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[[File:NotBlury_9070.jpg|frame| [[Animorphism|Don't kiss that frog!]]]]
''And anythin' can happen...'' }}▼
Released in 2009, this is [[Disney]]'s 49th animated feature, as well as the first since 2004's ''[[Home
▲{{quote| ''The evening star is shinin' bright.<br />
▲So [[Make a Wish]], and hold on tight.<br />
▲There's magic in the air tonight,<br />
▲And anythin' can happen...'' }}
The story centers on Tiana, a 19-year-old waitress in 1920's [[New Orleans]] who encounters a talking frog. In reality, the frog is the egotistical Prince Naveen, who was transformed by Dr. Facilier, an evil voodoo doctor. When she agrees to kiss him, the result is that ''she'' becomes a frog too, and from here they embark on a journey across the lush Louisiana swamp to seek out the voodoo priestess Mama Odie, the only one who can help them. Along the way they meet up with Louis, an alligator jazz enthusiast, and a Cajun firefly named Ray, all the while avoiding Facilier's creepy shadow goons.▼
▲[[Disney]]'s 49th animated feature, as well as the first since 2004's ''[[Home On the Range]]'' to be traditionally animated. It's inspired by the novel ''The Frog Princess'', [http://www.edbakerbooks.com/ E.D. Baker's] take on the classic fable "[[The Frog Prince (Literature)|The Frog Prince]]", and written and directed by Disney staples John Musker and Ron Clements. It is also notable for introducing the first black Disney princess into the official line-up.
For almost a decade, Disney had been firmly entrenched in the growing 3D/CGI movement; a Disney exec announced that ''Princess'' would be a long-overdue return to the animation tradition the company maintained for over fifty years. Randy Newman composed the songs for a film that harkens back to the age of Disney where music played as much a character as the actual cast members themselves. The end result was a film that was extremely well-received by critics and easily equaled the greats of the Disney Renaissance, although it was only a modest financial success, coming out in the same year as ''[[Avatar (
▲The story centers on Tiana, a 19-year-old waitress in 1920's New Orleans who encounters a talking frog. In reality, the frog is the egotistical Prince Naveen, who was transformed by Dr. Facilier, an evil voodoo doctor. When she agrees to kiss him, the result is that ''she'' becomes a frog too, and from here they embark on a journey across the lush Louisiana swamp to seek out the voodoo priestess Mama Odie, the only one who can help them. Along the way they meet up with Louis, an alligator jazz enthusiast, and a Cajun firefly named Ray, all the while avoiding Facilier's creepy shadow goons.
▲For almost a decade, Disney had been firmly entrenched in the growing 3D/CGI movement; a Disney exec announced that ''Princess'' would be a long-overdue return to the animation tradition the company maintained for over fifty years. Randy Newman composed the songs for a film that harkens back to the age of Disney where music played as much a character as the actual cast members themselves. The end result was a film that was extremely well-received by critics and easily equaled the greats of the Disney Renaissance, although it was only a modest financial success, coming out in the same year as ''[[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]]''. To add insult to injury, the critically-panned ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks (Film)|Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel]]'' beat it in the box office, as well. However, Tiana being an official [[Disney Princess]] solidified that the film would be a major money-earner through merchandise at the parks.
''The Princess and the Frog'' got three [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nominations (two for Best Song, the third for Best Animated Feature), but didn't win any of them.
Before adding examples, note that tropes pertaining to the more sensitive political issues (gender and race) have been moved to the analysis page.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: The weird psychadelic filter effect on Dr. Facilier's face as he sings ''"I hope you're satisfied"'' during his [[Villain Song]] seems to hearken back to [http://dietrichthrall.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/they_live_movie_poster1.jpg one of the posters] for ''[[They Live!]]'', a horror movie in which [[Keith David]], Dr. Faciler's voice actor, starred prominently.▼
** May or may not be intentional, but when you think about it, doesn't Dr. Facilier {{spoiler|end up as a kind of a [[Gargoyles|gargoyle]] at the end?}}
▲* [[Actor Allusion]]: The weird psychadelic filter effect on Dr. Facilier's face as he sings ''"I hope you're satisfied"'' during his [[Villain Song]] seems to hearken back to [http://dietrichthrall.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/they_live_movie_poster1.jpg one of the posters] for ''[[They Live]]'', a horror movie in which [[Keith David]], Dr. Faciler's voice actor, starred prominently.
▲** May or may not be intentional, but when you think about it, doesn't Dr. Facilier {{spoiler|end up as a kind of a [[Gargoyles|gargoyle]] at the end?}}
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Quite considerably, given how brief the original storyline is.
* [[Adipose Rex]]: Big Daddy's only king of the ''parade'', but he is also basically in charge of the town so he counts.
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* [[Art Evolution]]: The digital-ink-and-paint process for the film was done using Toon Boom Harmony software, as opposed to the now-obsolete CAPS system used by Disney from 1990 to 2004.
* [[Art Shift]]: In "Almost There", the animation switches to an Art Deco style to denote Tiana's fantasy sequence.
* [[Ascend to
* [[Aside Glance]]: Ray glances at the fourth wall when Louis over-reacts to getting a thorn stuck in his foot.
* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption]]
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* [[Bad Samaritan]]: Dr. Falacier.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: The whole plot of the movie, since Naveen and Tiana are turned into frogs.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Facilier, in a [[Gender
* [[The Barnum]]: Dr. Facilier, using his charisma to scam people and manipulate them to his own ends.
* [[Beautiful Condemned Building]]: The abandoned sugar mill that Tiana - and her father before her - wants to convert into her restaurant.
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* [[Black Best Friend]]: [[Inverted]], as Tiana is the black protagonist, and Charlotte is her white best friend.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: As could be expected, Dr. Facilier specialized in these.
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* [[Blood Magic]]: Dr. Facilier gives {{spoiler|Lawrence}} a talisman that disguises him as Naveen, but it only works with Naveen's blood fueling it.
* [[Book Ends]]: The movie begins by showing the Evening Star, then fireflies flying down from the night sky onto New Orleans. The movie ends by showing fireflies flying up from New Orleans into the night sky, {{spoiler|encircling '''two''' Evening Stars}}.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Facilier's Shadow's ability to manipulate objects in the real world, promptly countered by another one; Tiana, as a frog, has a sticky tongue.}}
* [[Chew Toy]]: Lawrence.
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You've been pushed around all of your life -
You've been pushed round by your mother, and your sister, and your brother,
And [[Yank the Dog's Chain|if you was married]] -- you'd be pushed around by your wife!"'' }}
* [[Circling Monologue]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Facilier does this to Tiana when trying to convince her to give him back the talisman that turned Naveen into a frog.}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Charlotte
** Also Mama Odie. She falls asleep mid-conversation, kisses a snake repeatedly on the mouth, and changes topics almost mid-sentence. But she also moves the plot towards resolution better than anybody else in the movie.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Dr. Facilier wears a black Baron Samedi-esque outfit while Mama Odie wears white, which is the traditional color for voodoo garb. This also fits with the way they represent shadow and light respectively.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Tiana, after the "Dig A Little Deeper" sequence, in which Mama Odie explains that you have to find out what you NEED to do, not WANT to do, and she asks Tiana if she understands. Tiana's answer: "Yes! I need to dig deeper, and work even ''harder to get my restaurant!''" [[Face Palm|Mama Odie's response is something the internet knows too well]]. She does realize the point eventually, though.
** Louis makes the exact same mistake, though he also gets the point later. It's more understandable since the song wasn't directed at him.
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* [[Creepy Doll]]: {{spoiler|As Dr. Facilier is being dragged away by his "friends", some of them take the form of voodoo and rag dolls.}}
* [[Curse Escape Clause]]: Only a kiss from a ''princess'' will release Naveen from the frog curse. This comes with two twists. {{spoiler|First, Charlotte temporarily qualifies as a princess because her father was voted king of the Mardi Gras parade. Second, after Tiana and Naveen give up on turning human and just get married as frogs, Tiana qualifies on the technicality that she's married to a prince.}}
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* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Both Tiana and Charlotte.
* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer|Dame Not Appearing In This Trailer]]: Charlotte LaBouff, at first. She did make an appearance in the last trailer, causing some people to call shenanigans due to the movie featuring a "blonde princess" as well as a black one. See Never Trust a Trailer, below.
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*** And once more, with gusto, when the Friends decide Facilier has used up all their good will - a rare example of a villain's tune being used against him.
** Likewise, "Friends on the Other Side" revisits a line from "Down in New Orleans":
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'''Friends on the Other Side:''' ''You got what you wanted/But you lost what you had!'' }}
** The melody of "Almost There" also is reprised (albeit slower) when {{spoiler|Facilier begins his [[Circling Monologue]].}}
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* [[Deadly Dodging]]: Their entire tactic for fighting the hunters. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|They win, too.]]
* [[Deadly Fireworks Display]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Facilier.}}
* [[Deal
** This is also Facilier's method of choice. It's apparent that he can't just kidnap the Prince by force, his magic will only work if he gets Naveen to make a deal with him first (although Naveen of course has no idea what he's really agreeing to).
* [[Deep-Fried Whatever]]: All of the [[Food Porn|delicious]] [[wikipedia:Beignet|beignets]] that appear through the movie.
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** But a closer look at the cards shows that the writers at least knew what the cards were supposed to mean. They even use minor arcana correctly!
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Naveen, {{spoiler|when he tries to propose to Tiana.}}
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|It is suggested that Tiana's dad died at some point between her childhood and teenage years, perhaps while fighting in [[
* [[Dish Dash]]: Tiana's waitressing skills include being able to catch and carry flying plates full of food stacked on every available extremity and her head.
** Naveen eventually picks this up too, {{spoiler|dancing around Tiana's restaurant with loaded trays}}
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* [[Disney Princess]]: Tiana.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: As revenge for being publicly embarrassed by Naveen, Lawrence agrees to {{spoiler|steal [[Grand Theft Me|Naveen's body]] and help to transfer Naveen's soul into the body of a frog.}}
* [[Does He Have a Brother?]]: Luckily for Charlotte, Naveen does have a brother. {{spoiler|He's 6 years old. But she'll wait!}}
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]/[[Foot Focus]]: Mama Odie.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Mama Odie's "Dig A Little Deeper" is modeled after a big Gospel number, probably to contrast Facilier's dark and sinister "Friends on the Other Side"
** Speaking of 'Friends On the other side'...
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** And from When We're Human:
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* [[Doing It for
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]:
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* [[Dramatic Necklace Removal]]: {{spoiler|Lawrence rips the voodoo talisman from around his neck. Facilier ties it back on later, though, and Lawrence never tries it again.}}
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Blink and you'll miss it. Naveen almost buried in gold coins during "Dig A Little Deeper" but the he turns and sees Tiana, and he drops the coin he was left holding after Mama Odie rescued him and pointed him at Tiana.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: Disney released ''The Princess and the Frog'' against
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Charlotte.
* [[Eccentric Mentor]]: Mama Odie, who says and does more than a few odds things between teachings the protagonist to 'dig a little deeper' and find what will truly make them happy.
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* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Light beats darkness. Ray's crowning moment is based on this.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: How do we know Facilier's not a nice man? It's not the outfit ''or'' the [[Living Shadow]], but his first customer on-screen. Man suffers from male pattern baldness, so Facilier hits him with a magic powder that grows a full head of hair...followed by the rest of his body.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
** [[Invoked]] in one scene with Charlotte throwing sparkles over herself.
* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: Including Lulu the potato bug/squeezebox. Also, Naveen manages to make a fully functional frog-size ukulele out of a stick and a spider web. ''Twice''.
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* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Dr. Facilier to Mama Odie.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Dr. Facilier, in grand ol' Disney tradition. His shadow has one, too!
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|As Facilier finds out when his 'friends' turn on him. As generous as they are, they expect payment in exchange for their power.}}
* [[Evil Is Stylish]]: Facilier is this all over.
** [[Evil Is Sexy]]: And according to the fangirls (and [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|some fanboys]]), he's also this.
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** {{spoiler|Dr. Facilier is the first, and so far ''only'' Disney villain to, quite literally, be [[Dragged Off to Hell]] kicking and screaming.}}
** Plus, {{spoiler|Ray being stepped on}}. Really not the kind of thing you expect in a Disney film, especially with it ultimately subverting the [[Disney Death]] trope.
* [[Fashion Dissonance]]: A couple outfits look like they raided the costumes from ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', though it should be noted that the [[Pimped-Out Dress|pimped out clothes]] we see are costumes or magically generated. Tiana's blue princess dress actually belongs to Charlotte, who was both rich and completely obsessed with being a princess from time of childhood. Charlotte gives it to Tiana after Tiana's own simple, High Middle Ages maiden costume is ruined. The characters' street clothes are a bit more accurate for the time period.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Averted with Louis. He's notably the chubbiest alligator in the film, and yet he's also one of the nicest characters in the film.
** Also true of Big Daddy. He is a man who could throw his weight around physically, influentially, and monetarily, but he seems to just be sweet, jovial, and dotes upon his daughter.
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* [[Fat Idiot]]: Both subverted and played straight with Louis. While he's shown to have a poor sense of direction (Something that Ray points out all alligators have), he is rather skilled in trumpet playing. Ya know, for an ''alligator'' who has never taken any formal music lessons.
* [[The Final Temptation]]: {{spoiler|Facilier promising Tiana her dream come true if she gives him the talisman. Way [[Better Than It Sounds]].}}
* [[Flashback Cut]]: Louis when he remembers the ''last'' time he tried to play trumpet for humans. {{spoiler|Given an [[Ironic Echo]] when he tries again, but luckily for him the band members are dressed as animals for Mardi Gras and [[For Halloween I Am Going
* [[Flechette Storm]]: "Two-Fingers", despite his [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Foil]]: Rich, spoiled, princess-wannabe, desperate-for-romance Charlotte in contrast to level-headed, workaholic Tiana who couldn't care less about marrying a prince. In a twist, Charlotte is not the [[Alpha Bitch]]; she's Tiana's best friend, and [[Spoiled Sweet|likable in her own right]].
** Also, Prince Naveen and Facilier have racked up loads of debts and are running out of time to pay...
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* [[Food Porn]]: Your mouth will be watering by the end of the breakfast-serving montage in the diner. It seems that ''everyone'', even the non-transformed animals that you would think wouldn't be accustomed to eating human food, is in love with the gumbo and beignets covered with honey and powdered sugar that Tiana makes. Tiana is indeed a [[Supreme Chef]].
* [[Foreshadowing]]: "You just wanna be free; hop from place to place. But freedom... takes green!" (As it turns out, he's not talking about money...)
* [[For Halloween I Am Going
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]: 1920s-style clothing generally did not accentuate the waist or bust like that.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Facilier curses some guy to grow hair all over his body pretty much just for his own amusement.
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* [[Gainaxing]]: Charlotte, when she readjusts her dress.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Charlotte
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Tiana, Charlotte, and Naveen are all familiar with the fairy tale in question, with the girls willing to try kissing the frog to solve the problem. Also, Facilier knows enough about a [[Deal
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Charlotte stuffing her neckline with napkins (we're supposed to believe it's to wipe off sweat since she's nervous, but...). Later, Charlotte pulling up her bust before going back to the party.
** This particular line from after Tiana and Naveen escape from gators into a tree trunk...
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** This little exchange with Mama Odie and Ray.
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'''Ray:''' She got into a little trouble for flashin' the neighbors again ''[Ray's butt lights up]'' }}
** And then this jewel:
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* puckers up, then his throat expands*
'''Naveen:''' That's new.... *suggestive grin* }}
** Hell, any time Naveen makes a comment about being a frog, really, its nearly always accompanied by a suggestive tone or grin.
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'''Naveen:''' Just one.... *perverted/suggestive tone and grin* Unless you beg for more *licks lips* }}
** When Tiana and Naveen are tied together by their tongues and Louis comes to help by {{spoiler|tying their tongues around each others' bodies}}. According to Ray's reaction, it was entirely intentional.
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* [[The Hedonist]]: Naveen.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Tiana says this about Naveen. Ray assumed so because their (long froggy) tongues were ridiculously tangled up all around them.
* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: We actually see {{spoiler|Ray give his last words and close his eyes for the last time, but then the shot pulls back and we see his firefly light flicker then finally fade out, removing any hope that this was a [[Disney Death]].}}▼
* [[Hell Gate]]: The giant mask Dr. Facilier summons during his [[Villain Song]] and later {{spoiler|he gets dragged through it by the Shadow Demons when Tiana breaks their talisman.}}
* [[Here We Go Again]]: Ray [[Medium Awareness|attempting to restart "Dig a Little Deeper"]] (but immediately averted).
* [[Heroic Dimples]]: Tiana, who was the first Disney Princess in the Animated Canon to have them.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Ray singlehandedly fights off Facilier's shadow minions so Tiana can escape with the blood talisman, only to have his triumph cut short by Facilier ''stepping on him''. He at least lives long enough to see Naveen and Tiana together and gets a great reward for his sacrifice.}}
* [[Hidden Depths]]: While deliciously suave, Facilier seems like a standard Disney villain until {{spoiler|it turns out his actions are him trying to pay back the Friends On The Other Side so they don't do something horrible to him. Doesn't make him much more sympathetic, but definitely more complex and relatable.}}
▲* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: We actually see {{spoiler|Ray give his last words and close his eyes for the last time, but then the shot pulls back and we see his firefly light flicker then finally fade out, removing any hope that this was a [[Disney Death]].}}
:Facilier was apparently supposed to be a Creole, and hence an ethnic minority to boot. Free African Americans and Creoles of mixed ancestry would have been lumped in under Jim Crow laws after the Civil War. The ''LaBouff'' family were probably Creole too, but would have been considered "French" and white. Facilier also had economic motives as well as racial ones. New Orleans is run by a capitalist white patriarch, and {{spoiler|by turning everyone into just souls for his "Friends" to collect}}, he's equalizing everyone--no more class system. The undertones are clear because he teams up with Lawrence, who is obviously unhappy with his role as a servant and would like to move farther up the totem pole.
** Naveen also seems like a smarmy, cheesy "no-account, good for nothing" as Tiana calls him, but he displays resourcefulness, adaptability, scientific knowledge, and multilingual knowledge, plus a willingness to learn. To say nothing of his musical talents, which mainly enhanced his image as a himbo. Combine this with the fact that a lot of his behavior is used as a mask to hide deep insecurities about literally not knowing how to do ''anything'' for himself due to his parents spoiling him most of his life and then kicking him out and he almost goes straight into [[The Woobie|Woobie territory]]
** Charlotte, {{spoiler|despite her lifelong dream, takes about a second to decide to kiss Naveen with no strings attached for Tiana's sake. She may be [[The Ditz]], but she doesn't even have to ''think'' before sacrificing for her friend. Not only that but, when the kiss doesn't work, she seems genuinely upset and repeatedly tries to make it work.}}
*** Also a Character Establishing moment. It would not have been unthinkable at that point for her to have reamed out Tiana, and demanded more of her "man-catching beignets", but being a true friend, promptly took her leave, helped Tiana get herself cleaned up, and loaned her one of her dresses. She may be spoiled, and not exactly deep, but she knows what's truly important to her.
** Ray appears at first to be a stereotypical hillbilly-type. He actually turns out to be one of the most insightful, caring, and helpful people in the group. He's also competent, which goes a long way when the first two things he does are untying Naveen and Tiana (after Louis's well-meaning attempt made things much worse), and pointing out that [[No Sense of Direction|Louis had been leading them in the wrong direction]]. The rest of his family (who also appear to be hillbilly-ish as well) are just as helpful for the brief amount of time they do show up, helping the group find the way to Mama Odie's home.
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: Well, that is already explained above, at [[Did Not Do the Research]]. But Disney did a better job than usual, by even mentioning Hoodoo
:They also give themselves a bit of an [[Author's Saving Throw|escape hatch]] in the next line--"I've got things I ain't even tried." Facilier isn't stuck on any one tradition, he'll work with anything and anyone that can give him power.
** It's a step in the right direction that Disney also made a 'good' Voodoo priestess [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|dressed in the traditional white]], since Voodoo is usually seen as only something evil in Hollywood Voodoo.
** Facilier makes use of Voodoo dolls, usually the only known object in Voodoo. But the use of this object is only used in Louisiana Voodoo. So that is again a thumbs-up for Disney. But they do exaggerate it a bit.
** They also intentionally tried to avoid using ''actual'' religious symbols because they didn't want to offend anyone who actually practiced Voudou in real life.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Naveen has no reservations about following a shady guy with a skull on his hat down a dark alley, and when the floating voodoo masks start singing and the shadows start moving things around, he's still obliviously enjoying the show with a big goofy grin on his face.
** This is [[Lampshaded]] a bit when Tiana comments about Naveen "messing with the Shadow Man", for which he responds, "He was very charismatic!"
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* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Ray.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:
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* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me|I Can't Believe Someone Like You Would Notice Me!]]: {{spoiler|Ray and Evangeline}}. He says it in "Ma Belle Evangeline" and it is proven true {{spoiler|after his death when he appears beside her in the sky as another star.}}
* [[I Can't Dance]]: Tiana, but she learns pretty quickly, especially considering she is a frog at the time.
* [[I Can't Hear You]]: Ray and Naveen on the Mardi Gras float.
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'''Ray:''' ''I can't hear you! I'mma get you outta this box!'' }}
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Tiana, you ''saw'' there was a fake, human-looking Naveen early on, and the person you saw him with? Charlotte! Sooo....why are you so easily believing that he's the real Naveen now?
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* [[Instant Fanclub]]: The squealing girls who briefly follow Naveen around upon his arrival in New Orleans.
* [[Instant Leech Just Fall in Water]]: Naveen gets one on his elbow after landing in the swamp as a frog.
* [[Interacting
* [[Inter Class Romance]]: Naveen is rich (but cut off) and Tiana is poor.
* [[In the Blood]]: Tiana apparently inherited her passion for cooking from her father, who passed his skills onto her when she was little.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: Done twice in quick succession; arguably, the former example...
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...is significantly less dark than the latter...
'''Friends from the Other Side:''' ARE YOU READY? }}
* [[Ironic Nickname]]: The Friends on the Other Side are most certainly ''not'' your friends. {{spoiler|That includes you, Facilier.}}
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]:
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'''Naveen:''' ...Actually, it was polished marble. }}
* [[It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans]]: Of course it is. Justified in that Naveen's visit instigates the plot, and it would make sense that he'd choose to travel there in time for the festivities. Also, the Mardi Gras king is a plot point.
* [[It Was
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Tiana isn't almost there until she pops one out, at least according to her mother.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|Right before Naveen proposes to Tiana, it occurs to him that she will never be able to afford her restaurant unless he keeps his promise to marry Charlotte and reward Tiana for helping him when he's rich again. He unselfishly abandons the sincere proposal and resigns himself to his fate.}}
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* [["I Want" Song]]: "When We're Human", "Ma Belle Evangeline", and "Almost There", although the latter is more of a "I've Just About Got It" song.
* [[Jackass Genie]]: Dr. Facilier, naturally. Especially since Naveen never actually made a wish. He went in to get his fortune told, Facilier knew he was looking for money, i.e. 'The Green', and, when the deal was sealed by a shake of hands, promptly gave Naveen his OWN interpretation! Lawrence also did not get quite what he expected; Facilier told him he'd "be the man he always wanted to be", but he probably didn't realize that would mean literally becoming the Prince.
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** And then his "friends" chime in, just to twist the knife:
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* [[Jail Bait Wait]]: At the end of the movie {{spoiler|this is what Charlotte (possibly jokingly) plans to do with Naveen's 6-year old brother}}. (Considering she also {{spoiler|is the first to catch Tiana's thrown bouquet, it's very likely a joke.}}
* [[The Jeeves]]: {{spoiler|Though equipped with a British accent and clearly more level-headed than his master, Prince Naveen's pompous valet, Lawrence subverts this. It's made obvious from day one that he completely envies and resents the young prince.}}
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Facilier is a bit prone to this, but the least subtle is when {{spoiler|he kills Ray}}, dammit.
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Naveen.
* [[A Lady
** Then again, as he was singing this, while there was one "brunette" butterfly and one "redhead" butterfly, there were way more blondes. He probably likes them just fine.
** Although in French, to hold a candle is an idiom for being a third wheel (like when you're hanging out with two people who are on a date with each other). [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Oblique reference to a threesome?]]
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* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: Facilier explains to Lawrence that he can't use his voodoo magic on himself {{spoiler|and needs him to pull off their identity theft scheme.}} Which is probably why Mama Odie is noticeably more powerful than Facilier (she uses her magic to help others, rather than herself, so she naturally has more of it), zapping the shadow creatures away effortlessly while Facilier has to rely on his friends on the other side to do most of the magic, and when they turn on him, he's as powerless as any mortal man.
* [[Magical Incantation]]: Mama Odie's is...different.
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* [[Magic Pants]]: Surprisingly averted; Tiana's dress visibly doesn't transform with her. Though, {{spoiler|when she changes back, the movie pulls [[The Little Mermaid|a King Triton]] by having her magically clad in lily pad clothing, and Naveen gets a lily pad-like suit upon turning human as well. While it would made for really funny anecdotes, Mama Odie wouldn't actually let them transform without clothes.}}
** {{spoiler|Plus it's a standard opportunity for a Disney [[Pimped-Out Dress]]. Like they would pass that up.}}
* [[Make a Wish]]: Like [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|some other Disney flicks]], it focuses on wishing on a star; unlike other Disney flicks, it explicitly states that you have to work hard to get what you want, too, and it's left ambiguous as to whether wishing on a star really make wishes come true, or if it's just a coincidence. {{spoiler|Well, it is until the end; after Ray becomes a star, you get the impression Evangeline the wishing star is actually ''pretty'' powerful.}}
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|It's pretty clear that the Friends on the Other Side are the ''real'' power behind Facilier.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|Facilier himself clearly plans on being this once Lawrence marries Charlotte and takes over Big Daddy's role as head of the city's most influential family.}}
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** "La Bouffe" in French means "The Grub" as in "food". Appropriate for the [[Big Eater]] father...
** Ray also, to an extent, as in "ray of light", reflecting his optimistic attitude. And how he {{spoiler|attacks Dr. Facilier's friends.}}
** Also "Evangeline", since it's the name of a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about a woman looking for her lost love. It's also the name of a parish in Louisiana
::Specifically, "Evangeline" is meaningful in that the Longfellow poem is about an Acadian woman looking for her lost husband after they were separated in the ethnic cleansing of Acadians from their homeland that started in 1755. Some Acadians migrated to Louisiana after this and over time became known as Cajuns. Of course, Ray is a Cajun firefly, so the name of his true love is ethnically significant.
** And let's not forget the very-briefly-seen character Beau...a moth who functions as a bow-tie.
*** Also the slang used for Voodoo and other practices or being involved in them is usually described as getting/being in some "Bad Juju".
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** A better example occurs during/after the "Ma Belle Evangeline" sequence. We have a beautiful, slow, romantic song while our two protagonists dance together...and then {{spoiler|Naveen gets snatched away by the shadow demons and is dragged away screaming while the others try to save him.}}
** A short example just before the BLAM, combined with a great use of a [[Beat]] and a scene cut.
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* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: '''Dr.''' Facilier is a '''witch''' [[Stealth Pun|doctor]].
* [[Morally-Bankrupt Banker]]: Two of them.
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** And Facilier. [[Evil Is Sexy]], after all.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Charlotte.
* [[Multi
* [[My Card]]: Facilier to Naveen.
* [[My Instincts Are Showing]]: While Naveen attempts to satisfy his Frog Form's taste for insects when he gets hungry, when Tiana tries to resist her own tongue rebels against her.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Louis is pretty obviously named after Louis Armstrong, and this is even [[Lampshaded]] when he mentions him first and foremost among the people he wants to surpass in the world of trumpet playing.
* [[Name's the Same]]: This Tiana isn't the only [[Spell My Name
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Facilier is more commonly known as "the Shadow Man".
* [[Never a Self-Made Woman]]: Weirdly narrative example: it's obvious to the ''viewer'' that Tiana gets her dreams through her own hard work, sacrifice, and perseverance, but every character who knows about Tiana's father attributes her success to his influence. At least one reference to Tiana's father being the source of her hard-working nature is made in every song she participates in, and in the end, she has to realize that {{spoiler|her father wasn't ''just'' a hard worker, he was a family man too}} in order to learn her personal lesson.
* [[Never Recycle a Building]]: Tiana's father sets his sights on an abandoned mill as the place to set up the restaurant he dreams of starting. Not only was the mill empty for some time before he announces this, it remains empty for another ten years or so, while Tiana grows up and saves the money so she can buy the mill for the same purpose after her father dies. One of the things that kicks off the plot is that as soon as she tells the men selling the mill that she's able to afford it, she's informed that someone else just happened to outbid her on it. Given the warehouse's long-abandoned state and that the sellers are jerks, [[Fanon]] has taken to the notion that Tiana was simply lied to about the competition.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted. Tiana's mother mentions that Tiana's father died before he could see his dream of owning a restaurant come true. And of course there's {{spoiler|the onscreen death.}}
** In other words, [[Running Gag|perfect Disney Tradition]].
* [[Never Trust a Hair Tonic]]: Some hair-voodoo worked by Dr. Facilier initially grants a man a full head of hair, but it quickly spreads to the rest of his body.
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** Overall, Disney did an excellent job making this movie look like something it ''isn't'' in the TV spots, putting emphasis on butt jokes, fart jokes, and Louis and Ray at their goofiest.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Dr. Facilier sports a ''very'' nice hat indeed.
* [[Nice to
* [[Noble Demon]]: The Friends on the Other Side were generous with Dr. Facilier. However, they decide to take his soul when he fails to repay his enormous debt.
* [[No Except Yes]]:
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* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Mama Odie's pet snake Juju.
** and in [[Running Gag|Disney tradition]], Tiana and Naveen get Louis and Ray.
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* [[Noodle People]]: Facilier definitely fits.
* [[No Self-Buffs]]: The Shadow Man's magic won't work on himself. He even gives us the page quote:
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* [[No Sense of Direction]]: Louis
** To be fair, though, he was distracted by the geography...a-and the topography, and the choreography!
* [[No Sympathy]]: Averted - Charlotte shows real concern when Tiana accidentally falls into a table full of "man-catching" beignets, taking Tiana upstairs to fix her makeup and change out of her messy costume. Charlotte doesn't even expect Tiana to make more beignets to replace what she ruined. All of this is on top of the fact that she had been busy chatting up the prince when it happened and left him without a second thought; [[Spoiled Sweet]] indeed!
* [[Not So Different]]: Implied through [[Subtext]] when Facilier persuades Lawrence to be his accomplice.
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** His voice must be heard to really appreciate the undercurrent of rage as he says this.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: When Tiana and Naveen accidentally get their frog tongues tangled up around them while trying to catch food, Ray assumes they got carried away doing something else.
* [[The Noun and
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Tall, freakishly thin, likes skulls and crossbones, ''has a shadow that moves independently of the one casting it''...
* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Facilier, when his "friends" show up to demand payment... after their talisman gets broken. The way they surround him makes it ''very'' clear what the price they demand is, and it isn't long before they get it.}}
** You just ''know'' you're in trouble when your [[Villain Song]] gets a [[Dark Reprise]]. Just take a look at {{spoiler|Facilier's}} face at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zby1aPIl3Qs&feature=related the 24-second mark]. {{spoiler|Even though he was going to offer the city as a buffet to his "friends", you still feel pity for what's about to happen.}}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Mama Odie has about 15 minutes of screen time, but steals the show when she first appears.
* [[Only Known
* [[Opera Gloves]]
* [[Orbital Kiss]]
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* [[Pale Females, Dark Males]]: Despite Tiana having a darker skin tone than Naveen, her frog form is lighter than Naveen's.
* [[Parental Bonus]]: So much so, yet another Classic Disney Tradition!
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* [[Picture-Perfect Presentation]]: The "Down in New Orleans" number introducing the main characters has several, newspaper photographs turning from black and white to color and coming to life.
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* [[The Power of Blood]]: See [[Blood Magic]].
* [[Pretty Freeloader]]: Best summed up in a line that was understandably cut from the film:
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* [[Product Placement]]: Both in the animation, and given a line. But [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that we are talking about Louisiana hot sauce for gumbo.
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* [[Properly Paranoid]]: {{spoiler|Facilier knows damn well what happens if you make a [[Deal
** When {{spoiler|Tiana ''does'' destroy the talisman}}, we get to see that Facilier had some damn good reasons to be so protective of it.
* [[Purple Eyes]]: Dr. Facilier. They match his belly shirt.
* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: Lawrence calling Dr. Facilier a charlatan turns the first few lyrics of his [[Villain Song]] into this.
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* [[Really Gets Around]]: ''Strongly'' implied for Naveen, as strong as one can imply in a G-rated movie. He even says at one point that he has dated ''thousands'' of women. [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|Unfortunately,]] it's when he's trying to {{spoiler|propose to Tiana.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Really Dead Montage]]}}: {{spoiler|Ray gets a funeral fit for a firefly king.}}
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* [[Refrain From Assuming]]: Without looking at the soundtrack listing, it's easy to assume that "Gonna Take You There" is actually called "Going Down the Bayou".
* [[Reluctant Monster]]/[[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Tiana and Naveen befriend Louis, a friendly alligator who only wants to play jazz on his trumpet alongside humans and ''not'' eat frogs like other swamp alligators.
* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]: The film is clearly an attempt to make a film with the style and quality of writing and music of the mid 90's Disney. They even brought back writers and producers from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' and other such films.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Averted with Louis, a fat trumpet-playing alligator who provides comic relief in the film, and Mama Odie's seeing-eye snake JuJu, the first time a snake had a protagonist role in a Disney film. But played straight when two evil snakes are used to bind Naveen in place while Dr. Facilier's talisman takes his blood and the gang of alligators that try to eat Naveen and Tiana.
* [[Rhyming
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Charlotte is a refreshing subversion. Though she had a privileged and spoiled upbringing, she's actually a nice person. See [[Spoiled Sweet]] below.
* [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]]: Subverted. Naveen is pretty resourceful for a guy who's been turned into a frog. But the ''idea'' behind the trope is why his parents cut him off from the family fortune. Charlotte plays it straighter. Two big fistfulls of money is what a catering job costs, right?
* [[Road Trip Romance]]: The traditional gender role are reversed, with Tiana having the experience and skills to guide on the journey, while the Naveen more or less tags along. The end result is the same. Disney used this plot again in [[Tangled
* [[The Roaring Twenties]]: According to the newspaper Big Daddy reads during "Down in New Orleans", it's 1926. The date is a left ambiguous: the front of his newspaper says "Friday, April 25, 1926" (actually a Sunday), the back says "Friday, July 16, 1926", and ''none'' of the real events the headlines are referring to (including Mardi Gras) actually took place on either of those dates.
** On the bus, Tiana is reading the April issue of a magazine, indicating that it is, in fact, April. But it could be an old one, of course.
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* [[Scary Black Man]]: Averted. Dr. Facilier's menace does not come from him being ''physically'' imposing...but don't think, even for a minute, that he ''isn't'' menacing.
* [[The Scottish Trope]]: The animators clearly did some research on Vodou imagery, but refused to use [[wikipedia:Veve|actual symbols]] for Dr. Facilier's [[Instant Runes]], and instead used fake ones that kept the style.
* [[Sealed
* [[Senior Sleep Cycle]]: Mama Odie falls asleep in the middle of talking with Naveen and Tiana.
* [[Setting-Off Song]]: "Gonna Take You There."
* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]: Played with, and [[Played for Laughs]]. It looks like Big Daddy is going to give Little Charlotte a stern talking to because she's so spoiled, but then he produces {{spoiler|a puppy out of nowhere!}}
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Charlotte.
* [[Shipper
** {{spoiler|And eventually Louis and Ray have become Team [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Tianaveen]]. Mama Odie doesn't take long to join in. Charlotte wanted to marry a prince for more than half of her life, and even she thought Naveen should marry Tiana. It's easier to list by the end of the movie who ''isn't'' [[Everyone Can See It|shipping those two]].}}
** Of course, Dr. Facilier's pushes for the (disturbing) Lawrence/Charlotte ship, going so far as to bet his {{spoiler|talisman and soul}} on it.
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** Mama Odie seems completely senile at first, but she's very wise and clever - she just went a little strange from all the voodoo.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Dr. Facilier.
* [[Soul Jar]]: Dr. Facilier's amulet, though probably not granting him immortality, as in the traditional definition of this trope, still fits since he appears to have sold his own soul to the Friends on the Other Side for the source of his powers. {{spoiler|You break it, you bought it!}}
:That's a legitimate Voodoo fetish. A skilled bokor (witch for hire) can trap souls in a ouanga (spirit talisman) to fuel his own magic. However, he can only hold onto the spirits for so long, because all souls belong to Bondye (the one true God) and have to go back to him. It's still considered dark magic because you're interfering with them going to the afterlife.
* [[Southern Belle]]: Charlotte.
* [[The Southpaw]]: Tiana is meant to be left-handed, as a [[Shout-Out]] to her voice actress, Anika Noni Rose. (Close viewing, however, reveals that she's more ambidextrous than anything else).
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*** Especially since he promotes this attitude to others. The title "Doctor" is descended from a medieval title denoting a license to teach. Dr. Facilier doesn't just take the easy way, he tries to teach everyone else to take it too.
** Tiana's name is one letter away from Tiara. [[Meaningful Name|Hmm...]] Her name also literally means "Princess".
** The realtors shared the joint costume of a donkey. The ye olden term for donkey is 'Jack ass', as seen in [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|the second film the studio made]]. [[Jerkass|Guess how they treat our heroine. Go ahead, guess]]. Bonus points because the one in the head tried to break the news to her gently the hind one interrupted and put it bluntly.
** Louis is a jazz playing alligator. "Gator" was a slang term for jazzman in the 20s. To be more specific, Louis is a ''trumpet'' playing Gator, combine that with "gator" being a slang term for a Jazzman and you get a multi-layer reference to [[Louis Armstrong]]. These are ''far'' from the only similarities the two share.
** A throwaway line at the masquerade party was Big Daddy calling one of the party goers "senator". Said party goer was in a devil costume.
* [[Suggested By]]: The film in relation to the source novel.
* [[Supernatural Is Purple]]: Purple is used repeatedly to represent Facilier, because of the Mardi Gras colors, it's the most "unnatural." Mama Odie, however, is associated with gold.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Tiana, of course.
* [[Survival Mantra]]: Just before she kisses Naveen, Tiana keeps telling herself "Okay, Tiana, you can do this, you can do this, its just a little kiss, a little kiss..."
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]
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* [[Sweet and Sour Grapes]]: The plot.
* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: The fireflies.
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* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|The "Friends On the Other Side". Arguably justified in that, once they got what they wanted (Facilier's soul), they had no more reason to harass the heroes.}}
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Two-Fingers, one of the frog-hunting rednecks, speaks with mumbles and grunts. Darnell and Pa have no trouble understanding him, though. In some scenes, he's only speaking very quietly rather than unintelligibly.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Facilier, after the talisman is destroyed. Seeing as his Friends On The Other Side are [[You Have Failed Me...|about to kill him in a terrifying manner]], it's very understandable.}}
* Unfunny: Tiana, occasionally. Her status as such is actually something of a plot point - in the end it's not because she doesn't have a sense of humor or fun, it's because she's filed away that sort of thing in order to focus on her ambitions.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: When Naveen crashes the Mardi Gras wedding, Charlotte exclaims, "Cheese and crackers!"
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* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Pardon the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pun]], but {{spoiler|Facilier's "friends" from the other side promptly take his soul once he defaults on his loan.}}
* [[With This Ring]]: {{spoiler|Naveen, on realizing he's fallen in love with Tiana, fashions a ring for her out of champagne cork wire and a Mardi Gras bead.}}
* [[What Happened to
* [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]: Rare example of midnight being correctly signaled by the ''start'' of the clock's strokes rather than the end.
* [[White Mask of Doom]]: Voodoo witch doctor Dr. Facilier.
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Guns?]]: Ever since his bad... ''experience'' on a river boat, Louis freaks out whenever he sees a gun.
** Also Why Did It Have To Be Frogs. Tiana is afraid of frogs, making it very awkward that she has to kiss one and then ''be'' one.
* [[You Go, Girl!]]: Basically the plot of the movie outside the [[Baleful Polymorph]] conflict.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: {{spoiler|A plausible alternate explanation for Dr. Facilier's final fate. With the talisman broken, the plan he'd sold his "Friends on the other side" on, promising them the wayward souls of New Orleans, was now impossible. He tried to tell them it was a "minor setback (to a major operation)" and they were... [[Fate Worse Than Death|unimpressed]].}}
* [[You Need a Breath Mint]]: Ray complains of Louis' breath while the latter is trying to revive him from having nearly drowned.
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* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Ray bravely pulls this on the shadow demons. {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|He fails, though only against an opponent he cannot easily melt]].}}
* [[Your Makeup Is Running]]: Charlotte towards the end.
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