Onward/Trivia

* Specter is the first LGBT character in Pixar, although the previous film Toy Story 4 already included a WlW couple at one point. Disney now has an LGBT character in all of their major branches (the Disney Animated Canon has Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson, Specter in Pixar, Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Moff Mors in Star Wars).
* Due to the MPAA's rebrand to the MPA in 2019, this makes the first appearance of the new logo in the end credits for a feature-length Pixar film.
* This is the first Disney-theatrical film to be censored in Saudia Arabia and various other countries for its LGBTQ content, followed by Lightyear.
* Excluding international releases, this is the first Pixar film to be released in March.
* This is Pixar's first original film since Coco in 2017 and the third post-Disney purchase Pixar film not to be released in the summer.
* This is the second Pixar Film to be directed by Dan Scanlon after Monsters University.
* This is the first Pixar film without any participation from John Lasseter (following his departure at the end of 2018), with Pete Docter taking over producing duties.
* This is the first Pixar movie not to feature the credits "Disney Presents" and "A Pixar Animation Studios Film" in the opening.
* This is the third time that Pixar released two major films (both Onward and Soul) in the same year, after 2015's Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, and 2017's Cars 3 and Coco.
* This is the first Pixar film to be released in the 2020s.
* Both Chris Pratt and Tom Holland have roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Pratt played the role of Star-Lord and Holland performed Spider-Man.
** Julia Louis-Dreyfus would also later play a recurring character in the MCU, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
* This is one of the few Pixar films to be preceded by a non-Pixar short film, in this case, Playdate with Destiny.
* This is also Pixar's second fairy tale and their first film (after Brave) to take on the fantasy genre (not counting Monsters, Inc. as Disney appears to treat it more as science fiction within the theme parks than it does urban fantasy).
* This is the first Disney (and Pixar) film to have a digital release just two weeks after its theatrical release, due to COVID-19 concerns.
** In addition, it is also the first Disney (and Pixar) film to stream on Disney+ just one month after its theatrical release (and also only two weeks after its digital download release), due to COVID-19 concerns.
** It's also the only Pixar film that wasn't delayed before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
** It is Pixar's second lowest-grossing film to date, after The Good Dinosaur.
** This was the last Disney film overall to be released in theaters until 20th Century Studios' The New Mutants in August, also the last Disney animated film to do so domestically until Walt Disney Animation Studios' Raya and the Last Dragon in March 2021).
*** It is also the only Walt Disney Pictures film to have a domestic theatrical release in 2020 (not counting Mulan, which had its theatrical release at the Dolby Theatre as a red-carpet premiere). Instead, some catalog Disney films were re-released in selected theaters that year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, such as Inside Out, Zootopia, The Jungle Book, Monsters, Inc., The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, Toy Story, The Santa Clause, Frozen, and The Muppet Christmas Carol, while The Emperor's New Groove and Remember the Titans were also re-released in selected theaters in January 2021.
*** It was the last Pixar film to be released in theaters domestically until Lightyear in 2022, although Luca did have a theatrical release at El Capitan Theatre in June 2021, it was 1 Week from June 18-June 24. Pixar's next three films would release directly on Disney+ due to COVID-19: Soul on December 25, 2020, Luca on June 18, 2021, and Turning Red on March 11, 2022.
** It is the first Pixar film to be released on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD two months after its theatrical release (and over one month after its debut on Disney+).
** This was Rob Gibbs's final Pixar film due to his death from COVID-19.
* In the deleted scenes, there was to be a tritagonist, a female satyr called Genevieve or Jenny for short. She would have helped the boys on their quest; however, she was ultimately scrapped to follow the relationship of the two brothers.
* The name Lightfoot was used for a Super-God Masterforce Transformer.
* Onward was nominated for "Favorite Animated Movie" at the 2021 Kids' Choice Awards, but lost to Soul.
* This is the last Pixar movie until Inside Out 2 in 2024 to feature John Ratzenberger in the voice cast, as he did not voice any characters in the Pixar films that followed. However, he appeared as an animated caricature of himself in Soul.
** That also means this is currently the last original film to feature Ratzenberger.
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