Warning; unmarked spoilers lie ahead.
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Fridge Brilliance
- The trailer - which features Hunter advertising Stork delivering babies, while Tulip makes a mess - might serve as a prequel to the whole film itself, as it shows Hunter still believes in delivering babies and could possibly explain why he got tired of doing that, and tired of having Tulip around.
- Why didn't Hunter just demolish the original Stork Mountain baby machine if he intended to change their business? He's a capable, if corrupt, executive. Wouldn't that prevent anyone from reactivating the machine by mistake again? This makes sense until one realizes... this decision of Hunter is very believable. Executives usually find the easiest way to shift their business model to the point where they don't bother getting rid of their older equipment, or they just push it out of the way to another landfill. Sometimes they're so focused on their new model that they forget to do anything with the old ones. You could also look at it like building leases. Nearly every building that isn't new is now used for something different than what it was designed and built for.
- The presence of non-storks like Pigeon Toady or Tulip's friends seem strange but there are a couple of good reasons of why Cornerstore has non-stork employees. The first is that transitioning from baby delivery to package delivery probably opened up a lot of logistic jobs that don't involve delivery, so expanding the work force helps make them more efficient. The 2nd is that Cornerstore is obviously a modern company, and there's no way they could get away with the same species homogeneous work force once they basically became amazon without being sued to death.
- Diamond Destiny has a lot of anime tropes to her appearance. Well, if you were a kid Nate's age, and imagined a ninja warrior, how often would you come up with something like what Diamond Destiny looks like when she's older?
- Tulip's family's hairstyles seem to match the personalities she made up, though they never actually speak.
- A few people have pointed out that, given the Cuteness Proximity of babies, why did it not work in Stork Con when they were caught on the screens? Actually, Lelouch's Geass power gives a plausible explanation that lines up with what's shown - direct eye contact must be made. The storks at Stork Con all saw Diamond Destiny through video screen, which is indirect, ergo it weakens the ability of Cuteness Proximity. When the storks saw all the other babies later on, they were all mezzed by it, so much that they had to be snapped out of it.
- Realizing Diamond Destiny actually has Ninja Skills explains the many problems Junior and Tulip had delivering her. Her unnatural strength means the pod can't hold her and she of course doesn't want to go to sleep at night.
- Jasper's reveal halfway through the film about his true intentions does seem a bit odd given how he was framed in story for so long. But at the same time, when you see the scene play out in flashback, it's just possible he wanted to take Tulip without the pod, given that when the beacon broke the first thing he says (and Tulip repeats later on) is "Whoops." He might've lost himself for a bit, but he was sincere in wanting to do his duty, which is what was shown once he caught up with Junior and Tulip.
- When Junior and Tulip are fighting Penguins over the baby, they emerge from smoke dramatically in the elevator. While this could be seen as Rule of Cool, remember one thing Pidgeon Toady said. "Whoa! Steam room in an elevator!"
- The Wolf Pack’s ability to shapeshift is played for laughs, however note that as long as they maintain surface contact their shape stays strong. They merged into a bridge, a boat, a submarine and a car with success, but when they became a plane, with nothing to hold onto they fell apart immediately.
- At the end, the Storks company keeps a wall with all the photos of all the babies they’ve delivered. This is not just a memento of their successful deliveries, but a means to establish good relations with their customers, an essential social service that people-oriented companies maintain.
- It also aids the storks in enabling connections with the babies they gave up, so that they can see them even after their job is done. Considering Jasper didn’t want to let go of his baby because of his attachment, this looks like a reasonable means for the storks to see more of any kids they loved but gave away.
- Why did the machine make Diamond Destiny a girl when Nate specifically requested a baby brother, especially since the machine remembered to give her the ninja powers Nate asked for? Well, it's common knowledge that embryos are female by default, and require a Y chromosome to be turned male. Junior pressed the emergency shutoff button before DD was finished forming, so it's possible that the machine didn't have time to give the baby her Y chromosome.
- The wide variety of parents seen receiving babies makes sense when you remember that a baby can still be made in the traditional way, as we know Nate was born after Tulip came into being; it stands to reason that the bulk of the stork requests would be from parents incapable of making a baby on their own.
Fridge Logic
Fridge Horror
- As this video
points out, the babies produced on Stork Mountain have exotic traits not seen in naturally-conceived children, are designed specifically to the parents' preferences, and are depicted as diabetes-inducingly perfect little bundles of joy. In other words, Stork Mountain is engineering superpowered, inherently superior children who can be ordered by humans all across the globe, which opens a can of ethical worms. And also, their Cuteness Overload actually seems less they really are that adorable and more the result of them being "marinated in" pheromones by their delivery pods that mentally force organisms, even wild wolves, to nurture them.
