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* Nick and Finnick's sheer cleverness of their con using just ''one'' elephant-sized popsicle. They melt the popsicle until it's all liquid, cutting off the big stick into several smaller pieces, then drive off to Tundra Town, pour the liquid into dozens of paw-shaped holes on the ground with the smaller sticks at the bottom then wait for it to freeze. They then get dozens of 'pawsicles' for Nick to sell to the hamsters (who are apparently his frequent customers) and when they are done eating them and throw the sticks into the trash cans, ''then'' Finnick and Nick transport them to a hamster construction site, selling the sticks as [[ExactWords "red wood"]] to the foreman. Consider this: the big elephant popsicle cost only 15 dollars, and by the time Nick and Finnick successfully pulled their con, they made over ''200 dollars''. And they've been doing this for at least a decade! Not only that, when Judy attempts to arrest Nick after catching him in the act, he instead displays a brilliant use of WeNeedADistraction, CrazyPrepared and LoopholeAbuse, then turns the whole situation into TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for Judy instead. That's one hell of a EstablishingCharacterMoment.

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* Nick and Finnick's sheer cleverness of their con using just ''one'' elephant-sized popsicle. They melt the popsicle until it's all liquid, cutting off the big stick into several smaller pieces, then drive off to Tundra Town, pour the liquid into dozens of paw-shaped holes on the ground with the smaller sticks at the bottom then wait for it to freeze. They then get dozens of 'pawsicles' for Nick to sell to the hamsters (who are apparently his frequent customers) and when they are done eating them and throw the sticks into the trash cans, ''then'' Finnick and Nick transport them to a hamster construction site, selling the sticks as [[ExactWords "red wood"]] to the foreman. Consider this: the big elephant popsicle cost only 15 dollars, and by the time Nick and Finnick successfully pulled their con, they made over ''200 dollars''. And they've been doing this for at least a decade! Not only that, when Judy attempts to arrest Nick after catching him in the act, he instead displays a brilliant use of WeNeedADistraction, CrazyPrepared and LoopholeAbuse, then turns the whole situation into TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for Judy instead. That's one hell of a EstablishingCharacterMoment. It also makes Judy's later attempt to [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame outwit him]] (details just below) all the more impressive.
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* Nick and Finnick's sheer cleverness of their con using just ''one'' elephant-sized popsicle. They melt the popsicle until it's all liquid, cutting off the big stick into several smaller pieces, then drive off to Tundra Town, pour the liquid into dozens of paw-shaped holes on the ground with the smaller sticks at the bottom then wait for it to freeze. They then get dozens of 'pawsicles' for Nick to sell to the hamsters (who are apparently his frequent customers) and when they are done eating them and throw the sticks into the trash cans, ''then'' Finnick and Nick transport them to a hamster construction site, selling the sticks as [[ExactWords "red wood"]] to the foreman. Consider this: the big elephant popsicle cost only 15 dollars, and by the time Nick and Finnick successfully pulled their con, they made over ''200 dollars''. And they've been doing this for at least a decade! Not only that, when Judy attempts to arrest Nick after catching him in the act, he instead displays a brilliant use of WeNeedADistraction, CrazyPrepared and LoopholeAbuse, then turns the whole situation into TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for Judy instead. That's one hell of a EstablishingCharacterMoment.
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* The entrance to Zootopia. Firstly, the train ride features three separate ecosystems and multiple accommodations for the various animal species living in the city, which makes the city look grand, distinct, and beautiful. Combine that with Shakira's uplifting ''Try Everything'' and seeing the whole city from Judy's smaller perspective, and the audience feels the same awe and wonder that Judy does.
* The fact that, with less than a year before release, Disney managed to basically remake a blockbuster movie to tell such a great story in such a great way.
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** Judy's overall performance at the academy is itself an [[TheDeterminator epic example of perseverance]]: she fails -- badly -- at every physical test thrown her way (and also at ''using the lavatory'') and she is told that she should just go back home. Rather than quit, Judy simply trains all the harder and she ends up graduating at the top of her class.
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** Don't forget [[spoiler:[[HellYesMoment Judy and Nick's smug grins]] to Bellweter, revealing how they faked the entire attack. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart" -- BOOM!]]

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** Don't forget [[spoiler:[[HellYesMoment Judy and Nick's smug grins]] to Bellweter, Bellwether, revealing how they faked the entire attack. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart" -- BOOM!]]
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** Don't forget [[spoiler:Judy and Nick's smug looks to Bellweter, revealing how they faked the entire attack. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart" -- BOOM!]]

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** Don't forget [[spoiler:Judy [[spoiler:[[HellYesMoment Judy and Nick's smug looks grins]] to Bellweter, revealing how they faked the entire attack. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart" -- BOOM!]]
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** Don't forget [[spoiler:Judy and Nick's smug looks to Bellweter, revealing how they faked the entire attack. "It's called a hustle, sweetheart" -- BOOM!]]
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* Villainous example. [[spoiler: Assistant Mayor Bellwether is behind the disappearances and has only a few henchmen; still, she's managed to create a scheme that could reformat society as the citizens of Zootopia know it.]]

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* Villainous example. [[spoiler: Assistant Mayor Bellwether is behind the disappearances and has only a few henchmen; still, she's managed to create a scheme that could reformat society as the citizens of Zootopia know it.it. She did this all with ''four guys'', an excellent shot, a few flowers, and a ''well-placed favor''.]]
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* The way the mystery is unraveled in all its stages is pretty awesome. Starting from a case with no leads, witnesses, descriptions, or anything, Judy is able to find a witness--having just met Nick and become familiar with his pawsicle scheme, she recognizes Mr. Otteron as carrying one and sees Nick walking away in the single photo the police have. Once she blackmails Nick into helping her, he takes her where he last saw Mr. Otterton--and the yak running the nudist parlor not only remembers all the details about him (while claiming the elephant was the one who forgot nothing and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he wished he had a mind like a steel trap like that]]), he specifically recalls everything he was wearing, what the car looked like he drove off in, and its license plate. Tracing the plate leads to Mr. Big, and once she wins his friendship [[LaserGuidedKarma from having saved his daughter]] he's able to provide her with the backstory on Otterton (his being a florist being the connection foreshadowing the eventual discovery of what was behind the HatePlague) and leading them to Manchas. Then Nick proves invaluable in how he not only thinks of using the traffic cam to track where Manchas was taken, but has the insider knowledge to know of the maintenance tunnel used to spirit him away. Finally, jumping ahead to after her EurekaMoment reveals to Judy what the Night Howlers actually were, she [[ChekhovsGunman follows the thread back to what started everything]] and goes to question Duke Weaselton...and when he won't talk, takes him back to Mr. Big to be interrogated, which is what finally cracks the case by leading them to Doug's lab.
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* The fact that a movie aimed at children had so many themes on racism, sexism, and bigotry is pretty awesome. Especially in a political climate that makes such themes to polarizing for even adult oriented media to risk talking about.

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* The fact that a movie aimed at children had so many themes on racism, sexism, racism and bigotry is pretty awesome. Especially in a political climate that makes such how it deconstructs something we took for granted like the themes to polarizing for even adult oriented media to risk talking about.of a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
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* Nick saving Judy's job in a number of ways: Reminding Chief Bogo that the 48 hours aren't up and in spite of her not having a lot of information, she managed to get more done than he and the others could in two weeks. Needless to say, Chief Bogo can't retaliate.
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* The fact that a movie aimed at children had so many themes on racism, sexism, and bigotry in of itself is pretty awesome.

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* The fact that a movie aimed at children had so many themes on racism, sexism, and bigotry in of itself is pretty awesome. Especially in a political climate that makes such themes to polarizing for even adult oriented media to risk talking about.
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* The fact that a movie aimed at children had so many themes on racism, sexism, and bigotry in of itself is pretty awesome.
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* How Judy gets Nick to help her. Confronting him on the street, she has him boast of how much money he makes off his various scams (as he's been working them since he was 12, it's over a million dollar all told). She then arrests him and when Nick laughs "on what charge," she answers "tax evasion," noting that Nick hasn't reported any of those earnings. When he protests she has no proof, Judy reveals her pen is a tape recorder and plays Nick's own words back at him. "This is a hustle," she says as Nick's partner laughs hysterically at him getting a taste of his own medicine.
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* Just Judy's indomitable spirit is a sight to behold.
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* Due to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nick making the already-slow sloths at the DMV waste time until night falls]], the limo rental lot Judy needs to investigate is locked down for the night and she can't enter as she'll be trespassing. Nick tells Judy to give him the pen/recorder with the tax evasion confession as his work is done, and she instead throws it into the lot. Nick climbs the fence to get at it only for Judy to burrow underneath the fence, grab the pen, and claim she now has legal reason to be inside the lot to apprehend a trespasser (Nick). The fox is impressed at her ingenuity.

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* Due to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nick making the already-slow sloths at the DMV waste time until night falls]], the limo rental lot Judy needs to investigate is locked down for the night and she can't enter as she'll be trespassing. Nick tells Judy to give him the pen/recorder with the tax evasion confession as his work is done, and she instead throws it into the lot. Nick climbs the fence to get at it only for Judy to burrow underneath the fence, grab the pen, and claim she now has legal reason to be inside the lot lot: to apprehend a trespasser (Nick). The fox is impressed at her ingenuity.
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* Young Judy defending a group of kids from Gideon (a fox bully). She kicks him in the face and gets hers clawed in return, but she still gets back the tickets Gideon stole from the kids, and Judy defiantly stands up and says Gideon is right about her not knowing when to quit.

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* Young Judy defending a group of kids from Gideon (a fox bully). She kicks him in the face and gets hers clawed in return, but she still gets back the tickets Gideon stole from the kids, and Judy defiantly stands up and says Gideon is right about her [[{{Determinator}} not knowing when to quit.quit]].
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* Young Judy defending a group of kids from Gideon (a fox bully). [[spoiler:She kicks him in the face and gets hers clawed in return, but she still gets back the tickets Gideon stole from the kids, and Judy defiantly stands up and says Gideon is right about her not knowing when to quit.]]

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* Young Judy defending a group of kids from Gideon (a fox bully). [[spoiler:She She kicks him in the face and gets hers clawed in return, but she still gets back the tickets Gideon stole from the kids, and Judy defiantly stands up and says Gideon is right about her not knowing when to quit.]]
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* Due to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nick making the already-slow sloths at the DMV waste time until night falls]], the limo rental lot Judy needs to investigate is locked down for the night and she can't enter as she'll be trespassing. Nick tells Judy to give him the pen/recorder with the tax evasion confession as his work is done, and she instead throws it into the lot. Nick climbs the fence to get at it only for Judy to burrow underneath the fence, grab the pen, and claim she now has legal reason to be inside the lot to apprehend a trespasser (Nick). The fox is impressed at her ingenuity.
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* Young Judy defending a group of kids from Gideon (a fox bully). [[spoiler:She kicks him in the face and gets hers clawed in return, but she still gets back the tickets Gideon stole from the kids, and Judy defiantly stands up and says Gideon is right about her not knowing when to quit.]]
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* Judy avoids having two trains colliding by changing the direction of one them. The awesome part is that she does so by ''kicking a goon hard enough to send him flying and hit the lever''. While the train both she and the goon were on wasn't just running, but ''accelerating''.
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** [[spoiler: The best part? Bellwether called the police over with a phony predator attack when she thought Nick was infected and going to kill Judy for her. She brought her own downfall upon herself]].

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** [[spoiler: The best part? Bellwether called the police over with a phony predator attack when she thought Nick was infected and going to kill Judy for her. She brought her own downfall upon herself]].herself.]]
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* During her training days in the Zootopia Police Academy, Judy gets into a boxing match against a rhinoceros. What's a rabbit to do? Well, how about bouncing off the ropes to jump into one of the rhino's fist, the impact causing it to [[StopHittingYourself hit his face]]?

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* During her training days in the Zootopia Police Academy, Judy gets into a boxing match against a rhinoceros. What's a rabbit to do? Well, how about bouncing off the ropes to jump into one of the rhino's fist, fists, the impact causing it to [[StopHittingYourself hit his face]]?
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* Villainous example. [[spoiler: Assistant Mayor Bellwether is apparently behind the disappearances and seems to be working alone and yet has managed to create a scheme that could reformat society as the citizens of Zootopia know it.]]

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* Villainous example. [[spoiler: Assistant Mayor Bellwether is apparently behind the disappearances and seems to be working alone and yet has only a few henchmen; still, she's managed to create a scheme that could reformat society as the citizens of Zootopia know it.]]
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* How the BigBad gets caught. [[spoiler: Bellwether traps Nick and Judy in a pit, grabs the dartgun loaded with the Night Howler-extract pellets responsible for the HatePlague which makes the infected "feral" and shoots Nick with it. Judy immediately flees from a savage Nick all the while Bellwether gloats and confesses her scheme. Nick immediately chomps down on Judy and... she's not hurt! Nick only pretended to be infected. The pellet Bellwether shot? Blueberries that Judy brought from her family's farm. Bellwether attempting to frame them just as she did with Lionheart? They reveal Judy's carrot-shaped pen/recorder which [[CaughtOnTape recorded the whole gloat]] as Chief Bogo and the rest of the force show up. Bellwether's [[OhCrap expression]] says it all.]]
** [[spoiler: The best part? Bellwether called the police over with a phony predator attack when she thought Nick was infected and going to kill Judy for her. She brought her own downfall upon herself]].
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* During her training days in the Zootopia Police Academy, Judy gets into a boxing match against a rhinoceros. What's a rabbit to do? Well, how about using the ropes around the ring to ricochet into one of the rhino's fist, the impact causes it to [[StopHittingYourself hit his face]]?

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* During her training days in the Zootopia Police Academy, Judy gets into a boxing match against a rhinoceros. What's a rabbit to do? Well, how about using bouncing off the ropes around the ring to ricochet jump into one of the rhino's fist, the impact causes causing it to [[StopHittingYourself hit his face]]?
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* During her training days in the Zootopia Police Academy, Judy gets into a boxing match against a rhinoceros. What's a rabbit to do? Well, how about using the ropes around the ring to ricochet into one of the rhino's fist, the impact causes it to [[StopHittingYourself hit his face]]?
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** Judy uses her rabbit super-hearing to pinpoint the ''exact'' location where Nick is. She then proceeds to use her dart tranqulizer to stop him. ''Without looking to where he is''.

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** Judy uses her rabbit super-hearing to pinpoint the ''exact'' location where Nick is. She then proceeds to use her dart tranqulizer tranquilizer to stop him. ''Without looking to where he is''.


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* Villainous example. [[spoiler: Assistant Mayor Bellwether is apparently behind the disappearances and seems to be working alone and yet has managed to create a scheme that could reformat society as the citizens of Zootopia know it.]]
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* The first teaser trailer has both Nick and Judy display their animal abilities:
** After realizing he tripped a ''cop'', Nick attempts to make a get away. He uses the cover of darkness and his night-seeing skill he has (since he's a fox) to escape. It would've worked had Judy not been a rabbit.
** Judy uses her rabbit super-hearing to pinpoint the ''exact'' location where Nick is. She then proceeds to use her dart tranqulizer to stop him. ''Without looking to where he is''.
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* The {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.
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