History WesternAnimation / Anastasia

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Poor Dimitri gets found out shortly after finally deciding to do the right thing, and Anastasia reacts about as well as one might expect.

* CoolCrown: Anya wears a gorgeous sparkly diadem with her princess dress. [[spoiler: Though she returns it by the end of the story.]]

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: A few historical characters show up in the song "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart": Creator/MauriceChevalier, UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, Charles Lindbergh, Creator/JosephineBaker, Claude Monet, Isadora Duncan, Auguste Rodin, and Gertrude Stein. All of them are going shopping on the same night in the same street and all [[CrowdSong happen to know the words to the song]]. The movie features a singing ''Gertrude Stein''. This might be the most historically correct part of the movie as both Hemingway and Bennett Cerf wrote of Gertrude's inability to walk by someone playing a piano without sitting down and singing along.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Realistically speaking, every character in this movie should have had ''some'' kind of European accent, but in the main cast, the only ones who made any attempt were Creator/KelseyGrammer, who honestly does a pretty good job making Vlad sound Russian, and Creator/AngelaLansbury, who uses her natural British accent as the Dowager Empress. (The real Marie Feodorovna was born Princess Dagmar of Denmark.)

''Anastasia'' is Creator/DonBluth's 1997 [[{{Disneyfication}} very loose adaptation]] of [[{{Film/Anastasia}} a 1956 film]], which itself was already [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very, very loosely based]] on [[DidAnastasiaSurvive the mystery]] surrounding [[UsefulNotes/AnastasiaNikolaevnaRomanova the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]] after 1918. It was produced by Fox Animation Studios, and the screenplay was written by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White.

In 1916, the Romanov family's 300-year reign is ended after they were cursed by the evil UsefulNotes/{{Rasputin|TheMadMonk}} (Creator/ChristopherLloyd) and their people revolted against them [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection thanks to his demonic influence]]. All of the Romanovs apparently died in the attack except the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna Romanova (Creator/AngelaLansbury), the Czar's mother, who escaped the palace with one of the Czar's daughters, the eight-year-old Anastasia, thanks to the help of a young kitchen boy. Rasputin dies trying to pursue them, but Anastasia and Marie are separated when the young girl falls from a train and (presumably) dies.

''Anastasia'' is Creator/DonBluth's 1997 [[{{Disneyfication}} very loose adaptation]] of [[{{Film/Anastasia}} a 1956 film]], which itself was already [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very, very loosely based]] on [[DidAnastasiaSurvive the 'life' of]] [[UsefulNotes/AnastasiaNikolaevnaRomanova the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]]. It was produced by Fox Animation Studios, and the screenplay was written by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White.

* PelvisPose: Shown when one of the auditioning "Anastasias" humorously does this pose, which is very uncharacteristic of the real Anastasia.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While many things have been said of him, the real Rasputin wasn't an evil undead warlock who [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the forces of evil]] for revenge on the Romanovs. Rasputin was an enigma but undoubtedly an ''ally'' of the Romanovs; the important ones, anyway. Several relatives kinda hated him and plotted his death like Grand Duke Felix Yusupov. In one of the older drafts for the film, Rasputin only became a bad guy after ''surviving'' the historical assassination attempt against him, leading him to orchestrate their downfall out of a genuine desire for revenge (this is referenced in his VillainSong by "When the royals betrayed me they made a '''mistake'''"). He would also justify this trope in a later scene by revealing his lying low over the years meant historians never realised how connected he was to the fall of the Romanovs.

** Anastasia during the siege runs back to her room for her music box, even though she and her grandmother could die at any moment. [[spoiler:When she drops it while going through the servants' quarters passage, she's ''still''' worried about it. Dimitri has to shout at her to run and close the door on her for Anastasia to get moving]].

** The Empress gets on board pretty quickly after [[spoiler: realizing Dimitri was the boy who saved them at the palace, and he refuses her reward. She even encourages Anya to be with him rather than becoming a princess again.]]

** It's said that he sold his soul but the Devil is not brought up, he only ever refers to those he sold he soul to as "the dark forces". Some of the foreign dubs do make it explicitly {{Satan}}.

* NurtureOverNature: [[spoiler: Alluded to as Anya seems to feel uncomfortable with the old, royal lifestyle[[note]] Protesting when officials tell Dimitri to bow to her, Pooka's boredom at her new surroundings, and Anya's reluctance join the ball at the end. [[/note]] after spending most of her life as an ordinary citizen, and chooses to leave with Dimitri to live privately instead. Her grandmother indicates she's realized her situation as well.]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Rasputin's death was another offender. Screaming in agony '''while being shocked by green electricity''', his body parts '''melt ''' into nasty green ooze and his cloak collapses to the ground. And then his '''skeleton''' emerges, and '''crumbles to dust'''. His final death comes as a relief.]]]]

* AdultFear:
** The opening scene. To wit, the Dowager Empress only manages to get ''one'' of her grandchildren out of the violent murdering spree, and the apparent instigator tries to kill said grandchild personally, but then the ice he's on breaks and he sinks into the river. Finally, when they [[HopeSpot get on a train to safety]], ''Marie'' just manages to get on, but [[OhCrap Anastasia doesn't]], and she loses her.
** Also, Dimitri is a young child when the siege happens. Even though it's implied that he's treated harshly, and that his crush Anastasia doesn't even notice him, he decides to save her and her grandmother by helping them leave via the servants' quarters. When the revolutionaries storm in just after they've vanished, they [[WouldHurtAChild pistol-whip Dimitri in the stomach]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution tossing a vase at them]].

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: From start to finish. It's very much a fantasy story with historical elements rather than the other way around.

** When Anya comes to the fork in the road, her options are to "go left" and accept the life that's been assigned to her, or to "go right" and follow her heart. Post-Revolution Russia was a far-left regime, which is symbolised here.

* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Subverted. Marie has been searching for her granddaughter and set up a reward for anyone to find her. She gets beaten down on seeing so many impostors and identifying them as such, telling them off for breaking her heart just to get her money. Dimitri [[spoiler:has to kidnap her to make her talk to Anya, and even then the Empress isn't convinced when Anya begs her to identify her either as family or not as family. It's not until Anya has a memory about Marie's peppermint oil -- something that an impostor wouldn't know about because it's too personal for historical records -- that Marie stays in the room, sits with Anya, and realizes she's Anastasia when the latter shows her locket, winds the music box and sings along]].

* RasputinianDeath: Rasputin 'dies' three times in the movie, and only the last one sticks. (The real Rasputin's death was an aversion of this trope, ironically.) The first time he is stripped to the bone due to his soul trade, but he restores himself with the powers he gains. His second death includes one element from the apocryphal real life story. He [[spoiler:falls through some ice, and drowns.]] The third and last one involves [[spoiler:Anastasia smashing his [[SoulJar phylactery]]. What results from this is itself pretty Rasputinian; see FamilyUnfriendlyDeath above.]]
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Anya, Dimitri and Vlad spend most of the movie having Anya learn to act like royalty, only for them all to discover she really ''is'' the Grand Duchess and the last member of the Russian royal family. True to this trope, Dimitri immediately thinks he's not good enough for her.

* RuleOfSymbolism: By WordOfGod, the reason for the seeming BigLippedAlligatorMoment, "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart", is not merely to show off Bernadette Peters, nor 1920's Paris, but a reflection of both cultural progress at the time and Anastasia's CharacterDevelopment. On the one hand, by the '20s the Soviet republics were reeling from the White Army and foreign invasion, something Europe did not contend with, with much of this renaissance based in Paris; on the other hand, this ties into Anya leaving a dead world for one vibrant and alive, paralleling her leaving behind an empty, soulless existence for one where she could bloom, grow, and begin a new, happy life.
** A more contained example with Anastasia's tiara: [[spoiler: After she's defeated Rasputin, she and Dimitri go to kiss, only for Pooka to interrupt them to give her the crown so she's holding it between the two of them -- not so subtly symbolizing how her princess status is separating them. In the final scene the tiara is gone and they can kiss with nothing coming between them.]]

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Taken to its logical extreme. Bartok the Bat [[HeelFaceTurn abandons Rasputin]] near the end, and is rewarded with a [[PinkGirlBlueBoy pink]] bat who flies in and kisses him. Averted with Dimitri who is remarkably fleshed out for a Princesses love interest in the period of animation.

* SecretPath: Oddly enough saves Anastasia and her grandmother; when the siege happens, she runs back to her room for her grandmother's music box despite the revolutionaries with guns outside that will kill them all. Marie screams at her to come back but follows. While they're in Anastasia's room and the castle doors break down, Dimitri comes out through the servants' quarters entrance and shoves them inside after she drops the music box.

* ShipperOnDeck: Vlad catches on pretty quickly that Anya and Dimitri have a SlapSlapKiss thing going. He also gets the two to dance and sings a song about this... on the ship to Paris. It's also fun watching his face in the background as the two interact.

** In the number "Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart" the backgrounds all look very Impressionistic, and that was the popular painting style at the time.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Good lord Anastasia and Dimitri. They start at it from basically the minute they meet, and keep going through the emotional [[spoiler: near-death]] finale.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: Anya/Anastasia, counting the clothing she wears as a child, has 13 different outfits during the course of the movie (although two are completely hallucinatory). Blue court dress, nightgown, overcoat, peasant outfit, yellow DisneyAcidSequence ballgown, blue short-sleeved dress, pajamas, sailor bathing suit, 2 flapper dresses during a musical number, blue evening dress, pink pajamas, court dress (make it 14 if you count the ClothingDamage incurred on the last court dress as a costume change). To compare, Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' had 7 (her purple SeashellBra, a ship's sail wrapped around her, a pink dinner dress, a pink nightgown, a turquoise dress, a blue sparkly dress and a wedding dress).

** Rasputin was an ally of the Romanovs, and was murdered before their own demise. He was also (probably) neither a lich nor powered by demons. And bats can't talk.

* VisualPun: During "Paris Holds the Key" we see [[FreudianSlip Sigmund Freud slipping on a banana peel]].

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler: The Dowager Empress offers Dimitri the 10 million rubles as a reward after he reunites her with Anastasia. (Even knowing he originally planned to con her). At this point Anya believes he's a cheat and liar, and he's returning to Russia and never going to see her again so no one would know if he took the money or not. Dimitri refuses it anyway. In the following scene he even implies to Anya that he ''did'' take the money so she wouldn't want anything more to do with him and can live the life she deserves. Eventually it's the Empress who tells Anya the truth. To a lesser extent, he could have used the money to make himself a socialite and become fit to marry a Duchess. Dimitri refuses to do so, because all the rubles in the world would not win Anastasia's heart]].

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler: Or rather, your princess doesn't belong in a castle. In her quest to discover where she belongs, Anya actually uncovers her past and lost family about three quarters of the way through the film. However, the last part of the movie has her wondering if her old, royal world really is her true home and realizing she's fallen in love with a former kitchen boy. She ends up not reclaiming her title and status in favour of marrying Dimitri, though she does remain close to her grandmother. That said, the Rasputin storyline spans the whole film.]]

* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler: In the end Anya decides to live a private life with former servant Dimitri rather than return to her old royal lifestyle, which it's implied she was uncomfortable with.]]

* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Anastasia uses this line verbatim near the end of the movie, when Rasputin is attempting to drown her in the river.
* InhumanHuman: Rasputin CameBackWrong, and is rather narked about it.

* IOweYouMyLife: Marie becomes much warmer towards Dimitri when [[spoiler:he not only refuses the reward after bringing the real Anastasia to her, but also was the boy that saved her from the Revolution. As she points out, he got her and Anastasia out using the SecretPassage, risking his life for theirs]].

* KeepTheReward: After Dimitri returns Anastasia to her grandmother he refuses the reward and leaves without telling Anya what he did, so as to draw her contempt and hoping to sever any ties so that she could live happily without him to drag her down.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: [[spoiler: In the climax Anya defeats Rasputin decked out in a ball gown, royal sash and crown jewels. Granted, the dress ends up rather more ripped and bedraggled than it started out, but still.]]

* KirkSummation: Marie to Dimitri after his KeepTheReward moment: "Young man, where did you get that music box? You were that boy, weren't you? The servant boy who got us out. You saved her life, and mine, and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward . . . why the sudden change of mind?"
* LargeHam: [[EvilIsHammy Rasputin]] loves shouting and gesturing with his SoulJar. (considering his [[Creator/ChristopherLloyd voice actor]], this isn't surprising) His acting is about as subtle as a screaming hyena.
%%** Bartok, Vladimir, and Sophie all qualify.

* MamaBear: Grandmother bear rather; when a young Dmitri tells them to use the servants' quarter, Marie makes Anastasia go first and takes up the rear. Later, she engages in a tug-of-war with Rasputin to save her granddaughter. As she tells the con artists and Dmitri, they ought to know better than to anger her with lies.

* MementoMacGuffin: Anya's "Together in Paris" necklace key and matching music box which her grandmother gave to her so they could be together even when separated. In a twist while Anya has the necklace half, her grandmother doesn't have the music box half...''Dimitri'' does. [[spoiler: Which foreshadows the fact that her grandmother isn't the only person to help Anya discover who she is and where she belongs.]]

* NeverRecycleABuilding: In the movie, the entire Catherine Palace has been abandoned and boarded up in the ten years since the Revolution.
* NeverWakeUpASleepwalker: ''Defied''. When Pooka warns Dmitri that a sleepwalking Anastasia has walked up to the deck, he rescues her just as Rasputin's nightmare compels her to jump into the ocean. As soon as he gets Anastasia on solid wood, he wakes her up. Dmitri is horrified that a nightmare nearly drove her to drown, and gives her a CooldownHug.

* NoOSHACompliance: During the end of the song Paris Holds the Key to Your Heart, Anya and company take the elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower. They're standing on the ''exterior roof of the elevator''.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Rasputin gets a HistoricalVillainUpgrade here, as he's responsible for the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and thus the rise of Soviet Russia.

* BittersweetEnding: Though it lends more on the happier side, [[spoiler:Anastasia leaves Marie again, but to get eloped with Dimitri. And even though she's leaving, Marie is nothing but content with her granddaughter's decision. Plus, Bartok apparently becomes a couple with a female bat.]]

* ComingOfAgeStory: After the prologue Anastasia sings a song about wanting to find out who she is and where to find her future. She finds both over the course of the journey.[[spoiler: As the audience knows all along she's the Grand Duchess, but she decides her future is with Dimitri.]]

** Rasputin as he appears in this movie is a mix between the historical character, and a character from Russian folklore called Koschei the Deathless.

* DamselOutOfDistress: [[spoiler: Anastasia at the climax. Though Dimitri arrives and attempts to save her from Rasputin, the latter sics a giant, animated horse statue on him that keeps him from interfering. Anastasia ends up fighting Rasputin all by herself and, with some help from Pooka fetching her the reliquary, ultimately defeats and kills him.]]
* DanceOfRomance: Anastasia and Dimitri on the Tasha, while Vladimir {{lampshades}} this with a brief song. [[spoiler: They have another one at the end when they're eloping.]]
* DancesAndBalls: Rasputin curses the royal family during a ball to celebrate the Romanovs' multiple centuries of rule over Russia. It works, because shortly afterwards [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection not-Lenin and the not-Bolsheviks]] raid the palace and Anastasia barely makes it out of there. [[spoiler: Near the end of the film Anastasia is going to be presented at an equally fancy ball but ends up fighting Rasputin and then leaving with Dimitri instead.]]

* DatedHistory: The real Anastasia's remains [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652717/ may have finally been uncovered in 2007]], a full ten years after the film premiered and finally proving that she indeed perished along with the rest of her family.

* DeathGlare: A rather impressive one done by Anastasia when she realizes who Rasputin is and why he's here.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Dimitri.]]

* DreamMelody: ''Once Upon a December'' is sung during the Dream Ballet.
* DubNameChange: two of the characters:

* {{Elopement}}: [[spoiler: Anastasia and Dimitri at the end. They're certainly not having a grand public wedding.]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Rasputin's death was another offender. Screaming in agony '''while being shocked by green electricity''', his body parts '''melt ''' into nasty green ooze and his cloak collapses to the ground. And then his '''skeleton''' emerges, and '''crumbles to dust'''. His final death comes as a relief. Oh, and it isn't a KarmicDeath, Anastasia knows ''just'' what she's doing when she destroys the [[SoulJar reliquary that is keeping him alive.]]]]

* FireForgedFriends: Anya and Dimitri eventually become this thanks to Rasputin's schemes. First, Dimitri realizes that Anya can keep a cool head in a dangerous situation when their train is sabotaged; she points out they can't jump from the train because the fall would kill them, hands him a stick of dynamite to disconnect the engine car and gives him a chain and anchor by which to brake their car before it crashes over a broken bridge. Anya also shows admiration for Dimitri's latter idea by following his orders without question. Then Dimitri saves Anya from sleepwalking off the ship, and gives her a CooldownHug when she wakes up repeating "The Romanov curse, the curse, I kept seeing so many faces."

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the beginning of the film, Dimitri says that the music box will persuade the Empress that the actress they choose to portray Anastasia is the real deal. [[spoiler:Dimitri uses the music box to convince Marie to meet Anya, so that she learns that her granddaughter is alive.]]

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* GirlinessUpgrade: Anastasia and her outfits become progressively more refined and feminine during the story and as she gets closer to becoming a princess again. In Russia she's dressed in a ragged, peasant tunic and her hair is thrown in a scruffy knot, during the journey she changes into a simple blue dress and lets her hair down, in Paris she wears fashionable flapper and opera dresses and gets her hair done properly, and once she regains her title is decked out in an elaborate court gown and tiara. [[spoiler: When she leaves with Dimitri at the end she keeps the court gown but it's damaged and ripped from their battle with Rasputin and her hair is messy again.]]

* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:In the movie, Anya is reunited with her grandmother, but decides to stay out of the spotlight and elopes with Dimitri.]]
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Well two thirds plot switch, as the story is originally focused on Anya uncovering her lost past and finding her grandmother. [[spoiler: After they arrive in Paris the focus switches to the new social barriers between Anya and Dimitri, him struggling against his feelings for her and whether she wants to return to her life as Grand Duchess.]] Rasputin's plot to kill her lasts throughout the whole film though.

In 1916, the Romanov family's 300-year reign is ended after they were cursed by the evil UsefulNotes/{{Rasputin|TheMadMonk}} (Creator/ChristopherLloyd) and their people revolted against them [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection thanks to his demonic influence]]. All of the Romanovs apparently died in the attack except the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna Romanova (Creator/AngelaLansbury), the Czar's mother, who escaped the palace with one of the Czar's daughters, the eight-year-old Anastasia, thanks to the help of a young kitchen boy. Rasputin dies trying to pursue them, but Anastasia and Marie are separated she falls from a train and (presumably) dies.

Ten years later (1926), Anya (Creator/MegRyan), an eighteen-year-old orphan making her way in the world for the first time, decides to head for Paris. She hopes to find her family there, guided by the message "Together in Paris" inscribed on the [[OrphansPlotTrinket necklace she was found with]] in an [[EasyAmnesia amnesiac state]] as a child. Lacking the appropriate travel papers, she locates a young forger called Dimitri (Creator/JohnCusack) and his partner Vladimir (Creator/KelseyGrammer) in the old palace. For his part, Dimitri is planning on running a con; rumor has it that Anastasia may have survived the attack, and the Dowager Empress has offered a huge reward to anyone who can reunite Anastasia with her. Dimitri and Vlad notice that this young woman who has come to them for travel papers looks ''strikingly'' like an older Anastasia. The two men put to Anya the idea that she may actually ''be'' Anastasia, without mentioning that they are seeking a reward.

In the meantime, Rasputin is in limbo until all the Romanovs are dead. His animal sidekick, a bat named Bartok (Creator/HankAzaria), is pulled into limbo by Rasputin's mystic relic, confirming that Anya ''is'' Anastasia. As Dimitri and Vlad travel to Paris with Anya and teach her how to act like a royal, they must also avoid Rasputin calling upon the power of hell to try to kill her.

''Anastasia'' is Creator/DonBluth's 1997 [[{{Disneyfication}} very loose adaptation]] of [[{{Film/Anastasia}} a 1956 film]], which itself was already [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very, very loosely based]] on [[DidAnastasiaSurvive the 'life' of]] [[UsefulNotes/AnastasiaNikolaevnaRomanova the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]]. It was produced by Fox Animation Studios and the screenplay was written by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White.

In 1916, Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, and his family, the Romanovs, were very happy until they were cursed by the evil UsefulNotes/{{Rasputin|TheMadMonk}} (Creator/ChristopherLloyd) and their people revolted against them [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection for some mystical reason]], aided by demons. All of the Romanovs apparently died in the attack except the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna Romanova (Creator/AngelaLansbury), the Czar's mother. A young kitchen boy helped Marie and one of the Czar's daughters, the eight-year-old Anastasia, escape. However, she and Marie got separated when Anastasia fell from a train and, presumably, died.

Ten years later (1926), Anya (Creator/MegRyan), an eighteen-year-old orphan making her way in the world for the first time, decides to head for Paris. She hopes to find her family there, guided by the message "Together in Paris" inscribed on the [[OrphansPlotTrinket necklace she was found with]] in an [[EasyAmnesia amnesiac state]] as a child.

She heads for St. Petersburg, hoping to get a train from there to Paris, but she does not have the appropriate travel papers. Following the advice of a stranger, she locates a young forger and conman called Dimitri (Creator/JohnCusack) and his partner Vladimir (Creator/KelseyGrammer) in the old palace. For his part, Dimitri is planning on running a con. Rumor has it that Anastasia may have survived the attack, and the Dowager Empress has offered a huge reward to anyone who can reunite Anastasia with her. Dimitri and Vlad notice that this young woman who has come to them for travel papers looks ''strikingly'' like an older version of Anastasia.

The two men put to Anya the idea that she may actually ''be'' Anastasia, but don't mention the reward. Vlad then forges the papers to travel out of the country so that they can all go to Paris to meet the Dowager Empress. In the meantime, Rasputin is in limbo until all the Romanovs are dead. His animal sidekick, a bat named Bartok (Creator/HankAzaria), upon seeing Anya, is pulled into limbo by Rasputin's mystic relic, tells Rasputin about Anya and they realize she must actually be Anastasia.

The rest of the film deals with Anya learning how to act like how the royal Anastasia would act and learn about her history while Rasputin calls upon the powers of hell to try and kill her. The ending, like most animated movies, is a happy one; however, it is enlightening in a few ways.

Got a DirectToVideo spin-off in the form of ''WesternAnimation/BartokTheMagnificent''[[note]]though all it has in common with the first movie is... Bartok. And that it's set in an ''even less'' historically accurate version of Russia.[[/note]], which deals with the plucky little bat impressing people with his "[[BlatantLies special abilities]]". It's important to note that this is the only movie sequel that Bluth has ever been involved with.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Rasputin's death was another offender. His body parts '''melt ''' into nasty green ooze and his cloak collapses to the ground. And then his '''skeleton''' emerges, screaming in agony '''while being shocked by green electricity'''. His final death comes as a relief. Oh, and it isn't a KarmicDeath, Anastasia knows ''just'' what she's doing when she destroys the [[SoulJar reliquary that is keeping him alive.]]]]