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''Stuart Little'' is a 1999-2005 live-action/computer-animated film trilogy, based on [[Literature/StuartLittle the 1945 children's novel]] by Creator/EBWhite. The films are produced by Franklin/Waterman Productions and released by Creator/ColumbiaPictures. The first two films were directed by Rob Minkoff (of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' fame) with the first film being notably co-written by Creator/MNightShyamalan. It even features one of his customary {{plot twist}}s!

Live-action roles include Jonathan Lipnicki, Creator/GeenaDavis and Creator/HughLaurie as the Little Family (George, mother Eleanor and father Frederick), while the voice-over roles include Creator/MichaelJFox (Stuart) and Creator/NathanLane (Snowbell the cat). The film spawned two sequels in 2002 and 2005 respectively, and a short-lived animated series in 2003.

The film's plots are as follow:
* In the first film, the story starts when the Littles adopt Stuart at an orphanage. The mouse's new parents are happy with him, but his new brother, George, initially isn't. As Stuart is beginning to adapt, things get complicated when Snowbell, the family's pet cat, tries to get rid of him and his supposedly lost parents, the Stouts (voiced by Creator/BrunoKirby and Creator/JenniferTilly), appear in the scene.
* In ''Stuart Little 2'', Stuart meets a canary bird named Margalo (voiced by Creator/MelanieGriffith) and both become friends. What he doesn't know is that Margalo is forcefully working with a cruel peregrine falcon (voiced by Creator/JamesWoods) who wants her to steal Mrs. Little's ring or else he will kill her new rodent friend. Margalo leaves to save Stuart's life and the mouse goes on her trail thinking the Falcon had kidnapped her.
* ''Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild'' is a direct-to-video fully CGI animated sequel. Most of the cast returned to voice their respective characters (Laurie, Davis and Fox) except for Creator/NathanLane (who was replaced by his [[Franchise/TheLionKing Timon]] [[TheOtherDarrin substitute]], Kevin Schon), Creator/SteveZahn (who voiced Monty, Snowbell's feral cat best friend) and Jonathan Lipnicki. In this one, Stuart and his family go for a camping trip. Stuart joins the scouts and makes good friends with Reeko the skunk (voiced by Creator/WayneBrady), who like Margalo, works for a ferocious employer called The Beast (voiced by Creator/VirginiaMadsen).
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!!Tropes in the films include:
* ActorAllusion: Creator/NathanLane provides the voice of a cat in [[Film/MouseHunt a movie with a mouse as the main character.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: Snowbell. In the book, he [[CatsAreMean is very nasty toward Stuart]], without a hint of remorse. In the movies, while villainous at first, the cat eventually [[HeelFaceTurn becomes one of Stuart's allies]].
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: It's never explained why Stuart looks like a mouse in ''Literature/StuartLittle''. He is the biological son of two normal humans and it's never referred to as any sort of fictional disorder. He's just presumed to be a mouse looking boy. In the films he is an actual mouse who ends up adopted by the Little family.
* AdultAdoptee: Sort of. Stuart is 18-years-old in mouse years when he's adopted by the Littles. Not that extreme an example, but still technically an adult.
* AnachronisticOrphanage: Despite the first film supposedly being set at the tail end of the 20th century, Stuart lives in a public orphanage in New York before he ends up adopted by the human Little family.
* AnimalAthleteLoophole: In the first film, based on the corresponding scene from the book. Most of the boats in the race are being operated by remote control.
* ArcWords: “Every cloud has a silver lining” in the second.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
** In the second movie, Mr and Mrs Little confront George, having realized he's lied to them about Stuart's whereabouts. George tries not to break his promise, but his parents break through the armor with this:
--->'''Frederick:''' George, I understand. I have a brother. But whatever I promised him, if he was in danger, that would matter more to me than the promise.
--->'''Eleanor:''' George, how would you feel? How would we ''all'' feel if anything happened to Stuart?
** In ''Call of the Wild'', when [[SmellySkunk Reeko]] is trying to talk Stuart out of attempting to save Snowbell, we have this exchange.
--->'''Reeko:''' The Beast, she's heartless. She doesn't care about anyone but herself.
--->'''Stuart:''' You two must have a lot in common, huh?
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Snowbell is reluctant to see help on dealing with Stuart from an alley cat, citing them as "mean, vicious, and all hopped up on catnip".
* TheArtfulDodger: Margalo the canary is this at the beginning, when she pretends to be friends with Stuart, to steal Mrs. Little's ring and give it to [[TheFagin Falcon]]. But when she begins to really enjoy her friendship with Stuart, it makes she forget about her main assignment. And this makes Falcon begin to lose patience.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: As the sequel began production prior to 9/11, it was forced to edit out the Twin Towers prior to release. However, in one shot (where Stuart flies past the Empire State Building in his toy plane), the space where the towers once stood can be seen, and if one looks closely the distinctive [=WTC7=] building is still present, but without the towers: [=WTC7=] had collapsed five hours after the Twin Towers did, making it stand out as an obvious edit for those familiar with the NYC building layout.
* ArtShift: While the first two films were live action/animation, the third was done entirely in CGI.
* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The first film got a PG rating by having the villains occasionally say "damn" or "hell."
* AwardBaitSong: The first movie has the Diane Warren-written [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zdH0t5t2CU "You're Where I Belong"]] by Music/TrishaYearwood and the second has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w13JuWzr5_A "I'm Alive"]] by Music/CelineDion.
* AxCrazy: The Falcon in the second movie, especially during the climax.
* BabysFirstWords: At the very end of ''Stuart Little 2'', Martha says her first words as Margalo flies away: "Bye-bye, birdie!"
* BecomingTheMask: The Stouts genuinely get attached to Stuart and they regret lying to him about being his real parents. Camille in particular seems to care about Stuart like he were her own son and tells her husband that she’s going to miss the boy as Stuart drives away.
* BerserkButton: Anton pushes George's during the boat race by calling Stuart a stupid mouse, then saying he's actually a stupid rat. Big mistake.
* BigBad: Smokey, the mob boss-like leader of a pack of cats, in the first film. The Falcon, a vicious tyrant who forces Margalo to do his bidding, is this in the second film. The Beast, a deadly Mountain Lion who forces Reeko to do her bidding, serves as the primary villain of the third film.
* BigBrotherInstinct: George attacks his bully Anton when he tries to drown Stuart by sinking his boat during the race, and for calling him a "stupid rat".
* BlackBestFriend: Will to George in the second film.
* BlandNameProduct: In the first film, Stuart gets a suit from a toy store selling the doll "Ben", an obvious reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_(doll) Ken doll]], off by just one letter.
* BondVillainStupidity: When he actually ''has'' Stuart in his talons, [[JustEatHim instead of eating him]], Falcon drops Stuart - who, fortunately, lands on a soft garbage bag. To be fair, though, this is how Monte described Falcon's feeding habits earlier in the film.
* BringMyBrownPants: In ''Stuart Little 2'', Stuart and Snowbell head out to a seedier part of town to find the whereabouts of the villainous Falcon, Stuart as intrepid as usual, and Snowbell in the need of a litter box. They meet up with Monty, who explains to the two how sinister the Falcon is. Snowbell is left terrified:
-->'''Stuart:''' Snowbell, are you all right?
-->'''Snowbell:''' Yeah. In fact, good news. I no longer need a litter box.
-->'''Monte:''' (''cracks up laughing'') Mop up on aisle three!
* BuffoonishTomcat: Monty due to his ditzy moment(s) of being slapstick-prone. [[CowardlyLion Snowbell]] can be prone to having slapstick situations, but it's usually in Stuart's adventures as he isn't always being a buffoon while Snowbell can be humorous or [[PluckyComicRelief comically]] cowardly or [[ButtMonkey unlucky]] at times.
* TheBully: Anton in the first film is this to George.
* ButtMonkey: Snowbell ends up falling in this trope in the second movie, especially with all the bad luck he gets in the second half of the film.
* CarnivoreConfusion: Averted through the movies, particularly with Falcon in the second - he didn't eat Margalo because he needed an ArtfulDodger, and repeatedly tells her that if HE gets his talons into Stuart, he'll eat him. Of course, when he finally ''does'' get Stuart in his talons, BondVillainStupidity takes over.
* CatchPhrase:
** Monty's "Pleeeeease?"
** The taxi driver in ''Stuart Little 2'' likes saying "Okey-dokey, no problem!"
* CatsAreMean:
** Played with in the films. Snowbell starts out very antagonistic toward Stuart, even trying to eat him and kill him, but later is shown as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and, when his street cat friends from the alley want him to eat Stuart to be InWithTheInCrowd, he ultimately sides with Stuart.
** Played much more straight in the third film, which has a cougar as the main villain.
* ChainedToARailway: Stuart pretends this in the first film in front of George. However, it was a toy train and he used his tail.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Anton rams other boats with his during the boat race in order to damage or sink them, much to the anger of one of the other racers. The controls to his boat fail and he loses the race after Stuart manages to untangle his boat from Anton's.
* ColourMotif: Yellow is a prominent colour in the movie; the Littles are shown wearing yellow clothing, Margalo is a yellow canary, and the children's football team wears a yellow uniform.
* DamselInDistress: Margalo feigns this to get Stuart to trust her. In the end, inverted: ''she'' saves Stuart from falling to his death after he [[CarFu Plane Fus]] Falcon.
* DeadpanSnarker: Though Snowbell is (as expected) the biggest [[CatsAreSnarkers culprit]], (movie) Margalo lets a little of this sneak through from time to time, when her Ditz armor starts to crack around Stuart.
* DescriptionCut: In ''Stuart Little 2:''
-->'''Stuart:''' Don't worry about Snowbell, he wouldn't hurt a fly.
-->''Cut to Snowbell catching and eating a fly.''
-->'''Snowbell:''' (''burp'') Oh, those flies really come back on ya.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted, Smokey and Falcon both fall from a great height but both survive. [[spoiler: However, Smokey is chased by dogs and never seen again, while Falcon lands in a garbage can in front of Monty; though his fate isn't revealed, it looks like Monty's got quite a feast.]]
* {{Dissimile}}: In ''Stuart Little 2:''
-->'''Snowbell:''' (after Stuart's car overheats) I'm telling you, Stuart, it's a sign. This is just like the Burning Bush -- except it's a carburetor, and I'm not Moses.
* TheDitz: Margalo puts on an understated version of this, mostly to throw Stuart off the fact that she's an ArtfulDodger.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** This little bit from the first movie is quite similar to interracial adoption:
--->'''Mrs. Keeper:''' Mr. and Mrs. Little, we try to discourage couples from adopting outside their own… ''species''. It rarely works out.
** In the second film, the relationship between Falcon and Margalo seems very similar to that of a domestic abuser and their victim respectively, especially when Falcon is angry. WordOfGod implies that this was at least somewhat intentional, as part of what makes the Falcon so terrifying is that he actively denies Margalo her rights, autonomy and freedom, and not only threatens her but also her concerned friend who wants to help her. [[VillainousBreakdown It gets further emphasized when Margalo tells Falcon she's "leaving" him at the climax.]]
* DontExplainTheJoke: After Snowbell makes the deal with Smokey to get rid of Stuart:
-->'''Snowbell:''' You think he can keep this thing hush hush?\\
'''Monty:''' You kiddin'? Cat's got his tongue. ''(laughs)'' Get it? Cat's got his tongue? 'Cause he's a cat and…\\
'''Snowbell:''' Shut up.\\
'''Monty:''' 'Kay.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Margalo apparently does this to Falcon after landing in Stuart's car. It's all fake, to ingratiate her to Stuart. Stuart lampshades it, though.
-->'''Margalo:''' Get lost, you disgusting vulture! Eat my feathers, you vile buzzard!
-->'''Stuart:''' Do we really wanna antagonize him?
* DoomedSupermarketDisplay: We don't see it, but we are told that Stuart's parents died in an incident where a stack of soup cans fell over and crushed them.
* EatTheCamera: Happens in the second film when the soccer ball is kicked with Stuart in tow.
* ExactWords: In the second film, Falcon prepares to drop Stuart.
-->'''Margalo:''' Don't hurt him, Falcon!\\
'''Falcon:''' I won't hurt him. ''THE SIDEWALK'' WILL!
* ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler:Smokey is chased away by dogs at the end of the first film.]]
* EyeScream: A mild example, but Stuart uses his mother's ring to reflect in the sun and blind Falcon into crashing.
* TheFagin: The Falcon in the second movie is this to Margalo, when she lost her mother, Margalo was adopted by Falcon, she became his ArtfulDodger. He assigns her to steal household valuables from the Little family. However, it seems that Margalo cannot concentrate on her assignment as she begins to enjoy her friendship with Stuart. As Falcon loses patience, he threatens Margalo to steal Mrs. Little's ring or else he will kill Stuart.
* FallingInLoveMontage: In ''Stuart Little 2'', there is a love montage between Stuart and Margalo as they enjoy spending time together, such as Margalo watching Stuart skateboarding, Stuart and Margalo eating marshmallows by the Littles' warm fire. Also Stuart and Margalo at a baseball game with the Littles and Stuart and Margalo watching a romantic movie together.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Falcon talks casually, but when something gets in the way of his shinies, the talons immediately come out.
* FeatheredFiend: A rare "noble" example: the (Peregrine) Falcon of the second movie, who fancies himself a feathered Fagin to Margalo's Artful Dodger.
-->'''Falcon:''' Don't make friends I can ''eat''.
* FictionalGreetingsAndFarewells: The Little family has "Little high, little low! Little hey, little ho!"
* FluffyDryCat: Snowbell in the animated series.
* FurryConfusion: In the film, Stuart is an anthropomorphic mouse adopted as a son by humans; as a result he has a pet cat. Snowbell also speaks, however. It's implied that all cats and mice have intelligence in this world, but are generally treated as we treat animals anyway. Stuart being given "special treatment" creates a bit of a social scandal in both the human and animal worlds. Both films tend to downplay this latter aspect, treating mice more as miniature hairy humans than actual rodents.
* GrailInTheGarbage: The makers used the Berény painting ''Sleeping Lady with Black Vase'' as a prop, unaware of its hidden significance as a lost painting. The painting itself was only discovered to be ''the'' painting in 2009, when an art historian watched the film on television with his daughter.
* HannibalLecture: Falcon explaining to Stuart that Margalo is simply an ArtfulDodger, and her friendship was a lie to get Eleanor's wedding ring. However, Margalo tells Stuart that their friendship is genuine and Stuart believes her. Stuart shoots an arrow at Falcon, which simply [[NoSell pisses him off.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Stuart. Somewhat averted in that there is initially a little sibling tension within his new family.
* HappilyMarried: Frederick and Eleanor, to the point where they each finished the other's sentences. The moment they couldn't tell what the other was thinking led to slight panic, but all got resolved.
* HeroicBSOD: Stuart suffers one in the second movie after he ends up in a landfill. Then he finds the wreckage of his plane...
* IdentificationByDentalRecords: It is stated that Stuart's birth parents were killed in a grocery store incident where a stack of soup cans fell over and crushed them. The bodies had to be identified by their dental records.
* InfantSiblingJealousy: The movie shows a variation of this. George is initially unhappy about his new brother, but only because he is a tiny anthropomorphic mouse.
* InNameOnly: The books were set in the late 1940s, Stuart was born from a human mother rather than adopted, and only the boat race in the first movie bears any resemblance to the events of the book. The film's sequel [[TruerToTheText follows the original novel more closely]].
* InstantlyProvenWrong: In "Stuart Little 2", Snowbell, already against the idea of having Margalo, a stray bird, staying in the house for a while, notes how Mrs. Little doesn't like animals walking in the house off the street, and believes she'll "throw a fit" when she sees her. Instead, Mrs. Little is instantly charmed by her.
-->'''Snowbell:''' Maybe it's just ''my'' friends she hates.
* InterspeciesAdoption: As mentioned above, the book claims that Stuart was born from a human mother, but the movie explains this as the reason why Stuart has human parents to begin with.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** While he was being rude about it, George is correct about the fact the gifts given to Stuart by family members are not suitable for a mouse to use.
** In the second film, while Snowbell is against having Margalo stay with them even for a while, he's not wrong to point out that since she's a stray bird, she could be germ-ridden. And considering Stuart had just met her, there's no telling if she would take advantage of them or steal from them.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Snowbell. The cat initially tries to eat Stuart but develops a bond with him over time.
** Reeko the skunk in the third movie, who starts out as self-centered and even tries to feed Snowbell to The Beast, but his friendship with Stuart ultimately causes him to change his ways.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Anton gets his during the boat race when the controls to his boat fail after he had used it to ram other boats and sink them. See also CheatersNeverProsper.
* {{Leitmotif}}:
** Stuart has a 16-note melody whenever he has a moment of triumph or shows heroism.
** The Littles in general have a 10-note melody whenever going about their lives or having a moment with Stuart.
** Snowbell has his own 8-note melody whenever he is up to mischief.
* LiteralMinded: In "Stuart Little 3":
-->'''Mrs. Little:''' I don't know, Stuart. Something could ''happen'' to you.
-->'''Stuart:''' But I ''want'' something to happen to me.
* MagicRealism
* MisplacedWildlife: In "Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild", The Beast, which audiences assume to be a bear, is revealed to actually be a cougar.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: The Littles get in a taxi just as Stuart crawls out of the sewer drain. Stuart realizes that he’s outside of the house just as the taxi drives away.
* MissingChild: Midway through the first film, Stuart's parents find out his biological parents actually have been confirmed as being dead for years and call in the police. They find out that their son has been kidnapped by a couple of strangers, and that, according to the authorities, their modus operandi fits criminals interested in thrill-killing, not ransom. Luckily, Stuart's fake parents turn out to have a conscience and he finds his way home, but Mr. and Mrs. Little are scared to death in the meantime.
* MouseWorld
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Margalo says this almost word-for-word after Falcon apparently drops Stuart to his death.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Falcon has quite the reputation, even among the street cats.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The first film is a criminal offender. Several commercials show Stuart flying a plane or fighting the cat and other cool things, but none of that happens in the film. But they do happen in the ending credits in a montage that depicts what happens ''after'' the story is over.
* NoSell: The second film has something sort of like this. After being told that Margalo isn't going anywhere, Stuart replies, "Yes she is!" and fires an arrow at Falcon - which simply bounces off his beak. He grabs Stuart in his talons and drops him off the building.
-->'''Falcon:''' Was that your best shot? Now let me show you ''mine''.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Falcon does not take kindly to Margalo leaving him -- [[VillainousBreakdown at all]].
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging:
** When Smokey and his gang order the Stouts (Stuart's fake parents) to turn Stuart over to them, Camille starts to cry, and Stuart tells him he's not angry at her for putting her up for adoption and that she's always gonna take care of her, which only makes her cry louder until she can't take it anymore and forces Reginald to tell him the truth.
** Also, see YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame.
* OhCrap:
** In the first film:
*** Snowbell has one when Monty sees Stuart in the cereal box.
*** Snowbell has another one later when the Littles discover that the Stouts are ''not'' Stuart's real parents, and get the police involved.
---->'''Snowbell:''' (''running to Monty'') They know about the Stouts! They know about the Stouts! The jig is up! What are we gonna do?!\\
'''Monty:''' Hey, get ahold of yourself. What are you talking about?\\
'''Snowbell:''' This is very-- I'm in big--! [[GoshDangItToHeck I'm in DEEP POOPY-DOO!]]
*** Stuart has one when he gets lost in Central Park and the cats start appearing.
** In the second film:
*** George gets one when he has to lie to his mother again, supposedly having just left Stuart at Will's house, and then Will shows up at the door. He manages to cover himself.
*** George has another one when his mother finally realizes he's been lying about where Stuart is.
---->'''Will:''' What are you gonna do now?\\
'''George:''' Which way's Canada?
*** Falcon has one when he sees he's on a collision course with a popcorn stand, before crashing through it. He has another one when Stuart's plane is about to hit him.
*** Stuart has one when the plane's propeller slices open his parachute.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Delivered by Stuart as the Falcon is about to be hit with his plane.
-->'''Stuart:''' Bye-bye, bird brain!
* ProductPlacement: In the second movie when George's friend Will comes over, he says that he brought his [=PS2=]. The film was distributed by Sony Pictures, and the Platform/PlayStation2 was produced by the Japanese electronics division of Sony (which is the same company that purchased Columbia in the 1980's).
* RascallyRaccoon: Played straight in the animated series episode "The Great Outdoors", where a pair of raccoons serve as an antagonistic version of this trope, since they not only try and steal The Littles' food but also threaten Snowbell that they will ''pluck his fur'' for refusing to give them the food.
* RaisedByHumans: Stuart in the films (as opposed to the books, where he's a mouse mysteriously born to human parents).
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In the [[Literature/StuartLittle original book]], Stuart is the Littles' biological son...even though his parents are human and he's a mouse (or at least ''looks'' like a mouse, which is never explained). The film makes him their [[InterspeciesAdoption adopted son]] instead, as it's less odd (though everyone is still nonplussed about anthropomorphic mice). It adds a plot in which his adoptive human brother George, who is initially disappointed by Stuart, comes to accept him; [[spoiler: family cat Snowbell]] also temporarily tricks Stuart into leaving the family by [[spoiler: pretending to have found Stuart's birth parents (who actually died when he was a baby)]].
* TheReveal: In the first movie, the Littles find out that Stuart's parents died years ago, meaning that the mouse couple that took Stuart aren't his biological parents.
* ResourcefulRodent: Since Stuart is the average size of a mouse, he has to use toys as everyday items. He has to wear clothes from toys and use toy vehicles as transportation. In the sequel, [[spoiler:he rebuilds a toy airplane with trash to fly it home.]]
* RetroUniverse: The film takes place in modern times, but the way the Littles dress, do their hair, the style of their house and the way they carry themselves, are very reminiscent to that of 1945, the year the book was published.
* SamusIsAGirl: The cougar in ''Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild'' turns out to be female.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Margalo pulls one on Falcon on top of the Pishkin Building when [[spoiler:he's about to kill Snowbell]], by telling him if he does it, he'll lose Mrs Little's diamond ring, which he forced her to steal.
-->'''Margalo:''' Don't do it, Falcon! Or else!\\
'''Snowbell:''' Do what?! What's he doing?!\\
'''Falcon:''' Or else what?\\
'''Margalo:''' Or else, you'll lose... this. ''(holds up Mrs. Little's ring Falcon forced her to steal)''\\
'''Falcon:''' Put that down, Margalo!\\
'''Margalo:''' I'm through doing what you tell me to do! I'm leaving you, Falcon, forever!\\
'''Falcon:''' Oh, and what do you think ''you'll'' be without ''me''?!\\
'''Margalo:''' ''Free''. ''(flies off)''\\
'''Falcon:''' [[VillainousBreakdown Big mistake!]] I'll be back for you, furball!\\
'''Snowbell:''' Don't hurry!
* ShoutOut: "[[Film/SpiderMan1 You do too much, you're not]] WesternAnimation/MightyMouse [[Film/SpiderMan1 you know?]]"
* SmugSnake: Anton. He's a bully to George and is smug most of the time with little reason to be.
* SurprisinglyFunctionalToys: Stuart drives an off-the-shelf RC car around, as opposed to the book version, where it was custom made.
* SmellySkunk: Reeko from the third film. [[spoiler: Ultimately is used on the Beast in the end.]]
* StatusQuoIsGod: Monty does not appear to have any resentment in the second movie towards Snowbell after the latter [[spoiler:threw]] the former [[spoiler:to the cold water of the lake inside the Central Park with the posse that was supposed to eat Stuart]] not with [[spoiler:Stuart for not having been able to eat him]] in the first movie.
* TestKiss: At the end of the third film, Brooke kisses George on the cheek.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: In the first movie.
-->'''Smokey:''' Say goodnight, Tinkerbell.
-->'''Stuart:''' Hey, Smokey! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis His name... is Snowbell!]]
* TrailerSpoof: The trailer for ''Stuart Little 2'' imitated moments from the first ''Spider-Man'' movie.
* TranquilFury: The Falcon shows more than a hint of this after Stuart's above-mentioned NoSell arrow-to-the-beak, punctuated by a fierce DeathGlare:
-->'''Falcon:''' Was that your best shot? ''Now let me show you mine.''
* VagueAge: Stuart. Though he is adopted by the Littles and is mainly treated as a child by them, he is able to drive, sail a boat, and has an adult voice actor. Also none of the adult animals treat him as if he were any younger than him (other than the Stouts, but that was part of the plan). Perhaps he's a kid to humans and an adult to other animals?
* VillainousBreakdown: The Falcon in the second film does not take kindly to Margalo leaving him and retaliates by murderously pursuing her. He might have succeeded [[BigDamnHeroes if Stuart hadn't saved her in time]]. Unfortunately, this only breaks the Falcon down even more, which becomes all the more acute when Stuart manages to outwit him during the climactic chase, during Stuart tricks the Falcon into crashing into a popcorn stand and shattering the glass case.
* WhamLine: When Mrs. Keeper explains to the Littles that Stuart's birth parents [[spoiler:were killed in a grocery store incident, she then clarifies that they were killed ''years ago'']], which makes the Littles realize that Stuart's been kidnapped.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: In the second film, Stuart befriends Margalo, a little bird who is menaced by a peregrine falcon. This would just be another case of CarnivoresAreMean, but note that Margalo is an ArtfulDodger disguised as an adorable female canary and the falcon is depicted as a vicious, mad-eyed, scheming, AxCrazy Fagin {{Expy}} voiced by Creator/JamesWoods.
* WhosOnFirst: In ''Stuart Little 2'', when the falcon has trapped Margalo under a can:
-->'''Margalo:''' Snowbell? Is that you? Is that really you?
-->'''Snowbell:''' Margalo? Where are you?
-->'''Margalo:''' In the can.
-->'''Snowbell:''' Oh, okay. I'll wait.
-->'''Margalo:''' No! In the paint can!
* WhyWontYouDie: The Falcon really wants Stuart dead. This becomes especially acute when Stuart returns from the garbage truck in the plane and manages to resist him during the chase and the Falcon tries to kill him by tearing off the top wing of his plane.
-->'''Falcon:''' A mouse has to know his limitations!

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Margalo is assigned by the evil Falcon to steal household valuables from the Little family. However, Margalo can't seem to focus on her assignment as she starts to enjoy spending time with the family, and becoming smitten with Stuart. Finally losing his patience, Falcon threatens Margalo to steal Mrs. Little's ring or else he'll kill Stuart. Reluctantly, Margalo steals Mrs. Little's wedding ring. When the Littles notice the ring missing, they think it's fallen down the drain and Stuart volunteers to go after it, but the string that's holding him breaks. Margalo saves him, but Stuart's gratitude towards her only makes her feel more guilty.
-->'''Stuart:''' Margalo, You're the best friend I ever had.\\
''(hugs Margalo, who sadly hangs her head in guilt)''
** Later that night, Margalo gives a sleeping Stuart her precious jeweled stick-pin, before leaving the house out of guilt and shame.
-->'''Margalo:''' (''opens the window and looks back at the sleeping Stuart'') I'm sorry, Stuart. (''sadly flies out the window'')
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