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Rango is a 2011 film directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, and Ray Winstone, among others. An ode to Spaghetti Westerns, it is Industrial Light & Magic's first feature-length animated film, as well as their only one created as an independent studio. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature that year.An unnamed pet chameleon with an identity crisis falls out of the back of a car and wanders the desert, eventually reaching the town of Dirt. After accidentally killing a hawk that had been terrorising the townsfolk, he attempts to further impress the locals by concocting a badass backstory, adopting the name Rango along the way; this impresses everyone and gets him hired as sheriff by town mayor Tortoise John. But Dirt has its own problems; the town is going through a drought and its water supply is disappearing, and it's up to Rango in his newly-appointed position as the law in Dirt to find the cause—while at the same time convincing the people of Dirt (and himself) that he actually has the grit to be their sheriff and protector.The film plays out as a loving tribute to Westerns of the past, taking its story beats from the structure of classic films while maintaining its own course. References to great films of the past abound throughout the film, serving as Easter Eggs for fans of the genre.The movie is also noted for its visual contrast with other wide-release CG animated films. Whereas most other films in the genre tend to go for a clean, idealized look for their world, Rango intentionally avoids this. Most of the characters are based on ugly-looking animals, and the whole world seems to have a layer of dirt and grime on it. In addition, Verbinski filmed his actors performing in live-action, then based the animation on the shots. The result is a setting that looks more "real" in some ways and more cartoonish in others. Either way, it certainly stands out visually.Tropes: | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With: The "Spirit of the West", who we see in the form of an animated Clint Eastwood. Later confirmed by the wise armadillo, who muses, "We each see what we need to see." | |
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Miles Gloriosus | |
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Miles Gloriosus: How Rango gets into the whole mess that is the plot of the movie in the first place. | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The Spirit of the West's character design is clearly based on Clint Eastwood, and he's even called the Man with No Name once by Rango. However, he's voiced by Timothy Olyphant rather than the man himself. | |
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Arc Symbol | |
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Arc Symbol: Squares. | |
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One Bullet Left | |
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One Bullet Left: A running theme in the movie based off Rango's lie that he killed seven men with one bullet (sorta... the seventh one "died from infection"). During the hawk chase scene in town, he accidentally kills it by shooting the licorice that was wrapped around him. The bullet ricochets and hits the tower, causing it to fall on the bird and kill it. During the climax, Rango uses his one bullet to intimidate Jake, then shortly after uses it to get out of the drowning pit the Mayor put him and Beans into. Jake also uses this line when it comes to giving Tortoise John his due. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: One of the townspeople has a voice that vaguely sounds like Pat Buttram's. The Spirit of the West physically resembles Clint Eastwood, specifically his "Man with No Name" character from various Spaghetti Western movies. | |
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Gatling Good | |
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Gatling Good: One of the many enemies Rango encounters is a clan of moles riding bats mounted with little Gatling guns. Rattlesnake Jake having a machine gun for a rattle. | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Crucified Hero Shot: After crossing the highway, an emotionally-drained Rango collapses on the side of the road. A bunch of pillbugs scoop him up and carry him off as he lays unconscious in such a pose. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Rango in spades after Rattlesnake Jake calls him out. He walks across a road full of traffic without looking, and emerges unscathed. He's then brought before the Man with No Name, whose sage advice finally breaks him out of it. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: One trailer all but confirms that the Mayor is a bad guy. It's not a huge spoiler, since we find out there's something fishy about him in the first scene he appears in. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: "What our story needs is an ironic, unexpected event that will propel the hero into conflict!" "You keep thinkin' like that, and your hat's gonna catch on fire!" | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Priscilla with the six-shooters. "Can I gut-shoot someone?" | |
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Little Miss Badass | |
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Little Miss Badass: Priscilla wants to be one, and shows Rango she's got a lot of spunk. However, he tells her to stay behind, perhaps too afraid of endangering her. On a side note, their entire dynamic resembles that of Mattie and Cogburn in True Grit. | |
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Misplaced Wildlife | |
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Misplaced Wildlife: Priscilla is, according to Gore Verbinski himself, an aye-aye. As in, the type of lemur found in Madagascar. | |
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Frothy Mugs of Water | |
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Frothy Mugs of Water: The film has at least one unambiguous reference to alcohol, but in the saloon all they have is cactus juice. It's still somewhat averted, since they still treat it like regular alcohol, and it can be set on fire as real alcohol can. Interestingly, the Mayor treats his private stash of water as if it were fine vintage wine or liquor, uncorking a glass stopper to pour drinks and describing the contents' vintage with pride. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The mariachi owls; see Oh, and X Dies. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: The walking desert plants (also referred to as "Spanish daggers" by Beans) are frequently referred to as "cacti". They're actually yucca. | |
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Practical Currency | |
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Practical Currency: Water is what the people in Dirt use as money. Dialogue in the extended cut's ending implies they've switched to a more fiat form of currency, what with water being so plentiful now. | |
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Railing Kill | |
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Railing Kill: During the final showdown between Rango and Rattlesnake Jake, Wounded Bird attempts to shoot Jake from the clock tower. Jake shoots him, and he topples over the railing and falls to the ground. Wounded Bird's comment? | |
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Grotesque Gallery | |
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Grotesque Gallery: All the characters, barring a few exceptions, have a very grimy, dusty, asymmetrical look to them that emphasizes their age, old scars, and poor hygiene. Among them, the moles especially stand out in how ugly they are due to inbreeding. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Angelique, the only character in the entire film approaching conventional attractiveness, is a fox. The Magical Native American could be from the Crow people. Rango trying to escape from a flooded water tank while clenching a bullet between his teeth — that's right, he's literally biting the bullet. The Dirt post office is a mailbox. Also, its tower clock is mounted in an old tin box marked "thyme". An outhouse in Dirt is a bottle of Pepto-Bismol. Wounded Bird gets winged by a bullet in his wing/arm. | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age: Evoked by the Mayor during his Chinatown-inspired speech. | |
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Masochist's Meal | |
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Masochist's Meal: Rango snatching Bad Bill's cigar and eating it. He claims to sweeten his coffee with snake venom for "tang". This is brought back when Jake delivers Rango a glass of his own venom.... | |
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Who Are You? | |
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"Who am I?" See The Hero's Journey. | |
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The Quiet One | |
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The Quiet One: Wounded Bird barely speaks except to dispense deadpan one-liners. | |
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We All Die Someday | |
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We All Die Someday: The mariachi owls insist from beginning to end that Rango is going to die... because everyone does eventually, often from household accidents, which is their excuse when he reaches the end of the film very much alive. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Played with early on in the film. Rango appears to breathe on the fourth wall to fog it up and draw on it. However, it's actually just the glass wall of his terrarium. Done a bit with the Greek Chorus of owls, who generally stay out of the action and don't interact with the other characters — at one point, they don't play an appropriately exciting musical cue on time, so Rango has to repeat his Call to Adventure. Later in the film, Rango uses them as part of his plan. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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During the extended ending, Beans tells Rango that she put lotion in his saddlebag. He then "clarifies" that it is gun lotion. Much like another cosmetics product related to guns: gun powder. | |
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Drowning Pit | |
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Drowning Pit: The Mayor puts Rango and Beans into a makeshift one via the bank's water vault. Too bad for him it's made of old, non-shockproof glass. | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Dare to Be Badass: Rango receives one from the Spirit of the West. | |
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Great Way to Go | |
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Great Way to Go: "Drowned, in the desert?" "What a way to go!" | |
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Shouting Free-for-All | |
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Shouting Free-for-All: After the posse catches the bandit family, the whole town of Dirt riots and storms up to the Sheriff's door shouting. | |
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Failed a Spot Check | |
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Failed a Spot Check: Wounded Bird pointing out the escape hole of the alleged bank robbers for the rest of the posse, as somehow nobody else managed to notice it, despite it being uncovered right in the middle of the street. | |
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All There in the Script | |
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All There in the Script: Many of the characters' names are never said onscreen. Thankfully, the Closed Captioning gives a lot of the names. | |
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Girly Run | |
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Girly Run: Rango. It rather resembles another character of Depp's. Judging from the actor involved and the director of the movie (Gore Verbinski), this was fully intentional. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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This is more of a case of Even the Alpha Bitch Has Standards, but when the Mayor puts Beans and Rango in the drowning tank, Angelique looks visibly horrified despite clearly not liking Beans. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Done with several lines, each of which changes in significance: | |
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Non-Mammal Mammaries | |
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Non-Mammal Mammaries: Plenty of 'em on all the women, regardless of species. The lady frog in the bar has a large endowment. Similarly, Rango has a belly button. | |
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Circling Monologue | |
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Circling Monologue: When Rattlesnake Jake calls Rango out on his lies. | |
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Brutal Bird of Prey | |
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Brutal Bird of Prey: When Rango first arrives in town, it's being terrorised by a brutal hawk. (Logically, in that the inhabitants are all animals who would naturally be a hawk's prey.) Even Rattlesnake Jake is terrified of it. (Which makes Rango's accidental success in killing it unfortunate, as it was the only thing restraining Jake in any way.) | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Dirt has all the technological trappings of a 19th-century Western town, but the Mayor gets around on what appears to be an automatic electric wheelchair that would be about a hundred years more advanced than anything else at the time. Played with in that the film takes place in modern times, and most everything about this animal society appears to be scavenged. | |
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Ash Face | |
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Ash Face: Rango accidentally setting Bad Bill's face on fire only results in two things: covering the Gila monster in black soot, and pissing him off. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: There are plenty. In fact, sometimes they're in the foreground. Or the sideground! When the Mayor is telling Rattlesnake Jake that he has outlived his usefulness and that he's not any different from Rango, you can see Rango and Beans in the drowning tank behind him, Rango shaking a catatonic Beans and then administering the Heimlich. This one happens in the foreground (but not at the center of attention): when the tank of water begins to break, the Mayor is seen panicking with his wheelchair for a moment, looking for the lever that moves his chair, and accidentally pulling the one that releases his golf club. While Beans and Rango are discussing his new position as sheriff, one of the town's dimmer children is playing with Rango's gun — admiring it, looking down its barrel ("There's a bullet in there!"), chewing on it — in general, chewing the scenery. Actually more of a Funny Back-sound Event. When the posse introduces themselves as thespians, Waffles can be heard singing "la la la" to the tune that the mariachi owls are playing. Kinda gross actually; in the extended ending, when Beans says, "You come back with all your digits!" there is a gritty-looking child in the back picking its nose. While Rango's being fitted for his clothes, a spider keeps bustling up and measuring the width of his shoulders, sleeve length, etc. He seems to be one of the tailors, until Rango glances aside and sees him busy assembling... a coffin. | |
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Furry Confusion | |
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Furry Confusion: Lots and lots! The intelligent animals like Rango, the shrew girl, the townspeople, and the outlaws wear clothing, wield guns, and have their own American West-style society, while at the same time utilizing roadrunners as horses, bats as flying mounts, and javelinas to pull wagons (which brings up whole new levels of confusion when a javelina-like blacksmith is briefly visible in one scene!). One also can't forget the few bits of "bug confusion" that occur between the dead cricket in Rango's enclosure, the life-size pillbugs used as golf balls, and the anthropod denizens that populate the town of Dirt, including in one scene where Rango tries to emulate the walking style of a clothed beetle. See also Animals Not to Scale above. | |
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Rango / int_27a40541 | |
Rango / int_27a58d30 | type |
Carnivore Confusion | |
Rango / int_27a58d30 | comment |
Carnivore Confusion: Lots! Notice Tortoise John's lackeys and assistant are a gila monster and a desert fox, which eat lizards, rodents, and birds — the types of animals that make up almost the entire town! Also, they're wearing boots, which are made from cow hide (and since no one in their right mind would keep cows in such a sweltering desert wasteland, it enters into Fridge Horror when one has to wonder whether they had to use the skins of the dead to make their products). | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango / int_27a58d30 | |
Rango / int_2881d45e | type |
Gaining the Will to Kill | |
Rango / int_2881d45e | comment |
Gaining the Will to Kill: Despite his tough guy act, Rango is unwilling to actually kill anyone for most of the movie. When the hawk is trying to drag him to his death, Rango has a clear shot with his gun, but instead shoots at the rope attached to his body, which starts a chain reaction that ends in the hawk being crushed by the water tower. Rattlesnake Jake even notes that he doesn't see "killer" in Rango's eyes. By the end of the movie, however, Rango becomes willing to use lethal force to protect those he cares about; the resulting Death Glare he gives even scares Jake. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_2881d45e | |
Rango / int_28cd01ca | type |
Disappeared Dad | |
Rango / int_28cd01ca | comment |
Disappeared Dad: Beans's father disappeared under "mysterious circumstances". And most certainly did NOT fall drunk down a mine shaft. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango / int_28cd01ca | |
Rango / int_28f852ea | type |
Wholesome Crossdresser | |
Rango / int_28f852ea | comment |
Wholesome Crossdresser: Rango, as a part of his disguise in the mole family plan. Hardly has a male hero kicked so much butt while wearing a dress. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_28f852ea | |
Rango / int_29429eec | type |
Community-Threatening Construction | |
Rango / int_29429eec | comment |
Community-Threatening Construction: It offers a variation of this. The old-fashioned Western town of Dirt is in the midsts of a severe water shortage, and the Mayor is buying up residents' property as well. When Rango becomes the new sheriff of Dirt and it falls upon him to investigate the disappearance of the bank's water, he finds out that the Mayor had been diverting Dirt's water supply to a newer, more modern town he's in the process of building on the land he snapped up from the people of Dirt. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_29429eec | |
Rango / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
Rango / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: If you know Spanish, listen closely to the mariachi owl band. During their scene in the jail cell, one of the verses in their funeral dirge translates into "Where are your eggs?" ("eggs" is Spanish slang for "balls"). "Cojones" are also mentioned once or twice. The best has to be, though, when Rango makes a crack about Beans's name, he comments that he enjoys a nice puttanesca, but he wouldn't name his daughter that. In Italian, "puttanesca" literally means "whore-styled". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango / int_294ed981 | |
Rango / int_2a7e7af1 | type |
Limited Wardrobe | |
Rango / int_2a7e7af1 | comment |
Limited Wardrobe: Averted with Rango, since he starts with the Hawaiian shirt, gets his hat, then long-johns, a full caballero outfit, and then the cowboy outfit and poncho. It's true for everyone else, though. | |
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Rango / int_2a7e7af1 | |
Rango / int_2ad2a2c8 | type |
Diagonal Cut | |
Rango / int_2ad2a2c8 | comment |
Diagonal Cut: When Rango tries to hide from the red-tailed hawk in an outhouse, the hawk slices it to ribbons with one swipe of its talons. | |
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Rango / int_2ad2a2c8 | |
Rango / int_2ae29c0d | type |
The Dreaded | |
Rango / int_2ae29c0d | comment |
The Mayor after double-crossing Jake when he discovers that his gun is empty. | |
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Rango / int_2ae29c0d | |
Rango / int_2b5ab7c1 | type |
Analogy Backfire | |
Rango / int_2b5ab7c1 | comment |
Analogy Backfire: "Why, we'd turn on each other like a bunch of animals!" Rango is an anthropomorphic animal speaking to an entire town of anthropomorphic animals. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango / int_2b5ab7c1 | |
Rango / int_2b5ea43c | type |
Bland-Name Product | |
Rango / int_2b5ea43c | comment |
Bland-Name Product: The "Golden Guardians". The Oscar is a registered trademark and can't be duplicated, even for novelty purposes; hence, the similar-looking statuettes. | |
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Rango / int_2b5ea43c | |
Rango / int_2b706ca | type |
More Dakka | |
Rango / int_2b706ca | comment |
Rattlesnake Jake having a machine gun for a rattle. | |
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Rango / int_2b706ca | |
Rango / int_2d428543 | type |
Eyes Never Lie | |
Rango / int_2d428543 | comment |
Eyes Never Lie: The only reason Rattlesnake Jake allows Rango to hold a gun right at his nose and dares him to shoot him is that he "doesn't see the killer in his eyes". He gets an Oh, Crap! moment later when he sees that Rango does have the killer in his eyes when in the same situation at the climax of the film. | |
Rango / int_2d428543 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_2d428543 | |
Rango / int_2d92c43c | type |
Little "No" | |
Rango / int_2d92c43c | comment |
Little "No": Used with a double meaning when Rattlesnake Jake terrifies Rango into a confession. On one level, he's honestly answering "no" (as quietly as possible) to Jake's question; on a deeper level, he knows this is the end — the crushing, self-inflicted end to all the friendships and respect that he's received from the citizens of Dirt. | |
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Rango / int_2d92c43c | |
Rango / int_2e39af52 | type |
Girlish Pigtails | |
Rango / int_2e39af52 | comment |
Girlish Pigtails: Priscilla sports some. | |
Rango / int_2e39af52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_2e39af52 | |
Rango / int_2e528f4e | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Cute? | |
Rango / int_2e528f4e | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Thoroughly subverted — almost none of the characters, good or bad, could be called "cute" or "cuddly", with the possible exception of Abigail Breslin's aye-aye character, but the nice ones are still very likable. There do seem to be very few carnivores amongst the townspeople, as most are herbivores or insectivores, while carnivores are treated as villains and brigands. There is a bit of an edge case of this in the movie, as carnivores are seldom seen as "cute", and the only two carnivores are "cute carnivores" (a cat and a fox). | |
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Rango / int_2e528f4e | |
Rango / int_2fc1775a | type |
Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying | |
Rango / int_2fc1775a | comment |
Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying: Rango's tank at the beginning of the film is a horrible environment for a chameleon. Then again, he does start the film acting crazy. Rattlesnake Jake has very intensely expressive and focused eyes. Beans' eyes look more like a human's than a lizard's, with huge white sclerae and brown irises. | |
Rango / int_2fc1775a | featureApplicability |
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Rango / int_2fc1775a | |
Rango / int_2fed97b8 | type |
Putting the Pee in Pool | |
Rango / int_2fed97b8 | comment |
Putting the Pee in Pool: In the extended ending, we get this exchange between Furgus and Buford as they're relaxing in the public pool... | |
Rango / int_2fed97b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_2fed97b8 | |
Rango / int_306dece3 | type |
Office Golf | |
Rango / int_306dece3 | comment |
Office Golf: Tortoise John, using pillbugs as golf balls. Later, he invites Rango to join him out on the "green". | |
Rango / int_306dece3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_306dece3 | |
Rango / int_30de7a51 | type |
Chivalrous Pervert | |
Rango / int_30de7a51 | comment |
Chivalrous Pervert: When Rango, who is wearing a dress, lands on Spoons' head and the dress goes over his face, Spoons comments "That wasn't altogether unpleasant!" | |
Rango / int_30de7a51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_30de7a51 | |
Rango / int_317629db | type |
Embarrassing Nickname | |
Rango / int_317629db | comment |
Embarrassing Nickname: By Rango's standards at least; he has to be reminded of Mr Johannes "Fluffy Joe" Merrimack's nickname when identifying his body. | |
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Rango / int_317629db | |
Rango / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
Rango / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: The Mayor is so corrupt that even Rattlesnake Jake, who claims to be from Hell itself, drags him off after the Mayor betrays him. His dialogue calling Rango out on his lies also implies that he has a sense of honor, and hates a liar. Meanwhile, the Mayor, despite being willing to throw Rango and Beans in a tank to drown, tries to tell Rattlesnake Jake to back off when he's threatening Beans in his office. Even Bad Bill and his gang are visibly disturbed when Jake threatens to kill her. This is more of a case of Even the Alpha Bitch Has Standards, but when the Mayor puts Beans and Rango in the drowning tank, Angelique looks visibly horrified despite clearly not liking Beans. | |
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Rango / int_319e4a2f | |
Rango / int_31a2a33c | type |
Stuff Blowing Up | |
Rango / int_31a2a33c | comment |
Stuff Blowing Up: While not actually exploding, the destruction visited upon Dirt by unstopping the valves and letting a flood of backed-up water inundate the town invokes the image, with it bursting out of every weak patch of ground or construction it can get to. The moles' riding bats also inexplicably explode when shot down. | |
Rango / int_31a2a33c | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_31a2a33c | |
Rango / int_337a0f4 | type |
TrailersAlwaysLie | |
Rango / int_337a0f4 | comment |
Trailers Always Lie: A rather bizarre example. In one of the trailers, Rango is shown talking to the one-armed torso of a Barbie doll, which has a bra covering its chest. In the movie, it's not wearing anything. | |
Rango / int_337a0f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_337a0f4 | |
Rango / int_34579385 | type |
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work | |
Rango / int_34579385 | comment |
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: After beating the Big Bad, Rango shoves him towards The Dragon upon whom the Big Bad just tried to pull a You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. | |
Rango / int_34579385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango / int_34579385 | |
Rango / int_355fde0e | type |
National Animal Stereotypes | |
Rango / int_355fde0e | comment |
National Animal Stereotypes: The burrowing owls are Mexican sombrero-wearing mariachi musicians. The crow is a Native American. | |
Rango / int_355fde0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_355fde0e | |
Rango / int_35fa738 | type |
Fantastic Fauna Counterpart | |
Rango / int_35fa738 | comment |
Fantastic Fauna Counterpart: In the town of Dirt, roadrunners are the counterparts to horses, whereas javelinas are the equivalents of oxen. | |
Rango / int_35fa738 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_35fa738 | |
Rango / int_36e63b81 | type |
Rule of Cool | |
Rango / int_36e63b81 | comment |
Rule of Cool: Moles riding bats. That have mounted Gatling guns. And explode. While "Ride of the Valkyries" plays. On banjos. | |
Rango / int_36e63b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_36e63b81 | |
Rango / int_37cb353b | type |
Ate His Gun | |
Rango / int_37cb353b | comment |
Ate His Gun: Subverted in a Crosses the Line Twice gag: a kid plays with Rango's pistol, and stares right down the barrel. | |
Rango / int_37cb353b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_37cb353b | |
Rango / int_3862fa01 | type |
Ludd Was Right | |
Rango / int_3862fa01 | comment |
Ludd Was Right: The evil Mayor is trying to create an industrialized city by coercing land from the inhabitants of Dirt. | |
Rango / int_3862fa01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_3862fa01 | |
Rango / int_38b9969 | type |
The Münchausen | |
Rango / int_38b9969 | comment |
Rango, out of desperation, becomes The Münchausen to get the rougher element in Dirt to regard him as too dangerous to handle. | |
Rango / int_38b9969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_38b9969 | |
Rango / int_392372f9 | type |
Actor Allusion | |
Rango / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: Depp deliberately based his role on Raoul Duke. That said... When Rango is flying through the air on the highway, he smacks into the windshield of a car driven by Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo. Also, Rango himself wears Duke's Hawaiian shirt, and dons a dress at one point in the film; this isn't the first time a Johnny Depp character has worn a dress. When Rango is in his tank and trying out various different characters, some of them seem to be allusions to other roles of Depp's, including a grizzled sea captain and a Latin lover. Rango is carried away by woodlice in a brief scene, and he later finds a boat in the middle of a salt flat. He also runs like Jack Sparrow, leaning back, arms akimbo; and like Jack in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Rango is also armed with one bullet. The Spirit of the West is voiced by Timothy Olyphant — a brilliant three-pronged Shout-Out to Justified, Deadwood, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as his character model is a Clint Eastwood look alike. Also, this isn't the first time Bill Nighy has portrayed a feared Grim-Reaper figure. He even throws Jones' characteristic verbal tic into a line near the end. | |
Rango / int_392372f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_392372f9 | |
Rango / int_3962ed76 | type |
Take the Wheel | |
Rango / int_3962ed76 | comment |
Take the Wheel: Rango handing the reins of the wagon over to Beans in the canyon chase. | |
Rango / int_3962ed76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_3962ed76 | |
Rango / int_39afa76b | type |
"Awkward Silence" Entrance | |
Rango / int_39afa76b | comment |
"Awkward Silence" Entrance: When Rango first enters the saloon, the patrons all quiet down, and all eyes turn to him. | |
Rango / int_39afa76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_39afa76b | |
Rango / int_3aaa9cd0 | type |
All Deserts Have Cacti | |
Rango / int_3aaa9cd0 | comment |
All Deserts Have Cacti: Despite the accuracy in the appearance of the film's saguaro cacti, this type of cactus does not actually grow in the Mojave desert. Downplayed: They do, however, grow in the surrounding area, and their northernmost limit is a mere twenty miles from the edge of the Mojave. | |
Rango / int_3aaa9cd0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_3aaa9cd0 | |
Rango / int_3b0bd0ab | type |
Thirsty Desert | |
Rango / int_3b0bd0ab | comment |
Thirsty Desert: As the owls sing, the desert and death are the closest of friends. | |
Rango / int_3b0bd0ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_3b0bd0ab | |
Rango / int_3b4f2811 | type |
Dangerous Workplace | |
Rango / int_3b4f2811 | comment |
Dangerous Workplace: The Sheriff's office has a very high turnover rate. The last sheriff of Dirt lasted from Thursday to Saturday. | |
Rango / int_3b4f2811 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_3b4f2811 | |
Rango / int_3b789458 | type |
Recurring Extra | |
Rango / int_3b789458 | comment |
Recurring Extra: Even the townspeople who don't speak or interact with Rango-like the javelina blacksmith, a vulture saloon patron, and a swaggering beetle-tend to recur in several scenes throughout the film. | |
Rango / int_3b789458 | featureApplicability |
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Rango / int_3b789458 | |
Rango / int_3bc88a7f | type |
Foregone Conclusion | |
Rango / int_3bc88a7f | comment |
Foregone Conclusion: The mariachi owls periodically assure the audience that Rango will die soon. This turns out to be a case of Exact Words. Everyone dies... eventually... possibly as the result of a household accident?... | |
Rango / int_3bc88a7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_3bc88a7f | |
Rango / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Rango / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
In one of Rango's tall tales, after a chain reaction wherein six Jenkins brothers were killed with one bullet, the seventh Jenkins brother died of infection. | |
Rango / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_3c0a4666 | |
Rango / int_3cb68bd3 | type |
Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon | |
Rango / int_3cb68bd3 | comment |
Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: "I WILL BLOW THAT UGLY CLEAN OFF YOUR FACE!" "I'm going to slice your face off and use it to wipe my unmentionables." ("Mind the beak.") | |
Rango / int_3cb68bd3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_3cb68bd3 | |
Rango / int_3e848d5c | type |
Cast of Snowflakes | |
Rango / int_3e848d5c | comment |
Cast of Snowflakes: Every critter in the movie (and there are dozens of them) has a very individual face. Even the moles. | |
Rango / int_3e848d5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_3e848d5c | |
Rango / int_3eee0728 | type |
Captain Obvious | |
Rango / int_3eee0728 | comment |
Captain Obvious: "Seems to me you folks have a water problem." "The signal! Something must've gone wrong!" (As the posse stands surrounded by a huge clan of hostile moles.) While ducking a Gatling gun, Waffles gives Counselor Troi a run for her money. "I am sensing hostility!" | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_3eee0728 | |
Rango / int_3f21ec8 | type |
Near-Miss Groin Attack | |
Rango / int_3f21ec8 | comment |
Near-Miss Groin Attack: While attempting to board a moving stagecoach, Rango briefly straddles between the coach and his roadrunner steed. A stalagmite-like rock formation protrudes from the ground, and he almost runs groin-first into it before narrowly jumping to avoid it. | |
Rango / int_3f21ec8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_3f21ec8 | |
Rango / int_405f6f52 | type |
Recycled Soundtrack | |
Rango / int_405f6f52 | comment |
Recycled Soundtrack: The song which plays during Rango's highway crossing isn't on the soundtrack, because it's "Finale" from the war drama The Kingdom (2007). | |
Rango / int_405f6f52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_405f6f52 | |
Rango / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
Rango / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
"If we was to hit the motherlode, being prospectors and such, where exactly do we deposit said annuity?" | |
Rango / int_40bb59d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_40bb59d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_40bb59d0 | |
Rango / int_4192763e | type |
Malaproper | |
Rango / int_4192763e | comment |
Malaproper: Spoons is prone to them. "It's a puzzle! It's like a big old mammogram!" | |
Rango / int_4192763e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4192763e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4192763e | |
Rango / int_4252627f | type |
Determined Homesteader | |
Rango / int_4252627f | comment |
Determined Homesteader: Beans, who clings to her daddy's property even as the water shortage turns the land barren and useless for agriculture. | |
Rango / int_4252627f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4252627f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4252627f | |
Rango / int_42839f8b | type |
Sound-Effect Bleep | |
Rango / int_42839f8b | comment |
Sound-Effect Bleep: As the unlucky toad is being carried away, he cries, "You son of a bi—"[hawk screech] | |
Rango / int_42839f8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_42839f8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_42839f8b | |
Rango / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
Rango / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: | |
Rango / int_45007296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_45007296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_45007296 | |
Rango / int_450d9b75 | type |
Scavenged Punk | |
Rango / int_450d9b75 | comment |
Scavenged Punk: The town runs entirely on this trope. It's never alluded to, but the whole town seems to be scavenged. The outhouse is an old Pepto Bismol bottle, one building is made from a mailbox, the bank's vault is a water tank such as might be found on an office water cooler, and so on. | |
Rango / int_450d9b75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_450d9b75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_450d9b75 | |
Rango / int_4604fd4d | type |
Worthy Opponent | |
Rango / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponent: Rattlesnake Jake's impression of Rango by the end of the film. | |
Rango / int_4604fd4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4604fd4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4604fd4d | |
Rango / int_47184ded | type |
Becoming the Boast | |
Rango / int_47184ded | comment |
Becoming the Boast: By film's end, Rango lives up to be the hero he made himself out to be, which is made evident when he confronts Jake once again, and Jake no longer sees any fear in his eyes as Rango holds him at gunpoint. | |
Rango / int_47184ded | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_47184ded | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_47184ded | |
Rango / int_4755314a | type |
Magical Native American | |
Rango / int_4755314a | comment |
The Magical Native American could be from the Crow people. | |
Rango / int_4755314a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4755314a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4755314a | |
Rango / int_4766ca14 | type |
Volleying Insults | |
Rango / int_4766ca14 | comment |
Volleying Insults: Rango's first encounter with Priscilla. Put plainly, Beans and Angélique aren't the best of friends. "Tart." "Floozy." "Trollop." | |
Rango / int_4766ca14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4766ca14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4766ca14 | |
Rango / int_48dfb7e4 | type |
Stock Sound Effects | |
Rango / int_48dfb7e4 | comment |
Stock Sound Effects: For once, the stock call of a red-tailed hawk is used for a red-tailed hawk. | |
Rango / int_48dfb7e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_48dfb7e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_48dfb7e4 | |
Rango / int_49d59be9 | type |
Scenery Porn | |
Rango / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: There are many absolutely stunning settings — lots of mesas in the sunset and such. One notable scene is a vast salt flat with the silhouettes of clouds blowing across it. | |
Rango / int_49d59be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_49d59be9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_49d59be9 | |
Rango / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
Rango / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Moments before falling out of the car, Rango announces he's had an "epiphany" that what his story needs is something to "propel our hero into conflict!" The Spirit of the West to Rango: "No man can walk out on his own story." The mariachi band is constantly following Rango around singing about his exploits as they happen. The other characters are all aware that they're there, but generally ignore them. | |
Rango / int_4a3e547f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4a3e547f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4a3e547f | |
Rango / int_4a852053 | type |
The Hero's Journey | |
Rango / int_4a852053 | comment |
The Hero's Journey: It's all about Rango's, in a very archetypical way. In the Extended Cut, Priscilla explicitly lampshades this. | |
Rango / int_4a852053 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4a852053 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4a852053 | |
Rango / int_4b7ff688 | type |
Fake Identity Baggage | |
Rango / int_4b7ff688 | comment |
Fake Identity Baggage: When he arrives in the town of Dirt, the titular character pretends to be a tough drifter who somehow managed to kill seven opponents with one bullet. This results in an outlaw named Bad Bill challenging him to a gun fight. Rango is only saved when a hawk that had chased him earlier shows up and frightens Bad Bill away. | |
Rango / int_4b7ff688 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4b7ff688 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4b7ff688 | |
Rango / int_4bf3d8d7 | type |
Personality Powers | |
Rango / int_4bf3d8d7 | comment |
Personality Powers: In Rango's case, he has a (rarely-used) ability to change color and a stretchy tongue; he's also a Motor Mouth actor who punctuates his arrival in Dirt by trying to blend in with the town personalities. | |
Rango / int_4bf3d8d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4bf3d8d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4bf3d8d7 | |
Rango / int_4bfcfa7c | type |
Kansas City Shuffle | |
Rango / int_4bfcfa7c | comment |
Kansas City Shuffle: Rango doesn't go into his final showdown with Rattlesnake Jake without a plan. However, their duel is interrupted by the miraculously revived hawk! Jake is thoroughly rattled by the reappearance of his dreaded nemesis, but catching a window's reflection reveals that the "hawk" is in fact the mole family's bats flying in tight formation. Enraged at the affront to his mystique, Jake unloads on the skies, seeking to shoot down every bat he can... which causes him to run out of ammo, allowing Rango to safely walk up to him with his One Bullet and plug him dead. Or at least, that was the plan... | |
Rango / int_4bfcfa7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4bfcfa7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4bfcfa7c | |
Rango / int_4c977bea | type |
Humanoid Female Animal | |
Rango / int_4c977bea | comment |
Humanoid Female Animal: Beans is considerably more anthropomorphized than Rango, though they're both lizards. Angelique is also more humanlike than the rest of the cast, be they male or female. | |
Rango / int_4c977bea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4c977bea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4c977bea | |
Rango / int_4d74ae51 | type |
Blasé Boast | |
Rango / int_4d74ae51 | comment |
He claims to sweeten his coffee with snake venom for "tang". This is brought back when Jake delivers Rango a glass of his own venom.... | |
Rango / int_4d74ae51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4d74ae51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4d74ae51 | |
Rango / int_4d97e2b9 | type |
Urine Trouble | |
Rango / int_4d97e2b9 | comment |
"Secure the perimeter, dust for prints, check for fibers, scan for DNA! I want a urine sample from everyone. Get me a latte. Don't mix up the two." | |
Rango / int_4d97e2b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4d97e2b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4d97e2b9 | |
Rango / int_4ee61c1f | type |
Liar Revealed | |
Rango / int_4ee61c1f | comment |
Liar Revealed: Near the film's end, resulting in his exile from Dirt, this happens to Rango by Jake. | |
Rango / int_4ee61c1f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4ee61c1f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4ee61c1f | |
Rango / int_4f3c14ca | type |
Go Mad from the Isolation | |
Rango / int_4f3c14ca | comment |
Go Mad from the Isolation: In the opening, Rango definitely looks like he's reached this point, and maybe even surpassed it, to the point where every inanimate object in his glass box has a name (even the dead bug) and personalities attributed to them, and he hears them talking to him. Which really isn't surprising, since he's probably spent his whole life stuck in that cage without anyone to talk to but himself. | |
Rango / int_4f3c14ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_4f3c14ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_4f3c14ca | |
Rango / int_5029c444 | type |
Audible Sharpness | |
Rango / int_5029c444 | comment |
Audible Sharpness: Before slicing the Pepto-Bismol bottle Rango is hiding in, the hawk brandishes its talons, making a metallic sound. | |
Rango / int_5029c444 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5029c444 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5029c444 | |
Rango / int_5037b961 | type |
Et Tu, Brute? | |
Rango / int_5037b961 | comment |
Et Tu, Brute?: When the townspeople finally reach their breaking point and start charging the jail with torch and pitchforks to speed up the impending hanging of Balthazar and his two sons, Rango steps out to try and calm everybody down. | |
Rango / int_5037b961 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5037b961 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5037b961 | |
Rango / int_505f6a99 | type |
Showdown at High Noon | |
Rango / int_505f6a99 | comment |
Showdown at High Noon: Done twice in the film with Rango and some of his foes. | |
Rango / int_505f6a99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_505f6a99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_505f6a99 | |
Rango / int_533d53a0 | type |
Fantasy Americana | |
Rango / int_533d53a0 | comment |
Fantasy Americana: The film is set in a version of the Wild West, and homages about every Spaghetti Western ever made with a cast of anthropomorphic (mostly-)desert animals. | |
Rango / int_533d53a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_533d53a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_533d53a0 | |
Rango / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
Rango / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Rattlesnake Jake. | |
Rango / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_53f5119f | |
Rango / int_543a0278 | type |
Villain Respect | |
Rango / int_543a0278 | comment |
Villain Respect: After Rango escapes the bank's vault as it's filled with water by using a single bullet to shatter the glass, and in doing so saves Rattlesnake Jake from being killed by the Mayor, Rattlesnake Jake develops a respect for Rango, enough for Rattlesnake Jake to salute him as a fellow legend of the West. | |
Rango / int_543a0278 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_543a0278 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_543a0278 | |
Rango / int_54428f7b | type |
Ashes to Crashes | |
Rango / int_54428f7b | comment |
Ashes to Crashes: Rango tasting the contents of jars in Beans' wagon. "You eatin' daddy's ashes!" (Subverted — she means his cigarette ashes. They never found the body.) | |
Rango / int_54428f7b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Rango / int_54428f7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_54428f7b | |
Rango / int_548bd053 | type |
Guns Akimbo | |
Rango / int_548bd053 | comment |
Guns Akimbo: Priscilla shows her Badass Adorable side this way. | |
Rango / int_548bd053 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_548bd053 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_548bd053 | |
Rango / int_558f5da6 | type |
Cryptic Conversation | |
Rango / int_558f5da6 | comment |
Cryptic Conversation: Invoked twice — once from the armadillo, and again from the Spirit of the West. | |
Rango / int_558f5da6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_558f5da6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_558f5da6 | |
Rango / int_562abd51 | type |
Let's Get Dangerous! | |
Rango / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: Done powerfully in the film's finale once Rango has dedicated himself to becoming a hero, for real this time. | |
Rango / int_562abd51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_562abd51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_562abd51 | |
Rango / int_568b9d5 | type |
Orphaned Etymology | |
Rango / int_568b9d5 | comment |
Orphaned Etymology: An expended revolver cartridge can be seen with the "45 Colt" label on it. Do animals have their own version of Samuel Colt, or has Colt's Manufacturing Company begun making guns small enough for them to use? | |
Rango / int_568b9d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_568b9d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_568b9d5 | |
Rango / int_5707e92c | type |
Feather Fingers | |
Rango / int_5707e92c | comment |
Feather Fingers: Most of the bird characters. It's especially noticeable for the mariachi owls, who use them to play their instruments, and the red-tailed hawk, who operates a vending machine to get at Rango, who is hiding inside, with a single feather wielded like an index finger. | |
Rango / int_5707e92c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5707e92c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5707e92c | |
Rango / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
Rango / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: Rango is very aware that he's only digging himself deeper with his lies, but he's also very aware of his surroundings and is able to competently think up solutions to his problems. He's even able to piece together the Mayor's water-hoarding scheme. | |
Rango / int_58626d87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_58626d87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_58626d87 | |
Rango / int_5963b221 | type |
Eviler than Thou | |
Rango / int_5963b221 | comment |
Eviler than Thou: Rattlesnake Jake and Tortoise John take turns on this one. It's utilized first by Jake, who demands free rein in coercing Beans; later, Tortoise John gives a "times have changed" speech and attempts to shoot Jake with Rango's gun. It flips back to Jake when Rango defeats Tortoise John and the helpless villain is trying to talk his way out of a well-deserved punishment. | |
Rango / int_5963b221 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5963b221 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5963b221 | |
Rango / int_59aa1d0b | type |
Recycled IN SPACE! | |
Rango / int_59aa1d0b | comment |
Recycled IN SPACE!: Kind of. Much of the film's plot owes a lot to Chinatown. | |
Rango / int_59aa1d0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_59aa1d0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_59aa1d0b | |
Rango / int_5b0323a5 | type |
Spontaneous Choreography | |
Rango / int_5b0323a5 | comment |
Spontaneous Choreography: When the townsfolk do the Water Dance, they perform an intricate dance number seemingly out of nowhere which is never brought up or discussed again. | |
Rango / int_5b0323a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5b0323a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5b0323a5 | |
Rango / int_5b83ab12 | type |
Exposition Diagram | |
Rango / int_5b83ab12 | comment |
Exposition Diagram: Using a firelit twig and the night sky, Rango relates the legend of the Spirit of the West. | |
Rango / int_5b83ab12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5b83ab12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5b83ab12 | |
Rango / int_5beef860 | type |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
Rango / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ironically, Rattlesnake Jake. He is deathly afraid of hawks, what with them being his natural predator. This is used against him in the climax; the moles and their bats ride in a formation that casts the shadow of a hawk. It works initially, but Jake sees through it pretty quickly. | |
Rango / int_5beef860 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5beef860 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5beef860 | |
Rango / int_5df90990 | type |
SnakesAreEvil | |
Rango / int_5df90990 | comment |
Snakes Are Evil: Rattlesnake Jake plays it very straight, very darkly. | |
Rango / int_5df90990 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_5df90990 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5df90990 | |
Rango / int_5ee6a992 | type |
Oh, and X Dies | |
Rango / int_5ee6a992 | comment |
Oh, and X Dies: Subverted; the mariachi owls say many times all throughout the film that Rango is going to die, but he doesn't. At the end, they justify it by saying that (obviously) he will die... someday. | |
Rango / int_5ee6a992 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Rango / int_5ee6a992 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_5ee6a992 | |
Rango / int_613ecc2d | type |
Riding into the Sunset | |
Rango / int_613ecc2d | comment |
Riding into the Sunset: It's a Western, so of course someone does (although only in the extended cut). It even receives a lampshade. | |
Rango / int_613ecc2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_613ecc2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_613ecc2d | |
Rango / int_61d054a0 | type |
Animal Stereotypes | |
Rango / int_61d054a0 | comment |
Animal Stereotypes: Rango is a chameleon, but he's also a ''social'' chameleon. See Personality Powers below. | |
Rango / int_61d054a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_61d054a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_61d054a0 | |
Rango / int_6221949c | type |
Doomed Predecessor | |
Rango / int_6221949c | comment |
Doomed Predecessor: Beans warns Rango to think about why the job of sheriff is open, at which point he sees someone working on a coffin. Later, when Rango first hears about Rattlesnake Jake and insists that he has no feud with The Dreaded gunman, Priscilla says the last sheriff said the same thing and then points to his nearby headstone. | |
Rango / int_6221949c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_6221949c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_6221949c | |
Rango / int_673c9dd8 | type |
Insignia Rip-Off Ritual | |
Rango / int_673c9dd8 | comment |
Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: Rango dropping his badge in the dirt after being ousted by Jake. Once his confidence is restored, the wind uncovers the badge just in time for Rango to walk up and reclaim it. | |
Rango / int_673c9dd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_673c9dd8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_673c9dd8 | |
Rango / int_67792344 | type |
Grievous Bottley Harm | |
Rango / int_67792344 | comment |
Grievous Bottley Harm: Rango receives this warm greeting from the folks of Dirt. | |
Rango / int_67792344 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_67792344 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_67792344 | |
Rango / int_67d722d8 | type |
A Storm Is Coming | |
Rango / int_67d722d8 | comment |
A Storm Is Coming: A furious dust storm precedes Rango's return to Dirt. | |
Rango / int_67d722d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_67d722d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_67d722d8 | |
Rango / int_67edaf78 | type |
Gargle Blaster | |
Rango / int_67edaf78 | comment |
Gargle Blaster: Probably the cactus juice. One sip kills a fly (and causes its eye to pop out of its head), and it's flammable enough that combining it with a lit cigar results in a Fire-Breathing Diner-powered Booze Flamethrower. | |
Rango / int_67edaf78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_67edaf78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_67edaf78 | |
Rango / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
Rango / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Rattlesnake Jake gives a truly epic one to Rango before he gets ready to duel him in the middle of the town. This is all followed by him slithering out into the middle of the town, taking his time to load his gun (which is followed by a healthy dose of Dramatic Gun Cock), looking over at Rango with a Slasher Smile, and chuckling quietly under his breath. The fact that he's voiced by Bill Nighy when he does this really sells it. | |
Rango / int_68068108 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_68068108 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_68068108 | |
Rango / int_685baef8 | type |
Decade Dissonance | |
Rango / int_685baef8 | comment |
Decade Dissonance: The movie is obviously set sometime in the past decade, but the Mouse World of Dirt seems to have gotten stuck in the classical Wild West era (roughly 1860 to 1890) — though it does start to modernize over the course of the film. | |
Rango / int_685baef8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_685baef8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_685baef8 | |
Rango / int_691de918 | type |
Death by Looking Up | |
Rango / int_691de918 | comment |
Death by Looking Up: The hawk getting creamed by a water tower. | |
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Rango / int_691de918 | |
Rango / int_69655022 | type |
Gigantic Moon | |
Rango / int_69655022 | comment |
Gigantic Moon: One hovers huge over Rango's walk of shame. | |
Rango / int_69655022 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_69655022 | |
Rango / int_6a47a1e2 | type |
Knight of Cerebus | |
Rango / int_6a47a1e2 | comment |
Knight of Cerebus: After Rattlesnake Jake shows up, the movie's tone suddenly becomes a lot darker. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_6a47a1e2 | |
Rango / int_6bbaf649 | type |
Loud Gulp | |
Rango / int_6bbaf649 | comment |
Loud Gulp: Rango, several times. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_6bbaf649 | |
Rango / int_6c71ab1d | type |
I Want Them Alive! | |
Rango / int_6c71ab1d | comment |
I Want Them Alive!: Balthazar clobbers his son for unloading bullets at Rango's wagon. He won't risk hitting the water. | |
Rango / int_6c71ab1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_6c71ab1d | |
Rango / int_6d00503a | type |
Rain Dance | |
Rango / int_6d00503a | comment |
Rain Dance: To Hank Williams' "Cool Water". | |
Rango / int_6d00503a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_6d00503a | |
Rango / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
Rango / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: During his Heroic BSoD, Rango walks across the highway without bothering to look out for the huge vehicles roaring past and over him. | |
Rango / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_6d332aea | |
Rango / int_6e6b8ca7 | type |
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics | |
Rango / int_6e6b8ca7 | comment |
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Beans, as she only wears a dress and has a full head of human hair styled in coiled ringlets. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_6e6b8ca7 | |
Rango / int_70391857 | type |
Anti-Climax Cut | |
Rango / int_70391857 | comment |
Anti Climax Cut: "We RIDE!" Cut to Rango's posse galloping towards... nothing in particular. | |
Rango / int_70391857 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_70391857 | |
Rango / int_70af5e15 | type |
Anthropic Principle | |
Rango / int_70af5e15 | comment |
Anthropic Principle: All but named outright at the start of the film, when Rango declares that his character is undefined and that "the hero cannot exist in a vacuum! What our story needs is an ironic, unexpected event that will propel our hero into conflict!" No sooner does he say this than he is forcibly ejected from his owner's vehicle into the desert, at which point the story begins. | |
Rango / int_70af5e15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_70af5e15 | |
Rango / int_70f7063d | type |
Unflinching Walk | |
Rango / int_70f7063d | comment |
Unflinching Walk: Used in conjunction with Heroic BSoD during Rango's walk across the highway, and in conjunction with Let's Get Dangerous! during the final showdown. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_70f7063d | |
Rango / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
Rango / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: After apprehending the "bank robbers", Rango has a "friendly" game of golf with the Mayor and his staff. The difference in skill levels is obvious from the start, which is commented on, and these comments can also apply to both Rango and the Mayor's skill in political influence. | |
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Rango / int_71152dd | |
Rango / int_716c0b1b | type |
And the Adventure Continues | |
Rango / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: The Extended Cut ends with Rango riding off (into the sunset) to look into trouble that Bad Bill is stirring up in Dry Creek. | |
Rango / int_716c0b1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_716c0b1b | |
Rango / int_72a3f091 | type |
Giant Eye of Doom | |
Rango / int_72a3f091 | comment |
The Giant Eye of Doom that the posse all just casually dismisses down in the caverns, although it's likely meant more as a throwaway gag. | |
Rango / int_72a3f091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_72a3f091 | |
Rango / int_7360a6b6 | type |
Noble Demon | |
Rango / int_7360a6b6 | comment |
Noble Demon: Rattlesnake Jake is bloodthirsty and murderous... but he is true to his word, and genuinely admires the few who are willing to stand up to him. | |
Rango / int_7360a6b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7360a6b6 | |
Rango / int_73731600 | type |
Lecherous Licking | |
Rango / int_73731600 | comment |
Lecherous Licking: Jake creepily licks Beans' cheek when he's partially strangling her. | |
Rango / int_73731600 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_73731600 | |
Rango / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
Rango / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Who am I?" "No man can walk out on his own story." "People have to believe in something." One bullet. | |
Rango / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7464705c | |
Rango / int_76b4b7dd | type |
The Comically Serious | |
Rango / int_76b4b7dd | comment |
The Comically Serious: While Rattlesnake Jake definitely adds a sinister touch to the movie, his second faceoff against Rango costs him a little of his mystique. He is quick to gain it back after the Mayor screws up a double-cross, however. | |
Rango / int_76b4b7dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_76b4b7dd | |
Rango / int_77d494f0 | type |
Not Used to Freedom | |
Rango / int_77d494f0 | comment |
Not Used to Freedom: Rango the chameleon initially lives in a box, but then is forced to live in the desert. He has trouble both fitting in and surviving. | |
Rango / int_77d494f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_77d494f0 | |
Rango / int_78270847 | type |
Curse Cut Short | |
Rango / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: The toad Rango meets out in the desert, after he's captured by the hawk, screams, "You son of a b—[hawk screech]" This doubles as Parenthetical Swearing, as the screech of the hawk completes the word and makes it sound like "bitch", as well as a shout-out to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. | |
Rango / int_78270847 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_78270847 | |
Rango / int_786d6cf6 | type |
You Wouldn't Shoot Me | |
Rango / int_786d6cf6 | comment |
You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Jake pulls this on Rango the first time they face off, knowing he doesn't have the nerve to pull the trigger. When they end up in that situation again, he now sees that Rango does have the nerve and backs off. | |
Rango / int_786d6cf6 | featureApplicability |
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Rango / int_786d6cf6 | |
Rango / int_7881f335 | type |
Chekhov's Armoury | |
Rango / int_7881f335 | comment |
Chekhov's Armoury: Used masterfully. The climax uses practically everything in the entire film. The road from earlier, the wise old roadkill armadillo, the walking cacti, and the Spirit of the West, all of which are seen or mentioned at the beginning of the film, help Rango out of his Heroic BSoD. The mole family, Jake's fear of hawks, the hole dug by the moles, the pipe underground, and Rango's "one bullet" each play a huge role in defeating the Mayor at the end of the film. The writers practically made everything in the entire film a Chekhov's Gun! Even the little play Rango does at the beginning of the movie turns out to be a plot point during the canyon scene. Inverted: interestingly enough, there is no further mention or reference of the huge eye that Rango and his posse obliviously pass by in the underground tunnels, nor the creature that the eye belongs to. (Seriously, what is that thing?) The Spirit of the West. Rango recites its story at the posse's campfire to make sure we don't forget it. | |
Rango / int_7881f335 | featureApplicability |
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Rango / int_7881f335 | |
Rango / int_7a0a3500 | type |
TakeOffEveryZig | |
Rango / int_7a0a3500 | comment |
Take Off Every Zig: The mole family's squadron of fighter bats. | |
Rango / int_7a0a3500 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7a0a3500 | |
Rango / int_7a2b8057 | type |
Government-Exploited Crisis | |
Rango / int_7a2b8057 | comment |
Government-Exploited Crisis: The town of Dirt is suffering from a drought, causing its water supplies to dry up and jeopardizing its existence. It is later discovered that the drought has been intentionally caused by the town's mayor, Tortoise John, who plans to sell the town's land for a tidy profit. | |
Rango / int_7a2b8057 | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7a2b8057 | |
Rango / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
Rango / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: "Who am I?" See The Hero's Journey. Rango is swaggering around and enjoying his new job as sheriff when Beans asks him to think about why no one is rushing to tell him “what happened to the last sheriff.� Rango gets flustered, especially when he sees the tailor/undertaker working on a coffin. | |
Rango / int_7b6e47a5 | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7b6e47a5 | |
Rango / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
Rango / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: The Mayor. It must be the voice. Especially when he sounds and dresses like Noah Cross. | |
Rango / int_7c0bfb83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7c0bfb83 | |
Rango / int_7c889239 | type |
Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal | |
Rango / int_7c889239 | comment |
Rango plays this straight at the start of the movie, but almost everyone else is fully clothed, and Rango gets a full outfit before long. | |
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Rango / int_7c889239 | |
Rango / int_7d14c988 | type |
A Tankard of Moose Urine | |
Rango / int_7d14c988 | comment |
A Tankard of Moose Urine: "Cactus juice is what we got." | |
Rango / int_7d14c988 | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7d14c988 | |
Rango / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
Rango / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: Rango telling a boy to hold his gun while he signs an autograph. "There's a bullet in there!" | |
Rango / int_7d34f23a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7d34f23a | |
Rango / int_7d7ff0b0 | type |
Crashing Dreams | |
Rango / int_7d7ff0b0 | comment |
Crashing Dreams: Rango's fever dream ends with the air around him suddenly turning to water, causing him to choke. In the waking world, his body has been washed down a drainage pipe by a gush of wastewater. The "alabaster chariot" of the Spirit of the West is, in fact, a golf cart from nearby Las Vegas, and his "golden guardians" are ersatz Oscars. | |
Rango / int_7d7ff0b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7d7ff0b0 | |
Rango / int_7d81759e | type |
Magical Land | |
Rango / int_7d81759e | comment |
Magical Land: When Rango crosses the highway after Rattlesnake Jake banishes him from Dirt, he seems to have stepped from the real West into the mythical West — which accounts for the encounters with spirits and walking cacti. It's essentially an accidental Vision Quest, except more tangible. | |
Rango / int_7d81759e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7d81759e | |
Rango / int_7e499910 | type |
Obligatory Joke | |
Rango / int_7e499910 | comment |
Obligatory Joke: Rango giving direction to a plastic tree. "You were wooden. There, I said it." | |
Rango / int_7e499910 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7e499910 | |
Rango / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
Rango / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Beans. She makes it plain she's frustrated by Rango's antics, but beneath her anger is a soft spot that she hides less and less as the movie goes on. | |
Rango / int_7ef728b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_7ef728b1 | |
Rango / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
Rango / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
While not as feared as Jake by the rest of the characters, in a twist of irony, Jake himself is terrified by the hawk. In fact, the hawk was the only thing keeping him from showing up at Dirt... until Rango accidentally caused its demise. | |
Rango / int_7fbb2a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_7fbb2a3 | |
Rango / int_801c7e4a | type |
Quest for Identity | |
Rango / int_801c7e4a | comment |
Quest for Identity: Isolated in his terrarium his whole life, the titular chameleon has no true identity of his own until he is thrust into The Outside World. His (and the film's) ultimate Driving Question is "Who am I?" | |
Rango / int_801c7e4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_801c7e4a | |
Rango / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Rango / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In one of Rango's tall tales, after a chain reaction wherein six Jenkins brothers were killed with one bullet, the seventh Jenkins brother died of infection. "Secure the perimeter, dust for prints, check for fibers, scan for DNA! I want a urine sample from everyone. Get me a latte. Don't mix up the two." | |
Rango / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_808cbaeb | |
Rango / int_8163e2bb | type |
Dramatic Drop | |
Rango / int_8163e2bb | comment |
Dramatic Drop: Rango, glass in hand, turns and sees a flattened armadillo talking to him. SMASH. | |
Rango / int_8163e2bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_8163e2bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_8163e2bb | |
Rango / int_816c63d4 | type |
Dramatic Wind | |
Rango / int_816c63d4 | comment |
Dramatic Wind: After he's been kicked out of the town and lost hope, once he regains it, Rango returns to Dirt with the wind blowing on him to show his badassery. | |
Rango / int_816c63d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_816c63d4 | |
Rango / int_81b53a1a | type |
The Great Serpent | |
Rango / int_81b53a1a | comment |
The Great Serpent: Rattlesnake Jake probably wouldn't be that big to a human, but compared to the smaller animal characters, he's enormous. | |
Rango / int_81b53a1a | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_81b53a1a | |
Rango / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
Rango / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Rango. Not even as Jack Sparrow have we seen so much scenery-chewing from Johnny Depp! | |
Rango / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_823c6e3e | |
Rango / int_82518cf7 | type |
Motor Mouth | |
Rango / int_82518cf7 | comment |
Motor Mouth: Beans can really churn it out when flustered. Some of Rango's boasts are also shot out like crazy. | |
Rango / int_82518cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_82518cf7 | |
Rango / int_82ff8b68 | type |
Artistic License – Animal Care | |
Rango / int_82ff8b68 | comment |
Artistic License – Animal Care: The opening of the movie shows Rango in a terrarium that is grossly unfit for a chameleon for several reasons. Of course this is part of the point, as Rango's many personality issues and quirks stem from boredom and isolation. The tank is completely devoid of any vegetation, which is needed for an arboreal species like chameleons. The enclosure is far too small, as chameleons need ample space to roam. Chameleons are notoriously hard to care for due to the fact that they typically don’t handle captivity well at all, and can actually die from stress because of this, so a few toys and a small puddle of water are not sufficient enough accommodations to help them adapt well to captivity. | |
Rango / int_82ff8b68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_82ff8b68 | |
Rango / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
Rango / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: Rattlesnake Jake has a set of human-sized revolver chambers in place of his rattle. Also counts as More Dakka. | |
Rango / int_8344209e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_8344209e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_8344209e | |
Rango / int_83445b04 | type |
Pun | |
Rango / int_83445b04 | comment |
Pun: "What's an aquifer?" "Well, it's fer aqua." | |
Rango / int_83445b04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_83445b04 | |
Rango / int_83641c73 | type |
Logical Weakness | |
Rango / int_83641c73 | comment |
Logical Weakness: Rattlesnake Jake's extreme fear of hawks, which allows Rango to get the momentary advantage over him in their final showdown. However, it turns out to be bats flying in a hawk-shaped formation. | |
Rango / int_83641c73 | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_83641c73 | |
Rango / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
Rango / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Rango is a chameleon and Beans is an iguana. Both are lizards, but of very different species. One of Rango's lies is that he and Jake are brothers, and his mother had an active social life. | |
Rango / int_8485d41a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_8485d41a | |
Rango / int_84df0713 | type |
ForgotICouldFly | |
Rango / int_84df0713 | comment |
Forgot I Could Fly: The hawk stares stupidly as the water tower falls on it instead of flying away. By the time the hawk has realized it's about to get pancaked, it's too late to do much of anything anyway. | |
Rango / int_84df0713 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_84df0713 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_84df0713 | |
Rango / int_86288daf | type |
Cactus Cushion | |
Rango / int_86288daf | comment |
Cactus Cushion: The titular chameleon tries to escape a red-tailed hawk early in the film by hiding behind a cactus. The spines dig into him and stick to his body when he pulls himself free, and he tries (and fails) to disguise himself as a cactus because of this. | |
Rango / int_86288daf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_86288daf | |
Rango / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Rango / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Angelique kinda disappears at the end, although she does show up before the Mayor puts Rango and Beans in the vault to drown. Despite all the bickering she and Beans took part in before, she genuinely seems horrified that her boss is about to kill them. She appears again in the Blu-ray version's extended ending, apparently getting along fine with everyone else... apart from the fact that there's a porcupine enjoying the rapidly-deflating kiddie pool. The Giant Eye of Doom that the posse all just casually dismisses down in the caverns, although it's likely meant more as a throwaway gag. | |
Rango / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_863fa679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_863fa679 | |
Rango / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
Rango / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: What got Rango into the whole mess that is the main plot of the movie in the first place. | |
Rango / int_86b21114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_86b21114 | |
Rango / int_86daf505 | type |
Parental Bonus | |
Rango / int_86daf505 | comment |
Parental Bonus: When Rango's posse pretends to be traveling thespians to distract the Mole Family as they attempt to steal back Dirt's water, Pappy is implied to mishear "thespians" as "lesbians," stating that they're illegal in seven states. | |
Rango / int_86daf505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_86daf505 | |
Rango / int_875615dd | type |
Truth in Television | |
Rango / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television: Yes, you can die in the desert by drowning. | |
Rango / int_875615dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_875615dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_875615dd | |
Rango / int_88472ef3 | type |
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
Rango / int_88472ef3 | comment |
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Rango at the start. The course of the film follows him finding one. | |
Rango / int_88472ef3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_88472ef3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_88472ef3 | |
Rango / int_88e5066d | type |
Trigger-Happy | |
Rango / int_88e5066d | comment |
"I WILL BLOW THAT UGLY CLEAN OFF YOUR FACE!" | |
Rango / int_88e5066d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_88e5066d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_88e5066d | |
Rango / int_88e5fcbc | type |
One-Hit Polykill | |
Rango / int_88e5fcbc | comment |
One-Hit Polykill: Rango claims to have killed the Jenkins brothers with one bullet. All seven of them. The last one died of infection. | |
Rango / int_88e5fcbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_88e5fcbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_88e5fcbc | |
Rango / int_89dcd4e | type |
Small-Town Tyrant | |
Rango / int_89dcd4e | comment |
Small-Town Tyrant: The mayor, Tortoise John, is stealing up the water from the townsfolk so he can kick them out and steal their land to use for his currently-in-construction new city. He's pretty handy with a firearm, so it's probably best not to get on his bad side. | |
Rango / int_89dcd4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_89dcd4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_89dcd4e | |
Rango / int_8e92e125 | type |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
Rango / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: No, that isn't Clint Eastwood, it's "the Spirit of the West". (It's not him voicing the character either.) Rango does, however, mention that "they used to call you the Man with No Name". Also, at one point, Rango winds up hitting Hunte— wait, sorry— Raoul Duke's windshield, with his very strung-out passenger on full display in the backseat, no less. This also doubles as a Recursive Actor Allusion. | |
Rango / int_8e92e125 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_8e92e125 | |
Rango / int_8f228548 | type |
Booze Flamethrower | |
Rango / int_8f228548 | comment |
Booze Flamethrower: This happens even though there is no liquor; the cactus juice is the gas. The flame is provided by the cigar Rango eats. | |
Rango / int_8f228548 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_8f228548 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_8f228548 | |
Rango / int_8f746311 | type |
Cargo Cult | |
Rango / int_8f746311 | comment |
Cargo Cult: The animals' treatment of human articles, like water pipes, because of their "divine" ability to control water. Subverted in that the Mayor and his followers have at least a practical knowledge of the water system, and have intentionally built religious trappings around them to control the town. | |
Rango / int_8f746311 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Rango / int_8f746311 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_8f746311 | |
Rango / int_928ca2cc | type |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
Rango / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Mayor tries to pull this on Rattlesnake Jake at the end of the film. It doesn't work. | |
Rango / int_928ca2cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_928ca2cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_928ca2cc | |
Rango / int_92b9e234 | type |
Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal | |
Rango / int_92b9e234 | comment |
Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: While most of the animals are fully clothed, the tip of the hawk's beak is a sharpened metal prosthetic, the armadillo wears a hat and a small band of cloth, and Rattlesnake Jake wears a flat-crowned hat, some bandoliers, and a Gatling gun for a rattle. | |
Rango / int_92b9e234 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_92b9e234 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_92b9e234 | |
Rango / int_958a7bef | type |
Layman's Terms | |
Rango / int_958a7bef | comment |
He means "follow the pipe". | |
Rango / int_958a7bef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_958a7bef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_958a7bef | |
Rango / int_95b7c400 | type |
Faux Affably Evil | |
Rango / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Mayor Tortoise John. He may seem genial, but it's all a facade to get what he wants while dodging suspicion. If someone questions the routine, the facade will drop, and quickly. | |
Rango / int_95b7c400 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_95b7c400 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_95b7c400 | |
Rango / int_95d893d3 | type |
Gratuitous Mariachi Band | |
Rango / int_95d893d3 | comment |
Gratuitous Mariachi Band: The mariachi owls that follow Rango around and sing about the events of the film. | |
Rango / int_95d893d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_95d893d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_95d893d3 | |
Rango / int_95ff52c7 | type |
Guns Do Not Work That Way | |
Rango / int_95ff52c7 | comment |
Guns Do Not Work That Way: The Colt Single Action Army revolver used by Rango has a swing-out cylinder, which is not what the gun has in real life. It does look cool, though. | |
Rango / int_95ff52c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_95ff52c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_95ff52c7 | |
Rango / int_96a33f11 | type |
Riddle for the Ages | |
Rango / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: So who did kill the seven Jenkins brothers? Bad Bill’s reaction when he’s told Rango did it implies he at least knows who it was, but whether it was Bill himself, Jake, or someone else is left unsaid. What creature did that giant eye belong to? | |
Rango / int_96a33f11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_96a33f11 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_96a33f11 | |
Rango / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Rango / int_970c790a | comment |
The mole family who try to rob the bank. While they actually were trying to steal Dirt's water reserve for themselves and appear to have a water jug when Rango and his posse arrive, at the end of the long chase sequence, everyone learns said jug was empty by the time the moles got there. The Big Bad is revealed soon after. | |
Rango / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_970c790a | |
Rango / int_9718a22a | type |
You Remind Me of X | |
Rango / int_9718a22a | comment |
You Remind Me of X: Beans confiding that she doesn't meet a lot of folks down on the ranch. "Sorta like being sealed up in a little box." Rango chuckles unconvincingly and claims he wouldn't know anything about that. | |
Rango / int_9718a22a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_9718a22a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9718a22a | |
Rango / int_97928805 | type |
Barefoot Cartoon Animal | |
Rango / int_97928805 | comment |
Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Some of the supporting characters, including Buford the barkeep and Mr. Merrimack. | |
Rango / int_97928805 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_97928805 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_97928805 | |
Rango / int_98c2a8f2 | type |
Humans Are Cthulhu | |
Rango / int_98c2a8f2 | comment |
Humans Are Cthulhu: Subtle, but definitely there. The road and cars, while mundane to humans, are enough of an incomprehensible barrier for the animals to become integral to a spiritual quest. The Mayor talks of controlling water as divine power, and the glimpse of Las Vegas and its sprinklers is like seeing Cthulhu's city. Plus, humans stole the water from the valley in the first place, have enough of it to just dump in the desert, and human artifacts like pipes get the Cargo Cult treatment, although this last bit is implied to have been started by the Mayor as a method of controlling the townsfolk. | |
Rango / int_98c2a8f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_98c2a8f2 | |
Rango / int_98f2361a | type |
FairyTaleMotifs | |
Rango / int_98f2361a | comment |
Fairy Tale Motifs: The film takes a few cues from The Brave Little Tailor with both Rango and the titular tailor boasting about how they killed seven in one blow only for their boast to snowball into a genuine threat they have no idea how to handle. With the tailor, it's boasting about having killed seven flies in one blow with everyone misinterpreting that as seven giants and pitting him against an actual giant. With Rango, it's boasting about having killed all seven of the Jenkins Brothers with one bullet only to be called out on it by Rattlesnake Jake. | |
Rango / int_98f2361a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_98f2361a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_98f2361a | |
Rango / int_9951519 | type |
Water Tower Down | |
Rango / int_9951519 | comment |
Water Tower Down: Rango accidentally uses one against the hawk. It doesn't contain water, just dirt, but it's more than heavy enough to crush it. | |
Rango / int_9951519 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_9951519 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9951519 | |
Rango / int_9a480050 | type |
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu | |
Rango / int_9a480050 | comment |
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Rango mocks the hawk from inside an empty beer bottle. The hawk responds by carving gouges into the glass with its talons, then picking up the bottle and smashing it. | |
Rango / int_9a480050 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9a480050 | |
Rango / int_9b9d5657 | type |
Slow-Motion Fall | |
Rango / int_9b9d5657 | comment |
Slow-Motion Fall: When his aquarium gets smashed, Rango is sent flying as "Ave Maria" plays. | |
Rango / int_9b9d5657 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_9b9d5657 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9b9d5657 | |
Rango / int_9cbf01d6 | type |
Stay in the Kitchen | |
Rango / int_9cbf01d6 | comment |
Stay in the Kitchen: Rango's out-of-control ego manifests once in casually telling Beans she'd clean up real nice if she put some effort into it. | |
Rango / int_9cbf01d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9cbf01d6 | |
Rango / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Rango / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The dream Rango has before he gets to Dirt. During the chase following the raid on the mole family compound, Ezekiel has no issue firing on the wagon holding the water from the bank. Earlier, he had tried to tell Pappy something was wrong; we find out later that the water's already been stolen. When the Mayor orders his men to call Rattlesnake Jake, they warn him that Jake's a "grim reaper" and, specifically, "never leaves town without taking a soul." The boss waves it off and orders Jake contacted anyway. Indeed, Jake does not leave town until he "takes a soul" — the Mayor himself, who he drags off with him. | |
Rango / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Rango / int_9d1cc720 | type |
Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
Rango / int_9d1cc720 | comment |
Barbie Doll Anatomy: When Rango is relaxing with his nude Barbie-doll torso. | |
Rango / int_9d1cc720 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_9d1cc720 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9d1cc720 | |
Rango / int_9e0c3153 | type |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
Rango / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Scan for D! N! A!" | |
Rango / int_9e0c3153 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_9e0c3153 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9e0c3153 | |
Rango / int_9e869a0c | type |
Un-Paused | |
Rango / int_9e869a0c | comment |
Un-Paused: A variation. A couple of times, when she comes out of her trances, Beans says something that sounds random but might just be related to whatever she was saying beforehand. | |
Rango / int_9e869a0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9e869a0c | |
Rango / int_9ee51543 | type |
Desert Skull | |
Rango / int_9ee51543 | comment |
Desert Skull: The owl mariachi band stands on one of these at the beginning of the film while singing about Rango's journey through the desert to Dirt. | |
Rango / int_9ee51543 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_9ee51543 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9ee51543 | |
Rango / int_9f7769a2 | type |
The Gunslinger | |
Rango / int_9f7769a2 | comment |
The Gunslinger: Rattlesnake Jake is a truly terrifying combination of the Vaporizer and the Quick-Draw variety, using his tail gun to deliver a blizzard of bullets in the blink of an eye. Rango is the Trick Shot variety...accidentally. | |
Rango / int_9f7769a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_9f7769a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_9f7769a2 | |
Rango / int_a05522e3 | type |
Alien Abduction | |
Rango / int_a05522e3 | comment |
One for the tie-in video game, as Beans mentions in her first scene that her father was kidnapped by the people of Andromeda 5. Come the game, it turns out she was right. | |
Rango / int_a05522e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_a05522e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a05522e3 | |
Rango / int_a18042f1 | type |
Left the Background Music On | |
Rango / int_a18042f1 | comment |
Left the Background Music On: Most of the film's music is supposedly provided by the mariachi owls or similar music-playing critters. During the mole family's air chase, some of them are even playing "Ride of the Valkyries" ... on banjos. | |
Rango / int_a18042f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_a18042f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a18042f1 | |
Rango / int_a1d3ebd7 | type |
Furry Reminder | |
Rango / int_a1d3ebd7 | comment |
Furry Reminder: When a dragonfly buzzes past Rango's face, he sticks out his tongue and eats it. | |
Rango / int_a1d3ebd7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_a1d3ebd7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a1d3ebd7 | |
Rango / int_a236dd4c | type |
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal | |
Rango / int_a236dd4c | comment |
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Rango plays this straight at the start of the movie, but almost everyone else is fully clothed, and Rango gets a full outfit before long. Other characters that apply include Wounded Bird, Ambrose, and Waffles. | |
Rango / int_a236dd4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_a236dd4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a236dd4c | |
Rango / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
Rango / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: One member of Rango's posse is a chicken with an arrow sticking into his right eye and through the back of his head. A fly has a taste of cactus juice in the form of a small spill. It gags and collapses dead in the puddle, with one of its eyes popping out. While it doesn't actually happen, Rattlesnake Jake threatens to "squeeze them pretty brown eyes out of [Beans'] skull!" Also happens to Waffles during the campfire scene, when Rango accidentally hits him in the eye with a stick. | |
Rango / int_a2b38d3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a2b38d3b | |
Rango / int_a3f1531b | type |
Standard Snippet | |
Rango / int_a3f1531b | comment |
Standard Snippet: "Ride of the Valkyries" during an aerial chase. It's even diegetic, as the moles start playing it as they ride the bats. Played on banjoes and moonshine jugs. | |
Rango / int_a3f1531b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a3f1531b | |
Rango / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
Rango / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Rattlesnake Jake. Also the Mayor's goons. | |
Rango / int_a70223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_a70223 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a70223 | |
Rango / int_a7e47a11 | type |
Your Approval Fills Me with Shame | |
Rango / int_a7e47a11 | comment |
Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Rango looks uneasy during Spoons' prayer to the Spirit of the West thanking him for sending a brave sheriff to town. | |
Rango / int_a7e47a11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a7e47a11 | |
Rango / int_a8298592 | type |
Mouse World | |
Rango / int_a8298592 | comment |
Mouse World: Dirt is your typical Western town, but for desert critters, and built out of scrap. | |
Rango / int_a8298592 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_a8298592 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a8298592 | |
Rango / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
Rango / int_a8559a9f | comment |
A subversion; the walking, talking, cowboy-hat-wearing animals still happen to realistically resemble their Real Life counterparts. Jake and Rango qualify for Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: most other folks wear clothes. | |
Rango / int_a8559a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a8559a9f | |
Rango / int_a939a527 | type |
Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
Rango / int_a939a527 | comment |
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Rattlesnake Jake has Sauron-esque mottled orange and yellow eyes that look like windows into the fires of Hell. | |
Rango / int_a939a527 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_a939a527 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_a939a527 | |
Rango / int_ab729e43 | type |
Disappointed in You | |
Rango / int_ab729e43 | comment |
Disappointed in You: After Jake calls Rango out for lying to the townsfolk and runs him out of town, Beans asks him, Who are you?. Even the four owls are just as disappointed in Rango. | |
Rango / int_ab729e43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_ab729e43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ab729e43 | |
Rango / int_ab74122a | type |
Wasteland Elder | |
Rango / int_ab74122a | comment |
Wasteland Elder: The oldest people in the drought-stricken desert town seem to be Mayor John Tortoise (who hires Rango) and the Prospector Spoons, both of whom talk a lot about how important it is to keep the town alive. Only Spoons is sincere, and only Spoons remains in town at the end of the film. | |
Rango / int_ab74122a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_ab74122a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ab74122a | |
Rango / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Rango / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: The hawk has one just before it's smashed by the falling water tower. Rango's face when Rattlesnake Jake makes his epic entrance. Rattlesnake Jake's gets a close-up when Rango points his gun at him during the climax, this time with no fear in his eyes. Rattlesnake Jake gets an epic one when he sees a hawk in the sky, although he quickly discovers the ruse. The Mayor after double-crossing Jake when he discovers that his gun is empty. | |
Rango / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ad1db87c | |
Rango / int_ad982e04 | type |
Super-Persistent Predator | |
Rango / int_ad982e04 | comment |
Super-Persistent Predator: Double subverted. The metal-beaked hawk pursues Rango all-out at first, until it ends up grabbing the desert toad instead. Later, the hawk makes a return appearance, chasing him through the town until Rango's one-bullet accident drops the town's water tower on it. | |
Rango / int_ad982e04 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ad982e04 | |
Rango / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Rango / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Beans and Priscilla. Also Señor Flan, the leader of the mariachi owls. | |
Rango / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ae3d6438 | |
Rango / int_aed65980 | type |
All for Nothing | |
Rango / int_aed65980 | comment |
All for Nothing: After stealing back the bank's water jug, the tarp falls away to reveal it's filled with nothing but sand. | |
Rango / int_aed65980 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_aed65980 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_aed65980 | |
Rango / int_af696bef | type |
Fish out of Water | |
Rango / int_af696bef | comment |
Fish out of Water: Quite literally in the teaser. | |
Rango / int_af696bef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_af696bef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_af696bef | |
Rango / int_af7d483f | type |
Dreaming of Things to Come | |
Rango / int_af7d483f | comment |
The dream Rango has before he gets to Dirt. | |
Rango / int_af7d483f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_af7d483f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_af7d483f | |
Rango / int_b1191cb2 | type |
I Ate WHAT?! | |
Rango / int_b1191cb2 | comment |
I Ate WHAT?!: The cactus fruit... Rango also decides to sample the contents of one of Beans' jars without asking first. | |
Rango / int_b1191cb2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b1191cb2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b1191cb2 | |
Rango / int_b1346878 | type |
Fate Worse than Death | |
Rango / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: It's not clear what will happen to the Mayor when he's dragged off by Rattlesnake Jake, but nobody expects it to be pretty, and it's best if the answer is left unsaid. | |
Rango / int_b1346878 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b1346878 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b1346878 | |
Rango / int_b1a7cd14 | type |
Tap on the Head | |
Rango / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: Rango clocking a woman in the face during the Rain Dance. He's very apologetic. | |
Rango / int_b1a7cd14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b1a7cd14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b1a7cd14 | |
Rango / int_b50580f7 | type |
Don't Look Down | |
Rango / int_b50580f7 | comment |
Don't Look Down: Briefly and hilariously done by Rango during the posse's search through the underground tunnels for the bank's water. | |
Rango / int_b50580f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b50580f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b50580f7 | |
Rango / int_b56de77d | type |
Misplaced Vegetation | |
Rango / int_b56de77d | comment |
Misplaced Vegetation: The saguaro cacti featured throughout the film grow in profusion only in the Sonoran Desert, not the Mojave desert. | |
Rango / int_b56de77d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b56de77d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b56de77d | |
Rango / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
Rango / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
While Beans and Rango are discussing his new position as sheriff, one of the town's dimmer children is playing with Rango's gun — admiring it, looking down its barrel ("There's a bullet in there!"), chewing on it — in general, chewing the scenery. | |
Rango / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b58b4e3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b58b4e3c | |
Rango / int_b5f5824e | type |
Linked List Clue Methodology | |
Rango / int_b5f5824e | comment |
Linked List Clue Methodology: Muddy shoeprints at the site of Mr. Merrimack's murder, and his glasses left behind in an empty water jug. | |
Rango / int_b5f5824e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b5f5824e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b5f5824e | |
Rango / int_b6060b7 | type |
Run or Die | |
Rango / int_b6060b7 | comment |
Run or Die: Rango's stratagem when dealing with the hawk. | |
Rango / int_b6060b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b6060b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b6060b7 | |
Rango / int_b7d2dbed | type |
Tonight, Someone Dies | |
Rango / int_b7d2dbed | comment |
Tonight, Someone Dies: Parodied shamelessly. At the start of the film, the lead mariachi owl who serves as the narrator informs us that Rango is going to die. At the end, Rango is still alive and well, and the narrator simply points out that his prediction will come true sooner or later, since Rango is as mortal as the next guy. | |
Rango / int_b7d2dbed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b7d2dbed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b7d2dbed | |
Rango / int_b9918c48 | type |
Nobody Here but Us Statues | |
Rango / int_b9918c48 | comment |
Nobody Here but Us Statues: Rango pretends to be a cactus to hide from the hawk. A badly-dressed cactus. | |
Rango / int_b9918c48 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_b9918c48 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_b9918c48 | |
Rango / int_ba5bbda5 | type |
Mirror Character | |
Rango / int_ba5bbda5 | comment |
Mirror Character: Rattlesnake Jake and Rango. Both are larger-than-life "legends" who derive a fair bit of their influence from their fearsome reputations which they themselves have bought into, to a degree. The key difference is that unlike Rango, Jake can actually back his boasting up, at least until the end, when Rango gets serious. Jake even acknowledges this by tipping his hat to Rango after the final fight, one "legend" to another. | |
Rango / int_ba5bbda5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_ba5bbda5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ba5bbda5 | |
Rango / int_baa2bf80 | type |
Amplified Animal Aptitude | |
Rango / int_baa2bf80 | comment |
Amplified Animal Aptitude: Despite being a non-speaking animal, the red-tailed hawk tries (almost successfully) to get Rango out of a glass soda bottle by dropping it from a great height, and successfully dispenses Rango from a vending machine he chooses to hide in. The bats and the pigs (peccaries?) dragging the carts don't talk either. However, the bats count for this trope too, being able to fly like jet planes and maintain a close-enough formation to look like a hawk. | |
Rango / int_baa2bf80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_baa2bf80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_baa2bf80 | |
Rango / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
Rango / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: This film isn't shy about swearing despite being a family film. One particularly jarring scene is when Rattlesnake Jake is squeezing Beans to death and says, "Sign the damn paper, woman!" And her reply of "Go to hell!" That said, Jake does have the most swearing of any character, which is part of what makes him the Knight of Cerebus. | |
Rango / int_bc00493f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bc00493f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bc00493f | |
Rango / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
Rango / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Don't you dare say anything bad about Beans's father. Just don't say anything about him at all. Even if it's perfectly respectful, she'll take it the wrong way. | |
Rango / int_bc74ef27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bc74ef27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bc74ef27 | |
Rango / int_bd1faab9 | type |
Accidental Hero | |
Rango / int_bd1faab9 | comment |
Accidental Hero: Overlapping with Accidental Celebrity. After the hawk winds up dead trying to make a meal of Rango, the chameleon is hailed a hero for "killing" the hawk and made the town's sheriff. This isn't the last of his dumb luck either. Up until his encounter with the Spirit of the West, the only way he accomplishes feats of heroism is by stumbling into them. | |
Rango / int_bd1faab9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bd1faab9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bd1faab9 | |
Rango / int_bd335148 | type |
Actor IS the Title Character | |
Rango / int_bd335148 | comment |
Actor IS the Title Character: One might be forgiven for looking at the marketing and thinking that the movie's title is "Johnny Depp Is Rango". | |
Rango / int_bd335148 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bd335148 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bd335148 | |
Rango / int_bd4264a3 | type |
Slasher Smile | |
Rango / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: Rattlesnake Jake does a really good one. Same for the coffin-making spider. | |
Rango / int_bd4264a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bd4264a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bd4264a3 | |
Rango / int_be8416ea | type |
Shrouded in Myth | |
Rango / int_be8416ea | comment |
Shrouded in Myth: Rango, out of desperation, becomes The Münchausen to get the rougher element in Dirt to regard him as too dangerous to handle. Rattlesnake Jake has already attained this status (in a dark way), as has the Spirit of the West. | |
Rango / int_be8416ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_be8416ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_be8416ea | |
Rango / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
Rango / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: A good portion of the beginning of the movie, particularly Rango's Dream of Foreshadowing. | |
Rango / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bef696dd | |
Rango / int_bf1255fa | type |
Really Gets Around | |
Rango / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: Rango's explanation for how he and Rattlesnake Jake, who are different species, could possibly be brothers. "Mama had an active social life." | |
Rango / int_bf1255fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bf1255fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bf1255fa | |
Rango / int_bfad4265 | type |
I Have You Now, My Pretty | |
Rango / int_bfad4265 | comment |
I Have You Now, My Pretty: When Jake creepily licks Beans while partially strangling her. | |
Rango / int_bfad4265 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_bfad4265 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_bfad4265 | |
Rango / int_c0218941 | type |
Hollywood Chameleons | |
Rango / int_c0218941 | comment |
Hollywood Chameleons: Rango averts this; although he can change his color, he can't do it easily, and he certainly can't fool a sharp-eyed hawk. Both of his attempts to blend in by changing colors fail. | |
Rango / int_c0218941 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c0218941 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c0218941 | |
Rango / int_c0afd51a | type |
Evil Cripple | |
Rango / int_c0afd51a | comment |
Evil Cripple: The Mayor is a tortoise in a wheelchair. | |
Rango / int_c0afd51a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c0afd51a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c0afd51a | |
Rango / int_c1d1d6ad | type |
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? | |
Rango / int_c1d1d6ad | comment |
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Rango asks this when Beans reveals her name, and she replies that her father loved beans. | |
Rango / int_c1d1d6ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c1d1d6ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c1d1d6ad | |
Rango / int_c32ff031 | type |
Xanatos Gambit | |
Rango / int_c32ff031 | comment |
Xanatos Gambit: Rango himself pulls one off in the climax. Even though Rattlesnake Jake eventually realizes the "hawk" is actually a flock of bats, Rango still succeeded in making him waste all his ammo. | |
Rango / int_c32ff031 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c32ff031 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c32ff031 | |
Rango / int_c3ae004a | type |
Re-Cut | |
Rango / int_c3ae004a | comment |
Re-Cut: There's an extended version with an ending that makes much more sense than the theatrical cut. | |
Rango / int_c3ae004a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c3ae004a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c3ae004a | |
Rango / int_c420a553 | type |
We Can Rule Together | |
Rango / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: With Rango ousted and the town in shambles, the Mayor offers Beans one last chance to sell her ranch. She responds by tossing a glass of water in his face when he insults her father by calling him a bruden. | |
Rango / int_c420a553 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c420a553 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c420a553 | |
Rango / int_c4286511 | type |
For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
Rango / int_c4286511 | comment |
For Doom the Bell Tolls: The town of Dirt has a Clock Tower, whose bell rings (appropriately for the trope) after the sheriff Rango and his posse have failed to bring the stolen water back, and during the duel between him and Rattlesnake Jake. The clock tower is later destroyed when Rango brings water, and thus life, back to the town. | |
Rango / int_c4286511 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c4286511 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c4286511 | |
Rango / int_c5b47b36 | type |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
Rango / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: When Rango claims to have killed the Jenkins brothers with a single bullet, a patron asks him how he was able to do so, seeing as there were seven of them. The next time we see Rango, he's just finished telling an elaborate tall tale, which he made up on the spot, explaining how the bullet killed each brother, and everyone present is fully convinced by it. | |
Rango / int_c5b47b36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c5b47b36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c5b47b36 | |
Rango / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Rango / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: There are so many, they have their own page. | |
Rango / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c75df49a | |
Rango / int_c7686239 | type |
Clint Squint | |
Rango / int_c7686239 | comment |
Clint Squint: Delivered by both the man himself (well, his animated counterpart) and Rango. | |
Rango / int_c7686239 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c7686239 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c7686239 | |
Rango / int_c82e751f | type |
Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
Rango / int_c82e751f | comment |
Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Rango's plot to steal back the water jug. Invoked again when Rango enlists the help of the moles to save their imprisoned kinfolk. | |
Rango / int_c82e751f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c82e751f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c82e751f | |
Rango / int_c83a589c | type |
Luke, I Am Your Father | |
Rango / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Lampooned by Rango trying to back up his claims of being Rattlesnake Jake's brother. "Mama had an active social life." | |
Rango / int_c83a589c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c83a589c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c83a589c | |
Rango / int_c89f0472 | type |
Troperiffic | |
Rango / int_c89f0472 | comment |
Troperiffic: All the requisite Spaghetti Western tropes, except strangely everything involving train robbery. (However, Bad Bill tries to hijack the water train in the video game.) | |
Rango / int_c89f0472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c89f0472 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c89f0472 | |
Rango / int_c98b7916 | type |
Messianic Archetype | |
Rango / int_c98b7916 | comment |
Messianic Archetype: After Rattlesnake Jake's Hannibal Lecture, Rango drops his sheriff's badge among the tombstones on Boot Hill; the invented character of "Rango" is dead. He crosses to the other side, and after his encounter with God — wait, we mean, the Spirit of the West — he returns to the cemetery just as the wind exhumes the badge for him to pick up again in a symbolic resurrection. | |
Rango / int_c98b7916 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_c98b7916 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_c98b7916 | |
Rango / int_caa28b82 | type |
Cloudcuckoolander | |
Rango / int_caa28b82 | comment |
Cloudcuckoolander: Every person in the posse sans Rango, Beans, and Wounded Bird. Rango and Beans are still only sane by comparison. | |
Rango / int_caa28b82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_caa28b82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_caa28b82 | |
Rango / int_cbd0ac32 | type |
Environmental Symbolism | |
Rango / int_cbd0ac32 | comment |
Environmental Symbolism: The portraits behind Rango in the Mayor's office. | |
Rango / int_cbd0ac32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_cbd0ac32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_cbd0ac32 | |
Rango / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
Rango / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Rattlesnake Jake is considered to be a Grim Reaper right out of the pits of hell, and he even seems to believe this about himself to some degree. Rango ultimately defeats him in the end with his wits alone. At the end, it becomes more like "Did You Just Save Cthulhu's Ass?" when Rango prevents the Mayor from shooting Jake. | |
Rango / int_cc4d190a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_cc4d190a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_cc4d190a | |
Rango / int_cdd676a3 | type |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
Rango / int_cdd676a3 | comment |
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Wounded Bird to Rango, if only by comparison to the highly incompetent Rango. | |
Rango / int_cdd676a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_cdd676a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_cdd676a3 | |
Rango / int_cfb86607 | type |
Wild West Armadillo | |
Rango / int_cfb86607 | comment |
Wild West Armadillo: An armadillo wearing a sombrero is the first real character the titular protagonist meets. | |
Rango / int_cfb86607 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_cfb86607 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_cfb86607 | |
Rango / int_d0c9634e | type |
Animals Not to Scale | |
Rango / int_d0c9634e | comment |
Animals Not to Scale: While animals like Rattlesnake Jake, the metal-beaked hawk, and the wise armadillo are of the proper size, the citizens who populate the town of Dirt (more specifically a Gila monster, fox, turkey vulture, bobcat, and tortoise) are the size of Rango, the former pet chameleon. | |
Rango / int_d0c9634e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d0c9634e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d0c9634e | |
Rango / int_d1934b7e | type |
Glove Snap | |
Rango / int_d1934b7e | comment |
Glove Snap: Upon hearing that one of the bandits has an enlarged prostate Doc Kenny puts on a latex glove and asks who needs to be checked out. | |
Rango / int_d1934b7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d1934b7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d1934b7e | |
Rango / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Rango / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: The Mayor really should've known better than to turn on Rattlesnake Jake... | |
Rango / int_d397657d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d397657d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d397657d | |
Rango / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
Rango / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Delivered by Rattlesnake Jake to Rango when he calls him out on lying to the good people of the town about his exploits and making them believe in a fraud. | |
Rango / int_d39e327f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d39e327f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d39e327f | |
Rango / int_d5316706 | type |
Prematurely Marked Grave | |
Rango / int_d5316706 | comment |
Prematurely Marked Grave: After Rango takes on the job of the new sheriff of Dirt, the citizens are already preparing for his demise, including the undertaker constructing a new coffin for him to measure. | |
Rango / int_d5316706 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d5316706 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d5316706 | |
Rango / int_d5d976dd | type |
I Have Many Names | |
Rango / int_d5d976dd | comment |
I Have Many Names: The lizard who will become Rango says he has a stage name, a pseudonym, an avatar, and even a maiden name, but he never says them on camera. He claims to have all these to avoid actually stating his real name. If he has one. | |
Rango / int_d5d976dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d5d976dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d5d976dd | |
Rango / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
Rango / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: "I'm going to strip this mystery down and expose its private parts." | |
Rango / int_d848560f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d848560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d848560f | |
Rango / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
Rango / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: While transversing an underground cavern, the townspeople pass... something subterranean... with a luminous alien-looking eye about fifteen feet across. All anyone has to say about it is "That's a big one." | |
Rango / int_d99a228f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d99a228f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d99a228f | |
Rango / int_d9d3c1f2 | type |
Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist | |
Rango / int_d9d3c1f2 | comment |
Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Rango is wearing a red Hawaiian shirt at the beginning. Once he adapts to life in Dirt, he gets himself several sets of cool cowboy outfits. | |
Rango / int_d9d3c1f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_d9d3c1f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_d9d3c1f2 | |
Rango / int_da3043c5 | type |
Fake Ultimate Hero | |
Rango / int_da3043c5 | comment |
Fake Ultimate Hero: Rango stumbles into the role and enjoys its benefits — he even runs a few risks out of the sheer joy of it all. Once Rattlesnake Jake comes to town, Rango must either rise to the role or fall. He falls. At first. | |
Rango / int_da3043c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_da3043c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_da3043c5 | |
Rango / int_da79f321 | type |
The Seven Western Plots | |
Rango / int_da79f321 | comment |
The Seven Western Plots: The film is a Marshal story, where the titular character becomes the sheriff of Dirt and tries to uphold his image as a badass gunslinger when he's really just a former housepet in over his head. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_da79f321 | |
Rango / int_da860331 | type |
Non-Mammalian Hair | |
Rango / int_da860331 | comment |
Non-Mammalian Hair: Lizards, birds, reptiles, amphibians, all the citizens of Dirt have hair. This also leads to... | |
Rango / int_da860331 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_da860331 | |
Rango / int_db392e77 | type |
Cucumber Facial | |
Rango / int_db392e77 | comment |
Cucumber Facial: Rango is awakened from one of these by an alarm at the bank. | |
Rango / int_db392e77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango / int_db392e77 | |
Rango / int_db695dfd | type |
If You Die, I Call Your Stuff | |
Rango / int_db695dfd | comment |
If You Die, I Call Your Stuff: Priscilla nonchalantly lays claim to Rango's boots in the event of his inevitable death just after he becomes sheriff. | |
Rango / int_db695dfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_db695dfd | |
Rango / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
Rango / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: The mole family who try to rob the bank. While they actually were trying to steal Dirt's water reserve for themselves and appear to have a water jug when Rango and his posse arrive, at the end of the long chase sequence, everyone learns said jug was empty by the time the moles got there. The Big Bad is revealed soon after. Rango's final showdown with Jake. He scares Jake by having the bat-riding moles fly in a hawk-shaped formation, and when Jake figures it out he gets cocky and empties all his ammo into the sky, allowing Rango to stroll right up to him and point his revolver right between his eyes. | |
Rango / int_dbca2c99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_dbca2c99 | |
Rango / int_dc579c91 | type |
Contrived Coincidence | |
Rango / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: These shape the film's plot from start to finish. Lampshaded by Rango at the very start of the film when trying to figure out how to use one to put a conflict in his story, right before the Contrived Coincidence does just that for the movie. | |
Rango / int_dc579c91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_dc579c91 | |
Rango / int_dc59fb35 | type |
What's a Henway? | |
Rango / int_dc59fb35 | comment |
What's a Henway?: "What's an aquifer?" "It's fer aqua." | |
Rango / int_dc59fb35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_dc59fb35 | |
Rango / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
Rango / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: The walking cacti. | |
Rango / int_dcbe8a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_dcbe8a6e | |
Rango / int_dccc5309 | type |
Do with Him as You Will | |
Rango / int_dccc5309 | comment |
Do with Him as You Will: When the incapacitated Big Bad tries to bargain with Rango, the chameleon replies by kicking him toward Rattlesnake Jake (who the mayor just betrayed), saying "Why don't you take it up with him." The mayor is promptly subjected to a (possibly) metaphorical Dragged Off to Hell fate. | |
Rango / int_dccc5309 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_dccc5309 | |
Rango / int_dea5fe1 | type |
Kubrick Stare | |
Rango / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Kubrick Stare: About half of Priscilla's screen time is of her looking up at the camera like this. | |
Rango / int_dea5fe1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_dea5fe1 | |
Rango / int_e132a621 | type |
Fluffy Cloud Heaven | |
Rango / int_e132a621 | comment |
Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Referenced scornfully. | |
Rango / int_e132a621 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e132a621 | |
Rango / int_e16fb8ca | type |
Hero Killer | |
Rango / int_e16fb8ca | comment |
Hero Killer: While he doesn't kill any heroes on screen, Rattlesnake Jake is stated to have killed Dirt's previous sheriff, and certainly has the reputation of a classic HK. | |
Rango / int_e16fb8ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e16fb8ca | |
Rango / int_e1fa333c | type |
Hannibal Lecture | |
Rango / int_e1fa333c | comment |
Hannibal Lecture: Rattlesnake Jake initiates Rango's Heroic BSoD with one. | |
Rango / int_e1fa333c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_e1fa333c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e1fa333c | |
Rango / int_e24d2d5c | type |
Reptiles Are Abhorrent | |
Rango / int_e24d2d5c | comment |
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played with. Rattlesnake Jake, Bad Bill, and the Mayor are evil, and their reptilian features emphasize that. On the other hand, the protagonist Rango and his love interest Beans are also reptiles. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e24d2d5c | |
Rango / int_e2d457 | type |
The Ditz | |
Rango / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: The little boy that handles Rango's revolver in the clothing store, pointing it at his own mother and himself like it's a toy and staring into the barrel. | |
Rango / int_e2d457 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e2d457 | |
Rango / int_e2d7b14c | type |
Made of Explodium | |
Rango / int_e2d7b14c | comment |
Made of Explodium: Apparently the bats the moles have domesticated are rare Explodium Bats. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e2d7b14c | |
Rango / int_e37f19 | type |
Disguised in Drag | |
Rango / int_e37f19 | comment |
Disguised in Drag: Rango puts on Beans' dress to disguise himself as the female leader of a theatrical troupe when he and his posse sneak into the moles' camp. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e37f19 | |
Rango / int_e3d5ba34 | type |
Slippery Skid | |
Rango / int_e3d5ba34 | comment |
Slippery Skid: Mr. Merrimack and a loose set of golf balls. | |
Rango / int_e3d5ba34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e3d5ba34 | |
Rango / int_e466ae41 | type |
Family-Friendly Firearms | |
Rango / int_e466ae41 | comment |
Family-Friendly Firearms: Hugely averted, seeing how Gore Verbinski directed the film. The "45 Colt" engraving on one spent cartridge is even shown up close to the camera at one point. | |
Rango / int_e466ae41 | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e466ae41 | |
Rango / int_e4d079c1 | type |
Greek Chorus | |
Rango / int_e4d079c1 | comment |
Greek Chorus: The mariachi owls. Since they're Played for Laughs, they aren't very good at it. In fact, at one point they're so disappointed and disgusted by his actions that they just sit there giving him doleful looks. | |
Rango / int_e4d079c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e4d079c1 | |
Rango / int_e529d5c3 | type |
Torches and Pitchforks | |
Rango / int_e529d5c3 | comment |
Torches and Pitchforks: The townsfolk of Dirt get irritable when Rango is slow to find their water. | |
Rango / int_e529d5c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e529d5c3 | |
Rango / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
Rango / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Beans saying "My daddy was not drunk when he fell down that mine shaft!" | |
Rango / int_e624f0e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e624f0e8 | |
Rango / int_e6ab61d | type |
Magic Realism | |
Rango / int_e6ab61d | comment |
Magic Realism: It's all over the place, from a giant eye underground to walking cacti. It's more pronounced when Rango crosses the road ("It's a metaphor.") and enters the Mythic West. | |
Rango / int_e6ab61d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_e6ab61d | |
Rango / int_e71d66e | type |
Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That! | |
Rango / int_e71d66e | comment |
Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!: Rango gets a bit too deep in character with an autograph-seeker. | |
Rango / int_e71d66e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e71d66e | |
Rango / int_e91cc721 | type |
In the Style of | |
Rango / int_e91cc721 | comment |
In the Style of: "Walk Don't Rango" is the Rango theme in the style of Dick Dale — specifically, it sounds suspiciously similar to his cover of "Misirlou", better known as the theme from Pulp Fiction. | |
Rango / int_e91cc721 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e91cc721 | |
Rango / int_e993da98 | type |
Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
Rango / int_e993da98 | comment |
Equal-Opportunity Evil: Bad Bill's gang have conspicuously non-American accents (British, German, Mexican, and since they're on the Mayor's side, we'll throw in his French secretary), while the people of Dirt all have easily identifiable American Western accents and speech patterns. Averted with Ambrose the owl, who has a British accent and is one of the good guys, and the creepy moles who turn out to be Necessarily Evil and willing to switch sides. | |
Rango / int_e993da98 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e993da98 | |
Rango / int_e9e35e8f | type |
Exact Words | |
Rango / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: Tortoise John (who has Beans hostage) tells Rango to "hand over the gun". Rango has no choice but to do exactly as he says, and hands over the gun... without the bullet inside. Also, the owl mariachi band leader saying Rango is definitely going to die. Well, he is... Everyone does eventually... | |
Rango / int_e9e35e8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_e9e35e8f | |
Rango / int_ea8fd9af | type |
Acquaintance Denial | |
Rango / int_ea8fd9af | comment |
Acquaintance Denial: Played for laughs. When Ms. Beans finds Rango stranded in the middle of the desert and offers him a ride to the town of Dirt, she then asks him who is, which sends him into a long tirade of the many epithets he calls himself note "Rango" isn't his actual name and it's long after meeting Beans that he starts calling himself "Rango". She promptly drops him off outside of town to avoid being seen with him because of that, and a few other of his mannerisms that weirded her out a little, and when he later calls out to her just outside of the town's general goods store, the shopkeeper asks if she knows him, she sheepishly denies it. | |
Rango / int_ea8fd9af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ea8fd9af | |
Rango / int_ead5a011 | type |
Twilight of the Old West | |
Rango / int_ead5a011 | comment |
Twilight of the Old West: The town is slowly dying, along with the old way of doing things. A big deal is made of traditionally Western figures fading into myth and the arrival of modernity. | |
Rango / int_ead5a011 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_ead5a011 | |
Rango / int_eaf8d438 | type |
Conversation Hog | |
Rango / int_eaf8d438 | comment |
Conversation Hog: After speaking with the bank manager, Mr. Merrimack, III, Beans goes to Rango, who has been newly appointed as sheriff of the town of Dirt, hoping to have him investigate the ongoing water shortage, which has been causing complete agricultural collapse and resulting in the loss of every ranch in the area, with Beans' ranch being the last holdout. As she tries to get his attention, Rango, being a bit of a ditz, gets distracted with signing autographs, talking about his new suit, and getting Angelique and Beans acquainted (even though they already know each other). Beans soon after gets fed up and gives Rango a very loud tongue-lashing. | |
Rango / int_eaf8d438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_eaf8d438 | |
Rango / int_eb99df21 | type |
Funny Animal | |
Rango / int_eb99df21 | comment |
Funny Animal: A subversion; the walking, talking, cowboy-hat-wearing animals still happen to realistically resemble their Real Life counterparts. Jake and Rango qualify for Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: most other folks wear clothes. Averted rather interestingly with the hawk, who doesn't talk despite displaying problem-solving intellect and an accessory (its metal beak), which is made even more confusing considering that the avian residents of Dirt have no problem talking. Given that its sole purpose in coming to town is to find food, it's unlikely that the hawk would be interested in starting a conversation. | |
Rango / int_eb99df21 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_eb99df21 | |
Rango / int_ee8807f9 | type |
LawOfConservationOfDetail | |
Rango / int_ee8807f9 | comment |
Law of Conservation of Detail: Pay attention to everything. Almost every plot element will come up again somewhere. See Chekhov's Armoury for more details. | |
Rango / int_ee8807f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_ee8807f9 | |
Rango / int_f19e8a55 | type |
Bad "Bad Acting" | |
Rango / int_f19e8a55 | comment |
Bad "Bad Acting": Rango and his posse disguise themselves as an acting troupe to arrest the mole clan. Given the lack of acting experience his posse seems to have, Hilarity Ensues. | |
Rango / int_f19e8a55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f19e8a55 | |
Rango / int_f23c26ab | type |
Food Slap | |
Rango / int_f23c26ab | comment |
Food Slap: Beans throws a glass of water in the Mayor's face when he tries to get her to sell her ranch. | |
Rango / int_f23c26ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f23c26ab | |
Rango / int_f2a5f7f2 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
Rango / int_f2a5f7f2 | comment |
Expospeak Gag: He means "follow the pipe". "If we was to hit the motherlode, being prospectors and such, where exactly do we deposit said annuity?" "We are experiencing a paradigm shift!" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f2a5f7f2 | |
Rango / int_f332d990 | type |
Too Much Information | |
Rango / int_f332d990 | comment |
Too Much Information: The posse's campfire discussion. | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f332d990 | |
Rango / int_f390cc4d | type |
Ennio Morricone Pastiche | |
Rango / int_f390cc4d | comment |
Ennio Morricone Pastiche: Hans Zimmer's soundtrack consists mostly of this! After all, the movie itself consists partially of one too. | |
Rango / int_f390cc4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_f390cc4d | |
Rango / int_f4c07cf8 | type |
A Pet into the Wild | |
Rango / int_f4c07cf8 | comment |
A Pet into the Wild: Rango starts out as someone's pet lizard, but then his tank falls off the back of their car and he's left stranded in the desert. | |
Rango / int_f4c07cf8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_f4c07cf8 | |
Rango / int_f51c5f3c | type |
Never Say "Die" | |
Rango / int_f51c5f3c | comment |
Never Say "Die": Averted, in spades. It can be quite surprising how many times death is either explicitly mentioned or threatened in a movie that was marketed towards kids. | |
Rango / int_f51c5f3c | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f51c5f3c | |
Rango / int_f56d2c81 | type |
Everyone Is Armed | |
Rango / int_f56d2c81 | comment |
Everyone Is Armed: The townspeople of Dirt may not have much, but they have guns... lots and lots of guns. | |
Rango / int_f56d2c81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_f56d2c81 | |
Rango / int_f5b7b990 | type |
Verbal Backspace | |
Rango / int_f5b7b990 | comment |
Verbal Backspace: | |
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Rango / int_f5b7b990 | |
Rango / int_f5e59782 | type |
A Real Man Is a Killer | |
Rango / int_f5e59782 | comment |
A Real Man Is a Killer: Or at least will not hesitate if he has to kill. | |
Rango / int_f5e59782 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f5e59782 | |
Rango / int_f5eda11 | type |
Mix-and-Match Critters | |
Rango / int_f5eda11 | comment |
Mix-and-Match Critters: According to a special on the DVD, Beans has the traits of at least two different lizards. To be fair, the character designers admitted that they were going for Rule of Cool on the species types. | |
Rango / int_f5eda11 | featureApplicability |
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Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f5eda11 | |
Rango / int_f604f64b | type |
Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
Rango / int_f604f64b | comment |
Dude, She's Like in a Coma: When Beans first freezes up, Rango sniffs her hair, then puts an arm around her shoulders til she snaps out of it. When she does it again later, he uses it as an opportunity to give her a little kiss on the cheek... and then it turns out that this time she was only pretending. The closest he'd come to a woman (or indeed another sentient being at all) inside his terrarium was a headless Barbie doll, so he doesn't have much of a reference pool for proper behavior. | |
Rango / int_f604f64b | featureApplicability |
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Rango / int_f604f64b | |
Rango / int_f61d4485 | type |
Waking Non Sequitur | |
Rango / int_f61d4485 | comment |
Waking Non Sequitur: Beans has occasional catatonic fits. When she snaps out of them, she never quite seems to be carrying on the same conversation she left off on. | |
Rango / int_f61d4485 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_f61d4485 | |
Rango / int_f6f2ff1 | type |
Insult Backfire | |
Rango / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Rango / int_f6f2ff1 | |
Rango / int_f7e540ee | type |
Ow, My Body Part! | |
Rango / int_f7e540ee | comment |
Ow, My Body Part!: "I think the metaphor broke my spleen." | |
Rango / int_f7e540ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_f7e540ee | |
Rango / int_f93d8d52 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Rango / int_f93d8d52 | comment |
Rango used to have a girlfriend, but she couldn't keep her head. | |
Rango / int_f93d8d52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rango / int_f93d8d52 | |
Rango / int_fa6cd5d7 | type |
Weird West | |
Rango / int_fa6cd5d7 | comment |
Weird West: Talking animals, prophetic dream sequences, spirits, walking cacti, and that giant, unexplained eyeball. | |
Rango / int_fa6cd5d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Rango / int_fa6cd5d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_fa6cd5d7 | |
Rango / int_fbc1a68d | type |
Low Clearance | |
Rango / int_fbc1a68d | comment |
Low Clearance: During the bat chase, Waffles tangles with one of the moles atop the wagon. The rodent has Waffles pinned, and it looks like it's all over for him until Rango accidentally blows up a rock spire, forming a low bridge. | |
Rango / int_fbc1a68d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Rango | hasFeature |
Rango / int_fbc1a68d | |
Rango / int_fbd285b7 | type |
Comically Missing the Point | |
Rango / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: One of the volunteers for the posse, Sgt. Turley, has an arrow through his eye, and Rango sheepishly points out, "You've, uh, got a little something in your eye there." Turley seems to think Rango is talking about his conjunctivitis, in the other eye. "Must be that immersive theater." | |
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Killing Intent | |
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Killing Intent: Rattlesnake Jake blows open Rango's Fake Ultimate Hero act by daring him to shoot him point-blank with a revolver, and observing Rango's terrified expression. As Jake puts it, "You got killer in your eyes, son? I don't see it." In the final confrontation, Rango again has Jake at gunpoint, and while the rattlesnake attempts to call it a bluff, he balks after getting a look at Rango's unflinching stare. | |
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Foe Romance Subtext | |
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Foe Romance Subtext: Jake's behaviour towards Beans. In his first appearance, Jake almost strangles her and licks her face. In another scene, he almost strangles her again. | |
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Wise Serpent | |
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Wise Serpent: Rattlesnake Jake, despite on the surface appearing to be just a vicious brute, proves to actually be highly intelligent. During their first encounter Jake utterly tears Rango apart purely through accurately psychoanalysing him as a fraud despite never having actually met, even forcing a loaded gun into his hand because he knows Rango doesn't have it in him to pull the trigger, and giving a public display that crushes his reputation. Likewise, even whilst panicking at the end, he almost immediately realises the "hawk" is a fake. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Rango used to have a girlfriend, but she couldn't keep her head. The Mayor is an avid golfer, having "played the game for years". When Rango learns where the Mayor got his inspiration, i.e. the land development of Las Vegas, one of the most prominent things seen is a golf course, where he most likely discovered the game. "Learned a thing or two" indeed — tips on his swing, no doubt. One for the tie-in video game, as Beans mentions in her first scene that her father was kidnapped by the people of Andromeda 5. Come the game, it turns out she was right. | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid: Rango enlists the aid of the mole family near the end. | |
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