Making Friends/Tropes

The following is a list of tropes for the 2022 Sony animated film, Making Friends.

Making Friends (2022) provides examples of:

 * Big "NO!": Danielle when Neptune uses the notebook to take over Melton
 * Creating Life: A crux of the story which deals with Dany having to take responsibility for her creations.
 * Creative Closing Credits: The film's credits sequence features animations of Dany and her friends, done in the same art style as the original book.
 * I Just Want to Have Friends: Dany at the start, she does have friends from her old school, but grew distant upon reaching 7th grade and feels she can't talk with them anymore due to being in the different classes and lunch periods, which is what drives her to create Madison. Though later she eventually starts making friends just by talking to people and she manages to reconcile with her old friends later on.
 * Reality Ensues:
 * Naturally when you make a person without much backstory and bring them to life, especially as a teen, they'll start to question the holes in logic in their life such as why they haven't heard from their parents.
 * Dany tries to make a body for Neptune but since it's one without a head it's just lump of flesh whom Neptune can barely control with his powers. Ultimately Dany and Madison are forced to bury it in the backyard of Dany's house.
 * After Dany reveals to Madison that she created her, Madison naturally doesn't take it well since her life was fabricated up to that point and rejects Dany's offer to make her parents.
 * When Madison decides to go off on her own, she tries to go to stay at a hotel, but they won't allow minors without parents. So she bums at a "Floor-Mart" but is eventually found by security. After the police find she has no parents (Madison just states they abandoned her), she's put up into a foster home.
 * One of the first people that that Dany brings to life (albeit accidentally) is the head of Prince Neptune, an anime character from a Sailor Moon-type series. The thing is though, in-universe, he's an anti-villain at best and doesn't understand that Dany's world isn't the same as the one he comes from.
 * After battle with Neptune, the school ends up wrecked and the student are relocated to other schools until repairs are finished.
 * Redemption Rejection: At the end, Dany tries to convince Neptune that he doesn't have to be evil and that he can be a good person. It seems to get through to him... until he announces that he'll just make his own kingdom from scratch and steal Dany's sketchbook to do so. After this Dany figures he's Beyond Redemption and has her friends and she banish him to the moon with their powers.
 * Sailor Senshi Send-Up: "Solar Sisters", a Show Within a Show which is pretty obviously based on Sailor Moon.
 * Super Empowering: Once Prince Neptune manages to draw himself a new body and attacks the school, Dany uses the book to make the rings from "Solar Sisters" to give to her friends to help fight against the shadow monsters Neptune creates.
 * The Power of Friendship: Though mocked her and there at the end, it's ultimately what ends up beating Neptune.