Barbie and the Diamond Castle
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In the direct-to-DVD movie Barbie and the Diamond Castle, Barbie and Teresa tell Stacie the story of two best friends, Liana and Alexa. Although the two girls do not have much, they have each other and a love of music. It gets worse when a nasty storm destroys all the flowers they would usually sell, but an act of kindness grants them a mirror. Inside the mirror dwells apprentice muse Melody, who used the mirror as a means of escaping evil muse Lydia, who intends to grab the key to the muses' Diamond Castle and plunge the world into a state of grim darkness.
Tropes used in Barbie and the Diamond Castle include:
- All Trolls Are Different[context?]
- The Apprentice (Melody)[context?]
- Awesome Moment of Crowning[context?]
- Ancient Greece: The Diamond Castle potentially could be in Greece. Not Ancient Greece, but the Muses and Melody dress like Ancient Greek women.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad (Lydia's extended Villain Song)
- Better to Die Than Be Killed (Melody shatters the mirror rather than let Lydia get the Diamond Castle)
- Black and White Morality
- Black Magic
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead (Alexa, Liana, and Melody)
- Brainwashed (Lydia uses a hypnosis spell on various characters to get the information she needs)
- The Call Knows Where You Live
- Character Name and the Noun Phrase
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience
- Cosmic Keystone (The Diamond Castle and the muses' instruments)
- Damsel in Distress: Alexa gets kidnapped by Lydia and then hypnotized to jump into acid, Liana gets kidnapped after Alexa reveals she doesn't have the mirror, Melody gets thrown into the pond to drown, and the Muses are turned into statues and held hostage in Lydia's cavern.
- Deadly Fireworks Display (Lydia's spell backfiring)
- Deflector Shields (the magical barrier produced by the necklaces worn by Liana and Alexa)
- The Dragon (literally, in this case)
- Dragon Rider
- Easing Into the Adventure
- Ermine Cape Effect
- Everything's Better with Princesses (Why not do the most logical thing and just make Alexa and Liana muses as well? Because then they wouldn't be princesses.)
- Everything's Better with Sparkles
- Evil Always Triumphs in The Middle
- Evil Costume Switch (averted, as Lydia is already wearing a pretty evil-looking outfit in a flashback)
- Evil Gloating
- Evil Makeover (After turning evil, Lydia casts a spell on her flute to make it match her outfit. In the book, she wears a white toga and holly in her hair, but in the movie, she wears her maroon witch dress even when good.)
- Evil Plan
- Evil Redhead (Lydia
- Fairy Tale
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink
- Feud Episode
- The Final Temptation
- Flash Back
- Framing Device
- Friendship Moment
- Giant Flyer (Slyder and the Pegasi belonging to the other muses)
- Brietta makes a cameo in the Hilarious Outtakes.
- Gorgeous Garment Generation
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple
- Handsome Lech (Jeremy and Ian)
- Herald (Melody)
- Heterosexual Life Partners: Liana and Alexa, though the Subtext...
- Happily Ever After
- Hoist by His Own Petard (Lydia is done in by her own spell. Twice.)
- Hostage for McGuffin
- Hypnotize the Princess
- It's All About Me (Lydia's motive)
- Just Between You and Me
- Karmic Death (Lydia)
- Large Ham (Lydia)
- Least Rhymable Word (Lounge Lizard twins Jeremy and Ian are alternating lyrics in a song to charm the heroines. At one point Jeremy ends a line with the word "orange," and Ian quips, "You know perfectly well nothing rhymes with orange." )
- Limited Wardrobe
- Lounge Lizard (Jeremy and Ian)
- MacGuffin Location (The titular castle)
- Magic Music
- Magical Land
- Meaningful Name (Melody, who is a musical apprentice, and later becomes a Muse herself)
- Memento MacGuffin (the necklaces)
- Merchandise-Driven
- Mind Control Eyes
- The Muse
- Musical Chores
- Never Say "Die"
- Not Quite Dead
- Non-Singing Voice (Kelly Sheriden, Barbie/Liana, and Maryke Hendrikse, Melody, did not do their own singing)
- Obviously Evil (Lydia, even before officially turning on her fellow muses, dresses in an outfit that should have tipped them off)
- Oh Crap
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Pink Means Feminine
- Power Crystal (the Diamond Castle is covered with them)
- Power of Friendship
- Power of Rock
- Precious Puppies: The girls find a couple dogs, just to make things cuter.
- Princesses Prefer Pink
- Psychotic Smirk (Lydia)
- The Renfield (Slyder)
- Requisite Royal Regalia
- Ridiculously Cute Critter (Lily and Sparkles)
- Sealed Good in a Can (Melody)
- Single-Minded Twins
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
- Smug Snake (Lydia)
- Sorry I'm Late (Ian's quip when the twins rescue the girls from Slyder)
- Source Music
- Suspiciously Apropos Music
- Take Over the World (Or in Lydia's case, taking over Diamond Castle and all the world's music)
- Taken for Granite (Lydia freezes the other muses this way.)
- Team Pet (Lily and Sparkles)
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
- Timmy in a Well (Sparkles leads the twins to the girls, Lily picks up Alexa's necklace and drops it over the cliff to the girls)
- Title Drop (In one song and the Castle itself.)
- Toyless Toyline Character (Characters that appear for less than three minutes got dolls, yet Lydia got nothing)
- Troll Bridge
- Twin Banter
- Vain Sorceress
- Villain Song ("Wonderful Me" by Lydia)
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The setting indictates potentially France or Germany, except the Muses and Lydia look like Greek goddesses and wear togas and holly in their hair.
- Ye Goode Olde Days