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* JerkassHasAPoint: Nai Nai may be pushy and nosy about it, but she doesn't sugar coat that Yi has been neglecting to spent time with her family. Even Jin points that out when escaping the blueberries.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Nai Nai may be pushy and nosy about it, but she doesn't sugar coat that Yi has been neglecting to spent time with her family. Even Jin points that out when after escaping the blueberries.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Nai Nai may be pushy and nosy about it, but she doesn't sugar coat that Yi has been neglecting to spent time with her family.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Nai Nai may be pushy and nosy about it, but she doesn't sugar coat that Yi has been neglecting to spent time with her family. Even Jin points that out when escaping the blueberries.
--> '''Jin:''' What about your family? Don't they need you too? Always busy, never home. What's that all about, Yi?
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* PunchClockVillain: Most of the Burish employees hunting Everest don't seem malicious, and [[spoiler: aren't in on the plot to sell Everest, with arc hurriedly tranquilizing Burish when he's about to call them off and making it look like he had a stroke or something to them]]. Captain Fletcher zigzags this [[spoiler: being in on the plan in exchange for 10% of the money, but coming across as a MinionWithAnFInEvil in some of his dialogue and being a bit uneasy about Zara's murderous lengths, not that this saves him from sharing in her DisneyVillainDeath]].

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* PunchClockVillain: Most of the Burish employees hunting Everest don't seem malicious, and [[spoiler: aren't in on the plot to sell Everest, with arc Zara hurriedly tranquilizing Burish when he's about to call them off and making it look like he had a stroke or something to them]]. Captain Fletcher zigzags this [[spoiler: being in on the plan in exchange for 10% of the money, but coming across as a MinionWithAnFInEvil in some of his dialogue and being a bit uneasy about Zara's murderous lengths, not that this saves him from sharing in her DisneyVillainDeath]].
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* WouldHarmASenior:[[spoiler: Dr. Zara has no qualms about hurting Burnish, who is already an old man. She orders to be given a tranquilizer shot and plans to get rid of him as much as Yi and her friends.]]

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* WouldHarmASenior:[[spoiler: Dr.WouldHarmASenior: [[spoiler:Dr. Zara has no qualms about hurting Burnish, who is already an old man. She orders to be given a tranquilizer shot and plans to get rid of him as much as Yi and her friends.]]
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but an Expy is supposed to do more than just look like another character, yes? Burnish has a character arc similar to that of Muntz, but there aren't many character comparisons to be made between Dr. Zara and Merida.


** Dr. Zara looks a lot like Princess Merida from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' when she takes off her glasses and lets her hair down.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: [[spoiler:Dr. Zara]]. As colourful and beautiful as the movie is, [[spoiler:she can be considered the most vile villain in the DreamWorks catalog. Her willingness to outright intend on murdering a child and intending on killing Everest ultimately seals the deal. She will stop at nothing to sell Everest to the highest bidder.]]

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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: [[spoiler:Dr. Zara]]. As colourful and beautiful as the movie is, [[spoiler:she can be considered one of the most vile villain villains in the DreamWorks [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks]] catalog. Her willingness to outright intend on murdering a child and intending on killing Everest ultimately seals the deal. She will stop at nothing to sell Everest to the highest bidder.]]
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* TightsUnderShorts: Yi wears black tights under her shorts.
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* TheDarknessGazesBack: Jin's urging that they keep traveling through the night is immediately silenced when he sees multiple glowing eyes looking back as he approaches the trees. When he sets out to reunite with his friends he boldly ignores them as he runs screaming through the woods.
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* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: Everest is a young yeti, a child, but when he is reunited with his family, his parents and other adult yetis are around 50 feet tall or larger. Everest fits inside his parents' palms of their paws.

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* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: Everest is a young yeti, a child, but when he is reunited with his family, his parents and other adult yetis are around 50 feet tall or larger. Everest fits inside the palms of his parents' palms of their paws.
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* GiganticAdults,TinyBabies: Everest is a young yeti, a child, but when he is reunited with his family, his parents and other adult yetis are around 50 feet tall or larger. Everest fits inside his parents' palms of their paws.

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* GiganticAdults,TinyBabies: GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: Everest is a young yeti, a child, but when he is reunited with his family, his parents and other adult yetis are around 50 feet tall or larger. Everest fits inside his parents' palms of their paws.
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* GiganticAdults,TinyBabies: Everest is a young yeti, a child, but when he is reunited with his family, his parents and other adult yetis are around 50 feet tall or larger. Everest fits inside his parents' palms of their paws.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: While the captain was willing to double cross Mr. Burnish after he had realized that he was wrong about Everest, he was genuinely shocked at Dr. Zara's lack of remorse after she pushed Yi of a bridge and she even implied that she'll kill Peng and Jin as well. He even tried to remind Dr. Zara that they need Everest alive, when she had decided to kill the yeti instead.]]
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* Would Harm a Senior: Dr. Zara has no qualms about hurting Burnish, who is already an old man. She orders to be given a tranquilizer shot and plans to get rid of him as much as Yi and her friends.

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* Would Harm a Senior: WouldHarmASenior:[[spoiler: Dr. Zara has no qualms about hurting Burnish, who is already an old man. She orders to be given a tranquilizer shot and plans to get rid of him as much as Yi and her friends.]]
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* Would Harm a Senior: Dr. Zara has no qualms about hurting Burnish, who is already an old man. She orders to be given a tranquilizer shot and plans to get rid of him as much as Yi and her friends.
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** A heartwarming variety: [[spoiler: Yi's photo of her late father is actually folded back, and has her mother and grandmother in it. Just because Yi misses her father doesn't mean the rest of her family wasn't a part of her life too.]]
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: [[spoiler:Dr. Zara]]. As colourful and beautiful as the movie is, [[spoiler:she can be considered the most vile villain in the DreamWorks catalog. Her willingness to outright intend on murdering a child and intending on killing Everest ultimately seals the deal. She will stop at nothing to sell Everest to the highest bidder.]]
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Yi

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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: YiYi before her CharacterDevelopment.
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* PunchClockVillain: Most of the Burish employees hunting Everest don't seem malicious, and [[spoiler: aren't in on the plot to sell Everest, with arc hurriedly tranquilizing Burish when he's about to call them off and making it look like he had a stroke or something to them]]. Captain Fletcher zigzags this [[spoiler: being in on the plan in exchange for 10% of the money, but coming across as a MinionWithAnFInEvil in some of his dialogue and being a bit uneasy about Zara's murderous lengths, not that this saves him from sharing in her DisneyVillainDeath]].
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* WeNeedADistraction: Peng causes a yak stampede to distract Mr. Burnish's mooks long enough for Yi and Everest to make an escape.

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* ExactEavesdropping: Jin is woken up by the Whooping Snake just in time to overhear [[spoiler: Dr. Zara revealing her evil plans]].


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* EvilOldFolks: The main antagonist is Mr. Burnish, who seeks to prove the world of the existence of the Yeti. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope However, he turns out to be]] GoodAllAlong, helping the kids take Everest home and promising to keep their secret.]]


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* EvilBrit: [[spoiler:Played with and ultimately subverted. Mr. Burnish appears to be the main villain when we first see him, while Dr. Zara appears to be an environmentalist. Once Zara shows her true colors as a mercenary out to sell Everest to the highest bidder, she drops her FakeBrit accent. Meanwhile the legitimately British Burnish has a HeelRealization and ends up helping Yi and her friends.]]
* EvilOldFolks: The main antagonist is Mr. Burnish, who seeks to prove the world of the existence of the Yeti. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope However, he turns out to be]] GoodAllAlong, helping the kids take Everest home and promising to keep their secret.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:Invoked toward the end. Mr. Burnish sends a package to Yi, Jin and Peng containing nylon rope, carabiners, a compass and other mountaineering supplies. The accompanying note reads, "For your next adventure."]]
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* FakeBrit: An InUniverse example, as Dr. Zara is an American pretending to be British.

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* FakeBrit: An InUniverse example, as [[spoiler: Dr. Zara is an American pretending to be British.British]].
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* {{Manchild}}: Everest is notably as childlike as Peng, despite being ten times bigger than the boy. Justified when Yi has a [[FridgeBrilliance shower thought]] that the reason Everest acts like a child is because he ''is'' a child.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The city where Yi and her friends live is only ever referred to as "the city"; there are hints that it's basically Shanghai, but with some aspects changed for dramatic license or comic effect. The distinctive skyscraper where Mr. Burnish lives is a comically exaggerated version of an actual Shanghai building, as is the tower with the spherical bit on top where Everest is almost caught by Burnish's goons.

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** The scene which reveals this has its own bait-and-switch: [[spoiler:Jin hears Zara complaining to the guard captain about Burnish giving her shoulder pet a back-handed compliment. Her actions up to this point lead the audience to expect that she's insulted on her pet's behalf, but it turns out she's actually upset that he complimented the animal at all, because it's the first remotely kind thing he's said about it, and it doesn't suit Zara's plans for him to "go soft".]]



* PhotoMontage: The credits are interspersed with photos of the characters getting on with their lives, including the three human leads playing basketball together, [[spoiler:Mr. Burnish interacting with his menagerie]], and [[spoiler:Everest teaching rock-paper-scissors to some baby yetis]], and finally Yi visiting the Buddha again [[spoiler:with her family along this time]].



* QuirkyMinibossSquad: There's a particular trio of security guards who keep showing up, who have more individuality than any of the other guards except the captain, and keep having slapstick accidents like accidentally shooting each other with tranquilizer darts.



* RockPaperScissors: Peng tries to teach Everest to play rock-paper-scissors. It's not clear whether Everest gets the idea, because he always presents a closed fist -- and Peng always presents scissors, and loses to Everest's rock.



* TheStinger: [[spoiler:A brief one, consisting of a final appearance by the Whooping Snake]].



* WhamLine: As Yi is going through pictures of places her father wanted to take her to, Peng reveals, "[[spoiler:Yi, they're all places ''we've'' been!]]" As it turns out, [[spoiler:during the trip to take Everest back to his home, the gang has, by complete coincidence, visited every single place Yi's father originally wanted to take her to.]]

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* WhamLine: As Yi is going through pictures of places her father wanted to take her to, Peng reveals, "[[spoiler:Yi, they're all places ''we've'' been!]]" As it turns out, [[spoiler:during the trip to take Everest back to his home, the gang has, by complete coincidence, has visited every single place Yi's father originally wanted to take her to.to. Yi wonders if Everest somehow arranged it, and there's a shot earlier in the film of Everest looking at Yi's travel map which suggests she might be right.]]
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* BoringReturnJourney: Given a justification [[spoiler:Mr. Burnish has a FaceHeelTurn and takes them home.]]

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* BoringReturnJourney: Given a justification [[spoiler:Mr. Burnish has a FaceHeelTurn HeelFaceTurn and takes them home.]]
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* BoringReturnJourney: Given a justification [[spoiler:Mr. Burnish has a FaceHeelTurn and takes them home.]]
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*** On a deeper level, Jin goes from being voyeuristic to [[spoiler: giving his phone away in order to buy a boat, for his friends' sake.]]

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*** On a deeper level, Jin goes from being voyeuristic voyeuristic/narcissistic to [[spoiler: giving his phone away in order to buy a boat, for his friends' sake.]]

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