History WesternAnimation / Wizards

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what becomes of Blackwolf's wife and newborn son. They are shown escaping from Scortch after [[spoiler: she prevents Weehawk from killing Elinore, who he believes is a traitor]], but are never shown again. WordOfGod is that Blackwolf Jr was a SequelHook that never panned out.

* TheFairFolk: Small fairies make their home in the western mountains. They tease and bedevil Avatar and his party as they venture through this teritory. Strangely, Elinor is also part fairy, but she's much taller and heftier than the other fairies.

** One of the veterans comments that Blackwolf's army lost about one million soldiers in a previous invasion, meaning that even with swords and arrows against guns, the elves army won because Blackwolf's soldiers are easily distracted. The Empire only began winning after Blackwolf found [[spoiler:the projection machine showing the Nazi film used to empower his army and intimidate his adversaries.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what becomes of Blackwolf's wife and newborn son. They are shown escaping from Scortch after [[spoiler: she prevents Weehawk from killing Elinore, whom he believes is a traitor]], but are never shown again. WordOfGod is that Blackwolf Jr was a SequelHook that never panned out.

* AnAesop:
** Technology, like most other assets, isn't evil in and of itself, but merely becomes such when it's used for evil ends.
** As Ralph points out in the commentary, one of the messages of the film is that if Democracy lets its guard down, Fascism will be waiting just around the corner to rear its ugly head and take over, hence Blackwolf frequently using Nazi propaganda.
** The film's theme of propaganda also plays a role for the good races--save for Avatar and a few others--as they consider [[ScienceIsBad any advanced form of technology to be bad]] as they suffer many defeats by the technologically superior army of Blackwolf. Even Avatar points out their own follies in his WhatTheHellHero moment towards the surviving army, who uses captured firearms in order to counteract their shortfalls.

* BattleCry: Weehawk has one that could make you crap your pants the first time you hear it.

* StorybookOpening: The film opens with a live-action shot of a hardcover book opened to its first page, which reads "An illuminating history bearing on the everlasting struggle for world supremacy fought between the powers of technology and magic." This segues into an illustrated prologue drawn by Mike Ploog. Strangely, the book's page is printed using the E13B font, a machine-readable style that predates optical character recognition.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'': The questing party of four (Avatar, Elinore, Weehawk and Peace) find themselves being approached by a tank, clearly one of Blackwolf's devices. For some reason, the tank crew doesn't shoot at the heroes, which allows Peace to climb onto the turret. Before Peace can open the hatch, however, Elinore throws her sword at him, which skewers him through the thorax, killing him. Elinore then jumps aboard the tank, and hops inside in a stunning FaceHeelTurn that leaves Avatar and Weehawk stupefied. Later, when Avatar and Weehawk have snuck into Scortch One, Weehawk slays an enemy general by throwing his sword at the officer.

%%* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Both Elinore and Weehawk pull this off. ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE

* MadeOfBologna: Larry, the right-hand lackey to the wicked wizard Blackwolf, reports to his master on the success of Nekron 99's mission to slay the president of Montagar. As a reward, Larry is allowed to tear into a beef carcass hanging from a hook nearby. Strangely, the flesh tears away easily, revealing uniform pink tissue, which Larry gobbles down in seconds. It's like the beast was made of cotton candy with dull brown skin.

* {{Whateversaurus}}: In the beginning of the film Peace rides past a dinosaur-like creature with six legs.

* {{Whateversaurus}}: In beginning of the film Peace rides past a dinosaur-like creature with six legs.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Avatar and Elinore both go barefoot throughout the movie. Even when they end up on a glacier during a blizzard, Avatar conjures up a cloak for the nearly-naked Elinore, but ''still no shoes'' for either of them!

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Both Elinore and Weehawk pull this off.

* TheFairFolk

* AWizardDidIt: Weapons and supplies from World War II are still in working condition after a nuclear war and the passage of two million years. Even old nitrate film and a projector are operational! All this stuff should have disintegrated beyond recognition at that point. Only the powers of the wicked wizard Blackwolf can {{handwave}} away the ravages of time on these devices.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: In the films opening, Peace rides past a creature with six legs resembling a dinosaur.

* CoversAlwaysLie: [=Necron 99=]/Peace is the sole focus of many posters and DVD cases, which would infer that he is the main character. In the movie, he’s a supporting character [[spoiler:and dies about two-thirds of the way through]].

* NatureVersusTechnology: The conflict between forces of Nature, represented by the fantasy folk led by the wizard Avatar, and the Forces of Technology, formed by nuclear humans led by the wizard Blackwolf. Interesting enough, the movie not only focus on the use of technology for weapons, but also for propaganda, in one of the more famous scenes of the movie Blackfoot shows his army an old film reel filled with actual Nazi footage to inspire his army. Ultimately, the movie also shows that total rejection of technology is also foolish, technology becomes evil through the hands of whoever is wielding it.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Subverted, as Blackwolf's troops actually get a bit of humanization in the comedic interlude scenes, and Avatar makes a point of sparing Blackwolf's pet green-creature.