The Elephant Princess
The Elephant Princess is an Australian TV show from by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions. The first season, consisting of 26 episodes, first aired from November 2008 to April 2009. A second season aired in 2011.
The show follows Alex, a regular girl, or at least that's what she thinks until her 16th birthday, when a boy named Kuru and an elephant named Anala show up, and Kuru tells her that she is the heir to the throne of a land called Manjipoor. With Kuru's help, Alex defend her place on the throne against her cousin, Vashan.
Tropes used in The Elephant Princess include:
- Badass Princess: Alex pretty much qualifies for this, {{spoiler|especially in her fight against Diva in the first season's final episode
- Beyond the Impossible: Alex finds away to cross the barrier without Anala.
- Brought Down to Normal:Vashan who takes it surprisingly well.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Alex
- Canada Does Not Exist: A weird, Australian version. The school the kids go is possible in Australia, but unlikely. The lack of school uniforms (extremely unusual in Australia) compounded with the unbiquitous use of lockers (which are not as widespread Down Under) and the time spent hanging around them, evokes the schools of basically any North American kids' show ever made, rather than an Aussie place of education.
- Cloudcuckoolander: JB can be this at times
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JB: Alex, this decision determines your future. Get it right and he's yours forever, get it wrong and- |
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- Everything's Better with Princesses
- Functional Magic: The ability to use magic is hereditary. Most magic is cast using specific gestures.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Alex isn't always thrilled about finding out she's a princess
- It Only Works Once Downplayed with the Time Slip Spell, which has can only be cast a few times.
- Lotus Eater Machine: Vashan does something similar by using Reality Warping to make Alex a rock star.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Anala to Alex
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Alex was born 18 months after the king died. Omar is her real father.
- Magical Land: Manjipoor
- Mineral MacGuffin: Anala's Jewels allow her to transport people across the barrier, one of them gets stolen.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Vashan can sense when magic being used as long as it's nearby or extremly powerful. Its implied that any magic user can learn how to do this.
- The Power of Rock: See Beyond the Impossible
- Princesses Rule
- Put on a Bus: JB, Vashan, Alex's entire family, Omar, and the Council of Elders
- Reality Warper: Both Alex and Vashan can do this
- Rebellious Princess: Alex
- Rightful King Returns: The plot involves restoring Alex to her place on the throne
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Seasonal Rot: Season 2 wasn't very well received.
- Secret Test: Vashan attempts to kill Alex shortly after meeting her for the first time. The next time they meet he claims he was just testing her.
- Shapeshifting: Alex's magic allows her to do this
- And Diva also uses this to trick Omar into telling her where the royal crown is hidden by taking on Alex's form
- The Starscream: Diva
- Ten-Minute Retirement: Alex relinquishes the throne for about 3 episodes before taking it back in the season finale
- The Call Knows Where You Live: Conversed, When Alex decides to abdicate, Kuru warns her that unless she signs the abdication papers emissaries will constantly be visiting her to confirm she has really abdicated.
- Time Travel: The Time Slip spell
- Too Awesome to Use: Subverted with the Time Slip spell despite its power it gets used up in the same episode Alex learns to cast it.
- Treacherous Advisor: Subverted, by law only Vashan is qualified to train Alex in royal protocol. Alex naturally has misgivings about this, but Vashan does not take advantage of the situation in anyway.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Her?: Diva asks Vashan this, to which he replies that she has no sense of style.