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* AnAesop: Size doesn't matter. Also, don't become a bully yourself when you get bullied.
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He does wear glasses in the film. Just not after he gets shrunk down.


* AbledInTheAdaptation: Lucas doesn't wear glasses in the film.
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* BigBad: Stan Beal

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Most ants one would find in a garden dig their colonies chiefly underground. The anthill is mostly just a pile of excavated dirt dumped outside the entrance; some species dig additional living space in it, but the bulk of the nest is beneath the surface.


** Red forest ants (Formica rufa) indeed do shoot liquid acid, but they do it from their own abdomen, not using larvae. The sticky goo produced by larvae is also real, but it's used by South-American leafcutter ants to glue their nests together.
** Red ants, and most of the ants in fact, build their anthills from foraged plant matter, not sand, because the anthill must be well ventilated to be habitable.
** Queen ant is not the actual ''queen'' of the colony: while she certainly is its most distinct member, it's the worker ants who do all the "thinking" decisions (and may even drag the queen around against her will). In fact, the council of high-ranking ants is more accurate than it seems.

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** Red forest ants (Formica rufa) (''Formica rufa'') indeed do shoot liquid acid, but they do it from their own abdomen, not using larvae. The sticky goo produced by larvae is also real, but it's used by South-American South American leafcutter ants to glue their nests together.
** Red ants, and most of the ants in fact, build their anthills from foraged plant matter, not sand, because the anthill must be well ventilated to be habitable.
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A queen ant is not the actual ''queen'' of the colony: while she certainly is its most distinct member, it's the worker ants who do all the "thinking" decisions (and may even drag the queen around against her will). In fact, the council of high-ranking ants is more accurate than it seems.
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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same name by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen, produced by Creator/TomHanks and directed by John A. Davis (''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'') and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same name by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen, produced by Creator/TomHanks and written for the screen & directed by John A. Davis (''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'') and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen, produced by Creator/TomHanks and directed by John A. Davis (''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'') and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam name by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen, produced by Creator/TomHanks and directed by John A. Davis (''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'') and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.


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* IAteWhat: Lucas' expression after eating honeydew and finding out what it actually is pretty much screams this before it culminates into him becoming GreenAroundTheGills.
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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by John A. Davis (''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'') and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen screen, produced by Creator/TomHanks and directed by John A. Davis (''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'') and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.
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* AmicableAnts: Hoova is a motherly, kind female ant that takes upon herself the responsibility of teaching Lucas the ant's way. There's also the Queen, that gave him a chance of redeeming himself and gives him an ant name after Lucas helps saving the colony from being poisoned by Stan Beals. Zigzagged with the other ants, who had good reasons to distrust Lucas because he mistreated them when he was in his normal size, but become friendlier to him after he becomes a better person.

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* AmicableAnts: Hoova Hova is a motherly, kind female ant that takes upon herself the responsibility of teaching Lucas the ant's way. There's also the Queen, that gave him a chance of redeeming himself and gives him an ant name after Lucas helps saving the colony from being poisoned by Stan Beals. Zigzagged with the other ants, who had good reasons to distrust Lucas because he mistreated them when he was in his normal size, but become friendlier to him after he becomes a better person.
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Wearing glasses isn't a major sign of being disabled


* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Lucas is a chubby young boy with glasses and a propeller hat in the book. The movie makes him skinny, [[AbledInTheAdaptation removes his glasses]] and he has no hat at all.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Lucas is a chubby young boy with glasses and a propeller hat in the book. The movie makes him skinny, [[AbledInTheAdaptation removes his glasses]] glasses (at least when he's shrunk), and he has no hat at all.
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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by John A. Davis and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by John A. Davis (''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'') and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.
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* OutOfTheFryingPan: One of the bugs that escapes the frog with Lucas and Zoc cheers about being free before immediately getting eaten by another frog.
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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by Creator/JohnADavis and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by Creator/JohnADavis John A. Davis and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.
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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by Creator/JohnADavis and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicholasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on the book of the same nam by John Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by Creator/JohnADavis and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicholasCage, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.


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The film also stars Creator/ReginaKing, Creator/BruceCampbell and Creator/LilyTomlin.
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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on a children's book by John Nickle.

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''The Ant Bully'' is a 2006 [[AllCGICartoon CGI animated]] movie based on a children's the book of the same nam by John Nickle.
Nickle. The film was written for the screen and directed by Creator/JohnADavis and stars the voices of Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/NicholasCage, Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/PaulGiamatti.
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* BareYourMidriff: Tiffany does this, as do the two girls working at the pizza place and Lucas himself.
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Not quite true - some cursory research shows that frogs do have esophaguses, but they're shorter than in other terrestrial vertebrates.


** Frogs have no uvulas in real life, and no throat or esophagus to speak of -- their mouths open directly to their stomachs. Also notably, the frog's tongue attaches to the front of its mouth, not the back as in mammals, as to have a longer reach.

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** Frogs have no uvulas in real life, and no throat or esophagus as this extension of the soft palate is exclusive to speak of -- their mouths open directly to their stomachs.humans. Also notably, the frog's tongue attaches to the front of its mouth, not the back as in mammals, as to have a longer reach.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: Lucas doesn't wear glasses in the film.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Lucas is a chubby young boy with glasses and a propeller hat in the book. The movie makes him skinny, [[AbledInTheAdaptation removes his glasses]] and he has no hat at all.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[spoiler:Stan Beals' ultimate fate seems very harsh considering his actions are not really all that different from Lucas'. In fact, Stan was hired by Lucas to take out the anthill, meaning he's doing it for work, unlike Lucas who did it purely for his own sadistic satisfaction. He may be taking a bit too much pleasure out of his job, but he is unaware that the ants are intelligent creatures. At the end, Lucas gets to go home while Stan presumably has to live the rest of his life with a pretty serious disability.]] A deleted scene does try to show Stan's more of an AssholeVictim by showing that he [[spoiler:never had permission from Lucas' father and in fact, his whole motivation for wanting a contract is so he could have one with every house in the neighborhood, meaning Stan exploited Lucas' own insecurities all for his own selfish gain]].

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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[spoiler:Stan Beals' ultimate fate seems very harsh considering his actions are not really all that different from Lucas'. In fact, Stan was hired by Lucas to take out the anthill, meaning he's doing it for work, unlike Lucas who did it purely for his own sadistic satisfaction. He may be taking a bit too much pleasure out of his job, but he is unaware that the ants are intelligent creatures. At the end, Lucas gets to go home while Stan presumably has to live the rest of his life with a pretty serious disability.]] [[https://youtu.be/lYBoKoP4vcE?t=88 A deleted scene scene]] does try to show Stan's more of an AssholeVictim by showing that he [[spoiler:never had permission from Lucas' father and in fact, his whole motivation for wanting a contract is so he could have one with every house in the neighborhood, meaning Stan exploited Lucas' own insecurities all for his own selfish gain]].
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[spoiler:Stan Beals' ultimate fate seems very harsh considering his actions are not really all that different from Lucas'. In fact, Stan was hired by Lucas to take out the anthill, meaning he's doing it for work, unlike Lucas who did it purely for his own sadistic satisfaction. He may be taking a bit too much pleasure out of his job, but he is unaware that the ants are intelligent creatures. At the end, Lucas gets to go home while Stan presumably has to live the rest of his life with a pretty serious disability.]] A deleted scene reveals that Stan's more of an AssholeVictim. [[spoiler:Stan never had permission from Lucas' father. In fact, his whole motivation for wanting a contract is so he could have one with every house in the neighborhood. Stan exploited Lucas' own insecurities all for his own selfish gain.]]

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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[spoiler:Stan Beals' ultimate fate seems very harsh considering his actions are not really all that different from Lucas'. In fact, Stan was hired by Lucas to take out the anthill, meaning he's doing it for work, unlike Lucas who did it purely for his own sadistic satisfaction. He may be taking a bit too much pleasure out of his job, but he is unaware that the ants are intelligent creatures. At the end, Lucas gets to go home while Stan presumably has to live the rest of his life with a pretty serious disability.]] A deleted scene reveals that does try to show Stan's more of an AssholeVictim. [[spoiler:Stan never AssholeVictim by showing that he [[spoiler:never had permission from Lucas' father. In father and in fact, his whole motivation for wanting a contract is so he could have one with every house in the neighborhood. neighborhood, meaning Stan exploited Lucas' own insecurities all for his own selfish gain.]]gain]].

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* AnAesop: Size doesn't matter. Also, don't become a bully yourself when you get bullied.



* AnAesop: Size doesn't matter. Also, don't become a bully yourself when you get bullied.

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The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a BoxOfficeBomb.



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** [[AluminumChristmasTrees Unbelievably]], ants use not just chemical weapons, but other objects against enemies they cannot defeat with their mandibles alone, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YpDCt_IaNM soaking the noxious coating of slugs with pieces of sand]]. Be glad they are not human-sized indeed.

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** [[AluminumChristmasTrees Unbelievably]], Unbelievably, ants use not just chemical weapons, but other objects against enemies they cannot defeat with their mandibles alone, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YpDCt_IaNM soaking the noxious coating of slugs with pieces of sand]]. Be glad they are not human-sized indeed.
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Lucas and the ants beat Stan Beals by turning him into a deformed version of himself, so misshapen that he can barely walk at the end.]]


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* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:Lucas and the ants beat Stan Beals by turning him into a deformed version of himself, so misshapen that he can barely walk at the end.]]
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* GrumpyBear: The unnamed fly who appears with the beetle and the glow worm is a grouchy, irascible fellow who is easily annoyed by the beetle's perpetual cheerfulness and the glow worm's constant gloom.
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* AmicableAnts: Hoova is a motherly, kind female ant that takes upon herself the responsibility of teaching Lucas the ant's way. There's also the Queen, that gave him a chance of redeeming himself and gives him an ant name after Lucas helps saving the colony from being poisoned by Stan Beals. Zigzagged with the other ants, who had good reasons to distrust Lucas because he mistreated them when he was in his normal size, but become friendlier to him after he becomes a better person.
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** Ironically, a winged firefly is also present in the film (Zoc's pet), but is somehow about 1/20 the size of other insects.

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** Ironically, a winged firefly is also present in the film (Zoc's pet), but is somehow about [[AnimalsNotToScale 1/20 the size of other insects.insects]].
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* AndroclesLion: In his efforts to save Lucas from the stomach of a frog that swallowed him, Zoc also manages to free a beetle, fly, and glow worm that were also trapped in the frog's stomach. While the fly gets swallowed by another frog mere seconds after being free from the first one, the beetle and glow worm reappear at the film's climax to help in the effort to stop Stan Beals, and provide crucial help by flying up Beals' pant leg and biting him in the groin just as he is about to gas the ant hill and provide the heroes with the opening they need to defeat Stan.
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* GroinAttack: The Beetle and Glowworm fly up the Stan Beals' pant leg during the battle to defend the colony. Searching for a target, the Glowworm remarks, "''That'' looks vulnerable..." and the Beetle opens its mouth very wide. Cut to a view of Stan; there's a small but audible crunch, and suddenly the man grabs his crotch in pain, and his whole body distorts into an anguished-yet-silly posture.

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* GroinAttack: The Beetle and Glowworm fly up the Stan Beals' pant leg during the battle to defend the colony. Searching for a target, the Glowworm remarks, "''That'' looks vulnerable..." and the Beetle opens its mouth very wide. Cut to a view of Stan; there's a small but audible crunch, and suddenly the man grabs his crotch in pain, and his whole body distorts into an anguished-yet-silly posture.
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* MirrorCharcter: Lucas and Zoc. The former gets picked on by the latter in much the same way Lucas picked on the ants.

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* MirrorCharcter: MirrorCharacter: Lucas and Zoc. The former gets picked on by the latter in much the same way Lucas picked on the ants.

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