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* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
-->'''Stucky:''' Mister, if you want him back, I'm sure we can work out a price. But what would you want with a real, live alligator boy?


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* NearVillainVictory: Ruff and Stucky have caught up with Arlo at the museum, the latter giving Ansel an ultimatum of what he would do with an alligator boy for a son, leaving Arlo to surrender himself and get dragged out. [[spoiler:If Ansel hadn't realized what he had done, and hadn't revealed his bird self to the crowd and rescued Arlo, Ruff and Stucky would've won.]]


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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: When Tony's bus takes off but leaves Bertie running after it with Arlo in tow, Furlecia immediately reaches out a hand for Bertie to grab on so she can pull the two aboard.
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* JobSong: Ansel's song "Better Life" is about his job as a famous businessman in New York.
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** Among the animals of the swamp is a pelican; in reality, the only pelican native to Louisiana is the brown pelican, which looks nothing like the one in the film.
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** The alligators of the swamp Arlo lived in have obviously the tooth lines of a crocodile, whose underbite can be seen sticking out of its jaw along with the overbite when its mouth is closed. In reality, only an overbite is visible on an alligator, which is seen on Arlo himself.
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* InkSuitActor: Some of the characters tend to share specific details of their voice actors. For instance, Arlo shares Michael J. Woodard's chin hairs and puffy cheeks, and Furlecia has the same "furstache" and pointed fingernails like Jonathan Van Ness. Bertie and Edmée also seem to resemble Mary Lambert and Annie Potts by appearance, whereas Ansel looks a lot like Vincent Rodriguez III dead-on.

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* InkSuitActor: Some of the characters tend to share specific details of their voice actors. For instance, Arlo shares Michael J. Woodard's chin hairs hairs, wide cheekbones and puffy cheeks, lower hairline on his back, and Furlecia has the same "furstache" and pointed fingernails like Jonathan Van Ness. Bertie and Edmée also seem to resemble Mary Lambert and Annie Potts by appearance, whereas Ansel looks a lot like Vincent Rodriguez III dead-on.
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* InkSuitActor: Some of the characters tend to share specific details of their voice actors. For instance, Arlo shares Michael J. Woodard's chin hairs and puffy cheeks, and Furlecia has the same "furstache" and pointed fingernails like Jonathan Van Ness. Bertie and Edmée also seem to resemble Mary Lambert and Annie Potts by appearance, whereas Ansel looks a lot like Vincent Rodriguez III dead-on.
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* SidekickSong: "Follow Me Home" for Bertie, with Arlo joining in later.
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** In the final scene with Arlo and Bertie on the beach, we get a glimpse of what will become their shared house in the show up on the boardwalk behind them.
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** In "Better Life", Ansel says, "It was made in Ber-LIN."
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* RecycledInSpace: The movie is basically an animated version of ''Film/{{Elf}}'' WITH AN ALLIGATOR BOY!


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* TruckDriversGearChange: The last chorus of "Beyond These Walls" modulates up one whole step.
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* FirstTimeInTheSun: Arlo, after leaving the swamp. He is immediately taken in by his new outer world surroundings and explores all he's missed after fifteen long years in isolation.


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* HypocriticalHumor: Ruff and Stucky shoo away a guy selling Broadway show tickets because, as Stucky puts, Ruff can't read. But then Ruff spots Ansel's name on the jumbotron and reads it perfectly.


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* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Multiple guests at the Met Gala are seen wearing these, some of which are impossible to even move around in.


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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Ruff and Stucky pull this on the tough farmer who wrestled Furlecia, demanding information on where Arlo went as well as his name, otherwise the Beast will eat him.


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* OpenSaysMe: Bertie rips off the back door at the Metropolitan Museum so Arlo and the gang can sneak into the Met Gala undetected.

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* NoodleIncident: Edmée refuses to accompany Arlo to New York because she has arrest warrants against her and she doesn't want to go back to prison ''again''. They are both left intentionally vague.

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Edmée refuses to accompany Arlo to New York because she has arrest warrants against her and she doesn't want to go back to prison ''again''. They are both left intentionally vague.vague.
** It was mentioned by Arlo that Edmée would put a bowl on his head for some reason whenever he needed a haircut.
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* EyesNeverLie: Invoked. During "Something's Missing" as Arlo is trying to reach out to Ansel and get the truth, he asks him to look into his eyes, allowing him to truly recognize him as his son.
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** In "Better Life", Ansel says, "It was made in Ber-LIN".

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** In "Better Life", Ansel says, "It was made in Ber-LIN".Ber-LIN."
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable:
** In "Beyond These Walls", Arlo says, "So what am I wai-TING for?"
** In "Better Life", Ansel says, "It was made in Ber-LIN".
** In "Wash the Hurt Away", Arlo says, "Now MY skin is thin, so let me in."
** In "Something's Missing", Ansel says, "Or would it be hol-LOW?"
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** Bertie sheds them just before Arlo leaves for Ansel's apartment.
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* CharacterInTheLogo: The hole in the center of the "O" in the logo is shaped to look like Arlo's foot.
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The movie will be followed up by a series called ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'', featuring Arlo's various adventures in New York with his friends, which will premiere later the same year.

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The movie will be followed up by a series called ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'', featuring Arlo's various adventures in New York with his friends, which will premiere later August 27 the same year.
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* BreakTheCutie: Arlo does not take Ansel's rejection that well, causing him to sink into a rather deep HeroicBSOD.

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* ForbiddenFruit: Downplayed. During his life in the swamp, Arlo was not allowed to leave or mess around watching the various riverboats. But Arlo often defies Edmée's orders, but retreats if he gets spotted by someone. Nevertheless, Edmée is never mad at him for disobeying, and understands his loneliness.



** Just before Ansel's interview appears on one of the jumbotrons on One Times Square, a notice can be seen reading "Fish flops free", alongside a rather realistic drawing of Marcellus, a bus that looks like Alia's, and the aquarium Marcellus broke out of.

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** Just before Ansel's interview appears on one of the jumbotrons on One Times Square, a notice can be seen reading "Fish flops free", Flops Free", alongside a rather realistic drawing of Marcellus, a bus that looks like Alia's, and the aquarium Marcellus broke out of.


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** While Arlo is talking about New York with Tony's gang on the bus, Alia can be seen batting at a squeaky hamburger toy hanging from her rearview mirror behind him.

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* DarkestHour: Ansel has disowned Arlo, who has no place left to go, and his friends have gone, so he plunges into the sewer and lets it take him wherever it leads him to, as he succumbs to whatever fate awaits him.

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* DarkestHour: Ansel Arlo has been disowned Arlo, who has and rejected by Ansel, having no place left to go, and his friends have gone, so he plunges into the sewer and lets it take him wherever it leads him to, as he succumbs to whatever fate awaits him.


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* IncrediblyLongNote:
** Ansel lets out one during "Better Life":
--->'''Ansel:''' And if you hear me, let me know you understaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!
** Arlo draws out "What am I waiiiiitiiiiiiiiin'?!" during "Beyond These Walls".
** During "Wash the Hurt Away", Arlo sustains the word "me" multiple times during the final chorus.
** Ansel holds down "inside" for quite some time as he ends his verse in "Something's Missing". Both he and Arlo then hold down the same word together at the end of the song.
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* ArtisticLicense: To get information on where Ansel is, Tony uses a phone booth in Times Square, all of which have since went obsolete since March 2020 and replaced with Wi-Fi hotspots. Only four remain on the Upper West Side.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Arlo can swim in fresh and salt water environments (the swamp water, aquariums, Central Park lake, etc.); in real life, alligators are more active in freshwater, as their salt glands aren't strong enough.
** Alia is heard purring before she goes to sleep; tigers, like herself, cannot purr.
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* AnimalsHateHim: The animals of the swamp didn't take kindly to Arlo that much, given his alligator appearance. It is to the point he felt so clingy and lonely. The only animal who liked him was Jeromio.
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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: '''A'''rlo Beauregard and his father, '''A'''nsel. Also note the first and last names are listed alphabetically as well, as well as the double vowels.

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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: '''A'''rlo Beauregard and his father, '''A'''nsel. Also note the first and last names are listed alphabetically as well, the latter letters are reverse of each other, as well as the double vowels.

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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: '''A'''rlo Beauregard and his father, '''A'''nsel. Also note the first and last names are listed alphabetically as well.

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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: '''A'''rlo Beauregard and his father, '''A'''nsel. Also note the first and last names are listed alphabetically as well.well, as well as the double vowels.


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** The bongo player whose shadow Arlo mistakes for his father's is named Gaspar.
** The black girl Arlo dances with during his ImagineSpot is named Shirley Ray.

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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Beast sports glowing gold eyes during the night scenes and when in places where it's dark, making it look totally intimidating and petrifying.



** When the Beast tracks down Arlo's footprints, the view dissolves from an ExtremeCloseUp of its eye to a similar reflection of the full moon in the river Arlo and Bertie run through

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** When the Beast tracks down Arlo's footprints, the view dissolves from an ExtremeCloseUp of its eye to a similar reflection of the full moon in the river Arlo and Bertie run throughthrough upon escaping.



* MeaningfulEcho: "Sing it," which in turn cues the respective song number. Arlo says it to Bertie to get her to tell how she feels, which segues into "Follow Me Home". Later on, Bertie says the same thing to Arlo to get Ansel to hear him out, just before "Something's Missing" begins.

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"Sing it," which in turn cues the respective song number. Arlo says it to Bertie to get her to tell how she feels, which segues into "Follow Me Home". Later on, Bertie says the same thing to Arlo to get Ansel to hear him out, just before "Something's Missing" begins.begins.
** "No squirming," for Bertie. She first says it out of determination to help Arlo escape from Ruff and Stucky during their first encounter; she says it again when they share one last hug before Arlo departs for Ansel's penthouse.



* PuppyDogEyes: Seen on someone, Arlo usually, during the more emotional moments.



* WorstNewsJudgementEver: During Ansel's interview of his project to replace Seaside by the Seashore with an expansion, there's a brief cut to a robber atop a building who topples down into the allyway and gets pelted with sewage.
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* OneEyedShot: The Beast gets this when it tracks down Arlo's footprints after the train stops.
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* DarkestHour: Ansel has disowned Arlo, who has no place left to go, and his friends have gone, so he plunges into the sewer and lets it take him wherever it leads him to, as he succumbs to whatever fate awaits him.
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* BloodlessCarnage: No blood oozes out of Furlecia when she gets stabbed by a rake from her opponent.


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* ButNowIMustGo: Bertie tells Arlo after she gets him to his dad, she has to move on. A more emotional one done when Arlo arrives at Ansel's penthouse and shares one last farewell with his friends before leaving them.


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* HopeSpot:
** When Arlo is being cornered by the angry barn folk, he meekly says his name and he's from the swamp, and the opponent proudly accepts him as one of them. But then Arlo says he's really from New York, and the farmers turn against him again.
** Arlo finally reaches the residence of his birth father Ansel, only to be rejected and turned away by him.
** Ansel is ready to reveal the truth to Arlo that he is indeed his father, but then Ruff and Stucky ruin the moment.


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* StalkerShot: While Ansel is preparing for his presentation backstage at the Met Gala, as he walks out, he is being spied on from the shadows by Ruff, Stucky and the Beast.


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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Furlecia, upon getting stabbed in her "love handles" by the rake, pretends to be terminally in danger to let her opponent's guard down and beat him up. It's so realistic that Arlo feels genuinely worried for her condition.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Furlecia gets stabbed in her "love handles" by her opponent's hoe during her introduction scene.

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Furlecia gets stabbed in her "love handles" by her opponent's hoe rake during her introduction scene.

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