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.
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