Not So Different Remark / Animated Films

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• This trope is the basis of Fievel and Tiger's Odd Friendship in An American Tail; it's how the song 'A Duo' starts:
  Tiger: I can tell we have an awful lot in common / Even though we look as different as can be!
• A Bug's Life: When Princess Atta talks to Flik about how she feels like everyone in the colony has their eyes on her, Flik finishes her sentence, leading her to realize how unfair she's been to him up until this point:
  Atta: I know what everybody really thinks.
  Flik: I don't follow you.
  Atta: Everyone, the whole colony. Nobody really seems to believe I can do this job. It's like they're all watching me, just— just—
  Flik: Waiting for you to screw up.
• Child of Kamiari Month: The dragon-god Ryūjin initially refuses to give his offering to Kanna, deeming her unworthy due to her selfish motive for completing the mission, but eventually relents and remarks that he can understand her missing her mother, since he is also unable to see his father Ōkuninushi.
• Kung Fu Panda: Mantis makes such a remark while giving Po acupuncture, admitting he shouldn't be negatively judging Po's potential because of how large is when he himself is a tiny bug and still a great kung-fu master in spite of it. It should be noted that later scenes have him treating Po more respectfully than initially.
• In The LEGO Batman Movie, the Joker tries to pull this to get Batman to send him to the Phantom Zone. It works.
• ParaNorman: It has a heroic example, where Norman points out that he and Agatha are the same.
• In Pooh's Heffalump Movie, most of the characters fear the heffalumps, saying that they're scary creatures who are different from them. Roo explains that this isn't really so true, and they shouldn't be afraid of the heffalumps. They like honey, just like Pooh. They get scared, which is like Piglet. Lumpy even learned how to bounce, which is just like Tigger.
• Jack Frost and Pitch Black aka the Bogey Man in Rise of the Guardians, where the latter even tell him how dark and cold go together well. Both want to be believed in by children but unlike Pitch, Jack doesn't want to be feared or hurt anyone. Unusually, Pitch was pretty much winning when he makes the remark, and all signs indicate to his subsequent We Can Rule Together moment being genuine. It also takes on a whole deeper meaning if you're aware of Pitch's origins in the books the film is based off of: Pitch is a Fallen Hero in the books, and only became evil when the monsters he was tasked with guarding tricked him into thinking that his daughter was imprisoned with them. He freed them, hoping to save her, and then was transformed into Pitch Black the Nightmare King. In Jack's case, his origin is similar, but has a happy ending. You find out right before the Final Battle that Jack was originally a young man living in colonial America, who'd gone ice skating with his younger sister when the ice had started to crack. He sacrificed himself to save her, so the Man in the Moon resurrected him as Jack Frost.
• Played for laughs in Terkel in Trouble. Terkel complains about being bullied, and Gunnar tells him to ask his bullies the Armor-Piercing Question: "What about yourself?"
• Zootopia:
  • During their Sky Tram ride together Nick points out that, as a child, he had hopes and dreams and was bullied for being a specific animal species. It's an interesting variation because it's played subtly in the film. Judy, who has had a similar experience in her own childhood shows great empathy for Nick when he finishes his story. However, Judy never vocalizes any variation of they're "not so different" nor does Nick ever learn about Judy's past and is completely unaware the trope is in play. It's essentially a scene intended for the audience to realize that the two protagonists had similar childhood traumas but each one responded to it in a different way.
  • During the climax, the Big Bad invokes this while attempting to get Judy to become a member of the conspiracy by pointing out that both are underestimated and underappreciated due to both being small prey species.

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