Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night: Difference between revisions

* [[Big Good]]: The Blue Fairy, naturally.

* [[Circus of Fear]]: Very much shades of ''[[Something Wicked This Way Comes (Literature)|Something Wicked This Way Comes]]''.

* [[The Dragon]]: Puppetino, it turns out. While very effective at first, particularly in using temptation to get Pinocchio to make his [[Deal With the Devil]], by the end he proves to be next to useless, cowering like a random [[Mook]], and when the shit hits the fan is a [[Dirty Coward]]. Even his powers seem to be a gift from the Emperor, if his ultimate fate also implies a stripping of those powers, thus rendering even his earlier crowning moments rather lackluster in retrospect. His fear of his boss, however, was likely due to fear of [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] or [[You Have Failed Me]] ([[Properly Paranoid|and he was right to worry]]).

* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]]: Igor.

** Besides those two, we have <s>Jiminy Cricket</s> Gee Willikers, a small insect named after an interjection who tries to keep Pinocchio on the straight and narrow, and a [[They Just Didn't Care|painfully obvious]] expy of Lampwick in the <s>Pleasure Island</s> Neon Cabaret scene.

** Also, let's be honest with ourselves here: "Emperor of the Night" is a fancy way of saying "Satan" without parents losing their shit -- because, clearly, [[Wild Mass Guessing|by any logical criteria]], the Emperor is Satan.

* [[Good Hurts Evil]]: Or at least, the purity of Pinocchio's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and [[The Power of Love]] does. Both [[Incredibly Lame Pun|lampshaded and foreshadowed]] by the Blue Fairy's pep-talk [[Aesop]] song.

* [[Grotesque Gallery]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Scalawag and Igor, though they were fairly [[Lovable Rogue|Lovable Rogues]] in the first place.

* [[Heel Realization]]: Scalawag's moment in prison, when he realizes that all of them had succumbed to the power of their own dark desires, which allowed the Emperor to manipulate, corrupt, and ultimately ensnare them.

** Believe it or not, that is indeed future [[American Dad (Animation)|Steve Smith]] playing Pinocchio

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Pinocchio, again.

* [[Large Ham]]: [[James Earl Jones]] as the Emperor lingers over every syllable of every line here, clearly having a blast with the role.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Puppetino's fate. [[Wild Mass Guessing|What isn't clear]] is whether this is just the Emperor inflicting a particularly delicious and ironic punishment, or if he was restoring him [[Puppet Permutation|to what he used to be]].

* [[Puppet Permutation]]

* [[Shallow Female Love Interest]]: Twinkle exists pretty much to tempt Pinocchio and be a living [[MacGuffin]] for the second half of the movie.