The film lacks explicit queer representation, focusing instead on a deep, platonic brotherhood between Ne Zha and Ao Bing. While this bond emphasizes vulnerability and interdependence, it does not constitute romantic or sexual identity representation.

Ne Zha rejects patriarchal authority, embodying emotional authenticity over stoic dominance. However, female characters like Lady Yin remain in supportive maternal roles, lacking the narrative agency to drive the central conflict or challenge traditional gender hierarchies.

As a Chinese production, the film centers an Asian cast and narrative, challenging Western-centric animation hegemony. It celebrates Chinese cultural heritage and folklore, presenting a majority-non-white world where Asian characters solely drive the plot.

The film strongly deconstructs hierarchical institutions, portraying celestial bureaucracy as corrupt and oppressive. It champions individual choice over lineage, inverting moral binaries by making 'demons' more sympathetic than 'gods' and critiquing divine right.

The narrative does not address physical or neurodivergent disabilities in a contemporary sense. The protagonists' fragile bodies are magical plot devices resulting from divine punishment, rather than representations of real-world disability or critiques of ableist structures.