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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] is averted since the villain is played by Bernadette Peters.
* [[All-Star Cast]]: This version stars Brandy, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber, and Whitney Houston.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Really, this trope is completely discarded. In addition to the afforementionedaforementioned [[Adaptational Attractiveness]] of the stepmother, it isn't ugliness that the stepsisters use to contrast with Cinderella. In this version, instead, they're clumsy, improper, stupid (even the stepmother shows signs she can't stand this; see [[Surrounded by Idiots]] below), and have some strange bad habits.
* [[Beta Couple]]: The king and queen.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: Brandy's name is last in the credits (among the leads). Whitney Houston, Jason Alexander, and Bernadette Peters come first.
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* [[The Girl Who Fits This Slipper]]: Played hilariously straight when Christopher allows a few white girls to try on the slipper, despite Cinderella having been African-American, and then subverted when it fits Cinderella's stepmother and Christopher refuses to believe she is the girl he danced with.
* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: After the shoe fails to fit either of the stepsisters, Cinderella's stepmother becomes so desperate she'll do anything for the prince's money. She locks Cinderella in the kitchen, offers ''herself'' to the prince by trying on the shoe, helplessly begs him to marry one of her daughters, and then when all else fails, she gives a [[Big No]] and then passes out.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: The only reason we know Bernadette Peters is in her middle ages-aged in this movie is because [[Older Than They Look|the dialogue tells us so.]]
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Not in-universe, and probably not intentional, but at one point the stepmother tells Cinderella not to "cling to the past" because "it's not very attractive." This is said by Bernadette Peters, [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|who hasn't aged for thirty years.]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Free]]: Cinderella.
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