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'''''Felix
[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
The film was produced by Pannonia Film Studio in Hungary, and directed by Tibor Hernádi. The film is estimated to have been completed in 1986 or 1987, but it only received limited release in 1988 and 1989, finally getting its full release in the United States in August 1991. The film was a box-office failure, due in part to being released in the same month as Disney's ''[[Beauty and
▲The film was produced by Pannonia Film Studio in Hungary, and directed by Tibor Hernádi. The film is estimated to have been completed in 1986 or 1987, but it only received limited release in 1988 and 1989, finally getting its full release in the United States in August 1991. The film was a box-office failure, due in part to being released in the same month as Disney's ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and The Beast]]'', Amblin's ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' and [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Rock a Doodle]]''. Ironically, it received many airings on Disney Channel, which, along with subsequent VHS rereleases, allowed the film to gain a small following.
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* [[A God Am I]]: The sentient reptiles and amphibians that inhabit Zil believed that the Duke of Zil was a god who had come to help them when he was banished there. He took full advantage of it. He wants Oriana's Book of Ultimate Power to become the real deal.
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* [[Anticlimax]]: The final battle. [[Throw the Book At Them|Just.]] The final battle.
* [[All That Glitters]]: [[Anvilicious|Played aggravatingly straight in the ending.]] {{spoiler|The professor tries to sneak gold back into his world through the dimensporter, only for Oriana to tell him that the it can't transport gold, and then tells Felix that she's pretty sure his gold can be transported. He says he doesn't have any gold, but she insists that he does: a heart of gold.}}
* [[Awesome Backpack|Awesome]] [[Awesome Backpack|Bag Of Tricks]]: Felix's bag of tricks can turn into [[New Powers
* [[Big Damn Movie]]
* [[
** However it does fit with the spirit of the "Twisted Tails" version quite well. Except in ''Twisted'', the weirdness was there in the service of the [[Rule of Funny]]. In this film, it's hard to discern what the ultimate goal of the oddness was.
* [[Canon
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The Duke of Zil is basically a revamped, humanoid, Master Cylinder. Makes you wonder why they {{spoiler|put Master Cylinder in?}}
** He also looks something like if you fused [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] and [[Spider-Man|Mysterio]]. Seriously.
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** "[[Deadpan Snarker|Where are we,]] [[New Jersey]]?"
** Not quite. The Land of Zil is a hell hole that the Duke made worse. From what we can see, Oriana gets covered in large crystals.
* [[Cunning Like a Fox]]: Averted with the family of foxes Felix encounters early in the film who can't find him hiding under the bag. [[Lampshading|Lampshaded]] with the accompanying "Sly Like A Fox" song.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Probably the first ever attempt at taking a classic cartoon icon and giving it this treatment.
* [[Death World]]: Zil is inhabited by [[
* [[Deranged Animation]]: Especially the part early in the film where Felix is underwater. If one of the films goals was to capture the surreal nature of the original shorts, it did its job a bit TOO well.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: With Disney's ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' and ''[[Rock
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The book.}}
* [[Development Hell]]: The film technically was finished as early as 1988, but was left locked away for years until someone decided to dig it out and release it. Why they didn't take this extra time to touch up on the film's flaws (especially the glaring animation errors) is anyone's guess.
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* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|Wack Lizardi, who falls from a great height and onto his circus, taking it with him.}}
* [[Egopolis]]: Oriana
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Grumper
* [[Evil Uncle]]
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|The hunter Felix meets early in the film.}}
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: The Duke.
* [[Hoist
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Between Felix and Princess Oriana.
* [[The Kingdom]]: Oriana, which was once a warrior empire but has turned away from its old ways and sealed away its old weapons and secrets to be a peaceful and prosperous nation whose army was only for ceremonial purposes. The Duke didn't like that...
* [[Large Ham]]: The Duke of Zil.
** As well as Oriana's oracle, Ms. Pearl. "[[Non Sequitur Thud|A black duck on a green planet!]]", anyone?
** Wack Lizardi also comes off as quite hammy, especially when he overemphasizes his lisp.
* [[Lizard Folk]]: Lizardi and most of the inhabitants of Progress City.
* [[Lull Destruction]]: The movie's audio never has any breaks in it.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Both subverted and played straight with Progress City. Subverted because, despite the name, it's a rundown hellhole of a city in the middle of a polluted swampland. But then if you consider that The Duke wants Oriana to be under his complete control with the subjects idolizing him like a god, Progress City ends up fitting his idea of progress.
* [[Mondegreen]]: "Who is the Boss? A [[Unfortunate Implications|Klu Klux
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: All Felix can do to a skull he finds in the mineshaft is say this:
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* [[Mecha
* [[Mix and Match Critter]]: The Mizzards.
** Most of the inhabitants of Progress City also apply.
* [[The Movie]]
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The opening CGI head actually has Felix talk to the audience.
* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: The mutant seahorse things from the underwater scene. [[Fan Disservice|And they shake them for the camera too.]]
* [[Off-Model]]: The animation ranges from passable to mediocre in the first few parts of the film, and it goes even further after the "Who is the Boss" song?
** Not to mention the poster, seen at the top of this page. Compare Oriana and the Duke on the poster to how they appear in the film...
* [[Opening Narration]]: That CGI head again. And he patronizes you too.
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* [[Princesses Rule]]
* [[Pungeon Master]]
* [[Random Events Plot]]: The film really has no sense of direction as far as plot is concerned. The "saving the world" bit doesn't even get started till well more than halfway through the
* [[Real Is Brown]]
* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
* [[Right-Hand-Cat]]: In a really bizarre example of the trope, Wack Lizardi has a nameless squeaking lizard head mounted to a stick that he uses as a whip for a pet and is never seen without it. It reacts to events that happen onscreen and it's not uncommon for a scene with Wack Lizardi to shift focus from him to the pet.
* [[Rotoscoping]]: Princess Oriana's animation.
* [[Save the Princess]]
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* [[Steampunk]]: Oriana has a lot of this.
* [[Swiss Army Tears]]: When the princess of Oriana can't finish summoning Felix, one of her teardrops finishes the job for her...activating the machine, punching in codes, pulling levers, entering the voice command, finding Felix in his world, and leading him back to the portal and into Oriana.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Felix and The Professor are both voiced by Chris Phillips and they talk to each other quite a bit.
* [[Throw the Book At Them]]: {{spoiler|Done by Felix to defeat the Master Cylinder.}}
* [[Took a Level
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Wack Lizardi's unnamed lizard pet, which makes different squeaks depending on what kind of mood it's in.
* [[Villain Song]]: "Who is the Boss?" Rather catchy tune and shows the extent of the Duke's ego.
* [[Was Once a Man]]: The Duke of Zil was an ordinary human before a prototype of his cylindrical soldier robots went haywire, severely disfiguring him and forcing him to [[We Can Rebuild Him|rebuild himself.]]
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Felix' bag during a shapeshift will change back to its original form if someone other than Felix touches it.
** Zil's secret weapon, the Master Cylinder comes out at the end battle. {{spoiler|Felix knocks it over by throwing a book at it.}} Fight scene over.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Felix literally just defeats the {{spoiler|Master Cylinder}} by {{spoiler|throwing a book at it.}}
* [[What Happened to
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Progress City.
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