Non Indicative Name / Animated Films

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• The DC Universe Animated Original Movies eventually settled on only making movies with "Superman," "Batman" or "Justice League" in the titles^note a practice which has now ended, though those three titles continue to predominate, because those were the ones which sold best. As a result, their names sometimes wind up where they don't really belong.
  • Batman: Assault on Arkham. The name would suggest that Batman is the lead character, but in reality he has barely twenty minutes of screen time and spends most of that screen time as the Hero Antagonist to the Suicide Squad, the real stars of the movie, with Deadshot in particular being the unofficial protagonist.
  • Likewise, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox only features the Justice League as a group for five minutes near the beginning, though you could justify it saying that we see the various members' states in the dystopian timeline. The Flash/Barry Allen is the main character.
• Similarly, Marlin from Finding Nemo is actually a clownfish like his son, Nemo. This was lampshaded about halfway through the film when Nigel the pelican tells Gill that Nemo's father shares his name with that of "a popular sport fish." Also, Dory is not a dory, she's a blue tang.
• In How to Train Your Dragon, the dragon Toothless has teeth. Being retractable, they're mostly hidden, and show up when he eats or attacks. Hiccup's father Stoick is not The Stoic. And Hiccup never gets hiccups (though in the series it's explained that runts are named Hiccup.)
• During the canyon chase scene in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Crash refers to one pterodactyl as Birdie, when in fact they are not related to birds.
• In Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects, there's not much that's "cyber" about the "cyber insects," except for maybe the Formicoids' arm-guns. And the Assassinoids are purely organic.
• The LEGO Movie: Wyldstyle declares Taco Tuesdays shall be renamed to Freedom Fridays (while still taking place on tuesdays).
• Flounder from The Little Mermaid is not a flounder (a flat gray fish that disguises itself as the bottom of the sea floor), but some sort of yellow tropical fish with blue stripes.
• The Princess and the Frog: Doc Facilier's "Friends on the Other Side", evil Loa spirits, are not exactly friendly. The nickname probably serves to both lull his clients into a false sense of security and avoid offending the spirits themselves. Also Tiana is not a princess until well after she meets the frog.
• Cranky Kong in The Super Mario Bros. Movie; while his name fits in the games, the movie changes his personality to more of a gadfly than a Grumpy Old Man.
• Turning Red: Mei is obsessed with 4*Town, a boy band that consists of five members. Her mother expresses confusion over this.
• EVE's job in WALL•E is to look for living plants on Earth, which is the one place she shouldn't be looking according to her name (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator).
• Zootopia:
  • Mr. Big, the most-feared crime boss in all of Tundratown, is a small Arctic shrew.
  • The fox character Gideon Grey is a red fox, not a gray one.

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