History WesternAnimation / SnowWhiteAndtheSevenDwarfs

* ManlyTears: All seven dwarfs cry over Snow White's DisneyDeath. That includes [[GrumpyBear Grumpy]], who leads the attempt to rescue Snow White and therefore is easily the manliest of them. This scene may also have invoked a meta example of this trope at its first showing; after months prior to the release of people calling the movie "Disney's Folly," saying that an hour and a half of color/animation would drive people mad, etc., a bunch of grown celebrities, men as well as women, burst into tears over the sight of a dead cartoon character.

!!Release Date:
* December 21, 1937 (USA; Los Angeles, California)
* January 1, 1938 (USA; Washington, D.C.)
* January 13, 1938 (USA; Miami, Florida/New York City)
* January 22, 1938 (Argentina)
* January 31, 1938 (USA; Baltimore, Maryland)
* February 4, 1938 (USA)
* February 24, 1938 (UK; London)
* March 12, 1938 (UK)
* March 26, 1938 (Belgium)
* September 5, 1938 (Brazil; Rio de Janeiro)
* October 10, 1938 (Brazil; São Paulo)

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* DaylightHorror: When the Queen, transformed into an old hag, tricks Snow White to eat the poison apple and Snow White subsequently seemingly dies, it's in broad daylight.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: A Disney staple. The Queen takes her jealousy to dark extremes, treating it like an act of war. She is content with either having her rival's heart torn out of her corpse as trophy or be buried alive when a poison apple turns out to be a deep sleep curse. She's also a potential sorceress and an implied torturer, and the scene where she transforms into her old hag disguise is, even today, ''still'' considered one of the scariest moments in film. This jarringly contrasts with the rather whimsical vibe of the rest of the film.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Grumpy has been the most vocally opposed to Snow White saying, and to her trying to boss the others around. Then he tells her gruffly to not let any strangers into the house, and she thanks him for caring with a kiss. Despite himself, Grumpy realizes he liked the kiss and waves to her. Then when the dwarfs realize Snow White is in danger, Grumpy shouts, "The Queen will kill her! We've gotta save her!" and takes charge.

* VoicesAreNotMental: Justified; when the witch stirs her potion, she adds in a cackle to make sure her voice is disguised as well. It works.

* InsubstantialIngredients: The peddler disguise contains ingredients such as "an old hag's cackle" and "a shriek of fright", which she actually stores in her laboratory. It seems "black of night" comes in a vial and shrieks of fright come in kegs. Who knew? The shot of the recipe in the Queen's Disguises Book provides the page image.

* NothingIsScarier: During the movie's climax, the dwarfs chase the Queen up a mountain where she ends up on a narrow precipice. We never do see the summit from her vantage point; its surroundings remain off-camera via strategically-restricted shots. So what exactly that rocky ledge is overlooking, or how high up it is, is left to our imationation...

* TheLostWoods: During her flight in the forest, Snow White's imagination makes it look alive and menacing.

* HollywoodCostuming: As a minimum, Snow White. It's set in medieval Germany according to WordOfGod, yet her dress has short sleeves and a lower neckline than would be accurate. Oh and she has a 1930s hairstyle as opposed to the long hair she would probably sport.

** Dopey is accompanied by an odd little theme most of the time (it can be heard most easily in the soap scene, and there's a pretty catchy piano rendition as part of the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen deleted bed-building sequence]]).

** It might be poison!! See?! It's witch's brew!

* ManlyTears: All seven dwarfs cry over Snow White's DisneyDeath. That includes [[GrumpyBear Grumpy]], who lead the attempt to rescue Snow White and therefore is easily the manliest of them. This scene may also have invoked a meta example of this trope at its first showing; after months prior to the release of people calling the movie "Disney's Folly," saying that an hour and a half of color/animation would drive people mad, etc., a bunch of grown celebrities, men as well as women, burst into tears over the sight of a dead cartoon character.

* HollywoodCostuming: As a minimum, Snow White. It's set in medieval Germany according to WordOfGod, yet her dress has short sleeves and a lower neckline than would be accurate. Oh and she has a 1930s hairstyle as opposed to the RapunzelHair she would probably sport.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point Grumpy refers to the Queen as an "old witch". She later becomes a literal one.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ManlyTears: Grumpy when Snow White ([[DisneyDeath apparently]]) dies.

** Blog/UnshavedMouse noted that the film was very much like a series of the Disney shorts edited together -- notably the extended bits of Snow White exploring the house, Snow White and the animals cleaning the house, the dwarfs finding it clean and searching for the intruder, the whole scene and song with the dwarfs' washing themselves, and the forest animals trying to warn everyone about the Queen. Starting with ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' the Disney films became much more cinematic, with every scene written to advance the plot rather than as set-pieces showcasing comic gags.

* InsubstantialIngredients: The peddler disguise was comprised entirely of these. The shot of the recipe in the Queen's Disguises Book provides the page image.

* MindScrew: All of Snow White's run in the forest. Seems like the entire forest has come to life to catch her.

* OnlySaneMan: Grumpy's response to Snow White suddenly becoming their disciplinarian is arguably the closest to reasonable. Grumpy's displeasure of having her around stems from the fact that she's essentially a fugitive and he correctly predicts that the Queen will be able to find her thanks to her use of black magic. His anger at her being a disciplinarian could very well be the fact that they're doing each other favors (the dwarfs house her and she cooks for them) yet Snow White ''still'' bosses them around. But of course, when the dwarfs realize the witch found Snow White, he's the first to jump on a deer and shout they need to save her.

* PrehensileTail: The rabbits, squirrels, and at one point a deer all use their tails as sweepers and dusters while cleaning the Dwarfs' cottage with Snow White. Another notable instance is when the fawn uses its tail to operate the sink's water pump.

** The dwarfs exclaims "Jiminy Crickets!" when they find out Snow White had snuck into their cottage. Jiminy Cricket is, of course, a main character from the next Disney animated feature, ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''.

* {{Rotoscoping}}: All the human characters are rotoscoped, aside from the Dwarfs (who arguably aren't truly "human"). The Queen's witch form notably avoids rotoscoping. There is one scene where Creator/GrimNatwick, Snow White's designer and one of her head animators, ditched the rotoscope and animated Snow White running down the stairs and checking the soup on his own. Walt himself praised that moment, and wished for all of Snow White's human animation to be that good (although no one bothered to tell him it wasn't rotoscoped).

* SneezeOfDoom: Courtesy of [[MeaningfulName Sneezy]]. His sneezes could produce gale-force winds, strong enough to send several dwarfs flying across a room. He always seems to sneeze [[NiceJobBreakingItHero at the worst possible times]], like ejecting Dopey from the top of a TotemPoleTrench, blowing Dopey's chance of getting a kiss from Snow White, and of course, put him and his brothers at risk of getting caught by a burglar.

** Dopey's sobbing over Snow White's DisneyDeath would also become one, being used for Sasha's sobbing over Sonya's DisneyDeath in ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' and even for the second time Aurora cries in ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.

As for the plot, we're not even going to bother summarizing it, since ''everybody'' knows about this film and its story by now. ([[Recap/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Well, we did anyway]])

* IAteWhat: Dopey's (eventual) reaction to having eaten a bar of soap; he pats at his stomach for several seconds after finally realizing he ate it by mistake.

* PlotParalell: The Queen is preparing a delicious-looking poisoned apple from a magical recipe book at the same time (in movie time) Snow White is baking pies from a cookbook.

A live-action remake by Disney is currently in production, with Creator/RachelZegler as Snow White and Creator/GalGadot as the Queen.

* BondVillainStupidity: The Queen could have just ''actually killed'' Snow White instead of betting on her sleeping forever. Especially since she would just retain her beauty that way. Subverted as the actual film has her laughing at the thought of Snow White being ''buried alive'' and killed that way, just to give her a CruelAndUnusualDeath. It was the dwarves not having the heart to bury her that kept Snow White alive but comatose.

* {{Gonk}}: The Queen's hag disguise is far more stylized and grotesque than her true appearance. The dwarves are also drawn like this but in a much cuter way.

* JerkassHasAPoint: When the dwarves are going to work in the mine, Grumpy tells Snow White don't let anyone inside the house. She assumes he's just being concerned for her and gives him a goodbye kiss. Yeah, she should have listened when the Queen comes.

* LostInImitation: The film was inspired by the [[Film/SnowWhite1916 1916 film adaptation]]. It shows. For example, both films have the dwarves being named, Snow White with short hair, and the WickedStepmother forcing Snow White into servitude.

** The first half of "Heigh Ho" is sung by the dwarves as they work in the mines.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The climax has this for a few of the dwarves after [[MassOhCrap the animals notify them that the queen found Snow White at their cottage]]:

* OverlyLongGag: The montage of the dwarves sleeping downstairs goes on for several minutes.

** The dwarves exclaims "Jiminy Crickets!" when they find out Snow White had snuck into their cottage. Jiminy Cricket is, of course, a main character from the next Disney animated feature, ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''.

* SacredHospitality: Zigzagged. Snow White rightly intuits that "children" in a cottage may not want her to stay unless she earns her keep, so she spends the afternoon tidying up and making a meal for them. The dwarves are shocked that someone got all the dust and cobwebs, as well as the dishes. On realizing a child is in their room and not a monster, the dwarves try to keep their voices down so she doesn't wake up. When she does, they introduce themselves to her, and Doc argues with Grumpy about making her leave since she's their guest and in trouble. This at least convinces the dwarves to let her stay the night, and they say she can stay as long as she likes when Snow White promises to make their favorite foods while cleaning for them. Grumpy doesn't admit it, but he's happy to have her as much as the others are.

* ScavengersAreScum: Surprisingly subverted with the vultures. They start out seeming like evil minions of the Queen (being essentially {{Evil Counterpart}}s to Snow White's cute little songbirds), but in the end, it turns out that they're unaffiliated -- they knew that in the final confrontation ''someone'' was gonna die, so they were quick to follow both the Queen and the Dwarves just waiting for one party to off the other. [[spoiler:When the Queen kicks the bucket, they're quick to swoop down to eat the (thankfully unseen) remains]].

* SneezeOfDoom: Courtesy of [[MeaningfulName Sneezy]]. His sneezes could produce gale-force winds, strong enough to send several dwarves flying across a room. He always seems to sneeze [[NiceJobBreakingItHero at the worst possible times]], like ejecting Dopey from the top of a TotemPoleTrench, blowing Dopey's chance of getting a kiss from Snow White, and of course, put him and his brothers at risk of getting caught by a burglar.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: A tragic example; Snow White was making personalized gooseberry pies for all the dwarves, spelling out their names in cursive. Before she can put them in the oven, the disguised Queen appears and does the apple routine. Understandably, the dwarves are in no mood to finish the baking process after they take care of the witch.

* TrueCompanions: Snow White forms a motherly bond with the Dwarves, who all adore her in turn (even Grumpy, in his own way).

* YankTheDogsChain: Some picture book adaptations, and a deleted scene from the actual movie, show the dwarves making a proper bed for Snow White since she needs several of their mattresses to lie down comfortably. They think it would be a great surprise. Just as they finish, the animals come and frantically alert them that the witch found the princess. Snow White never sees the bed, but instead lies on it in death.