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''([Linda roars in anger as she grabbed its head and punched its chest [[AndShowItToYou and rips its electronic heart out]], destroying the PAL Max Prime.]''

* BreakTheCutie: Aaron goes through this after [[Katie had lied about putting faith in her father, thus leading them to get caught by PAL's forces, then Katie's plan failing when Eric and Deborahbot 5000 destroy the kill code USB under PAL's commands, and watches their parents Rick and Linda get captured by the PAL Max Primes. This leads to him crying and becoming [[DisappointedInYou sadly disappointed in his sister]] [[WhatTheHellHero for what she said about her faith in their dad]].]]

--> '''Katie:''' (''In the Bonanza Cut'') [[ItsAllMyFault This is all my fault...]]

* DisappointedInYou: After escaping PAL's lair, Aaron expresses disappointment in Katie and ask her why would she say all that stuff if she didn't mean it...to which Katie admitted that she doesn't have the answer to that question.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:After saving the world, Katie invokes this trope by seeming to be near death, but it turns out to be a prank to get Monchi to lick her father again.]]

** In the Bonanza Cut during the deleted scene where Katie and Rick argue while the Mitchells infiltrate the casino in Las Vegas (before the location was changed to Silicon Valley) after he sees the surveillance footage of Katie telling Aaron about abandoning Rick, Katie suddenly shouted "You know what? I'D RATHER BE ANYTHING THAN END UP LIKE YOU!", which not only breaks her father's heart, but also [[SoMuchForStealth gets them caught by the PAL bots]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Aaron calls out Katie for telling him earlier that she has no faith in their dad, which PAL uses against their family and gets their parents captured.
-->'''Aaron:''' (''tearfully'') Katie, stop. Why'd you say all that stuff?

* EatTheDog: {{Discussed|Trope}} when Rick tells Aaron that they may have to eat Monchi in order to survive. None of the other Mitchells agree with this idea, and Katie and Linda even throw plastic dinosaurs at him in disgust while booing him.

** Aaron claims that his "pterodactyl vision" allows him to see more of his surroundings. He uses it in the final battle to help Katie avoid the robot swarms chasing her.

* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Defied, despite the trailers [[NeverTrustATrailer making it seem like this would be the main message of the film]]. Rick's dislike of phones has more to do with him being a {{Technologically Blind Elder|s}} who doesn't understand his kids and their relationship with new tech as much as he wants to than AnAesop about the evils of phones. The ending sees [[spoiler:him learning to use [=YouTube=] so he can follow Katie as a show of support]]. Part of PAL's motivation is how humans fall back on this trope rather than looking at how they use it, and she denies the trope when Mark brings it up.

* AnAesop:
** Modern technology is not inherently dangerous and shouldn't be dismissed out of fear or ignorance, but one should also not develop an unhealthy dependence on it.
** Relationships with other people can be difficult, especially when they have interests that you can't relate to, but in the end it's worth it for everyone involved to make the effort to understand their loved ones and maintain their connections with them. This is especially true for relationships with your family.

--> [[spoiler'''Rick Mitchell:''']] [[spoilerGuys, help me! Please, I’ve just gotta upload Katie’s video.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Eric:''']] [[spoiler:Red-faced anger man is using a computer?]]

--> '''Katie:''' [[ItsAllMyFault (''In the Bonanza Cut'') This is all my fault…]]

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** When Rick has a chance to view "Good Cop, Dog Cop" he sees [[spoiler:how his relationship with Katie is mirrored between Sarge and Dog Cop. He realizes that Sarge says things that are incredibly unsupportive and is kind of a jerk. He becomse aware that his intention to keep Katie safe has manifest as an unhealthy and smothering desire to keep her from experiencing any type of hurt]] and resolves to do better.

* MamaBear: [[spoiler:When the PAL MAX bots capture Aaron, Linda is so enraged she ''starts'' by ripping the heart out of one with her bare hands and fights harder from there. By the time Rick and Katie start turning things around in the climax, she's become TheDreaded to the PAL MAX bots.]]

* TakeThat: The movie takes an unsubtle jab at tech companies like Google and Facebook that collect and sell information about people with Mark Bowman's line "It's almost like stealing people's personal data and giving it to a hyper-intelligent AI as part of an unregulated tech monopoly is a bad thing."
** Also, from earlier in the film, Linda is surprised that PAL ("the cellphone lady") is behind the robot apocalypse and says "Who would've thought that a tech company wouldn't have our best interests at heart?"

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Rick rigs up a snare trap for the giant Furby and tries to use himself as a counterweight. It naturally fails because a two-story Furby is exponentially heavier than a single person. It takes the combined weight of the Mitchells being dragged by a anti-gravity tractor beam to actually get the thing off the ground.

** Relationships with other people can be difficult, especially when they have weird interests that you can't relate to, but in the end it's worth it for everyone involved to make the effort to understand their loved ones and maintain their connections with them. This is especially true for relationships with your family.

* AndShowItToYou: When an [[MamaBear extremely pissed-off Linda takes on the elite PAL Max Prime drones]], she rips out the electronic heart of one of them, pauses to let that sink in, and then proceeds to use it as a makeshift mace after stuffing it into her purse.
* AnimalTesting: An advertisement for PAL labs shows that they have been able to teach a dog how to talk. However, the dog in the ad is wearing a helmet covered with screw-like devices that look as if they are penetrating his skull and stimulating his brain. His forced expression as he croaks out "Hello, I am dog" does not look comfortable, inspiring or humane and can be unpleasant to watch.
* AnimateInanimateObject: PAL's ability to control any machine with a PAL chip installed in it somehow animates them beyond what their design should allow. Thus you have washing machines, refrigerators, ovens, toasters, laptops, etc able to march toward the Mitchells.

* ApocalypseWow: When the robots descend upon Dinostop, Katie questions whether or not the robots are attacking other places. [[GilliganCut They are.]]

* BadassBoast: When Linda goes full MamaBear when Aaron is threatened, she [[AndShowItToYou rips the heart out of a Prime bot]], holds it above her head and announces herself to the remaining Primes thusly:

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: When the robo-apocalypse begins, Rick's attempt to tackle a PAL Max robot yields a pathetic NoSell. By the second act, the Mitchells are plowing through them with ease.

** Linda vs. the PAL Max Primes. The robots don't even stand a chance against her MamaBear UnstoppableRage.

* DestroyTheVillainsWeapon: PAL is essentially a living weapon (she's an A.I. on a smartphone) and she has the ability to control all electronics worldwide. Once Katie throws her into a conveniently placed glass of water, all that goes away.
* DisappointedInYou: After escaping PAL's lair, Aaron express disappointment in Katie and ask her why would she say all that stuff if she didn't mean it...to which Katie admitted that she doesn't have the answer to that question.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The film does this with the PAL Max Primes, with them being killed off in some of the most horrific ways imaginable by Linda, examples include one having ''effectively its heart ripped out'', another being beheaded by the blade of another previously killed robot and another vertically sliced in half. Literally the only reason they got away with all this is because they’re robots.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When PAL's computer lists all of the Mitchells' flaws, one of them is "secret rage issues", though it isn't specified which one of the Mitchells this applies to. It turns out to be [[BewareTheNiceOnes Linda]], who completely flips out when she sees Aaron being captured and proceeds to massacre the Prime bots in a MamaBear-fueled rage.

* HandbagOfHurt: Linda uses her purse as an ImprovisedWeapon against the PAL Max Prime bots which does a lot of damage. Bonus points in that before she goes on her rampage, she [[AndShowItToYou tears the electronic heart out]] of one of the Prime bots before adding it to her handbag to give it some heft.

* MamaBear: When the PAL MAX bots capture Aaron, Linda is so enraged she ''starts'' by ripping the heart out of one with her bare hands and fights harder from there. By the time Rick and Katie start turning things around in the climax, she's become TheDreaded to the PAL MAX bots.

* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Linda’s crusade against the PAL Max Primes begins with this gem:

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Linda goes on an incredibly violent rampage against the PAL MAX robots during the climax: dismembering them, ripping their parts out with her bare hands, and getting splattered with their internal fluids. But, because they're robots, it keeps a PG rating and gets played for laughs.