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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie ''Captain EO'' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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1986 was a good year for [[Creator/{{Disney}} The Walt Disney Company Company]] if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie ''Captain EO'' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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* RobotBuddy: EO's right-hand-man, Major Domo. Also Minor Domo, who fits into a compartment in the former's back. Their bodies transform into musical equipment for EO's big number.
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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Creator/MichaelEisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie ''Captain EO'' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Creator/MichaelEisner Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie ''Captain EO'' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner Creator/MichaelEisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie ''Captain EO'' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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* CityPlanet: The Supreme Leader seems to live on one until Eo's GenesisEffect at the end .
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* EliteMooks: Once the Queen sees Captain EO change her guards, she sends in scary robots with [[LightningLash electric whips]].
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* EliteMooks: Once the Queen sees Captain EO change her guards, she sends in scary robots with [[LightningLash electric whips]]. They prove to be quite tricky until Fuzzball gets the idea to tie their whips together, allowing EO to convert them to his side.
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* EliteMooks: Once the Queen sees Captain EO change her guards, she sends in scary robots with electric whips.
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* EliteMooks: Once the Queen sees Captain EO change her guards, she sends in scary robots with [[LightningLash electric whips.whips]].
* LightningLash: The aptly-named Whip Warriors fight with electric whips.
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* OffModel: When Major Domo and Minor Domo turn into instruments, the stop-motion puppets during said sequence look ''nothing'' like the costume and puppet[[note]] Major and Minor, respectively[[/note]] featured throughout the rest of the film (for one, Major Domo becomes a much lighter shade of blue).
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There's also a very rare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm5FZPpf0E Cast Member-produced parody]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Captain Eeyore]], that's generally one big SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} once it gets to its take on the film's final battle.
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There's also a very rare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm5FZPpf0E com/watch?v=YbPeEXF-gmE Cast Member-produced parody]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Captain Eeyore]], that's generally one big SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} once it gets to its take on the film's final battle.
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* FalseReassurance: At the start of the film, EO tries to assure his crew that they're "the best", and that they shouldn't let their recent losses get them down, but quietly admits that they'll all likely be fired if they screw up their next mission.
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* InferredHolocaust: The world seems to be a CityPlanet before Eo's GenesisEffect turns it mostly into fields. Did the people inside the buildings die?
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The film played at Disneyland and EPCOT Center from 1986 until the mid-Nineties. The overseas parks took a little longer to get it, but it did successfully run at the Tokyo and Paris complexes. While allegations of child abuse had begun to taint Jackson's reputation by the time it closed in the U.S., it was more advances in theme park technology and the march of time (style-wise) that led it to be put to pasture. However, with the singer's death -- and children of TheEighties reaching an age to be nostalgic about their childhoods -- ''Captain EO'' returned to Disneyland (as "Captain EO Tribute"), Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Epcot as well, making it one of the very few Ride/DisneyThemeParks attractions to replace the attraction that replaced it initially. However, it was phased out once again, with the last screening at Epcot taking place on December 6th, 2015.
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The film played at Disneyland and EPCOT Center from 1986 until the mid-Nineties.mid-Nineties, when it was replaced by ''[[Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey, I Shrunk the Audience]]''. The overseas parks took a little longer to get it, but it did successfully run at the Tokyo and Paris complexes. While allegations of child abuse had begun to taint Jackson's reputation by the time it closed in the U.S., it was more advances in theme park technology and the march of time (style-wise) that led it to be put to pasture. However, with the singer's death -- and children of TheEighties reaching an age to be nostalgic about their childhoods -- ''Captain EO'' returned to Disneyland (as "Captain EO Tribute"), Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Epcot as well, making it one of the very few Ride/DisneyThemeParks attractions to replace the attraction that replaced it initially. However, it was phased out once again, with the last screening at Epcot taking place on December 6th, 6, 2015.
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* AerialCanyonChase: They have one that invokes the Death Star scenes in ''Film/ANewHope''.
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There's also a very rare [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm5FZPpf0E Cast Member-produced parody]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Captain Eeyore]], that's generally one big CrowningMomentOfFunny once it gets to its take on the film's final battle.
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There's also a very rare [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm5FZPpf0E Cast Member-produced parody]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Captain Eeyore]], that's generally one big CrowningMomentOfFunny SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} once it gets to its take on the film's final battle.
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(By the by... George Lucas collaborating with a notable filmmaker and an internationally-renowned musician on a creature-filled fantasy project... bet he couldn't do that twice in one year, ''[[Film/{{Labyrinth}} or could he]]''?)
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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie '''''Captain EO''''' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie '''''Captain EO''''' ''Captain EO'' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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* CloseOnTitle: The short eschews an opening title in favor of a starfield, a floating rock effect, and an OpeningNarration. Instead, the last big 3D effect in the film is the title spinning out of a starfield.
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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute ThreeDMovie UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie '''''Captain EO''''' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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The film played at Disneyland and EPCOT Center from 1986 until the mid-Nineties. The overseas parks took a little longer to get it, but it did successfully run at the Tokyo and Paris complexes. While allegations of child abuse had begun to taint Jackson's reputation by the time it closed in the U.S., it was more advances in theme park technology and the march of time (style-wise) that led it to be put to pasture. However, with the singer's death -- and children of TheEighties reaching an age to be nostalgic about their childhoods -- ''Captain EO'' is once again playing at returned to Disneyland (as "Captain EO Tribute"), Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Epcot as well, making it one of the very few Ride/DisneyThemeParks attractions to replace the attraction that replaced it initially. However, it was phased out once again, with the last screening at Epcot taking place on December 6th, 2015.
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The film played at Disneyland and EPCOT Center from 1986 until the mid-Nineties. The overseas parks took a little longer to get it, but it did successfully run at the Tokyo and Paris complexes. While allegations of child abuse had begun to taint Jackson's reputation by the time it closed in the U.S., it was more advances in theme park technology and the march of time (style-wise) that led it to be put to pasture. However, with the singer's death -- and children of TheEighties reaching an age to be nostalgic about their childhoods -- ''Captain EO'' is once again playing at Disneyland (as "Captain EO Tribute"), Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Epcot as well, making it one of the very few Ride/DisneyThemeParks attractions to replace the attraction that replaced it initially. \n However, it was phased out once again, with the last screening at Epcot taking place on December 6th, 2015.
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* TheLoad: Hooter. He ''eats'' the map that the crew needed to navigate the Supreme Leader's planet, and was too short to reach an important button during a battle sequence. During the crew's audience with the Supreme Leader, he knocks over musical equipment during sensitive negotiations and nearly gets the crew killed.
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* SummonBackupDancers: A subversion; rather than the dancers coming out of nowhere, EO transmutes the evil MechaMooks into this.
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* SummonBackupDancers: A subversion; rather than the dancers coming out of nowhere, EO transmutes the evil MechaMooks into this. this.
* {{Tagline}}: "We are here to change the world."
* {{Tagline}}: "We are here to change the world."
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1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director FrancisFordCoppola, Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute ThreeDMovie '''''Captain EO''''' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
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* LeaningTheFourthWall: During the finale, Fuzzball flies out towards at the audience and says "Bye-bye" before rejoining the others.
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->"''We are here to change the world...''"
1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute ThreeDMovie '''''Captain EO''''' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
Jackson portrays the eponymous [[TheCaptain captain]], leader of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits including the robotic security officer Major Domo, {{robot buddy}} Minor Domo, hairy two-headed navigator(s) Idee and Odee, elephantine slob Hooter, and Fuzzball, a flying... thing... resembling [[MixAndMatchCritters a cross between a rat, a monkey, and a butterfly.]] The bumbling crew is just one mistake away from being drummed out of their (unspecified) organization, so for some reason they have been assigned a diplomatic mission of the utmost importance: delivering a goodwill gift to the Supreme Leader (Creator/AnjelicaHuston, who won an Oscar for ''Prizzi's Honor'' not long before this premiered) of a dismal planet. Upon landing, they are captured and dragged before the [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg Queen]]-esque Supreme Leader, who orders EO imprisoned and tortured for the intrusion. At the last second, he and the crew manage to produce the gift... a [[MagicMusic song and dance performance]] that literally [[ArcWords changes the world]].
The film played at Disneyland and EPCOT Center from 1986 until the mid-Nineties. The overseas parks took a little longer to get it, but it did successfully run at the Tokyo and Paris complexes. While allegations of child abuse had begun to taint Jackson's reputation by the time it closed in the U.S., it was more advances in theme park technology and the march of time (style-wise) that led it to be put to pasture. However, with the singer's death -- and children of TheEighties reaching an age to be nostalgic about their childhoods -- ''Captain EO'' is once again playing at Disneyland (as "Captain EO Tribute"), Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Epcot as well, making it one of the very few Ride/DisneyThemeParks attractions to replace the attraction that replaced it initially.
There's also a very rare [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm5FZPpf0E Cast Member-produced parody]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Captain Eeyore]], that's generally one big CrowningMomentOfFunny once it gets to its take on the film's final battle.
(By the by... George Lucas collaborating with a notable filmmaker and an internationally-renowned musician on a creature-filled fantasy project... bet he couldn't do that twice in one year, ''[[Film/{{Labyrinth}} or could he]]''?)
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!!''Captain EO'' provides example of the following tropes:
* BeautifulAllAlong: It's Creator/AnjelicaHuston. How could she be anything else [[spoiler:after EO works his powers on her]]?
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: As far as the human(oid) characters go, this is an extreme take on the trope -- once the ugly troops are zapped with EO's rays and turn into attractive backup dancers, they pull an ''immediate'' HeelFaceTurn!
* BigEater: Hooter
* {{Camp}}: At least in retrospect. At the time, those costumes and hairdos were considered very stylish.
* TheCaptain: EO himself.
* CloseOnTitle: The short eschews an opening title in favor of a starfield, a floating rock effect, and an OpeningNarration. Instead, the last big 3D effect in the film is the title spinning out of a starfield.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: Apparently, the Captain and his crew really made a "mess" of their previous mission, and they ''have'' to pull this one off to avoid being "drummed out of the corps."
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: [[spoiler:The state of the Supreme Leader's planet after EO works his magic.]]
* DiscoTech
* EightiesHair: Another one of Captain EO's boundless gifts: bald, lifeless cyborgs are turned into mulleted dancers straight out of ''Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' ([[http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0090793,tt0086999&sort=alpha no, really]]).
* EliteMooks: Once the Queen sees Captain EO change her guards, she sends in scary robots with electric whips.
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Captain EO has the power to generate rainbows that ''literally'' make everything better.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Hooter. He ate the ''map''!
* FemmeFatalons: In 3D and right in your face.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Supreme Leader; she was often referred to as the "Witch-Queen" in promotional materials.
* HugeHolographicHead: Commander Bog
* IncomingHam: '''''SILENCE!... INFIDELS!'''''
* LargeHam
** The Supreme Leader doesn't speak a single line without hissing it while MilkingTheGiantCow.
** Commander Bog, on the other side of the moral line, manages to ham it up without anything below the collar.
* LeaningTheFourthWall: During the finale, Fuzzball flies out towards at the audience and says "Bye-bye" before rejoining the others.
* MeaningfulName: EO is so named to evoke the Greek root word meaning "dawn".
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Clack-clack-clack go the Queen's claws.
* OffModel: When Major Domo and Minor Domo turn into instruments, the stop-motion puppets during said sequence look ''nothing'' like the costume and puppet[[note]] Major and Minor, respectively[[/note]] featured throughout the rest of the film (for one, Major Domo becomes a much lighter shade of blue).
* OpeningNarration: Used to set up the premise.
* PaddleballShot: Quite a few -- a floating space rock, space battle debris, the Supreme Leader's claws, spears, a descending gate, etc. Also, Fuzzball flies out at the audience and lingers there for a few moments before heading back, ''twice''.
* ParrotPetPosition: When Fuzzball isn't flying, he's usually sitting on EO's shoulder.
* ThePowerOfRock: Channeled into beams of light that Captain EO fires out of his hands.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The opening narration refers to them as "A rag-tag band lead by the infamous Captain EO."
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Fuzzball
* SpaceOpera: While less than 20 minutes long, it hits a huge amount of this genre's tropes!
* SummonBackupDancers: A subversion; rather than the dancers coming out of nowhere, EO transmutes the evil MechaMooks into this.
* WhipItGood: The aptly-named Whip Warriors.
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->"''We are here to change the world...''"
1986 was a good year for The Walt Disney Company if no-one else. New company president Michael Eisner wanted to revitalize the company's flagging animation and theme park divisions, while Creator/GeorgeLucas was still riding high on the success of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy and Music/MichaelJackson was the biggest star of TheEighties period. So three entertainment giants, plus director FrancisFordCoppola, teamed up in order to capitalize on one another's successes, and created the 17-minute ThreeDMovie '''''Captain EO''''' for exclusive release at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
Jackson portrays the eponymous [[TheCaptain captain]], leader of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits including the robotic security officer Major Domo, {{robot buddy}} Minor Domo, hairy two-headed navigator(s) Idee and Odee, elephantine slob Hooter, and Fuzzball, a flying... thing... resembling [[MixAndMatchCritters a cross between a rat, a monkey, and a butterfly.]] The bumbling crew is just one mistake away from being drummed out of their (unspecified) organization, so for some reason they have been assigned a diplomatic mission of the utmost importance: delivering a goodwill gift to the Supreme Leader (Creator/AnjelicaHuston, who won an Oscar for ''Prizzi's Honor'' not long before this premiered) of a dismal planet. Upon landing, they are captured and dragged before the [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg Queen]]-esque Supreme Leader, who orders EO imprisoned and tortured for the intrusion. At the last second, he and the crew manage to produce the gift... a [[MagicMusic song and dance performance]] that literally [[ArcWords changes the world]].
The film played at Disneyland and EPCOT Center from 1986 until the mid-Nineties. The overseas parks took a little longer to get it, but it did successfully run at the Tokyo and Paris complexes. While allegations of child abuse had begun to taint Jackson's reputation by the time it closed in the U.S., it was more advances in theme park technology and the march of time (style-wise) that led it to be put to pasture. However, with the singer's death -- and children of TheEighties reaching an age to be nostalgic about their childhoods -- ''Captain EO'' is once again playing at Disneyland (as "Captain EO Tribute"), Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Epcot as well, making it one of the very few Ride/DisneyThemeParks attractions to replace the attraction that replaced it initially.
There's also a very rare [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm5FZPpf0E Cast Member-produced parody]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Captain Eeyore]], that's generally one big CrowningMomentOfFunny once it gets to its take on the film's final battle.
(By the by... George Lucas collaborating with a notable filmmaker and an internationally-renowned musician on a creature-filled fantasy project... bet he couldn't do that twice in one year, ''[[Film/{{Labyrinth}} or could he]]''?)
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!!''Captain EO'' provides example of the following tropes:
* BeautifulAllAlong: It's Creator/AnjelicaHuston. How could she be anything else [[spoiler:after EO works his powers on her]]?
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: As far as the human(oid) characters go, this is an extreme take on the trope -- once the ugly troops are zapped with EO's rays and turn into attractive backup dancers, they pull an ''immediate'' HeelFaceTurn!
* BigEater: Hooter
* {{Camp}}: At least in retrospect. At the time, those costumes and hairdos were considered very stylish.
* TheCaptain: EO himself.
* CloseOnTitle: The short eschews an opening title in favor of a starfield, a floating rock effect, and an OpeningNarration. Instead, the last big 3D effect in the film is the title spinning out of a starfield.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: Apparently, the Captain and his crew really made a "mess" of their previous mission, and they ''have'' to pull this one off to avoid being "drummed out of the corps."
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: [[spoiler:The state of the Supreme Leader's planet after EO works his magic.]]
* DiscoTech
* EightiesHair: Another one of Captain EO's boundless gifts: bald, lifeless cyborgs are turned into mulleted dancers straight out of ''Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' ([[http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0090793,tt0086999&sort=alpha no, really]]).
* EliteMooks: Once the Queen sees Captain EO change her guards, she sends in scary robots with electric whips.
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Captain EO has the power to generate rainbows that ''literally'' make everything better.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Hooter. He ate the ''map''!
* FemmeFatalons: In 3D and right in your face.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Supreme Leader; she was often referred to as the "Witch-Queen" in promotional materials.
* HugeHolographicHead: Commander Bog
* IncomingHam: '''''SILENCE!... INFIDELS!'''''
* LargeHam
** The Supreme Leader doesn't speak a single line without hissing it while MilkingTheGiantCow.
** Commander Bog, on the other side of the moral line, manages to ham it up without anything below the collar.
* LeaningTheFourthWall: During the finale, Fuzzball flies out towards at the audience and says "Bye-bye" before rejoining the others.
* MeaningfulName: EO is so named to evoke the Greek root word meaning "dawn".
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Clack-clack-clack go the Queen's claws.
* OffModel: When Major Domo and Minor Domo turn into instruments, the stop-motion puppets during said sequence look ''nothing'' like the costume and puppet[[note]] Major and Minor, respectively[[/note]] featured throughout the rest of the film (for one, Major Domo becomes a much lighter shade of blue).
* OpeningNarration: Used to set up the premise.
* PaddleballShot: Quite a few -- a floating space rock, space battle debris, the Supreme Leader's claws, spears, a descending gate, etc. Also, Fuzzball flies out at the audience and lingers there for a few moments before heading back, ''twice''.
* ParrotPetPosition: When Fuzzball isn't flying, he's usually sitting on EO's shoulder.
* ThePowerOfRock: Channeled into beams of light that Captain EO fires out of his hands.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The opening narration refers to them as "A rag-tag band lead by the infamous Captain EO."
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Fuzzball
* SpaceOpera: While less than 20 minutes long, it hits a huge amount of this genre's tropes!
* SummonBackupDancers: A subversion; rather than the dancers coming out of nowhere, EO transmutes the evil MechaMooks into this.
* WhipItGood: The aptly-named Whip Warriors.
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