Plenty of these examples revolve around Candace especially, given the focus placed on her. To start off...
- After Candace's latest attempt to bust the boys fails, her reaction can be a little hard to watch—instead of the usual stammering or tantrums, Candace simply crashes, going off on a rant against the universe before leaving as a weeping mess. It's a very effective way of showing how Candace feels about being the universe's Cosmic Plaything.Candace: It's not fair...Phineas: Did you say something, Candace?Candace: I said, it's not fair! Every day always works out for you—you guys are having a great summer!Phineas: Well, we're all having a pretty great—Candace: Not me! Okay? [voice breaking] Every day, I get beaten down by the universe. I just feel so defeated. I feel so alone... [runs off sobbing as Phineas looks on in concern]Phineas: Wow... We've been having so much fun this summer, I just assumed Candace had been too.
- The crying itself is also notable, as rather than being exaggerated and loud like it sometimes is, it instead sounds realistic and quiet.
- There's a scene where she sends her brothers off, feeling like she finally feels noticed on Feebla-Oot.Phineas: We came to rescue you!
Candace: Rescue me? From what? A planet where people worship me? A place where I'm finally special? I'm the Chosen One, for crying out loud!
Audience: [droning] Chosen One! Chosen One!
Phineas: Oh, well, that's neat, but, uh, chosen for what exactly?
Candace: To save the planet, okay? Ugh. Why don't you want me to be happy?
Phineas: We do, Candace. Actually, we made you a gift.
Candace: A gift? A gift isn't going to solve anything. You know what? I don't want it.
Phineas: But—
Candace: I have everything I ever wanted right here. She gets me. She sees me. I finally feel like the universe isn't against me. And I can't help but think, but, you know, maybe... that's because you guys aren't around.
(Phineas and even Ferb both look heartbroken by her statement.)
Super Super Big Doctor: I think perhaps you should give her a little space. Don't worry, Candy-cane. I'm gonna take care of these guys.
Candace: Would you? You're the best.
Super Super Big Doctor: Braxington-ton, could you find a spot for our guests to relax?
Braxington-ton: If you'll follow me, I'll take you to your accommodations.
(Candace looks on as her brothers and their friends leave.)
Phineas: [genuinely saddened] Candace! - Candace gets depressed again after the truth is revealed by Super Super Big Doctor. Not only has she inadvertently given Super Super Big Doctor the pass to lock her brothers up in prison, and not only has she been inadvertently helping a villain's mind-control plant to bloom back, but it also turns out Remarkalonium, the thing she breathes out and the entire reason why she's The Chosen One... is just carbon dioxide, meaning that she wasn't special at all, and was entirely replaceable the whole time. Keep in mind that prior to being abducted, Candace was depressed in the first place because she felt overshadowed by her brothers and wanted to feel special for once. You can't help but feel sorry for her.Candace: What you're doing is— is awful! How would your brothers feel if they could see you now?
Super Super Big Doctor: Why don't you ask 'em?
(The screen shows Super Super Big Doctor's younger brothers locked up in a cage playing with a makeshift ball.)
(Cut to her brothers' cage. A screen appears with her on it.)
Super Super Big Doctor: Hey! You made a ball? I told you no playing in the dungeon!
(A laser blaster destroys the ball.)
(Cut back to Candace and Super Super Big Doctor.)
Super Super Big Doctor: (sighs) Now let's grow some spores.
(She turns on the treadmill and Candace starts walking.)
Candace: Wait. Wait. How could you imprison your own brothers?
Super Super Big Doctor: Oh, it was super easy. I lured them in with these cheesy snacks—
Candace: No, I mean, how could you?! I'd never do something like that to my brothers!
Super Super Big Doctor You already did.
Candace: No, I didn't.
Super Super Big Doctor: I said, "I'll take care of 'em," and you were like, "Would you? You're the best." So I thought you were down with the whole dungeon thing.
Candace: Wait, you threw my brothers in the dungeon?! That's not what I wanted. I love my brothers! I never wanted to hurt them!
Super Super Big Doctor: Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Candy, Candy, Candy. This is eye-opening. Have I misread things or what?
Candace: Yeah, I'd say you have. So can we—
(Super Super Big Doctor pushes a button on a remote chaining Candace to the treadmill and speeding it up.)
Candace: Hey! Let me— Let me go!
Super Super Big Doctor: I guess it was too good to be true. I thought I finally found someone simpatico. And you even exhaled Remarkalonium.
Candace: Remarkalonium? What is that anyway? Is it even real?
Super Super Big Doctor: Of course. In your language, I think it's called "carbon dioxide." Or CO2.
Candace: Wait, your rare element is carbon dioxide? Everybody exhales carbon dioxide.
Super Super Big Doctor: Uh, we don't. We inhale oxygen and exhale oxygen.
Candace: Well, on Earth, everybody exhales carbon dioxide, genius!
Super Super Big Doctor: Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold up. What?!
Candace: Yeah! All seven billion of us! You didn't even realize I'm not— I'm not… special.
Super Super Big Doctor: Oh. (chuckles) Oh, this is— If all you earthlings exhale carbon dioxide, I can feed Mama forever. And I can have hundreds of castles and smoothies and hit TV shows! Braxington-ton, Shoe Monkey, fire up the ship! We have an even bigger planet to conquer!
Candace: Wait! No!
Super Super Big Doctor: We'll load up the portable CO2 generator.
Braxington-ton: The what now?
Super Super Big Doctor: Her, dummy! Gotta keep Mama alive until we get to Earth.
(The two chain the treadmill to the floor.)
Super Super Big Doctor: (to Candace) Been a heck of a day for you, huh? Threw your brothers in jail then threw your whole planet under the bus. Heh. Nice going, sister. (Evil Laugh)
Candace: Noooo! - The sight of Candace practically drained of her carbon dioxide while walking on the treadmill is somehow sad and scary at the same time.
- After Candace finally is free, she retreats from her brothers in tears, unable to face them because she feels that she wasn't a good sister to them. And she's not just referring to letting them be locked up in prison, or not even the last words she said to them before, she's also referring to how she spent the whole summer trying to ruin their fun by tattling on them to their mom.Phineas: Candace, are you okay?
Candace: (through tears) I'm just so ashamed. I can't believe you guys came to save me after all those awful things I said. After… After everything I've done all summer. I've been ruining everyone's fun.
Phineas: What are you talking about?
Candace: I'm not the Chosen One. I'm not special. I'm not— I'm not even a good sister. You guys— You guys are better off without me.
(Ferb holds up the present from earlier.)
Phineas: Candace, you need to open our gift.
Candace: The gift?! Oh, you were even trying to give me a gift, and I wouldn't take it! I'm so horrible!
Phineas: Please, Candace. Open it.
(Candace tearfully takes the gift and unwraps it. It's a coffee mug with Phineas, Candace and Ferb's images on it and a big star that says "World's #1 Sister" on it.)
Candace: You got me a coffee mug? And I don't even drink coffee! I can't do anything right!- It's not just her. The boys themselves feel horrible when they realize that Candace wasn't having a good summer as they had assumed, but get rudely shrugged off when they try to give Candace a gift they made.
- Not only that but this movie's O.O.C. Is Serious Business moment for Phineas isn't him getting uncharacteristically angry but instead him looking genuinely and deeply hurt when Candace brushes him, Ferb and the rest of the kids off after they come to save her. It's also the movie's Not So Stoic moment for Ferb, as he is visibly crestfallen as Phineas when Candace blames them for her misery and rejects them.
- It's not just her. The boys themselves feel horrible when they realize that Candace wasn't having a good summer as they had assumed, but get rudely shrugged off when they try to give Candace a gift they made.
