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{{quote|''There were nights when the winds of the Etherium, so inviting in their promise of flight and freedom, made one's spirit soar.''}}

Robert Louis Stevenson's ''[[Treasure Island]]'' - [[Recycled in Space|IN SPAAAAACE!!!!!]]

With great gusto at that, containing: [[Space Is an Ocean|Space-sailing]] ships, [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|aliens, robots, cyborgs]] and [[Space Pirates]]. Telling: one boy's search for the treasure of the evil pirate Flint, the Loot of a Thousand Worlds. Starring: The human [[Audience Surrogate|Jim Hawkins]], the spry cat-lady [[The Captain|Captain Amelia]], a bookish dog-like alien named [[The Professor|Dr. Delbert]] [[Alliteration|Doppler]], the [[Anti-Villain|fiendish]] [[Lovable Rogue|cyborg]] [[Parental Substitute|Silver]], and a [[Empathy Pet|metamorphosing]] pink blob named [[Pirate Parrot|Morph]] in a [[Steampunk]] alternate [[Planet of Hats|pirate universe]].

This [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney film]] was released in an overcrowded market--right on the heels of the second ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' Film. For that matter, it opened less than a week ''after'' ''[[Die Another Day]]'' arrived in theaters. It may also have suffered due to the Disney Marketing Department's decision to advertise it primarily during [[Animation Age Ghetto|time slots occupied by kids' shows]], when its premise and content are more suitable for older audiences. Also notable for an [[Pyrrhic Victory|extreme]] case of [[Dueling Movies]], in its race with the similar film ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' to be released.

Whatever the reason, many fans blame this film for rudely ending Disney's confidence in hand-drawn animation for features, and which is what started the decline in their production of such films, closing their studios [[The Princess and the Frog|until 2009]]. Today, it's become a [[Vindicated by Cable|Cult Film]] thanks to its intricate blend of CGI and traditional animation.

An important point of the design of absolutely everything, was that the universe had a 70/30 ratio of the blend between Victorian-era style, and its technological capacities. In places where the two might have clashed, [[Cyberpunk]] and [[Steampunk]] technology were used to merge them together. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the designs of the ships themselves, and the design of John Silver.

It portrays a father-son bond between the two main characters and some amazingly choreographed action sequences. According to [[Word of God]], this film was made to be Disney's big film for "single parent, Generation X" kids, as reflected in the [[Parental Abandonment|darker family subtext]]. While it performed well with critics, the film flopped and flopped ''hard'' financially. As said previously, though, the film has gained a new lease on life thanks to DVD and television. Who knows? Maybe this film could someday replicate the eventual [[Vindicated by History|success]] ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' enjoys now.

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* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: Mr. Turnbuckle.
* [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]: Subverted, see [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] below.
* [[Action Girl]]: Captain Amelia, combining it with [[Lady of War]] and [[Hot Amazon]].
* [[Adorkable]]: Dr. Doppler, even [[The Captain]] thinks so.
* [[All for Nothing]]: After Scroop {{spoiler|is delivered his [[Karmic Death|karmic]] [[Disney Villain Death]]}}, there isn't much point to disabling the laser cannons.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: A good chunk of exposition is provided by the art book, "A Voyage of Discovery"; who built Treasure Planet, how Flint got B.E.N, Silver's early life, why Leland Hawkins left his family; very useful information and leaves just enough to the imagination to write a prequel fanfic. (Then again, that last part may not be a good thing.)
* [[Ambiguously Human]]: Silver looks human at first glance but his nails are pointed like claws, his ear is pointy and his face and chest are a continuous light tone rather than his actual hair colour (brown). He looks more like a literal shaven bear, which may actually be true.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Jim, as far as [[Disney Animated Canon]] will allow it. Post-[[Time Skip]], he's constantly running afoul of the law. His mother tells Doppler outright that the solar sailor sequence was a violation of his [[Noodle Incident|parole]], he is failing all of his classes, and he is starting to become more withdrawn.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: John Silver. He's ''supposed'' to be the main antagonist, and he remains so for any part of the film where Scroop doesn't show up, but it turns out he's even better at being a father figure to Jim.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Oddly played straight in a world where, among other things, people can breathe in space. Perhaps ''too'' straight, as {{spoiler|it needs to be engaged even when the ship is close enough to the surface of Treasure Planet to be seen from it}}. And people start getting [[Gravity Sucks|actively sucked into space]] if it's off, even if the ship is rising.
* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: "Does an active galactic nucleus have superluminal jets?" No, Dr. Doppler. While they ''are'' relativistic, the particles do not exceed the speed of light. Being such a self-styled genius, he really ought to know better. Though, considering Doppler is also something of a [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]], this may have been [[Genius Bonus|intentional]].
** One can not quite underline enough how inaccurately the film portrayed Supernovas.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Scroop. To a ridiculous extreme.
* [[Babies Ever After]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Doppler and Captain Amelia, and their children. In both trope and number, the babies are a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Lady and the Tramp]] pups.}}
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Both Morph and B.E.N. have their moments.
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: But, really, how do characters in space suits convey a father-and-son relationship so perfectly?
* [[Belly Mouth]]: A feature of one crew member. What appeared to be his head was actually another chap sitting on his shoulders, with dreadlocks-like legs.
* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The [[Cryptic Conversation|centroid of the mechanism]].
* [[Big Dumb Object]]: {{spoiler|Treasure Planet.}}
* [[Book Ends]]: Jim riding his homemade solar surfer and being brought to the Benbow Inn by the police.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Jim Hawkins, according to his mother in an overheard conversation.
{{quote|"... And you know how smart he is. He built his first solar surfer when he was eight! And yet he's failing in school..."}}
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: [[Justified]], since BEN's eyes are light-up displays.
* [[Catgirl]]: Captain Amelia, though she's much more stoic than the average cat girl and doesn't have a tail either.
* [[Chance Activation]]: After the Benbow Inn has been burnt down and the Hawkinses are staying with [[The Smart Guy|Dr. Doppler]], the good doctor is explaining that he has no clue of function of the [[Plot Device|"odd little sphere"]] which Jim now possesses. Cue Jim fiddling around with the sphere and unlocking it, thereby discovering its function: {{spoiler|a map containing the location of the legendary Treasure Planet.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The artificial gravity.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|Morph. He's a shapeshifter. The moment he and the map-ball are in the same close-up practically SCREAMS "Before the movie's over, I'm gonna morph into this ball".}}
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Solar surfing, and this quote:
{{quote|''And you know how smart he is. He built his first solar surfer when he was eight!}}
* [[Click. "Hello."]]: Dr. Doppler does this to a pirate after being captured.
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Captain Amelia dons a thigh-high pair of these as part of her outfit.
* [[Composite Character]]: [[Alliterative Name|Doctor Delbert Doppler]] fulfills the roles of both Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: The ships, the zoom-in on the spaceport, and the gratuitously CG'd [[Space Whale|space whales]]. Averted with Silver's cyborg parts and BEN, which were both CG'd, but the only clue is that nobody would ''want'' to draw all that by hand.
* [[Cool Starship]]: The RLS Legacy.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: John Musker and Ron Clements appear giving Jim and Doppler directions during the scene at the spaceport.
* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: B.E.N.'s patchwork memory about the planet.
* [[Cyberpunk]]/[[Steampunk]]: A nice blend, with designs for the costumes, machinery, and ships that look distinctly [[Steampunk]] in origin mixed with power, concepts, and designs from [[Cyberpunk]].
* [[Death Glare]]: A very nicely done one from Jim to B.E.N.
{{quote|'''Jim Hawkins:''' If I'm not back in five minutes, leave without me.
'''Ben:''' I am not leaving my buddy Jimmy!
''(Death Glare)''
'''Ben:''' ... [[Verbal Backspace|Unless he looks at me like that.]] Bye Jim! }}
** [http://dolphy.shadowwalkers.net/DVD-Screenshots/BEN/Ben19.jpg Two,]{{Dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160307075526/http://dolphy.shadowwalkers.net/dvd-screenshots/thetreasure/thetreasure20.jpg actually.] Not surprising, considering [http://dolphy.shadowwalkers.net/DVD-Screenshots/TheWarning/TheWarning17.jpg where he gets it.]{{Dead link}}
** Also, Captain Amelia gives Doctor Doppler a quick one before turning around then grabbing his jaw to stop him from babbling.
** Silver himself gives a non comedic example to Jim. If not for a convenient explosion, he probably would have done more than just glare.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: [[World of Snark|Pretty much everyone]] aboard the ''R.L.S. Legacy''. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in Dr. Doppler's case, considering who his [[David Hyde Pierce|voice actor is.]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Captain Amelia.
* [[Desert Island]]: B.E.N. is marooned on Treasure Planet.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|Jim's father Leland Hawkins, for reasons that will never be known, decided to walk out on his family, making him one of the few--if only--parents in the Disney Animated Canon to abandon his family rather than die.}}
* [[Distant Prologue]]: The opening sequence takes place 12 years before the story's main events.
* [[Disney Death]]: Averted with {{spoiler|Mr. Arrow}}, which wouldn't be such a big deal if [[Muppet Treasure Island|a different Disney-affiliated Treasure Island adaptation]] hadn't played it straight.
* [[Disney Dog Fight]]
* [[Disneyfication]]: Silver isn't anything like as nice in the original book. And Billy Bones was a most unwelcome guest at the Benbow, staying several months before he died. And Mr Arrow was a drunk.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: In this case, a villain falls ''up''. So, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Inverted Trope]]?
** When [[Fridge Horror]] kicks in, one realises that Scroop won't die from falling upwards. Since in this universe space is filled with air Scroop won't suffocate, instead he will drift in the interplanetary emptiness until he dies of starvation of dehydration.
* [[Dogfaces]]: Doppler.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: One of the most destructive cases ever, against ''[[Titan A.E.]]''. Both films had ''very'' similar plots, both films raced to be released first, and both went down to defeat at the box office, causing a financial collapse in traditional [[Western Animation]] for the ensuing decade.
* [[Emo Teen]]: Jim is pretty down in the beginning.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]/[[When Things Spin, Science Happens]]: The map, and the core of Treasure Planet.
* [[Exactly What I Aimed At]]: Even Dr. Doppler seems surprised that this is the case.
* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: The eyes of one particular alien pirate ([[All There in the Manual|according to the artbook]], his name is Mackriki) are ''in his throat''.
* [[Face Heel Revolving Door]]: {{spoiler|Long John Silver.}}
* [[Face Palm]]: No less than three:
** A Double Facepalm when Jim and Silver give up protesting about having to work together.
** Doppler's [[Freudian Slip]] (see below).
** Jim also gives us one as B.E.N cheerfully leaves to disable the ''Legacy'''s laser cannons.
* [[Fake-Out Opening]]: The movie begins with young Jim reading a book about pirates and treasure.
* [[Fairy Companion]]: Morph (though he/it is also a [[Small Annoying Creature]] for some).
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]:
** Silver's one cybernetic eye, arm and leg.
** Jim's gold earring.
* [[Freudian Slip]]: Oh lawd.
{{quote|'''Amelia:''' Actually, Doctor, your astronomical advice was most helpful.
'''Doppler:''' Well, u-uh, thank you. Thank you very much. Well, I have a lot of help to offer, anatomically--amanamonically--as...astronomically. *[[Face Palm]]*  }}
* [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]]: Played with in that {{spoiler|it's the ''villain'' who has to make the choice. And he chooses the friend.}}
* [[Fungus Humongous]]: Treasure Planet's aesthetic.
* [[Funny Robot]]: BEN.
* [[Gasshole]]: Doctor Doppler, who speaks Flatula--[[Rule of Funny|a LANGUAGE made up of farting noises]].
* [[Gender Equals Breed]]: {{spoiler|The children of Captain Amelia and Delbert Doppler in the end}}. Though the spinoff games point towards [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]. They were the same species.
* [[Gentleman Snarker]]: Captain Amelia's most endearing quality.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In chronological order:
** Amelia's mention of Silver's "spaceport floozies".
** There is just ''no'' way that Silver's jab about [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Mr. Mop and Mrs. Bucket"]] was a coincidence.
{{quote|'''Jim:''' I've got your "Mr. Mop."}}
** Delbert's [[Freudian Slip]] (see above).
** Also, when Amelia first looked at Doppler, look at his eyes. They're looking at her breasts!
* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Most of the deaths.
* [[Green Eyed Red Head]]: Captain Amelia.
*  {{spoiler|[[Happily Married]]: Doppler and Amelia in the end}}.
* [[Hive Mind]]: The cyborg cops in the beginning show this trait from time to time.
* [[Hidden Badass]]: The bumbling, easily-flustered Dr. Doppler [[Badass Bookworm|shows off his badassery]], impressing more than a few people, most notably {{spoiler|Captain Amelia, his future wife.}}
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]
* [[Hot Mom]]: Well, Jim had to get his good looks from someone, and as far as the film's concerned, Sarah Hawkins is the more likely candidate.
** {{spoiler|Captain Amelia.}}
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: In his [[Morph Weapon|cybernetic]] [[Swiss Army Appendage|arm]], Silver has about a dozen cooking tools, a pistol, a sword, a crutch, and a vice, as well as all the necessary gears and other cyborg guts. He also has an [[Arm Cannon]], but half of that appears to be strapped to his leg.
* [[I Can Still Fight]]: {{spoiler|Captain Amelia}}. "Nonsense. Cup of tea and I'll be right as rain", anyone?
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Yeah, Jim, go ahead and piss off the spider/scorpion/lobster thing with the obvious big evil yellow eyes. I'm sure all he'll do is go cry in a corner. It's the weakness of a [[Deadpan Snarker]]. They use humor as a defense mechanism.
* [[Ignored Confession]]: "You have...''wonderful'' eyes." "[[Beat|...]]She's lost her ''mind''!"
* [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]: The Star Map.
* [[Impossible Hourglass Figure]]: The good captain's got what look like an 18-inch waist and 40-inch hips.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: ''Awesomely'' played straight, and even more awesomely ''lampshaded''. During their escape from the ship, Dr. Doppler screws up his eyes and fires a pistol ''for the first time in his life'' (well... for the first time on purpose, anyway)--and the shot hits a hatch, ends up [[Thrown Out the Airlock|tossing several pirates out into space]]. Amelia stares, wild-eyed in surprise. Dr. Doppler stares at his gun, every bit as surprised as she is.
{{quote|'''Amelia:''' Did you actually ''aim'' for that?
'''Dr. Doppler:''' You know, actually, I ''did''. }}
** Doubles as a [[Chekhov's Skill]], early in the movie we see his status as a physicist give him spatial/vector awareness required for making those sorts of calculations mentally.
* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Explained for the most part.
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Jim and Long John Silver.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Maybe. Given the [[Gender Equals Breed]] facet mentioned above, it could be that {{spoiler|Dr. Doppler}} and {{spoiler|Captain Amelia}} are actually members of the same [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|sexually dimorphic]] species.
** The PC game ''Battle at Procyon'' offers more evidence for this, as you can have a number of dog and cat people join your crew. All the males are canine, while the females are all feline.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "All my life I've dreamed of an adventure like this."
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Delbert has been waiting for an adventure like this to happen all his life.
{{quote|'''Delbert:''' I really really really ''REALLY'' want to go.}}
* [[Just in Time]]: The escape from Treasure Planet.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Silver may be a much better person by the end, but he still gets away with theft, mutiny and a lot of child endangerment.
* [[Kubrick Stare]]: Both Jim and Silver have their fair share of this throughout the film.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Several. Jim has a very prominent one, as well as Silver - or, particularly, Silver's good side.
* [[Lethal Chef]]: B.E.N. tries to serve Amelia and Delbert "drinks" that appear to consist of machine fluids, although that's more the old "robots drink motor oil" gag coupled with a robot who hasn't had any contact with carbon-based lifeforms in over a century. Apparently, he gets better once he starts working at the new Benbow Inn in the finale.
* [[Like a Son to Me]]: John Silver's relationship with Jim, especially at the end, definitely invokes this trope along some [[Parental Substitute]].
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Apparently no one aboard the ''Legacy'' bothered to take an extra change of clothing for the voyage. Except for Silver, who changed his pants halfway through (because the stripes were too time consuming to draw)
* [[Living MacGuffin]]: Only Jim can read the star-map.
* [[Logo Joke]]: The second trailer has the [[Disney]] star streak morph into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYFA4v6dXpU the spaceport.]
* [[Lost Technology]]: Any [[Pirates of the Caribbean|mother's son calling himself a troper]] can recognize this one, even if it's only hinted at remotely: The Treasure Planet, the map and {{spoiler|the portal}} are on a whole different level from anything is the film, and promotional material makes reference to some ''really'' smart aliens having built them. Supposedly Flint stumbled upon them and had a really profitable idea.
* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Silver.
* [[Lzherusskie]]: One of the gunners.
{{quote|''We are wanting to move!''}}
* [[Mad Oracle]]: The hermit robot, B.E.N., is a bit scatterbrained from being marooned on a desert island... Er, planet. Literally having lost his "mind" helps too. {{spoiler|Although is not so much as lost, as Flint "holding onto it" for him.}}
* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: {{spoiler|Flint's trove explodes, taking Treasure Planet with it.}}
* [[Match Cut]]: The "I'm Still here" sequence has many of these.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]:
{{quote|'''Silver:''' ''Morph, I have a job for you. Keep an eye on this here pup.''
And
'''Jim:''' ''Yeah, but I'm gonna change all that.'' }}
* [[A Minor Kidroduction]]: We see three-year-old Jim and his pop-up book before jumping twelve years later and getting on with the plot.
* [[Mistaken Identity]]: Dr. Doppler mistakenly, but understandably, assumes that [[The Big Guy|Mr. Arrow]] is the captain of the RLS Legacy.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Why else would Jim have flippy hair, have so many action scenes ''and'' {{spoiler|[[She Cleans Up Nicely|wear a military uniform at the end]]}}?
* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]: Mr. Hands.
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: B.E.N. It nearly gets Jim and company killed a few times.
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: B.E.N has this in spades, much to the annoyance of Jim.
{{quote|[http://dolphy.shadowwalkers.net/DVD-Screenshots/BEN/Ben03.jpg "I just wanna hug ya and squeeze ya and hold ya close to me!"]}}
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: Invoked.
** This is also a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Star Trek]]'s Doctor McCoy: "Dang it, Jim. I'm an astronomer, not a doctor!"
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Scroop. Also, the big bad pirate from the introduction story, too.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Ben gets one of these moments when he goes to disable the laser cannons.
{{quote|'''Ben:''' Disable a few laser cannons, what is the big deal? All we gotta do is [[Tempting Fate|find that one little wire...]]
''[Ben opens some electrical doors, revealing a mess of wires]''
'''Ben:''' Oh mama! }}
** Meltdown (the fat pirate) also fits this trope:
{{quote|'''Doppler:''' Excuse me, brutish pirate.
'''Meltdown:''' ''[Belches]''
'''Doppler:''' Yes, you. I have a question. Is it that your body is too massive for your teeny-tiny head... or is it that your head is too teeny-tiny for your big, fat body?!
'''Meltdown:''' ''[Grabs Doppler]'' I PUMMEL YOU GOOD!
'''Doppler:''' Yes, I'm sure you will, but before you do, I have one more question! ''[pulls out a gun and points it at pirate]'' Is this yours?
'''Meltdown:''' ''[Stares at the gun in shock]'' Uhhhhhh.... }}
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Silver, toward the end. He ''always'' tried to sweet talk [[The Captain]]. Then...
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: Two examples:
** The black hole sequence, where they actually ''use the fireball itself'' to give them enough power to outrun it.
** The climax, where they {{spoiler|sail through the portal and to Montressor spaceport ''just'' ahead of Treasure Planet exploding behind them.}}
* [[Papa Wolf]]: John Silver. He becomes fiercely protective of Jim and essentially gives up everything, including his life's dream, for him in the end.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The only song in the movie is about Parental Abandonment. In fact, Disney said they specifically geared the film to single-parent households. Appropriate since it is Jim's motivation for befriending Silver.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Silver. The movie could best be described as a platonic love story.
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Most of the cast!
* [[Pirate Booty]]: Of course!
* [[Pirate Parrot]]: Morph is an [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]] example, imitating form as well as speech.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: The DVD extras reveal that Montressor is a "mining planet". There is a mining operation which Jim flies through early in the film, but otherwise this isn't elaborated on.
* {{spoiler|[[Portal Network]]}}
* [[Precursors]]: {{spoiler|Built}} Treasure Planet and the star-map, according to the [[All There in the Manual|supplemental material]].
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]:
** Silver ({{spoiler|cycling through Flint's portal}}): "WHERE'S. THAT. BLASTED. ''TREASURE''?!"
** Silver strikes again with: "Change in plan, lads! [[Face Heel Turn|We! Move!]] '''[[Face Heel Turn|Now!]]'''"
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: [http://dolphy.shadowwalkers.net/DVD-Screenshots/GettingInTooDeep/GITD20.jpg Oh, can those eyes get any bigger?]{{Dead link}}
* [[Recycled in Space]]: The working title was "[[Lampshade Hanging|Treasure Island in Space]]".
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Silver's cybernetic eye turns red during his... less friendly moments ([[Heel Face Revolving Door|not necessarily correlated with which side he's on at the time]]). Normally, it's gold.
* [[Riddle for the Ages]]: Just who built Treasure Planet, and where did they go?
** The artbook, [http://www.amazon.ca/Treasure-Planet-Discovery-Jeff-Kurtti/dp/0786853662 A Voyage of Discovery], explains that Treasure Planet was actually built by an ancient race called the [[Precursors|Forefathers]] who used the portal to learn more about other alien cultures. They eventually disappeared and left the entire planet behind.
* [[The Right Hand of Doom]]: John Silver's cybernetic right hand, with a robotic peg leg.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: More or less everything.
** [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]
** [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]
* [[Scenery Porn]]: [http://www.filmcritic.com/assets_c/2010/02/Treasure-Planet-thumb-560xauto-26481.gif Really]{{Dead link}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050510134846/http://images.epilogue.net/users/vacher/TreasurePl.7.jpg does] [http://movie.zing.vn/Movie/resources/images/phim-dien-anh/2725/wallpaper/source/treasure-planet-83140.jpg this] [http://data.whicdn.com/images/2411029/treasure-planet-11_large.jpg one] need to be explained?
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: It combines 19th-century sailing technology, with technology that appears to have been made centuries into the future.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: [[Rule of Cool|But we don't really care, do we?]]
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: Played so straight, as with [[Status Quo Is God|any story involving]] a forgotten treasure trove.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Amelia, Dr. Doppler, and even Silver both provide quite a bit of this.
* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: Surprisingly, for a Disney movie. Amelia has a broken rib, and Dr. Dopper says "Let me take a look at that." The camera pans away.
* [[Slipped the Ropes]]: Done hilariously with Dr. Doppler. Turns out, he has abnormally thin wrists.
* [[Sky Surfing]]: Jim's favorite high-adrenaline hobby.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Scroop is one who's portrayed disturbingly realistic.
* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]: [[Rule of Cool|except no one cares that it doesn't]].
* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: And everything that goes with it:
** [[Space Pirates]]: Naturally.
** [[Space Sailing]]
** [[Space Whale|Space Whales]]
* [[Spot of Tea]]: Amelia, [[British Accents|Of Course.]]
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Silver is surprisingly good at this.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Dr. Doppler is a ''dog''-like alien. The meal Sarah serves him in his first scene at the Benbow Inn looks like dog food and is served in what looks like a dog dish, but even the name follows this theme: '''Alpo'''nian chowder.
* [[Steampunk]]: Oodles of it. The overall aesthetic style, along with [[Space Is an Ocean]]. Mixed in a very interesting way with [[Cyberpunk]].
* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]: The Captain.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Really Smart Aliens]]: {{spoiler|The architects of the whole Treasure Planet shebang, and the portal.}}
* [[Swiss Army Appendage]]: John Silver's bionic arm.
* [[Take My Hand]]: {{spoiler|Silver}} to Jim in the climax.
* [[Teens Are Short]]: Jim is [http://dolphy.shadowwalkers.net/Reports/DisneyAdventures06.jpg fifteen]{{Dead link}}, but he can't be more than 5-and-a-half feet tall; he's even shorter than his mother. [[Justified Trope|Granted]], his shortness makes Silver's and Mr. Arrow's downright hugeness stand out more, as well as making Scroop and the larger aliens appear more menacing by comparison. It even accentuates Capt. Amelia's statuesque height.
** If you watch the reunion scene closely, you can see that Jim's actually as tall as his mother, and later at the inn's reopening, Jim's grown taller. Obviously, he was just waiting for a growth spurt.
* [[That's No Moon]]: {{spoiler|Treasure Planet turns out to be a giant artificial construct, with Flint's trove hidden in the core, and the whole planet was rigged to explode should anyone try to take it.}}
** There's also the spaceport, which was intentionally built to resemble a crescent moon from a distance.
* [[Thigh-High Boots]]: Captain Amelia.
* [[Time Skip]]: About 12 years after the [[Distant Prologue]].
* [[Token Human]]: Jim, as the [[Audience Surrogate]].
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: For a guy who doesn't even appear until somewhere during the last half of the movie, the trailers sure did love B.E.N.
* [[Treasure Map]]: A holographic one.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Jim. Hawkins. That is all. Thanks to [[Generic Cuteness]] and [[Puppy Dog Eyes]], he is indeed cute, and due to the aforementioned [[Disappeared Dad]], troubled enough that he can tell the officers ''exactly'' which paragraph of the rules he broke this time.
* [[Weld the Lock]]: Captain Amelia welds the hatch to prevent the pirates from getting in.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: So, Amelia is a [[Catgirl]], Doppler is a Dog Man, John Silver looks like some kind of shaved bear, Morph is a Squishy Pink Thing (although [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on the cute part), and Scroop is a horrid Spider-Scorpion. Guess who the bad one is! Go on!
** Subverted in that the rather ugly {{spoiler|Silver [[Heel Face Revolving Door|turns like a weathervane]].}}
* [[What Song Was This Again?]]: The French version of "I'm Still Here" is translated to "Un Homme Libre" (A Free Man) and becomes less of a song about a boy telling off the universe and something more like 'if you feel like a reject, maybe you should run away'.
* [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]: To a degree. It's been somewhat Disneyfied, but the pirates themselves evoke this trope. Quite literally in Silver's case.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Spelljammer]]'' meets ''[[Treasure Island]]''.
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|So Silver's got the treasure that he's spent a good chunk of his life searching for, and given up an arm, leg, and eye for. A few kabooms later pretty much all of it's gone}}. ''Ouch.''
* [[Zeerust]]: Invoked. Space is filled with [[Science Marches On|luminiferous aether]] capable of propelling any vehicle Baron Munchausen might've dreamed up. So long as it looks piratey.

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