History WesternAnimation / Sing2

* AssInALionsSkin: At the start of the movie, the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar are played by two pigs, Rosita and Gunter, wearing a cat and caterpillar costume respectively.

* SequelNonEntity: Of the main cast from the previous movie, Eddie and Mike don't return. The former is especially notable, considering Nana makes an appearance early in the movie. Although pictures of Eddie are seen in Nana's bedroom, [[FreezeFrameBonus and in Buster's office]], there's a magazine on the table with Eddie on the front cover. Mike's absence makes somewhat more sense, as he was never much of a team player to begin with, and so would likely not stick around even after proving himself - not to mention he ended the first movie driving into the sunset after getting into trouble with organized crime.

* AnAesop:
** Even when someone tells you otherwise (such as how Suki told Buster that he doesn't have what it takes to make the big leagues), don't let that person's words crush your self-esteem.
** Don't let one bad apple make you think you failed.
** You can easily become your own worst enemy if you allow your fears to hold you back. Sometimes the only way to break free and reach your full potential is to face them head on.

** Speaking of which, Jimmy and Marcus themselves are strictly foils, both being powerful figures that loomed over their children while ignoring their needs. However, while Marcus was completely extraneous to the show business his son wanted to join, Jimmy stands at the top and serves as Porsha's ticket in. [[spoiler: While Marcus' obstruction came from sincere obliviousness, Jimmy is cold and uncaring. Marcus, despite his lack of interest in the singing contest, starts watching as soon as he sees his son performing and winds up loving it, while Jimmy never bothers to watch Porsha's exhibition. In the climax of the second movie, Jimmy leads the forces trying to stop the Moon crew's performance, while Marcus is the one defending the troupe, reaching the point where Marcus ''physically restrains'' Jimmy. But when their children's production ends in a clamoring success, Marcus lets go, putting his son's success first, while Jimmy lunges, entirely absorbed in his rage and quest for vengeance.]]

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Clay Calloway says this word for word when he and Ash break into Crystal's place and finds Buster ''hiding in a suitcase'', [[spoiler:due to the latter having been nearly murdered by Jimmy Crystal and being terrified into hiding from the insane wolf and his goons]].

* AccidentalMisnaming: Darius calls Meena "Gina" on a few occasions. She corrects him the first time, only for him to tell her not to interrupt him.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler:The BigBad of the film, Jimmy Crystal, is a cold-hearted psychopath who will stoop to any level he deems necessary to protect his reputation. He's unrepentantly abusive towards everyone around him, and when he decides Buster is more trouble to him than he's worth, he goes so far as to try to murder him in cold blood, ''twice'', to get rid of him (it's also heavily implied that he's already had several other victims before Buster). The Moon Theater troupe are much more friendly and kindhearted characters, who don't set out to harm anyone but are shown to have a shady side. They break quite a few laws to accomplish their goals, and after Jimmy tries to have them killed, they decide to retaliate by hijacking his hotel so they can put on an illegal show in the premises. They also have zero problems teaming up with a gang of recently retired bank robbers who just got out of prison a while ago, when Johnny suggests the idea.]]

** The red panda girls are enthusiastically attending Ash's singing performance.

** Speaking of which, Jimmy and Marcus themselves are strictly foils, both being powerful figures that loomed over their children while ignoring their needs. However, while Marcus was completely extraneous to the show business his son wanted to join, Jimmy stands at the top and serves as Porsha's ticket in. [[spoiler: While Marcus' obstruction came from sincere obliviousness, Jimmy is cold and uncaring. Marcus, despite his lack of interest in the singing contest, starts watching as soon as he sees his son performing, while Jimmy never bothers to watch Porsha's exhibition. In the climax of the second movie, Jimmy leads the forces trying to stop the Moon crew's performance, while Marcus is the one defending the troupe, reaching the point where Marcus ''physically restrains'' Jimmy. But when their children's production ends in a clamoring success, Marcus lets go, putting his son's success first, while Jimmy lunges, entirely absorbed in his rage and quest for vengeance.]]

* OutsideContextProblem: During the third act, [[spoiler:Marcus, Stan and Barry step in to help the theater animals deal with Jimmy Crystal and his enforcers. Since they haven't been a part of the conflict between the two groups until now, and since Jimmy obviously wouldn't know anything about the backgrounds of Buster's performers, he has absolutely no idea who they are or what their connection to Buster's group is. But they nevertheless throw a pretty big wrench into his plans, and force him to have to improvise his next attempt to kill Moon.]]

* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler:After Johnny manages to best Klaus in their dance battle, Klaus humbly bows before him.]]

** Speaking of which, Jimmy and Marcus themselves are strictly foils, both being powerful figures that loomed over their children while ignoring their needs. However, while Marcus was completely extraneous to the show business holding his son back, Jimmy stands at the top and serves as Porsha's ticket in. [[spoiler: However, while Marcus' obstruction came from sincere obliviousness, Jimmy is cold and uncaring. Marcus, despite his lack of interest in the contest, starts watching as soon as he sees his son, while Jimmy never bothers to watch Porsha's exhibition. In the climax of the second movie, Jimmy leads the forces trying to stop the Moon crew's performance, while Marcus is the one defending the troupe, reaching the point where Marcus ''physically restrains'' Jimmy. But when their children's production ends in a clamoring success, Marcus lets go, putting his son's success first, while Jimmy lunges, entirely absorbed in his rage and quest for vengeance.]]

** Speaking of which, Jimmy and Marcus themselves are strictly foil, both being powerful figures that loomed over their children while ignoring their needs. However, while Marcus was completely extraneous to the show business holding his son back, Jimmy stands at the top and serves as Porsha's ticket in. [[spoiler: However, while Marcus' obstruction came from sincere obliviousness, Jimmy is cold and uncaring. Marcus, despite his lack of interest in the contest, starts watching as soon as he sees his son, Jimmy never bothers to watch Porsha's exhibition. In the climax of the movie Jimmy leads the forces trying to stop the performance, while Marcus is the one defending the troupe, reaching the point where Marcus ''physically restrains'' Jimmy, but when their children's production ends in a clamoring success Marcus lets go, putting his son's success first, Jimmy lunges, entirely absorbed in his rage and quest for vengeance.]]

* DestinationDefenestration: Jimmy keeps threatening to throw Moon off the roof of his tower if he disappoints him. [[spoiler: And he actually tries to go through with it a couple of times.]]

** [[spoiler:As soon as Jimmy discovered that Buster had lied to him about knowing Calloway, he could have simply fired Buster and publicly outed him as a con artist. It would have gotten Buster out of his hair, permanently ruined his reputation, and Jimmy would have been [[VillainHasAPoint completely justified in doing so]]. Even when he does eventually shut down production and goes on a talk show to discredit the Moon Troupe, Jimmy never mentions Buster's deception and instead implies that they simply weren't up to his standards, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain which prompts the gang to put their show on behind his back and prove him wrong]]]].

** [[spoiler:When the Troupe break into his theater to put on their show, Jimmy seemingly never thinks to contact the police, and he and his thugs instead try to put a stop to it themselves. To make matters worse, instead of waiting until the performance is finished and there'd be no witnesses, Jimmy tries to interfere ''during'' the show, culminating in him trying to throw Buster to his death in front of an ''entire audience'']].
** [[spoiler:During the final curtain call, Jimmy makes one last effort to save face by going out on stage and trying to take credit for the show, even attempting to strongarm Buster into agreeing to work for him again. It's baffling how Jimmy thought this would work when he'd not only publicly denounced the troupe as talentless amateurs only hours earlier, but only minutes before this he'd also just tried to murder Buster. Unsurprisingly, the cast abandon Jimmy on stage, humiliating him in front of the entire city.]]

* TheDogBitesBack:
** [[spoiler:Thanks to Jimmy berating Porsha for humiliating him over her falling out with Buster being made public, Porsha realizes that her father doesn't care about her. As soon as Ms. Crawly requests her help in the climactic show, she spites him in kind by rejoining the Moon troupe without a second thought]].
** During his time working for Jimmy Crystal, the wolf businessman [[spoiler:bullies Buster, abuses him, and finally tries to straight-up murder him and his friends several times. In retaliation, Buster hijacks his theater, traps him below the stage during his show, silently gloats over his success to him while he's restrained, leaves him to be publicly humiliated in front of thousands of people, and finally does not lift a finger to stop Jimmy from being arrested at the film's end.]]

** During "A Sky Full Of Stars", [[spoiler:Marcus seems to be in awe of Johnny's performance onstage for a few moments, before he smiles warmly and says "That's my boy". This is because even though he's known his son for a long time now, the incredible amount of singing talent that Johnny possesses is something he never knew existed until recently, and he's still getting used to it.]]

** 'Loser' seems to be Jimmy's personal favorite insult: [[spoiler:he tells Porsha she's a talentless loser in a fit of rage, and calls Buster a 'low-life little loser' twice while he's trying to kill him. But by the end of the film, it's Jimmy who's lost everything (his position, his reputation, his freedom and his daughter) as a result of his own actions, while Buster and his troupe still have each other and have found greater success than they're ever known).]]

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Thanks to Jimmy berating Porsha for humiliating him over her falling out with Buster being made public, Porsha realizes that her father doesn't care about her. As soon as Ms. Crawly requests her help in the climactic show, she spites him in kind by rejoining the Moon troupe without a second thought]].

* {{Irony}}: Jimmy bullies Buster into giving Porsha the astronaut role to make himself look good by proxy, and later [[spoiler:attempts to kill Buster for embarrassing him by "firing" Porsha]]. Jimmy is not present for any of his daughter's rehearsals and thus fails to realize that, while Porsha is a talented aerialist and singer, she's a ''[[BadBadActing terrible]]'' actress. [[spoiler:If Porsha had ultimately kept the lead role, her poor performance would have made the entire show a laughingstock, humiliating not only her father, but Porsha herself as well]]. Later, [[spoiler:Jimmy is livid when he discovers that Porsha is helping the troupe put the show on behind his back, and angrily tells her to get off the stage. He's paying no mind that, not only does Porsha have a part in the show like he wanted, but she's given a number that actually plays to her strengths and makes a major highlight. One would ''think'' he'd be happy that such an amplifier would make him and his daughter look good.]]

* ReformedButNotTamed: [[spoiler:Since the end of the last movie, Marcus, Stan and Barry have apparently decided to give up being robbers and are making an effort to reform so they can continue to mend their relationship with Johnny. However, they do not have a problem with helping the theater animals commit other types of illegal activities in their time of need, like hijacking Mr. Crystal's hotel so they can put on their show there, or throttling Jimmy's security team to protect Johnny and his castmates from them.]]

* SoProudOfYou: When he hears the news that Rosita has landed the starring role in Buster's play, Norman doesn't waste any time congratulating her about it and expressing pride in his spouse the next time he sees her.

* SequelNonEntity: Of the main cast from the previous movie, Eddie and Mike don't return. The former is especially notable, considering Nana makes an appearance early in the movie. Although pictures of Eddie are seen in Nana's bedroom, [[FreezeFrameBonus and in Buster's office]], there's a magazine on the table with Eddie on the front cover. Mike's absence makes somewhat more sense, as he was never much of a team player to being with, and so would likely not stick around even after proving himself - not to mention he ended the first movie driving into the sunset after getting into trouble with organized crime.

* SequelNonEntity: Of the main cast from the previous movie, Eddie and Mike don't return. The former is especially notable, considering Nana makes an appearance early in the movie. Although pictures of Eddie are seen in Nana's bedroom, [[FreezeFrameBonus and in Buster's office]], there's a magazine on the table with Eddie on the front cover.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Jerry goes into Crystal's bedroom to tell him urgent news. Unfortunately for him, Crystal turns out to sleep in the nude; Jerry ScreamsLikeALittleGirl at the sight.

* VillainBall: Once Jimmy Crystal confronted Buster and had proof he lied about everything, he easily could've gone public and exposed him as a con artist, ruining Buster's reputation, getting him out of his hair, and [[VillainHasAPoint being completely justified in doing so.]] It would've been cleaner and more efficient than [[spoiler:trying to throw Buster from the roof]]. He later grips the ball even harder by [[spoiler:making another attempt to drop Moon to his death--which he does at his own theater and in front of not only Moon's crew, but an ''auditorium full of people'']].
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:Jimmy attempting to save face by taking credit for helping put ''Out of This World'' together. It's baffling how Jimmy thought this would work when 1. there's no way Moon or any of his performers would go along with that after he just tried to kill Moon and 2. he'd recently appeared on a talk show deriding Moon's theater crew as a bunch of talentless amateurs who didn't belong in Redshore City]].
* VillainHasAPoint: Although Jimmy Crystal is a short-tempered and wrathful individual, he is completely justified being angry at Buster when he discovers the latter lied to him about knowing Clay Calloway. Him letting Buster off with only a verbal lashing even seems borderline reasonable, [[spoiler:though he loses moral ground when he later snaps and tries to murder Buster over a much more petty misunderstanding, ironically just after he had managed to fulfill his promise.]]