Discussion History Film / WhoFramedRogerRabbit

*BerserkButton: The Air Force recruits do not like Richie calling them \"a fruit or an asswipe\" for joining the Air Force. Nor do the Navy sailors like it when Roger says things about their mother, when it was his own mother he was talking about.
*BigBad: Otto Green -- or rather, Otto Gruenwald.
*BindleStick: When Roger sets out to find his mother, he has all of his belongings packed up in this way.
*BitingTheHandHumor: As Roger searches for his mother, he comes across a truck from the Buena Vista Room Partitions Company, whose motto is \"We divide and conquer\".
*BlackSheep: Subverted. The Randalls love Roger, but they tell him solemnly that they are not his real family and that he is not human at all, but a Toon rabbit, whom his mother left on the Randalls\' [[DoorstopBaby doorstop as a baby]].
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' Now I know why all the guys at school stare at me in the shower.
*BreadEggsBreadedEggs: As Roger leaves the Randalls\' farm to set out to find his mother, he tells his foster family, \"I\'ll write every Tuesday, and I\'ll call every Friday, and I\'ll write \'\'and\'\' call every Sunday, just like you said!\"
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' \'\'(to himself)\'\' Or was it write every Friday and write and call every Monday? Maybe it was call every Tuesday, but don\'t write or call on every Saturday...
*CallBack: When Roger refuses to believe he is a Toon at first, he says the same thing he says when, in the first movie, he learns that Jessica and Marvin Acme were playing pattycake: \"I don\'t believe it! I can\'t believe it! I shan\'t believe it!\"
** As in the previous film, a human (in this case, the villain, Otto) is crushed by a [[PianoDrop falling piano]], which is felled by a Toon.
*TheCameo: Eddie Valiant makes a very brief appearance as a customer in a barber shop, who gives Roger directions to the radio station.
*ChekhovsHobby: Otto\'s building of model planes, which seems harmless enough when he is doing this in the radio station, but which proves to be pivotal as a plot element in his bid to do in Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.
-->\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' \'\'(to Jessica)\'\' As you can see, Jessie, I still have my little hobby.
*CowardlyLion: Richie. He gets better, though.
*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Richie.
*DefrostingIceKing: Richie.
*DoorstopBaby: Roger learns that his mother, unable to care for him, left him on the porch of the Randalls as a baby in one of these kinds of baskets (appropriately, an Easter basket).
*DrillSergeantNasty: Sgt. Dungan is a mild example.
*ExactWords: When Roger first meets Richie outside the Randall farm, he agrees to give the rabbit a lift only as far as the next town. After driving for some distance, Richie tries to drop Roger off at literally the next town they come to: the ramshackle town of Voidville, Kansas.
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' But you said you were gonna take me to the next town.\\\\
\'\'\'Richie:\'\'\' \'\'(shrugs)\'\' I did.
*{{Expy}}:
** Blackie Cat is based on the black cat from WesternAnimation/BadLuckBlackie.
** Swifty Turtle is based on one-time LooneyTunes character, Cecil Turtle.
*FantasticRacism: Once again, Toons. This film takes it further: not unlike African-Americans in the armed forces, Toons are segregated in their own platoon, to which Richie is relegated when his fear of heights threatens his own platoon. It doesn\'t help that the Toons\' urge to entertain gets in the way of attacking an enemy. As a result, they are now simply relegated to \"cleaning toilets and peeling potatoes\", and they are referred to as \"the fruitcake brigade\".
*FatBastard: Otto, described as rotund and jolly-looking.
*FauxAffablyEvil: Otto.
*FluffyTheTerrible: The two Toon panthers, Bambi and Thumper.
*FollowInMyFootsteps: A variation: Richie was originally hoping to join the Air Force like his father had, but he is unable to do so because he has a fear of heights, and considers being a movie star as a second career choice. However, he manages to overcome his fear of heights during the climax.
*{{Foreshadowing}}:
** Jessica is concerned that, given the war in Europe, her radio show \"Life With Gramps\" is tinged with antiwar sentiments, like staying in one\'s own backyard and not getting involved with the business of others, or how neutral is always the best gear in driving. As it turns out, she has every right to be concerned; her boss, Otto Green, is in league with NaziGermany, and the radio program is meant to discourage America to keep out of the war.
** Jessica as Axis Annie\'s script: \"[Eleanor Roosevelt\'s] hubby and his two pals had a real blast at their little get-together [in Malta], courtesy of Axis Annie. Music isn\'t the only thing we send over \'\'our\'\' air waves.\"
-->\'\'\'Jessica:\'\'\' Oh my God! The Malta Conference!
*ILied: At the radio tower, Otto orders Jessica and Wendy to give him the keys to launch the rocket in exchange for their safe release. But when they do, he smashes a blinking red light next to them, then picks up a large shard of glass to slit Wendy\'s throat. As this happens and she resists with all her might...
-->\'\'\'Wendy:\'\'\' You said you\'d let us go!\\\\
\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' April Fools, toots!
*ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The stuff inside Swifty\'s shell.
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Richie Davenport.
*TheJinx: Blackie Cat.
** Richie thinks Roger is like this toward him at first.
*MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Wendy and Richie, respectively.
*MassiveMultiplayerCrossover / LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just as in the first movie, there are plenty of cartoon characters from virtually every animation studio in existence in the 1940s appear in the movie.
*MissingMom: When Roger learns that his mother left him on the Randalls\' doorstep as a baby, this becomes Roger\'s personal mission to set out into the world to find her.
*MoodWhiplash:
** Richie\'s chase and battle with Roger in the studio is disrupted by the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, after which the mood turns more somber.
** As Otto takes Jessica away in the sedan and Roger falls behind after trying to keep up with it, it then abruptly changes to a {{Newsreel}} announcing the success of the Allies thus far eighteen months later.
*MsFanservice: Jessica, again, although here, she tends to dress much more conservatively. She is also rather oblivious to her own charms.
*NeverSayDie: Hilariously averted \'\'and\'\' played straight: The newsreel announcer describes a typical Toon on the front lines as someone \"who won\'t ever say die... \'cause he can\'t!\"
*OhCrapSmile: Richie gives one to a bunch of large Air Force cadets who glower at him in response to his inadvertently saying that you would have to be \"either a fruit or an asswipe\" in order to join the Air Force.
*PianoDrop: How Otto is ultimately killed at the end.
*PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Otto and Richie, respectively (Wendy may also count for the \"rude heroine\" part).
*RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Richie, Roger, Blackie and Swifty.
*TheReveal: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, he removes his hair, which is revealed as a hairpiece and tells them exactly what they\'re going to do as he pulls a Luger on the girls and forces them into a waiting sedan outside the radio station. He also changes his last name from Otto Green to Otto Gruenwald.
*RedEyesTakeWarning: The two panthers, Bambi and Thumper, have these kinds of eyes.
*SadisticChoice: When Jessica resists Otto\'s orders to read his \"Nazi trash\", he forces her to do so if he wants her to spare the life of Wendy.
*SentientVehicle: Pee Wee the Toon biplane.
*SimpletonVoice: Swifty Turtle.
*ShoutOut: As in the first movie, there are several, to Golden Age cartoons, live action films, radio shows, and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
**The two Toon panthers are named Bambi and Thumper. Not only is it a reference to the [[Disney/{{Bambi}} Disney movie]], but it is also refers to the names of the two hitwomen from the Franchise/JamesBond film \'\'Film/DiamondsAreForever\'\'.
*ShutUpHannibal / KilledMidSentence: After firing off the V-2 rocket, a delirious Otto raves to the Toons about how with it, Nazi Germany will win the war and how he will be awarded the Iron Cross and even be hand-picked by Hitler himself for something. What that something is, no one ever knows, because, all the time Otto is rambling, Blackie calmly crosses his path, which causes a [[PianoDrop Steinway grand piano to fall out of the sky]] and crush him.
-->\'\'\'Blackie:\'\'\' Guy was gettin\' on my nerves.
*SuperBreath: Roger accidentally does this with his birthday cake at the beginning of the movie when he tries to blow out the candles. It ends up sailing out of the Randalls\' house and smashing into the door of a pair of elderly neighbors.
*TheyWalkAmongUs: The Toons, again.
*ThoseWackyNazis
*TokyoRose: When Otto is exposed as a Nazi, he forces Jessica into servitude in Nazi Germany as Axis Annie, the German equivalent of this kind of character.
*ToonTown: The cartoon city makes an appearance, but it\'s mainly seen from a distance, and it does not serve as a plot element at this period in history.
*TravelMontage: One of these occurs as Richie and Roger make their way to California, hitching ride after ride with other cars. As this happens, a map of the western U.S.A. appears and shows the pair\'s progress, by way of a line etching along the map. Every hundred miles or so, the line stops with the sound of tires screeching, followed by a thud, and the line resumes until it finally reaches Hollywood.
*WhamLine: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, this happens as a trigger for TheReveal:
-->\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' Don\'t bother packing, we\'re taking care of it.
*YourMom: Inverted, as Roger tries to explain when he accidentally offends some Navy sailors while searching for his mother:
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' I said \'\'my\'\' mother had a nice tail, not yours!

Thoughts, comments, concerns?

*BerserkButton: The Air Force recruits do not like Richie calling them \"a fruit or an asswipe\" for joining the Air Force. Nor do the Navy sailors like it when Roger says things about their mother, when it was his own mother he was talking about.
*BigBad: Otto Green -- or rather, Otto Gruenwald.
*BindleStick: When Roger sets out to find his mother, he has all of his belongings packed up in this way.
*BitingTheHandHumor: As Roger searches for his mother, he comes across a truck from the Buena Vista Room Partitions Company, whose motto is \"We divide and conquer\".
*BlackSheep: Subverted. The Randalls love Roger, but they tell him solemnly that they are not his real family and that he is not human at all, but a Toon rabbit, whom his mother left on the Randalls\' [[DoorstopBaby doorstop as a baby]].
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' Now I know why all the guys at school stare at me in the shower.
*BreadEggsBreadedEggs: As Roger leaves the Randalls\' farm to set out to find his mother, he tells his foster family, \"I\'ll write every Tuesday, and I\'ll call every Friday, and I\'ll write \'\'and\'\' call every Sunday, just like you said!\"
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' \'\'(to himself)\'\' Or was it write every Friday and write and call every Monday? Maybe it was call every Tuesday, but don\'t write or call on every Saturday...
*CallBack: When Roger refuses to believe he is a Toon at first, he says the same thing he says when, in the first movie, he learns that Jessica and Marvin Acme were playing pattycake: \"I don\'t believe it! I can\'t believe it! I shan\'t believe it!\"
** As in the previous film, a human (in this case, the villain, Otto) is crushed by a [[PianoDrop falling piano]], which is felled by a Toon.
*TheCameo: Eddie Valiant makes a very brief appearance as a customer in a barber shop, who gives Roger directions to the radio station.
*ChekhovsHobby: Otto\'s building of model planes, which seems harmless enough when he is doing this in the radio station, but which proves to be pivotal as a plot element in his bid to do in Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.
-->\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' \'\'(to Jessica)\'\' As you can see, Jessie, I still have my little hobby.
*CowardlyLion: Richie. He gets better, though.
*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Richie.
*DefrostingIceKing: Richie.
*DoorstopBaby: Roger learns that his mother, unable to care for him, left him on the porch of the Randalls as a baby in one of these kinds of baskets (appropriately, an Easter basket).
*DrillSergeantNasty: Sgt. Dungan is a mild example.
*ExactWords: When Roger first meets Richie outside the Randall farm, he agrees to give the rabbit a lift only as far as the next town. After driving for some distance, Richie tries to drop Roger off at literally the next town they come to: the ramshackle town of Voidville, Kansas.
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' But you said you were gonna take me to the next town.\\\\
\'\'\'Richie:\'\'\' \'\'(shrugs)\'\' I did.
*{{Expy}}:
** Blackie Cat is based on the black cat from WesternAnimation/BadLuckBlackie.
** Swifty Turtle is based on one-time LooneyTunes character, Cecil Turtle.
*FantasticRacism: Once again, Toons. This film takes it further: not unlike African-Americans in the armed forces, Toons are segregated in their own platoon, to which Richie is relegated when his fear of heights threatens his own platoon. It doesn\'t help that the Toons\' urge to entertain gets in the way of attacking an enemy. As a result, they are now simply relegated to \"cleaning toilets and peeling potatoes\", and they are referred to as \"the fruitcake brigade\".
*FatBastard: Otto, described as rotund and jolly-looking.
*FauxAffablyEvil: Otto.
*FluffyTheTerrible: The two Toon panthers, Bambi and Thumper.
*FollowInMyFootsteps: A variation: Richie was originally hoping to join the Air Force like his father had, but he is unable to do so because he has a fear of heights, and considers being a movie star as a second career choice. However, he manages to overcome his fear of heights during the climax.
*{{Foreshadowing}}:
** Jessica is concerned that, given the war in Europe, her radio show \"Life With Gramps\" is tinged with antiwar sentiments, like staying in one\'s own backyard and not getting involved with the business of others, or how neutral is always the best gear in driving. As it turns out, she has every right to be concerned; her boss, Otto Green, is in league with NaziGermany, and the radio program is meant to discourage America to keep out of the war.
** Jessica as Axis Annie\'s script: \"[Eleanor Roosevelt\'s] hubby and his two pals had a real blast at their little get-together [in Malta], courtesy of Axis Annie. Music isn\'t the only thing we send over \'\'our\'\' air waves.\"
-->\'\'\'Jessica:\'\'\' Oh my God! The Malta Conference!
*ILied: At the radio tower, Otto orders Jessica and Wendy to give him the keys to launch the rocket in exchange for their safe release. But when they do, he smashes a blinking red light next to them, then picks up a large shard of glass to slit Wendy\'s throat. As this happens and she resists with all her might...
-->\'\'\'Wendy:\'\'\' You said you\'d let us go!\\\\
\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' April Fools, toots!
*ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The stuff inside Swifty\'s shell.
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Richie Davenport.
*TheJinx: Blackie Cat.
** Richie thinks Roger is like this toward him at first.
*MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Wendy and Richie, respectively.
*MassiveMultiplayerCrossover / LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just as in the first movie, there are plenty of cartoon characters from virtually every animation studio in existence in the 1940s appear in the movie.
*MissingMom: When Roger learns that his mother left him on the Randalls\' doorstep as a baby, this becomes Roger\'s personal mission to set out into the world to find her.
*MoodWhiplash:
** Richie\'s chase and battle with Roger in the studio is disrupted by the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, after which the mood turns more somber.
** As Otto takes Jessica away in the sedan and Roger falls behind after trying to keep up with it, it then abruptly changes to a {{Newsreel}} announcing the success of the Allies thus far eighteen months later.
*MsFanservice: Jessica, again, although here, she tends to dress much more conservatively. She is also rather oblivious to her own charms.
*NeverSayDie: Hilariously averted \'\'and\'\' played straight: The newsreel announcer describes a typical Toon on the front lines as someone \"who won\'t ever say die... \'cause he can\'t!\"
*OhCrapSmile: Richie gives one to a bunch of large Air Force cadets who glower at him in response to his inadvertently saying that you would have to be \"either a fruit or an asswipe\" in order to join the Air Force.
*PianoDrop: How Otto is ultimately killed at the end.
*PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Otto and Richie, respectively (Wendy may also count for the \"rude heroine\" part).
*RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Richie, Roger, Blackie and Swifty.
*TheReveal: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, he removes his hair, which is revealed as a hairpiece and tells them exactly what they\'re going to do as he pulls a Luger on the girls and forces them into a waiting sedan outside the radio station. He also changes his last name from Otto Green to Otto Gruenwald.
*RedEyesTakeWarning: The two panthers, Bambi and Thumper, have these kinds of eyes.
*SadisticChoice: When Jessica resists Otto\'s orders to read his \"Nazi trash\", he forces her to do so if he wants her to spare the life of Wendy.
*SentientVehicle: Pee Wee the Toon biplane.
*SimpletonVoice: Swifty Turtle.
*ShoutOut: As in the first movie, there are several, to Golden Age cartoons, live action films, radio shows, and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
**The two Toon panthers are named Bambi and Thumper. Not only is it a reference to the [[Disney/{{Bambi}} Disney movie]], but it is also refers to the names of the two hitwomen from the Franchise/JamesBond film \'\'Film/DiamondsAreForever\'\'.
*ShutUpHannibal / KilledMidSentence: After firing off the V-2 rocket, a delirious Otto raves to the Toons about how with it, Nazi Germany will win the war and how he will be awarded the Iron Cross and even be hand-picked by Hitler himself for something. What that something is, no one ever knows, because, all the time Otto is rambling, Blackie calmly crosses his path, which causes a [[PianoDrop Steinway grand piano to fall out of the sky]] and crush him.
-->\'\'\'Blackie:\'\'\' Guy was gettin\' on my nerves.
*SuperBreath: Roger accidentally does this with his birthday cake at the beginning of the movie when he tries to blow out the candles. It ends up sailing out of the Randalls\' house and smashing into the door of a pair of elderly neighbors.
*TheyWalkAmongUs: The Toons, again.
*ThoseWackyNazis
*TokyoRose: When Otto is exposed as a Nazi, he forces Jessica into servitude in Nazi Germany as Axis Annie, the German equivalent of this kind of character.
*ToonTown: The cartoon city makes an appearance, but it\'s mainly seen from a distance, and it does not serve as a plot element at this period in history.
*TravelMontage: One of these occurs as Richie and Roger make their way to California, hitching ride after ride with other cars. As this happens, a map of the western U.S.A. appears and shows the pair\'s progress, by way of a line etching along the map. Every hundred miles or so, the line stops with the sound of tires screeching, followed by a thud, and the line resumes until it finally reaches Hollywood.
*WhamLine: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, this happens as a trigger for TheReveal:
-->\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' Don\'t bother packing, we\'re taking care of it.
*YourMom: Inverted, as Roger tries to explain when he accidentally offends some Navy sailors while searching for his mother:
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' I said \'\'my\'\' mother had a nice tail, not yours!

Thoughts, comments, concerns?

*BerserkButton: The Air Force recruits do not like Richie calling them \"a fruit or an asswipe\" for joining the Air Force. Nor do the Navy sailors like it when Roger says things about their mother, when it was his own mother he was talking about.
*BigBad: Otto Green -- or rather, Otto Gruenwald.
*BindleStick: When Roger sets out to find his mother, he has all of his belongings packed up in this way.
*BitingTheHandHumor: As Roger searches for his mother, he comes across a truck from the Buena Vista Room Partitions Company, whose motto is \"We divide and conquer\".
*BlackSheep: Subverted. The Randalls love Roger, but they tell him solemnly that they are not his real family and that he is not human at all, but a Toon rabbit, whom his mother left on the Randalls\' [[DoorstopBaby doorstop as a baby]].
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' Now I know why all the guys at school stare at me in the shower.
*BreadEggsBreadedEggs: As Roger leaves the Randalls\' farm to set out to find his mother, he tells his foster family, \"I\'ll write every Tuesday, and I\'ll call every Friday, and I\'ll write \'\'and\'\' call every Sunday, just like you said!\"
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' \'\'(to himself)\'\' Or was it write every Friday and write and call every Monday? Maybe it was call every Tuesday, but don\'t write or call on every Saturday...
*CallBack: When Roger refuses to believe he is a Toon at first, he says the same thing he says when, in the first movie, he learns that Jessica and Marvin Acme were playing pattycake: \"I don\'t believe it! I can\'t believe it! I shan\'t believe it!\"
** As in the previous film, a human (in this case, the villain, Otto) is crushed by a [[PianoDrop falling piano]], which is felled by a Toon.
*TheCameo: Eddie Valiant makes a very brief appearance as a customer in a barber shop, who gives Roger directions to the radio station.
*ChekhovsHobby: Otto\'s building of model planes, which seems harmless enough when he is doing this in the radio station, but which proves to be pivotal as a plot element in his bid to do in Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.
-->\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' \'\'(to Jessica)\'\' As you can see, Jessie, I still have my little hobby.
*CowardlyLion: Richie. He gets better, though.
*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Richie.
*DefrostingIceKing: Richie.
*DoorstopBaby: Roger learns that his mother, unable to care for him, left him on the porch of the Randalls as a baby in one of these kinds of baskets (appropriately, an Easter basket).
*DrillSergeantNasty: Sgt. Dungan is a mild example.
*ExactWords: When Roger first meets Richie outside the Randall farm, he agrees to give the rabbit a lift only as far as the next town. After driving for some distance, Richie tries to drop Roger off at literally the next town they come to: the ramshackle town of Voidville, Kansas.
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' But you said you were gonna take me to the next town.\\
\'\'\'Richie:\'\'\' \'\'(shrugs)\'\' I did.
*{{Expy}}:
** Blackie Cat is based on the black cat from WesternAnimation/BadLuckBlackie.
** Swifty Turtle is based on one-time LooneyTunes character, Cecil Turtle.
*FantasticRacism: Once again, Toons. This film takes it further: not unlike African-Americans in the armed forces, Toons are segregated in their own platoon, to which Richie is relegated when his fear of heights threatens his own platoon. It doesn\'t help that the Toons\' urge to entertain gets in the way of attacking an enemy. As a result, they are now simply relegated to \"cleaning toilets and peeling potatoes\", and they are referred to as \"the fruitcake brigade\".
*FatBastard: Otto, described as rotund and jolly-looking.
*FauxAffablyEvil: Otto.
*FluffyTheTerrible: The two Toon panthers, Bambi and Thumper.
*FollowInMyFootsteps: A variation: Richie was originally hoping to join the Air Force like his father had, but he is unable to do so because he has a fear of heights, and considers being a movie star as a second career choice. However, he manages to overcome his fear of heights during the climax.
*{{Foreshadowing}}:
** Jessica is concerned that, given the war in Europe, her radio show \"Life With Gramps\" is tinged with antiwar sentiments, like staying in one\'s own backyard and not getting involved with the business of others, or how neutral is always the best gear in driving. As it turns out, she has every right to be concerned; her boss, Otto Green, is in league with NaziGermany, and the radio program is meant to discourage America to keep out of the war.
** Jessica as Axis Annie\'s script: \"[Eleanor Roosevelt\'s] hubby and his two pals had a real blast at their little get-together [in Malta], courtesy of Axis Annie. Music isn\'t the only thing we send over \'\'our\'\' air waves.\"
-->\'\'\'Jessica:\'\'\' Oh my God! The Malta Conference!
*ILied: At the radio tower, Otto orders Jessica and Wendy to give him the keys to launch the rocket in exchange for their safe release. But when they do, he smashes a blinking red light next to them, then picks up a large shard of glass to slit Wendy\'s throat. As this happens and she resists with all her might...
-->\'\'\'Wendy:\'\'\' You said you\'d let us go!\\
\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' April Fools, toots!
*ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The stuff inside Swifty\'s shell.
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Richie Davenport.
*TheJinx: Blackie Cat.
** Richie thinks Roger is like this toward him at first.
*MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Wendy and Richie, respectively.
*MassiveMultiplayerCrossover / LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just as in the first movie, there are plenty of cartoon characters from virtually every animation studio in existence in the 1940s appear in the movie.
*MissingMom: When Roger learns that his mother left him on the Randalls\' doorstep as a baby, this becomes Roger\'s personal mission to set out into the world to find her.
*MoodWhiplash:
** Richie\'s chase and battle with Roger in the studio is disrupted by the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, after which the mood turns more somber.
** As Otto takes Jessica away in the sedan and Roger falls behind after trying to keep up with it, it then abruptly changes to a {{Newsreel}} announcing the success of the Allies thus far eighteen months later.
*MsFanservice: Jessica, again, although here, she tends to dress much more conservatively. She is also rather oblivious to her own charms.
*NeverSayDie: Hilariously averted \'\'and\'\' played straight: The newsreel announcer describes a typical Toon on the front lines as someone \"who won\'t ever say die... \'cause he can\'t!\"
*OhCrapSmile: Richie gives one to a bunch of large Air Force cadets who glower at him in response to his inadvertently saying that you would have to be \"either a fruit or an asswipe\" in order to join the Air Force.
*PianoDrop: How Otto is ultimately killed at the end.
*PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Otto and Richie, respectively (Wendy may also count for the \"rude heroine\" part).
*RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Richie, Roger, Blackie and Swifty.
*TheReveal: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, he removes his hair, which is revealed as a hairpiece and tells them exactly what they\'re going to do as he pulls a Luger on the girls and forces them into a waiting sedan outside the radio station. He also changes his last name from Otto Green to Otto Gruenwald.
*RedEyesTakeWarning: The two panthers, Bambi and Thumper, have these kinds of eyes.
*SadisticChoice: When Jessica resists Otto\'s orders to read his \"Nazi trash\", he forces her to do so if he wants her to spare the life of Wendy.
*SentientVehicle: Pee Wee the Toon biplane.
*SimpletonVoice: Swifty Turtle.
*ShoutOut: As in the first movie, there are several, to Golden Age cartoons, live action films, radio shows, and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
**The two Toon panthers are named Bambi and Thumper. Not only is it a reference to the [[Disney/{{Bambi}} Disney movie]], but it is also refers to the names of the two hitwomen from the Franchise/JamesBond film \'\'Film/DiamondsAreForever\'\'.
*ShutUpHannibal / KilledMidSentence: After firing off the V-2 rocket, a delirious Otto raves to the Toons about how with it, Nazi Germany will win the war and how he will be awarded the Iron Cross and even be hand-picked by Hitler himself for something. What that something is, no one ever knows, because, all the time Otto is rambling, Blackie calmly crosses his path, which causes a [[PianoDrop Steinway grand piano to fall out of the sky]] and crush him.
-->\'\'\'Blackie:\'\'\' Guy was gettin\' on my nerves.
*SuperBreath: Roger accidentally does this with his birthday cake at the beginning of the movie when he tries to blow out the candles. It ends up sailing out of the Randalls\' house and smashing into the door of a pair of elderly neighbors.
*TheyWalkAmongUs: The Toons, again.
*ThoseWackyNazis
*TokyoRose: When Otto is exposed as a Nazi, he forces Jessica into servitude in Nazi Germany as Axis Annie, the German equivalent of this kind of character.
*ToonTown: The cartoon city makes an appearance, but it\'s mainly seen from a distance, and it does not serve as a plot element at this period in history.
*TravelMontage: One of these occurs as Richie and Roger make their way to California, hitching ride after ride with other cars. As this happens, a map of the western U.S.A. appears and shows the pair\'s progress, by way of a line etching along the map. Every hundred miles or so, the line stops with the sound of tires screeching, followed by a thud, and the line resumes until it finally reaches Hollywood.
*WhamLine: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, this happens as a trigger for TheReveal:
-->\'\'\'Otto:\'\'\' Don\'t bother packing, we\'re taking care of it.
*YourMom: Inverted, as Roger tries to explain when he accidentally offends some Navy sailors while searching for his mother:
-->\'\'\'Roger:\'\'\' I said \'\'my\'\' mother had a nice tail, not yours!

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*CallBack: When Roger refuses to believe he is a Toon at first, he says the same thing he says when, in the first movie, he learns that Jessica and Marvin Acme were playing pattycake: \\\"I don\\\'t believe it! I can\\\'t believe it! I shan\\\'t believe it!\\\"
** As in the previous film, a human (in this case, the villain, Otto) is crushed by a [[PianoDrop falling piano]], which is felled by a Toon.
*TheCameo: Eddie Valiant makes a very brief appearance as a customer in a barber shop, who gives Roger directions to the radio station.
*DoorstopBaby: Roger learns that his mother, unable to care for him, left him on the porch of the Randalls as a baby in one of these kinds of baskets (appropriately, an Easter basket).
*ExactWords: When Roger first meets Richie outside the Randall farm, he agrees to give the rabbit a lift only as far as the next town. After driving for some distance, Richie tries to drop Roger off at literally the next town they come to: the ramshackle town of Voidville, Kansas.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Roger:\\\'\\\'\\\' But you said you were gonna take me to the next town.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Richie:\\\'\\\'\\\' \\\'\\\'(shrugs)\\\'\\\' I did.
*{{Expy}}:
**Blackie Cat is based on the black cat from WesternAnimation/BadLuckBlackie.
**Swifty Turtle is based on one-time LooneyTunes character, Cecil Turtle.
*FantasticRacism: Once again, Toons. This film takes it further: not unlike African-Americans in the armed forces, Toons are segregated in their own platoon, to which Richie is relegated when his fear of heights threatens his own platoon. It doesn\\\'t help that the Toons\\\' urge to entertain gets in the way of attack an enemy.
*FatBastard: Otto.
*FollowInMyFootsteps: A variation: Richie was originally hoping to join the Air Force like his father had, but he is unable to do so because he has a fear of heights, and considers being a movie star as a second career choice. However, he manages to overcome his fear of heights during the climax.
*{{Foreshadowing}}: Jessica is concerned that, given the war in Europe, her radio show \\\"Life With Gramps\\\" is tinged with antiwar sentiments, like staying in one\\\'s own backyard and not getting involved with the business of others, or how neutral is always the best gear in driving. As it turns out, she has every right to be concerned; her boss, Otto Green, is in league with NaziGermany!
*ILied: At the radio tower, Otto orders Jessica and Wendy to give him the keys to launch the rocket in exchange for their safe release. But when they do, he smashes a blinking red light next to them, after he picks up a large shard of glass to slit Wendy\\\'s throat. As this happens and she resists with all her might...
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Wendy:\\\'\\\'\\\' You said you\\\'d let us go!\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Otto:\\\'\\\'\\\' April Fools, toots!
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Richie Davenport.
*TheJinx: Blackie Cat.
**Richie thinks Roger is like this toward him at first.
*MassiveMultiplayerCrossover / LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Just as in the first movie, there are plenty of cartoon characters from virtually every animation studio in existence in the 1940s appear in the movie.
*MissingMom: When Roger learns that his mother left him on the Randalls\\\' doorstep as a baby, this becomes Roger\\\'s personal mission to set out into the world to find her.
*MsFanservice: Jessica, again, although here, she tends to dress much more conservatively.
*OhCrapSmile: Richie gives one to a bunch of large Air Force cadets who glower at him in response to his inadvertently saying that you would have to be \\\"either a fruit or an asswipe\\\" in order to join the Air Force.
*PianoDrop: How Otto is ultimately killed at the end.
*TheReveal: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, he removes his hair, which is revealed as a hairpiece and tells them exactly what they\\\'re going to do as he pulls a Luger on the girls and forces them into a waiting sedan outside the radio station.
*ShoutOut: As in the first movie, there are several, to Golden Age cartoons, live action films, radio shows, and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
*ShutUpHannibal / KilledMidSentence: After firing off the V-2 rocket, a delirious Otto raves to the Toons about how with it, Nazi Germany will win the war and how he will be awarded the Iron Cross and even be hand-picked by Hitler himself for something. What that something is, no one ever knows, because, all the time Otto is rambling, Blackie calmly crosses his path, which causes a [[PianoDrop Steinway grand piano]] to fall out of the sky and crush him.
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Blackie:\\\'\\\'\\\' Guy was gettin\\\' on my nerves.
*SuperBreath: Roger accidentally does this with his birthday cake at the beginning of the movie when he tries to blow out the candles. It ends up sailing out of the Randalls\\\' house and smashing into the door of a pair of elderly neighbors.
*TheyWalkAmongUs: The Toons, again.
*ThoseWackyNazis
*TokyoRose: When Otto is exposed as a Nazi, he forces Jessica into servitude in Nazi Germany as Axis Annie, the German equivalent of this kind of character.
*TravelMontage: One of these occurs as Richie and Roger make their way to California, hitching ride after ride with other cars. As this happens, a map of the western U.S.A. appears and shows the pair\\\'s progress, by way of a line etching along the map. Every hundred miles or so, the line stops with the sound of tires screeching, followed by a thud, and the line resumes until it finally reaches Hollywood.
*WhamLine: When Jessica and Wendy ask Otto what they can do for the war effort, this happens before TheReveal:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Otto:\\\'\\\'\\\' Don\\\'t bother packing, we\\\'re taking care of it.
*YourMom: Inverted, as Roger tries to explain when he accidentally offends some Navy sailors while searching for his mother:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Roger:\\\'\\\'\\\' I said \\\'\\\'my\\\'\\\' mother had a nice tail, not yours!

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*Foreshadowing: Jessica is concerned that, given the war in Europe, her show, \\\"Life With Gramps\\\", is tinged with antiwar sentiments, like staying in one\\\'s own backyard and how neutral is always the best gear in driving. As it turns out, she has every right to be concerned; her boss, Otto Green, is in league with NaziGermany!

*ShoutOut: As in the first movie, there are several, to Golden Age cartoons, live action films, and radio shows.
**When Roger and Richie first arrive in Los Angeles, Roger quips, \\\"[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Now I know we\\\'re not in Kansas.]]\\\"
**In searching for his mother, he crashes