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1{{Tropers/Karalora}} wrote ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3159333/1/Crowns_of_the_Kingdom Crowns of the Kingdom]]'' in honor of [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland's]] 50th Anniversary. It probably says something about its scope that it was almost time for the 55th Aniversary by the time she posted the final chapter.
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3The story begins with a vengeful [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]] casting a spell to undo all 50 years of Disneyland's development, leaving the park as it was when it first opened in 1955 and trapping every animated character created since then in a limbo between reality and non-existence. In order to rescue them and restore the park to its 2005 state, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and his core group from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts quest to retrieve [[PlotCoupon five decorative crowns]] stolen from the turrets of Sleeping Beauty Castle, each one representing ten years of Disneyland history. Along the way, they are opposed by the Dispirations, {{shapeshifting}} beings from the limbo dimension whom Maleficent has recruited. They also frequently find themselves navigating the hazards of Disneyland's thrill rides, reified as an indirect result of the spell. And then the rest of the Disney Villains get involved...
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5The result is an adventure much in the vein of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''--a Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon crossover featuring a horde of soulless, soul-crushing enemies, the threat of the world's destruction, and Mickey Mouse as an action-ready hero. But what it really is is the author's love letter to Disneyland--a nostalgic journey through the park's history, and a celebration of its capacity to blur the line between reality and imagination.
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8!!This work contains examples of the following tropes:
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10* ActionGirl: Minnie and Daisy. Also the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es during one sequence.
11* AffirmativeActionGirl: Daisy, who joins the party a bit later, no longer making Minnie the only female in the group.
12* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Inpotentia is described as having a colorful sky akin to a kaleidoscope. The final battle against Maleficent takes place in Inpotentia.
13* AmusementParkOfDoom: Thanks to Maleficent's spell, Disneyland becomes one. The rides come to life and Dispirations roam the place.
14* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Downplayed and subverted with the audio-animatronic Confucius, who prefaces each of his maxims with "Confucius say," but drops the pretense and speaks normally when Mickey doesn't get the message.
15* TheAssimilator: The Dispirations take on the characteristics of the land they're in.
16* AuthorAppeal: Disney is ''awesome''!
17* BadassDriver: Minnie, who takes control of Tomorrowland's Monorail, an Atommobile, and a Jeep in the [[TempleOfDoom Temple of Mara]] throughout the fic and manages to be completely awesome each time.
18* BattleCouple:
19** Donald and Daisy combine this trope with DanceBattler in the jungle concert scene.
20** Cinderella and Prince Charming as well.
21* BigBad: Maleficent. The showdown with her comes ''after'' the one with [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]].
22* BigBoosHaunt: The Haunted Mansion.
23* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Harold the Abominable Snowman.
24* BrainwashedAndCrazy: King Louie and his servants are hypnotized by the Dispirations.
25* TheCameo: There are quite a few instances of characters mentioned in passing, who do not play a large role in the story.
26%%* CardCarryingVillain: All the Disney Villains, of course.
27* CatsAreMean: Si and Am the Siamese cats briefly help Maleficent out.
28* CharacterCatchphrase: Mickey deliberately uses his "See ya real soon!" in order to comfort the animated characters.
29* CerebusSyndrome: The cartoony pratfall type gags taper off as the plot heats up.
30* ChekhovsGunman:
31** At the start of the quest, the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Queen of Hearts]] gives Mickey her crown to keep him from forgetting that he's looking for the titular crowns. When the Fab Five find the first crown, the Queen of Hearts's crown makes the first crown tangible and reveals what they need to do to recover the rest of the crowns.
32** Also at the start of the request, Mickey appoints Jiminy Cricket to help him and the others remember should they lose their memories. After [[spoiler:Mickey and Minnie fall into the oubliette, Jiminy helps bring them back by leading everyone to remember them]].
33* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Mickey grapples with this, as sometimes he's so willing to do things himself he doesn't know when to let others help or even when to rest.
34* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[spoiler:Everyone believes in Mickey and Minnie to restore them from nonexistence]].
35* ContrivedCoincidence: Neither Merlin or Ludwig believe in them.
36* CrossoverShipping: The elephants from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' with the elephants from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook''.
37* DeliberateValuesDissonance: From the perspective of the 21st Century, Mickey finds the Confucius presentation embarrassing and inappropriate.
38* DemBones: The skeletons on Pirates of the Caribbean.
39* DistressedDude: The villains capture all the Princes except Charming at one point.
40* DoorStopper: There are 33 chapters, totaling well over 150,000 words.
41* EnvironmentalSymbolism: Compare the location of each crown to the type and quality of the light when Mickey finds it.
42* EvilIsNotAToy: The Disney villains find this out when the summon [[spoiler:[[GodOfEvil Chernabog]]]].
43* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Averted, it's made clear that the villains are willing to betray each other to achieve their goals. In particular, many of the villains are ticked at Maleficent for her spell nearly destroying them.
44* FastballSpecial: Goofy throws the heroes across the river in Frontierland. Including himself.
45* FinalBossNewDimension: Mickey confronts Maleficent in Inpotentia.
46* FryingPanOfDoom: Cinderella wields one while she and the other princesses rescue their boyfriends.
47* GeniusLoci: It's hinted that Disneyland itself is one. It even seems to ''cry out in agony'' when Walt dies.
48* TheHeartless: The Dispirations, although it's not so much that they eat negative emotions as that they crave ''any'' thought pattern that might bring them closer to reality.
49* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Thanks to Hypatia, the Dispirations become Inspirations]].
50* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Maleficent falls victim to her own time-twisting spell, due to ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' being released four years after Disneyland's opening.
51* HostageForMacGuffin: Averted when Minnie and Daisy flee with the Serpent Crown, trusting the guys to handle themselves with the Dispirations.
52* ImprovisedWeapon: The Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es storm the Matterhorn to rescue their boyfriends armed with sports equipment and kitchen utensils.
53* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Mickey notices that when they contact Maleficent in Inpotentia, she already has a name for it, proving that she knew more about it than she was saying.
54* InSeriesNickname: The Fab Five for Mickey's group, as well as the Sensational Six when Daisy joins them.
55* JungleJapes: The Jungle Cruise.
56* LargeHam: The Disney Villains have this trait, and it's part of why they do what they do.
57* LeParkour: Mickey and Minnie get around this way.
58* LittleMissBadass: It's only mentioned briefly, but Annelise, one of the children from the It's a Small World ride, is said to have killer aim when throwing her wooden clogs, something she was preparing to prove to a horde of Dispirations right before the cavalry arrived.
59* LocomotiveLevel: The Monorail sequence.
60* MinecartMadness: Minnie and Daisy ride Big Thunder Mountain at one point to escape the Dispirations.
61* MixAndMatchCritters: Some of the forms taken by the Dispirations thanks to their shapeshifting abilities.
62* TheMole: The Queen of Hearts acts as this for the heroes to inform them about stuff the villains might be planning.
63* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler: Hypatia]].
64* OneWingedAngel: In [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty accordance]] with [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI her]] personal [[Theatre/{{Fantasmic}} tradition]], Maleficent finishes out the final battle in dragon form.
65* OriginalCharacter: Hypatia is a character created for the story.
66* PlotCoupon: The titular crowns, which the characters need to collect in order to restore Disneyland back to normal.
67* PragmaticVillainy: Lady Tremaine elects to stay out of the villains' team up because it wouldn't benefit her or her daughters.
68* PurpleProse: The narrative slips into this from time to time, usually when describing attraction scenery.
69* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Mickey's plan in the epilogue to reward [[spoiler:Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] for his help.
70* RetGone: What happens to anyone who [[spoiler:falls into an Oubliette. This nearly happens to Mickey and Minnie in the end]].
71* TheRoyalWe: The Queen of Hearts uses this at times.
72* RuleOfFunny: Goofy manages to throw himself across the river by way of cartoon physics.
73* RuleOfSymbolism: How Maleficent's curse and its [[CurseEscapeClause escape clause]] work--since the five crowns represent the five decades of Disneyland history, spiriting them away takes the park back in time 50 years, and returning each one to its place on the Castle puts the corresponding decade back into place.
74* SceneryPorn: All areas of Disneyland are described in detail. See PurpleProse.
75* ScienceVsMagic: Personified by Ludwig von Drake and [[WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone Merlin]]. They are capable of working together in a crisis though.
76* ShownTheirWork: The author is a '''''big''''' fan of Disneyland, and goes out of her way to be as historically accurate as possible.
77* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Matterhorn, which is used by the villains as a dungeon to hold the heroes they capture.
78* SugarBowl: "It's a Small World."
79* UnderTheSea: The Submarine Voyage.
80* TempleOfDoom: The Franchise/IndianaJones ride, appropriately enough.
81* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Mickey insists this about the final showdown with Maleficent.
82* TimeyWimeyBall: Complete with some explanatory TechnoBabble on the part of Ludwig von Drake.
83* TrueCompanions: Mickey and his friends.
84* TwoGirlsToATeam:
85** Minnie and Daisy, as part of Mickey's core team.
86** But averted with the "it's a small world" kids, who number six and are an even split.
87* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Maleficent's castle at Inpotentia.
88* VideoGameTropes: You've probably noticed several in this list. This is because Karalora initially envisioned the story as a video game that she wished Disney would make, because she would have had a blast playing it.
89* VillainTeamUp: Seen near the end of the story by the Disney villains.
90* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Minnie Mouse oh so much, especially when Maleficent threatens Mickey.
91* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In-universe. It's a place! It's called "Inpotentia", which is where all unused and forgotten ideas that have been imagined reside.
92* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Dispirations, who are so desperate to exist that they follow Maleficent.
93* YourMindMakesItReal: It turns out that Disneyland is trapped in Inpotentia, protected by a shell made up of the collective memories of everyone who's ever visited it. This has the effect of making the rides more intense, much to the chagrin of Mickey and his friends, who have to navigate them to get the crowns. After a while, the memories start breaking down...

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