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* AntiVillain: Gavin isn't a bad person, only misguided in what he believes to be the right course of action.
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* GoodVsGood: Elliot's adopted family is a loving family. Gavin, the closest thing this movie has to an antagonist still goes out of his way to protect children and is a very devoted uncle even though he and his brother don't always get along.
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The movie was directed by Creator/DavidLowery. After the cut was shown to Disney, they immediately signed him on to direct the upcoming live action version of ''Peter Pan'' despite the movie not being screened by the public yet.
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** Meacham is pro-Elliot and helps Pete and Natalie get him away from Gavin.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted hard. There are numerous serious crashes in the film, especially near the climax, and absolutely no vehicles catch fire or explode, even when they logically should like Jack's pickup being at or near ground zero for Elliot's breath weapon. Note that the fire is hot enough to ''burn asphalt.''
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* AndThenWhat: After Gavin and his team succesfully capture Elliott, Meacham asks him face to face what he intends to do with the dragon now that he has him. Gavin is unable to answer since evidently he didn't plan that far ahead.
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A remake of the 1977 Disney film ''[[Film/PetesDragon1977 Pete's Dragon]]'', continuing Disney's trend of rebooting much of their fantasy catalog, catalog in live-action, released in the summer of 2016. Now a CGI character, Elliott is a cryptozoological oddity of the Pacific Northwest being studied by Mr. Meacham (Creator/RobertRedford) and his park ranger daughter Grace (Creator/BryceDallasHoward). New evidence of the dragon's existence comes to light when a feral child named Pete (Oakes Fegley) emerges from the woods, having spent six years living with the beast.
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** At the end, after being [[spoiler: tranquilized and captured, and then being chased by the rest of the town, thinking they're a threat to him and his friends, Elliot gets angry. He runs on top of the bridge they're crossing and uses his fire breath for the first time. It knocks a hole in the bridge, weakening it enough to cause it to break in half.]]
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* BreathWeapon: Elliot's fire breath. It's given a slightly interesting treatment narratively; for most of the film we're led to think it's something Meacham invented to spice up the stories he tells the town kids, as the tale we hear paints Elliot as much more aggressive than he really is. [[spoiler: Then we see during the climax that yes, he ''can'' breathe fire, and it's ''terrifyingly'' effective. effective.]]
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: While Elliot looks more realistic he still gives off an air of a goofball animal at times and is honestly perfectly harmless. [[BerserkButton Until you decide to become a threat to Pete]].
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: While Elliot looks more realistic he still gives off an air of a goofball animal at times times[[note]]Witness him chasing his tail like a dog[[/note]] and is honestly perfectly harmless. [[BerserkButton Until you decide to become a threat to Pete]].
* IdiotBall: A whole bunch of people handle one early on, starting with Gavin yanking Pete out of a tree so he hits his head hard enough to be unconscious. Then when Pete runs away from the hospital, a bunch of people chase after him, and Grace grabs him after cornering him in a dead end alley. Hey, guess what it means to be chased, cornered, and grabbed in the wild? And then a whole bunch of people gather around to gawk at the kid who's terrified out of his mind.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Unlike his original incarnation, the new Elliot's design is more based in the world of real mammals, including dogs and cats, with his scales swapped for green fur and his pink hair gone. Regardless, he can still fly and breathe fire. Also, his ability to turn invisible is reminiscent of camouflage.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Unlike his original incarnation, the new Elliot's design is more based in the world of real mammals, including dogs and cats, with his scales swapped for green fur and his pink hair gone. Regardless, he can still fly and breathe fire. Also, his the original's ability to turn invisible is reminiscent now a form of camouflage.camouflage; if he moves, he's visible, and can be picked out by a careful observer even if he holds still.
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Misuse. From what I can gather, the police in this movie are not meant to be the same characters as in Gravity Falls, and they don't even seem to be played by the same actors. I could be wrong, but I think Expy fits better.
* {{Expy}}: Two sheriff characters seen in the trailer [[https://twitter.com/charlestan/status/745138466829176832 bear an uncanny resemblance]] to Sheriff Blubbs and Deputy Durland from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''.
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* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: Pete is briefly chased by a pack after getting lost - until Eliot's thunderous footsteps send them running.
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* FieryRedhead: Played with. Gavin and his lumber crew imply to each other that Grace being a redhead is why Jack tends to side with her against him -- that his brother can't withstand her hot temper. The truth is though that Grace is a very level-headed woman and even when emotional, tends to be very mild about how she shows it.
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* FieryRedhead: Played with. Gavin and his lumber crew imply to each other that Grace being a redhead is why Jack tends to side with her against him -- that his brother can't withstand her hot temper. The truth is though that is, although Grace is a very level-headed woman and even when emotional, tends to be very mild about how she shows it.
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* FieryRedhead: Played with. Gavin and his lumber crew imply to each other that Grace being a redhead is why Jack tends to side with her against him -- that his brother can't withstand her hot temper. The truth is though that Grace is a very level headed woman and even when emotional, tends to be very mild about how she shows it.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted hard. There are numerous serious crashes in the film, especially near the climax, and absolutely no vehicles catch fire or explode, even when they logically should like Jack's pick up being at or near ground zero for Elliot's breath weapon. Note that the fire is hot enough to ''burn asphalt.''
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** He is notably short for a child of his age. Reduced height is a common effect of malnutrition during youth.
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* AWizardDidIt: How did Pete, who we only see eating mushrooms before he's re-introduced to human food, spend six years in the forest but show no signs of malnourishment? ''Magic''. It's handwaved by the fact that the audience knows Elliot can camouflage to the point of invisibility, and invoked by Meacham describing his encounter with Elliot as magic that changed the way he sees the world. There is also the fact that Pete is shown catching a rabbit by hand, so it's possible Pete got by through hunting small game. The bigger question should be what does ''Elliot'' eat? Seeing as the dragon hasn't been shown hunting even once.
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* AWizardDidIt: How did Pete, who we only see eating mushrooms before he's re-introduced to human food, spend six years in the forest but show no signs of malnourishment? ''Magic''. It's handwaved by the fact that the audience knows Elliot can camouflage to the point of invisibility, and invoked by Meacham describing his encounter with Elliot as magic that changed the way he sees the world. There is also the fact that Pete is shown catching a rabbit by hand, so it's possible Pete got by through hunting small game. The bigger question should be what does ''Elliot'' eat? Seeing as the dragon hasn't been shown hunting even once.once, though WordOfGod is that he's a vegetarian.
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* AWizardDidIt: How did Pete, who we only see eating mushrooms before he's re-introduced to human food, spend six years in the forest but show no signs of malnourishment? ''Magic''. It's handwaved by the fact that the audience knows Elliot can camouflage to the point of invisibility, and invoked by Meacham describing his encounter with Elliot as magic that changed the way he sees the world. There is also the fact that Pete is shown catching a rabbit by hand, so it's possible Pete got by hunting small game.
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* AWizardDidIt: How did Pete, who we only see eating mushrooms before he's re-introduced to human food, spend six years in the forest but show no signs of malnourishment? ''Magic''. It's handwaved by the fact that the audience knows Elliot can camouflage to the point of invisibility, and invoked by Meacham describing his encounter with Elliot as magic that changed the way he sees the world. There is also the fact that Pete is shown catching a rabbit by hand, so it's possible Pete got by through hunting small game.game. The bigger question should be what does ''Elliot'' eat? Seeing as the dragon hasn't been shown hunting even once.
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* InkSuitActor: Inverted example. Two sheriff characters seen in the trailer bear an uncanny resemblance to Sheriff Blubbs and Deputy Durland from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. [[https://twitter.com/charlestan/status/745138466829176832 See for yourself]].
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* InkSuitActor: Inverted example. Two sheriff characters seen in the trailer [[https://twitter.com/charlestan/status/745138466829176832 bear an uncanny resemblance resemblance]] to Sheriff Blubbs and Deputy Durland from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. [[https://twitter.com/charlestan/status/745138466829176832 See for yourself]].
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** Grace. She is a little too strait-laced to really disrupt Gavin and the loggers' activities in the forest, even though they're cutting where they're not supposed to. So she fights back in small ways. She spray paints away their markings for which tress to cut when she finds endangered wildlife living there. She takes the keys out of the bulldozer and throws them a short distance away. Finally, she [[RuleOfThree takes Gavin's keys]] off him and throws them a short distance away.
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** Grace. She is a little too strait-laced to really disrupt Gavin and the loggers' activities in the forest, even though they're cutting where they're not supposed to. So she fights back in small ways. She spray paints away their markings for which tress trees to cut when she finds endangered wildlife living there. She takes the keys out of the bulldozer and throws them a short distance away. Finally, she [[RuleOfThree takes Gavin's keys]] off him and throws them a short distance away.
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* SettingUpdate: While the original takes place during the early 1900s, the remake takes place in 1977, the release of the original film came out.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: The reason Pete agrees to separate from Elliot and send him away: once Gavin has revealed Elliot's existence to the whole town. Humans would never stop looking for him even after he made his escape and proved himself dangerous to humans when provoked.
* TooDumbToLive: Granted Gavin was pumped up on adrenaline, and wasn't thinking clearly, but his plan to cut off Meecham was doomed to failure [[spoiler: even if the flatbed Meecham was driving still had its brakes.]]
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: The reason Pete agrees to separate from Elliot and send him away: once Now that Gavin has revealed Elliot's existence to the whole town. Humans town, humans would never stop looking for him even after he made his escape and proved himself dangerous to humans when provoked.
* TooDumbToLive: Granted Gavin was pumped up on adrenaline, and wasn't thinking clearly, but his plan to cut off Meecham was doomed to failure[[spoiler: even [[spoiler:even if the flatbed Meecham was driving still had its brakes.]] brakes]].
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A remake of the 1977 Disney film ''[[Film/Pete's Dragon1977 Pete's Dragon]]'', continuing Disney's trend of rebooting much of their fantasy catalog, released in the summer of 2016. Now a CGI character, Elliott is a cryptozoological oddity of the Pacific Northwest being studied by Mr. Meacham (Creator/RobertRedford) and his park ranger daughter Grace (Creator/BryceDallasHoward). New evidence of the dragon's existence comes to light when a feral child named Pete (Oakes Fegley) emerges from the woods, having spent six years living with the beast.
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A remake of the 1977 Disney film ''[[Film/Pete's Dragon1977 ''[[Film/PetesDragon1977 Pete's Dragon]]'', continuing Disney's trend of rebooting much of their fantasy catalog, released in the summer of 2016. Now a CGI character, Elliott is a cryptozoological oddity of the Pacific Northwest being studied by Mr. Meacham (Creator/RobertRedford) and his park ranger daughter Grace (Creator/BryceDallasHoward). New evidence of the dragon's existence comes to light when a feral child named Pete (Oakes Fegley) emerges from the woods, having spent six years living with the beast.
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A remake of the 1977 Disney film ''Film/{{Petes Dragon|1977}}'', ''[[Film/Pete's Dragon1977 Pete's Dragon]]'', continuing Disney's trend of rebooting much of their fantasy catalog, released in the summer of 2016. Now a CGI character, Elliott is a cryptozoological oddity of the Pacific Northwest being studied by Mr. Meacham (Creator/RobertRedford) and his park ranger daughter Grace (Creator/BryceDallasHoward). New evidence of the dragon's existence comes to light when a feral child named Pete (Oakes Fegley) emerges from the woods, having spent six years living with the beast.
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A remake of the 1977 Disney film ''Film/PetesDragon'', ''Film/{{Petes Dragon|1977}}'', continuing Disney's trend of rebooting much of their fantasy catalog, released in the summer of 2016. Now a CGI character, Elliott is a cryptozoological oddity of the Pacific Northwest being studied by Mr. Meacham (Creator/RobertRedford) and his park ranger daughter Grace (Creator/BryceDallasHoward). New evidence of the dragon's existence comes to light when a feral child named Pete (Oakes Fegley) emerges from the woods, having spent six years living with the beast.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Played with.
** The town doctor and Grace are having a conversation about how Pete is and what to do with him. During this time he wakes up, figures out the window locks and escapes. Natalie is the only one who notices.
** Meacham is pro-Elliot and helps Pete and Natalie get him away from Gavin.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Being based on domestic mammals, Elliot acts very much like a dog or cat with wings and fire breath.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford's character) has for years told stories to children about a fire-breathing dragon who lives in the forest. Pete reveals that these stories are actually true.
* ArcWords: "The bravest boy I've ever met." These words are spoken to Pete [[RuleOfThree three times:]] Once by his birth mother, once by Grace, and once by her father who adds Pete to the tall tales he tells.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: While Elliot looks more realistic he still gives off an air of a goofball animal at times and is honestly perfectly harmless. [[BerserkButton Until you decide to become a threat to Pete]].
* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with parents driving on a winding road in the woods, with Pete in the back seat...and lovingly looking back at him (and Natalie in the closing scenes).
* BreathWeapon: Elliot's fire breath. It's given a slightly interesting treatment narratively; for most of the film we're led to think it's something Meacham invented to spice up the stories he tells the town kids, as the tale we hear paints Elliot as much more aggressive than he really is. Then we see during the climax that yes, he ''can'' breathe fire, and it's ''terrifyingly'' effective.
* BittersweetEnding: Pete and Elliot, after some discussion, sadly and reluctantly agree they have to separate for Elliot's safety. Their home was destroyed by Gavin's team capturing Elliot. And now the entire town knows the dragon exists. So Elliot leaves Pete with Grace's family and takes off... but sometime later, Jack and Grace have taken the folk song about dragons that everyone knows and treated the "go North" lyrics as instructions so the family, which now includes Pete, can find and visit Elliot [[spoiler: and the family he was separated from but has now reunited with]].
* CassandraTruth: Meacham has been telling people about the Millhaven Dragon for years, so long that it's a town legend. Gavin stumbles across Elliot and the first thing he does is to rush home to tell his brother Jack that Meacham wasn't making it up.
* CoolOldGuy: Mr. Meacham. He's a woodcarver of some skill, and the children love the tall tales he spins. Even though he and his daughter don't agree on his fanciful stories, they obviously still love each other a lot.
* CoveredInGunge: Elliott's sneezes
** Pete gets a downplayed example. The dragon sneezes on him but it's a light mist. Pete still complains and playfully scolds Elliot.
** Gavin gets the example played straight, and is drenched from head to toe in viscous, wet dragon snot.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted hard. There are numerous serious crashes in the film, especially near the climax, and absolutely no vehicles catch fire or explode, even when they logically should like Jack's pick up being at or near ground zero for Elliot's breath weapon. Note that the fire is hot enough to ''burn asphalt.''
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The town where the human characters live is called Millhaven. It is the home of ...a lumber mill.
* FantasticSapientSpecies: Elliot. He is smart enough to understand English when spoken by Pete or other humans, and he's smart enough to communicate with humans through gestures, body language and the use of props.
* FieryRedhead: Played with. Gavin and his lumber crew imply to each other that Grace being a redhead is why Jack tends to side with her against him -- that his brother can't withstand her hot temper. The truth is though that Grace is a very level headed woman and even when emotional, tends to be very mild about how she shows it.
* FriendToAllChildren:
** Elliot doesn't bother with his invisibility when searching for Pete, so more than one child lays eyes on him. Not one seems remotely frightened. All of them smile and wave at him.
** When Natalie gets to meet Elliot, she immediately lays on hands and pets him like a giant puppy.
* HappilyAdopted: Shares this with the original.
* HeroesWantRedheads: A played with example. Pete bonds with Grace most out of all the people in Millhaven.
* InkSuitActor: Inverted example. Two sheriff characters seen in the trailer bear an uncanny resemblance to Sheriff Blubbs and Deputy Durland from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. [[https://twitter.com/charlestan/status/745138466829176832 See for yourself]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Gavin. Even though he wants to get rich and famous at any cost, he leaps to protect children and is very devoted to his brother, even though they don't really get along.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: On several occasions, but Pete and Elliot are at the top of the list. Elliot clues Gavin in by accidentally toppling a tree near the logging site, and although Pete's requests for Elliot to fly away were tactically sound, the fact that Elliot was pumped full of tranquilizers at the time only served to make the situation worse when his attempts to do just that failed.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Played with. When Natalie explains the concept of "imaginary friends" to Pete, he figures that Elliot isn't imaginary, so maybe Natalie is. She takes some offense to this logic. Then Grace sees the crayon drawing Pete did and finds it unsettlingly familiar to drawings done by her father of the Millhaven Dragon.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Unlike his original incarnation, the new Elliot's design is more based in the world of real mammals, including dogs and cats, with his scales swapped for green fur and his pink hair gone. Regardless, he can still fly and breathe fire. Also, his ability to turn invisible is reminiscent of camouflage.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Pete suffers MissingMom and DisappearedDad in the first few minutes of the movie. TrailersAlwaysSpoil, so the fact that Pete was [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan alone in the woods for six years]] means that Mom and Dad had to be taken out of the picture early on.
** Natalie has a MissingMom. They don't even bother to imply why she's missing. Just that Jack is affianced to Grace now and she's on a FirstNameBasis with the stepmother-to-be.
** Grace herself also has a MissingMom. She apparently died at some point, but far enough back that she was about Pete's age when it happened.
* PluckyGirl:
** Grace. She is a little too strait-laced to really disrupt Gavin and the loggers' activities in the forest, even though they're cutting where they're not supposed to. So she fights back in small ways. She spray paints away their markings for which tress to cut when she finds endangered wildlife living there. She takes the keys out of the bulldozer and throws them a short distance away. Finally, she [[RuleOfThree takes Gavin's keys]] off him and throws them a short distance away.
** Natalie. She starts out as an obviously bookish child who is actually annoyed at being late for school. But once she sees Pete, she chases him into the forest and fearlessly climbs his tree, only going back to DistressedDamsel traits when the branches give way under her greater weight and she begins to fall.
* RaisedByWolves: Pete was verbal and literate when he got lost in the woods, and Elliot obviously understands English, so Pete could still be verbal when found multiple years later. But he howls when upset, and shows the rest of the typical "feral child" traits.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted. Meacham mentions that the dragon he met had "eyes red as hellfire", but he was only embellishing to make the story more entertaining for kids. Elliot's eyes are actually more golden.
* SettingUpdate: While the original takes place during the early 1900s, the remake takes place in 1977, the release of the original film came out.
* ShownTheirWork: The developers worked to capture Elliot's clumsiness by watching "hours upon hours" of funny animal videos.
** Elliot's pink hair was removed in his redesign because it doesn't blend in with foliage of the movie's photorealistic environment.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Surprisingly averted. The movie uses a very light touch with its pro-environmentalism messages.
* TenderTears: Anytime Pete or Grace is crying. It's implied near the end that Elliot is also capable of crying, but only in moments of great emotion.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: The reason Pete agrees to separate from Elliot and send him away: once Gavin has revealed Elliot's existence to the whole town. Humans would never stop looking for him even after he made his escape and proved himself dangerous to humans when provoked.
* TooDumbToLive: Granted Gavin was pumped up on adrenaline, and wasn't thinking clearly, but his plan to cut off Meecham was doomed to failure [[spoiler: even if the flatbed Meecham was driving still had its brakes.]]
* VillainBall: Gavin is the villain because the movie needed conflict. He didn't seem to hold any ill will toward Elliot specifically -- at least not until Elliot sneezes on him and bends his gun into uselessness; perhaps spurred on by hurt feelings when his brother Jack didn't believe him. Gavin's main motivation is that he seems to believe he needs a claim to fame to put the tiny mill town on the map. If cutting down the forest faster than is wise to encourage development won't do it, maybe catching the town's legendary dragon will.
* VisibleInvisibility: Elliot shows as more magically well camouflaged than truly invisible in many case.
* AWizardDidIt: How did Pete, who we only see eating mushrooms before he's re-introduced to human food, spend six years in the forest but show no signs of malnourishment? ''Magic''. It's handwaved by the fact that the audience knows Elliot can camouflage to the point of invisibility, and invoked by Meacham describing his encounter with Elliot as magic that changed the way he sees the world. There is also the fact that Pete is shown catching a rabbit by hand, so it's possible Pete got by hunting small game.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Elliot's redesign is radical departure from his old look, but some aspects of that design, such as his big jaw, are still present.
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!!Tropes:
* AdultsAreUseless: Played with.
** The town doctor and Grace are having a conversation about how Pete is and what to do with him. During this time he wakes up, figures out the window locks and escapes. Natalie is the only one who notices.
** Meacham is pro-Elliot and helps Pete and Natalie get him away from Gavin.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Being based on domestic mammals, Elliot acts very much like a dog or cat with wings and fire breath.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford's character) has for years told stories to children about a fire-breathing dragon who lives in the forest. Pete reveals that these stories are actually true.
* ArcWords: "The bravest boy I've ever met." These words are spoken to Pete [[RuleOfThree three times:]] Once by his birth mother, once by Grace, and once by her father who adds Pete to the tall tales he tells.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: While Elliot looks more realistic he still gives off an air of a goofball animal at times and is honestly perfectly harmless. [[BerserkButton Until you decide to become a threat to Pete]].
* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with parents driving on a winding road in the woods, with Pete in the back seat...and lovingly looking back at him (and Natalie in the closing scenes).
* BreathWeapon: Elliot's fire breath. It's given a slightly interesting treatment narratively; for most of the film we're led to think it's something Meacham invented to spice up the stories he tells the town kids, as the tale we hear paints Elliot as much more aggressive than he really is. Then we see during the climax that yes, he ''can'' breathe fire, and it's ''terrifyingly'' effective.
* BittersweetEnding: Pete and Elliot, after some discussion, sadly and reluctantly agree they have to separate for Elliot's safety. Their home was destroyed by Gavin's team capturing Elliot. And now the entire town knows the dragon exists. So Elliot leaves Pete with Grace's family and takes off... but sometime later, Jack and Grace have taken the folk song about dragons that everyone knows and treated the "go North" lyrics as instructions so the family, which now includes Pete, can find and visit Elliot [[spoiler: and the family he was separated from but has now reunited with]].
* CassandraTruth: Meacham has been telling people about the Millhaven Dragon for years, so long that it's a town legend. Gavin stumbles across Elliot and the first thing he does is to rush home to tell his brother Jack that Meacham wasn't making it up.
* CoolOldGuy: Mr. Meacham. He's a woodcarver of some skill, and the children love the tall tales he spins. Even though he and his daughter don't agree on his fanciful stories, they obviously still love each other a lot.
* CoveredInGunge: Elliott's sneezes
** Pete gets a downplayed example. The dragon sneezes on him but it's a light mist. Pete still complains and playfully scolds Elliot.
** Gavin gets the example played straight, and is drenched from head to toe in viscous, wet dragon snot.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted hard. There are numerous serious crashes in the film, especially near the climax, and absolutely no vehicles catch fire or explode, even when they logically should like Jack's pick up being at or near ground zero for Elliot's breath weapon. Note that the fire is hot enough to ''burn asphalt.''
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The town where the human characters live is called Millhaven. It is the home of ...a lumber mill.
* FantasticSapientSpecies: Elliot. He is smart enough to understand English when spoken by Pete or other humans, and he's smart enough to communicate with humans through gestures, body language and the use of props.
* FieryRedhead: Played with. Gavin and his lumber crew imply to each other that Grace being a redhead is why Jack tends to side with her against him -- that his brother can't withstand her hot temper. The truth is though that Grace is a very level headed woman and even when emotional, tends to be very mild about how she shows it.
* FriendToAllChildren:
** Elliot doesn't bother with his invisibility when searching for Pete, so more than one child lays eyes on him. Not one seems remotely frightened. All of them smile and wave at him.
** When Natalie gets to meet Elliot, she immediately lays on hands and pets him like a giant puppy.
* HappilyAdopted: Shares this with the original.
* HeroesWantRedheads: A played with example. Pete bonds with Grace most out of all the people in Millhaven.
* InkSuitActor: Inverted example. Two sheriff characters seen in the trailer bear an uncanny resemblance to Sheriff Blubbs and Deputy Durland from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. [[https://twitter.com/charlestan/status/745138466829176832 See for yourself]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Gavin. Even though he wants to get rich and famous at any cost, he leaps to protect children and is very devoted to his brother, even though they don't really get along.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: On several occasions, but Pete and Elliot are at the top of the list. Elliot clues Gavin in by accidentally toppling a tree near the logging site, and although Pete's requests for Elliot to fly away were tactically sound, the fact that Elliot was pumped full of tranquilizers at the time only served to make the situation worse when his attempts to do just that failed.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Played with. When Natalie explains the concept of "imaginary friends" to Pete, he figures that Elliot isn't imaginary, so maybe Natalie is. She takes some offense to this logic. Then Grace sees the crayon drawing Pete did and finds it unsettlingly familiar to drawings done by her father of the Millhaven Dragon.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Unlike his original incarnation, the new Elliot's design is more based in the world of real mammals, including dogs and cats, with his scales swapped for green fur and his pink hair gone. Regardless, he can still fly and breathe fire. Also, his ability to turn invisible is reminiscent of camouflage.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Pete suffers MissingMom and DisappearedDad in the first few minutes of the movie. TrailersAlwaysSpoil, so the fact that Pete was [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan alone in the woods for six years]] means that Mom and Dad had to be taken out of the picture early on.
** Natalie has a MissingMom. They don't even bother to imply why she's missing. Just that Jack is affianced to Grace now and she's on a FirstNameBasis with the stepmother-to-be.
** Grace herself also has a MissingMom. She apparently died at some point, but far enough back that she was about Pete's age when it happened.
* PluckyGirl:
** Grace. She is a little too strait-laced to really disrupt Gavin and the loggers' activities in the forest, even though they're cutting where they're not supposed to. So she fights back in small ways. She spray paints away their markings for which tress to cut when she finds endangered wildlife living there. She takes the keys out of the bulldozer and throws them a short distance away. Finally, she [[RuleOfThree takes Gavin's keys]] off him and throws them a short distance away.
** Natalie. She starts out as an obviously bookish child who is actually annoyed at being late for school. But once she sees Pete, she chases him into the forest and fearlessly climbs his tree, only going back to DistressedDamsel traits when the branches give way under her greater weight and she begins to fall.
* RaisedByWolves: Pete was verbal and literate when he got lost in the woods, and Elliot obviously understands English, so Pete could still be verbal when found multiple years later. But he howls when upset, and shows the rest of the typical "feral child" traits.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted. Meacham mentions that the dragon he met had "eyes red as hellfire", but he was only embellishing to make the story more entertaining for kids. Elliot's eyes are actually more golden.
* SettingUpdate: While the original takes place during the early 1900s, the remake takes place in 1977, the release of the original film came out.
* ShownTheirWork: The developers worked to capture Elliot's clumsiness by watching "hours upon hours" of funny animal videos.
** Elliot's pink hair was removed in his redesign because it doesn't blend in with foliage of the movie's photorealistic environment.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Surprisingly averted. The movie uses a very light touch with its pro-environmentalism messages.
* TenderTears: Anytime Pete or Grace is crying. It's implied near the end that Elliot is also capable of crying, but only in moments of great emotion.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: The reason Pete agrees to separate from Elliot and send him away: once Gavin has revealed Elliot's existence to the whole town. Humans would never stop looking for him even after he made his escape and proved himself dangerous to humans when provoked.
* TooDumbToLive: Granted Gavin was pumped up on adrenaline, and wasn't thinking clearly, but his plan to cut off Meecham was doomed to failure [[spoiler: even if the flatbed Meecham was driving still had its brakes.]]
* VillainBall: Gavin is the villain because the movie needed conflict. He didn't seem to hold any ill will toward Elliot specifically -- at least not until Elliot sneezes on him and bends his gun into uselessness; perhaps spurred on by hurt feelings when his brother Jack didn't believe him. Gavin's main motivation is that he seems to believe he needs a claim to fame to put the tiny mill town on the map. If cutting down the forest faster than is wise to encourage development won't do it, maybe catching the town's legendary dragon will.
* VisibleInvisibility: Elliot shows as more magically well camouflaged than truly invisible in many case.
* AWizardDidIt: How did Pete, who we only see eating mushrooms before he's re-introduced to human food, spend six years in the forest but show no signs of malnourishment? ''Magic''. It's handwaved by the fact that the audience knows Elliot can camouflage to the point of invisibility, and invoked by Meacham describing his encounter with Elliot as magic that changed the way he sees the world. There is also the fact that Pete is shown catching a rabbit by hand, so it's possible Pete got by hunting small game.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Elliot's redesign is radical departure from his old look, but some aspects of that design, such as his big jaw, are still present.
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