History WesternAnimation / ThePainting

* PastLifeMemories: [[spoiler:Claire's dreams imply that she was based on the Painter's lover. The fact that her face is in the painter's sketchbook may be evidence of this.]]

-->”The Painter is going to come back. And if he doesn't, I'll go to the ends of the Earth to find him. He'll finish the painting.”

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Lola's story ends on this note. Compared to everyone else in the titular painting who find contentment in being completed at last, she meets the actual painter and converses with him about art. The film ends with her walking off to the great unknown, as she's decided to explore the world to further understand the nature of life.]]

!!This work includes tropes for:

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Gum, after the painter's portrait fixes him]].

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Lola does this when she narrates the beginning of the story to the audience.

* FantasticRacism

* GrumpyOldMan: The self portrait of the Painter. [[spoiler:He softens up some when he starts teaching the group how to paint.]]
* HumansAreCthulhu: The Painter is, anyway.

* PluckyGirl: Lola

* PublicExecution: [[spoiler:Attempted on Claire and Ramo.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Ramo and Claire almost become this.]]

* TagAlongKid: Magenta
* TheGrimReaper: Is what is stalking the characters while they're in Venice.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:The intended side effect of Ramo and Claire's execution by being blended together with black paint.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: The Sketchies may have a human shape, but because they aren't painted or even completed, the Alldunns hunt them down as though they were animals. They even kick Gum to death on the basis that he sneaked into their party uninvited.

* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: The Sketchies may have a human shape, but because they aren't painted or even completed, the Alldunns hunt them down as though they were animals. They even kick Gum to death on the basis that he sneaked into their party uninvited.

The film begins in an unfinished painting where there are three classes- the Alldunns, the completed characters, the Halfies, the partially colored in ones, and the Sketchies, who are little more than, well, sketches. With tensions growing among the groups, Ramo, Lola and Plume travel to beyond the borders of the painting, in search of the mysterious painter, who had abandoned them long ago.

* DontGoInTheWoods: The Forest is a wild place where the Sketchies must hide so they aren't caught by the Alldunns. Also, there's a section of the Forest full of [[spoiler: supposedly]] man-eating flowers.

* GlassCannon: All it takes to [[spoiler: defeat the scythe-wielding Grim Reaper is to shove him.]]
* GrumpyOldMan: The self portrait of the Painter. [[spoiler: He softens up some when he starts teaching the group how to paint]].
* HumansAreCthulhu: The Painter is anyway.
* IAmWhatIAm: Lola mentions at the beginning of the movie that she does mind not being completely painted in. [[spoiler: When someone asks her why she's still not completely painted in, Lola doesn't answer, and the blank spot on her is still there at the end of the movie]].

* KnightTemplar: The Great Candlestick is perfectly fine with the way things are in the painting. The fact he gets to be in charge of, well, everything might have something to do with it.

* MadeOfPlasticine: Sketchies seem to be this. Gum is beaten to death by nothing more than some nobles kicking him and Quill risks being blown away just by the wind when the group heads to the edge of the painting. [[spoiler: These problems disappear when they're painted in]].
* MediumBlending: 3D animation (made to look like hand-drawn animation) mixed with live-action.
* PastLifeMemories: [[spoiler: Claire's dreams imply that she was based off of the Painter's lover. The fact her face is in the painter's sketchbook may be evidence of this.]]

* PublicExecution: [[spoiler: Attempted on Claire and Ramo]].
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Claire has long black hair and a pale face, but only because it hasn't been painted in (though the rest of her skin is) and she isn't considered beautiful. [[spoiler: When Ramo paints her face later, there's considerably more color]].
* RogerRabbitEffect: Leaving a painting takes one to the real world. [[spoiler: Perhaps]].

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Ramo and Claire almost become this]].
* SuddenlySuitableSuitor: [[spoiler: When all of the Halfies and Sketchies (except Lola) get fully painted, presumably no one would have a problem with Ramo and Claire being together anymore]].

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: The intended side-effect of Ramo and Claire's execution by being blended together with black paint]].
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: The Sketchies may have a human shape, but because they aren't painted or even completed, the Alldunns hunt them down as though they were animals. They even kick Gum to death on the basis that he snuck into their party uninvited.

* FantasticCasteSystem: The Alldunns are fully painted and the elite, the Halfies partially painted (no matter how close to complete) and are essentially the poor, and the Sketchies basically [[CaptainObvious sketches]] and are reviled by everyone else.

* AsYouAllKnow: The Great Candlestick's speech to the Alldunns gives exposition about the FantasticCasteSystem and how Alldunns look down upon the unfinished Halfies and Sketchies.

* FoodFight: It's not with food, but a fight like this breaks out with paint instead.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Quill. He may be pessimistic and distrustful towards Lola and Ramo, but he's deep down, he's a good person.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: The intended side-effect of Ramo and Claire's execution by being blended together with black paint]].

* GlassCanon: All it takes to [[spoiler: defeat the Grim Reaper is to shove him.]]

The film begins in an unfinished painting where there are three classes- the Alldunns, the competed characters, the Halfies, the partially colored in ones, and the Sketchies, who are little more than, well, sketches. With tensions growing among the groups, Ramo, Lola and Plume travel to beyond the borders of the painting, in search of the mysterious painter, who had abandoned them long ago.

* ForeverWar: In Magenta's painting, the soldiers can't even comprehend the idea of peace. They hae no idea what they're fighting over, either.