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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[spoiler: Stan's ultimate fate of 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.]]
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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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* GardenGarment: Since his clothes don't shrink with him, Lucas creates a new outfit using plants and exo-skeletons.
--> '''Kreela:''' "Why is he covered in trash? Is he crazy? Because I don't teach crazy ants."
--> '''Hova:''' "No, no, no. He calls the trash "clothes". They like keeping their gender traits hidden. He's male."
--> '''Kreela:''' "Why is he covered in trash? Is he crazy? Because I don't teach crazy ants."
--> '''Hova:''' "No, no, no. He calls the trash "clothes". They like keeping their gender traits hidden. He's male."
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Lucas when he [[spoiler:grows big again at the end]].
* HartmanHips: Lucas's mom has them to a ludicrous extreme.
* HartmanHips: Lucas's mom has them to a ludicrous extreme.
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* BreakTheCutie: You have to feel sorry for Lucas. He's bullied, he has no friends, his parents don't know how to relate to him, his sister shows absolutely no interest in him and he has no other enjoyment but to torture animals all day. And that's before he gets shrunk and kidnapped in the middle of the night by giant ants that push him down various incredibly (comparatively) great heights and then threaten to eat him alive when he is completely helpless. All while he's completely naked. No wonder his eyes start leaking.
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* BreakTheCutie: You have to feel sorry for Lucas. He's bullied, he has no friends, his parents don't know how to relate to him, his sister shows absolutely no interest in him and he has no other enjoyment but to torture animals all day. And that's before he gets shrunk and kidnapped in the middle of the night by giant ants that push him down various incredibly (comparatively) great heights and then threaten to eat him alive when he is completely helpless. All while he's completely naked. No wonder his eyes start leaking. Just as well the experience with the ants facilitates his growth into a better person and allows him to get rid of his bully while earning the respect of his peers in the process.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Lucas, at first, but after his CharacterDevelopment he becomes a NiceGuy by losing his emotional baggage and seeing the ants as people rather than easy targets for his post-bully rage. Steve, the bully in question, however, is a jerk even to his "underlings", and Stan Beals, the exterminator,
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* PunchClockVillain: When you think about it, the exterminator is just doing the job he was hired to do. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero By Lucas, no less]].
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* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wedgie Wedgie]]: The neighborhood bully gives one to Lucas in the beginning of the movie. It is made clear that Lucas gets them on a regular basis from the bully, as he complains that he's running out of underwear.
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** So [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]] is drowning ants now?
** Colonel Gordon from ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' voices one of the ants.
** The head nurse is [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Dee Dee Sykes]].
** So [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]] is drowning ants now?
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** The head nurse is [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Dee Dee Sykes]].
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* {{Kaiju}} Lucas is this to the ant colony. [[spoiler: The Exterminator is far worse.]]
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* {{Kaiju}} Lucas is this to the ant colony. [[spoiler: The Exterminator is far worse.]]
** The frog, to a lesser extent.
* {{Kaiju}} Lucas is this to the ant colony. [[spoiler: The Exterminator is far worse.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Queen Ant.
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* BreakTheCutie: You have to feel sorry for Lucas. He's bullied, he has no friends, his parents don't know how to relate to him, his sister shows absolutely no interest in him and he has no other enjoyment but to torture animals all days. And that's before he gets shrunk and kidnapped in the middle of the night by giant ants that push him down various incredibly (comparatively) great heights and then threaten to eat him alive when he is completely helpless. All while he's completely naked. No wonder his eyes start leaking.
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* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Lucas is known to the ants as 'Peanut The Destroyer' for his actions when he was full-sized. The Peanut part being a nickname from his mother.
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* ShotInTheAss: A very subtle example when Lucas gets pushed into the anthill. The ants repairing the colony take it in turns to guide the falling Lucas towards the Queen by shooting a web like goo on him, the first stream of which hits Lucas straight in the butt.
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** So[[AvatarTheLastAirbender [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]] is drowning ants now?
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* AWizardDidIt: Among the ants are those considered 'wizards', although they actually seem to be more like potioneers. Nonetheless, a potion that can shrink a boy to the size of an ant is clearly magic, as is the ability to shoot energy bolts from a staff and make it glow brightly on command like [[LordOfTheRights Gandalf]] does.
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''TheAntBully'' is a 2006 CGI animated movie based on a children's book by John Nickle.
The film is about a boy named Lucas Nickle who, after being picked on by some bullies, takes out his anger on an anthill. The ants who live there don't take too kindly to this, and magically shrink him down to ant size so that they can punish him. Initially they want to kill him, but the Queen Ant steps in and insists that he live among them for a while. He begins to learn how to live as an ant, and develops friendships with some of them.
Not just another 'ant movie', the film is surprisingly mature in many aspects.
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!!Tropes include:
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
* AdaptationExpansion: The film is based on a book that's about 30 pages long.
* BareYourMidriff: Tiffany does this, as do the two girls working at the pizza place.
** Not to mention Lucas himself.
* BelligerentSexualTension: [[TakahashiCouple Fugax and Kreela]]
* BlindWithoutEm: Averted; the entire time he is shrunken to ant size, Lucas does not wear his glasses yet he can see perfectly fine, which makes you wonder why he would need his glasses when he is at normal size.
* BreakTheCutie: You have to feel sorry for Lucas. He's bullied, he has no friends, his parents don't know how to relate to him, his sister shows absolutely no interest in him and he has no other enjoyment but to torture animals all days. And that's before he gets shrunk and kidnapped in the middle of the night by giant ants that push him down various incredibly (comparatively) great heights and then threaten to eat him alive when he is completely helpless. All while he's completely naked. No wonder his eyes start leaking.
* ByWallThatIsHoley: How Fugax survives an attack with a phone receiver.
* CassandraTruth: Only the grandmother realises that Lucas has been shrunk by what she believes to be aliens. Tiffany thinks she's just crazy.
* ChekhovsGun: The Alca root. [[spoiler:Zoc uses it on the frog to save both Lucas and himself.]]
* {{CloudCuckooLander}}: Mommo and the nameless "Smiley" water beetle.
* CrazyPrepared: Just how much resistance did the exterminator expect while packing all those weapons?
* DoNotExplainTheJoke: The "Cross your heart" bit.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Ants and wasps vs. exterminator]]
* ForeignQueasine: Lucas loves honeydew until he finds out what it is--excreta from the caterpillars the colony uses as livestock.
* GoingNative
* GroinAttack: "That looks vulnerable..."
* HeldGaze: Zoc and Hova have a particularly lingering one after Zoc has redeemed himself in Hova's eyes by putting his life on the line for Lucas.
* HeyItsThatVoice: So [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]] is drowning ants now?
** Colonel Gordon from ''{{Godzilla}}: Final Wars'' voices one of the ants.
** The head nurse is [[CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Dee Dee Sykes]].
* HartmanHips: Lucas's mom has them to a ludicrous extreme.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Boy]]
* InsectGenderBender: The queen is female and huge, but the other ants are bigendered.
* MagicPants: Averted: Lucas's clothes don't shrink with him, so he's forced to make new clothes out of shed exoskeletons.
** The same occurs at the end when [[spoiler:Lucas is returned to human size and his ant clothes do not grow with him. He quickly finds himself standing completely naked in the front garden.]]
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Lucas is known to the ants as 'Peanut The Destroyer' for his actions when he was full-sized. The Peanut part being a nickname from his mother.
* MouseWorld: Inside the Ant Hill.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: [[spoiler:When Lucas grows back to his normal size, he finds himself butt-naked in the front garden.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Lucas and Zoc.
* OhCrap: Actually uttered by a fly after getting swallowed again by a frog.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Lucas is not afraid of the bully anymore after his experiences with the ants.
* ProductPlacement: Jelly Belly™ jelly beans are the ants' favorite food.
* PuppyDogEyes: Hova does this when she demonstrates what ants do instead of crying when they're sad.
* ShotInTheAss: A very subtle example when Lucas gets pushed into the anthill. The ants repairing the colony take it in turns to guide the falling Lucas towards the Queen by shooting a web like goo on him, the first stream of which hits Lucas straight in the butt.
* TakeThat: The head of the bug that gets pulled out of the frog's digestive juices looks [[ABugsLife awfully familiar...]]
* AWizardDidIt: Among the ants are those considered 'wizards', although they actually seem to be more like potioneers. Nonetheless, a potion that can shrink a boy to the size of an ant is clearly magic.
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''TheAntBully'' is a 2006 CGI animated movie based on a children's book by John Nickle.
The film is about a boy named Lucas Nickle who, after being picked on by some bullies, takes out his anger on an anthill. The ants who live there don't take too kindly to this, and magically shrink him down to ant size so that they can punish him. Initially they want to kill him, but the Queen Ant steps in and insists that he live among them for a while. He begins to learn how to live as an ant, and develops friendships with some of them.
Not just another 'ant movie', the film is surprisingly mature in many aspects.
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!!Tropes include:
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
* AdaptationExpansion: The film is based on a book that's about 30 pages long.
* BareYourMidriff: Tiffany does this, as do the two girls working at the pizza place.
** Not to mention Lucas himself.
* BelligerentSexualTension: [[TakahashiCouple Fugax and Kreela]]
* BlindWithoutEm: Averted; the entire time he is shrunken to ant size, Lucas does not wear his glasses yet he can see perfectly fine, which makes you wonder why he would need his glasses when he is at normal size.
* BreakTheCutie: You have to feel sorry for Lucas. He's bullied, he has no friends, his parents don't know how to relate to him, his sister shows absolutely no interest in him and he has no other enjoyment but to torture animals all days. And that's before he gets shrunk and kidnapped in the middle of the night by giant ants that push him down various incredibly (comparatively) great heights and then threaten to eat him alive when he is completely helpless. All while he's completely naked. No wonder his eyes start leaking.
* ByWallThatIsHoley: How Fugax survives an attack with a phone receiver.
* CassandraTruth: Only the grandmother realises that Lucas has been shrunk by what she believes to be aliens. Tiffany thinks she's just crazy.
* ChekhovsGun: The Alca root. [[spoiler:Zoc uses it on the frog to save both Lucas and himself.]]
* {{CloudCuckooLander}}: Mommo and the nameless "Smiley" water beetle.
* CrazyPrepared: Just how much resistance did the exterminator expect while packing all those weapons?
* DoNotExplainTheJoke: The "Cross your heart" bit.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Ants and wasps vs. exterminator]]
* ForeignQueasine: Lucas loves honeydew until he finds out what it is--excreta from the caterpillars the colony uses as livestock.
* GoingNative
* GroinAttack: "That looks vulnerable..."
* HeldGaze: Zoc and Hova have a particularly lingering one after Zoc has redeemed himself in Hova's eyes by putting his life on the line for Lucas.
* HeyItsThatVoice: So [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]] is drowning ants now?
** Colonel Gordon from ''{{Godzilla}}: Final Wars'' voices one of the ants.
** The head nurse is [[CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Dee Dee Sykes]].
* HartmanHips: Lucas's mom has them to a ludicrous extreme.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Boy]]
* InsectGenderBender: The queen is female and huge, but the other ants are bigendered.
* MagicPants: Averted: Lucas's clothes don't shrink with him, so he's forced to make new clothes out of shed exoskeletons.
** The same occurs at the end when [[spoiler:Lucas is returned to human size and his ant clothes do not grow with him. He quickly finds himself standing completely naked in the front garden.]]
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Lucas is known to the ants as 'Peanut The Destroyer' for his actions when he was full-sized. The Peanut part being a nickname from his mother.
* MouseWorld: Inside the Ant Hill.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: [[spoiler:When Lucas grows back to his normal size, he finds himself butt-naked in the front garden.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Lucas and Zoc.
* OhCrap: Actually uttered by a fly after getting swallowed again by a frog.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Lucas is not afraid of the bully anymore after his experiences with the ants.
* ProductPlacement: Jelly Belly™ jelly beans are the ants' favorite food.
* PuppyDogEyes: Hova does this when she demonstrates what ants do instead of crying when they're sad.
* ShotInTheAss: A very subtle example when Lucas gets pushed into the anthill. The ants repairing the colony take it in turns to guide the falling Lucas towards the Queen by shooting a web like goo on him, the first stream of which hits Lucas straight in the butt.
* TakeThat: The head of the bug that gets pulled out of the frog's digestive juices looks [[ABugsLife awfully familiar...]]
* AWizardDidIt: Among the ants are those considered 'wizards', although they actually seem to be more like potioneers. Nonetheless, a potion that can shrink a boy to the size of an ant is clearly magic.
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