History WesternAnimation / ElcanoAndMagellanTheFirstVoyageAroundTheWorld

The movie was nominated to Best Animated Feature in the 2020 Goya Awards, although it lost to ''Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles''. Its main theme, "Confía en el viento", was performed by legendary Spanish pop band La Oreja de Van Gogh, which released two more versions in English and Basque to promote the film.

''Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World'' (''Elcano y Magallanes: La primera vuelta al mundo'') is a Spanish AllCGICartoon movie released in 2019. It's LooselyBasedOnATrueStory, in this case the first circumnavigation of the Earth, undergone by a Spanish expedition led first by UsefulNotes/FerdinandMagellan and then Juan Sebastián Elcano.

It's 1519, and the young sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano has no luck. His attempt to carry an important passenger, royal notary Antonio Pigafetta, ends up with his little boat crashing against the ship of the Portuguese ambassador, after which local constables find out he is also quite in debt. However, Elcano finds a way out by enlisting in the expedition Pigafetta is part of, a risky enterprise led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. The Treaty of Tordesillas has left Spain without a hand in the spice routes of the Moluccas, controlled by the iron hand of the Portuguese Empire, and Magellan, now at the service of the Spanish king Charles V, is willing to challenge it. Insted of taking the route of the east, he intends to discover a new route to the west, a pass through the still unknown Indias, in a travel that will prove quite of an adventure.

* AgeLift: Elcano seems to be slightly rejuvenated in this film, as he looks in his twenties, while his real life self was 34 at the time and even had a daughter.

* AmbiguousSituation: While Yago works for the Portuguese, it's actually oddly left aside whether he is Portuguese himself. His name is found in both Portugal and Spain (it's the Portuguese and Galician form of James), and although he speaks Spanish without even a bit of accent unlike all the other Portuguese in the film, it would not be weird either given that his age makes it likely he has been a spy in Spain for a long time.
* AntiVillain: Lapu-Lapu is an antagonist in the film, but this is only because his tribesmen are enemies of those from Cebú. Even their deal with Yago to kill Magellan ends up being redundant, as there would no reason why would they not try to take down the enemy chieftain in a battle.

* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Presumably out of sheer RuleOfCool, Enrique's duel with the mutineer has the latter doing a massive jumping downwards slash, slo-mo effects included for extra flavor, which Enrique barely parries with his own sword. In reality, the two are using espadas roperas, weapons conceived to maximize precise thrusting and strategic cutting, meaning that such a awkward move would achieve very little compared to a regular slash even if it actually landed.

* BilingualBonus: In the original Spanish, the film contains many lines in untranslated, heavily accented Portuguese and Italian, as the three are mutually intelligible languages.

** This version of Magellan is sustantially nicer and better of a leader than his historical self, for all accounts. In real life, he tried to convert some indigenous by force, was a bit too trigger-happy in his ways, and there are hints that he favored the Portuguese members of the expedition and caused a lot of trouble for it.
** Enrique de Malacca is a full NobleSavage here, when in real life he apparently betrayed the expedition to the Cebuan natives (for sympathetic reasons, but still).
* KarmaHoudini: While his plans end in failure and he loses a ship himself, Da Costa faces no other retribution for his sabotage of the mission, and even in case they ever accuse him, his high rank will likely protect him. Possibly averted with Yago, as the last we see about him is him being hit by Da Costa on the claim he has the fault of everything.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** By all accounts, Magellan, Pigafetta and the chieftain of Cebú weren't as round fat as pictured by their cartoonish character designs in the movie.
** In the movie, Magellan replies to Da Costa that "the sea has no owner" when the former accuses him of being a threat to the Portuguese monopoly on routes. Although it's possible that he said this entirely to piss Da Costa off, it must be noted to be untrue: in real life, both Spain and Portugal had signed in 1494 the Treaty of Tordesillas, a pact that divided the world in two zones (west of Cape Verde for Spain, east for Portugal) and each side promised not to enter the other's - which was Magellan's reason to seek for a Spanish-controlled western route to the Pacific in the first place. While the film doesn't try to hide that Elcano was technically breaking the treaty by circumnavigating the world, it instead makes it look like the Portuguese were too unreasonable about it and deserved it anyway for trying to sabotage the expedition.
** The Portuguese did deploy ships to try to destroy the Magellan expedition (through their entire empire, in fact, from Cape Verde to the Portuguese India), but none of them were personally commanded by Alvaro da Costa, who was mostly a diplomat and likely had little military experience. Moreover, those measures failed, as Magellan and Elcano managed to evade all of them by a mix of skill and sheer luck without ever engaging in battle.
** Ironically, in the movie, Da Costa and company actually honor the unmentioned Treaty of Tordesillas and adhere to their own route to reach Magellan in the Moluccas (if only out of pragmatism, as he believes Magellan's route to be an impossibility), while in real life a Portuguese fleet from Cape Verde broke the treaty black ops-stye and chased the expedition down to modern day Argentina.
** The movie conflates the sinking of the ''Santiago'' and the mutiny of the ''San Antonio'' as if they had happened at the same time, which in real life were separated by a whole year.
** The chieftain of Cebú is a BigFun here, when in real life (where he was named Humabón), justifiedly or not, he betrayed the expeditioners and killed a lot of them by treason.
** This version of Enrique de Malaca continues the travel along with the rest of survivors up to Tidore, while in real life, he went missing in action in the aforementioned Cebuan ambush, and it's believed he actually engineered it himself by slandering the expeditioners to Humabón, as a revenge for the captains' refusal to honor Magellan's promise to free him.
** Samar is an entirely fictional character, whose name, by the way, comes from one of the Philippine islands.
** In real life, Humabón's own forces accompanied those of Magellan to Mactán; it's just that Magellan, seeking to impress them, asked them to withdraw and PassThePopcorn, another awful decision that led to the defeat. In the movie, the Spaniards go there alone, with only Samar appearing by herself to perform a BigDamnHeroes moment. Speaking of which, the real battle didn't spread to the sea as in the movie.
** The real Battle of Mactan wasn't an ambush provoked by a Portuguese spy as seen in the film. While he was certainly a great navigator, Magellan was frankly a GeneralFailure, and the loss was due mainly to him ordering an utterly suicide attack after a grueling march through the beach, with all of their ammunition exhausted, in an obscene numeric disadvantage, and against an easily defensible position in which their ships couldn't support them (not to mention the whole mission was a literally a WackyWaysideTribe kind of risk the expedition had absolutely no real reason to take).
** The Iberian soldiers from the movie all carry swords, arquebuses and the rare pistol. In real life, firearms weren't so popular, as gunpowder was limited and their maintentance difficult; they also used crossbows, axes and lances.
** Conversely, the tribes of Mactán are portrayed with only tribal spears and shields, when in real life they already had some influence from the nearby Muslim ''Moros'' and had light armors and scimitars, as well as a kind of native sword called kampilan. In general, the tribes shown in the movie have a remarkably Polynesian/Maori kind of imagery that is very difficult to reconcile with real life Filipinos of the period.
** In the movie, the ''Concepción'' is lost by enemy damage during the Battle of Mactan (basically, because a tribesman with apparent SuperStrength rips off part of the hull), while in real life it was abandoned and burnt due to lack of enough men to man it.
** In real life, Magellan wasn't immediately succeeded by Elcano. Their next captain was Duarte Barbosa, who died in the aforementioned ambush in Cebú, and then Juan López de Carvalho, who was demoted for being a jerk. Only then Elcano and Gonzalo de Espinosa were appointed captains.
** In the movie, the ''Victoria'' is forced to leave the damaged ''Trinidad'' behind in Tidore when Da Costa's ship reaches them, with King Almanzor promising to take care of the crew for Spain. In real life, the Portuguese never discovered them, and the ''Trinidad'' could sail off undisturbed. It was later, however, that the ship got lost in the Pacific and sailed unto a Portuguese fleet that was out for the Magellan expedition, and this time nothing saved them from being captured and spending the rest of their lives in prison (although a handful of them, like its captain Espinosa, were later freed).
** The naval battle in Cape Verde never happened. The Portuguese saw through Elcano's deception and tried to arrest him, but he realized in time to sail off before being caught (albeit he was forced to leave behind 13 crewmen that could not get onboard in time). Indeed, sinking a Portuguese diplomatic vessel as in the movie would have caused quite of a political ruckus had it happened in real life.

The movie was nominated to Best Animated Feature in the 2020 Goya Awards, although it lost to ''Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles''. Its main theme, ''Confía en el viento'', was performed by legendary Spanish pop band La Oreja de Van Gogh, which released two more versions in English and Basque to promote the film.

* TheBigGuy: Magellan's friend, the big sailor with the sideburns-moustache combo. He smashes a war canoe by throwing a heavy barrel on it, and later fires a cannon handheld bazooka-style from the hip.

''Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World'' (''Elcano y Magallanes: La primera vuelta al mundo'') is a Spanish AllCGICartoon movie released in 2019. It's LooselyBasedOnATrueStory, in this case the first circumnavigation of the Earth, undergone by a Spanish expedition led first by Ferdinand Magellan and then Juan Sebastián Elcano.

* AmbiguousSituation: While Yago works for the Portuguese, it's actually oddly left aside whether he is Portuguese himself. His name is found in both Portugal and Spain (it's the Portuguese and Galician form of James), and although he speaks Spanish without even a bit of accent unlike all the other Portuguese in the film, it would not be odd either given that his age makes it likely he has been a spy in Spain for a long time.

** This version of Enrique de Malaca continues the travel along with the rest of survivors, while in real life, he went missing in action in the aforementioned Cebuan ambush, and it's believed he actually engineered it himself by slandering the expeditioners to Humabón, as a revenge for the captains' refusal to honor Magellan's promise to free him.

** In the movie, the ''Concepción'' is lost by enemy damage during the Battle of Mactan (basically, because a tribesman with apparent SuperStrength rips off part of the hull), while in real life it was abandoned and burnt due to lack of men to man it.

** In real life, Elcano and the ''Victoria'' never stopped by Cape Verde. The whole naval battle against the two Portuguese ships is entirely fictional (and had it happened in real life, it would have had serious consequences for the diplomatic relationship between Portugal and Spain).

* TheBigGuy: The big crewman with the sideburns-moustache combo. He smashes a war canoe by throwing a heavy barrel on it, and later fires a cannon bazooka-style from the shoulder.

** By all accounts, Magellan, Pigafetta and the chieftain of Cebú weren't as round fat as pictured by the movie's cartoonish character design.
** The movie conflates the sinking of the ''Santiago'' and the mutiny of the ''San Antonio'' as happening at the same time, which in real life were separated by a whole year.

** This version of Enrique de Malaca continues the travel along with the rest of survivors, while in real life, he went missing in action in the aforementioned Cebuan ambush, and it's believed he actually engineered it himself by slandering the expeditioners to Humabón, as a revenge for mistreatment inflicted by other captains after the death of his master Magellan.

** In real life, the Battle of Mactan wasn't an ambush provoked by a Portuguese spy as seen in the film. While he was certainly a great navigator, Magellan was frankly a GeneralFailure, and the loss was due mainly to him ordering an utterly suicide attack after a grueling march through the beach, with all of their ammunition exhausted, in an obscene numeric disadvantage, and against an easily defensible position in which their ships couldn't support them (not to mention the whole mission was a literally a WackyWaysideTribe kind of risk the expedition had absolutely no real reason to take).

** In real life, Elcano and the ''Victoria'' never stopped by Cabo Verde. The whole naval battle against the two Portuguese ships is entirely fictional (and had it happened in real life, it would have had serious consequences for the diplomatic relationship between Portugal and Spain).

* CompositeCharacter: Paco, whose name is short for Francisco, seems to be a mix of two real crewmen with that name, Francisco Albo (a Greek pilot) and Francisco Rodríguez (a Spanish-Portuguese sailor from Seville), both of which survived the expedition.

It's 1519, and the young sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano has no luck. His attempt to carry an important passenger, royal notary Antonio Pigafetta, ends up with his little boat crashing against the ship of the Portuguese ambassador, after which local constables find out he is also quite in debt. However, Elcano finds a way out by enlisting in the expedition Pigafetta is part of, a risky enterprise led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. The Treaty of Tordesillas has left Castile without a hand in the spice routes of the Moluccas, controlled by the iron hand of the Portuguese Empire, and Magellan, now at the service of the Castilian king Charles V, is willing to challenge it. Insted of taking the route of the east, he intends to discover a new route to the west, a pass through the still unknown Indias, in a travel that will prove quite of an adventure.

* AmbiguousSituation: While Yago works for the Portuguese, it's actually oddly left aside whether he is Portuguese himself. His name is found in both Portugal and Spain (it's the Portuguese and Galician form of James), and although he speaks Spanish without even a bit of accent unlike other Portuguese in the film, it would not be odd either given that his age makes it likely he has been a spy in Castile for a long time.

** The chieftain of Cebú is a BigFun here, when in real life (where he was named Humabón) he betrayed the expeditioners and killed a lot of them by treason.
** Enrique de Malaca is portrayed as an entirely heroic character who returns along with the rest of survivors. In real life, he was lost in the aforementioned Cebuan ambush, and it's believed he actually engineered it himself by slandering the expeditioners to Humabón, as a revenge for mistreatment inflicted by other captains after the death of his master Magellan.

** In real life, Elcano and the ''Victoria'' never stopped by Cabo Verde. The whole naval battle against the two Portuguese ships is entirely fictional (and had it happened in real life, it would have had serious consequences for the diplomatic relationship between Portugal and Castile).
* BigBad: The Portuguese ambassador, Álvaro da Costa, who wishes stop the Magellan expedition to protect the Portuguese trade supremacy. Lapulapu could be considered another, unrelated main villain.

* TheBigGuy: The big crewman with the sideburns-moustache combo. He smashes a war canoe by throwing a heavy barrel on it, and later fires a cannon from the shoulder bazooka-style.

* KarmaHoudini: While his plans end in failure and he loses a ship himself, Da Costa faces no other retribution for his sabotage of the mission, and even in case they ever accuse him, his high rank will likely protect him. Possibly averted with Yago, as the last see about him is him being hit by Da Costa on the claim he has the fault of everything.

* AmazonChaser: Paco, whose wife is a much larger woman that even holds him up in a hilariously inverted BridalCarry.

** The chieftain of Cebú is a BigFun here, when in real life (where he was named Humabón) he betrayed the Spaniards and killed a lot of them by treason.
** Enrique de Malaca is portrayed as an entirely heroic character who returns along with the rest of survivors. In real life, he was lost in the aforementioned Cebuan ambush, and it's believed he actually engineered it himself by slandering the Spaniards to Humabón, as a revenge for mistreatment inflicted by other captains after the death of his master Magellan.

** In real life, the Battle of Mactan wasn't an ambush provoked by a Portuguese spy as seen in the film. While he was certainly a great navigator, Magellan was frankly a GeneralFailure, and the loss was due mainly to him ordering an utterly suicide attack after a grueling march through the beach, with all of their ammunition exhausted, in an obscene numeric disadvantage, and against an easily defensible position in which their ships couldn't support them (not to mention the whole mission was a literally a WackyWaysideTribe kind of risk the Magellan expedition had absolutely no real reason to take).
** The Spanish soldiers from the movie all carry swords, arquebuses and the rare pistol. In real life, firearms weren't so popular, as gunpowder was limited and their maintentance difficult; they also used crossbows, axes and lances.
** Conversely, the tribes of Mactán are portrayed with only tribal spears and shields, when in real life they already had some influence from the nearby Muslim ''Moros'' and had light armors and scimitars, as well as a kind of native sword called kampilan. In general, the tribes shown in the movie have a remarkably Polynesian/Maori kind of imagery that is very difficult from the real Filipinos would have sported.

* EvilOldFolks: Two of them, the skeptical Spanish captain Juan de Cartagena and the Portuguese spy Yago.
* KarmaHoudini: While his plans end in failure and he loses a ship himself, Da Costa faces no other retribution for his sabotage of the mission, and even in case they ever accuse him, his high rank will likely protect him. The same could be said about Yago, although the last we see about him is him being hit by Da Costa on the claim he has the fault for everything.

It's 1519, and the young sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano has no luck. His attempt to carry an important passenger, royal notary Antonio Pigafetta, ends up with his little boat crashing against the ship of the Portuguese ambassador, after which local constables find out he is also quite in debt. However, Elcano finds a way out by enlisting in the expedition Pigafetta is part of, a risky enterprise led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. The Treaty of Tordesillas has left Castile without a hand in the spice routes of the Moluccas, controlled by the iron hand of the Portuguese Empire, and Magellan, now at the service of the Castillian king Charles V, is willing to challenge it. Insted of taking the route of the east, he intends to discover a new route to the west, a pass through the still unknown Indias, in a travel that will prove quite of an adventure.

* AgeLift: Elcano seems to be slightly rejuvenated in this film, as he looks in his twenties, while his real life self was 34 at the time and was already married and with children.

** The movie conflates the sinking of the ''Santiago'' and the mutiny of the ''San Antonio'', which in real life were separated by a whole year.

** Enrique de Malaca is portrayed as an entirely heroic character who returns to Seville along with the rest of survivors. In real life, he was lost in the aforementioned Cebuan ambush, and it's believed he actually engineered it himself by slandering the Spaniards to Humabón, as a revenge for mistreatment inflicted by other captains after the death of his master Magellan.
** Samar is an entirely fictional character, whose name, by the way, comes from one of the Philippines islands.
** In real life, the Battle of Mactan wasn't an ambush provoked by a Portuguese spy as seen in the film. While he was certainly a great navigator, Magellan was frankly a GeneralFailure, and the loss was due mainly to him ordering an utterly suicide attack after a grueling march through the beach, with all of their ammunition exhausted, and against an easily defensible position in which their ships couldn't support them.
** The Spanish soldiers all carry swords, arquebuses and the rare pistol. In real life, firearms weren't so popular; they also used crossbows, axes and lances.
** Conversely, the tribes Mactán are portrayed with only tribal spears and shields, when in real life they already had some influence from the nearby Muslim ''Moros'' and had light armors and scimitars, as well as a kind of native sword called kampilan.
** In the movie, the ''Concepción'' is lost by enemy damage during the Battle of Mactan (basically, because a tribesman with apparent SuperStrength rips away a part of the hull), while in real life it was abandoned and burnt due to lack of men to man it.

** In real life, Elcano and the ''Victoria'' never stopped by Cabo Verde. The whole naval battle against the two Portuguese ships is entirely fictional.
* BigBad: The Portuguese ambassador, Álvaro da Costa, who wishes stop the Magellan expedition to protect the Portuguese supremacy. Cilacilapu could be considered another, unrelated main villain.

* TheBigGuy: The big crewman with the sideburns-moustache. He smashes a war canoe by throwing a heavy barrel on it, and later fires a cannon bazooka-style.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Pigafetta of all people. Although he typically reacts cowardly at first instance, he comes back with a gun and a bunch of soldiers in an attempt to quell the mutiny, and later takes part in the final battle.

* EvilOldFolks: Two of them, the skeptical Spanish captain Juan de Cartagena and the Portuguese spy Yago.