History WesternAnimation / MarsNeedsMoms

* AllWorkVsAllPlay: On Mars, the female martians assume power and total control while the men are exiled and become free-spirited hippies.

* WomenAreWiser: What the martian women believe.

* SadClown: Gribble is a happy and fun-loving guy, but it's likely a facade considering the fact that he [[spoiler:failed to save his mother from the martians and had to live the rest of his life on Mars in the aftermath]].

* CrossDressingVoices: In the Japanese dub, Milo is played by a little girl.

''Mars Needs Moms'' is a 2011 Image Movers film distributed by Creator/{{Disney}} based on the storybook by ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' creator Berkeley Breathed and produced by Creator/RobertZemeckis. It focuses on young suburban kid Milo, who late one night discovers his mother has been abducted by Martians in an attempt to use her skills in parenting to raise their own young. After accidentally hitching a ride on their craft, he lands on the red planet and meets up with another human, an 80's era {{Manchild}} who has gone a bit crazy after being brought to Mars in the same way as Milo. Together with a rebellious young Martian girl they attempt to save Milo's mother from her captors.

* MarsNeedsWomen: Naturally. The title of the film even pays homage to the TropeNamer. The Martians need them because they're too busy to raise their own children, hence the need to copy the child-raising abilities of a human mom onto an army of nanny-bots.

* ChekhovsGun: A literal one. Also [[spoiler:Gribble's helmet that we see him drop on the Martian surface in his flashback, is found, still functional, and used to save Milo's mom who gave up her helmet to save Milo, whose helmet had shattered earlier when he tripped.]]

** A ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' poster can be seen in Milo's room.

* ShoutOut: Upon Gribble's introduction, he breathes like [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]].
* StrawFeminist: Turns out that The Supervisor is one of these, having instituted a super-fascist feminist regime and keeping it running for ''decades'' because she absolutely ''hated'' the males' supposed lazyness (and once she's discovered, she says that she did it "for all of us (Martian females)!").