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While no blockbuster, it did spawn two sequels: ''The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain'' (1997) and ''The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom'' (1998). The first pits them against Rothbart's old partner Clavius, the second against his mentor Zelda, and poor Odette keeps getting turned into a swan and back again the whole way.

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* [[All Animation Is Disney]]: Then again, Richard Rich did direct the Disney films ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' and ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]'', and the movie draws heavily on the "Disney Renaissance" style.

* [[Alternate Animal Affection]]: Lt. Puffin has no problems kissing the back of Odette's hand in a very humanlike manner.

* [[Award Bait Song]]: "Far Longer Than Forever" and "Eternity" (latter is over the end credits only).

** The third film also had "Because I Love Her".

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Oddly, given that part of the film's moral is "Looks aren't all that matters", the bad guys are ugly and the good guys pretty (though the hag does a [[Heel Face Turn]] at the end which extends to the sequels, thus proving the moral right).

* [[Big No]]: Odette has one when Derek professes his love to the disguised hag.

* [["Falling in Love" Montage]]: In the third movie, while Derek is singing "Because I Love Her", it shows clips from the first movie. Though for some reason they chose some decidedly ''un''romantic clips for this love song, such as Odette dying, and Derek hunting down and murdering the [[Big Bad]] in an action sequence.

* [[Final Love Duet]]: "Far Longer Than Forever", the reprise (though it's not sung on-screen).

** Specifically, the choreography for [[Villain Song|"No More Mr. Nice Guy"]] is... ''suspiciously'' similar to Aladdin's "Friend Like Me".

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Young Derek gives baby Odette a locket with a swan on it and when they grow into young adults, he tells her she's as beautiful as a swan. Later in the movie, she's cursed to become a swan each time the moon sets.

* [[Non-Singing Voice]]: Odette in the first movie, Jean-Bob and Rothbart.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: You'd think that Derek would notice {{spoiler|Bridget's disguise}}, considering he's known Odette his whole life to dress in white, whereas {{spoiler|Bridget}} is wearing an [[Obviously Evil]] red/black outfit.

*** And is played by the same ballerina who is cast as Odette.

* [[Off-Model]]: In the third movie, Odette is constantly switching back and forth between wearing a white and green tight dress, a white and green puffy sleeved dress, and a blue palette swap of the latter, all within the same scenes.

* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: Somewhat [[Subverted]] in that the only two we seeing playing are Derek and Bromley, the former, while not stupid, is not the sharpest sword in the armory, and the latter loses ''while cheating''.

* [[Species Surname]]: Lieutenant Puffin. The almost-certainly-not-canon-but-still-extant bonus features on the most recent DVD claim that his parents were [[Animal Jingoism|so proud of being puffins,]] they simply named him "Puffin."

** Every closeup of Derek and Odette kissing looks exactly the same, except for some changes in the background and/or costumes. This doubles as an [[Every Episode Ending]].

** Odette often changes from a swan into a human through stock footage.

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