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* DrugsAreBad: Cipur/Cyprus, the old sparrow, is given alcohol by a pair of rats, so that he cannot defend himself when they try to eat him.


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* DecemberDecemberRomance: Hinted at towards the end between Sparina, the newly-retired sparrow guardian, and a newly-human Cipur.
* DrugsAreBad: Cipur/Cyprus, the old sparrow, is given alcohol by a pair of rats, so that he cannot defend himself when they try to eat him.

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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Willy starts out as a bratty kid who fakes an illness to skip school, is rude with his sister and abuses animals for his own amusement. During his experiences as a sparrow, he learns kindness and responsibility [[spoiler:ultimately allowing him to become the new Sparrow Guardian]].


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* TookALevelInKindness: Willy starts out as a bratty kid who fakes an illness to skip school, is rude to his sister and abuses animals for his own amusement. During his experiences as a sparrow, he learns kindness and responsibility [[spoiler:ultimately allowing him to become the new Sparrow Guardian.]]
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* CatsAreMean: Cili/Sissy and Krampusz/Blackie are both antagonistic cats. The former wants revenge on her owner Willy for tormenting her when he was still human, and the latter is simply pure evil, especially towards the sparrows. Sissy seams to lose this at the end, as she's friendly towards Willy once he returns to human form.

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* CatsAreMean: Cili/Sissy and Krampusz/Blackie are both antagonistic cats. The former wants revenge on her owner Willy for tormenting her when he was still human, and the latter is simply pure evil, especially towards the sparrows. Sissy seams seems to lose this at the end, as she's friendly towards Willy once he returns to human form.
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Cipur was not forced. He wanted to be a human.


* ForcedTransformation: Willy is a human kid turned into a sparrow by a fairy. He's also briefly turned into a mouse and a crocodile. [[spoiler: And Cipur gets turned into a human in the end.]]

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* ForcedTransformation: Willy is a human kid turned into a sparrow by a fairy. He's also briefly turned into a mouse and a crocodile. [[spoiler: And Cipur gets turned into a human in the end.]]
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* NonMammalianHair: The sparrows all have feathers resembling human hairstyles on their head. In the case of Willy [[spoiler:and Cipur]] it looks [[MorphicResonance identical to their hair in human form]].

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* [[DrugsAreBad Alcohol Is Bad]]: Cipur/Cyprus, the old sparrow, is given alcohol by a pair of rats, so that he cannot defend himself when they try to eat him.

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* [[DrugsAreBad Alcohol Is Bad]]: DrugsAreBad: Cipur/Cyprus, the old sparrow, is given alcohol by a pair of rats, so that he cannot defend himself when they try to eat him.



* BalefulPolymorph: Willy is a human kid turned into a sparrow by a fairy. He's also briefly turned into a mouse and a crocodile. [[spoiler: And Cipur gets turned into a human in the end.]]



* ForcedTransformation: Willy is a human kid turned into a sparrow by a fairy. He's also briefly turned into a mouse and a crocodile. [[spoiler: And Cipur gets turned into a human in the end.]]



* GirlishPigtails: Willy's sister, as well as Amy.

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* %%* GirlishPigtails: Willy's sister, as well as Amy.
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*ShoutOut: Willy reads a part from ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'' from a piece of paper to Cipur in the English dub.[[note]]Willy reads a scientific text in the original Hungarian dub.[[/note]]

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* BadSamaritan: The two rats task Cipur with breaking a bottle of the "Elixer of Knowledge" so he may partake in it. One gets the feeling they are only want him in to have alcohol they otherwise could not have obtained themselves.

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* BadSamaritan: The two rats task Cipur with breaking a bottle of the "Elixer of Knowledge" so he may partake in it. One gets the feeling they are only want him in to have alcohol they otherwise could not have obtained themselves.


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* EmbarrassingFirstName: The fat sparrow that's constantly hungry is named Tubby in the English dub.
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* IngestingKnowledge: In the English version at least, Cipur is tricked into getting drunk by two rats who claim the alcohol is the "Elixir of Human Knowledge".
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->''Boys will be boys, and in all my years I've never met anyone quite like him. He had such an active mind, and such an imagination that things practically came to life. His name was Willy.''
-->--The opening narration, spoken by the Sparrow Guardian.
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Unfortunate Names is now IUEO, the work must acknowledge the name is bad. If an example doesn't have that context it's getting deleted


* UnfortunateNames: The fat sparrow that's constantly hungry is named Tubby in the English dub.
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* GirlishPigtails: Willy's sister, as well as one of the female sparrows.

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* GirlishPigtails: Willy's sister, as well as one of the female sparrows.Amy.
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A little more explanation on the Krampus name and lore.


* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Krampusz, the black cat is named after the Krampus, a devil-like figure in Germanic folklore. His English name, Blackie, is [[FluffyTheTerrible a lot less frightening]].

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Krampusz, the black cat is named after the Krampus, a devil-like figure in Germanic folklore.folklore who punishes naughty children at Christmas. His English name, Blackie, is [[FluffyTheTerrible a lot less frightening]].

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* ShipTease: Between Willy and Amy. While not the focus of the movie it is implied that at least Amy has a crush on Willie. Examples include several compliments to Willie and being the only one who was nice enough to come and find him in the bad weather and tell him that Red and the others are very angry at him. She looks disappointed when Willie flies off to fight Red instead of spending more time in her nest in the morning. Willie saving her life earlier could be taken as either him just being a good kid or ship tease. There's also a bit of tease between the Sparrow Guardian and [[spoiler:human]] Cipur at the end.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Sissy, Willy's pet cat. Justified, as she is not only hunting for food, but also wants revenge on Willy for tormenting her.



* ShipTease: Between Willy and Amy. While not the focus of the movie it is implied that at least Amy has a crush on Willie. Examples include several compliments to Willie and being the only one who was nice enough to come and find him in the bad weather and tell him that Red and the others are very angry at him. She looks disappointed when Willie flies off to fight Red instead of spending more time in her nest in the morning. Willie saving her life earlier could be taken as either him just being a good kid or ship tease. There's also a bit of tease between the Sparrow Guardian and [[spoiler:human]] Cipur at the end.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Sissy, Willy's pet cat. Justified, as she is not only hunting for food, but also wants revenge on Willy for tormenting her.
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* RealityEnsues: Happens twice in the final act.

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* RealityEnsues: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Happens twice in the final act.
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* MorphicResonance: Willy, in sparrow form, keeps his brown mop hair, freckles, and scarf. [[spoiler:Cipur, in his human form, also has the same curly, receding hair, beard and bowtie that he had in his sparrow form, and his suit is the same shade of brown his feathers were.]]

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* UnfortunateNames: The fat sparrow that's constantly hungry is named Tubby.

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* UnfortunateNames: The fat sparrow that's constantly hungry is named Tubby.Tubby in the English dub.
* WhosLaughingNow: After spending the first scene of the movie as a ButtMonkey and the victim of Willy's games, Cili the cat suddenly gets the upper hand against Willy when he gets turned into a sparrow, and attempts to eat him.
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* PlayingSick: Willy plays sick at the beginning of the movie to skip a difficult test at school.
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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Willy starts out as a bratty kid who is rude with his sister and abuses animals for his own amusement. During his experiences as a sparrow, he learns kindness and responsibility [[spoiler:ultimately allowing him to become the new Sparrow Guardian]].

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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Willy starts out as a bratty kid who fakes an illness to skip school, is rude with his sister and abuses animals for his own amusement. During his experiences as a sparrow, he learns kindness and responsibility [[spoiler:ultimately allowing him to become the new Sparrow Guardian]].
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* FakeOutOpening: The film opens as an Franchise/IndianaJones-style adventure with "Captain Williams" trying to steal a jewel from a temple, fighting off tigers with a RayGun. It's just Willy's ImagineSpot as he plays in his room, shooting at his sister's cat with a water gun.
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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Willy starts out as a bratty kid who is rude with his sister and abuses animals for his own amusement. During his experiences as a sparrow, he learns kindness and responsibility [[spoiler:ultimately allowing him to become the new Sparrow Guardian]].
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* UnfortunateNames: The fat sparrow that's constantly hungry is named Tubby.
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* BadSamaritan: The two rats task Cipur with breaking a bottle of the "Elixer of Knowledge" so he may partake in it. One gets the feeling they are only want him in order to have alcohol they otherwise could not have obtained themselves.

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* BadSamaritan: The two rats task Cipur with breaking a bottle of the "Elixer of Knowledge" so he may partake in it. One gets the feeling they are only want him in order to have alcohol they otherwise could not have obtained themselves.



* ShipTease: Between Willie and Amy. While not the focus of the movie it is implied that at least Amy has a crush on Willie. Examples include several compliments to Willie and being the only one who was nice enough to come and find him in the bad weather and tell him that Red and the others are very angry at him. She looks disappointed when Willie flies off to fight Red instead of spending more time in her nest in the morning. Willie saving her life earlier could be taken as either him just being a good kid or ship tease. There's also a bit of tease between the Sparrow Guardian and [[spoiler:human]] Cipur at the end.

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* ShipTease: Between Willie Willy and Amy. While not the focus of the movie it is implied that at least Amy has a crush on Willie. Examples include several compliments to Willie and being the only one who was nice enough to come and find him in the bad weather and tell him that Red and the others are very angry at him. She looks disappointed when Willie flies off to fight Red instead of spending more time in her nest in the morning. Willie saving her life earlier could be taken as either him just being a good kid or ship tease. There's also a bit of tease between the Sparrow Guardian and [[spoiler:human]] Cipur at the end.



* YouDirtyRat: The two evil rats who get Cipur drunk, with the intention of eating him.

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* YouDirtyRat: The two evil rats who get Cipur drunk, with the intention of eating him. Also the evil mouse that wakes Blackie up.

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* EvilIsBigger: Blackie, the most antagonistic character in the movie, is a massive tomcat towering over not only the sparrows, but even his fellow cat Sissy.



* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Sparrow Guardian is regularly referred to as a fairy in the Hungarian version.

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* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Sparrow Guardian is regularly referred to as a fairy in the Hungarian version. Instead of a wand, she casts her spells from a magical spray can.
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Sparina passes on her position as Sparrow Guardian to Willy.]]
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* ShipTease: Between Willie and Amy. While not the focus of the movie it is implied that at least Amy has a crush on Willie. Examples include several compliments to Willie and being the only one who was nice enough to come and find him in the bad weather and tell him that Red and the others are very angry at him. Willie saving her life could be taken as either him just being a good kid or ship tease. There's also a bit of tease between the Sparrow Guardian and [[spoiler:human]] Cipur at the end.

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* ShipTease: Between Willie and Amy. While not the focus of the movie it is implied that at least Amy has a crush on Willie. Examples include several compliments to Willie and being the only one who was nice enough to come and find him in the bad weather and tell him that Red and the others are very angry at him. She looks disappointed when Willie flies off to fight Red instead of spending more time in her nest in the morning. Willie saving her life earlier could be taken as either him just being a good kid or ship tease. There's also a bit of tease between the Sparrow Guardian and [[spoiler:human]] Cipur at the end.
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* TwoGirlsToATeam: The sparrow flock that Willy joins consists of six males and only two females.

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* TwoGirlsToATeam: The sparrow flock that Willy joins consists of six five males and only two females.
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* TwoGirlsATeam: The sparrow flock that Willy joins consists of six males and only two females.

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* TwoGirlsATeam: TwoGirlsToATeam: The sparrow flock that Willy joins consists of six males and only two females.

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