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* MixAndMatchCritter: Hammerhead sloths. Yeah.
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** Also Buck mentions that he knew a rainbow-colored butterfly when he was a little caterpillar, "before he came out", and when he turned a T-Rex into a T-Rachel. Also, when Diego and Manny are pressed up against each other, Diego says, "I feel all tingly!" Manny says, "Don't say that when you're pressed up against me!" "Not that kind of tingly!"
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** In the first movie, when Diego meets Manny and Sid with the baby for the first time: "You couldn't have one of your own, so you decided to adopt."
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A fourth movie, ''Ice Age 4: Continental Drift'' is due for release on July 13 2012 (It actually debuted in Brazil in June 29 2012). The synopsis : Taking place a few years after the events of Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Scrat's pursuit of the acorn has world-changing consequences, forcing Manny, Sid and Diego on an adventure, where Sid reunites with his long lost family, Diego finds his love interest, Shira, and they encounter exotic sea creatures and meet a gang of pirates determined to stop them from returning home.
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** Then Sid ''and'' Manny do the same to Diego after his first run-in with Shira; though the two are clearly laughing it up as much as they can, while Diego stubbornly denies it...although he probably realizes his attraction, at the very least at a subconscious level, if [[spoiler: the "siren"'s taking the shape of Shira to lure him in is any indication. Note, that it works ''wonderfully well'', unitl Manny wakes up.]]
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** Then Sid ''and'' Manny do the same to Diego after his first run-in with Shira; though the two are clearly laughing it up as much as they can, while Diego stubbornly denies it...although he probably realizes his attraction, at the very least at a subconscious level, if [[spoiler: the "siren"'s taking the shape of Shira to lure him in is any indication. Note, that it works ''wonderfully well'', unitl Manny wakes up.]]
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* AnachronismStew: Crosses over with MisplacedWildlife and SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying.
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* AnachronismStew: Crosses over with MisplacedWildlife and SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying. The fourth film lampshades it, with Sid ''outright stating'' near the start that their fight against dinosaurs from the third film made no sense whatsoever.
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* BrickJoke: in the second movie, Scrat's vision of FluffyCloudHeaven includes rows of dodos welcoming him - could they be the same ones that essentially ''extincted themselves'' in the first movie?
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* BrickJoke: in In the second movie, Scrat's vision of FluffyCloudHeaven includes rows of dodos welcoming him - could they be the same ones that essentially ''extincted themselves'' in the first movie?
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Shira is eventually worn down over the course of the fourth film, [[spoiler:just as Diego was in the first film, and like him, she ultimately joins the group for good at the end.]]
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* ManiacMonkeys: It seems that the main villain in the fourth movie will be a prehistoric ape pirate captain.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Manny and Ellie in the second movie.
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* FollowTheLeader: The Original film is often termed so derisively by people who are fans of ''{{Shrek}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', which is unfair. ''Ice Age'' is a film that deserves to be considered by itself despite these accusations that it was a "rip-off" of the two aforementioned movies.
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* RarelySeenSpecies: A lot of the background Species are real animals that are fairly obscure to anyone but a paleontologist, and the fourth film will feature Hyrax, a rarely seen creature alive today.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Rusted Root's "Send Me On My Way", which was used rather prominently in the Original film during the TravelMontage.
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* RarelySeenSpecies: A lot of the background Species are real animals that are fairly obscure to anyone but a paleontologist, and the fourth film will feature Hyrax, a rarely seen creature alive today.
* RealSongThemeTune: Rusted Root's "Send Me On My Way", which was used rather prominently in the Original film during the TravelMontage.
* RealSongThemeTune: Rusted Root's "Send Me On My Way", which was used rather prominently in the Original film during the TravelMontage.
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* AccidentalAthlete: In ''Ice Age'', Sid makes a touchdown during a game of football against dodos, ice-skates better than his other traveling companions, and is successfully able to create the first skiing and snowboarding events in history!
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* [[{{Amazingly Embarrassing Parent}} Amazingly Embarrassing Friend]]: Trailers for the Fourth movie show a moment of this between Sid and Diego. Three guesses who the embarrassing one is, and the first two don’t count.
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* AscendedFanboy: [[DrakeAndJosh Josh Peck]] was a fan of ''Ice Age'' before being cast as Eddie in the sequel. He was very excited to be a part of the saga. Queen Latifah was also a fan of the original film before she was cast as Ellie in the same film.
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* AscendedFanboy: [[DrakeAndJosh Josh Peck]] was a fan of ''Ice Age'' before being cast as Eddie in the sequel. He was very excited to be a part of the saga. Queen Latifah was also a fan of the original film before she was cast as Ellie in the same film.
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* BigBad: Soto in the first movie, and he is a very, very [[MagnificentBastard effective]] one, especially if one watches and is aware that he is setting up a gambit for Diego's death at the same time Diego is machinating the demise of Manny and Roshan, [[AndZoidberg and Sid.]]
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* BigBad: Soto in the first movie, and he is a very, very [[MagnificentBastard effective]] one, especially if one watches and is aware that he is setting up a gambit for Diego's death at the same time Diego is machinating the demise of Manny and Roshan, [[AndZoidberg and Sid.]] ]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Scrat and the piranhas. Or Scrat and Sid. "Tae kwon dodos! ATTACK!"
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* {{Expy}}: Buck the Weasel in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' is a clear allusion to [[{{Rambo}} John Rambo]], another traumatized jungle warrior. His maddened quest to take down a giant white beast that took a part off of him makes him an [[MobyDick Captain Ahab]] expy as well. He also seems to be channeling [[{{PiratesOfTheCaribbean}} Captain Jack Sparrow]].
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* {{Expy}}: Buck the Weasel in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' is a clear allusion to [[{{Rambo}} John Rambo]], another traumatized jungle warrior. His maddened quest to take down a giant white beast that took a part off of him makes him an [[MobyDick Captain Ahab]] expy as well. He also seems to be channeling [[{{PiratesOfTheCaribbean}} [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]].
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* FireForgedFriends: Manny and Diego, especially in the original film, where their friendship is put to the test - and once tested, remains strong - out of the herd in the newer movies, Diego and Manny's bond is the deepest.
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* FollowTheLeader: The Original film is often termed so derisively by people who are fans of ''{{Shrek}}'' and ''MonstersInc'', which is unfair. ''Ice Age'' is a film that deserves to be considered by itself despite these accusations that it was a "rip-off" of the two aforementioned movies.
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* FollowTheLeader: The Original film is often termed so derisively by people who are fans of ''{{Shrek}}'' and ''MonstersInc'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', which is unfair. ''Ice Age'' is a film that deserves to be considered by itself despite these accusations that it was a "rip-off" of the two aforementioned movies.
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** Also Roshan's mother in the first film. She leaped over ''a waterfall'' to protect her son from the sabers.
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* ObliviousToLove: Manny. Sid has to even point it out to him in ''The Meltdown'' that he clearly '''likes''' Ellie, since Manny just doesn't realize it.
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* PickUpBabesWithBabes: Sid the Sloth tries to use this... and it actually DOES seem to be working, until Manny the Mammoth steps in. A cut-out scene shows Sid attempting to complete the 'score' after Manny's taken away their youthful charge, and predictably it ends badly.
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* PickUpBabesWithBabes: Sid the Sloth tries to use this... and it actually DOES seem to be working, until Manny the Mammoth steps in. A cut-out scene shows Sid attempting to complete the 'score' after Manny's taken away their youthful charge, and predictably it ends badly.
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** Actually, Cretaceous looks a lot like a Metriorhynchid, a kind of sea-going crocodile from the times of dinosaurs. If this wasn´t the creature used as inspiration by the character designers, then it's an amazing case of convergent evolution...
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* TitleDrop: The Original employs this along with PunctuatedForEmphasis, below. "How do we know it's an Ice Age?"
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* TrueCompanions: The term "Herd" is used to describe the characters, and contrary to popular belief (ie Sid's) the sloth is not the to first to call them that, Manny termed them thus in the original movie after his rescue of Diego.
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In the Ice Age, a clumsy sloth named Sid, a depressed woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed cat named Diego and an acorn-[[strike:loving]]-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The first three reluctantly come together and brave the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. The saber-toothed squirrel has his own parallel StoryArc. He tries to bury his beloved acorn, but he only manages to create mayhem around him.
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In the Ice Age, a clumsy sloth named Sid, a depressed woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed cat named Diego and an acorn-[[strike:loving]]-obsessed acorn-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The first three reluctantly come together and brave the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. The saber-toothed squirrel has his own parallel StoryArc. He tries to bury his beloved acorn, but he only manages to create mayhem around him.
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In the Ice Age, a clumsy sloth named Sid, a grumpy woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed cat named Diego and an acorn-[[strike:loving]]-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The first three reluctantly come together and brave the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. The saber-toothed squirrel has his own parallel StoryArc. He tries to bury his beloved acorn, but he only manages to create mayhem around him.
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In the Ice Age, a clumsy sloth named Sid, a grumpy depressed woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed cat named Diego and an acorn-[[strike:loving]]-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The first three reluctantly come together and brave the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. The saber-toothed squirrel has his own parallel StoryArc. He tries to bury his beloved acorn, but he only manages to create mayhem around him.
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* TakeThat: [[SureWhyNot Possibly]] one against ''JurassicPark III'' in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''. In the third JP, a Tyrannosaurus is killed after a brief fight with the Spinosaurus. Well, at the end of the third Ice Age, Mama (a Tyrannosaurus) turns up just at the last moment and attacks Rudy (an overgrown Baryonyx, related to Spinosaurus), effortlessly charging him, slamming him through the jungle and knocking him off a cliff. He doesn't actually die, but it was an incredible asskicking for the supposed BigBad of all dinosaurs in the series.
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: From the first film; "Because. Of all. ''The Ice''!"
** This statement from Diego at the end: "Leave. The. Mammoth. Alone." He directs it at [[BigBad Soto.]]
** Sid has his moment, too, during the same scene: "Survival! Of the! Fittest! I don't think so."
** This statement from Diego at the end: "Leave. The. Mammoth. Alone." He directs it at [[BigBad Soto.]]
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** Sid has his moment, too, during the same scene: "Survival! Of the! Fittest! I don't think so."
** Well, things just got a little chillier.
** This statement from Diego at the end: "Leave. The. Mammoth. Alone." He directs it at [[BigBad Soto.]]
** Sid has his moment, too, during the same scene: "Survival! Of the! Fittest! I don't think so."
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Most of Scrat's antics.
** Subverted in the vulture's "Food Glorious Food", for Sid sings it briefly right after, but is never mentioned again after that.
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13 2012. The synopsis : Taking place a few years after the events of Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Scrat's pursuit of the acorn has world-changing consequences, forcing Manny, Sid and Diego on an adventure, where Sid reunites with his long lost family, Diego finds his love interest, Shira, and they encounter exotic sea creatures and meet a gang of pirates determined to stop them from returning home.
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** In the first film, the alien ship seen in the cave is a reference to StarTrek. The baby even does the Vulcan salute as they pass by it.
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Starting as a single adventure in 2002, the CGI animated movie was a box office hit and expanded into an entire trilogy. It is [[BlueSky Blue Sky Studio's]] first film and is the trilogy that supported them so far.
In the Ice Age, a clumsy sloth named Sid, a grumpy woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed cat named Diego and an acorn-[[strike:loving]]-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The first three reluctantly come together and brave the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. The saber-toothed squirrel has his own parallel StoryArc. He tries to bury his beloved acorn, but he only manages to create mayhem around him.
In the first ''Ice Age'' film, Sid is left behind sleeping while everyone else begins the journey to the south. Awaking, he meets Manny, a mammoth who travels to the north, and decides to follow him. When a human camp is attacked by a pack of vengeful sabers, a woman takes her baby and jumps in a river. Before she drowns, Manny and Sid rescue the baby. The two animals decide to search for the father and return the baby to him. Diego, one of the tigers that attacked the humans, comes also claiming the baby. Diego starts to work as a double agent, but along the journey he is befriended by Manny and Sid and finally joins them.
In the sequel, Manny, Sid and Diego are living in a large valley with an enormously high ice wall filling one end. The trio discover that the ice wall is actually barely holding a massive body of water that would flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they have only three days to make it or die. Manny is having trouble facing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left. Along the way, they meet Ellie, a mammoth who thinks she is a possum, and her possum "brothers", Crash and Eddie.
The third one was released in 2009 and involves a LostWorld filled with [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs DINOSAURS!]] It turns out there is an entire prehistoric world that somehow survived by being located underneath the surface of the Earth. Manny and Ellie are expecting their first child, and Manny becomes compulsively over-protective of her as he tries to be readily prepared for when the time comes. Sid is jealous and raises three abandoned eggs. They turn out to be baby T-rex's, and when their real mother finds out they were stolen, she takes her three babies and Sid underground, and Sid's friends all go to his rescue. There they meet a seasoned, [[CloudCuckooLander slightly insane adventurer weasel]] named Buck, who becomes their guide in surviving this new world, and with an agenda of his own.
A fourth movie, ''Ice Age 4: Continental Drift'' is due for release in July 2012.
Also spawned three short films that are on the [=DVDs=]: ''Gone Nutty'' and ''No Time for Nuts'', both short adventures starring Scrat, and ''Surviving Sid'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously centered around Sid.]] And there's "A Mammoth Christmas", a ChristmasSpecial that raises huge FridgeLogic issues just by looking at it.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccidentalAthlete: In ''Ice Age'', Sid makes a touchdown during a game of football against dodos, ice-skates better than his other traveling companions, and is successfully able to create the first skiing and snowboarding events in history!
* ActorAllusion: In ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', when the eggs hatch and the hatchlings start playing with Sid, the Was (Not Was) song "Walk the Dinosaur" comes on. The song appeared in John Leguizamo's first movie, ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' ([[OldShame even if he probably won't admit it]]).
* {{Adult Fear}}s: The first film is more serious than the sequels, with human beings slaughtering mammoths, tigers slaughtering human beings, multiple characters with dead family members, parents trying and failing to protect their children, ''somebody's mom practically dying on screen''...
* AllThereInTheManual: Background information provided in the books and other websites confirms that Manny's family died in the TroubledBackStoryFlashback in the original and corroborates the belief that his first child was a son.
** There is also confirmation for the baby's name, which is Roshan. His parents are called Runar and Nadia.
** The names of the two aquatic antagonists in the second film: Cretaceous and Maelstrom.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The first movie in the Japanese version has a surprisingly melancholy theme song for a family comedy. It's called [[http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTk2MTgxMjcy.html "Hitoshizuku"]] which translates to "A Single Drop of Tears". This could be because the first movie is DarkerAndEdgier than the other two.
* [[{{Amazingly Embarrassing Parent}} Amazingly Embarrassing Friend]]: Trailers for the Fourth movie show a moment of this between Sid and Diego. Three guesses who the embarrassing one is, and the first two don’t count.
** It looks like Manny might be shaping up to be this in some respects to Peaches
* AnachronismStew: Crosses over with MisplacedWildlife and SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying.
* AnthropomorphicShift: from Surviving Sid onwards.
* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: The sloths try to sacrifice Sid for this purpose...even though they understand the science behind volcanic eruptions perfectly.
-->'''Sid:''' You're a very advanced race! Together, we can look for a solution.
-->'''Sloth:''' We have one - sacrifice the fire king.
-->'''Sid:''' That's not very advanced.
-->'''Sloth:''' Worth a shot.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Buck listing the rules for getting his help.
-->'''Buck:''' He who has gas, travels at the back of the pack!\\
'''Eddie:''' Aw...*Hangs head, walks to the back of the pack*
* ArtShift: In the Original Film, during the sequence where the "herd" happens upon the cave paintings, which fade into traditional animation to reveal Manfred's [[{{Tearjerker}} tragic loss]] and explain the reason why he is so moody - he is still grieving.
* AscendedFanboy: [[DrakeAndJosh Josh Peck]] was a fan of ''Ice Age'' before being cast as Eddie in the sequel. He was very excited to be a part of the saga. Queen Latifah was also a fan of the original film before she was cast as Ellie in the same film.
* {{Badass}}: Buck the Weasel of ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', who is the most badass character ever to be featured in a children's film.
** Diego also counts, especially in the Original film.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Manny and Ellie in the second movie.
* BigBad: Soto in the first movie, and he is a very, very [[MagnificentBastard effective]] one, especially if one watches and is aware that he is setting up a gambit for Diego's death at the same time Diego is machinating the demise of Manny and Roshan, [[AndZoidberg and Sid.]]
** Arguably, Cretaceous and Maelstrom in the second movie.
** Rudy probably counts in the third movie.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Most of Scrat's antics.
** Subverted in the vulture's "Food Glorious Food", for Sid sings it briefly right after, but is never mentioned again after that.
* BookEnds: the first movie opens with Scrat somehow causing [[DisasterDominoes an ever-growing crack]] with the acorn. It ends with one too. [[spoiler: And so does the third movie.]]
* BreakOutCharacter: Scrat appears in more advertisement and has more shorts than any other character in this film series, and he's not even a main character!
* BrickJoke: in the second movie, Scrat's vision of FluffyCloudHeaven includes rows of dodos welcoming him - could they be the same ones that essentially ''extincted themselves'' in the first movie?
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: Vultures singing "Food Glorious Food" from ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}''.
* ButtMonkey: Sid. Not even his ''family'' wanted him.
** Scrat counts as well.
* CarnivoreConfusion: The "predation is a fact of life" approach is taken with the saber-tooths and humans. The PredatorsAreMean approach is taken the antagonists of the third film, Mama T. Rex and Rudy.
* CastCalculus: Changes with each movie.
** FreudianTrio: "Ice Age"
*** TheKirk: Manny
*** TheMcCoy: Sid
*** TheSpock: Diego
** FiveManBand: "The Meltdown"
*** TheHero[=/=]TheBigGuy: Manny
*** TheLancer: Diego
*** TheSmartGuy: Sid, who actually ''is'' pretty smart.
*** TheChick: Ellie
*** {{Kid Appeal Character}}s: Crash and Eddie.
** TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: "Dawn Of The Dinosaurs"
*** The above six, plus a new, ''seventh'' Ranger: Buck the CrazyAwesome CloudCuckooLander weasel.
* CatsAreSnarkers: Diego.
-->'''Sid:''' Hey, my feet are sweating.\\
'''Diego:''' Do we need a news flash every time your body does something?
* ChekhovsGun: The ominous vibrating icicles.
** Diego's game of Where's the Baby with Roshan during the first half. Watch closely to see how it shows up again later.
* ChekhovsSkill: Ellie being the only tree-climbing mammoth in existence helps her to save one of the dino eggs in the third movie.
* TheChewToy: Scrat and Sid.
* ChirpingCrickets: "We're gonna miss the mi... the mi... gration..."
* CliffStack: At least once in the third movie.
* CloudCuckooLander:
** Ellie.
** The Dodos.
** [[CloudCuckooLander Buck]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass the]] [[ChekhovsSkill Weasel]]
** If the trailers are anything to go by, Sid’s Granny (played by Wanda Sykes) seems to be shaping up to be the 4th movies “Buck” in some respect
* ComicBookTime: The animal characters never seem to age, even though by rights Crash and Eddie should be old now. Which leads to the puzzling thought about how old the characters actually are...
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The dodos in the first movie. Sid continually.
* ContinuityNod: Whereas this was ignored in the sequel, the third movie comes through with a {{Callback}} to the Original Film. In the scene before Diego leaves Manny to go protect Ellie, he says four words that Manny knows very well from some years earlier: "You have to trust me." And the poignant expression in Manny's eyes seals the deal as you clearly can see that he is remembering that event all over again, and thus why he lets Diego go protect his mate.
* {{Cool Old Lady}}: Looks like Sid’s Granny in the forth film could very well be this.
* ACrackInTheIce: The herd is walking on an ice field when a lava flow opens up beneath them, leaving only a thin bridge getting thinner by the minute.
* CrazySurvivalist:
** Buck the Weasel, the delightfully [[CloudCuckooLander deranged]] {{Rambo}}/[[MobyDick Ahab]] {{Expy}}.
** The dodos are preparing for living billions of years underground with a stockpile of... three watermelons! They failed.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Scrat and the piranhas. Or Scrat and Sid. "Tae kwon dodos! ATTACK!"
* DawnAttack:
-->'''Diego''': We'll teach that human what happens when he messes with sabers. \\
'''Soto''': Alert the troops. We attack at dawn.
* DeadLittleSister: You can call it dead [[spoiler: little son and wife]] for [[spoiler: Manny.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Diego and Manny.
* DecoyProtagonist: Scrat.
* DidYouDie: In ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', when Buck is telling the story of his encounter with Rudy. "Sadly yes... but I lived!"
* DisneyDeath: Diego, in the first movie.
* TheDitz: Sid, who is also a GeniusDitz occasionally, especially in the second movie.
* DynamicEntry: the third movie. "Go Momzilla!"
* EvilAlbino: Rudy from ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''.
* {{Expy}}: Buck the Weasel in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' is a clear allusion to [[{{Rambo}} John Rambo]], another traumatized jungle warrior. His maddened quest to take down a giant white beast that took a part off of him makes him an [[MobyDick Captain Ahab]] expy as well. He also seems to be channeling [[{{PiratesOfTheCaribbean}} Captain Jack Sparrow]].
* EyeAwaken:
** In ''Ice Age 2'', one of the unfrozen sea reptiles.
** In ''Ice Age 3'', Rudy does this fairly often.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: (Technically they're sharp icicles, but...)
* FireForgedFriends: Manny and Diego, especially in the original film, where their friendship is put to the test - and once tested, remains strong - out of the herd in the newer movies, Diego and Manny's bond is the deepest.
* FiveBadBand: The pack of saber-toothed tigers in the first film:
** BigBad: Soto.
** TheDragon: Diego, pre-HeelFaceTurn.
** TheEvilGenius: Lenny.
** TheBrute: Zeke.
** TheDarkChick: Oscar.
* FollowTheLeader: The Original film is often termed so derisively by people who are fans of ''{{Shrek}}'' and ''MonstersInc'', which is unfair. ''Ice Age'' is a film that deserves to be considered by itself despite these accusations that it was a "rip-off" of the two aforementioned movies.
* FluffyCloudHeaven: Scrat's near-death experience with the giant golden acorn in ''The Meltdown''
* FluffyTheTerrible: Rudy, the fearsome white Baryonyx in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''. {{Lampshaded}} by Manny:
-->'''Manny:''' Oh, I was thinking it'd be something terrifying, like... ''Sheldon'', or [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Tim]].
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Pulled off twice in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''; first when Sid tries to milk a "Cow" ([[spoiler: "I thought you were a female!"]]) and at the end when [[spoiler: Ellie's daughter is born ("Oh look, it's a boy!" - "That's her ''tail'', Sid." - "It's a girl!")]]
** Also Buck mentions that he knew a rainbow-colored butterfly when he was a little caterpillar, "before he came out", and when he turned a T-Rex into a T-Rachel. Also, when Diego and Manny are pressed up against each other, Diego says, "I feel all tingly!" Manny says, "Don't say that when you're pressed up against me!" "Not that kind of tingly!"
** And ''again'' with "You know the old saying, an eye for a tooth, a nose for a chin, a butt for a... well it's an old saying. It's not a good saying."
** It's virtually impossible not to ''at least'' raise an eyebrow after hearing Buck say this: "What does that mean, 'I got your back'? I'd rather they covered the front. That's where all the good stuff is!"
** In the first movie, when Diego meets Manny and Sid with the baby for the first time: "You couldn't have one of your own, so you decided to adopt."
** Also in the first movie:
-->'''Manny:''' [The baby] must be wearing one of those baby things.
-->'''Sid:''' So?
-->'''Manny:''' So if he poops, where does it go?
-->'''Sid:''' (beat) Humans are disgusting.
** Trailers for the upcoming film gives us this line
-->“Holy Crab!”
* TheGlomp: Sid does this to Diego when the mammoth and the sloth discover to their joy that their tiger friend has survived his apparent death in ''Ice Age''. Diego doesn't really appreciate being Glomped though.
* GoOutWithASmile: CrossesTheLineTwice here. The way to the subterranean world goes through a crevasse full of toxic fumes, which is revealed to have very similar properties to [[{{Batman}} Joker's laughing gas]].
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The good Mommy dinosaur vs the Albino DinoMonster.
* GoryDiscretionShot: the falling icicles in the first film.
* GrumpyBear: Manny.
* HartmanHips: Scratte.
* HeelFaceTurn: Diego.
* HeldGaze: The [[HeterosexualLifePartners platonic]] version of this trope occurs in ''Ice Age'' after Manny has just rescued Diego from death at the lava fields.
** This happens again during a tense situation between the mammoth and the tiger in the third film, ''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' when Diego is attempting to convince Manny to let him go protect Ellie.
* HeroicSacrifice: Nadia, the baby's mother and [[spoiler: Manny and Diego, both subverted.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Manny and Diego.
** Manny and Sid and Diego and Sid (more like Heterosexual Life Trio).
* HonorableElephant: Manny.
* HumansAreBastards: played with: humans kill mammoths and have caused real heartbreak for Manny, but at this stage of human development they aren't really worse than other predatory species like saber-tooths.
* HumbleGoal: Scrat wants nothing more than to enjoy his acorn in peace.
* IAmBigBoned: Manny. He's not fat, it's all that fur. It makes him look...poofy.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The path to Sid.
* InsistentTerminology: Manny has poofy fur, he's not fat.
* InternetBackDraft: Speculation over the details of ''Ice Age 4: Continental Drift'' is already beginning to cause some of this at fan forums.
* InstantBirthJustAddWater: Ellie gives birth in the middle of a raptor fight, screaming and wincing, and Peaches comes out already clean, happy and sleepy. One of the most exaggerated Hollywood births ever.
** Played straight, and averted with Manny at the beginning of the third movie. He appears onscreen by screaming "IT'S HAPPENING!!" and carrying a hollowed out, upside-down turtle shell full of water.
* {{I Will Find You}}: Stated word for word by Manny in a trailer for the forth film.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Manny and Diego.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: In the third movie, Manny and Ellie have apparently not decided on what to name their child. After the baby mammoth's birth, Manny suggests they name her Ellie, but Ellie decides on the name "Peaches", which had been their code word for Ellie to tell Manny she was going into labor.
* LighterAndFluffier: The series starts out relatively serious, violent, and realistic, and gets progressively sillier. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that there's anything wrong with that.]]
** Arguable in the ''[=DotD=]'', where Buck turns the action (and obviously the silliness) up to 11.
* MamaBear: "Momma" in the third. Helps that she's a T-Rex.
** Also Roshan's mother in the first film. She leaped over ''a waterfall'' to protect her son from the sabers.
* [[ManEatingPlant Mammal-Eating Plant]]
* ManiacMonkeys: It seems that the main villain in the fourth movie will be a prehistoric ape pirate captain.
* MeaningfulEcho: Employed quite effectively in the Original between Manny and Diego in two life-and-death situations.
-->"That's what you do in a herd."
* MidairRepair: Buck performs mouth-to-mouth on a pterosaur knocked unconscious by a mid-air collision..
* MirrorCrackingUgly: Sid falls through into a cave in the third film because of this.
* MisplacedWildlife
* MoodWhiplash: The second half of the original film whips you through hilarity, and then sorrow, and then funniness again, and then back to close-to-tears-ness with the showdown with the sabres and Diego's DisneyDeath.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Averted in ''No Time for Nuts'' when Scrat ends up meeting himself via use of the time machine. HilarityEnsues when both Scrats start craving the time traveling one's acorn.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sid occasionally, most notably in ''Ice Age: The Meltdown''.
* ObliviousAdoption: Ellie in the second movie; the baby dinos in the third (but justified by imprinting.)
* ObliviousToLove: Manny. Sid has to even point it out to him in ''The Meltdown'' that he clearly '''likes''' Ellie, since Manny just doesn't realize it.
* OppositesAttract: Manny and Ellie
* ParentalBonus: From the first film:
-->'''Manny:''' "With a trunk that small, I wouldn't be drawing attention to yourself."
* ParodyOfEvolution: Seen in the first film in the ice caves.
* PickUpBabesWithBabes: Sid the Sloth tries to use this... and it actually DOES seem to be working, until Manny the Mammoth steps in. A cut-out scene shows Sid attempting to complete the 'score' after Manny's taken away their youthful charge, and predictably it ends badly.
* PlummetPerspective
* PteroSoarer: Roger from the third movie.
* RealSongThemeTune: Rusted Root's "Send Me On My Way", which was used rather prominently in the Original film during the TravelMontage.
* RecordNeedleScratch: Abruptly ending Scrat's [[spoiler: stay in his FluffyCloudHeaven]] at the end of the second movie. Again, in the begin sequence of ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs,'' ending the first encounter of Scrat and Scratte.
* RescueRomance: Scrat and Scratte's relationship really kicks off after he rescues her from death by lava when they are hanging by a thin root on a cliff.
* RedWireBlueWire - Hilariously spoofed in the carnivorous-plant action-sequence in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs.''
* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: Scrat and the Acorn.
* SandInMyEyes: Invoked and subverted by Diego after [[spoiler: Peaches is born]], as well as Crash and Eddie.
* SeaMonster: Cretaceous and Maelstrom in the second film, a Mosasaurus and an Icthyosaurus. [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying with legs]].
** Actually, Cretaceous looks a lot like a Metriorhynchid, a kind of sea-going crocodile from the times of dinosaurs. If this wasn´t the creature used as inspiration by the character designers, then it's an amazing case of convergent evolution...
* SnakeOilSalesman: Fast Tony...
* ShoutOut:
** "Yabba Dabba Doo!" "Don't Ever Yabadaba''[[TheFlintstones Doo]]'' that again!"
** "[[Theatre/{{Oliver}} Food, Glorious Food]]"
** Moby Dick=Rudy and Buck.
** Also, in the third movie, when they inhale the gas, Crash and Eddie try to sing like the Chipmunks ... or at least a Chipmunk song.
** In the first film, the alien ship seen in the cave is a reference to StarTrek. The baby even does the Vulcan salute as they pass by it.
** When Buck mentions that he calls the dinosaur he fought Rudy, Manny wonders why he didn't call him something more terrible, like [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Tim]].
* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Too much to fit on the main page. See [[Headscratchers/IceAge Headscrathers]].
* TheSpeechless: Despite being ''very'' noisy, Scrat. Also, the humans of the original movie ''Ice Age''. Cretaceous and Maelstrom in ''Meltdown''. Mama T. Rex and Rudy in ''Dawn''.
* SuperPersistentPredator:
** [[spoiler: Rudy. Justified, as Buck took out one of his teeth.]]
** Cretaceous and Maelstrom.
* TakeThat: [[SureWhyNot Possibly]] one against ''JurassicPark III'' in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''. In the third JP, a Tyrannosaurus is killed after a brief fight with the Spinosaurus. Well, at the end of the third Ice Age, Mama (a Tyrannosaurus) turns up just at the last moment and attacks Rudy (an overgrown Baryonyx, related to Spinosaurus), effortlessly charging him, slamming him through the jungle and knocking him off a cliff. He doesn't actually die, but it was an incredible asskicking for the supposed BigBad of all dinosaurs in the series.
* TakingTheKids: The storyline with Sid, Mama Dino and the baby dinos is a parody of this trope, with Sid and Mama Dino playing the divorced parents fighting for custody.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Scratte appears to be wearing blue eye shadow, but makeup won't exist for millions of years, so it's probably natural coloring. In other words, you could say it's all down to her [[IncrediblyLamePun biological makeup]].
* TitleDrop: The Original employs this along with ThisIsSparta, below. "How do we know it's an Ice Age?"
* ThirdIs3D
* ThisIsSparta: From the first film; "Because. Of all. ''The Ice''!"
** Well, things just got a little chillier.
** This statement from Diego at the end: "Leave. The. Mammoth. Alone." He directs it at [[BigBad Soto.]]
** Sid has his moment, too, during the same scene: "Survival! Of the! Fittest! I don't think so."
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Carl and Frank.
* ThrowItIn: John Leguizamo made up Sid's lisp after seeing a model for what he looked like.
* TongueOnTheFlagpole
* TooDumbToLive:
** The Dodos.
** Often (and hilariously) subverted by both Scrat and Sid, often just barely.
** Buck, arguably. Even though he is insane, he does show some sort of intelligence. Sometimes.
* TravelMontage: in the first film, accompanied by [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Rusted Root's ''Send Me on My Way'']] as the characters experience Old Faithful, brave a blizzard, and attempt to walk on ice.
* TrueCompanions: The term "Herd" is used to describe the characters, and contrary to popular belief (ie Sid's) the sloth is not the to first to call them that, Manny termed them thus in the original movie after his rescue of Diego.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Manny's family in the first movie.
* TheVamp - Scratette. Might also count as a squirrel version of LadyInRed.
* TyrannosaurusRex: Momma from the third movie.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Diego in the first movie.
-->"Nine lives, baby!"
* UnusualAnimalAlliance
* WasntThatFun: In the first movie, after the animals all go hurtling through an [[ItMakesSenseInContext Ice Helter Skelter]] and slam into a wall, Diego punches the air and asks who wants to go do it again.
** Also in the third movie, when the herd is leaving the underground world, Buck states that they should have that adventure full of mortal peril again.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The ark in The Meltdown.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: DonBluth was offered to make Ice Age as a 2D animated film, but he refused to have any part of Ice Age.
* VerbalTic: Listening closely to Buck in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' reveals that the weasel is somehow prone to neglecting the usage of the letter aitch/H in his speech....
* VillainProtagonist: Diego in the original film, especially after joining Manny and Sid in their quest to return Roshan to his tribe.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sid is this, to Manny and Diego.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Averted in the first film, played straight in the sequels.
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Starting as a single adventure in 2002, the CGI animated movie was a box office hit and expanded into an entire trilogy. It is [[BlueSky Blue Sky Studio's]] first film and is the trilogy that supported them so far.
In the Ice Age, a clumsy sloth named Sid, a grumpy woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed cat named Diego and an acorn-[[strike:loving]]-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The first three reluctantly come together and brave the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. The saber-toothed squirrel has his own parallel StoryArc. He tries to bury his beloved acorn, but he only manages to create mayhem around him.
In the first ''Ice Age'' film, Sid is left behind sleeping while everyone else begins the journey to the south. Awaking, he meets Manny, a mammoth who travels to the north, and decides to follow him. When a human camp is attacked by a pack of vengeful sabers, a woman takes her baby and jumps in a river. Before she drowns, Manny and Sid rescue the baby. The two animals decide to search for the father and return the baby to him. Diego, one of the tigers that attacked the humans, comes also claiming the baby. Diego starts to work as a double agent, but along the journey he is befriended by Manny and Sid and finally joins them.
In the sequel, Manny, Sid and Diego are living in a large valley with an enormously high ice wall filling one end. The trio discover that the ice wall is actually barely holding a massive body of water that would flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they have only three days to make it or die. Manny is having trouble facing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left. Along the way, they meet Ellie, a mammoth who thinks she is a possum, and her possum "brothers", Crash and Eddie.
The third one was released in 2009 and involves a LostWorld filled with [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs DINOSAURS!]] It turns out there is an entire prehistoric world that somehow survived by being located underneath the surface of the Earth. Manny and Ellie are expecting their first child, and Manny becomes compulsively over-protective of her as he tries to be readily prepared for when the time comes. Sid is jealous and raises three abandoned eggs. They turn out to be baby T-rex's, and when their real mother finds out they were stolen, she takes her three babies and Sid underground, and Sid's friends all go to his rescue. There they meet a seasoned, [[CloudCuckooLander slightly insane adventurer weasel]] named Buck, who becomes their guide in surviving this new world, and with an agenda of his own.
A fourth movie, ''Ice Age 4: Continental Drift'' is due for release in July 2012.
Also spawned three short films that are on the [=DVDs=]: ''Gone Nutty'' and ''No Time for Nuts'', both short adventures starring Scrat, and ''Surviving Sid'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously centered around Sid.]] And there's "A Mammoth Christmas", a ChristmasSpecial that raises huge FridgeLogic issues just by looking at it.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccidentalAthlete: In ''Ice Age'', Sid makes a touchdown during a game of football against dodos, ice-skates better than his other traveling companions, and is successfully able to create the first skiing and snowboarding events in history!
* ActorAllusion: In ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', when the eggs hatch and the hatchlings start playing with Sid, the Was (Not Was) song "Walk the Dinosaur" comes on. The song appeared in John Leguizamo's first movie, ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' ([[OldShame even if he probably won't admit it]]).
* {{Adult Fear}}s: The first film is more serious than the sequels, with human beings slaughtering mammoths, tigers slaughtering human beings, multiple characters with dead family members, parents trying and failing to protect their children, ''somebody's mom practically dying on screen''...
* AllThereInTheManual: Background information provided in the books and other websites confirms that Manny's family died in the TroubledBackStoryFlashback in the original and corroborates the belief that his first child was a son.
** There is also confirmation for the baby's name, which is Roshan. His parents are called Runar and Nadia.
** The names of the two aquatic antagonists in the second film: Cretaceous and Maelstrom.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The first movie in the Japanese version has a surprisingly melancholy theme song for a family comedy. It's called [[http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTk2MTgxMjcy.html "Hitoshizuku"]] which translates to "A Single Drop of Tears". This could be because the first movie is DarkerAndEdgier than the other two.
* [[{{Amazingly Embarrassing Parent}} Amazingly Embarrassing Friend]]: Trailers for the Fourth movie show a moment of this between Sid and Diego. Three guesses who the embarrassing one is, and the first two don’t count.
** It looks like Manny might be shaping up to be this in some respects to Peaches
* AnachronismStew: Crosses over with MisplacedWildlife and SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying.
* AnthropomorphicShift: from Surviving Sid onwards.
* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: The sloths try to sacrifice Sid for this purpose...even though they understand the science behind volcanic eruptions perfectly.
-->'''Sid:''' You're a very advanced race! Together, we can look for a solution.
-->'''Sloth:''' We have one - sacrifice the fire king.
-->'''Sid:''' That's not very advanced.
-->'''Sloth:''' Worth a shot.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Buck listing the rules for getting his help.
-->'''Buck:''' He who has gas, travels at the back of the pack!\\
'''Eddie:''' Aw...*Hangs head, walks to the back of the pack*
* ArtShift: In the Original Film, during the sequence where the "herd" happens upon the cave paintings, which fade into traditional animation to reveal Manfred's [[{{Tearjerker}} tragic loss]] and explain the reason why he is so moody - he is still grieving.
* AscendedFanboy: [[DrakeAndJosh Josh Peck]] was a fan of ''Ice Age'' before being cast as Eddie in the sequel. He was very excited to be a part of the saga. Queen Latifah was also a fan of the original film before she was cast as Ellie in the same film.
* {{Badass}}: Buck the Weasel of ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', who is the most badass character ever to be featured in a children's film.
** Diego also counts, especially in the Original film.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Manny and Ellie in the second movie.
* BigBad: Soto in the first movie, and he is a very, very [[MagnificentBastard effective]] one, especially if one watches and is aware that he is setting up a gambit for Diego's death at the same time Diego is machinating the demise of Manny and Roshan, [[AndZoidberg and Sid.]]
** Arguably, Cretaceous and Maelstrom in the second movie.
** Rudy probably counts in the third movie.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Most of Scrat's antics.
** Subverted in the vulture's "Food Glorious Food", for Sid sings it briefly right after, but is never mentioned again after that.
* BookEnds: the first movie opens with Scrat somehow causing [[DisasterDominoes an ever-growing crack]] with the acorn. It ends with one too. [[spoiler: And so does the third movie.]]
* BreakOutCharacter: Scrat appears in more advertisement and has more shorts than any other character in this film series, and he's not even a main character!
* BrickJoke: in the second movie, Scrat's vision of FluffyCloudHeaven includes rows of dodos welcoming him - could they be the same ones that essentially ''extincted themselves'' in the first movie?
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: Vultures singing "Food Glorious Food" from ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}''.
* ButtMonkey: Sid. Not even his ''family'' wanted him.
** Scrat counts as well.
* CarnivoreConfusion: The "predation is a fact of life" approach is taken with the saber-tooths and humans. The PredatorsAreMean approach is taken the antagonists of the third film, Mama T. Rex and Rudy.
* CastCalculus: Changes with each movie.
** FreudianTrio: "Ice Age"
*** TheKirk: Manny
*** TheMcCoy: Sid
*** TheSpock: Diego
** FiveManBand: "The Meltdown"
*** TheHero[=/=]TheBigGuy: Manny
*** TheLancer: Diego
*** TheSmartGuy: Sid, who actually ''is'' pretty smart.
*** TheChick: Ellie
*** {{Kid Appeal Character}}s: Crash and Eddie.
** TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: "Dawn Of The Dinosaurs"
*** The above six, plus a new, ''seventh'' Ranger: Buck the CrazyAwesome CloudCuckooLander weasel.
* CatsAreSnarkers: Diego.
-->'''Sid:''' Hey, my feet are sweating.\\
'''Diego:''' Do we need a news flash every time your body does something?
* ChekhovsGun: The ominous vibrating icicles.
** Diego's game of Where's the Baby with Roshan during the first half. Watch closely to see how it shows up again later.
* ChekhovsSkill: Ellie being the only tree-climbing mammoth in existence helps her to save one of the dino eggs in the third movie.
* TheChewToy: Scrat and Sid.
* ChirpingCrickets: "We're gonna miss the mi... the mi... gration..."
* CliffStack: At least once in the third movie.
* CloudCuckooLander:
** Ellie.
** The Dodos.
** [[CloudCuckooLander Buck]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass the]] [[ChekhovsSkill Weasel]]
** If the trailers are anything to go by, Sid’s Granny (played by Wanda Sykes) seems to be shaping up to be the 4th movies “Buck” in some respect
* ComicBookTime: The animal characters never seem to age, even though by rights Crash and Eddie should be old now. Which leads to the puzzling thought about how old the characters actually are...
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: The dodos in the first movie. Sid continually.
* ContinuityNod: Whereas this was ignored in the sequel, the third movie comes through with a {{Callback}} to the Original Film. In the scene before Diego leaves Manny to go protect Ellie, he says four words that Manny knows very well from some years earlier: "You have to trust me." And the poignant expression in Manny's eyes seals the deal as you clearly can see that he is remembering that event all over again, and thus why he lets Diego go protect his mate.
* {{Cool Old Lady}}: Looks like Sid’s Granny in the forth film could very well be this.
* ACrackInTheIce: The herd is walking on an ice field when a lava flow opens up beneath them, leaving only a thin bridge getting thinner by the minute.
* CrazySurvivalist:
** Buck the Weasel, the delightfully [[CloudCuckooLander deranged]] {{Rambo}}/[[MobyDick Ahab]] {{Expy}}.
** The dodos are preparing for living billions of years underground with a stockpile of... three watermelons! They failed.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Scrat and the piranhas. Or Scrat and Sid. "Tae kwon dodos! ATTACK!"
* DawnAttack:
-->'''Diego''': We'll teach that human what happens when he messes with sabers. \\
'''Soto''': Alert the troops. We attack at dawn.
* DeadLittleSister: You can call it dead [[spoiler: little son and wife]] for [[spoiler: Manny.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Diego and Manny.
* DecoyProtagonist: Scrat.
* DidYouDie: In ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', when Buck is telling the story of his encounter with Rudy. "Sadly yes... but I lived!"
* DisneyDeath: Diego, in the first movie.
* TheDitz: Sid, who is also a GeniusDitz occasionally, especially in the second movie.
* DynamicEntry: the third movie. "Go Momzilla!"
* EvilAlbino: Rudy from ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''.
* {{Expy}}: Buck the Weasel in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' is a clear allusion to [[{{Rambo}} John Rambo]], another traumatized jungle warrior. His maddened quest to take down a giant white beast that took a part off of him makes him an [[MobyDick Captain Ahab]] expy as well. He also seems to be channeling [[{{PiratesOfTheCaribbean}} Captain Jack Sparrow]].
* EyeAwaken:
** In ''Ice Age 2'', one of the unfrozen sea reptiles.
** In ''Ice Age 3'', Rudy does this fairly often.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom: (Technically they're sharp icicles, but...)
* FireForgedFriends: Manny and Diego, especially in the original film, where their friendship is put to the test - and once tested, remains strong - out of the herd in the newer movies, Diego and Manny's bond is the deepest.
* FiveBadBand: The pack of saber-toothed tigers in the first film:
** BigBad: Soto.
** TheDragon: Diego, pre-HeelFaceTurn.
** TheEvilGenius: Lenny.
** TheBrute: Zeke.
** TheDarkChick: Oscar.
* FollowTheLeader: The Original film is often termed so derisively by people who are fans of ''{{Shrek}}'' and ''MonstersInc'', which is unfair. ''Ice Age'' is a film that deserves to be considered by itself despite these accusations that it was a "rip-off" of the two aforementioned movies.
* FluffyCloudHeaven: Scrat's near-death experience with the giant golden acorn in ''The Meltdown''
* FluffyTheTerrible: Rudy, the fearsome white Baryonyx in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''. {{Lampshaded}} by Manny:
-->'''Manny:''' Oh, I was thinking it'd be something terrifying, like... ''Sheldon'', or [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Tim]].
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Pulled off twice in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''; first when Sid tries to milk a "Cow" ([[spoiler: "I thought you were a female!"]]) and at the end when [[spoiler: Ellie's daughter is born ("Oh look, it's a boy!" - "That's her ''tail'', Sid." - "It's a girl!")]]
** Also Buck mentions that he knew a rainbow-colored butterfly when he was a little caterpillar, "before he came out", and when he turned a T-Rex into a T-Rachel. Also, when Diego and Manny are pressed up against each other, Diego says, "I feel all tingly!" Manny says, "Don't say that when you're pressed up against me!" "Not that kind of tingly!"
** And ''again'' with "You know the old saying, an eye for a tooth, a nose for a chin, a butt for a... well it's an old saying. It's not a good saying."
** It's virtually impossible not to ''at least'' raise an eyebrow after hearing Buck say this: "What does that mean, 'I got your back'? I'd rather they covered the front. That's where all the good stuff is!"
** In the first movie, when Diego meets Manny and Sid with the baby for the first time: "You couldn't have one of your own, so you decided to adopt."
** Also in the first movie:
-->'''Manny:''' [The baby] must be wearing one of those baby things.
-->'''Sid:''' So?
-->'''Manny:''' So if he poops, where does it go?
-->'''Sid:''' (beat) Humans are disgusting.
** Trailers for the upcoming film gives us this line
-->“Holy Crab!”
* TheGlomp: Sid does this to Diego when the mammoth and the sloth discover to their joy that their tiger friend has survived his apparent death in ''Ice Age''. Diego doesn't really appreciate being Glomped though.
* GoOutWithASmile: CrossesTheLineTwice here. The way to the subterranean world goes through a crevasse full of toxic fumes, which is revealed to have very similar properties to [[{{Batman}} Joker's laughing gas]].
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The good Mommy dinosaur vs the Albino DinoMonster.
* GoryDiscretionShot: the falling icicles in the first film.
* GrumpyBear: Manny.
* HartmanHips: Scratte.
* HeelFaceTurn: Diego.
* HeldGaze: The [[HeterosexualLifePartners platonic]] version of this trope occurs in ''Ice Age'' after Manny has just rescued Diego from death at the lava fields.
** This happens again during a tense situation between the mammoth and the tiger in the third film, ''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' when Diego is attempting to convince Manny to let him go protect Ellie.
* HeroicSacrifice: Nadia, the baby's mother and [[spoiler: Manny and Diego, both subverted.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Manny and Diego.
** Manny and Sid and Diego and Sid (more like Heterosexual Life Trio).
* HonorableElephant: Manny.
* HumansAreBastards: played with: humans kill mammoths and have caused real heartbreak for Manny, but at this stage of human development they aren't really worse than other predatory species like saber-tooths.
* HumbleGoal: Scrat wants nothing more than to enjoy his acorn in peace.
* IAmBigBoned: Manny. He's not fat, it's all that fur. It makes him look...poofy.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The path to Sid.
* InsistentTerminology: Manny has poofy fur, he's not fat.
* InternetBackDraft: Speculation over the details of ''Ice Age 4: Continental Drift'' is already beginning to cause some of this at fan forums.
* InstantBirthJustAddWater: Ellie gives birth in the middle of a raptor fight, screaming and wincing, and Peaches comes out already clean, happy and sleepy. One of the most exaggerated Hollywood births ever.
** Played straight, and averted with Manny at the beginning of the third movie. He appears onscreen by screaming "IT'S HAPPENING!!" and carrying a hollowed out, upside-down turtle shell full of water.
* {{I Will Find You}}: Stated word for word by Manny in a trailer for the forth film.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Manny and Diego.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: In the third movie, Manny and Ellie have apparently not decided on what to name their child. After the baby mammoth's birth, Manny suggests they name her Ellie, but Ellie decides on the name "Peaches", which had been their code word for Ellie to tell Manny she was going into labor.
* LighterAndFluffier: The series starts out relatively serious, violent, and realistic, and gets progressively sillier. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that there's anything wrong with that.]]
** Arguable in the ''[=DotD=]'', where Buck turns the action (and obviously the silliness) up to 11.
* MamaBear: "Momma" in the third. Helps that she's a T-Rex.
** Also Roshan's mother in the first film. She leaped over ''a waterfall'' to protect her son from the sabers.
* [[ManEatingPlant Mammal-Eating Plant]]
* ManiacMonkeys: It seems that the main villain in the fourth movie will be a prehistoric ape pirate captain.
* MeaningfulEcho: Employed quite effectively in the Original between Manny and Diego in two life-and-death situations.
-->"That's what you do in a herd."
* MidairRepair: Buck performs mouth-to-mouth on a pterosaur knocked unconscious by a mid-air collision..
* MirrorCrackingUgly: Sid falls through into a cave in the third film because of this.
* MisplacedWildlife
* MoodWhiplash: The second half of the original film whips you through hilarity, and then sorrow, and then funniness again, and then back to close-to-tears-ness with the showdown with the sabres and Diego's DisneyDeath.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Averted in ''No Time for Nuts'' when Scrat ends up meeting himself via use of the time machine. HilarityEnsues when both Scrats start craving the time traveling one's acorn.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sid occasionally, most notably in ''Ice Age: The Meltdown''.
* ObliviousAdoption: Ellie in the second movie; the baby dinos in the third (but justified by imprinting.)
* ObliviousToLove: Manny. Sid has to even point it out to him in ''The Meltdown'' that he clearly '''likes''' Ellie, since Manny just doesn't realize it.
* OppositesAttract: Manny and Ellie
* ParentalBonus: From the first film:
-->'''Manny:''' "With a trunk that small, I wouldn't be drawing attention to yourself."
* ParodyOfEvolution: Seen in the first film in the ice caves.
* PickUpBabesWithBabes: Sid the Sloth tries to use this... and it actually DOES seem to be working, until Manny the Mammoth steps in. A cut-out scene shows Sid attempting to complete the 'score' after Manny's taken away their youthful charge, and predictably it ends badly.
* PlummetPerspective
* PteroSoarer: Roger from the third movie.
* RealSongThemeTune: Rusted Root's "Send Me On My Way", which was used rather prominently in the Original film during the TravelMontage.
* RecordNeedleScratch: Abruptly ending Scrat's [[spoiler: stay in his FluffyCloudHeaven]] at the end of the second movie. Again, in the begin sequence of ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs,'' ending the first encounter of Scrat and Scratte.
* RescueRomance: Scrat and Scratte's relationship really kicks off after he rescues her from death by lava when they are hanging by a thin root on a cliff.
* RedWireBlueWire - Hilariously spoofed in the carnivorous-plant action-sequence in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs.''
* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: Scrat and the Acorn.
* SandInMyEyes: Invoked and subverted by Diego after [[spoiler: Peaches is born]], as well as Crash and Eddie.
* SeaMonster: Cretaceous and Maelstrom in the second film, a Mosasaurus and an Icthyosaurus. [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying with legs]].
** Actually, Cretaceous looks a lot like a Metriorhynchid, a kind of sea-going crocodile from the times of dinosaurs. If this wasn´t the creature used as inspiration by the character designers, then it's an amazing case of convergent evolution...
* SnakeOilSalesman: Fast Tony...
* ShoutOut:
** "Yabba Dabba Doo!" "Don't Ever Yabadaba''[[TheFlintstones Doo]]'' that again!"
** "[[Theatre/{{Oliver}} Food, Glorious Food]]"
** Moby Dick=Rudy and Buck.
** Also, in the third movie, when they inhale the gas, Crash and Eddie try to sing like the Chipmunks ... or at least a Chipmunk song.
** In the first film, the alien ship seen in the cave is a reference to StarTrek. The baby even does the Vulcan salute as they pass by it.
** When Buck mentions that he calls the dinosaur he fought Rudy, Manny wonders why he didn't call him something more terrible, like [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Tim]].
* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Too much to fit on the main page. See [[Headscratchers/IceAge Headscrathers]].
* TheSpeechless: Despite being ''very'' noisy, Scrat. Also, the humans of the original movie ''Ice Age''. Cretaceous and Maelstrom in ''Meltdown''. Mama T. Rex and Rudy in ''Dawn''.
* SuperPersistentPredator:
** [[spoiler: Rudy. Justified, as Buck took out one of his teeth.]]
** Cretaceous and Maelstrom.
* TakeThat: [[SureWhyNot Possibly]] one against ''JurassicPark III'' in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs''. In the third JP, a Tyrannosaurus is killed after a brief fight with the Spinosaurus. Well, at the end of the third Ice Age, Mama (a Tyrannosaurus) turns up just at the last moment and attacks Rudy (an overgrown Baryonyx, related to Spinosaurus), effortlessly charging him, slamming him through the jungle and knocking him off a cliff. He doesn't actually die, but it was an incredible asskicking for the supposed BigBad of all dinosaurs in the series.
* TakingTheKids: The storyline with Sid, Mama Dino and the baby dinos is a parody of this trope, with Sid and Mama Dino playing the divorced parents fighting for custody.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Scratte appears to be wearing blue eye shadow, but makeup won't exist for millions of years, so it's probably natural coloring. In other words, you could say it's all down to her [[IncrediblyLamePun biological makeup]].
* TitleDrop: The Original employs this along with ThisIsSparta, below. "How do we know it's an Ice Age?"
* ThirdIs3D
* ThisIsSparta: From the first film; "Because. Of all. ''The Ice''!"
** Well, things just got a little chillier.
** This statement from Diego at the end: "Leave. The. Mammoth. Alone." He directs it at [[BigBad Soto.]]
** Sid has his moment, too, during the same scene: "Survival! Of the! Fittest! I don't think so."
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Carl and Frank.
* ThrowItIn: John Leguizamo made up Sid's lisp after seeing a model for what he looked like.
* TongueOnTheFlagpole
* TooDumbToLive:
** The Dodos.
** Often (and hilariously) subverted by both Scrat and Sid, often just barely.
** Buck, arguably. Even though he is insane, he does show some sort of intelligence. Sometimes.
* TravelMontage: in the first film, accompanied by [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Rusted Root's ''Send Me on My Way'']] as the characters experience Old Faithful, brave a blizzard, and attempt to walk on ice.
* TrueCompanions: The term "Herd" is used to describe the characters, and contrary to popular belief (ie Sid's) the sloth is not the to first to call them that, Manny termed them thus in the original movie after his rescue of Diego.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Manny's family in the first movie.
* TheVamp - Scratette. Might also count as a squirrel version of LadyInRed.
* TyrannosaurusRex: Momma from the third movie.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Diego in the first movie.
-->"Nine lives, baby!"
* UnusualAnimalAlliance
* WasntThatFun: In the first movie, after the animals all go hurtling through an [[ItMakesSenseInContext Ice Helter Skelter]] and slam into a wall, Diego punches the air and asks who wants to go do it again.
** Also in the third movie, when the herd is leaving the underground world, Buck states that they should have that adventure full of mortal peril again.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The ark in The Meltdown.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: DonBluth was offered to make Ice Age as a 2D animated film, but he refused to have any part of Ice Age.
* VerbalTic: Listening closely to Buck in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' reveals that the weasel is somehow prone to neglecting the usage of the letter aitch/H in his speech....
* VillainProtagonist: Diego in the original film, especially after joining Manny and Sid in their quest to return Roshan to his tribe.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sid is this, to Manny and Diego.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Averted in the first film, played straight in the sequels.
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