Extinct is an American computer-animated comedy film directed by David Silverman and Raymond S. Persi. The film is about a fictional extinct species called the Flummels, who are rodent-like creatures with holes in their stomachs who live in the Galapagos Islands in the 19th Century, and outcast sibling pair, Op and Ed, are flung into the future by a magical flower and they soon decide to save their species when they learn that Flummels go extinct.
The film stars the voices of Rachel Bloom, Adam Devine, Ken Jeong, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Reggie Watts, and Jim Jefferies.
It debuted on Netflix on November 19, 2021.
Tropes:
- All of the Other Reindeer: None of the other Flummels consider Op and Ed as part of their community due to the amount of chaos they bring.
- All Myths Are True: Clarence reveals that Greek monsters were real when he brings a Cyclops to attack Op and Ed.
- Artistic License – Biology: The end of the movie reveals that Ed and Dottie are expecting a child. In real life, it is utterly impossible for a mammal and an avian to reproduce.
- Big Bad: Clarence. He tries to get rid of the Flummels due to pure, unadulterated envy.
- Cassandra Truth: No Flummel is willing to believe Op when she said she came from the future.
- Cartoon Creature: The Flummels are some sort of donut-shaped mixture of a flying squirrel and a kitten.
- Conspiracy Theorist: Bernie the Tasmanian tiger believes in such things as aliens and mythical creatures.
- Damsel in Distress: Op becomes this when Clarence straps her to a tree on the mountain with the bomb he's going to use to destroy it flying near her.
- Didn't Think This Through: This is Op's Fatal Flaw, as she often does things out of pure impulse.
- The Eeyore: Ed constantly complains about the trouble he goes through.
- Fantastic Slur: After Clarence's true colors are revealed, he refers to Flummels by insulting names like "napkin rings" and "hula hoops".
- Foreshadowing: When Clarence first sees Op and Ed, he barks at them angrily. It is later revealed that he had engineered the Flummels' extinction.
- Freudian Excuse: Clarence grew up in a world where Flummels were the number one pet. He spent most of his life in a pet store, never getting adopted, inciting much toward the far more popular Flummels.
- Gentle Giant: Hoss is the biggest Extinctable, but also the nicest.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Clarence is so completely jealous of Flummels that he knocks his owner into the past for showing some affection towards one.
- Heel–Face Turn: Clarence's cyclops minion reforms at the end.
- Hidden Villain: Clarence.
- Historical Domain Character: Charles Darwin, Captain Fitzroy, Ernest Shackleton, and Mozart (the latter a
Voice-Only Cameo). - Inter Species Romance: Ed, a Flummel and Dottie, a Dodo bird, get together.
- Large and in Charge: Jepson is the leader of the Flummels and is the tallest out of them.
- Large Ham: Clarence goes full ham when he reveals their true evil nature.
- Line-of-Sight Name: Professor Chung named Clarence after a "Clearance" sign (with the "E" scratched out).
- Manchild: Charles Darwin shows signs of this near the movie's end where he pleads for his boat captain to go see the Galapagos Islands.
- Motor Mouth: Wally constantly jibber-jabbers.
- Neat Freak: Alma is terrified of the idea of getting dirty or infected by germs.
- Only Friend: Wally the Whale is the only friend Op and Ed have at the movie's beginning.
- Our Time Travel Is Different: Time travel is achieved in the movie via special flowers. Each one is keyed to a certain year, and the time travel device requires a matching seed to open the flower portal.
- The Reveal: Clarence tells Op that Flummels were once the most popular pet in the world and that he had changed history to negate that.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Flummels are considered utterly adorable by anyone who sees them.
- Shout-Out: In the original timeline, a poster for a movie called "1001 Flummels" is shown.
- Stealth Pun: A Tasmanian tiger who believes in aliens, monsters, and conspiracies is humorously appropriate, given that Tasmanian tigers are often considered cryptids today.
- Time-Passage Beard: When Professor Chung returns, he is shown to have facial hair from spending almost a year in the past.
- Time Traveler's Dinosaur: The Extinctables are a collection of extinct animals that were saved by Professor Chung through the use of Time Travel.
- Walking Spoiler: Clarence, due to him being the Hidden Villain.
- Wham Line: When Clarence reveals their true colors to Op.Op: You've gotta tell the Flummels they're in trouble.Clarence: Oh they most certainly are in trouble...from ME!
- What the Hell, Hero?: After Op's poorly thought-out attempt to save Clarence ends up getting Hoss injured, Ed calls her out on her recklessness.
