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* TheSpeechless: The Mermaid had to sacrifice her voice to the Sea Witch to become human, and so she can't speak anymore.
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* TheSpeechless: The Mermaid had to sacrifice sacrifices her voice to the Sea Witch to become so she can turn human, and so she can't speak anymore.becomes mute as a result.
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It adapts the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]], about a mermaid who saves the life of a human prince, falls in love with him and sacrifices her voice to a sea witch so she can turn human and be with him.
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It adapts the Creator/HansChristianAndersen FairyTale [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid of the same name]], about a mermaid who who, after reaching her 15th birthday, is allowed to swim to the surface. She saves the life of a human prince, falls in love with him and sacrifices her voice to a sea witch so she can turn human and be with him.
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* DownerEnding: The Mermaid lets herself die instead of killing the prince to save herself. While in the original tale it's a BittersweetEnding in that she becomes a Daughter of the Air and earns an immortal soul, those things are not mentioned here.
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* DownerEnding: The Mermaid lets herself die instead of killing the prince to save herself. While in the original tale it's a BittersweetEnding in that she becomes a Daughter of the Air and earns an immortal soul, those things are not mentioned here.
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* FramingDevice: The story is framed by scenes featuring a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port, and a talking fish serves as storyteller.
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* FramingDevice: The story is framed by scenes featuring a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port, and a talking fish in the water below serves as storyteller.
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* SilentWhisper: When the prince arrives at the court of the kingdom he's been arranged to marry the princess from, the whole court whispers as they see the Mermaid by his side.
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* SilentWhisper: When the prince arrives at the court of the kingdom he's been arranged to marry the princess from, the whole court whispers in each other's ears as they see the Mermaid by his side.
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** The ending is an outright {{Downer|Ending}}, with no mention of the Mermaid becoming a Daughter of the Air and earning an immortal soul.
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** The ending is an outright {{Downer|Ending}}, with no mention of the Mermaid becoming a Daughter of the Air and earning an immortal soul.soul, although this may be explained by the film being probably based on the ''first'' version of Andersen's tale that didn't mention these things.
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* TheStoryteller: Upon hearing the guide talk to the tourists in Copenhagen, a female talking fish laughs about humans believing in love and not mermaids, and starts telling the story to other fishes.
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* TheStoryteller: Upon hearing the guide talk to the tourists in Copenhagen, a female talking fish laughs about humans believing "believing in love and not mermaids, mermaids", and starts telling the story of the Little Mermaid to other fishes.fishes.
* TalkingAnimal: At the very least, the female fish with a headscarf who tells the story of the Little Mermaid.
* TalkingAnimal: At the very least, the female fish with a headscarf who tells the story of the Little Mermaid.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The whole school of fish in the port of Copenhagen wear clothes or at least hats, and the female [[TheStoryteller storyteller]] fish wears a babushka headscarf.
* CreatorProvincialism: The short's FramingDevice is set in Denmark, but the fish storyteller looks and sounds like a Russian babushka.
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* TheStoryteller: Upon hearing the guide talk to the tourists in Copenhagen, a talking fish laughs about humans believing in love and not mermaids, and starts telling the story to other fishes.
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* TheStoryteller: Upon hearing the guide talk to the tourists in Copenhagen, a female talking fish laughs about humans believing in love and not mermaids, and starts telling the story to other fishes.
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* FramingDevice: The story is told to a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port and the guide starts the tale, and the films ends at that same place.
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* FramingDevice: The story is told to framed by scenes featuring a bunch of tourists who visit Copenhagen, in Andersen's native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}. They stop by the famous statue of the Little Mermaid in the city's port port, and the guide starts the tale, and the films ends at that same place.a talking fish serves as storyteller.
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* TheStoryteller: The guide who tells the story of the Little Mermaid to the tourists in Copenhagen.
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* TheStoryteller: The Upon hearing the guide who tells the story of the Little Mermaid talk to the tourists in Copenhagen.Copenhagen, a talking fish laughs about humans believing in love and not mermaids, and starts telling the story to other fishes.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The Mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, that is, killing the prince and his newlywed by using the magical seashell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in sea foam when the Sun rises.
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* ActOfTrueLove: The Mermaid is given one last chance to save herself by her sisters, that is, killing the prince and his newlywed by using the magical seashell to cause a storm and destroy the ship. She refuses, can't bring herself to do it, allowing him to live happily with his new wife and thus dissolving in sea foam when the Sun rises.
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* TheOmniscient: The Sea Witch already knows the reason the Mermaid visits her before she even starts explaining, that is, to become human because she's fallen in love with a human prince.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: The Mermaid's voice. So beautiful that the Sea Witch demands it as price for the Mermaid to become human.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: The Mermaid's voice.voice (with singing provided by lyric soprano Viktoriya Ivanova). So beautiful that the Sea Witch demands it as price for the Mermaid to become human.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: The mermaids (the protagonist included) are bare-breasted, but they don't have visible nipples.
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* GenerationXerox: According to the Sea Witch, the Mermaid's great-great-great-grandmother also fell in love with a human and also requested to be turned into a human.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'' - ''Rusalochka'') is a 29-minutes 1968 UsefulNotes/{{Soviet|RussiaUkraineAndSoOn}} UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and produced at Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}}.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'' - ''Rusalochka'') is a 29-minutes 1968 UsefulNotes/{{Soviet|RussiaUkraineAndSoOn}} UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and produced at Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}}. \n Aleksandr Lokshin composed the soundtrack.
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* GiantPoofySleeves: The prince has big shoulder puffs.
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* RegalRuff: The king of the kingdom the prince and the Mermaid visits has a big ruff collar, and so do many nobles in his court.
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* InnerMonologue: When meeting the prince, the [[TheSpeechless mute]] Mermaid's thoughts (her wish that he knew what she sacrificed to be with him) are voiced out for the viewer.
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* CannotKillTheirLovedOnes: The prince ends up marrying a princess. The Mermaid's sisters buy her a way to kill the prince and become a Mermaid again to avoid death, but she can't bring herself to do it.
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* NoNameGiven: As in the original tale, neither the protagonist Mermaid nor anyone else is named.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'' - ''Rusalochka'') is a 29-minutes 1968 Soviet Russian animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and produced at Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}}.
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''The Little Mermaid'' (Russian: ''Русалочка'' - ''Rusalochka'') is a 29-minutes 1968 Soviet Russian UsefulNotes/{{Soviet|RussiaUkraineAndSoOn}} UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n animated film directed by Ivan Aksenchuk and produced at Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}}.
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* EvilLaugh: The Sea Witch cackles quite a bit, although she clearly explains everything that will happen to the Mermaid and at what cost if she chooses to go through it.
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* EvilLaugh: The Sea Witch cackles quite a bit, although she clearly explains everything that will happen to the Mermaid and at what cost if she chooses to go through with it.
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* AltarDiplomacy: The prince is set to marry the princess of a neighbor kingdom to his own, very much implying diplomatic reasons.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: The Mermaid's voice. So beautiful that the Sea Witch demands it as price for the Mermaid to become human.
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* UnrequitedLove: The Mermaid loves the prince, but she has no way to express it to him, and he rapidly comes to love a princess he believes is the woman who saved him instead.
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* StandardSnippet: The beginning of Music/JohannSebastianBach's StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor plays when the princess the prince believes is the one who saved him makes her entrance.
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* StandardSnippet: The beginning of Music/JohannSebastianBach's StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor plays when whenever the princess the prince believes is the one who saved him makes her entrance.shows up.
