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* NoSongForTheWicked: Despite being a performer in-universe whose defining trait is his [[{{Narcissist}} extreme overconfidence and pride in his talent]], Grisham is solely focused on his dancing, and does not get a VillainSong.
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* NoSongForTheWicked: Despite being a performer in-universe whose defining trait is his [[{{Narcissist}} extreme overconfidence and pride in his talent]], Grisham is solely focused on his dancing, and does not get a VillainSong. At most, "So the Count can dance" ''does'' exposit how Grisham's narcissism and arrogance has enslaved most of the townsfolk, but it's only sung by said-townsfolk.
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* OnlySaneMan: Max the mouse. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the absurdity that he's the only one with common sense in the story.
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* OnlySaneMan: While the rest of Grisham's henchmen are [[SycophanticServant either blindly loyal or serve him out of fear]], Wooden tries his best to keep his employer on the sensible path, and clearly doesn't appreciate having to put up with Grisham's tantrums and schemes.
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* OnlySaneMan: OnlySaneMan:
** While the rest of Grisham's henchmen are [[SycophanticServant either blindly loyal or serve him out of fear]], Wooden tries his best to keep his employer on the sensible path, and clearly doesn't appreciate having to put up with Grisham's tantrums andschemes.schemes.
** Max the mouse is a good guy variation himself. Between himself, Scarecrow, and the Broom, he's the only one who isn't lead by love sickness and keeps suggesting they make the pragmatic choice, even if he's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold snippy]] about it at times. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the absurdity that a mouse like him is the only one out of the trio with common sense.
** While the rest of Grisham's henchmen are [[SycophanticServant either blindly loyal or serve him out of fear]], Wooden tries his best to keep his employer on the sensible path, and clearly doesn't appreciate having to put up with Grisham's tantrums and
** Max the mouse is a good guy variation himself. Between himself, Scarecrow, and the Broom, he's the only one who isn't lead by love sickness and keeps suggesting they make the pragmatic choice, even if he's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold snippy]] about it at times. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the absurdity that a mouse like him is the only one out of the trio with common sense.
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* AnAesop: Delivered by Miss Beebee: "Helping other people, giving your life for someone else... that's what it's all about."
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* CrowdSong: "So The Count Can Dance/On Our Way".
* DanceOfRomance: Happens when Feathertop teaches Polly to dance.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: How this whole movie treats dancing.
* DancePartyEnding: [[spoiler: This happens once Count Grisham is out of the picture and the town is renamed to Swing Town.]]
* DanceOfRomance: Happens when Feathertop teaches Polly to dance.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: How this whole movie treats dancing.
* DancePartyEnding: [[spoiler: This happens once Count Grisham is out of the picture and the town is renamed to Swing Town.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After years of working in the mill, Polly and the townsfolk are freed from Grisham and get to live their own lives.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After years of working in the mill, Polly and the townsfolk are freed from Grisham and get to live their own lives.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: Grisham's butler Woody has loyally served him for years so long as he's paid well. But even he is ''mortified'' that his employer would ever imply that he'd rather [[IfICantHaveYou kill Polly than let her leave]].]]
* EvilIsHammy: Count Grisham, big time.
* EvilIsHammy: Count Grisham, big time.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: Grisham's [[spoiler:Grisham's butler Woody has loyally served him for years so long as he's paid well. But even he is ''mortified'' that his employer would ever imply that he'd rather [[IfICantHaveYou kill Polly than let her leave]].]]
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* FatIdiot: Cheswick. He thinks being called an ignoramos is a compliment, and when he saw Polly sneaking out through a reflection in a mirror, he looked behind the mirror in confusion.
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* FatIdiot: Cheswick. He thinks being called an ignoramos "ignoramos" is a compliment, and when he saw Polly sneaking out through a reflection in a mirror, he looked behind the mirror in confusion.
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* FlyingBroomstick: Bristles is a sentient one.
* ForWantOfANail: The entire plot happened because Grisham accidentally found Miss Bee Bee’s book of Dancing Spells, and then tried to use one of the spells to make Polly fall in love with him years later.
* ForWantOfANail: The entire plot happened because Grisham accidentally found Miss Bee Bee’s book of Dancing Spells, and then tried to use one of the spells to make Polly fall in love with him years later.
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* ForWantOfANail: The entire plot happened because Grisham accidentally found Miss Bee Bee’s book of Dancing Spells, and then tried to use one of the spells to make Polly fall in love with him years later.
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* IncitingIncident: The entire plot happened because Grisham accidentally found Miss Bee Bee’s book of Dancing Spells, and then tried to use one of the spells to make Polly fall in love with him years later.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Max the mouse is voiced by the Jewish Creator/CoreyFeldman, he has a strong New York accent [[BrooklynRage and the temper to go with it]], he uses YiddishAsASecondLanguage, and he has a tendency to [[JewishComplaining kvetch]].
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* NoSongForTheWicked: Despite being a performer in-universe whose defining trait is his [[{{Narcissist}} extreme overconfidence and pride in his talent]], Grisham is solely focused on his dancing, and does not get a VillainSong.
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* AwardBaitSong: "In Your Arms", the song which plays while Feathertop teaches Polly to dance.
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* AwardBaitSong: "In "[[https://youtu.be/Epkdd7pRaBU?si=io-c6A15ZK080nmt&t=4592 In Your Arms", Arms]]", the song which plays while Feathertop teaches Polly to dance.dance, as well as in the credits.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Scarecrow comes to life to scare away Cheswick from stealing Polly's money. By the time Cheswick returns with Grisham's guards, Scarecrow has assumed his human Feathertop persona and feigns disbelief that Cheswick would mistake him for a scarecrow, allowing the guards to assume that Cheswick is either lying or has lost his mind. Bristles takes it a step further when Cheswick grabs him on the way home, by hitting the latter on the head and making it look like Cheswick just did it to himself.
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* VillainBall: [[spoiler:After discovering that Feathertop is actually a scarecrow and subsequently capturing him, Grisham could have publicly exposed Feathertop as a fraud to Polly and rest of the town, possibly even turning the magic-fearing villagers into an angry mob to destroy the enchanted talking scarecrow. Instead, he decides to keep the secret while trying to dispose of Scarecrow on his own, then tries to take on his Feathertop persona to marry Polly himself. Unsurprisingly, this doesn't go well for Grisham.]]
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: While still in his Feathertop disguise, Scarecrow excitedly asks Polly to marry him, and she agrees, arranging the wedding for the next day. But on his way to the church, a solemn Max points out that Scarecrow can't live a life with Polly when he isn't truly human.
-->'''Max:''' You're a scarecrow, and you'll always ''be'' a scarecrow. You have to let her go.
-->'''Max:''' You're a scarecrow, and you'll always ''be'' a scarecrow. You have to let her go.
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* {{Egopolis}}: The town the film is set in is called Grisham Heights, named after the Count himself. Lampshaded by Miss Bee Bee in the beginning.
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* {{Egopolis}}: The town the film is set in is called Grisham Heights, named after the Count himself. Lampshaded by Miss Bee Bee in the beginning. [[spoiler:Following Grisham's death, the people rechristen their home "Swing Town"]].
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* MaliciousMisnaming: Grisham is in the habit of constantly giving Feathertop nicknames like "Feather-Chump", "Feather-Neck", "Feather-Mouth" and "Feather-Head". Needless to say, he's not very fond of Feathertop for being 'competition'.
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* MaliciousMisnaming: Throughout their interactions, Grisham is in the habit of constantly giving refers to Feathertop nicknames like "Feather-Chump", as "Feather-Neck", "Feather-Mouth" "Feather-Mouth", "Feather-Head" and "Feather-Head". Needless to say, "Feather-Chump". While Grisham has a habit of [[AccidentalMisnaming forgetting the names of people he considers unimportant]], he's not very fond of Feathertop for being 'competition'.later shown commanding Miss Bee Bee's feather to make himself look like Feathertop, making it clear that getting Feathertop's name wrong before was fully intentional.
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* MotiveDecay: Grisham has his heart set on marrying Polly, but his attempts to woo her become increasingly desperate as they keep failing. When he fails to charm her with gifts, he resorts to using magic dance steps to try forcing her to fall in love with him, then tries to marry her while disguised as Feathertop, and eventually decides to outright kill Polly rather than let her and the children leave town.
* NonHumanSidekick: Max and Bristles for Scarecrow/Feathertop, Gummy for Cheswick, and Razor for Grisham.
* NoSmoking: The corncob pipe in the original story is {{Bowdlerise}}d into a feather that the main character wears in his hat.
* NonHumanSidekick: Max and Bristles for Scarecrow/Feathertop, Gummy for Cheswick, and Razor for Grisham.
* NoSmoking: The corncob pipe in the original story is {{Bowdlerise}}d into a feather that the main character wears in his hat.
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* MotiveDecay: Grisham has his heart set on marrying Polly, but his attempts to woo her become increasingly desperate as they keep failing. When he fails he's unable to charm her with gifts, he resorts to using magic dance steps to try forcing her to fall in love with him, then tries to marry her while disguised as Feathertop, and eventually decides to outright kill Polly rather than let her and the children leave town.
* NonHumanSidekick:Max and Quite a few.
** Miss Bee Bee has a living broom that she names Bristles. After she leaves town, Bristlesfor Scarecrow/Feathertop, Gummy for Cheswick, stays with Scarecrow.
** When Miss Bee Bee brings the Scarecrow to life, her magic also inadvertently gives a mouse hiding in his pocket the ability to speak. The mouse, named Max, is Scarecrow's main companion.
** Cheswick has a tracking dog named Gummy, who is eventually taken in by the dog-loving Gretchen.
** Grisham has a pet falcon named Razor. He sends him to find Polly's stash of money when Grisham fails, and Razorfor Grisham.
later steals the feather from Feathertop when the latter is trying to escape Grisham's mansion.
* NoSmoking:The In the original story, the scarecrow uses a corncob pipe in the original story is {{Bowdlerise}}d into to maintain his human form. [[{{Bowdlerise}} The film replaces this]] with a feather that the main character he wears in his hat.
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** Miss Bee Bee has a living broom that she names Bristles. After she leaves town, Bristles
** When Miss Bee Bee brings the Scarecrow to life, her magic also inadvertently gives a mouse hiding in his pocket the ability to speak. The mouse, named Max, is Scarecrow's main companion.
** Cheswick has a tracking dog named Gummy, who is eventually taken in by the dog-loving Gretchen.
** Grisham has a pet falcon named Razor. He sends him to find Polly's stash of money when Grisham fails, and Razor
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* OnlySaneMan: While the rest of Grisham's henchmen are [[SycophanticServant either blindly loyal or serve him out of fear]], Wooden tries his best to keep his employer on the sensible path, and clearly doesn't having to put up with Grisham's tantrums and schemes.
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* OnlySaneMan: While the rest of Grisham's henchmen are [[SycophanticServant either blindly loyal or serve him out of fear]], Wooden tries his best to keep his employer on the sensible path, and clearly doesn't appreciate having to put up with Grisham's tantrums and schemes.
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: After the climax, [[spoiler: Feathertop sadly breaks off his engagement to Polly so she can marry someone human and leaves her, broken-hearted. But before long, he realizes he's permanently become human, nullifying his reason to leave Polly and sending the two lovers back into each other's arms.]]
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: After the climax, [[spoiler: Feathertop [[spoiler:Feathertop sadly breaks off his engagement to Polly so she can marry someone human and leaves her, broken-hearted. But before long, he realizes he's permanently become human, nullifying his reason to leave Polly and sending the two lovers back into each other's arms.]]
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the original short story, Polly is the daughter of a wealthy judge. Her father is AdaptedOut of this version, and she is instead introduced as a poor orphan working in a mill to earn her freedom.
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* AnachronismStew: The movie takes place during Colonial American times, yet all the dancing is clearly from the 20th century.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Count Grisham falls to his death while fighting with Feathertop on the collapsing bridge.]]
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* {{Disneyfication}}
{{Disneyfication}}: Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''Feathertop'' is a short story with NoAntagonist, and tells a darkly comedic tale discussing themes of existentialism and human character. This feature length adaptation heavily tones down the more morbid themes of the source material, and also adds various comic relief characters, an actual villain and several musical numbers.
* DisneyVillainDeath:[[spoiler: Count [[spoiler:Count Grisham falls to his death while fighting with Feathertop on the collapsing bridge.]]
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* {{Expy}}: The vast majority of the cast are clearly derivative of various characters from Disney and other animated films, including Creator/RichardRich's own works.
** Scarecrow's human form of Feathertop bears a physical resemblance to both [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Prince Derek]] and [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld John Rolfe]]. His charade is also clearly inspired by WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'s Prince Ali persona, [[BecomeARealBoy with some elements]] of WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}.
** Polly physically resembles [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}, and [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Kaylee]], while also sharing major character traits with all three.
** Count Grisham is a blatant ripoff of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], [[spoiler:even having a similar death scene]], while also playing a Jafar to Feathertop's Aladdin.
** Along with being [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} a sentient broom]], Bristles also plays a similar role to Magic Carpet from ''Aladdin''.
** Cheswick looks like a shorter, fatter version of Rothbart from ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', while his bumbling personality is similar to Bromley from that same film.
** Miss Bee Bee looks suspiciously like the mother of WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994.
** Background characters notably resemble WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]] and Literature/RipVanWinkle.
** Scarecrow's human form of Feathertop bears a physical resemblance to both [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Prince Derek]] and [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld John Rolfe]]. His charade is also clearly inspired by WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'s Prince Ali persona, [[BecomeARealBoy with some elements]] of WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}.
** Polly physically resembles [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}, and [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Kaylee]], while also sharing major character traits with all three.
** Count Grisham is a blatant ripoff of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], [[spoiler:even having a similar death scene]], while also playing a Jafar to Feathertop's Aladdin.
** Along with being [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} a sentient broom]], Bristles also plays a similar role to Magic Carpet from ''Aladdin''.
** Cheswick looks like a shorter, fatter version of Rothbart from ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', while his bumbling personality is similar to Bromley from that same film.
** Miss Bee Bee looks suspiciously like the mother of WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994.
** Background characters notably resemble WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]] and Literature/RipVanWinkle.
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** Polly is introduced as a cute, kindhearted young girl who speaks to the scarecrow as if he's already alive. Though they don't directly interact, Miss Bee Bee is very fond of her.
** After the TimeSkip, Polly has adopted three other orphans, Gretchen, Cooper, andFarley. They all have Farley, who constantly talk about their dreams of what they want once Polly buys their freedom; Gretchen wants a dog, Cooper wants a garden, and Farley just wants [[BarefootPoverty new pairs of shoes]].
** Polly is introduced as a cute, kindhearted young girl who speaks to the scarecrow as if he's already alive. Though they don't directly interact, Miss Bee Bee is very fond of her.
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* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: [[spoiler:After his final attempt to force Polly to marry him fails, an angry and humiliated Grisham decides that he won't let her or the children leave town alive. While Wooden goes off to warn Polly, Grisham has this attitude after his men dismantle the nearby the bridge that leads out of the town, plotting to either trap Polly rejects him for the last time.in Grisham Heights or let her fall to her death.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Feathertop never tells Polly the truth about being a scarecrow. And he never does, not after the spell to make him human becomes permanent.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: [[spoiler:With Grisham dead and the spell now permanent, neither Polly or the rest of the town ever discover that Feathertop never tells Polly the truth about being is actually a scarecrow. And he never does, not after When Cheswick tries one final time to expose him, Feathertop simply lets the spell to make others dismiss him human becomes permanent.as mad.]]
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* MotiveDecay: Grisham has his heart set on Polly, but his attempts to woo her become increasingly desperate as they keep failing. When he fails to charm her with gifts, he resorts to using magic dance steps to try forcing her to fall in love with him, then tries to marry her while disguised as Feathertop, and eventually decides to outright kill Polly rather than let her and the children leave town.
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* MotiveDecay: Grisham has his heart set on marrying Polly, but his attempts to woo her become increasingly desperate as they keep failing. When he fails to charm her with gifts, he resorts to using magic dance steps to try forcing her to fall in love with him, then tries to marry her while disguised as Feathertop, and eventually decides to outright kill Polly rather than let her and the children leave town.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Wooden clearly disapproves of Grisham's cruelty and arrogance, and only works for him because the job pays well and keeps him out of poverty. [[spoiler:He finally turns on Grisham when the latter plots to kill Polly and the children.]]
* OnlySaneMan: While the rest of Grisham's henchmen are [[SycophanticServant either blindly loyal or serve him out of fear]], Wooden tries his best to keep his employer on the sensible path, and clearly doesn't having to put up with Grisham's tantrums and schemes.
* OnlySaneMan: While the rest of Grisham's henchmen are [[SycophanticServant either blindly loyal or serve him out of fear]], Wooden tries his best to keep his employer on the sensible path, and clearly doesn't having to put up with Grisham's tantrums and schemes.
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* PsychopathicManChild: Count Grisham clearly acts like a large child, especially when he says this line:
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* PsychopathicManChild: Count Grisham clearly acts is an immature and petty man who can't stand not having his way, and he spends most of the first half whining like a large child, especially SpoiledBrat when he's contradicted or when his plots fail. But when he's humiliated one too many times, he says this line:resorts to more murderous methods.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: An entire cast of them!
** Most notably Polly, who physically resembles [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}, and [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Kaylee]], while also sharing major character traits with all three.
** The other lead character, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Master Feathertop]], might be described as the love child of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} and WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, disguised as [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld John Rolfe]].
** The villain, Count Grisham, is a blatant ripoff of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], [[spoiler:even having a similar death scene]], while also playing a Jafar to Feathertop's Aladdin.
** Speaking of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Bristles the sentient broom]] and [[Franchise/TheMuppets Max the sarcastic, New York rodent]] are basically the Flying Carpet and Iago, once they become a duo
** Miss Bee Bee looks suspiciously like the mother of WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994
** Background characters notably resemble WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]], Literature/RipVanWinkle, and [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Brom]] (justified with that last one, as this movie is by the same people who made WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess.)
** Most notably Polly, who physically resembles [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}, and [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Kaylee]], while also sharing major character traits with all three.
** The other lead character, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Master Feathertop]], might be described as the love child of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} and WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, disguised as [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld John Rolfe]].
** The villain, Count Grisham, is a blatant ripoff of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], [[spoiler:even having a similar death scene]], while also playing a Jafar to Feathertop's Aladdin.
** Speaking of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Bristles the sentient broom]] and [[Franchise/TheMuppets Max the sarcastic, New York rodent]] are basically the Flying Carpet and Iago, once they become a duo
** Miss Bee Bee looks suspiciously like the mother of WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994
** Background characters notably resemble WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]], Literature/RipVanWinkle, and [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Brom]] (justified with that last one, as this movie is by the same people who made WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess.)
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Cheswick tries to steal Polly's hidden stash from her hiding place, the normally friendly Scarecrow frightens him off to keep it safe. His line to Cheswick seals it.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Cheswick tries to steal Polly's hidden stash from her hiding place, the normally friendly Scarecrow punches him in the face and frightens him off to keep it safe. His line to Cheswick seals it.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Polly climbs out her window to go get her hidden stash of coins, Cheswick sees her passing by. Rather than immediately noticing that she's sneaking out of the Mill, he simply remarks to himself that her climbing down the building doesn't look very safe.
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* EverybodyHasStandards: [[spoiler: Grisham's butler Woody has loyally served him for years so long as he's paid well. But even he is ''mortified'' that his employer would ever imply that he'd rather [[IfICantHaveYou kill Polly than let her leave]].]]
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* EverybodyHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: Grisham's butler Woody has loyally served him for years so long as he's paid well. But even he is ''mortified'' that his employer would ever imply that he'd rather [[IfICantHaveYou kill Polly than let her leave]].]]
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* MotiveDecay: Grisham has his heart set on Polly, but his attempts to woo her become increasingly desperate as they keep failing. When he fails to charm her with gifts, he resorts to using magic dance steps to try forcing her to fall in love with him, then tries to marry her while disguised as Feathertop, and eventually decides to outright kill Polly rather than let her and the children leave town.
* MotiveDecay: Grisham has his heart set on Polly, but his attempts to woo her become increasingly desperate as they keep failing. When he fails to charm her with gifts, he resorts to using magic dance steps to try forcing her to fall in love with him, then tries to marry her while disguised as Feathertop, and eventually decides to outright kill Polly rather than let her and the children leave town.
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** One knows Grisham's love spell dance is effective when he can make his maid (who detests Grisham) to fall madly in love with him. What's more, it's also strong enough to [[spoiler: make Polly, who couldn't care less about him, nearly decide to marry him.]]
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** One knows Grisham's love spell dance is effective when he can make his maid (who detests Grisham) to fall madly in love with him. What's more, it's also strong enough to [[spoiler: make Polly, who couldn't care less about him, nearly decide to marry him.him before Feathertop pulls her away.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Miss Beebee realizes that Scarecrow has fallen in love with Polly, she decides to leave town rather than risk being exposed and found by Grisham.
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** The villain, Count Grisham, is a blatant ripoff of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] (right down to his [[spoiler: death]], Gaston]], [[spoiler:even having a similar death scene]], while also playing a Jafar to Feathertop's Aladdin.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Miss Bee Bee brings her scarecrow to life so she can have a companion, yet when she feels unsafe and decides to leave town, she doesn't take Scarecrow with her. This seems unnecessarily cruel because Scarecrow can never interact with the townspeople or Polly unless he wants to be destroyed. Later on, she does offer him a way to appear human, although that begs the question why she didn't give him that offer in the first place.
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* BecomeARealBoy: Scarecrow wants to be human in order to help earn Polly's money back, and he is granted his wish by wearing a magic feather Miss Beebee gifted him.
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* PinocchioSyndrome: Scarecrow wants to be human in order to help earn Polly's money back, and he is granted his wish by wearing a magic feather Miss Beebee gifted him.
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"It's" is a contraction of "it is" or "it has". It is not interchangeable with "its", a possessive determiner.
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* BigEater: Cheswick even named his stomach Melvin since it seems to have a mind of it's own. Oddly enough, we never see him eat on screen.
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* BigEater: Cheswick even named his stomach Melvin since it seems to have a mind of it's its own. Oddly enough, we never see him eat on screen.
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* UnexpectedKindness: At the Money Changer, Polly comes up exactly one copper coin short in exchnage for a piece of silver, so the changer discreetly adds one more coin of his own to tip the scales in her favor.
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* UnexpectedKindness: At the Money Changer, Polly comes up exactly one copper coin short in exchnage exchanging for a piece of silver, so silver. So the changer discreetly adds one more an extra copper coin of his own to tip the scales in her favor.
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* UnexpectedKindness: At the Money Changer, Polly comes up exactly one copper coin short in exchnage for a piece of silver, so the changer discreetly adds one more coin of his own to tip the scales in her favor.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Pessimist that he is, Max isn't entirely wrong to say Scarecrow shouldn't marry Polly if he only ''looks'' human, regardless that he loves her. Not only would Scarecrow be living a lie, but there's also the implication that Polly would grow old while "Feathertop" (being an ageless Scarecrow) didn't age at all.
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* ForWantofANail: The entire plot happened because Grisham accidentally found Miss Bee Bee’s book of Dancing Spells, and then tried to use one of the spells to make Polly fall in love with him years later.
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* ForWantofANail: ForWantOfANail: The entire plot happened because Grisham accidentally found Miss Bee Bee’s book of Dancing Spells, and then tried to use one of the spells to make Polly fall in love with him years later.
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* ForWantofANail: The entire plot happened because Grisham accidentally found Miss Bee Bee’s book of Dancing Spells, and then tried to use one of the spells to make Polly fall in love with him years later.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: On at least two occasions, Grisham will ask someone "How ''selfish'' are you!?"
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* {{Hypocrite}}: On at least two occasions, Grisham will ask someone "How ''selfish'' are you!?" constantly accuses others of being selfish, such as Feathertop getting in the way of him marrying Polly or Polly wanting to buy her freedom from him. When he gets in the way of other peoples' happiness, Grisham doesn't care in the slightest, but when others get in the way of what he wants, he accuses them of being selfish, despite him being always motivated by his own selfishness.
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The scene where Max is in drag, he is visibly irritated, so that would be Dragged Into Drag, not Wholesome Crossdresser.
* DraggedIntoDrag: Max the mouse temporarily dons a dress, wig and lipstick for a show. He's shown to be unhappy with it.
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Max the mouse temporarily dons a dress, wig and lipstick for a show.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Twice over does Scarecrow sadly come to this conclusion. [[spoiler: First time is when Max convinces him that Polly can never hope to live a normal life with "Feathertop" if her husband-to-be is actually a scarecrow. Later, after the climax, Feathertop breaks off his engagement with Polly (even though he still loves her) because he "can never be what [she] deserves".]]
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: After the climax, [[spoiler: Feathertop sadly breaks off his engagement to Polly so she can marry someone human and leaves her, broken-hearted. But before long, he realizes he's permanently become human, nullifying his reason to leave Polly and sending the two lovers back into each other's arms.]]
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* MaliciousMisnaming: Grisham is in the habit of constantly giving Feathertop nicknames like "Feather-Chump", "Feather-Neck", "Feather-Mouth" and "Feather-Head". Needless to say, he's not very fond of Feathertop for being 'competition'.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: An entire cast of them!
** Most notably Polly, who physically resembles [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}, and [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Kaylee]], while also sharing major character traits with all three.
** The other lead character, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Master Feathertop]], might be described as the love child of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} and WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, disguised as [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld John Rolfe]].
** The villain, Count Grisham, is a blatant ripoff of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] (right down to his [[spoiler: death]], while also playing a Jafar to Feathertop's Aladdin.
** Speaking of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Bristles the sentient broom]] and [[Franchise/TheMuppets Max the sarcastic, New York rodent]] are basically the Flying Carpet and Iago, once they become a duo
** Miss Bee Bee looks suspiciously like the mother of WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994
** Background characters notably resemble WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]], Literature/RipVanWinkle, and [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Brom]] (justified with that last one, as this movie is by the same people who made WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess.)
** Most notably Polly, who physically resembles [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}, and [[WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot Kaylee]], while also sharing major character traits with all three.
** The other lead character, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Master Feathertop]], might be described as the love child of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} and WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, disguised as [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld John Rolfe]].
** The villain, Count Grisham, is a blatant ripoff of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] (right down to his [[spoiler: death]], while also playing a Jafar to Feathertop's Aladdin.
** Speaking of WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Bristles the sentient broom]] and [[Franchise/TheMuppets Max the sarcastic, New York rodent]] are basically the Flying Carpet and Iago, once they become a duo
** Miss Bee Bee looks suspiciously like the mother of WesternAnimation/Thumbelina1994
** Background characters notably resemble WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]], Literature/RipVanWinkle, and [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Brom]] (justified with that last one, as this movie is by the same people who made WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess.)
