Line #10 YMMV/ThePrincessAndThePea


1	!!Tropes from the original fairytale
2	* AlternateAesopInterpretation: The likely original interpretation of the poem was that [[WomenAreDelicate it's good for a woman to be so delicate and sensitive]] that a pea makes her bed uncomfortable. However, another potential interpretation is that the Princess was rewarded for speaking up about what she wanted. While "women should speak up about what they want" is unlikely to be a genuine Aesop from this time period, it works pretty well now.
3	* FridgeLogic: If the girl is SO sensitive that even a pea through 20 mattresses will leave her bruised in the morning, how did she get far enough in the storm to even make it to the prince's castle in the first place? Shouldn't she have arrived a broken and bloody half-dead mess from the rain? (For that matter, how is she gonna have kids?)
4	!! Tropes from the film
5	* AllAnimationIsDisney: This film is one of a SLEW of mid-90s-early 2000s animated movies that frequently get lumped in with Disney; it was, in fact, made by Swan Productions.
6	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
7	** Is Heath a noble soul who truly deserved to be king, or is he an idiot who happened to be in the right place at the right time?
8	** Is Daria a pure-hearted true princess, or is she just as arrogant and self-serving as the other princesses?
9	** Does Rollo love Daria for her personality, or just her looks? His willingness to declare "she's the one" immediately upon meeting most of the other princesses suggests the latter.
10	** Was Laird really evil from the beginning, or was being denied his birthright just the point where he [[ThenLetMeBeEvil snapped]]?
11	** How did Hildegard become evil? Is it a result of VillainousLineage, or just the way she was raised? Would Daria have turned out any different if the switch had never happened?
12	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Just listen to "[[https://youtu.be/3GaPL-uBBRQ Kingdom Of the Heart]]."
13	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
14	** Sebestian. Due to his cleverness and appealing design, he's generally considered one of the best non-Disney [[NonHumanSidekick Animal Sidekicks]].
15	** Hildegard, for having a genuinely interesting ''concept'' for a character, with some [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter wishing that the movie focused on that a bit more]]. To a lesser extent, her mother Helsa also counts.
16	* FashionVictimVillain: The shoes Laird wanted to wear to his coronation are hideous, and he vowed not to take them off until his vengeance was complete.
17	* {{Narm}}:
18	** By the truckload. Standout scenes include the awful CG effects when the stained glass figures come to life and at the end when [[spoiler: Daria runs into Heath's arms, he spins her around, and then sparkles come out of nowhere as a scene transition.]]
19	** They also attempt to make the climax of Daria going to nap on the bed dramatic with thunder and lightning and an orchestra. But it’s still ''going to take a nap.''
20	* StrangledByTheRedString: Rollo and Daria don't have a ton of chemistry or very much screentime spent with each other, and even when they are together, Daria spends more time talking to her pigs than to him. It doesn't help that Rollo is already lacking in the personality department, and that his admitted reason for falling for Daria is due to how "good and kind" she is, which are pretty superficial things to base a relationship off of, let alone a marriage.
21	* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The entire plot is lifted from [[http://books.google.com/books/about/The_goose_girl.html?id=_wQqAAAAYAAJ Harold MacGrath's "The Goose Girl"]], which is ironically based on another fairy tale entirely, albeit the film is a bit more Disneyfied. For example, Hildegard is not a villain in the original book, which makes sense considering the whole being a baby when the switch occured.
22	** Laird's VillainSong, "What It Takes to Rule" is a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 "Poor Unfortunate Souls."]]
23	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
24	** During the beginning of the film, Helsa shows compassion towards her infant niece, and mentions how similar both her and Daria are (both not having mothers). She also shows hesitance over going through with Laird's plan and asks that he not harm Daria. After this scene, she's just as evil and irredeemable as her husband, and any hidden depths she might've had were forgotten.
25	** Hildegard turns out to be just as evil and heartless as both her biological parents. Even though Laird uses it as a way to get Rollo to sympathize with her, his (false) explanation for Hildegard being so cruel is because she has to live up to everyone's expectation of being just like her "mother", which would've actually worked as a real reason for her attitude. Her "father" Heath constantly tries to get her to act similar to her "mother", and even told his infant daughter he hoped she'd grow up to be just like her mother, so she would've had this pressure on her since she was a baby. There's also the fact that she was raised by both Helsa and Heath, with one teaching her to be kind and selfless and another teaching her to be vain and selfish. This could've lead to her being more a more conflicted person, trying to figure out right and wrong.
26	* TheWoobie: Daria has it pretty hard throughout the film. She's taken from her loving father and raised by mean, lazy pig farmers who she has to take care of, she does all the chores on the farm, sleeps in a chicken coop, has the guy she's in love with ditch her, an angry mob tries to kill her, everyone ostracizes her when she goes back to town, and then her uncle and cousin try to kill her.

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