is a derisive term for a French person.
243	** The day is saved when [[spoiler:a British Airways bag lifts the heroes out of danger, while stealing the [[MacGuffin master cable]] back from Le Frog along the way]].
244	* WickedCultured: The Toad. Or, at least, he ''thinks'' he's a villain with class and good taste.
245	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Toad. [[spoiler:He was once Prince Charles's most favorite pet. Then someone brought in a rat for Charles' birthday, and a servant flushed the Toad down the toilet so Charles could focus all his attention on his new pet. This became the Toad's motivation for trying to wipe out Ratropolis, along with every rat living in it.]]
246	%%* WorldOfHam: The sewer.
247	* ZombieGait: Something is... ''off'' about Thimblenose Ted. Besides having a thimble for a nose, that is.

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