History BrickJoke / AnimatedFilms

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMansionsOfTheGods'': Asterix and Obelix first appear arguing over who gets to catch a boar, later having much the same conversation (substituting a legionary for the boar).

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':
** Mike and Sulley are arguing about Boo on Scare Floor F, when Mike realizes mid-sentence that everyone is watching. He tries to spin his line "Put that thing back where it came from or so help me...!" as practice for the company play. During the credits, the cast performs "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me: [[TheMusical The Musical]]."
** Mike then tells confused Scare Floor workers and CDA agents, "we'll need ushers." At the end, a CDA agent is working as an usher.

*** Towards the beginning of the move, a slug monster who was trying (emphasis on "trying") to make it to his first class on the first day of school? Well, during [[TheStinger the stinger]] after the credits, we find out that the slug finally made it to class... but it turns out it took him the entire school year for him to get there.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'': During the prologue, a pair of overweight mermaids try to catcall King Triton, to which he sheepishly gestures back. Much later, during the finale, the same, now-elderly merpeople perform the scenario again.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': When Gru first meets Miss Hattie, he subtly insults her by saying that she has a face [[GratuitousSpanish "como un burro"]] (like a donkey), which she takes as a compliment. Later, she angrily hits him the Spanish-English dictionary, now knowing what he really said.

** In the beginning of the movie, Yzma tells Kronk to "Pull the lever", and [[NoOSHACompliance it sends her down a trap door into a moat with an alligator]] as she shouts, "WRONG LEVER!". Then she angrily storms back in saying, [[InventionalWisdom "Why do we even HAVE that lever?"]] and smacking an alligator who was clinging to her. About ¾ of the way through the movie when Pacha and Kuzco walk back into the palace to enter Yzma's "Secret Lab", the first thing shown is a drenched Kuzco walking back in grumbling, "[[InventionalWisdom OK, why does she even HAVE that lever?]]" and smacking an alligator who was clinging to him.
*** This ends up being an OverlyLongGag and a BrickJoke in the tie-in series; every single time someone pulls that switch, they will always pull the wrong one and comment on how it still hasn't been fixed.
** In one of the opening scenes, Kuzco has an elderly man [[BlackComedy thrown out a window for an incredibly petty reason]]. A few scenes later, Pacha helps the man down from the banner that broke his fall. And many scenes after ''that'', a [[HeelFaceTurn much-amended]] Kuzco is apologizing to the man...who ''brushes the ordeal off''.

** In one of the opening scenes, Kuzco has an elderly man [[BlackComedy thrown out a window for an incredibly petty reason]]. A few scenes later, Pacha helps the man down from the banner that broke his fall. And many scenes after ''that'', a [[HeelFaceTurn much-amended]] Kuzco is apologizing to the man...who ''brushes him off''.
-->"...[[NoodleIncident It wasn't the first time I've been thrown out a window]], and it won't be the last! What can I say- ''(proudly)'' I'm a rebel."

** Mike then tells confused scare floor workers and CDA agents, "we'll need ushers." At the end, a CDA agent is working as an usher.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': When Mr. Incredible goes to see Edna Mode to get a new costume made, he initially requests that his new look feature a stylish cape. Edna refuses and gives a long list of superheroes who died perfectly avoidable deaths as a result of having a cape. One of said deaths is getting the cape caught in a jet turbine. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Syndrome]] dies as a result of getting his cape caught in a jet turbine.]]

*** In the beginning of the movie, Yzma announces to Kronk to "Pull the lever", and [[NoOSHACompliance it sends her down a trap door into a moat with an alligator]] as she shouts, "WRONG LEVER!!". Then she angrily storms back in saying, [[InventionalWisdom "Why do we even ''HAVE'' that lever?"]] and smacking an alligator who was clinging to her. About ¾ of the way through the movie when Pacha and Kuzco walk back into the palace to enter Yzma's "Secret Lab", the first thing shown is a drenched Kuzco walking back in grumbling, "[[InventionalWisdom OK, why does she even ''HAVE'' that lever?]]" and smacking an alligator who was clinging to him.
*** This ends up being an OverlyLongGag AND a Brick Joke in the tie-in Series, where every single time someone pulls that switch, they will always pull the wrong one and comment on how it still hasn't been fixed. Per usual, Subversions, Inversions and Aversions are abound.

*** [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 In the first film]], following Scar's little self-righteous speech at the beginning of the movie, Zazu casually comments about the villain lion that "He'd make a very handsome throw rug." 3 years later, a short clip of a stressed WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} shows him [[http://imgur.com/gallery/GyE9E tossing a familiar lion's pelt onto the floor in frustration.]] One of the many shout outs to previous movies.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': At one point, Mario tells Peach that, unlike the Koopas in her world, his people keep as pets and says that he'll buy her one if she came to visit. [[spoiler: Near the end, when Peach shrinks Bowser by force-feeding him a Mini Mushroom, Mario puts him in a jar and says "I told you I'd get you a pet turtle".]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': When Doctor Octopus introduces [[GenderFlip herself]] to Peter B. and Miles, she says "My friends call me Liv." In a later scene Aunt May refers to Doc Ock as "Liv", implying [[WeUsedToBeFriends the two have a history]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'':

** Another one involving Hammy comes back twice. RJ tempts Hammy into helping him by showing him a cookie, only to throw it away and say it's "junk", much to Hammy's disappointment. During the big heist later on, Hammy finds the cookie on the roof, and RJ has to put him back on track. Even later, [[spoiler:Hammy enters CaffeineBulletTime]], and he uses this opportunity to finally get his cookie.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''
** Before "Be Our Guest" starts, Cogsworth is flung into some batter. A minute later, he emerges from a pie.
** After Maurice leaves to save Belle, Gaston tells Le Fou to not leave a spot by their house until they come back. When they do eventually arrive, we see Le Fou, blue with frostbite, finally leave his spot.

* ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'': After Dalia drops their son Damian with Batman, Damian demands to drive the Batmobile, arguing that he knows how to do it, but Batman refuses. In the next movie, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsRobin'', at the beginning scene Damian (now as Robin) stole the Batmobile and is driving it by himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has one set up in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', fifteen years earlier. [[spoiler:The Squeeze Toy Aliens are obsessed with the claw game that they are taken from, revering it as "the Claw." This gets the gang in trouble in the first film, but [[BigDamnHeroes a garbage claw saves them in the end of the third from incineration]], with the same intonation of ''"the Claaaaaaaaaaw"''.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has one set up in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', [[UpToEleven fifteen years earlier]]. [[spoiler:The Squeeze Toy Aliens are obsessed with the claw game that they are taken from, revering it as "the Claw." This gets the gang in trouble in the first film, but [[BigDamnHeroes a garbage claw saves them in the end of the third from incineration]], with the same intonation of ''"the Claaaaaaaaaaw"''.]]