Everyone Has Standards / Animated Films

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Everyone Has Standards moments in Animated Films.

• 100% Wolf: As much as the other werewolves look down on dogs, they do not agree with Hotspur and Commander Mendelson's plan to kill and turn them into wigs.
• In All Dogs Go to Heaven, before Charlie starts actually caring for Anne Marie, he's indignant when she tells him that he's not that much different from Carface. He even asks if he did what Charlie did for her like telling her a story or tucking her in bed or kissing her goodnight. Earlier in the movie, the dogs at the casino even say that Charlie treats them better than Carface does.
• All I Want for Christmas Is You: Grandpa Bill might be a heinous prankster, but even he doesn't approve of his son's plan of giving Mariah a stray dog in hopes of it changing her mind about wanting a dog for Christmas.
• Animal Farm (1954): When Napoleon sentences some animals to death for supposedly siding with Snowball, Moses the raven (who had before calmly watched Napoleon's dogs tear up Snowball) turns his back on the dogs mauling the hens and sheep and goose, horrified at this cruelty.
• The Bad Guys (2022):
  • When Snake is urged to share a push pop with Shark, he refuses and eats it, getting Shark to swallow him whole in retaliation. The other Bad Guys and Professor Marmalade are understandably aghast at this, though Snake declares that it was worth it.
  • A darker and more dramatic example comes when Marmalade reveals that he's set up turning the Bad Guys to good and then framed them for stealing the heart-shaped meteorite. None of the Bad Guys are happy with him for this, but they're shocked when Wolf lunges at Marmalade with a feral snarl, ready to kill him (since Marmalade had tricked him earlier with his "such a good boy" comment). Even Snake — Wolf's closest friend and the guy who wants to eat Marmalade due to his love for guinea pigs — is left agape.
• In Balto, Nikki and Kaltag are eager to see Balto and Steele fight for the medicine. In spite of them helping Steele bully Balto earlier, their amusement turns to genuine concern as Steele uses very dirty moves to get the upper hand, resulting in Balto getting a nasty bite wound. They then become very shocked when Steele carelessly knocks the medicine sled down. After the fight, they and Star decide to abandon Steele and follow Balto.
• A Bug's Life: Flik and Atta have to cover their eyes in horror before Hopper gets eaten by the bird's chicks.
• A Close Shave: Even after everything, Gromit looks a bit sympathetic about the sorry state Preston has been rebuilt as.
• Coco:
  • Miguel's father, Enrique, takes his mother Elena's side when it comes to enforcing the family's ban on music, but he is horrified when Elena smashes her grandson's homemade guitar that Miguel treasured.
  • Imelda may be unwilling to immediately forgive Héctor for supposedly walking out on his family even after the truth is known but she gets shocked upon seeing her husband about to fade away, showing that even she thinks that Héctor doesn't deserve such a fate. Indeed, it is the threat of him being erased, not the revelation that he wanted to return before being killed, that convinces her to help him live by retrieving the photo that Ernesto has confiscated.
• In Felidae, Francis says this when Bluebeard comes to his house for the first time.
  Francis: Did you come back here to take a leak? Forget it. You don't piss in here anymore. I live here now, and I have my standards.
• Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie: Chumsley and the Toppers' idea of fun, running around making a massive mess of anything and everything they come across, soon ends up being a bit much for even CatRat. While Chumsley does convince him to continue in that scene, CatRat is tied up by the time Gabby returns, suggesting that he did eventually try to put his paw down.
• Hayop Ka!: The Nimfa Dimaano Story: Marie is just as mad as Nimfa is at Iñigo's suggestion that they share him, but she's visibly shocked when Nimfa throws him out the window.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): Most of the population of Paris are quick to bully and attempt to flog Quasimodo, but when Frollo's philosophy begins to extend to anyone who even might have the suspicion of harboring gypsies, the citizens begin to become fearful. When the judge burns down a poor miller's home while his children are inside just because the family has offered lodging to gypsies before, they outright turn on him and say "Frollo's gone mad!" They're also horrified when Judge Frollo orders Esmeralda to be burned at stake.
• The Incredibles 1:
  • Edna Mode is a bit of a Nightmare Fetishist, what with her having an underground armory designed to test super suits for durability, and she watches the demonstrations with glee when entertaining Helen. But what is one line she will not cross? As she puts it, "No capes!" When Bob tries to argue with her about this after he "convinces" her to make a suit for him, Edna cites a Long List of supers that died due to a Cape Snag (which is confirmed in the DVD extras for most of them), and she makes it clear that she will not have his potential death on her hands due to that. Bob did call her the best for a reason, after all.
  • Violet gets offended when Helen assumes that she and Dash left Jack-Jack all alone in the house to stow away in the plane. As she puts it sarcastically, only a complete idiot would do such a thing. No, she got the best babysitter she could find at a late notice who had a good reputation for handling infants. Well, Violet ended up being right on that count of her friend Kari stimulating a baby's mind.
  • After Syndrome vows to get Bob's family one day (and having already proved he means to meet that claim earlier), a furious Bob has enough and throws a nearby car right at his getaway aircraft. He makes a Sympathetic Wince, however, when it results in Syndrome getting Cape Snagged into one of its propellers (as a nod to the aforementioned Brick Joke) and detonating the craft. Even for a monster like him, that's a brutal way to go.
• The Jungle Book (1967): Even Baloo knows that Shere Khan is nothing to laugh about.
• Justice League: Gods and Monsters: Bekka is a little weirded out when Hernan casually suggests that the League could easily take over the Earth.
  Bekka: You just got less sexy.
• Klaus (2019):
  • The Drill Sergeant Nasty who trains the postmen might be all for discipline and did not like Jesper at all, but even he thinks sending Jesper to Smeerensburg was a bit much.
  • Despite Mogens enjoying watching every postman suffering in Smeerensburg, he seems a bit concerned about Jesper's depression towards leaving the town and indirectly inspires his father to talk to him.
  • Olaf hated Ellingboes as much as any other Krum but not so much to let Pumpkin fall to her death.
• Kronk's New Groove:
  • Kuzco is openly disgusted by Yzma scamming the old people. Considering she turned him into a Liama and tried to kill him in the first film he interrupts the movie to loudly denounce her for what she's doing.
  • Birdwell may be the competitive type, but she draws the line at cheating.
• In The Million Dollar Cat, Tom is told that he will inherit a million dollars so long as he doesn't harm another living thing, not even a mouse. Jerry spends the entire short taking advantage of this, and humiliates Tom at every opportunity. By the end of the short, Tom decides that enough is enough and beats up Jerry, as spending the rest of your life being humiliated by your mortal enemy is not worth a million dollars.
  Tom: Gee. I'm throwing away a million dollars... But I'm happy! Yeah!
• In Monsters, Inc. 1, bringing objects from the human world into the monster world, even by accident, is a serious crime. Kidnapping children and planning on doing them harm? A bigger crime that the Child Detection Agency's willing to overlook the other one over.
• My Little Pony: A New Generation: Phyllis Cloverleaf is more than happy to foment fear against other pony tribes to sell her defense products to Maretime Bay population. But she has no desire to actually attack anypony and start a war, and tries to rein in her son Sprout, when he gets Drunk with Power and attempts to do precisely that.
• My Sweet Monster: Even though the book author who made up Prince Edward's existence falls short of Barbara's expectations, Edwardina does has a change of heart and decides against sending Barbara home to her awful suitor Weasel when she sees Boogey came to her rescue. As far as she's concerned, he's proof that she's safer with him.
• In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington quite literally lives to scare people (though he's a generally nice guy despite his spooky talents); his whole job as the Pumpkin King is to ensure that the spirit of All Hallows' Eve is kept scary. But he absolutely refuses to work with the villainous Oogie Boogie; the other denizens may be monsters, but Oogie is genuinely evil. When Jack hires the Enfante Terrible trio of Lock, Shock, and Barrel to "kidnap the Sandy Claws," he loses his cheerful demeanor for the first time and gives them a strict instruction:
  Jack: And one more thing... leave that no-account Oogie Boogie OUT OF THIS!
• Despite his love for penguins, even Corporal from Penguins of Madagascar is a little miffed that Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico destroyed the North Wind's airship.
• Ratatouille: Talon, Skinner's lawyer, knows full well of and seems to support Skinner's frozen foods sold in Gusteau's name. He also advises him to wait for the deadline of the will to pass and then fire Linguini. But even he seems to be unnerved of his client's conspiracy rant, especially when he keeps talking about the rat. He seems to think Skinner was starting to go insane, wondering out loud if he should be concerned about him.
• Revolting Rhymes: Cinderella wasn’t exactly at her nicest in this adaptation, rudely dismissing her neighbor Jack and demanding the Fairy Godmother for a wish, but that was understandable considering her miserable home-life. However, she is nothing short of disgusted when she realizes her Prince has a penchant for beheading people, and her attraction for him dies on the spot when he tries doing the same to her.
• In The Road to El Dorado, all those witnessing are horrified when Tzekel-Kan reveals that his "proper tribute" to the Gods is a Human Sacrifice, especially Chief Tannabok, Miguel and Tulio. The latter two use their God Guise to quickly put a stop to it before any blood is shed.
  Tulio: [quietly] I don't like this...
  Miguel: [quietly and urgently] Tulio, we've got to do something!
• Rumble: For as much as Steve wants to distance himself from his father, Rayburn, even he thinks that Tentacular wanting to destroy the stadium that Winnie's dad, Jimbo Coyle, and Rayburn built together purely to get out of Rayburn's shadow is crazy.
• The Scarecrow (2000): Grisham's butler Woody has loyally served him for years so long as he's paid well. But even he is mortified that his employer would ever imply that he'd rather kill Polly than let her leave.
• Snakebite Scruggs from Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. For how much of a grumpy, tourist-hating curmudgeon he is, Scruggs is still above letting a dumb tourist (and his dumb dog) get eaten by alligators on his watch.
• Sing 2:
  • Jimmy Crystal's top personnel, Jerry and Suki, are loyal professionals and seem willing to partake in even some of Jimmy's more ruthless business measures. However, they both look very uncomfortable when they see Jimmy snarl abuse at his own daughter, Porsha, for losing her role in the production, and when he finally decides to get rid of Buster in retaliation. When Crystal first tries to kill Buster, Jerry manages to buy the koala some time by reminding Jimmy of a TV appearance he has scheduled, with Suki freeing an imprisoned Buster while they're gone. As Jimmy becomes increasingly more unhinged and psychotic in his vendetta against Buster in the third act, Suki finally draws the line and angrily sics the police on him, though Jerry remains loyal to Jimmy as the latter is being taken away.
  • While Reformed Criminals Marcus, Stan and Barry are still perfectly willing to help the Moon Troupe break the rules and obliterate Jimmy Crystal's goons for them, they don't touch Jerry or Suki, being non-physical personnel of Crystal who are blatantly cowering throughout the scuffle rather than actively participating in it anyway.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The huntsman is ordered by the Queen to murder Snow White so that she'll be considered Fairest of Them All again. He objects to this to the Queen's face, but submits when she tells him to do it anyway. When he actually gets to the point of coming up behind Snow White with a knife in hand, though, he can't bring himself to do it and confesses instead, telling her to run away for her own safety.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse:
  • The Spider-Gang was willing to abide by Miguel's rules and methods to protect the Multiverse, including keeping their distance from Miles Morales. However, the numerous cruelties Miguel inflicted on him was too much for them to stomach, resulting in their abandoning the Spider-Society to form a band that sets out to rescue Miles.
  • A number of Spider Society members frown upon Miguel for banishing Gwen back to her universe where she'll have to witness her father's Canon Event death.
• In The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Squidasaurus is appalled that the Bikini Bottomites try to sacrifice Spongebob.
  Squidasaurus: And I thought my friends were primitive.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: The Bros.'s two uncles spend the family dinner scene making fun of the poorly-made commercial they made for their recently-established plumbing business, as well as using coordinated outfits and white work gloves as their trademark. Then the Bros.'s father tells Mario he's nuts for leaving a "steady job" (the job in question had been toxic due to a Bad Boss) for his "crazy dream" and is dragging Luigi down with him in the process, making Mario insulted enough to storm off from the table. The uncles proceed to give the father Disapproving Looks along with the rest of the family, showing that even they knew he went too far with his insensitive comments.
• Trolls:
  • Branch has various flaws, but he does have standards:
    • He could't help but feel sorry for Bridget in the first film, as he watches her break down crying because of Chef's treatment of her and because she couldn't express her feelings for King Gristle Jr, even though he didn't like the Bergens at first. Also, in the same film, despite being known for his grumpy state, where he was hesitant in experiencing any sort of positivity again due to his grandmother's death, even he was saddened over Poppy's despair from Creek's betrayal against their own kind.
    • He showed sympathy for his oldest brother John Dory in Band Together, even though he was upset with him for his obsessions and actions in driving their family apart, as he realizes that Spruce and Clay are doing the same thing to the latter that they are doing to him, which is treating both of them as the same brothers they remembered.
  • In World Tour, when he sees the effects of the ultimate power chord on the troll monarchs, Riff is taken aback and concedes to Poppy's point that everyone being the same isn't a good thing.
  • In Band Together:
    • As much she is a fan of BroZone, Poppy is disturbed that Branch's three older brothers treat him like a baby and finds their intentions to separate again after rescuing Floyd selfish, as she realizes that they weren't thinking about how Floyd and Branch would feel about it.
    • John Dory maybe headstrong and sometimes arrogant he does have standards, as he is disgusted by what Velvet and Veneer were doing to Floyd, as he described as worse than lip syncing. He also wasn't gonna force Branch to come with him, even though he needs his remaining brothers to sing the perfect family harmony in order to save Floyd, and courteously lets him talk things over with Poppy, especially when she quickly tells him that they were in on the adventure before his youngest sibling had a chance to respond.
    • Despite knowing Viva's paranoia, trauma and intentions to not let anyone leave their home, including himself, three of his siblings, Poppy, who is Viva's sister, and Tiny Diamond, Clay is unsettled with her attempts to trap them knowing that his younger brother Floyd is in trouble and needs their help.
    • Floyd does show annoyances to John Dory's antics, but does care about him and understands that he means well. Also, despite being held prisoner by Velvet and Veneer, Floyd can't help but feel disturbed by what their parents do for a living, which is being dentists. Although he is already disgusted with Velvet's treatment of Crimp, Floyd is displeased with how she treats Veneer even more and ends up feeling sympathy for him.
• In Turning Red, Tyler has been mocking Mei for how creepy and stalker-ish her mother is. In the climax, when Ming attacks the concert, he joins Mei's friends in assisting with restoring Ming back to normal and saving 4*Town when they are dangling from their stage harnesses. He is a jerk at first, but he wouldn't want someone hurt for real.
• The Ugly Duckling and Me: When Ugly puts on his dancing act in the carnival, the seagulls don't hesitate to laugh and jeer at him. When he bursts into tears and chews out Ratso for his apparent deception, however, they can only look on in shock, one of them even weeping, and they are equally shocked during his kidnapping. That said, they still burst into applause when all is said and done.
• The Wild Thornberrys Movie: Sloan's minions are hesitant by the idea of setting off bombs to make the elephants run, knowing there is a kid nearby and she could easily get hurt. When they do it anyway, they show signs of severe regret.
• Wreck-It Ralph:
  • Ralph definitely did not like Vanellope at all in the first act of the film since she stole his Hero's Duty medal. However, when he witnesses the other racers bullying Vanellope, not only is he absolutely disgusted by it, but he chases them off when they shove her into a mud puddle. Keep in mind that this was before Ralph even had a reason to like her.
  • Gene is probably a Mean Boss and an Obstructive Bureaucrat as mayor, but is not the person to go against his word, as shown during the Darkest Hour.
• Zog: Dragons kidnap princesses, not kill them. Zog captures the prop of a princess before the other students can, but the head falls off. The teacher is unimpressed, so Zog fails to earn a gold star.