History Awesome / WatershipDown

** Before the book begins: Woundwort managed to take over a warren in spite of wild rabbits' attitude towards hutch-raised rabbits. Woundwort, you MagnificentBastard, I read your book!

-->'''Bigwig:''' I told you once I was trying to impress you. I hope I have.
-->'''Woundwort:''' And I told you that I would kill you myself!

*** There's also the fact that hraka, contextually, seems to mean "''final'' poop". See, rabbits have a unique way of getting all the nutrients they can out of nutrient poor grass called a double digestive system: they poop once, eat that (this is likely what "chewing pellets" refers to), then poop it out again. So the "silflay hraka" line may have an added meaning of "eat the shit ''that you're not supposed to eat''" with connotations of calling Woundwart an idiot who can't tell hraka from pellets.

* Let's not forget when Hazel pushed Bigwig aside and went out to meet the Black Rabbit of Inle in his place. The Black Rabbit being basically Death incarnate, and a Trickster version at that - the only being besides Frith (God) to out-trick the rabbits' folk hero El-ahrairah. No, it wasn't the real Black Rabbit, but their folklore made it real enough for the moment.

* One of the in-universe stories has an exceptional CMOA for El-ahrairah, the legendary chief rabbit. To save his people, he seeks out the Black Rabbit himself and begs to trade his death for the survival of his warren. The Black Rabbit refuses (in a speech that is itself a CMOA). So he seeks out the hiding place of one of the terrible diseases the Black Rabbit uses to do his work, deliberately exposes himself and prepares to drag his diseased, mutilated body back to the waking world in order to save his people by exposing their enemy to the disease. At which point the Black Rabbit recuses himself, and aids El-ahrairah's people after all. El-ahrairah is preserved from death by a mere technicality - otherwise this would be a DMOA instead.
* The fact that in the movie, Hazel is the recipient of a vision-speech that was originally given to ''El-Ahrairah himself'' when he offers his life to Frith in exchange for letting his plan save the warren succeed.

!!Meta

* The voice acting work in the film, including Creator/JohnHurt and especially Joss Ackland, who serves as the Narrator and the voice of the Black Rabbit at the end.

** If that wasn't enough? He's taken to the afterlife by ''El-ahrairah himself''.

*** In the film, Bigwig just says, "Hraka... ''sir!'' It's the equivalent of someone putting on a Southern accent and saying, "Shee-yit... SIR!" or doing a General {=McAuliffe=} and shouting, ''"Nuts!"''

*** In the film, Bigwig just says, "Hraka... ''sir!'' It's the equivalent of someone putting on a Southern accent and saying, "Shee-yit... SIR!" or doing a General McAuliffe and shouting, ''"Nuts!"''

-->'''Bigwig:''' My Chief Rabbit has told me to defend this run and until he says otherwise I shall stay here.\\

** Even if it was Woundwort's last stand, the fact that he made such an impression on our heroes that ''he gets added to Cuniculine Mythology as an assistant to TheGrimReaper MoonRabbit''!