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- We saw Branch parkour into the hot air balloon last minute, so when did he manage to get the barrel full of weapons on board?
- Maybe Branch had the weapons in his hair.
- Why is Branch back to being gray? At the end of the first movie and the during the series he's now blue. What changed?
- It probably comes down to the lighting of certain scenes. In the beginning and throughout
- Branch was already back to grey in Trolls: Holiday, the special stated that his new to being happy.
- Probably brand familiarity, everyone who didn't watch The Beat Goes On knew Branch with dark colors from the last movie until the very end. So maybe his darker colors were kept just to match his less joyful, more cautious attitude even if it did improve from the last movie.
- Brand familiarity is the likelier explanation. The Beat Goes On was a continuation of the movie, so it follows that Branch retains his vibrant colors for it. This movie is also a continuation with the show's canonicity being made dubious. My in story reason is that Branch's color changes because his trauma wasn't magically fixed and he changes based on his mood. Notice he's at his most vibrant coloring when he's singing with Poppy.
- The 3D animators did state they preferred him grey, but it was also confirmed mood and lighting change his appearence slightly. It was also explained he was the moodiest Troll, explaining therefore is the most likely Troll to color shift for this reason.
- How do the many Troll nations fit into the Bergen narrative from the first movie? Were other troll communities being harvested too?
- For that matter, where is Bergen Town on that map?
- Do Bergens and the other Troll nations know about each other?
- I assumed either the Bergens only knew about Pop Trolls or didn’t bother going after other genres because they didn’t make them happy in the same way. Also, the only troll nations who seem just as lively as the Pop Trolls (Funk and Techno) have ways of easily escaping the Bergens. (Having a spaceship and being underwater, respectively). Alternatively, they just didn't know the others existed.
- If the Trolls were ignorant to other Tribes, why would the Bergens know about them?
- 3rd party maps show the Bergens being outside Troll territory, just outside the Funk Trolls domain.
- Trolls are only 6 inches tall, so they don't take up much space. It takes a day to go between some domains by foot. Just from the Classical Trolls to Country Trolls took from morning to High Noon.
- What is up with the vast differences we see between baby trolls on screen? Baby Poppy in the first movie acted like a toddler, but then we see freshly hatched Tiny Diamond acting and speaking like a tiny adult, the Country Troll baby already at a child level, able to start chores fresh out of the egg, and baby Cooper being somewhere in early childhood behavior.
- Easy Each Baby Troll is unique. Or the writers got lazy.
- Based upon Trolls Band Together, its a retcon.
- Are Hickory and Dickory brothers, or just business partners? They share a musical genre and a skin tone, but the similarities end there. Their facial structures are completely different; not to mention their heights, hair color and length. Dickory's official character bio lists them as brothers, but that could be interpreted in the sense of a musical group, such as The Righteous Brothers, who were not related.
- Their official bios for the movie state they are brothers.
- How did Poppy not get suspicious when Hickory told her that Chez was tracking her down for Barb?
- Poppy is so much of a Wide-Eyed Idealist and willing to make friends that it never crosses her mind. That’s part of her Fatal Flaw.
- How did Pennywhistle get to the Volcano where the Rock Trolls were or even know where the volcano was if she stayed behind to fix Symphonyville?
- Considering her backstory of being a traveler, she probably knew where the Volcano was and probably gave up on fixing Symphonyville having no hands. Plus her experience with Poppy probably made her change her mind to go help the trolls rather than be alone doing a task that was hopeless from the start.
- How did Barb know Trollex, Trollzart and Poppy's names (on the invitation sent by Debbie), if none of them ever even heard of her?
- Considering that she has hired assassins, she probably also has spies to help give her the information she needs.
- Why is K-Pop treated as a completely separate genre in this movie? All it really is is pop of Korean origin, so they should belong in the pop realm. The Pop Trolls even sing “Gangnam Style” at one point, the most famous K-Pop song out there, raising even more questions.
- What do the Trolls even think the K in K-Pop stands for?
- Technically non of the Trolls is speaking English (or whatever language you watch the movie dubbed) as they all live in a different world with no humans. Thus the terms we hear and even the songs are in reality equivalents for our minds to comprehend thanks to Translation Convention.
- Where do the K-Pop, Smooth Jazz, Reggaeton and Yodeling Trolls come from if they don’t have their own kingdoms on the map? K-Pop being part of the pop realm would make sense, but what about the others?
- Probably in the same way we have sub-cultures and sub-nations inside main cultures/nations in real world like the Romanis, Jews, Kurds and so on.
- According to the few bits of information from both the movie and unreleased artwork book, they are "hinderland" Trolls, while Peppy mentioned there is music that's "in between" the 6 main tribes music.
- These Trolls are very uncommon (Chaz is said to be the only Smooth Jazz Troll). There just isn't enough of them to hold a domain.
- Though, Chaz might be lying about being the only Smooth Jazz Troll to appeal to the sympathy of the other Trolls and besides, Trolls Trolls Topia ain't exactly canon.
- Why does the map show that the Funk Trolls have a kingdom when they’re actually residing in a constantly-moving spaceship?
- The ship might be always hovering the same area.
- When Barb used the strings to turn the other rulers into Rock zombies, they ended up looking like her (meaning that they ended up with angular hair and greyish skin). If that’s the case, what happens when other Troll tribes with different body types use the strings for the same purpose? For example, if the Country Trolls were to use the strings to turn the others into Country zombies, would that turn them into centaurs, given that that’s how the Country Trolls look?
- Possibly, but on the other hand, maybe Rock Trolls just happen to look like zombies as their natural appearance's "quirk", same as other types look like centaurs, fairies, or merfolk.
- So here's a good question: Why did the other Troll Tribes separate in the first place? We know that Peppy was lying about the reason behind the Troll Tribes' separation but why did the Troll Tribes separate instead of sticking together in case Pop tried to invade? It would make it easier for someone to just snatch up all the strings if they were all divided so why did they separate?
