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The male horses do have genitalia, it's just drawn very subtly. Two of the other horses actually 'laugh' at Murphy at the end. Spirit becomes increasingly tied up, and keeps finding new ways to hurt him.

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Army, gaining a series of injuries as he works on Spirit.

Amusing Injuries: One sequence involves Murphy, the man responsible for making new horses look presentable as horses of the U.S.

In terms of amplified animal athleticism, Spirit leaps about fifty feet across a canyon, and without his front legs snapping like twigs upon landing, though he did wind up crashing upon making it to the other side, adding a small amount of believability. The directors even lampshade this in the commentary for the train sequence. None of the human characters are aware of this.

Amplified Animal Aptitude: Well, naturally.

Little Creek gets a "hug" off Spirit in this fashion near the end.

Alternate Animal Affection: The horses mostly nuzzle each other and cross necks to show affection.

There are also books based on Rain's family history her mother is named Sierra and her grandmother was a pampered riding horse named Bonita.

Spirit's dad is a black stallion named Strider.

All There in the Manual: There was a book called Esperanza that was a prequel based around Spirit's parents.

All There in the Script: Spirit's mother's name is Esperanza.

Unlike dogs, horses have thick tongues which are not as capable of scooping up water while they may sometimes be seen licking at water (for instance, shallow water in the bottom of a bucket), horses most often dip their muzzles partly into the water to drink.

All Animals Are Dogs: During the segment showing Spirit as a colt, he's shown lapping water up with his tongue like a dog.

In a Call-Back, she playfully musses it when he's born and straightens it when he returns home.

Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Esperanza has a tendency to fiddle with her son's forelock.

She does ride into battle with Little Creek, after all.

Action Girl: Rain, in as much as a horse can be.

Spirit's about as squicked as anyone watching the scene, as are the other two in-universe guys seeing this.

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Accidental Kiss: An (accidental) interspecies example occurs early in the movie when a drunken wrangler is being mouth-examined by Spirit in his sleep, and mistakes him for a girl in his sleep.Spirit has to escape a train falling down a hill behind him, but it's impossible for him to run to either side as they're covered with large piles of timber the entire way down. 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The film contains a blend of CGI and traditional animation.Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron provides examples of the following tropes: Although Spirit ostensibly gets a happy ending, history really makes it a foregone conclusion. The Colonel, the main antagonist of the film, represents Western civilization invading the North American landscape and changing the land to suit its needs. Together they escape from the soldiers' camp, but the spread of the white man continues to plague them throughout the story.īesides the main story of a horse returning to his herd, the film is really about the domestication of the American wilderness. At the camp he befriends a Lakota man named Little Creek, though their relationship is far from affectionate. Spirit is captured and taken away from his herd by American soldiers, resisting their attempts to tame him. The film is about a feral horse (voiced in his narrations by Matt Damon) who is born on the American prairie and has encounters - both positive and negative - with the humans who also live there.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 film by DreamWorks Animation one of their last traditionally animated features before they made the switch to CGI full-time.