History Fridge / Zootopia

* Just a few days after her wedding, Fru Fru shows a very advanced pregnancy. For a human, this would mean it was a GunPointWedding, but shrews and other small mammals have very short pregnancies, so it's almost sure that she really got pregnant in those days.

* The last gag. [[spoiler: Aside from the obvious joke being made about Flash being the fastest sloth around, it makes a fair bit of sense why a sloth would be an avid street racer. Given how slowly they moved, once they stepped on the accelerator of a car, it'd take them a long time for them to stop accelerating/hit the brakes. Add on the fact that Flash has a sports car and it makes sense that he'd be travelling at ludicrous speeds most of the time.]]

** Also, we see that a small species criminal can actually be very successful in Zootopia. When Judy chased the weasel into the small-rodent-sized neighborhood, they caused considerable collateral damage, with both cop and criminal being barely the right size to run in there. Any of the other officers would have destroyed a building or crushed an innocent civilian just by moving, so a chase would have been incredibly destructive. That would mean a small sized criminal could evade the police for years and make quite a profit. Mr Big and his family surely started like this, and once they were wealthy enough, they could get the polar bears as hired muscle.

** Also, we see that a small species criminal can actually be very successful in Zootopia. When Judy chased the weasel in the rodent-sized neighborhood, they caused some collateral damage, with both cop and criminal being barely the right size to run in there; any of the other officers would have destroyed a building or crushed an innocent civilian just by moving slightly, so a chase would have been incredibly destructive. So, a small sized criminal can evade the police for years and make quite a profit; Mr Big and his family surely started like this, and once they were wealthy enough, they could get the polar bears as hired muscle.
* Related to the above, mr. Big actually has a pretty valid reason to help Judy in her investigations the second time: he and all of his mooks are predators (and he already lost one subordinate to the HatePlague), so if one is spreading hatred against them is in his best interests to stop that. Plus, Judy is by far the smallest police officer, the only one small enough to actually deal wit rodents and that might be dangerous for his operations, getting on her good side can't be a bad thing.

* The BigBad. [[spoiler: Her plan is to have the 90% of the population act against the remaining 10%, that she sees as oppressive. She doesn't try to accomplish that by having them start thinking on their own, but by trusting them to follow her lead without question. Of course, she's ''sheep''.]]

* As pointed out in FridgeBrilliance, Zootopia's police force is very limited when it comes to catching small species criminals, that can move in areas where the very large cops can't enter without hurting a civilian or causing extensive material damage; so, their options are to chase the criminal and risk hurting the citizens they're mean to protect, or to let the criminal escape and hope they can catch him/her on a later time. Luckily the weasel was a petty crook, but you can just imagine all the major criminals that have evaded capture for years.

** To be more explicit about the FridgeBrilliance: Shrews are highly territorial ''predators''. If you force two ''arctic'' shrews (which Mr. Big might well be, considering he lives in Tundratown) into close quarters, one of them will be dead within the next several days. This would be less chilling (no pun intended) if researchers had any idea [[FridgeHorror why the dead shrew stopped living]]...

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*** Given Nick can talk Finnick into dressing up as a baby elephant, not out of the question. That said, skunks shed twice a year -- the soft fur in the spring and the long fur in the fall -- so all Nick likely had to do was offer grooming services.

** To be more explicit about the FridgeBrilliance: Shrews are highly territorial ''predators''. If you force two ''arctic'' shrews (which Mr. Big might well be, considering he lives in Tundraton) into close quarters, one of them will be dead within the next several days. This would be less chilling (no pun intended) if researchers had any idea [[FridgeHorror why the dead shrew stopped living]]...

* Zootopia is specifically mentioned as a mammal city, and birds and reptiles are nowhere to be seen. Zootopia is also rife with {{Fantastic Racism}}. If the various mammalian species are prejudiced against each other, then ''of course'' an average mammal wouldn't want to walk the same streets a bird and a lizard step on.

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* Aside from the obvious "comically slow bureaucrats" joke, it makes a weird sort of sense for the DMV employees to be sloths: an ideal employee in a place like that would be very careful, so as to avoid making clerical errors, and very patient and cool-headed, for dealing with dissatisfied customers. Maybe the sloths are a little ''too'' careful, but there's a kind of logic to it.

!!Fridge Brilliance