History Film / PetesDragon2016

* HeroesWantRedheads: A played with example. Pete bonds with Grace most out of all the people in Millhaven.

* BittersweetEnding: Pete and Elliot, after some discussion, sadly and reluctantly agree they have to separate for Elliot's safety. Their home was destroyed by Gavin's team capturing Elliot. And now the entire town knows the dragon exists. So Elliot leaves Pete with Grace's family and takes off... but sometime later, Jack and Grace have taken the folk song about dragons that everyone knows and treated the "go North" lyrics as instructions so the family, which now includes Pete, can find and visit Elliot [[spoiler: and the family he was separated from but has now reunited with]].

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Pete seems to go barefoot more by choice in this version, unlike the original, where he was only barefoot before he'd met Norah and Lampie.

* InstantSedation: Averted hard. Elliot takes several shots of tranq darts from Gavin and his friends and yet manages to thrash about for several minutes before finally falling sleep. Then, even after he wakes up, he's still far too groggy and sedated for several more minutes to even walk, let alone fly, and has to be carted away to the woods in the back of a truck.

* ArcWords: "The bravest boy I've ever met." These words are spoken to Pete [[RuleOfThree three times:]] Once by his birth mother, once by Grace, and once by her father who adds Pete to the tall tales he tells.

** At the end, after being [[spoiler: tranquilized and captured, and then being chased by the rest of the town, thinking they're a threat to him and his friends, Elliot gets angry. He runs on top of the bridge they're crossing and uses his fire breath for the first time. It knocks a hole in the bridge, weakening it enough to cause it to break in half.]]

* [[{{PapaWolf}} Papa Dragon]]: You best not threaten Pete in front of his ''Fire-Breathing'' best friend.

** Natalie. She starts out as an obviously bookish child who is actually annoyed at being late for school. But once she sees Pete, she chases him into the forest and fearlessly climbs his tree, only going back to DistressedDamsel traits when the branches give way under her greater weight and she begins to fall.
* RageBreakingPoint: After loosing Pete, being captured and then being pursued by a bunch of police trucks, Elliot finally looses his patience and to defend himself and Pete [[spoiler: he sets fire to the bridge.]]

* SettingUpdate: While the original takes place during the early 1900s, the remake takes place in 1977, the release year of the original film.

A remake of the 1977 Disney film ''[[Film/PetesDragon1977 Pete's Dragon]]'', continuing Disney's trend of rebooting much of their fantasy catalog in live-action, released in the summer of 2016. Now a CGI character, Elliott (voiced by Creator/JohnKassir) is a cryptozoological oddity of the Pacific Northwest being studied by Mr. Meacham (Creator/RobertRedford) and his park ranger daughter Grace (Creator/BryceDallasHoward). New evidence of the dragon's existence comes to light when a feral child named Pete (Oakes Fegley) emerges from the woods, having spent six years living with the beast.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford's character) has for years told stories to children about a fire-breathing dragon who lives in the forest, though he was prone to embellishing the story to make the dragon sound more fearsome. Pete reveals that these stories are actually true.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford's character) has for years told stories to children about a fire-breathing dragon who lives in the forest. Pete reveals that these stories are actually true.

* RealityEnsues: While chasing Meacham and the kids as they haul away Elliot in a flatbed, Gavin tries to block their path to the bridge while placing his own truck across the road. The flatbed plows right through Gavin's truck like in an action film...only to then immediately break down and stall seconds later from the damage it sustained.

* RageBreakingPoint: After loosing Pete, being captured and then chased by a gang of police trucks, Elliot finally looses his patience and to defend himself and Pete [[spoiler: he sets fire to the bridge.]]

* SavageWolves: Pete is briefly chased by a pack after getting lost - until Eliot's thunderous footsteps send them running.

* [[{{PapaWolf}} Papa Dragon: You best not threaten Pete in front of his ''Fire-Breathing'' best friend.

* [[{{PapaWolf}} PapaDragon: You best not threaten Pete in front of his ''Fire-Breathing'' best friend.

RageBreakingPoint: After loosing Pete, being captured and then chased by a gang of police trucks, Elliot finally looses his patience and to defend himself and Pete [[spoiler: he sets fire to the bridge.]]

* GoodVsGood: Elliot's adopted family is a loving family. Gavin, the closest thing this movie has to an antagonist still goes out of his way to protect children and is a very devoted uncle even though he and his brother don't always get along.

A remake of the 1977 Disney film ''[[Film/PetesDragon1977 Pete's Dragon]]'', continuing Disney's trend of rebooting much of their fantasy catalog in live-action, released in the summer of 2016. Now a CGI character, Elliott is a cryptozoological oddity of the Pacific Northwest being studied by Mr. Meacham (Creator/RobertRedford) and his park ranger daughter Grace (Creator/BryceDallasHoward). New evidence of the dragon's existence comes to light when a feral child named Pete (Oakes Fegley) emerges from the woods, having spent six years living with the beast.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Being based on domestic mammals, Elliot acts very much like a dog or cat with wings and fire breath. Even his name is taken from the name of a dog in a children's book.

* FantasticSapientSpecies: Elliot. He is smart enough to understand English when spoken by Pete or other humans, and he's smart enough to communicate with humans through gestures, body language and the use of props.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Being based on domestic mammals, Elliot acts very much like a dog or cat with wings and fire breath.