History WesternAnimation / Madeline

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* GlassShatteringSound: When the other girls are singing to Horst, one girl is singing and her tone causes the wine glass that Horst is drinking from to shatter.

* RageBreakingPoint: When [=LaCroque=] threatens to sentence Fifi to working with black lace for coughing, which the latter could not control at all, Madeline is absolutely FURIOUS. Cue the girl calling the bitch out.

** ''Madeline and the Missing Crown'' features the Prince of Monaco as a young boy, roughly the same age as the girls and Pepito. In the 1930's, the historical prince Louis II was in his fifties.

* ButtMonkey: Madeline plays this role in the movie. She witnesses a couple trying to steal a painting, but accidentally destroys property in the Louvre attempting to stop them. Because of this and the fact that nobody believes her, she is sent to a finishing school to become more ladylike where she is bullied by Emma and gets into disagreements with her teachers about how a lady should act. When she sneaks out to find the thieves, she gets into trouble and is almost arrested by police officers for trespassing in a hotel. She climbs Big Ben and almost falls off the hand of the clock. On the day that the thieves planned to steal the king's jewels, [[spoiler:she is not credited in catching the thieves and is arrested under the belief that she was trying to steal the crown. Luckily, in the end, Emma tells the truth and Madeline is freed and deemed a hero.]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: ''Madeline and the Missing Crown'' features the Prince of Monaco as a young boy, roughly the same age as the girls and Pepito. In the 1930's, the historical prince Louis II was in his fifties.

** Sugar Dimples, the child star in "Madeline in Hollywood" and a few other episodes, is an obvious stand-in for Creator/ShirleyTemple. The movie the girls see her in at the beginning of the "Hollywood" episode is clearly inspired by ''Literature/{{Heidi}}''.

** "Madeline and the Hunchback of Notre Dame" introduces the actor [[Creator/GerardDepardieu Gerard Dippity-doo]].

* AdaptationalJerkass: Miss Clavel and Lord Cucuface get shoehorned into this, of all people. Sure, Madeline ruined the Louvre during her first attempt to stop Maximo and the guy made his escape scott-free, but did you two really have to say that she was misbehaving? On top of that, you two [[DisproportionateRetribution even sent her off for it]]! They go back to their true selves again near the end, trying to aid Madeline in stopping the thieves and
* AdaptationalWimp: Madeline of all people becomes this despite her badassery earlier in the series. She becomes TheWoobie just for the sake of the plot and most plans that she has to catch [[BigBad Maximo Richard]] and [[TheDragon Dumbella]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong fail miserably]]. Downplayed in that it's just [[ButtMonkey bad luck plaguing her]] and not her becoming a coward.
* AdultsAreUseless: None of the adults really believe that Madeline witnessed the couple who tried to steal the painting (due to her attempts to stop the heist from damaging the Louvre though she did not intend that) and later, their plan to steal the Crown Jewels. Not even [[DemotedToExtra Lord Cucuface and Miss Clavel]] have much of a role here [[spoiler: and they couldn't even convince the police to free Madeline when she was wrongly jailed until Emma revealed the truth to the King]].
* BlatantLies: "Madeline is a liar who likes misbehaving!" [[RageBreakingPoint YEAH RIGHT!]]

* TheBully: Emma, the blonde ringlet-haired, freckle-faced student at the finishing school who openly belittles Madeline, fills this role during her first appearance, even going out of her way to bully Madeline every chance she gets. [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn She gets better]] and asks Madeline if they could be friends by the end after apologizing for [[StealingTheCredit taking the credit]] in capturing the thieves]].
* ButtMonkey: Madeline [[AdaptationalWimp of all people]] plays this role in the movie. She witnesses a couple trying to steal a painting, but accidentally destroys property in the Louvre attempting to stop them. Because of this and the fact that nobody believes her, she is sent to a finishing school to become more ladylike where she is bullied by Emma and gets into disagreements with her teachers about how a lady should act. When she sneaks out to find the thieves, she gets into trouble and is almost arrested by police officers for trespassing in a hotel. She climbs Big Ben and almost falls off the hand of the clock. On the day that the thieves planned to steal the king's jewels, [[spoiler: she is not credited in catching the thieves and is arrested under the belief that she was trying to steal the crown. Luckily, in the end, Emma tells the truth and Madeline is freed and deemed a hero.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''My Fair Madeline'' is overall meanspirited and features Madeline being sent away to finishing school because nobody will believe her when she witnesses an attempted robbery and many of the characters are much harsher towards her. [[spoiler:She also almost falls off Big Ben and ends up in jail for a short time.]]

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Most of Madeline's plans fail miserably, mainly because nobody will believe her about the thieves.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: After spending the whole movie facing a lot of bad luck, Madeline is deemed a hero and succeeds in stopping the thieves.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: While the teachers at the finishing school are harsh towards Madeline, they don't truly believe that she would steal.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Lampshaded by Madeline about the teachers and other students at the finishing school.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Madeline witnesses a man and a woman trying to steal a painting, but [[CassandraTruth very few believe her]]. This causes her to [[DisproportionateRetribution get sent to a finishing school]], get into trouble with police officers and other citizens, and [[spoiler: later causes her to be arrested and put in jail. Eventually, they find out that she is right and she is freed and deemed a hero for her actions.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: Miss Clavel gets hit with this again, acting more strict and unreasonable when she misblames Pepito for destroying her roses and grounds Madeline twice without truly hearing her or Pepito's side of the story of what happened and also jumps to the conclusion that Pepito stowing away was partly Madeline's idea. She reverts back to her usual self by the end of the story when the scar-faced man pleads guilty to his crimes, including spying on everyone at the old house and ruining the roses. She sincerely apologizes to Pepito for her attitude and for not believing him.