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3''All Dogs Go to Heaven 2'' is a sequel to ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'', released in 1996. It was co-directed by Larry Leker, a storyboard artist on the original, and served as the PilotMovie for ''All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series'', which debuted about six months later.
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5It starts off with Charlie in Heaven, where he's joined by Itchy soon after. Gabriel's Horn, which is used to open the gates to Heaven and allow the souls of deceased dogs to enter, is stolen by Carface (for the evil Red to use). Charlie volunteers to get it along with Itchy "volunteering" as well. It's up to them to save Heaven before it's too late, but that isn't to say there won't be some surprises along the way.
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7As was the case with all but [[WesternAnimation/BartokTheMagnificent one]] of the sequels to his movies, Creator/DonBluth was not involved. It's also the only other sequel to a Bluth film (after ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'') to get a theatrical release rather than be DirectToVideo.
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11!!This animated film provides examples of the following tropes:
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13* ActorAllusion: During his VillainSong, Red puts Carface in a barber's chair and proceeds to shave him, a clear ShoutOut to ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''. George Hearn, who voiced Red, was also one of the many actors to have played the titular barber in one production of the musical.
14* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Red makes a dramatic first attempt at blowing Gabriel's horn. When it doesn't quite work out, Carface laughs his ass off.
15* AllMenArePerverts: Charlie doesn't even hesitate to jump up on stage during Sasha's number and try to kiss her and only doesn't because he's a ghost at that point. Even when he becomes tangible again, he continues to follow and hit on her and passes on his ability to talk to humans by turning invisible and reappearing in front of her to give her [[ForcefulKiss a long, hard kiss on the mouth]].
16* AlmostKiss: After Charlie and Sasha sing "I Will Always Be With You", they're about to kiss. Unfortunately, the sun sets, and the collar Red gave Charlie wears off (the collar allowed the wearer to be visible only until sunset on the next day), and Charlie becomes a ghost again. Doubles as a MomentKiller.
17** At the climax after returning David home, Charlie and Sasha were about to kiss, until David gets their attention, showing that he's managed to convince his parents to adopt them. Now Charlie and Sasha share TheBigDamnKiss before entering their new home and beginning their new lives together.
18* AlwaysWithYou: Has a nice little song based around this.
19* AmbiguousSyntax: In an effort to get rid of Charlie, Sasha tells him she's "got a kid." Charlie assumes this to mean that she's a single mother. She actually means she's taking care of a ''human'' kid.
20* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: In the end between Charlie and Sasha once Red is defeated and the Horn of Gabriel retrieved. Their mission over, Itchy tells Charlie they need to return to Heaven, who isn't happy about having to leave Sasha.
21-->'''Charlie:''' Sasha... I love you...
22-->'''Sasha:''' I love you too, Charlie...
23* AnimationBump: Due to outsourcing to various studios, detail in animation is very inconsistent compared to the first film. In some shots, it actually comes very close to replicating the original's level of detail. In others, it borders on ''Saturday morning cartoon standard''. The TV series was shrewd enough to use some of the film's better scenes for a TitleMontage, which causes an even ''bigger'' bump next to the actual show's LimitedAnimation.
24* ArtEvolution: The first film was animated with detailed, fluid classical animation. The sequel, meanwhile, has softer, more simplified designs, a pastel color palette and [[LimitedAnimation fewer inbetweens]].
25* ArtShift: The scene where Red [[spoiler:reveals his true form to Charlie]] is drawn, colored, and animated in a much looser fashion.
26* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
27** The life expectancy of a dachshund is twelve to sixteen years, the film is set nearly sixty years after the original, and yet Itsy has only ''just'' died -- not even from old age but from choking on a bone.
28** Well, how else would two dogs have shared TheBigDamnKiss at the end? {{Lampshaded}} by Itchy early on when he's trying to tell Sasha that his "lips are sealed" in regards to where Charlie is and takes great effort showing her his nonexistent lips.
29* AwardBaitSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UiHs5BqRc#t=55s It's Too Heavenly Here (Reprise)]]" by Sheena Easton and Jesse Corti and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqqiSPkKwpQ I Will Always Be With You]]" by Danny Frazier and Helen Darling.
30* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Charlie, ''permanently'' at the end...or at least he's given 20 years, which is ''very'' generous for a large dog. Itchy's given the same offer, but declines; he lived a full life and is content to stay in Heaven. That and he prefers angelic flying to running on his [[RunningGag short legs]].]]
31* BadassInDistress: Annabelle, the archangel dog who in the first movie and TV series could effortlessly dispose of any demons that played against the rules, is quickly imprisoned by Red due to getting his hands of Gabriel's horn.
32* BelligerentSexualTension: Charlie and Sasha, up until the "I Will Always Be with You" number.
33* BigBad: Red, the giant demonic hellcat masquerading as an older dog for most of the film, whose endgame is to use Gabriel's Horn to suck all dogs out of Heaven and into Hell.
34* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Charlie and Sasha get their kiss at the end of the movie, with the reprise of "It's Too Heavenly Here" playing on in the background.]]
35* BlackComedy: The "new arrivals" to Heaven. From Itchy coughing up the chicken bone he choked on to the dog still in the process of being strangled by a mailbag string, it's made ''abundantly'' clear how each of them died.
36* BlindPeopleWearSunglasses: When David pretends to be a blind boy with Charlie, Itchy, and Sasha as his guide dogs, he puts on a pair of sunglasses.
37* CallBack: It's very subtle, as no names are given, but when Charlie [[spoiler:finally tells Sasha the truth about himself]], he expresses a major regret making promises he can't actually keep. This would infer [[WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven his last meeting with Anne-Marie]] was, and always has been, on his mind.
38* CanineConfusion: Starting from this movie, Annabelle the Whippet has no visible ears, for unknown reasons.
39* CardCarryingVillain: Red. His VillainSong is even devoted to this.
40* CastingGag: Sasha, the Irish setter, is played by Scottish singer/actress Music/SheenaEaston. Sasha is also shown to be an accomplished singer.
41* CatsAreMean: Red and [[DemBones his minions]] are all cats. Apparently, [[ExaggeratedTrope cats are not only mean]] but also TheLegionsOfHell. Despite appearances, it's implied that Red is not Old Scratch himself, but an EliteMook -- or possibly even a lap cat. Charlie makes mention of "his boss" yanking his leash, which could be a reference to the dragon in the first film being Satan.
42* TheChanteuse: Sasha during "Count Me Out", though she was merely doing it for a big prize she hoped for to feed a runaway boy named David.
43* CherubicChoir: Groups of angel dogs singing are seen at a few points during the film.
44* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Deconstructed. After his collar expires, Charlie wants to honor his promise to David and ends up making a deal with Red (unaware of what that'll mean until he's already agreed to it).
45* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Few ancilary characters from the first film reappear. It is semi-justified due to the TimeSkip, though it's worth noting some minor characters like the casino Chihuahua do cameo in Heaven as acknowledgement of this:
46** Flo, Charlie's implied possible dog love interest in the first movie, is never mentioned.
47** Anne-Marie, although she's briefly mentioned in one scene, but not by name.
48** Killer, making this the ''only'' entry in the series without him.
49* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: Averted, yet it leads to a very dissonant situation in the ending. When David and [[spoiler:his stepmom reunite, she doesn't say "Just because I'm having this baby doesn't mean I don't love you"- instead, it's "Just because I'm having this baby doesn't mean I love you"]]. [[MoodWhiplash And then David]] [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash hugs her anyways]]]].
50* CulturalTranslation: This film is set in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, unlike the UsefulNotes/NewOrleans setting of the original. Justified as that's where Gabriel's Horn had fallen.
51* DeadpanSnarker:
52** Charlie's in fine form in this movie, especially after he sends Red back to Hell:
53---> '''Charlie''': "Hello... double chili CAT burger with onions and pickles!"
54** Also when he tried to retrieve Gabriel's Horn from the police station but couldn't fit it through the bars.
55---> '''Charlie''': "It couldn't have been Gabriel's Flute, or Gabriel's Kazoo, nooooo..."
56* DealWithTheDevil:
57** Carface makes a deal with the Big Bad demon cat Red, a collar allowing him to be physical on Earth in exchange for his soul (though in his defense, he thought he meant a "sole", as in the bottom of a shoe). When Red is finally defeated and sucked into Hell, he decides to cash in on the deal and sends his minions to drag Carface into Hell with him.
58** Then Charlie and Itchy strike a bargain with Red for two collars that will only last until sunset. Although the latter is reluctant and displeased, and still wants to retrieve Gabriel's Horn and go straight back to Heaven like Annabelle asked them to do.
59** And lastly, Charlie, who wants to keep his promise to David, makes another bargain with Red. He will give Gabriel's Horn to him if he gives him another collar (although he has to wear the collar first in order to do that). Red was actually counting on that; what he didn’t tell Charlie that the collars give him control over his subjects, so Charlie wouldn’t go back on his word once he’s given the collar.
60* DefeatEqualsFriendship: After they both met their end in the first film, Charlie seems to relate to Carface better than anyone else in Heaven at the start of the film, even feeling a bit betrayed when the latter (seemingly) starts to become a more upstanding angel.
61* DemotedToDragon: Carface spends all his time subservient to the demonic Red. He doesn't seem to mind so long as Red is happy.
62* {{Disneyfication}}: Unlike the original, this film has a ''much'' lighter tone (the demonic villain Red notwithstanding), and a brighter, softer color palette.
63* DonutMessWithACop: When David and Charlie need to distract the cops in the police station, David announces a truck with fresh donuts has arrived. All cops immediately run outside to get some.
64* DoubleEntendre: Implied when Charlie asks Sasha what she'd look for in a "Mr. Sasha," and one of the qualities she lists is "breeding," which Charlie remarks that he'd be good at. While "breeding" can be used to describe someone who has refinement or classiness, it is also a synonym for mating. Judging by Sasha's smile when she said this, she was probably well aware of the double meaning.
65* DraggedOffToHell: Red's endgame plan is to drag every dog in Heaven down to Hell. [[spoiler:He manages to get Carface in the end because his DealWithTheDevil.]]
66* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Itchy makes his first appearance in this movie having died from choking on a chicken bone.
67* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played straight in the end of the movie when [[spoiler: Charlie is granted life (at least until he dies again), where he gets together with Sasha and both live with David and his family]].
68* EasilyForgiven: Charlie and Carface have struck up a friendship in Heaven, despite the fact that Carface murdered him ''twice.'' Worse, Carface is still allowed to reside in Heaven in spite of this fact. [[spoiler:For a while.]]
69* EatTheCamera: Red does this when he says to Carface, “Oh, it will, and all thanks to Charlie Barkin” and laughs afterwards.
70* ElvisImpersonator: Seen during the scene where David tries to impress everyone with his magic tricks.
71* EvilerThanThou: During Red's VillainSong, Carface brags that after they get Gabriel's Horn, they'll be able to open every safe and bank vault in the world; Red promptly shuts him up, revealing himself to have far bigger plans for the horn:
72--> '''Red''': "I didn't recruit you for such entry-level wickedness. You have ''so much'' to learn!"
73* EvilFeelsGood: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwd86x81SI "It feels so good to be bad!]] [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry So delicious to be a despicable cad..."]]
74* TheFaceless: Gabriel (THE Gabriel who owns the horn) only has his hands briefly seen as he puts his horn in its case. With this in mind, he is the only human seen in Heaven.
75* FairCop: Officer Reyes is fairly easy on the eyes, especially when compared to the other cops seen that are more cartoonishly designed.
76* FakeUltimateHero: Charlie presented himself as David's guardian angel in order to make himself look good to Sasha.
77* FantasticRacism: [[JustifiedTrope Being a cat]], Red has little more than contempt for dogs.
78* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: During the police chase scene, David receives a black helmet when he and the dogs escape on a red motor bike.
79* {{Flanderization}}: Though it's not ''quite'' as bad as in the TV series, some of the characters start their decay here. Carface starts to play his usual bumbling [[TheDragon dragon]] role, while Annabelle has become more grouchy and regal.
80* FluffyCloudHeaven: Compared to the first, completely driven into the ground, complete with (all pink!) CherubicChoir.
81* ForcefulKiss: In order to pass his ability to talk to humans onto Sasha (and because AllMenArePerverts), Charlie removes his collar to turn invisible, then appears before Sasha and surprises her with a long, hard kiss on the mouth. She's understandably pissed by it. Then again, It was the only way he could think of to prove to David he’s an angel.
82* ForTheEvulz: Red's song is about this trope. "So good to be bad" is repeated more than once, after all.
83* FrothyMugsOfWater: Unlike the original movie, where alcohol was a fairly important plot point, the sequel plays this straight. The bar only serves "root beer" (which is purple for some reason).
84* GainingConfidenceSong: {{Inverted|Trope}}. The song "Easy Street" has David performing as a street magician in front of an audience, as David tries to keep their attention. The song starts cheery and upbeat, but after David falls into the water fountain and it begins raining, running everyone else off, the song ends on a slower, somber note.
85* {{Gonk}}: Oh, boy, look at most of the humans in this installment. Some of them have huge noses, angular heads, awfully skinny bodies and stuff like that. It's no surprise that ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' creator David Feiss was a designer on this film.
86* GratuitousSpanish: After Officer Reyes's pursuit of Charlie, Itchy, and David ends with her crashing her police car, she speaks several words in this language. Also, prior to this, she speaks this foreign language after she happened to find David at the police station by bumping into him accidentally.
87* HandshakeOfDoom: Charlie makes a deal with Red to get him Gabriel's Horn in exchange for another collar that will make him corporeal. Charlie and Red seal the deal with a handshake... and then Red reveals his true colors.
88* HakunaMatata: "On Easy Street" with Charlie and David while performing for a crowd. Unlike some other examples of this trope, this one actually ends with a subversion, as the characters are ignored while standing in the rain.
89* {{Hell}}: Oh, it exists, all right. Though it's never shown, it's heavily implied.
90* HellOfAHeaven: One of the ''only'' elements carried over from the first movie is Charlie's complete dissatisfaction with how predictable and boring Heaven is. Here, his frustrations are validated by depicting the place, originally serene and predictable, but not exactly unpleasant, as a sordid cross between a snooty country club, a church retreat, and a cheap, touristy resort. Angels are awarded medals for "being extra squeaky clean", and when they're not doing that, they're lying around in swimsuits and belching.
91* HonorBeforeReason: After Red's first collar wears off, Charlie is so desperate to fulfill his promise to David that he [[DealWithTheDevil bargains Gabriel's Horn]] to Red in exchange for another corporealization collar... only to realize he has been duped when Red reveals himself.
92* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Carface of all dogs is rewarded for having, in Annabelle's eyes, turned over a completely new leaf that has made him worthy of his angel status. Unbeknownst to them, he's already plotting with Red to seal Heaven's demise. Lampshaded by Itchy at the end; indeed perhaps not ''all'' dogs go to Heaven.
93* HostageForMacguffin: Red and Carface kidnap David in order to force Charlie to hand over Gabriel's horn, though unlike most other examples, Red willingly lets David go with no strings attached after the trade is complete.
94* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: "You contemptible canine!" "Don't call me canine!"
95* IdiotBall:
96** Carface is now in direct cahoots with a devil-like cat creature and shown later to be completely oblivious to the fact that he sold his soul to have his mortality restored. This comes back to bite him in the ass when Red snatches him away to answer for his incompetence.
97** Charlie, who trusts Carface implicitly despite being murdered ''twice'' by him previously.
98* IronicEcho: "I like your spirit!" First said by Red (disguised as a dog) to Charlie, and later Charlie to Giant Red.
99* IWantSong: Charlie's "It's Too Heavenly Here". Everything is just too perfect in Heaven for him, and he sings about missing the excitement of challenges and risks.
100%%* LighterAndSofter:
101* {{MacGuffin}}: Gabriel's Horn. Without it, ThePearlyGates can't open, dogs can't be accepted into heaven and, if fallen into the wrong hands, can be used to pull souls into a Hell-like vortex.
102* MagicKiss: Charlie does this to Sasha to give her the ability to talk with David.
103* MarilynManeuver: A canine version occurs during Sasha's song "Count Me Out" when she walks over an air vent and her ears and tail blow upward.
104* MeaningfulEcho: "It's Too Heavenly Here" in the final lyrics.
105** Charlie complains about how perfect Heaven is, as it is too heavenly.
106---> '''Charlie:''' I'll give you 8 to 3, it's too heavenly.... too heavenly here!
107** Charlie and Sasha are together again, which is the perfect ending of their story, and life together is just so heavenly.
108---> '''Charlie and Sasha:''' Now that you're loving me, it's so heavenly... so heavenly here!
109* MissingMom: David's mom. He asks Charlie at one point if his mom can see him from Heaven.
110* TheMusical: All throughout the movie, much like the first.
111* MoodWhiplash: The "Easy Street" number starts out bright and hopeful, then ends in a GreyRainOfDepression.
112* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Red gets hold of Gabriel's Horn due to Charlie's bartering, he kidnaps all the dogs in Heaven, including Annabelle, and imprisons them on Alkatraz Island. Charlie soon realized in horror what his actions have caused and quickly tries to reverse it.
113* NamedInTheSequel: This film reveals that the Whippet Angel from the original is named Annabelle.
114* NewParentNomenclatureProblem: David wasn't too happy with his stepmother's request to call her "Mom." But he does so at the end.
115* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
116** Annabelle, won over by Carface's redeemed act, awards him a pin for "Most Rehabilitated". This ends up pivotal to Carface stealing Gabriel's horn.
117** After recovering it, Charlie reluctantly mortgages Gabriel's horn to Red in order to fulfill his promise to David... giving Red just what he needs to fulfill his plans.
118* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Part of the reason why Charlie is so bored out of his mind with Heaven has to do with how relatively ''easy'' everything is, that even simple games of chance involving Dice always has them rolling into perfect 7's every time.
119* NonStandardCharacterDesign: David is the ''only'' human in the entire film to be drawn with as much detail as the dogs. All the other humans have very stylized and cartoony proportions.
120* PoliceAreUseless: The chase scene between a couple of police officers and David and the dogs.
121* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Less a sequel to [[WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven the 1989 movie]] and more of a pilot for the TV series, which debuted several months later, but even ''that'' [[BroadStrokes played fast and loose with the continuity]] from its predecessor.
122* PowerBallad: "I Will Always Be With You." Do you expect a character played by Sheena Easton, the queen of power ballads, to sing anything else?
123* PullingOutScarvesTrick: One of David's magic tricks. He first demonstrates it on Itchy by pulling one out of his ear, and during "Easy Street", he performs the trick for an audience and Charlie uses one to rope them in when a competing street performer catches their attention.
124* {{Pun}}: After Red reveals his true form to Charlie and Itchy:
125--> '''Red''': "Guess the cat's out of the bag!!"
126* RedEyesTakeWarning: Red, when he's disguised as a dog, has these at a few parts in the movie.
127* RefusalOfTheCall: Charlie initially ''only'' undertakes the mission to retrieve Gabriel's horn because he's gotten [[HellOfAHeaven bored with Heaven]] and wants to go back to Earth; when he arrives, he immediately makes his way to a dog bar to goof off, only to discover that he is a ghost and unable to interact with the physical world.
128* RestrainingBolt: The collars that Red gives Charlie to make him visible and tangible also serve as a means of controlling him. During the final confrontation, Red magically tightens said collar around Charlie's neck twice to prevent him from blowing Gabriel's horn.
129* ReunionKiss: Charlie and Sasha share this at the end of the movie when [[spoiler: Charlie is brought back to life once again after saving Heaven from Red]].
130* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Carface betrayed Heaven to Red in exchange for being physical and whole on Earth. Once Red is defeated, he's come to collect Carface, who stupidly offered his soul for his collar, not realizing what it meant. He gets dragged to Hell]].
131* TheRunaway: David in this case because he feels his stepmom only cares about the new baby and not him.
132* {{Satan}}: Though he doesn't appear this time, this installment has Red, an anthropomorphic red hellcat who seems to be the lap-demon of Old Scratch. When Carface asked where Red disappeared to, Charlie comments that "his master yanked his leash".
133* SettingUpdate: Seems to take place in the 90's rather than the 30's, calling Itchy's ''extreme'' longevity into question.
134** Alcatraz was decommissioned as a (human) prison in 1963, so it couldn’t have been set before then. But even a mid-1960s date would have still made Itchy unusually long-lived. Plus, there are plenty of things that would have been anachronistic in 1960s San Francisco, including boomboxes (one is seen during the “Easy Street” scene). And the hippies are nowhere to be seen.
135* TheShadowKnows: When first meeting Charlie, Red appears in his dog disguise, but his shadow on the wall is that of his true demon cat form.
136* SidekickSong: "Easy Street," despite not being sung by the sidekicks.
137* SingingVoiceDissonance: Charlie's voice when he sings is somehow higher pitched than his speaking voice, thanks to two different actors playing him.
138* StockFemurBone: After Red eats a rat, he pulls a bone out of his teeth in the shape of a femur.
139* StreetPerformer: Charlie attempts to help David make it as a professional street magician, but the former had to compete against several other street performers for the attention of the pedestrians.
140* StrongFamilyResemblance: David’s dad looks just like an older version of David, and even sports a similar hairstyle to his son.
141* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Itchy is sent to Heaven after choking to death on a chicken drumstick, reuniting him with Charlie.
142* TalkingAnimal: Charlie and Itchy can now openly talk with humans due to being angels rather than normal dogs, and Charlie uses the miracle Annabelle gave him to turn Sasha into a talking dog as well.
143* TimeyWimeyBall: Assuming that he died after at least a couple of years after the events of the first movie (set in the late 1930s), this is the only explanation as to how Itchy can be recently deceased, yet gets sent down to Earth with Charlie in the mid 1990s. That, or he's some kind of miracle dog who lived into his sixties. A general interpretation of Book of Revelations’ description of time passage in Heaven is that it doesn’t pass the same way it does on Earth. If the film goes by that interpretation, it could be that 60 years passed on Earth while only a few moments passed after Itchy died and arrived in Heaven.
144* TitleDrop:
145--> '''Itchy:''' ''(after seeing [[spoiler: Carface get dragged to Hell by Red)]]'' Heh, what do you know? And I thought all dogs go to Heaven.
146* TooDumbToLive: If Carface only knew what he bartered to Red for his collar...
147--> [[spoiler:'''Carface:''' He wanted the bottom of my shoes or something! I don't even wear shoes! Ha! Stupid cat!]]
148--> [[spoiler:'''Red:''' Stupid dog! IT WAS YOUR SOUL!!!]]
149* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Seems very little alarm was raised as Red began ''sinking Alcatraz Island in a vortex'' right in the middle of San Francisco.
150* VillainDecay: In the original movie, Carface is intelligent and dangerous. Here, he's a cowardly BumblingSidekick for Red. Compared to the TV series however, he retains some of his sleazy manipulative streak from the first film.
151* VillainOpeningScene: The sequel opens with Carface calling Red at a telephone booth in Heaven.
152* VillainPedigree: Crime boss Carface is DemotedToDragon by the [[RealityWarper far more powerful]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] Red. Red sees Carface as 'entry-level' at best.
153* VillainSong: Red sings "So good to be bad!" to Carface after they tricked Charlie and Itchy into using the collars to become living again.
154* YouCanTalk: David exclaims this when he hears Charlie and Itchy (and later Sasha) talk.
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