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As the unbeatable Cauldron Born set out to destroy all life and take over the planet, there is only one way to stop them. Someone must jump into the cauldron, at the cost of their life...
Based on a series of novels, ''[[Chronicles of Prydain]]'' by [[Lloyd Alexander]], ''
* It is the first Disney animated feature to be rated PG in the USA... and the reasons why are evident.
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* [[Due to the Dead]]: Eilonwy disapproves of Taran taking the sword from a grave.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: With [[Care Bears|''The Care Bears Movie'']], its polar opposite. [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|Guess which was the more successful film!]]
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Eilonwy, the [[Redheaded Stepchild]] of the [[Disney Princess
** In the books, she is known as a Princess of Llyr. She's actually the daughter of the Princess Angharad, who fell in love with a commoner and ran away from her royal family to marry him. Eilonwy is kidnapped from her parents and orphaned as a very young child. In the books, after the first adventure, she goes to live with Taran and Dallben at the farm Caer Dallben. Anyone who wants to belittle her calls her a "scullery maid", in reference to the chores she does there. The film reflects this point but fails to explain or develop it.
* [[Evil Brit]]: The Horned King (being voiced by [[John Hurt]]). Of course, most of the good guys also have British voice actors.
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* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted: They explicitly say the Horned King is going to kill them all. One more nail in the coffin of family-friendliness.
** The Horned King trying to raise his defeated Cauldron Born: "GET UP! '''KILL!!!'''"
* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: The Black Cauldron cannot be destroyed, only its power stopped; the Cauldron Born are
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Gurgi, a dog furry, for the hero Taran; Creeper, a goblin, for the villain The Horned King.
* [[No Sense of Humor]]: The Horned King.
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** The books and the characters were inspired by Welsh mythology. The three witches are based on the concept of the triple goddess- maiden, mother, and crone.
** And really, they're not all that wicked. [[Jerkass|Jerk Asses]], yes, but they do {{spoiler|bring Gurgi back in exchange for the cauldron}}.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The sneakiest of the witches convinces Taran to trade his magic sword for the Cauldron, [[Batman Gambit|counting on the notion that he and his friends won't know what to do with it]] and will eventually give it
** Even so, the Witches do indeed own both articles by the end of the film. Even if they didn't get the cauldron back, they'd still have the sword. There really was no down side for them.
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