Barbie and the Diamond Castle

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In this direct-to-DVD movie, 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.

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Tropes used in Barbie and the Diamond Castle include:

• All Trolls Are Different^[context?]
• The Apprentice (Melody)^[context?]
• Awesome Moment of Crowning^[context?]
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ye Goode Olde Days