History WesternAnimation / Migration

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: After another duck family they meet takes off to migrate to Jamaica, the Mallards decide to do so as well. When the Mallards finally arrive in Jamaica, they just happen to meet up with the first duck family, apparently totally by coincidence.

* ShownTheirWork: The female Mallards are accurately portrayed as being a mottled brown, as opposed to the green-headed males.

** Gwen is an AnnoyingYoungerSibling to Dax, embarrassing him in front of Kim at the beginning and end of the movie. [[spoiler:But later, before the movie's DarkestHour after all the ducks except Dax and Gwen have been captured by the chef, Gwen insists on giving her brother a big hug to comfort him.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Pam's desire to see the world takes the family into incidents she never expected, from getting stuck in a metropolis and being pursued by a chef to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a potty emergency with her child]].

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Gwen goes through this after Mack, Pam, Uncle Dan, Delroy and the other ducks are kidnapped by The Chef, fearing their fates of getting cooked.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Gwen:''' [[HeroicBSoD He's gonna cook Mom and Dad, isn't he...?]] [[DespairEventHorizon And he's gonna come back for us...and he'll cook us too!]] I WISH WE TASTED AWFUUUUUUL...!!]]

* BigNO: [[spoiler:Gwen yells this during the DarkestHour scene when Gwen and Dax try to catch up with Mack, Pam, Uncle Dan, Delroy and the other ducks when they are all captured by the Chef in his helicopter.]]

* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Gwen temporarily goes through this after Mack, Pam, Uncle Dan, Delroy and the other ducks are kidnapped by The Chef.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Gwen:''' [[HeroicBSoD He's gonna cook Mom and Dad, isn't he?]] [[DespairEventHorizon And he'll come back for us...and he'll cook us too!]] I WISH WE TASTED AWFUUUUUUL...!!]]

-->'''Delroy:''' You've trapped me for years...and now you're trying to cook my friends? Enough! It is [[TheDogBitesBack PAYBACK TIIIIIIME!]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Pam's desire to see the world takes the family into incidents she never expected, from a potty emergency with her child to getting stuck in a metropolis and being pursued by a chef.

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--->'''Mack:''' No, no, no, I don't think we could possibly stay here... ''(the others sulk)'' [[BaitAndSwitchComment ...without having the ''best time of our lives!'']]

-->'''Delroy:''' [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Eat this!]]

* [[RichBitch Rich Bastard]]: The Chef is wealthy enough to own a personalised helicopter - and is an arrogant, vindictive jerkass who bullies his subordinates, is dismissive towards his suppliers (who treat him with politeness) and neglects his illegally-obtained pet macaw.

* AnimalNemesis: The Mallards (especially Mack and Pam) end up - unwillingly - becoming this to the EvilChef.

* BadBoss: In his introductory scene, the Chef tastes one of his subordinates' dishes (as in, a tiny drop of the sauce), and flings it against the wall. His subordinates are all clearly terrified of him.

* SuperPersistentPredator: The Chef, considering the effort and resources he puts into reclaiming a particular flock of ducks rather than buying some more, is very much this.

* VillainHasAPoint: Technically, when looking at it from the human perspective, the Chef did indeed pay for the ducks from the farm for use in his restaurant. Them escaping threatens his livelihood, especially after he already paid a large sum of money for them, as evidenced by the huge wad of cash he cave the farmer. His chasing after them might not be out of spite so much as he has a business to run. Of course, this doesn't change the fact that the ducks in this movie are sapient so it's understandable that they don't want to be cooked by the Chef.

** Gwen is an AnnoyingYoungerSibling to Dax, embarrassing him in front of Kim at the beginning and end of the movie. [[spoiler:But later, in the movie's DarkestHour after all the ducks except Dax and Gwen have been captured by the chef, Gwen insists on giving her brother a big hug to comfort him.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: The trope literally starts like this. [[spoiler:An incensed Pam ends up biting the Chef on the nose through her and Mack's cage, fed up with everything he's done to their family, leading to all the other birds revolting as well by pelting him with fruits and vegetables.]]

* A DogNamedDog: The family name of the family of mallards is, well, Mallard. Downplayed in that two of them are female and the females of this species are usually referred to as "hen" or simply "duck", rather than mallard.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: American posters typically show the duck family appearing nervous, but the [[https://www.cinematerial.com/movies/migration-i6495056/p/k4wajy2i Japanese poster]] depicts them happily flying through the sky.

* CastingGag: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Creator/AlfonsoHerrera (Mack) also voiced another bird, in this case as the Grey Heron in ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheHeron'', with both movies being released at December 2023.

* DogNamedDog: The family name of the family of mallards is, well, Mallard. Downplayed in that two of them are female and the females of this species are usually referred to as "hen" or simply "duck", rather than mallard.

** The Chef doesn't have any lines and mostly grunts, yells, and chuckles. In fact, none of the humans even speak. The only human that is shown speaking mostly sings ''Survivor''.

-->[[spoiler:'''Gwen:''' [[HeroicBSoD He's gonna cook Mom and Dad, isn't he?]] [[DespairEventHorizon And he'll come back for us...and he'll cook ''us'' too!]] I WISH WE TASTED AWFUUUUUUL…!!]]

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfNqUtlqBtA “Tsuki e Ikou” (Let’s Go to the Moon)]] by Macaroni Enpitsu as the theme song.

** Gwen does this in the beginning with a long desperate “please”, to the point of overexertion and running out of breath [[FishEyes and her eyes looking away from each other]], in order to convince Uncle Dan to come with her family for their migration adventure to Jamaica. It works.
** [[spoiler:Happens again near the end, with not only Gwen saying "please" again like in the beginning, but also Dax, Mack and the penguins all do the same too in order to convince Uncle Dan to let them bring the penguins back to their home in the South Pole all do the same. Lo and behold, it works again.]]