History WesternAnimation / BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper

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''Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper'' is the fourth in the [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} film series]] and is billed as the first ever [[TheMusical Barbie Musical]].

It stars Franchise/{{Barbie}} as both Anneliese and Erika, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a princess and a pauper]]. After a chance meeting, the two become quick friends due to their similarities. However, with the kingdom's finances falling, Anneliese is engaged to Dominick, the king of a neighbouring kingdom, despite her love for her tutor. When the queen's scheming advisor Preminger arranges for Anneliese to be kidnapped so the marriage to King Dominick will not go through, Anneliese's tutor Julian arranges for Erika to replace Anneliese until the real princess is found.
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!!''Barbie in the Princess and the Pauper'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActuallyIAmHim: Upon their first meeting, Erika comments that Anneliese has the same name as the princess.
-->''"Well..."''
* AdultFear: The poor Queen first believes that Anneliese ran away (she was actually kidnapped), and then, after thinking she's been returned home, safe and sound, she finds out that this is actually an impostor. Preminger then tells her Anneliese was ''killed'' by said impostor, and a trusted tutor. Of course, Anneliese is alright and manages to escape, but not for a lack of trying on Preminger's part.
* AgeGapRomance: Preminger plans to marry Anneliese, and is clearly ''a lot'' older than her. It does not actually have [[AltarDiplomacy much to do with romance, though]].
%%* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Wolfie. He even barks!
%%* AlmostKiss: Dominick and [[spoiler:Erika-masquerading-as-Anneliese]].
* AltarDiplomacy:
** Queen Genevieve arranges Anneliese's marriage to Dominick so his wealth can revitalize her kingdom's failing economy. On Dominick's end, it's briefly mentioned that the two kingdoms would be joined after the wedding, making him king of both.
** Preminger's plan to become king revolves around this; his original intent was to use his (stolen) wealth as a bargaining chip for Anneliese's hand. When his original plan goes off the rails, he instead [[spoiler:brokers a similar deal with Queen Genevieve]].
* AnimalMotifs: Pink and blue butterflies for our pink and blue heroines.
* AnimalTalk: Serafina and Wolfie talk to each other in English for the audience's benefit, but to the in-universe humans it just sounds like meowing.
%%* AnimatedActors: Played straight in the credits.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: It's [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] and definitely intentional, but when Erika tries talking like a princess she's very formal and stops using contractions.
* ArrangedMarriage: Anneliese and Dominick. Neither is happy about it, though Dominick warms to the idea after hitting it off with Anneliese ([[spoiler:actually Erika in disguise]]).
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Serafina and Wolfie.]]
* BadBadActing: Preminger, because [[ObviouslyEvil he's evil]]. His henchmen, because they're just that stupid.
* BadBoss: Madame Carp is ''awful'' to Erika and the other dressmaker. Preminger is also pretty nasty to his cronies, but they still seem to like him quite a bit.
* BagOfKidnapping: Preminger's thugs use this on Anneliese, and later to capture Julian when he confronts the former.
* BatmanGambit: Anneliese's fondness for her cat is used to [[spoiler:lure her to her kidnappers]].
* BigBad: Preminger, the queen's treasurer who intends to claim the crown and rule over the kingdom.
* BigNo: Queen Genevieve lets one loose when she thinks Anneliese [[spoiler:has been killed in a mine collapse]].
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: "But ''fate'' decreed they would..."
* BedsheetGhost: Anneliese creates one to [[spoiler:escape her kidnappers]].
* BelligerentSexualTension: Preminger seems to think Anneliese acts cold to him in order to hide her attraction. While we never see her treat him badly, it could be that she was just so happy to be [[spoiler:rescued from Madame Carp’s]] that she didn’t really care ''who'' he was.
%%* BeYourself: Erika tells her ''cat'' to do this (''The Cat's Meow'')
* BookOnTheHead: Erika, while practicing [[PrincessForADay to impersonate Anneliese]], once walks with a book on her head during her TrainingMontage song - and immediately succeeds.
%%* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Preminger's two henchmen.
* BoyMeetsGirl: Erika alludes to this trope in the song "If You Love Me For Me" which begins 'Once a lass met a lad...'
* BrainyBrunette: Julian is a male example. Erika, though she lacks education, is far from stupid, either, given she's able to [[spoiler: convince everyone she's Anneliese, even her mother, and escape from a dungeon]].
* BrickJoke: [[TheSmartGuy Anneliese]] spends a moment in the movie establishing that one of the stone she's studying isn't gold, but iron pyrite, also known as "fool's gold". A few scenes later, Preminger steals it because he mistakes it for a gold nugget.
* CassandraTruth: After she returns, nobody (from the palace guard who refuses to let her in to Madame Carp, who thinks she's Erika wearing a wig) believes Anneliese's assertions that she is the princess.
* CatsAreMean: Averted. Wolfie and Serafina are perfectly sweet and nice, and the mean animal is Preminger's pet poodle, Midas.
* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: Erika walks into the closet in one gown and out of it in another almost immediately.
* ChastityCouple: Both Erika/Dominick and Anneliese/Julian are pretty chaste, but the latter even more so. Where Erika and Dominick embrace and hold hands multiple times and even get an AlmostKiss, Anneliese and Julian only hug once and hold hands in the carriage. Could be justified due to the 18th century-ish setting and them being used to their social class keeping them at distance.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Anneliese loves roses and Julian knows that. He is later able to determine that [[OutOfCharacterAlert the letter supposedly left by Anneliese when she "ran away" is a fake, because it’s scented with lilac rather than rose]].
** The geodes in the mine are first shown as part of a humorous sequence that serves as Nick and Nack's EstablishingCharacterMoment, but turn out to be a metaphor for [[spoiler: Julian and Anneliese's]] love and [[spoiler: the way to save the kingdom from poverty.]]
** Anneliese’s tiara-shaped birthmark. It's how [[spoiler:Preminger convinces the queen that Erika is indeed an impostor]] and later [[spoiler:how Anneliese proves she really is the princess]].
* ChekhovsSkill:
** Anneliese's interest in geology comes in handy when she's able to recognize that [[spoiler: the drained out gold mine is full of precious gemstones, which restarts her kingdom's economy without her having to marry King Dominick]].
** Erika uses her beautiful singing voice to [[spoiler: lull the guard to sleep before making her escape]].
** Wolfie, who is essentially a dog in a cat's body, is able to use his superior sense of smell to [[spoiler: locate Serafina and her mistress]].
* CommonalityConnection: Anneliese and Erika form this, first over the fact that they are nearly identical and then when they realize that they are both unable to do what they really want because of external circumstances--Erika cannot pursue her dream career as a singer due to crippling debt, while Anneliese must forsake her passion for science and her love for Julian because of her duty to the kingdom.
** Downplayed and subverted with Julian and Preminger--both are peasants by birth who worked their way up to positions of trust in the palace, but they show nothing but dislike toward each other.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Anneliese and Erika are born at the exact same second and look exactly alike aside from their hair colors.[[note]]A partial reference to the overall Barbie toyline where she is available in different hair colors.[[/note]]
%%* CoolCrown: Anneliese, but Erika gets a symbolic one made of flowers.
%%* CrowdSong: The very last number.
* CensorSuds: The bath scene with Erika makes sure to not show her boobs, cleavage or other privates... well, her entire body is covered.
* CorruptPolitician: Preminger, who bankrupts the kingdom by embezzling the contents of the royal mine, both for the gold itself and to create a situation in which Anneliese would need to marry him for his riches, making him her consort.
%%* CuffsOffRubWrists: Julian does this after Anneliese unties him.
%%* DamselInDistress: Anneliese [[InvokedTrope pretends]] to be one to get [[spoiler:Nick and Nack to open the door]].
* DamselOutOfDistress: Anneliese is kidnapped twice, and both times uses her brains to help herself escape.
** Erika, too. She single-handedly [[spoiler: escapes from jail, with only a little help from Dominick, and then nearly succeeds in getting away from him due to believing he's a guard]].
* DarkReprise: Erika reprises "To Be a Princess" while [[spoiler:locked up in jail, breaking into tears by the end]].
* DisappearedDad: Both of our protagonists' fathers. While the queen is explicitly widowed, there's really no mention of what happened to ''Erika's'' dad.
* DistantDuet: "Free", sung by Erika and Anneliese from far-off, different places within the kingdom.
* ADogNamedCat: Erika's [[AllAnimalsAreDogs dog-like cat]] is named Wolfie.
* DramaticIrony: When the queen protests "Do you think I don't know my own daughter?" While her daughter [[spoiler:has been kidnapped and replaced with an IdenticalStranger]].
** Also, King Dominick telling Erika that one of the things he likes about her is how she's "honest, no pretenses"...[[spoiler: while she's masquerading as Anneliese]]. This is especially amusing given his own fondness for disguises.
%%* DumbBlonde: One of Preminger's henchmen.
* EmergencyImpersonation: Julian brought Erika in to pose as Anneliese to keep King Dominick's ambassador from calling off her ArrangedMarriage and buy time for him to mount a proper search. [[spoiler:Then he's captured by Preminger's henchmen, leaving Erika stuck in her role, and Erika falls hard for Dominick...]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** "Free", the opening song, revolves around Anneliese and Erika's shared dissatisfaction with their current lives. It also highlights the difference in their personalities; while Anneliese is resigned to marrying King Dominick for the good of the kingdom, Erika is determined to pay off her debts so she can get away from Madame Carp and pursue the career she's always dreamed of.
** Nick and Nack make their first appearance when Nack--the smarter of the two--[[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine berates Nick for throwing a worthless rock into a minecart with the gold they're stealing from the royal mine]] [[spoiler:while himself overlooking its hidden value]], setting the pattern for almost all of their future appearances.
** Preminger almost immediately launches into his VillainSong, a hammy, over-the-top piece that perfectly encapsulates his large ego, ambition, and skill at XanatosSpeedChess.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie takes place almost entirely over a three-day period.
%%* EvilChancellor: Preminger, of course!
* EvilLaugh: Preminger cackles. His assistants guffaw stupidly.
* FairytaleWeddingDress: The heroines each wear one at the end.
* FailedASpotCheck: An EstablishingCharacterMoment for one of Preminger’s henchmen is putting a big ugly rock in the mine cart when they’re supposed to be collecting gold.
* {{Fat B|astard}}itch: Madame Carp, a BadBoss to Erika and her workers in her shop.
* {{Fauxshadowing}}: Early in the film, Anneliese is examining a piece of metal and identifies it as iron pyrite, or fool's gold. As a major plot point is Preminger's stockpile of stolen gold, you would expect this to be setting up a reveal that he's just mined a bunch of iron pyrite, but this never happens.
** However, Preminger is later shown stealing the pyrite from Anneliese's desk, possibly foreshadowing the fact that he overlooked the [[spoiler:valuable geodes]] left behind in the mine due to their worthless appearances.
* ForegoneConclusion: There is a royal. There is also a peasant. They are identical. They switch places. Most people know this much through PopculturalOsmosis of the original story.
* FormalFullArrayOfCutlery: Erika is being taught in a song that "To be a princess, is to know which spoon to use."
* FurryReminder: Serafina chasing the mouse. Both the cats looking horrified when Julian and Anneliese let water into the cave.
* GoodParents: Erika's parents took on a crushing debt to ensure that they could take care of her. Anneliese's mother obviously sympathizes with her misgivings over her ArrangedMarriage, and [[spoiler:gladly lets her marry the man she ''really'' loves instead after Anneliese finds a solution to the problem that made the arrangement necessary in the first place]].
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Preminger indulges in both [[GratuitousFrench French]] and [[GratuitousSpanish Spanish]] in his VillainSong, in the form of PoirotSpeak.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Anneliese, a princess with blonde-gold hair and a very nice royal inside out.
* HeldGaze: Between Dominick and Erika at the end of their FallingInLoveMontage that uses the beautiful song "If You Love Me For Me."
* HilariousOuttakes: Some were written for the credits, featuring the AnimatedActors rather than the people who voiced them.
* HoldingHands: Both Julian and Anneliese and Dominick and Erika.
* HotForTeacher: Anneliese and Julian. Justified that he's her tutor rather than an actual teacher and appears to be pretty close to her age.
* IdenticalStranger: True to [[Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper the original]].
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: The only way to tell Anneliese and Erika apart is the former is blonde while the latter is brunette and her parting is reversed, and Anneliese has a royal birthmark on her back shoulder.
%%* IKissYourHand: Dominick does this.
* ImagineSpot: We are witness to Preminger's plotting in the second song, first directly, and then through shadows on a wall.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The royal mines run out, leaving the queen, and by extension her country, totally broke.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Anneliese. First she asks Julian which house he used to live in before he moved to the castle, before he answers his family could only afford to rent one room (but he knows she didn't mean to be rude). Her part in the "Girl Like You" song also oozes of this: while Erika explains that she's an indentured slave, her only complaints are that she's marrying a stranger and would rather spend the day in her own private library rather than get a foot massage during her breakfast in bed. It helps that Anneliese herself clearly [[JerkassRealization realizes how bad it sounds]] immediately after saying it.
%%* IWantSong: "Free".
* {{Jerkass}}: Madam Carp, who stole the money Erika earned from singing in public and plans to keep Erika for the rest of her life even though she had already paid more than half of her parents' debt. [[LaserGuidedKarma Her business eventually goes bankrupt when the castle stops buying from her.]]
* KingIncognito: Dominick pulls two. Erika lampshades it.
-->''"You... do love disguises, don't you?"''
** This also happens to Anneliese, but sort of... against her will. She tries to convince people she's the princess more than once, but [[CassandraTruth gets pooh-poohed]].
%%* LargeHam: Preminger, Nick, Dominick's ambassador.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Many of them:
** Preminger's VillainSong is played in almost every scene he appears in.
* LimitedWardrobe: The movie can give the impression that the queen only has the one dress, seeing as she wears it in every appearance, including her wedding. Somewhat justified by the movie being set in a time period when even royalty would only own a handful of outfits at a time, but it still appears odd given every other major character is shown in at ''least'' two different outfits.
** Erika mentions at one point that she only owns one dress (justified, seeing as she's very poor and up to her eyes in debt). This changes after she [[spoiler:begins masquerading as Anneliese]].
* LiteralMinded:
-->''"Who does [the Queen] think she is?!"''
-->''"The queen?"''
* LoveAtFirstNote:
** Dominick overhears Erika singing, and that's it -- his heart is ''gone''.
** A platonic version occurs between Anneliese and Erika, with the former being drawn to the latter because of her gorgeous voice.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Dominick says he didn't want to marry a stranger, but when he sees [[spoiler:Erika posing as]] Anneliese, he encourages his ambassador to agree to go forward with the wedding, although he's never spoken to her. She, for her part, is temporarily struck speechless when they are introduced.
* LoveConfession: [[spoiler: Anneliese gives one to Julian.]]
* ManVersusCareer: Averted! [[spoiler:The ending shows that Erika got to have ''both'', first turning down Dominick's marriage proposal so she can fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. He's understandably sad, but agrees, and gives her a ring. After a while of touring, Erika comes back and marries him happily.]]
* MeaningfulName: Midas the dog cares a lot for his gold tooth.
** Wolfie is a cat that acts and sounds like a dog.
%%* {{Mooks}}: They're also ThoseTwoGuys.
%%* TheMusical: Of course.
* MusicalisInterruptus: The prologue of "Written In Your Heart" is interrupted by an enraged Madame Carp.
* NiceGuy: Herve the horse is quite friendly and helpful to the other animal characters (and, by extension, their human owners) throughout the movie. [[spoiler:However, at the climax, Preminger learns the hard way not to push him too far.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Julian and Erika had good intentions when they had the latter pose as Anneliese to hide the real one's abduction, but [[spoiler:it results in the real princess being denied entrance to the castle after escaping captivity and being mistaken for Erika at Madame Carp's emporium]].
* NonHumanSidekick: The girls' cats.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Erika and Anneliese get a whole song dedicated to them being the same sort of person, under their surface differences.
* OhCrap: Serafina substitutes "oh dear" when she realizes how bad Herve's cat-bucking aim is in the bloopers.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Dominick compliments Erika on being "honest, no pretenses" while she's [[spoiler:posing as Anneliese]].
* OnlyOneName: Nobody in the cast is stated to have a last one, so maybe people in that kingdom simply don't use them.
* OpeningNarration: "Long ago, and far away..."
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Julian gets suspicious when he realizes that Anneliese's forged runaway letter is scented with lilac rather than rose.
* ParentsAsPeople: The Queen. She's pushing Anneliese into a marriage she doesn't want with a man she doesn't even know, but she doesn't seem to be a bad mother. She understands why Anneliese isn't wild about her engagement, even apologizing to her about it, and only insists that Anneliese go through with it because the kingdom is in debt. She's perfectly fine with Anneliese marrying a commoner after the problem gets solved, though, and also doesn't get mad at her when she thinks Anneliese ran away to avoid having to marry Dominick, just asking that she doesn't do it again.
* PatchworkKids: [[spoiler:Wolfie and Serafina's kittens all have either their mother or their father's pelt. Furthermore, we see one with white Serafina fur bark like his father, whereas one with Wolfie's coloration has Serafina's build.]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Dominick thinks his engagement to Anneliese is an example of this trope, but [[spoiler:she’s been kidnapped and replaced with a face double, and the woman he’s hitting it off with is Erika]].
* PimpedOutDress: Both Erika and Anneliese wear one.
* PluckyGirl: Despite being worked like a slave, Erika is cheerful and high-spirited.
* ThePowerOfActing: Julian and Erika's plan wouldn't have worked for a second if Erika wasn't so good at passing herself off as Anneliese.
%%* PrinceAndPauper: ''Duh''.
%%* PrincessClassic: Anneliese.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Anneliese spends most of her screen time in a pink dress. Her main one worn for majority of the film was made by Erika.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Anneliese and Erika become very close, ''very'' fast, and Erika's willing to play a role in a potentially life-threatening scheme (of course, [[spoiler: since this is a Barbie movie, she only gets thrown in the dungeon when she gets found out]], but ''still'') for Anneliese's sake after only one meeting, and Anneliese is particularly fixated on Erika's beautiful voice. The ending all but states that the two remain lifelong best friends.
* PsychoticSmirk: Preminger, when there are too many people around for a full-out psychotic ''grin.''
* PurpleIsPowerful: The queen wears a dress of pinkish-purple. Preminger wears a lot of deep purples, indicative of his desire to take over.
* RagsToRoyalty: Erika [[spoiler: marries King Dominick]].
* RebelliousPrincess: SubvertedTrope. Anneliese does not like her royal lifestyle, but pledges to “remain forever royal” in spite of her desire for freedom. It's partly because of this that Julian [[spoiler: grows suspicious of Preminger's claim she ran away to avoid her duty]].
%%* RedOniBlueOni: Erika and Anneliese, respectively.
%%* RichBitch: Madame Carp, Erika's supervisor.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Dominick and Julian, respectively, to Anneliese.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Anneliese at least has an ''oppressively'' busy schedule. It's managed by her...
* ScheduleFanatic: One of Anneliese's servants. [[JustifiedTrope But it makes sense, actually]], because it's his ''job'' to obsess about being on schedule.
* SissyVillain: Midas, and to a lesser extent, his owner, Preminger.
* {{Slapstick}}: Midas crashing around with a bucket on his head.
* SpotTheImposter: Erika is exposed as a fake when the king and queen see she doesn't have a royal birthmark.
%%* StandardFemaleGrabArea: is employed against both of our leading ladies.
* StiffUpperLip: This exact phrase is sung by Julian while teaching Erika how to act like a princess. It is later echoed by [[spoiler:Erika after she has been arrested for impersonating the princess, and combined with TryingNotToCry]].
* SurroundedByIdiots: Preminger. He should probably just find new help, but then again the ones he has are pretty loyal to him...
* {{Symbolism}}: The iron pyrite Anneliese classifies near the beginning of the movie and the [[spoiler: geode]] she finds in the mine near the end. The pyrite symbolizes King Dominick and Preminger--both attractive marriage prospects from a political standpoint due to their wealth, but neither of whom Anneliese is interested in. The [[spoiler: geode]] represents Julian, as she herself lampshades--"unassuming on the outside, but a treasure within."
** Queen Genevieve's spectacles. Julian "misplaces" then when he introduces Erika as Anneliese, presumably to make it harder for her to see through the deception. The queen spends Erika's entire stay at the palace without them, representing her inability to see through Erika's disguise. She doesn't get them back until [[spoiler:Preminger exposes Erika as an impostor]]. Then she wears them during the scene where Preminger [[spoiler:essentially extorts her into marrying him in exchange for using his fortune to rebuild the kingdom's economy]], when she finally sees the greed and ambition beneath his pretense of being a loyal adviser.
* TheDutifulSon: Dutiful daughter, in this case. Anneliese is far from thrilled about her ArrangedMarriage to King Dominick, but resolves to go through with it (and all the other royal duties she's not exactly fond of) for the sake of the kingdom.
* ThemeNaming: Nick and Nack. Their names come from the phrase, "Knick Knack", and they're rather pathetic in their attempts to aid Preminger's plans.
* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Anneliese and Julian, Erika and Dominick, and Serafina and Wolfie.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Though neither of them are particularly frail or boyish, Erika is a bit more street-smart than Anneliese (what with being a commoner and all).
* TrueBlueFemininity: Erika
* UptownGirl: While Anneliese and Serafina aren't ''really'' rich anymore, their relationships with Julian and Wolfie still have this dynamic, and [[spoiler:it becomes the trope technically as well as in spirit when valuable geodes give the kingdom an income again]].
** Erika and Dominick are a gender-inverted example. She's a pauper and he's a King.
* VillainRecruitmentSong: The "How Can I Refuse?" reprise has Preminger convincing Queen Genevieve to marry him to save the kingdom from financial ruin.
%%* VillainSong: "How Can I Refuse?"
* WakeupMakeup: Erika wakes up wearing a wig that is in perfect condition.
* WeddingDeadline: [[spoiler: Anneliese stops a wedding as her mother is halfway through the word "do".]]
* WeddingFinale: The episode ends with a ''double wedding'', with Anneliese marrying Julien and Erika marrying Dominic.
%%* WeddingsForEveryone: See TheyDo.
%%* WhatBeautifulEyes: Julian sings about Anneliese's.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the movie, we are given no indication as to what may have happened to [[spoiler:Preminger, Nick, and Nack]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The last minute or two of the film show [[spoiler:the royal double wedding. Enough time has passed that Erika went on and returned from her desired singing tour]].
* WholePlotReference: The film's premise bears a startling resemblance to that of ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda'', including the kidnapping of a member of the royal family by a would-be usurper, the EmergencyImpersonation of said royalty by an IdenticalStranger to prevent political scandal, and the impostor BecomingTheMask and falling in love with the original's betrothed.
* WigDressAccent: The henchmen try this in an attempt to stop Preminger from finding out that [[spoiler:Anneliese has escaped]]. They do a pathetic job of it.
** Madame Carp believes Anneliese is [[CassandraTruth Erika attempting to pull this trope]].
** King Dominick also hides his identity via disguise, more than once.
* WorkOffTheDebt: Erika worked for Madame Carp because her parents borrowed money from Carp to support her.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Preminger is very good at revising his plans as the need arises.
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->''Live your dream.''
-->-- '''Barbie'''

%%* BeautyMark: Midas and Madame Carp both have them.

''Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper'' is the fourth in the 2000's Franchise/{{Barbie}} film series and is billed as the first ever [[TheMusical Barbie Musical]].

It stars Barbie as both Anneliese and Erika, a princess and a peasant. After a chance meeting, the two become quick friends due to their similarities. However, with the kingdom's finances falling, Anneliese is engaged to Dominick, the king of a neighbouring kingdom, despite her love for her tutor. When the queen's scheming advisor Preminger arranges for Anneliese to be kidnapped so the marriage to King Dominick will not go through, Anneliese's tutor Julian arranges for Erika to replace Anneliese until the real princess is found.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Anneliese and Erika become very close, ''very'' fast, and Erika's willing to play a role in a potentially life-threatening scheme (of course, [[spoiler: since this is a Barbie movie, she only gets thrown in the dungeon when she gets found out]], but ''still'') for Anneliese's sake after only one meeting, and Anneliese is particularly fixated on Erika's beautiful voice. The ending all but states that the two remain lifelong best friends.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Wolfie. He even barks!
* AlmostKiss: Dominick and [[spoiler:Erika-masquerading-as-Anneliese]].

* AnimatedActors: Played straight in the credits.

* BeautyMark: Midas and Madame Carp both have them.

* BeYourself: Erika tells her ''cat'' to do this (''The Cat's Meow'')

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Preminger's two henchmen.

* CoolCrown: Anneliese, but Erika gets a symbolic one made of flowers.
* CrowdSong: The very last number.

* CuffsOffRubWrists: Julian does this after Anneliese unties him.
* DamselInDistress: Anneliese [[InvokedTrope pretends]] to be one to get [[spoiler:Nick and Nack to open the door]].

** MissingMom: Or Erika's mother, for that matter. Both parents disappear after the prologue.
*** Though of course, it's the 1700s and they're peasants. (Peasants who are already in debt, at that.) It's entirely likely that they got sick, were unable to pay for medicine, and died, hence why Erika has to pay off the debt herself.

* DumbBlonde: One of Preminger's henchmen.

* EvilChancellor: Preminger, of course!

* IKissYourHand: Dominick does this.

* IWantSong: "Free".

* LargeHam: Preminger, Nick, Dominick's ambassador.

* {{Mooks}}: They're also ThoseTwoGuys.
* TheMusical: Of course.

* PrinceAndPauper: ''Duh''.
* PrincessClassic: Anneliese.

* RedOniBlueOni: Erika and Anneliese, respectively.
* RichBitch: Madame Carp, Erika's supervisor.

* StandardFemaleGrabArea: is employed against both of our leading ladies.

* VillainSong: "How Can I Refuse?"

* WeddingsForEveryone: See TheyDo.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Julian sings about Anneliese's.

* BigBad: Preminger.

* CorruptPolitician: Preminger, who brankrupts the kingdom by embezzling the contents of the royal mine, both for the gold itself and to create a situation in which Anneliese would need to marry him for his riches, making him her consort.

* DistantDuet: "Free".

* {{Fat B|astard}}itch: Madame Carp, of course!

** However, Preminger is later shown stealing the pyrite from Anneliese's desk, possibly foreshadowing the fact that he overlooked the [[spoiler:valuable geodes]] left behind in the mine due to their appearing worthless.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Anneliese.

* PrincessesPreferPink: Anneliese spends most of her screen time in a pink dress.

* RagsToRoyalty: Erika [[spoiler: marries King Dominick]]

* ThemeNaming: Nick and Nack.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: "But FATE decreed they would..."

* CassandraTruth: No, guys, she ''really is'' Princess Anneliese. Seriously!

* ADogNamedCat: Erika's [[AllAnimaslAreDogs dog-like cat]] is named Wolfie.

* NotSoDifferent: Erika and Anneliese get a whole song dedicated to their being the same sort of person, under their surface differences.

* AnimalTalk: Serafina and Wolfie talk to each other in English for the audience's benefits, but to the humans it just sounds like meowing.

* BagOfKidnapping: Preminger's thugs use this to capture Julian when he confronts the former.

* BookOnTheHead: Erika, while practicing [[PrincessForADay on impersonating Anneliese]], once walks with a book on her head during her TrainingMontage song - and immediately succeeds to do so.

* ChastityCouple: Both Erika/Dominick and Anneliese/Julian are pretty chaste [[{{Shipping}} ships]], but the latter even more so. Where Erika and Dominick embrace and hold hands multiple times and even get an AlmostKiss, Anneliese and Julian only hug once and hold hands in the carriage. Could be justified due to the 18th century-ish setting and them being used to their social class keeping them at distance.

** Anneliese loves roses and Julian knows that. He is later able to determine that [[OutOfCharacterAlert the letter theoretically left by Anneliese is a fake, because it’s scented with lilac rather than rose]].
** The secret diamonds in the mine are first meant to be a funny moment, but turn out to be a metaphor for [[spoiler: Julian and Anneliese's]] love and [[spoiler: the way to save the kingdom from poverty.]]
** Anneliese’s tiara-shaped birthmark.
* CommonalityConnection: Anneliese and Erika form this, first over the fact that they are nearly identical and then when they realize that they are both unable to do what they really want because of external circumstances--Erika cannot pursue her dream career as a singer due to crippling debt, while Anneliese must foraske her passion for science and her love for Julian because of her duty to the kingdom.

** Erika, too. She single-handedly [[spoiler: escapes from jail, with only a little help from Dominick, and then succeeds in getting away from him due to believing he's a guard]].
* DarkReprise: Erika reprises "To Be a Princess" [[spoiler:locked up in jail, breaking into tears by the end]].

* GoodParents: Erika's parents took on a crushing debt to ensure that they could take care of her.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Anneliese. First she asks Julian which house he used to live in before he moved to the castle, before he answers his family could only afford to rent one room (but he knows she didn't mean to be rude). Her part in the "Girl Like You" song also oozes of this: while Erika explains that she's an indentured slave, her only complaints are that she's marrying a stranger and would rather spend the day in her own private library rather than get a foot massage during her breakfast in bed.

* {{Jerkass}}: Madam Carp who stole Erika's money when she sang out in public and plans to keep Erika for the rest of her life even though she had already paid more than half of her parents' debt. [[LaserGuidedKarma She eventually is forced out of her business in which likely Erika's co-worker took over.]]

* LimitedWardrobe: The movie can give the impression that the queen only has the one dress, seeing as she wears it in every appearance, including her wedding.

%%* NiceGuy: Herve.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Julian and Erika had good intentions when they had the latter pose as Anneliese to hide the real one's abduction, but [[spoiler:it results on the real princess being denied entrance at the castle after escaping captivity and being mistaken for Erika at Madame Carp's emporium]].

* PluckyGirl: Despite being worked like a slave, Erika is cheerful and spirited.

* PrincessesPreferPink: Anneliese.

* VillainRecruitmentSong: The "How Can I Refuse?" reprise has Preminger convincing Queen Genevieve to marry him to save the kingdom from ruin.

* Wakeup Makeup: Erika wakes up wearing a wig that is in perfect condition.

** Madame Carp confuses Anneliese as Erika attempting to pull this trope.

It stars Barbie as both Anneliese and Erika, a princess and a peasant. After a chance meeting, the two become quick friends due to their similarities. However, with the kingdom's finances falling, Anneliese is engaged to Dominick, the king of a neighbouring kingdom, despite her love for her tutor. When the queen's scheming advisor arranges for Anneliese to be kidnapped so the marriage to King Dominick will not go through, Anneliese's tutor Julian arranges for Erika to replace Anneliese until the real princess is found.

* ArrangedMarriage: Anneliese and Dominick. Neither is happy about it, though Dominick warms to the idea after hitting it off with Anneliese ([[spoiler: actually Erika in disguise]]).

* VillainSong: "How Can I Refuse"

* IWantSong: ''Free''

* OhCrap: Serafina substites "oh dear" when she realizes how bad Herve's cat-bucking aim is in the bloopers.