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.

* BaldOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Kirikou after his OvernightAgeUp.]]

* SkewedPriorities: After going into a VillainousBreakdown, Karaba says she will deal with Kirikou personally. Except in the next scene, she goes look for her stolen jewels first.

* AllLovingHero: Kirikou

* HatesEveryoneEqually: Karaba

* TheMusical: ''Kirikou and Karaba''

* BaldOfAwesome:[[spoiler:Kirikou after his OvernightAgeUp.]]

* BaldOfAwesome:[[spoiler:Kirikou after his PlotRelevantAgeUp.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: When Karaba's jewels are stolen, she goes into a fit of rage and go deal with Kirikou herslef.

* SurroundedByIdiots: When Kirikou stole Karaba's jewels, she utter this and called her [[{{Mooks}} Fetishes]] a bunch of morons.

* VillanousBreadown: When Karaba's jewels are stolen, she goes into a fit of rage and go deal with Kirikou herslef.

* SurroundedByIdiots: When Kirikou stole Karaba's jewels, she utter this and called her Fetishes a bunch of morons.

* DarkestAfrica

* BigBad: Karaba

* KidHero: Kirikou

* HotWitch: Karaba

* LikesOlderWomen: Kirikou

* WalkingWasteland: Karaba
* WonderChild: Kirikou

* {{Mooks}}: The Fetish (''no'', not ''that'' kind of [[FetishFuel fetish]]).

There's lots of controversy because of the depiction of nudity, although the 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.

It tells the story of a tiny baby boy, named Kirikou, who is born in a spectacular way (all by himself, without effort of his mother nor outside help) and can speak and walk immediately after being born. After a couple of questions, he learns that a wicked sorceress, Karaba, has cursed the village and devoured all the men and boys, except his uncle, who is on his way to fight the sorceress. [[spoiler:He tricks the sorceress, saves his uncle as well as the children of the village (twice!!), brings the water back to the dried-up spring and, among other things, discovers the sorceress' true motivations]].

!!''Kirikou and the Sorceress'' provides examples of the following tropes:

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

'''''Kirikou et la Sorcière''''' ('''''Kirikou and the Sorceress''''') is a 1998 French animated film, directed by Michel Ocelot, loosely based on a West African {{fairy tale}}.

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

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Karaba is evil because of all [[DrivenToVillainy the suffering she went through]] at the hands of men, including very a subtly implied [[RapeAsDrama rape]]. All the bad things that she allegedly had done are ultimately proved to be false. She does hate everyone, but she [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]].]]

* {{Interquel}}: ''Kirikou and the Wild Beasts'' and ''Kirikou and the Men and Women'' consist of segments that take place between scenes in the first film

* {{Interquel}}: ''Kirikou and the Wild Beasts''

It was so successful that it spawned an {{interquel}} called ''Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages'' (''Kirikou and the Wild Beasts'') in 2005 and a [[TheMusical musical]], ''Kirikou et Karaba'' (''Kirikou and Karaba''), in 2007.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Why Karaba the Sorceress is wicked?" by Kirikou, naturally.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Karaba is evil, because of all [[DrivenToVillainy the probation she went through]] at the hands of men, including very a subtly implied [[RapeAsDrama rape]] and all the bad things that she allegedly had done are ultimately proved to be false, although she does hate everyone, but she [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]].]]