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* PredatorPreyFriendship: Enforced on the boat, and carried out naturally between Finny and Leah. Even before the ban on predation is placed, the Lion and Flamingo running the arc seem close enough to interact amicably, and share [[AscendedToCarnivorism live dinner]] together after it ends.

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* PredatorPreyFriendship: Enforced on the boat, and carried out naturally between Finny and Leah. Even before the ban on predation is placed, the Lion and Flamingo running the arc ark seem close enough to interact amicably, and share [[AscendedToCarnivorism live dinner]] together after it ends.
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* PredatorPreyFriendship: Enforced on the boat, and carried out naturally between Finny and Leah. Even before the ban on predation is placed, the Lion and Flamingo running the arc seem close enough to interact amicably, and share [[AscendedToCarnivorism live dinner]] together after it ends.
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* PredationIsNatural: In this WorldOfFunnyAnimals, predators eating prey is understood by all. Due to the seriousness of the flood and its threat, it is demanded that all predation cease the day before the Ark departs, although many (including the Lion captain who enforces this rule) have a hard time following it. By the end, once the animals arrive at their new home, this rule appears to dissolve since Lion and Flamingo share a clearly sapient and terrified animal on a plate for dinner.


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* SwallowedWhole:
** One squirrel in the beginning of the film is swallowed twice, first by a tigress and then by the male Griffin. Both times he reacts with only mild annoyance, and the predator is forced to cough him up both times.
** The male griffin gets another bite while chasing down Finny, swallowing him whole before being forced to gag him up as a result of Finny's inking.
** [[spoiler: Both griffins are ultimately eaten by Obesie, and shown to be living inside him in the end credits.]]
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* ShipTease: The lion and flamingo are lightly implied to be in a relationship, including sharing a dinner date together in the end credits.
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* DrawAggro: By the end, Finny uses his bioluminescence to attract the griffins towards him and away from his dad and the Grymps.
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* UnholyMatrimony: Despite their villainy, the Griffins clearly love each other, calling each other affectionate names and setting up candlelit dinners for when they finally kill the kids they're chasing.
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* PaintingTheMedium: When Dave and Hazel explain their plans to escape the ship's brig, the film demonstrates them in the style of different videogames. Dave's more optimistic plan gets a cutesy 8-Bit sidescroller design while Hazel's grittier and combat-oriented plan gets a first person shooter with fists instead of guns.
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* GettingEatenIsHarmless: The griffins suffer their DisneyDeath [[spoiler: getting eaten by Obesey. In the credits, they're shown playing cards inside him to make sure we don't think they died.]]
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* CouldHaveAvoidedAllThisPlot: In the final scene, the lion captain and his main crew wonder if there would have been this much trouble if they'd explained ''why'' the Nestrians weren't on the list in the first place.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedAllThisPlot: CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In the final scene, the lion captain and his main crew wonder if there would have been this much trouble if they'd explained ''why'' the Nestrians weren't on the list in the first place.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedAllThisPlot: In the final scene, the lion captain and his main crew wonder if there would have been this much trouble if they'd explained ''why'' the Nestrians weren't on the list in the first place.

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A great flood is coming, and all the animals are in danger! Thankfully, a nice human named Noah built an ark for them to take shelter in. Finny, who is a fictional species of animal called a Nestrian, is among the animals who go to the Ark, along with Leah, who is a fictional species of vaguely dog-like predator called a Grymp. However, Finny and Leah end up wandering away from the Ark and end up missing it when it sets sail, and Finny's dad and Leah's mom are still in the ark, forcing Finny and Leah to try to get back to the ark, and avoid a pair of griffins who want to eat them, all by themselves. They also meet Obesey, a giant whale, and Stayput, his parasite friend, both of whom join them on their way back to the ark.

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A great flood is coming, and all the animals are in danger! Thankfully, a nice human named Noah built an ark for them to take shelter in. Finny, who is a [[CartoonCreature fictional species of animal called a Nestrian, Nestrian]], is among the animals who go to the Ark, along with Leah, who is a fictional species of vaguely dog-like predator called a Grymp. However, Finny and Leah end up wandering away from the Ark and end up missing it when it sets sail, and Finny's dad and Leah's mom are still in the ark, forcing Finny and Leah to try to get back to the ark, and avoid a pair of griffins who want to eat them, all by themselves. They also meet Obesey, a giant whale, and Stayput, his parasite friend, both of whom join them on their way back to the ark.


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* CartoonCreature: The Nestrian and the Grymp species.

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A great flood is coming, and all the animals are in danger! Thankfully, a nice human named Noah built an ark for them to take shelter in. Finny, who is a fictional species of animal called a Nestrian, is among the animals who go to the ark, along with Leah, who is a fictional species of vaguely dog-like predator called a Grymp. However, Finny and Leah end up wandering away from the ark and end up missing it when it sets sail, and Finny's dad and Leah's mom are still in the ark, forcing Finny and Leah to try to get back to the ark, and avoid a pair of griffins who want to eat them, all by themselves. They also meet Obesey, a giant whale, and Stayput, his parasite friend, both of whom join them on their way back to the ark.

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A great flood is coming, and all the animals are in danger! Thankfully, a nice human named Noah built an ark for them to take shelter in. Finny, who is a fictional species of animal called a Nestrian, is among the animals who go to the ark, Ark, along with Leah, who is a fictional species of vaguely dog-like predator called a Grymp. However, Finny and Leah end up wandering away from the ark Ark and end up missing it when it sets sail, and Finny's dad and Leah's mom are still in the ark, forcing Finny and Leah to try to get back to the ark, and avoid a pair of griffins who want to eat them, all by themselves. They also meet Obesey, a giant whale, and Stayput, his parasite friend, both of whom join them on their way back to the ark.



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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Finny nearly drowns near the end of the film, but he turns out to be perfectly fine.]]

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[[spoiler:Finny nearly drowns near the end of the film, but he turns out to be perfectly fine.]]



-->'''Captain:''' May I also remind you that this is a non-carnivorous voyage. Thank you for your understanding. I could really go for some giraffe right about now...
-->'''Flamingo:''' Captain, you're still on air!
-->'''Captain:''' Whoops...

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-->'''Captain:''' May I also remind you that this is a non-carnivorous voyage. Thank you for your understanding. I could really go for some giraffe right about now...
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now...\\
'''Flamingo:'''
Captain, you're still on air!
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air!\\
'''Captain:'''
Whoops...



* MeaningfulName: Nestrians are stated to be a species of animal that is good at bulding their own nests. Note the "nest" in the name "''Nest''rian".
* MisplacedWildlife: In-universe example. Nestrians are [[spoiler: amphibious, with anatomy heavily adapted for living underwater,]] but Finny and Dave somehow ended up living in the middle of a desert.

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* MeaningfulName: Nestrians are stated to be a species of animal that is good at bulding building their own nests. Note the "nest" in the name "''Nest''rian".
* MisplacedWildlife: In-universe example. Nestrians are [[spoiler: amphibious, [[spoiler:amphibious, with anatomy heavily adapted for living underwater,]] but Finny and Dave somehow ended up living in the middle of a desert.



* PaperThinDisguise: Finny and his dad are rejected from the ark for not being on the ark's animal list, so they dress up in Grymp costumes in an attempt to get on the ark. It actually works.

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* PaperThinDisguise: Finny and his dad are rejected from the ark Ark for not being on the ark's Ark's animal list, so they dress up in Grymp costumes in an attempt to get on the ark. It actually works.


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* SuddenVideoGameMoment: When Dave and Hazel are discussing how to escape from the brig and reach the captain of the Ark, Dave's ImagineSpot takes the form of a children 8-bits video game, while Hazel's own is a move violent first-person fighting game.

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* DefrostingIceQueen:
** Leah gradually becomes nicer and more caring, due to her growing friendship with Finny.
** Hazel, to a lesser extent; by the end of the film, she is less cold and aloof toward her daughter.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are some subtle hints regarding [[spoiler:the Nestrians' true nature]] throughout the course of the film:
** The reason [[spoiler:Finny and Dave]] live alone and believe they may be the last of their kind is because [[spoiler:the rest are living underwater]].
** This is also why [[spoiler:they weren't allowed on the Ark; because they didn't ''need'' protection from the flood, as the water is their natural habitat]].
** Their [[spoiler:bioluminescence and ink production are both traits founds in certain sea creatures]].
* TheGhost: Noah and his family are only mentioned, and never seen.



* NiceGuy: Both Finny and Dave are really sweet and caring.
* NonIndicativeName: The "Griffins" look more like prehistoric bats.



* SmokeOut: The Nestrians' ink works as this, whether on land or underwater.

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* SmokeOut: The Nestrians' ink works as this, whether [[spoiler:whether on land or underwater.underwater]].
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* MarketBasedTitle: Has at least three. The UK title is ''Two by Two'', the US title is ''All Creatures Big and Small'', and in the rest of the world the film goes by the title ''Ooops! Noah is Gone...''.
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* CrystalLandscape: the cave the animals sleep in the second night of the flood is filled with reflective crystals. Finny later takes advantage of this by using his reflection as a decoy against the Griffins.

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* CrystalLandscape: the The cave the animals sleep in the second night of the flood is filled with reflective crystals. Finny later takes advantage of this by using his reflection as a decoy against the Griffins.

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* AnimalNationalStereotypes: The two elephants have strong Indian accents, and even bindis. Lampshaded when someone asks if they're African or Indian elephants, and the male responds with: "Seriously?"



* ShoutOut: The griffins build an unstable stone bridge, in hopes that Finny's group try to walk on it and fall off, allowing them to catch them for dinner. The stones comprising the bridge end up falling on them like ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' blocks, and when the rocks form a horizontal line it disappears, just like in the game.
There's even a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong knockoff version of the game's iconic theme]] that plays during this scene!

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* SapientEatSapient: The sapient vultures plan to eat the sapient Finny and his gang.
* ShoutOut: The griffins build an unstable stone bridge, in hopes that Finny's group try to walk on it and fall off, allowing them to catch them for dinner. The stones comprising the bridge end up falling on them like ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' blocks, and when the rocks form a horizontal line it disappears, just like in the game. \n There's even a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong knockoff version of the game's iconic theme]] that plays during this scene!



* TalkingAnimal: The entire cast of the film is this.

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* TalkingAnimal: The entire cast of the film is this.comprises talking animals.
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* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:The Griffins are ultimately swallowed by Obesey.]

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* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:The Griffins are ultimately swallowed by Obesey.]]]
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* BambooTechnology: Finny somehow creates a semi-functional glider capable of briefly carrying a whale's weight from sticks, vines, and leaves. And it was supposed to be a ''sunshade.''

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A great flood is coming, and all the animals are in danger! Thankfully, a nice human named Noah built an ark for them to take shelter in. Finny, who is a fictional species of animal called a Nestrian, is among the animals who go to the ark, along with Leah, who is a fictional species of cat called a Grymp. However, Finny and Leah end up wandering away from the ark and end up missing it when it sets sail, and Finny's dad and Leah's mom are still in the ark, forcing Finny and Leah to try to get back to the ark, and avoid a pair of griffins who want to eat them, all by themselves. They also meet Obesey, a giant whale, and Stayput, his parasite friend, both of whom join them on their way back to the ark.

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A great flood is coming, and all the animals are in danger! Thankfully, a nice human named Noah built an ark for them to take shelter in. Finny, who is a fictional species of animal called a Nestrian, is among the animals who go to the ark, along with Leah, who is a fictional species of cat vaguely dog-like predator called a Grymp. However, Finny and Leah end up wandering away from the ark and end up missing it when it sets sail, and Finny's dad and Leah's mom are still in the ark, forcing Finny and Leah to try to get back to the ark, and avoid a pair of griffins who want to eat them, all by themselves. They also meet Obesey, a giant whale, and Stayput, his parasite friend, both of whom join them on their way back to the ark.


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* MisplacedWildlife: In-universe example. Nestrians are [[spoiler: amphibious, with anatomy heavily adapted for living underwater,]] but Finny and Dave somehow ended up living in the middle of a desert.


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* SmokeOut: The Nestrians' ink works as this, whether on land or underwater.
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* CrystalLandscape: the cave the animals sleep in the second night of the flood is filled with reflective crystals. Finny later takes advantage of this by using his reflection as a decoy against the Griffins.

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* AnimalNationalStereotypes: The two elephants have strong Indian accents, and even bindis. Lampshaded when someone asks if they're African or Indian elephants, and the male responds with: "Seriously?"



* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:The Griffins are ultimately swallowed by Obesey.]



* ShoutOut: The griffins build an unstable stone bridge, in hopes that Finny's group try to walk on it and fall off, allowing them to catch them for dinner. The stones comprising the bridge end up falling on them like ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' blocks, and when the rocks form a horizontal line it disappears, just like in the game. There's even a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong knockoff version of the game's iconic theme]] that plays during this scene!

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* ShoutOut: The griffins build an unstable stone bridge, in hopes that Finny's group try to walk on it and fall off, allowing them to catch them for dinner. The stones comprising the bridge end up falling on them like ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' blocks, and when the rocks form a horizontal line it disappears, just like in the game.
There's even a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong knockoff version of the game's iconic theme]] that plays during this scene!scene!
* SuperPersistentPredator: The Griffins just don't give up, pursuing the heroes past all semblance of sanity.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The Nestrians. Finny is neon orange, Dave is vivid purple, and both of them have bright blue bioluminescent stripes.


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* BioluminescenceIsCool: Finny and Dave's stripes glow in the dark. Leah is less than impressed at first, but the ability comes in handy quite a bit.
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** [[spoiler: Obesey and Stayput fall off a cliff earlier and are presumed dead, not reappearing for several scenes.]]
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* AlliterativeTitle: One of the film's alternate titles, ''Two by Two'', counts as such.
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Not to be confused with ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.
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* TalkingAnimal: ''Every single character in the film'' is this.

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* TalkingAnimal: ''Every single character in The entire cast of the film'' film is this.
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* TalkingAnimal: Every animal on the ark.

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* TalkingAnimal: Every animal on ''Every single character in the ark.film'' is this.
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* MeaningfulName: Nestrians are stated to be a species of animal that is good at

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''All Creatures Big and Small'', also known as ''Two by Two'' in the UK and ''Ooops! Noah is Gone...'' in the rest of the world, is a 2015 animated film based somewhat off of the story of Noah's Ark.

A great flood is coming, and all the animals are in danger! Thankfully, a nice human named Noah built an ark for them to take shelter in. Finny, who is a fictional species of animal called a Nestrian, is among the animals who go to the ark, along with Leah, who is a fictional species of cat called a Grymp. However, Finny and Leah end up wandering away from the ark and end up missing it when it sets sail, and Finny's dad and Leah's mom are still in the ark, forcing Finny and Leah to try to get back to the ark, and avoid a pair of griffins who want to eat them, all by themselves. They also meet Obesey, a giant whale, and Stayput, his parasite friend, both of whom join them on their way back to the ark.

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!!This movie provides examples of:
* BigBad: The griffins are constantly trying to catch Finny and his friends to eat for dinner.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Finny nearly drowns near the end of the film, but he turns out to be perfectly fine.]]
* IsThisThingStillOn: The ark's lion captain has this pointed out to him as he makes this statement to the ark's passengers:
-->'''Captain:''' May I also remind you that this is a non-carnivorous voyage. Thank you for your understanding. I could really go for some giraffe right about now...
-->'''Flamingo:''' Captain, you're still on air!
-->'''Captain:''' Whoops...
* MeaningfulName: Nestrians are stated to be a species of animal that is good at
* PaperThinDisguise: Finny and his dad are rejected from the ark for not being on the ark's animal list, so they dress up in Grymp costumes in an attempt to get on the ark. It actually works.
* ShoutOut: The griffins build an unstable stone bridge, in hopes that Finny's group try to walk on it and fall off, allowing them to catch them for dinner. The stones comprising the bridge end up falling on them like ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' blocks, and when the rocks form a horizontal line it disappears, just like in the game. There's even a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong knockoff version of the game's iconic theme]] that plays during this scene!
* TalkingAnimal: Every animal on the ark.
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