Dash and Dot's Wild Ride/Tropes/Awesome

Dash and Dot's Wild Ride has plenty of such moments to prove how much it really lives up to its title.
* To start things off, the film's plot as a whole is a massive moment of awesome in and of itself. In a realistic sense, if a child's parents suffered a similar kidnapping or separation from their offspring, then the child or children would feel vulnerable and scared without their parents to protect them and wouldn't know what to do. But does this also apply to Dash and Dot? No. In fact, upon discovering that their parents have been abducted, their primary instinct is to set out on a high-stakes adventure out of the neighborhood, risking life and limb in order to find and rescue them from the perpetrator's clutches, all without any fear, dependence or hesitation. And the best part about this is that they are only a 7-year old and 4-year old, respectively. They haven't even hit adolescence yet and they still managed to accomplish something that would more likely be seen in someone like Indiana Jones.
** In fact, this has not gone unnoticed in-universe, as the news report near the end of the film acknowledges and praises their incredibly brave and heroic act. In the process of going on this perilous escapade, Dash and Dot have also made news headlines and became even more beloved among their friends and family than they were before. Dash and Dot have truly earned their place as the greatest kids in their neighborhood. Congratulations.
* Even when he and Dot come across a traffic jam not long after they begin their quest to find Dennis and Denise, Dash proves that he is not one to give up easily when he suddenly gets the idea to climb atop a street light and jump off of it and onto one of the cars below, helping Dot up onto it afterwards so that they can still get across. Great thinking there, Dash.
* Dash and Dot building a functional vehicle out of several discarded parts from the junkyard as a means of getting to their parents more quickly, showing that their creativity has evolved with flying colors. Shame it gets destroyed later on due to Dot's recklessness, though.
* Despite initially claiming that she is no longer his sister after a massive falling out related to the aforementioned accident with their vehicle, Dash later takes it back when he goes to save Dot from a vicious bear in the woods trying to kill her. It is then Dot's turn as after Dash soon finds himself the new target of the bear, she stops their ursine foe from killing him by pelting it with stones and yelling at it. To put that into perspective, a 7-year old boy and his 4-year old little sister fought back against a dangerous, man-sized bear and won.
* True to their word, Dash and Dot do make it to the place where their mom and dad are being kept hostage. When Mason catches them in the act of trying to release Dennis and Denise, they then run around with him hot on their tails, dodging and outwitting him until they eventually manage to trap him in the basement, allowing them to successfully free their parents. After going through a bit of hell on the way there, they finally did it.
* After convincing Dennis and Denise to stay in the bus to keep them safe from Mason, Dash and Dot jump out of it and into the kidnapper's van to attack him as payback for what he just committed. To see them make the one person responsible for making their parents suffer pay for his crimes is nothing short of cathartic.
* Just when Mason thinks he's off the hook after an (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to leave Dash and Dot to their deaths, he's suddenly faced with Dennis and Denise, neither of whom are very pleased with him and what he did to them. Almost immediately, Mason goes from wanting to have the couple held hostage just for $5,000 dollars to now being afraid of them, knowing that his goose has been cooked. Without so much as a second thought, Denise then repays the kidnapper by taking off her slipper and knocking him out cold with it, effectively hammering the final nail in his coffin. It's quite the satisfying comeuppance for Mason, to say the least. He definitely deserved it after all the horrible things he's done to the family.
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