History WesternAnimation / PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw

The main story took place in the 1950's, [[FramingDevice told by an adult Whopper]] as a story for his niece and nephew in the present (or at least the present back when the film was made). In Whopper's tale, the Pound Puppies and their human friends are organizing an adoption bazaar, only taking time out to admire the Bone of Scone: a mysterious bone that bestows puppy power and lets dogs and humans communicate. However, a [[ObviouslyEvil mysterious man]] named [=McNasty=] turns up to adopt some puppies a day early and also seems to have some plans of his own for the strange artifact...

* TheFifties

* CardCarryingVillain: [=MacNasty's=] personality matches his ObviouslyEvil look.

* HeelFaceBrainwashing: [[spoiler:This is what happens to [=MacNasty=] and his two goons when they're stuck into the Mean Machine, as is makes good people bad and bad people good.]]

* CaptainErsatz: Lumpy and Bones are incredibly blatant copies of Horace and Jasper from ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''.

* TheMovie: The first (and last) full-length film for the ''Pound Puppies'' franchise.

* NonSerialMovie: While the film shares some characters with ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'', it is plainly a separate continuity form the Hanna-Barbera series.

* OffModel: Aside from changes made to the character designs, there is a particularly noticeable animation error in which Cooler's nose disappears from his face. WordOfGod confirms that the film's animation was done in only six months and with little preparation. This could help explain the rather sub-par quality.

* AnimalTalk: In a weird variation of this, The Bone of Scone grants humans and dogs [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg (and cats)]] the ability to understand each other in the form of Puppy Power, but all other animals remain unable to communicate with either humans or dogs. This creates a weird moment where Colette is talking to the two children helping at the Pound and suddenly switches over to dog-like barking the moment The Bone of Scone is broken.

* ACatInAGangOfDogs: Hairball and Charlamange are two cats who are allies to the Pound Puppies.

* TheFifties

** Also, the kittens at the pound are referred to as "Pound Purries".

** A smaller one, but [=McNasty=]'s cat allergy later provides Cooler a means to escape.

* FatAndSkinny: Lumpy and Bones are fat and skinny respectively.

* FramingDevice: The main story which takes place in 1950's is told in [[TheEighties the present]] by grown-up Whopper.

* TheMovie: The first full-length film for the ''Pound Puppies'' franchise.
* MundaneSolution: During the course of the movie, The Bone of Scone is broken in half and all of humanity loses the ability to speak with cats and dogs. [=McNasty=] later repairs the ancient, magical artifact of legend and restores Puppy Power by...sticking the two halves together with craft glue.
* NonindicativeName: [=McNasty=]'s ancestor Sir [=McNasty=] is given the title Black Knight in spite of not wearing black armor.

* OffModel: Aside from changes made to the character designs, there is a particularly noticeable animation error in which Cooler's nose disappears from his face. WordOfGod confirms that the film's animation was done in only six months and with little preparation. Which could help explain the rather sub-par quality.

* PowerOfLove: The victims of The Mean Machine can be literally cured by hearing "I love you" alone.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Lumpy and Bones are [=McNasty=]'s two henchmen and are never seen apart.

* VillainousLegacy: Marvin [=McNasty=] comes from a long family bloodline that has been after the Bone of Scone for centuries. [=McNasty=] even refers to it as "The [=McNasty=] Destiny".

* RoleReprisal: In spite of clearly being a separate continuity from the 1986 cartoon, Ruth Buzzi still voices Nose Marie, Creator/BJWard resumes voicing Whopper, and Bright Eyes is still voiced by Creator/NancyCartwright.

* LogicalFallacies: [=McNasty=] thinks he can be King because he's got Puppy Power.
** To clarify, nothing about him changes when he's got the bone that gives Puppy Power, he just says he's king of the world and gives himself a crown.
** Additionally, he's clearly in the States, there's no throne to usurp even if this plan made any sense.
** It's glossed over, but he says he wants to take over the world by using an army of vicious attack dogs. Which is an okay plan, but his Mean Machine doesn't need Puppy Power to work, and holding the bone doesn't give him any control over animals, so why did he want to steal the bone again?
*** He has the artifact which enables Puppy Power, which in the movie has existed for centuries, so he's holding a key component of civilization. Presumably he's treating it like Excalibur, with which the bone was found in the past.

* GentleGiant: Big Paw once again.

* ACatInAGangOfDogs: Hairball and Charlamange.

* BigDamnMovie: The first full-length film for the ''Pound Puppies'' franchise.
* BlatantLies: The Black Knight is clearly not wearing black as we see in the flashback.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Reflex's reflexive reaction to the ringing of a bell]].
** A smaller one, but [=McNasty=]'s cat allergy.

* ConveyorBeltOfDoom: An IdiotBall induced one.

* DullSurprise: Whopper's niece and nephew when he tells them his story about puppy power.

* EvilBrit: [=McNasty=], voiced by George Rose no less.

* LargeHam: ''[=McNasty=].''

* MacGuffin: The [[JustForPun Bone of Scone]].

** Surprisingly, he keeps his name and features [[spoiler:after The Mean Machine reverses him into a good guy]] and he becomes a scary-looking sharptoothed man who happens to love puppies.

* TakeOverTheWorld: [=McNasty's=] EvilPlan, after taking over the pound and then the country.

* ScoobyDoobyDoors: Used during the museum chase sequence.

* VillainSong: "The King of Everything", where [=McNasty=] sings of his scheme to use the Bone of Scone to be king and to turn Collette and Whopper into vicious guard dogs.

* AnimatedMusical
* BigDamnMovie

* CanisMajor: Big Paw.

* DancePartyEnding

* FatAndSkinny: Lumpy and Bones.

* SissyVillain: [=McNasty=].
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Lumpy and Bones.

* VillainSong: "The King of Everything". Not a very good one, but a villain song nonetheless.

* [[TheyWastedaPerfectlyGoodCharacter They Wasted a Perfectly Good Actor]]: George Rose ([=McNasty's=] voice) can actually sing very well, making his atonal yelling in "the King of Everything" odd.

* CaptainErsatz: Lumpy and Bones are incredibly blatant copies of Horace and Jasper from OneHundredAndOneDalmatians.

* VillainSong: "The King of Everything". Not a very good one, but a villain song nonetheless.

* CassandraTruth: Whopper follows [=McNasty=] after he adopts the four puppies and hears him outline his entire EvilPlan about how he's going to steal the Bone of Scone from the museum and use it to take over the world. When he heads back to the pound and tries to tell Cooler, Cooler instantly dismisses it as Whopper having an overactive imagination.