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Molly's fighting back. Or is that "biting back"?
  • Molly as a whole. She is only 11 and yet faces death multiple times throughout a 97-minute movie. She is truly her mother’s daughter.
    • After Frizzle is collared, Molly ends up crying and scared. However, it’s only brief and she very quickly resolves to figure out what’s wrong with the farm and rescue her friend.
    • She returns for Frizzle and even risks her own life to ensure that all the chickens in Fun-Land Farms get out safely. At one point, she jumps around and balances on the factory's pipes to get the remote that controls the brainwashing collars.
    • She bites Mrs. Tweedy's hand to get away from her. In a way, it could be seen as payback for how Mrs. Tweedy treated her mother earlier in the film and for all that Ginger endured on the farm in the first film.
    Molly: I was hatched ready, Dad!
  • The reason behind The Caper:
    • Rocky doesn't hesitate to go inside Fun-Land Farms when he knows that Molly is inside. Now that's a Papa Wolf for you! Even though his effort to vault himself into the compound is reckless, it still looks pretty boss. Rocky's voice becomes unusually quiet and steely as he readies himself, and Fowler helps with the Tree Buchet and even salutes as he "flies" over the fence.
    • Mac, Babs, and Bunty are willing to go inside to rescue Molly, not because Ginger asked them to, but because they love Molly deeply.
    • This also goes for the rats, who start sobbing when they hear that Molly is inside. They normally don't lift a finger to help the chickens without being paid and they think that the farm's defenses will stop any efforts to infiltrate it. However, when they hear that Molly is in danger, they immediately agree to help in any way they can, especially since Molly calls them "Uncle Nick" and "Uncle Fetcher".
      Nick: Just tell us what you need!
      Fetcher: Anything for our little Molly!
  • Think about Fun-Land Farms. Despite it being the ultimate Nightmare Fuel, it is one of the coolest locations in the Chicken Run/Aardman universe, with guards, robo-ducks, electric fences, and more. Mrs. Tweedy and Dr. Fry put a lot of time and effort into creating the ultimate killing machine.
  • Mrs. Tweedy's return. She may be the Big Bad in both films, but you can't beat an entrance like that or her makeover. She fought her way back up. Even a newspaper clipping seen in the trailer says that she will be back.
    Melisha: I may not be a spring chicken, but I will be back!
  • With some help from Fetcher, who puts the correct wires together, Rocky propels himself into the main control room to rescue Ginger using one of the facility's fans.
  • Rocky outmaneuvering several guards after distracting them from his wife and daughter. He slides between the legs of one group, who run into the other while Rocky races into the elevator. As the doors close, the former show rooster adds the finishing touch, giving the guards and Mrs. Tweedy a cocky salute.
  • When the chickens are trapped in the corn silo, Rocky, Ginger, and Mac get the idea to create popcorn by heating the corn inside with a rocket. They don't have matches, so Molly improvises with Mac's glasses to magnify a ray of light. It works, and the popcorn propels them out through the ceiling.
  • In the climax, Mrs. Tweedy catches Molly and gives Ginger the Sadistic Choice of either letting Molly die or letting all the other chickens, including her friends, get turned into nuggets because she didn't deactivate the brainwashing collars in time. Thankfully, Rocky comes to the rescue and swoops in to knock the axe out of Tweedy's hand while Ginger handles the other problem.
    Ginger: Sometimes... you just gotta take a leap.
  • After spending almost the entire film on the sidelines, Fowler zip-lines in at the last second to knock Mrs. Tweedy off the truck and save everyone.
    Fowler: Chocks away!
  • The film ends with Molly, Ginger, Rocky, and their friends going on another adventure to rescue chickens from a chicken farm.
    Everyone: Ready! COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!

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