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Wolfwalkers

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Wolfwalkers	label	Wolfwalkers
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Wolfwalkers	comment	Wolfwalkers is an Animated Fantasy-Adventure and the fourth film from Cartoon Saloon. It was co-directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart and is the third and final film of the studio's Irish Folklore Trilogy, after The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. It was released on September 12, 2020 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was later released to Apple TV+ on December 11, 2020.In the year 1650, Robyn Goodfellowe lives in the Irish town of Kilkenny with her father Bill, a hunter who has come from England to hunt wolves. Unwilling to be confined to the town like her father wants, the free-spirited Robyn runs across a pack of wolves led by a mysterious, wild young girl named Mebh Ã“g MacTÃre. Robyn soon learns that Mebh is a "Wolfwalker," a being whose spirit leaves their body when they sleep and becomes a wolf.Unfortunately, the forests are under threat by the fanatical Lord Protector, who is determined to tame the land and is willing to slaughter every wolf to do it. Things get complicated as Robyn's relationship with the Wolfwalkers becomes more personal.
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Wolfwalkers / int_124d7bce	type	Intimate Hair Brushing
Wolfwalkers / int_124d7bce	comment	Intimate Hair Brushing: After Robyn and Mebh steal some food and milk from two woodcutters, Robyn takes a moment to brush the leaves and twigs out of Mebh's hair, which shows how they're opening up and becoming friendlier with each other.
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Wolfwalkers / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Wolfwalkers / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: The members of KÃla, who provide several pieces of music for the soundtrack, appear as the band playing in the town at the beginning. According to the official artbook, various staff members who worked on the film included caricatures of themselves among the townsfolk during certain scenes.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1290b446	type	Whoosh in Front of the Camera
Wolfwalkers / int_1290b446	comment	Whoosh in Front of the Camera: When Robyn searches for Merlyn on a glade, a wolf gives her a scare by rushing by in the foreground. The wolf turns out to be Mebh.
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Wolfwalkers / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Wolfwalkers / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Par for the course of a children's film. While blood does appear in the form of Moll's chest wound and Bill's slash on his face. Even the soldiers are shown to be simply knocked over. Most prominent is a Wolfwalker's bite, which is powerful enough to tear off their victim's sleeve but leaves a semicircle of pink, bloodless carets on their arm underneath.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Wolfwalkers / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Bill is left completely distraught when he realizes that he failed to keep Robyn safe and she leaves him to help Mebh. Having no idea if she'll ever return, leaves him unable to resist being put into chains and led by the Lord Protector as he begins his raid on the forest. Bill only snaps out of it when he sees Robyn in mortal danger.
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Wolfwalkers / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Wolfwalkers / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The second trailer shows Bill's wolf form.
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Wolfwalkers / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Wolfwalkers / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: In-universe, Robyn and her father dance to a jaunty tune in town where the villagers sing refrains of, "Howls the wolf! Flees the wolf! Runs the wolf!" Just after, Robyn overhears some children singing a similar tune but with lyrics closer to, "Kill the wolf! Hunt the wolf! Slay the wolf!" Even Robyn, an aspiring wolf hunter, is perturbed by the maliciousness of lyrics.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1564892c	type	Now That's Using Your Teeth!
Wolfwalkers / int_1564892c	comment	Now That's Using Your Teeth!: When the Lord Protector takes another swing with his sword when Bill as a wolf lunges at him again, Bill successfully stops it with his teeth, breaking it when he closes his jaw.
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Wolfwalkers / int_15827a31	type	Morphic Resonance
Wolfwalkers / int_15827a31	comment	Morphic Resonance: Mebh keeps her green eyes and the dots tattooed under her eyes as a wolf, and her fur is only slightly darker than her hair as a human. Mebh's mother Moll, who Mebh strongly resembles, also keeps these traits in her wolf form. Downplayed with Robyn, who has blonde hair as a human, but grey and white fur as a wolf, though she keeps her blue eyes. It's the same case with Bill, who's also blond and blue-eyed; as a wolf he still has blue eyes and the fur on his cheeks resembles his sideburns, but his fur is black and grey instead.
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Wolfwalkers / int_15f42962	type	Parents in Distress
Wolfwalkers / int_15f42962	comment	Parents in Distress: Mebh tells Robyn that she's just waiting for her mother to return before they can leave but she's been gone in her wolf form for a while now. When Mebh learns the Lord Protector has caged her mother, she ignores both Moll and Robyn's pleas to flee because she won't leave her mother behind and instead goes to rally the wolfpack to storm the city and rescue her. Mebh leads the pack as far as the great tree just outside the city gates only to discover that Robyn has managed to free Moll herself.
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Wolfwalkers / int_16bab5ee	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Wolfwalkers / int_16bab5ee	comment	Punchclock Villain: Most of the soldiers and hunters are just doing their job, more or less. Bill starts off as an example.
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Wolfwalkers / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Wolfwalkers / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: Sean Og earns himself a stay in the stocks by complaining about the Lord Protector in this way. Perhaps in the future he will pay more attention to someone approaching him on horseback with a squad of fully armed and armored foot soldiers and horse-drawn carts in tow.
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Wolfwalkers / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Wolfwalkers / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Although Sean Og briefly alludes to the story at one point in the movie, the graphic novel adaptation goes into more detail about the origins of the Wolfwalkers, which was also made into a video to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day in 2021. When Saint Patrick came to Ireland as a missionary, they were a tribe with healing powers who would not give up the old ways for his new religion, and they would howl like wolves from the forest whenever he preached. In response, Saint Patrick made it so they they would walk as people by day and roam as wolves at night—though no one knows whether this was meant to be a blessing or a curse.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1aed264f	type	Happy Rain
Wolfwalkers / int_1aed264f	comment	Happy Rain: When Wolf Robyn and Wolf Mebh frolic around for the first time, it starts raining. Robyn enjoys feeling the raindrops on her new skin.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Wolfwalkers / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: When Robyn first finds the Wolfwalkers' den, she witnesses Mebh's wolf form return to her human body. The camera does an Extreme Close-Up of Mebh's face as her eyes snap open, scored by a sharp drumbeat. Also, when Robyn hides from the Lord Protector and eavesdrops on him talking to Moll, an intense brass sound plays when he spots her.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Wolfwalkers / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Robyn to Mebh. After finding Moll who charges Robyn with making sure Mebh leaves with the wolf-pack, Robyn confronts Mebh in the scullery and continues to insist that Mebh just needs to leave without ever telling her the instruction is coming directly from Moll. Knowing her mother is alive but captured, it's unlikely Mebh would have actually left, but at least she would not feel that Robyn betrayed her and Robyn would have more opportunity to reason with Mebh instead of events leading toward their Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure. Robyn to Bill. Robyn's protests to her father are quickly dismissed and she never stands her ground. When she finally decides to defiantly block Bill from shooting Moll in wolf form, she only says "[The Lord Protector]'s wrong, Father! All of this is wrong! Don't you see that?!", instead of explaining that she's now a Wolfwalker and that she understands the entirety of what's going on. When Bill gets distracted by the bell, Robyn has no more time to bring Bill up to date about the Wolfwalkers, and instead has to act quickly by freeing Moll, only leaving a terrified Bill an apology before the two of them escape. This poor communication leads to the tragic moment later where Bill, shoots Moll, in wolf form with a crossbow because he believes Robyn's life is in danger. Robyn to Bill. Round 2. With Mebh retreating into the forest after Moll's seriously injured spirit form, Robyn realizes she needs to go and help. She reveals herself as a Wolfwalker to her father and despite his pleas for her to stay with him, she falls asleep in his arms and releases her wolf form. However, she never once reassures her father that she will need to return to her body. So all poor Bill sees is his daughter collapse, a magical wolf forms, looks at him sadly and then flees into the forest thus leaving him to feel that she's just left to join the Wolfwalkers forever.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Wolfwalkers / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: Being bitten by a Wolfwalker will pass the "curse" of Saint Patrick onto you and the effects seem to take place immediately. Even though Mebh considers Robyn becoming a Wolfwalker "flipping great", she does point out that her mother had forbidden her from biting anyone.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Wolfwalkers / int_1dfd19f9	comment	During the climax of the movie, Bill also lets out a wolf-like growl when he activates his new Wolfwalker abilities after seeing that Robyn is about to be killed.
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Wolfwalkers / int_1ef7232d	type	Wild Child
Wolfwalkers / int_1ef7232d	comment	Being a Wild Child who's also a Wolfwalker, Mebh is prone to growling when she's angry or trying to be intimidating. She also tends to have a growl in her voice when she's particularly angry.
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Wolfwalkers / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Wolfwalkers / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: The soldiers' helmets cast the upper half of their faces in shadow, leaving only their mouths visible and their eyes unseen. Only on a few occasions are the shadows lightened and their eyes become visible.
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Wolfwalkers / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Wolfwalkers / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Several characters' names (like Mebh's mother Moll MacTÃre) aren't mentioned in the movie itself, though they're still listed in the credits. Bill Goodfellowe is never referred to by his first name in-story.
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Wolfwalkers / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Wolfwalkers / int_22cf536c	comment	Upon fleeing the den after Mebh taunts that the wolves are going to eat her, Robyn jumps through the waterfall and lands in the collecting pool. When she crawls out, she heads to the right to avoid Mebh and the wolves coming down the left side. Robyn is saved by Merlyn, who alerts her that she's now standing on a ledge and had almost fallen onto the spikes below. In the climax, this Chekhov's Gun fires as the Lord Protector meets his end falling off the very same ledge.
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Wolfwalkers / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Wolfwalkers / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The graphic novel adaptation adds some more details that weren't in the film. It has a written introduction that explains the origins of the Wolfwalkers, the rise of the Lord Protector and the coming of a hunter and his daughter. It also features an extra scene near the beginning where Moll tells Mebh that she's leaving her behind to find them a new place to live but promises to return.
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Wolfwalkers / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Wolfwalkers / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: The first time Robyn and Mebh properly meet in the Wolfwalker cave, the latter sends the wolves after a fearful Robyn to chase her down and mess with her. Towards the climax, when Robyn leaves the cave to hold off Cromwell's forces, Mebh sends her wolves after her. This time, she does so solemnly and with the intent the wolves follow her lead as their superior.
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Wolfwalkers / int_24c0675f	type	Chronically Killed Actor
Wolfwalkers / int_24c0675f	comment	Chronically Killed Actor: Bill Goodfellowe is voiced by Sean Bean, the poster child for this trope. His character starts a narrative trajectory toward death when he rebels against the Lord Protector. During the climax, they fight which leaves the Lord Protector pinned but able to see Bill's unconscious form. While struggling to free himself, the Lord Protector reaches his loaded pistol and aims it at Bill's head. In a stunning and welcome subversion, Robyn saves his life by shooting the pistol out of the Lord Protector's hand with her crossbow.
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Wolfwalkers / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Wolfwalkers / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: Despite the guards and gates, the town walls are easy to circumvent. The two guards stationed at the gate are either easily distracted or asleep and the bars have wide enough gaps for a girl or wolf to squeeze through. Robyn sneaks in and out of town through the gate, while Mebh climbs over the wall without being noticed. Moll, in wolf form, is able to successively leap from awnings to balconies to rooftops in order to reach the top guard wall and hop over with Robyn on her back.
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Wolfwalkers / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Wolfwalkers / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: At the climax, Robyn puts herself in front of a crossbow wielded by Bill intended to kill Moll as a wolf.
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Wolfwalkers / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Wolfwalkers / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Excluding the prologue and epilogue, the main story of the film takes place over the course of three days.
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Wolfwalkers / int_28766e5d	type	The Straight and Arrow Path
Wolfwalkers / int_28766e5d	comment	The Straight and Arrow Path: Being hunters, Bill and Robyn use crossbows. This sets them apart from the soldiers armed with muskets and halberds.
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Wolfwalkers / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Wolfwalkers / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: The four main characters Robyn, Mebh, Bill and Moll are shown to be the most conventionally attractive.
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Wolfwalkers / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Wolfwalkers / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The soldiers' firearms. On the one hand, they are cool-looking muskets. On the other hand, they are mid-17th Century muskets, which have poor accuracy and take time to reload, two drawbacks that the heroines and wolves use to their advantage several times. Whenever they run, they can easily throw off the soldiers' aim - and by the time the soldiers reload, they have already fled. During the final battle, they purposefully use the cover of the night to make the soldiers waste their shots, then attack them when they reload. Tellingly, the only times something is actually hit by a projectile, it's when Bill or Robyn use their more primitive, but also more accurate, crossbows.
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Wolfwalkers / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Wolfwalkers / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Mebh gets uncomfortably close to becoming this trope near the climax. She gets so torn up with anger and grief over her mother being caged that she vows to get the wolf pack to invade the town and eat the villagers.
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Wolfwalkers / int_2c8a5305	type	Visible Odor
Wolfwalkers / int_2c8a5305	comment	Visible Odor: "Wolf Vision" is represented by most of the background graying out while things the wolves can smell are colored and have trails of that color.
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Wolfwalkers / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Wolfwalkers / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Mebh makes a few remarks in Irish, usually just repeating herself in English afterwards.
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Wolfwalkers / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
Wolfwalkers / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: Bill's greatest fear is being separated from his daughter, either by losing her or one of them being taken prisoner. When Robyn reveals she's a Wolfwalker and needs to go help Moll and Mebh, Bill begs her not to. However, Robyn releases her wolf form and leaves her human body in his care.
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Wolfwalkers / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Wolfwalkers / int_381855db	comment	When the Lord Protector points his pistol at Bill's unconscious body you can see that Robyn is gone, setting up a Five-Second Foreshadowing that she's the one who fires the crossbow.
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Wolfwalkers / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
Wolfwalkers / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Implied. From what little dialogue we get, Robyn's mother was a patient and understanding parent in life. When Bill refuses to even listen to Robyn's idea of letting the wolfwalkers leave peacefully, Robyn sadly remarks her mother would've listened.
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Wolfwalkers / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Wolfwalkers / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Certainly the way the Lord Protector views his end as he makes peace with his God before voluntarily plunging into a ravine rather than endure an uncertain fate in the jaws of a giant, devilish wolf. While he essentially just commits suicide, his final prayer makes it clear that he considers himself dying as a martyr.
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Wolfwalkers / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Wolfwalkers / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Played with. The environmentalist and social themes of the film are somewhat undermined by the fact that the Wolfwalkers' primary goal is to take the pack and their families deeper into the wilderness, avoiding having to learn to coexist with civilization or reconciling with a society that doesn't accept them. Mebh is only staying behind because she's waiting for her mother to come back, but in doing so befriends and changes the mind of a hunter's daughter.
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Wolfwalkers / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
Wolfwalkers / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Being just a child, Mebh's main trauma comes from her mother's prolonged absence. When she learns her mother is being held captive by the Lord Protector, all that matters is to free her even though Moll, fearing for Mebh's safety, wants her to leave the area and take the wolves with her. She believes Robyn is betraying her because she knew of Moll's capture and seems unwilling to help. After Mebh's initial attempt to free her mother fails, she intends to summon the wolves to attack and eat the townsfolk rather than leave without her mother. While the audience can connect with a child's desire to free her mother, Mebh's impulsiveness causes more harm than good. Had she carried forth with her plan to attack the town, there would have been significant casualties on both sides. As it is, the Lord Protector is able to use Mebh's threat to rally the townsfolk and heads out with an increased motivation to destroy the forest and the wolf pack with fire, muskets, and cannons.
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Wolfwalkers / int_447f9fa5	type	Remote, Yet Vulnerable
Wolfwalkers / int_447f9fa5	comment	Remote, Yet Vulnerable: A Wolfwalker's human body is unconscious and completely defenseless while their spirit runs around as a wolf. For most of the story, they are safely in their beds, but in the climax the Lord Protector realizes that the wolf he is dueling with is a transformed Bill, and aims a pistol at his human body. Luckily, Robyn stops the Lord Protector from shooting him in the nick of time.
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Wolfwalkers / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
Wolfwalkers / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: Both Mebh and her mother have three dots underneath their eyes and a brown stripe along the length of their nose that they retain even in wolf form.
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Wolfwalkers / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Wolfwalkers / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: The Lord Protector has no compunction ordering Bill clapped in irons for what he perceives as failures with threats to "deal" with him.
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Wolfwalkers / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Wolfwalkers / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Pretty much the entire movie as even the scenes in the town have a rustic, medieval woodcarving aesthetic to them. But the artistry really shines anytime they are in the forest. Top marks go to the Wolfwalker's den behind the vines with its majestic waterfall, collection pool, and Celtic inscriptions everywhere.
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Wolfwalkers / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Wolfwalkers / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: During the film's climax, Robyn shoots the Lord Protector's pistol out of his hand with a crossbow.
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Wolfwalkers / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Wolfwalkers / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: In the climax, the Lord Protector comes across a stunned wolf and intends to kill it with his sword. As he moves toward it, the scene shifts to the wolf on the ground and his sword makes the complimentary metallic sound simply by bringing the sword into frame even though it is already drawn and being held in mid-air.
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Wolfwalkers / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Wolfwalkers / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The Lord Protector tries to burn down the entire forest and hunts the wolves with cannons because his demonstration of superiority over Moll didn't go well. Mebh comes close to this, nearly leading the wolves to attack and eat the whole town to try and rescue her mother and take revenge. It's clearly the actions of a grieving, angry young girl rather than actual malice, and fortunately, the circumstances resolve before things go too far.
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Wolfwalkers / int_50c23153	type	Cave Behind the Falls
Wolfwalkers / int_50c23153	comment	Cave Behind the Falls: There is an entryway hidden by vines that are enchanted to only let wolves and Wolfwalkers pass. This opens into a glen that contains a gorgeous waterfall and the wolfwalkers have established their den in a cave behind those falls.
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Wolfwalkers / int_51882a24	type	Eyedscreen
Wolfwalkers / int_51882a24	comment	Eyedscreen: Happens whenever Bill gets angry. Like, beastly angry. Downplayed as part of a sequence after Bill yells at Robyn when she makes another desperate attempt to convince him not to kill Moll as a wolf after the Lord Protector declares to attack the forest. After Bill yells at her, the letterboxes slowly start to close in, and in the process, we get a shot of Bill's angry eyes looking down at Robyn, meeting her tearful eyes, though his face takes much more of the space than the letterboxes. The letterboxes appear to be painted on to convey emotional intensity, and they continue to close in after this, as Bill prepares to execute Moll. At least, until Robyn comes to a realization, lets her hair down and prevents the execution. It happens during the climax when Bill yells at the Lord Protector not to kill Robyn as a wolf when he raises his sword. The letterboxes closes in when he yells again, swiftly this time, until we just see black, to symbolize Bill's completed transformation into becoming a literal (and in a way, metaphorical) beast.
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Wolfwalkers / int_51ecf708	type	Self-Disposing Villain
Wolfwalkers / int_51ecf708	comment	Self-Disposing Villain: During the climax, when Bill in wolf form has the Lord Protector pinned in his jaws at the edge of a broken bridge, it's unclear how the situation will play out. However, the Lord Protector decides it's Better to Die than Be Killed and slips free falling to his death, making it a moot point. However, the Lord Protector's final prayer makes it clear that he sees himself dying as a martyr against the pagan hordes.
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Wolfwalkers / int_5360c039	type	Karmic Transformation
Wolfwalkers / int_5360c039	comment	Karmic Transformation: Robyn starts out as a wannabe wolf hunter, only to be turned into a Wolfwalker when she gets bitten by Mebh while hunting. Later on Bill, who himself had been hunting wolves, gets bitten by Moll and, well, you should know how that goes.
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Wolfwalkers / int_539179db	type	Synchronization
Wolfwalkers / int_539179db	comment	Synchronization: For a Wolfwalker, any wounds or injuries sustained in their wolf form will be mirrored on their human form. It's notably seen when Moll gets shot and when Bill gets slashed across the face in wolf form, resulting in an identical cut, on their human face. It's implied that this works in reverse as the Lord Protector aims his pistol at Bill's unconscious body, but Robyn successfully shoots the pistol out of his hand before this is put to the test.
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Wolfwalkers / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
Wolfwalkers / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: Bill begs this to Robyn's unconscious body while he's being dragged along during the Lord Protector's invasion of the forest. As Mebh struggles to heal her mother, she begs her unconscious form to tell her what to do.
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Wolfwalkers / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Wolfwalkers / int_562abd51	comment	For most of the story, Robyn wears her hair in braids to show that she's restrained by the society she was born in. When working in the scullery, she covers her hair with a bonnet like the other workers there, showing how she's forced to stifle herself even more. During Robyn's dream on the night she transforms into a wolf for the first time, her dream self's hair being loose gives a feeling that she's a free and good-willed spirit waiting to be unleashed. When Bill attempts to execute Moll, Robyn lets her hair down from her bonnet and wears it loose like she did in her dream, showing she's freeing herself, and stops the execution.
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Wolfwalkers / int_564caaae	type	Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure
Wolfwalkers / int_564caaae	comment	Robyn to Mebh. After finding Moll who charges Robyn with making sure Mebh leaves with the wolf-pack, Robyn confronts Mebh in the scullery and continues to insist that Mebh just needs to leave without ever telling her the instruction is coming directly from Moll. Knowing her mother is alive but captured, it's unlikely Mebh would have actually left, but at least she would not feel that Robyn betrayed her and Robyn would have more opportunity to reason with Mebh instead of events leading toward their Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure.
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Wolfwalkers / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Wolfwalkers / int_56515a39	comment	While there's some artistic license taken, the backdrop of the film was heavily informed by the real Oliver Cromwell's conquest of Ireland during the 17th century and the mass extermination of wolves during his reign. At that point, anti-wolf sentiment in Ireland really was at an all-time high, and this would eventually lead to wolves becoming completely extinct there (the last wolf in Ireland is said to have been killed in 1786). Bill, a hunter from England moving to Ireland to wipe out the wolves by the Lord Protector's orders, alludes to how English authorities encouraged their own professional hunters to go to Ireland to kill them; they viewed the idea of armed Irish hunters roaming the countryside and hunting wolves as a threat, due to the ongoing conflict between the Irish and the new English settlers.
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Wolfwalkers / int_56563927	type	Noble Wolf
Wolfwalkers / int_56563927	comment	Noble Wolf: While the townsfolk and the Lord Protector view them as savage beasts that need to be wiped out, the wolves are actually brave and noble creatures who protect their own.
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Wolfwalkers / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
Wolfwalkers / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: The destruction of the forest is portrayed as devastating to the animals that live there as well as the people who see it as integral to their way of life, while the nature-less city is depicted as cruel and stifling. In addition, the destruction of nature is shown to be a form of colonial violence, driven by a narrow-minded worldview that sees said nature-less civilization as righteous and seeks to impose that on others by force.
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Wolfwalkers / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Wolfwalkers / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: On several occasions, to the left of the magic vines protecting the Wolfwalker's den we see a broken-down, weed-encrusted vardo wagon. By the end of the film, the wagon is fixed, fully restored and being put to good use.
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Wolfwalkers / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Wolfwalkers / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: When Bill has the Lord Protector pinned at the edge of a broken bridge with sharp rocks at the bottom, he chooses to die a martyr rather than whatever fate Bill has planned by unbuckling his breastplate and slipping free, falling to his death.
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Wolfwalkers / int_5c1e750e	type	Mouthscreen
Wolfwalkers / int_5c1e750e	comment	Mouth Screen: When Mebh overhears some townspeople talking about the beast the Lord Protector is planning to put on display, the camera focuses on their mouths, full of warts and bad teeth, to emphasize the nastiness of their words.
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Wolfwalkers / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Wolfwalkers / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Protection vs Loss of Freedom. Bill wants to protect Robyn from the dangers of hunting wolves and the consequences of constantly defying the Lord Protector. However, Robyn points out that his restrictions make her feel she's already in a cage. Moll, in her wolf form, wants to be free but also wants her daughter to be safe and when Robyn can't open her cage in time, she sacrifices her own freedom and commands Robyn to leave her and tell Mebh to lead the wolf pack away from danger. The Lord Protector feels divinely tasked with protecting those under his command from wolves, savagery, and (presumably) damnation, but it's clear that he does not care a bit whether his rule strips them of their freedom.
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Wolfwalkers / int_5eb92325	type	Declaration of Protection
Wolfwalkers / int_5eb92325	comment	Declaration of Protection: Bill's overprotective behavior is partly driven by his promise to his deceased wife to keep Robyn safe.
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Wolfwalkers / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Wolfwalkers / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Robyn brushes Mebh's hair, it gets caught on her brush and springs away from it to become a mess. Pausing at that moment shows just how messy Mebh's hair is◊; it's not only full of leaves, but bones and live animals such as a bird and some mice. Any time Wolf Robyn crashes into Wolf Mebh and they form a ball, the look on Mebh's face on each rotation is priceless. One of the best is the bugged-eye look on Mebh just after Wolf Robyn leaps across the gully and smashes into her during the "I'm running with wolves tonight" montage seen here◊.
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Wolfwalkers / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Wolfwalkers / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: There's a gang of children in the town that bully Robyn for being English, and later cage Mebh as part of a game even though they don't even know her.
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Wolfwalkers / int_6382334a	type	Converse with the Unconscious
Wolfwalkers / int_6382334a	comment	Converse with the Unconscious: After Robyn and Mebh become friends, there's a scene where Mebh talks to her mother Moll's unconscious human body about the new friend she made, but this soon gives way to Mebh wondering why Moll hasn't returned in her wolf form yet. This reveals that for all Mebh's boisterous and confident nature, she's still very worried about her mother's disappearance and desperately wants her to come back.
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Wolfwalkers / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Wolfwalkers / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: When Robyn and Mebh first meet, Robyn is a vulnerable and frightened human girl, while Mebh is the brave Wolfwalker who prefers being a wolf over being human and boldly leads her wolves through the forest. In the climax, the tables are turned. Mebh has to be in her human form in order to heal her wounded mother properly, she's frightened of losing the only family she has left, and she's vulnerable to the Lord Protector's army as they close in on her den. Meanwhile, Robyn has grown into her role as a Wolfwalker and embraced her wolf side, bravely and boldly leading the wolves into battle against said army.
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Wolfwalkers / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
Wolfwalkers / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: Between the two woodcutters that Robyn and Mebh mess with, when Mebh steals their food and each of them thinks the other took it. Laughing at their silliness is the first time the girls start to bond together.
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Wolfwalkers / int_68e0e408	type	Be the Ball
Wolfwalkers / int_68e0e408	comment	Be the Ball: During Robyn's first night as a wolf, she crashes into Mebh twice, turning them into a ball bouncing down a slope.
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Wolfwalkers / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
Wolfwalkers / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy: The story takes place in and around Kilkenny in the year 1650, when Ireland was being actively colonized by England. The fantasy elements all revolve around the Wolfwalkers, with their ability to become wolves and their healing powers.
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Wolfwalkers / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Wolfwalkers / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Wolfwalkers normally need to be asleep to let their spirits become wolves. Although it helped that Bill was straining against his neck chain to the point of passing out, his sheer paternal need to protect his daughter from the Lord Protector allows him to shift into his wolf form in the nick of time.
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Wolfwalkers / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Wolfwalkers / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Throughout the story, Bill tries to keep his daughter safe even though it often means denying her to do what she wishes and often makes her unhappy. He keeps telling her that this is "for your own good". Later, when Robyn pledges to Moll that she will keep Mebh safe, she finds it's more of a burden than she expected and has to trick the town kids into caging Mebh to keep her from threatening the Lord Protector. With her heart breaking, Robyn tells Mebh that it's "for your own good" knowing that Mebh doesn't fully realize how dangerous the situation is.
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Wolfwalkers / int_6d58a2eb	type	Involuntary Shapeshifting
Wolfwalkers / int_6d58a2eb	comment	Involuntary Shape Shifting: While not exactly a shape-shift, a Wolfwalker's spirit leaves their body and manifests as a physical wolf any time their human body falls unconscious, even when it would be detrimental to their safety to do so. The first night Robyn turns into a wolf left her so panicked she tries to control the change by staying awake for the rest of the night, which leaves her sleep-deprived the next day.
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Wolfwalkers / int_6dbd3711	type	Affectionate Gesture to the Head
Wolfwalkers / int_6dbd3711	comment	Affectionate Gesture to the Head: When Robyn is playfully pinned by Mebh after being pushed out the den, Robyn asks Mebh if all the other wolves are also Wolfwalkers, which Mebh denies. As she does, she aggressively rubs Robyn's hair with both hands, making it even messier than before.
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Wolfwalkers / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
Wolfwalkers / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: The Lord Protector commits suicide by unbuckling his breastplate.
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Wolfwalkers / int_71c5c7df	type	Wolves Always Howl at the Moon
Wolfwalkers / int_71c5c7df	comment	Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: The moon is full during Robyn and Mebh's first night together as wolves, and they both howl along with the wolf pack while silhouetted against it.
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Wolfwalkers / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Wolfwalkers / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "There's two of us now", which is said by Mebh more than once when she's convinced that Robyn can help her find her missing mother. Towards the end of the film, Robyn says those words back to Mebh, showing that she's committed to helping Mebh save her mother without anything holding her back. "It's for your own good." Said by Bill repeatedly throughout the film to justify keeping Robyn in the town and having her work in the scullery, in an attempt to keep her safe. And then Robyn says it to Mebh when she's literally trapping her in a cage in order to prevent her from going after her mother.
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Wolfwalkers / int_76a0b98c	type	Extreme Close-Up
Wolfwalkers / int_76a0b98c	comment	When Robyn first finds the Wolfwalkers' den, she witnesses Mebh's wolf form return to her human body. The camera does an Extreme Close-Up of Mebh's face as her eyes snap open, scored by a sharp drumbeat.
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Wolfwalkers / int_77550b4f	type	Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack
Wolfwalkers / int_77550b4f	comment	Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack: Most of the original music for the film uses two principal motifs, a down-up-down-up-down and four-note descending scale followed by a higher up-down-up, in various ways to create different moods.
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Wolfwalkers / int_77aedc5c	type	Horse of a Different Color
Wolfwalkers / int_77aedc5c	comment	Horse of a Different Color: Mebh and Robyn are small enough to ride regular wolves. During the climax, Wolf Robyn offers Mebh a ride on her back and Robyn escapes the town riding on Wolf Moll.
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Wolfwalkers / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Wolfwalkers / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Mebh is pretty defensive when Robyn so much as suggests her mother could ever be captured. But upon apology, Robyn unintentionally asks such a question: "How long has she been gone?" Uncomfortable with the implication that she has been alone all this time, Mebh never answers the question and instead worriedly insists her mother will return soon.
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Wolfwalkers / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Wolfwalkers / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: Was adapted into a graphic novel by Sam Sattin. While it's mostly a Film Comic, it also has an original introduction that's illustrated by Tomm Moore.
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Wolfwalkers / int_7e680062	type	Aspect Ratio Switch
Wolfwalkers / int_7e680062	comment	Aspect Ratio Switch: While most of the film is in 1.85:1, the aspect ratio changes to widescreen or closes in horizontally during intense or cinematic moments like the climactic battle between Bill and the Lord Protector. The picture goes to Full-Screen during moments of distress with Robyn in the scullery.
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Wolfwalkers / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Wolfwalkers / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bill puts an arrow into a wolf he fears is threatening Robyn. Unfortunately it was Moll, in wolf form, who had just been rescued and was reconnecting with Mebh.
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Wolfwalkers / int_7fe29ba6	type	Symbolism
Wolfwalkers / int_7fe29ba6	comment	Symbolism: There's a constant theme of cages in the story. Every time Bill has to stifle his daughter's free spirit by "keeping her safe" in town, there seems to be a certain cage motif. She's either looking through bars of some sort or through a window that resembles a cage. The helmets of the foot soldiers look like tiny cages to reflect that, even outside the town, they're still trapped in Lord Protector's viewpoint and orders. The town is stylized to look like a flat gray square from a distance, like a cage. The Split Screen sequences set in the town are often framed with bars and chains. Bill and Robyn are both humans who live in town, and the more they acquiesce to the Lord Protector's restrictions, the more they're shown to be trapped in his cage. When Robyn forces Mebh into a cage, the shot is framed from Mebh's perspective, making it look as though Robyn is the one behind bars. Finally, after riding out of town on Wolf!Moll's back, it's Bill who's looking through the town gates, indicating that while Robyn has freed herself, Bill is still bound by his emotional turmoil over the thought of losing Robyn. For most of the story, Robyn wears her hair in braids to show that she's restrained by the society she was born in. When working in the scullery, she covers her hair with a bonnet like the other workers there, showing how she's forced to stifle herself even more. During Robyn's dream on the night she transforms into a wolf for the first time, her dream self's hair being loose gives a feeling that she's a free and good-willed spirit waiting to be unleashed. When Bill attempts to execute Moll, Robyn lets her hair down from her bonnet and wears it loose like she did in her dream, showing she's freeing herself, and stops the execution. After breaking off their friendship, Robyn sadly closes a door behind her as she resumes her chores at the scullery, almost as though signifying she's shutting out her friendship with Mebh. Afterwards, Robyn looking down sadly at a puddle she's mopping as it reflects her tearful visage seems to be a metaphor for how severing her friendship with Mebh has left her so unhappy she could just cry herself a puddle of tears. The great tree at the edge of the woods not only acts as a meeting place for Mebh and Robyn, but also represents Mebh's friendship with Robyn. After Mebh declares war on the town and leaves, we next see her gathering her wolf army at the great tree, only it's been chopped down. The flower Robyn gives to Mebh also represents their friendship, especially as it was first given to Robyn as a gesture of affection by her father and Mebh fondly mentions it to her mother. Mebh crushes the flower and throws it away in anger when Robyn breaks her promise to help find her mother near the climax. In the epilogue, Bill places an identical flower in Moll's hair, suggesting their reconciliation and a potential relationship. The Lord Protector represents adult, level-headed, Control while Mebh is the counterpoint of wild, feral, childish Chaos. It makes sense that those two have the most dramatic clash in the story. Yet, while Mebh's desire to free her mother resonates with the emotions of the audience, her impulsive actions to achieve her goal realistically cause more harm than good. Had she been able to attack the city as planned there would have been significant casualties on both sides. As it is, while her actions initially provoked fear in the townspeople, the Lord Protector is able to quickly reassert control and go on to attack the forest with fire, bullets and cannons. The differing artstyles of the town and the forest contrast the rigid, blocky shapes of a tightly-controlled society with the interconnected swirls and softer lines of nature. This is also reflected in the character designs, either aligned with a society that restricts their freedom and sharply defines who they are or with a dynamic, life-affirming wildness that flows and weaves and changes shape rather than remain static. Sean Og starts off as the only human character who knows the Wolfwalkers are real, and is the most vocal that they shouldn't be cutting the forest down. He's caged and chained up by the Lord Protector for his trouble, and he spends most of the film in the stocks. At the end of the film, after the Lord Protector has been dealt with, he opens the iron gates of the city walls so the townsfolk can step outside to appreciate the beauty of the forest being healed by pagan magic and the chorus of the wolves. Essentially, Sean Og frees the townsfolk from the narrow worldview and learned helplessness imposed on them by the Lord Protector.
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Wolfwalkers / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
Wolfwalkers / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care: Robyn handles her pet falcon, Merlyn, without a falconer's glove, though she had one in early concept art. Merlyn will also occasionally sit on Robyn's shoulder instead of her arm, which is not recommended in real life; hunting birds always need to be held away from the face, since they could instinctively Go for the Eye.
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Wolfwalkers / int_85c7446b	type	Collateral Damage
Wolfwalkers / int_85c7446b	comment	Collateral Damage: Robyn targets an approaching wolf with her crossbow but a sheep pushes her so that the arrow gets redirected and hits Merlyn instead.
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Wolfwalkers / int_86210fed	type	Angry Animalistic Growl
Wolfwalkers / int_86210fed	comment	In the climax, Bill yells this which is mixed with a wolf-like growl as the Lord Protector is about to execute his daughter, activating his Wolfwalker abilities.
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Wolfwalkers / int_8687f945	type	What Were You Thinking?
Wolfwalkers / int_8687f945	comment	What Were You Thinking?: Said by Bill to Robyn after he saved her from a pack of wolves.
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Wolfwalkers / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
Wolfwalkers / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: Robyn and Mebh start off hostile and distrusting of each other, but quickly bond over being free-spirited little girls who enjoy running, playing, and messing around. They then bond over their shared dislike of town life, love of running free out in the forest, and the fact that they both have only one parent they can count on.
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Wolfwalkers / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
Wolfwalkers / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: Wolf Robyn dodges an arrow fired at her by jumping over it in slow motion.
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Wolfwalkers / int_8d1df576	type	Eyes Are Mental
Wolfwalkers / int_8d1df576	comment	Downplayed with Robyn, who has blonde hair as a human, but grey and white fur as a wolf, though she keeps her blue eyes. It's the same case with Bill, who's also blond and blue-eyed; as a wolf he still has blue eyes and the fur on his cheeks resembles his sideburns, but his fur is black and grey instead.
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Wolfwalkers / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Wolfwalkers / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: While trying to slay all the wolves in the forest, the Lord Protector meets his demise in battle with Bill Goodfellowe, whom he belittled and chained and has now transformed into a giant wolf to protect his daughter.
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Wolfwalkers / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Wolfwalkers / int_912b24c4	comment	The differing artstyles of the town and the forest contrast the rigid, blocky shapes of a tightly-controlled society with the interconnected swirls and softer lines of nature. This is also reflected in the character designs, either aligned with a society that restricts their freedom and sharply defines who they are or with a dynamic, life-affirming wildness that flows and weaves and changes shape rather than remain static.
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Wolfwalkers / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Wolfwalkers / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Robyn is not as set in the ways of the adults around her and her curiosity and kindness leads her to develop a friendship with Mebh and seek a non-violent solution to a problem her elders only see as solvable with violence.
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Wolfwalkers / int_93b4b6e4	type	Stock Punishment
Wolfwalkers / int_93b4b6e4	comment	Sean Og starts off as the only human character who knows the Wolfwalkers are real, and is the most vocal that they shouldn't be cutting the forest down. He's caged and chained up by the Lord Protector for his trouble, and he spends most of the film in the stocks. At the end of the film, after the Lord Protector has been dealt with, he opens the iron gates of the city walls so the townsfolk can step outside to appreciate the beauty of the forest being healed by pagan magic and the chorus of the wolves. Essentially, Sean Og frees the townsfolk from the narrow worldview and learned helplessness imposed on them by the Lord Protector.
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Wolfwalkers / int_95df2bc3	type	Big Damn Reunion
Wolfwalkers / int_95df2bc3	comment	Big Damn Reunion: Mebh reuniting with her mother Moll after Robyn helps Moll escape from town is framed like this, with the two of them running towards each other and joyfully embracing while their astral forms (Mebh's in her wolf form, and Moll's in her human form) hang overhead and doing likewise. Unfortunately, they don't get to enjoy their reunion for long, since Moll is shot by Bill moments later.
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Wolfwalkers / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Wolfwalkers / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: A lot of Mebh's incredible friendliness with a "townie" that tried to kill her at first becomes a lot more understandable with the revelation that with her mother missing, Mebh also lost her only human connection and is extremely lonely. When the Lord Protector points his pistol at Bill's unconscious body you can see that Robyn is gone, setting up a Five-Second Foreshadowing that she's the one who fires the crossbow. When Mebh is joined by the wolf pack in trying to heal Moll, she is pushing so hard that the healing magic was spilling out of the den proper, illuminating the entire ravine and even starting to heal Bill's head wound, which gets smaller as the fight scene between him and the Lord Protector goes on. By the time he approaches Robyn, the wound has completely healed.
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Wolfwalkers / int_98bfd1ec	type	White Stallion
Wolfwalkers / int_98bfd1ec	comment	White Stallion: The Lord Protector is the only character who rides a horse, a well-armored white steed, when he goes south to quell an insurrection and later when he leads the soldiers into the wood for their final battle against the wolves. During the fight, the horse is shown badly wounded and unmoving after the cannon explodes. However, the script reveals that the white horse survived the battle and is shown drawing the vardo wagon in the epilogue.
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Wolfwalkers / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Wolfwalkers / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: During his attack on the forest, the Lord Protector is pinned at the edge of a broken bridge by Bill in his wolf form latching on to his breastplate with his teeth. Unable to free himself and seeing the Wolfwalker's den fill with glowing pagan inscriptions, he chooses to die quickly rather than at the jaws of what he believes is a wicked creature. He offers a final prayer that makes it clear he sees himself dying as a martyr and unbuckles his breastplate, which lets him fall to his death in the jagged rocks of the river below.
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Wolfwalkers / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
Wolfwalkers / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: The film is set in Ireland, but Robyn and Bill are from England and they both have distinctly Northern accents (Sean Bean uses his native Sheffield accent as Bill). This fits with their portrayal as working-class citizens trying to get by under the Lord Protector's strict rule, and their Northern accents also set them apart from the Lord Protector and his Received Pronunciation.
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Wolfwalkers / int_9b7a0921	type	Split Screen
Wolfwalkers / int_9b7a0921	comment	There's a constant theme of cages in the story. Every time Bill has to stifle his daughter's free spirit by "keeping her safe" in town, there seems to be a certain cage motif. She's either looking through bars of some sort or through a window that resembles a cage. The helmets of the foot soldiers look like tiny cages to reflect that, even outside the town, they're still trapped in Lord Protector's viewpoint and orders. The town is stylized to look like a flat gray square from a distance, like a cage. The Split Screen sequences set in the town are often framed with bars and chains. Bill and Robyn are both humans who live in town, and the more they acquiesce to the Lord Protector's restrictions, the more they're shown to be trapped in his cage. When Robyn forces Mebh into a cage, the shot is framed from Mebh's perspective, making it look as though Robyn is the one behind bars. Finally, after riding out of town on Wolf!Moll's back, it's Bill who's looking through the town gates, indicating that while Robyn has freed herself, Bill is still bound by his emotional turmoil over the thought of losing Robyn.
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Wolfwalkers / int_9d0b9603	type	Eye Cam
Wolfwalkers / int_9d0b9603	comment	Eye Cam: When entering "Wolf Vision" and thereby the Wolfwalkers' point of view, the transitions are often framed by a pair of eyelids blinking.
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Wolfwalkers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Wolfwalkers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Robyn's first meeting with the local children has her boldly stand up to their leader Padraig, only to cower when his posse close in on her. This sets up how Robyn will have to learn being unafraid of danger isn't the same thing as facing the danger, whether she's chased by wolves, trying to stand up to Cromwell or her father, or the climatic battle against Cromwell. When following Bill through the woods in the beginning, Robyn comes across a set of paw prints and places her hand on top of one. As Wolfwalker magic and runes make heavy use of human hands and wolf paws superimposed on one another, this clues in to her becoming one too. When Robyn is first threatened by wolves, an arrow flies in from behind her and hits a wolf in the shoulder, with her father not far behind. In the climax, this scene repeats except this time the victim is Moll. Upon fleeing the den after Mebh taunts that the wolves are going to eat her, Robyn jumps through the waterfall and lands in the collecting pool. When she crawls out, she heads to the right to avoid Mebh and the wolves coming down the left side. Robyn is saved by Merlyn, who alerts her that she's now standing on a ledge and had almost fallen onto the spikes below. In the climax, this Chekhov's Gun fires as the Lord Protector meets his end falling off the very same ledge. When Robyn asks if the wolves Mebh lives with are Wolfwalkers as well, Mebh gets a laugh out of the question, bemusedly responding "No! Jeepers, are you mad? How big do you think me family is?" By the end, Mebh's family does indeed grow a bit bigger, collectively made up of herself, Moll, the wolves, Robyn, Bill, and Merlyn. While cleaning up the house in order to better convince her father to help the Wolfwalkers and let the wolves leave the forest without killing them, Robyn acts out how she thinks the conversation will go, right down to her father praising her cleverness and claiming they'll go back to England, where everything will go back to normal. When Bill does return home, there are some parts of the conversation that aren't quite verbatim with what she predicted, including his refusal to promise he won't get angry. This is meant to signal that not only will the conversation not go as Robyn planned (as Bill does get angry that she went to the woods), but also how Robyn's life can't possibly return to the way it was before, now that she's a Wolfwalker. When Robyn transforms into a wolf for the first time, she sees a wolf in her dream, and when she blinks, she sees herself, with straight free-flowing hair wearing her scullery uniform rather than with the usual braids that she wears. Her dream form in the forest signifies the free spirit that's hiding inside her. When she accepts her true nature, she figuratively and literally becomes like her dream self, giving her the courage to stand up to her father and free Moll. During "Running with the Wolves", Robyn becomes too scared to jump with the rest of the wolves over the gully. After gazing sadly at each other, Mebh can only look worried as Robyn turns and runs back... only for Robyn to muster her courage and to jump over to her a few moments later. This foreshadows Robyn promising to help Mebh find her mother, only to renege on her promise when the danger becomes too real. However, Robyn eventually musters her courage to free Mebh's mother as she promised.
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Wolfwalkers / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
Wolfwalkers / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Done mostly out of fear, ignorance, and desperation than malice, but Bill seldomly listens to his daughter's concerns, not even when doing so could be beneficial for both of them or when it's clear she's tearfully begging him.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Wolfwalkers / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Bill says this nearly word-for-word in the climax while cradling Robyn's unconscious body while the soldiers are hunting her wolf form, regretting not listening to her and failing to keep her safe. Shortly afterwards, Bill is also confronted with the full consequences of shooting Moll, when he realizes he came dangerously close to making Mebh, a little girl, an orphan, and he clearly feels immensely guilty about it.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a1ca3743	type	Believing Their Own Lies
Wolfwalkers / int_a1ca3743	comment	Believing Their Own Lies: The Lord Protector seems to earnestly believe he's "protecting" the Irish from the wolves, savagery, and presumably damnation (just as he believes God would want).
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Wolfwalkers / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Wolfwalkers / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: After a heartwarming scene where Mebh and Moll are finally reunited and Mebh forgives Robyn since she helped to free Moll, the mood immediately shifts when Bill shoots Moll with his crossbow, mistaking her for a threat to Robyn.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Wolfwalkers / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: Downplayed with Robyn. While Robyn isn't a jerkass in personality per se, she makes pretty bad decisions when trying to follow a caged Moll's orders to tell Mebh to flee from Kilkenny. Robyn, paranoid from her responsibilities, does everything in her power to stop Mebh from learning about Moll. Robyn even relies on the local bullies to put Mebh in a cage when she sees Moll, alienating and breaking her further than Mebh already was. Robyn is shown not to be proud of this either. After Mebh prepares to attack Kilkenny and Bill shuts out her tearful pleas not to kill Moll, Robyn, after a bit of deliberation, gathers herself and decides to free Moll so that she can patch things up with Mebh and stop her from attacking.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a5e5c6d0	type	Aura Vision
Wolfwalkers / int_a5e5c6d0	comment	Aura Vision: In addition to the smells they can see, "Wolf Vision" allows people to physically see the alternate forms of Wolfwalkers. When Robyn is first bitten, she briefly sees human Mebh in place of her wolf form when she blinks.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a63fd70f	type	The Promise
Wolfwalkers / int_a63fd70f	comment	The Promise: Robyn promises to help Mebh find her missing mother so they can take the pack and leave together for somewhere safe. Through the film, Robyn has more and more trouble keeping her promise while Mebh treats it as an unbreakable oath that must be fulfilled and is deeply upset at any suggestion that Robyn won't keep her word. Luckily, Robyn eventually keeps her promise to help Mebh by helping Mebh heal Moll's arrow wound.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
Wolfwalkers / int_a6c677c4	comment	Not Hyperbole: After Mebh finds out that Robyn has become a Wolfwalker despite her attempt to heal Robyn's bite, she worriedly says that her mother's going to kill her (metaphorically speaking). Robyn points out that her own father will kill her (in wolf form) — and Bill definitely attempts to do so beforehand and later on, not realizing that the strange wolf who seemingly broke into his house is his own daughter.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Wolfwalkers / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Lord Protector's soldiers repeatedly fail to hit their targets, even at relatively close range and with massed fire, while Robyn and Bill are far more accurate with their crossbows. Justified in that the soldiers are using muskets which are notoriously inaccurate and the wolves are small, fast-moving targets.
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Wolfwalkers / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
Wolfwalkers / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: Robyn's first miserable day in the scullery is remarked by heavy rain falling. This not only shows how bad her day was, but also Bill's (finding more traps sprung) and Mebh's (disappointed at Robyn not showing up).
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Wolfwalkers / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Wolfwalkers / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: Robyn chooses to be good, forsaking the order of England in order to protect the wolves of Ireland against the Lord Protector's brutal campaign. At the end, so does Bill.
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Wolfwalkers / int_ac5fa94	type	Rotoscoping
Wolfwalkers / int_ac5fa94	comment	Rotoscoping: While not live-action, the Wolf Vision scenes were first blocked out in virtual reality, then the frames were printed out and drawn over in charcoal to give the animation a first-person effect.
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Wolfwalkers / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Wolfwalkers / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: When Robyn asks Bill why he keeps doing what the Lord Protector commands even though it's clearly wrong, he soberly explains to Robyn that it's because he's afraid. Since he won't always be around to protect her, he admits that he's afraid Robyn will end up in a cage because of her constant defiance. Her raw response shows Bill just how unhappy she is.
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Wolfwalkers / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Wolfwalkers / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Early on, Robyn is shown to be an excellent shot with her crossbow when she isn't too nervous to aim properly. Towards the end of the film, she uses Bill's crossbow to shoot the gun out of the Lord Protector's hand before he can use it to kill Bill's human body.
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Wolfwalkers / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Wolfwalkers / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Robyn accidentally gets herself caught up in a snare and Mebh, in her wolf form tries to free her. Robyn thinks Mebh is attacking and keeps struggling so that Mebh accidentally bites Robyn's arm while biting through the snare As she cradles her injured arm, Robyn sees Mebh's wolf form with an "oh crap" look and as the Wolfwalker curse/blessing takes effect, she also sees Mebh's human form with the same look because she realizes she just broke the one major rule her mother give her.
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Wolfwalkers / int_ae3a3b36	type	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
Wolfwalkers / int_ae3a3b36	comment	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: A non-lethal version. The mood briefly lightens when Mebh reunites with her mother after the escape from town. But mere moments later, Moll is shot by Bill out of nowhere in a major case of Mood Whiplash.
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Wolfwalkers / int_b06186c2	type	RoofHopping
Wolfwalkers / int_b06186c2	comment	Roof Hopping: Robyn escapes from her house this way while in wolf form, after her father tries to shoot her. Later on, Mebh also does this when she ventures into town to find Robyn.
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Wolfwalkers / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Wolfwalkers / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "Work is prayer," is as likely as not a shot against the Puritanical belief that hard work is a virtue while "sloth" is a sin. It's only ever uttered by adults while they're stifling Robyn's free spirit, and is often followed by montages of her being trapped in miserable, grueling, repetitive scut work. It very clearly shows that hours of hard work for its own sake doesn't build character or lead to godliness, but is just another way to strip people of freedom.
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Wolfwalkers / int_bd196e3c	type	No Escape but Down
Wolfwalkers / int_bd196e3c	comment	No Escape but Down: At the castle, when Robyn in wolf form is cornered by the Lord Protector, her only way of escape is to jump from a window into a river below.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Wolfwalkers / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": When Moll gets shot by Bill, Robyn responds with this. In the climax, Bill yells this which is mixed with a wolf-like growl as the Lord Protector is about to execute his daughter, activating his Wolfwalker abilities.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Wolfwalkers / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: According to the movie's art book, the woods is associated with safety despite being wilderness, while the town is heavily associated with danger in spite of its association with civilization. Even when Robyn's not a wolf, she and her father face threats in the town for so much as failing to follow Cromwell's orders.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Wolfwalkers / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Robyn reunites Mebh and her mother and earns her forgiveness, mending their friendship, and giving them a chance to take the pack and leave Kilkenny in peace. Everything is falling into place...until Bill shoots Moll's wolf form in the chest with an arrow, putting her life in jeopardy because Mebh can't heal the wound and forces a confrontation with the Lord Protector and his soldiers since they can't leave.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Wolfwalkers / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: Robyn tries to tell her father the truth about Wolfwalkers for a good portion of the story, but Bill doesn't take her seriously. At first he thinks they're part of his imaginative daughter's stories, and then he actively shuts her down as her reckless actions threaten to call down the wrath of the Lord Protector. However, after witnessing a gravely injured wolf Moll de-materialize into a spirit that floats away, and then his own daughter falls asleep in his arms to leave her body behind as a wolf, Bill sees the truth of what Robyn has been saying.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Wolfwalkers / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Mebh keeps her green eyes and the dots tattooed under her eyes as a wolf, and her fur is only slightly darker than her hair as a human. Mebh's mother Moll, who Mebh strongly resembles, also keeps these traits in her wolf form.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c6078997	type	New England Puritan
Wolfwalkers / int_c6078997	comment	New England Puritan: While set in Ireland instead of the New World, the dress, culture, and beliefs of the contemporary Puritan movement are evident, such as religious fundamentalism, rampant xenophobia, and buckled hats.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c64656d1	type	Mirror Reveal
Wolfwalkers / int_c64656d1	comment	Mirror Reveal: After Robyn becomes a Wolfwalker and leaves her human body as a wolf for the first time, she doesn't fully realize what's happened to her until she sees her reflection in the window next to her bed.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c6aec72c	type	Healing Magic Is the Hardest
Wolfwalkers / int_c6aec72c	comment	Healing Magic Is the Hardest: Mebh has no problem using her Healing Hands to fix minor injuries like bites and scratches. However, in the climax, Mebh struggles to heal the arrow wound in her mother's chest since she's never healed such a serious injury before, which drives much of the tension. Succeeding requires the power of the entire pack and other Wolfwalkers.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Wolfwalkers / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: While rummaging through Robyn's bag at one point, Mebh pulls out the Eye of Crom Cruach. According to the filmmakers, the scene where Robyn and Mebh run together as wolves was inspired by the running scene in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. The tapestry hung above the stage when the Lord Protector attempts to tame the wolf was created by concept artist Alice DieudonnÃ© during pre-production to echo illustrations of Saint George and the Dragon, with the dragon replaced by a wolf.
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Wolfwalkers / int_c86a6f38	type	Cannon Fodder
Wolfwalkers / int_c86a6f38	comment	Cannon Fodder: Not shown, but threatened. As the Lord Protector's patience with Robyn's father wears thin, he orders Bill to either clear the forest of wolves, or he'll be "sent off to war," with the clear threat being that he'll die in battle as another common foot soldier.
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Wolfwalkers / int_ca27661f	type	Too Many Halves
Wolfwalkers / int_ca27661f	comment	Too Many Halves: One of the woodcutters describes Wolfwalkers as "half-wolf, half-witch, half-people".
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Wolfwalkers / int_cb71c461	type	Deus Exit Machina
Wolfwalkers / int_cb71c461	comment	Deus Exit Machina: As a fully grown and experienced Wolfwalker, Moll would have been very helpful in dealing with the events of the climax, but sustains a near-fatal wound before it even begins and is forced to sit it out.
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Wolfwalkers / int_cccfa535	type	Blindfolded Trip
Wolfwalkers / int_cccfa535	comment	Blindfolded Trip: After fixing Robyn up, Mebh blindfolds her and escorts her back to the town so she won't come back to her den, even though Robyn points out that she already found the den on her own. Mebh soon leaves her to pursue some "town tasties" and Robyn takes off the blindfold to chase after her instead.
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Wolfwalkers / int_cd6a97e	type	Caught in a Snare
Wolfwalkers / int_cd6a97e	comment	Caught in a Snare: Robyn's first encounter with Mebh's wolf form leads to her hanging by the foot in one. They return several times later in the story.
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Wolfwalkers / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Wolfwalkers / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The film seems light at first, but it also has a dark tone that becomes more evident as it goes on. In the first half, while there is a bit of drama involving Robyn and Bill's relationship, there's also a lot of light-hearted moments between Robyn and Mebh, who frolic by playing the forest, stealing bread (or "town tasties", as Mebh would say), and running as wolves by night. However, in its second half, the tone gets a lot more intense and the stakes a lot higher.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d00fa9ec	type	Myth Prologue
Wolfwalkers / int_d00fa9ec	comment	Myth Prologue: The graphic novel adaptation starts this way, telling the story of an Irish tribe who refused to convert to Saint Patrick's new religion and how Saint Patrick responded by making it so that they would become wolves when they slept, resulting in the origins of the Wolfwalkers.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Wolfwalkers / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Downplayed with the Lord Protector, but he's often shown keeping his horse on a very tight reign to demonstrate his Control Freak tendencies, whereas Merlyn and the Irish livestock look more relaxed and happy with their handlers. Likewise, the Lord Protector cages and chains what he thinks is a regular giant wolf, really Mebh's mom and subdues it with fire to demonstrate his control over it, and the townsfolk are portrayed as cruel and malicious for enjoying the show. His treatment of his horse in particular is juxtaposed by said steed being shown pulling the Wolfwalkers' wagon at the end, and looking much happier for it.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Wolfwalkers / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: When she's first introduced, Robyn fools around her house and does target practice instead of doing her chores. As soon as her father gets home, she grabs a broom and claims to have been doing her chores the entire time. As if to contradict her every point, the camera cuts to their house being an absolute mess and studded with arrows, including one through the front door. Bill plays along and gently reprimands her.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Wolfwalkers / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: A big part of Robyn's arc consists of her trying to gain the courage to say this to her father, in order to have him rethink following the Lord Protector's orders to kill all the wolves in the forest. Near the climax of the movie, Robyn finally gains the courage to question her father's actions after Bill readies himself to execute Moll, explicitly telling him that what he's doing is wrong, and it causes Bill to admit his fears of Robyn being punished by the Lord Protector. Robyn herself gets this from Mebh, who becomes angry with her for putting her in a cage in order to prevent her from going near Moll.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d4d775c9	type	My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
Wolfwalkers / int_d4d775c9	comment	My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: Robyn and Padraig have a quarrel about whose dad is the better hunter.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d7a5fa23	type	Symbolically Broken Object
Wolfwalkers / int_d7a5fa23	comment	Symbolically Broken Object: Done by Mebh when Robyn tells her to leave the forest with the wolves before the Lord Protector burns it all down, which she sees as Robyn breaking her promise to help her find her mother. She furiously grabs the flower in her hair that Robyn gave her and crushes it in her clenched hand before throwing it away and storming off.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
Wolfwalkers / int_d8afec40	comment	While cleaning up the house in order to better convince her father to help the Wolfwalkers and let the wolves leave the forest without killing them, Robyn acts out how she thinks the conversation will go, right down to her father praising her cleverness and claiming they'll go back to England, where everything will go back to normal. When Bill does return home, there are some parts of the conversation that aren't quite verbatim with what she predicted, including his refusal to promise he won't get angry. This is meant to signal that not only will the conversation not go as Robyn planned (as Bill does get angry that she went to the woods), but also how Robyn's life can't possibly return to the way it was before, now that she's a Wolfwalker.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Wolfwalkers / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Many soldiers sensibly run for it when faced with an entire pack of wolves attacking them intelligently in the dark and not being spooked by the forest on fire. Doesn't help when their leader is ranting about witchcraft and the devil's lair.
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Wolfwalkers / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Wolfwalkers / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: At one point when Mebh is rummaging through Robyn's belongings, she pulls out the Eye of Colm Cille from The Secret of Kells, another Cartoon Saloon film. There are some references made to Song of the Sea as well; Robyn mentions selkies (which Song of the Sea focuses on) in dialogue early on, Ben and Saoirse's shell flute can be seen in the wagon in the epilogue, and a promotional Halloween postcard◊ adds Mebh and Robyn to the bus in a scene from that film.
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Wolfwalkers / int_db4266d3	type	Sleep Deprivation
Wolfwalkers / int_db4266d3	comment	Sleep Deprivation: After her first time out as a Wolfwalker, Robyn is too scared to sleep since she will transform. It comes in handy near the climax, when she needs to assume her wolf form quickly, her exhaustion allows her to fall asleep easily.
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Wolfwalkers / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
Wolfwalkers / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: The Wilhelm Scream can be heard from a random soldier at the climax battle.
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Wolfwalkers / int_e2c91d45	type	Comfort Food
Wolfwalkers / int_e2c91d45	comment	Comfort Food: After it seems Robyn has broken her promise to help her find her mother, Mebh tearfully walks around town eating one of her favorite "town tasties" (bread) while sobbing, clearly trying to eat her sorrow away.
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Wolfwalkers / int_e4e49fa0	type	Letterbox
Wolfwalkers / int_e4e49fa0	comment	Downplayed as part of a sequence after Bill yells at Robyn when she makes another desperate attempt to convince him not to kill Moll as a wolf after the Lord Protector declares to attack the forest. After Bill yells at her, the letterboxes slowly start to close in, and in the process, we get a shot of Bill's angry eyes looking down at Robyn, meeting her tearful eyes, though his face takes much more of the space than the letterboxes. The letterboxes appear to be painted on to convey emotional intensity, and they continue to close in after this, as Bill prepares to execute Moll. At least, until Robyn comes to a realization, lets her hair down and prevents the execution.
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Wolfwalkers / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
Wolfwalkers / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills: Director Tomm Moore has admitted to being influenced by Studio Ghibli's works, so this is a given. There's particular emphasis on the contrast between the town of Kilkenny and the forest outside of it, with the forest being a wild, beautiful place that represents freedom while life in the town is strict and rigidly controlled.
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Wolfwalkers / int_e88d37c3	type	Too Unhappy to Be Hungry
Wolfwalkers / int_e88d37c3	comment	Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: Two nights in a row, Robyn becomes so upset with her father refusing to listen to her about the Wolfwalkers and insistance that she stay in the scullery, that she goes straight to bed without dinner.
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Wolfwalkers / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Wolfwalkers / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Kilkenny's real walls were a very rough quadrilateral with Kilkenny castle in one corner along a bend in the River Nore. In the film, the town is stylized as a perfect square with the castle centered along the wall facing the river, which is also depicted as straight. This reinforces the image of the town as a flat, unnatural object oppressing everything else in the landscape.
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Wolfwalkers / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Wolfwalkers / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Twice during the climax. First Bill in his new wolf form saves an unconscious Robyn from a Coup de GrÃ¢ce, and later she returns the favor by shooting the Lord Protector's pistol out of his hand when he threatens Bill with it.
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Wolfwalkers / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
Wolfwalkers / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: The people of Kilkenny despise the "Lord Protector" and barely try to conceal it. He's often away to quell uprisings in other parts of the country, and barely keeps the townsfolk in line with intimidation and promises to eradicate the local wolves. Truth in Television, as the real-life Oliver Cromwell was not a well-liked figure in Ireland.
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Wolfwalkers / int_edad345f	type	Evil Is Angular
Wolfwalkers / int_edad345f	comment	Evil Is Angular: Characters like the Lord Protector and locations like the town are depicted with straight, angular lines, in direct contrast to the circles and curves of the Wolfwalkers and the forest. While most of the townsfolk aren't necessarily "evil", the angular style they're drawn in still reflects how they've conformed to the town's strict lifestyle and their ignorant fear of the wolves.
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Wolfwalkers / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
Wolfwalkers / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": Merlyn the merlin.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f1356f5e	type	Speaks Fluent Animal
Wolfwalkers / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: Mebh often communicates with the wolves she lives with, and a later scene shows that she can understand Merlyn as well. Robyn also talks to Merlyn often, but it's not clear if she can actually understand him before she becomes a Wolfwalker.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Wolfwalkers / int_f36c4f98	comment	A lot of Mebh's incredible friendliness with a "townie" that tried to kill her at first becomes a lot more understandable with the revelation that with her mother missing, Mebh also lost her only human connection and is extremely lonely.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f44ea9dc	type	Howl of Sorrow
Wolfwalkers / int_f44ea9dc	comment	Howl of Sorrow: While Mebh usually howls to communicate with the wolf pack or use her healing magic, this trope comes into play when Moll has been shot by Bill and Mebh howls in grief and anguish while making a desperate attempt to heal her.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f50b1e05	type	Shoo the Dog
Wolfwalkers / int_f50b1e05	comment	Shoo the Dog: Robyn attempts to free Merlyn into the wild when she feels unable to help Mebh or Moll, urging him to tell Mebh to leave the forest with the pack and go with her to somewhere safer. Merlyn's expression makes clear that he doesn't want to leave Robyn, and he later leads Mebh into town to confront Robyn instead.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
Wolfwalkers / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: During both days Robyn has to work as a Scullery Maid, there's a montage of her doing various chores. Unlike most examples, these montages aren't played positively, since the work is shown to be long and monotonous and Robyn is clearly unhappy while doing it.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Wolfwalkers / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: This is the only movie in Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy that doesn't have an overt Bittersweet Ending. Despite the historical changes the story introduced, the creators intended a touch of melancholy at the end since they feel that the displaced wolves will still one day disappear from Ireland entirely. However, the ending is mostly hopeful for the main characters after everything they've been through. The Lord Protector is dead, his forces are routed and the Wolfwalkers still have each other, setting out with the wolf pack to find a new home. It's implied Bill and Moll end up together and Robyn and Mebh are last seen racing together as wolves in the daylight, happy and free to be themselves.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f7bbca8c	type	Thwarted Coup de Grâce
Wolfwalkers / int_f7bbca8c	comment	Thwarted Coup de GrÃ¢ce: The Lord Protector raises his sword over his head to kill Robyn in her wolf form. Cue Bill, who's become a Wolfwalker himself slamming into the Lord Protector knocking the sword out of his hand.
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Wolfwalkers / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
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Wolfwalkers / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: While there's some artistic license taken, the backdrop of the film was heavily informed by the real Oliver Cromwell's conquest of Ireland during the 17th century and the mass extermination of wolves during his reign. At that point, anti-wolf sentiment in Ireland really was at an all-time high, and this would eventually lead to wolves becoming completely extinct there (the last wolf in Ireland is said to have been killed in 1786). Bill, a hunter from England moving to Ireland to wipe out the wolves by the Lord Protector's orders, alludes to how English authorities encouraged their own professional hunters to go to Ireland to kill them; they viewed the idea of armed Irish hunters roaming the countryside and hunting wolves as a threat, due to the ongoing conflict between the Irish and the new English settlers. The giant oak tree that Robyn and Mebh use as a meeting place is lined by a circular stone wall. This is based on ringforts common throughout Ireland, used to protect livestock. The runes and wall carvings in the Wolfwalkers' den are based on Pictish rock carvings. One of the woodcutters disparagingly calls the Lord Protector "old Lord Ironsides". "Old Ironsides" was a nickname given to the real Oliver Cromwell. The way the Wolfwalkers are depicted are a hybrid of multiple "werewolf" myths. Most prominently, the tale of Saint Patrick and the tribe of Irish natives who were cursed to become wolves is an actual folk tale, and the Wolfwalkers are directly inspired by the Werewolves of Ossory, particularly the Astral Projection part.note Though notion of changing into wolves via astral projection actually predates the Werewolves of Ossory - since the late Roman era, people projecting into wolf form was actually the official Catholic doctrine explaining the superstition that there are people who could turn into wolves, and reconciling pre-Roman (mainly Greek) tales involving "werewolves" with Catholic beliefs.
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