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The age gap doesn’t matter as long as fans ship them.

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** Moana and [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa]], due to both pointedly lacking any kind of romantic interest, leaving the fans free to imagine any kind of sexuality they want.
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Fanart At First Sight is going to be cut


* FanartAtFirstSight: Long before the first promotional images from Moana were unveiled, speculative designs of the title character popped up everywhere, taking inspiration from the designs of characters such as Ariel and Pocahontas.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Quite a few fans believe Tamatoa should've been the BigBad and Te Kā should've (somehow) been his TheDragon -- a two-for-one way of averting their aforementioned TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter examples.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Quite a few fans believe Tamatoa should've been the BigBad and Te Kā should've (somehow) been his TheDragon [[TheDragon Dragon]] -- a two-for-one way of averting their aforementioned TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter examples.
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** Te Kā, the actual BigBad, has an awesome design, intimidating presence and [[spoiler:a tragic explanation for its villainy. She's a [[BigGood life giving goddess]] turned into [[BigBad a monster]] by Maui's theft of her heart.]] Unfortunately, the movie never spends any time focusing on its past and motivation; it has only three, brief scenes, and the character never even speaks.

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** Te Kā, the actual BigBad, has an awesome design, intimidating presence and [[spoiler:a tragic explanation for its villainy. She's a [[BigGood life giving goddess]] turned into [[BigBad a monster]] by Maui's theft of her heart.]] Unfortunately, the movie never spends any time focusing on its past and motivation; it has only three, three brief scenes, and the character never even speaks.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Heihei, for being an intentionally annoying character, reactions to him are really mixed. Some legitimately think he's a funny character, especially for the way he was used in the Kakamora scene. Others absolutely despise his existence, rooting for the older villager and Maui to grill and eat him because [[TheLoad he's so useless]] and wishing that he actually was scrapped, like [[WhatCouldHaveBeen he was originally intended to be]]. And then there are plenty who forgot that he was in the movie at all.

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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Heihei, for being an intentionally annoying character, reactions to him are really mixed. Some legitimately think he's a funny character, especially for the way he was used in the Kakamora scene. Others absolutely despise his existence, rooting for the older villager and Maui to grill and eat him because [[TheLoad he's so useless]] and wishing that he actually was had been scrapped, like [[WhatCouldHaveBeen he was originally intended to be]]. And then there are plenty who forgot that he was in the movie at all.



* BrokenBase: "Shiny" is easily the clearest example in terms of soundtrack. Some folks hate it because it's so different from the other songs and would be a BigLippedAlligatorMoment if it wasn't for the [[{{Foreshadowing}} last part]]. Others love it ''because'' it's so different, as it perfectly illustrates [[CreepyAwesome Tamatoa's nature]]. The fact it's very obviously influenced by Music/DavidBowie also helps.

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* BrokenBase: "Shiny" is easily the clearest example in terms of soundtrack. Some folks hate it because it's so different from the other songs and would be a BigLippedAlligatorMoment if it wasn't weren't for the [[{{Foreshadowing}} last part]]. Others love it ''because'' it's so different, as it perfectly illustrates [[CreepyAwesome Tamatoa's nature]]. The fact it's very obviously influenced by Music/DavidBowie also helps.

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* AccidentalInnuendo: What Tamatoa says to Maui after the latter tries to use his hook again but it fails to work properly; it can easily interpreted another way...

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* AccidentalInnuendo: What Tamatoa gives us several of these:
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says to Maui after the latter tries to use his hook again but it fails to work properly; it properly can easily interpreted another way...



%%ZCE ** "My stuff is so shiny!"

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%%ZCE ** The line "My stuff is so shiny!"shiny!". While he was talking about his shell, "stuff" can be slang for genitalia.
** He mentions to Moana ''he [[ImAHumanitarian ate his grandmother]]''. But if one reads "eat" as "eating out" (like oral sex), then... [[ParentalIncest ye]][[{{Squick}} ah]].
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The age gap of this one doesn't sit right with me.


** Moana and [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa]], due to both pointedly lacking any kind of romantic interest, leaving the fans free to imagine any kind of sexuality they want.
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** A story that seems overly derivative of more famous animated works - ''Moana'' has several story beats that resemble ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' and ''Raya'' resembling ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Likewise, despite the interesting premise, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter several characters]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot and plot points felt wasted]] thanks to its abiding the Disney formula. Since ''Moana'' was presented as more of a Disney Princess story, though, this largely meant that a lot of those formula was somewhat expected, whereas ''Raya'' shared so many similarities to ''Avatar'', and its adherence to the Disney formula led to criticism that it lacked the maturity and nuance of the latter.

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** A story that seems overly derivative of more famous animated works - ''Moana'' has several story beats that resemble ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' and ''Raya'' resembling ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Likewise, despite the interesting premise, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter several characters]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot and plot points felt wasted]] thanks to its abiding the Disney formula. Since ''Moana'' was presented as more of a Disney Princess story, though, this largely meant that a lot of those formula was somewhat expected, whereas ''Raya'' shared so many similarities to ''Avatar'', ''Avatar [=TLB=]'', and its adherence to the Disney formula led to criticism that it lacked the maturity and nuance of the latter.

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