History WesternAnimation / Cinderella

Entry number 12 in the DisneyAnimatedCanon, '''''Cinderella''''' marked Disney's return to feature-length films in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1950]], after the WWII years where Disney was limited to making collections of shorts (i.e. ''MakeMineMusic'') while many of their staff were drafted to the war effort. Advertisement posters touted Cinderella as the best since ''Disney/SnowWhite'' and for the time it definitely marked a return to form though the painstaking (and extremely expensive) animation techniques of the earlier films were starting to be scaled back the studio was still capable of bringing an old story to life with vibrant visuals.

Entry number 12 in the DisneyAnimatedCanon, '''''Cinderella''''' marked Disney's return to feature-length films in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1950]], after the WWII years where Disney was limited to making collections of shorts (i.e. ''MakeMineMusic'') while many of their staff were drafted to the war effort. Advertisement posters touted Cinderella as the best since ''Disney/SnowWhite'' and for the time it definitely marked a return to form.

It is also one of the movies featured in KingdomHearts. Cinderella herself has a minor (but important) role as one of the seven Princesses of Heart driving the plot of the first game. Nothing from the series appears again until Birth By Sleep where it gets an entire world.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: R.I.P. Ilene Woods, the voice of Cinderella. She passed away from causes related to Alzheimer's Disease on July 1st, 2010.

* TookALevelInBadass: The Prince, in ''Cinderella III''. Guess he's been taking lessons from both Prince Eric of ''TheLittleMermaid'' and Spiderman, huh. [[HeyItsThatVoice The three]] ''[[HeyItsThatVoice are]]'' [[HeyItsThatVoicevoiced by the same guy, after all...]]

* TookALevelInBadass: The Prince, in ''Cinderella III''. Guess he's been taking lessons from both Prince Eric of ''TheLittleMermaid'' and Spiderman, huh. [[HeyItsThatVoice The three ''are'' voiced by the same guy, after all...]]

* CrowningMomentofAwesome: Uh, let's see. Cindy does a backflip off of a moving carriage, and then [[crashes her own wedding]]. The Prince gets a few, too.

* {{Ojou}}: [[LawfulEvil Lady Tremaine]].

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Let's just say "Lucifer" was an appropriate name for the cat.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The Demonic Pumpkin Carriage scene from ''A Twist in Time''.]]
** The dress being destroyed, doubling as KickTheDog. Ouch!

* NaiveEverygirl: [[spoiler: Anastasia (the redheaded stepsister)]] gets retconned into one of these.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Cindy ''almost'' gets Put On A Boat and vanished away in the prequel. The now [[TookALevelInBadass Badass Prince]] stops her in time, though.]] And then [[spoiler: she almost gets Put On A Demonic Pumpkin Off A Cliff. She manages to save herself from that one.]]

* HandWave: Both the original movie and ''Cinderella III'' [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on how it's ridiculous to expect just one girl to fit the slipper, but they both [[JustifiedTrope justify]] it differently. In ''Cinderella'' it's implied the prince said he'd marry TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper as a shorthand for "that girl I fell in love with", but the king is so fed up with his son and lack of grandchildren that he makes it a literal royal order. In ''Cinderella III'' [[CanonDiscontinuity on the other hand]] it's [[CharacterDerailment the king himself]] who points out the absurdity of the quest, and indeed when the person who fits the slipper [[spoiler:turns out to be Anastasia]] the prince [[spoiler:apologizes and refuses to marry her. [[{{Brainwashed}} At first.]]]]

** The [[spoiler:maid dress seemed to be the implication that, like in ''EverAfter'', they were being punished by being forced into servitude of the girl who was once their own servant. Given that their actions in the third movie seemed driven purely by their jealousy that Cinderella escaped their servitude, it seems like a fitting punishment.]]

* HandWave: Both the original movie and ''Cinderella III'' [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on how it's ridiculous to expect just one girl to fit the slipper, but they both [[JustifiedTrope justify]] it differently : in ''Cinderella'' it's implied the prince said he'd marry TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper as a shorthand for "that girl I fell in love with", but the king is so fed up with his son and lack of grandchildren that he makes it a literal royal order. In ''Cinderella III'' [[CanonDiscontinuity on the other hand]] it's [[CharacterDerailment the king himself]] who points out the absurdity of the quest, and indeed when the person who fits the slipper [[spoiler:turns out to be Anastasia]] the prince [[spoiler:apologizes and refuses to marry her. [[{{Brainwashed}} At first.]]]]

* HotLibrarian: Prudence, in the eyes of the Grand Duke and her fans.

* CompleteMonster: The WickedStepmother, enough for the NostalgiaCritic to rate her the #3 Greatest Villain in the DisneyAnimatedCanon.

* ForTheEvulz: How else could you possibly explain Lady Tremaine's fixation on making Cinderella's life hell? As the NostalgiaCritic put it "What a load of bitch!"

* ValuesDissonance: "Leave the sewing to the women", although some male mice are clearly shown sewing later on.

Entry number 12 in the DisneyAnimatedCanon, '''''Cinderella''''' marked Disney's return to feature-length films in 1950, after the WWII years where Disney was limited to making collections of shorts (i.e. ''MakeMineMusic'') while many of their staff were drafted to the war effort. Advertisement posters touted Cinderella as the best since ''Disney/SnowWhite'' and for the time it definitely marked a return to form.

* DoomedNewClothes: Cinderella's pink dress

During Disney's bout of {{Sequelitis}} in the 2000s, Cinderella had the dubious honor of getting not one, but ''two'' DirectToVideo sequels: ''Cinderella II: Dreams Come True'' (2002) and ''Cinderella III: A Twist In Time'' (2007). The former is three stories loosely tied together: Cinderella tries to put on a grand party, one of the mice, Jaq, gets transformed into a human by the Fairy Godmother and Anastasia, one of the stepsisters from the original, comes at odds with her family when she falls in love with a baker and starts on a path to [[LoveRedeems redemption]]. In the later, things happen that result in the Stepmother getting a hold of the Fairy Godmother's wand and trying to undo Cinderella's fortune by messing with the time line. While the second one is pretty much UrExample on how bad the Disney direct to video sequels can be, the third one isn't as bad as the others, OrSoIHeard.

Entry number 12 in the DisneyAnimatedCanon, '''''Cinderella''''' marked Disney's return to feature-length films in 1950, after the WWII years where Disney was limited to making collections of shorts (i.e. ''MakeMineMusic'' while many of their staff were drafted to the war effort. Advertisement posters touted Cinderella as the best since ''Disney/SnowWhite'' and for the time it definitely marked a return to form.

It is also one of the movies featured in KingdomHearts. Cinderella herself has a minor (but important) roll as one of the seven Princesses of Heart driving the plot of the first game. Nothing from the series appears again until Birth By Sleep where it gets an entire world.

* TheCaligula: Don't let his [[IWantGrandkids main motivations]] and [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation the sequels]] fool you -- the King [[MoodSwinger is]] ''[[BadBoss scary]]''.

!!Disney's ''Cinderella'' and its sequels include examples of:

* DeadpanSnarker: In the sequels, the Prince gains a rather cheeky and playful sense of humor. The weird part is that it ALSO ties into his HeyItsThatVoice and TookALevelInBadass.
** Everyone is a Deadpan Snarker in this series.
* DemotedToExtra: Subverted. In the first film, the prince is on screen for barely five minutes and has less than ten lines in the film (most of which are during his song with Cinderella).
** It should be noted that the sequels greatly expand his part and make him very much deserving of the name PrinceCharming, perhaps to make up for this.

* EvilRedheads: Subverted in the sequel and the prequel: [[spoiler: Anastasia]], who was a RichBitch in the original movie, is now less evil and more like a [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]].

* GirlFriday: Prudence from the sequels.

* HandWave: Both the original movie and ''Cinderella III'' [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on how it's ridiculous to expect just one girl to fit the slipper, but they both [[JustifiedTrope justify]] it differently : in ''Cinderella'' it's implied the prince said he'd marry TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper as a shorthand for "that girl I fell in love with", but the king is so fed up with his son and lack of grandchildren that he makes it a literal royal order. In ''Cinderella III'' [[CanonDiscontinuity on the other hand]] it's [[CharacterDerailment the king himself]] who points out the absurdity of the quest, and indeed when the person who fits the slipper [[spoiler:turns out to be Anastasia]] the prince [[spoiler:apologizes and refuses to marry her. [[{{Brainwashed}} At first.]]]]
* HaveAGayOldTime: Almost word-for-word: Right before Cinderella leaves for the ball, the Fairy Godmother tells her to "Have a good time, dance, be gay!"
* HeelFaceTurn: In the Disney sequels, [[spoiler: Anastasia.]]

** And in the sequels, Prince Charming [[SpiderMan can do whatever a spider can]]!

* HighClassGlass (The Duke).

* HotLibrarian: Prudence, in the eyes of the Grand Duke and her fans.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: The stepmother and Drusilla, in the sequel. Pretty much the only punishment they get.]]

* IWantGrandkids : the king. Oh so much.

** This troper assumed the king would rather the prince were picking a new stepmother for himself.. Even as a kid you noticed how he was looking at the eligible girls.

* KarmaHoudini: In the Disney version and its sequels, Lady Tremaine never really gets much punishment [[spoiler: (aside of public humiliation by being turned into a frog and then into a maid in front of the King and the Prince in ''Cinderella III'')]] for making poor Cinderella's life Hell. This is even more {{egregious}} because, well, it's ''Disney'', where villains ''never'' go unpunished.
** Actually no, its just that the Stepmother is one of the few evil Disney characters who did get her comeuppance but not a (generally heavily implied) violent fate. At the end of the movie [[spoiler: When the glass slipper didn't fit her stepsisters, the Duke wanted Cinderella to try the slipper. (Much to the Stepfamily's chagrin of course).[[XanatosSpeedChess The Wicked Stepmother tried one last trick by tripping the Page who had the slipper and that slipper shattered into pieces.]] The Duke was sobbing out of fear of what the King will do when he finds out so it seems that all hope is lost. Until Cinderella revealed [[SpannerInTheWorks she had the other slipper]] and, of course, it fits. You can only imagined how her Stepfamily [[OhCrap reacted]] to that.]]
** [[{{Pinocchio}} Foulfellow, Stromboli, and The Coachman]] never received any kind of punishment...
** Being forced to serve as maids for the girl who once served them (and who they hated) along with the guy they tried to use as a meal ticket to the easy life and [[spoiler: probably Anastasia]] seems like a pretty fitting punishment, especially given the amount of pride that Lady Tremaine and Driselle show.
** Thankfully, this was adverted when KingdomHearts shows Cinderella's world. [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome They get blown up by a grenade from a monster,]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which they created, by the way]].]]

** The {{Discworld}} take on the story also lampshades this by having the slipper fit [[CoolOldLady Nanny Ogg]].

* MusicalChores: "The Work Song" and "Sing Sweet Nightingale".
* NaiveEverygirl: Cinderella. Also, in the Disney sequels, [[spoiler: Anastasia (the redheaded stepsister)]] gets retconned into one of these.

* {{Ojou}}: [[TrueNeutral Prudence]] from the sequels and [[LawfulEvil Lady Tremaine]].

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Cindy ''almost'' gets Put On A Boat and vanished away in the prequel. The now [[TookALevelInBadass Badass Prince]] stops her in time, though.]]
** And then [[spoiler: she almost gets Put On A Demonic Pumpkin Off A Cliff. She manages to save herself from that one.]]
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: One of the few good things to say about the sequels is that they actually made Anastasia and Cinderella's husband a lot more interesting.
** Not to mention the King, to some degree. Especially [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when he tells Anastasia about his own wife, and how they loved each other even though she was an...unconventional queen]].

* SpoiledSweet: Cinderella, in the ''Dreams Come True'' sequel. As she gets more CharacterDevelopment, [[spoiler: Anastasia]] becomes one of these, too.
* StarCrossedLovers: In ''Cinderella II'', one of the triggers behind [[spoiler: Anastasia]]'s HeelFaceTurn is her love for a commoner. More exactly, the local baker boy.
** Cinderella and the Prince are this in the third movie.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: While nowhere near as good as the original, ''Cinderella III'' is probably one of the best Disney sequels, and a fairly good movie on its own.
** {{Sequelitis}}: On The Other Hand ''Cinderella II'' is a contender for Worst.Disney.Sequel.EVAR, with the BeautyAndTheBeast sequels being its only real competition for that "honor". Only [[spoiler: Anastasia]]'s subplot keeps it from being a trainwreck.
* TearJerker: Cinderella's DarkReprise of [[IWantSong ''More Than a Dream'']] when she is [[spoiler: shipped out of the kingdom.]]
* TheCaligula: Don't let his [[IWantGrandkids main motivations]] and [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation the sequels]] fool you : the King [[MoodSwinger is]] ''[[BadBoss scary]]''.
* TookALevelInBadass: The Prince, in ''Cinderella III''. Guess he's been taking lessons from both Prince Eric of ''TheLittleMermaid'' and Spiderman, huh. [[HeyItsThatVoice The three ''are'' voiced by the same guy, after all...]]
** In the third movie Cinderella did a backflip out of a demonic carriage, and rode horseback to crash her own wedding. That is quite a level up in baddassery considering the coolest thing she did in the first movie was go to a party.
** [[IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine And Cinderella is voiced in that movie by Jennifer Hale, who voiced the Black Cat opposite Chirs Barne's Spider Man in that show. Ironic, eh?]]

** Thankfully, this was adverted when KingdomHearts shows Cinderella's world. [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome They get blown up by a grenade from a monster,]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which they created, by the way]]]].

** Thankfully, this was adverted when KingdomHearts shows Cinderella's world. [[spoiler: They get blown up by a grenade from a monster, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which they created, by the way]].

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