Presumably, Square Enix assumed that pretty much everyone watching Advent Children would have already played through Final Fantasy VII given that the game was almost a decade old by the time of the movie's release and considered a Killer App almost from the moment of its release, that was probably a safe assumption. But without that context, a new viewer will have no idea what it has to do with the movie. Of course, it's only a BLAM in the context of the movie, since it's a shot-for-shot rerendering of the last cutscene of Final Fantasy VII itself (and in that context it was more of a Gainax Ending). After a bit of introductory text, the very first scene is a bunch of strange red furry animals running up a cliff overlooking a ruined city in a scene that seems more at home in the Lion King than this movie. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children seems to start with one of these. 
Fern Gully has the appearance of a big carnivorous lizard who tries to eat Zak while singing a song about vore. It is the event itself that is considered the reason of the trope, not King Gator. Note that the name is Big Lipped Alligator Moment, not Big Lipped Alligator. Although the alligator comes back to save Charlie and kill Carface, the random, over-the-top musical number itself is what qualifies this scene as a BLAM. Yet the Gator and Charlie can share a cross-species musical number. The scene not only comes out of nowhere with only very little build-up beforehand, but it seemingly violates the rules of the movie: animals can only speak to members of their own species, with Anne Marie being the only being who can communicate with everyone. 
The two main characters fall into a cave where they are brought by a Wacky Wayside Tribe to meet their leader, King Gator, who breaks into an Esther Williams tribute.
Trope Namer: All Dogs Go to Heaven includes a bizarre and nonsensical musical number with a big lipped alligator near the end of the film.
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