History WesternAnimation / JosephKingOfDreams

** [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Arguably]] [[NotSoDifferent Joseph too]], toward Benjamin--the obvious anger he shows when he first hears about him, and then sees him and Simeon embracing, could indicate envy at the idea that not only was he "replaced," but Benjamin managed to get ParentalFavoritism ''and'' the love of their brothers as well. Unlike his siblings, however, Joseph refuses to actually make Benjamin a slave when his brothers admit they betrayed Joseph and broke his parents' hearts.

** The husband also greatly regrets imprisoning Joseph, and apologizes profusely when he's released. It's implied that the main reason he had him imprisoned was because he didn't want to acknowledge that his wife tried to seduce a slave, and regrets not doing the right thing.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: While Joseph's brothers weren't down right villains, them being pushed over the edge by his dream of them bowing to him while he was on a pedestal is what eventually lead to their selling him into slavery. If it hadn't been for that action which several years down the road ended with Joseph being one of Egypt's rulers, they wouldn't have ended up indeed bowing to him when meeting him again as second only to Pharaoh.

** There’s the favoritism Jacob shows towards Benjamin too, being normally unwilling to risk even potential harm coming to Benjamin (though this was more out of fear because of what he thought happened to Joseph--as well as from being the apparent last surviving child of Rachel, his late wife and love of his life).

* BittersweetEnding: Remember, the ending of this movie leads directly into ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', which means that the Hebrew descendants of Joseph and his brothers will be enslaved by the Egyptians for decades. Joseph also never gets to see his mother again, or watch his father grow old.

* BoyMeetsGirl: Joseph and Asenath’s relationship—they first meet when Joseph is her uncle’s slave, and do some flirting. Their relationship (however unlikely, given the huge [[UptownGirl class gap]]) is smothered when Joseph is thrown in prison. They’re reunited when Joseph is made vizier and soon marry.

** For what it's worth, the other brothers realized they went too far by selling Joseph into slavery. He makes them admit that what they did was wrong, and hurt everyone in the long run

* FatAndSkinny: In prison, the baker and royal butler, respectively. The fat one goes and the skinny one is left. This foreshadows the Pharaoh's dreams and eventual fate of Egypt.

** When Joseph accuses Benjamin of theft he uses the same phrases that Potiphar used against him earlier.

* WomanScorned: Zuleika.

-->"Everything you are, you owe to ''me''!"
* YourCheatingHeart: Zuleika tries to seduce Joseph.

* BoyMeetsGirl: Joseph and Asenath’s relationship—they first meet when Joseph is her uncle’s slave, and do some flirting. Their relationship (however unlikely, given the huge [[UptownGirl class gap]]) is smothered when Joseph is thrown in prison. They’re reunited when Joseph is made vizier, and soon marry.

* CruelMercy: After Potiphar understands that Joseph was telling the truth about his innocence, he revokes his earlier sentence of death... and bestows the sentence of indefinite imprisonment instead. A unique example in that Potiphar did not consider himself just in doing this, but did it to protect his wife's honor (at least to others besides himself), and by extension his own.

** [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Arguably]] [[NotSoDifferent Joseph too]], toward Benjamin--the obvious anger he shows when he first hears about him, and then sees him and Simeon embracing, could indicate envy at the idea that not only was he "replaced," but Benjamin managed to get ParentalFavoritism ''and'' the love of their brothers as well.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Zuleika slanders Joseph out of spite when he refuses to comply with her advances, but realizes she went too far when Joseph was to be executed.

* HalfSiblingAngst: Joseph's 10 half-brothers are keenly aware their mothers were not Jacob's favorite wife and their father clearly favors Joseph. This leads to them resenting Joseph and eventually selling him to slavery.

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted; at first it seems to Joseph that his brothers were this when he sees them in Egypt looking to buy grain. He even mentions to Asenath that if they're sorry then they haven't shown it, and to an extent he is correct in that Jacob for all those twenty years never found out what they did and punished them. Judah finally confesses, however, that they've been living with the guilt that they lost Joseph forever, hence why they treat Benjamin more kindly.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Potiphar could've turned a blind eye and taken the crooked horse merchant's offer that he take a free horse if he spared him. Even Zuleika lampshades this. But in response, Potiphar says "What would that say about my honor?"
** Later, Joseph invokes this to test and see if his brothers have changed after all these years.

* AdaptionalNiceGuy: Joseph's brothers when they sold him into slavery. In the original, they were originally going to ''kill'' Joesph before one of the brothers talked the other down into throwing him into a hole and selling him into slavery. Here, Joseph falling into the hole, seems to be an accident seeing how they tried to grab him and seem to be genuinely ashamed at what their jealousy has done when they sold him into slavery considering [[IveComeTooFar how they react to it.]]* AdultFear: The movie is centered around the idea that your brothers can be jealous enough of you to sell you into slavery and lie about your fate to your parents. Joseph latter turns the tables on them by threatening to the same thing to [[spoiler:Benjamin]].

* AdaptionalNiceGuy: Joseph's brothers when they sold him into slavery. In the original, they were originally going to ''kill'' Joesph before one of the brothers talked the other down into throwing him into a hole and selling him into slavery. Here, Joseph falling into the hole, seems to be an accident seeing how they tried to grab him and seem to be genuinely ashamed at what their jealousy has done when they sold him into slavery considering [[IveComeTooFar how they react to it.]]

* AdultFear: The movie is centered around the idea that your brothers can be jealous enough of you to sell you into slavery and lie about your fate to your parents. Joseph latter turns the tables on them by threatening to the same thing to [[spoiler:Benjamin]].

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Potiphar could've turned a blind eye and taken the crooked horse merchants offer that he take a free horse if he spared him. Even Zuleika lampshades this. But in response, Potiphar says "What would that say about my honor?"

--> "Everything you are, you owe to ''me''!"

* UndyingLoyalty: Joseph exhibits this when Zuleika tries to seduce him.
** Also, he probably knew that sleeping with his master's wife would get him into ''big'' trouble.
* VillainSong: "The Market" serves as one for Egypt's slave trade overall, rather than a specific individual.

Asenath and her aunt Zuleika go barefoot as well, most likely by choice rather than status or poverty since they're both part of the royal family.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Until becoming Pharaoh's right-hand, Joseph is perpetually barefoot, quite possibly by choice, as the rest of his family wear sandals. In Egypt though, most of the (lower-class) men and pretty much all of the women are perpetually barefoot. Even Zuleika and her niece Asenath prefer not to wear shoes at all. This is TruthInTelevision as most of the depictions from Ancient Egypt show people barefoot as shoes were not as essential due to the hot climate.

* AdaptedOut: Rachel is the only one of Jacob's four wives to appear, though it's a plot point that the other ten aren't biologically hers. Jacob's one daughter, Dinah, is also nowhere to be seen. Although, again, showing her backstory, i.e. [[spoiler:the Rape of Dinah]] would ''definitely'' shove up the rating.

* DeathByChildbirth: It is never stated how but it is stated that Rachel is dead. In the Bible, she died this way during the birth of Benjamin.

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* SlaveMarket: There's a sequence where Joseph is sold to Potiphar [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBXg16U2-Lg that gets its own song.]]

** actually it might just be glossed over as during a confrontation with his brothers Joseph mentions some thing a long the lines of "there's a lot Father doesn't know, I know about the drinking and the women".

* AdultFear: The movie is centered around the idea that your brothers can be jealous enough of you to sell you into slavery and lie about your fate to your parents. Joseph latter turns the tables on them by threatening to the same thing to [[spoiler:Benjamin.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: In contrast to how they treated Joseph, Judah and the others react this way when Joseph frames Benjamin for theft and threatens to impress him into slavery. Joseph certainly notes the difference and subtly asks why they didn't protect him, by asking why they should care if Benjamin is locked up, beaten and treated like a slave.

* BittersweetEnding: Remember, the ending of this movie leads directly into WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt, which means that the Hebrew descendants of Joseph and his brothers will be enslaved by the Egyptians for decades. Joseph also never got to see his mother again, or watch his father grow old.
* BlessedWithSuck: Joseph's dreams, at first. They are a great honor from God...that do absolutely nothing beneficial other than distance him from his brothers and eventually get him sold into slavery. [[spoiler: True to the original story, however, this trope is eventually averted.]]

* FalseRapeAccusation: Zuleika invokes this trope when she doesn't get her way with Joseph.

* FiveStagesOfGrief: When Joseph tells the baker [[spoiler: that he will die in three days]] based on his dream, he shouts "You're lying!". He appears to have made it through the other stages in the three day fast-forward shouting "You knew!" as he's carried out.
* {{Forgiveness}}: A particularly striking example, as Joseph forgives Potiphar (which visibly surprises him) for throwing him in jail. And then again when he forgives his brothers [[spoiler: albeit after showing how much they care for the new youngest]].

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* DeathByDespair: Implied by Potiphar when he frees Joseph from his prison that this happened to Zuleika.

One of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's most obscure films, and [=DreamWorks=]' only DirectToVideo release. Meant to be the follow-up/prequel to ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', although it was made ''during'' that film's production. Basically, imagine ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'', but in animation, and with Creator/BenAffleck.

* DeathByChildbirth: It is never stated but it is stated that Rachel is dead. In the Bible, she died this way during the birth of Benjamin.