Headscratchers / The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

• When planning their "big trap", how did Wallace and Gromit guess the Were-Rabbit was male?
  • People typically default to male pronouns when talking about a non-human creature who's gender they don't know.
• One thing in The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit has always bugged me; Take a closer look to the shelf when the priest gives the golden bullets to Lord Victor. Crystal ball, Tarot cards, runes...why does the priest have so much, 'heretic' items in his possession?
  • Rule of Funny.
  • The vicar had a magazine on Nun Mud-Wrestling (or something), he was trying to get God to make his veg grow more than his competitors, it's fairly safe to say that the guy isn't particularly observant. Maybe he collects the occult.
  • Judging by his book on monsters, he's probably an exorcist or some kind of demon hunter. Either that or he just collects them as a hobby.
  • It's also a parody of old horror movies where a priest/vicar would always have some object for dealing with the monster of the day.
  • Overlapping with the above two points, he could be just Crazy-Prepared.
  • Religious orders actually tended to preserve more pagan and occult material than they care to admit, mostly in order to appeal to converts in newly acquired vicarages and dioceses in the early Christian era. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, the Day of the Dead, etc., are Christian holidays that inherited their timing and iconography from pagan holidays. Priests, especially in the country, were often well-versed in folklore and rituals of the surrounding area (often with a Christian twist) to help reinforce their status as the sole source of supernatural aid. This has survived to the present day, although it varies from priest to priest and from village to village, and was parodied in the film.
  • It's also important to mention, and foreign viewers may not be aware of this, but Church of England clergy tend to on the whole be a lot less uptight than other Christian denominations; nobody would mind or think it odd that a Vicar was into such things as a hobby.
• The vicar immediately (and correctly) assumes the creature is a were-rabbit. Other than it being in keeping with genre conventions (which need a Mr. Exposition), how did he figure out was a were-rabbit and not some other kind of huge rabbit monster, or even a humongous rabbit?
  • Because the destruction is only reported to happen at night during a full moon and never during the day where it could be seen - notice how the ordinary rabbits like the ones on the Tottington Hall green at the start have no problem wreaking havoc in the daytime. Plus a giant rabbit monster would be hard to miss in broad daylight yet no one has reported seeing him/it.
• Wallace was going to use his brain-washing machine to brainwash rabbits into not eating vegetables so they wouldn't ruin gardens. But then what were the rabbits supposed to eat? Was his plan going to have them all starve?
  • Rabbits have been known to eat the bark off of trees, as well as fruits. So they'll probably just stick to those alternative food sources for the time being. I assumed that the brainwashing was only going to be a temporary procedure for the Vegetable Competition, and Wallace would've changed them back afterwards.
  • Vegetables actually aren’t a rabbit’s main food source - they feed mostly on grass and leafy weeds. Rabbits that break into human gardens and farms are considered pests and shot. Wallace’s rationale was that brainwashing them to reject human-grown crops and subsist on their natural food was the more humane option, and while you can debate that point, it’s certainly preferable to leaving them to Victor’s mercy or lack thereof.
• If Wallace turned into the Were-Rabbit at night, shouldn't Hutch have turned Wallace-like only at night?
  • It seemed to be a gradual side-effect that Wallace and Hutch were both starting to show aspects of their nightly transformations in the daytime. If you look at Hutch when Wallace and Gromit inspect him the day before, he's slightly taller than the other rabbits already and has gangly limbs. And of course, Wallace was also exhibiting rabbit-like movements and temptations (not to mention the ears).
• Why did Wallace always wake up with his undershirt and briefs still on in the mornings following the Were-Rabbit attacks?
  • Wallace is absentminded and probably put them on automatically, otherwise he would have noticed the vegetables all over his bed upon waking up.
  • Maybe he has an automated machine that gets him dressed into his nightclothes at night like the one that gets him dressed every morning.
• How come Hutch didn't turn back into rabbit when Wallace is defeated (even when Wallace gets his old conciseness back)?
  • Maybe Were rabbit Wallace being concussed removed the brain waves that caused him to become the were rabbit, whereas, because Hutch had never been struck or concussed, he was not affected.
• It may be an error but in-universe why did a full moon occur 4 nights in a row?