My Life as a Teenage Robot (film)/Tropes


 * And The Fandom Rejoiced: The announcenent of a fully animated My Life as a Teenage Robot film brought a lot of joy to fans of the original series, seeing how ot is perceived as one of Nickelodeon's most underrated series, so seeing it receive the feature-length film treatement was a welcome surprise.
 * Darker and Edgier: Sort of. While calling the film "dark" would be an inmense stretch, as it retains most of the original series' tone, the film does explore more profoubd themes than the series such as identity, family, and the meaning of humanity.
 * Disney Villain Death: Subverted as part of a Shout-Out to The Emperor's New Groove.
 * Hilarious In Hindsight: In The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Awakwafina voiced a robot named Otto whose first lines were that machines will one day rise above organic creatures. Here, she voices Vexus, an alien robot hellbent on just that.
 * Ho Yay:
 * Througth the film, Jenny and Helen are rather open and close witheach other, too close that they feel more like a couple than friends.
 * Vexus and Smythe's interactions in the film feel less of a queen ordering her army's commander and more Like An Old Married Couple.
 * LGBT Fanbase: Given how the original show already had one, this was expected. However, it increased even more once it was reported that transgender actress Jia Xing would be voicing Jenny.
 * Mythology Gag: The opening scene in whuch Jenny destroys a meteor is an ho.age to the ending of the pilot episode, where she did the same thing, albeot responding sooner to the threat and without Tuck.
 * Playing Against Type: While Awkwafina has played many comedic characters, this is one of the few times she ever played a villain.
 * She Also Did:
 * Director/co-producer/co-writer Jennifer Yuh Nelson previously served as a director on Dreamworks Animation's Kung Fu Panda 2 and 3.
 * Co-producer/Co-writer Jennifer Lee has mainly worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios as its chief creative officer since mid-2018, and is known for co-writing Wreck-It Ralph and for having co-directed and co-written the Frozen duology.
 * Co-producer Mary Parent has already some experience bringing cartoons to the big screen, having also produced The Spongbob Movie: Sponge out of Water and Detective Pikachu.
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: Framestore's cell-shading animation technology surely has improved after their use in Tom and Jerry, managing to blend better the 2D style with CG animation and creating visuals that truly feel respectful of the original series' style.
 * Win Back the Crowd: When it was announced that the film would be made with CG animation, fans were quite worried over how the characters' 2D designs would translate to 3D, and became more worried when it was announced that Framestore would be in charge of the animation, as the closest thing that studio ever did to animated films was the Tom and Jerry hybrid film, which didn't really had the best animation quality. All worries were calmed down once footage of the film has released, displaying an animation style that stuck close to the original series while still displaying a lot of quality.