Line #193 Anime/Interstella5555


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/interstella_5555.png]]
2
3	->''Let's start the dancing.''
4
5	''Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem'' [[note]]pronounced "Interstella Four-Five"[[/note]] is a 2003 {{anime}} musical sci-fi film produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation with visual supervision by Creator/LeijiMatsumoto. The film is a visual companion to Music/DaftPunk's second album ''[[Music/DiscoveryDaftPunkAlbum Discovery]]''; it does not contain spoken dialogue, instead using the full album as its audio with minimal added sound effects. Clips from the film were then turned into official music videos for the album.
6
7	A group of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue-skinned]] extraterrestrial musicians are kidnapped, {{brainwashed}}, and altered, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia mind]] and body, to be identical to ordinary humans. Under the control of their abductors, they become rock stars on Earth, playing their music and skyrocketing to massive fame. Can an alien pilot rescue the band, return their memories and get them home? Or will they be forced to play their part in the scheme of the evil, greedy Earl de Darkwood?
8
9	The idea of making a feature film to visualize ''Discovery'' was born early during the album's recording sessions. While Daft Punk initially conceived a live-action film, this approach was scrapped in favor of animation. Several styles of animation were considered, but that of Matsumoto was ultimately chosen because [[PromotedFanboy he was a childhood hero of the duo]].
10	----
11	[[AC:The music tracks are the same as the ''Discovery'' album:]]
12
13	# "One More Time"
14	# "Aerodynamic"
15	# "Digital Love"
16	# "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
17	# "Crescendolls"
18	# "Nightvision"
19	# "Superheroes"
20	# "High Life"
21	# "Something About Us"
22	# "Voyager"
23	# "Veridis Quo"
24	# "Short Circuit"
25	# "Face to Face"
26	# "Too Long"
27	----
28	!!''Interstella 5555'' provides examples of:
29
30	* AcidTripDimension: The wormhole is a vortex of multicolored swirling lights with a trippy vibe.
31	* AdmiringThePoster: Shep has posters of his favorite band all over the personal quarters of his ship, including a large one of his (obvious) CelebCrush Stella on the ceiling over his bed. We see him fall into a romantic reverie in which he imagines Stella reaching out of the poster and pulling him in.
32	* AfroAsskicker: Octave has an afro in both his alien and human forms, and it's him who breaks into the record company to retrieve the band's memory disks.
33	* AlienAbduction: More like Human Abduction, as the roles are changed. For once, those are humans from Earth kidnapping aliens. However, technically it still counts, as on their planet humans would be the aliens.
34	* AlienBlood: It's golden yellow, even though their skin is blue and Shep blushes red.
35	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Well, singing English, without any explanation or justification. Then again, there's no actual dialog for the entire movie, so...
36	* AlliterativeTitle: With the sub-title Letters2Numbers S-to-5, ''Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem''
37	* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The last scene implies that the whole movie may be what some kid imagined his toys were doing while he listened to a Daft Punk record.]]
38	* AlmostKiss: Shep and Stella during the dream sequence in "Digital Love" before the [[MoodWhiplash ship's warning signal starts sounding.]]
39	* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: A non-video game example; the vortex where [[spoiler:Darkwood's spirit is sent away by Shep's spirit]] is a spiralling tunnel with rainbow colors everywhere.
40	* AmericaSavesTheDay: [[spoiler:America helped start the plan to send the aliens back home.]]
41	* AncientConspiracy: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:the whole Earl de Darkwood business has been going on for a VERY long time.]] Especially obvious because [[spoiler:aliens resembling everyone from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin make an appearance during the history revelation scene.]]
42	* AndIMustScream: The band seem at least ''somewhat'' aware that their minds and memories have been altered, but they can't do anything about it.
43	* AndYouWereThere: [[spoiler:The characters in the film are based on toys that a little boy owns in real life]].
44	* AnimatedMusicVideo: The whole movie is essentially a glorified one.
45	* ArcNumber: 5 and variants, most notably 5555, [[spoiler:as that's how many golden records the Earl needs to conquer the universe]].
46	* AristocratsAreEvil: Darkwood, in addition to being a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive record company manager]] (who abducts and [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashes]] alien musicians), is an Earl, and has the BigFancyCastle to prove it.
47	* AscendedFanboy:
48	** Quite literally in the case of Shep. [[spoiler:He saves his favorite band, dies, then comes back in spirit form to save them for one last time.]]
49	** In a sense, Daft Punk themselves, working with [[Creator/LeijiMatsumoto their favorite anime director]] to create the movie.
50	* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler:Shep saves the Crescendolls' ship in hyperspace from the evil spirit of Earl de Darkwood.]]
51	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The story implies that [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]], Music/EllaFitzgerald, and Music/JanisJoplin among others were previous alien victims of the BigBad.
52	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Baryl the drummer seems to have a rough streak. While the other Crescendolls' memories, while they were being rewritten, were standard childhood fair like riding bikes, Baryl was being held back after knocking another kid to the ground.
53	* BigBad: Earl de Darkwood is the one who kidnapped and brainwashed the titular group of aliens to become his musicians.
54	* BitingTheHandkerchief: Baryl is shown biting his hat when [[spoiler:Shep is dying]].
55	* BoomHeadshot: One of Earl de Darkwood's security guards [[spoiler:fatally shoots Shep in the back of the head just as the Crescendolls are escaping.]]
56	* BoundAndGagged: Octave ties up, gags, and steals the clothes of a janitor to disguise himself.
57	* {{Brainwashed}}: The Cresendolls were abducted from their home planet and brainwashed into thinking they were human so that they would perform.
58	* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:Not only did everyone learn the Crescendolls are aliens, but became aware of Darkwood's secrets.]]
59	* CanisLatinicus: "Veridis Quo" is not a real Latin phrase. Of course, this comes from the name of the song playing in the scene, which means "Very Disco" (or "[[TitleDrop Discovery]]" when switched up).
60	* CarChase: Shep's initial rescue attempt of the Crescendolls ends with him and the male band members fleeing in a van while the Earl's security gives chase.
61	* CartoonishCompanions:
62	** Baryl is shorter than the other characters and has dots for eyes. This is a staple of Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's style.
63	** The diminutive fashion designer that shows up later is also drawn a lot more cartoony than the other characters (and doesn't even have the excuse of being an alien).
64	* CatFolk: The true form of the alien that got turned into Janis Joplin is a humanoid with catlike attributes.
65	* CelebCrush: Shep has one on Stella, as shown by his DreamSequence during "Digital Love". [[spoiler:He's able to go through another, similar fantasy with the real Stella during his dying moments in "Something About Us".]]
66	* CelebrityParadox: Daft Punk appear cheering on the Crescendolls at the award ceremony and don't seem bothered that they lost to a band that plagiarized their songs.
67	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Children in this film are often portrayed as sweet, WideEyedIdealist, dreamers, [[spoiler:particularly the one who dreamt up the entire movie's premise of good triumphing over evil and music connecting the universe.]]
68	* CleavageWindow: Stella's alien dress has one with a very unconventional design.
69	* CoolShades: Subverted; they're part of the brainwashing process (that's why they're ''screwed into place''). If they break, it wears off.
70	* CoolStarship:
71	** Shep's is shaped like an electric guitar!
72	** The Earl's spaceship is quite impressive too and can change its appearance for camouflage purpose.
73	* {{Cosplay}}:
74	** In one scene during "Crescendolls", you can see two little kids dressed up as Octave and Stella. Shortly afterwards a kid dressed like Arpegius gets an autograph from the man himself.
75	** Later in the movie, after the Crescendolls have been revealed to be aliens, two kids are shown wearing blue facepaint.
76	* CrapsaccharineWorld:
77	** Earth; all of the Crescendolls' fans hear great music and have no idea about the brainwashing. However, once they do find out, [[RousseauWasRight they waste no time in supporting them]].
78	** The Crescendolls' homeworld; everyone was too busy enjoying the concert to worry about planetary security in the first place.
79	* CrazyPrepared: Even though the band will be mind-controlled, the Earl has their memories modified to make them think they came from Earth in case they ever break free, so they would have no idea that they are aliens.
80	* CreatorCameo: Music/DaftPunk show up in animated form at the Gold Record Awards. They're nominees in the same category as the Crescendolls. Bangalter asks Homem-Christo if he's happy with the nomination, to which Homem-Christo responds with indifference. When they find out they lost to the Crescendolls, Bangalter cheers on the winners with "GREAT" displayed on his helmet. Homem-Christo claps politely, but still has a "heartbreak" symbol on his helmet.
81	* CrossCulturalHandshake: Averted; the alien race in this film doesn't appear to have a special handshake, as Arpegius shakes hands normally with the Crescendolls' human manager towards the end of "Face to Face".
82	* {{Cult}}: The Earl appears to be running one, as shown by the hooded figures worshipping him.
83	* DamselInDistress: Stella falls into this trope a few times. She is the last of the Crescendolls to be rescued from the Earl's clutches, remaining under mind control longer than most, and is put into the Earl's machine at the story's climax.
84	* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Earl de Darkwood made a deal with an unidentified supernatural entity, in which he will sacrifice 5,555 award-winning musicians to it in exchange for cosmic powers. The main characters will be #5,555 if he isn't stopped.]]
85	* DecoyProtagonist: Somewhat downplayed; while the Crescendolls are made out to be the main characters, so is [[spoiler:Shep]], as heavy focus is placed on [[spoiler:him]] during the first half where [[spoiler:he attempts to save the band, but he is killed in the process]] and the Crescendolls fully take over the role of protagonists after [[spoiler:his death]], though [[spoiler:he]] isn't forgotten after the fact and [[spoiler:returns in spirit form twice]].
86	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Earl de Darkwood falls to his death in the lava below his mansion]].
87	* DistractedByTheSexy: After freeing the other members of the Crescendolls from the mind control, Shep turns to Stella, but is so taken by her beauty that he freezes long enough for Earl de Darkwood to intercept him.
88	* DoomTroops: The Earl's soldiers are cloaked in black, wear imposing gas masks, and abduct the Crescendolls mid-concert.
89	* DreamSequence: Shep's introduction has him resting in his room, and then daydreaming about Stella taking him on a magical flight.
90	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Baryl, with his long hair, could be mistaken for a girl at first in his alien form especially since the film lacks dialogue; it's more clear that he's male in his human form, though.
91	* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:When Shep dies, the first thing the Crescendolls do is go out to the countryside to find somewhere to give him a proper burial. After they make it back to their home planet, they attend a ceremony where a statue is erected in his memory.]]
92	* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:The "Something About Us" scene is framed as one of these from Shep to Stella, with the "love confession" part of the lyrics playing over him holding his hand out for her.]]
93	* EiffelTowerEffect: During "Crescendolls", the montage of the group sweeping over the world with their music includes shots set in France, Italy, China and Brazil, recognizable thanks to the monuments seen in the background.
94	* ETGaveUsWiFi: Apparently, some of the most popular musicians in history were the result of abducted aliens being forced to perform while {{brainwashed}}.
95	* FailedASpotCheck: One of the security guards in "Short Circuit" somehow doesn't notice that the janitor's uniform Octave is wearing is several sizes too small. Though Octave did make sure to hunch over, with his back to the guard, and in the shadows.
96	* FakeBand: The Baron takes manufactured bands to a whole new level, with an [[LiteralMinded actual production line]] for them.
97	* FakeMemories: The Crescendolls' memories are altered so they believe that they were born and reared on Earth -- such as kid Arpegius riding a hover-scooter being changed to him riding a tricycle.
98	* {{Fanservice}}: The band spends most of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" in their underwear as the Earl's machinery brainwashes them and gives them human appearances.
99	* FanserviceExtra: A Brazilian dancer during "Crescendolls" is shown wearing skimpy clothing.
100	* FashionShow: While Stella is still captured, the rest of the band sees her attend one.
101	* FemaleRockersPlayBass: Stella is the bassist and only female member of The Crescendolls.
102	* FictionalCounterpart: The Golden Record awards to the Grammys.
103	* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The song "Aerodynamic" has ominous bells at the beginning and end, and plays when the alien band is being kidnapped.
104	* FreezeFrameBonus:
105	** Near the end of "Crescendolls", the covers of the Monthly Charts (seen briefly before each chart position of "One More Time") show issues labelled September, October, and November. It took at least three months for the Crescendolls to become famous and for Shep to find them.
106	** The same sequence also briefly shows us the names and ages of the Crescendolls' members, as well as their likes and dislikes.
107	* FrozenFace: The brainwashed band and all of Earl de Darkwood's victims have a non-emoting vacant stare. Stella also appears to have DullEyesOfUnhappiness.
108	* GalacticConqueror: If the Earl gets all the records, he can take over the universe.
109	* GasMaskMooks: The band's kidnappers are an army of identically dressed gas mask-wearing humanoids. {{Justified\|Trope}} in this case since the mooks use knockout gas to subdue the band and audience.
110	* GoToSleepEnding: At the end of "Too Long", [[spoiler:the story is revealed to have been in the imagination of a kid who fell asleep while playing with his action figures and listening to a Daft Punk record. His mother tucks him in, kisses him goodnight, and turns off the record player.]]
111	* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: The Crescendolls, Shep, and all the other aliens from their home planet have teal skin.
112	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Twice in the movie, with the guards watching TV instead of their cameras. First time benefitted the villains, the second the heroes. Though the guards in question were both overnight civilian security guards at low-risk sites.
113	* HerHeartWillGoOn: It's shown after [[spoiler:Shep's death]] that [[spoiler:Stella did have feelings for him]].
114	* HeroicSacrifice: During his attempt to rescue Stella, [[spoiler:Shep]] is badly injured but lives long enough for the others to rescue her.
115	* HollywoodCyborg: The two bodyguards for the band are revealed to be Terminator-like cyborgs at the end of "Superheroes".
116	* HonestCorporateExecutive: The Crescendolls' human manager. In contrast with the Earl de Darkwood, he's shown as young and likable, earnest and enthusiastic about the music, and when the aliens are later revealed, he helps them return to their planet.
117	%%* HotBloodedSideburns: Shep.
118	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Seemingly played straight when it turns out the malevolent invaders are from Earth, [[spoiler:then subverted when the rest of the population is informed of the Earl's plans and do everything they can to help the Crescendolls.]]
119	* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Or in this case, a very funky and psychedelic place with big shiny objects that can heavily damage your ship.
120	* IfJesusThenAliens: The Earl made a pact with an unidentified dark entity, which he fulfills by sacrificing space aliens to it.
121	* IndustrializedEvil: The band are put through an automatic brainwashing assembly line in the "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" segment.
122	* InstantSedation: The knockout gas subdues everyone within seconds.
123	* InTheHood: Shep conceals himself on Earth using a hood.
124	* JukeboxMusical: Sort of, with all the music being already established Daft Punk pieces.
125	* KnockoutGas: The band is kidnapped with the aid of sleeping gas and remain unconscious until revived, though we can assume other treatments were applied to them, since the audience wakes up moments later.
126	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The memory-wiping process for the Crescendolls is conducted not by just wiping the memories, but by rewriting them to take place on Earth.
127	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The guards at the record company watch a soccer game between France and Japan. This is a subtle nod to the cross-cultural cooperation that produced a Japanese anime set to the music of the French Music/DaftPunk. (Note the score: 2-1 for the French -- the Daft Punk duo and the one Creator/LeijiMatsumoto.)
128	* Letters2Numbers: ''The '''5'''tory of the '''5'''ecret '''5'''tar '''5'''ystem''
129	* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Earl de Darkwood falling into lava leads to the destruction of his mansion.]]
130	* LostSuperweapon: The object that landed on [[spoiler:Earl de Darkwood's family manor centuries ago has an unusually high-tech feel about it]]. Especially since [[spoiler:it's already calibrated to disguise aliens as other species and brainwash them; they didn't have that in the days of the first Darkwood.]]
131	* MaleGaze: Stella gets tons of it; her first close-up is of her backside. And again in the finale, the camera lingers on it for several seconds before panning out.
132	* ManlyTears: Octave, Apregius, and Baryl, the male members of the band, all have their strong moments in the story (fighting back against the Earl etc.) but shed tears during [[spoiler:Shep's death]].
133	* {{Masquerade}}: Enforced by Earl de Darkwood who covers up the existence of aliens by disguising them as humans until near the end, where it gets crazy subverted [[spoiler:when the people on Earth discover that the Crescendolls are aliens and are actually accepting of it, launching an operation to get them home]].
134	* MeaningfulName: The band (which, remember, is hypnotized) is called the Crescen''dolls''. It also fits in with [[spoiler:the reveal at the end that the story was all in a child's imagination, with the characters in "real life" being action figures]].
135	* MechaMooks: The Earl's two bodyguards are actually robotic minions. After they are damaged in a car crash, it's trivial for the Earl to rebuild them.
136	* MenCantKeepHouse: Shep's quarters on his guitar ship are pretty messy.
137	* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: Think of it as an AnimatedMusicVideo for an entire album, instead of one song, with no spoken or sung words save for the songs' lyrics.
138	* MrFanservice: Arpegius, Shep, and Octave are all athletic and muscular, and are treated to the same kind of camera attention as Stella.
139	* MsFanservice: Stella is tall and curvy, and the camera occasionally pays special attention to her curves.
140	* MuggedForDisguise: Octave steals a janitor's clothes when breaking into the record company.
141	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Earl de Darkwood is arguably a [[DownplayedTrope mild example of the trope]], if only because [[DarkIsEvil "dark"]] is in the name.
142	* NavelDeepNeckline: The [[http://archive.is/PKJA2 dress Stella wears on her home planet]] has a heart-shaped CleavageWindow just above her breasts (i.e., in the usual place) that descends into a very thin division between the two halves of her bodice, before fanning out to become another, also heart-shaped (this time upside-down) cutout several inches below the waist. The effect is oddly innocent -- similar to a midriff-baring top -- but just try to pitch that design to anyone on Earth.
143	* NearVillainVictory: The Crescendolls were the last of the 5,555 musicians Earl de Darkwood needed to sacrifice to attain enough power to conquer the world. [[spoiler:He never achieves that goal as the band fight back and make him and his followers fall into lava before he can fully succeed in his plan.]]
144	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Before the Crescendolls, Earl de Darkwood's previous victims were famous musicians who look an awful lot like Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, Music/JimiHendrix, Music/EllaFitzgerald, Music/JanisJoplin and [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]].
145	* NoDialogueEpisode: The entire movie contains no dialog, only song lyrics.
146	* NoNameGiven:
147	** We only know the band by their names as the Crescendolls, which are only revealed during [[FreezeFrameBonus brief moments in the "Crescendolls" section]].
148	** Shep's name is never spoken or shown.
149	* TheNudifier: Once kidnapped, the Crescendolls are fed into a machine processor that proceeds to strip them to their underwear using lasers that cut off their outer clothing.
150	* OlderThanTheyLook: Potentially. Baryl looks like a teenager or a little kid but the age given during "Crescendolls" puts him at 20.
151	* OneWingedAngel: The Earl comes back from the dead as an {{Energy Being\|s}} to thwart the Crescendolls' return to their planet.
152	* OurWormholesAreDifferent: One connects The Crescendolls' galaxy to our moon. It's rhombus-shaped, looking like a white version of the PhantomZonePicture in [[Film/SupermanTheMovie the Superman movies]]. The interior is an AcidTripDimension full of large objects that can damage spaceships. Both ends disappear after [[spoiler:the Crescendolls use it to get home at the end of the movie.]]
153	* PunnyName:
154	** Octave is a music term, and Arpegius is based on arpeggio, which is also a music term.
155	** Shep, who is in charge of the guitar space'''ship'''.
156	** Stella's name means "star", which is fitting for someone who is both a music star and an alien.
157	** While Baryl's might seem like an odd one out, it's very similar to the word "barrel", and what is another word for "barrel"? A drum, of course!
158	* PimpedOutDress: Stella wears a very fashionable teal dress for the "Gold Record Awards".
159	* PrettyBoy: Shep, Octave, and Arpegius are all slim and toned, with soft, handsome features. In his alien form, Arpegius is so pretty that he's nearly identical to Stella.
160	* RealMenWearPink: Arpegius wields a baby pink guitar.
161	* {{Retraux}}: The art style from this movie evokes a similar feel to some manga and anime series from the '70s. Not surprising, considering the characters designs are made by Creator/LeijiMatsumoto.
162	* RockOpera: The entire film is a silent rock opera.
163	* RousseauWasRight: After humanity learns the true identity of the Crescendolls, they spare no expense in setting things right.
164	* SaveTheVillain: Attempted by Arpegius with the BigBad. [[spoiler:As Earl de Darkwood falls, Arpegius attempts to pull him back up, but lets go, leaving the Earl to his demise.]]
165	* SchizoTech: The Earl has FasterThanLightTravel, a starship that can disguise itself as a 747 jumbo-jet, and various machines that can alter a person's appearance and memories. He's had some of these since the mid-1700s, and by the time the story takes place, people are still using video cassettes, cathode ray tube televisions, and 33⅓ RPM Longplay records.
166	* SelfDeprecation: Music/DaftPunk appear as themselves in a cameo at the music awards ceremony, where they lose to the main characters. In case you don't get the significance of that, in a 65-minute video (opening and credits included), they have a five-second cameo, and then they ''lose to a FakeBand playing their music''.
167	* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: When sneaking into the record company to retrieve the band's memory disks, Octave is confronted by security guards and gets tasered when he reaches into his jacket for the papers explaining himself.
168	* ShoutOut:
169	** Several shout-outs to Leiji Matsumoto's works:
170	*** The hand-on-heart salute of the alien is similar to the one in ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''.
171	*** One of the families dancing at the beginning seems to be based off of the Yamato's doctor's character design.
172	*** During the music award, Baryl's disguise includes Anime/CaptainHarlock's coat and hat, and his humanized character design resembles ''Captain Harlock''[='s=] Tochiro.
173	*** Toward the end, Shep's ship uses a lengthy trail to take off, a reference to ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999''.
174	*** The "5tar 5ystem" (star system) in the title is a reference to what Creator/OsamuTezuka calls his stock of {{Reused Character Design}}s, which he kept track of as if they were film actors playing parts. It's become a slang term in Japan for other artists doing something similar, Leiji Matsumoto among them.
175	** Several allusions to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' with Shep's spacewalk and the psychedelic wormhole. ''Discovery'' was released in 2001.
176	** The Earl's spaceship, both through its looks and its ability to change shape, is very similar to the protagonist's spaceship from the French graphic novel ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagabond_of_Limbo The Vagabond of Limbo]]''.
177	** The "Crescendolls" logo is inspired by Coca-Cola's.
178	** When "One More Time" climbs to #2 on the charts, #1 is "High Anxiety" by Mel "Bean" Brooks -- ''Film/HighAnxiety'' being the title (as well as the title song) of an actual Creator/MelBrooks film.
179	** The cyborgs' car is crushed by a truck, and when emerging from it, the damaged cyborg has a red eye behind sunglasses, like in ''Film/TheTerminator''.
180	** Darkwood Manor looks an awful lot like [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} a certain vampire's castle.]] The music in that segment wouldn't be out of place in one of those games either.
181	** The arrival of the band at a spooky castle, in a van, at night, is reminiscent of the start of many ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episodes.
182	** The true form of the alien who got turned into Jimmy Page looks like a [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Ferengi]].
183	* ShowgirlSkirt: The dress Stella wears to the awards show does go all the way around the waist, but the front is a ''lot'' shorter than the back, to invoke this trope.
184	* ShrineToTheFallen: [[spoiler:A statue dedicated to Shep]] is built on The Crescendolls' home planet at the end.
185	* SignatureHeadgear: On their home planet, the Crescendolls wear distinctive silver headbands with red gemstones. Earl de Darkwood seems to recognize or treat them as valuable, as he has the machine store them away safely instead of destroying them like the rest of the Crescendolls' clothes.
186	* SkinToneDisguise: The Crescendolls, a band of blue-skinned aliens kidnapped and brainwashed by humans, are covered in a substance that turns their skin and hair human colors.
187	* SlasherSmile: [[https://i.imgur.com/sXq0z3V.png The Earl's face]] when he receives his 5,555th Golden Record. [[spoiler:Collecting exactly this many Golden Records will allow him to take control of the universe, explaining this.]]
188	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Stella's the only girl in the band. Doesn't help that her original [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue-skinned self]] actually resembles a bishoujo Smurfette.
189	* SoundtrackDissonance: The music and action, awesome as they may be, rarely have much to do with one another. Particularly unsettling when a rather upbeat, if contemplative, tune plays during the [[spoiler:burial of Shep]] about midway through the movie.
190	* StrangeSalute: Aliens in this movie salute by holding a closed right fist over the heart.
191	* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:The second Earl de Darkwood -- our BigBad -- grows up to look a ''lot'' like the first, only lacking his father's brown hair color and pencil-thin mustache. It's a portrait of the first Earl in the entrance hall of Darkwood Manor that tells the Crescendolls they're on the right track.]]
192	* SubspaceAnsible: At the end, people on Earth (including one guy on the International Space Station) are shown watching a live concert from The Crescendolls' homeworld.
193	* SungThroughMusical: The movie has no dialogue besides the songs.
194	* SupernaturallyMarkedGrave: After [[spoiler:Shep]] gets buried, The Crescendolls hold hands and meditate around his grave. Blue flowers instantly grow on it and his ghost appears and flies off.
195	* SurveillanceStationSlacker:
196	** The three soldiers watching the "One More Time" concert rather than paying attention to planetary defense.
197	** The Record Company guards are too busy watching a soccer game to notice that [[spoiler:Octave has broken in.]]
198	* TaremeEyes: Stella has the classic Leiji Matsumoto Female Character eyes.
199	* TokenBlack: Octave, as a human, is the only black character in the main cast.
200	* UndressingTheUnconscious: While the band is knocked out, the Earl's production line cuts off their clothes with lasers. They all get new clothes put on them before they wake up.
201	* UnmasquedWorld: By the end humanity is aware of aliens and seems to have contact with The Crescendolls' homeworld.
202	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The manager of the record company. Thanks to him the Crescendolls turn into a worldwide success, and thus plays a key part of the Earl's evil plan. He also had no idea he was involved in a scheme to conquer the universe, and is actually helpful and kind to the aliens once said scheme is revealed.
203	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: The Earl drops a business card with some plot info on it. Stella's the only one in the room and she's wearing a cleavage-heavy dress. Down it goes.
204	* WeaksauceWeakness: With a dash of LightningCanDoAnything -- getting shocked by a [[StaticStunGun taser]] not only incapacitates Octave, but also undoes the Earl's human disguise, returning his skin color to his natural teal.
205	* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: During the "Voyager" section, the Crescendolls are driving out from the city and into the [[SceneryPorn gorgeously depicted countryside, passing by beaches, waterfalls, vast plains, and forests]], seemingly for the first time ever. Despite this, the drive is tinged with melancholia as the entire purpose of their road trip is [[spoiler:to find a burial place for Shep]].
206	* WorldTree: Downplayed; the tree where [[spoiler:Shep]] is buried is giant, but not absolutely massive, and supernatural things occur around it as [[spoiler:when Shep's burial is finished, blue flowers grow over his resting place and his spirit flies away]].
207	* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:One of the musicians the Earl sacrificed as part of his DealWithTheDevil was a ChildProdigy based on Mozart.]]

Context Anime / Interstella5555