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Kubo and the Two Strings

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Kubo and the Two Strings	comment	Kubo and the Two Strings is a Stop Motion animated Fantasy Adventure movie produced by Laika, based on a story by Shannon Tindle and directed by Travis Knight.Twelve-year-old Kubo lives with his catatonic mother on top of a mountain. By day, he is known as a storyteller to the village below, and by night, he must return to take care of his mother, never finishing the stories he tells.One night, after encountering the mysterious Sisters, he is sent away to find the only thing that can protect him: his late father's armor.Along the way, he meets Monkey, a familiar sent by his mother, and Beetle, a cursed samurai who claims to have known his father. Meanwhile Kubo must learn to develop and control his own magic, which he can utilize through playing his shamisen.The movie premiered on August 19, 2016. The first trailer is here. The second trailer is here. Third trailer here. The fourth trailer is here.Has no relation to Tite Kubo, author of Bleach, or MitsurÅ� Kubo, writer of Yuri!!! on Ice.Character tropes go on to the Characters Sheet.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_11ee737	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ornithology: The golden herons that appear in the film use the rather distinctive calls of a loon.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_12b6fe15	comment	Walk and Talk: Discussed by Monkey as she instructs the Beetle to fill them in on his story on their way because they cannot waste time.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: You know that sliding slash Kubo does in a couple of previews? That's part of the Final Battle.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Sariatu's mental disability is framed as partially supernatural, as she is only lucid while the moon is in the sky due to her heritage, but the effects of her catatonia and memory problems are played very realistically to evoke real effects of brain trauma and degeneration, with Kubo even alluding to Sariatu's condition being progressive, making it play almost like early-onset dementia mixed with concussive trauma and catatonia. Magical circumstances aside, it's a pretty serious scenario of a kid losing his mother to disability. Kubo's mother desperately warns him that if he stays out after dark, the Moon King and the Sisters will take Kubo away from her. Not only does this resemble a parent exaggerating stranger danger, but also a single parent trying so hard not to lose custody of their child to their abusive relatives.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Kubo has a very dysfunctional family, to say the least. His grandfather is the wicked Moon King who desires to steal Kuboâ€™s eyes so he can destroy his humanity. Kuboâ€™s two aunts serve their father and are murderous sadists who wonâ€™t hesitate to attack their nephew or sister. Kuboâ€™s mother used to be like them, but was saved by Hanzoâ€™s love. Kuboâ€™s mom later becomes mentally disabled from her injuries, then she becomes reborn as a monkey who reverts to her colder personality, though thankfully still loves Kubo. Hanzo is in the end the only truly sane person in the family, but that gets sabotaged by him being turned into an amnesiac beetle. The only silver lining Kubo has in this crazy, dysfunctional family is that Monkey and Beetle are on his side.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: Three times in short succession. Kubo travels to his father's fortress, where Hanzo made his final stand against the Moon King, to retrieve the final piece of the Armor. And then, it turns out that the Helmet was in his home village all along, disguised as a humble bell. Kubo dons the Helmet, and then battles the Moon King in the rubble of his hometown. And then, the fight wanders over to the graveyard, where Kubo was at the beginning of the film when he accidentally stayed out after dark.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_17ce80aa	comment	The artbook mentions a few homages towards Ray Harryhausen; in particular, the origami fight/play in the village.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Kubo's mother is shown as this, though not maliciously; her memories are scrambled due to the head trauma she suffered when Kubo was a baby, and she has trouble following the thread of her own stories through to the end as a result.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_1950b76f	comment	When Beetle promises Monkey he'll protect Kubo, she soberly remarks that knowing her son is in good hands will be A Good Way to Die. To this, Beetle says she'll never truly die, as long as her memory lives on in Kubo. The movie ends with both events coming to pass: Kubo has two grandparents to take care of him, and the story concludes on the note that his parents will live on in his memories.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the very start of the film, Kubo does his signature "if you must blink" speech, but tacks on a few things to provide some backstory exposition, which makes it seem like he's directing this specific speech at us. As mentioned below in the Foreshadowing entry, it's like he's telling us to pay attention. At the end, Kubo says "The End" in voiceover.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: A beetle is a main character and the standard on Hanzo's flag, and the closing credits music is a The Beatles song. His other companion is a monkey. When Beetle asks Kubo "Do I have eyelids?", his eyes go wide or bug-eyed.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Kubo, during his vision of the location of the Helmet Invulnerable. He instantly notes that the man with him in the vision is blind, but does not recall that blindness is the one trait he's had emphasized to him about the Moon King. The Moon King then tricks Kubo into going to his father's castle in search of the Helmet Invulnerable; there, he finds not a helmet, but a very deadly ambush.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Kubo's mother isn't named in the film proper, but interviews with the film's animators and character designers have revealed it to be Sariatu. The Moon King is named as Raiden in the cast, though this may have been a change in production since Raiden originally refers to a thunder god.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: You know that bell in the village? Turns out that it's the Helmet Invulnerable. The bracelet of his mother's hair Kubo wears and the one he makes out of Beetle's bow string. Both are used to restring his shamisen to defeat his grandfather. Monkey telling him about the power of memories also is one, as Kubo invokes that power in doing so. The toro nagashi (river lanterns) of the deceased, which are introduced early on, later return during the Final Battle. At one point while exercising the extent of his growing powers, Kubo uses a flock of origami birds to temporarily hover himself off the ground. Later, Kubo uses his powers to their full extent and forms himself wings out of Beetle Clan banners to fly home.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The costumes, accessories, and weapons carried by various characters date to anywhere between the Heian and Edo eras, an eight-hundred-year spread. Possibly justified in that Kubo's mother, grandfather, and aunts are supernatural beings (akin to how The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson).
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Kubo and the Two Strings seems to share similar motifs with Coraline. In both films, the antagonists (The Moon King/The Other Mother) are shapeshifters obsessed with taking the child protagonist's (Kubo/Coraline) eyes (gouging them out to blind him to humanity/sewing buttons onto Coraline's eyes to claim her soul) and entrap them in their realm (the Heavens/the Other World) for eternity.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2704093f	type	Gashadokuro
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2704093f	comment	A Gashadokuro appears in the film. It is the largest puppet ever built for a stop-motion production, standing around 18 feet tall.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_287694ed	type	Disability Immunity
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_287694ed	comment	Disability Immunity: The monster in the lake puts Kubo in a trance showing him things from his past. He's rescued by Beetle, who has no memories, so the monster has no way of putting him in a trance.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_28bef8d9	type	Mysterious Watcher
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_28bef8d9	comment	Mysterious Watcher: Before his introduction, Beetle is shown spying at Kubo and Monkey from behind rocks.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Monkey takes a good look at the tiny paper Hanzo and points out what the audience has been thinking, that origami figures that elaborate are impossible.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2ad2a2c8	comment	Diagonal Cut: Monkey is implied to have been killed this way, if the sliced-in-two charm is any indication.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2adc858b	type	In the End, You Are on Your Own
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2adc858b	comment	In the End, You Are on Your Own: With the deaths of Monkey and Beetle near the end of the movie, Kubo is left alone to find the last piece of armor he needs and face the Moon King. Subverted in that he summons the ghosts from his village to stand beside him in the climax, and the living villagers do so as well.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_326fcda9	comment	Magical Guide: Monkey acts as this to Kubo, having been triggered by his mother's magic in order to protect him on his journey to battle the Moon King.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_32c7a2a3	type	Symbolic Blood
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_32c7a2a3	comment	Symbolic Blood: Kubo has his animated paper dolls fight for part of his show, which includes strips of red paper coming out of cut up monsters to represent blood spatters. One man actually throws up from seeing this.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: The location of the Helmet Invulnerable turns out to be an ambush set up by the Moon King.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Beetle can fire his bow with great effectiveness underwater, and Kubo's shamisen seems to be more or less fine after being submerged and caught in a rainstorm. In reality, both would be ruined.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Right before revealing his identity, we get this line from Washi:
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Near the beginning of the film, the villager played by George Takei remarks "Oh my!" Ralph Fiennes plays a pale-skinned magical immortal villain with a callous attitude towards mortal non-magical folk that turns into a giant serpent for the film's climactic battle. Also, Fiennes once again turns into a dragon. This time literally, though. Let's not forget, it's not the first time he was a King of sorts. Or a villain in a stop-motion animation. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Hashi's voice actor, was a narrator in the Overwatch short film "Dragons", which starred a character named Hanzo Shimada. Bonus points since Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is playing as Shang Tsung in MortalKombat whose Logo sports a dragon.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Three cases of this: Kubo's mother suffers a blow to the head at the start of the movie, hard enough to draw blood and leave a scar. Flash forward to the present, and this has caused serious medical problems, as she now spends most of every day catatonic, and even when she's conscious, she suffers from constant holes in her memory and tremors. Though the catatonia is probably more related to the fact that she is a daughter of the Moon King, and seeing as her sisters and father are only ever seen at night it can be presumed they must sleep during the day / are catatonic during the day should they be awake. She herself is only ever seen lucid at night as well. Her memory loss is probably related to the head wound, though. As mentioned by Travis Knight in the commentary, Kubo's accidentally burning himself while trying to cook rice is meant to invoke this trope. Not only does it indicate that Kubo isn't entirely capable of taking care of himself and his mother, but it establishes that this is a reality where people can actually get hurt (just like Sariatu's head injury). Beetle/Hanzo getting stabbed by the second Sister is a result of him speaking with Kubo and Monkey on the presumption that they have borrowed time, rather than keeping his guard up. The armor and sword Kubo spends the film seeking out turn out to be not that useful to him. While an unbreakable sword and indestructible armor would be of tremendous use to a great warrior like his father, Kubo has little to no training in using them so he cannot defeat the Moon King with them. On the other hand, it helps Kubo survive attacks from the Moon King until he gets to his shamisen and weaponizes The Power of Love.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Both of Kubo's parents end up dying by the end of the film, but he manages to defeat the Moon King. His parents' spirits in their true forms briefly return to him so he may send their boats down the river for the festival, ending the story. Also, Kameyo the widow poses as the amnesiac Moon King's second wife and tells him about Kubo being his grandson, meaning the Moon King will be able to find redemption and that Kubo still has family to take care of him. Lampshaded by Kubo at the end.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Kubo's hometown is destroyed when the Sisters come to get him there, thus precipitating the beginning of his adventure. Ultimately Subverted, as when he comes back it turns out that the town actually survived and was still inhabited, although many structures were severely damaged.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Monkey to the first Sister and Kubo to the Moon King at the climax.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The Helmet Invulnerable was the bell in Kubo's village.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: "I dreamed I fought a giant skeleton with swords in its head." — "That really happened." — "Oh, yeah."
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Arrows do not affect the Gashadokuro at all. Justified, as it is shown to also casually shatter swords that are swung against it.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_449584c	comment	Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Kubo's mother calms one in the prologue with her magic. Unfortunately there was another one right behind her which causes her head injury and almost kills her and baby Kubo. The two giant waves may also foreshadow the two sisters. Also, don't forget that waves are created by the Moon.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_44e2f510	type	Villain-Beating Artifact
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_44e2f510	comment	Villain-Beating Artifact: Kubo's father's magic set of armor is said to be the only thing that can defeat the Moon King. It isn't, actually.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: Monkey gets wounded during her battle with one of the Sisters but she doesn't show it to Kubo. Afterwards she reveals to Beetle that her strength is constantly fading and she may not be around for much longer.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4565d81d	type	Single-Stroke Battle
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4565d81d	comment	Single-Stroke Battle: In one of Kubo's visual tales, the Hanzo doll defeats a spider with a single stroke that cuts off all of its legs.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: As per Laika tradition. After the animated credits, a small sequence plays where the Gashadokuro is being built for the cave scene, letting the viewer see just how large the puppet is in comparison to its creators (this being pretty gosh darn big). Just as this sequence cuts away and the second credits sequence starts to play, the Gashadokuro turns to attack the crew member nearest to it.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_487c525d	comment	Brainwashing for the Greater Good: After Kubo turns the Moon King human and erases his previous identity, the people of the village convince him that he was a kind and upstanding member of their community to allow him a fresh start.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_48c24da4	type	Significant Double Casting
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_48c24da4	comment	Significant Double Casting: The fact that Charlize Theron voices both Monkey and Kubo's mother is an early sign that they're actually the same person. Not immediately obvious in the film, as Theron is only publicly credited as Monkey, and she says relatively little and in a different tone of voice as Kubo's mother.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: From the opening shot of Kubo's mother plowing through a violent sea, to the frozen tundra of the Far Lands, to the forests and mountains the group travels through to get to Kubo's old home, this movie is a delight to just look at.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The death of the first Sister, which only shows her shattered porcelain mask sinking into the ocean. Considering said mask was sliced in half, it leaves little ambiguity to how she died. Monkey's death, which shows her charm cut in half. The second Sister's death as well, as all we see is Kubo letting off a Magic Music shockwave and then see her shattered mask.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the end, Kubo prays to the spirits of his parents to be with him at the end of the story. That's what literally happens as the last scene of the film.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4a852053	type	The Hero's Journey
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4a852053	comment	The Hero's Journey: Kubo is leaving his hometown to find the three items that will enable him to defeat the Moon King. At the end he return to Where It All Began having learned a lesson about family values.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Despite having top billing, George Takei barely has any lines in the movie to the point where you wonder if the only reason he was even cast for the film was just for the Actor Allusion.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4b9a9cef	type	Children Do the Housework
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4b9a9cef	comment	Children Do the Housework: Kubo's mother is physically weak and unresponsive during daytime. Therefore, Kubo cooks their rice every day and even hand-feeds his mother when she can't move.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Monkey's line when battling the First Sister, "[Love has] made me stronger!" qualifies as a Wham Line since this is how Monkey reveals to her sisters (and to the audience) that she is in fact Kubo's mother, taking on Monkey's form to protect her son. Later, when the Second Sister confronts Monkey and Beetle, she delivers this...
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot Kubo's vision of Monkey's face fading into his mother's when he is drowning in the Long Lake. The origami model of Hanzo being folded into a beetle by one of the Sisters. Remind you of anyone? The drawing that shows that the Helmet Invulnerable is back in Kubo's hometown. At the climax, there's a White Out that cuts from the Moon Beast roaring ...to a mortal Raiden opening his eyes.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5020cc4a	type	Blank Slate
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5020cc4a	comment	Blank Slate: As a result of Kubo's use of Laser-Guided Amnesia on the Moon King, the latter's tyrannical and cruel identity is wiped away, allowing the villagers to convince him he's actually a benevolent and respected member of their community.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: The Sword Unbreakable produces "swoosh" sounds when Kubo wields it.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: The Moon King and his family are essentially gods—immortal beings from the sky with immense power—but no one ever calls them as such, or uses any particular names for their kind.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Sariatu's first time on screen shows her injured and crawling to her crying infant son to comfort him. One of her final moments on screen (as Monkey) shows her injured and crawling to her son. Only this time, it's Kubo's turn to comfort her. At the start of the story, we see Kubo move hair out of his catatonic mother's face. The final scene has Sariatu's spirit move Kubo's bangs out of his face. On the night he must flee his home town, Kubo is flown away on wings summoned by his mother's magic. Before he find the final piece of the armor and concludes his quest with the confrontation of his grandfather, Kubo returns home in the very same fashion: flying away on wings summoned by magic. The movie's very first shot is of the full moon. One of the last shots is of the crescent moon, showing how the Moon King's powers have been diminished and he can't hurt Kubo anymore.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: Kubo's mother and father both were very powerful badasses, and their badassery has definitely been inherited by him. And they're just as powerful after they've been turned into Monkey and Beetle.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Kubo's mother unconsciously uses her Paper Master powers in her sleep. Later on Kubo does the same thing to create the paper Hanzo that guides him.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_57917bb0	type	Immortality Through Memory
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_57917bb0	comment	Immortality Through Memory: More or less the takeaway of the story, as its main theme is "Memories are a powerful thing". Beetle tells this to Monkey when she brings up the subject of her "story" ending, assuring her she'll live on through Kubo and those he shares her memory with. Likewise, in the climax, Kubo tells the Moon King that although mortals experience loss, their loved ones will always live on through their memories.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_58d31a8b	type	Body Motifs
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_58d31a8b	comment	Body Motifs: Eyes figure prominently throughout the film. Kubo had his eye taken from him by his grandfather, his mother gains a long scar across her left eye that is duplicated on Monkey's right as a clue to her identity, one of the armor pieces is kept in the sea among eye yokai, and the Moon King becomes a human with one working eye after the climax of the film, having been blind (both literally and figuratively) beforehand.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5aa60027	type	Tell Me About My Father
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5aa60027	comment	Tell Me About My Father: At one point Kubo asks his mother about his Disappeared Dad.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Kubo has one, courtesy of his grandfather stealing his eye while Kubo was a baby.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Just before the start of the duel between Monkey and the First Sister:
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5eb92325	type	Declaration of Protection
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5eb92325	comment	During their first meeting, Beetle assures Kubo that he will defend the boy by laying down his own life if necessary. Sadly, he does indeed die at the hands of Washi trying to defend Kubo and Monkey from her.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_5f91efd9	comment	The character design in the 2D animated Creative Closing Credits resemble those in Mulan.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_612b0606	type	Scary Shadow Fakeout
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_612b0606	comment	Scary Shadow Fakeout: Beetle casts a frightening shadow on the wall of his cave as he bows over Kubo but then it is revealed he only looked at Paper Hanzo.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Averted; Kubo's quest is to find his father's armor as it is the only thing that can protect him from his enemies. And in fact the armor helps Kubo to survive the attacks by the Moon King.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_63baeeb2	type	Lightning Reveal
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_63baeeb2	comment	Lightning Reveal: During the battle between one of the Sisters and Monkey on the boat, the former has suddenly disappeared but a lightning flash reveals her shadow behind the sail.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_63c6c615	type	Dynamic Difficulty
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_63c6c615	comment	Dynamic Difficulty: Discussed by Monkey after Kubo tests the extent of his powers.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As Monkey explains later on in the film, the Moon King and the Sisters don't actually hate Kubo; they want him to live with the rest of his mother's kin. The issue is that they want to take Kubo's remaining eye so that he can become blind to and shed his humanity, believing this to be the best life for him. It should be noted that even though they killed her husband, ripped out her infant son's eye and planned to kill her, kidnap her son, and rip out his other eye, Kubo's mother refers to them as Kubo's grandfather and aunts instead of "The Moon King and his daughters" or even just "my father and sisters". Then again it's possible she simply didn't want him to be shocked when he learned the truth or manipulated due to being relatives. When Kubo later gets to meet his aunts and then his grandfather, it is shown that she was right, they honestly want him in their family and believe he will be happy in the Heavens.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Kubo's father and his army died so Kubo's mother could escape with him before the Moon King took his other eye. Kubo's mother dies to save him from her sisters. Monkey and Beetle also die protecting him.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_655d406a	type	Instrument of Murder
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_655d406a	comment	Instrument of Murder: Kubo wields a weaponized shamisen.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_65e0a4ba	type	Signature Instrument
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_65e0a4ba	comment	Signature Instrument: Kubo and his shamisen, which also overlaps as his weapon. The film's title says it all.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: The beginning of the story has Kubo tell the villagers stories and help them remember Hanzo. The ending has the villagers be the "storytellers" and help Kubo give a new, kinder identity to the amnesiac Moon King.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_66d13ab9	type	Talking in Your Dreams
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_66d13ab9	comment	Talking in Your Dreams: The Moon King appears to Kubo in his dream as a blind man, pointing him towards the location of the Helmet Invulnerable. Or so he believes.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: The Moon King is turned into a normal person at the end of the movie.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6a696742	comment	The armor and sword Kubo spends the film seeking out turn out to be not that useful to him. While an unbreakable sword and indestructible armor would be of tremendous use to a great warrior like his father, Kubo has little to no training in using them so he cannot defeat the Moon King with them. On the other hand, it helps Kubo survive attacks from the Moon King until he gets to his shamisen and weaponizes The Power of Love.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6a8810a	type	Magic Compass
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6a8810a	comment	Magic Compass: If you look closely, not only does the Hanzo doll point the way to the sword, but also to the armor below the sea and the sheet of paper revealing the true location of the helmet.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Beetle/Hanzo repeats his line "You are my quest" when Monkey/Sariatu is dying, to let her know that despite his curse and amnesia, his feelings for her haven't changed.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: When Kubo is being drowned by the lake monster, the leaf ship created through his power starts to fall apart. When he starts to recover, it reassembles. As soon as the Sword Unbreakable is removed from the Gashadokuro's skull, it collapses.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "If you must blink, do it now." "You are my Quest."
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_765a1683	type	Enemy Rising Behind
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_765a1683	comment	Enemy Rising Behind: One of the eyes from the monster of Long Lake rises behind Kubo.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Gashadokuro (giant skeleton demon) that guards the Sword Unbreakable is not only the biggest character in terms of in-universe scale, its actually one of - if not the - largest stop-motion puppets ever made, standing at least twice as tall as a regular man. According to the artbook, the Gashadokuro is 16.4 feet tall.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kubo delivers an epic one to the Moon King instantly before taking him down.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Kubo's morning routine of preparing breakfast and taking care of his mother shows how deep a bond he shares with her, as well as his struggle with growing up early. Kameyo the beggar woman is first seen greeting Kubo in a friendly manner, mentioning she managed to pan-handle two coins and a lint ball, remarking on the quality of the lint ball in question, and suggesting Kubo add a fire-breathing chicken (again) in order to add comedy to his story. Within a minute of her introduction, the audience can easily deduce that she's a kindly and optimistic soul with a sense of humor. Beetle giggling and playing around with Little Hanzo shows that despite our initial impression of him, he's actually a warm, friendly individual.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_816a9d0c	type	Dramatic Slip
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_817693fa	type	Combined Energy Attack
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_817693fa	comment	Combined Energy Attack: Kubo uses his Magic Music to summon the ghosts of the village's honored dead, then uses the power of the memories associated with both them and his dead parents to defeat the Moon King.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_830b0ac9	comment	The toro nagashi (river lanterns) of the deceased, which are introduced early on, later return during the Final Battle.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The helmet, breastplate, and sword Kubo seeks have names that tell exactly what is special about them.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: A number of people get them, such as the first Sister saying she's killed things that could fit the world on the tip of their finger, Monkey stating that love makes her strong, and more.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_8774fb47	comment	According to one of the Sisters, she's killed beings that could fit the world on their finger in the past.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: At the end, Kubo sees the ghosts of his deceased parents happily united in death.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: On Beetle's part. Monkey points out that shooting the fish with an arrow is pointless if there was no plan of how to get the fish into the boat.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The Sisters' shattered masks are used to symbolize their deaths. According to commentary, Travis Knight points out how Kubo's home is situated on a cliff away from the village in order to show how isolated and alone he is. During a dinner scene with her, the lighting indicates how lucid Kubo's mother is. When she's bathed in the warmth of the firelight, it's whenever she's feeling like herself. But whenever her memories fail her, she turns away from the firelight and towards the cool blue of the night, to reflect the fading nature of her memory. Her return to a catatonic state when she gets sleepy (even whilst bathed in warm light) frames Kubo's worries as he mentions later: that even on her best day, Kubo's mother is "drifting further and further". Despite his first impression being Kubo's kidnapper, Beetle's cave being warm and welcoming hints at Beetle himself being a good person.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Kubo tries to slay the Moon King with his father's armor, but ultimately falls back on his musical magic, the support of his friends and The Power of Love.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9578d077	type	My Instincts Are Showing
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9578d077	comment	When she tells Kubo "I encourage you not to die", Monkey styles his bangs using her saliva as gel to move it out of his face. While not to the same animalistic degree, this motherly act mirrors how Kubo would often brush his mother's bangs out of her face.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9712e10	type	Sword of Plot Advancement
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9712e10	comment	Sword of Plot Advancement: The set of magic armor that Kubo is trying to collect for most of the film.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While she was very well-meaning and never meant for any of this to happen, Kameyo's advice to Kubo that he use his origami-folding skills to make a lantern of his own does kick off the chain of events that would get the plot rolling, which includes the Sisters finding Kubo when he stays out late.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: We don't see the actual blow, but the first Sister's mask is shown to have been cut in half by the blow that killed her, implying Monkey killed her by slicing through her skull. Beetle dies after being stabbed in the back by the second Sister. Monkey is implied to have been sliced in half if the charm she'd been is any indication.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d0b9603	type	Eye Cam
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d0b9603	comment	Eye Cam: There is a brief scene early on where the camera "blinks" as it assumes Kubo's POV as he wakes up.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: You know that part in the very beginning when Kubo seems to ask us to pay attention? That wasn't just patter. Generally, the wooden monkey charm we see in the beginning drops a hint for the audience where Monkey comes into the story. Kubo tells the villagers the story of Hanzo, leading up to his battle with the Moon King. It mirrors his entire quest, right down to the detail of the final act, where he's "filled with rage, his soul tormented with the grief of a family stolen from him". What's more, Kubo's story of Hanzo abruptly ends right before Hanzo engages the Moon King in battle, as though framing how Kubo doesn't know what really happened to his father. Kubo is told that if he takes a paper lantern and prays to the spirits of the dead, he will be able to communicate with lost loved ones. When he tries to talk to his father's spirit, nothing happens even though the lanterns of the people around him are lit up. While he gets mad and decides his father is just ignoring him, this is a hint that his father is not actually dead. Kubo gets angry that his father didn't answer his prayer and crumples up the lantern in rage before he cools down a bit and apologizes to his father. This not only establishes that Kubo is in fact capable of anger, but also sets up how he'll lash out at his grandfather before he ultimately chooses the path of kindness and forgiveness. Kubo's mother is catatonic during the day and is only ever herself at night, presumably as a result of the nasty head wound she received in the prologue. However, once you learn she is actually a daughter of the Moon King, it becomes evident that this is possibly the reason that she is in a catatonic state during the day - given how we only ever see the Moon King and his daughters at night, it can be presumed that they also cannot function during the day. Monkey has the same scar under her eye as Kubo's mother Sariatu, hinting at her true identity. However, unlike Sariatu, the scar is under the right eye and not the left. When she tells Kubo "I encourage you not to die", Monkey styles his bangs using her saliva as gel to move it out of his face. While not to the same animalistic degree, this motherly act mirrors how Kubo would often brush his mother's bangs out of her face. Beetle seems to have collected several items from Hanzo's men. Not because he was there at the final battle as one of Hanzo's men, but because he's Hanzo. When Kubo meets Monkey, she tells him to get up, then later makes him dinner. Kinda like mothers do. Beetle shows him how to fish, like a dad. Beetle's facial markings heavily resemble a moustache and beard, not something that beetles are known for possessing. During their first meeting, Beetle assures Kubo that he will defend the boy by laying down his own life if necessary. Sadly, he does indeed die at the hands of Washi trying to defend Kubo and Monkey from her. Tying into the above, Beetle casually mentions that in quests like the one Kubo is on, "people die all the time; they drop like flies." Sure enough, he and Monkey die subsequently in the later part of the story. At one point during the battle on the ship, Beetle gets a hold of the Sword Unbreakable and instinctively defends himself with it against Karasu. As it turns out, he's just as good with a sword as he is with bow and arrow. Thinking back, who else is "skilled with sword and bow"? Hanzo. When Beetle promises Monkey he'll protect Kubo, she soberly remarks that knowing her son is in good hands will be A Good Way to Die. To this, Beetle says she'll never truly die, as long as her memory lives on in Kubo. The movie ends with both events coming to pass: Kubo has two grandparents to take care of him, and the story concludes on the note that his parents will live on in his memories. The Hanzo doll acts as a compass to the sword, armor, and helmet. When they go to retrieve the helmet the doll is pointing in the opposite direction Kubo is walking. It is revealed here that Kubo was Lured into a Trap by his grandfather. Monkey and Beetle argue like a married couple would argue over specific parenting techniques. This is because they are married and Kubo's parents. In the Junior novel, Kubo can't help but notice how Monkey and Beetle are prone to bicker, "just like the village fishmonger and his wife". At Hanzo's fortress, there is a portrait of Kubo's family, with his parents sitting next to each other while baby Kubo is held out in front of his mother. The picture is painted across sliding doors, which open between Kubo and his mother and father, separating his image from theirs, and both Monkey and Beetle, his parents in new forms, soon die there, leaving Kubo alone.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Monkey reminds Kubo about this as he starts making fun of her by slurping his soup inside the whale.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d90e013	type	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9d90e013	comment	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing: After Kubo defeats the Moon King, the villain doesn't remember a single detail about himself, his life, or anything. The villagers quickly take advantage of this by telling him he's the nicest man in the village and that everyone loves him dearly. The king is taken aback, but accepts that it must be true.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Before entering the whale carcass, Monkey has this expression right after she notes that her sense of smell is ten times stronger than Kubo's and he might be tempted to complain about the smell.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a03a3bd4	type	Eye Am Watching You
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a03a3bd4	comment	Eye Am Watching You: Monkey is mistrusting of the new crew member Beetle and does this gesture to him to send a message.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Beetle trying to get up after being knocked onto his back. Beetle telling Monkey that Kubo's story will live on in the people he shares it with, and the people they share it with, and the people they share it with, and the people they share it with... this goes on for quite some time before Monkey realizes he's not going to stop.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: The charm that Kubo always called Mr. Monkey? When the charm comes to life, it reveals that it's actually a Miss. Though it does have to do with the fact that Kubo's mother has what's left of her soul inside of it.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The entire film has been described by many critics as Laika's homage to Studio Ghibli, and to Japanese fantasy anime in general. The artbook mentions a few homages towards Ray Harryhausen; in particular, the origami fight/play in the village.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Beetle does this with an eye monster. It happened to Kubo before the main story thanks to his grandfather, and he returns the favor in the final battle, albeit in reverse by restoring an eye (and thus by the significance explained in the story, giving him humanity and mortality).
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: During an intense battle with a Sister on the boat, the suspense is broken when Beetle climbs on board with the fish and arrow he shot earlier. A harsher example comes when Kubo, Monkey/Sariatu and Beetle/Hanzo all share a tender moment together, and Kubo's father promises to keep his son safe no matter what. ...Only for Beetle/Hanzo to be suddenly stabbed in the back and instantly die.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: The Sword Unbreakable, a magic sword that is indestructible.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The set of armor that Kubo is questing for. It's also not what he needs to win his fight with his grandfather: his shamisen and magic are what defeat the Moon King in the end, the armor just helping him to hold out until he can use it.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Three companions: Kubo, Monkey and Beetle. When Kubo first meets Monkey she tells him she will only answer three questions. (She later agrees to answer a fourth.) Kubo's shamisen, a traditional Japanese instrument with three strings. During his final confrontation with the Moon King, Kubo re-strings his shamisen with the strand of his mother's hair he carried with him, his father's discarded bowstring, and a strand of his own hair. Three family members chasing after Kubo and his companions. Three battles fought, one with each of them. The armor Kubo seeks has three elements; the Sword Unbreakable, the Armor Impenetrable and the Helmet Invulnerable.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Played with. On the one hand, the Moon King is turned into a human, something he would hate. On the other he has Laser-Guided Amnesia and doesn't even recall being the person who would hate it, and it's implied the villagers and Kubo will treat him well. He also gets to live with Kubo, which was what he wanted but not on the terms he would have wanted it... not that he remembers those terms even existed anymore.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Many of the characters. Kubo has only one eye, while his mother suffers from complications due to head trauma which leaves her comatose during the day. Beetle has amnesia, and has difficulty remembering even basic things without Kubo and Monkey to keep him focused. Monkey is injured midway through the movie and is Secretly Dying, as the magic that keeps her soul in her body fades. The Moon King is completely blind until the ending, where Kubo's other eye gives him sight at the cost of his memories.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_aadfcb52	type	Hypnotic Creature
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_aadfcb52	comment	Hypnotic Creature: The monster in Long Lake has the ability to show its victims things about their past and/or future if they look into one of its many eyes. However, it also leaves them in a trance and open to being its lunch.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b0ac233d	type	Heaven Above
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b0ac233d	comment	Heaven Above: Kubo portrays the gods as distant, uncaring tyrants with no concept of human life. Naturally, they live in an unchanging, transcendent sky like many portrayals of gods, but significantly considering their sinister nature, they are only described as coming from the night sky.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b0cd3349	comment	The two giant waves may also foreshadow the two sisters. Also, don't forget that waves are created by the Moon.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Kubo's mother desperately warns him that if he stays out after dark, the Moon King and the Sisters will take Kubo away from her. Not only does this resemble a parent exaggerating stranger danger, but also a single parent trying so hard not to lose custody of their child to their abusive relatives.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Kubo's morning routine of preparing breakfast and taking care of his mother shows how deep a bond he shares with her, as well as his struggle with growing up early.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b22261ef	type	Kidnapped by an Ally
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b22261ef	comment	Kidnapped by an Ally: Beetle kidnaps Kubo while Monkey is lecturing him, leading to Monkey giving chase. However, literally fifteen seconds later, Kubo tells Monkey that Beetle didn't hurt him, he just wanted the paper Hanzo. Beetle instantly proves to be a good person who turns out to be very helpful during their journey, though Monkey is still salty for a while about him abducting Kubo.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b2226c2f	type	Sheathe Your Sword
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b2226c2f	comment	Sheathe Your Sword: How Kubo defeats the Moon King. After the armor and blade he sought for so long proved to be of little offensive use during the battle, Kubo sheds them and uses his magic, channeled through his shamisen, instead. In doing this, he succeeds in bringing his foe down through The Power of Love.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b2ceabcd	type	Nice Day, Deadly Night
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b2ceabcd	comment	Nice Day, Deadly Night: Feudal Japan is friendly and normal enough in the daytime, but come night, Kubo's grandfather the Moon King and his daughters (Kubo's aunts) are out to get him, in ways that are often deadly.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b37c3d0f	type	Martial Arts for Mundane Purposes
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b37c3d0f	comment	Martial Arts for Mundane Purposes: In one scene, Monkey chops fish with her sword in mid-air, resulting in a perfect dish of Sashimi.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b3e280ee	type	Already the Case
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b3e280ee	comment	Already the Case: During their journey, the Monkey mentions to Kubo, who is climbing on some rocks behind her back, that any moment something terrible could come out of nowhere... and as she turns around Kubo is gone. Turns out he was abducted by a beetle.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b5b4c0cf	type	The End
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b5b4c0cf	comment	The End: Kubo narrates the last line of the movie: The end!
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Kubo's mother did this after falling for Hanzo and realizing how cold and lonely the heavens were. Later pulled by Kubo himself as he fights the Moon King.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: In a vision Kubo has, an old man who is really The Moon King tells Kubo that he can find the Helmet Invulnerable if he will "look to the setting sun," then shows Kubo a vision of his father Hanzo's fortress. The Moon King is leading Kubo into a trap, but if Kubo were in his home village, the advice would be correct: each evening Kubo turns at the sound of the bell ringing to indicate that the sun is setting, and the "bell" in Kubo's village is really the Helmet Invulnerable.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Kubo tells the villagers the story of Hanzo, leading up to his battle with the Moon King. It mirrors his entire quest, right down to the detail of the final act, where he's "filled with rage, his soul tormented with the grief of a family stolen from him". What's more, Kubo's story of Hanzo abruptly ends right before Hanzo engages the Moon King in battle, as though framing how Kubo doesn't know what really happened to his father.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The Moon King describes mortality as "hell". Most guidelines regarding obscenity give this a pass, since he is using the word as an unflattering description, not as profanity.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_bea77379	type	Youkai
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_bea77379	comment	Youkai: A Gashadokuro appears in the film. It is the largest puppet ever built for a stop-motion production, standing around 18 feet tall. The breastplate in the Long Lake is guarded by strange eyeball yokai whose gaze entrances unwary swimmers, allowing them to be drowned and eaten by the main organism's Lamprey Mouth.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The plot starts with Kubo's grandfather, the Moon King, trying to rob Kubo of his emotions so he can become a Lunarian and live with him on the moon. It ends with Kubo blasting the Moon King with what amounts to a hyperconcentrated blast of pure humanity, granting him emotions and turning him human so he can live with Kubo on Earth instead.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c3c18143	comment	A harsher example comes when Kubo, Monkey/Sariatu and Beetle/Hanzo all share a tender moment together, and Kubo's father promises to keep his son safe no matter what. ...Only for Beetle/Hanzo to be suddenly stabbed in the back and instantly die.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Happens twice, weirdly enough. We get "and Ralph Fiennes" followed later on with "with Rooney Mara and Matthew McConaughey".
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: The Sword Unbreakable is found embedded in the Gashadokuro's skull, along with dozens of regular swords.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c5249b29	comment	Kubo gets angry that his father didn't answer his prayer and crumples up the lantern in rage before he cools down a bit and apologizes to his father. This not only establishes that Kubo is in fact capable of anger, but also sets up how he'll lash out at his grandfather before he ultimately chooses the path of kindness and forgiveness.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The half-buried statue in the snow recalls to mind Planet of the Apes (1968). The Sisters' attack on Kubo's village in the beginning is similar to the dead forest spirit engulfing Iron Town at the climax of Princess Mononoke. Thankfully, the Sisters' smoky tendrils aren't instantly fatal. The mountain landscape looks an awful lot like the Pacific Northwest; Laika studios just happens to be located in Oregon. While on the beach, Monkey applies mud to Beetle's injured back as though it were an ointment. The character design in the 2D animated Creative Closing Credits resemble those in Mulan. The crest on the Moon King's breastplate — a tarnished, off-center (or overlapping) "snake eye" symbol — resembles the unfinished "rotten-looking" second Death Star in Return of the Jedi another movie that ends with the good guy mastering his powers to fight the bad guy, who he learned in the previous movie was his older male relative who wanted him to join the Dark Side, not with his sword but with words and redeems him in the end. Multiple layers of meaning/irony: The Moon King's crest is an eye; he's blind and wants to physically and symbolically blind his family. It's called a "snake eye" and in the end he transforms into a giant serpentine monster. The "eye" is a stylized piece of archery equipment (a bowstring spool), a weapon associated with Beetle and Hanzo, the Moon King's enemy. Japanese folklore: Momotarō: Our hero has superpowers (Momotaro had super-strength) and goes on a quest with three (mostly) non-human companions: an intelligent monkey, a flying scout (a pheasant/the paper doll), and one who's strong and loyal (a dog/Beetle); he's also aided by items provided by his parents. In the end both heroes spare the enemy leader after depowering him. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Kubo's mother's background being a cold-hearted princess from the moon who falls in love with a man from the earth. In the folklore Princess Kaguya deliberately asks her suitors to find her impossible things so they'll give up on her, seeing as she'll soon return to the moon and her heavenly family/species and forget her time as a human. Things tend to end badly for supernatural women who marry human men in Japanese folklore: generally the women leave the men who then have to raise their children alone. At first this seems to be a subversion; Kubo's mother has to raise her child alone, then Kubo has to tend to his mother, then played straight as Beetle/Hanzo is on the verge of taking over for Kubo's mother once her magic runs out and she "leaves" for good, then subverted again when Hanzo is killed and in the end Kubo decides to care for his grandfather. The Sisters wear Noh-like masks and when part of the second Sister's mask breaks she has white skin with blue "highlights"; in Kabuki theater white skin with blue highlights is shorthand for "this character is evil" (or dead, which is what happens to the Sister shortly thereafter). When one of the Sisters uses little Hanzo to explain what happened to the real Hanzo, paper Hanzo's transformation literally bursts through his chest. Travis Knight credits that this element of Hanzo's transformation was inspired by the movie.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Kubo eventually realizes that Monkey is actually his mother. Later, one of the Sisters reveals that Beetle is his father, which no one knew, not even Beetle himself.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: A magical shamisen that controls objects - most notably, and quite possibly only, paper and related materials - when it is played. Kubo's mother is also able to create powerful shockwaves with it capable of slicing a gigantic wave in half. Kubo manages to do this to finish off the second Sister. He's also able to use it, combined with the spirits of the dead and their memories, to turn the Moon King mortal and remove his memories.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_ca773e1c	type	Wisdom from the Gutter
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_ca773e1c	comment	Wisdom from the Gutter: Beetle. For all intents and purposes, he is homeless, and often acts scatter-brained due to his amnesia. But when Kubo shares about his life and how he cared for his mother, it is Beetle who imparts this beautiful remark. He's also the one to sagely point out to Monkey that even in death, her "story" will live on through her son.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Kubo's mother, the Sisters, and the Moon King are never referred to by any name other than those titles throughout the movie. Their names were later confirmed as, respectively, Sariatu, Washi and Karasu, and Raiden.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: According to one of the Sisters, she's killed beings that could fit the world on their finger in the past. Monkey manages to kill the first Sister in single combat. While she's actually Kubo's mother, she seems to have none of her powers and does so in melee combat. Kubo manages to kill the second Sister with a shockwave of Magic Music, though Beetle had wounded her beforehand. Kubo ultimately defeats the Moon King with The Power of Love, turning him into a human without any memories.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_cca8c07b	type	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_cca8c07b	comment	"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: When Monkey points out that the pedestal with the Sword Unbreakable could be a trap and they should be cautious, Beetle dashes ahead, saying that stealth was his middle name. Monkey reminds him that he doesn't even have a first name.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Than Laika's previous three animated features, Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls. Compared to them, Kubo has less frightening imagery and eases up on the violence, though the themes and plot are still fairly dark (involving death, disability, immortality and Eye Scream).
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Kubo was about to resume what was becoming a losing battle against the Moon King when he noticed his bracelets. Those bracelets were mementos that held the memories of his parents, inspiring him to try The Power of Love instead of fighting his enemy head-on. If it weren't for those bracelets, there's no telling how the battle would've ended.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The fake Sword Unbreakable, guarded by a giant skeleton.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d2e98fd5	type	Die or Fly
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d2e98fd5	comment	Die or Fly: When Kubo and Beetle are about to be Trampled Under Foot by the Gashadokuro, Beetle manages to fly them both out of danger. This newly discovered skill surprises him as much as it does Kubo.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The townsfolk seem to be quite desensitized to Kubo's magic paper performances. Justified in that he is implied to go there all the time. Granted, he does attract a huge crowd because they love what he does, to the point of being deeply disappointed that he never finishes his stories.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_dfa15af2	type	Hair Memento
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_dfa15af2	comment	Hair Memento: When Kubo's village gets attacked by his two aunts, his mother uses her magic to send him away. As he flies off, he grabs a strand of her hair. During his battle with his grandfather, Kubo uses the hair and the string from his father's bow as replacement guitar strings. He then strums them to cast a powerful spell that renders the Moon King mortal and amnesiac.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_e12c23fb	type	Splitting the Arrow
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_e12c23fb	comment	Splitting the Arrow: Beetle shows off his skills by splitting an arrow, then splitting the splitting arrow, then splitting the splitter splitting arrow, then splitting the splitter-splitting splitting arrow in rapid succession. This is foreshadowing that he is Hanzo, who Kubo's mother noted was an incredible archer.
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Kubo and the Two Strings / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Beetles. A beetle is Kubo's family crest, the character of Beetle is self-explanatory, and, as mentioned above, The Beatles originally performed the song that is used in the end credits.
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