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-->'''Wilbur:''' Oh, no. Hold it! I know what you're thinking, and you're wrong! Don't even-- No! Don't look at me like that! You getting "no" from me! You understand? No, I will not ''ever'' sit on those eggs! ''[cut to Wilbur now sitting on the eggs]'' Aww, nuts! [[LampshadeHanging Gotta learn to be more assertive]]. No is no is NO. ''[to the eggs]'' Hey! Quit movin' in there!
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Never mind the previous poster was better.
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-->'''Wilbur''': "Albatross Air. A fare fare from here to there." Get it? A fair fare? It's a... a play on... never mind.
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-->'''Wilbur''': "Albatross Air. A fare fair fare from here to there." Get it? A fair fare? It's a... a play on... never mind.
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* DontExplainTheJoke: Wilbur. "Get it? A fair fare? It's a... a play on... never mind."
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* DontExplainTheJoke: Wilbur. "Get The slogan for Albatross Air.
-->'''Wilbur''': "Albatross Air. A fare fare from here to there." Get it? A fair fare? It's a... a play on... never mind."
-->'''Wilbur''': "Albatross Air. A fare fare from here to there." Get it? A fair fare? It's a... a play on... never mind.
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'''Ms. Bianca''': No, just a pair of khaki shorts, and some hiking boots.\\
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-->'''Ms. Bianca''': Bernard, did you talk to Francois?\\
'''Bernard''': Ah, yes, but uh.. there's... there's something I want--\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': I know exactly what you're going to say. Francois told me all about it.\\
'''Bernard''': He did? How, how... how did he-\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': Oh, it doesn't matter, I think it's a marvelous idea.\\
'''Bernard''': You do? I mean, you... you really want to?\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': I don't think it's a matter of wanting. It's a matter of duty.\\
'''Bernard''': D-duty? I... I never thought of it, well, umm... all right.... all right. How does... how does next ah-April sound to you?\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': Heavens, no! We must act immediately tonight!\\
'''Bernard''': Tonight? But, but, ah.. wait! ''[cuts to them walking down into the Rescue Aid Society headquarters]'' Uh, Bianca, this is so sudden, I mean, don't you at least need a gown or something?\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': No, just a pair of khaki shorts, and some hiking boots.\\
'''Bernard''': Hiking boots?
'''Bernard''': Ah, yes, but uh.. there's... there's something I want--\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': I know exactly what you're going to say. Francois told me all about it.\\
'''Bernard''': He did? How, how... how did he-\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': Oh, it doesn't matter, I think it's a marvelous idea.\\
'''Bernard''': You do? I mean, you... you really want to?\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': I don't think it's a matter of wanting. It's a matter of duty.\\
'''Bernard''': D-duty? I... I never thought of it, well, umm... all right.... all right. How does... how does next ah-April sound to you?\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': Heavens, no! We must act immediately tonight!\\
'''Bernard''': Tonight? But, but, ah.. wait! ''[cuts to them walking down into the Rescue Aid Society headquarters]'' Uh, Bianca, this is so sudden, I mean, don't you at least need a gown or something?\\
'''Ms. Bianca''': No, just a pair of khaki shorts, and some hiking boots.\\
'''Bernard''': Hiking boots?
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The film was accompanied in its theatrical release by the animated featurette ''Disney/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', based on the story by Creator/MarkTwain and starring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and friends.
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* MidflightWaterTouching: On their first flight together, Marahute holds Cody above a river and lets him skate on the surface.
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* MistakenForPervert: When the engagement ring rolls under a table at the restaurant where a husband and wife are eating, Bernard crawls under to get it. Interestingly, it's not Bernard who is mistaken for a pervert, but the husband; in retrieving the ring he has to touch the wife's foot, and she, not noticing Bernard, thinks her husband is trying to play footsie.
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* MistakenForPervert: When the engagement ring rolls under a table at the restaurant where a husband and wife are eating, Bernard crawls under to get it. Interestingly, it's not Bernard who is mistaken for a pervert, but the husband; in retrieving the ring he has to touch the wife's foot, and she, not noticing Bernard, thinks her husband is trying to play footsie.
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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: When the mouse wife at the fancy restaurant hits her husband after she thinks he was trying to play footsie with her under the table, it's presented comedically.
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* ShoutOut: When Wilbur is about to escape from the hospital after hurting his back, he yells, "You'll never take me alive," a reference to the Australian song "Waltzing Matilda."
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* ImprovisedLockpick: Frank tries to pick the lock of his cage with his tail. It takes him a while but he succeeds.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Cody mentions to Marahute that he 'lost' his father. There are strong implications that he was another victim of the notoriously dangerous Australian Outback, but it could have been actual abandonment.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Cody mentions to Marahute that he 'lost' his father. father is "gone." There are strong implications that he was another victim of the notoriously dangerous Australian Outback, but it could have been actual abandonment.
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* InterspeciesFriendship: Aside from the mice and Cody, the film also has Cody feeling very attached to Marahute the eagle, though they can't communicate with each other.
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** Although Australia does have a large native eagle species (the wedge-tailed eagle, which can have a wingspan of over eight feet), she's referred to in the film as the 'great golden eagle', which is either a conflation with a (much smaller) North American species, or more likely a species made up for the purposes of the film.
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** Although Australia does have a large native eagle species (the wedge-tailed eagle, which can have a wingspan of over eight feet), she's referred to in the film as the 'great golden eagle', which is either a conflation with ''Aquila chrysaetos'', a (much smaller) smaller, less flashy) North American species, or more likely a species made up for the purposes of the film.
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'''Krebbs''': A lovely ladies' purse!
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'''Krebbs''': A lovely ladies'purse!purse!\\
'''Frank''': I DON'T WANNA GO AS A PURSE!
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'''Frank''': I DON'T WANNA GO AS A PURSE!
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* WithThisRing: The first time Bernard tries to propose, the ring falls off his pocket and he has to go through some awkward moments to get it back.
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* CaptainCrash: Either Orville taught Wilbur inherits this trait from his brother Orville.how to fly badly or they both inherited a clumsiness gene.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Rescue Aid Society looks an awful lot like a rodent UsefulNotes/UnitedNations. Considering the Rescue Aid Society IS underneath the actual United Nations, this is probably not a coincidence.
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* IgnoringBySinging: Frank the frill-necked lizard covers his ears and sings "Waltzing Matilda" when Krebbs the koala starts describing what the poacher is going to do to them. Then Frank uncovers his ears to see if Krebs is done, only for Krebs to ''just now'' finish his sentence, to Frank's horror.
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* IgnoringBySinging: Frank the frill-necked lizard covers his ears and sings "Waltzing Matilda" when Krebbs the koala starts describing what the poacher is going to do to them. Then Frank uncovers his ears to see if Krebs Krebbs is done, only for Krebs Krebbs to ''just now'' finish his sentence, to Frank's horror.
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* IgnoringBySinging: Frank the frill-necked lizard covers his ears and sings "Waltzing Matilda" when Krebbs the koala starts describing what the poacher is going to do to them. Then Frank uncovers his ears to see if Krebs is done, only for Krebs to ''just now'' finishes finish his sentence, to Frank's horror.
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* IgnoringBySinging: Frank the frill-necked lizard covers his ears and sings "Waltzing Matilda" when Krebbs the koala starts describing what the poacher is going to do to them. Then Frank uncovers his ears to see if Krebs is done, only for Krebs to ''just now'' finishes his sentence, to Frank's horror.
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'''Frank''': I can't hear you! LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA! WALTIZING MATILDA! ''(slightly uncovers his ears to see if Krebs is done)''\\
'''Krebs''': ...a purse.\\
'''Frank''': AAAGH! NO-HO-HO!\\
'''Krebs''': A lovely ladies' purse!
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'''Frank''': I can't hear you! LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA! WALTIZING MATILDA! ''(slightly uncovers his ears to see if Krebs is done)''\\
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Set in the Australian Outback, the EvilPoacher [=McLeach=] (Creator/GeorgeCScott) has kidnapped a young boy named Cody (Adam Ryen) in order to snare Marahute, an endangered eagle [[GiantFlyer large enough to ride around on]]. Naturally, Bianca and Bernard must come to the rescue, with help from Orville's brother Wilbur (Creator/JohnCandy) and Jake (Tristan Rogers), the mouse equivalent to Film/CrocodileDundee. ''Down Under'' was also a pioneer in the use of CGI. Unlike the first film, which was a huge success, ''Down Under'' actually failed at the box office, making it the ''only'' true failure of the Disney Renaissance.
Disney was facing a future with computer animation rapidly changing the state of the art. They used the movie as a test bed of their new CAPS coloring system -- instead of hand-painting cels, you could now use a computer program to color the animation. This saved a considerable amount of time and hand-drawn animation was now easier to integrate into [=CGI=] backgrounds and effects (and also allowed for extensive use of CelShading). In ''Down Under'', the test run of this system had mostly decent, sometimes amazing (especially during Marahute's flight), and sometimes mixed results. They had mastered it brilliantly by the time of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the following year.
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!!This film provide examples of:
* TheAce: Jake.
* AdultFear: Cody's kidnapping is more impactful than Penny's, since unlike orphan Penny, Cody has a mother. One powerful scene shows his house while his mother cries "Cody!"
* AirplaneArms: Cody doing a Marahute impression.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Joanna the Goanna acts more like a pet dog than anything. She begs, she whimpers, she wags her tail, she crawls through doggy doors, and she watches [=McLeach=]'s catches like a guard dog. She also is as sneaky - and smart about it - as any [[AnimalStereotypes hound dog]].
* AllThereInTheScript: The captive Kangaroo is [[ADogNamedDog a Red Kangaroo named Red]].
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Even animals that can't talk, such as Joanna, still tend to understand speech and act with human or near-human intelligence.
* AnimationBump: The thirteen years between movies helps out a lot, obviously. Most of the animals avoid the "dots for eyes" thing, and the SkinToneSclerae thing is avoided with the main characters. ''Down Under'' was also the first in movie history to render 2D animation with computers.
* AnythingButThat: Being killed and skinned is bad enough, but Frank ''really'' doesn't want to be made into a lady's purse.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Under no circumstances would a modern-day eagle grow to the dimensions of Marahute, whose ''head'' is larger than most of Cody. Her wingspan could easily be estimated at well over twenty feet long in some shots (the biggest eagles would be a stretch to reach nine feet), which puts her on par with [[GiantFlyer teratorns and giant pterosaurs]]. She's also very smart and ''way'' more friendly then a typical bird of prey (which would probably attack anyone that tried to touch them). The film [[LampshadeHanging does acknowledge this]], as the rarity of an eagle being that size is the main reason [=McLeach=] is hunting her in the first place!
* AskAStupidQuestion: When Cody asks Frank the frilled lizard the following question:
--> '''Cody:''' Hey! Where did you come from?
--> '''Frank:''' [[CaptainObvious Um... the desert?]]
* AwesomeAussie: Jake, a kangaroo rat and champion outdoorsman with whom Bernard battles for Bianca's affection.
** The villain, [=McLeach=], is an evil version of the AwesomeAussie, a poacher and trader in Australian wildlife who keeps a pet goanna and is able to fight off a horde of hungry crocodiles.
** And Cody is a kid version of the trope; despite being 8 years old, he scales large cliffs with ease, travels around the outback all by himself, and isn't the least bit impressed by [=McLeach=]' tactics to try and make him reveal Marahute's location.
* AxCrazy: [=McLeach=], who clearly enjoys being a violent murderous thug even beyond wanting to make himself rich.
-->''(as he lowers a helpless child into a crocodile pit)'' "Now this is what I call ''fun!"''
* BaldOfEvil: A variant; [=McLeach=] has notable male-pattern baldness.
* BigNo:
** [[spoiler: [=McLeach=]]] gives off one [[spoiler: as he plummets to his doom down the waterfall.]]
** So does Cody the moment he's accidentally swept off the cliff when he frees Marahute.
** And when [[spoiler:[=McLeach=] says to Cody that someone shot Marahute right out of the sky...]]
-->'''[=McLeach=]:''' [[ParodiedTrope What do you mean, "no?" You callin' me a liar?]]
* BookDumb: Percival "I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nuthin'!" [=McLeach=] is quite uneducated, but don't let that ever make you think he isn't cunning or insidiously clever--especially when you consider he probably built that "truck" of his. That's an impressive piece of engineering.
%%* ButtMonkey: Wilbur.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Bernard has [[WackyMarriageProposal a very hard time working up the nerve to propose to Bianca]]. Jake does not help.
* CaptainCrash: Wilbur inherits this trait from his brother Orville.
* CodeEmergency: The Rescue Aid Society calls a Code Red Emergency Meeting to announce that Cody has been kidnapped.
* ChekhovsSkill: Jake tames a snake through intimidation to get the gang a lift through marshlands. [[spoiler: Bernard pulls the same trick on a razorback boar to save the others.]]
%%* ChildrenAreInnocent
* CloseupOnHead
* ConspicuousCG:
** The opening sequence.
** Even more conspicuous: The scenes where Wilbur is flying over the Sydney Opera House and through New York City.
** Any scene featuring [=McLeach=]'s half-track.
* ContinuityNod: Orville's flight number is 13 in the first movie, where Bernard [[ThirteenIsUnlucky makes a big deal out of it]]. Even though the superstition never comes up in ''Down Under'', when Wilbur is attempting to land, he identifies himself as Albatross One-Three.
* CoolCar: [=McLeach=]'s half-track.
* CowardlyLion: Bernard. He insists he's just a lowly janitor, he stutters and can be a nervous wreck, but if others are depending on him, he's unstoppable.
* CuteGiant:
** Marahute the giant eagle.
** To mice, humans are giants, so naturally human children will qualify as cute giants from the perspective of the mice as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: Krebbs the koala, one of the many animals trapped in [=McLeach=]'s hideout, seems to be one of these.
-->'''Cody''': Frank, you're free!
-->'''Frank''': I'm free? I'm free, I'm free, I'm free, I'm free!
-->'''Kangaroo''': Shhh... Joanna will hear.
-->'''Krebbs''': Double or nothing, he's caught in 5 minutes.
* DigitalDestruction: Some prints of the movie edit the knife throwing scene by replacing the shots where the knives come within inches of hitting Cody with cuts to Joanna in her bathtub, eating animal crackers... probably because the knives were too scary for children.
* DisappearedDad: Cody mentions that his dad is "gone" and empathizes with the unborn eagles whose father was shot pre-movie.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [=McLeach=] narrowly avoids being eaten by crocodiles only to fall off the edge of a waterfall.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Rescue Aid Society looks an awful lot like a rodent UsefulNotes/UnitedNations. Considering the Rescue Aid Society IS underneath the actual United Nations, this is probably not a coincidence.
* TheDragon: Joanna, almost literally.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Wilbur. "Get it? A fair fare? It's a... a play on... never mind."
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Apparently, feeding Cody to crocodiles is [=McLeach=]'s idea of fun.
* EvilIsHammy:George C. Scott as [=McLeach=].
* EvilPoacher: [=McLeach=].
* EurekaMoment: [=McLeach=] realizing [[spoiler:Marahute's eggs are Cody's weakness]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Crocodile Falls turns out to be well-named.
* TheFaceless: Cody's mom's face was never shown in the movie. However, in all other productions based on ''Down Under'', she was completely visible.
* FalseReassurance: [[MadDoctor The mouse doctor]] on the prospects of his patient: "Now now, my dear. Keep a stiff upper lip. They all come in with a whimper, and leave with a grin." Think about it a minute.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [=McLeach=] often acts in a way that is ''almost'' charming, but his true, brutish traits always shine through.
* FedToTheBeast: [=McLeach=] tries to feed Cody to crocodiles in the film's climax.
* FreeRangeChildren: Cody lives in a very sparsely inhabited area of Australia, and his mom doesn't have any problem with him running around. It's pretty viciously deconstructed when he walks into [=McLeach=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The opening scenes establish Cody as somebody who has many friends among the local animals and goes out of his way (and puts himself in danger) to rescue animals in trouble. At age eight (see FreeRangeChildren, above).
* GaleForceSound: Wilbur's radio.
* GallowsHumor: Krebbs the koala, convinced that escape is hopeless, indulges in some. It's implied he regularly teases Frank about being made into a "lovely lady's purse."
* GiantFlyer: Marahute is the closest to the trope, but in one scene, Wilbur is dwarfed by a trio of massive pink stork-like birds.
* GilliganCut: Bernard getting Wilbur to sit on Marahute's eggs.
* GloveSnap: "All right, girls, snap to it! ''([[IncrediblyLamePun snap]])'' Oh! That smarts..."
* GreenAesop: Anti-poaching.
* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: [=McLeach=] apparently has a double-barrelled, pump action, side-by-side shotgun with a ''scope''. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment And a foresight]].
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Cody, who tries his hardest to protect Marahute from [=McLeach=].
* HelpMistakenForAttack: During the scene with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-coYU-INP3E Marahute the eagle trapped under rope,]] when Cody arrives to free her, and takes out a knife, Marahute seems to (temporarily) interpret this as an attempt to wound or kill her rather than to free her.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: A flurry of these. Of course, it's likely Jake was making it all up to impress Bianca. Then again, it is [[DeathWorld Australia]].
--> '''Jake''': So, which way you taking? Suicide Trail through Nightmare Canyon, or the shortcut at Satan's Ridge?
--> '''Bernard''': S-s-suicide Trail?
--> '''Jake''': Good choice! More snakes, less quicksand. And once you cross Bloodworm Creek you're scot-free, that is until... Dead Dingo Pass.
* IgnoringBySinging: Frank the frill-necked lizard covers his ears and sings "Waltzing Matilda" when Krebbs the koala starts describing what the poacher is going to do to them.
* InevitableWaterfall: [[spoiler: The site of the aforementioned DisneyVillainDeath.]]
* InkSuitActor:
** Wilbur bears quite a resemblance to John Candy in terms of facial features.
** George C. Scott seems like the performance model of [=McLeach=].
* InterspeciesFriendship: Aside from the mice and Cody, the film also has Cody feeling very attached to Marahute the eagle, though they can't communicate with each other.
* IWantMyMommy: Wilbur gets scared in the hospital, and calls for mother.
* KnifeNut: [=McLeach=] throws, flourishes, or menaces Cody with a variety of large, unpleasant skinning knives. Of course, as a professional poacher he's got to be skilled with such implements, but does he have to enjoy it so much?
* KnifeOutline: Done intentionally by [=McLeach=] when he's trying to intimidate Cody into revealing Marahute's whereabouts.
* LandDownUnder: Naturally.
* LargeHam: Wilbur and Frank, albeit to a lesser extent than the [=McLeach=].
* LyricalDissonance: [=McLeach=]'s version of "Home On The Range" mentioned below. The melody is still cheerful, but the words... well, don't ask.
* MadDoctor: The unnamed mouse doctor that is assigned to cure Wilbur's back problems is clearly a few eggs short of a dozen. Who else but a MadDoctor would load syringes in a double-barreled shotgun and use a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] in surgery?
* MatchCut: Marahute returning Cody to the ground, after they visit her nest.
* MeaningfulName:
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Wright Orville]] is replaced by his brother [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Wright Wilbur]].
** The name Cody is derived from an Irish word meaning "helper".
** The captive red kangaroo from ''Down Under'' named... [[CaptainObvious Red.]]
* TheMillstone: Joanna is one to [=McLeach=].
* MisplacedWildlife:
** Although Australia does have a large native eagle species (the wedge-tailed eagle, which can have a wingspan of over eight feet), she's referred to in the film as the 'great golden eagle', which is either a conflation with a (much smaller) North American species, or more likely a species made up for the purposes of the film.
** A downplayed example -- the presence of crocodiles clearly indicates being set in the Northern Territory, but wombats, only found in the southeast of the continent and Tasmania, are shown among the wild animals early on.
* MouseWorld: ''Down Under'' is notable for the sheer number of ways the movie shows the mice interacting with humans and their technology, as they go about their business.
* MundaneUtility: Though not fully shown, [=McLeach=] intends to use a blowtorch to cook his dinner during the "eggs" scene.
* MusicalisInterruptus: Bernard and Bianca can't get Wilbur's attention until Bernard turns off his stereo.
* MusicalNod: When the delegates are summoned, a snippet of the Rescue Aid Society's theme (from the first film) features in the score.
* NationalAnimalStereotypes: Jake is an AwesomeAussie "kangaroo mouse" who wears a khaki shirt and a slouch hat, uses a boomerang, and talks with an Australian accent. Krebbs the koala and some of the kangaroos have the accent too.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: [=McLeach=] tries to feed Cody to the crocodiles.
%%* NiceHat: [=McLeach=].
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Adam Ryen as Cody and George C. Scott as [=McLeach=]. Most of the animals in ''Down Under'' as well; only Jake, Krebs the Koala and a handful of kangaroos have noticeable UsefulNotes/{{Australian Accent}}s.[[note]]However, [=McLeach=] at least could plausibly be from somewhere other than Australia.[[/note]]
* NothingCanSaveUsNow: Jake to Bianca, during the climax.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Happens to Bernard and Bianca the first time he tries to propose. Bernard tries to propose to Bianca, but misplaces the ring. While he looks for it, Bianca receives word of the mission to Australia, and when Bernard returns and tries to propose again, she thinks he's talking about the mission and accepts. He is delighted, but is perplexed that she wants to do it now, and that she only needs to wear khaki shorts and hiking boots.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Usually only noticeable on a second viewing, but one of the R.A.S. members is named Frank, who is clearly not the frilled lizard we meet later on.
* ParentalAbandonment: Cody mentions to Marahute that he 'lost' his father. There are strong implications that he was another victim of the notoriously dangerous Australian Outback, but it could have been actual abandonment.
* ParrotExpowhat:
-->'''Mouse Doctor''': Bring me the [[ChainsawGood Epidermal Tissue Disruptor!]]
-->'''[[Creator/JohnCandy Wilbur]]''': [[OhCrap THE EPIDERMAL]] ''[[BigWhat WHAT?!]]''
-->[''cue chainsaw'']
* ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding: Wilbur tries escaping from the hospital in which he was confined after [[CrackOhMyBack hurting his back]], with the Doctor Mouse and his nurses chasing after him, trying to bring him back to the operating room.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "Your spine needs tender! Loving! Care!"
* PunnyName: Just like his brother Orville, there's Wilbur the air service birds. Also, Joanna the goanna. (Goanna being the local Australian name for monitor lizard.)
* RecklessGunUsage: For a poacher, [=McLeach=] does not handle his rifle properly, the first instance of this being when he uses it (already loaded and cocked) to pull Cody out of a trap.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [=McLeach=] figuring out how to get Cody to hand over the eagle.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Joanna and some wild crocodiles. Frank the frilled lizard is [[{{Keet}} harmlessly]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} insane]], so he's an exception to the trope.
* RomanticFalseLead: Jake for Bianca.
* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: the BigBad, [=McLeach=], starts bragging about having "whooped" a bunch of crocodiles...only to turn around and see that they were really trying to avoid the InevitableWaterfall.
* ScavengedPunk: Much of the equipment in the film is built from human materials, but it's almost purely a background element.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Australia - it's not just for kangaroos! Tons of seldom-seen species are present, but they're all extras: the three prominent Australian animals are Marahoute (who's called a golden eagle, but seems to be either a fictional species or a massively oversized wedge-tailed eagle), Jake (who could be a member of any of several small hopping mouse-like species), and Joanna (a monitor lizard, most likely a Spence's monitor given her size). Additionally, the bird chart Jake looks at when Wilbur is about to land shows such rarities as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubbird scrubbird]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lories_and_lorikeets lorikeet]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyeater honeyeater]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butcherbird butcherbird]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galah galah]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_miner noisy miner]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous_whistler rufous whistler]] (misspelled as "rufus whistler"), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested_bellbird crested bellbird]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckled_duck freckled duck]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowerpiercer flowerpiercer]] (the last one being [[MisplacedWildlife a South American species]] - it was probably confused with the similarly-named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowerpecker flowerpecker]], which does live in Australia).
* SequelGoesForeign: As you can tell from its name, the second movie shifts the action to Australia.
* SharkPool: The waters near Croc Falls, which, appropriately enough, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin are infested with crocodiles!]]
* ShootTheRope: How [=McLeach=] tries to drop Cody in with the crocs. He doesn't find it as easy as it is in most movies.
* SoftWater: Averted when [[spoiler: [=McLeach=]]] falls of a waterfall to his death.
* SomethingWeForgot: The film ends with Wilbur as an unwilling babysitter to Marahute's newly-hatched chicks.
%%* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Cody.
* SuddenlyShouting: [=McLeach=], seeing Cody shaking the cage and demanding to be let go, tells him, "You need to be ''QUIET!!'' ...or the rangers might hear you."
* SuggestedBy: ''The Rescuers Down Under'' characters created by Margery Sharp.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Wilbur is Orville's previously unknown brother as Jim Jordan, who voiced Orville, died before the second film was produced.
* ThatLiarLies
-->'''[=McLeach=]:''' It's over boy, your bird's dead. Someone shot her. Shot her right out of the sky! ''[makes a shooting gesture]'' BANG!\\
''[Joanna pretends to be shot and falls dead on Cody's lap]''\\
'''Cody:''' ''[backs away]'' [[BigNo NO!]]\\
'''[=McLeach=]:''' What do you mean "no"? Calling me a liar?
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Meta-example. Thirteen years passed between the theatrical debuts of the two movies, and ''Down Under'' ended up being the least successful movie of the Disney Renaissance. (it's the only one to be a clear BoxOfficeBomb due to opening against ''Film/HomeAlone'', and while it did make up some of the loss as a ''The Classics'' title on video, it convinced Disney to make the remaining Disney Renaissance films musicals in some part and other sequels outside the canon until ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' and ''Disney/WreckItRalph''.)
* TookALevelInBadass: Happens to [[spoiler: Bernard]] the moment [[spoiler: he decides to wrestle a ''razorback'' to the ground]].
* UndersideRide:
** Bernard, Miss Bianca and Jake get under [=McLeach=]'s truck to follow him when he goes after Cody.
** Wilbur pulls off a variant when he taxis in an airplane wheel compartment.
* VillainSong: [=McLeach=] sings his own short one to the tune of ''Home on the Range'' without musical accompaniment.
-->'''[=McLeach=]:''' Home, home on the range, where the critters are tied up in chains! I cut through their sides, and I rip off their hides, and the next day I do it again! Everybody!
* WhamLine: "I've already got [[spoiler: the father.]]"
* WithThisRing: The first time Bernard tries to propose, the ring falls off his pocket and he has to go through some awkward moments to get it back.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ironically, in this film we ''know'' what happened to the mice: it's a bunch of other creatures that drop off the movie's radar. What happened to the rest of the animals caged up in [=McLeach's=] hideout? They get plenty of screen time, names and personalities start getting established, and then... we never see them again.
** Possibly intended and [[LampShading lampshaded]] example: No-one returned for Wilbur or Marahute's eggs, either. We also never get shown a different joyful reunion between parent and off-spring at the end: Cody and his mother. It doesn't help that the latter of whom likely [[ItMakesSenseInContext still thinks Cody's dead]].
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Ahem. ''Marahute's Flight.''
* WouldHurtAChild: [=McLeach=] most definitely would. Apparently, this is Wilbur's BerserkButton.
* VocalEvolution: Miss Bianca's voice in the sequel sounds more quiet and slower then in the first film.
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