History WesternAnimation / TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit

* EvilCounterpart: Victor and Philip to Wallace and Gromit, respectively. Both of them deal with pests, but the former deal with them non-lethally, while the latter deal with them lethally. Both Wallace and Victor also want to have a relationship with Lady Tottington, but Wallace genuinely loves her, while Victor wants to marry her for her wealth. Both Wallace and Victor are also bald, with the latter hiding said baldness with a toupee.

* 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. [[spoiler: 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.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: A mild example, but Wallace is in general a lot more on the ball here than he is in the shorts, and notably plays an uncharacteristically active role in the climax as opposed to being a DistressedDude.

** Lord Victor Quartermaine is a TriggerHappy cad.
** Averted with Lady Tottington who is a FriendToAllLivingThings.

* CassandraTruth: Wallace initially doesn't believe Gromit about the were-rabbit being [[spoiler:himself, despite the fact that he is still sporting rabbit ears]]. It isn't until he finds that [[spoiler:Hutch has become a rabbit version of ''himself'']] that he believes it.

** The marrow Gromit is growing for the vegetable competition comes back in the climax [[spoiler:when Gromit reluctantly uses it as bait for the Were-Rabbit. It survives the Were-Rabbit... until Gromit flies into it and [[{{Pun}} squashes]] it.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:During the climax, Were-Wallace jumps onto Gromit's falling plane to break its fall. [[DisneyDeath He gets better though.]]]]

* CuteCrittersActChildlike: All the bunnies are very adorable and make high-pitched cutesy sounds as if they were little kids.

* DarkReprise: A somber version of the Wallace and Gromit theme is played when Gromit sees [[spoiler: Wallace transforming back to normal.]]

* DreamworksFace: Gromit sports one on the poster.
* DramaticIrony: When Lady Tottington brings troubling news to Wallace that [[spoiler: she's (reluctantly) given Victor the go-ahead to kill the were-rabbit]], she sadly notes that as far as she's concerned, [[spoiler: Wallace has no idea where the monster is.]] She could not be further from the truth.

* MoodWhiplash: A plot-point. [[spoiler:After the apparent demise of Wallace, Gromit, Lady Tottington and the rabbits are upset by this, then Hutch breaks the mood by loudly exclaiming his glee while eating the cheese tent's stock. This gives Gromit an idea and grabs a piece of Stinking Bishop to revive Wallace.]]

* TheFaceless: For the first half of the movie, the Were-Rabbit is not fully visible on-screen. We see things from its POV, we see its shadow, and we see the [[ImpactSilhouette hole in the shape of its outline]] it leaves in the church's stained-glassed window (one of a couple of references to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny), but we never get a clear look at its face. It is actually fully visible a couple of times during the scene where Gromit pursues it in the Anti-Pesto van, [[FreezeFrameBonus but only for a fraction of a second]]. The first time we get to clearly see the Were-Rabbit in full is when [[spoiler:Wallace transforms into it on-screen]].

* EvilCounterpart: Victor and Philip to Wallace and Gromit, respectively. Both of them deal with pests, but the former deal with them non-lethally, while the latter deal with them lethally. Both Wallace and Victor also want to have a relationship with Lady Tottington, but Wallace genuinely loves her, while Victor wants to marry her for her wealth. Both Wallace and Victor are also bald.

** Victor Quartermaine when he sees Wallace transform into the Were-Rabbit for the first time.

* AbortedArc: When Wallace is unable to repair the Mind-Manipulator-O-Matic, [[spoiler: Hutch]] begins doing so instead. Unfortunately, they are interrupted, and it never comes into play again. [[spoiler: 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-Manipulator-O-Matic to fully cure himself after transforming back but with rabbit ears still.]]

** Wallace's invention: the Mind-Manipulation-O-Matic.

* HomemadeInventions: As is par for the course in ''Wallace and Gromit''. The Mind-Manipulation-o-Matic in particular is what kickstarts the main plot.

** Wallace when trying to fix the Mind-Manipulation-omatic [[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.

** PlayedForDrama before that: [[spoiler:Wallace is trying to rebuild the Mind-Manipulation-o-Matic when he holds up a part that looks like a carrot. He hallucinates that it ''is'' a carrot, and is about to eat it when he snaps out of it at the last second. The realization that his mind is becoming a "rabbity mush" is enough to briefly push him over the DespairEventHorizon.]]

* MistakenForOwnMurderer: PlayedForLaughs. Gromit stuffs a woozy Victor into the lady rabbit costume, and shoves him out of the cheese tent to draw away the mob. Philip only sees the costume staggering around and hears Victor's calls for help. He believes that the Were-Rabbit ate his master and bites “it” on the butt. Victor's yell of pain is mistaken for a roar and the mob chases Victor out of the fair, Philip dangling from his behind.

* WardrobeMalfunction: [[spoiler:Wallace's]]; clothes do not survive the transformation into the Were Rabbit, rending them in tatters at each time.

* OnlySaneMan: Gromit; it turns out that Wallace is fairly typical of the villagers' level of common sense. Lampshaded in the church scene:
-->'''Victor Quartermaine:''' How on earth would those tiny-minded buffoons ever catch such a big rabbit?\\

** 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.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Despite an enormous amount of innuendo whenever the two of them are both on screen, Wallace and Lady Tottington do not end up together, though they do ultimately create a nature preserve for bunnies.]]

* HyperCompetentSidekick: Gromit, although Wallace is a little more competent in this film.

** In a variation on the running gag of Gromit's canine-themed library, Wallace is shown to have a shelf of cheese-related books, such as ''[[Literature/EastOfEden East of Edam]]'' and ''[[Literature/GreatExpectations Grated Expectations]]''.

-->'''Victor:''' I want... toupée, please.\\

'''Victor:''' No! ''Toupée'', you idiot! My hair is in your machine!\\

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: PlayedForLaughs in TheStinger. After a credits sequence showing rabbits floating around weightlessly, this message comes up just before one of them hits the top of the screen and passes out.

''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' is the first (and, to date, only) feature-length animated film featuring Wallace & Gromit. It was the second co-production between Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and Creator/AardmanAnimations (with the former only having worldwide distribution rights as Aardman owns the film outright), as well as being Aardman's second full-length feature film, after ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. Series creator Creator/NickPark directed with Steve Box, who'd animated on ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' and had previously directed the BAFTA-winning short ''WesternAnimation/StageFright'', serving as co-director.

Released in 2005 and described by Aardman themselves as the world's first "vegetable horror movie", it won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", the second [=DreamWorks=] picture to achieve this after the inaugural ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''. It's also the second non-American film to receive this honour, and the second non-computer animated film (the first in both cases was ''Anime/SpiritedAway''), and would be the last one until ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'' won 17 years later. It also won the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others. It's currently the second highest-grossing stop-motion film ever, behind Aardman's own ''Chicken Run''.

Released in 2005, it won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for "Best Animated Feature", the second [=DreamWorks=] picture to achieve this after the inaugural ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''. It's also the second non-American film to receive this honour, and the second non-computer animated film (the first in both cases was ''Anime/SpiritedAway''), and would be the last one until ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'' won 17 years later. It also won the British Academy Film Awards' "Best British Film", the British Comedy Awards' "Best Comedy Film", and the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for "Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form", among many others. It's currently the second highest-grossing stop-motion film ever, behind Aardman's own ''Chicken Run''.

** Wallace's own reaction to realising [[spoiler:he's the Were-Rabbit and that Hutch has become a Wallace clone]] is more subdued, but still counts:

** Wallace's own reaction to realising [[spoiler:he's the Were-Rabbit]] is more subdued, but still counts:

*** Later, [[spoiler:when Wallace starts turning into the Were-Rabbit again,]] he hides his transformed hands behind his back the same way [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn Sex Machine]] hides his vampire hands.

'''Constable:''' ''[through the megaphone]'' THE BEAST ISN'T ACTUALLY DEAD YET?!\\
'''Few People:''' What?!\\
''[The festival comes to a screeching halt as everybody stares in shock. Victor {{facepalm}}s]''\\
'''Constable:''' ''[through the megaphone]'' [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud Oops.]]\\

''[[The festival comes to a screeching halt as everybody stares in shock. Victor {{facepalm}}s]''\\

* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Gromit.

* TantrumThrowing: Victor when he is foiled in his attampt to kill the Were-Rabbit with a blunderbuss.