History WesternAnimation / TheRescuersDownUnder

* MisplacedWildlife: Downplayed. Some of the Australian animals featured are not found in the same parts of the continent; crocodiles are found in the northern regions, but there are also wombats, which are only found in the southeast and in Tasmania.

* 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 ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' and ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''.)

* 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 ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' and ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''.)

'''Bernard:''' Hiking boots?

* 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?

* TrappedTheWrongTarget: Played with; Cody falls into a PitTrap that [=McLeach=] made to capture animals. Naturally, the poacher is quite surprised to find out he captured a boy instead of an animal, and (unsuccesfully) tries to hide the fact he's a poacher by blaming his pet goanna Joanna for having dug the hole. Then [=McLeach=] realizes that Cody knows the location of the rare giant eagle Marahute, and concludes he caught something he wants after all. Thus, he reveals his true colors and kidnaps the boy.

* 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!" while another scene shows her being notified of his supposed death.

* WantedPoster: There is one of these for [=McLeach=] in the forest.

* Bowdlerise: 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.

* 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.

** Marahute's name is based on the Aboriginal name for the white-bellied sea eagle.

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* IncorrectAnimalNoise: Marahuté, the golden eagle Cody protects, has the typical falcon cry as its call.

* 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. What makes it worse is the last time we see them is when [=McLeach=] tells Cody "it's the last you'll ever see 'em". Unless Cody went back for them after his rescue, it’s safe to assume that they are stuck there forever.

* SatelliteLoveIntest: Bianca becomes one (in the first film, she and Bernard are equally important in the story). Unlike the first film, Bernard is TheHero in this film who saves the day by himself, while Bianca's role revolves around her UnresolvedSexualTension with Bernard and being in the middle of the LoveTriangle with Bernard and Jake.

* ArtisticLicenseOrnithology: 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!

* GondorCallsForAid: Upon learning of Cody's kidnapping, members of the Rescue Aid Society relay for help to their headquarters at the United Nations building in New York from Australia. The signal is sent first from a ramshackle broadcasting station in the outback, then from the juryrigged wreck of a Mitsubishi Zero fighter in the Marshall Islands, then from there to a high-tech (for the time period, of course) US military listening post in Hawaii, which the RAS has apparently hacked into, and then (whilst we don't see the rest of the stations) it jumps from San Francisco to Denver to Chicago to D.C. before finally arriving in New York.

* MisplacedWildlife: 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.

** Marahute's name is of Australian origin meaning "mother eagle".

* SatelliteLoveIntest: Bianca becomes one (in the first film, she and Bernard are equally important in the story). Unlike the first film, Bernard is [[TheHero]] in this film who saves the day by himself, while Bianca's role revolves around her [[UnresolvedSexualTension]] with Bernard and being in the middle of the [[LoveTriangle]] with Bernard and Jake.

* TheAce: Jake.