History YMMV / DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp

* EthnicScrappy: Dijon is a [[ValuesDissonance blatantly racist]] caricature of a Middle Eastern person: a cowardly and lazy cleptomaniac with a comical accent.

** And, of course, after a great cinematic score, it's topped off with the [[EarWorm show's theme song]] as we fade to the credits.

%%* CultClassic
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dijon, if he isn't an EthnicScrappy.
%%* EthnicScrappy: Dijon.

* EthnicScrappy: Dijon. Maybe. See UnfortunateImplications.

* WhatAnIdiot: The nephews and Webby have three wishes each, quite literally the power to change the world twelve times over. What do they wish for? [[WastefulWishing A pet, a sundae and to bring a roomful of toys to life]]. Made even worse when you remember that the triplets probably ''have dead parents.'' How big an IdiotBall would a kid have to hold for their first wish not to be an immediate, 'I wish my parents were still alive!' in that situation.
** To be fair, Louie does wonder if one of them should wish for 'peace and happiness all over the world' but Genie quickly shoots him down by claiming they're wishes not miracles. Presumably, this means that either the wisher has to be more specific in what they want and/or this Genie has limitations. Also, note Genie specifically urged the kids to try and aim for small, manageable wishes since more ambitious ones have a habit of [[GoneHorriblyWrong spiralling out of control]] and landing him in bother ("The bigger the wish, the bigger the trouble!").

** To be fair, Louie does wonder if one of them should wish for 'peace and happiness all over the world' but Genie quickly shoots him down by claiming they're wishes not miracles, whatever that means.
** It's a valid assumption that genies do not bring the dead back to life. That was also the case in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''.
*** Never confirmed for this movie though. In fact at one point the Genie mentions that wishing for Merlock's talisman is the '''one'' wish he can't do'. So...?
** It is possible that the triplets and Webby were used as an example of [[ChildrenAreInnocent kids being kids]]. Their wishes were light and innocent compared to Merlock's, Dijon's, and even Scrooge's first - all of which were greedy. Furthermore, after the triplets learned Genie's past, they made the effort to not let anyone know of his existence, and made simple, playful wishes so as not to add to an already-existing trauma.
** Though Webby's own wishes cause more trouble than good, no one thinks to make her do the responsible thing and use another of her wishes to change it back. Instead, they decide to use their own wishes and wasting one of their own chances for magically fulfilling their dreams to make up for her own mistakes and Webby with getting away scot-free.
*** With the "living toys" one, it was her last wish and the boys are mad they had to fix things. As for the other one...*shrug*
*** Note Genie specifically urged the kids to try and aim for small, manageable wishes since more ambitious ones have a habit of [[GoneHorriblyWrong spiralling out of control]] and landing him in bother ("The bigger the wish, the bigger the trouble!").

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dijon, if he isn't an EthnicScrappy. Also Merlock, with him appearing at least two more times in video games as either the FinalBoss (as in DonaldDuckGoinQuackers) or a ClimaxBoss (as in Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse).

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Oh boy. WesternAnimation/DuckTales was already famed as one of the most beautifully animated shows of its time and with a movie budget it got taken UpToEleven with some truly gorgeous animation.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: did Collie Baba really promise the Genie to protect him from Merlock, or is Collie Baba just trying to get in the Genie's good graces and thus make the Genie feel indebted to him forever?

* CultClassic

* TheWoobie: The Genie was enslaved by Merlock, who forced him to do horrible things and left him traumatized even centuries later.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Webby's interactions with Scrooge and Genie are either this or genuinely sweet and heartwarming depending on whether [[BaseBreaker a fan considers her]] TheScrappy [[BaseBreaker or not.]]

* OlderThanTheyThink: Ever noticed how this movie is similar to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''? Well, that is because the latter took inspiration from ''this one'', along with ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' (and this is after a regular ''Ducktales'' episode used the "three wishes lamp" idea itself (the clip of Scrooge and Glomgold climbing a column to claim that lamp is the last episode scene in the show's opening, just before the title shows up).

* OlderThanTheyThink: Ever noticed how this movie is similar to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''? Well, that is because the latter took inspiration from ''this one'', along with ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Did anyone believe Scrooge was really going to [[spoiler: wish for the Genie to be trapped in the lamp forever rather than granting him his freedom?]]

* AssPull: Just where does one get a magic amulet that grants infinite wishes from a genie anyway?
** It's said that the talisman is the source of Merlock's VoluntaryShapeshifting; it's probable that the wish-granting extension was just a lucky side effect. Of course, that still doesn't explain ''[[OffScreenVillainDarkMatter where]]'' Merlock got the amulet.

* NightmareFuel: When Merlock makes the wish to morph the money bin into his personal tower, the scenes that follow can get pretty scary with the building's walls coming down, the vault door dissolving, everything getting covered in black stones and growing spikes, the alarms blaring, and the emergency stairway coming off its hinges and trapping the nephews and Webby as it twirls around with the alarm's red light flashing on and off.

: Ever noticed how this movie is similar to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''? Well, that is because the latter took inspiration from ''this one'', along with ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from her unseen second wish, every wish [[BaseBreaker Webby]] used made a delicate situation unnecessarily unstable. Her wish for a baby elephant nearly blew their cover on keeping Genie a secret from Scrooge, and her wish to bring her toys to life was the straw that broke the camel's back, arguably causing the chain of events in the rest of the movie.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Ever noticed how this movie is similar to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''? Well, that is because the latter took inspiration from ''this one'', along with ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Ever noticed how this movie is similar to ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''? Well, that is because the latter took inspiration from ''this one'', along with ''TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from her unseen second wish, every wish [[BaseBreaker Webby]] used made a delicate situation unnecessarily unstable. Her wish for a baby elephant nearly blew their cover on keeping Genie a secret from Scrooge, and her wish to bring her toys to life was the straw the broke the camel's back, arguably causing the chain of events in the rest of the movie.

* CompleteMonster: Merlock.