History WesternAnimation / TheWilloughbys

* ButICantBePregnant: Mrs. Willoughby apparently didn't realize that she was pregnant until ''after she gave birth to Tim''.

** Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby isn’t given first names. They even refer to each other as Mother and Father.

* DontSplitUsUp: [[spoiler: While the siblings couldn't care less about not having their birth parents around, they were crushed when Child Services arrived to take the Willoughby siblings to foster homes upon finding out they were orphans. The Barnabys were allowed to remain together but Jane and Tim were placed with two different families.]]

* DontSplitUsUp: [[spoiler: While the siblings couldn't care less about not having their birth parents around they were crushed when Child Services arrived to take the Willoughby siblings to foster homes upon finding out they were orphans. The Barnabys were allowed to remain together but Jane and Tim were placed with two different families.]]

* DoorstopBaby: [[spoiler: Tim does this to Ruth with the Commander Melanoff early in the film.]]

* NewAgeRetroHippie: [[spoiler: Jane's foster family are hippies who believe in the "curetive power of music" and spend their time singing and playing instruments, although none of this interests Jane, who is too upset about losing her home and brothers.]]

* NewAgeRetroHippies: Jane's foster family.

* AmazingTechnicolorHair: The entire Willoughby family has pinkish-red hair.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The entire Willoughby family has pinkish-red hair.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Mr. & Mrs. Willoughby. Mortem a turpis.]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Melanoff and Ruth have deep pink and lilac skin respectively.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jane has every right to be mad at Tim for calling the CPA, accusing Linda of being a bad nanny, and getting them and their brothers taken away and separated from each other. Tim, on the other hand, calls Jane out for constantly getting him in trouble with their parents by leaving him to take the blame for her mischief and getting him thrown into their home's coal bin.

* AbusiveParents: Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby are of the emotionally abusive variety, with some ParentalNeglect thrown in as well. The adoptive families Jane and the Barnabys are sent to are no better either.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: All past Willoughbys parents, aside from being adventurous and creative, were good parents who valued raising their children. For some reason, those good qualities skip a generation with the current Mr. Willoughby (and by his extent Mrs. Willoughby).

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: You'd think Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby would be thankful their children saved them from certain death, or even see the light that their kids love them and need them to be their parents for once. ...Nope! They just take their kid's blimp and abandon them to freeze to death on a mountain peak.]]

* RealityEnsues: The film shows us what happens when children try to take care of themselves, especially from a neglectful household; the Willoughbys don't know how to make their own food or even heat the house and are shivering and starving before the Nanny shows up.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: It was the Willoughby children who sent thier parents on a perilous vacation to die. And it is ultimately the same children who narrowly save thier parents from said-vacation.]]

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: The discovery of Ruth sets her and the Willoughbys on the path to loving parents and a happy home. Colonel Melanoff outright says that he grew fond of her company and needs incredibly quickly, and decided to not give her up. Subverted by Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby, who treat the birth of their children like disgusting ordeals that ruin the joy of their marriage.

* BadassMustache: The Willoughby family is a long line of bold adventurers that all have big bushy mustaches, even the women, until Father Willoughby and his wispy pencil stache- though that might be partially because his knitting-obsessed wife harvests the hair to make yarn. Tim is obsessed with this along with the rest of his heritage and it's the first thing he notices and respects about Colonel Melanoff.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Linda, Ruth, and the Colonel swoop in on a helicopter and rescue the Willoughbys.]]

** Car accidents in the background.

** Ruth eats the candy in Commander Melanoff’s factory like PAC-Man

* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: The wall of the coal bin is covered in tally marks, showing [[FridgeHorror just how often]] Tim has been thrown down there. Nanny is understandably horrified when she sees it for the first time.

* BadassMustache: The Willoughby family is a long line of bold adventurers that all have big bushy mustaches, even in the women, until Father Willoughby and his wispy pencil stache, though that might be partially because his knitting-obsessed wife harvests the hair to make yarn. Tim is obsessed with this along with the rest of his heritage and it's the first thing he notices and respects about Colonel Melanoff.

* BornInTheWrongCentury: The Willoughby family has a whole has shades of this, especially with the way that they live in an old-fashioned home surrounded by skyscrapers that they apparently almost never leave. The parents don't even initially know what the internet ''is'', and Tim in particular wishes he could have been born into one of the earlier generations of Willoughbys, that were inventors, adventurers, etc.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: After everything Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby put their children through, the last we see of them is the two adrift in the middle of the ocean eaten by a shark.]]

* AdultFear: Almost everything the Willoughby children go through

* AnAesop: As per the movies tag line: “Family is what you make it.”
* AgeLift: The book describes Jane as being the youngest of her siblings, the movie makes her the second oldest and the Barnabys taking the spot as the youngest children.

* GenerationXerox: Well, almost. The Willoughby family was a long line of explorers, inventors, royals, scientists, and knights...right up until Mr. Willoughby and his wife decided to do nothing with thier lives but live off the family fortune. The children, on the other hand, are very much as brave and brilliant and resourceful as their ancestors had been.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: You'd think Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby would be thankful thier children saved them from certain death, or even see the light that thier kids love them and need them to be thier parents for once. ...Nope! They just take thier kid's blimp and abandon them to freeze to death on a mountain peak.]]

* NoOSHACompliance: Colonel Melanoff is the only worker in his factory, which is a good thing because its automated production line has no safety railings and shut off switches are in the middle of wall sized control panels. The Nanny lampshades that it's not a good place to raise Ruth both because she can't eat only candy and [[{{Understatement}} it's not baby-proofed]].

** Ruth, who had not been named yet, is first shown being abandoned by her natural parent at the Willoughby resident.

* GenerationXerox: Well, almost. The Willoughby family was a long line of explorers, inventors, royals, scientists, and knights...right up until Mr. Willoughby decided to do nothing with his live but life off the family fortune. The children, on the other hand, are very much as brave and brilliant and resourceful as their ancestors had been.