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* ShooOutTheClowns: Scuttle, Sebastian, and Flounder kind of get pushed to the side during the climax. [[spoiler: Justified as Ursula goes OneWingedAngel. There's literally nothing they ''can'' do against a veritable kaiju (and we see Sebastien and Flounder are pararlyzed with genuine terror as Ursula begins her transformation).]]

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* ShooOutTheClowns: Scuttle, Sebastian, and Flounder kind of get pushed to the side during the climax. [[spoiler: Justified as Ursula goes OneWingedAngel. There's literally nothing they ''can'' do against a veritable kaiju (and we see Sebastien Sebastian and Flounder are pararlyzed with genuine terror as Ursula begins her transformation).]]

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* PrincessesRule: {{Gender Flip}}ped with Prince Eric.

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* PrincessesRule: {{Gender Flip}}ped with Prince Eric.Eric, who is the ruler of his kingdom because his parents are deceased, but retains the title "Prince", presumably because he's young and unmarried.

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* ShadowDiscretionShot: Ariel's transformation into a human by Ursula. Subverted though, in that if you lighten the color on your monitor, you can see see a good deal of Ariel's nude body.

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* ShadowDiscretionShot: Ariel's transformation into a human by Ursula. Subverted though, in that if you lighten the color on your monitor, you can see see a good deal of Ariel's nude body.body.
* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] Ursula's spell to transform Ariel into a human doesn't include clothing, leaving Ariel completely naked aside from her SeashellBra. However, when Triton transforms her at the end of the movie, he has the decency to include a sparkling dress for her.
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* WolfWhistle: After Ariel turns into a human, she uses an old sail as a dress, and Scuttle wolf-whistles at her.
-->'''Scuttle''': ''(whistles)'' You look great, kid. You look sensational.
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* VillainousAdviceSong: "Poor Unfortunate Souls" is [[WickedWitch Ursula's]] song to convince Ariel to sign a binding contract. In it, she paints herself as [[TheAtoner regretting her past misdeeds and wanting to help people]], but her {{Stage Whisper}}s to [[SlipperyAsAnEel Flotsam and Jetsam]] betray this facade to the audience if they weren't already drowning in her sarcasm. On the TV series, there's Ursula's song "You wouldn't want to Mess with me".
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* VillainousGlutton: Ursula.

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* VillainousGlutton: Ursula.Ursula's figure implies it, but there is only one scene of her eating one shrimp. Her monologue about missing the "fantastical feasts" from Triton's palace is likely the movie's way of explaining that she used to be this, though.
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* RedFilterOfDoom: When King Triton activates his trident where he destroys Ariel's human treasures in a blind fit of rage, [[MoodLighting the entire grotto turns from cool undersea blue to hellish red]] (where the trident's glow creates the filter) before transitioning to chalky gray after Triton blasts the statue of Prince Eric.
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* TrashTheSet: Triton destroys Ariel's secret grotto out of extreme anger after Ariel confesses her love for Eric, [[WatchingTroyBurn and only Ariel can do is watch in horror during his rampage as her desperate pleas to stop fall on deaf ears.]]

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* TrashTheSet: Triton destroys Ariel's secret grotto out of extreme anger after Ariel confesses her love for Eric, [[WatchingTroyBurn and only Ariel can do is watch in horror during his rampage as her desperate pleas to stop fall on deaf ears.]]]] The sequel implies that Triton does later rebuild it.
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** The "Part of Your World" reprise features Ariel perched on a rock near the shore, just like [[The Little Mermaid (statue) The Little Mermaid statue]] in Copenhagen.

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** The "Part of Your World" reprise features Ariel perched on a rock near the shore, just like [[The Little Mermaid (statue) The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid_(statue) the Little Mermaid statue]] in Copenhagen.
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** The "Part of Your World" reprise features Ariel perched on a rock near the shore, just like [[The Little Mermaid (statue) The Little Mermaid statue]] in Copenhagen.
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* QuiveringLip: Ariel does this when her father King Triton reprimands her for going to the surface, then [[RunningAwayToCry swims away before he can see her cry.]]
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** Ariel's sisters and Sebastian have one when they see Ariel is not where she was supposed to be for the concert when it is her cue, and know full well what this means when all eyes turn to Triton as his go [[RedEyesTakeWarning red with fury]].
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** Flounder when he sees the shark behind him.

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** Flounder when he sees the shark behind him.him, then when he tries to taunt Glut after Glut gets stuck by blowing a raspberry at him, one near-miss snap of Glut's jaws quickly has Flounder put on the granddaddy of all bug-eyed TooDumbToLive OhCrap looks before he wisely decides to go ScrewThisImOuttaHere and rejoin Ariel with a terrified whimper.

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