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- Ensemble Dark Horse: Stan's parrot and Doris the rat are decently entertaining Team Pets.
- Jerkass Woobie: The thieves have a valid excuse to get back the chip: if they fail, their boss will have all of them killed.
- Moral Event Horizon: The spies were going to invade Alex's house and possibly kill him since he had the chip they were looking for. In particular, Alice crosses this by leaving Mrs. Hess Bound and Gagged, and then leaving the door and window open to have her exposed to the cold air. By the time Alex saves her life by closing the doors and covering her with a blanket, she's semiconscious. Beaupre also crosses the line by threatening to shoot Alex, all while the kid is begging him to please allow him to get Mrs. Hess indoors to warm her up before she dies.
- Padding: Home Alone 3 repeats the exact same sequence back-to-back in the first Act where Alex spots Beaupre snooping around a neighbor's house and calls the cops on him, but they miss catching the spy. Alex being scolded for calling the cops on what they believe to be a false alarm could have easily been done after just the first attempt.
- Replacement Scrappy: Alex gets a lot of this, simply for not being Kevin.
- Retroactive Recognition: Ah... so that's what Scarlett Johansson looked like when she was in her teens...
- So Okay, It's Average: Take away the contentious point that it's not a continuation of the previous movies, and it at least executes what one would expect from a Home Alone movie.
- Tough Act to Follow: 3 to the previous two movies. It didn't help that this came out five years after the second one and focused on an entirely new family. So it already had a lot stacked against it on release. More often then not when you hear fans talk about it, it's usually about how Kevin, the McCalister family, or the Wet/Sticky Bandits are not in it.
- Unintentional Period Piece: Some of the technology, but specially the pagers.
- The Woobie: Alex, who is less bratty than Kevin and is trying to do the right thing from the get-go, only for nobody to believe him.
