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3!!Introduced in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''
4[[folder:Emperor Kuzco]]
5[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_emperors_new_groove_59bff3fa.jpg]]
6[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his llama form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e96a804c_fc4b_4372_8744_b20651c29009.jpeg[[/labelnote]]]]
7->''"BOOM, baby!"''
8->'''Voiced in English by''': Creator/DavidSpade, Nik Ranieri[[note]]provided uncredited ADR work via Kuzco's sobbing in the opening scene of the first film[[/note]], Creator/JPManoux (''The Emperor's New School'', ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', ''Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom'', video games), Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor (merchandise)
9->'''Voiced in European French by''': Didier Gustin
10->'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Tatsuya Fujiwara (first movie), Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo (sequels and ''The Emperor's New School'')
11->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by''': Creator/JesusBarrero (most appearances), Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis (''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio'')
12->'''Voiced in European Spanish by''': Ángel Garó (first movie), David Robles (sequels and ''The Emperor's New School'')
13->'''Voiced in Swedish by''': Figge Norling
14->'''Voiced in Hebrew by''': Ido Mosseri
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16This is Kuzco. ''Emperor'' Kuzco. A guy whose groove and style is equaled to only by his ego and inversely proportional to his sense of empathy. Kuzco was born and raised to rule but treats his kingdom as a giant toy, demanding constant pampering, belittling his subjects, and callously punishing them for "throwing off his groove". He spends most of his time just admiring himself at the expense of pretty much everyone. Kuzco's flippant attitude finally bites him in the butt after his embittered ex-advisor Yzma tries to kill him, only to accidentally turn him into a llama and lose him, setting off the story of this jerk of an emperor trying to regain his throne, body, and maybe learn a few lessons in humility and friendship along the way.
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18To hear him describe himself as only he can, click [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Kuzco}} here]].
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20* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: What he actually has; everyone in his empire hates him for being a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]], {{narcissist}}ic SpoiledBrat. When Yzma holds a funeral for Kuzco's presumed death, none of the attendees even pretend to be mournful, with Yzma and Kronk themselves remarking that ''nobody'' seems to care that Kuzco is gone and Yzma has taken his place. However, the people's low opinion of him isn't enough to satisfy Yzma, because she wants him dead no matter what.
21* AesopAmnesia: By the time of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'', Kuzco has completely forgotten the lesson he learned in the movie, that it's ''not'' [[ItsAllAboutMe all about him]], and relearns the same lesson in the series at least OnceAnEpisode. To be fair, it's shown in flashbacks during the film that Kuzco has been spoiled rotten since he was an infant; eighteen years of self-absorption and {{Jerkass}}ery don't just go away overnight. With all said and done, however, while he is still ''incredibly'' self-absorbed, conceited, and narcissistic in ''The Emperor's New School'', he is also more solidly a JerkWithAHeartOfGold rather than a completely unlikable HateSink like he was in the early movie. He is still best friends with Pacha and gets along great with his family, treats the peasants with more respect than he originally did, and his selfish antics tend to be more dorky than truly mean. Because of this, he at least kept some of his character development from the movie.
22* AffablyEvil: Pre-HeelFaceTurn, when talking to people Kuzco tends to be casual, generally friendly, and even warm at times - despite being callously self-absorbed and uncaring towards others. This makes a lot of sense: rather than the typical villain pretending to be polite, Kuzco legitimately believes that the world should revolve around him, so he can be as pleasant (if tactless) as he wants because people will get with the program no matter what. When people ''don't'' get with the program even the slightest bit, that's when he starts getting snide and showing how cruel he really is.
23* AmbiguouslyBi: While he's ''extremely'' attracted to Malina in ''The Emperor's New School'' TV series (which was probably Disney making sure Kuzco had a case of the not-gays), he's had plenty of moments that hint at something else: he's disgusted by the women presented to him as potential brides at the beginning of the movie (rejecting one bride because of her ''hair''), and his relationship with Pacha has [[FireForgedFriends some]] [[CouldSayItBut odd]] [[{{Tsundere}} overtones]].
24* {{Animorphism}}: Over the course of the movie, he gets turned into a llama, a tortoise, a bird, a whale, and then back into a llama before eventually regaining his humanity.
25* AnimalMotifs: A llama, an iconic and culturally important beast of burden to Andean civilizations. Transformation aside, his non-royal garb post-movie has a llama on it as well.
26* AntiHero: He starts out as a NominalHero, but later on he becomes a better person and more of an actual hero.
27* AristocratsAreEvil: Before his HeelFaceTurn, he was an extremely {{narcissist}}ic RoyalBrat who had absolutely no care or concern for all the peasants whom he ruled (and screwed) over.
28* AssholeVictim: After being turned into a llama, kidnapped and then disappeared by Yzma and Kronk, nobody seems to really care about his absence at all. When Yzma holds a funeral for Kuzco's presumed death, none of the attendees even pretend to be mournful; and they accept Yzma's ascension to power without any fuss, before immediately getting back to work.
29* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Yzma tries to make up an excuse for running the kingdom behind his back, he's more focused on studying her face. And a piece of food stuck in her teeth.
30-->'''Kuzco:''' ''[thinking]'' Whoa. Look at these wrinkles. What is holding this woman together? What the-- how long has that been there?
31* BeautyIsBad: He's pretty handsome, and is a total asshole at the film's beginning.
32* BecomingTheMask: Attempted by Kuzco upon reaching his DespairEventHorizon, when he decides he has no choice but spend the rest of his life as a llama. When he attempts to make friends, however, not even the llamas seem to accept him. Fortunately, he's found by Pacha, and manages to subvert this trope.
33* BegTheDog: Kuzco spends the first part of the movie trying to get back to his TreacherousAdvisor Yzma, convinced that she'll help him out despite having fired her. Then he realizes that no, she was the one who turned him into a llama in the first place (in the process of trying to kill him). Complete with IronicEcho to boot.
34-->'''Kuzco:''' Okay, I admit it. Maybe I wasn't as nice as I should have been. But Yzma, you really wanna kill me?!\
35'''Yzma:''' [[IronicEcho Just think of it as...you're being let go. That your life's going in a different direction. That your body is part of a permanent outplacement.]]\
36'''Kronk:''' [[LampshadeHanging Hey, that's kinda like what he said to you when you got fired.]]\
37'''Yzma:''' I know. It's called a "cruel irony". [[BeleagueredBoss Like my dependence on you.]]
38* BerserkButton: Seriously. DON'T THROW OFF KUZCO'S GROOVE! He'll have you thrown out a window for it.
39* ABirthdayNotABreak: Poor kid spends his eighteenth birthday miles away from home in the jungle, almost dies, has his worldview questioned for the first time in his life, has two people trying to kill him, and passes DespairEventHorizon-all while trapped in the body of a llama.
40* BreakTheHaughty: Getting turned into a llama is just one step into Kuzco learning to be a better person.
41* BreakingOldTrends: In terms of Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon protagonists. Up to the release of ''Emperor's New Groove'', nearly every protagonist character originating from the Disney Renaissance (while distinct in their own foibles and desires) were archetypal heroes with genuine, friendly personalities and noble intentions. For much of his own movie, Kuzco is someone who would be a bit villain in films like ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''; an immature, derisive, and delusional tyrant whose arrogance would be his downfall if not for a) someone like Pacha to give grounded counsel and b) someone like Yzma who's much worse.
42* TheCaligula: Kuzco has an elderly man defenestrated for the crime of "throwing off the emperor's groove". Also, his plan to make Kuzcotopia involved wiping out the village that (according to Pacha) [[SuicidalOverconfidence made most of the food that he himself lives on in the palace]], [[StupidEvil just because it got the best sunshine]].
43* CasanovaWannabe: To Malina in the series.
44* CelibateHero: In the original movie, he verbally swats away an array of bride candidates that had been presented to him, and expresses no serious romantic interest throughout the film. Averted in the TV series, where from the beginning it's clear that he has his eyes on Malina.
45* CharacterCatchphrase:
46** "Boom, baby!"
47** "[[HatesBeingTouched No touchy!]]"
48* CharacterDevelopment: He goes from being a self-absorbed, spoiled {{Jerkass}} at the beginning of the movie to a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who subtly apologizes for his actions at the end. Likewise, in the TV series, he acts nicer in the three last episodes, to the point of defending Yzma of all people.
49* AChildShallLeadThem: He's 17 in the movie and it's stated that he's been ruling since he was a baby after his father supposedly disappeared at sea, although Yzma acted as his regent.
50* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: His parents and their absence are never addressed or even ''mentioned'' in the movie itself. One of the only clues we have is Yzma's claim that she "practically raised him" - which just provokes further questions. The TV show implies Yzma was the advisor of Kuzco's father, who died at sea in a crash she may have caused. Afterwards she was the infant Kuzco's regent. Which sort of explains why we first meet her doing Kuzco's job- it's probably what she did until he came of age.
51* DeadpanSnarker: As part of his massive ego he snarks at everyone almost constantly. It eventually gets toned down a fair bit with his CharacterDevelopment.
52* DemotedToExtra: In the sequel, when Kronk takes the lead. Kuzco only makes sporadic appearances to stop the film and comment on what's going on, and makes a brief appearance in the climax to help out Kronk.
53* DespairEventHorizon: After he and Pacha split, Kuzco attempts to talk to Yzma and Kronk. However, he immediately overhears Yzma wanting to kill him and Kronk bringing up how no one cares that Kuzco is gone. This completely shatters him for several reasons. First, he realizes that Pacha was telling the truth about Yzma and Kronk trying to kill him and accused him of obstructing him. Second, the parental figure who raised just admitted she wanted to kill him in revenge for firing her. Third, Kronk states that no one truly mourned Kuzco and don't care that he's gone. This makes Kuzco realize that he is not the Emperor he thought he was and how truly cruel and heartless he had been before.
54* DidntThinkThisThrough: Firing Yzma. She's only a slightly worse administrator than he is, the only difference is she actually seems attached to the work. She doesn't even hit upon the idea of usurping him until Kuzco gets rid of her, and his decision to do so seems predicated more on pride and ego than any genuine fondness for dealing with petitioners. Had he just let her have her fun, she'd have saved him a few headaches and he'd never have become a llama.
55* DisguisedInDrag: As a ''llama'', no less, when he and Pacha make a pit stop by Mudka's Meat Hut.
56* DisneyDeath: After falling down a waterfall, he seemingly drowns. However, when Pacha tries to give him CPR, we find out that he was just knocked unconscious.
57* DisproportionateRetribution: Done hilariously, where a homeless man accidentally bumps into him during his song number, and gets promptly thrown out of the nearest window.
58-->'''Kuzco:''' You threw off my groove!\
59'''Guard:''' I'm sorry, but you've thrown off the Emperor's groove.\
60'''Old Man:''' ''[as he is falling through the air]'' SOOOOOOOORRRRYYYYYYYYY!
61:: : To add insult to injury, if you pay attention, Kuzco actually runs into the old man in the process of his groove. The old man tries to hobble out of the way and can't move fast enough.
62* DisappearedDad: [[AllThereInTheManual Background material]] state that his father, the previous Emperor, mysteriously disappeared while at sea. His mother's non-presence alludes to her being dead, leaving Kuzco to be raised by Yzma...which [[FreudianExcuse explains a lot about his personality]], honestly.
63* DoesNotLikeSpam: He doesn't like cheese on his potatoes.
64-->'''Kuzco''': "Cheese me no likie."
65* EccentricMillionaire: More like ''"Eccentric Emperor"''. He spends most of his wealth on luxurious things and orders his citizen [[ItsAllAboutMe to plaster his face everywhere]]. He fails to see the problem with destroying Pacha's home at first.
66* EffeminateVoice: David Spade, a tenor, voices Kuzco with some really campy inflections, giving off this vibe.
67* TheEmperor: Kuzco is the ruler of an empire in [[{{Mayincatec}} Pre-Columbian South America]] (implied to be, or at least based on, the Incan Empire in what's now modern-day Peru).
68* EntitledBastard: After being turned into a llama, he genuinely expects Pacha to help him even while he openly intends to destroy Pacha's village so he can build a summer home in its place once he's back to normal.
69* EveryoneHasStandards:
70** After he saves Pacha from falling, Pacha points out that he could have just let him fall. Kuzco responds by saying "Nobody's that heartless!"
71** Even at his worst, Kuzco did seem to understand (at least on a basic level) that being an emperor comes with ''duties'' in addition to privileges. During his intro song, we see him do things like christen newborn babies, cut the ribbon for a new shopping mall, and toss a wine bottle against a trade ship so it can set sail (all from the comfort of his throne, of course); and the film's plot was kick-started by Kuzco firing his grand vizier after getting fed up with her attempts to run the empire behind his back.
72* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Subverted. He starts out being completely unable to realize how selfish his plans of demolishing Pacha's village to build his summer home are, and refuses to admit there's any goodness inside him. But by the end, he finally starts to have a change of heart and becomes a better person as a result.
73* EvilGloating: When Pacha falls through the crumbling bridge and Kuzco leaves him to die, he initially crosses safely and sets off home free only an hour away from the palace. Then he turns back and crosses the bridge again just to gloat a little more. [[BondVillainStupidity This immediately comes back to bite him hard]], as he doesn't make it across the bridge a third time and [[LaserGuidedKarma ends up in the same situation]].
74* EvilVersusEvil: How [[VillainProtagonist Kuzco]]'s conflict with [[BigBad Yzma]] begins. Neither of them are nice people, and they both want to rule the empire while stepping over each other and anyone else who gets in their way. Yzma just happens to be far more ObviouslyEvil than Kuzco is. By the end though, Kuzco [[HeelFaceTurn changes into a genuine good guy]], while Yzma remains completely unrepentant for her actions.
75* FamilyOfChoice: He comes to think of Pacha's family as his family and vice versa. He even invites them to live with him in the palace after he's crowned emperor, which they accept.
76* FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Pacha's fat.
77* FatalFlaw:
78** LackOfEmpathy at the start of the movie. Because Kuzco lived his life always getting whatever he wanted with an inflated sense of self (most likely due to Yzma raising him), Kuzco only cared about himself and didn't see anything wrong with his amoral actions, especially destroying Pacha's village so he could build Kuzcotopia. Halfway through the film, Kuzco finally realizes how selfish, cruel and arrogant he had been and even calls himself out on it for trying to claim he did nothing wrong. His CharacterDevelopment involves overcoming this FatalFlaw, even though he still retains some arrogance and selfishness.
79** [[DidntThinkThisThrough Never having a single form of forethought.]] Kuzco has an unlucky tendency not to think things through due to his stupidity and arrogance, which Pacha brings up to him. At the start, Kuzco agrees to eating dinner with Yzma and Kronk, even though he had just fired her in a very unceremonious way. Then against Pacha's warnings, Kuzco wonders off into a jungle, where he's almost killed by jaguars. Later, during the bridge scene, [[HateSink Kuzco takes the opportunity to gloat about how he has no remorse for his amoral actions,]] leading to him and Pacha falling down the chasm. Throughout the film, even though Kuzco knows Yzma has a secret lab, he never once suspects that she's the one who turned him into a llama, [[SubvertedTrope although because Yzma did raise Kuzco, he most likely believed that she would never betray him and was genuinely shocked when he overheard her say she wanted him dead.]]
80* FireForgedFriends: With Pacha during their adventure in the movie.
81* {{Foil}}: To Yzma and Pacha.
82** Kuzco was raised in the Royal Palace and spent his life getting anything he ever wanted, but ended up spoiled, selfish, uncaring, arrogant and vain while Pacha lived his life as a peasant, but was kind, humble, good-hearted and empathetic. Kuzco goes through CharacterDevelopment where he learns to care about others and stop making everything about him while Pacha remains static due to his already stable personality and serving as Kuzco's MoralityPet. It is implied that Pacha was raised by very good parental figures, resulting in his kind and empathetic behavior while Kuzco was raised by Yzma, whose parenting undoubtedly turned him into the {{Jerkass}} he was at the beginning.
83** Both Kuzco and Yzma start out as selfish and arrogant people who are often very unpleasant to others. In terms of leadership, Kuzco often treats the Empire like his toy and cares more about having fun while Yzma is heavily implied to take her leadership seriously. As for their partners, both Pacha and Kronk were treated badly by Kuzco and Yzma, though Kuzco came to view Pacha as a friend after his CharacterDevelopment while Yzma is always a BadBoss to Kronk, even going as far as to insult his cooking after she gets fed up with him. Yzma is an EvilGenius who is very intelligent, but is hindered by her arrogance and tendency to [[ComplexityAddiction overcomplicate her plans]] while Kuzco is often TooDumbToLive, resulting in him getting into dangerous situations.
84* ForcedTransformation: He spends most of the movie transformed into a llama.
85* FreakOut: When he learns he’s been turned into a llama, he tries to tear his skin off, slaps himself across the face in a desperate attempt to calm himself down, laughs hysterically when he realizes he can no longer walk on two legs, and panics that he “can’t remember anything” because of the confusion being knocked out caused him.
86* FriendlessBackground: Kuzco's high station as Emperor, his narcissistic and condescending attitude towards pretty much everyone, and Kronk's comment that nobody seems to care about Kuzco's apparent death all heavily imply this.
87* FreudianExcuse: He was not only spoiled positively rotten during his childhood, he was also raised by [[TheCaligula Yzma]]: it goes a long way in explaining his vanity and selfishness, not to mention his contempt towards the peasantry. And, while it isn't directly mentioned, it is heavily implied that a good portion of his selfishness and initial inability to connect to others comes from the fact that he grew up without anything even closely ''[[FriendlessBackground resembling]]'' a friend until he met Pacha.
88* FunPersonified: Kuzco just ''loves'' dancing, parties and having fun in general. His idea of a perfect kingdom is one where his people constantly indulge and entertain him.
89* HatesBeingTouched: He's very particular about people entering his personal bubble, or trying to pal up with him. Towards the end of the movie, he allows certain people to hug him or playfully hit him.
90* HeelFaceTurn: About midway through the movie, he begins to [[HeelRealization realize just how awful he was]], and changes his ways for the better.
91* HiddenHeartOfGold: He saves Pacha from nearly falling to his death... despite him looking for an opportunity to kill him earlier then.
92* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Not only does he agree to have dinner with Yzma after he both fired and flat-out insulted her, kicking off her scheme of killing and usurping him for control over the empire, but he also believes that she and Kronk are trying to locate and bring him home rather than kill him, as Pacha attempted to warn him. Also, it never seems to occur to him that Yzma could be the one behind his transformation into a llama, even when he knows full well that she has a "secret" laboratory where she would be able to create a potion that could change him into a different creature. It takes him overhearing Yzma berate Kronk for botching the poison attempt to break him out of this trope. However, this case is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as Yzma is actually the person who raised him. Not many people would consider their parental-figures meaning them harm and with Kuzco's ItsAllAboutMe attitude, it doesn't occur to him that Yzma might be angry he fired her.
93* {{Hypocrite}}:
94** It's played for laughs. He states, very pointedly, that he's "the victim here" and was so put-upon by everyone who wants to take him down, and yet sees no problem with endangering hundreds and destroying an entire mountain village for the sake of building his own summer home and water park.
95** It's also played seriously once in the movie. After escaping the diner, Kuzco accuses Pacha of only caring about his 'hilltop' and not caring about him at all, painting him as the selfish one. This is coming from the same person who only cared about himself and what he wanted while showing no care for others.
96* IHatePastMe: Something he displays when he calls out ''himself''. Early on, his [[ItsAllAboutMe narcissistic side]] serves as the narrator for the story, claiming that his life was ruined for no reason, which is a total and complete lie. Later in the story, however, Kuzco undergoes a HeelRealization, understanding how heartless he was, and tells himself off.
97-->'''Kuzco Narrator:''' So, this is where you came in. See, just like I said, I'm the victim here. I didn't do anything, and they ruined my life and took everything I had.\
98'''Kuzco:''' Hey, give it a rest up there, will you?\
99'''Kuzco Narrator:''' What? I'm just telling them what happened.\
100'''Kuzco:''' Who are you kidding pal? They saw the whole thing. They '''know''' what happened.\
101'''Kuzco Narrator:''' Well, yeah, but...\
102'''Kuzco:''' Just leave me alone.
103* IdleRich: Very much more concerned with indulging himself than actually taking care of his empire at first.
104* IgnoredEpiphany: The film starts with him narrating how [[NeverMyFault everyone else ruined his life]], but as we flash back we see that most of Kuzco's misfortune is his own fault. However, this is Defied when we catch up to where the beginning of the film started and the real Kuzco calls out his narrator self.
105* IntergenerationalFriendship: He’s an eighteen-year-old emperor who eventually becomes friends with Pacha, a man with two (later three) children.
106* ItsAllAboutMe: There's a reason he graces the trope image. He has an entire ''theme song'' dedicated to his huge ego. I.e. "his perfect world will spin around his every little whim, because his perfect world begins and ends with..." "ME!" That's right, he doesn't even let his "theme song guy" have the last word.
107* {{Jerkass}}: Pre-CharacterDevelopment. Kuzco starts out as a comically conceited, ignorant, greedy, narcissistic, sarcastic, cowardly, and stubborn brat.
108* JerkassHasAPoint: His reasons for firing Yzma are reasonable given how she was doing his job without his permission.
109* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Post-CharacterDevelopment. Kuzco becomes more nice, loyal, good-natured, fun-loving, and polite. He's still comically conceited and ignorant, but not as much as he was in the beginning.
110* KarmicTransformation: A vain, selfish emperor gets turned into an ugly farm animal commonly kept by peasants in his country, which represents how far [[RichesToRags he fell from the top to the bottom of society]]. This transformation also [[BreakTheHaughty beats some well-deserved humility into]] [[{{Narcissist}} a guy with an ego bigger than the Sun]].
111* {{Keet}}: The guy's full of energy and enthusiasm -- for the most part.
112* LackOfEmpathy: His biggest character flaw at the beginning of the story. He's perfectly aware that building a lavish summer home on top of an already-populated mountain village would make Pacha's family and all their neighbors homeless -- and ''he doesn't care'', even admitting such to Pacha's face without shame. However, he does eventually prove to [[HiddenHeartOfGold not be completely heartless]] and [[JerkassRealization realizes just how wrong he was]].
113* LaughablyEvil: As an {{Unsympathetic Comedy|Protagonist}} VillainProtagonist, he engages in acts of ComedicSociopathy such as having an old man thrown out a window just for interrupting his song-and-dance routine.
114* LeanAndMean: Pre-CharacterDevelopment he's a skinny brat.
115* LoopholeAbuse: At the end of the film, it's how he rescinds building Kuzcotopia on Pacha's land, by way of ExactWords. He claims he was being literal about wanting a "hill that sings," and the lack of magical music heard on Pacha's property is why he claims that he won't build his summer home there. He does repurpose the Kuzcotopia model into a birdhouse.
116* MeaningfulName:
117** Kuzco/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Cusco/Cuzco]] means "the center of the world", and is also the capital of the ancient Incan empire which seems to be where the movie takes place.
118** Yacana, the Incan constellation of the llama and one of the Incan's most important constellations, rises above Cusco in November.
119* MrViceGuy: Selfish, greedy, and lazy.
120* {{Narcissist}}: When he realizes he got turned into a llama, the very first thing he throws a tantrum about is that he doesn't have his good looks anymore.
121* NeverMyFault: At the beginning of the film, Kuzco blames what happened to him entirely on Pacha and Yzma, stating that they ruined his life for no reason. While both indirectly played a part in leading him there, it was largely his own selfish ways that resulted in where he was. Even he calls [[UnreliableNarrator himself]] out on it as part of his CharacterDevelopment.
122* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: At least later on. Selfish he may be, but once he is out of his element Kuzco slowly shows nicer sides to his character and as the film progresses it becomes clear that deep down he isn't truly evil and is merely acting like it due to the way he was raised by Yzma.
123* OddFriendship: He eventually forms this dynamic with Pacha; Kuzco is a self-centered and snarky Emperor, while Pacha is a modest, peasant village leader. The end of the film even shows that Kuzco is considered a more or less official member of Pacha's family.
124* OfficialCouple: With Malina by the series finale.
125* ParentalAbandonment: No mention whatsoever is ever made to Kuzco's parents, presumably the previous rulers of the empire. Apparently, he was raised by Yzma: it's easy to see where he got his mean streak from. It's implied in one episode of [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool the series]] that Yzma offed Kuzco's dad.
126* PatheticallyWeak: Kuzco is somewhere between this and Averagely Weak. If he weren’t affected by Yzma’s potions, larger characters could easily pound him that he’d end up end up in the hospital, and he is aware Kronk could kill him in a fight. As a llama, he does get some level of added strength that he can evenly match Pacha who is giving him a beating. Though Kuzco admits he’d have so much trouble if Pacha were heavier. In the series, he was only able to win against Kronk in arm wrestling because he secretly sipped the potion he was going to wrestle him for.
127* PrettyBoy: He's lithe with some traditionally effeminate features such as shoulder-length hair and a pretty precise grooming process.
128* PrideBeforeAFall: His pride sets him up for all the hilarious trauma of the movie.
129* PrimaryColorChampion: Subverted; he primarily dresses in red and yellow with a touch of teal in his earrings, but the dominance of red in his design points to his more antagonistic qualities. By the end of the first film, the biggest visual indicator that he's changed is when Chicha gifts him with a green poncho just like Pacha's.
130* PrinceCharmless: To the potential brides in the opening. Subverted in that he's already the Emperor at this point. Also to Malina a lot of the time in the show.
131* ReformedButNotTamed: In the movie, he's a selfish, self-centered jerk who plots to bulldoze the entire village for his own profit and almost leaves Pacha for dead, but has a change of heart and becomes good friends with Pacha. In the series, his selfishness is toned down, if still apparent at times. Similarly, in ''Kronk's New Groove'', he acts nicer but is flamboyant as ever.
132* RichesToRags: Happens to Kuzco after being turned into a llama. At least most guys will be left with the shirt on their backs, Kuzco doesn't even have hands left! It says a lot about Kuzco that he gets over this pretty quickly under the assumption that he can still boss people around and that Yzma is still loyal.
133* RidiculouslyHighRelationshipStandards: The Royal Matchmaker presents six lovely candidates to Emperor Kuzco, who's such a spoiled RoyalBrat that he dismisses all six in six seconds as though they were hip-flask ugly. "Is this the best you can do?" he chastens the matchmaker. Most of the cute, shapely girls are stunned at being so blithely eliminated, but they're smart enough to say nothing. It says something that the one girl who actually retains his attention in the franchise, Malina, is a gorgeous, athletic, straight-A student.
134* RoyalBrat: He has a tiny, elderly man defenestrated for throwing off his groove, rudely rejects all of his potential brides, and it's implied stuff like this happens on a daily basis. He seems to be oblivious to what others think of him until he overhears Yzma and Kronk speak of their plot to kill him, and Kronk mentioning how no one cares that he is seemingly dead. It's suggested that Yzma deliberately raised him to become this so that she could have greater control over him, but if this is true, it eventually backfired on her since his brattiness is part of the reason she ends up getting unceremoniously fired.
135* RulerProtagonist: He's the titular Emperor of course.
136* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: In the TV series, he has quite the high-pitched scream. Malina even lampshades it in one episode. In another, he screams just like her.
137* SingleTargetSexuality: The only woman that Kuzco is remotely attracted to is Malina, and, in one episode, a princess who looks exactly like her, but her personality makes sure he doesn't stay with her.
138* SmallNameBigEgo: Downplayed in that he ''is'' an emperor, but at the start he seems to more consider himself a '''god''' with just how much he acts like the world revolves around him.
139* SmugSnake: Despite his emperor position, it's very hard to take him seriously as a threat to anyone.
140** He is at least a head shorter (if not more) than the other three leads of the film.
141** He is very thin and seemingly unfit (though obviously not as bad as Yzma).
142* TalkingAnimal: All of the animals he gets transformed into still leave him with the ability to talk. This is used to pinpoint him down, as Yzma knows the “talking llama” has to be him.
143* TeensAreMonsters: Kuzco is a 17-year-old petty tyrant. He is incredibly immature, spoiled, selfish, egotistical, and entitled as the result of his luxurious upbringing, holding absolute power, and not even once, was he ever being told "no" throughout his entire life. And his idea of an 18th birthday gift for himself? Destroy an entire village just to make room for another palace that he doesn't even need.
144* TookALevelInKindness: His ego gets a heavy, but good drop throughout the movie. And then comes the AesopAmnesia for the TV series. However, it should be noted that he acts nicer by the three last episodes, showing that Kuzco did come to learn his lessons over time.
145* TooDumbToFool: This is what kicks off the plot with Yzma properly; she spins a story about why she's doing imperial duties without consulting him, but Kuzco doesn't pay attention and spends the whole conversation focusing on how old and ugly she is. As a result, her attempt to win him over falls on deaf ears, and he unceremoniously fires her.
146* TooDumbToLive: Making fun of someone's failed attempt of waking up the jaguars who surround you in order to get you killed is apparently important enough to forget that you shouldn't make a noise in the vicinity either. It very nearly leads to DeathByMocking.
147* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Kuzco's love for Mudka's Meat Mugs, to the point where he tries to eat nothing else in one episode.
148* TroubledAbuser: Yes, Kuzco is a selfish, cruel, conceited SpoiledBrat who thinks the world revolves around him, but he became that way as a result of being raised by [[TreacherousAdvisor Yzma]], who's much the same. With that in mind, he's lucky he didn't turn out ''even worse''.
149* {{Tsundere}}: A surprising platonic male version:
150** After ''saving Pacha's life'' when he could have let him fall, he claims he was just doing it so that he could still lead him to the Palace. Not because he likes him or anything.
151** At the end, when he tells Pacha he's decided against bulldozing his village to make room for his summer getaway, rather then say it around he claims it's because Pacha said the [[LiteralMinded hills would sing]] when the sun hits the ridge and he didn't hear any singing. It's obvious though that they both know the [[TookALevelInKindness real reason why he's doing this]].
152* UniversallyBelovedLeader: He thinks everyone loves him. Emphasis on "thinks." A big thing that kicks off his CharacterDevelopment is realizing his [[SpoiledBrat old personality]] made it so no one missed him when he "died". He actually becomes this by the time of the series; while people in his personal life are annoyed by him, almost everybody supports him in becoming Emperor again.
153* UnreliableNarrator: At the beginning of the movie, Kuzco makes it appear as though he was an innocent victim who did nothing to deserve the misfortunes he suffered. However, as the movie goes on, it becomes clear that Kuzco is lying. While Yzma did turn him into a llama in a failed assassination attempt, it was ultimately Kuzco's selfishness, arrogance and LackOfEmpathy that landed him where he is. Kuzco would later call the narrator out for this. Narrator Kuzco disappears from the movie entirely after the onscreen Kuzco tells him to leave him alone.
154* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: A {{narcissist}}ic {{jerkass}} at first, who gets a fair share of humiliation before [[TookALevelInKindness getting better]].
155* UpbringingMakesTheHero: Inverted. Kuzco was raised by the selfish, cruel, arrogant and power-hungry Yzma. That would explain why he turns out the way he is now.
156* UptownGuy: Kuzco, a cocky young South American emperor, and Malina, a beautiful peasant girl.
157* VillainBall: The second act has him grab this trope several times, and it ''always'' backfires on him.
158** He could have politely turned down the acorn that Bucky offered him, but preferred to bonk him on the head with it and tell him to hit the road, thus turning the squirrel into an enemy.
159** Right after the above, he can't resist blowing raspberries at Bucky as he's walking off, which results in him falling into an area populated by sleeping jaguars because he wasn't looking where he was going as he conducted his razzing.
160** Bucky pops a llama-shaped balloon to wake the jaguars so they'll maul and eat Kuzco. When this fails to wake them, Kuzco chooses to give a loud and triumphant "Ha!" instead of quietly slipping away, which rouses them instead.
161** After cheerfully revealing to a trapped Pacha that he intends to leave him to die, Kuzco actually makes it across the bridge and is less than an hour away from the palace. But when Pacha angrily shouts at him for his treachery, Kuzco gets back on the bridge to taunt him further, resulting in him getting stuck as well.
162* VillainProtagonist: A rare Disney example. Kuzco starts out as being [[TheCaligula a cruel, selfish tyrant]] who treats all of his subjects as being beneath him; and he has no problem with defenestrating an innocent old man, or making an entire peasant community homeless. Though he eventually becomes far more [[TookALevelInKindness kind]] and [[HeelFaceTurn heroic]] after spending time with Pacha.
163[[/folder]]
164
165[[folder:Pacha]]
166[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pacha.jpg]]
167->''"When the sun hits that ridge just right, these hills sing."''
168->'''Voiced in English by''': Creator/JohnGoodman (film series, TV series; Season 2), Creator/FredTatasciore (TV series; Season 1), Creator/BillFarmer (video game)
169->'''Voiced in European French by''': Creator/JacquesFrantz
170->'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Naomi Kusumi
171->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by''': Mario Sauret (movies), Mario Arvizu (TV series)
172->'''Voiced in European Spanish by''': Pepe Mediavilla (movies), Carlos Kaniowski (TV series)
173->'''Voiced in Swedish by''': Allan Svensson (movies), Göran Berlander (TV series)
174->'''Voiced in European Portuguese by''': Fernando Luis
175
176This is Pacha, a soft-spoken, roly-poly peasant who helps Kuzco find his way back to his empire. Pacha is the head man of his village and a loving husband and father. He values the traditions of his people and wants to make a good future for his kids. And he's the first person Kuzco's met (maybe ever) to not put up with his Imperial nonsense for a minute. Being opposed to the emperor's plans to replace the peasants' village with his own summer house, Pacha initially refuses to help bring Kuzco back home, but changes his mind out of the goodness of his heart. During their long journey back to the palace, Kuzco learns to care for other people thanks to Pacha's kind and forgiving nature.
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178* AllLovingHero: He's very fervent in his belief that there's some good in everybody, including Kuzco.
179* BewareTheNiceOnes: Or the hulking, nice ones who can deliver one hell of a punch.
180* BumblingDad: {{Averted}}. Despite the things that happen to him, he proves to be an effective parent to his kids.
181* DeadpanSnarker: He gets some pretty good quips in the film as it progresses.
182* DemotedToExtra: He's reduced to a supporting player in ''Kronk's New Groove'', but he does play a role in helping out Kronk in the climax. He's also demoted from {{Deuteragonist}} and Kuzco's best friend to much more of minor character - if occasional father figure - in the TV show.
183* FatAndSkinny: The fat to Kuzco's skinny.
184* FireForgedFriends: With Kuzco during their adventure in the movie.
185* {{Foreshadowing}}: After the waterfall scene, Pacha tells Kuzco "Someday, you're going to wind up all alone and you'll have no one to blame but yourself." This is played straight when Kuzco accuses Pacha of obstructing his return to the Palace and then overhears Yzma and Kronk admitting they tried to murder him. To add salt to the wound, Kronk brings up how no one seems to care that he's gone. As Pacha told Kuzco, he was left all alone and he can’t blame anyone except for himself.
186* GentleGiant: Tall and husky, and definitely pretty strong, but mostly enjoys playing with his kids and talking to llamas.
187* GoodIsNotSoft: He's a caring and protective AllLovingHero, but when Kuzco double-crosses him by attempting to leave him to die in a canyon during the beginning of their journey together, Pacha socks him in the face ''very'' hard.
188* GoodParents: Along with Chicha, he is a kind and loving parent.
189* HappilyMarried: Has a close and honest relationship with Chicha.
190* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first it appears his decision to trust Kuzco's word that he wouldn't destroy his village if he brought him back to the palace was painfully naive, with Pacha even berating himself for it at the bridge, let alone his insistence on continuing to help even after Kuzco's deception is revealed. Hell, Kuzco himself vehemently protested Pacha's continued claims that he wasn't completely selfish, but as it turns out, his faith that there really is some goodness deep down in Kuzco's heart ultimately bears fruit and the movie ends with Pacha's village spared and the emperor coming out of it a [[CharacterDevelopment better man]].
191* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The Huge Guy to Chicha's Tiny Girl.
192* IGaveMyWord: Even after Kuzco nearly abandons him, Pacha still agrees to take him back to his palace because they shook on it.
193* InkSuitActor: He certainly looks a lot like John Goodman.
194* LargeAndInCharge: A large man and the head man of his village.
195* MeaningfulName: Pacha means "earth" or "world" in Quechua, and is closely associated with Pachamama, an earth and fertility goddess who's one of the most important figures in indigenous Andean mythology. All of these denote Pacha as a person of solid and generous character, and a grounding presence in his family and community.
196* MoralityPet: It's because of Pacha's endless patience and fatherly nature that [[ItsAllAboutMe Kuzco]] becomes a better person.
197* NiceGuy: Pacha is a GentleGiant who always sees something good in everyone, including [[RoyalBrat Kuzco]]. It's because of his saintly patience that Kuzco starts to develop compassion for others.
198* OddFriendship: He eventually forms this dynamic with Kuzco; Pacha is a modest, peasant village leader, while Kuzco is a self-centered and snarky Emperor. The end of the film even shows that Kuzco is considered a more or less official member of Pacha's family.
199* OneHeadTaller: He's a full head taller than his wife Chicha.
200* OnlySaneMan: Pacha acts as the sane one during his and Kuzco's adventure.
201* ParentalSubstitute: He acts as a father figure to Kuzco.
202* SilkHidingSteel: A rare male example. At first Pacha is very polite and affectionate, not saying more than he needs to and even helping a defenestrated old man. But he actually tends to pull BigDamnHeroes moments.
203* StoutStrength: While ToonPhysics may be at play here, adult llamas weigh between 280 to 450 pounds, and yet Pacha's able to carry Kuzco around as effortlessly as if he were still a small human teenager.
204* TheStraightMan: To Kuzco, whenever the younger man acts selfish.
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206
207[[folder:Yzma]]
208[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yzma.png]]
209->''"It's brilliant, brilliant, ''brrrrilliant'', I tell you! ''Genius'', I say!"''
210->'''Voiced in English by''': Music/EarthaKitt, Mark Dindal (as a cat), Creator/GreyDeLisle (as a teenager), Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (currently)
211->'''Voiced in European French by''': Élisabeth Wiener
212->'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/HisakoKyoda
213->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by''': Mayra Rojas (movies), Lourdes Moran (''The Emperor's New School'')
214->'''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Roser Cavallé (movies), Lucía Esteban (''The Emperor's New School'')
215->'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Siw Malmqvist (''The Emperor's New Groove''), Ewa Fröling (''Kronk's New Groove'', ''The Emperor's New School'')
216
217Yzma is the emperor's royal advisor, who raised Kuzco from his early childhood, preparing him for the throne while running the empire herself. She's served the royal family for many years... a lot of years... how old ''is'' this lady, anyway? If her liberal use of PurpleIsTheNewBlack in her wardrobe didn't give it away, Yzma's the baddie and a sorceress of dastardly potions. Kuzco eventually becomes annoyed with her constantly going behind his back and fires her. Enraged at this callous discarding, Yzma concocts a plan to assassinate Kuzco and take the throne for herself.
218
219To see how she would describe herself, click [[SelfDemonstrating/YzmaAndKronk here]].
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221* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Yzma has this possibly more than Kuzco, given she is a lot like him in many ways, only more heartless and cruel than him. While the subjects didn’t like Kuzco that much, they still weren’t at all happy when Yzma made herself the new ruler of the empire as she is a worse ruler than Kuzco.
222* AbsentMindedProfessor: It becomes a running gag that whenever Yzma comes up with a new plan to get rid of Kuzco, she will stray away in her thoughts and the plan will either doom to fail or has nothing to do with her goal. Kronk has to point that out to her at times.
223* AbusiveParents: She raised Kuzco, thus making her his parental figure, but she tries to usurp his throne and kill him.
224* ActorAllusion: Yzma turns into a cat at the end of the movie. Her voice actress Music/EarthaKitt played Catwoman on Season 3 of [[Series/Batman1966 the Adam West Batman show]].
225* AffablyEvil: Usually she's FauxAffablyEvil, but when a group of her henchmen are turned into animals, one of them asks to go home and Yzma politely excuses him without any hint of anger or annoyance and even asks the others if any of them would like to leave. She also becomes this in the TV show where she is less murderous and homicidal.
226* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She is a pale shade of lavender, whereas everyone else has a human skin tone.
227* AnimalMotifs:
228** Between her design, the allusions for her actress and her transformation at the end of the film, Yzma definitely has a CatsAreMean motif going on.
229** She has a snake motif as well. After she becomes Empress, several artistries of her are depicted with snakes and the pack that Kronk carries her has the pictures of snakes on it. As an added bonus, she is a very treacherous person who initially planned to kill Kuzco with poison, similar to how venomous snakes kill their prey.
230* {{Animorphism}}: She gets turned into a cat during the climax of the movie.
231* AssholeVictim: Yzma gets put through the wringer a lot throughout the movie, but she does have it coming.
232* BaldOfEvil: She wears a variety of extravagant, colourful wigs throughout the movie, but she's shown to be bald when Kronk barges into her tent late in the movie.
233* BenevolentBoss: At least to the royal guards, [[TheCaligula if not to anyone else]]. When one of them asks if he can go home on account of being turned into a cow, she excuses him without a second thought and even asks if any of the other guards (who had all been turned into a variety of other animals) would like to be excused.
234* BigBad: Her efforts to take the throne from Kuzco end up turning him into a llama and putting him far away from the palace. Yzma spends the rest of the film trying to hunt down Kuzco to kill him.
235* TheCaligula: Yzma fits this trope during her time of regency: it's likely where Kuzco got it from.
236-->'''Yzma:''' It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has... what was it again?\
237'''Peasant:''' Umm... food?\
238'''Yzma:''' HAH! You really should have thought of that before you became ''peasants''!
239* CatsAreMean: In her cat form, she's now a CuteKitten but still the same selfish, evil BigBad.
240* CharacterCatchphrase:
241** "It's brilliant, brilliant, ''BRILLIANT''!"
242** "To the Secret Lab!"
243** "Pull the lever, Kronk!"
244** "Wrong lever!" when Kronk pulls the wrong lever and results in her getting injured.
245* ChasteToons: She has twin nephews, Zim and Zam, who are voiced by [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Dylan and Cole Sprouse]].
246* TheChewToy: Yzma goes through a LOT of abuse throughout the movie, to getting stuck in a swamp with flies, to rolling down a hill, picking up tar and feathers and becoming a human piñata as a result, to getting zapped by a small raincloud that appears out of nowhere while she and Kronk are gliding across a chasm, leading to them falling into said chasm, to getting a chandelier dropped on her (she fits through the hole in the middle of the chandelier). [[spoiler:And that's not including her transformation into a kitten and getting slammed into the wall, before ending up a squirrel scout and firmly losing any control she had over Kuzco's empire.]]
247* ColorMotifs: The color purple is throughout her design.
248* TheComicallySerious: Particularly when she has to deal with Pacha's kids.
249* ComplexityAddiction: Her FatalFlaw. Yzma has a tendency to overcomplicate her plans for the sake of showing off her genius. Because of this, she is prone to ignoring factors in her plans that cause them to fail. It isn't helped by the fact that her arrogance hinders her ability to scheme and plan.
250* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Yzma's voice is already quite energetic and high-pitched compared to previous female Disney villains such as [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula]]. However, this trope is exaggerated and PlayedForLaughs late in the movie when [[spoiler:Yzma is transformed into a kitten. She gets a chipmunk-like voice, but still attempts to kill Kuzco]].
251-->'''Yzma:''' Is that my voice? Is that... ''my'' voice? Oh well.
252* CuteIsEvil: During her cat form and even a bunny in ''Kronk's New Groove''.
253* DelusionsOfBeauty: Despite her ancient body, the main villainess Yzma is both a FashionVictimVillain and proud of her looks. Of course, this doesn't convince anybody and cements her reputation as a being "scary beyond all reason".
254* DemotedToExtra: She only plays a brief role in the first act of ''Kronk's New Groove'', and she vanishes from the film after the fact, save for a brief appearance at the very end.
255* DirtyOldWoman: Downplayed. While she certainly didn't hire Kronk for his brains, it's implied that it was because of his good looks. Keep in mind Kronk is young enough to be her grandson...That being said, they have a firmly, if toxic, PlatonicLifePartners relationship.
256* TheDreaded: Yzma just oozes terror in all the Empire’s subjects. Even Kuzco admits she’s quite intimidating.
257* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Implied. When Yzma chews out Kronk after Kronk spares Kuzco's life, Yzma's annoyed tone seems to indicate that she thinks Kronk ''tried'' to carry out her order but failed out of his own incompetence. It doesn't seem to occur to her that Kronk would have any qualms about committing murder.
258* EvilChancellor: Power-hungry and apathetic, she's quite evil in her role as Kuzco's regent.
259* EvilSorceror: Despite her styling herself as a MadScientist, her scrapped VillainSong makes it more obvious that her potions are magical in nature. She learned her skills from her father, a {{Necromancer}} mortician. Given that she seeks to [[VainSorceress attain eternal youth]] this way in the original version, this may in fact explain her purple skin.
260* EvilIsPetty:
261** When she's fed up with Kronk's ineptitude, she snaps at him viciously-- and just for meanness' sake, she insults his ''cooking.''
262** At Pacha's house, Yzma deliberately knocked over her teacup, forcing the heavily-pregnant, already-exasperated Chicha to struggle to pick it up. Purposeful, yes, as a diversion-- also just plain mean!
263* EvilLaugh: She's fond of gloriously sinister chuckling as she plots Kuzco's demise.
264* EvilPlan: In the movie, poison Kuzco and take over as empress. In the series, it is prevent Kuzco from graduating, thus preventing him from becoming emperor again, and ''then'' become empress!
265* EvilOldFolks: So old that Kuzco calls her "living proof that dinosaurs roamed the earth".
266* EvilPrincipal: In ''The Emperor's New School'', Yzma has become the principal of Kuzco Academy under the pseudonym of [[SdrawkcabAlias Principal Amzy]]. She has her sights on becoming empress and so will do whatever it takes to sabotage Kuzco's attempts of passing his classes so that he will fail and be disqualified from continuing as emperor.
267* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: She uses too much eyeshadow, which is a good reason why people say she's scary beyond all reason.
268* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: In the TV series, Yzma’s every attempt to kill or render Kuzco ineligible to reign fail rather spectacularly.
269* FanDisservice: Until she gets turned into an absolutely adorable little kitty. This is, naturally, [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]:
270-->'''Yzma:''' Then I bet you weren't expecting ''this!''\
271''[hikes up her skirt]''\
272'''Pacha:''' GAAAAH!\
273'''Kuzco:''' ACK! NOOOO!\
274'''Yzma:''' Ah-HA! ''[pulls out a dagger]''\
275'''Pacha:''' ''Phew.''\
276'''Kuzco:''' Oh, okay.
277* TheFashionista: She may be [[PhraseCatcher scary beyond all reason]], but she has a great sense of style. Undoubtedly another trait Kuzco picked up from her.
278* FatalFlaw: Her ComplexityAddiction. Many of her plans would've succeeded if it weren't for two major factors. First, because she believes herself an evil genius, she often makes her plans more convoluted than necessary, which especially comes into play when Kronk is involved. Second, she never considers factors that could cause her plans to backfire, which ultimately dooms them from the start. Unfortunately, she's too arrogant and self-absorbed to consider the flaws in her planning, so her plots almost always fail.
279* {{Gonk}}: Commonly described as "scary beyond all reason", Yzma is a pencil-thin and ghoulish woman whose appearance is a target for bystanders to let out their [[{{Squick}} horrified]] comments on. Her GrossUpCloseUp accentuates her ugliness by giving more attention to her countless wrinkles and food stuck between her teeth.
280* HartmanHips: Used to demonstrate how [[LeanAndMean bone-thin]] she is rather than for fanservice purposes.
281* HugeGuyTinyGirl: A platonic example. The LeanAndMean body-type BigBad to Kronk's hulking giant.
282* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: High on the "ineffectual", low on the "sympathetic". [[TheChewToy But we love her anyway]].
283* InkSuitActor: WordOfGod says that her appearance was based on Eartha Kitt herself. They were worried that this would offend her, but it turned out that she actually found it hilarious.
284* IWasQuiteALooker: In the original version of the movie this was her motivation, as evidenced by the CutSong written by Music/{{Sting}}, "[[https://youtu.be/374xW4zZbZA Snuff Out the Light]]". And the TV show confirms it; [[https://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120604025025/disney/images/5/54/Young_Yzma.png her teenaged self was a cutie]]. [[invoked]]
285* KarmaHoudini: In ''Emperor's New School'', her being the Principal is an OpenSecret, yet no one seems interested in arresting her for conspiracy to kill the Emperor (among her many other crimes). It's also treated as a given that she'll become the new Empress should Kuzco fail.
286* KarmicTransformation: Her attempts at killing Kuzco end up getting her transformed into a cat in the end.
287* KickTheDog: She raised Kuzco as a narcissistic SpoiledBrat, while aiming at his throne. Then, after Kuzco fires her, she tries to poison him.
288* LargeHam: Comes with the territory of being a villainess played by Eartha Kitt.
289* LaughablyEvil: She's arguably the most comedic character in the film, even though she wants to assassinate her former boss and seize his throne for herself.
290* LeanAndMean: She isn't the trope picture for nuthin'. Taking a cue from characters like Jafar and Maleficent, Yzma is positively spindly - likely as a call back to their designs. This actually works to her advantage when [[spoiler:Kronk turns on her: he drops a chandelier on her, but she's so skinny that her body passes perfectly through the middle.]]
291* MadScientist: She has a secret lab, a maniacal laugh and everything. The anachronistic dissonance is PlayedForLaughs, of course.
292* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Yzma plotted to have Kuzco killed for firing him despite her loyalty, and she's hated him since. But this is rather subverted when Kuzco tries to reason with her at the lab and he's willing to change, she very much makes it clear she'll hate him no matter what, and the fact that she's actually enjoyed her reign with Kuzco gone shows her desire for power is [[CardCarryingVillain all her]].
293* NeverMessWithGranny: She may be unusually old, but she's ''very'' agile and can still perform acrobatic feats.
294* NeverMyFault:
295** She often blames the failures of her evil plans on Kronk; while he does hold some of the blame, a lot of it usually has to do with the fact that her plans tend to be either a) [[ComplexityAddiction too convoluted to actually work]], b) [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption doomed to fail from the start]], c) irrelevant to what she wants to accomplish in the first place, or d) all of the above.
296** She also treats Kuzco firing her as an act of pure betrayal and calls him an "ungrateful little worm" while lamenting that he would do such a thing to her when she "practically raised him". She fails to acknowledge the fact that 1) he fired her for trying to rule behind his back, and 2) [[CardCarryingVillain her]] raising him was probably what caused him to turn out this way in the first place (something Kronk unwittingly lampshades).
297* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: The TV series sees Yzma owning a pet alligator.
298* NotSoHarmlessVillain: At the climax of the movie, she goes from bumbling and ineffectual to threatening enough to send Kuzco and Pacha running for their lives.
299* OddFriendship: With Kronk in the TV series--they get along surprisingly well beyond just being partners, and she's even referred to as his best friend, which Kuzco is naturally baffled by.
300* OneWingedAngel: Hilariously parodied when she gets turned into a fluffy little kitten, doubling this with SealedEvilInATeddyBear.
301* PaperThinDisguise: Her alter-ego of Principal [[SdrawkcabAlias Amzy]] doesn't really fool Kuzco, but Kronk can never seem to recognize her [[spoiler: until the series finale, where he reveals he knew all along and sums up why her disguise was so weak]].
302* ParentalSubstitute: She actually ''raised'' Kuzco since he was a baby, thus explaining where most of Kuzco's faults come from; it's implied she was going to pull a TheWomanBehindTheMan act when he was finally crowned and rule the kingdom through him, but his firing her put a stop to that. It's also implied that she offed Kuzco's parents in order to do so.
303* PercussiveTherapy: After Kuzco fires her, Yzma takes out her rage by repeatedly smashing stone busts of his head with a hammer (both of which are thoughtfully provided by Kronk). She only stops when Kronk gives her the idea to assassinate Kuzco.
304* PetTheDog: Willingly allows one of her henchmen to leave after he turns into a cow, and asks if any other henchmen wanted to leave while he did (they didn’t). More frequently in the TV show like in "Evil and Eviler".
305* PhraseCatcher: Not an episode of the TV series goes by without calling her "scary beyond all reason".
306* PlotIrrelevantVillain: Yzma's role in ''Kronk's New Groove'' is reduced to being a small time crook in the first act, she vanishes from the film after the fact, [[spoiler:save for a gag at the very end]]. The real conflict is Kronk trying to earn the approval of his aloof father.
307* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While it's not addressed as much as other examples, her EstablishingCharacterMoment has her dismissing a villager's concerns over food by stating that he should have "thought of that before [they] became peasants" before having the guards carry him off. Considering she "practically raised" Kuzco, [[FreudianExcuse this might also explain a few things about Kuzco's own narcissistic tendencies]].
308* RasputinianDeath: Played with. While she ultimately doesn't die, there are several things that happen to her in the climax that you would expect to be her defeat. [[spoiler:First she gets transformed into a kitten, but then it turns out that she has retained her intelligence, and she continues trying to kill Kuzco. Then she falls from the top of the palace, teasing a DisneyVillainDeath, only to be bounced back up on a trampoline. Then she grabs the potion, only to hit her head on part of the palace. Then she comes back and grabs the potion again, only for Kronk to slam open the window next to her, accidentally crushing her. Then, ''finally'', at the end, she is simply forced to join Kronk's Squirrel Scouts, even though she clearly hates it.]]
309* RegentForLife: Attempts this, but when Kuzco fires her she moves to a more direct method and tries to kill him to be the official ruler.
310* SealedEvilInATeddyBear: Yzma is transformed into a nearly harmless kitten near the end of the movie.
311* SexySlitDress: Yzma wears such a dress in purple, but, because she's an [[EvilOldFolks old woman]] "[[{{Gonk}} scary beyond reason]]", she is less sexy and more FanDisservice. To prove this point, Kuzco and Pacha are [[ScreamingAtSquick seriously disturbed]] when Yzma appears to be raising the slit of her dress to ShowSomeLeg... and then relieved to see that she was just revealing a dagger tied to her leg instead.
312* ShadowArchetype: She represents what Kuzco will be if he never learns to overcome his ego and stays so unsympathetic to everyone around him.
313* SmugSnake: All of her plans are either too convoluted to actually work or doomed to fail from the start, and yet she's under the assumption that she's an evil genius.
314* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She’s the only female in the main cast.
315* SurroundedByIdiots: Or rather one idiot, Kronk, but the effect is the same.
316* TreacherousAdvisor: Yzma certainly enjoys throwing her weight around, but the notion of actually usurping Kuzco only seems to hit her after he fires her. Granted, she did raise him (and as above mentioned, may have offed his parents) so perhaps she was trying to use him as a puppet.
317* TheUsurper: She decides to become this after Kuzco fires her.
318* VagueAge: We know she's old, but not ''how'' old. According to "The Emperor's New School Spirit" from the TV series, she's [[BlatantLies 48]]. A flashback in the HalloweenEpisode makes it more confusing, as Yzma is shown to have looked exactly the same as she does now back when Kuzco was a toddler. If anything, she's older than anyone can possibly imagine. Maybe she can't remember.
319* VainSorceress: Vain is one of the more accurate words to describe her, if her outrageously extravagant and tacky outfits along with all beauty creams are any indication. The "sorceress" part is more downplayed, being more of a MadScientist with her potions and secret lab.
320* VillainDecay: She goes from being the driving threat of the first film to a small time crook in ''Kronk's New Groove''. As of the TV show she usually just tries to get Kuzco to fail as opposed to trying to kill him with a few exceptions and she even has times where she will [[EnemyMine team up with]] or [[PetTheDog even save Kuzco]].
321* VillainRaisesAToast: Yzma's plan to kill Kuzco is to poison his drink. At dinner, she gives the ironic toast "Long live Kuzco!" as he's about to take the fatal drink. Unfortunately, her MinionWithAnFInEvil Kronk mixed up the potions and Kuzco got turned into a llama instead.
322* VillainousFriendship: Interestingly, she has a few scenes with Kronk in the film where they actually seem to be legitimate friends, such as when they take a detour on their hunt for Kuzco to go to the local restaurant while having small talk for the entire time.
323* VillainousValor: During the last fight. Not even the risk of dying by falling 100 feet down from a building, or turning into a small cat will stop her.
324[[/folder]]
325
326[[folder:Kronk]]
327[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kronk.jpg]]
328-> ''"Oh yeah: it's all coming together."''
329->'''Voiced in English by''': Creator/PatrickWarburton
330->'''Voiced in European French by''': Creator/EmmanuelCurtil
331->'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/KenyuuHoriuchi
332->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by''': Ruben Cerda
333->'''Voiced in European Spanish by''': David García Vázquez
334->'''Voiced in Swedish by''': Creator/FredrikHiller
335
336Yzma's current sidekick (she swaps them out every decade or so), who was clearly hired more for muscles than for brains. Despite working for Yzma, he's a chill guy with a sunny demeanor who'll go with her {{Zany Scheme}}s no matter what they require of him. Also a FriendToAllLivingThings, a SupremeChef, and a NiceGuy who struggles with deep theological conundrums. Wait... [[MinionWithAnFInEvil why is he a bad guy again]]?
337
338To see him help Yzma describe herself, while also describing himself to her chagrin, click [[SelfDemonstrating/YzmaAndKronk here]].
339----
340* TheAce: An athletic, handsome survivalist. Spotlighted in the series, where he's portrayed as a LovableJock who excels over Kuzco in all things athletic.
341* AffectionateNickname: "Kronkie-Poo" by Birdwell.
342* AllLovingHero: Especially in his own movie, where he donates his new house on a hill to his elderly friends and takes the fall for Tipo's prank to spare the boy getting yelled at by Birdwell.
343* AmbiguouslyJewish: His last name is Pepikrankenitz, and he imagines himself getting married by a rabbi in a traditional Jewish ceremony. What a Jewish character is doing in pre-Columbian South America is anyone's guess. WordOfGod is he's possibly the descendant of a converso (Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism) who married an Indigenous South American.
344* AntiVillain: He's only a villain by virtue of working with Yzma. Otherwise, he couldn't be a nicer guy. The closest thing he does to an evil act is knowingly trying to poison Kuzco and acting apathetic to his (supposed) death, but it's clear he's only going through with it out of misguided loyalty to Yzma. It backfires, and his conscience eventually sets him on the straight and narrow and keeps him from finishing off Kuzco.
345* BigOlEyebrows: He has thick, black eyebrows.
346* BirdsOfAFeather: With Birdwell. Both are friendly chipmunk scout leaders (making them both FriendToAllChildren), love baking, are {{Spirited Competitor}}s, and are ''amazing'' dancers.
347* BrainlessBeauty: Zigzagged. While Kronk is a genuine DumbMuscle archetype, his HiddenDepths sections (as seen below) also shows he has intelligence in different fields.
348* BreakoutCharacter: To the point that he even got his own DirectToVideo sequel.
349* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Kronk is capable of incredible superhuman athletics, such as running from a school to his house and back in mere seconds, and running up a mountain (while having a seat tied to his body with Yzma riding atop). Through the series, it is learned that Kronk comes from a family of athletic health and fitness advocates.
350* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kronk's ditzy nature is quite unique. He can talk to squirrels, acts like nothing in the world bothers him, and constantly talks to himself. He even manages to pick right up as the chef at a greasy spoon diner after the chef quits.
351* DeadpanSnarker: High on the 'deadpan', low on the 'snarky'. But he still has some of the funniest lines in the film. Slightly moreso in the TV series:
352-->'''Yzma:''' (''regarding her age'') I'm only 48!\
353'''Kronk:''' In dog years, maybe.
354* TheDitz: To the [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass untrained]] [[HiddenDepths eye]] anyway, he's rather untrained himself.
355* TheDragon: To Yzma, being her right-hand man and the secondary antagonist of the first film and TV series.
356* DumbMuscle: Kronk is very muscular, but also incredibly naïve and childish. It takes him many hours before he recognizes Pacha from the diner in the movie, only managing to figure this out after he'd fallen asleep and Pacha and Kuzco had a multiple-hour head start.
357* DumbassHasAPoint: Yzma lays into him when she realises that he mixed up the poison for Kuzco with extract of llama, but Kronk reasonably points out that all her concoctions look the same, plus they're not very efficientally labelled.
358* EveryoneHasStandards: When he drops Llama Kuzco in the river, he's genuinely concerned about him dying. Even though this is what [[BigBad Yzma]] wants, Kronk can't bring himself to kill someone. In the TV series, he also refuses to take part in any of Yzma's plans if they involve harming Bucky or interfering with Junior Chipmunk business.
359* ExtremeDoormat: Him being so docile and accepting is what makes him put up with all of Yzma's constant abuse and Kuzco's constant egomania. Of course, after his HeelFaceTurn, he stops being a doormat to Yzma.
360* FriendToAllChildren: Kronk turns out to be great with kids, as seen when he plays jump rope with Tipo and Chaca. He's also a Chipmunk Scout leader.
361* FriendToAllLivingThings: He can communicate with animals and is especially fluent in speaking with squirrels. He even plays "Exotic Bird Bingo", getting distracted by one of nature's creatures.
362* GeniusDitz: While the ditzy part is unquestionable, he knows how to be liked by anyone he meets (another kind of intelligence), is a great cook, has a lot of practical knowledge about things and can survive in the wild all by himself, plus he's fluent in squirrel and HashHouseLingo. Moreover he as a surprising analytical insight where many others seem to fail, he was the first to figure out that Pacha was with the transformed Emperor trying to help him get back. Although he's a little slow on the uptake he can figure things out pretty quickly too, even guessing what the evil Yzma was planning beforehand ahead of anyone else.
363* GoodAngelBadAngel: Has a pair of these, which basically look like himself dressed as a stereotypical angel and devil respectively. They're also {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s like him, so their conversations tend to quickly go off the rails. He's the only one who can see them, so it deeply confuses others when they see him talking to them.
364* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Despite making a HeelFaceTurn at the end of the movie, he does frequently go back to working for Yzma on several occasions in the TV series, and he also briefly teams up with her for one segment of his own movie.
365* HeelFaceTurn: At the end of the movie, he quits working for Yzma. Unlike Kuzco though, Kronk was already an otherwise decent person, so it wasn't quite as difficult for him to leave the evil henchman lifestyle behind.
366* HiddenDepths: Let us count the ways:
367** He's a SupremeChef and he gets HashHouseLingo right away.
368** He used to take interpretive dance, though he usually had to be in the back due to weak ankles.
369** [[SpeaksFluentAnimal He's fluent in the languages of woodland creatures, including squirrel.]]
370** He's quite skilled at various kinds of jump rope and seems to genuinely bond with Pacha's kids over it.
371** He balks when Yzma orders him to break down the closet door in Pacha's house, pointing out that it's hand-carved mahogany.
372** It was revealed in The Emperor's New School episode "Oops, All Doodles" that Kronk has a talent for drawing.
373** Kronk is familiar with exotic bird species and documents one on a clipboard he brought with him.
374** One exchange with Yzma indicates about [[GrammarNazi correcting one’s grammar]]:
375--->'''Yzma:''' Tell us where the talking llama is, and we'll burn your house to the ground!\
376'''Kronk:''' Uh, don't you mean "or"?\
377'''Yzma:''' ''[sigh]'' Tell us where the talking llama is, '''OR''' we'll burn your house to the ground!
378* HugeGuyTinyGirl:
379** A platonic example. The hulking giant to Yzma's LeanAndMean body-type BigBad.
380** Kronk is the same OneHeadTaller giant when he becomes an OfficialCouple with the lean, but nice Birdwell.
381* HypercompetentSidekick: Yzma ''thinks'' he's a BumblingSidekick, but he's actually this. She wouldn't have survived the trek through the woods without him.
382* IntergenerationalFriendship: The sequel shows that he is close with the town seniors. Rudy in particular is, according to his shoulder angel, his best friend.
383* ImpliedLoveInterest: In the first film Kuzco snarks that Yzma get a new young, handsome male assistant "every decade or so"; and during their dinner small talk remarks "He's nice. What is he, 20?" Kronk turning against her after her verbal abuse plays a bit like the end of a toxic romantic relationship. However, ''Kronk's New Groove'' does away with this by having him disgusted at the mere thought of a "proposition"; and the series had them firmly as PlatonicLifePartners.
384* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Yzma insults Kronk's intelligence in numerous ways, and he just brushes it off. But then, she says that "I never liked your spinach puffs!" and Kronk starts to cry.
385* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: So much so that you can barely even call him a villain.
386* LanternJawOfJustice: A villainous example, though "villain" is kind of a stretch with Kronk. Which is exactly why it works; the audience knows Kronk isn't that bad of a guy because he doesn't look that evil. Especially when standing next to Yzma.
387* LateToTheRealization: Double subverted. Kronk wakes up in the middle of the night after meeting Kuzco and Pacha in a random diner, seemingly recognizing Pacha... and then falls right back asleep. A few moments later, Kronk wakes up again, and this time, he gets it.
388-->'''Kronk:''' The peasant! At the diner... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint He didn't pay his cheque]]! (''falls back asleep for a few moments, then suddenly wakes back up'') It's the peasant who I saw leaving the city, who disappeared into the crowd with Kuzco on the back of his cart! (''gasp'') He must have taken him back to his village. So if we find the village, we find him. And if we find him, we find Kuzco. Oh yeah. It's all coming together.
389* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Kronk is a huge man who enjoys [[RealMenWearPink baking]] and other similar hobbies. His father who is introduced in the sequel is a short statured man who doesn't view such things as being merits of someone he would consider as successful. Upon seeing the lengths [[TrueCompanions Kronk's friends]] would do to [[AFriendInNeed help him out]] and their overall view of him however, Kronk's father [[SoProudOfYou gives his approval]] in light of his son's character rather than the standards that he personally believes in.
390* LovedByAll: Despite being Yzma’s minion, Kronk is a very well liked individual in the empire. In ''Kronk's New Groove'', Kronk has tons of friends who are more than willing to help him impress his father by posing as his wives and children, including Pacha and his family. Kronk even has animal friends like Bucky and jaguars due to learning how to talk to them as a junior chipmunk.
391* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He couldn't be much nicer. The guy is only a villain by virtue of working for the BigBad. When he makes a HeelFaceTurn, it's believable because it's not like he had all that far to turn in the first place.
392** When Yzma infiltrates Pacha's house by saying they're distant relatives, it seems Kronk actually ''believes'' this. He plays games with the kids, has a blast, and doesn't leave without urging Chicha to not wait until the next family reunion for a get together.
393** In spite of going through with the plan to poison Kuzco, Kronk seems to be concerned about the emperor dying.
394* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Kronk disowns Yzma after she makes an acerbic comment about his beloved spinach puffs. The insult is so harsh that even Kronk's ''Shoulder Devil'' is disgusted by it.
395* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Yzma criticizing his spinach puffs is enough for him to [[HeelFaceTurn turn against her]] in the climax.
396* MusclesAreMeaningless: Zigzagged. Kronk is muscular, and he’s fairly athletic, that he can clear long distances in a few minutes, and even Kuzco knows he’d easily lose to him in an arm-wrestling match. But, most of the time, he’s portrayed as averagely strong as the rest of the cast, who are fairly lean in stature.
397* NiceGuy: Kronk is a good-hearted man who's quick to make friends with anyone he meets despite working under the BigBad. He's quite possibly the farthest thing from a villain in any Disney film to date, holding absolutely no grudges or malice against the heroes.
398* NominalVillain: He's only a "villain" because he's working for Yzma, but doesn't actually have an evil bone in his body.
399* OddFriendship: Hits it off pretty quickly with Bucky the Squirrel. Helped by the fact that Kronk is fluent in squirrel.
400* OfficialCouple: With Birdwell in the sequel.
401* PunchClockVillain: Working for Yzma is just a job for him. He doesn't hold any malice towards Kuzco.
402* RealMenCook: Kronk is revealed to be a great chef, who can make such things, as spinach puffs and fondue. He also has a secret recipe for foie gras. Kronk knows a variety of recipes, as revealed in the first film when he takes over for the chef when the chef quits his job after being criticized by Kuzco. He's also surprisingly good with kitchen talk.
403-->'''Kronk:''' "[[HashHouseLingo Three oinkers wearing pants, a plate of hot air, basket of Grandma's breakfast, and change the bull to a gill]]. Got it."
404* RealMenWearPink: In addition to baking, some of Kronk's other hobbies include ballet and jump rope.
405* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Averted, for comedy. At first it seems that Yzma has killed Kronk by throwing him down a trap door to his death, but he actually emerges from it alive and completely unharmed... in the process, hitting [[ItMakesSenseinContext kitty Yzma]].
406* SmartBall: Kronk typically ends up being the OnlySaneMan in his GoodAngelBadAngel scenes.
407* SpannerInTheWorks: Due to mixing up the labelling on the potions, Kronk accidentally spiked Kuzco's drink with llama extract instead of poison, which saved the emperor's life at the cost of transforming him into a llama. Kronk is then ordered to dispose of Kuzco, but he doesn't go through with dropping him off the city's canals after a change of heart, and while thinking of another way to get rid of the emperor he accidentally drops him off on Pacha's moving carriage. Knowing he's screwed up, Kronk doesn't tell Yzma what happened until Kuzco gets a head start on his return home.
408* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Kronk can talk to little woodland creatures, thanks to his Junior Chipmunk training.
409* StrongFamilyResemblance: When his father is shown in the DTV sequel, Kronk looks ''exactly'' like him. The only differences are his father's grey hair and short stature.
410* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: He talks to squirrels.
411* SupremeChef: He can cook ''anything''. He even gets HashHouseLingo instantly, and takes over for a missing chef without missing a step.
412* TopHeavyGuy: He mentions that he's a nightmare to tailor for, being a 66 long, 31 waist -- meaning, his chest is ''five and a half feet around.''
413* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Kronk's affinity for spinach puffs, which he is borderline obsessed with.
414* UnskilledButStrong: Subverted. Kronk lacks some basic common sense and basic intelligence - considering that he cannot follow a conversation for much more than ten seconds - but he is fluent in woodland creature languages (particularly skilled in squirrel), is a SupremeChef, and even has his own moments of genius clarity and realization. And he fits the "strong" part to a tee.
415* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He accidentally gives Yzma the idea to kill Kuzco.
416* VagueAge: According to this exchange:
417-->'''Kuzco:''' He's, what... in his late-twenties?\
418'''Yzma:''' ''[uncomfortably]'' I'm... not sure.
419** However, in Emperor's New School season 2, episode 22, flashbacks indicate that he was in his late teens when Kuzco was just a baby, making him close to twice Kuzco's age.
420* WellDoneSonGuy: All he wants is a thumbs-up from his dad. Granted, the guy isn't very hard to please, as Papi claims that seeing Kronk seemingly having forgotten about cooking and talking animals is more than enough for him. He gets one.
421* XanatosSpeedChess: Astoundingly, after he forgets which goblet holds the poisoned drink, he manages to play a mean game of this. Kronk proceeds to mix all three drinks so that they are all poisoned, communicate this fact to Yzma, and covertly dispose of his own drink while Kuzco remains none the wiser.
422[[/folder]]
423
424[[folder:Kronk's Consciences]]
425[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kronk_coinsecene.jpg]]
426-> '''Devil Kronk''': ''"Don't listen to that guy, [[GoodFeelsGood he's trying to lead you down the path of righteousness]]. [[EvilIsCool I'm gonna lead you down the path that rocks!]]"''
427-> '''Angel Kronk''': ''"Oh, come off it!"''
428-> '''Devil Kronk''': "[[NoYou You]] ''come off it!"''
429->'''Voiced in English by''': Creator/PatrickWarburton
430->'''Voiced in European French by''': Creator/EmmanuelCurtil
431->'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/KenyuuHoriuchi
432->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by''': Ruben Cerda
433->'''Voiced in Swedish by''': Creator/FredrikHiller
434
435Kronk's shoulder angel and shoulder devil. They appear whenever he faces a moral dilemma, but their constant bickering and [[CloudCuckooLander questionable logic]] don't help him come to a conclusion.
436----
437* BigBad: Kronk's shoulder devil in WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove, since Yzma plays a more minimal role this sequel and is barely working against Kronk. While Papi's impending arrival and Kronk's fear of disappointing him are what drives the main conflict, the shoulder devil continuously encourages Kronk to take the selfish and easy path to winning Papi's approval, nearly causing Kronk to compromise his morals.
438* CloudCuckooLander: They're not any less outlandish than their Ego. Sometimes he even acts as their CloudCuckooLandersMinder.
439* {{Crossdresser}}: Kronk's shoulder devil teases his good counterpart for being this, though Angel Kronk [[InsistentTerminology insists he's wearing a robe]].
440* DramaticGunCock: Devil Kronk manages to do this with his trident when he turns on Yzma.
441* EvenEvilHasStandards: As eager as he is to make his Ego commit bad acts, Kronk's shoulder devil is appalled at Yzma for insulting her sidekick's spinach puffs and [[HeelFaceTurn decides to turn on her]].
442* EvilIsCool: In-universe example. The shoulder devil wants Kronk to do evil because it's "the path that rocks".
443* GoodAngelBadAngel: They appear when Kronk has conflicted thoughts, but they're not good at their job and usually leave Kronk to make decisions by himself.
444* GoodFeelsGood: Angel Kronk wants Kronk to become a better person, but his evil counterpart makes fun of him for it.
445* HarpOfFemininity: Angel Kronk also gets teased by Devil Kronk for using one of these. He [[TranquilFury calmly, but clearly frustratedly]] tells his evil counterpart that it's [[InsistentTerminology not]] called a "[[BuffySpeak sissy stringy music thing]]".
446* HeelFaceTurn: Devil Kronk undergoes one after Yzma [[BerserkButton insults Kronk's spinach puffs]]. He goes back to being the traditional shoulder devil in [[WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove the sequel]], though.
447* InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: They're only visible to Kronk, so while we see a man having an inner conflict through his eyes, through everyone else's we see a deluded buffoon talking to himself.
448* InsaneTrollLogic: Devil Kronk's reasons to not listen to Angel Kronk are 1) his good counterpart uses a harp and wears a robe, and 2) he can do a one-armed handstand. Somehow, Angel Kronk agrees with his evil counterpart on the latter.
449* InsistentTerminology: Angel Kronk's "[[BuffySpeak sissy stringy music thing]]" is called a harp, and he's wearing a robe, [[{{Crossdresser}} not a dress]].
450* RealMenWearPink: Kronk's shoulder angel is just as musclebound as his Ego, and he likes to get his hair dressed when off-duty.
451* SignificantDoubleCasting: Since they're figments of Kronk's imagination, they have the same voice actor as him.
452[[/folder]]
453
454[[folder:Chicha]]
455[[quoteright:285:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b0ecdb9fb5407c42c6e2b35d4d9699b7.jpg]]
456->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WendieMalick
457->'''Voiced in French by:''' Frédérique Tirmont (European French dub)
458->'''Voiced in Spanish by:''' Rebeca Patiño (Latin Spanish dub
459->'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Anna Rydgren
460
461Pacha's frustrated wife. Despite being pregnant and busy raising two kids, she's a true spitfire who wouldn't think twice about giving the Emperor himself a piece of her mind! A loving mama and loyal wife who, in a pinch, proves she's not to be messed with. Ever.
462----
463* ActionMom: She's ''very'' pregnant, so she doesn't do much in terms of action, but she's pretty quick with a FryingPanOfDoom.
464* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Not for Kuzco's death but celebrated with her children when Kuzco was graduating and finally going to move out of their home.
465* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a very loving mother and wonderful woman, but can be quite fierce when angered and sadistic when given free reign to torture Yzma.
466* BrutalHonesty: Considering how selfish Kuzco had been and with him living under her roof, she doesn't hold back against him.
467* FryingPanOfDoom: Uses a frying pan to hit Kuzco (still a llama) after he accidently scared her.
468* GoodParents: Along with Pacha, she is a kind and loving parent.
469* HappilyMarried: Has a warm and loving relationship with Pacha.
470* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The Tiny Girl to Pacha's Huge Guy.
471* NeatFreak: When Pacha reports that Kuzco refused to see him, Chicha gets so frustrated that the only thing she can do to let off steam is to go and wash something. Naturally, Kuzco's slovenliness tends to irk her.
472* NiceGirl: She's a loving wife towards Pacha and a loving mother towards her children.
473* ParentalSubstitute: She admits to Kuzco in one episode that he's [[LikeASonToMe like a son to her]], though she doesn't want him to call her mommy.
474* PregnantBadass: Yes, in a Disney animated film. Played more realistically than usual since she's almost at term, but she still clocks Kuzco and makes a fool of Yzma with the help of her other kids.
475* TextileWorkIsFeminine: According to Pacha, she crochets. At the end of the film she presents Kuzco with a poncho (decorated with a llama, naturally).
476[[/folder]]
477
478[[folder:Chaca]]
479[[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chaca.jpg]]
480-> '''Voiced by:''' Kellyann Kelso (1st film), Creator/JessieFlower (2nd film and series)
481->'''Voiced in French by:''' Camille Donda (European French dub)
482->'''Voiced in Spanish by:''' Anaís Portillo (Latin Spanish dub, first movie); Jessica Ángeles (Latin Spanish dub, second movie and TV series)
483->'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Linnea Järpestam (first movie), Norea Sjöqvist (second movie, TV series)
484
485Pacha and Chicha's oldest child and only daughter. Chaca gets into fights with her brother, Tipo, and is quite talkative.
486----
487* GirlishPigtails: She has two pigtails, but isn't exactly girly.
488* ImprobableHairstyle: How do her pigtails stand up like that?
489* MotorMouth: Can out-talk anyone.
490* NiceGirl: Chaca is a fun-loving and sweet person.
491* ParentalSexualitySquick: Together with Tipo. They both agree to hit the hay rather than listen to Pacha and Chicha talk about how much they love each other.
492* SiblingTeam: With Tipo when they distract Yzma with their mother.
493* TinyGuyHugeGirl: A sibling version. With Tipo. {{Justified}} since she's older.
494* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Both she and Tipo are very smart and help their mother in her plan to stall the villains so Kuzco and their father can get back to the palace. It's revealed in the series that she's a straight-A student.
495[[/folder]]
496
497[[folder:Tipo]]
498[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tipo.jpg]]
499-> '''Voiced by:''' Eli Russell Linnetz (1st and 2nd flm), Shane Baumel (series)
500->'''Voiced in French by:''' Matthias Mella (European French dub)
501->'''Voiced in Spanish by:''' Raúl Garduño (Latin Spanish dub, first movie); Manuel Díaz (Latin Spanish dub, second movie and TV series)
502->'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Anton Nyman (first movie), Daniel Melén (second movie, TV series)
503
504Pacha and Chicha's middle child and oldest son. Tipo gets into fights with his sister, Chaca and wants to be just like his dad.
505----
506* AdaptationalModesty: He was shirtless in the first movie, but wears a shirt in later installments.
507* AscendedExtra: Tipo gets more screentime in the sequel.
508* CassandraTruth: "I had a dream that Dad was tied to a log and was careening out of control down a raging river of death!" Turned out he was right.
509* FriendToBugs: One of the things Tipo likes is bugs.
510* NiceGuy: Tipo has a kind and fun-loving personality.
511* SiblingTeam: With Chaca when they distract Yzma with their mother.
512* TinyGuyHugeGirl: A sibling version. With Chaca. {{Justified}} since he's younger.
513* WellDoneSonGuy: {{Implied}}. Tipo greatly admires his father and wants to be just like him.
514* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Like Chaca, Tipo is very smart for his age and helps his mother and sister distract Yzma so his father and Kuzco can escape back to the palace. He and Chaca also very often help Kuzco out in the TV series.
515[[/folder]]
516
517[[folder:Bucky the Squirrel]]
518[[quoteright:228:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/04f70913a8a5f46ad03e58c32bf0412e.jpg]]
519->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BobBergen
520
521Bucky is a kind, happy squirrel who enjoys eating nuts and has a good sense of friendship, good enough to make him hate arrogant people like Kuzco and act cross with them. He is also a great friend of Kronk's and is a tutor on Squirrel Speak in Kuzco Academy.
522----
523* BewareTheNiceOnes: Best shown when he first meets Kuzco as a llama. Bucky arrives and amiably offers him an acorn. Kuzco takes the acorn in mock pleasantry but then hits Bucky on the head with it and tells him to hit the road. Right after, Kuzco falls into an area filled with sleeping jaguars. Bucky blows up a balloon animal and threatens to pop it. He does so but it fails to wake up the jaguars until Kuzco screams "Ha!" He later tells Kronk, and by extension Yzma, which way Kuzco went, where before they were utterly lost.
524* DisproportionateRetribution: Kuzco was undoubtedly a complete jerk to him for no reason whatsoever, but trying to feed him to a pack of jaguars borders on ComedicSociopathy. BewareTheNiceOnes, indeed.
525* JerkassToOne: We only see his dark side around Kuzco, but it is justified because this is Kuzco we're talking about.
526* MeaningfulName: He is a squirrel with buck teeth named Bucky.
527* NiceGuy: Offers an acorn to anyone he meets. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Just make sure you appreciate his gift, or else he'll wake up a pack of jaguars as revenge.]]
528* NonHumanSidekick: Bucky reappears in the sequel as Kronk's "sidekick" of sorts. He is also a part of Kronk's Squirrel Scouts organization.
529* OddFriendship: With Kronk. Helped by the fact that Kronk is fluent in squirrel.
530* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Kuzco refers to him as "Bucky".
531* ScrewballSquirrel: He is first nice and friendly, but when Kuzco tells him off, he goes into full {{sadist}} mode, making a llama-shaped balloon animal and popping it to wake up a pack of jaguars.
532* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Like any squirrel, Bucky is fond of nuts and acorns.
533* {{Troll}}: If threatening to wake up a sleeping pack of killer jaguars with a balloon animal wasn't enough, Bucky also makes it into the shape of a llama and mercilessly taunts Kuzco before popping it.
534[[/folder]]
535
536!!Introduced in ''WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove''
537
538[[folder:Papi]]
539[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/papi_of_kronk.jpg]]
540->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnMahoney (film), Creator/JeffBennett (series)
541->'''Voiced in French by:''' Creator/MarcCassot (European French dub)
542->'''Voiced in Spanish by:''' Jesse Conde (Latin Spanish dub)
543->'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Torsten Wahlund
544
545Introduced in ''Kronk's New Groove'', Papi is Kronk's father, and while he can be a very harsh, overly strict individual, he does have a more [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold benevolent]] side too.
546----
547* AbusiveParents: Kronk's quite terrified of him, and sure enough, he comes across as being rather awfully stern and domineering toward his son, not to mention he always rubbed in young Kronk's face his distaste regarding Kronk's hobbies such as cooking and talking to animals, which he seems to consider stereotypically girly and unfit for a man. However, his care for his son is genuine nonetheless, and he does love Kronk, albeit in his own DrillSergeantNasty manner.
548* ADogNamedDog: A dad named Papi (The word Papi being a diminutive of "Papá", the spanish word for dad).
549* AntiClimax: His imposing silhouette in Kronk's flashback seemingly makes him out to be a rather tall, almost monstrous individual. Sure enough, when Papi comes to Mudka's near the end of the movie, we hear gigantic footsteps coming from him as he approaches the restaurant... and he turns out to be a rather [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens short-sized man]]. [[TheNapoleon Don't let that fool you though.]]
550* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Papi may act like an army general toward Kronk most of the time, but his love for his son is genuine, and he happily gives Kronk the thumbs-up he desired so much upon seeing how far he has come, followed by him and Kronk embracing.
551* BetaCouple: He eventually meets and falls in love with Mudka's waitress.
552* DisappointedInYou: He frequently gives Kronk the dreaded 'Nostril Flare of Total Rejection' whenever Kronk doesn't live up to his expectations of him in his childhood.
553* TheDreaded: Kronk is utterly scared of what will happen to him if Papi sees he did not live to his expectations, and even shows a list of furious expressions he might make when he finds out Kronk is a cook. Even Pacha and others seem to find him slightly intimidating.
554* DrillSergeantNasty: He constantly behaves like this around Kronk, barking out military orders to him, and when he meets Chaka and her little brother under the lie that they are Kronk's children, he angrily orders them to stand tall and say their name and ages. Granted, this one is more understandable, as Papi first asked them kindly to introduce themselves, but since they refused to answer out of fear, he had to yell at them.
555* FantasyForbiddingFather: He greatly disaproves of Kronk's fondness for cooking and talking to animals, and would rather prefer for him to settle down with a family on a nice house on a hill, but eventually changes his mind in the end, and tells his son he's proud of the man he's become.
556* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Indeed, upon finding out his son ultimately did not achieve any of the things he hoped for him (Wife, children, and a house on the hill) and became a cook, Papi's utterly furious and disappointed, and even outright says that Kronk caring more for his friends prevented him from obtaining the whole house-on-the-hill-and-family thing. However, once he hears Kronk did win those things, but lost them by making many sacrifices for the ones he cared about, he comes to terms with this, and rewards his son's selflessness with a thumbs-up and a hug.
557* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: He seems somewhat elderly and is very short.
558* TheNapoleon: What he lacks in height, he makes up for it with his belligerent attitude.
559* SkywardScream: After the fondue explodes and floods everything, pretty much destroying Kronk's lie:
560-->--'''[[SayMyName KROOOOOOOOONKEEEEEERRRR!!!!!]]'''.
561* SoProudOfYou: After realizing Kronk legitimately earned a house on a hill and a girlfriend, but gave them up by making sacrifices for his friends, Papi finally awards him the 'big thumbs-up' he deserved, and tells his son he's proud of him before giving him a hug.
562* StoutStrength: He's a little portly, but far from a slob.
563* StrongFamilyResemblance: Kronk looks quite a good deal like Papi, having a similar head, upper body and even the same hair style as him.
564* TemptingFate: Upon meeting Kronk's "family" at Mudka's, he says he's starving and hopes the chef knows what he's doing, completely oblivious at that moment of Kronk's poor attempt at [[MaintainTheLie maintaining his lie.]]
565[[/folder]]
566
567[[folder:Birdwell]]
568----
569[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kronks_new_groove_disneyscreencapscom_3942.jpg]]
570->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TraceyUllman
571->'''Voiced in French by:''' Laëtitia Lefebvre (European French dub)
572->'''Voiced in Spanish by:''' Patricia Palestino (Latin Spanish dub)
573->'''Voiced in Swedish by:''' Myrra Malmberg
574
575Birdwell is the troop captain of her "Chippers" and the LoveInterest of Kronk in the sequel.
576----
577* AffectionateNickname: "Miss Birdy-poo" by Kronk.
578* AnimalMotifs: Like her name suggests, she has some avian qualities.
579* BewareTheNiceOnes: Birdwell is an absolute sweetheart...until you harm any of her Chippers.
580* BigOlEyebrows: Like Konk, she has black and thick eyebrows.
581* BirdsOfAFeather: With Kronk. Both are friendly chipmunk scout leaders (making them both FriendToAllChildren), love baking, are {{Spirited Competitor}}s, and are ''amazing'' dancers.
582* ColorMotifs: The color orange surrounds her a lot.
583* DubNameChange: She is named "Avelinda" (Pretty bird) in the Latin American dub.
584* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When she helps her youngest charge get over a fear of swimming by talking it out and using a doll as an example.
585* EtTuBrute: She's '''furious''' that Kronk told Tipo to 'do whatever it takes to win' in the final round of the competition, and breaks up with him as a result.
586* EveryoneHasStandards: She may be the competitive type, but she draws the line at cheating.
587* {{Foil}}: She is as devoted to her charges as Kronk is to his. She's just more concerned about the rules and procedure, whereas he's more fun-loving. Design-wise, she's almost the perfect foil to Kronk, too. While he's a wide, muscular man with a thick neck, narrow head, small hips, nose and feet, she's a really thin and lean woman with a very thin long neck, wide head, and really big hips, nose and feet.
588* FriendToAllChildren: Why she became a troop captain. She is very kind and helpful to her "Chippers", and would not let anything happen to them, especially to the point of not letting Kronk and his Chipmunks ruin their events.
589* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The lean and trim Birdwell becomes an OfficialCouple with Kronk, the OneHeadTaller GentleGiant.
590* LoveInterest: To Kronk in the sequel.
591* MeaningfulName: '''Bird'''well's {{animal motif}} are of avian qualities.
592* NiceGirl: Has a caring and loving personality.
593* OddNameOut: In a cast filled with ancient Mesoamerican and Spanish names, she sticks out like a sore thumb.
594* OfficialCouple: With Kronk at the end of his movie, where Tipo, feeling guilty over the prank he pulled on the Chippers, reunites them.
595* PrimAndProperBun: She wears her hair in a tight bun.
596* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She initially didn't like [[GentleGiant Kronk]] because she thought he was a careless troop leader. After they make bread together, she realizes that he's more than what she thought: Kind, romantic, and loves his "chippers". She falls for him as instantly as he falls for her.
597[[/folder]]
598
599!!Introduced in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool''
600
601[[folder:Malina]]
602[[quoteright:163:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/153_1304365027.jpg]]
603->'''Voiced in English by''': Creator/JessicaDiCicco
604->'''Voiced in European French by''': Creator/DorotheePousseo
605->'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/YuuAsakawa
606->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by''': Creator/GabyUgarte
607
608A new main character in the spin-off series. She's Kuzco's LoveInterest, which isn't a well kept secret. Malina is a cheerleader and the school council president who also is very smart and prints the Academy's news scroll. She is also a straight-A student, which is apparently a requirement for the cheerleading squad (which is a twist to most stereotypical "airheaded" cheerleaders).
609----
610* TheAce: Head cheerleader, school council president, attractive.
611* AnimalMotifs: It's subtle, but she's loosely associated with birds. She is seen wearing a poncho with a bird on it at one point, matching Kuzco's llama poncho, and about the only time she's transformed by one of Yzma's animal potions, she becomes a parrot.
612* BigOlEyebrows: She has black, rectangular-shaped eyebrows.
613* BrokenAce: Shows this in Season 2. She is driven to excel almost to the point of having a nervous breakdown if she doesn't do everything perfectly perfect (a prime example of a Type A personality).
614* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Eventually is given flaws; notably, she's made into a perfectionist and occasionally a control freak. And she's noted to be a bit competitive, to the point that even ''Kuzco'' thinks she's scary.
615-->'''Malina:''' I ''love'' winning!
616* ControlFreak: On a bad day, she will leverage her "Malina Stare" to make sure everything goes the way she wants without consideration for others.
617* DeathGlare: The "Malina Stare", something that both Kuzco and Kronk are terrified of. It's even accompanied by PsychoStrings.
618* DudeMagnet: Malina has attracted a number of men, including Kuzco; if you remember from the first movie, he showed absolute disinterest in all of the attractive women who he was to choose for a bride.
619* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: She's constantly annoyed not just by Kuzco constantly calling her his girlfriend, but the fact that others seem to believe it. Though she gets less frustrated with it as the series goes on.
620* LiteralSplitPersonality: At one point, Kuzco splits her in dozens of parts of her personality so he could date the part that was in love with him. Naturally, this ended in disaster.
621* MoralityPet: The only times [[ItsAllAboutMe Kuzco]] will do something selfless is when Malina wants him to.
622* NiceGirl: Malina has a very high moral mindset.
623* NotSoAboveItAll: Though usually the OnlySaneWoman, occasionally she would fall into her own faults and oddball traits, especially later on in the series - for example, one episode deals with her getting increasingly obsessed with getting first place in a meaningless contest to the point of cheating.
624* OfficialCouple: With Kuzco by the series finale.
625* OnlySaneWoman: She will usually be the one to be the most rational when it comes to some kind of craziness or Kuzco's selfishness.
626* ThePerfectionist: Increasingly as the series went on. A few later episodes dealt with how she got in her own way because of this.
627* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Malina admits that she does like [[HiddenHeartOfGold Kuzco]] and would ''really'' like him, if it weren't for his arrogance and egotism.
628* SmarterThanYouLook: While not looking "dumb", being a straight-A student while also being the head cheerleader is unusual.
629[[/folder]]
630
631[[folder:Mr. Moleguaco]]
632->'''Voiced by:''' Curtis Armstrong; Roberto Mendiola (Latin Spanish dub)
633
634Kuzco's teacher.
635----
636* ApatheticTeacher: He becomes this over time. He's usually pretty reasonable and good with students, but he's often exasperated by Kuzco's antics and eventually worn down. By Season 2, he acknowledges how he ''encourages'' Kuzco to skip class and welcomes the idea of being fired.
637-->'''Mr. Moleguaco:''' ''[to class]'' Wake me when I have to do something.
638* PunnyName: Mr. Mole'''guaco'''. Get it? [[DontExplainTheJoke Like the word]] [[EdibleThemeNaming guacamole]]?
639* SternTeacher: He often finds himself constantly lecturing Kuzco on his various shenanigans and forces Kuzco to learn from them with an assignment.
640[[/folder]]
641
642[[folder:Kavo]]
643->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson; Francisco Colmenero (Latin Spanish dub)
644
645The school bully whom Kuzco loves to pick on, resulting in him often being targeted.
646----
647* BullyingADragon: He frequently harasses Kuzco, but it's often because of Kuzco bothering him first.
648* HiddenDepths: He can sing very well and is a member of the Kuzco Academy musical club, as revealed in ''Girls Behaving Oddly''.
649* HulkSpeak: Among the things about Kavo that Kuzco makes fun of is the way he talks, which is in broken sentences and in [[ThirdPersonPerson third person]].
650[[/folder]]
651
652[[folder:Guaca]]
653[[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guaca.jpg]]
654->'''Voiced by:''' Justin Cowden; Creator/VictorUgarte (Latin Spanish dub)
655Kuzco's biggest fanboy from the spin-off show, who is often taken advantage of by Kuzco.
656----
657* AscendedExtra: He was a mere background character in the first season. In the second season, he has a more prominent role.
658* CharacterCatchphrase: "Kuzco rules!"
659* EveryoneHasStandards: While a real FanBoy to Kuzco, there are times when Kuzco makes him angry. He even joined everyone in saying they hated Kuzco when his scheme to get them out of work only succeeded in getting them a mean substitute teacher who octupled their homework.
660* FanBoy: To Kuzco.
661[[/folder]]
662
663[[folder:Yatta]]
664[[quoteright:204:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yatta.jpg]]
665->'''Voiced by:''' Music/MileyCyrus; Georgina "Gina" Sánchez (Latin Spanish dub)
666A waitress at Mutka's introduced in the second season.
667----
668* HollywoodToneDeaf: Despite being voiced by Miley Cyrus, she gets ''rejected'' from the school musical.
669[[/folder]]

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