History WesternAnimation / KirikouAndTheSorceress

* ADayInTheLimelight: The first two stories in ''Kirikou and the Men and Women'' are centered around the woman who gets her hut burned down in the first film and the village elder with the nice hat respectively.

* AncientEgypt: Kirikou's grandfather is dressed like an ancient pharaoh, somehow (since Egypt is quite far from West Africa). He has a postiche beard under his chin, and he wears a white Hedjet crown.

* BigDamnHero: Just as the villagers are about to kill [[spoiler:a de-powered Karaba who turned good, The Wise Old Man of the Mountain arrives in time and reveals that Karaba really did stop being evil, and that the village's men who were believed to have been eaten by her are actually alive and well.]]

* CassandraTruth: Twice, when [[spoiler:the now adult Kirikou returns to his village and tells everyone that he is the very child they knew and loved. If his mother didn't come forth and recognize him as her own son, they never would've been convinced. The next one is when he tells the villagers that Karaba is no longer a sorceress. They only interpret it as her still being a sorceress who just lost all her powers and want to kill her. At that moment, Kirikou's grandfather, accompanied by all the men who disappeared from the village and were turned into fetishes by Karaba, comes forth and convinces the villagers that Kirikou wasn't lying about Karaba.]]

* KidHero: Exaggerated. Kirikou is actually a BABY hero.

* WhenTreesAttack: In her second attempt to kidnap the village's children, Karaba sets up a tree for the children to climb in. It turns out to be alive, its branches close themselves forming a cage around the children and it then runs at high speed towards Karaba's hideout. Kirikou thwarts that attempt by catching up with the tree on the road and cutting its trunk with a machete, and the only thing that returns to Karaba is a tree trunk as a result.

There's lots of controversy because of the depiction of nudity, although the [[NationalGeographicNudity real pre-colonial Africans did walk that way in a completely asexual atmosphere]]. But since America has terrible issues with [[NippleAndDimed women's nipples]], the film wasn't released in the United States until 2002.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Appropriately for the setting, everyone goes barefoot.

[[caption-width-right:350:Kirikou and Karaba.]]

%%* AllLovingHero: Kirikou.

* WaterSourceTampering: Karaba made sure the village's main water source went dry. Kirikou decides to look it up closely and finds out a creature has been drinking it all for a while (the creature's belly has grown gigantic from all the water). He then borrows a red iron to pop it like a balloon, restoring the village's water supply, but at the cost of himself nearly drowning.
* WhenTreesAttack: In her second attempt to kidnap the village's children, Karaba sets up a tree for the children to climb in. It turns out to be alive, its branches closes themselves forming a cage around the children and it then runs at high speed towards Karaba's hideout. Kirikou thwarts that attempt by catching up with the tree on the road and cutting its trunk with a machete, and the only thing that returns to Karaba is a tree trunk as a result.

* SkewedPriorities: After going into a VillainousBreakdown, Karaba says she will deal with Kirikou personally. Except in the next scene, she goes looking for her stolen jewels first.
* SmellySkunk: When using tunnels dug by animals to secretely cross Karaba's domain, Kirikou bumps into a skunk. While he manages to chase the animal away, it releases a gland full of stinky gas, much to his displeasure.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We don't see the village's men (who got turned into fetishes by Karaba) turn human again.

* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:The thorn in Karaba's back gives her magical powers, but it also causes her intense pain. When Kirikou removes it, she feels much better and hardly even regrets the loss of ([[FertileFeet most of]]) her magic.]]

* InnateNightVision: Not only can the lookout see everything moving on the savannah at great distances (even ''ants''), he can also do it at night.

** Karaba enrages both times that Kirikou thwarts her attempts to kidnap the village's children.

* {{Mooks}}: Karaba's fetishes (''no'', not ''that'' kind of {{fetish}}).

* VillainousBreakdown: When Karaba's jewels are stolen, she goes into a fit of rage and [[ItsPersonal goes deal with Kirikou herself]]. [[spoiler:This leaves her exposed and far away from the all-seeing fetish that could have potentially warned her about Kirikou's impending attack.]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Some of the fetishes (Karaba's {{mooks}}), the one serving as lookout on top of Karaba's round hut included, have red eyes.

%%* WickedWitch: Karaba, obviously, [[spoiler:although she is less wicked than she lets on.]]

* AesopAmnesia: The village's children are none the wiser when climbing in the ominous black tree right after the sorceress' canoe misadventure Kirikou saved them from, despite Kirikou soundly warning them both times. Sure enough, they're trapped again and it's up to Kirikou to save them before Karaba gets them. And that's after they sang how smart he is.

* SuperSpeed: Kirikou moves incredibly fast for a BrainyBaby with very short legs.

* AesopAmnesia: The village's children are none the wiser when climbing in the ominous black tree right after the sorceress' canoe misadventure Kirikou saved them from, despite Kirikou soundly warning them both times. Sure enough, they're trapped again and it's up to Kirikou to save them before Karaba gets them.

* AesopAmnesia: The village's children are none the wiser when climbing in the ominous black tree right after the sorceress' canoe misadventure Kirikou saved them from, despite Kirikou warning them both times.