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Rhapsody in Blue
All There in the Manual: Their names never appear in the movie. Duke
- Contrived Coincidence: Without even coming into contact with the other main characters, his decision to follow his dreams starts a chain of events that results in the other characters getting their happy endings.
- Late For Work: He starts his story waking up late for work
- Pursue the Dream Job: Ultimately he decides to quit his job and become a musician. He provides the trope page's image.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Nuts.
- Trash of the Titans: His apartment room is quite messy.
Joe
- The Eeyore: He is depressed for the most part of the segment.
- Forgot to Pay the Bill: Subverted. He is so poor he can't even pay his coffee, but he is forced to pay it with a coin another customer accidentally loses after he fails to warn him about it.
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Goes from miserable to joyous once he finally gets a job on the nightshift.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He likes Coffee, as he asks for a refill in his breakfast.
- What You Are in the Dark: Despite not being able to afford his own coffee, he tries to warn a client who accidentally tossed a coin to the table while putting his jacket, but he doesn't listen, relucantly forcing him to pay his order with it. Later on, he is tempted to eat a fallen apple from a grocery store's shelf, but he chooses not to eat it. He is immediately yelled by a guard when he puts it back.
- When He Smiles: He becomes happy once he is offered to work at the construction's night shift.
Rachel
- Black Bead Eyes: She is drawn with dots for eyes.
- Dreadful Musician: Double subverted: She is decent at playing the piano, but her singing voice is bad enough to wake up a sleeping dog.
- Lonely Rich Kid: She isn't seen to have friends, but she is more worried about wishing to spend more time with her parents instead of going to the classes.
- The Noseless: Except for a few frames where she is seen from profile or tilts her head up, Rachel is drawn almost entirely without a nose.
- Rich Kids: Her parents are quite wealthy, considering the time of the segment's setting.
- Security Blanket: Her ball acts like one and when her nanny accidentally tosses it to the street, she instantly hurries to get it back risking her life.
- Super Drowning Skills: Implied, giving her cautious equipment in her swimming class.
Rachel's parents
Nasty Nanny
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Rachel runs into the traffic, before her parents come to rescue her, she is shown horrified at the possibility that Rachel would be run over by any cars. She then faints after Rachel is rescued by her parents.
Flying John
- Animals Hate Him: Or rather his wife's dog. Which is obvious at the moment when he tries to play hopscotch and his wife gives him a nasty glare, the dog growls at him.
- Big Fun: He is quite fat and he is seeking to have fun.
- Henpecked Husband: Is constantly harassed by his overbearing wife.
- I Just Want to Be Free: He desires to have the liberty of having fun.
- Manchild: He would rather have fun than spending time with his bossy wife
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Flying John was designed after animation historian John Culhane. If he looks familiar to you, it's because Disney previously used Culhane's likeness for the character of Mr. Snoops in The Rescuers.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After noticing his wife is missing, he quickly decides to go to spend the night going to a talent's show.
Killjoy Margaret
- All Take and No Give: Her relationship with her husband can be perfectly resumed as this.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The only one she cares about is her dog.
- Gold Digger: She forces her wealthy husband to pay for all of her purchases.
- Grande Dame: She is quite dignified in comparison with her husband.
Piano Concerto No. 2
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Handicapped Badass: He has only one leg, but compensates for it with his courage and sturdiness.
- Living Toys: He's a tin toy who comes to life.
- Spared by the Adaptation: He and the Ballerina get reunited in the end and live Happily Ever After, unlike in the Andersen fairy tale where they end up Together in Death.
- Undying Loyalty: No matter what he goes through, he stays alive in hope to get reunited with the Ballerina.
The Ballerina
- Damsel in Distress: She ends up in the Jack-in-the-Box's clutches where the Tin Soldier needs to rescue her from.
- Living Toys: She's a ballerina doll that comes to life.
- Love Interest: To both the Tin Soldier and the Jack-in-the-Box.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She and the Tin Soldier get reunited in the end and live Happily Ever After, unlike in the Andersen fairy tale where they end up Together in Death.
The Jack-in-the-Box
- Bald of Evil: He's the villain of his short, and he's bald. The hair you see on his head is part of his jester cap, and it's not actually attached to his head. The Ballerina laughs when his baldness is revealed.
- Beard of Evil: He has a goatee, befitting his malicious nature.
- Big Bad: Of "Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major", attempting to get rid of the Tin Soldier out of jealousy.
- Death by Adaptation: He falls in the fireplace and burns to death - which, in the original story, was the fate of the Tin Soldier and the Ballerina.
- Evil Is Bigger: He is gigantic compared to the Tin Soldier and the Ballerina.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Jealous of the relationship between the Tin Soldier and the Ballerina, he attempts to murder the former to woo the latter.
- Happy Harlequin Hat: He's a jack-in-the-box who wears a two-pointed jester cap.
- Living Toys: He's a jack-in-the-box that comes to life.
- Monster Clown: He's a jack-in-the-box with the outfit of a jester, and he's quite frightening and cruel in his attempts to kill the Tin Soldier.
- Scary Jack-in-the-Box: Heck yes. He's terrifying and tries to murder the Tin Soldier more than once in the short.
- Slasher Smile: His grin gets especially wide when he starts lusting after the Ballerina, and later when he knocks the Tin Soldier out of the window.
- Villainous Crush: He has one on the Ballerina.
Carnival of the Animals
Yo-Yo Flamingo/"Our Hero"
- Advertised Extra: Was featured heavily in trailers and merchandise, but his segment is probably the shortest in the film.
- All of the Other Reindeer: He is picked on by the other flamingos due to his yo-yo obsession.
- Color-Coded Characters: All of the Snooty Flamingos have reddish-pink feathers and black beaks. The one with the yo-yo is a brighter shade of pink and has a purple beak.
- Feather Fingers: Double subverted; he uses his feet instead of his wings to handle the first yo-yo, but later uses his wings to handle more of them.
- Nice Guy: Compared to the Snooty flamingos, he’s the only flamingo who doesn’t have a mean bone.
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: Lets out a rather hilarious one when noticing he's surrounded by the other flamingos.
- The Prankster: Loves to play tricks on the Snooty flamingos. Their annoyance at him implies that he bugs them a lot.
- Shown Their Work: Many of the tricks he does with his yo-yo are actual yo-yo tricks. You can even see him doing Cat's Cradle and Walk The Dog!
Snooty Flamingos/"The Snooty Six"
- Butt-Monkey: They bear the brunt of Yo Yo's antics.
- Individuality Is Illegal: These flamingos all look down on the Yo-Yo Flamingo and his tricks.
- Kick the Dog: Okay, the Yo-Yo Flamingo got on their nerves, but did that really warrant them trying to drown the guy?
- Low Clearance: At one point while chasing after the Yo-Yo Flamingo, all six of them snagged their necks on a low branch.
- Near-Villain Victory: They manage to stamp the Yo-Yo Flamingo into the water and get rid of his yo-yo. He immediately emerges with a whole collection of yo-yos.
- Smug Snakes: Not only do they keep going after Yo-Yo when he's repeatedly trounced them at every turn but they never account for the possibility that he has more than one yo-yo to play with.
- Villain by Default: They're snobs and huge jerks to the Yo-Yo Flamingo, but that's about as bad as they get.
- World of Jerkass: All six of them are dicks towards the Yo-Yo Flamingo for no reason.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Fantasia Minnie Mouse
- Voiced by: Russi Taylor
- The Cameo: Only appears in the audio commentary for the Sorcerer's Apprentice to pick up Mickey after his commentary with Roy Disney.
Pomp and Circumstance
Donald Duck
- Voiced by: Tony Anselmo
- The Apprentice: To Noah, doing the dirty work for him on the Ark.
- Animated Actor: Mainly in the commentary for the segment, where he accidentally brings in the entire Ark's worth of animals and the flood with them into the booth.
- Butt-Monkey: Repeatedly hurt for our viewing amusement: poked, stomped, crushed, flung against objects, dragged backward through gears and heartbroken. Good old Donald.
- Furry Confusion: He's visibly confused when two non-anthropomorphic ducks enter the Ark.
- Iron Butt Monkey: He suffers all sorts of Amusing Injuries that would have killed a regular human. Of course, this is pretty much what always happens to Donald.
- My God, What Have I Done?: On his grief, he throws a pigeon out of the arc upon seeing him wooing his mate, and quickly regrets it upon seeing the heartbroken dove's reaction.
Daisy Duck
- Voiced by: Russi Taylor
- Scream Discretion Shot: She has one when Mickey accidentally walked in on her while he was searching for Donald in her dressing room.
- Women Are Wiser: It doesn't take much to be wiser than Donald Duck, but she's also better at the job Noah gave Donald.
Firebird Suite — 1919 version
Spring Sprite
- Big Good: Against the Firebird's Big Bad, she seems a dominant force of nature in a positive way, whereas the Firebird enforces nature's power in a negative way. In the alternate ending, she even becomes the sun (or perhaps sunlight).
- Break the Cutie: ...and very nearly Kill the Cutie. She gets better by the end, though, as her tears help heal the land.
- Disney Death: She seems to be killed by the Firebird, but the Stag helps her come back to life.
- Fertile Feet: And hands, and fingers...everything.
- Heroic BSoD: After the Firebird attacks, she sinks into somewhat of a visual depression in her gray ash form.
- Nature Spirit: She's a spirit of nature that brings plants to life at spring.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Well done, accidentally unleashing the Firebird upon the forest! Played with, however: As noted at the film's fridge brilliance page, the forest is able to grow back better than before. Even the previously dead ground — the presence of which was what led the Sprite to explore the volcano — flourishes again, suggesting all this needed to happen. This absolutely plays into the death-and-rebirth theme of the segment.
- Our Fairies Are Different: She's a fairy with the power to create life.
- Swiss-Army Tears: They turn out to have the same power as the rest of her.
- World-Healing Wave: After regaining her strength.
The Stag
A male deer that acts somewhat as the deuteragonist of the "Firebird Suite".
- Badass Adorable: Quite adorable and was capable of surviving both the volcanic eruption and the Firebird's rampage.
- The Lancer: For the Spring Sprite, helping her back onto her feet and assisting the renewal of life after the eruption.
- The Marvelous Deer: An American Elk stag in alliance with the Spring Sprite, even being able to bring her back to life.
The Firebird
- Adaptational Villainy: The Firebird of the original ballet the suite originates in is a helpful creature that aids a prince to defeat an evil wizard. This Firebird, on the other hand, is a creature of pure destruction.
- Animalistic Abomination: Whereas Chernabog has at least some identifiable motive and has a generally defined form, the Firebird is little more than a chaotic force of nature appearing as a jumble of flame and lava in the loose form of a bird.
- Ax-Crazy: Being a personification of death and destruction, this comes naturally.
- The Bad Guy Wins: For the most part; he succeeds in his purpose to destroy the forest and the Sprite. His work is undone by the Sprite in the end.
- Big Bad: Of, you guessed it, "The Firebird Suite", where it destroys a large chunk of the forest and nearly kills the Spring Sprite.
- Blob Monster: The Firebird is an amorphous mass of lava, a trait which it uses to its advantage. For example, it tries to devour the nature spirit first from ground level and then ambushes her from the top of a cliff a couple of seconds later, manifesting its head both times.
- Breath Weapon: It breathes lava blasts upon being awakened.
- Eldritch Abomination: It's really just a mass of lava that is usually shaped like a bird.
- Elemental Embodiment: Of fire and its potential for destruction.
- Evil Counterpart: To the Nature Sprite; she embodies life and nurturing of the world, while the Firebird brings only destruction and death. The commentary prior to his segment acknowledges this by calling it "a tale of life, death, and renewal", with the sprite representing life and the Firebird representing death.
- Evil Is Burning Hot: He is made out of fire and lava.
- Giant Flyer: Subverted. You'd expect it to be one, but it mostly just slithers along the ground in magma form rather than flying after the Sprite.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: It has hellish burning yellow eyes.
- Hot Wings: It has massive wings of lava.
- Lava Adds Awesome: As mentioned below, the Firebird's rampage (and the crater left behind) was based on the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, which was an explosive eruption.
- Light Is Not Good: A bright orange phoenix-like creature who is deadly and destructive.
- Living Lava: It eventually turns into a landscape-consuming Blob Monster made of lava.
- Omnicidal Maniac: When it's unleashed, everything living in the vicinity that can't get away in time or isn't the Sprite is wiped out.
- Person of Mass Destruction: When it's awakened, it destroys almost everything; it didn't cause the volcanic eruption. It was the eruption.
- Playing with Fire: It's a volcano spirit, so it logically has fire-related powers.
- Ripped from the Headlines: The visuals of its rampage, and the crater left behind, are inspired by the 1980 eruption of Mt. Saint Helens.
- Run or Die: Against its destructive might, all the poor Sprite can do is run for its life.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Well, a sleeping evil.
- The Sociopath: Destroys a forest and tries to kill the sprite For the Evulz.
- Super-Persistent Predator: Relentlessly chases down the Nature Sprite.
- World-Wrecking Wave: In a living form, no less.
