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''Atlantis'' is also the second [[Disney Animated Canon]] film to be rated PG, with the first being ''[[The Black Cauldron (Disney)|The Black Cauldron]]'', which was released all the way back in 1985!

* [[Action Girl]]:

** Audrey's pretty active for a kid.

* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The film has a different theme song for the Japanese version, called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ycvP4EtJU&feature=related "Crystal Vine"], written by DREAMS COME TRUE.

* [[Animesque]]: An intentional attempt to make an animated action movie in the spirit of [[Anime]].

* [[Artistic License Linguistics]]: Averted (See [[Conveniently Precise Translation]] below) and also played straight. In most languages, the translation in the beginning would not work, but the Norse words for Ireland and Iceland really are one rune (letter) apart, so it makes perfect sense for the two words to be accidentally switched. However, later on the Atlanteans can magically speak not just English but every language descended from their own, even though that is '''''not''''' how languages evolve. Additionally, many of the languages spoken are from completely different language families (meaning that they are ''not'' descended from the same language, Atlantean or otherwise).

* [[Atlantis]]: [[Captain Obvious|Just in case you did not guess]].

'''Mole:''' No, no, no, no. That would take an explosive force of great magnitude. }}

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Milo's ability to get engines started.

* [[Communications Officer]]: Mrs. Packard, although she spends most of the time chatting up her friend over the phone (which, unless she's also in the submarine, would be quite a feat using 1914 technology).

* [[Con Lang]]: The Atlantean language [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean_language is an actual functional language].

* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Milo.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Helga.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:

** Ms. Packard.

* [[Embarrassing Slide]]: Milo intends to start his lecture by showing a slide of the Leviathan, "a creature so terrifying that sailors were said [[Go Mad From the Revelation|to be driven mad by the mere sight of it]]." Cut to a slide of him popping up.

* [[Everything Makes a Mushroom]]: Cooky's cooking is so bad it creates a mushroom cloud when the crew all drop their food in a cauldron at the same time.

* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|Rourke. According to Sweet, "He's been after that crystal since Iceland."}}

* [[Evil Plan]]: {{spoiler|Rourke makes the journey to steal the crystal and kill anyone in his way.}} The final stage of this plan is what Milo fights against.

* [[Faceless Mooks]]: The gas-mask wearing soldiers in the end.

* [[Family Business]]

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Helga.

* [[Fly At the Camera Ending]]: Ends with an Atlantean flying machine obscuring the camera.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Rourke}} really should have known better then to stiff her.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: They even use the line "I didn't say it was the smart thing, but it is the right thing."

* [[I Know What We Can Do Cut]]

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When the crew sets up camp for the night and talking about their lives, all of them except Milo say that they're here pretty much because they're getting paid. {{spoiler|Later, when they're loading the Crystal-possessed Kida up for the trip back to the volcano, Milo reminds them of their plans and how easy they'll be now, but they have wiped out the Atlanteans in the process, ending with-}}

{{quote| '''Milo:''' What else have you got in there?<br />

'''Vinny:''' Oh, you know: gunpowder, nitroglycerin, notepads, fuses, wicks, glue, paper clips (big ones). You know, just office supplies. }}

{{quote| '''Milo:''' I don't know how to explain it! It's their deity, their power source!<br />

'''Rourke:''' Speak English, professor! }}

* [[Lost World]]: Duh.

* [[MacGuffin Girl]]: In a variation, the girl {{spoiler|merges with a preexisting [[MacGuffin]], rather than turning out to have been it all along.}}

* [[Mechanical Monster]]: The Leviathan.

* [[Mighty Whitey]]: White outsider guy needed to save tribal people, who do not know how to read their own language, and is interested in the Chieftain's Beautiful Daughter?

** Audrey also wears one as well.

** Kida's tiara at the end of the film.

{{quote| '''Milo:''' Oh, ''my'' decision? Well, I think we've seen how effective ''my'' decisions have been. Let's recap: I led a band of plundering vandals to the greatest archeological find in recorded history, thus enabling the kidnap and/or murder of the ''royal family''! Not to mention personally delivering the most powerful force known to man to the hands of a '''mercenary nutcase''', who's '''probably going to sell it to the Kaiser!''' *pause* '''Have I left anything out'''?<br />

'''Sweet:''' Well, you did set the camp on fire and drop us down that big hole. }}

* [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted. Milo accidentally awakens some [[Playing With Fire|fire]][[Stealth Pun|flies]] while heading out to relieve himself.

* [[Non Lethal Warfare]]: ''So'' averted. The Leviathan kills well over a hundred people during its attack (visibly crushing their mini-subs in its claws) and the final battle features plenty of [[Mooks]] being blown up.

* [[Nonsense Classification]]: Cookie has his own take on the four basic food groups: beans, bacon, whiskey and lard. A deleted scene has him name the only three spices he uses: salt, salt, and [[Expospeak Gag|sodium chloride.]]

* [[Power Crystal]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The Atlanteans are positively ancient due to the restorative powers of the Heart of Atlantis. Kida herself is over 8,800 years old and still appears in her early 20's.

* [[Redshirt Army]]: The submarine crews just keeps dying and dying. Between drowning, blowing up, rampant wildfires, falling down a crevice, getting shot and getting buried in molten lava only the main cast ''of seven'' survives the voyage. In total, 193 of the original 200 crew members died on the mission, which is quite a whopping number for a Disney movie.

{{quote| '''Rourke:''' (talking to only a few dozen people) Seven hours ago we started this expedition with two hundred of the finest men and women I have ever known. We are all that's left.}}

** Doc Sweet, African-American and Native American.

** Audrey, Female and Hispanic (And a teenager, too).

* [[The Unpronounceable]]: Kida's real name, Kidagakash. Which is a bit odd, since it's not that exotic, it's Milo (a trained linguist) who finds it unpronounceable.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|As Milo ruins his attempt to carry the crystal containing Kida to the surface, Rourke starts attacking him with an axe}}:

{{quote| "I consider myself an even-tempered man; it takes a heck of a lot to get under my skin. But congratulations - you just won the solid gold kewpie doll!"}}

* [[Walk On Water]]: Kida as the Heart of Atlantis beckons to her.

{{quote| '''Kida:''' Cookies are sweet but yours is not, Sweet is kindly but that is not his name, Audrey is sweet but she is not your doctor... and the little burrowing animal called Mole...he is your pet?<br />

'''Milo:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Close enough"]]. }}

** "Tonight's dinner will be baked beans. Musical program to follow. ...Who wrote this?"

** "To whoever took the 'L' from the motor pool sign, ha ha, we are all very amused."