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These things about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.
* [[Accidental Aesop]]: Some people prefer being single, and that's bad.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: The hillbilly frog hunters are presented as villainous versions of [[The Three Stooges]]. Laugh at their stupidity.
** The Cajun fireflies are stereotyped with missing teeth and being "simple". Ray's subplot makes him look like a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], though the whole thing is about him being a firefly and has nothing to do with his ethnic group. And of course, [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|that worked out for him in the end.]]
** Averted with most of the white characters. They're noticeably wealthier and more privileged than Tiana and her family, but they're not depicted as arrogant.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: [[
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Besides the return of traditional animation to Disney, the casting of Keith David as the movie's villain sold a lot of people on seeing the movie. There were also plenty of teenagers and vicenarians that were easily elated at the announcement of that movie as a return to Disney's magical roots after lamenting about the tween-oriented direction the company seemed to have taken over the past several years, claiming it to be irreverent toward [[Walt Disney]] 's standards on how he wanted to run the company in the first place.
* [[Artistic License Religion]]: Actually a rare invoked example - Disney didn't want to use any ''actual'' symbols for fear of offending real life practitioners of Voudou (or summon any evil spirits.) They essentially give a bit of this since Dr. Facilier and Mama Odie appear to practice magic and call it "Voodoo", however give Facilier a little bit of credit - he says "I got voodoo, I got hoodoo, I got stuff I haven't even tried", implying he (and the writers) are well aware that "Voodoo" isn't just a catch-all-term for folk magic.
** That and there's a bit of [[Genius Bonus]] - Facilier appears to be using easily-bribed spirits, not so much caring for actual voodoo rituals so much as aligning with what will give him more power.
* [[
* [[Cargo Ship]]: Ray the firefly and Evangeline the evening star {{spoiler|until Ray dies and [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|becomes a star next to Evangeline]].}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: [[Big Bad|Dr. Facilier]], or [[Witch Doctor|the Shadow Man]], is a "[[Faux Affably Evil|very charismatic]]" conman and [[Evil Sorcerer|voodoo sorcerer]] who employs his demonic [[Eldritch Abomination|"Friends on the Other Side"]] for his own ambitious ends. Facilier tricks Prince Naveen into giving him his blood, cursing the prince into the form of a frog, while roping his greedy valet Lawrence into posing as the prince to marry into the inheritance of New Orleans's wealthiest sugar baron Eli "Big Daddy" LeBouff, ensuring Facilier can murder LeBouff and Naveen after to secure the fortune for his own. Plunged deep into debt to his "Friends" with his soul at stake, Facilier sinks to his lowest when he [[Your Soul Is Mine|offers up the souls of New Orleans's citizens to his demonic "Friends" to glut themselves on]], and even cold-bloodedly kills Ray the firefly when he poses an obstacle to his plans. [[Ambition Is Evil|Defined by his thirst for power]], even Facilier's elastic, unmistakable charm can't disguise the monster he truly is underneath his conman facade.
* [[Crossover Shipping]]: Charlotte/[[Anastasia (Animation)|Dmitri]] have been paired together.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: It's hard to pick one with such a good soundtrack, but "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4pStVNQc4M Friends On the Other Side]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKJAUe_RX4 When We're Human]", and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjfFiWutOu0 both] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCxYuEQuMU versions] of "Down in New Orleans" get particular mention.
** Don't forget "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DectIkcKRY Dig A Little Deeper]"! Mama Odie's voice actress was even backed up by a ''real church chorus''.
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* [[Genius Bonus]]: When Facilier shows Naveen his future and changes around the image on his cards, three roman numerals appear at the top, IV when it shows Naveen as a royal, XVI shows Naveen in front of a tower, and IX showns Naveen with a bride and her father with treasure around them. In the Tarot, IV is The Emperor, representing power, control, etc. XVI is The Tower, representing a sudden crisis or disaster, and realizations of falsehoods. IX could be The Hermit, representing solitude and contemplation, or given the image could be taken as the Nine of Coins, referring to someone who has achieved fortune through hard work. Lawrence's card meanwhile shows a X, representing the Wheel of a Fortune, a sudden change of luck and fate.
* [[Girls Need Role Models]]: It's been stressed that Tiana doesn't need a prince and works to achieve her dreams. Anika Noni Rose pointed out how this is a stark contrast to any of the other Disney [["I Want" Song|I Want Songs]], in that she knows what she wants, she's "Almost There", and she's done it on her own. Her character is best summed up with her line:
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And gettin' closer and closer everyday! }}
* [[Girl Show Ghetto]]: The movie did okay at the box office for Disney, but not nearly as good as their previous animated films. Disney determined that this trope was the reason and was rumored to [http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/21/entertainment/la-et-1121-tangled-20101121 completely shut down adapting fairy tales into movies.] For ''[[Tangled]]'
** It's funny when you realize that arguably, ''The Princess and the Frog'' is among the least-girliest Princess movies, alongside ''[[Mulan]]'' and ''[[Pocahontas]]'' - it features a ''very'' menacing villain, a roadtrip, slapstick, strong leads that aren't romantically interested in
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In a previous Disney animated feature, ''[[The Lion King]]'', Timon once said that the stars in the sky were 'fireflies that were trapped in that big blue-ish, black thing.' {{spoiler|Ray, a firefly in this movie, was killed by Dr. Facilier and turned into a star in the sky.}}
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: A while ago, some guy named [[Terry Pratchett]] wrote a novel called ''[[
** In ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'', [[Keith David]]'s character calls out the others for believing in "voodoo bullshit". In ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', he plays a voodoo doctor.
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]] {{spoiler|Yeah, like Disney is going to kill off the lovable animal sideki--[[Subverted Trope|wait, what?]] ''[[Tear Jerker|What?!]]''}}
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*** Indeed, one of the movie's most prominent criticisms is that the villain was underplayed.
* [[Ugly Cute]]: Ray, oh so much.
* [[Wall Banger]]: Long enough for [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}/Wall Banger|a page of its own]].
* [[Win Back the Crowd]]: This movie was intended to prove traditional animation wasn't dead and re-establish Disney's prominence in the animation industry. While critical and audience response was positive, the jury's still out when you look at the box office take. It opened wide the week before ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' arrived and steamrolled it; then ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' and ''[[Alvin and the
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