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* LoveDodecahedron: Kristyn finds herself at the center of two of ballet's most famous {{Love Triangle}}s: Giselle, Albrecht, and Hilarion in ''Giselle'' and Odette, Siegfried, and Odile in ''Swan Lake''. She

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* LoveDodecahedron: Kristyn finds herself at the center of two of ballet's most famous {{Love Triangle}}s: Giselle, Albrecht, and Hilarion in ''Giselle'' and Odette, Siegfried, and Odile in ''Swan Lake''. She
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* BalefulPolymorph: As you'd expect from ''Theatre/SwanLake'', Rothbart changes unfortunate young women, including Kristyn and Hailey, into swans.


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* ForcedTransformation: As you'd expect from ''Theatre/SwanLake'', Rothbart changes unfortunate young women, including Kristyn and Hailey, into swans.

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''Barbie in The Pink Shoes'' is a Franchise/{{Barbie}} movie. It adapts popular ballets such as ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' and ''Theatre/SwanLake'' while telling its own original story, loosely based on the fairy tale of ''The Red Shoes''. It also borrows inspiration from ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''.

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''Barbie in The Pink Shoes'' is a member of the DirectToVideo Franchise/{{Barbie}} movie. filmography. It was released in 2013, preceded by ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePopstar'' and followed by ''WesternAnimation/BarbieMariposaAndTheFairyPrincess''.

''Pink Shoes''
adapts popular ballets such as ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' and ''Theatre/SwanLake'' while telling its own original story, loosely based on the fairy tale of ''The Red Shoes''. It also borrows inspiration from ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Hailey and Madame Katerina both wear huge pairs of glasses. [[spoiler:Hailey loses them when she is abducted by the Snow Queen, but Kristyn returns them once the spell is broken.]]

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* AlmightyJanitor: [[spoiler:In the final moments of the film, we see that the humble costume designer Madame Katerina has an enormous collection of pink shoes, revealing that she sent Kristyn and Hailey on their adventure.]]



* AnimalStereotypes: Rothbart's design evokes a skunk, with his gray streak and stink-like smoke clouds that transform women into swans.



* BalefulPolymorph: As you'd expect from ''Theatre/SwanLake'', Rothbart changes unfortunate young women, including Kristyn and Hailey, into swans.
* BalletEpisode: One of several Barbie movies to include ballet dancing, but this is the first that's explicitly about ballet.



* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Snow Queen's control over others is blue, while Kristyn's free dancing is pink.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
** At the Prince's ball, Odile is wearing black shoes while Kristyn's are pink.
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The Snow Queen's control over others is blue, while Kristyn's free dancing is pink.pink.
* ControlFreak: In the real world, Madame Natasha is overly meticulous about her students' footwork and berates Kristyn for breaking with the choreography. Her equivalent in the ballet world is even worse: the dreaded Snow Queen, who freezes the life out of any "imperfections" she finds in the stories.



* DieOrFly: Literally. After being turned into swans and realizing their only hope is getting to the castle before Prince Siegfried proposes to the wrong woman, Hailey is unsure if she can fly. She quickly figures it out when Hilarion and Albrecht arrive with their bows and arrows.
* FairyTaleFreeForAll: Kristyn and Hailey experience the plots of ''Giselle'' and ''Swan Lake'' (apparently, Prince Siegfried and Duke Albrecht are cousins), and there's a brief scene depicting the characters from ''Theatre/TheNutcracker''. The antagonist is [[Literature/TheSnowQueen the Snow Queen]], from an in-universe ballet based on the Creator/HansChristianAndersen story. Oddly, it has very little to do with ''Literature/TheRedShoes'', where its title seems to come from.



* AnIcePerson: The Snow Queen rides around in a frozen chariot pulled by reindeer, and breathes on people to change them into icy statues that she can control.
* IceQueen: Madame Natasha is cold, distant, and harsh to her ballerinas. She's also unusually comfortable with the excessive air conditioning. Not surprisingly, she becomes the villainous Snow Queen in the ballet world.



* LoveDodecahedron: Kristyn finds herself at the center of two of ballet's most famous {{Love Triangle}}s: Giselle, Albrecht, and Hilarion in ''Giselle'' and Odette, Siegfried, and Odile in ''Swan Lake''. She



* MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover: Kristyn enters the worlds of ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' and ''Theatre/SwanLake'', altering the stories in the process. She also encounters the Snow Queen.
* {{Meganekko}}: Hailey and Madame Katerina both wear huge pairs of glasses.

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* MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover: Kristyn enters the worlds of ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' ''Giselle'' and ''Theatre/SwanLake'', ''Swan Lake'', altering the stories in the process. She also encounters the Snow Queen.
* {{Meganekko}}: Hailey and Madame Katerina both wear huge pairs of glasses. [[spoiler:Hailey loses them when she is abducted by the Snow Queen, but Kristyn returns them once the spell is broken.]]



* NeverSayDie: Hailey has to communicate that they can't stay in the story of ''Giselle'' because of the inevitable tragic ending, without informing the child audience that Giselle [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] in the proper story, either by dancing herself to death or stabbing herself with Albrecht's sword.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Hailey to Kristyn. Their bond forms the core of the movie, and [[spoiler:the climax of the film is Kristyn charging in to rescue Hailey from the Snow Queen]].



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%%* * OnlySaneMan: Hailey.Hailey often has to bring Kristyn back down to reality as her friend gets caught up in the adventure. Hailey's the first to figure out that the pink shoes themselves have brought them to this world, and all Kristyn has to do is take them off to get home, but Kristyn is too excited about the fantasy adventure to listen to reason.


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* PeoplePuppets: Anyone who falls outside of the Snow Queen's vision of perfection has the life frozen out of them and she puppeteers them as a "proper" ballet troupe.


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* PrimAndProperBun: As Odette and Giselle, Kristyn's hair is arranged in this style [[spoiler:and when she breaks free and dances as herself, it's in a more elaborate up-do, and for the finally, she wears it down in cascading curls.]]


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* StageMom: Gender-flipped with Tara's father, who pesters Madame Natasha endlessly about giving his daughter more to perform to show off in front of the ballet scouts. His ballet world counterpart has a similar attitude about getting his daughter Odile to marry the prince.


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* SwansASwimming: Subverted. The swans definitely look graceful and elegant, but Kristyn and Hailey find ways to wreak havoc in their feathered forms.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Albrecht and Hilarion appear as a comedic double act throughout the story, frustrating each other with their very different worldviews as they try to find Giselle.
* TruerToTheText: This is Barbie's second take on ''Swan Lake'', and it's considerably more faithful to the ballet than the [[WesternAnimation/BarbieOfSwanLake first]]. The prince is named Siegfried, Rothbart turns all of his victims into swans, and Odette's story is supposed to end in tragedy.

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* {{Meganekko}}: Hailey and Madame Katerina both wear huge pairs of glasses.



* {{Meganekko}}: Hailey and Madame Katerina both wear huge pairs of glasses.
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* MisplacedAccent: Madame Katerina has a posh British accent, even though her sister Natasha is has a Russian accent.
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* AdaptationalNationality: The Snow Queen, who was Danish in the original story. Here, she speaks with a Russian accent.
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* StraightToThePointe: Subverted. Hailey, who isn't even a dancer, is made to pirouette en pointe by the Snow Queen. The instant the Queen isn't holding her up, however, she collapses from the strain.
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->''Listen to the beat of your heart and keep on dancing.''
-->-- '''Barbie'''
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* CanonForeigner: In-universe. Hailey, once in the ballet worlds, does not have a canon chaarcter assigned to her. [[spoiler:This gets her taken captive by the Snow Queen]].

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* CanonForeigner: In-universe. Hailey, once in the ballet worlds, does not have a canon chaarcter character assigned to her. [[spoiler:This gets her taken captive by the Snow Queen]].

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