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- Animation Age Ghetto: One of the biggest breakouts.
- Audience-Alienating Premise: They are experts at avoiding this. That one movie with the talking rat that helps a French chef cook, the one with the talking cars, that one with love story between two robots that's completely silent for the first half and that one where the old guy ties a bunch of balloons to his house. And all of those became great hits.
- Broken Base: What is Pixar's greatest film? Most debates about this are pretty casual but it can get quite heated.
- Creator Worship: The Pixar Regulars.
- Epileptic Trees: The Pixar Theory. A Dark Fic Shared Universe inspired version of Pixar that postulates that all, or at least most, of Pixar's films take place in the same timeline. Pixar themselves have denied the idea but to broadly summarize it:
- The Pixar Earth is teeming with some vaguely defined form of energy, one that can evolve toys, cars and animals into fully sentient entities. After some early humans, like the witch in Brave found a way to tap into this energy, it had a benefit on humanity's intellect which allowed for the development of advanced AIs, even as far back as the 1950s.
- Fed up with the humans, the increasingly intelligent machines wage a Robot War that forces the humans off of Earth. Unfortunately for the cars, the energy giving them life had come from the humans, leading to them dying off and leaving the Earth as a heavily polluted wasteland. After the cars are gone, WALL-E happens some centuries later and the humans return.
- Evolving to survive their blighted world, the humans, likely tapping some super gene, evolve into monsters and harness human energy to fuel their city via time travel doors.
- Inspired by her encounters with Scully, Boo dedicates herself to trying to find him again, developing time travel doors of her own. One way or another, Boo ends up in Medieval Scotland and becomes a witch. And the whole thing starts again.
- Fan Dumb and Hate Dumb: LEAVE IT. AT. THAT!
- Franchise Original Sin: For all the Seasonal Rot complaints that got levelled at Pixar post-Cars 2, most of the complaints that haters make are perfectly applicable to the earlier Pixar films. The main difference is that as Pixar made more and more films, and these story-telling elements repeated more and more, people began losing patience at seeing these tropes repeat.
- Hype Backlash: Some people are put off by the overwhelming praise their films receive.
- It's Popular, Now It Sucks: It had to happen sooner or later. Cars 2 may not have started it, but needless to say it hasn't helped.
- Tastes Like Diabetes: Some of the characters are just too adorable. Some notable examples being Dot, Boo and Bonnie.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Though intended to showcase improved animation graphics, Pixar's recent use of a semi-/realistic art style has been perceived as a soulless aesthetic when compared to the simpler styles of their earlier films, though some recent entries like Turning Red, Soul, and Elemental managed to avoid this.
- Visual Effects of Awesome
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