History Fridge / ThePrincessandtheFrog

*** How about the Covid-19 Pandemic? I know Tiana and Naveen would probably both be dead by then and their business would most definitely be passed over to their descendants, but still. Multiple century-old restaurants and other places totally went out of business by the worldwide shutdown, so...

* Facilier gives Tiana TheLastTemptation during the film's climax, and while it's heavily implied that he [[ILied has no intention of keeping his end of the bargain]]... it's worse if he was willing to honor it. Remember: the entire reason he's planning to sacrifice New Orleans' population to the [[EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity Friends on the Other Side]] is to pay off some outstanding debts accrued before the film began. Remember, he's little more than a con-man with some real oompah to back up more conventional stage magic. Imagine what kind of [[MagicallyBindingContract debt]] Tiana would owe the Friends for making something as elaborate as her glamorous restaurant come to life...

*** Let's also not forget, that in the scene where she buys a sugar factory with Naveen and starts renovating it, she wears an orange dress. [[CommonKnowledge Some people]] call orange "darkened yellow" (despite orange being made from yellow and red). The orange dress symbolizes the combination of "responsibility" and "loosing down".

*** Let's also not forget, that in the scene where she buys a sugar factory with Naveen and starts renovating it, she wears an orange dress. Some people call orange "darkened yellow" ([[CommonKnowledge despite orange being made from yellow and red]]). The orange dress symbolizes the combination of "responsibility" and "loosing down".

*** Symbolism: ColorCodedForYourConvenience ! Tiana spends most of the beginning of the movie (as a child, as a waitress, and at the party initially) wearing yellow - it's even the leading color in 'Almost There,' and so it becomes associated with hard work and diligence. However, when Tiana is reduced to wishing on a star and kissing a frog to get her restaurant, she's wearing a blue dress [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles with sparkles]]. You could practically call that dress "Evangeline Blue" - Evangeline who represents faith and hope and love and magic. And then in the conclusion Tiana wears green - the union of hard-working yellow and loving blue!

*** Let's also not forget, that in the scene where she buys a sugar factory with Naveen and starts renovating it, she wears an orange dress. Some people call orange "darkened yellow" (despite orange being made from yellow and red). The orange dress symbolizes the combination of "responsibility" and "loosing down".

** not actually as Facilier no doubt well aware of the Black Tuesday Massacre in Tulsa Oklahoma when the entire black Community of Tulsa were quite literally driven from their homes and their livelihoods destroyed by an angry mob simply because they were successful. He could've had a successful career going legitimate but there were those who believed that any successful black person didn't deserve to have what they made with their own efforts or obtained them through illegal means (with the flimsiest of accusations and even without actual proof) and would have no scruples of lynching Facilier as long as they got away with it. Not everyone had connections to someone powerful and influential like Charlotte and her dad to step in to protect them and their business.

** finances. By taking the easy way and being in perpetual poverty Facilier wouldn't have access to better materials like wood or the skills to make them into a talisman where as in a place like New Orleans and the surrounding area clay would be easily acquirable, easily to shape and mold, and most importantly dirt cheap! The talisman's fragility might've also been something the Friends magically did as a warning to Facilier that this was his FINAL chance to pay back what he owed them.

*** Version 2 with the Major Arcana, which is what ''actually'' happened: Naveen's real EurekaMoment (The Hermit) came after he's been isolated from human society (via transformation) and gone through soul-searching to realize that he would be happy married to Tiana, even as frogs. Lawrence went through a full cycle: royal valet but exploited and disrespected -> livelihood threatened due to Naveen losing his riches -> HopeSpot of getting to live as a handsome, rich prince -> disgrace and arrest. The Wheel goes up and down.

* As mentioned under GeniusBonus on the film's [=YMMV=] page, the spell changes Naveen and Tiana into different species of frog, because they're of different ethnicities -- Tiana becomes an American green tree frog (''Hyla cinerea''), while Naveen is turned into a southern leopard frog (''Lithobates sphenocephalus''). A bit of closer analysis reveals that the morphological differences between the two actually reflect the characters' talents: The leopard frog's well-muscled legs, adapted for swimming and jumping, lend themselves perfectly to Naveen's dancing abilities (though as he notes when he meets Tiana, the webbing between the toes makes it a little hard to keep balance, at least initially), while the tree frog has dexterous fingers adapted for climbing, which come in handy given Tiana's background in cooking and restaurant work. (Just look at how she minces that mushroom when making swamp gumbo, for example.)

* How did Tiana know what the "Shadow man" looked like when Naveen nor Mama Odie told her what Facilier looked like? Well, we know he went to the diner where Tiana worked at, so we can infer that Tiana met him and immediately felt something off about him, the implications are...a little scary.

*** Even deeper than that is the reason why Tiana becomes a frog upon kissing Naveen and Charlotte doesn't has to do with her motivations for doing so, in regards to want vs need. Tiana's motivation for kissing him? ''The Green''. And she gets what she wants! Charlotte's? True friendship, which some would argue is a form of love. Granted it doesn't work because Charlotte isn't a princess, but one can digress.

* Most advertising for the film that showed Tiana as a human showed her in either her plain outfit that resembles the plain outfits worn by [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] and WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}, or the sparkly blue gown she wore when she met Naveen. Most Franchise/DisneyPrincess merchandise and artwork shows her in the green dress she wears at the end. This is for similar reason to why Disney Princess merchandise and artwork usually shows [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Aurora]] in a pink dress and [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]] in a purple dress. If the merchandise and artwork always showed her in the blue dress she had in promotions for the movie then some people might mistake her(especially when she is not shown with most or all of the other princesses) as just a black version of Cinderella, much like how there is a black version of Barbie that doesn't have a separate name!

* If Dr. Facilier succeeded in his sinister plot, not only would Big Daddy be murdered by him, the entire town would probably be lost to the friends on the other side, and Facilier would probably kill Naveen too since he wouldn't need him alive anymore, meaning the King and Queen of Maldonia would never see him again, and even if they stumbled across his frog body, since he wouldn't look anything like his human self, they probably wouldn't even recognize him. To the King and Queen, it would seem like their son went missing forever. Now that would be sad.