Sailor Moon Crystal: FernGully/Tropes

Tropes

 * 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The Leveler, first when Hexxus emerges and later when Batty and Zak fly around it.
 * Adults Are Useless: Nellie and George do almost everything important in the movie.
 * Animal Testing: Batty Koda's entire backstory. Being tested on has also made him crazy as a result.
 * Annoying Younger Sibling: George is this to Nellie in the beginning of the film. Once she gets over her bad mood, she tolerates him a lot better.
 * Anthropomorphic Personification: Hexxus, the Avatar of pollution. He resembles a cloud of oil smoke with glowing red eyes and a brown mouth.
 * Arranged Marriage: Between the Prince and faery Princess Brigid. He calls it off after falling in love with a girl who also fits the prophecy. The Princess was okay with it after learning the Shapeshifter tricked her into thinking the Prince was being rude about no longer wanting to marry her.
 * Artifact of Doom: The Dark Mirror with the power to create evil clones.
 * Artifact of Hope: The Rainforest Crystal like the Silver Crystal.
 * Award-Bait Song: "A Dream Worth Keeping."
 * Bare Your Midriff: Crysta.
 * Bigger Bad: Hexxus.
 * Big Eater: Zak's coworker Tony. One scene shows him devouring an entire slice of cake in one bite. Another example is the singing goanna.
 * Big "NO!": Black Sailor Moon screams when she vanishes into nothingness after the real Sailor Moon destroys the Dark Mirror.
 * Big "YES!": Sailor Venus after Sailor Mercury catches the Rainforest Crystal.
 * Blatant Lies: Zak tells Crysta that the crosses sprayed on the trees are a ward of protection, instead of being an advert to the logging crew to chop the thing down. Usagi had already aware of loggers' work.
 * Blob Monster: Hexxus has the basic form of a blob of sludge, but he regains his gaseous form when he drinks enough diesel exhaust from the Leveler.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Deconstructed with Batty; his eccentricity is a result of Animal Testing done to him in the past, which has also left him with a grudge against humans.
 * The Cuckoolander Was Right: Despite being an eccentric bat throughout the film, he turns out be right when Zak agrees with his point about humans destroying the forest.
 * Consuming Passion: There really is no way around it, the Goanna's song about eating Zak is oozing sexual undertones from every pore.
 * Covers Always Lie: The kind of purple cloud with an evil face on the cover barely resembles Hexxus, the villain. He never appears in-movie as any color or shade other than near-black, at least.
 * Creator Cameo: One of the workers that reports to the Leveler, the one that says "Finito, good buddy," is the director Bill Kroyer. Ralph, who checks in on him over the radio, even calls him Willy.
 * Cross-Cultural Handshake: In this case, Zak ends up introducing Crysta and Pip to shaking hands as a greeting; just seeing him extend his arm towards them, they do the same without even attempting to grasp his hand or arm back.
 * Crowd Song: If you'd like to see a bunch of magical beings dance to "Land of a Thousand Dances" for no reason at all (save a walkman playing the tune), have we got a movie for you!
 * Deadpan Snarker: Batty Koda, usually around Zak.
 * Despair Event Horizon: Crysta and Zak are in a dark place when the former learns the truth about what the humans have done to the forest.
 * Desperate Object Catch: After Zak knocks the Rainforest Crystal out of Sailor Moon's hands while chasing Crysta, Sailor Mercury runs after it and dives to catch it, ending up face down on the ground.
 * Destroyer Deity: Hexxus is described by Magi Lune as the primordial spirit of destruction in the intro who was initially birthed out of Mount Warning. He feeds off of anything that is toxic to life, especially human-based pollution. His whole purpose is to destroy the forest and create a Polluted Wasteland in its place.
 * Deus ex Machina: Batty plays this role early in the film, appearing out of nowhere to rescue Crysta and Zak from a woodchipper at the last second.
 * Disney Acid Sequence: Arguably the whole movie. Only The Three Caballeros used a more vivid palette.
 * Disney Death:
 * Batty, who is hit with a large piece of debris and taken out of the final fight. Luckily, after being restored to his normal size, Zak manages to find and revive him.
 * Later, Crysta seems like she may not have made it after flying directly into Hexxus' mouth. She is later found unharmed after Hexxus is imprisoned once again.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Nellie tolerates George, Usagi remembers about her brother Shingo.
 * Duck Season, Rabbit Season: Batty: Nobody cares about me. Zak: I do, Bat-Man!  Batty: You sure?  Zak: I'm positive.  Batty: Only fools are positive.  Zak: Are you sure?  Batty: I'm positive!... I fell for it! I should have known!
 * Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: Sailor Moon and her friends curtsy to Magi Lune.
 * Evil Brit: Tim Curry in the first film. Also, in the sequel, the only people in the entirety of Australia with an Australian accent are the evil poachers - though we do not see all that many human beings in these stories.
 * Evil Is Hammy: Hexxus, but what would you expect from a singing villain voiced by Tim Curry?
 * Evil Knockoff: Black Sailor Moon and the Copy Sailor Guardians.
 * Evil Laugh: Hexxus loves to do this. It gets creepy when starts to sound demonic and distorted towards the end of "Toxic Love".
 * Evil Slinks: Hexxus moves this way through the entire movie, but never more so than in his show-stopping "Toxic Love" number.
 * Evil Tastes Good: Just listen to Hexxus in the "Toxic Love" number.
 * Facepalm:
 * Ami when Crysta tells Usagi that she will succeed Magi as a magical fairy.
 * Rei when George eats a faery cake.
 * Faerie Court: Magi Lune as the fairy equivalent of the Wise Woman; her powers greatly surpass those of other fairies. Crysta's father acts as the spokesman for the fairies gathered around Zak's tape player.
 * Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either: The fairies are surprised by the arrival of Zak, arguably more so than he is to them. Crysta's father actually says to her, "Don't you think you're a little old to believe in human tales?" Also played with—it's not that they believe humans never existed, as they're certain they did and indeed, they've interacted with them many ages ago. However, humans left the rainforest at some point and this led the fairies to believe that mankind had died off. Indeed, when Batty mentions humans we get this exchange:
 * Crysta: It's okay...there are no humans.
 * Old Fairy: They're long gone.
 * Older Fairy: Vanished!
 * Even Older Fairy: Definitely extinct.


 * Fairy Sexy: Crysta and many of the background young female fairies. If this trope could count for males, then Pips definitely.
 * Falling-in-Love Montage: Crysta and Zak get one late in the movie.
 * Fanservice: Crysta's outfit, if you're into that. Or Pips', for that matter.
 * Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Just found out the boss that has been ordering you over the radio to work double-shifts leveling trees so you can get to a specific gully in the forest by morning, is actually an Elemental Embodiment of destruction made of your tree harvester's fumes? Don't worry. We, or at least a good number of folks would scream or at least bolt out of the machine faster than you can say "What happened?" too.
 * Fertile Feet: Crysta does this near the end of the movie, and uses it directly against Hexxus.
 * Fire/Water Juxtaposition: When the poachers accidentally start the fire in FernGully, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Neptune quenches the fire with their water-type attacks.


 * Foreshadowing:
 * When Hexxus regains his full power at the beginning of "Toxic Love", he appears as a black skeleton with fangs. At the end of the film he takes on this form again, wreathed in flames.
 * During Magi Lune's monologue to Crysta at the very beginning of the film, she says "I won't be around forever." She gives up her life force to empower Crysta and the other fairies for the final fight against Hexxus.
 * Food Chains: George takes a bite of a faery cake and is told he may never again leave...unless he and his sister complete three tasks.
 * Fourth Date Marriage: After their Love at First Sight meeting, the Prince and Brigid get married almost immediately.
 * Glass Smack and Slide: Zak once falls into the logging machine's windshield and slides down as his coworkers watch.
 * Glowing Flora: At some point, Zak and Crysta are seen hopping on several bioluminescent shelf fungi.
 * G-Rated Sex: The "clasping hands together and making them glow" scene.
 * Green Aesop: The very name of the movie is a dead giveaway.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Pips's jealousy towards Zak.
 * Greeting Gesture Confusion: Zak offers a handshake to Crysta. Unfamiliar with the concept of shaking hands, she just sticks her hand out at Zak's face.
 * The Grim Reaper: Hexxus' true form seems to be a giant burning skeleton with a cloak of tar. He's specifically mentioned to be the ancient embodiment of destruction, but it wouldn't take a leap of faith to infer that Hexxus' purpose is to bring about the end of life itself.
 * Healing Hands: Done by Zak to Crysta after Crysta accidentally touches his match and burns her hand.
 * Heroic BSoD:
 * Crysta has a major one after Brigid steals the orb to save her friend's baby...and almost kills all the other faeries by doing so, she has another one when she learns that the humans are destroying the forest. Seconds later, she has another one when Magi gives up her life force to empower her and the other fairies.
 * Zak gets a brief one shortly after Crysta turns her back on him for his lies.
 * Magi Lune lapses into a troubled and depressive state upon realizing that her magic is no longer strong enough to counter Hexxus's destructive powers.
 * Hope Spot: Zigzagged. After Zak succeeds in turning off the human's logging machine, Hexxus chokes from the lack of pollution (oh, the irony) and withers away. It seems the fight is over, but then he regenerates into an even stronger form that's essentially The Grim Reaper made of fire and tar. Then Crysta finds another way to defeat Hexxus by using the forest's magic to reseal him inside another magic tree.
 * Humans Are Cthulhu: Apparently all they, for some time thought as nonexistent, do is create pain and pollution and destruction. But they're not all bad, because they also have boom boxes!
 * Humongous Mecha: The Leveler. It's a bulldozer, a timber harvester, a tractor, and an automated factory all in one. It has two huge arms with giant claws for hands, chainsaws on its "elbows", and a "mouth" with backwards-facing "teeth" that pull unfortunate trees inside it, all topped off with a control room that looks like a single wide cyclopes-like eye. Basically, take Gigan and turn him into a vehicle.
 * Ignorant About Fire: Crysta has never seen fire or flames, and is enthralled a match that Zak lights. Then she tries to touch it, promptly burning herself.
 * Incredible Shrinking Man: Zak is shrunk down to fairy size for most of the movie thanks to Crysta. Usagi was temporary shrunk down to fairy size until she returns to her human size.
 * Interspecies Romance: Human/fairy. Brigid and the Fairy Prince.
 * Irony: In Ferngully, Fairies have gone for so long without seeing a human being that they've come to see us as little more than "Human Tales".
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Broom. Grumpy, hates faeries, comes through and helps Nellie in the end when it's really needed. Pips. He's a tough, badass fairy that hangs out with a group of biker fairies/impish creatures that very openly distrust Zak multiple times, but he's mostly concerned about Crysta's safety and FernGully's survival, not to mention that he wants her for himself. Pips even helps Crysta and her friends foil the poachers' plans. Near the end of the movie, Pips ends up saving Zak from falling to his death and helps him get inside the Leveller.
 * Keet: George, much to his sister's annoyance.
 * Land of Faerie: FernGully.
 * Lineage Ladder: At the end of the movie, there's a message that says, "For our children and our children's children", which is a common point used to help promote environmental conservation since it reinforces the reality that ecological damage can last for long periods of time.
 * Love at First Sight: Between the Prince and Brigid.
 * Love Triangle: Zak/Crysta/Pips, to a certain extent.
 * Lyrical Dissonance: "Batty Rap." Justified because Batty is, well, pretty much insane from the humans' experiments on him.
 * MacGuffin: The Rainforest Crystal and the Orb. Not only does it contain very powerful magic, but if the faeries lose it they also lose their immortality and become old and decrepit.
 * Made of Evil: Hexxus is the semi-incorporeal manifestation of destruction and pollution that has to be sealed in a tree to be contained. He wants to turn the world into a polluted wasteland specifically because he lives off it.
 * Magic Skirt: The Sailor Guardians like the manga and Crystal.
 * Both Crysta and Pips wear skirts that stay perfectly in place no matter what they're doing. There's even a scene with Crysta walking upside down and her skirt doesn't fall back an inch.
 * Magic Misfire: How Zak gets shrunk. Crysta was trying to cast the spell that would merely make him see her (the same spell she used on Batty earlier) but she flubbed the incantation, granting him with fairy "size" instead of "sight".
 * Malicious Monitor Lizard: Downplayed with Lou the goanna. He apparently enjoys playing with his food, as he sings an entire song about how he wants to eat Zak, but when he learns that Zak is Crysta's friend, he stops.
 * Meaningful Echo: Early in the film, Magi plants a seed in a withered strangler vine and asks Crysta to "help it grow." Towards the end, Pips uses the same line to help the spirits trap Hexxus for good.
 * The Mentally Disturbed: Batty isn't exactly sane following his ordeal, as "Batty Rap" indicates.
 * The Mentor: Magi Lune, though what she does and why Crysta is studying under her isn't really established.
 * Mentor Occupational Hazard: Apparently whatever Magi Lune does requires that she die so her protégé can take on her power. Why this is necessary at all is never explained.
 * Military Mashup Machine: A non-military example. The Leveler functions as both a mobile sawmill and a tree harvester.
 * Mobile Factory: The Leveler can process trees into planks within itself.
 * Missing Mom: Crysta's mother is never seen nor mentioned.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Said word-for-word by Brigid after she steals the orb to save her friend's baby...and almost kills all the other faeries by doing so.
 * The Name Is Bond, James Bond: When Batty introduces himself to the fairies, he explains that "they used to call me Batty. Batty Koda."
 * Nothing Is Scarier: What did those scientists do to Batty? We get a few unpleasant Noodle Implements in the full version of his rap, but that's about it. Then again, since there are two wires sticking out his head that short-circuit his thought processes when they touch, it's probably better if we don't know.
 * No Man Should Have This Power: Sailor Moon destroys the Dark Mirror to keep it from falling into the wrong hands and creating the dark copies.
 * Obliviously Evil: The humans we see working the Leveler aren't maliciously trying to wipe out entire habitats, pollute the water, cause trees pain, or leave animals and fairies homeless. They're Just Following Orders. It doesn't seem to occur to them that they are destroying life until they see the destroyed forest right in front of them.
 * Oh, Crap!: An overabundance of them. To wit:
 * Crysta gets one at the beginning of the film when she sees a wedge-tailed eagle heading straight for her.
 * Magi when she becomes suspicious that the smoke near Mount Warning is Hexxus.
 * Usagi gets one when Copy Chibiusa uses the Dark Mirror on her.
 * Crysta when she touches her hand on a tree only to discover that she has spray paint from the "X" marking on it.
 * Ami when she sees the Leveler for the first time.
 * Usagi has another one when Copy Usagi transform into Black Sailor Moon.
 * Diana when Zak accidentally sprays the tree containing Hexxus.
 * Crysta has another one when she gets pursued by Zak after he hears Diana's meow. Then again after she sees the leveller cutting down one of the trees and when she and Zak are about to get minced by the saw.
 * Chibiusa when the tree is about to crush Zak.
 * Batty when he realizes that he's a human shortly before he crashes into a tree.
 * Zak when he wakes up to see Crysta holding his pocket knife.
 * Batty again when he comes to and sees Zak, causing him to fall out of the tree. He has another one seconds later when Zak pulls his pocket knife on him.
 * Zak when he encounters Goanna for the first time.
 * Luna when Chibiusa reveals Zak to everyone.
 * Batty when he is about to crash into a tree once again seconds after Zak gets dropped off by the Beetle Boys.
 * Chibiusa when Copy Usagi and Copy Chibiusa use the Dark Mirror to create the Copy Inner Sailor Guardians.
 * Sailor Chibi Moon when the Dark Mirror starts creating an unlimited number of clones of the Copy Sailor Guardians that plague FernGully and then Earth.
 * Black Sailor Moon when Tuxedo Mask and the Outer Sailor Guardians arrive.
 * Black Sailor Moon when Sailor Moon destroys the Dark Mirror causing the evil copy to disappear.
 * Nellie when a bug (The Shapeshifter in disguise) attacks her.
 * Sailor Venus when Nellie and George protest loudly.
 * Crysta and Pips when the poachers arrive
 * Sailor Moon and Sailor Uranus when the fire threatens to spread FernGully.
 * The Shapeshifter when Usagi and Minako trigger their Disguise Pen and Sailor V Compact to reveal his true form.
 * Zak gets one when he realizes that the leveller has been poisoning the trees and water all along.
 * Crysta when she realizes what the humans have really done to the forests.
 * Zak, Crysta and the fairies when Hexxus and the leveller finally enter FernGully.
 * Zak when he sees that the leveller is about to crush him shortly after he goes out to help.
 * Zak and Batty when Hexxus uses the leveller's headlight to try and kill them.
 * Tony and Ralph when they see Hexxus on the windscreen.
 * Zak again when the vibrations almost cause him to fall to his doom.
 * Crysta and the fairies when Hexxus begins to destroy FernGully. Seconds later, Hexxus gets one when Zak turns off the leveller.
 * Zak, Crysta, Pips and the fairies get one when Hexxus reveals his true form.
 * Hexxus at the end when Crysta and the fairies use their magic to help seal him forever.
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Hexxus wants to destroy the rainforest, at least, in the movie (in the book, that version definitely wants to kill off all the Earth's creatures) by any means he can find, with a desire of turning it into an uninhabitable toxic wasteland. He's the primordial embodiment of destruction and pollution, so it's literally his purpose for existing in the first place.
 * One-Winged Angel: After Hexxus' power source from human pollution is disconnected his smoke form dissipates, and it momentarily seems like he's defeated. Then he harnesses his own power and transforms into a giant, black, cloaked skeleton made out of fire and tar. It's hinted to be his real form, as it's glimpsed earlier in the film during his Villain Song.
 * Only Sane Man: Batty comes across as this in the sequel.
 * Opening Narration: At the beginning of the film, Magi tells Crysta about the fairies' relationship with the humans in FernGully and its eventual destruction:
 * Magi: Our world was much larger then. The forest went on forever. We tree spirits nurtured the harmony of all living things, but our closest friends were humans. Then, as sometimes happens, the balance of nature shifted. And Hexxus, the very spirit of destruction rose up from the bowels of the earth, and rained down his poison. The forest was nearly destroyed, many lives were lost and the humans fled in fear, never to return. Most think they didn't survive. It was only by calling up the magical powers of nature, that I was able to trap Hexxus inside an enchanted tree, and save FernGully.


 * Ordered Apology: Luna does this to Crysta and Zak.
 * Our Fairies Are Different: Fairies (or "tree spirits," as they call themselves), who serve as the guardians of the rainforest, are reminiscent of Tinker Bell, in terms of design.
 * The Outside World: The fairies are convinced that FernGully is the entire world, and that humans are long extinct. Mage-in-training Crysta is so surprised to actually see a human that she fumbles a magic spell meant to warn him of danger. The spell instead shrinks the human to about three inches tall, which is fairy size.
 * Passing the Torch: Towards the end of the film, Magi Lune passes her powers on to Crysta, the Prince and the other fairies. And even Zak.
 * The Place: Ferngully, the last rainforest
 * Plucky Comic Relief: Batty Koda's crazy and unpredictable behavior is often Played for Laughs.
 * Polluted Wasteland: Hexxus's ideal environment, and what he wants to turn FernGully into.
 * Prophecy Twist: The Prince believes he must marry faery Princess Brigid because a prophecy requires him to marry someone who goes by that name. Then he meets and falls in love with a human who also goes by that name.
 * Punch-Clock Villain: The humans working "The Leveler" are not malicious about cutting down or polluting the rain forest. They're just doing their jobs.
 * The Queen's Latin: Batty gets some in when Zak changes his "channels", probably a Shout-Out to Robin Williams' own comedy bit about Romans with English accents.
 * Batty: Oh Caesar, Emperor of Rome!


 * Race Against the Clock: The Sailor Guardians have three days to set Nellie and George free before Hexxus and the leveler arrive in FernGully.
 * Reclaimed by Nature: After Hexxus has been defeated, both he and his hijacked machine, the Leveler, get shrouded in flora. With the help of magic fairies, plants galore sprout around, into and through the Giant Mecha, breaking it with expanding stalks and tendrils. The whole conversion takes mere minutes.
 * Red Sky, Take Warning: The sky turns red due to Hexxus is coming.
 * Replaced with Replica: After Brigid trades away the Royal Orb to the Shapeshifter, causing the Faeries to start rapidly aging, she and the kids steal it back by disguising a brooch on a needle with hobgoblin magic and switching them out. When the Shapeshifter comes to claim the Faerie kingdom, not only are they fully recovered, he has a piece of junk that falls apart and the Faerie prince has the real Orb, with all its power.
 * Running Gag: Batty Koda's consistent collision with trees (and anything) is a major running gag, and it even continues into the sequel.
 * Sapient Eat Sapient: We get an entire song about Goanna taunting Zak with his intent to eat him, because "if [he's] gonna eat somebody, it may as well be [him]". This implies no matter what Goanna eats, it'll be a "somebody" to him. And he's okay with that. Though, this monitor lizard will listen if a fairy tells him not to eat soemone.
 * Scenery Porn: The very colorful, lush environments are actually based off of what the filmmaker and a group of animators saw during their trip to the Australian rainforests and are arguably the most researched part of the movie. For example, the scene where Zak talks about life in the city seems to exist for the sole purpose of showing off the beautiful glowing mushrooms growing on the trees.
 * Screams Like a Little Girl: A frightened Batty does this in front of Pips' face making him jump back, after Pips teases him by telling him he loves his haircut.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here!:
 * Crysta, Batty and Zak flee for their lives when the Sailor Guardians and the Copy Sailor Guardians battle.
 * Crysta leaves Zak behind shortly after learning he lied to her about how the humans are destroying the rainforest.
 * Tony and Ralph make a break for it after they see Hexxus in the flesh for the first time.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: The villain Hexxus, who for ages was sealed into a tree, and was released when the tree was cut down. In the end, Crysta and her fellow fairies manage to create a whole new tree to recapture him.
 * Seldom-Seen Species: Be honest. Prior to learning about this movie, did you even think "goanna", was a word? Much less a species of lizard? And how many animated films can you think of featuring cassowaries?
 * She's Got Legs: Crysta's got a nice set of pins.
 * Shoo Out the Clowns: Batty's Disney Death at the climax should tell you that things are about to get real.
 * Shout-Out:
 * Batty quoting John Wayne, All About Eve, Star Wars, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Star Trek, etc. during the climax, when Zak is changing his "channels".
 * The Leveler's design and function seems inspired by the Crablogger from Thunderbirds. At least, the two certainly look similar.
 * Nellie compared Usagi to Dora the Explorer.
 * Skyward Scream: The mother kangaroo in the sequel, after her baby is stolen. "MY BAAAAABBBYYYYYY!"
 * Soul Jar: Once the Dark Mirror was destroyed, Black Sailor Moon disappears into nothingness.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: Or soundtrack flip-floppery, anyway. In the sequel, Batty flips from singing about how they'll most certainly get home if they don't give up hope, to hopelessly informing the other animals that they're all bound for the same fate he suffered before the first movie, and then some.
 * Space Whale Aesop:
 * "Save the wild places in the world, because that's where the Fairies live." Well, if it works, that's good with me.
 * In the sequel, the moral is still to save the rainforest, even though we see several times the fairies can do to one their own. The moral of the story to him is "Don't save the rainforest, the fairies have it under control."
 * "Don't cut down trees or you may unleash an avatar of death that will destroy the world."
 * Split Personality: Batty seems to have a world going on up there. Batty: (suddenly taking on a female voice and applying berry juice like lipstick) All of our cosmetics are non-carcinogenic (gets zapped) AHHHH!!!
 * Stock Audio Clip: Batty's distinctive cry of "Ooooooooooooohhh nooooooooooooooooo!!!!".
 * Supernaturally Marked Grave: Both of Hexxus's tree traps.
 * Super Mode: Super Sailor Moon against the Shapeshifter and Eternal Sailor Moon against Hexxus in his true form.
 * Talking Animal: Batty, Goanna and most of the other rainforest animals.
 * That Reminds Me of a Song:
 * The infamous "Land of 1,000 Dances" scene.
 * Not to mention that Raffi song. (But at least it's short.)
 * This Cannot Be!: Hexxus uses this when the fairies help the Sailor Guardians to seal him for good.
 * Hexxus: No... It cannot be! Not a prisoner of nature again!


 * This Is Gonna Suck: Batty Koda's expression when the toy train looks like the Brave Engineer is about to hit him and again when Hexxus sends one of The Leveler's headlights at him and Zak towards the end of the film shows that he's aware it's going to hurt.
 * Tomboy: Crysta would much rather prefer looking above the canopy, exploring, and goofing off and hanging out with Pips and his biker beetle gang than listen to Magi Lune's lectures. Her pixie cut is also evidence of her tomboyishness.
 * Too Dumb to Live: The villains of the sequel, who could have easily stopped the truck they were driving and kicked the heroine off of it, but instead elected to murder her by decoupling their trailer with her on it.
 * Totally Radical: Zak: That sounds cool. Crysta: No, usually it's warm.  Zak: Nah, nah... 'cool' means 'hot'.  Crysta: What?  Zak: Yeah. You know... bodacious.. bad.. tubular...  Batty: Awesome use of the language, dude.
 * A Call-Back to the above is probably the most narmy moment in the film. Crysta: [Zak]'s a bodacious babe!
 * Transformation Trauma: Crysta fails several attempts to fix Zak's size, turning him into various sizes and strange creatures during each attempt. Batty Koda: Oh, it's Darwin's Grab Bag!
 * The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Crysta looks absolutely nothing like her father; a short, fat, bearded fairy.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: A lot of if not any interest Crysta may have had for Pips takes a back seat as soon as Zak shows up. Pips doesn't take it well at least at first. Whether he remains this is ambiguous; the two share a tender smile at the end but this may be bidding Zak farewell. Crysta flies off before anything more happens and Pips follows her like he always does. The sequel certainly did nothing with this.
 * Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Well, how were Tony and Ralph supposed to know the boss ordering them over the radio to level trees overtime and get to FernGully in three days was a level of rather 'planticidal' Anthropomorphic Personification of Destruction that just wanted to literally lay waste to all life to create his own pollution paradise?
 * Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While the film is a very colorful Scenery Porn, Hexxus is just nightmarish.
 * Villainous Badland, Heroic Arcadia: Ferngully is a lush rainforest, while the tree where Hexxus is sealed in is black, twisted, bloated, dripping with oily vileness and sitting in the midst of a patch of completely barren land. The Leveler, a man-made machine possessed and used by Hexxus to do his foul bidding, also leaves a trail of devastation in its wake.
 * Villain Song: The aforementioned "Toxic Love" for Hexxus. Possibly a reference to Tim Curry's role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It sounds a good deal like "Sweet Transvestite".
 * "The Villain Sucks" Song: "Batty Rap" by Batty Koda. Okay, not exactly "The Villain Sucks", but more along the lines of "Humans Suck", and Batty consistently views them as being evil.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds. By the end of the movie, Zak and Pips have become this, though it's at a rather mild level.
 * The Voiceless: One of the faeries never speaks.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Shapeshifter's main power. He transforms into people, animals, other faeries and a monstrous mantis-dragon type creature.
 * Was It All a Lie?: Zak lied to Crysta that humans can stop the monster (Leveler) that's destroying the trees. She didn't take it well when she learned the truth. Also, in how much devastation they caused, it's really starting to seem to her that Humans Are Bastards.
 * Watch Out for That Tree!: It's a running gag that Batty Koda crashes into trees and windows. This is Truth in Television. Because fruit bats are just so massive, they have a lot of excess inertia when it does come time to stop, resulting in rather hard landings. That said, they probably don't land face-first into the trunk.
 * "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Usagi and her friends are enjoying visit FernGully. Ami removes a wires from Batty.
 * Winged Humanoid: All the faeries have either butterfly or dragonfly wings.
 * Younger Than They Look: According to one of his credit cards, Zak is said to be sixteen years old. However, he looks and sounds more like he's in his early twenties.
 * You Have Failed Me: The Shapeshifter was defeated by Sailor Moon.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Hexxus scares Tony and Ralph out of the Leveler
 * Hexxus: Keep it moving, boys!
 * Sailor Mercury: I think Tony and Ralph have outlived their usefulness.
 * Your Size May Vary: Batty's size is rather inconsistent. The sequel is even worse - he goes from a few inches taller than the fairies, to about the size of a baby wombat, to big enough to carry a human child. And back again.