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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hova gives one to Zoc on his racism towards humans after chasing Lucas away.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hova gives one to Zoc on his racism towards humans after chasing the latter chases Lucas away.
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** Some species of ants do "farm" beetles for honeydew, having something of a symbiotic relationship.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hova gives one to Zoc on his racism towards humans after chasing Lucas away.
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* VillanousBadlandHeroicArcadia: The ants live in the middle of a green and well-tended lawn, while the wasps nest in a patch of sandy desert dotted with cacti... and sitting rather incongruously in the middle of a manicured suburban garden.
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* VillanousBadlandHeroicArcadia: VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: The ants live in the middle of a green and well-tended lawn, while the wasps nest in a patch of sandy desert dotted with cacti... and sitting rather incongruously in the middle of a manicured suburban garden.
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* ShownTheirWork: When Lucas asks Hova to cross her heart, she crosses her abdomen not her thorax like Lucas does, explaining to Lucas that her heart is in her abdomen. This is true about [[http://missdanaants.blogspot.com/2013/03/ant-anatomy.html ant anatomy]].
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* ShownTheirWork: ShownTheirWork:
** When Lucas asks Hova to cross her heart, she crosses her abdomen not her thorax like Lucas does, explaining to Lucas that her heart is in her abdomen. This is true about [[http://missdanaants.blogspot.com/2013/03/ant-anatomy.html ant anatomy]].
** When Lucas asks Hova to cross her heart, she crosses her abdomen not her thorax like Lucas does, explaining to Lucas that her heart is in her abdomen. This is true about [[http://missdanaants.blogspot.com/2013/03/ant-anatomy.html ant anatomy]].
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* VillanousBadlandHeroicArcadia: The ants live in the middle of a green and well-tended lawn, while the wasps nest in a patch of sandy desert dotted with cacti... and sitting rather incongruously in the middle of a manicured suburban garden.
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Not just another "ant movie", the film is surprisingly mature in many aspects.
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* BadBoss: Steve is quite abusive towards his "friends". [[spoiler: This leads to them turning against him in the end.]]
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: This is the reason why Steve's gang turns against him courtesy of Lucas.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: No one knows what happened to Stan Beals after he got chased away by wasps.
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** Frogs have no uvulas in real life, and no throat or esophagus to speak of -- their mouths open directly to their stomachs.
** Only females can be worker ants. Male ants mate with a virgin queen and die.
** Only females can be worker ants. Male ants mate with a virgin queen and die.
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** Frogs have no uvulas in real life, and no throat or esophagus to speak of -- their mouths open directly to their stomachs.
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.
** Only females can be worker ants. Male ants are winged, wasp-like drones, whose only purpose in the colony is to mate with a virginqueen queen, and die.die a few days afterwards.
** The Queen Ant is depicted as having wings. In real life, queens only have wings for their nuptial flight, after which they shed their wings, as their wing muscles will be digested to help nourish the first brood (and as she spends the rest of her life underground, she has no need for them anyway).
** The Glow-Worm is a male. In reality, glow worms are in fact wingless female fireflies, while the males have wings and are capable of flight.
** Only females can be worker ants. Male ants are winged, wasp-like drones, whose only purpose in the colony is to mate with a virgin
** The Queen Ant is depicted as having wings. In real life, queens only have wings for their nuptial flight, after which they shed their wings, as their wing muscles will be digested to help nourish the first brood (and as she spends the rest of her life underground, she has no need for them anyway).
** The Glow-Worm is a male. In reality, glow worms are in fact wingless female fireflies, while the males have wings and are capable of flight.
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* BytheLightsofTheirEyes: The only part of Fugax visible when he's in the phone receiver are his eyes.
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* BytheLightsofTheirEyes: ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: The only part of Fugax visible when he's in the phone receiver are his eyes.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Queen Ant.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Queen Ant.Ant, who simply decides that Lucas should live like an ant. Likewise, the same would occur for Hova, who opts to give Lucas a chance to prove himself, while, her mate, Zoc would rather not.
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**Some species of ants do "farm" beetles for honeydew, having something of a symbiotic relationship.
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* CassandraTruth: Only the grandmother realises that Lucas has been shrunk by what she believes to be aliens. Tiffany thinks she's just crazy.
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* CassandraTruth: Only the grandmother realises realizes that Lucas has been shrunk by what she believes to be aliens. Tiffany thinks she's just crazy.
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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.]] A deleted scene reveals that he'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's [[spoiler:Stan Beals' 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.]] A deleted scene reveals that he's 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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* ShoutOut: Lucas's outfit he makes after being shrunk, and for the final battle against Stan Beals, resembles ComicBook/AntMan.
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* ShoutOut: Lucas's Lucas' outfit he makes after being shrunk, and for the final battle against Stan Beals, resembles ComicBook/AntMan.
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Newly launched trope. Also trope misuse — A Wizard Did It refers to when "magic" is used as a handwave to avoid having to explain how something works.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The film is based on a book that's about 30 pages long.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The film is based on a book that's about 30 thirty pages long.
* MagicStaff: Zoc carries a staff topped with a green, glassy stone everywhere he goes. He can use it to shoot energy bolts, and can make it glow brightly to function as a light source.
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* MouseWorld: Inside the Ant Hill.
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* MouseWorld: Inside the Ant Hill.anthill.
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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 [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] does.
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* AWizardDidIt: Among WickedWasps: The chief recurring danger for the ant colony, besides Lucas himself, are the wasps also living in the garden, who regularly conduct raids on the ants and carry off their caterpillar livestock -- and sometimes the ants themselves -- as food. Notably, they're far less anthropomorphized than the ants: while the ant characters are those considered 'wizards', although they actually seem to be depicted with human mouths and eyes and as standing upright and using their foremost legs as hands, the wasps are portrayed much 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 realistically with no grasping limbs and make it glow brightly on command like [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] does.with sideways-opening jaws and blank compound eyes, giving them a much more alien and menacing appearance.
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* ChekhovsGun: The Alca root, introduced early on as a an equivalent of Alka-Seltzer of Zoc's devising. [[spoiler:Zoc uses it on the frog to save both Lucas and himself by making it belch him and Lucas out]].
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* ChekhovsGun: The Alca root, introduced early on as a an equivalent of Alka-Seltzer of Zoc's devising. [[spoiler:Zoc uses it on the frog to save both Lucas and himself by making it belch him and Lucas out]].
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Technically speaking, Kaiju refers to the genre of fiction featuring giant monsters, and Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever refers to small or normal-sized creatures turned huge.
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Not just another 'ant movie', the film is surprisingly mature in many aspects.
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Not just another 'ant movie', "ant movie", the film is surprisingly mature in many aspects.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Frogs have no uvulas in real life. Only females can be worker ants. Male ants mate with a virgin queen and die.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever:
** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
** Later on, the exterminator comes around and takes his place.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever:
** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
** Later on, the exterminator comes around and takes his place.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Frogs have no uvulas in reallife. life, and no throat or esophagus to speak of -- their mouths open directly to their stomachs.
** Only females can be worker ants. Male ants mate with a virgin queen anddie.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever:
** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
** Later on, the exterminator comes around and takes his place.die.
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** Only females can be worker ants. Male ants mate with a virgin queen and
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** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
** Later on, the exterminator comes around and takes his place.
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* BareYourMidriff: Tiffany does this, as do the two girls working at the pizza place.
** Not to mention Lucas himself.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Fugax and Kreela.
** Not to mention Lucas himself.
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* BareYourMidriff: Tiffany does this, as do the two girls working at the pizza place.
** Not to mentionplace and Lucas himself.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Fugax and Kreela. They spend most of the movie getting on each other's nerves -- mostly, Kreela finds Fugax an irritating blowhard -- but they get together by the end.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Fugax and Kreela. They spend most of the movie getting on each other's nerves -- mostly, Kreela finds Fugax an irritating blowhard -- but they get together by the end.
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* BreakoutCharacter: The beetle
* ByWallThatIsHoley: How Fugax survives an attack with a phone receiver.
* BytheLightsofTheirEyes: Fugax in the phone receiver.
* ByWallThatIsHoley: How Fugax survives an attack with a phone receiver.
* BytheLightsofTheirEyes: Fugax in the phone receiver.
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* ByWallThatIsHoley: How Fugax survives an attack with a phone
* BytheLightsofTheirEyes: The only part of Fugax visible when he's in the phone
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* ChekhovsGun: The Alca root. [[spoiler:Zoc uses it on the frog to save both Lucas and himself.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The Alca root. root, introduced early on as a an equivalent of Alka-Seltzer of Zoc's devising. [[spoiler:Zoc uses it on the frog to save both Lucas and himself.]]himself by making it belch him and Lucas out]].
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* TheEeyore: The glow worm
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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."
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* GardenGarment: Since his clothes don't shrink with him, Lucas creates a new outfit using plants and shed bits of exo-skeletons.
--> '''Kreela:''' -->'''Kreela:''' "Why is he covered in trash? Is he crazy? Because I don't teach crazy ants."
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'''Hova:''' "No, no, no. He calls the trash "clothes". They like keeping their gender traits hidden. He's male."
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'''Hova:''' "No, no, no. He calls the trash "clothes". They like keeping their gender traits hidden. He's male."
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* InkSuitActor: Creator/PaulGiamatti as exterminator Stan Beals. Almost no difference---the goatee, the nose, the eyebrows.
* InsectGenderBender: The queen is female and huge, but the other ants are bigendered.
** The Glow-worm is a male. Glow-worms are actually all females- their male counterparts are the [[BizarreSexualDimorphism winged fireflies]].
* InsectGenderBender: The queen is female and huge, but the other ants are bigendered.
** The Glow-worm is a male. Glow-worms are actually all females- their male counterparts are the [[BizarreSexualDimorphism winged fireflies]].
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* InkSuitActor: Creator/PaulGiamatti as exterminator Stan Beals. Almost no difference---the difference -- the goatee, the nose, the eyebrows.
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** The queen is female and huge, as queen ants are, but the other ants arebigendered.
bigendered -- worker ants are exclusively female in real life.
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** The queen is female and huge, as queen ants are, but the other ants are
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** The frog, to a lesser extent.
** The frog, to a lesser extent.
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* NotSoDifferent: Lucas and Zoc.
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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.]]
** A deleted scene reveals that he'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.]]
** A deleted scene reveals that he'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's ultimate fate of seems very harsh considering his actions are not really all that different from Lucas.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 he'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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** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer", whose the ants perceive as a building-sized monster that regularly rains destruction on their colony.
** Later on, the exterminator comes around and takes his place.
** The frog fits this as well, to a lesser extent, from the point of view of the insects it swallows.
** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer", whose the ants perceive as a building-sized monster that regularly rains destruction on their colony.
** Later on, the exterminator comes around and takes his place.
** The frog fits this as well, to a lesser extent, from the point of view of the insects it swallows.
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* ShownTheirWork: When Lucas asks Hova to cross her heart, she crosses her abdomen not her thorax like Lucas does, explaining to Lucas that her heart is in her abdomen. This is true about [[http://missdanaants.blogspot.com/2013/03/ant-anatomy.html ant anatomy]].
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* GroinAttack: "That 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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* TakeThat: The head of the bug that gets pulled out of the frog's digestive juices looks [[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife awfully familiar...]]
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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.]]
** A deleted scene reveals that he'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.]]
* PunchClockVillain: When you think about it, the exterminator is just doing the job he was hired to do. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero By Lucas, no less]].
** A deleted scene reveals that he'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.]]
* 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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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[spoiler: Stan's [[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.]]
** A deleted scene reveals that he's more of an AssholeVictim.[[spoiler: Stan [[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.]]
* PunchClockVillain: When you think about it, the exterminator is just doing the job he was hired to do. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero By Lucas, no less]]. [[KickTheDog Though he did bully Lucas into illegally signing the contract...]]
** A deleted scene reveals that he's more of an AssholeVictim.
* PunchClockVillain: When you think about it, the exterminator is just doing the job he was hired to do. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero By Lucas, no less]]. [[KickTheDog Though he did bully Lucas into illegally signing the contract...]]
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* NonStandardCharacterDesign: The wasps. Unlike the other insects in the film, who are caricatured, the wasps look exactly like real wasps apart from [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife their psychedelic coloration]].
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* ShoutOut: Lucas's outfit he makes after being shrunk, and for the final battle against Stan Beals, resembles ComicBook/AntMan.
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* BreakoutCharacter: The beetle
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* TheEeyore: The glow worm
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* AdaptationExpansion: The film is based on a book that's about 30 pages long.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Frogs have no uvulas in real life.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Fugax and KreelaKreela.
* TheDogBitesBack: The ants get their own back at Lucas for his myriad torments and acts of cruelty. Then, Lucas himself turns the other kids against his tormentor, Steve, after one insult too many.
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* [[ExitPursuedByABear Exit Pursued By Wasps]]: ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler: Stan Beals is last seen barely outrunning an angry swarm of wasps while on a tricycle.]]
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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, exterminator.
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** 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.]]
** 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.]]
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* MagicPants: Averted. Lucas's clothes don't shrink with him, so he's forced to make new clothes out of shed exoskeletons.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: AttackOfThe50FootWhatever:
** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
** Early in the movie, Lucas is the monster "Peanut the Destroyer".
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* FriendlessBackground: Lucas is shown to not have any friends, which may also have been a motivation for him to bully ants.
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* NakedFreakOut: Lucas tries desperately to cover himself once he's too small for his clothes, first by using a potato chip and later with a small leaf.
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* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Lucas wakes up in the middle of the night, shrunk down to the size of an ant. As he explores his surroundings he literally stumbles across his now-enormous pair of underpants that he shrunk out of.
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* InkSuitActor: PaulGiamatti as exterminator Stan Beals. Almost no difference---the goatee, the nose, the eyebrows.
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* InkSuitActor: PaulGiamatti Creator/PaulGiamatti as exterminator Stan Beals. Almost no difference---the goatee, the nose, the eyebrows.
