Bartok the Magnificent: Difference between revisions

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* [[Call Back]] / [[Foreshadowing]]: Everything Bartok does during the climax is a reference to something he claimed he had done in his show at the beginning of the movie, from defeating a dragon to dousing a city in flames.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Ludmilla compares herself to Attila the Hun when singing about what kind of ruler she'll be.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Ludmilla seems to shop at the same store as [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Maleficent]] and [[Aladdin (Disney)|Jafar]], as much as her color scheme (not to mention the [[Spikes of Villainy]]) just screams villain.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Ludmilla seems to shop at the same store as [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Maleficent]] and [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jafar]], as much as her color scheme (not to mention the [[Spikes of Villainy]]) just screams villain.

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Ludmilla again.

* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: The first thing we learn about Ludmilla is she hates entertainment, and wants to have Bartok shut down.

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* [[Lean and Mean]]: Ludmilla, except for the hips.

* [[Leitmotif]]: An instrumental of "Bartok The Magnificent" plays pretty much every time Bartok does something heroic, or gets a heroic idea.

* [[Lions and Tigers ~~And~~ Humans, Oh My!]]: Bartok is a [[Talking Animal]], his [[Grotesque Gallery|grotesque]] bear companion is ''almost'' [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphic]], there are a couple of monsters and [[Ugly Cute]] [[Cartoon Creature|oddities of indeterminate species]], and everyone else is human.

* [[Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!]]: Bartok is a [[Talking Animal]], his [[Grotesque Gallery|grotesque]] bear companion is ''almost'' [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphic]], there are a couple of monsters and [[Ugly Cute]] [[Cartoon Creature|oddities of indeterminate species]], and everyone else is human.

* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of ~~The~~ Body]]: Sort of happens to Ludmilla at the end. Baba Yagas potion makes anyone who drinks it "ten times the person" they are inside. Ludmilla drinks it thinking it will turn her into what she thinks she is: beautiful, sweet and graceful as a flower, but since inside she's rotten and villainous she instead turns into a monstrous dragon. Her manner of speaking noticeably becomes much less sweet and controlled -- and more manic and aggressive - over the course of her [[Villain Song]], but she doesn't even realize anything's changing until she gets a look at herself in the mirror. Up until that point she was still talking about how she's going to be the golden ruler to the people of Russia - by the time Bartok gets to the city she's a rampaging beast setting everything on fire, and she doesn't talk at all or act like anything but a feral monster for the rest of her appearances. Since she's the villain anyway it's less noticeable - and it's more of a "''mind is a plaything of the body which is a plaything of the inner self''" type deal - but it's definitely an example.

* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]]: Sort of happens to Ludmilla at the end. Baba Yagas potion makes anyone who drinks it "ten times the person" they are inside. Ludmilla drinks it thinking it will turn her into what she thinks she is: beautiful, sweet and graceful as a flower, but since inside she's rotten and villainous she instead turns into a monstrous dragon. Her manner of speaking noticeably becomes much less sweet and controlled -- and more manic and aggressive - over the course of her [[Villain Song]], but she doesn't even realize anything's changing until she gets a look at herself in the mirror. Up until that point she was still talking about how she's going to be the golden ruler to the people of Russia - by the time Bartok gets to the city she's a rampaging beast setting everything on fire, and she doesn't talk at all or act like anything but a feral monster for the rest of her appearances. Since she's the villain anyway it's less noticeable - and it's more of a "''mind is a plaything of the body which is a plaything of the inner self''" type deal - but it's definitely an example.

** If you interpret the events to mean that Baba Yaga knew Ludmilla would steal the potion and therefore she made it a "turn into dragon" poison from the outset, then it's a completely straight version of ''Mind Is A Plaything of The Body.''

* [[Misunderstood Loner ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]: Baba Yaga.

* [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold]]: Baba Yaga.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Again, sort of. Ludmilla's last words are a shocked "oh, my goodness" and gasp when she realizes that Baba Yaga's potion is turning her into a monster, but by then it's far too late.

* [[Noodle People]]: Ludmilla, sort of. Everything above her shoulders is normal and the rest of her body is noodly, which looks...odd.