History Film / JojoRabbit

* PlotArmor: [[spoiler:All three of the main child characters (Jojo, Elsa, and Yorki) survive to the end of the film, which Yorki {{lampshades}}:

* BabyFactory: The girls at Hitler Youth camp are told their duty to their country will be to make children. Fräulein Rahm states she's had ''eighteen kids.'' Bear in mind that the Nazi regime didn't last long enough for that to be make sense.

* BabyFactory: The girls at Hitler Youth camp are told their duty to their country will be to make children. Fräulein Rahm states she's had ''eighteen kids.''

* AnyoneCanDie: By the end, the only confirmed named survivors are [[spoiler: Jojo, Elsa, and Yorki. Rosie and Klenzendorf are dead, Fräulein Rahm is almost certainly dead, Deertz being a member of the Gestapo and captured by the Soviets is likely going to be executed, while Finkel dies in the field defending Klenzendorf. And not only is the real Hitler dead, but Jojo also kicks his imaginary ex-friend version of him out the window.]]

* OhNoNotAgain: Non-verbally, but Jojo's CharacterDevelopment is on-show when Yorki tells him about the Russian and Allied forces invading, claiming that Jews are no longer their biggest concern because the Ruskies and Allies 'eat babies and have sex with dogs'. Jojo's expression makes it clear he recognises this as completely ridiculous bullshit, just like the anti-Jew propaganda he had previously bought into.

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:All three of the main child characters (Jojo, Elsa, and Yorki) survive to the end of the film, which Yorki {{lampshades}}. Plenty of other kids, however, die during the attack on the town at the end.]]
-->'''Jojo:''' Yorki! I thought you were dead.\\
'''Yorki:''' No, it seems I can never die.

* InfantImmortality: ZigZagged. [[spoiler:All three of the main child characters (Jojo, Elsa, and Yorki) survive to the end of the film, which Yorki {{lampshades}}. Plenty of other kids, however, die during the attack on the town at the end.]]

* CastingGag:
** Creator/TaikaWaititi plays an imaginary Adolf Hitler. On top of the rather obvious FakeNationality, Waititi has Jewish ancestry and has even used his mother's very Jewish maiden name (Cohen) professionally.
** Creator/ScarlettJohansson plays Rosie, who has Nazi-preferred "Aryan" looks while actually being with the German Resistance and hiding a Jewish girl in her house. Johansson herself is Jewish.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jojo loses his mother and is badly traumatized, but he has a HeelRealization and sees the Nazi party for the fascistic, genocidal, and hypocritcal nutcases they were, and ultimately survives the war with Elsa.]]

** Groupthink causes people to do horrible things. Learn to think for yourself and be your own person.
** Hatred of others comes from ignorance. Get out there and meet people who are different from you and you’ll find they’re just people like anyone else.

* TableSpace: When Jojo and his mother have a dispute at supper, their emotional distance is emphasized by sitting at opposite ends of the table.

* ImaginaryFriend: Jojo constantly imagines Hitler giving him pep talks.

* CruelToBeKind: [[spoiler: Klenzendorf manages to spare Jojo from a Soviet firing squad by ripping off a military jacket the boy was wearing, yelling and [[SpitefulSpit spitting at him]] to make the Russian soldiers think he's a Jew and send him away.]]

* AdaptationTitleChange: ''Jojo Rabbit'' is based on the novel ''Caging Skies''.

* AnyoneCanDie: By the end, the only confirmed named survivors are [[spoiler: Jojo, Elsa, and Yorki. Rosie and Klenzendorf are dead, Fräulein Rahm is almost certainly dead, Deertz being a member of the Gestapo and captured by the Soviets is likely going to be executed, Finkel dies in the field defending Klenzendorf. And not only is the real Hitler dead, but Jojo also kicks his imaginary ex-friend version of him out the window.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: By the end, the only confirmed named survivors are [[spoiler: Jojo, Elsa, and Yorki. Rosie and Klenzendorf are dead, Fräulein Rahm is almost certainly dead, Deertz being a member of the Gestapo and captured by the Soviets is likely going to be executed, Finkel's fate isn't seen, but considering he was practically connected to Klenzendorf at the hip, he probably shared Klenzendorf's fate. And not only is the real Hitler dead, but Jojo also kicks his imaginary ex-friend version of him out the window.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jojo loses his mother and is badly traumatized, but he has a HeelRealization and sees the Nazi party for the fascistic nutcases they were, and ultimately survives the war with Elsa.]]

* ThoseWackyNazis: Every Nazi seen in the trailers is depicted in the most ridiculous way possible, from a cowboy-wannabe to a youth-camp-leader who instructs her pupils to happily burn books around a giant bonfire. Eventually in the film the Nazis become decidedly less funny.

* CostumePorn: In fact the film ran into a bit of a pickle after it started getting best costuming nominations as people assumed the nom was for the Nazi uniforms and and not the beautiful period clothes of the civilians in the film, AKA Rosie's great outfits after great outfits all the way through.