Xuxinha e Guto Contra os Monstros do Espaçonote is a 2005 Brazilian animated film written by Flavio de Sousa, directed by Moacyr Góes and Clewerson Saremba, produced by Diler Trinidade.
The movie starts with Xuxa telling her 7-year-old nephew, Juliano, about the existence of guardian angels, as she was convinced of their existence. She tells the story of how she met her guardian angel, the titular Xuxinha (voiced by Flávia Saddy). After Xuxa grew up, she was all on her own as Xuxinha was given the job of protecting a boy named Guto, which was one of the most damning cases because he constantly put himself in danger. Luckily, she's aided by a fellow angel named Biel, who protects Jonas, Guto's best friend.
One day, the city is invaded by four garbage-eating alien criminals from a distant planet named XYZ, who crash-landed into Earth and dwell in a polluted stream to eat the trash thrown there by people and become even stronger and Take Over the World.
Xuxinha e Guto Contra os Monstros do Espaço provides examples of the following tropes:
- Animal Talk: Despite only communicating with barks, Txutxucão's speech is easily understood by people.
- Alien Invasion: The plot is kickstarted by four escaped criminals from planet XYZ crash-landing on Earth and making the dump-filled Pumzão stream their headquarters to feed on the garbage thrown by people and become stronger enough to take over.
- Baby Carriage: Guto and Jonas run into one carried by an old lady while doing their stunt with a banner with their symbol and take it along (with the baby inside) for the ride. After Guto ties up the banner to one of the handles and lets go of it to save them from crashing into a soda truck stranded in the way. When the banner unties and the carriage goes down the street in freefall as Xuxinha tries to stop it, the baby's guardian angel beats her to it and then glares at her.
- Based on a True Story: The narration at the start of the movie claims that the story about to be told by Xuxa is based on real facts... as long as the viewer believes dreams are real.
- But Now I Must Go: Xuxinha leaves Xuxa on her own at the story's beginning as she is assigned to protect a boy named Guto.
- Cartoon Throbbing: After Jonas and Guto fall off a tree branch while trying to fetch a fruit, the former lands on his hand and finds it throbbing as he holds it in pain.
- Comically Cross-Eyed: The paper-eating alien is always cross-eyed and is the goofiest of the four. However, this doesn't make it any less dangerous, especially when its attack method is wrapping its victims in paper like mummies.
- Couldn't Find a Pen: Xuxinha writes a message in the mud alerting the gang that the space monsters are in an abandoned factory, guarded by an army of rats and informing them that they're going to turn Earth into a dump starting today. This loses Xuxinha another feather.
- Determinator: Xuxinha resolves to warn Guto and Jonas about the monsters that plan on taking over the Earth, even when it means she'll lose her feathers and become unable to fly forever because angels are forbidden from directly communicating with living beings.
- Disney Acid Sequence: When Jonas and Guto meet detective dog Txutxucão, the setting changes into a colorful one while his theme plays in the background.
- The Dog Bites Back: While in search for Txutxucão and a heart for the robot they built to face the aliens, Jonas and Biel open the cage where the canine detective and the neighborhood's cats and dogs are held. As a result, they attack the rats that held them there in the first place.
- Eat the Bomb: In the confrontation against the four aliens, a policeman throws a grenade at the metal-eating alien, which eats the grenade and explodes inside its body with no ill effects.
- Enforced Plug: At the beginning of the movie, the last brands promoting the movie are Nesquik and Intel. Moreover, this is to be expected in any movie starring Xuxa.
- Famed In-Story: Txutxucão is a famous detective dog who cracked cases in the neighborhood.
- Framing Device: The movie starts with Xuxa telling Juliano a bedroom story about how she met her guardian angel Xuxinha.
- Soap Opera Disease: Guto ends up falling ill after the liquid trash puked by the organic-eating monster touches his feet. Moreover, the doctor who came over diagnosed that Guto's disease was incurable and he didn't have long to live, much to everyone's despair. This drives Xuxinha to make one last sacrifice: give up her angel powers and become a human girl, with all that entails, in exchange for healing Guto.
- Space Whale Aesop: Take care of the planet, don't litter, and separate your trash to be recycled, otherwise, aliens from a distant galaxy will invade the planet to feed on the litter and grow strong enough to eventually Take Over the World and turn it into a dump.
- Telepathy: Xuxinha uses it to peek into the thoughts of the rats at the abandoned factory despite Biel warning her not to because angels are forbidden from making direct interactions with Earth other than protecting the humans under their care. After she's done finding out, she loses a feather.
- Swarm of Rats: The four aliens enslaved the neighborhood's rats, to provide them with trash to feed on.
- Token Minority: Biel, Jonas' guardian angel and Xuxinha's companion, and Euclides Arquimedes, the local homeless philosopher, are both black.
- Wisdom from the Gutter: Euclides Arquimedes, the local homeless man, is a genius and therefore, a source of knowledge in the fight against the aliens.
