History Film / MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021

* RogerRabbitEffect: The characters and several smaller props are stop-motion animated but everything else is live-action.

* ScavengedPunk: Marcel's whole life in the house is based on materials scavenged from human. For example, his musical instrument is a piece of pasta and his vehicle is a modified tennis ball.

--->'''Marcel:''' Bu what if everything changes?\\
'''Connie:''' (smiling) It will.

-->'''Marcel:''' Bu what if everything changes?\\

** The documentarian is named Dean, with [[FreezeFrameBonus a brief blurry showing on a clapperboard showing his last name]]. While not a one-to-one match to the film's director, in a meta sense, the film depicts some aspects of Fleischer Camp's life (uploaded Marcel videos to [=YouTube=], received media attention, went through a divorce), with the key difference, of course, being that Marcel is real.

* BittersweetEnding: More "sweet" than bitter, but [[spoiler:Marcel happily reunites with his family and community. However, Connie doesn't live long enough to join the reunion, though Marcel was able to provide a proper funeral ceremony for her with the shell community]].

* MagicRealism: The film is set in a world where no one finds it unusual that shells and other small objects can live and talk (WordOfGod states that "when an object is neglected long enough, it develops a spirit of its own").

* VagueAge: Marcel's age is never stated in the movie, and WordOfGod says that he doesn't even have one.

* RealMenWearPink: Marcel is confused as to why one of the commenters under his call to action video [[ViewerGenderConfusion thinks he's a girl.]]

* BookEnds: The movie starts off with a low, whistling sound, something which is revealed at the end to be [[spoiler:the sound the wind makes when it goes through Marcel's shell]].

* AsHimself: The documentarian is named Dean, with [[FreezeFrameBonus a brief blurry showing on a clapperboard showing his last name]]. While not a one-to-one match to the film's director, in a meta sense, the film depicts some aspects of Fleischer Camp's life (uploaded Marcel videos to [=YouTube=], received media attention, went through a divorce), with the key difference, of course, being that Marcel is real.
** Played straight with Lesley Stahl, as well as a Series/SixtyMinutes crew that goes to Dean's house to film a story on Marcel [[spoiler:and ultimately helps him reunite with his family.]]
* BadInfluencer: After Marcel's livestreams asking for help finding his family go viral, people start coming up to his property--which he shared on the streams--solely to show themselves having visited the home of the now-famous shell, using his popularity [[ItsAllAboutMe to improve their social media standing, not to actually help him]]. The unwanted attention gets so bad that after Marcel and Dean come back home from their road trip, [[spoiler:they find that Connie got startled by a couple of young influencers who trespassed on the property and fell off the washing machine, cracking her shell. This, in turn, leads to Marcel becoming overprotective of her]].