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5	* ActingForTwo:
6	** In the Swedish dub, Creator/AndersOjebo voices Jack Horner while also reprising his role as Gingy.
7	** In the Norwegian dub, Even Bergan voices both Jack Horner and the Ethical Bug.
8	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
9	** In the European French dub, the Wolf is voiced by rapper Doudou Masta.
10	** In the German dub, Perrito is played by influencer and content creator Riccardo Simmoneti while presenter Oliver Kalkofe plays [[ActingForTwo Jack Horner and the Ethical Bug]].
11	** In the Latin American Spanish dub, TV actress Julieta Nair Calvo voices Goldilocks, actress Patricia Echegoyen voices Mama Bear, film producer Axel Kuschevatzky voices Papa Bear and actor Omar Perez Reyes (stage name Faisy) voices Jack Horner.
12	** Creator/WagnerMoura as the Wolf in the original English version, but not in the Brazilian dub. However, there's actress Giovanna Ewbank as Goldilocks and actor Sergio Malheiros as Baby Bear in the Brazilian dub.
13	** In the Japanese dub, the titular hero is voiced by movie actor Kouji Yamamoto, replacing Naoto Takenaka from previous films. Likewise, Kitty is voiced by singer Music/AnnaTsuchiya,[[note]]Who some {{Tokusatsu}} fans can recongnize her as the singer of the opening theme of ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRsXtNP27o Switch On!]] and also the singer of the ending theme of ''Anime/TheWingsOfRean'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeiFfjgOF5E My Fate]].[[/note]] also replacing Creator/TakakoHonda, while Goldilocks is voiced by IdolSinger Creator/ShokoNakagawa and Big Jack by Korean-Japanese actor Kim Song-ha (aka Songha)
14	* ChannelHop: Creator/ParamountPictures distributed the first movie, while Creator/UniversalPictures, who acquired Creator/DreamWorksAnimation back in 2016, distributed the sequel.
15	* CharacterOutlivesActor: Creator/JesusBarrero, the Latin American Spanish voice for Gingy, was replaced with his nephew Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis after the former's death from lung cancer.
16	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Producer Mark Swift has said this is his favorite film he ever worked on out of the five films he's helped produce at Dreamworks.
17	* DescendedCreator: Kevin [=McCann=], a storyboard artist at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, voices the Ethical Bug.
18	* DuelingDubs: Three Russian dubs of the film were made: one was made by Bravo Records in Georgia for release in post-Soviet states (except Russia and Belarus), while two unofficial dubs were made by Hot Voice 41 and Red Head Sound for release in Russia and Belarus.
19	* DuelingMovies: With ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'', both being animated family films released around the same time that are based on fairy tales and deal with themes of death and mortality. Pinocchio has a cameo in ''Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'', and a Jiminy Cricket-type character accompanies Jack Horner. Incidentally, both were also nominated for the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Animated Picture.
20	* DVDCommentary: With director Joel Crawford, co-director Januel Mercado, producer Mark Swift, editor James Ryan and head of story Heidi Jo Gilbert.
21	* EarlyBirdRelease: The film was given a nationwide, one-time-only sneak preview on November 26, 2022.
22	* FakeNationality: The Brazillian Creator/WagnerMoura gives the Wolf a Spanish accent, and occasionally sprinkles a few Spanish phrases while portraying him.
23	* InspirationForTheWork:
24	** Director Joel Crawford said that the tone of the film was inspired by two main sources: classical fairy tales, especially from Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, and SpaghettiWestern, particularly ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' and the way it develops a hunt between three different parties in search for a treasure -- the film is even directly referenced in one of the tracks, called "The Good, Bad, and Goldi".
25	** Goldilocks and the Crime Bear Family were [[https://twitter.com/Dreamworks/status/1613617169061011456 inspired]] by the films of Creator/GuyRitchie.
26	* LateExportForYou: The film got delayed in the United Kingdom and Ireland to February 3, 2023, making it one of the few modern American films to be delayed from a U.K. release.
27	* MissingTrailerScene:
28	** The trailer scene of Puss' seventh death (being flattened by a sumo) was replaced by a scene of Puss being fried when over-heating an oven while baking with Gingy in the film itself (the sumo scene was likely to hide Gingy's cameo). Also, death 2 (allergic reaction from shellfish) and death 6 (being mauled by dogs after cheating at a card game) were switched.
29	** Speaking of deaths, the design of the "death card" showing the number of Puss' death in the trailer is different from the actual movie. Makes sense, since [[spoiler:the final design teases Death]].
30	** The trailer depicts a scene of Kitty reassuring Puss that "when you have one life, that's what makes it special" in the Dark Forest. No such scene happens in the movie; Kitty doesn't learn Puss is on his last life until the climax.
31	** The scene of Perrito attempting to imitate Puss and Kitty's "trust me" faces takes place in an entirely different location in the actual film than in the trailer, and Puss isn't shown reacting to it. The scene of Puss making said face is also animated differently for the trailer in order to mask the fact that, in the film, he still has a beard during the scene.
32	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Creator/AntonioBanderas reprises his role as Puss in the Latin American and European Spanish dubs of the film while Creator/HarveyGuillen reprises his role as Perrito in the former.
33	* TheOriginalDarrin: In Red Head Sound's unlicensed Russian dub, Gingy is once again voiced by Dmitriy Filimonov, who previously voiced the character in the first three ''Shrek'' films.
34	* TheOtherDarrin:
35	** In the Italian dub, Puss is voiced by Diego Suarez instead of having Creator/AntonioBanderas [[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor voicing him in Italian]] as it happened since ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird''.
36	** In the Latin American Spanish dub, and unlike Banderas, Creator/SalmaHayek doesn't reprise her role as Kitty in either the Latin Spanish and European Spanish dubs. In the Latin American case, she is replaced with Veronica Lopez Treviño, while in Spain, oddly enough, she is replaced by a professional ''Mexican'' voice actress, Diana Alonso, rather than being voiced by a Spaniard voice actress, possibly to avoid having to fake a Mexican accent with her.
37	** In the Japanese dub, Naoto Takenaka and Creator/TakakoHonda, as Puss and Kitty respectively, were replaced with Kouji Yamamoto and Music/AnnaTsuchiya respectively.
38	** The official Russian dub re-cast all returning characters, as it was dubbed in Georgia instead of Russia itself due to the latter's invasion of Ukraine. Andrej Bibikaŭ replaced Vsevolod Kuznetsov as the titular character, while Kitty Softpaws, previously voiced by Tatiana Shitova, is now voiced by Diana Nersesova.
39	** In ''The Trident'' short, Puss is voiced by Creator/EricBauza (also a RoleReprise from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'') while Kitty is voiced by Margo Rey.
40	** In a spiritual sense, Creator/FlorencePugh replaces Creator/TaraStrong as Goldilocks, who had voiced her in ''VideoGame/ShrekSmashNCrashRacing''.
41	* PlayingAgainstType: Jack Horner marks Creator/JohnMulaney's first villainous role; all of the characters he had played prior to this film were heroic.
42	* ProductionPosse:
43	** ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' director Joel Crawford, producer Mark Swift, editor James Ryan, story artists Januel Mercado and Heidi Jo Gilbert and writer Paul Fisher reunite for this film.
44	** Creator/FlorencePugh and Creator/RayWinstone previously starred in ''Film/{{Black Widow\|2021}}'' together a year before this movie came out.
45	* PromotedFangirl: Creator/FlorencePugh grew up watching both ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' and the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' movies with her brother, and so was raring to join this film to work with Creator/AntonioBanderas.
46	* RealLifeRelative:
47	** Three examples in the Swedish dub.
48	*** Lina Hedlund voices Kitty while her partner Nassim Al Fakir voices Perrito.
49	*** Annica Smedius voices Mama Bear while her children Matilda and Emil voices Goldilocks and Baby Bear respectively.
50	*** The serpent sisters are voiced by sisters Bianca and Tiffany Kronlöf.
51	** The Italian dub has Diego Suarez voicing Puss, while his son Riccardo voices Perrito. His wife, Ilaria Latini, voices Mama Luna.
52	* RealitySubtext: Creator/AntonioBanderas suffered a heart attack in 2017 but was able to survive it. This near-death experience is the foundation of his performance as Puss in Boots, as the character also comes to terms with his own mortality and learns to appreciate what he has in life.
53	* RefittedForSequel: The first film was originally going to have Puss fight against a regular giant rather than the Giant Goose in the final version. ''The Last Wish'' reuses this for the fight against the Giant of Del Mar, complete with similar actions such as Puss stabbing the Giant in the finger, Puss blinding the Giant with their own eye patch, and the Giant using a hard object as a weapon (the base of a statue for the deleted one, a bell for the Giant of Del Mar) before getting knocked out by it.
54	* ReleaseDateChange: Alongside the numerous pushbacks during the film’s time in DevelopmentHell, it was pushed back again following the release of the first trailer, from September 23, 2022, to December 21 of the same year.
55	* RoleReprise:
56	** Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/SalmaHayek reprise their roles as Puss in Boots and Kitty Softpaws after 11 years away.
57	** Conrad Vernon and Cody Cameron also make cameos as Gingy and Pinocchio, cinematically voicing them for the first time in 12 years.[[note]]Their last voiced appearances were for the pre-show of ''Ride/KungFuPandaAdventure'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Hollywood]]'s [=DreamWorks=] Theatre in 2018, which featured other [=DreamWorks=] characters.[[/note]]
58	** Bob Persichetti reprises his role as the Ohhhh cat from the first film as well.
59	* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: Creator/JohnMulaney also voices "Little" Jack Horner in the brief flashback to his childhood, sounding only slightly higher pitched than he does as "Big" Jack in the present.
60	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: After the first movie came out in 2011, work on the sequel began in 2014, 8 years before the film's release date.
61	* SequelGap:
62	** With the first ''Puss in Boots'' film being released in 2011 and this one coming out in 2022, we can see 11 years between the installments. This breaks the 7-year record held by ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' (also directed by Joel Crawford) as the longest sequel gap for a [=DreamWorks=] franchise.
63	** Chronologically, the film takes place after ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' (2010), and for all intents and purposes, it's the first feature film to do so, which means a 12-year gap between ''Forever After'' and this movie.
64	* ShortRunInPeru: The film was released in most of the world, including Europe and Asia, during early-December 2022.
65	* SleeperHit: Box office analysts didn't have very high expectations for the film, given it came [[SequelGap over a decade]] after ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots2011'', and with the exception of ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'', 2022 had seen a string of underperforming animated family films like ''WesternAnimation/StrangeWorld'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}''. ''The Last Wish'' grossed $12.4 million in its opening weekend in the shadow of ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'' (an opening ''[[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/puss-in-boots-the-last-wish-box-office-tiktok-trend-1235546015/ Variety]]'' called "unremarkable"), but thanks to strong reviews and word of mouth it held strongly through the holidays and January, earning more in its ''fourth'' weekend than its first, and eventually topped the first film's lifetime domestic gross despite opening significantly lower. By March 2023, the film had grossed over '''$480 million''' worldwide on a $90 million budget.
66	* ThrowItIn: [[https://www.btlnews.com/crafts/puss-in-boots-last-wish-director-joel-crawford-interview/ Papa Bear's line]] "I guess some people just stick around until the porridge is gone" was an ad-lib from Ray Winstone when he was being pitched the character and director Joel Crawford accidentally told him what Goldi's wish (which he meant to keep hidden from him) was.
67	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
68	** At one point, Bob Persichetti (story head on the first movie and director of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'') would have directed the film. For unknown reasons, he would be replaced by ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' director Joel Crawford. Persichetti does reprise his role as the Ohhhh cat in the final film and is listed under the Special Thanks in the credits.
69	** Early in development, the film would have been titled ''Puss in Boots: 9 Lives and 40 Thieves'', most likely with intent to incorporate elements from the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' stories. The only remnant of this in the film is the Flying Carpet's prominent cameo, and Puss and Kitty using it to escape.
70	** [[https://twitter.com/ZacDRetz/status/1613247978902556673?s=20&t=6yieHo34ltIixj3yF2c-Fg At one point during the concept art phase]] Goldilocks was meant to have come from the Dark Forest and have been affected in some way by the star's magic.
71	** One of the Wolf's concept art pieces depicts him as emaciated, with red-rimmed yellow eyes, a human skull on his head, and a tail that split into nine tips, making him resemble an AsianFoxSpirit.
72	** "Big" Jack Horner was going to be called "Robbin' Big" Jack Horner and was to be a more straight-faced mob boss type character whose sadistic humor would be even darker than in the finished film. Creator/JohnMulaney read for this character when he auditioned, and once cast in the role he gave the filmmakers the perspective of Jack as a more childishly insecure character "on an eternal quest to fill an internal void but nothing will ever be enough", while also using this characterization as an outlet for more over-the-top BlackComedy.
73	** Puss was supposed to fight against two giants in Del Mar, but the creative team felt like one was sufficient. The Sleeping Giant was also supposed to be more magical in nature, but this was ditched for an earthly, mountainous appearance in order to avoid any confusion with the magic of the Wishing Star.
74	** There was a moment in the Dark Forest in which Puss, Kitty and Perrito would hunker down for the night in a safe hollow log, where they would strenghten their bond and breathe before the next action scene. In the final film, their bonding instead happens while they navigate through the River of Relaxation, and the travel to the Wishing Star is shorter, as they do not stop to camp. Another cut location was a bramble forest of giant and rambling thorns, roots and vines, which would help to keep the characters from venturing out deeper into the forest.

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