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* FailureInducedTransformation: Right before Ariel can get her kiss of true love from Eric, the sun sets and she turns back into a mermaid as per the contract she signed with Ursula.
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* LaughablyEvil: The movie does well to balance Ursula's sadistic and sinister ambience with lots of brilliant snarking and scenery chewing courtesy of Pat Carrol.

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* LaughablyEvil: The movie does well to balance Ursula's sadistic and sinister ambience with lots of brilliant snarking and scenery chewing courtesy of Pat Carrol.Carroll.
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* GayParee: Chef Louis is, well, Hollywood's idea of a French cook. His sequence is introduced with accordion music (which is a cliché related to Paris), he has a MauriceChevalierAccent, speaks about "[[GratuitousFrench Nouvelle Cuisine des Champs-Élysées]]" (the Champs-Élysées avenue is in Paris) and even names Maurice Chevalier.

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* GayParee: Chef Louis is, well, Hollywood's idea of a French cook. His sequence is introduced with accordion music (which is a cliché related to Paris), he has a MauriceChevalierAccent, speaks about "[[GratuitousFrench Nouvelle Cuisine des Champs-Élysées]]" (the Champs-Élysées avenue is in Paris) and even names Maurice Chevalier. Chevalier (despite the film being set in the 18th century). And then StandardSnippet/TheCancanSong plays as Louis enters an UnstoppableRage and destroys the kitchen trying to kill Sebastian.
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* LowerHalfReveal: Subverted, in that when the Prince first sees Ariel, he only sees her from the waist up, and believes she is a beautiful human: he does not know she is a mermaid.
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** After Ariel's transformation, as Sebastian and Flounder begin rushing her to the surface, there [[https://lotus.paheal.net/_images/74c8e3396cbcafc3d4507668160a1f3a/4273880%20-%20Ariel%20Disney_Animation_Studios%20Flounder%20The_Little_Mermaid.jpg are a few frames where you can see]] [[https://www.deviantart.com/nobody10000000/art/Image-437222438 Ariel's butt]], and [[https://www.deviantart.com/nobody10000000/art/Image-437121001 the area between her legs]].

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** After Ariel's transformation, as Sebastian and Flounder begin rushing her to the surface, there [[https://lotus.paheal.net/_images/74c8e3396cbcafc3d4507668160a1f3a/4273880%20-%20Ariel%20Disney_Animation_Studios%20Flounder%20The_Little_Mermaid.jpg are [[https://r34i.paheal-cdn.net/74/c8/74c8e3396cbcafc3d4507668160a1f3a a few frames where you can see]] [[https://www.deviantart.com/nobody10000000/art/Image-437222438 [[https://r34i.paheal-cdn.net/5f/a8/5fa8a7528aaf055d8a0925dcca4dc4bb Ariel's butt]], and [[https://www.deviantart.com/nobody10000000/art/Image-437121001 [[https://r34i.paheal-cdn.net/c6/4e/c64ec50360e0884a2e2828ba8c8751bd the area between her legs]].
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* HeroesWantRedheads
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* GratuitousAnimalSidekick: While there had been a case in an animal sidekick in the 1975 anime adaptation and would be in animal sidekicks in adaptations that followed this one, this film makes it excessively gratuitous in that Ariel had not one, but three: Flounder, Sebastian and Scuttle.
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** Ursula tosses a tongue-looking thing into her cauldron (see "Visual Pun" below). In the original story, the little mermaid's tongue was cut out before she became human.

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** Ursula tosses a tongue-looking thing into her cauldron (see "Visual Pun" below).cauldron. In the original story, the little mermaid's tongue was cut out before she became human.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A meta-example, as while this film would introduce the incorporation of Broadway elements in the so-called Renaissance Age of Animation, Ursula delivers a theatrical monologue in her first scene, something that no character after her regardless of moral alignment has done since.
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* LongingLook: [[https://i0.wp.com/img.screencaps.us/198/4k-littlemermaid/full/4k-littlemermaid-animationscreencaps.com-9121.jpg?ssl=1 Eric gives such a look to Ariel]] during the dinner scene. In fact, he's distracted enough to not hear Grimsby's questions.
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* ICantLookGesture:
** Flounder and Sebastian avert their eyes during several tense scenes.
** Ariel looks away and squeezes her eyes shut while signing Ursula's contract.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ursula is quite distraught at the deaths of Flotsam and Jetsam.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite her intentions and her later sabotage, Ursula does make sure Ariel understands exactly what their deal entails, even redirecting Ariel's attention when she's distracted.
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* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:This is ultimately what gets Ursula killed. She's so focused on smiting Ariel with the Trident that she's not paying attention to her surroundings -- and thus doesn't realize Eric's commandeered and raised wreck's on a collision course until a moment before it's on her.]]

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* NeverTrustATrailer: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3voGyV1n0c The first teaser for the third movie]], made entirely from scenes of the first two. Still manages to be quite haunting.
** There was another one that made it seem like Triton taking on Ursula would be a major part of the movie. Notably, this version seemed to get a lot of airplay in shows aimed at a young, male audience.

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* NeverTrustATrailer: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3voGyV1n0c The first teaser for the third movie]], made entirely from scenes of the first two. Still manages to be quite haunting.
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* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: Max gets annoyed at Prince Eric's cluelessness over whether or not the mute Ariel was the one he's been looking for.

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* EpilepticFlashingLights: A few scenes involving lightning and Ursula's magic create bright strobing effects against dark backgrounds. Some of these effects also occur during plot-relevant scenes, with the most prominent example being [[spoiler:Ursula's death.]]
* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: Max gets annoyed at Prince Eric's cluelessness naïveté over whether or not the mute Ariel was the one he's been looking for.



** Flotsam and Jetsam get hit by a stray blast from the trident, and explode into tiny fragments of flesh, bone and eyes. [[PetTheDog And since Ursula actually loved them]], [[MamaBear this winds up pissing her off]].

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** Flotsam [[spoiler:Flotsam and Jetsam get hit by a stray blast from the trident, and explode into tiny fragments of flesh, bone and eyes. [[PetTheDog And since Ursula actually loved them]], [[MamaBear this winds up pissing her off]].off]]]].
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** The middle section of Ursula's MagicallyBindingContract is made up of [[https://i.imgur.com/QXr1tdY.jpg gibberish]], though this could be explained as TranslationConvention simply translating the only relevant parts into English for the audience.
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* MusicalWorldHypotheses: While there is the occasional song sequence where it's ambiguous, a majority of the songs are diegetic and meant to be literally happening, explicitly Ariel singing her reprise of "Part of Your World" to a barely conscious Eric and Sebastian serenading them with "Kiss the Girl."
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** Speaking of Sebastian, while it's understandable that thinks that Triton knows about Ariel's antics when his messenger summons him, doesn't he notice Triton's playful, teasing demeanor? He knows how Triton feels about humans, does he really think he'd be acting like this if he thought or knew Ariel was in love with one?

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** Speaking of Sebastian, while it's understandable that he thinks that Triton knows about Ariel's antics when his messenger summons him, doesn't he notice Triton's playful, teasing demeanor? He knows how Triton feels about humans, does he really think he'd be acting like this if he thought or knew Ariel was in love with one?

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