History WesternAnimation / TheLegendOfTheTitanic

** In the first movie, the plot averts the real life tragedy by having the the characters be saved by a helpful dog-faced giant octopus. Cue the happy ending.
** The sequel averts being a HistoricalFiction in a MagicRealism setting, and becomes a Fantasy Adventure about some of the survivors of the Titanic going on a underwater journey to Atlantis. As with other kid-friendly movies, the characters also get a happy ending.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Don Juan is rather unkind to Smiley in this movie, repeatedly scolding him for complaining.

* OffModel:
** The animators of North Korea's SEK Studio have quite a few problems regarding perspective at several different scenes. Most obvious ones are some of the objects or character not having a consistent size.
** Connor's model changes slightly here and there, missing whiskers, and having different ear and facial shapes.

* HappilyEverAfter: In the first movie, the plot averts the real life tragedy by having the the characters be saved by a helpful dog-faced giant octopus. Cue the happy ending.

%% * HappilyEverAfter

* StockholmSyndrome: The protagonists have no resentment at all towards the people of Atlantis after they were tricked into drinking the Elixir of Life, which forces them to stay in Atlantis for the rest of their lives. Throughout the rest of the movie, they continue to worry about a plot to overthrow Atlantis, but apparently have forgotten their friends and family.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Out of all the insults that Elizabeth uses to describe Maltravers, the only one that her father seems to take issue with is "old".[[ComicallyMissingThePoint After all, he's barely forty.]] She irritably changes it to "middle aged".

* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Elizabeth's neckline is very low for the time period. Same goes for her stepmother.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Out of all the insults that Elizabeth uses to describe Maltravers, the only one that her father seems to take issue with is "old." [[ComicallyMissingThePoint After all, he's barely forty.]]

* MagicAIsMagicA: Elizabeth can talk to animals because her tear was caught in a net of magic moonlight, and the initial magic was enhanced by the dolphins. However, Maltravers's henchman can talk to the sharks.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Maltravers rants to the Duke that he needs the latter’s “aristocratic John Hancock”, especially since it sounds like he’s saying [[ADateWithRosiePalms “hand cock”]].

%% * EyepatchOfPower:
%% ** Baron Maltravers, the primary antagonist of the first film.

%% * RecurringRiff: The main theme in both movies.
%% * SimpletonVoice: Jeffrey, Maltravers' assistant.

The plot is set on a voyage of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'', and concerns the romance between a Duke's daughter, Elizabeth, and a Roma prince who calls himself Don Juan. Maltravers (called Baron Vandertilt in the dub of the sequel) is the unscrupulous owner of a whale hunting company, who wishes to own whaling rights of all seas owned by Elizabeth's father. He intends to marry Elizabeth, and then make her father to sign over all whaling rights to him. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Oh, and then he intends to cover his tracks by sinking]] the ''Titanic'' afterwards. You know, because it wasn't depressing enough that it was an iceberg that did it. Talking mice, dogs and undersea animals make an appearance.

%%* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext

** Earlier in the film, Maltravers orders his henchman to follow Don Juan and find out everything that he can about him, out of concern that Juan and Elizabeth have fallen in love (by smiling at each other once before boarding the ship). This goes absolutely nowhere.
%%* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler: EVERYONE lives]].

* FantasticRacism: "There's one thing I'm not, and that's a racist." is remarked by a mouse who has a crush on a human woman. Doubles as a NonSequitur.

%%* GorgeousPeriodDress

%% * AnimateInanimateObject: Besides LivingToys, there's also a throne for Re, the king of Atlantis.
* AnachronismStew: Plenty. For example, the submarine looks more modern than the one in 1915. Also, some of the toys in Atlantis look more like modern toys (especially the Barbie look-alikes - one of them is even wearing Barbie's original 1950s swimsuit) than toys that existed at the time.
%% * ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: A large part of the population of Atlantis.

%% * BagOfHolding: Pingo and his box.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Atlantis is (unintentionally) portrayed as this. It's a utopia where its inhabitants - human [[LivingToys or otherwise]] - are rescued, nurtured, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] [[GildedCage imprisoned]] [[WhoWantsToLiveForever for eternity]].
%% * TheDandy: Pingo.

%% * DudeLooksLikeALady: One of the soldier toys.
* ElectricJellyfish: A rather interesting example. Jellyfish in here are used by Mr. Ice to send telegraphed messages to Baron Maltravers.

%% * TheFaceless: Re, the king, which just makes him even more suspicious.

%% * GenderEqualsBreed: Guess what kind of breed the female dog is.
%% * HappilyMarried: Don Juan and Elizabeth.
%% ** Connors's wife, Stella, is mysteriously absent. In fact, Connors doesn't sound old enough in this movie to be married.

* ImprobableAge: Top Connors and Ronny were originally in their teens or twenties, but they somehow de-age in the sequel. Either that or they were [[GenderBender gender bent]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: It seems that the Atlantians have these missiles, which can electrocute you and make you forget what is going on. This is used at the climax, to make Baron Maltravers and his forces forget what they doing in the Atlantic Ocean in the first place…[[FridgeLogic which only raises the question: if the reason that the Inhabitants of Atlantis made the protagonists drink the Elixir of Life (which forces them to stay in Atlantis forever) is cause they don't want their city to be revealed, why not just use that on them, and then return them to the surface with no memory of Atlantis]]!?
%%* TheLegendOfX

%% * LoveAtFirstSight: Smiley and the unnamed poodle. How could they have resisted?

* OnlySaneMan: The mouse points out the clear flaws of the kingdom, the King seeming more like a BigBad for starters.

%% * SceneryPorn: Surprisingly, a lot of shots at Atlantis are very well-drawn.

%% * SpringCoil: Pingo moves around using a coil.
* StockholmSyndrome: The only possible explanation for the protagonists having no resentment at all towards the people of Atlantis, after the latter tricked the former into drinking the Elixir of Life, which forces them to stay in Atlantis for the rest of their lives. Throughout the rest of the movie, they continue to worry about a plot to overthrow Atlantis, but apparently have forgotten their friends and family (even weirder when you consider that Top Connors should be ''married'').
%% * TechnicalPacifist: Atlanteans.
* TemporalParadox: ''Bobsheaux'' pointed out in his review that since Top-Connors never made it home, he'd be unable to raise his kids wherever they were in America, therefore he can't tell the story of the first movie; [[LogicBomb meaning both movies write each other out of existence.]]

* TookALevelInDumbass: Don Juan, who advocates in favor of drinking strange liquids as long as they have pretty colors. He also never once questions the King or any of the other dubious events that happen.
%% * TookALevelInJerkAss: Don Juan, once again, is rather unkind to Smiley in this movie.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Looks like the makers tried to show off their CG and it's most commonly seen during long-distance shots of the ''Titanic'', but also elsewhere in the first film and ocean in the second.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Tentacles is far larger than any real life octopus. The largest real life octopus, the North Pacific giant octopus, has a maximum size of roughly 600 pounds in weight with a thirty-foot arm span. [[YourSizeMayVary Depending on the scene]], Tentacles is either about three times the size of a great white shark or ''almost as big as the Titanic itself''. He's also stated at one point to be a "kid", which begs the question if [[BeyondTheImpossible adult octopus are actually larger!]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Used to the point that everyone survives the sinking. It can be assumed that in this film's universe, ''Titanic'' had enough lifeboats for all souls onboard. Interestingly, Harland & Wolff designer Alexander Carlisle [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally proposed 64 lifeboats]] for the ''Olympic''-class liners before being overruled by White Star’s managing director Bruce Ismay.

* FantasticRacism: "There's one thing I'm not, and that's a racist." Keep in mind, they weren’t even talking about race. We're talking about a ''male mouse'' who's being teased for having a crush on a ''human female''. Doubles as a NonSequitur.

* FluffyFashionFeathers: The ostrich plumes in Rachel's hat and the hats of many of the background women. The hats are one of the only things that the movie got right (though in real life they would have not been worn indoors like Rachel does in the dinner scenes).
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: The dolphins that talk to Elizabeth apparently have an unexplained ability to float in midair. [[LimitedAnimation Most of the time it's because the same five or so frames where they're airborne get recycled and looped until the end of their lines...]]

* GrowOldWithMe: Top Connors and Stella seem to have been married a long time after the events of the movie. Both of them are still alive at least 80 years later! (Ronnie is said to have gone back to Brazil. No word if he's alive or not.) [[WordOfGod Mondo TV's website]] states that the young mice are their great-grandchildren.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Plenty of people sniggered at Maltravers ranting to the Duke that he needs the latter’s “aristocratic John Hancock”, especially since it sounds like he’s saying [[ADateWithRosiePalms “hand cock”]]. Though, [[CriticalResearchFailure given everything else about this movie]], this is a weird bit of [[ShownTheirWork paying attention to detail]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Two times. But they (somehow) [[DisneyDeath weren't real deaths anyway]].

* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: For a very Disney-esque movie, the animators sure didn't have a problem with making Elizabeth's neckline very low for the time period. Same goes for her stepmother.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: Tentacles is an oddly cutesy and cloying take on this trope. He’s basically if you combined the Kraken with WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost.

* LighterAndSofter: There are times when Lighter and Softer actually works, and then there's [[WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn that other Titanic cartoon]], and then there's this...
* LoveAtFirstSight: Taken to the extreme. The prince Don Juan falls for Elizabeth after just 'smelling her glove.''
* MagicAIsMagicA: Difficult to tell. Elizabeth can talk to animals because her tear was caught in a net of magic moonbeams, and the initial magic was enhanced by the dolphins. Yet how does Maltravers's henchman understand the sharks? It's never explained. We don't even get so much as AWizardDidIt.
* MeaningfulName: Tentacles, Mr. Ice, Maltravers, Don Juan...
* MoodWhiplash: The group of mice try to fix the telegraph by having one of the mice use their mustache to connect the wires with [[HilarityEnsues hilarious]] results of the signal going through [[spoiler: but then he dies. [[DisneyDeath Except not really]].]]

* OffModel: The animators of North Korea's SEK Studio have quite a few problems regarding perspective at several different scenes. Most obvious ones are some of the objects or character not having a consistent size.

* RichBitch: Rachel.
* SatelliteCharacter: Rachel's sister has an identical personality to Rachel herself, and serves no real purpose besides collaborating with the villains. And to top it off, both of them have evil cats, who serve no purpose at all. She only speaks twice in the film (both times in unison with Rachel), and only once do any of the other characters acknowledge she exists.

* TooDumbToLive: Tentacles is this trope incarnate. Firstly, he is easily duped by [[ObviouslyEvil Ice and his gang]] into throwing an iceberg in the path of the ''Titanic'', despite his friends’ warnings and Ice’s bad rap. Secondly, after being told the truth, he runs off to sulk in his cave instead of simply swimming up and ''moving the iceberg out of the way''. [[RuleOfThree And finally]], after saving every last passenger (including the captain) he still clings on to the ''Titanic'' as it goes under and gets crushed to death! [[UnexplainedRecovery Though he still somehow survives that]]?

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The introduction indicates that the film will feature some explanation of why the ''Titanic'' is remembered as sinking with tremendous loss of life, and even provides an easy way out by hinting that there's some magic that can turn people into dolphins. But no, the passengers simply arrive safely in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, with no explanation of why it's remembered as such as disaster.
** Ice and his gang, who were last seen fighting the dolphins, completely disappear after Tentacles frees Orcy and sends the three shark guards flying. Maltravers also tells his group that Ice will personally guide them to safety, but Ice never shows up, leading to their LaserGuidedKarma. Though given that we’re talking about [[KrakenAndLeviathan Tentacles]], it’s likely Ice and his goons went ScrewThisImOutOfHere.

* WholeCostumeReference: Some of Elizabeth's dresses are... very close to Rose's. Not only that, but the scene in which she's first introduced is literally a shot-for-shot replica of Rose's!

* YourSizeMayVary: Most notably, Tentacles, who starts off about three times the size of the dolphins and sharks, then just a few scenes later is almost as big as the ''Titanic'' itself.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Pingo, the toy fish adviser to the King of Atlantis, talks in a stereotypical gay lisp. Not helped by his exuberant personality and fondness for putting on various garish costumes.

%% * CoolChair: The walking throne which the king (Re) has.

%% * LivingToys: They populate most of Atlantis.

%% * PlotHole: ''Quite'' a few, even compared to the first movie, though poor dubbing could be a cause for some.
%% * PutOnABus: Stella and Rachel.

%% * SpringCoil: Pingo has one.

* FantasticRacism: "There's one thing I'm not, and that's a racist." Keep in mind, they weren’t even talking about race. We're talking about a ''male mouse'' who's being teased for having a crush on a ''human female''. Doubles aa a NonSequitur.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Elizabeth is blonde and the kind female heroine.