History Headscratchers / TheEmperorsNewGroove

* Why does she even ''have'' that lever?

* Where does Kronk live after he (presumably) got kicked out of the palace? According to Yzma he doesn't even own a fixer-upper.

** The Saturday morning cartoon (which is actually good for what it is) implies that Yzma was Kuzco's regent, as well as advisor to his father, who died in a sailing 'accidnet' shortly after Kuczo was born (his mother having died in childbirth). This relates to her clear puppet-king intentions with Kuzco, and why he was upset she was "doing his job". So it's most likely she'd lived within the palace for decades.

* "Hey, you ''coulda'' let me fall..." "C'mon, nobody's '''that''' heartless!" So if Kuzco's not that heartless, why was he willing to leave Pacha suspending from the ropes of a broken bridge, above a gorge filled with alligators?
** Probably it just doesn't register to him as a murder as long as he doesn't have to see Pacha die.

** Or, since the aide was only present while Kuzco was rhyming off euphemisms — not a second earlier, and not a second later — he may not have gotten enough context, or even paid the slightest bit of attention to what he was writing, to actually have any clue what was going on.

** Just because Kronk didn't know who Pacha was at the time doesn't mean that Yzma wouldn't know him. iirc Pacha was a village chief, so there might possibly have been records on him and she might know him by description, as well as that he was summoned to the palace on the same day that she turned Kuzco into a llama. If that's the case, Kronk could describe him to her (especially since he was able to get a good look at him this time) and she would be able to connect the dots. Then Kronk's EurekaMoment is less that they know exactly where to go at that moment and more that the peasant who carted Kuzco off was still with Kuzco, and would be easier to track down with their resources than a stray llama.

** How would that even work, though, given that they don't know Pacha's name? Did they just go around asking for a "big guy in a poncho"? That... an awfully vague description for this setting. And also, Yzma said earlier in the movie that they'd already been to every village around the palace. Why didn't they ask around for Pacha in the first place, then, if that's what they ended up having to do?

** Yeah but Kuzco and Pacha get through the crocs with ease, which makes that lever even ''more'' useless.

*** This is confirmed in the cartoon. Kuzco's mother died in childbirth, and his father died at sea a few months later, and it's implied Yzma caused it somehow. She served as Kuczo' s regent until he came of age (which might explain him being upset over her "doing his job", especially with him being an adult). There's also a small hint that Kuczo worries about living up to his dad, who was a fantastic ruler.

** The Saturday morning cartoon (which is actually good for what it is) implies that Yzma was Kuzco's regent, as well as advisor to his father, who died in a sailing "accident" shortly after Kuczo was born (his mother having died in childbirth). This relates to her clear puppet-king intentions with Kuzco, and why he was upset she was "doing his job". So it's most likely she'd lived within the palace for decades.

** How would that even work, though, given that they don't know Pacha's name? Did they just go around asking for a "big guy in a poncho"? That's... an awfully vague description for this setting. And also, Yzma said earlier in the movie that they'd already been to every village around the palace. Why didn't they ask around for Pacha in the first place, then, if that's what they ended up having to do?

** How would that even work, though, given that they don't know Pacha's name? Did they just go around asking for a "big guy in a poncho"? That... an awfully vague description for this setting. And also, Yzma said earlier in the movie that they'd already been to every village around the palace. Why didn't they ask around for Pacha in the first place, then, if that's what they ended up having to do?

** The Saturday morning cartoon (which is actually good for what it is) implies that Yzma was Kuzco's regent, as well as advisor to his father, who died in a sailing 'accident' shortly after Kuczo was born (his mother having died in childbirth). This relates to her clear puppet-king intentions with Kuzco, and why he was upset she was "doing his job". So it's most likely she'd lived within the palace for decades.

** The Saturday morning cartoon (which is actually good for what it is) implies that Yzma was Kuzco's regent, as well as advisor to his father, who died in a sailing 'accidnet' shortly after Kuczo was born (his mother having died in childbirth). This relates to her clear puppet-king intentions with Kuzco, and why he was upset she was "doing his job". So it's most likely she'd lived within the palace for decades.

** I always assumed it was in case of an intruder and that Kronk constantly pulling the wrong lever was just {{Rule of Funny}}

*** this is confirmed in the cartoon. Kuzco's mother died in childbirth, and his father died at sea a few months later, it's implied Yzma caused it somehow. And served as Kuczo' s regent until he came of age (which might explain him being upset over her "doing his job", espically with him being an adult). There's also a small hint that Kuczo worries about living up to his dad, who was a fantastic ruler.

* So Tipo feels the need to tell his dad he ate a bug and Pacha then makes a joke that implies this is, in fact, not a normal thing. Then they go to a restraunt and Pacha digs into a bug as if it's a delicacy.

** Odds are they didn't. They just went around between different villages claiming to be his relatives and kept looking until they found someone who could direct them to Pacha's house.

** But how would they know Pacha was ever in the palace? They never saw him there, and Kronk clearly didn't know who Pacha was when he first saw him take Kuzco away on his cart. The film presents Kronk's EurekaMoment as being when he realizes that the "peasant at the diner" is the guy with Kuzco on the kart, but by all rights this realization should be totally useless, since he still has no way of knowing who Pacha is or where he's from.

** Pacha went to the palace on Kuzco's orders. There must have been some paper trail for Yzma or Kuzco himself told her since he still trusted her to the point he kept her around as his advisor back then.

* How did Yzma and Kronk know where Pacha lives? When Kronk realizes that the "peasant at the diner" is the same guy he saw kart Kuzco away, he reasons that he must have taken him to his home village, but how did they know which village? Does Kuzco's empire only have one peasant village? If so, why didn't Yzma and Kronk go there in the first place?

** Probably it just doesn't register to him as a murder as long as he doesn't have to see Pacha die.

* "Hey, you ''coulda'' let me fall..." "C'mon, nobody's '''that''' heartless!" So if Kuzco's not that heartless, why was he willing to leave Pacha suspending from the ropes of a broken bridge, above a gorge filled with alligators?

* "Hey, you ''coulda'' let me fall..." "C'mon, nobody's '''that''' helpless!" So if Kuzco's not that heartless, why was he willing to leave Pacha suspending from the ropes of a broken bridge, above a gorge filled with alligators?

* Why would one of Yzma's potions have an upside-down image of the top half of a skull on the reverse side of its label?

* What was that old man that got thrown out the window doing in the palace to begin with? Everyone else we see is either a servant of some kind, a guard, or a potential bride, and he'd probably be ill-suited for all of those positions. And there seems to be a designated room that isn't the one they were in for meeting with peasants.

* So Tepo(SP?) feels the need to tell his dad he ate a bug and Pacha then makes a joke that implies this is, in fact, not a normal thing. Then they go to a restraunt and Pacha digs into a bug as if it's a delicacy.
** Perhaps the bug that Tepo ate wasn't actually meant to be part of the meal.

** This is explained as Kuzco overhears Yzma and Kronk discussing their plans to assasinate him as they're leaving the restaurant - Kronk notes that nobody even seemed to care much that Kuzco was gone, which is further cemented by how quickly they all ditch the funeral earlier in the film. Basically, Kuzco was such a selfish jerkwad that nobody saw fit to really mourn too much for him. They just took the news of the loss and didn't bother questioning it.

* How did Yzma manage to get Kuzco declared dead without a body? Not saying she had to hold an open-casket funeral, but surely at least the royal physician would have liked to have seen what the emperor died from?

* How did Yzma manage to get Kuzco declared dead without a body? Surely at least the royal physician would have liked to have seen what the emperor died from?

* How did Yzma manage to get Kuzco declared dead without a body? Surely at least the royal physician would have liked to see what the emperor died from.