Pigs in Space/Tropes

* Adaptational Nice Guy: Miss Piggy in this version is far nicer than she is in canon, with her personality resembling her 2018 Muppet Babies self.
* Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Piggy and Skeeter are depicted as best friends in the fiom, in contrast to their more vitrolic relationship in Muppet Babies.
* And the Fandom Rejoiced!: Fans were really happy to hear Pigs in Space would be getting an animated film.
* Affably Evil: Darth Nadir once tried to attack a Senator, yet he js friendly when the Swintrek crew comes to consult him.
* Author's Saving Throw: The last theatrical Muppet film was criticized for having the cast Take a Level in Jerkass. This film not only has the Muppets keep their personalities intact, but Miss Piggy actually takes cues from her nicer Muppet Babies (2018) self. In fact, the only Jerkass among the main cast is Link, and his Pigs in Space self was already a jerk anyway,
* Awesome Art: Props to Disney's animators for creating CG characters that truly feel like puppets.
* Awesome Moments:
** Piggy and Strangepork finally have enough of Link's crap and call him out, before quitting, the rest of the crew followimg suit.
** Miss Piggy proves herself to be as much of a as badass in a spaceship as with her fists during the climax, where sge makes easy work of Deadky's ship.
* Bait-and-Switch: When the Swintrek crew decide to consult a criminsl on prision, the gyard seemibgly hypes him to be a dangerously intelligent Hannibal Lecter-esqye figure... only to reveal is Darth Nadir / Gonzo, who is actually a danger to himself more than anything.
* Breaking the Fourth Wall:
** Near the start of the film, Piggy almost swears but Skeeter tells her to stop because "is a Muppet movie, remember?".
** Piggy at one point threatens the narrator out of stress.
* The Bus Came Back: Nigel from Muppets Tonight reappears as a crew member of the Swintrek's control team on Earth.
* Casting Gag: A double for Kirk Thatcher, a longtime Muppet director who voices a punk in reference to his role in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
* Celebrity Voice Actor: Diamond White as Skeeter.
* The Cameo: Its the Muppets, after all:
** Taika Waititi as Nigel
** Idris Elba as Bean Bunny
** Danny Trejo as Miss Poggy
** Frank Oz as the Koozbenian creatures
** Charles Martinet as Polly
**Jon Favreau as Louis Kazzager
**Zeno Robinson as Phil Van Newter
**Chris Evans as Sam Eagle
**Kirk Thatcher as Punk
**Beneduc Cumbertbatch as Legally-Unidentified British Robot
*Company Cross-References:
**Kermit, before his report, can be heard talking yo a farmer named Hopadiah, a nod to Hopadiah "Hop Pop" Plantar from Disney's Amphibia. Dpubles as a Mythology Gag, as Kermit was often involved during the show's early promotional campaign and his performer, Matt Vpgel, guest starred in an episode as a character modeked after Kermit (in fact, promotional material referred to Vogel's appearance as a cameo by Kermit).
**One of the Bunnies on Bean's ship is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
*Composite Character: Miss Piggy's overrall personality is more in-line with her 2018 Muppet Babies incarnation, yet retains her regular self's anger.
*Deconstruction: The film puts the hijinks and quirks of the Swintrek crew under a more realistic light. Link's narcisstic and jerkish behavior makes him an incompetent leader who treats his crew like crap, while Piggy's anger towards him is less the result of a comical Hair-Trigger Temper and more the result of having to deal with what amounts to a leader who provides a toxic work enviroment, and Strangepork follows along with Link's behavior because he's afraid of losing his job.
*Funny Moments:
** Bean Bunny. Voiced by Idris Elba. 'Nuff said.
** Link brags that he once led the ship into an encounter with God, but Piggy tells him it wasn't God but a con artist. Furthermore, Piggy's comment implies she has trued to tell him that before.
** Piggy is so pissed off at Link, she almost swears behind his back at one point, only for Skeeter to stop her... because "is a Muppet movie" and not because she's swearing at her ship's Captain.
** Darth Nadir apparently trued to attack a Senator by launching himself off a canon in the atmosphere. And apparently, he didn't missed, he just failed to account that robots can be repaired.
** At one point, Link tells Piggy to not to insult his intelligence. Piggy, in turn, snarks "That's the one order I have to follow even if I didn't wanted to".
*Hilarious In Hindsight: A promotional photo in 2011 had Sam Eagle dressed as Captain America. In this film, he is voiced by Chris Evans.
*I Need a Drink: Piggy goes for some light beer after another mission with Link.
*It's All About Me: Unsurprsingly, this is Link's actitude in the film. The opening sees him daydreaming about kiving like a king before Piggy snaps him out of it.
* Mythology Gag:
** Kermit is once again a reporter. A news report even sees him startimg the report talking about an unrelated issue.
** The intro is lifted straight from the original sketch.
** The Swintrek's designation number is "JH-324" - Jim Henson's initials and birth date.
** Near the start of the film, after Link is stuck in an elevator, Piggy unsruvks the elevator with a karate chop, something she did wuth Baby Gonzo in the pilot for Muppet Babies.
** Bean Bunny playing a space captain is something he did back in The Jim Henson Hour.
** The Swintrek's Earth control team is the behind the scenes crew from Muppets Tonight.
** Skeeter is modeled after her adult counterpart from the Muppet Show comic books.
** Piggy mentions at the beginning that Link caused the Swintrek to be short of energy to run from a black hole when he left his electric devices on; exactly what happened in the first Pigs in Space sketch in Little Muppet Monster.
** Rowlf owns a bar, a job he previously did in the 2015 series.
**Fozzie at the end tries throwing a penguin at the Swintrek out of desesperation, a nod to one of Jim Henson's philosophies.
**Two of the songs featured in the film are "Shining Star" and "Flashlight", which were also featured in Muppets from Space.
**Piggy at one point opems a cell by separating the bars with her hands.
**During the climax, Piggy says "Yippy skippy", her catchphrase in the original Muppet Babies series.
** Statler and Waldorf make a cameo in The Stinger, calling back to their appearances at the end of The Muppet Show.
* O.O.C Is Serious Business:
** We get this twice from Miss Piggy:
*** First, wheb she has a heart-to-heart with Skeeter at Rowlf's bar, she drops her over-the-top diva oersona and sounds geniunely sad over her workibg conditions.
*** Miss Piggy getting angry isn't unusual of her, in fact that's her default state outside of diva. But what makes her quitting the Swintrek so effective is that she dosen't say it with her karate-chopping hammy anger like always. No, she sounds truly bitter at Link.
** Strangepork always follows Link's lead even if he does something stupid. So you just know Link's crap has gotten unbereable when he follows Piggy's lead and quits the Swintrek as well.
* Realism-Induced Horror: While the film is as lighthearted as a Muppet movie, there's an element of realistic tragedy and horror in that the primary conflict between the film's leads steems from the toxic work envirmoent provided by their narcissistic boss, a situation all-too-real for many,
* Role Reprise: The main Muppeteers reprise their roles in the film.
* Shout-Out: 
** A double one: Piggy at one point saves a teammate from Lew Sealand's fish while saying "Get away from her, you fish!". The exact same variation of the Alien line was used in an episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot.
*** Also, while Link signs autographs, 80s Robot says that "[his] daughter Jenny will love it".
** Fittingly enough, plenty towards Star Trek:
*** Bean Bunny's ship is named the Cerritos, after the ship from Star Trek: Lower Decks.
*** Link claims he once led the Swintrek crew into a meeting with God. Piggy tells him it wasn't God but a con artist.
*** To Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan:
**** Deadly's entrance is an homage to Khan's in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.
**** Link tells Piggy, "Don't insult my intelligence", one of Khan's lines while contacting Kirk in the film. Piggy in turn takes advantage of his comment to... insult him further.
**** Deadly seeks a project that the protagonists have to protect, just like Khan did in the film.
*** To Star Trek: First Contact:
**** Much like the Enterprise in the film, the Swintrek is ordered to stay away from a conflict due to personality issues with the commanding officer.
**** Miss Piggy destroying some potraits of Link calls back to the "holding the line" scene from the film. Througth with the difference that this film acknowledges how funny such scene is.
**** As Lily and Picard in the film, Piggy and Link argue over destroying the ship at a crucial point, with Link also being seeing in the wrong for wanting to keep it intact in light of a hopeless fight.
**** The space suits worn by the main trio in the film resemble the ones from the film.
*** Darth Nadir's description of Uncle Deadly is near word-for-word how Spock Prime described Khan to young Spock in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
*** Kermit works for "William Nemoy News".
*** Deadly's ship resembles the Narada from the 2009 film.
** Nadir is detained in a cell ála Hannibal Lecter.
** The way the Swintrek moves at hyoerspeed to reach the climax quickly lends itself to a 2001: A Space Oddessy homage.
** The opening sees the Swintrek attacked by a British killing robot. Lampashaded by Miss Piggy, who notes the studio "couldn't afford one of those" (or so they told her).
*Tearjerker: Piggy, in a bar, admits that she's actually sad over being part of the Swintrek crew because she always wanted to travel the stars and now she has to deal with the crap of a narcissistic Captain. Seeing Miss Piggy of all people geniunely sad is depressing enough, but the sheer reality of her situation makes her sadness ten times worse.
*Too Dumb to Live: Link would rather keep fighting a hopeless fight than admit defeat and blow up the Swintrek.
* Unexpected Character: Nobody thougth Skeeter of all characters would appear in the film.
* What the Hell, Casting Agency?: Invoked with Idris Elba as Bean Bunny, as the producers felt him providing his voice to a nice and cuddly rabbit would be hilarious due to how incompatible both are.