"Mum?"note
This is a traumatic adventure after all.Contains unmarked spoilers. You Have Been Warned!
- The film begins with a terrified Hilda running from Trylla, who is trying to explain what she did. But Hilda won't listen, and tries to escape the stone forest despite Trylla's warnings. As soon as Hilda exits the stone forest during the day, she is immediately turned to stone. To make matters worse, Hilda is stuck like that for a whole day. When she awakes at nighttime, Hilda is in a state of absolute panic.
- It turns out bells are horrifically painful for Trolls, to the point poor Hilda thinks she's going to die from hearing the bells on the wall.
- After being given troll-mead, Trundle states that he can pull the antlers off a forest giant. Hilda was briefly unnerved. After The Reveal, it implies how ruthless Trundle is at his full strength.
- After touching the red orb, Hilda finds herself in a red environment. She then follows the voice of Johanna calling her name. After smashing a hole in the wall, she gets attacked by miniature Trolls (while yelling "HELP ME"). The trolls then flee after the rise of a giant that looks like Johanna. Hilda is equally baffled and terrified once the vision is over.
- Later, Frida psychically connects with one of Trundle's followers and has an extremely similar vision, only with her mother.
- Then, when neither Trundle's followers nor the Safety Patrol will back down, Hilda is forced to subject Erik Ahlberg to his own version of the vision to get him to see sense, having realised just what this vision is—a prophecy warning the victim that Amma will rise and destroy Trolberg should her children be—or in this case, continue to be—harmed. Erik, realising what he was about to cause, orders the Safety Patrol to stand down and merely monitor the Trolls the moment the vision is over.
- As David is confronting his mum over volunteering for the Safety Patrol (and simultaneously distracting her from Frida having left the city to find Hilda), they hear one of the bells ringing and then less than a minute later see the tower in question obliterated by a boulder Trundle threw from a safe distance, likely killing the bellringer inside instantly. As if it wasn't clear enough that being inside a belltower isn't safe, this is very quickly followed by another on the opposite side.David's mum: Okay... we're leaving.
- David nearly getting crushed by a boulder thrown by Trundle. Thank goodness for the bearded Troll's intervention.
- When Trundle is hit by the light cannon, he turns completely to stone and begins to collapse, grinning with glee as he perishes because he just got exactly what he wanted. The Safety Patrol and civilian witnesses are forced to take shelter from falling bits of his corpse, and Trylla is forced to shield Johanna, Baba, Twig, Tontu, and Alfur when they can't find shelter in time. The only thing of him left intact is his eye, which is a very good thing considering what happens as a result...
- We fortunately don't get to see the end result, but Amma beginning to stir is horrifying. Cars are overturned as the road rises unevenly, the Rat King futilely tries to escape the collapsing sewer, and the entire city experiences an earthquake. By the time Erik sees sense and Amma is calmed, Trolberg's infrastructure is covered in cracks, and she was nowhere near actually sitting up. As Frida and Hilda realize, the only thing stopping this from happening before was her kindness, and Trundle tried to turn that against Trolberg.
