The Little Mermaid (1989 film)/Characters: Difference between revisions

m
Mass update links
m (Mass update links)
m (Mass update links)
Line 58:
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: His insight of humans.
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Loyalty.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Ken Mars at his best.
* [[Leitmotif]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvwa0s20mo&feature=related Has a] [[Fanfare]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In the first film, when he realizes that he was too hard on Ariel.
Line 80:
 
* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]: At the beginning of the first film
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: In the second film, it's [[Cam Clarke]] voicing Flounder as an adult.
* [[Informed Species]]: Flounder does not look anything like an actual flounder, though he might be named after the verb instead of the fish.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: In the TV series, the second film, and the third film.
Line 89:
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: When he stalls the wedding to buy Ariel some time in the first film.
* [[Did You Get a New Haircut?]]: In the first film, when he meets up with Ariel after she became human.
* [[Feather Fingers]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Who would've thought that [[The Love Bug|Tennessee Steinmetz]] was a seagull?
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Scuttle bears a strong resemblance to his voice actor, the late Buddy Hackett.
* [[The Klutz]]: Scuttle seems to have a habit of occasionally running into things while flying.
Line 129:
* [[Expy]]: Tip and Dash are basically sea creature versions of [[The Lion King|Timon and Pumbaa]].
* [[Fat and Skinny]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Tip is voiced by [[Jak and Daxter|Daxter]] while Dash is [[Babylon 5|Vir Cotto]].
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: Tip again.
* [[Those Two Guys]]
Line 178:
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: When Eric stabs her with the ship's bowline. Strangely enough, her death looks very similar to that of [[Aladdin (Disney)|Jafar]]'s.
* [[Glamour Failure]]: When "Vanessa" looks in the mirror, her true identity is revealed.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Ursula is [[Garfield|Grandma Arbuckle]].
* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: In the climax, when Eric stabs her with the bow of the ship.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Subversion; Ursula was actually based on the drag queen Divine, who was originally supposed to voice her, but died before he could even record the voice, so the role went to Pat Carroll instead.
Line 203:
* [[Evil Minions]]
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: They end up getting blasted to smithereens from a misfire from the trident.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: It's both chilling and amazing at the same time to think that [[Ghostbusters|Gozer the Gozerian]] is a pair of evil eels.
* [[Leitmotif]]: If you listen carefully, they have a sub-theme inside of Ursula's own leitmotif.
* [[Meaningful Name]]
Line 227:
* [[The Dragon]]: To Morgana
* [[Everything's Even Worse With Sharks]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Undertow is voiced by [[Spongebob SquarePants|Mr. Krabs]].
 
=== Cloak and Dagger ===
Line 259:
* [[Papa Wolf]]: A rare villain example.
* [[Really 700 Years Old]]: He was imprisoned by ancient Merpeople and apparently hasn't aged a day.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: [http://images.wikia.com/villains/images/4/45/Evil_Manta.jpg Pupiless eyes,] no less.
 
=== Lobster Mobster and Da Shrimp ===
Line 290:
{{quote| '''Voiced by:''' Ben Wright (1st film), Kay E. Kuter (2nd film)}}
 
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: In the first film, Grimsby is voiced by [[One Hundred and One101 Dalmatians (Disney)|Roger]], while in the second film, he is voiced by [[Petticoat Junction (TV)|Newt]] [[Green Acres|Kiley]].
* [[Only Sane Man]]
* [[The Renfield]]: To Eric.
Line 303:
* [[Gratuitous French]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: After he chases Sebastian all over the kitchen in the first film.
* [[Super -Persistent Predator]]: to Sebastian, though, to Louis, it may be more a matter of pride than simply to serve the little crab as an entrée.
 
=== Priest