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* A redheaded character with the last name Wilde is assisting the protagonist in [[spoiler:stopping a VillainWithGoodPublicity, who tries to turn harmless creatures into savage beasts by injecting a purple PsychoSerum into them]]. ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' did it first, folks.

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* A redheaded character with the last name Wilde is assisting the protagonist in [[spoiler:stopping a VillainWithGoodPublicity, who tries to turn harmless creatures into savage beasts by injecting a purple PsychoSerum into them]].via ChemicallyInducedInsanity]]. ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' did it first, folks.
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** This can also be found even earlier in the {{Belgian comic|s}} ''[[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaminou Chaminou]]'', starting in 1964.

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** This can also be found even earlier in the {{Belgian comic|s}} ''[[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaminou Chaminou]]'', starting Chaminou]]'' (starting in 1964.1964), whose similarity with ''Zootopia'' were noted by magazine ''L'Obs''.

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* The idea of predators and prey co-existing (mostly) peacefully is not new, as a relativity obscure British cartoon (based on a relatively obscure British children's book series) called ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' did it as well.
* Webcomic fans might also recognize the predator/prey discrimination dynamic as well as deconstruction of a FunnyAnimal society/world from ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell''.
* Finnick being an adult who pretends to be a baby resonates as far back as [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032039/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_69 a Little Rascals short from the 30's centered around that very premise]].

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* The idea of predators and prey co-existing (mostly) peacefully is not new, as a new.
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relativity obscure British cartoon (based on a relatively obscure British children's book series) called ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' did it as well.
* ** Webcomic fans might also recognize the predator/prey discrimination dynamic as well as deconstruction of a FunnyAnimal society/world from ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell''.
** This can also be found even earlier in the {{Belgian comic|s}} ''[[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaminou Chaminou]]'', starting in 1964.
* Finnick being an adult who pretends to be a baby resonates as far back as [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032039/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_69 a Little Rascals short from the 30's '30s centered around that very premise]].
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* A redheaded character with the last name Wilde is assisting the protagonist in [[spoiler:stopping a VillainWithGoodPublicity, who tries to turn harmless creatures into savage beasts by injecting a purple PsychoSerum into them]]. ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' did it first, folks.

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* The idea of predators and prey co-existing (mostly) peacefully is not new, as a relativity obscure British cartoon (based on a relatively obscure British children's book series) called ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' did it before:
** The first arc sees a group of said animals through searching for a new home after their forest is leveled.
** For this end, there is an agreement in place (known as The Oath) that carnivores will not eat the herbivores to see that the trip is made in peace.
** After arriving at a nature preserve, the Oath remains intact for the group, thanks to the friendships formed on the journey.
** A central character is also a fox.
** The later arcs even have the same distrust from the herbivores against the carnivores, despite how most of the later had refrained from their instincts with varying degrees of ease before.

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* The idea of predators and prey co-existing (mostly) peacefully is not new, as a relativity obscure British cartoon (based on a relatively obscure British children's book series) called ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' did it before:
** The first arc sees a group of said animals through searching for a new home after their forest is leveled.
** For this end, there is an agreement in place (known
as The Oath) that carnivores will not eat the herbivores to see that the trip is made in peace.
** After arriving at a nature preserve, the Oath remains intact for the group, thanks to the friendships formed on the journey.
** A central character is also a fox.
** The later arcs even have the same distrust from the herbivores against the carnivores, despite how most of the later had refrained from their instincts with varying degrees of ease before.
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* Finnick being an adult who pretends to be a baby got him a lot of fans who were into being a diaper fur, as if no one's ever seen a short character pretend to be a baby before. Even though it's a gag so old there was literally [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032039/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_69 a Little Rascals short from the 30's centered around that very premise]].

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* Finnick being an adult who pretends to be a baby got him a lot of fans who were into being a diaper fur, resonates as if no one's ever seen a short character pretend to be a baby before. Even though it's a gag so old there was literally far back as [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032039/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_69 a Little Rascals short from the 30's centered around that very premise]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'' is almost twice as old (and more depressing than either could hope to be).
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* It also happens to the surgically-uplifted animals in ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' after the death of Dr. Moreau. Unlike the Narnian animals, Moreau's animals were anthropomorphized as well, though without continual surgeries to maintain the changes they would revert back to type.
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The film joins a specific sub-genre of TalkingAnimal works that depicts sentient animals in danger of losing their sentience and the horror that ensues in-universe:



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* The idea of predators and prey co-existing (mostly) peacefully is not new, as a relativity obscure British cartoon (based on a relatively obscure British children's book series) called WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood did it before:

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* The idea of predators and prey co-existing (mostly) peacefully is not new, as a relativity obscure British cartoon (based on a relatively obscure British children's book series) called WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' did it before:
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The film joins a specific sub-genre of TalkingAnimal works that depicts sentient animals in danger of losing their sentience and the horror that ensues in-universe:

* The danger of {{Talking Animal}}s reverting back into wild, savage beasts is a recurring subject in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', primarily in ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'' and ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', although they're first warned about this terrifying possibility in the series {{prequel}} ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew''.
* It also happens to the surgically-uplifted animals in ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' after the death of Dr. Moreau. Unlike the Narnian animals, Moreau's animals were anthropomorphized as well, though without continual surgeries to maintain the changes they would revert back to type.
* In ''{{Literature/Wicked}}'', like in this film, the "intelligent animals turning into savages" theme is also being influenced by the series' antagonists in order to disenfranchise the victims and turn popular opinion against them.
* This isn't the first animated feature film to use anthropomorphic animals as a metaphor for racism. ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' beat it to the punch nineteen years beforehand.
* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'' is almost twice as old (and more depressing than either could hope to be).
* The idea of predators and prey co-existing (mostly) peacefully is not new, as a relativity obscure British cartoon (based on a relatively obscure British children's book series) called WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood did it before:
** The first arc sees a group of said animals through searching for a new home after their forest is leveled.
** For this end, there is an agreement in place (known as The Oath) that carnivores will not eat the herbivores to see that the trip is made in peace.
** After arriving at a nature preserve, the Oath remains intact for the group, thanks to the friendships formed on the journey.
** A central character is also a fox.
** The later arcs even have the same distrust from the herbivores against the carnivores, despite how most of the later had refrained from their instincts with varying degrees of ease before.
* Webcomic fans might also recognize the predator/prey discrimination dynamic as well as deconstruction of a FunnyAnimal society/world from ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell''.
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