History WesternAnimation / Storks

* SoMuchForStealth: After rescuing Diamond Destiny from the penguins while disguised inside a Sphericus box during the [=StorkCon=] event, Junior and Tulip were about to escape with a jetpack that Dougland and his bird friends found for them to use, but due to their arguing over who would use the jetpack which wakes Diamond Destiny up and caused her to cry loudly, it unfortunately blows their cover.

* SoMuchForStealth: After rescuing Diamond Destiny from the penguins while disguised inside a Sphericus box during the StorkCon event, Junior and Tulip were about to escape with a jetpack that Dougland and his bird friends found for them to use, but due to their arguing over who would use the jetpack which wakes Diamond Destiny up and caused her to cry loudly, it unfortunately blows their cover.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Several of the babies have a variety of primary-colored hair.

--> '''Tulip''': I didn't know wolves could form a submarine! I've never seen that before in nature shows.
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** When trying to entertain Diamond Destiny on the raft, Junior brags to Tulip that he’s a very good singer, a nod to Samberg’s career with Music/TheLonelyIsland.

** When trying to entertain Diamond Destiny on the raft, Junior brags to Tulip that he’s a very good singer, a nod to Samberg’s career with the Music/TheLonelyIsland.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Before fighting Junior and Tulip, the leader of the penguins keeping the baby hostage shush them as said baby is sleeping.

* UnfortunateNames: Pigeon ''Toady''.

* GaggingOnTheWords: Junior is unable to bring himself to fire Tulip, despite his efforts, so he simply gives her a job somewhere where she won't be any trouble.

* GaggingOnTheWords: Junior doesn't have the heart to fire Tulip, despite his efforts, so he simply gives her a job somewhere where she won't be any trouble.

* NotSoDifferent: Junior is very near the top of the pyramid of the company as a [[TheAce popular male stork]] whose next in line to be boss. Tulips is the unwanted human girl who keeps screwing up at the company. Despite this massive gulf in social status, they both turn to have quite the longing for family, and are pretty decent at being parents.

** In the montage near the end [[spoiler:of new parents with their babies when the storks go back to delivering infants, you can see several inter-racial and same-sex couples, along with a few single parents.]]

* MisplacedWildlife: In a CutawayGag a [[BlackComedy penguin gets eaten by a walrus]]. The problem with this is that walruses don't eat penguins because they live on opposite sides of the planet.
** A snow monkey, endemic to Japan in real life, appears to live in the same location as a polar bear and an Arctic hare.

* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: During his ImagineSpot, Toady's rendition of "How You Like Me Now" eventually devolves into random vowel noises as the subtitles desperately try to keep up.

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*** And at one point, Junior says "Cool" in the same manner of [[Series/BrooklynNineNine another one]] of Samberg's characters.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Tulip is a pariah at Cornerstone for being a huge klutz whenever she tries to help. There's also the implication of genuinely racist feelings against her for being human, as humans are normally not allowed to enter. The trope is lampshaded by Toady.
-->'''Pigeon Toady''': Haha! Tulip doesn't fit in! We're all the same and she's a weirdo!

* AmusingInjuries:
** Junior suffers plenty of these, especially when he is repeatedly hit on the head with a stick and runs smack into seveysheets of glass.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Junior constantly describes how great things will be once he becomes boss of Cornerstore, but [[AndThenWhat has absolutely no answer when Tulip asks him why he wants to be boss or what he would do with the position.]]

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Jasper - it turns out the reason he's still stalking and obsessed with Tulip is because he's remorseful over the incident that resulted in the storks raising her, and he's spent the last 18 years trying to reassemble her locator beacon, so that he can finally deliver her after his failure 18 years ago.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: It's a film about storks. Of course it ends with a lot of babies being delivered to happy parents.]]
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Besides Diamond Destiny being a major reason for CharacterDevelopment for Junior, [[spoiler: the response to the massive flood of babies by the families is universal delight. While all of these families had asked for children from the storks, it had been 18 years since the last delivery. Evidently no one had changed their mind in the intervening time.]]
* BadBoss: Hunter, the head stork made his office entirely out of glass, knowing full well that birds can't see glass- ''Cue storks smacking into the glass walls''. He also uses tiny ball-like Robins as various office items, and the balls in OfficeGolf.
-->'''Hunter''': Junior! Do you know why I built my office entirely out of glass even though birds can't see glass?
-->'''Junior''': I do not.
-->''(Two storks slam into the glass)''
-->'''Hunter''': Power move.

* BreakingTheFellowship: Twice. The first time is when Junior decides that Tulip has stopped being useful after she crashes the plane, which is PlayedForComedy at Juniors ruthless discarding of Tulip. [[spoiler: The 2nd is when Jasper appears with most of Tulip's homing beacon. Tulip's happy exclamations that she can see her real family hurts Junior enough to remind him that he was supposed to fire her.]]

* ButtMonkey: Despite being The Ace, Junior receives several hilarious injuries and hi jinx. He attempts to shut down the baby manufacturing machine by pressing the emergency off button which is behind a bunch of cogs; this results in him injuring his wing since it gets caught in the cogs. As he is determined to deliver the baby girl Tulip accidentally created to her rightful family, he attempts to fly out of Cornerstore with one wing, only to fall to the floor and make the injury of his thought-to-be broken wing worse. While traveling through a tundra, Junior is encountered by wolves and one of them knocks him unconscious. Shortly after, Tulip whacks him over the head with a stick several times to entertain the baby and distract the wolves. When Junior and Tulip are chased by the wolves through the warehouse, Junior runs smack into so many sheets of glass since “birds can’t see glass.”

** Hunter gets this in the end starting with Diamond Destiny taking control of the robot’s remote control and continuously turning the machine on and off. By messing with the remote control, Diamond Destiny makes Hunter hit his face on the control panel inside the cabin. Then she sends the robot with Hunter still inside falling out of the baby factory. As the robot is tangled in cables, the robins Hunter abuses early on retaliate him by detaching the cables from the baby factory causing Hunter to fall off Stork Mountain along with Cornerstore.

* ChekhovsGun: The large multi-armed robot in the beginning [[spoiler: is later used by Hunter in the climax.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hunter is more concerned about the value of the company's stocks than the baby's fate. [[spoiler:Toady qualifies when he agrees to play along in exchange for the promotion initially offered to Junior.]]

--> "WHAT THE FU-(elevator closes)"

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Hunter fell to his apparent death after being unable to escape from the robot armor he's piloting.]]
* DodgyToupee: Alone of every single bird in the movie, for some reason known only to his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} very confused mind]] Pigeon Toady wears a blonde yuppie wig.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Junior and Tulip sound a lot like a young couple struggling with their new baby, and their argument about who's going to rescue the baby is straight out of a divorce.
--> '''Tulip''': This baby is the only good thing to come out of this whole thing!
** One deleted scene even shows them getting couples counseling from the wolves.

* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Pigeon Toady as he's Hunter's main henchman in his pursuit of Junior, Tulip, and Diamond Destiny]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Tulip is only [[spoiler: reunited with her biological family]] after she goes through an adventure that sees her become an adoptive mother temporarily and essentially become family with Junior. Narrative wise, she has to develop an adoptive family before she gets to [[spoiler: see her biological one.]]
* EasilyForgiven:
** [[spoiler: Jasper]] is forgiven very quickly for what he's done.
** Junior decides not to punish [[spoiler: Pigeon Toady]], mostly out of how pathetic he is.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:

(camera zooms out to show only the front wall of a house between two dilapidated factory buildings.)\\

* FamilyOfChoice: Tulip and Junior bond acting as parents for Diamond Destiny. [[spoiler: Tulip even chooses to first make sure Diamond Destiny was correctly delivered before seeing her own biological family for the first time.]]

* FeatherFlechettes: Junior uses a couple feathers during his attempt at preventing Tulip from activating the Baby Making Machine to disable the security cameras.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nate asks that his baby "brother" have ninja skills. [[spoiler:And there are two hints in which Diamond Destiny shows ninja skills: Batting away her bottle and Junior's vision of an older Diamond Destiny practicing karate skills.]] Tulip's personas resemble some of her biological family members, such as as the bearded persona resembling Tulip's father.

* FreezeFrameBonus: It goes by quick, but when Toady is showing off his 'girlfriend' (which is a picture of a live action Canada goose) you can see that he actually pulled the picture up in a Google image search.
** In the montage near the end [[spoiler: of new parents with their babies when the storks go back to delivering infants, you can see several inter-racial and same-sex couples, along with a few single parents.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Tulip designed an airplane that can also function as a hovercraft.

* TheHeavy: Pigeon Toady and the wolf pack are the characters who chase Junior and Tulip for most of the movie, [[spoiler: the wolf pack have a HeelFaceTurn while Toady eventually reports their actions to Hunter who takes over from there.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Pigeon Toady presumably ''thinks'' he's doing this at the end [[spoiler: when, on Hunter's frantic demand that the Baby Factory be shut down, he tries to pilot his drone into the central mechanism in a kamikaze move]]. It ends in a disastrous EpicFail.

--> '''Tulip:''' Tulip is just fine, Orphan hurts my heart!

* IFightForTheStrongestSide: After failing miserably at stopping the baby machine, Pigeon Toady is quick to proclaim his support for Junior's new baby delivery regime once it's obviously popular. Though in his defence, he is also clearly suffering a ''massive'' concussion at the time.

* InstantHomeDelivery: [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]]. [[spoiler:After the baby is taken by Hunter and his henchmen, Tulip places an order with Cornerstore.com, the box arriving right next to her, and then immediately issues a return order on the website, letting them get back to the factory just as quickly by hiding inside of the box.]]

* ItIsDehumanizing: Tulip doesn't like when Junior refers to the baby as a "package." [[spoiler:The storks do this purposefully to prevent another incident where a stork becomes too attached to their baby and refuses to give them up.]]

* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Diamond Destiny and babies in general are this, although Junior doesn't realize this until near the very end.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Tulip was adopted by the storks after Jasper broke her beacon.

* KickTheDog: Tulip doesn't appreciate being called "Orphan Tulip," which Junior is quick to do once he deserts her in the middle of the tundra after their fight.

* LargeAndInCharge: Hunter is about a head taller than Junior, who is regular stork sized.
* LEGOGenetics: How else can you explain some of the hair colours of the babies, which include blue and bright pink.

* MadwomanInTheAttic: Junior's solution to firing Tulip is to give her a job in the out of the way letter sorting office and tell her to never leave. He assumes that nobody will check the closed down department and nobody will realize that she still works at Cornerstore.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: [[spoiler: Tulip's family turns out to consist of at least ten other children.]]
* MenDontCry: Junior insists that he's not crying or even feeling any emotions after [[spoiler: delivering Diamond Destiny.]]

* MoodWhiplash: The film is very fast paced, with even the comedy springing from deadpan to hyper within a scene.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: [[spoiler: The Robot Hunter uses in the climax.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Junior and Tulip manage to rescue Diamond Destiny disguised in the spherical box costume. They even get passed the other storks easily enough with their disguise. However, Junior and Tulip blow their cover when fighting over a jet pack. Their argument disturbs Diamond Destiny so much it causes her to attract the attention of the other storks (including Hunter) surrounding them.

* NonSequitur: Pigeon Toady tends to come out with these.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Tulip launches a more or less continous stream of this to Junior when he's sent to fire her, expressing a surprised joy that he'd talk to her at all and (mistakenly) thanking him for coming to wish her a Happy Birthday. Junior understandably struggles to fire her after that.

* OhCrap: Junior does this when he realizes that Tulip has inadvertently reactivated the baby manufacturing machine.

** While it takes Junior time to warm up to the baby, after [[spoiler: Hunter has penguins kidnap Diamond Destiny]], he goes after them, even though he no longer has any chance of being boss.
** [[spoiler:Jasper]] also develops a protective streak for Tulip. When she, Diamond Destiny, and Junior were surrounded by the wolf pack, he swooped in and saved them.

--> '''Junior''': I love a good profits chart.
* PottyFailure: Junior bluntly admits that he peed on his seat out of fear while the plane fell out of the sky.

* RaisedByWolves: Attempted when Junior and Tulip run into a pack of wolves that want to raise the baby as one of their own. Technically, Tulip counts too, as she was raised by the storks.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Tulip's friends at the Cornerstore are all flightless bird employees, seemingly brought together by being outsiders of the stork dominated company.
* RandomEventsPlot: Bordering on SelfDeprecation: the film seems quite self aware that there is no rhyme or reason to pretty much anything and everything that happens to Junior and Tulip on their journey other than [[RuleOfFunny it's supposed to be funny]].

* RealityEnsues:
** The wolves can form several things together. But when they become a submarine, they need to periodically surface for air. And when they try to become an airplane, they [[spoiler:instantly fall out of the sky]].
** Building funny extensions onto your house to guide the stork in his delivery is cute and all, [[spoiler:but it will break various building safety codes in the process.]]
** After Junior, Tulip and the baby settle in for the night, the camera pans up to imply a heartwarming scene transition... only for the baby to start crying, at which point it zips back to show the two of them trying tiredly to get her back to sleep.

* RuleOfFunny: Why in the world is the off button to the baby machine behind 4 huge spinning buzzsaws?

* SavageWolves: Subverted. The wolves are antagonists, but {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s who think they should raise Diamond Destiny and are pushy about it. [[spoiler:Later, they pull a HeelFaceTurn.]]

--> '''Junior''': I thought it was a gentrifying neighborhood!

* SheetOfGlass: Junior has to go through a warehouse full of them - no mean feat, since being a bird, he can't tell where the glass is. Just when he thinks he's in the clear, in come two guys carrying a large sheet of glass.

* SynchronizedSwarming: The wolf pack can form into various things, such as a bridge, a boat, a submarine, a plane [[spoiler:that doesn't fly]], a minivan and [[spoiler:a broken heart]].
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCMPL-jLC9M Pigeon Toady’s Guide to Your New Baby]], the wolves are shown even forming a baby crib and swing.

* TheNameless: The wolves and the penguins.

-->'''Tulip''': Junior, it's okay to let your feelings out.
-->'''Junior''': I'm not feeling.
-->'''Tulip''': It's healthy!
-->'''Junior''': I have no feeling!

--> '''Hunter''': If I'm not being clear, I mean fire her!

'''Alpha Wolf:''' Well ''now'' it's too late!

* FunnyAfro: Tulip's hair puffs out into a full afro when her ponytail is undone.

* Amusing Injuries:

* RoseHairedGirl: The baby, whom Tulip names Diamond Destiny.

* {{Adorkable}}: Tulip, oh so much. Her excitable nature and curiosity makes her all the more endearing.

* TheCutie: All of the babies. AllOfThem!

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