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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]] [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration|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 (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter]]'' Film. For that matter, it opened less than a week ''after'' ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|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 AEA.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 Thethe Frog (Disney)|until 2009]]. Today, it's become a [[Vindicated Byby 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 Byby History|success]] ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' enjoys now.
 
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** 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 Thethe 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?
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.<br />
'''Ben:''' I am not leaving my buddy Jimmy!<br />
''(Death Glare)''<br />
'''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/DVDdvd-Screenshotsscreenshots/TheTreasurethetreasure/TheTreasure20thetreasure20.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.
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Captain Amelia.
* [[Desert Island]]: B.E.N. is marooned on Treasure Planet.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: One{{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--Disneyparents movies wherein the parentDisney {{spoiler|actuallyAnimated walksCanon outto onabandon his family rather than dyingdie.}}
* [[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.
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* [[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 AEA.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 Withwith 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''.
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* [[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.<br />
'''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.}}
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** 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!
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* [[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?<br />
'''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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.''<br />
And<br />
'''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]]}}?
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* [[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|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...]]<br />
''[Ben opens some electrical doors, revealing a mess of wires]'' <br />
'''Ben:''' Oh mama! }}
** Meltdown (the fat pirate) also fits this trope:
{{quote| '''Doppler:''' Excuse me, brutish pirate.<br />
'''Meltdown:''' ''[Belches]''<br />
'''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?!<br />
'''Meltdown:''' ''[Grabs Doppler]'' I PUMMEL YOU GOOD!<br />
'''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?<br />
'''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...
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** 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.
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* {{spoiler|[[Portal Network]]}}
* [[Precursors]]: {{spoiler|Built}} Treasure Planet and the star-map, according to the [[All There in the Manual|supplemental material]].
* [[Punctuated! forFor! 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 Thethe 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.
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** [[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?]]
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* [[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:
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* [[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.}}
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