Is he just a Corrupt Corporate Executive who pushed the Storks into package delivery for the money, or is he actually a Child Hater who didn't want to deal with babies anymore? The fact that he's the only stork who doesn't succumb to Cuteness Proximity when the baby-making machine is turned back on supports the latter theory.
Pigeon Toady singing "How You Like Me Now" with a music video sequence accompanying him in the background. It immediately segues into him blabbing to Hunter what Junior and Tulip are doing, but even so...
The precognitive sequence with Diamond Destiny's future also comes out of nowhere. Though the vision would show Junior and the other storks how the babies will turn out when they get older.
Ensemble Dark Horse: The wolf pack. Even people who otherwise didn't like the movie found them hilarious.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It didn't do very well in the United States, but turned a profit thanks to overseas markets.
Thanks to Pigeon Toady's hair, he's frequently compared to Donald Trump.
Power Move. Explanation Hunter chose to build his office entirely out of glass, despite the fact that birds can't see glass, as a power move.
Moe: Tulip, with her perky demeanor and lovable personality.
Moral Event Horizon: Hunter crosses it by attempting mass infanticide at the film's climax. Although he never says he wants to kill the babies specifically, he's clearly not worried about them being collateral damage while he destroys the baby factory.
Near the end of the movie, when the storks resume delivering babies and there's a montage of the different kinds of parents that receive their newborn children, including young couples and older couples, single parents (including an easy to miss single father), a paraplegic mother, interracial couples, and same-sex couples.
The scene early on where Junior asks some other storks about their weekend plans, combined with his refusal to give a straight answer to Tulip's Armor-Piercing Question seems to imply that his motivation for the promotion was for the title and popularity. The former scene is never brought up again, never making his relationship with his coworkers clear.
Heavy implication is given to Junior being Hunter's son (his name, for instance). This also suggests that Junior wants to be boss to impress Hunter, who claims that once Junior is promoted to boss that Junior will be "like a son" to Hunter. It also explains why Junior is so reluctant to form attachments with Diamond Destiny and Tulip, and why he becomes "weirdly hurt" later when Tulip accidentally says that Junior, Tulip and DD aren't a real family — his only family up to that point is an abusive, negligent tyrant of a father. This, of course, is also never overtly stated in the movie, though it would have remained in keeping with the movie's message on the importance of family and familial bonds.
Tough Act to Follow: Being the second feature film of Warner Animation Group after the success of the The LEGO Movie, the film had a bit of an uphill fight ahead of it since most pegged it as pretty cookie cutter among most animated films.