History Franchise / Tabaluga

* LightIsNotGood: Arktos brags about he's "the lord of light" and how his snow makes people's eyes blind.

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Inverted. This movie makes Arktos more of a serious villain than usual, especially compared to his IneffectualSympatheticVillain portrayal in the 90's cartoon.
* BadassBoast: In the English dub, Arktos gets a ''hell'' of a boast in his VillainSong:

* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Arctos' giant version of Leo's toy dozer is eventually taken out with water, which causes it to short out.

** Subverted with Vulture in the episode ''Dangerous Confidence''. Vultur almost dies but Tabaluga saves his life by bringing him into a secret valley that Humsin is not supposed to know about. Later, Humsin attempts to destroy the valley, implying that Vulture did tell him... only for it to be revealed that Vulture did not say anything, and this was all staged by Arktos who wanted to make Tabaluga seem incompetent. This is carried into a following episode where Arktos and Humsin team up against Tabaluga and send Vulture to spy on him. Vulture, remembering Tabaluga saving his life, warns Tabaluga of the villains' plans. After that, this is forgotten and Vulture is once again on Humsin's side, and tries to help him in defeating Tabaluga. Not only that, but even in Season 3 where Humsin is dead, Vulture goes back to serve Arktos instead of joining Tabaluga. It’s especially noticeable that Arktos was actually the one that almost caused his death in that aforementioned episode. And unlike Kayo, Vultur never performs HeelFaceTurn.

** Subverted with Vulture in the episode ''Dangerous Confidence''. Vultur almost dies but Tabaluga saves his life by bringing him into a secret valley that Humsin is not supposed to know about. Later, Humsin attempts to destroy the valley, implying that Vulture did tell him... only for it to be revealed that Vulture did not say anything, and this was all staged by Arktos who wanted to make Tabaluga seem incompetent. This is carried into a following episode where Arktos and Humsin team up against Tabaluga and send Vulture to spy on him. Vulture, remembering Tabaluga saving his life, warns Tabaluga of the villains' plans. After that, this is forgotten and Vulture is once again on Humsin's side, and tries to help him in defeating Tabaluga. Not only that, but even in Season 3 where Humsin is dead, Vulture goes back to serve Arktos instead of joining Tabaluga.

* ICanRuleAlone: Queen Isadora in ''Arktos's Last Grasp'' promises Arktos to rule the world with him (while he falls in love with her) but really, she only needs him to make a potion and really, she is planning to rule it be herself.

He was created in 1983 by German singers Peter Maffay, Rolf Zuckowski, and Maffay's songwriter Gregor Rottschalk. Originally only created for one concept album, the franchise has since spawned [[CashCowFranchise 7 concept albums, 4 musicals based on them, a novel, a Game Show, an animated series by]] Creator/YoramGross [[CashCowFranchise with a special, audio drama adaptations of this series, several smaller books,]] BoardGames, and an award for charitable work (the "Golden Tabaluga"). To top it off, a new CGI movie was released in December 2018, later dubbed and released in English in 2019 under the title "Ice Princess Lily", with its sequel in production as of 2022.

* LastOfHisKind: Tabaluga, his mother Tyria even states that Tabaluga is this trope word for word.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Season 2 reveals that Tyrion was king of Greenland, but Tabaluga refuses to be crowned in the season 2 finale.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Arktos' final fate in the cartoon, after having own powers rebound upon him, freezing him solid in a block of ice. He can't be defrosted like his previous victims, melting the ice would melt him as well, which would be lethal. So he's just stuck there frozen forever.]]

* BigBad: [[{{Snowlems}} Arktos]] is the EvilOverlord of the Ice World who wants to [[TakeOverTheWorld turn the world]] into his frozen dominion. In nearly every incarnation of the franchise, he is the antagonist. However, [[spoiler: in the sixth concept album he finally becomes friends with Tabaluga]]