History WesternAnimation / Wizards

Not to be confused with ''Film/TheWizard'' and has nothing to do with the ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfArcadia'' TV show ''Wizards''.

* AirstripOne: Blackwolf's capital city in Scorch is named Scorch One.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Both sides of the conflict. Blackwolf calls mutants the master race, yet wishes to kill his unborn son for being one. The forces of magic hate and outlaw technology yet use it to some extent (telescopes, a conjured jukebox, metallurgy), and at the end [[spoiler: openly use firearms to fight the forces of Scorch. Even Avatar shoots Blackwolf with a handgun, albeit at great personal cost.]]

* InformedAttribute: Blackwolf's assassins are said to have finished killing the leadership of all three major rival nations (leaving only ineffective replacements), but while the audience sees one die, the heroes also meet two other kings, one of whom wants to stay neutral...and the other who leads an effective attack on Scorch One (until the projector is used).

* VillainousBadlandHeroicArcadia: The elves and faeries inhabit the wildernesses and green woods that were spared nuclear devastation in the war that ended human civilization, and it is here that Avatar and Elinore reside. The irradiated wastelands are home to misshapen mutants descended from humanity, many of whom dwell in the WretchedHive called Scorch. There, TheVillain Blackwolf launches his EvilPlan to overrun the world.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what becomes of Blackwolf's wife and newborn son. They are shown escaping from Scorch after [[spoiler: she prevents Weehawk from killing Elinore, whom he believes is a traitor]], but are never shown again. WordOfGod is that Blackwolf Jr was a SequelHook that never panned out.

* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Somewhat peculiar case. [[spoiler:It's stated that [=Necron99=] is under painful grip of Blackwolf's black magic and his propaganda machine. Avatar instills the promise of life without pain and without fear so that he get the motivation to fight this constant influence and regain his own will. Basically Avatar brainwashes him to want to be free which can be achieved only by joining Avatar.]]

* BigGood: Avatar despite being flawed and kind of a CovertPervert, he still has a good heart and is clearly heroic.

* CentralTheme: Does technology and progress drive humanity to madness? or is it what you do with it?

* ArmlessBiped: The horse-analouges everyone rides. It's never stated what they're called.

* BadassGrandpa: Avatar, the protagonist, who is also something of a DeadpanSnarker.

* RagnarokProofing: One of the most ridiculously egregious examples in film history. Old artifacts of civilization still exist ''two million years'' after the end of the world, including functioning film projectors with intact, watchable movies; in real life those would've become fossilized lumps of rust by then.

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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler:A rare heroic example. Specifically, a rare heroic subversion. When Avatar meets Blackwolf, there is no big wizard duel. He just shoots him. It's actually almost funny.]]

* RagnarokProofing: One of the most ridiculously egregious examples in film history. Old artifacts of civilization still exist ''two million years'' after the end of the world, including functioning film projectors with intact, watchable movies.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler:A rare heroic example. Specifically, a rare heroic subversion. When Avatar meets Blackwolf, there is no big wizard duel. He just shoots him.]]

* AnAesop: Technology in itself isn't evil, but rather when it's used for evil ends.

''Wizards'' is a 1977 animated science fiction film by Creator/RalphBakshi. It takes place in what is basically a StandardFantasySetting, except it's actually Earth way, way, waaaaay AfterTheEnd. It tells the story of a war between an army of nuclear mutants (former humans) and a coalition of humans and various fantasy races (who predated the existence of humans, their descendants, but only emerged from isolation after the catastrophe). Each group is led by one of the two titular Wizards, the brothers Blackwolf (the evil one) and Avatar (the good one). Can the swords and bows of the fantasy folk defend against the technology-based weapons -- and propaganda -- of the past?

Notable for featuring the early work of Creator/MarkHamill.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The narrator in the trailer said that Wizards take place 10 million years in the future, but in the movie, the narrator said it take 2 million years instand.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what becomes of Blackwolf's wife and newborn son. They are shown escaping from Scorch after [[spoiler: she prevents Weehawk from killing Elinore, whom he believes is a traitor]], but are never shown again. WordOfGod is that Blackwolf Jr, was a SequelHook that never panned out.

Not to be confused with ''Film/TheWizard'' and has nothing to do with ''WesternAnimation/Wizards2019''.

* {{Ghostappo}}: Weird inversion where a fairy wizard in a post-apocalyptic future starts emulating Nazis.

Not to be confused with ''Film/TheWizard''.

* BadPeopleHarmAnimals: Blackwood spent his childhood torturing animals with magic.