History WesternAnimation / TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: One of the US TV ad completely spoiled the identity of the Were-Rabbit, something the UK advertising had been careful to keep a surprise.

** Gromit and Philip settles their climactic fight by borrowing toy planes from the local toy plane ride, with the sign above the attraction saying "DOGFIGHT".

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: One of the [=US=] TV ad completely spoiled the identity of the Were-Rabbit, something the [=UK=] advertising had been careful to keep a surprise.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: One TV ad completely spoiled the secret of the Were-Rabbit.

* TransformationHorror: [[spoiler:Both of Wallace's transformations into the Were-Rabbit are ''not'' PlayedForLaughs like you'd expect.]]

* {{Expy}}: Victor is pretty much [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] with an English accent.

* Expy: Victor is pretty much [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] with an English accent.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Victor Quatermaine to Lady Tottington; the former is a classist, arrogant, EgomanicHunter who thinks MurderIsTheBestSolution to pest issues while the latter is a FriendToAllLivingThings, so they don't exactly get on from the start. This only worsens over the course of the film as Victor's ego and dislike of Wallace turn him into more and more of a {{Jerkass}}, culminating in [[spoiler:his promotion to full-blown BigBad when he tries to MurderTheHypotenuse]].

* OppositesAttract: Subverted. Victor is courting Lady Tottington even though he is an avid hunter and she is an animal lover, but it turns out he's only [[GoldDigger interested in her wealth.]] From their first scene together, it's clear that their efforts to compromise between Lady Tottington's FriendToAllLivingThings nature and Victor's obsession with hunting aren't really working out.

* PreMortemOneLiner: Victor, about to shoot the Were-Rabbit with a golden bullet shaped like a root vegetable: "Eat carat, bunny boy."

* ManlyMenCanHunt: Victor is utterly obsessed with hunting to the point where he keeps at it even knowing Totty can't stand it.

** Wallace when trying to fix the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic [[spoiler: and hallucinates the part he's holding as a carrot, realising he's becoming more like a rabbit in mind as well as body]] and breaks down.

** P.C. Mackintosh the police officer is a downplayed example. He isn't too good at keeping order and is quite foolish himself, though he is brighter than most of the villagers and rightfully says the vegetable competition makes everyone act nuts.

* AbortedArc: When Wallace is unable to repair the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic, [[spoiler: Hutch]] begins doing so instead. Unfortunately, they are interrupted, and it never comes into play again. In fact, [[spoiler:Hutch being easily distracted also screws up Gromit's plan to distract Were-Rabbit Wallace with the marrow, resulting in the poor vegetable being destroyed. Wallace is instead cured of his kounanthropy by being exposed to the smell of Stinking Bishop, and Hutch retains Wallace's voice and personality. A DeletedScene involved Wallace having to use the repaired Mind Manipulation-O-Matic to fully cure himself after transforming back but with rabbit ears still.]]

** Gromit and Phillip have a final confrontation driving a pair of coin-operated biplanes. A literal ''and'' metaphorical dogfight, if you will.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Right before [[spoiler: Wallace]]'s transformation into the Were-Rabbit, Gromit ''slowly'' locks the doors to the van when he sees the full moon coming out.

* StealthPun: Towards the end, Wallace finds himself clothesless, so he grabs a handy cheese box to cover his private bits. The box has a "May contain nuts" label on it.

* RuderAndCruder: A mild example, as there is more innuendo and mild bad language than the original three shorts. The morning after the first were-rabbit attack, Constable Mackintosh attributes the incident to arson, then adds "someone [[{{Pun}} arsin']] around!"

%%* AbsentMindedProfessor: Wallace as usual.

* AristocratsAreEvil:
** Lord Victor Quartermaine is a TriggerHappy cad, which puts him at odds with Lady Tottington.
** {{Averted}} with Lady Tottington who is a FriendToAllLivingThings.

%%* AsideGlance: Gromit. All the time.

* AttackOfTheTownFestival: The vegetable festival. Since the eponymous creature is a giant ''rabbit'', it's ''only'' the focus of the festival that will attract it, and the people are in no real danger. The festival is SeriousBusiness, though.

** Thanks to a comment made by Lady Tottington, Wallace has one, where he gets the idea to brainwash the rabbits he and Gromit have captured with the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic into hating vegetables.

* JugglingLoadedGuns: Victor at the church meeting.

* NonLethalWarfare: Anti-Pesto prefers to use non-lethal equipment to capture the rabbits. When the rabbits are captured, Wallace and Gromit secretly raise them until the festival is over. Lady Tottington is impressed by this method and admits that the rabbits are just fulfilling their nature and aren't interested in causing chaos for the town.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The were-rabbit doesn't mean any harm (and doesn't actually harm any living beings throughout the movie) - it just really likes vegetables. If the vegetable festival wasn't SeriousBusiness, it wouldn't be any threat whatsoever.

* OppositesAttract: Subverted. Victor is courting Lady Tottington even though he is an avid hunter and she is an animal lover, but it turns out he's only [[GoldDigger interested in her wealth.]]