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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine A comedy about standing on your own four feet.]]'']] |
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| 8 | ->'''Yzma:''' What?! A ''llama?!'' He's supposed to be ''dead!''\ |
| 9 | '''Kronk:''' Yeah. Weird... |
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| 11 | ''Long ago, somewhere deep in the jungle...'' |
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| 14 | A ''very'' atypical animated movie from Creator/{{Disney}}. Hugely self-aware and a lot more [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumour risque]] than the previous entries in [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon the studio's canon]], ''The Emperor's New Groove'' is a film that trawled the deepest levels of DevelopmentHell and finally emerged as a heavily comedic film that veered heavily away from its original concept of an Incan version of ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper''. The film was directed by Creator/MarkDindal, whose previous work, ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', shares much of the same breakneck humor as ''Groove''. |
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| 16 | Kuzco (Creator/DavidSpade) is the spoiled young emperor of a mountainous jungle nation [[{{Mayincatec}} loosely based]] on the [[UsefulNotes/PreColumbianCivilizations Incan empire]] of UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica. On the eve of his eighteenth birthday, he fires his ancient adviser Yzma (Music/EarthaKitt) from her high-profile job, prompting her and her dimwitted but affable lackey Kronk (Creator/PatrickWarburton) to assassinate him. The plan misfires, and Kuzco is instead accidentally turned into a llama. He's forced to team up with good-hearted family-man peasant Pacha (Creator/JohnGoodman) on a dangerous trek through the jungle to reclaim his throne -- while Pacha tries to teach Kuzco just a ''little'' bit of humility in the process. This all plays out more like a feature-length ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon than a typical Disney flick. |
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| 18 | The film has no love story apart from that of Pacha and his pregnant wife, and has only two significant songs (both written by Music/{{Sting}} after the other 90% of his soundtrack was discarded, and one of which is performed by Music/TomJones). |
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| 20 | It was released on December 15, 2000. A direct-to-video sequel, ''WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove'', was released on December 13, 2005. It eventually spawned [[VideoGame/TheEmperorsNewGroove a licensed video game]] and then a [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool TV series]], which ran from January 27, 2006 to November 20, 2008. The film and the production behind it is the subject of the infamous documentary ''Film/TheSweatbox''. |
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| 23 | !!"Right, the tropes. The tropes for Kuzco. The tropes specially chosen to trope Kuzco. Kuzco's tropes." |
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| 26 | [[folder:#-F]] |
| 27 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Really, no one is broken up when Emperor Kuzco disappears. Lampshaded when Yzma and Kronk pass by Kuzco unknowingly and mention that nobody really seems to ''care'' that he's gone and Yzma has taken his place. |
| 28 | * AccidentalHug: Kuzco and Pacha do this in relief, then quickly break apart. |
| 29 | * ActorAllusion: |
| 30 | ** Yzma is voiced by Eartha Kitt, who is well known for portraying one version of [[Series/Batman1966 Catwoman]]. She displays an example of ToTheBatpole and later [[spoiler:gets transformed into a cat. A cute, but still demonic cat]]. She's also known for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS02GeKuWQ4 wanting to be evil]]. |
| 31 | ** Kuzco's "Buh-bye!" to Pacha on the bridge. Apparently, he used to work for [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Total Bastard Airlines]]. |
| 32 | ** At one point, Kuzco tricks Pacha into carrying him by claiming to have low blood sugar, something Creator/DavidSpade actually suffers from. |
| 33 | * AffectionateParody: Of both the studio's more standard animated films and epic fairy tales. |
| 34 | * AirQuotes: Kuzco manages to do this with his hooves after being turned into a llama. |
| 35 | -->'''Kuzco:''' Okay, I've got to get back to the palace. Yzma's got that... "secret lab"... I'll just snap my fingers and order her to change me back! |
| 36 | * AllAnimalsAreDogs: The crocodiles in Yzma's trap door moat whine like dogs when slapped. |
| 37 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: The waitress at the diner when she delivers Kuzco and Pacha their order on the basis that they're newlyweds. |
| 38 | -->'''Waitress:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Hot and crispy pillbug for the happy couple. Mazel Tov. |
| 39 | * AnachronismStew: |
| 40 | ** Oh, so much. For instance, what's an American-style GreasySpoon -- complete with HashHouseLingo and an {{Expy}} of the Big Boy -- doing in the pre-Columbian Andes? Most of it can probably be chalked up to RuleOfFunny. |
| 41 | ** Kuzco's South American empire has wheeled carts. In real life, wheels, while not unknown, were not used by South American indigenous peoples, due to a lack of useful draft animals and the mountainous terrain. The writers actually spent quite a while debating whether to include wheels before realizing this just wasn't the kind of movie that needed to worry about historical accuracy. |
| 42 | ** A floor waxer gets a few seconds of screen time as part of a joke. |
| 43 | ** What was a giant trampoline doing there during the climax? |
| 44 | ** Kuzco's "theme song guy" looks like an Music/ElvisPresley impersonator, complete with sunglasses and a microphone, and sings in the style of Music/TomJones. |
| 45 | ** Spinach, brocoli, and onions originated in Europe and Asia, and so wouldn't be available in the pre-Columbian Andes. |
| 46 | * AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Nobody mourns Kuzco after his disappearance and are quick to accept Yzma as empress. Kronk even lampshades this later in the film by saying, "No one really seems to care that he's gone, do they?" |
| 47 | * AngelFaceDemonFace: |
| 48 | ** Kuzco starts out very hard-lined and softens to more Disney-appropriate features after he learns his lesson. Yzma looks like she's going to have the demon face but ends up turning into something much cuter than her original "scary beyond all reason" appearance. |
| 49 | ** And when [[spoiler:Kitten Yzma]] enters the picture, she can go in a blink from adorable fuzzball to MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. |
| 50 | * AngryChef: The Chef at Mudka's Meat Hut quits after taking various complaints from Kuzco and Yzma and leaving all of the work up to Kronk, thinking that he wanted a "special order" too. |
| 51 | -->'''Kronk:''' Hey, pal, what's your policy on making special orders?\ |
| 52 | '''Chef:''' All right, buster, that's it! You want a special order, then you make it! I QUIT! You know, I try and I try, but there's just no respect for anyone with vision! That--That's it! There's just nothing I can do about it! |
| 53 | * AnnoyinglyRepetitiveChild: Pacha and Chicha's two small children, Tipo and Chaca, are prone to this kind of repetition. |
| 54 | ** Their argument over whether Pacha would ever kiss a llama turns into an [[ArgumentOfContradictions endless repetition of "Nuh-uh!" "Ya-huh!"]]. Their mother rolls her eyes and puts them to bed, at which point they pause to say goodnight before launching back into their back-and-forth. |
| 55 | ** Tipo gets on Yzma's nerves when she tries to infiltrate their house by posing as a distant relative: |
| 56 | --->'''Tipo:''' I don't believe you're really my great-aunt. You're more like my great-great-great...\ |
| 57 | ''[scene cuts away, cuts back to [[OverlyLongGag Tipo still talking]]]''\ |
| 58 | '''Tipo:''' ...great-great-great-great-great...\ |
| 59 | '''Yzma:''' All right! Are you through?\ |
| 60 | '''Tipo:'''...great-great-aunt. |
| 61 | * AntiHero: Kuzco is a JerkAss, a RoyalBrat, and believes that ItsAllAboutMe. He does eventually lighten up, though. |
| 62 | * ApatheticCitizens: Everyone who's not a named character (or the old guy who gets tossed out the window) seems to just go about their lives trying to stay out of the Emperor's way. But when their choice of leaders is between [[{{Jerkass}} Kuzco]] and [[LaughablyEvil Yzma]], can you really blame them? |
| 63 | * ArgumentOfContradictions: Pacha's kids argue about whether their father would ever kiss a llama. They interrupt their rapid fire litany of "Nuh-uh!" "Yeah-huh!" only to say good night to their mother, then continue through the night. |
| 64 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Yzma finishes off her litany of complaints against Kronk with, "...[And] I never liked your spinach puffs! ''Never!''" Made even more hilarious because [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne this cuts Kronk]] deeper than anything else she says. Even his Shoulder Devil does a HeelFaceTurn after that. |
| 65 | -->'''Devil:''' That's it. ''[[[DramaticGunCock cocks pitchfork like a shotgun]]]'' She's going down. |
| 66 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: When Pacha tries to perform CPR on Kuzco, his long llama tongue pops out of his mouth and flops on the ground. In reality, llama tongues are ''incredibly'' small; they can only get out of the mouth half an inch. |
| 67 | * ArtShift: The animation which accompanies Yzma's EvilPlan shifts into a high-contrast silhouetted style that resembles the wall art in the Emperor's palace. |
| 68 | * AssPull: {{Parodied|Trope}}. Yzma and Kronk getting to the lab before Pacha and Kuzco, especially after being hit with lightning and falling into a ravine. Like everything else this is invoked, complete with handy pull-down chart. |
| 69 | -->'''Kuzco:''' No! It can't be! How did you get back here before us?!\ |
| 70 | '''Yzma:''' Uh... How ''did'' we, Kronk?\ |
| 71 | '''Kronk:''' Well, ya got me. ''(pulls down a map showing the trails of everywhere they went)'' By all accounts, it doesn't make sense. |
| 72 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: Spoofed when Kronk and his shoulder guardians turn against Yzma. |
| 73 | -->'''Shoulder Angel:''' Now, now, remember, guys. "From above, the wicked shall receive their just reward."\ |
| 74 | (They all look up and see a chandelier, as a heavenly chorus plays)\ |
| 75 | '''All three of them:''' That'll work. |
| 76 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: |
| 77 | ** Kronk is unable to concentrate more than 10 seconds on Yzma's plans because he always gets distracted (generally by his own cooking). It quickly becomes a RunningGag. |
| 78 | --->'''Yzma:''' So, is everything ready for tonight?\ |
| 79 | '''Kronk:''' Oh, yeah. [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering I thought we'd start off with soup and a light salad, and then see how we feel after that.]]\ |
| 80 | '''Yzma:''' Not the dinner. You know...\ |
| 81 | '''Kronk:''' Oh, ''right''. The poison. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison.]] [[CaptainObvious That poison?]]\ |
| 82 | '''Yzma:''' Yes! That poison.\ |
| 83 | '''Kronk:''' ''[pulls out vial]'' Got you covered.\ |
| 84 | '''Yzma:''' Excellent. A few drops in his drink, and then I'll propose a toast, and he will be dead before dessert.\ |
| 85 | '''Kronk:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Which is a real shame, because it's gonna be delicious.]]\ |
| 86 | \ |
| 87 | '''Kronk:''' ''[as Yzma is being chased by bees]'' Oh, look. A golden-throated small-winged warbler. Just one more for exotic bird bingo. I am loving this. |
| 88 | ** Heck, even Kronk's ''[[GoodAngelBadAngel shoulder angel and devil]]'' are easily distracted! |
| 89 | ** The film itself at times. |
| 90 | --->'''Kuzco:''' Uh, what's with the chimp and the bug?! Can we get back to ''me'' now? |
| 91 | * AwardBaitSong: |
| 92 | ** Perhaps the most traditional aspect of the film is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAUZtWQf9kQ "My Funny Friend and Me"]], sung by Music/{{Sting}} over the end credits. |
| 93 | ** Apparently, back when this movie was a more serious endeavor called ''Kingdom of the Sun'', Sting was to provide many songs and the score in a similar way that Music/EltonJohn did for ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' or Music/PhilCollins did for ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''. However, when the film was changed to basically an animated buddy comedy, all these musical numbers were dropped and the only remnants are Kuzco's theme song and "My Funny Friend and Me." |
| 94 | * BatScare: Kuzco and Pacha disturb a flock of bats when trying to save themselves from falling off a cliff. Fortunately, the bats ultimately return them back to higher ground. |
| 95 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: During the chase scene at the end of the movie, Pacha and Kuzco find themselves about to be attacked by guards. Pacha chooses a random potion and whispers "Oh, ''please'' be something with wings." Kuzco does indeed transform into a bird--unfortunately, it's an extremely small parrot that's only able to keep Pacha airborne for two seconds. |
| 96 | * BerserkButton: DON'T THROW OFF KUZCO'S GROOVE! An old man found that out the hard way when one of Kuzco's guards launched him out of a window. |
| 97 | * BetrayalByInaction: While helping Kuzco back to the palace, Pacha falls through a bridge and lays dangling and calling for help. Rather than helping him up, Kuzco decides to leave him there and continue on; he was going to betray Pacha anyway and lock him in a dungeon, and this seemed easier. Unfortunately for Kuzco, he falls through moments later, leaving him in the same predicament, and the two are forced to work together to save themselves. It becomes funnier when you realize that Kuzco was all the way across the bridge, but [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat he came back to taunt Pacha]], [[TooDumbToLive causing him to suffer the same fate.]] |
| 98 | * BetterThanABareBulb: The movie runs almost entirely on RuleOfFunny and LampshadeHanging. Among the lampshaded tropes are narrators, the villains reaching their lair before the heroes do, a villain going OneWingedAngel, and ZeroPercentApprovalRating. |
| 99 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: {{Invoked|Trope}}. When Kronk catches the bag Kuzco is in before it goes over the waterfall, the camera zooms out to show us the large drop. Then, it keeps zooming out until it is very far from the entire kingdom and showing a tree where a chimp is eating a bug, then it quickly zooms all the way back in to Kronk carrying the bag through the city. Narrator Kuzco even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]]: |
| 100 | -->'''Narrator Kuzco:''' What's with the chimp and the bug? Can we get back to me? |
| 101 | * ABirthdayNotABreak: Aside from the last two scenes and the {{Flashback}} at the beginning, the entire film-in which Kuzco almost dies numerous times, undergoes a ForcedTransformation, is days long distance away from home, has his worldview questioned for the first time in his life, and passes DespairEventHorizon-happens on his eighteenth birthday and the days before and after. |
| 102 | * BlasphemousPraise: Kuzco's theme song guy describe him as, "the Alpha and Omega," a symbolism used in Judiasm, Christianity, and Islam to represent the Divine. This is in keeping with the tendency of many rulers throughout history to declare themselves GodEmperor. |
| 103 | * BlahBlahBlah: During Yzma GrossUpCloseUp, she makes several unimportant noises in the background while Kuzco internally voices his thoughts on her appearance. |
| 104 | * BookEnds: The opening musical number ends with Kuzco's infamous "Boom, baby!" as he goes to meet his marriage candidates. The musical number that ends the movie has it begin with Kuzco and Pacha "Boom, baby!" before they spend some time having fun. |
| 105 | * BreakingOldTrends: Along with having a very different tone from the previous films in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, it is the first one aside from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' to not be an adaptation of (or heavily influenced by) another work. However, this was not intentional. The original incarnation of the movie back when it was called ''Kingdom of the Sun'' was going to incorporate aspects of ''The Prince and the Pauper'' but as that version fell apart, the rush to produce a final product resulted in a heavily comedic original film. |
| 106 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: This film basically demolishes the fourth wall with a truckload of dynamite, then reconstructs it behind the audience. |
| 107 | ** In the second act, Kuzco-as-narrator pauses the film and appears onscreen to complain about the plot not focusing on him, then proceeds to ''draw'' on the fourth wall with a marker. From the audience's side of it. |
| 108 | ** During his HeelRealization, in-movie Kuzco gets into an argument with narrator Kuzco, who's still self-centered. The madness must be seen to be believed. |
| 109 | ** Towards the film's climax, Kuzco and Pacha race against Yzma and Kronk to reach the palace first. The movie shows the audience [[TravelMontage a map of Team Kuzco's and Team Yzma's paths, represented by red dashes and purple arrows, respectively]]. At one point, when Team Kuzco is ahead, the film cuts to Yzma... and she realizes that there is a line of red dashes on the ground ahead of them. Then, she looks back and sees that Kronk is inexplicably leaving behind a trail of purple arrows next to the dashes. [[ShrugTake They shrug at each other and keep running.]] The scene ends with a sudden very localized thunderstorm knocking the purple arrow line down into a ravine. Yet when Kuzco and Pacha arrive at the mountaintop palace, Yzma and Kronk are waiting for them. |
| 110 | ---> '''Kuzco:''' No! It can't be! How did you get back here before us?\ |
| 111 | '''Yzma:''' Ah... uh, how ''did'' we, Kronk?\ |
| 112 | '''Kronk:''' Well, ya got me. ''[pulls down [[TravelMontage the same map]] the audience was just looking at]'' By all accounts, it doesn't make sense. |
| 113 | ** The above is more explicit in the Italian and Spanish dubs. In the former, Kronk just says that the writers are still figuring it out; in the latter, he says it could be "movie stuff". |
| 114 | * BreakoutCharacter: Kronk received his own spin-off film. |
| 115 | * BreakUpMakeUpScenario: One of the turning points of Kuzco's CharacterDevelopment is making amends with Pacha over their disagreements. |
| 116 | * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Kronk and Yzma in the closet of Pacha's house are visible by their eye shape. The only time any more definition is added is when Yzma gets close to a knothole in the closet's door. |
| 117 | * ByWallThatIsHoley: Kronk slices a rope holding a chandelier over Yzma. She survives by being thin enough to seamlessly fit through the single hole in the decoration's centre. |
| 118 | * CallBack: |
| 119 | ** When Kronk and Yzma are at the door to her "secret lab", Kronk pulls a lever and she drops through a trapdoor only to reappear at the lab door, soaking wet with a crocodile in tow, saying "Why do we even have that lever?". Later, after we see llama Kuzco and Pancha reach the palace first, it cuts to a soaking wet Kuzco entering the lab door with a crocodile in tow saying "Okay, why does she even have that lever?". |
| 120 | ** When Yzma is upset that Kuzco drank "extract of Llama," not poison, Kronk notes that all her potions look alike and she should label them better. Towards the end of the film, when Kuzco and Pacha are looking for the potion that will change him back to human, [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles Yzma spills all her unlabeled potion vials to the floor]], making it impossible to identify the one they need. |
| 121 | ** The broken bridge scene ends with Kuzco asking Pacha the chances of the latter carrying him, with Pacha replying that they're not very high. The next time we see them (after the MeanwhileScene with the villains), Pacha ''is'' carrying Kuzco, while questioning his offscreen claim that he has low blood sugar levels. |
| 122 | ** At the conclusion, [[spoiler:Kuzco calls out Pacha, saying that when he visited Pacha's town, the mountains don't sing and reports that this is definitely the reason he won't be building his waterpark there.]] |
| 123 | * CantYouReadTheSign: "No Llamas," says the sign outside the GreasySpoon diner. This necessitates putting Kuzco in disguise. |
| 124 | * CapsLockNumLockMissilesLock: Yzma's lair has two identical levers, one of which triggers a trap, and another which forcibly flips the puller inside. This later became a running gag in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool''. |
| 125 | * CassandraTruth: Pacha tries to warn Kuzco that Yzma and Kronk are trying to kill him, but Kuzco blows him off, thinking they were there to take him home. He then falls out with Pacha, believing his claim to be a plan to save his hilltop from destruction, and then orders Pacha to go away. Kuzco makes his way to Yzma and Kronk, only to overhear them discussing that they are seeking to kill him and that the kingdom doesn't miss him. Kuzco realizes Pacha was right, but Pacha has left, and Kuzco hangs his head in despair. ''Ouch.'' |
| 126 | * TheCatCameBack: Yzma and Kronk's inexplicable and speedy return to the lab. Heavily lampshaded, in that even ''they'' didn't know how they did it. They even show a map of their route, which goes down a canyon and never reappears. |
| 127 | * CatharticChores: Pacha's wife, Chica, is so furious at hearing about how Emperor Kuzco brushed her husband's concerns aside that she descends into Angrish before saying "I gotta go wash something." |
| 128 | * ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Kuzco and Pacha do this at one point over not wanting to keep arguing about Kuzco building his resort where Pacha's house is. |
| 129 | * CharacterDevelopment: Kuzco the narrator keeps the attitude he had at the beginning of the movie: shallow and self-absorbed. This is contrasted with Kuzco the llama, who grows to realize what a jerk he's been, eventually resulting a scene where the llama calls out the narrator on his attitude. |
| 130 | * CharacterExaggeration: Compared to ''Kingdom of the Sun'', Yzma is exaggerated to a hammy and hilarious villain. |
| 131 | * ChekhovsSkill: |
| 132 | ** Yzma mentions turning Kuzco into a flea, which establishes that she has potions that can turn people into animals. Later, Kuzco accidentally turns into a llama thanks to one of these animal-transformation potions. |
| 133 | ** Kuzco and Pacha make their way out of a ravine by pressing their backs against each other and walking up the cliff's walls. They later use the same technique during the film's climax when they have to climb the palace's walls. |
| 134 | * ChewbaccaDefense: Courtesy of Kronk's shoulder devil. It works better on the ''angel'' than on Kronk, who just gets confused. |
| 135 | -->'''Devil:''' There are three reasons you should listen to me instead of him. [...] Reason number two: Look what I can do. ''[does a one-handed handstand]''\ |
| 136 | '''Kronk:''' But what does that have to do with anything?\ |
| 137 | '''Angel:''' No, no, he's got a point. |
| 138 | * CirclingBirdies: Kuzco sees llamas circling his head after Chicha whacks him with a frying pan. |
| 139 | * ClingyAquaticLife: When Kronk accidentally pulls the trapdoor lever, Yzma falls through and lands with a splash offscreen. She then reenters the room with an alligator biting her dress. She smacks it, and it [[AllAnimalsAreDogs scrambles away and whimpers like a dog]]. The same thing happens to Kuzco when he and Pacha try to enter Yzma's lab [[CallBack later in the movie]]. |
| 140 | * CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Actually a coincidental intentional disguise, leading to Yzma unwillingly replacing a pinata at a children's party. |
| 141 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Kuzco and Yzma's signature colors are red and purple respectively - colors that sit on opposite extremes of the spectrum, denoting how they stand in relation to other characters and each other. Pacha and his family are characterized by warm, earthy colors, mainly green and yellow. Kronk, who's Yzma's closest ally, is dressed mostly in blue. |
| 142 | * ComfortingComforter: On Kuzco and Pacha's first night in the jungle, as Kuzco is trying to sleep and shivering in the cold, Pacha lays his own pacha over him to keep him warm. This in spite of the fact that Kuzco still planned on destroying Pacha's home village. This act of kindness seemingly leads to Kuzco having a change of heart and promising not to destroy the village the next morning. |
| 143 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kronk in general. He never seems to get that he's the lackey to the movie's BigBad, and generally misinterprets her EvilGloating. |
| 144 | * CommunityThreateningConstruction: Emperor Kuzco, being a self-absorbed, egoistic jerk, wants to build Kuzcotopia, a giant summer palace complete with a waterslide meant for him alone, as a present for his 18th birthday. He intends to build it on the hill of Pacha's village which requires the town's destruction. When Kuzco is accidentally turned into a llama and needs Pacha to take him home, Kuzcotopia becomes the point of conflict between the two as Pacha won't help Kuzco it unless he agrees to change his plans. |
| 145 | * ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Pacha's clumsy swinging-vine rescue was the only real way to save Kuzco from the panthers on the cliff-edge. However, Pacha completely misses Kuzco and his first pass and the return swing ends up with the pair getting tied up in a tree hanging precariously over a cliff. Kuzco can't wait to comment on this. |
| 146 | -->'''Kuzco:''' Maybe I'm just new to this whole rescuing thing, but this, to me, might be considered kind of a step backwards, wouldn't you say? |
| 147 | * ComplexityAddiction: Yzma's original plan to get rid of Kuzco involved turning him into a flea, putting that flea into a box, then putting that box inside another box and then mailing the box to herself upon which she'd smash it with a hammer. Even after she decides to go with a more straightforward plan, her main reasoning seems to be that it would save on postage. |
| 148 | * ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: |
| 149 | ** Kronk dumps the bag holding the unconscious llama Kuzco into a river, but at the urging of his shoulder angel, rushes back to save him before the bag goes over the falls. |
| 150 | ** Pacha initially decides to let Kuzco head into the jungle by himself since his death would ensure he wouldn't be able to destroy Pacha's village to make way for Kuzcotopia, but knowing what decent guy he is, there's no surprise when he appears in time to rescue Kuzco from the jaguars. |
| 151 | ** Subverted with Kuzco. When Pacha ends up falling through a wooden bridge, Kuzco appears to go back to help him... only to proceed to mock him and leave him to die because he dared to insist that Kuscotopia be built somewhere else. |
| 152 | * ContrivedClumsiness: As Kuzco and Pacha try to get the potion that will turn Kuzco human, Yzma knocks over the other potions so they can't tell which is which, saying "Oops, clumsy me!" as she does. |
| 153 | ** Yzma also uses this when searching Pacha's house, knocking over her cup on the table to buy time to plot with the oblivious Kronk. [[DeadpanSnarker Chicha]] is not amused. |
| 154 | * ContrivedCoincidence: |
| 155 | ** Played for laughs. At the end of the film, Yzma [[spoiler: in cat form]] is falling off the side of the palace to certain doom...but at that ''precise'' moment, in the ''precise'' location where she's falling, a deliveryman has just set up a giant trampoline, which she lands on. And as a guard helpfully points out, ''no one ordered the trampoline to begin with.'' |
| 156 | ** The trapdoor Kronk fell through three scenes ago just so happens to lead to a window that opens up ''directly'' where [[spoiler: Cat]] Yzma is standing. When he opens it, he accidentally smashes her against the wall, inadvertently saving the day. |
| 157 | ** Kuzco, Pacha, Yzma, and Kronk end up at Mudka's Mud Hut at the exact same time. It's taken back into absurdity, though, when Yzma and Kuzco repeatedly [[MissedHimByThatMuch miss seeing each other]] by fractions of seconds as they move through the diner. |
| 158 | * CoolOldGuy: The old man who Kuzco has thrown out the window. He forgives Kuzco when he apologizes later, saying it wasn't the first time he was tossed out and a window and was confident it wouldn't be the last since he's a rebel. |
| 159 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In the end, [[spoiler: Yzma's stuck as a kitten and has to participate in Kronk's Junior Chipmunks group, complete with uniform.]] |
| 160 | * CosmeticHorror: Kronk bursts into Yzma's tent at night after having an ephiphany on where to find Kusco. |
| 161 | -->Kronk: Yzma!\ |
| 162 | Yzma: ''[sits up, face covered in a goopy beauty mask, complete with cucumbers.]'' WHAT!?\ |
| 163 | Kronk: ''[Recoils in horror]'' AUGH!!!\ |
| 164 | Yzma: This had better be ''good!'' |
| 165 | * CouldSayItBut: When telling Pacha he no longer plans to build Kuzcotopia over his village, rather than outright say the real reason, Kuzco pretends it's because the hills didn't sing like Pacha claimed. |
| 166 | * CucumberFacial: Apparently part of Yzma's sleeping routine. Becomes CosmeticHorror when Kronk interrupts her slumber. |
| 167 | * CueTheRain: Llama-Kuzco gets hit with a sudden downpour when he's alone and abandoned in the jungle. |
| 168 | * CuteKitten: [[spoiler:Yzma is transformed into a harmless little cat in the end. Played with as she's still dangerous enough to freak Pacha out and over the edge.]] |
| 169 | * CuttingBackToReality: Near the climax, while Kronk talks with his [[GoodAngelBadAngel angel and devil]], the scene cuts to a baffled Yzma watching him talk to his shoulders. |
| 170 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: Kuzco tries to walk on his hindlegs after being transformed, but quickly finds it impossible. Even when he gives into walking on four, his body's not used to it yet and his back legs keep crumbling to the ground. |
| 171 | * DangerousInterrogative: When Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama and ends up in Pacha's village, he demands that he bring him back to his palace and change him back. But Pacha, whose village the emperor wants to raze to make way for his new summer home, says he'll do it on one condition... |
| 172 | -->'''Pacha:''' Build you summer house somewhere else.\ |
| 173 | '''Kuzco:''' ''(suddenly pauses)'' You wanna run that by me again? |
| 174 | * DeadpanSnarker: Kuzco has a sarcastic insult for every situation, even when his life is in danger. |
| 175 | --> '''Kuzco:''' Y'know, it's a good thing you're not a big fat guy or this would be ''really'' difficult! ''[all while pushing Pacha up a cliff]'' |
| 176 | * DeathAsComedy: When pursuing Kuzco and Pacha down a drain hole, the palace guard leader gives a rousing "C'mon men! Nobody lives forever!" before they all drop down the hole to their apparent deaths as they are never seen again. |
| 177 | * DenserAndWackier: Than most Disney films, by a massive degree. Although all of the Disney canon have humor, this is one of the few that's an outright absurdist comedy. In some ways, it feels more like a Looney Tunes production than something from the House of Mouse. There are times that the soundtrack even has a Carl Stalling feel. |
| 178 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Kronk's famous line as he catches on to Yzma's hinting about their plan to kill Kuzco: |
| 179 | -->'''Kronk''': Riiiight, the poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison specially chosen to kill Kuzco. Kuzco's poison. ...that poison? |
| 180 | * DespairEventHorizon: After learning Yzma and Kronk were planning to kill them and Pacha abandons him, Kuzco gives up hope that he'll ever be turned back into a human. He goes to a llama herd trying to start a new life. |
| 181 | * DestinationDefenestration: The punishment for MusicalisInterruptus--Kuzco stumbles over an old man who's too slow to get out of his way, "throwing off his groove" and causing his theme song to suffer a variation on RecordNeedleScratch, in the form of screeching vehicle tires. A guard tosses the old man out a window in a routine sort of way. |
| 182 | * DetachableDoorknob: One scene has Yzma and Kronk trapped in a closet in Pacha's house when Chicha, Tipo, and Chaca remove the closet door's handle. |
| 183 | * DeusExMachina: |
| 184 | ** Hilariously lampshaded: |
| 185 | ---> '''Kronk:''' Wow... what are the ''odds'' that trapdoor would lead me out here? |
| 186 | ** When [[spoiler: Yzma (and the human-potion) are falling to their doom, she is rescued by a trampoline that happens to have been set up under her.]] |
| 187 | * DevastatingRemark: |
| 188 | ** As the climax begins, Yzma starts berating Kronk for the millionth time in the movie. However, it's when she pettily tells him that she never liked his spinach puffs that he bursts into tears and pulls a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 189 | ** This is preceded by Yzma using an IronicEcho to answer Kuzco when he asks if she really wants him dead, and hearing his own words from her mouth forces him to fully accept his JerkassRealization. |
| 190 | * DevilsPitchfork: Kronk's shoulder devil wields a golden trident. When Yzma insults Kronk's cooking, the devil pumps his trident like a shotgun and declares that she's going down. |
| 191 | * DiabolusExMachina: Hilariously PlayedForLaughs. As mentioned in BreakingTheFourthWall, [[LampshadeHanging Kronk and Yzma have no idea on how they get to the palace before Kuzco and Pacha]]. |
| 192 | * DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Yzma and Kronk do this when the latter is forced to mix all the drinks together after losing track of which one has the potion in it. Yzma quickly dumps hers on a nearby cactus. Kronk pretends to drink his, using forced perspective to make it look like it's going in his mouth while he's actually spilling it on his shoulder. Kuzco is so oblivious and self-centered that he's not fooled - in fact, he doesn't even seem to notice. |
| 193 | * DisguisedInDrag: Kuzco dresses up as a lady and plays the role of Pacha's newlywed wife to get into a restaurant. Unlike most cases, [[WholesomeCrossdresser he doesn't seem to mind]]. |
| 194 | * DisneyDeath: |
| 195 | ** At dinner, Yzma has Kronk put poison in Kuzco's drink and he faceplants onto the dinner table as soon as he finishes it. However, Kuzco recovers a few seconds later and begins his transformation into a llama. |
| 196 | ** The old man who throws off Kuzco's groove and suffers a DestinationDefenestration out of a high window is soon revealed to have survived by getting tangled up in a banner before hitting the ground. |
| 197 | * DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. Yzma falls from the top of her palace near the end of the film, but falls into a trampoline and survives. |
| 198 | --> '''Palace Guard:''' For the last time, we did ''not'' order a giant trampoline!\ |
| 199 | '''Delivery-man:''' Ya know, pal, you could've told me that before I set it up. |
| 200 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 201 | ** Done hilariously, where an elderly man accidentally bumps into the Emperor during his song number: |
| 202 | ---> '''Kuzco:''' Doh! You threw off my groove!\ |
| 203 | '''Guard:''' I'm sorry, but you've thrown off the Emperor's groove.\ |
| 204 | ''[cut to the man being chucked out a window]''\ |
| 205 | '''Old Man:''' [=SOOOOORRRRRRRRY!=]! |
| 206 | ** Kuzco sums it up succinctly when he says, "Okay, I admit it. Maybe I wasn't as nice as I should have been. But Yzma, do you really want to ''kill'' me?" |
| 207 | * TheDogBitesBack: After putting up with all of her abuse, Kronk finally turns against Yzma when she claims to have never liked his spinach puffs. Or at least, he ''tries'' to. He does manage to save the day in a DeusExMachina moment as noted above. |
| 208 | * DoIReallySoundLikeThat: [[spoiler:Yzma, after becoming a kitten and finding her voice is much higher and squeakier: "Is that my voice? Is that... ''MY'' voice?!"]] |
| 209 | * DoorJudo: Pacha's family does this with Yzma. |
| 210 | * DownerBeginning: Downplayed. The film's CueTheRain opening is purposefully over dramatic and PlayedForLaughs. But it still has a more somber tone than the rest of the movie, especially when you learn why Kuzco is crying in the jungle. [[spoiler: He's a kid trapped in a ForcedTransformation who just learned no one in the world cares that he's missing, and he rejected the only person who ever showed him some genuine kindness.]] |
| 211 | * DramaticGunCock: Kronk's shoulder devil does this with his ''pitchfork'' when he decides that Yzma needs to be taken down. |
| 212 | * DressOMatic: When Yzma and Kronk ride the cart that takes them to the secret lab, they emerge at the end wearing lab coats and goggles through some unseen mechanism. When Kuzco and Pacha take the same ride later in the movie, they also come out wearing these coats, although theirs don't fit them correctly as the device was tailored to Yzma and Kronk. |
| 213 | * EasilyForgiven: The old man who had been defenestrated for "throwing off the Emperor's groove" appears to forgive Kuzco quite easily without holding a grudge. He even implies that being tossed out a window is a somewhat common event for him. |
| 214 | * {{Egopolis}}: Kuzco is planning to build a place named Kuzcotopia. |
| 215 | -->'''Kuzco:''' My ultimate summer getaway! Complete with water slide. |
| 216 | ** Kuzco's Palace is also this in spades. |
| 217 | * TheElevatorFromIpanema: Actually a dining room, but close enough. |
| 218 | * EmbarrassinglyDresslikeOutfit: When Kronk's [[GoodAngelBadAngel shoulder devil and angel]] first appear, the shoulder devil points out the reasons why Kronk shouldn't trust the angel, including a disparaging comment about his heavenly robe being a dress. |
| 219 | -->'''Devil Kronk''': Listen up, big guy! I've got three good reasons why you should just walk away. Number one: look at that guy! He's got that sissy stringy music thing. |
| 220 | -->'''Angel Kronk''': We've been through this. It's a harp, and you know it. |
| 221 | -->'''Devil Kronk''': Oh, right. That's a harp... and that's a dress. |
| 222 | -->'''Angel Kronk''': ''Robe!'' |
| 223 | * TheEmperor: Kuzco is the ruler of the Inca Empire, hence the movie's title. |
| 224 | * EurekaMoment: Kronk has one when he ''finally'' recalls Pacha as the same peasant he saw driving the cart with Kuzco in the back when he lost him back at the palace. He immediately realizes that Pacha must be taking Kuzco back to his own village, and that the best way to Kuzco was to get there before they did. |
| 225 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Hilariously played with in the case of Kronk's Shoulder Devil, when Yzma reveals that not only does she hold the lowest opinion of Kronk possible, but also that [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she never liked his spinach puffs!]] ''NEVER!'' |
| 226 | -->'''Shoulder Devil:''' That's it! ''[[[DramaticGunCock cocks pitchfork like shotgun]]]'' She's going down! |
| 227 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Before his HeelFaceTurn, Kuzco takes for granted that being the Emperor gives him the right to treat the peasants however he wants, and struggles to understand when Pacha tries to tell him that destroying an entire village just for his birthday celebration would be a bad thing. |
| 228 | * EvilGloating: Both Yzma and Kuzco do this. [[VillainBall Kuzco turns back into danger to gloat after he leaves Pacha to die,]] and karmically falls into the same peril. Yzma does it more effectively much later, but Kronk ruins the moment by lampshading it. |
| 229 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Subverted when Yzma makes her final transformation. An ominous smoke appears and she starts laughing evilly in a deep, booming bass, but once the smoke clears, she's [[spoiler: a tiny kitty with a squeaky voice]]. |
| 230 | * ExactWords: |
| 231 | ** When Pacha angrily points out that Kuzco betrays his promise even after they shook hands on it, Kuzco waves his hoofs in front of Pacha and retorts that to shake hands requires actually having hands. |
| 232 | ** Kuzco tells Pacha that he's not going to build Kuzcotopia over Pacha's town because despite the claim that the "hills sing" Kuzco reports that he heard no singing when he visited Pacha's home. It's obvious that Kuzco is just trying to save face and is using exact words to cover up that he changed his mind. |
| 233 | * ExtremelyShortTimespan: The official storyline of the movie starts the day before Kuzco's birthday and ends in the afternoon of the day after; meaning the entire film took place over two and a half days. |
| 234 | * FallingChandelierOfDoom: {{Subverted}}; Kronk turns on Yzma by cutting down a chandelier over her head, but she's so skinny that it merely falls ''around'' her thanks to the hole in the middle. |
| 235 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Apparently, Kuzco and Pacha would rather be stabbed to death than witness Yzma strip. |
| 236 | * FightBellHijinks: A bell is heard when Kuzco and Pacha begin fighting while dangling precariously over a ravine. |
| 237 | -->'''Pacha:''' Let's end this! |
| 238 | -->'''Kuzco:''' Ladies first. |
| 239 | * FluffyDryCat: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] When Kuzco shakes his fur dry, only the hair on his head fluffs up. |
| 240 | * ForcedTransformation: The Emperor's transformation into a llama is the result of Kronk bumbling Yzma's attempt to assassinate him, mistaking a transformation potion with the intended poison. Later, chaos ensues during the finale when they acquire the ''rest'' of Yzma's (unlabeled) transformation potions, and [[spoiler:Yzma herself never fully recovers from being turned into a cat]]. |
| 241 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 242 | ** In the {{Flashback}} where Kuzco was a baby, three of the toys surrounding him are a llama rocker, a wind up parrot, and a stuffed whale; all of which are animals Kuzco later turns into. |
| 243 | ** The first gate on the slide to the secret lab is shaped like a cat's head. |
| 244 | * FreakOut: When Kuzco learns he's been turned into a llama, he tries to tear his skin off, slaps himself across the face in a desperate attempt to calm himself down, laughs hysterically when he realizes he can no longer walk on two legs, and panics that he "can't remember anything" because of the confusion being knocked out caused him. |
| 245 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: Kuzco is within inches of getting the vial that will turn him back into a human, but Pacha is slowly losing his grip on the edge of the palace wall at the same time. At the very last second, Kuzco runs over and grabs Pacha's hand, and the vial falls off the wall. |
| 246 | * FryingPanOfDoom: Chicha uses one on Kuzco when he startles her. |
| 247 | * TheFunInFuneral: Yzma holds a funeral for Kuzco, with a somber eulogy, then immediately ushers in her own reign with, "Well, he ain't gettin' any deader! Back to work!" All of the mourners drop their candles and walk off without a word. |
| 248 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent |
| 249 | ** During the dinner scene, when Kronk and Yzma need to get rid of their poisoned drinks, Yzma discreetly pours hers into a small potted cactus. When the scene cuts back to Yzma, we see that it has taken on the shape of a llama. |
| 250 | ** In one scene, Kronk finds another bird to add to his "Exotic Bird Bingo" sheet while, in the background, Yzma is being chased across the screen several times by SynchronizedSwarming bees. |
| 251 | ** After Kuzco insults his prospective brides and turns back to the matchmaker, you can see one of them getting violently angry and being [[LetMeAtHim physically restrained]] by the others. |
| 252 | * FurryReminder |
| 253 | ** It becomes basically impossible for Kuzco to walk on two legs, to the point of barely being able to do so even when holding himself up on a fence for support. |
| 254 | ** After getting wet, Kuzco shook his fur to get the water off. |
| 255 | ** Kuzco defends going back on Pacha's promise because they sealed it through a handshake. Kuzco, now being a llama, [[ExactWords technically doesn't have hands anymore.]] He even flashes his hooves at Pacha to really drill the point down. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:G-L]] |
| 259 | * GentleGiant: |
| 260 | ** Kronk is the biggest, most muscular character in the film. He's also kind to the point of naiveté. |
| 261 | ** Pacha isn't too far behind, being about two heads taller and significantly beefier than the string bean Kuzco, yet is a caring father and husband, not to mention the great restraint he shows putting up Kuzco's attitude. Bruce W. Smith, his animator, lampshades this on the DVD commentary, saying that he had to animate the character with a certain restraint, because he could easily "smack Kuzco upside the head" at any minute. |
| 262 | * AGiftForThemselves: Kuzco calls Kuzcotopia, the summer palace he plans to build over Pacha's village, "my birthday present to me." |
| 263 | * GoodAngelBadAngel: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] by Kronk, whose angels are just as dim as he is. |
| 264 | * GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Yzma's "secret lab" features a lot of spiraling glass tubing running throughout the room, but also shelves filled with bottles of her various magical potions. They're all pink in color and very poorly labeled, making it difficult to distinguish from another. Kronk even lampshades this. |
| 265 | * GravityIsAHarshMistress: It takes several beats after the rope bridge breaks for Kuzco and Pacha to realize they're going to fall to their death before dropping. |
| 266 | * GreasySpoon: Mudka's Meat Hut, complete with HashHouseLingo and an Expy of the Big Boy statue outside. |
| 267 | * GrossUpCloseUp: Yzma is scary enough at a distance but when Kuzco introduces us to her the camera does a close-up pan over her face and we get this running commentary. |
| 268 | -->'''Kuzco:''' Whoa! Look at those wrinkles. What is holding this woman together? What the!? ''[sees a piece of spinach in Yzma's teeth]'' How long has ''that'' been there? |
| 269 | * HammyHerald: The Theme Song Guy, voiced by Music/TomJones, who introduces Kuzco in a bombastic song. |
| 270 | * HandsLookingWrong: Pacha tells Kuzco to hold up his hands in front of his face and wriggle his fingers to get Kuzco to notice he's been turned into a llama. |
| 271 | * HandWave: Wonderfully invoked near the end of the movie, when Kronk is directly asked by Yzma asked how they managed to get to the palace before Kuzco and Pancha. His reply is: "Well, ya got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make sense," complete with a handy chart showing ''how'' it doesn't make sense. Everyone immediately stops worrying about it. |
| 272 | * HappilyMarried: Pacha and Chicha. |
| 273 | * HappyBirthdayToYou: As sung by the Meat Hut employees: |
| 274 | --> Happy happy birthday from all of us to you!\ |
| 275 | We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! |
| 276 | * HashHouseLingo: [[HiddenDepths Somehow, Kronk gets it right away.]] |
| 277 | -->'''Waitress:''' Ordering. Three pork combos, extra bacon on the side, two chili cheese samplers, a basket of liver and onion rings, a catch of the day, and a steak cut in the shape of a trout. You got all that, honey?\ |
| 278 | '''Kronk:''' ''[SeriousBusiness voice]'' Three oinkers wearing pants, plate of hot air, basket of Grandma's breakfast and change the bull to a gill, got it. |
| 279 | * HatesBeingTouched: Kuzco, at least at first. It gives us one of movie's many quotable lines. |
| 280 | -->'''Kuzco:''' No touchy!! No touchy, no touch. |
| 281 | * HeelFaceTurn: |
| 282 | ** Kronk. As he was always the MinionWithAnFInEvil, it was not a particularly big step for him. |
| 283 | ** Kuzco. This is the essence of his character growth throughout the story. To go from a narcissitic, selfish, self-involved person to a nicer guy who thinks about others for a change. |
| 284 | * HeelRealization: By the time the movie returns to the opening shot of Llama Kuzco crying in the rain, Kuzco has finally realized how terrible he's been. Narrator Kuzco, however, hasn't figured it out and keeps going on about how unfair everyone has been to him until Llama Kuzco finally tells him to shut up. |
| 285 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 286 | ** Bucky pops a balloon and the jaguar pack ''doesn't'' wake up. |
| 287 | --->'''Kuzco:''' '''HA!''' ''[cue OhCrap]'' |
| 288 | ** Yzma sending Kronk down the trap door ends up being what ultimately causes her to fail when it leads Kronk to opening a window to the outsides, knocking her unconscious and the vial into Pacha's hands. |
| 289 | * HowWeGotHere: The film begins with a sad llama sitting all alone in the middle of a rainstorm. The voiceover informs us this llama once was a powerful emperor. The first half of the movie focuses on how he got there. |
| 290 | * HumiliationConga: |
| 291 | ** Yzma suffers one starting with the DoorJudo sequence. |
| 292 | ** The entire movie can be seen as one for Kuzco. |
| 293 | * HurricaneOfEuphemisms: |
| 294 | ** In the beginning of the movie, when Kuzco gets rid of Yzma. |
| 295 | --->'''Yzma:''' What do you mean, "fired"?\ |
| 296 | '''Kuzco:''' Um, how else can I say it? "You're being let go." "Your department's being downsized." "You're part of an outplacement." "We're going in a different direction." "We're not picking up your option." Take your pick. I've got more. |
| 297 | ** Yzma throws it back in Kuzco's face later in the film. |
| 298 | --->'''Kusco:''' But do you really want to kill me?\ |
| 299 | '''Yzma:''' Just think of it as you're being let go, that your life's going in a different direction, that your body 's part of a permanent outplacement.\ |
| 300 | '''Kronk:''' Hey, that's kind of like what he said to you when you got fired.\ |
| 301 | '''Yzma:''' I know, it's called a cruel irony, like my dependence on you. |
| 302 | * ILied: Pacha agrees to take Kuzco back to his palace if he agrees not to build Kuzcotopia on his village, which he agrees to. They even shake hands on it. But when Pacha gets stuck in the ropes of a suspension bridge, Kuzco refuses to help him and announces that he still plans to build Kuzcotopia when he gets back to the palace. |
| 303 | -->'''Pacha:''' So all of it was a ''lie''?\ |
| 304 | '''Kuzco:''' Well, yeah! No Wait... ''[looks up in thought for a moment]'' Yeah. Yeah, it all was a lie. Toodles! |
| 305 | * InteractiveNarrator: Narrator!Kuzco. Eventually, Llama!Kuzco tells him to shut up and stop whining. |
| 306 | * InevitableWaterfall: LampshadeHanging with a good dollop of CasualDangerDialogue and ThisIsGonnaSuck. |
| 307 | -->'''Pacha:''' [[OhCrap Uh oh.]]\ |
| 308 | '''Kuzco:''' Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall.\ |
| 309 | '''Pacha:''' Yep.\ |
| 310 | '''Kuzco:''' Sharp rocks at the bottom?\ |
| 311 | '''Pacha:''' Most likely.\ |
| 312 | '''Kuzco:''' ... [[BringIt Bring it on.]] |
| 313 | * InNameOnly: Despite the title strongly implying some similarity in story to "Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes" the two stories have nothing in common other than featuring an emperor who's a jerk. |
| 314 | * InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: The second time that Kronk interacts with his [[GoodAngelBadAngel shoulder angel and devil]], he talks to them out loud while Kuzco, Pacha, and Yzma are all right there. They're all completely bewildered by Kronk suddenly speaking to himself about whether to follow Yzma's orders to kill Pacha and Kuzco. |
| 315 | * InsistentTerminology: Kronk's shoulder angel and devil have a feisty argument about the angel's outfit. |
| 316 | -->'''Devil:''' Look at that guy, he's got that sissy music thing.\ |
| 317 | '''Angel:''' We've been through this. It's a harp, and you know it.\ |
| 318 | '''Devil:''' Right. That's a harp... and that's a dress.\ |
| 319 | '''Angel:''' ROBE!!! |
| 320 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: During the final chase, Pacha picks potions that transform Kuzco into a turtle and extremely tiny bird. The emperor angrily remarks that Pacha's bad at choosing, and insists he select the next one. He does so...and immediately turns into a massive, immobile whale. Lampshaded when Kuzco mutters "Don't you say a ''word.''" |
| 321 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Kuzco and Pacha. |
| 322 | * InventionalWisdom: The entrance to Yzma's secret lab has a lever that opens a TrapDoor to a crocodile pool. It's right next to the lever that opens the door. While it could be used as a trap, Yzma doesn't seem to intend it that way, and she can never remember which one is which. |
| 323 | -->'''Yzma:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why do we even]] ''[[LampshadeHanging have]]'' [[LampshadeHanging that lever?]]\ |
| 324 | '''[[IronicEcho Kuzco]]:''' Why does she even ''have'' that lever? |
| 325 | * IronicEcho: |
| 326 | ** Yzma throws Kuzco's earlier words when he fired her back in his face when revealing she plans to kill him. |
| 327 | -->'''Kuzco:''' Okay, I admit it. Maybe I wasn't as nice as I should have been. But Yzma, you really wanna kill me?!\ |
| 328 | '''Yzma:''' Just think of it as... you're being let go. That your life's going in a different direction. That your body is part of a permanent outplacement.\ |
| 329 | '''Kronk:''' [[DontExplainTheJoke Hey, that's kinda like what he said to you when you got fired!]]\ |
| 330 | '''Yzma:''' I know. It's called a "cruel irony." Like my dependence on ''you''. |
| 331 | ** Pacha says "Nobody's ''that'' heartless!" about Kuzco demolishing his village. Kuzco says the same thing when Pacha is surprised he saved him from a fall. |
| 332 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Kuzco, of course. A movie poster featuring him and the trope title word-for-word is the current page image for this trope. Forgetting he's an emperor of a vast empire, he's also a teenager, at a stage in which they self-consciously ''do'' think everything is about them. |
| 333 | * {{Jerkass}}: Kuzco starts out as one of these but receives a heaping portion of character development during the story. |
| 334 | * JerkassHasAPoint: While it was done in a tactless manner that fired up her desire for revenge, Kuzco, as Emperor, can fire Yzma at any time for any reason but especially after having caught her trying to run the country behind his back, '''''AGAIN!'''''. She's lucky to have escaped with her life. |
| 335 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Prior to his character development, Kuzco makes Pacha believe he's had a change of heart and decided to build his vacation place elsewhere, only to come out and tell Pacha (on the worst possible timing for the latter) that he was lying in order for him to take him home. |
| 336 | * KarmicTransformation: |
| 337 | ** Kuzco, the selfish emperor who plans on destroying Pacha's village to build a pool house for himself, is transformed into a llama by his evil ex-advisor Yzma and forced to work together with Pacha to get back to the palace at which point he starts to become kinder. Ironically, the transformation itself was purely coincidental. |
| 338 | ** Yzma's attempts at keeping Kuzco from turning back into a human and finally killing him end up getting her turned into a cat. |
| 339 | * KilledOffScreen: We never see the transformed guards again after they fall out of the water drain in front of Kuzco's palace. Considering that there is a rather large drop involved, and one of the guards even shouts "C'mon men! Nobody lives forever!", it's easy to assume that it didn't end well for them. |
| 340 | * KissOfLife: Directly called as much by Kuzco, complete with dripping sarcasm. |
| 341 | * KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: |
| 342 | --> '''Chicha:''' So, remind me again how you're related to Pacha?\ |
| 343 | '''Yzma:''' Why, I'm his third cousin's brother's wife's step-niece's great aunt. ''[beat]'' Twice removed. |
| 344 | * LampshadeHanging: The movie practically lives by this trope, constantly having the characters find themselves in unrealistic situations and question how this is possible |
| 345 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Happens a LOT to Kuzco, since he pretty much constantly asks for it. Falling down the bridge instantly after gloating about leaving Pacha there is a prime example. |
| 346 | * LaughingMad: Kuzco laughs hysterically upon realizing he can no longer walk on his hind legs. |
| 347 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Pacha has a theme that's also pretty noticeable, as it plays prominently in both his entrance and the scene where he returns to his family for the first time. |
| 348 | * LemonyNarrator: Kuzco, for the first half of the movie. Eventually his onscreen self ''tells his narrator self to shut up'', and the rest of the movie has no narration. |
| 349 | * LessEmbarrassingTerm: It's not a dress, it's a ''robe''. |
| 350 | * LighterAndSofter: The film marks a stylistic break from most of the Renaissance Era Disney films by jettisoning almost all drama in favor of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''-esque slapstick. |
| 351 | * LiteralTransformativeExperience: A spoiled, selfish emperor gets turned into an ugly beast of burden. By the time he transforms back into a human, he's learned to be a much more kind, humble person. |
| 352 | * LiteraryAllusionTitle: Subverted. The title sets up an expectation that it has similarities with "The Emperor's New Clothes" but actually has no overlap with that narrative and simply refers to [[spoiler:Kuzco's character growth in the film and that his "new groove" is different from when the story started.]] |
| 353 | * LoopholeAbuse: |
| 354 | ** Used by Kuzco to justify his going back on his promise not to destroy Pacha's village and build Kuzcotopia. |
| 355 | --->'''Pacha:''' WE SHOOK HANDS ON IT!\ |
| 356 | '''Kuzco:''' Y'know, the funny thing about shaking hands is... ''you need hands! [cheerfully waves his hooves]'' |
| 357 | ** Not really abuse as the Emperor is above the law, but [[spoiler: after Kuzco changes back, he covers up his change of heart by claiming he was being literal about wanting a "hill that sings" in order to have an excuse not to build Kuzcotopia where he originally planned.]] |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:M-R]] |
| 361 | * MagicPotion: Yzma brews various varieties of magic potions, the most plot-important of which is a variety of elixirs that can transform the drinker into another animal. Kuzco drinks one and magically transforms into a llama, and other characters are transformed into other animals such as cows, cats, octopi, lizards, birds, frogs, and more. |
| 362 | * MatchCut: Done with Kuzco's real head cutting to a stone bust about to be smashed by Yzma, and Kronk's block-like torso matching some architecture. |
| 363 | * {{Mayincatec}}: The visual designers had a lot of fun with a fantasy Pre-Columbian South America look. Aside from Kuzco's name (Cuzco was the capital of the Incan Empire), the relationship with history is understandably remote. |
| 364 | ** Pacha's name comes from Pacha Camac ("Earth-maker"), an Incan creator god. |
| 365 | ** "Yzma" seems to be taken from Izmachi, an ancient Mayan city. |
| 366 | * MeaningfulEcho: "Come on, nobody's ''that'' heartless!" First uttered by Pacha when Kuzco says he's still going to demolish Pacha's village after Pacha helps him. Later said by Kuzco when Pacha points out he could have let him fall to his death. |
| 367 | * MeaningfulName: Kuzco means "the center of the world", while Yzma means "Shit" in the ancient Peruvian language called Quechua. |
| 368 | * MediumAwareness: To the point Llama!Kuzco talks back at Narrator!Kuzco. |
| 369 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Kronk, of course. The story makes it clear that Kronk has a good heart and is pressured by Yzma to do "evil". However, even when directly ordered by her to take an unconscious Kuzco out of the city and get rid of him, he has an attack of conscience that prevents him from following through. |
| 370 | * MinorInsultMeltdown: |
| 371 | --> '''Yzma:''' Kronk! ''Why'' did I think you could do this? This ''one'' simple thing... It's like I'm talking to a monkey...\ |
| 372 | '''Kronk Angel''' Whoa now.\ |
| 373 | '''Yzma:''' A really. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Really. Big. Stupid. Monkey. Named. Kronk!]]\ |
| 374 | '''Kronk Devil:''' Ouch.\ |
| 375 | '''Yzma:''' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And do you want to know something else?]] I never liked your [[TrademarkFavoriteFood spinach puffs]]!\ |
| 376 | ''[all Kronks gasp]''\ |
| 377 | '''Yzma:''' ''Never!''\ |
| 378 | ''[Kronk begins crying]''\ |
| 379 | '''Kronk Devil:''' That's it! ''[[[DramaticGunCock cocks pitchfork]]]'' She's going ''down!'' |
| 380 | * MirrorCharacter: From what we see of them both at the beginning of the film, rule under Yzma would be the same as rule under Kuzco--they're both thoroughly self-centered people who care little for others and their well-being. Yzma is what Kuzco is poised to become--him plus a century or two (or three). Kuzco learns to become a better person, while Yzma doesn't bother. The characters never explicitly call this out, but the film does noticeably lampshade it, just like everything else. |
| 381 | --> '''Yzma:''' ''[after being fired]'' How could he do this to me? [[WhereDidWeGoWrong Why, I practically raised him!]]\ |
| 382 | '''Kronk:''' Yeah, you'd think he would've turned out better.\ |
| 383 | ''[{{beat}}]''\ |
| 384 | '''Yzma:''' Yeah, go figure... |
| 385 | * MirrorReveal: Kuzco only sees that he's been transformed into a llama when he rushes to a pond to look at his reflection after seeing that his hand has become a hoof. |
| 386 | * MisplacedWildlife: |
| 387 | ** ThatPoorCat that Kronk trips over (causing Kuzco to fall into Pacha's cart) shouldn't have been in the pre-Columbian New World. |
| 388 | ** Narrator Kuzco refers to a briefly-seen primate as a "chimp" but Chimpanzees are naturally found only in Africa. The primate in question is clearly a monkey, a much more regionally-appropriate animal so it's more a case of mis-''identified'' wildlife which isn't surprising given Kuzco's lack of attention toward anything besides himself; |
| 389 | ** There are also a lot of animals among Yzmas transformation potions that she shouldn't even know to exist given the place and time. |
| 390 | * MissedHimByThatMuch: Kuzco and Yzma in the diner. |
| 391 | * MistakenForOwnMurderer: Invoked by Yzma, who tells the guards that Pacha and Llama!Kuzco "murdered the emperor." |
| 392 | * MobstacleCourse: This is how Kronk loses the bag holding the unconscious Kuzco. |
| 393 | * MonsterInTheMoat: The entrance to Yzma's secret lab, located inside the royal palace, has a lever that activates a trapdoor, sending the person on the trapdoor into some sort of body of water with alligators. [[NothingIsFunnier We don't see where exactly Yzma and Kuzco go]] when this happens to them, only that they walk back in with [[ClingyAquaticLife an alligator biting their clothes]]. This gag was occasionally brought back during [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool the series]] despite the change of location to Kuzco Academy. |
| 394 | * MorphicResonance: |
| 395 | ** Kuzco's llama body having red fur is reminiscent of his red royal robes. His hair is also unaffected by every transformation he goes through. |
| 396 | ** [[spoiler: Yzma's]] fur has a purple tint as a kitten. |
| 397 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: |
| 398 | -->'''Yzma:''' Our moment of triumph approaches! [[EvilLaugh AHAHAHAHAHAHA!]] It's...''dinnertime!'' ''[DramaticThunder]'' |
| 399 | * MurderByInaction: As Kuzco and Pacha cross a rickety old bridge on their way to the palace, Pacha falls through and ends up tangled up in the ropes. Rather than help him up, Kuzco leaves him there, saying that it's better than imprisoning him in a dungeon as per his original plan. This backfires immediately when he too falls, forcing the two of them to work together to save themselves. |
| 400 | * MusicalExposition: The film is not a musical, but it has one song in the beginning, "Perfect World", that sets up the main character as a vain, selfish, and laid-back ruler. |
| 401 | * MusicalisInterruptus: While "moonwalking" during his musical number, Kuzco backs into an old man who's too slow to get out of his way, "throwing off his groove" and causing his theme song to come to an abrupt halt with the sound of screeching vehicle tires. A guard tosses the old man out a window in a routine sort of way. |
| 402 | -->'''Guard::''' I'm sorry, but you've thrown off the Emperor's groove.\ |
| 403 | '''Old Man:''' SOOOOORRRRRY! |
| 404 | * MutuallyUnequalRelationship: Kuzco believes his adviser Yzma is actually happy to serve him, oblivious to her traitorous scheming or that she's the one responsible for turning him into a llama. When he finds her, he looks overjoyed only for his face to fall as he realizes she's talking about killing him. |
| 405 | * NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Yzma knocks over various potions to stop Pacha and Kuzco from figuring out which is the one they need, and summons the palace guards to attack them so that they won't have much time to sort through the potions. |
| 406 | * NightAndDayDuo: Yzma and Kuzco, who have a parent and child relationship, seem to have a day/night theme. Kuzco, the titular emperor, wears red and yellow, bright and warm colors, while Yzma, the dark sorceress, wears mostly black and purple, dark and cold colors. |
| 407 | * NobodyHereButUsStatues: During the scene at Mudka's Meat Hut, Pacha attempts to get to Kuzco in the kitchen, only for Yzma to walk in. Pacha quickly jumps in front of a cardboard cutout of the restaurant's mascot and assumes the same pose, which keeps her from noticing him. |
| 408 | * NonindicativeName: Despite the impression given by the movie's title, the story is not an adaptation of ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes''. |
| 409 | * NoAnimalsAllowed: The diner's No Llamas sign, prompting Kuzco to have to [[DisguisedInDrag disguise himself]] to get inside. |
| 410 | * NoFourthWall: So much MediumAwareness and LampshadeHanging, too. |
| 411 | * NoHuggingNoKissing: The closest thing we have is Pacha's relationship with Chicha, but it's mostly portrayed in a "happily married for a long time" way. Ironically, the film gained notoriety for be being the first film in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon to show a pregnant woman. |
| 412 | * NoOSHACompliance: |
| 413 | ** The lever that flips you into Yzma's secret lab is right next to a lever opening a trapdoor to a crocodile pit. [[LampshadeHanging Even Yzma wonders why the second lever is there]]. |
| 414 | ** There is also the complete and utter lack of any railings over large drops, like the top platform of Kuzco's throne, or the impossiblly steep stairs that Kronk runs down while carrying Kuzco in the sack. |
| 415 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 416 | ** How Yzma and Kronk made it back to the palace first. Not even ''they'' know how they did it. |
| 417 | -->'''Kronk:''' You got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make any sense. |
| 418 | ** After Kuzco asks why the old man he threw out the window forgave him so easily, the old man tells him "Oh, it's not the first time I was tossed out of a window, and it won't be the last." No further explanation is ever provided. |
| 419 | * NumberTwoForBrains: Although called Yzma's "right hand man" in the movie, Kronk is really more of her lackey and a lovably dimwitted one. |
| 420 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: How Pacha's family deals with Yzma, especially after locking her in the closet. |
| 421 | * ObviouslyEvil: Yzma is LeanAndMean with lavender colored skin (while everyone else has human colored skin) and has wrinkles all over her face. [[PhraseCatcher She is even acknowledged by different characters]] as "scary beyond all reason". |
| 422 | * ObviousPregnancy: Chicha is pregnant. In fact, this was the first animated Disney film to feature a pregnant woman onscreen. |
| 423 | * OffScreenTeleportation: |
| 424 | ** Tipo and Chaca do this when humiliating Yzma. She clearly passes both children as she flies out the door and rolls down the hill in a wheelbarrow. However, they now re-appear in her path in turns holding up a beehive and a pillow for her to run into, covering her in honey and feathers. |
| 425 | ** During the race to the palace, at one point Kronk and Yzma are struck by lighting and plummet down a ravine, giving Pacha and Kuzco a clear shot to the finish line. Yet, Kronk and Yzma still get the palace first as Yzma has already claimed the potion Kuzco is looking for. |
| 426 | * OhCrap: Kuzco has several during his initial trip through the jungle: after accidentally tumbling into a jaguar den, [[TheDogBitesBack when the squirrel he mocked seconds before]] blows up a balloon to wake said jaguars, when Kuzco himself accidentally wakes the jaguars anyway and they start chasing him, and when they've backed him up before a steep cliff drop. |
| 427 | * OpenSecret: Kuzco knows very well about Yzma's "secret" lab. |
| 428 | * OptOut: When Yzma summons a group of guards to her lab to kill Pacha and Llama Kuzco, Pacha flips a table of potions at the guards turning them into a cluster of animals (boar, frog, cow, ostrich, octopus, and gorilla) leading to this great exchange: |
| 429 | -->'''Yzma:''' Get them!\ |
| 430 | '''A Guard:''' Hey, I've been turned into a cow. Can I go home?\ |
| 431 | '''Yzma:''' You're excused. Anyone else?\ |
| 432 | '''Remaining Guards:''' No, we're good.\ |
| 433 | '''Yzma:''' Get them! |
| 434 | * OverlyLongGag: The exchange between Tipo and Yzma is another humorous jab at how old and wrinkled she is. Because of the scene cut, the "overly long" aspect is something implied rather than experienced directly. |
| 435 | --> '''Tipo:''' I don't believe you're really my great-aunt. You're more like my great-great-great--\ |
| 436 | ''[cut to another scene, then later back to Tipo and Yzma]''\ |
| 437 | '''Tipo:''' --great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great--\ |
| 438 | '''Yzma:''' Grr! All right! Are you through?\ |
| 439 | '''Tipo:''' ...great-great aunt. |
| 440 | * OvertOperative: Kronk tries to be sneak around with the sack containing Kuzco, but he ''hums his own theme tune'' and while he thinks no one can see him, in reality ''no one cares about what he's doing''. |
| 441 | * OwMyBodyPart: During a StaircaseTumble, Kronk gives us a running tally as he hits each step. "Back! Elbow! Shoulder!" |
| 442 | * ParentalAbandonment: No mention is ever made to Kuzco's parents, presumably the previous rulers of the empire. However, given that Yzma says she "practically raised [Kuzco]" and he's the ruler of the empire, it's safe to assume they're long dead. |
| 443 | * PartiallyConcealedLabelGag: After the attempt to poison Kuzco results in him turning into a llama, Yzma demands Kronk show her the poison vial he used. At first it looks like it's labeled with a skull but it turns out the label was folded over and unfolding it reveals it was actually a llama silhouette and Yzma realizes they used "extract of llama" instead of poison. |
| 444 | * PersonalRainCloud: With lightning, as the plot requires! |
| 445 | * PigeonholedVoiceActor: Patrick Warburton as Kronk and Eartha Kitt as Yzma. Incidentally, this was ''before'' Patrick Warburton was pigeonholed in voice acting -- in fact, this movie probably ''caused'' it. |
| 446 | ** Incidentally, this is used as a subtle joke: Yzma's "OneWingedAngel" form is in particular [[spoiler: A kitten]] possibly because Eartha Kitt had previously played [[spoiler: ''Catwoman'' on Creator/AdamWest's version of ''Series/Batman1966''.]] She becomes an even more literal [[spoiler: Catwoman]] in the sequel. |
| 447 | ** Turns out this seemingly unnatural role was perfect for Warburton as this movie launched a long and successful voice acting career. |
| 448 | * PimpedOutDress: All of Yzma's outfits. |
| 449 | * PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Kuzco leaves Pacha when he insists the latter's lying to him that Yzma and Kronk want to kill the former. [[spoiler: This promptly turns out to be a mistake when he learns Yzma and Kronk ''do'' want to kill him and he just abandoned his only friend and chances of becoming human again, going home, or regaining his throne for nothing.]] |
| 450 | * PlummetPerspective: In both the bridge-scene and the climax. |
| 451 | * PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: When Kronk can't remember which chalice has the poison in it, his solution is to remix the drinks so everyone now has a poisoned chalice which forces Kronk and Yzma to have to discard their drinks. Fortunately Kuzco is so self-absorbed with his own drinking that they get away with their completely obvious "non-drinking". |
| 452 | * PoliticiansKissBabies: Kuzco is presented with three babies to kiss in the opening. He simply stamps them with a kiss mark stamper. |
| 453 | * PopStarComposer: Originally, the story was conceived as a musical called "The Kingdom of the Sun" which had many songs composed by Sting. When the movie was retooled as a screwball comedy, Sting's contributions were trimmed down to Kuzco's "theme song" and "My Funny Friend and Me" which plays over the end credits and has barely any connection to the story. |
| 454 | * PrideBeforeAFall: Kuzco begins the film as an emperor on the top of the world, but can only think about himself and treats everyone beneath him like utter trash. This leads to his advisor plotting to kill him. Instead, she accidentally turns him into a llama, and he is tied in a sack and carried away to a nearby village. He eventually ends up alone and stranded in the jungle. |
| 455 | * PrimpOfContempt: Kuzco obviously doesn't care that Yzma's upset over being fired, as he immediately starts checking his nails afterwards. |
| 456 | * PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Like everything else in the movie, done as a joke as Pacha's children have horrible visions of his fate. Like Pacha kissing a llama. |
| 457 | %%* PunchClockVillain: Kronk. |
| 458 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: "It's like I'm talking to a monkey! (...) A really. Really. Big. Stupid. Monkey. Named. ''Kronk!''"[[note]]"Ouch."[[/note]] |
| 459 | * PuppyDogEyes: Pacha's children deploy these at one point attempting to stay up late. He and Chicha successfully counter with a deliberate display of SickeningSweethearts. |
| 460 | * PurelyAestheticEra: "Somewhere in the Jungle.." |
| 461 | * QuiveringLip: |
| 462 | ** Kuzco does this when he finds himself in llama form, coupling it with QuiveringEyes and a pathetic "mimimimi" whine. |
| 463 | ** When Yzma insults Kronk's spinach puffs, you can see his lips tremble as he struggles not to cry. |
| 464 | * RandomizedTransformation: Due to how poorly (if at all) Yzma labels her potions, it is almost always a wild guess as to what each of them do. Because of this, when Pacha and Kuzco get a hold of a bunch of potions to change Kuzco back into a human, they go through a roulette of animals while on the run, never knowing what Kuzco will turn into, until they are down to the last potion. |
| 465 | * ReactiveContinuousScream: Pacha screams when he hears Kuzco talk, calling him a talking demon llama. This causes Kuzco to look around and spot a different llama and screams, which causes the other llama to scream. |
| 466 | * RealMenWearPink: Kronk is a muscular man who enjoys baking and cooking. |
| 467 | * RibbonCuttingCeremony: During Kuzco's character introduction, he cuts a red ribbon and breaks a bottle against a ship's hull a few seconds later. |
| 468 | * RuleOfFunny: The guiding principle behind the entire movie for any logical inconsistencies or historical inaccuracies. |
| 469 | [[/folder]] |
| 470 | |
| 471 | [[folder:S-Z]] |
| 472 | * ScaryStingingSwarm: While in the jungle, Yzma gets chased back and forth by angry SynchronizedSwarming bees. |
| 473 | * SchizoTech: The roller-coaster, the "secret lab", the Theme Song Guy's ''wireless'' microphone, roadside diners... |
| 474 | * ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: As a screwball comedy, it should come as no surprise that the movie plays fast and loose with this trope. |
| 475 | ** When Kuzco drinks the potion and transforms into a llama, he is still wearing his clothes even when Kronk knocks him out (although apparently Yzma and Kronk remove his clother before putting him in the sack) |
| 476 | ** When the guards are hit with various potions their clothes disappear but they still have their helmets on and their weapons in hand in their animal forms. |
| 477 | ** When Yzma triggers the kitty potion, her clothes simply disappear. However, her potion does involve a big magical explosion with lots of smoke so it's quite possible her clothes were simply blown away by the transformation. |
| 478 | * ShoutOut: |
| 479 | ** Kuzco witnesses a fly caught in a web screaming "Help Me! Help Me!" in a high pitched voice just before getting eaten by a spider as a direct homage to ''Film/TheFly1958''. |
| 480 | ** In reference to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', while searching through Yzma's potions trying to find one that will turn Kuzco into a human, he finds potions for "lion, tiger, and bears." When he sees the spot for the human potion is empty, Yzma finishes the quote with "Oh my." |
| 481 | %%ZCE** "Pull the lever, Kronk" is used to the same effect as the "Push the button, Max" in ''Film/TheGreatRace''. |
| 482 | * ShowSomeLeg: Yzma shows some of her leg at one point. To quote Kuzco and Pacha: "Ack, no, aieee!" |
| 483 | * ShrugTake: When the villains are in pursuit of the heroes, and their progress on the map becomes visible on the actual roads and paths, Yzma and Kronk decide that they're better off ignoring this phenomenon. |
| 484 | * SkewedPriorities: The reason Yzma gave up on her original revenge plan wasn't because she realized it suffered from ComplexityAddiction, but rather because she'd save on postage [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim by poisoning Kuzco]]. |
| 485 | * {{Slapstick}}: Yzma goes through ''constant'' screwball situations and physical abuse. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNllfr6wVY there's a scene where she gets covered in grime, then attacked by bees]] (for no discernible reason) within a few seconds, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent running around in the background while Kronk in the foreground pays no attention]], and then she takes a pratfall into the mud ''again''. Then she gets tarred (well, "honeyed") and feathered and confused for a piñata. |
| 486 | * SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: The wicked, scheming advisor Yzma tries to have the Emperor killed, assisted by her [[DumbMuscle muscular but moronic]] henchman, Kronk. Yzma shows no sympathy to anybody and has a "secret lab" where she develops potions that can transform people into animals, while Kronk is a MinionWithAnFInEvil, who even fills in as a line cook to keep a diner running. |
| 487 | * SoHideousItsTerrifying: Yzma is called by both the elderly and Kuzco himself as "scary beyond all reason". Almost everyone agrees that she's extremely ugly and the fact she seems to believe herself beautiful doesn't help. Still, the writers don't spare the audience from watching her sleeping in her tent with night makeup and, more famously, lifting her skirt in front of the leads. |
| 488 | * SpeaksFluentAnimal: Kronk learned to speak Squirrel when he was a [[ScoutOut Junior Chipmunk]]. At the end of the film, he begins teaching the skill to the children from Pacha's village. |
| 489 | * SpoiledBrat: Kuzco. He's had everything in his life handed to him, so he expects he can always get whatever he wants. |
| 490 | * SproutingEars: When Kuzco transforms into a llama, the first things to transform are his ears, which pop out of his head. |
| 491 | * {{Squick}}: In-universe example, with the GrossUpCloseUp on Yzma's face, and later the aforementioned ShowSomeLeg scene. |
| 492 | * StaggeredZoom: Done for laughs in the scene where Kronk has barely prevented the sack containing the unconscious emperor from going over a waterfall. The camera pauses on Kronk then {{zoom}}s out five times... until finally the waterfall isn't even visible anymore, and the focus is now on a monkey eating a bug which is lampshaded by Kuzco the narrator. |
| 493 | -->'''Narrator Kuzco:''' Uh, what's with the chimp and the bug? Can we get back to ''me''? |
| 494 | * StatusQuoIsGod: Near the climax, Kuzco takes a bunch of potions that transform him into various different animals. However, the final potion he takes just happens to be a llama one, so he returns back to the llama form we've grown used to for the final climax. |
| 495 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: |
| 496 | ** When Pacha and Kuzco see that llamas are banned in the restaurant they were planning to eat at, their first thought is somehow [[DisguisedInDrag to disguise Kuzco as Pacha's newlywed, human, female wife.]] |
| 497 | ** When Pacha and Kuzco return to Pacha's village and learn that Yzma and Kronk have gotten there before them: |
| 498 | --> '''Pacha:''' ''[to a pair of old men playing a board game]'' What'd they look like?\ |
| 499 | '''Old Man:''' Well, there was this big guy, and this old woman who was... well, ''[turns to his friend]'' how would you describe her?\ |
| 500 | '''Old Man's Friend:''' Ah... "[[RunningGag scary beyond all reason]]"?\ |
| 501 | '''Old Man:''' Yeah, that's it. |
| 502 | * StumblingInTheNewForm: Before Kuzco realizes he's been turned into a llama, he tries to run on two legs after waking up at Pacha's place, only to hilariously stumble and fall. And after he finds out, he starts his trek home by attempting to walk on his hind legs while using a fence as support. |
| 503 | -->'''Kuzco:''' Hey, Tiny, I wanna get out of this body! Wouldn't you? Now, let's go! |
| 504 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: PlayedForLaughs with Kronk's shoulder angel and devil. Turns out, they don't actually exist. Whenever they appear, Kronk is actually just imagining their presence and talking to himself. Yzma, Kuzco, and Pacha see him do this, and are baffled by it. |
| 505 | * TalkingAnimal: |
| 506 | ** Yzma's {{Animorphism}} potions still leave the affected human the ability to talk. This is used to pinpoint Kuzco down, as Yzma knows the "talking llama" has to be him. It also allows the transformed palace guards to continue to receive their orders from Yzma. |
| 507 | ** There's a fly that can talk which has nothing to do with the plot but exists simply as a RuleOfFunny homage to ''Film/TheFly1958''. |
| 508 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: After working up a complex plan for revenge, Yzma settles on a simpler method of just poisoning Kuzco when he comes over for dinner. |
| 509 | * TarAndFeathers: Yzma gets covered in honey and feathers before being used as a pinata. |
| 510 | * TastesLikeDisdain: When Yzma lays into Kronk near the end for his incompetence, causing his HeelFaceTurn, it's her insult to his cooking that truly upsets him (and his [[GoodAngelBadAngel shoulder angels]]). |
| 511 | --> '''Yzma:''' Kronk! ''Why'' did I think you could do this? This one simple thing. It's like I'm talking to a monkey. |
| 512 | --> '''Shoulder Angel:''' Woah now. |
| 513 | --> '''Yzma:''' A really, really big, stupid monkey named ''Kronk!'' |
| 514 | --> '''Shoulder Devil:''' ''Ouch.'' |
| 515 | --> '''Yzma:''' And do you want to know something else? I've never liked your spinach puffs! |
| 516 | --> '''Kronk and Shoulder Angels''': ''({{Gasp}})'' |
| 517 | --> '''Yzma:''' ''Never!'' |
| 518 | --> ''(Kronk tears up while Shoulder Angel comforts him)'' |
| 519 | --> '''Shoulder Devil:''' That's it. ''(cocks pitchfork like a gun)'' She's going down. |
| 520 | * TechnicolorScience: Yzma's potions have bright colours like purple and pink. |
| 521 | * ThatPoorPlant: |
| 522 | ** When Yzma accidentally knocks a vial of poison onto a plant, it is instantly reduced to a smear of blackened ash. |
| 523 | ** In the dinner scene, Yzma ditches her llama-transformation drink into a small potted cactus. In a later shot, the plant looks like a llama. |
| 524 | * ThemeSong: Kronk supplies his own. |
| 525 | * ThinChinOfSin: Yzma has a funnel-shaped chin that curves inwards, making it very small and pointy. |
| 526 | * ThirdActMisunderstanding: After several antics in the diner, Pacha informs Kuzco that Yzma and Kronk are trying to kill him, only for Kuzco to blow him off, believing that they were actually there to bring him back to the palace. He then sends Pacha away, believing ''he's'' the one trying to keep him from getting back. Only when Kuzco overhears the two talking about killing him [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does he realize he sent his only friend away for nothing]]. |
| 527 | * ThisCannotBe!: |
| 528 | ** Kuzco says this after finding out that both Yzma and Kronk got to the palace first. |
| 529 | ** This is Kuzco's reaction when he realizes he has hooves instead of hands. |
| 530 | * ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: The "Kuzco-topia" summer home is introduced like this. |
| 531 | * TooDumbToLive: Kuzco has dinner served to him by the ObviouslyEvil Yzma- ''after'' he's fired her. He's completely reassured by her strained, teeth-clenched response that she has no hard feelings about being fired. |
| 532 | * TookALevelInKindness: Spoiled, vain Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama, has to endure a difficult journey to return home and makes friends with a peasant named Pacha, and becomes a better ruler in the end. |
| 533 | * ToonPhysics: The movie uses quite a bit of it, which is somewhat unusual for a mainline Disney movie. |
| 534 | ** While playing with jump ropes in Pacha's house, Kronk and Yzma both keep two ropes going without moving their arms. Eventually, Kronk lets go of one of the ropes, and it keeps properly spinning even though no one's holding it. |
| 535 | ** Kronk and Yzma only fall down a cliff when [[GravityIsAHarshMistress they notice that they should be falling]]. |
| 536 | ** Kuzco's mouth is stuffed full of a swarm of bats, with his cheeks expanding to larger than the rest of his head. Moments later, he's fine. |
| 537 | * TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Lampshaded. Yzma and Kronk manage to get back to Kuzco's palace before Kuzco and Pacha, despite the heroes having a good headstart and the villains falling down a cliff. Everyone openly wonders how Yzma and Kronk got there first, with Kronk saying that "by all accounts, it doesn't make sense" how they did. But then, everyone just shrugs and moves on with the plot. |
| 538 | * TravelMontage: At one point the characters wonder why their feet are tracing lines across the map, but they quickly shrug it off; it's not the strangest thing that happens in this movie. |
| 539 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Pacha and Chicha. Pacha is chubby and has a weird shaped nose, while his wife Chicha is slim and pretty. |
| 540 | * UnfortunateItemSwap: The basis of the entire plot. Kronk mistakes the bottle of "extract of llama" for the bottle of poison due to faulty labeling. |
| 541 | * TheUnintelligible: Bucky the squirrel.[[note]]Not to Kronk.[[/note]] |
| 542 | * UnreliableVoiceover: Kuzco both stars in and narrates the movie; at one point the two Kuzcos argue with each other. Also commenting on a segment where Kuzco-on-screen is unconscious. |
| 543 | * TheUnsmile: When Kuzco joins Yzma and Kronk for dinner, he asks Yzma if she has any hard feelings about being let go. Her "None whatsover" reply is made through severely clenched teeth and an incredibly forced smile. |
| 544 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Kuzco, who starts out as a total {{Jerkass}}. |
| 545 | * ViewersAreMorons: Kuzco's attitude when he's the narrator. |
| 546 | * VillainProtagonist: Kuzco, while arguably entertaining, is also major JerkAss for the first half of the film. As an emperor he is, at best, neglectful to his subjects, and at worst is actively abusive. On a personal level his interactions range from casually rude to cruel. |
| 547 | * WasItAllALie: |
| 548 | ** "Well, yeah! No, wait... uh, yeah. Yeah, it all was a lie... toodles!" |
| 549 | ** Kuzco thinks this when he believes Pacha is lying to him that Yzma and Kronk are trying to kill him. |
| 550 | --> '''Kuzco:''' This has all been an act and I almost fell for it! |
| 551 | * WeNeedADistraction: While at the diner, Pacha creates a distraction by telling the waitress that it's Yzma's birthday which prompts the diner staff to mob her table singing a non-copyrighted version of "Happy Birthday" giving Pacha and Kuzco time to slip away. |
| 552 | * WeakBossStrongUnderlings: |
| 553 | ** Kuzco is an eighteen-year-old Incan emperor who is very skinny and never has had to lift a finger to get what he wants. His castle guards, by contrast, are buff [[TopHeavyGuy top-heavy guys]] carrying spears. |
| 554 | ** Yzma, Kuzco's political advisor, has a minion of her own: Kronk. Yzma is an elderly, skinny EvilGenius. Kronk is a muscly young man who carries out all sorts of grunt labor for her, such as getting rid of a corpse and transporting her around in a backpack-like tent. When everyone thinks Kuzco is dead, she's named Incan empress and gets to order around the castle guards. |
| 555 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: PlayedForLaughs. Kronk has dumped Kuzco, now a llama, into a stream, when he starts having second thoughts. This prompts [[GoodAngelBadAngel his shoulder angel and devil to appear and comically argue with each other]], leaving Kronk more confused. Ultimately, he gets Kuzco out of the stream before he goes over the edge. Played straight later on when Kuzco wanders off into the jungle, despite Pacha's warnings. Pacha could easily leave him to die, since Kuzco still wants to destroy his village. He even considers it for a moment, but ultimately his conscience gets the better of him. |
| 556 | * WithCatlikeTread: Kronk "sneaking" out the palace to dispose of Kuzco. |
| 557 | -->'''Kuzco-as-narrator:''' Ugh, he's doing his own theme music? Big, dumb, and tone-deaf. I am ''so'' glad I was unconscious for all of this. |
| 558 | * WorldOfHam: Being a revival of the screwball comedy, the main characters (Pacha less so) and a few supporting ones - such as Tipo, with the "great-great-great-great" tirade - throw subtlety out the window and overact for the hell of ot. |
| 559 | * WorstAid: Played totally for laughs. Beware the pop-out llama tongue. |
| 560 | * WouldHarmASenior: When Kuzco accidentally bumps into an old man unfortunate enough to be standing nearby during his opening song, Kuzco has the old man [[DestinationDefenestration thrown out the window]]. Fortunately, the old man ends up comically wrapped up in some banners and unharmed, [[CharacterDevelopment and Kuzco apologizes to him in the end]]. |
| 561 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Yzma actually suplexes Pacha during the climax. |
| 562 | * WorldWearyWaitress: The Mudka's Meat Hut has a World Weary Waitress, Mata, that seems permanently bored, sighs as she repeats the welcoming routine to newcomers and doesn't bat an eye to the strange "woman" (Kuzco in disguise) that is with Pacha. When he unnecessarily tells her that they are on honeymoon, she just says "Bless you [[DoubleEntendre for coming out in public]]." |
| 563 | * YouHaveFailedMe: A vicious tongue-lashing as opposed to outright death. |
| 564 | * ZanyCartoon: Unlike other films in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, there is a greater emphasis on snark and {{Slapstick}}. The biggest example is the scene where Pacha's family stalling Yzma and Kronk, ending with Yzma literally tarred and feathered, something that better fits the antagonist of a WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon than a traditional Disney Villain. |
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