History WesternAnimation / ThePrincessAndTheFrog

-->--'''Tiana'''

** He outlines Naveen's problems: even though his parents cut him off, Naveen would rather continue his playboy ways and "hope around" rather than change his attitude. Naveen gives a sheepish grin about this, admitting he's guilty as charged.

* VillainsNeverLie: Technically, Facilier doesn't lie in any of his conversations with the character. He uses ExactWords.

* VisualPun: The realtor who makes a remark about Tiana's "background" was in the back-side of the donkey-suit making them a Jackass.

* WhamLine: "Tiana"? As said by Stella, Charlotte's dog, when a transformed Tiana calls to her, just as she and Naveen get tangled in party balloons and drift away. Tiana realizes that Stella just ''[[YouCanTalk talked]]'' and they could understand each other. Naveen tiredly says that if it's taking her this long to process the situation, it's going to be a long night.

* LivingOutAChildhoodDream: Charlotte is seen as a little girl wanting to be a princess and marry a princes. When she grows up, she ''still'' wants to do so.

** Dr. Facilier's name is a play on the French word "''"facile''", for "easy", indicative of how he always offers "the easy way" out to his clients (or how he tries to take it for himself).

** A subtle one going back to ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. At one point when looking at the night sky, Timon claims that stars are fireflies stuck in that "big, bluish, black thing". Fifteen years later, this film makes a nod to that description in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Ray the firefly's death. When he dies, the film shows that he becomes a star next to his love, Evangeline, implying that Timon was at least partially right]].

* NoSympathy: ZIgzagged with Charlotte as a character. At first, she leads on Travis unwittingly by saying she'll dance with him "later" several times while saving herself for Naveen. After Travis confronts her about it, Charlotte finally tells him that her "later" actually meant "never" and he'll find someone else pretty and lovely for dancing the night. Tiana watches this with mild amusement and sympathy for Travis. Then she accidentally knocks over the beignets that Charlotte wanted to use to woo Naveen and winces when Charlotte sees the mess, expecting this reaction. Instead...Charlotte immediately asks, "Are you okay?" and helps her to her feet, excusing herself and Tiana so she can help the latter with cleanup and a costume change. It's clear that Charlotte may act spoiled towards anyone else, but don't mess with Tiana.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The alligators that attack Tiana and Naveen are depicted with interlocking teeth like crocodiles. It gets jarring in that Louis has his lower teeth hidden when he closes his mouth, like a real alligator.

* KneelPushTrip: There's a scene where Facillier manages to pull this trick on Naveen using their shadows.

** Louie would much rather be friendly and play in a jazz band, but when one of his TrueCompanions is on the line, he will literally drop everything and be the big scary 'gator that his friends need him to be.

* LivingOutAChildhoodDream: Charlotte is seen as a little girl wanting to be a prince and marry a princess. When she grows up, she ''still'' wants to do so.

* OperaGloves: Tiana wears them whenever she's dressed as a princess. They add to the elegance.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Tiana and Naveen are at odds with one another so when Ray finds Tiana and Naveen tangled up together by their frog tongues, he humorously mistakes them for a couple with their kissing gone out of control, leading to Tiana and Naveen to shout that they're not a couple.

** In a more platonic sense, [[spoiler:Charlotte loves Tiana best in the world. The one thing she's always wanted more than anything else is to be a real princess, and because of the aforementioned marriage plan, she ''could'' get it. However, the moment she finds out that Tiana is in love with Naveen--a love that the real Naveen clearly reciprocates--she agrees to kiss him with no strings attached so they can be together, human, and happy.]]

In 1920s UsefulNotes/NewOrleans, 19-year old waitress Tiana (Creator/AnikaNoniRose) struggles to earn money in order to create her own restaurant -- a dream she and her dad shared before he passed away. Things seem to be turning around when the handsome prince Naveen (Creator/BrunoCampos) comes to town, prompting Tiana's rich friend Charlotte (Creator/JenniferCody) to pay her lots of money if Tiana will cater at the party Charlotte throws for Naveen. Unfortunately, Charlotte is not the only one interested in the egocentric prince, as an evil voodoo sorcerer named [[BigBad Dr. Facilier]] (Creator/KeithDavid) manages to trick him into a DealWithTheDevil and replaces the prince with his transformed manservant. Naveen is turned into a frog and requires a princess' kiss to lift the spell. Mistaking Tiana for a princess at Charlotte's costume party, he asks her to kiss him. Tiana, disillusioned because her attempt at getting the restaurant failed, reluctantly agrees to kiss Naveen if he pays for her restaurant, but there's a twist -- since she's not a princess, the plan backfires and she's turned into a frog as well! As Tiana and Naveen have [[AllWorkVsAllPlay very different outlooks on life]], they have a hard time cooperating, but they're forced to bond together and embark on a journey through the lush bayou of Louisiana to find the mystical [[FairyGodmother Mama Odie]] (Creator/JeniferLewis) who can lift their spell. While they are joined by Louis (Creator/MichaelLeonWooley), an alligator jazz enthusiast, and a Cajun firefly named Ray (Creator/JimCummings), Dr. Facilier is hot on their trail, hellbent on using Naveen's blood for further nefarious purposes.

During Disney's Investor Day on December 10, 2020, it was [[https://www.polygon.com/disney-plus/2020/12/10/22168776/disney-princess-shows-disney-plus-tiana-moana-baymax-zootopia announced]] that ''Tiana'', an animated series based on the film focusing on the eponymous character stepping into the role as a princess of a new country, will be heading to Creator/DisneyPlus in 2022.

* ImmuneToSlapstick: Played with. None of the female characters run into any slapstick, least of all Tiana... as a human. When she's a frog, all bets are off and ''everything'' is PlayedForLaughs - in fact, within her first few minutes as a frog involves a madcap, slapstick rich chase sequence.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Played with. None of the female characters run into any slapstick, least of all Tiana... as a human. When she's a frog, all bets are off and ''everything'' is PlayedForLaughs - in fact, within her first few minutes as a frog involves a madcap, slapstick rich chase sequence.

* ProductPlacement: Both in the animation[[note]]Tabasco's distinctive diamond label is clearly shown[[/note]], and given a line but [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that we are talking about Louisiana hot sauce for gumbo. Besides it's such a household name that a lot of people don't realize it's a brand in the first place.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Dr. Facilier wears a black Baron Samedi-esque outfit while Mama Odie wears white, which is the traditional color for voodoo garb. This also fits with the way they represent shadow and light respectively.\\
Purple, traditional hallmark of comic book villains, is part of the Doctor's costume and no one else, even though it's one of the standard Mardi Gras colors (Purple, Green and Gold).\\
The person who wrote the color script made a conscious decision to include the three Mardi Gras colors: Facilier has purple in all of his scenes (since, of the three colors, purple is the most "unnatural"), the scenes in the swamp with frog Tiana and Naveen are green, and Mama Odie's scenes are awash in gold.

* SympatheticWince: Tiana cringes horrified from her hiding place as she watches Facilier being dragged screaming to the voodoo world by his "friends" from the other side.

In 1920s UsefulNotes/NewOrleans, 19-year old waitress Tiana struggles to earn money in order to create her own restaurant -- a dream she and her dad shared before he passed away. Things seem to be turning around when the handsome prince Naveen comes to town, prompting Tiana's rich friend Charlotte to pay her lots of money if Tiana will cater at the party Charlotte throws for Naveen. Unfortunately, Charlotte is not the only one interested in the egocentric prince, as an evil voodoo sorcerer named [[BigBad Dr. Facilier]] manages to trick him into a DealWithTheDevil and replaces the prince with his transformed manservant. Naveen is turned into a frog and requires a princess' kiss to lift the spell. Mistaking Tiana for a princess at Charlotte's costume party, he asks her to kiss him. Tiana, disillusioned because her attempt at getting the restaurant failed, reluctantly agrees to kiss Naveen if he pays for her restaurant, but there's a twist -- since she's not a princess, the plan backfires and she's turned into a frog as well! As Tiana and Naveen have [[AllWorkVsAllPlay very different outlooks on life]], they have a hard time cooperating, but they're forced to bond together and embark on a journey through the lush bayou of Louisiana to find the mystical [[FairyGodmother Mama Odie]] who can lift their spell. While they are joined by [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Louis, an alligator jazz enthusiast, and a Cajun firefly named Ray]], Dr. Facilier is hot on their trail, hellbent on using Naveen's blood for further nefarious purposes.