History Animation / TheMysteryOfTheThirdPlanet

** Gromozeka drinks valerian extract in large quantities (possibly {{justified}} by his size).

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: When two robots intercept Seleznyov and Alisa on their way from the ship Basov walks around the corner and surprises the assailants from behind. The robots turn around and fire their blasters, missing at point blank range. {{Justified}}, since the robots were remote-controlled and the operator may have been legitimately surprised by Basov.

* PintSizedKid: Alisa. Either she's too short for her eight years, or both Zelyony and Professor Seleznyov are as tall as NBA players.

* DontCallMeSir: Selesnyov much prefers to be called "Professor" rather than "Captain", because he isn't. He's the head of the expedition and calls the shots, bu\t he doesn't command their ship.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Skleess is a normal and very adorable cow... with wings!

* HatOfPower: Alisa gets an {{invisibility}} hat from an Ushan selling invisible fish.

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Just like in the book, there is a lot of drama, to say the least, going on around the absolute fuel. Unlike the book, the film never explains what the absolute fuel actually is and what makes it so special (in the novella, it's a sort of fuel that makes starships go a hundred times faster than usual).

-->'''Zelyony''': And that's called a ''little'' cake?!

* TheCaptain: Captains Kim and Buran. Zelyony would be as well, hadn't he been such an [[TheEeyore Eeyore]].
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Characters effortlessly hop between star systems, the Govorun birds and Gromozeka don't even need ships.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Gromozeka flies in brandishing a weapon in each of his six arms, including a sword and a [[RayGun laser]] submachine-gun. It's a shame he's too late.
* ConMan: PlayedWith. At the animal market there is an Ushan selling invisible fish. Professor Seleznyov thinks its a scam, but Alisa believes him and he gives her an [[HatOfPower invisibility hat]]. It works.

* CarryingACake: Kolya's grandmother wants the crew to deliver a [[GiantFood "little" cake]] to Aldebaran. The cake is about the size of an arm chair.
-->'''Zelyony''': And that's called a ''little'' cake?!

* AdaptationNameChange:
** The First Captain's name is Vsevolod in the book, here he is called Buran.
** Rat from the planet Krokrys becomes Glot from the planet Katruk.

* AdaptationalExplanationExtrication: Just like in the book, there is a lot of drama, to say the least, going on around the absolute fuel. Unlike the book, the film never explains what the absolute fuel actually is and what makes it so special (in the novella, it's a sort of fuel that makes starships go a hundred times faster than usual).

* DontCallMeSir: Selesnyov much prefers to be called "Professor" rather than "Captain", because he isn't. He's the head of the expedition and calls the shots, but he doesn't command their ship.

* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:How Glot impersonates Dr. Verkhovtsev throughout the film]].

* AdaptationNameChange:
** The First Captain's name is Vsevolod in the book, here he is called Buran.
** Rat from the planet Krokrys becomes Glot from the planet Katruk.

* RenamedByTheAdaptation:
** The First Captain's name is Vsevolod in the book, here he is called Buran.
** Rat from the planet Krokrys becomes Glot from the planet Katruk.

A 1981 film (Тайна третьей планеты in Russian), produced by the famous Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}} studio in Moscow and based on the ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture'' books by Creator/KirBulychev. Stars the voice of Olga Gromova, the first person ever to play Alisa.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:The pirates]] don't attempt to erase Bluk's entire atmosphere, neither do they torture one of the characters continuously for four years.

- >'''Zelyony''': And that's called a ''little'' cake?!

* AdaptationalOriginChange: In the original, skleesses are native to Sheshineru, in the movie, they live on Bluk.

In it, Alisa and her father Professor Selesnyov and his friend the Captain travel all over space in the 22nd century, searching for rare animals to bring back to the Moscow zoo. Through their intergalactic travels they pick up increasingly bizarre creatures and eventually become tangled into a criminal conspiracy involving a talking bird. That's about all there is to get plotwise-- most of the time's focused on the surreal, psychedelic Peter Max-inspired world.

** "We're not ''bandits''! We're noble pirates."

** Zelyony: "And that's called a ''little'' cake?!"

* MechaMooks: Remote controlled robots toting [[RayGun blasters]] dressed in black SpaceClothes.

* PintSizedKid: Alisa. Either she's too short for her 8, or both Zelyony and Professor Seleznyov are as tall as NBA players.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The cartoon takes a ''great'' liberty with the original novel, but that's to be expected – Soviet animation was never intended to make feature films and even miniseries were a rarity, so they had to heavily compress the original material.
* RenamedInTheAdaptation: