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* DubNameChange: The French version changes many names: [[KingArthur Arthur]] (Derek), [[RomeoAndJuliet Juliette]] (Odette), Albéric (Rothbart), Aldo (Jean-Bob), Rapido (Speed), Capitaine Anatole (Lt. Puffin), Melchior (Rogers).
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* DubNameChange: The French version changes many names: [[KingArthur Arthur]] (Derek), [[RomeoAndJuliet Juliette]] (Odette), Albéric (Rothbart), Aldo (Jean-Bob), Rapido (Speed), Capitaine Anatole (Lt. Puffin), Melchior (Rogers).(Rogers), Barnabé (Bromley).
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* NeverTrustATrailer: the trailer of Swan Princess 3 shows Roger falling from a spatial height towards the Earth, implying that something of epic proportion will happen. Sadly, it's just a part of a DisneyAcidSequence.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: the trailer of Swan Princess 3 shows Roger Rogers falling from a spatial height towards the Earth, implying that something of epic proportion will happen. Sadly, it's just a part of a DisneyAcidSequence.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Played straight in the sequels for everyone except Odette and Puffin. Odette would also fall under this trope in the ChristmasSpecial, due to [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actress Existence Failure]] sadly befalling Michelle Nicastro in 2010.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Played straight in the sequels for everyone except Odette and Puffin. However, Odette would also fall falls under this trope in the ChristmasSpecial, due to [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actress Existence Failure]] sadly befalling Michelle Nicastro in 2010.
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** ChekhovsSkill: Brom's shooting an arrow at Derek whose back is turned to him.
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** ChekhovsSkill: Brom's shooting "Catch and Fire," in which Bromley shoots an arrow at Derek's back and Derek whose back is turned to him.turns around, catches the arrow, and fires it at a different target.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Played straight in the sequels, although Odette and Puffin kept their original voices.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Played straight in the sequels, although sequels for everyone except Odette and Puffin kept their original voices.Puffin. Odette would also fall under this trope in the ChristmasSpecial, due to [[AuthorExistenceFailure Actress Existence Failure]] sadly befalling Michelle Nicastro in 2010.
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* HairOfGold: Odette.
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* EvillyAffable: Rothbart may be a sadistic {{Jerkass}}, but ''man'', does he have style! He never loses his temper (fully) either.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Firing an arrow into Rothbart's heart killed him in the first movie, [[spoiler:but in the Christmas Special, when Rothbart assumes his OneWingedAngel form again, not even throwing a knife could kill him]].
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* BackFromTheDead: In the third movie, [[spoiler:Odette]] is KilledOffForReal, but thanks to [[DeusExMachina completely unexplained reasons]], [[spoiler:she]] is revived after burning Rothbart's notes.
** In the fourth film, [[spoiler: Rothbart, the villain of the fourth film]] returns as the role of the villain.
** In the fourth film, [[spoiler: Rothbart, the villain of the fourth film]] returns as the role of the villain.
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* BackFromTheDead: In the third movie, [[spoiler:Odette]] is KilledOffForReal, but thanks to [[DeusExMachina completely unexplained reasons]], [[spoiler:she]] [[spoiler:our heroine]] is revived after burning Rothbart's notes.
** In the fourth film, [[spoiler: Rothbart, the villain of thefourth first film]] returns as the role of the villain.
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* CurseEscapeClause: If Derek can make a vow of love to Odette and prove it to the world, that will be enough to break the curse.
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* CurseEscapeClause: If Derek can make a vow of love to Odette and prove it to the world, that will be enough to break the curse. Rothbart is sharp enough to build a condition into the first half of this: [[spoiler: Odette will die if the vow is subsequently made to another woman]]...fulfilling the ''second'' half can still save the day, but it turns out to require [[spoiler: killing Rothbart, aka the Great Animal]].
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* NeverSayDie: It's implied everyone believes Odette was killed, but they only ever refer to her as being "gone" or "not coming back". Averted with Rothbart, who [[spoiler:flat out says she'll die if Derek makes the vow to someone else.]]
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* NeverSayDie: It's implied everyone believes Odette was killed, but they only ever refer to her as being "gone" or "not coming back". Averted with Rothbart, who [[spoiler:flat out says she'll die if Derek makes the vow to someone else.]]else]].
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** YouthfulFreckles: In an unusually literal example, Odette had [[http://hq55.com/disney/swan1/swan1-disneyscreencaps.com-511.jpg freckles]], for just one summer while she was a {{tomboy}}. Once she grew into a more elegant, feminine woman the freckles were gone again.
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**YouthfulFreckles: In an unusually literal example, Odette had [[http://hq55.com/disney/swan1/swan1-disneyscreencaps.com-511.jpg freckles]], for just one summer while she was a {{tomboy}}. Once she grew into a more elegant, feminine woman the freckles were gone again.
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** Probably done because [[ShowTheirWork in the ballet]] Odile (the character Bridget replaces) wears a [[WomanInBlack black]] [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience tutu]].
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** Probably done because [[ShowTheirWork in the ballet]] Odile (the character Bridget replaces) wears a [[WomanInBlack black]] [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience [[ColorMotif tutu]].
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->'''Odette:''' Will you love me, Derek, until the day I die?
->'''Derek:''' No. Much longer, Odette. Much longer.
->'''Derek:''' No. Much longer, Odette. Much longer.
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->'''Odette:''' Will you love me, Derek, until the day I die?
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'''Derek:''' No. Much longer, Odette. Much longer.
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'''Derek:''' No. Much longer, Odette. Much longer.
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* AwardBaitSong: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland Far Longer Than Forever]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU Eternity]]" (the latter is over the end credits only).
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* AwardBaitSong: "[[http://www.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland Far "Far Longer Than Forever]]" Forever"]] and "[[http://www.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU Eternity]]" "Eternity"]] (the latter is over the end credits only).
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* SpeciesSurname: Lieutenant Puffin. The almost-certainly-not-canon-but-still-extant bonus features on the most recent DVD claim that his parents were [[AnimalJingoism so proud of being puffins,]] they simply named him "Puffin."
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* SpeciesSurname: Lieutenant Puffin. The almost-certainly-not-canon-but-still-extant bonus features on the most recent DVD claim that his parents were [[AnimalJingoism so proud of being puffins,]] puffins]]. they simply named him "Puffin."
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** And Zelda knows who [[OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella]] and [[TheWizardOfOZ The Wicked Witch of the West]] are.
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* AwardBaitSong: "[[Far Longer Than Forever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland]]" and "[[Eternity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU]]" (the latter is over the end credits only).
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* AwardBaitSong: "[[Far Longer Than Forever http://www."[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland]]" and "[[Eternity http://www.com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland Far Longer Than Forever]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU]]" com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU Eternity]]" (the latter is over the end credits only).
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* AwardBaitSong: [["Far Longer Than Forever" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland]] [["Eternity" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU]] (the latter is over the end credits only).
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* AwardBaitSong: [["Far "[[Far Longer Than Forever" Forever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland]] [["Eternity" com/watch?v=2nd59LIbErI&feature=fvwreland]]" and "[[Eternity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU]] com/watch?v=l_S2zjFNneU]]" (the latter is over the end credits only).
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* AwardBaitSong: "Far Longer Than Forever" and "Eternity" (latter is over the end credits only).
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* UpgradeArtifact: The magic orb that has power of granting perfect mastery of all three disciplines of mystic arts - Creation, Change and Destruction.
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While no blockbuster, it did spawn two sequels: ''The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain'' (1997) and ''The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'' (1998). The first pits them against Rothbart's old partner Clavius, the second against his mentor Zelda, and poor Odette keeps getting [[YoYoPlotPoint turned into a swan and back again]] the whole way.
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While no blockbuster, it did spawn two three sequels: ''The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain'' (1997) and (1997), ''The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'' (1998). (1998), and ''The Swan Princess Christmas'' (2012). The first pits them against Rothbart's old partner Clavius, the second against his mentor Zelda, and poor the third against a resurrected Rothbart. Poor Odette keeps getting [[YoYoPlotPoint turned into a swan and back again]] the whole way.
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** And Zelda knows who [[{{101 Dalmatians}} Cruella]] and [[TheWizardOfOZ The Wicked Witch of the West]] are.
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** And Zelda knows who [[101Dalmatians Cruella]] and [[TheWizardOfOZ The Wicked Witch of the West]] are.
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** Not to mention Rothbart in boxing clothes during his VillainSong "No More Mr. Nice Guy", and Clavius playing a (magical, understandably) electric guitar and a keyboard.
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** And Zelda knows who [[101Dalmatians Cruella]] and [[TheWizardOfOZ The Wicked Witch of the West]] are.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Rothbart's alligators. On the other hand, one of the good guys is a [[TurtlePower turtle]].
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* OffModel: In the third movie, Odette is constantly switching back and forth between wearing a white and green tight dress, a white and green puffy sleeved dress, and a blue palette swap of the latter, all within the same scenes.
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* OffModel: Happens a few times, mostly due to budget constraints.
** In the first film, Derek's mouth gets progressively larger and larger. If you're paying attention, he starts to look... odd.
** In the thirdmovie, one, Odette is constantly switching back and forth between wearing a white and green tight dress, a white and green puffy sleeved dress, and a blue palette swap of the latter, all within the same scenes.scenes.
* OneWingedAngel: Rothbart's "final boss fight" form is hyped throughout the first film, so for some viewers, it's final reveal was a bit of a {{Narm}} moment. [[spoiler:He kind of resembles a very large fruitbat.]]
** In the first film, Derek's mouth gets progressively larger and larger. If you're paying attention, he starts to look... odd.
** In the third
* OneWingedAngel: Rothbart's "final boss fight" form is hyped throughout the first film, so for some viewers, it's final reveal was a bit of a {{Narm}} moment. [[spoiler:He kind of resembles a very large fruitbat.]]
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While no blockbuster, it did spawn two sequels: ''The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain'' (1997) and ''The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'' (1998). The first pits them against Rothbart's old partner Clavius, the second against his mentor Zelda, and poor Odette keeps getting turned into a swan and back again the whole way.
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While no blockbuster, it did spawn two sequels: ''The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain'' (1997) and ''The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'' (1998). The first pits them against Rothbart's old partner Clavius, the second against his mentor Zelda, and poor Odette keeps getting [[YoYoPlotPoint turned into a swan and back again again]] the whole way.
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[[caption-width-right:235:"Far longer than forever, I'll hold you in my heart."]]
->'''Odette:''' Will you love me, Derek, until the day I die?
->'''Derek:''' No. Much longer, Odette. Much longer.
Ex-Disney animation director Richard Rich made this animated feature in 1994, which adapts the plot (though not the music) of the ballet ''SwanLake''.
Odette and Derek are betrothed royalty of neighboring kingdoms, though it isn't until they're grown that they actually fall in love. Too bad that first, Derek doesn't know ''what'' he loves about her besides her beauty, which upsets her, and second, the evil Rothbart — banished from her kingdom years ago for practicing the [[BlackMagic "Forbidden Arts"]] — kidnaps her.
When she refuses to marry Rothbart and make him king, he curses her to become a swan during daylight hours and moonless nights. The remorseful Derek seeks and finds her, but with Rothbart staying one step ahead of the lovers — and OneWingedAngel, too — invoking the CurseEscapeClause is not easy, even with TalkingAnimal friends helping them out.
While no blockbuster, it did spawn two sequels: ''The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain'' (1997) and ''The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'' (1998). The first pits them against Rothbart's old partner Clavius, the second against his mentor Zelda, and poor Odette keeps getting turned into a swan and back again the whole way.
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!!This film (and its sequels) contain examples of:
* AllAnimationIsDisney: Then again, Richard Rich did direct the Disney films ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' and ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and the movie draws heavily on the "Disney Renaissance" style.
* AlternateAnimalAffection: Lt. Puffin has no problems kissing the back of Odette's hand in a very humanlike manner.
* AmusingInjuries: The animals, fairly often - after they steal the map from the tower, for example. The human characters generally don't get these, with the notable exception of one point in the opening montage where you have the main characters - [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender including Odette]] - as kids getting involved in a goofy and haphazard accident and cutting away to the group of them in the traditional amusingly exaggerated slings and bandages.
* AnachronismStew: We would like to know how Prince Derek has an air force. Then again, maybe we're better off [[MST3KMantra not thinking about it]].
** Not to mention Rothbart in boxing clothes during his VillainSong "No More Mr. Nice Guy", and Clavius playing a (magical, understandably) electric guitar and a keyboard.
*** Don't forget the clothes: fashion styles range from the 1300's to the 1700's, to the 1980's.
* AnimatedMusical
* AnnoyingArrows: Puffin's first entrance is with an arrow through his wing. As soon as it gets taken out, he's all better.
* TheArcher: Derek.
* ArrowCam: Unfortunately, the arrows [[NoArcInArchery don't wobble]], as they would in a real situation.
* ArrowCatch: Derek's skill at this proves [[ChekhovsSkill vital in the climax]] when he runs out of his own arrows and [[ChekhovsGunman his sidekick]] shoots one over to him.
* ArtifactTitle: In the third film, Derek and Odette are absent for most of the movie, as it puts more focus on the Queen and Rogers' love life. And Odette is only turned into a swan for about forty-five seconds before it's undone, and it's completely unexplained ''why'' she was made a swan again.
* AwardBaitSong: "Far Longer Than Forever" and "Eternity" (latter is over the end credits only).
** The third film also had "Because I Love Her".
* BackFromTheDead: In the third movie, [[spoiler:Odette]] is KilledOffForReal, but thanks to [[DeusExMachina completely unexplained reasons]], [[spoiler:she]] is revived after burning Rothbart's notes.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Oddly, given that part of the film's moral is "Looks aren't all that matters", the bad guys are ugly and the good guys pretty (though the hag does a HeelFaceTurn at the end which extends to the sequels, thus proving the moral right).
* BigNo: Odette has one when Derek professes his love to the disguised hag.
** In the second film, Clavius lets one out when he finds out the magical orb has been stolen.
* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: ''Arrows do not work that way''.
* BlackMagic: The "Forbidden Arts". To Create, Change, and Destroy.
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Princesses on Parade".
* TheCastShowoff: Howard [=McGillin=] (Derek) is just about the only cast member to do all of his own singing, being a respected Broadway alumni.
* CatchPhrase: Puffin as "No fear!" which even gets it's own song, which itself has reprises through the series. He most often says it to Jean Bob, who constantly lampshades it throughout the second movie.
--> "Do you know how much that phrase makes me ''want to hit you?"''
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Derek's bow.
** ChekhovsSkill: Brom's shooting an arrow at Derek whose back is turned to him.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: As part of their arranged marriage, Derek and Odette spent every summer together from the time they were young children, right up until adulthood. They start off somewhat roughly, due to being, well, kids, and thus not having any real desire to form a romantic attraction, but they do become closer (though begrudgingly so) over time. Bearing this in mind, it does make them falling in love as adults a little more believable than most other animated couples, as they virtually had their entire lives to get to know each other (as opposed to say a single day, like almost ''every'' Disney fantasy film).
* CombatPragmatist: In the first movie, [[spoiler:Derek blinds Rothbart with a lump of mud, smashes a rock into Rothbart's talon and when disarmed grabs a stick and starts flailing at him.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Rogers, Derek's advisor.
** Also, Speed; he's an old turtle, but wise and heroic.
* ConvectionSchmonvection : In the second film, the villain's lair is in a volcano, with a moat of boiling lava surrounding it. The only way to cross the moat is in a small wooden box pulled along by a rope and pulley system-all parts of which should easily have been incinerated within moments of exposure to the heat rising off the lava. Also, at the end there is a great deal of frothing, exploding lava being tossed about-sometimes within millimeters of the heroes, and filling up the space directly below them completely-and none of them get even slightly scorched.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Ever so slightly. [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V48TDK24L._SL500_AA300_.jpg The DVD cover]] seems to have a much different character design for Derek, mostly making his hair look more manly.
** The DVD cover for the second movie has King William standing near Queen Uberta, despite the fact Rothbart killed King William in the first movie.
* CowardlySidekick: Bromley, Derek's best friend.
* CurseEscapeClause: If Derek can make a vow of love to Odette and prove it to the world, that will be enough to break the curse.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rogers delivers most of the best lines in the movies as this.
-->'''Rogers:''' You should write a book: ''How to Offend Women in 5 Syllables or Less''.
** Jean-Bob is also a prime example.
-->'''Jean-Bob:''' Mad? Why should I be mad? I ''enjoy'' hanging on for dear life! Next to snorkeling, it's one of my favorite activities!
** Don't forget Speed, who has fewer lines but is voiced by ''Steven Wright'' in the first film.
* DisappearedDad: It is mentioned in the prologue that Uberta was a widow, so Derek's dad is assumed to be dead. The original ballet even has her character as a Queen Mum sort of figure, only ruling as Sovereign Princess until her son is able to take a wife.
* DisneyDeath: Odette in the first film, Jean-Bob in the second, and [[spoiler:Odette again]] in the third.
* {{Disneyfication}}
* DistantDuet: "Far Longer Than Forever"
* DistressedDamsel: Odette.
* DubNameChange: The French version changes many names: [[KingArthur Arthur]] (Derek), [[RomeoAndJuliet Juliette]] (Odette), Albéric (Rothbart), Aldo (Jean-Bob), Rapido (Speed), Capitaine Anatole (Lt. Puffin), Melchior (Rogers).
* {{Duck}}: Done during the song "Practice, Practice, Practice" when Derek launches (harmless) arrows at a group of servants acting as targets. Cue the musician dressed as a duck popping his head up to say "Yes?" and then getting hit.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Apparently ''SwanLake'' wasn't a good enough title.
* EvillyAffable: Rothbart may be a sadistic {{Jerkass}}, but ''man'', does he have style! He never loses his temper (fully) either.
* EvilSorcerer: Rothbart in the first movie and Clavius in the second one.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Jean-Bob's attempts to become a prince.
* FallingInLoveMontage: In the third movie, while Derek is singing "Because I Love Her", it shows clips from the first movie. Though for some reason they chose some decidedly ''un''romantic clips for this love song, such as Odette dying, and Derek hunting down and murdering the BigBad in an action sequence.
* FinalLoveDuet: "Far Longer Than Forever", the reprise (though it's not sung on-screen).
* FollowTheLeader: That teaser poster above swipes from the teasers for both ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' and ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', a good indicator of how much the film itself directly imitates DisneyAnimatedCanon fare.
** Specifically, the choreography for [[VillainSong "No More Mr. Nice Guy"]] is... ''suspiciously'' similar to Aladdin's "Friend Like Me".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Young Derek gives baby Odette a locket with a swan on it and when they grow into young adults, he tells her she's as beautiful as a swan. Later in the movie, she's cursed to become a swan each time the moon sets.
* GenkiGirl: Queen Uberta, so much, despite her old age!
* HairOfGold: Odette.
* HappilyMarried: Derek and Odette, at the very end of the first film and in the sequels.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the third movie, [[spoiler:when Odette tries to escape, Zelda responds by turning Odette into a swan and trapping her inside a magical barrier that will vaporize anything that touches it. Later, Zelda is destroyed when she is thrown at said barrier.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Rothbart won't lift the curse unless Odette marries him.
* InsufferableGenius: Lord Rogers.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Odette.
** Well, except in the second movie, since Puffin can't fly due to an injury he suffered early in the movie, Odette asks to be turned into a swan so she can fly to where Derek is and save him from being killed by a guy working for the BigBad.
* IOweYouMyLife: After she takes the arrow out of his wing, Lt. Puffin vows service to Odette.
* IronicNickname: Speed, the turtle. [[spoiler:Subverted. While Speed is pokey on land, he's a blindingly fast swimmer.]]
** TruthInTelevision; semi-aquatic turtles are ''much'' faster on water than on land.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jean-Bob, definitely. He may be pompous and delusional, but he has a good heart deep down.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Subverted for the second movie. Parts I and III came to DVD in 2004, but fans had to wait five years to get the installment that came in between.
* LargeHam: Rothbart.
* LovableCoward: Bromley, and to a lesser extent, Jean-Bob; both come through when push comes to shove, however.
* MissingMom: Odette's mother is never seen. The only mention we get of her is the phrase "and to him a daughter was born", so she may have died during the birth.
* MistakenDeclarationOfLove: Rothbart disguises his henchwoman as Odette so Derek will do this.
* MythologyGag: At least one of the sequels refers to the lake outside Derek's and Odette's castle (originally Rothbart's) as Swan Lake.
* NeverSayDie: It's implied everyone believes Odette was killed, but they only ever refer to her as being "gone" or "not coming back". Averted with Rothbart, who [[spoiler:flat out says she'll die if Derek makes the vow to someone else.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: the trailer of Swan Princess 3 shows Roger falling from a spatial height towards the Earth, implying that something of epic proportion will happen. Sadly, it's just a part of a DisneyAcidSequence.
* NonSingingVoice: Odette in the first movie, Jean-Bob and Rothbart.
* ObviouslyEvil: You'd think that Derek would notice [[spoiler:Bridget's disguise]], considering he's known Odette his whole life to dress in white, whereas [[spoiler:Bridget]] is wearing an ObviouslyEvil red/black outfit.
** Probably done because [[ShowTheirWork in the ballet]] Odile (the character Bridget replaces) wears a [[WomanInBlack black]] [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience tutu]].
*** And is played by the same ballerina who is cast as Odette.
* OffModel: In the third movie, Odette is constantly switching back and forth between wearing a white and green tight dress, a white and green puffy sleeved dress, and a blue palette swap of the latter, all within the same scenes.
* TalkingAnimal: Puffin, Speedy and Jean Bob (and technically Odette), though the series is rather inconsistent with this. In the first movie, the three of them can talk to Odette even when she's human, other humans apparently can't understand them nor Odette when she is in swan form. In the second and third movies, however, the animals can all talk freely to anyone.
* TheOtherDarrin: Played straight in the sequels, although Odette and Puffin kept their original voices.
* ParentalAbandonment: Odette's mother and Derek's father initially; [[spoiler:the former's father dies after Rothbart attacks the carriage to kidnap her.]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: "Long before they met / Derek and Odette / Were destined to be wedded…"
** Arguably reasonable, since the two met each other supposedly every year, and had time to get to know each other (unlike ''many'' animated couples).
* ThePowerOfLove: The CurseEscapeClause depends on this.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[QuicksandSucks Toodle-oo!]]" It doesn't work.
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Jean-Bob with Odette.
* QuicksandSucks: In the second movie, while Derek is swinging over a deep pit in a swamp, TheDragon cuts the vine and Derek falls in. TheDragon then just sits and watches as Derek pleads for his life, all the while being swallowed alive by the bog. Fortunately for him, Odette (now in swan form for the time being) shows up and pulls him out just before he can go completely under.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Rothbart's alligators. On the other hand, one of the good guys is a [[TurtlePower turtle]].
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Lord Rogers and Queen Uberta, who are also a BetaCouple.
* SayMyName
* ShallowLoveInterest: Near the beginning of the first movie, Derek calls for wedding arrangements upon seeing how beautiful Odette has become. Odette promptly breaks off their engagement thinking that Derek only wants to marry her because of her beauty. In his own words "Well, what else is there?" He [[CharacterDevelopment gets better]] after this.
* ShoutOut: During Rothbart's VillainSong, he is shown doing one-handed pushups. Rothbart is voiced by Jack Palance, who a few years earlier won the Academy Award for CitySlickers, and as a humorous TakeThat at those who would think he had only won as a consolation for losing his previous two nominations, demonstrated his fitness at the age of 73 by dropping to the floor to do a series of one-handed pushups.
* SkywardScream: "THE VOW I MADE WAS [[{{Narm}} FOR HUUUUUEEEEEEEERRRRRRRGGGGHHH!!!]]"
** [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging "There's no need to shout."]]]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Somewhat {{subverted}} in that the only two we seeing playing are Derek and Bromley, the former, while not stupid, is not the sharpest sword in the armory, and the latter loses ''while cheating''.
* SpeciesSurname: Lieutenant Puffin. The almost-certainly-not-canon-but-still-extant bonus features on the most recent DVD claim that his parents were [[AnimalJingoism so proud of being puffins,]] they simply named him "Puffin."
* StockFootage:
** Every closeup of Derek and Odette kissing looks exactly the same, except for some changes in the background and/or costumes. This doubles as an EveryEpisodeEnding.
** Odette often changes from a swan into a human through stock footage.
* SwansASwimming: Take a guess.
* ThisWasHerTrueForm: Even though Odette doesn't land in the lake after Derek's vow to Bridget starts killing her, she still turns human to share "final" words with Derek.
* TrainingMontage: "Practice, Practice, Practice" is a musical number built around this.
* TransformationSequence: Odette's back-and-forth transformations, where the water gracefully swirls around her, obscuring her actual change.
* VillainSong: "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the first film, "Ya Gotta Love It" in the second, and "Nothing but Bad Days Ahead" in the third.
* WilliamTelling: This is one of the training methods employed by Prince Derek, only the PluckyComicRelief shoots the arrow and Derek is supposed to turn and catch it.
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[[caption-width-right:235:"Far longer than forever, I'll hold you in my heart."]]
->'''Odette:''' Will you love me, Derek, until the day I die?
->'''Derek:''' No. Much longer, Odette. Much longer.
Ex-Disney animation director Richard Rich made this animated feature in 1994, which adapts the plot (though not the music) of the ballet ''SwanLake''.
Odette and Derek are betrothed royalty of neighboring kingdoms, though it isn't until they're grown that they actually fall in love. Too bad that first, Derek doesn't know ''what'' he loves about her besides her beauty, which upsets her, and second, the evil Rothbart — banished from her kingdom years ago for practicing the [[BlackMagic "Forbidden Arts"]] — kidnaps her.
When she refuses to marry Rothbart and make him king, he curses her to become a swan during daylight hours and moonless nights. The remorseful Derek seeks and finds her, but with Rothbart staying one step ahead of the lovers — and OneWingedAngel, too — invoking the CurseEscapeClause is not easy, even with TalkingAnimal friends helping them out.
While no blockbuster, it did spawn two sequels: ''The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain'' (1997) and ''The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'' (1998). The first pits them against Rothbart's old partner Clavius, the second against his mentor Zelda, and poor Odette keeps getting turned into a swan and back again the whole way.
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!!This film (and its sequels) contain examples of:
* AllAnimationIsDisney: Then again, Richard Rich did direct the Disney films ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' and ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and the movie draws heavily on the "Disney Renaissance" style.
* AlternateAnimalAffection: Lt. Puffin has no problems kissing the back of Odette's hand in a very humanlike manner.
* AmusingInjuries: The animals, fairly often - after they steal the map from the tower, for example. The human characters generally don't get these, with the notable exception of one point in the opening montage where you have the main characters - [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender including Odette]] - as kids getting involved in a goofy and haphazard accident and cutting away to the group of them in the traditional amusingly exaggerated slings and bandages.
* AnachronismStew: We would like to know how Prince Derek has an air force. Then again, maybe we're better off [[MST3KMantra not thinking about it]].
** Not to mention Rothbart in boxing clothes during his VillainSong "No More Mr. Nice Guy", and Clavius playing a (magical, understandably) electric guitar and a keyboard.
*** Don't forget the clothes: fashion styles range from the 1300's to the 1700's, to the 1980's.
* AnimatedMusical
* AnnoyingArrows: Puffin's first entrance is with an arrow through his wing. As soon as it gets taken out, he's all better.
* TheArcher: Derek.
* ArrowCam: Unfortunately, the arrows [[NoArcInArchery don't wobble]], as they would in a real situation.
* ArrowCatch: Derek's skill at this proves [[ChekhovsSkill vital in the climax]] when he runs out of his own arrows and [[ChekhovsGunman his sidekick]] shoots one over to him.
* ArtifactTitle: In the third film, Derek and Odette are absent for most of the movie, as it puts more focus on the Queen and Rogers' love life. And Odette is only turned into a swan for about forty-five seconds before it's undone, and it's completely unexplained ''why'' she was made a swan again.
* AwardBaitSong: "Far Longer Than Forever" and "Eternity" (latter is over the end credits only).
** The third film also had "Because I Love Her".
* BackFromTheDead: In the third movie, [[spoiler:Odette]] is KilledOffForReal, but thanks to [[DeusExMachina completely unexplained reasons]], [[spoiler:she]] is revived after burning Rothbart's notes.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Oddly, given that part of the film's moral is "Looks aren't all that matters", the bad guys are ugly and the good guys pretty (though the hag does a HeelFaceTurn at the end which extends to the sequels, thus proving the moral right).
* BigNo: Odette has one when Derek professes his love to the disguised hag.
** In the second film, Clavius lets one out when he finds out the magical orb has been stolen.
* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: ''Arrows do not work that way''.
* BlackMagic: The "Forbidden Arts". To Create, Change, and Destroy.
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Princesses on Parade".
* TheCastShowoff: Howard [=McGillin=] (Derek) is just about the only cast member to do all of his own singing, being a respected Broadway alumni.
* CatchPhrase: Puffin as "No fear!" which even gets it's own song, which itself has reprises through the series. He most often says it to Jean Bob, who constantly lampshades it throughout the second movie.
--> "Do you know how much that phrase makes me ''want to hit you?"''
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Derek's bow.
** ChekhovsSkill: Brom's shooting an arrow at Derek whose back is turned to him.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: As part of their arranged marriage, Derek and Odette spent every summer together from the time they were young children, right up until adulthood. They start off somewhat roughly, due to being, well, kids, and thus not having any real desire to form a romantic attraction, but they do become closer (though begrudgingly so) over time. Bearing this in mind, it does make them falling in love as adults a little more believable than most other animated couples, as they virtually had their entire lives to get to know each other (as opposed to say a single day, like almost ''every'' Disney fantasy film).
* CombatPragmatist: In the first movie, [[spoiler:Derek blinds Rothbart with a lump of mud, smashes a rock into Rothbart's talon and when disarmed grabs a stick and starts flailing at him.]]
* CoolOldGuy: Rogers, Derek's advisor.
** Also, Speed; he's an old turtle, but wise and heroic.
* ConvectionSchmonvection : In the second film, the villain's lair is in a volcano, with a moat of boiling lava surrounding it. The only way to cross the moat is in a small wooden box pulled along by a rope and pulley system-all parts of which should easily have been incinerated within moments of exposure to the heat rising off the lava. Also, at the end there is a great deal of frothing, exploding lava being tossed about-sometimes within millimeters of the heroes, and filling up the space directly below them completely-and none of them get even slightly scorched.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Ever so slightly. [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V48TDK24L._SL500_AA300_.jpg The DVD cover]] seems to have a much different character design for Derek, mostly making his hair look more manly.
** The DVD cover for the second movie has King William standing near Queen Uberta, despite the fact Rothbart killed King William in the first movie.
* CowardlySidekick: Bromley, Derek's best friend.
* CurseEscapeClause: If Derek can make a vow of love to Odette and prove it to the world, that will be enough to break the curse.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rogers delivers most of the best lines in the movies as this.
-->'''Rogers:''' You should write a book: ''How to Offend Women in 5 Syllables or Less''.
** Jean-Bob is also a prime example.
-->'''Jean-Bob:''' Mad? Why should I be mad? I ''enjoy'' hanging on for dear life! Next to snorkeling, it's one of my favorite activities!
** Don't forget Speed, who has fewer lines but is voiced by ''Steven Wright'' in the first film.
* DisappearedDad: It is mentioned in the prologue that Uberta was a widow, so Derek's dad is assumed to be dead. The original ballet even has her character as a Queen Mum sort of figure, only ruling as Sovereign Princess until her son is able to take a wife.
* DisneyDeath: Odette in the first film, Jean-Bob in the second, and [[spoiler:Odette again]] in the third.
* {{Disneyfication}}
* DistantDuet: "Far Longer Than Forever"
* DistressedDamsel: Odette.
* DubNameChange: The French version changes many names: [[KingArthur Arthur]] (Derek), [[RomeoAndJuliet Juliette]] (Odette), Albéric (Rothbart), Aldo (Jean-Bob), Rapido (Speed), Capitaine Anatole (Lt. Puffin), Melchior (Rogers).
* {{Duck}}: Done during the song "Practice, Practice, Practice" when Derek launches (harmless) arrows at a group of servants acting as targets. Cue the musician dressed as a duck popping his head up to say "Yes?" and then getting hit.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Apparently ''SwanLake'' wasn't a good enough title.
* EvillyAffable: Rothbart may be a sadistic {{Jerkass}}, but ''man'', does he have style! He never loses his temper (fully) either.
* EvilSorcerer: Rothbart in the first movie and Clavius in the second one.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Jean-Bob's attempts to become a prince.
* FallingInLoveMontage: In the third movie, while Derek is singing "Because I Love Her", it shows clips from the first movie. Though for some reason they chose some decidedly ''un''romantic clips for this love song, such as Odette dying, and Derek hunting down and murdering the BigBad in an action sequence.
* FinalLoveDuet: "Far Longer Than Forever", the reprise (though it's not sung on-screen).
* FollowTheLeader: That teaser poster above swipes from the teasers for both ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' and ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', a good indicator of how much the film itself directly imitates DisneyAnimatedCanon fare.
** Specifically, the choreography for [[VillainSong "No More Mr. Nice Guy"]] is... ''suspiciously'' similar to Aladdin's "Friend Like Me".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Young Derek gives baby Odette a locket with a swan on it and when they grow into young adults, he tells her she's as beautiful as a swan. Later in the movie, she's cursed to become a swan each time the moon sets.
* GenkiGirl: Queen Uberta, so much, despite her old age!
* HairOfGold: Odette.
* HappilyMarried: Derek and Odette, at the very end of the first film and in the sequels.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the third movie, [[spoiler:when Odette tries to escape, Zelda responds by turning Odette into a swan and trapping her inside a magical barrier that will vaporize anything that touches it. Later, Zelda is destroyed when she is thrown at said barrier.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Rothbart won't lift the curse unless Odette marries him.
* InsufferableGenius: Lord Rogers.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Odette.
** Well, except in the second movie, since Puffin can't fly due to an injury he suffered early in the movie, Odette asks to be turned into a swan so she can fly to where Derek is and save him from being killed by a guy working for the BigBad.
* IOweYouMyLife: After she takes the arrow out of his wing, Lt. Puffin vows service to Odette.
* IronicNickname: Speed, the turtle. [[spoiler:Subverted. While Speed is pokey on land, he's a blindingly fast swimmer.]]
** TruthInTelevision; semi-aquatic turtles are ''much'' faster on water than on land.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jean-Bob, definitely. He may be pompous and delusional, but he has a good heart deep down.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Subverted for the second movie. Parts I and III came to DVD in 2004, but fans had to wait five years to get the installment that came in between.
* LargeHam: Rothbart.
* LovableCoward: Bromley, and to a lesser extent, Jean-Bob; both come through when push comes to shove, however.
* MissingMom: Odette's mother is never seen. The only mention we get of her is the phrase "and to him a daughter was born", so she may have died during the birth.
* MistakenDeclarationOfLove: Rothbart disguises his henchwoman as Odette so Derek will do this.
* MythologyGag: At least one of the sequels refers to the lake outside Derek's and Odette's castle (originally Rothbart's) as Swan Lake.
* NeverSayDie: It's implied everyone believes Odette was killed, but they only ever refer to her as being "gone" or "not coming back". Averted with Rothbart, who [[spoiler:flat out says she'll die if Derek makes the vow to someone else.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: the trailer of Swan Princess 3 shows Roger falling from a spatial height towards the Earth, implying that something of epic proportion will happen. Sadly, it's just a part of a DisneyAcidSequence.
* NonSingingVoice: Odette in the first movie, Jean-Bob and Rothbart.
* ObviouslyEvil: You'd think that Derek would notice [[spoiler:Bridget's disguise]], considering he's known Odette his whole life to dress in white, whereas [[spoiler:Bridget]] is wearing an ObviouslyEvil red/black outfit.
** Probably done because [[ShowTheirWork in the ballet]] Odile (the character Bridget replaces) wears a [[WomanInBlack black]] [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience tutu]].
*** And is played by the same ballerina who is cast as Odette.
* OffModel: In the third movie, Odette is constantly switching back and forth between wearing a white and green tight dress, a white and green puffy sleeved dress, and a blue palette swap of the latter, all within the same scenes.
* TalkingAnimal: Puffin, Speedy and Jean Bob (and technically Odette), though the series is rather inconsistent with this. In the first movie, the three of them can talk to Odette even when she's human, other humans apparently can't understand them nor Odette when she is in swan form. In the second and third movies, however, the animals can all talk freely to anyone.
* TheOtherDarrin: Played straight in the sequels, although Odette and Puffin kept their original voices.
* ParentalAbandonment: Odette's mother and Derek's father initially; [[spoiler:the former's father dies after Rothbart attacks the carriage to kidnap her.]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: "Long before they met / Derek and Odette / Were destined to be wedded…"
** Arguably reasonable, since the two met each other supposedly every year, and had time to get to know each other (unlike ''many'' animated couples).
* ThePowerOfLove: The CurseEscapeClause depends on this.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[QuicksandSucks Toodle-oo!]]" It doesn't work.
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Jean-Bob with Odette.
* QuicksandSucks: In the second movie, while Derek is swinging over a deep pit in a swamp, TheDragon cuts the vine and Derek falls in. TheDragon then just sits and watches as Derek pleads for his life, all the while being swallowed alive by the bog. Fortunately for him, Odette (now in swan form for the time being) shows up and pulls him out just before he can go completely under.
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Rothbart's alligators. On the other hand, one of the good guys is a [[TurtlePower turtle]].
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Lord Rogers and Queen Uberta, who are also a BetaCouple.
* SayMyName
* ShallowLoveInterest: Near the beginning of the first movie, Derek calls for wedding arrangements upon seeing how beautiful Odette has become. Odette promptly breaks off their engagement thinking that Derek only wants to marry her because of her beauty. In his own words "Well, what else is there?" He [[CharacterDevelopment gets better]] after this.
* ShoutOut: During Rothbart's VillainSong, he is shown doing one-handed pushups. Rothbart is voiced by Jack Palance, who a few years earlier won the Academy Award for CitySlickers, and as a humorous TakeThat at those who would think he had only won as a consolation for losing his previous two nominations, demonstrated his fitness at the age of 73 by dropping to the floor to do a series of one-handed pushups.
* SkywardScream: "THE VOW I MADE WAS [[{{Narm}} FOR HUUUUUEEEEEEEERRRRRRRGGGGHHH!!!]]"
** [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging "There's no need to shout."]]]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Somewhat {{subverted}} in that the only two we seeing playing are Derek and Bromley, the former, while not stupid, is not the sharpest sword in the armory, and the latter loses ''while cheating''.
* SpeciesSurname: Lieutenant Puffin. The almost-certainly-not-canon-but-still-extant bonus features on the most recent DVD claim that his parents were [[AnimalJingoism so proud of being puffins,]] they simply named him "Puffin."
* StockFootage:
** Every closeup of Derek and Odette kissing looks exactly the same, except for some changes in the background and/or costumes. This doubles as an EveryEpisodeEnding.
** Odette often changes from a swan into a human through stock footage.
* SwansASwimming: Take a guess.
* ThisWasHerTrueForm: Even though Odette doesn't land in the lake after Derek's vow to Bridget starts killing her, she still turns human to share "final" words with Derek.
* TrainingMontage: "Practice, Practice, Practice" is a musical number built around this.
* TransformationSequence: Odette's back-and-forth transformations, where the water gracefully swirls around her, obscuring her actual change.
* VillainSong: "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the first film, "Ya Gotta Love It" in the second, and "Nothing but Bad Days Ahead" in the third.
* WilliamTelling: This is one of the training methods employed by Prince Derek, only the PluckyComicRelief shoots the arrow and Derek is supposed to turn and catch it.
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