PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie/Trivia

*This film is the sequel to PAW Patrol: The Movie.
*A theatrical short film called "Dora and the Fantastical Creatures", premiered in theaters before airing PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie to promote the Dora the Explorer 2024 reboot series.
*The Mighty Pups returned once again.
**This is their first appearance in a theatrical movie.
*Skye is the main focus of this film.
**This is the second film to focus on Skye.
***The first being "Jet to the Rescue".
*Skye gets new superpowers (same powers of the Ladybird).
**Skye's backstory is revealed in this movie.
***Thus, Skye is the third pup to have a backstory.
**The other two pups respectively are Rubble in "Pups Get a Rubble" and Chase in PAW Patrol: The Movie.
*Liberty has an important role in this film.
**Zuma also has important roles in this film.
*According to an article on the 6th page of a The Toy Book magazine, this movie also explored Skye and Chase's "unique relationship".
**With this information, we assumed that Chase could possibly be a supporting character, similar to Ryder's role in the first movie.
**Skye and Chase faced similar situations in both movies.
***Both get anxiety attacks when they face a dangerous situation.
***Both are abandoned pups when they are young.
***Both are saved by Ryder (Chase: prevents the vehicle from crashing into him. Skye: found her in the blizzard in the forest).
***Both are chosen by Ryder to lead the PAW Patrol (Chase: being the bravest pup. Skye: Ryder's callout to the PAW Patrol)
***Both gained confidence at the climax of the story.
***Both get captured by the villains with Mayor Humdinger as an accomplice.
***Both bust out from prison with the help of the pups (Chase: Rubble, Skye: Zuma).
***Final trial involves them dodging lightning strikes.
***Both of them give emotional support to one another (Chase: during the train mission failure, Skye: explaining her past and fears).
***Both go rogue for short amount of time (Chase: goes rogue when Ryder breaks his trust and gets captured in the process, Skye: goes rogue when Ryder sets her down after she lost her crystal, forcing her to empower herself to attack all on her own).
*The Mighty Pups got new outfits and pup tags that are different from the TV movie.
**Rather than their ability logos, they used crystalized PAW Patrol logos.
*The part where a meteor comes and gives the pups superpowers is based on the beginning of the Season 5 special, "Mighty Pups", although there are some differences.
**In the special, the PAW Patrol gets their powers by a radiated blast of the meteor while in this movie, they gained their powers from the crystal shards from the meteor.
**In the special, the PAW Patrol managed to evacuate most of the citizens while in the movie, it takes place on a busy street.
**The PAW Patrol are affected by a meteor (the pups and the Lookout get upgrades; the Adventure City HQ is destroyed).
**The villains desire to keep the meteor for themselves (Harold Humdinger and Mayor Humdinger; Victoria Vance and Mayor Humdinger).
**Mayor Humdinger gets taken to the sideline while the one with powers does all the dirty work.
**Both Harold and Victoria steal something to craft their villain materials (robot, Meteor Magnet).
**The PAW Patrol split up and draw apart that leads to one getting captured by the villain (Ryder gets captured by Harold, Skye gets captured by Vance).
**Same reasons above, results of a pup is busy doing side tasks (gone rogue for Skye, Chase is distracted).
**Main character gets demoralized after getting the objectives failed (Chase: captured all allies, Skye: defeat Victoria Vance)
**Main character gets a morale boost when PAW Patrol surround them.
**Humdinger doing dirty move later on. (guards Ryder, destroy Adventure City)
**Climax involves something falls from the sky. (Lookout, Meteor strikes)
**Both main heroes gets strained to save an area. (Chase: Screams until the Lookout falls safely, Skye: gets tanked by the meteor and falls into the sea)
**Ending gets the people cheers as heroes.
**PAW Patrol decides to be responsible of their powers.
*Unlike the first film, which had a simultaneous release in both theatres and on Paramount+, this film was released exclusively in theatres.
**It was then released on Paramount+ in November 2023, with an on-demand release in December and a home video release in January of 2024.
*Taraji P. Henson voiced Victoria Vance, who is the mad scientist and debuted in the film to team up with Mayor Humdinger.
**The Junior Patrollers (Nano, Tot, and Mini) also made their debuts in the film.
*The film had a different logo design used in early promotional teasers before the final design was unveiled.
*Liberty became a Mighty Pup and got superpowers for the first time.
*Kristen Bell (as Janet), Christian Convery (as Chase, replacing Iain Armitage for this movie), Mckenna Grace (as Skye, replacing Lilly Bartlam), Lil Rel Howery (as Sam Stringer), James Marsden (as Hank), Finn Lee-Epp (as Ryder, replacing Will Brisbin for this movie), Chris Rock (as Cat Rubble) and Serena Williams (as Yoga Yvette) join the voice cast, alongside Alan Kim, Brice Gonzalez, North West (who are the voices of respectively Nano, Tot, and Mini), Saint West (as Meteor Max), Christian Corrao (as Marshall, replacing Kingsley Marshall), Luxton Handspiker (as Rubble, replacing Keegan Hedley), and Nylan Parthipan (as Zuma, replacing Shayle Simons).
*Callum Shoniker, Kim Kardashian and Marsai Martin respectively reprised their roles from the first film as Rocky, Delores and Liberty.
*The trailer was first released on April 27th, 2023, at Cinemacon.
*This film was supposed to be released on October 13, 2023, but was pushed up to its final date of September 29, 2023.
*After this film, Liberty would appear linearly in any Mighty Pups-themed episodes in the series.
*This is the second piece of PAW Patrol media in which a building is immediately destroyed. This time, it is the Adventure City HQ which was destroyed ultimately by a meteor Victoria Vance pulled to Earth.
**The first was "Charger Visits the Pups" which the cafe was ultimately destroyed by Alex's treehouse after Rubble lifted it off the building.
*The Mighty Jet did not appear in the film.
**Instead, the PAW Patrol use their new headquarters, the Aircraft Carrier HQ.
*This is the first time Cat Rubble talks by the power of the Mighty Meteor crystal, but seconds later, he is reverted to normal when Humdinger yanks the crystal away from his collar.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgjJ9XzgHk
**Thus, Cat Rubble is the sixth cat to talk in the whole series.
**The others being The Copycat and the Cat Pack.
*This is the second time Ryder saves a pup (Skye).
**The first is in PAW Patrol: The Movie.
*This is the first time Ryder saves Skye from a snowstorm.
**The second is in "Pups Save Skye".
***"Pups Save Skye" is technically the first time the audience sees Skye rescued from a snowstorm, but as she is a younger pup in this film's flashback sequence, this would have been her first time being rescued from a snowstorm.
***In "Pups Save Skye", Skye is huddled by warm animals to pass time until Chase and Everest find and rescue her. In the movie, she walked and walked until collapsing from exhaustion, being saved by Ryder moments later.
*Marshall gets fire powers while in "Mighty Pups", he had heat paws.
*This is officially the first time a PAW Patrol HQ (Adventure City HQ) was destroyed.
**It is revealed that the meteor brought in by Victoria Vance destroyed the Adventure City HQ.
**After this event, the PAW Patrol gained a new HQ, namely the Aircraft Carrier HQ.
*This movie marks the return of the 2008 Nickelodeon Movies logo, after its last movie usage was the 2009 film "Imagine That".
*After gaining the Mighty Meteor crystal, Mayor Humdinger became a giant once again since Season 6's "Mighty Pups, Super Paws: Pups Save a Mega Mayor".
**The only difference is that Mayor Humdinger's skin does not change to purple and his speech is not childlike in this film. It also seems that he is much stronger than himself in "Mighty Pups, Super Paws: Pups Save a Mega Mayor".
**Mayor Humdinger's ability is similar to a role of a Kaiju or a Titan (uses his giant size in an attempt to squash the PAW Patrol).
*Cap'n Turbot, Mayor Goodway and Chickaletta return again in this film after PAW Patrol: The Movie.
**Thus, making them the eighth, ninth, and tenth characters from Adventure Bay to appear in both theatrical films.
***The other seven would be the original members of the PAW Patrol themselves.
*This is the second theatrical film based on PAW Patrol with the first being the original PAW Patrol: The Movie.
*This is the first PAW Patrol film to be rated PG by the MPA, unlike the original film, which was rated G. For the UK and Ireland, the first film was rated U.
**This could be justified due to the villains' actions in said movie. (Grand Theft Auto, attempted homicide, damage to property, emotional abuse)
*Ryder wears PAW Patrol themed pajamas that have Everest's and Tracker's faces on it.
*Some of the pups have the same powers as they do in the TV series, Mighty Pups: Super PAWS or Charged Up, while others have new ones.
**Chase: Super speed (same)
**Marshall: Fire balls (upgraded)
**Skye: Flying (same), Super strength (new)
**Rubble: Wrecking ball (upgraded)
**Zuma: Can turn into water (upgraded)
**Rocky: Magnetism (new)
***Liberty, however, does not get a power at the same time with the other pups, but attempts to find one in the film.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QMSyTkTo_Y
***Though, by the later half of the movie, she is revealed to have the power of elasticity.
*There are three new original songs that played in this movie. 
**"Down Like That" by Bryson Tiller.
**"Bark to the Beat" by Mckenna Grace with blackbear.
**"Learning to Fly" by Christina Aguilera.
*Four other songs were played in the movie:
**"Radio Call Sign" by Math Club
**"Brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo
***Ironically, the music video for Brutal came out the same week of the release of the first movie.
**"Dirty" by grandson
**"Zen Vibe" by Ron Szabo
**"I Love It" by Icona Pop & Charli XCX
*This film also has similarities to "Mighty Pups, Charged Up: Pups vs. Three Super Baddies".
**Both featured a meteor.
**Pups are depowered for a while and rely on their gear to save the day.
**Mayor Humdinger gets involved.
*This is the second time Skye lost her pup tag.
**The first is in "Pups Save Skye".
***The only major difference is that Victoria Vance took her pup tag instead of it being lost in the snow.
*At one point, there was a rumor that there would be a slur used in the movie, but when a fan inquired Cal Brunker on Twitter (now X starting from July 23) about this, he confirmed that there would not be one.
*There is an instant fourth wall break with PAW Patrol merch when Skye saved Cap'n Turbot's boat. Sam Stringer puts an actual "Mighty Skye" cap on and apologizes to the parents for the new merchandise.
**In the same scene, the crowd are wearing merch from the first movie in the new Mighty Pups style.
*Liberty mentions that Skye is her favorite pup twice in this movie.
**She also did this once at the end of the previous movie.
*This movie faces similar situations in "Mighty Pups, Charged Up: Pups vs. the Copycat".
**The PAW Patrol receive accolades.
**Both items require a telescope from the observatory.
**Mayor Humdinger serves as an accomplice.
**Both main villains get their powers because of their own actions.
**Both main villains actively harm the PAW Patrol.
**The PAW Patrol gain new power-ups.
**Both main villains attract a giant meteor to gain more power for themselves.
**Both villains leave a protagonist to save their own skin.
**Differences are: 
***The movie is a success plan while the episode fails.
***The PAW Patrol manage to get the meteors away (redirect at the episode, destroyed at the movie).
***The PAW Patrol have revised super powers.
***Both towers have been destroyed by their actions (hero tower by meteor strike in the movie, villain tower by power wrecking ball in the series).
***Mayor Humdinger is defeated (arrested in the movie, repair sentence in the series).
*Zuma is the only pup whose vehicle was not shown in action.
**His vehicle is not shown in action until the Season 10 episode, "Mighty Pups vs. The Mayor of the Universe".
*This is the second time Skye's vehicle is damaged.
**The first was in PAW Patrol: The Movie.
***Both are used to destroy the machinations caused by the villains.
*It is unknown where the Kitten Catastrophe Crew are after Mayor Humdinger gains his superpower and if they are arrested.
*This is the second time a PAW Patrol member (Skye) goes underwater without diving gear (not counting the Mer-pup transformations or using diving gear from the series). 
**The first was Rocky in "Sea Patrol: Pups Save a Baby Octopus".
*At the start of the film, when Janet dials the PAW Patrol for help, the beginning of the PAW Patrol series theme song can be heard.
*The climax of the battle is a mirror of the first battle.
**Both are arrogant (Skye, Victoria) as they get the meteor crystal.
**Both launch a mission to get one (fake an emergency for Victoria, stealth infiltration for Skye).
**At first, both are defeated by their wits. (Skye defeated when encased, Victoria defeated with teamwork and trust).
**The climax begins with one crystal against six crystals.
**Six crystals get overpowered thanks to arrogance and getting their emotions in the way. (Arrogance for Skye, Anger for Vance)
**One crystal keeps the cool and later use their mind to outwit and overpower the six crystals.
**Unlike the first battle which is 1v1 and 10v1, the climax is three man distraction then 8v1.
**The villain is defeated thanks to teamwork and their own arrogance.
*Since the show originates in Canada, which is also a NATO organization member. Ryder invokes an Article 5 on Victoria Vance. "When you go up against one of us, you go up against all of us (Vance attacked Skye, PAW Patrol attacks all out)."
*This is the third time a PAW Patrol pup (Skye) nearly lost their life underwater (fell into the ocean after destroying a big meteor before being revived by the crystals).
**The first is Zuma in "Pups Save a Mer-Pup" (pinned under shipwreck debris until Rocky saved him).
**The second is Marshall in "Merpups Save the Turbots" (swallowed by a sea slug who spits him out in a bubble).
*This is the first time an athlete (Serena Williams) is a featured voice actress.
*In the US, this film premiered on Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon for the very first time on July 19th, 2024.
*During Skye's flashback as a young pup, as she is chasing after Ryder, she calls out to him. However, her voice is exactly the same as her present self despite her being much younger in this scene.
*When Victoria Vance tells Skye she's just a "dog", a slight tear is seen in her eye.
*Before Skye leaves to destroy the meteors, all of the pups give her their crystals. However, Liberty is somehow still able to use her stretchy powers to hold Victoria Vance captive.
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