History WesternAnimation / ThePrinceOfEgypt

* BareYourMidriff: Zigzagged. Tzipporah is first introduced in an outfit with a midriff-baring top. She wears a different outfit that averts the trope for the rest of the movie. Justified, since she was introduced as a concubine for Rameses.
** Interestingly, Rameses is a WalkingShirtlessScene for a majority of the film, but he's seen wearing one of these tops during the [[spoiler: confrontation at the Red Sea]], not only making him a RareMaleExample of this trope, but also a rare downgrade from a WalkingShirtlessScene to a BareYourMidriff, ''and'' a total inversion of Tzipporah as well. However, his example is in a less fanservicey [[{{Pun}} fashion]] than hers.

* BigFun: Jethro.

** Interestingly, Rameses is a WalkingShirtlessScene for a majority of the film, but he's seen wearing one of these tops during the [[spoiler: confrontation at the Red Sea]], not only making him a a RareMaleExample of this trope, but also a rare downgrade from a WalkingShirtlessScene to a BareYourMidriff, ''and'' a total inversion of Tzipporah as well. However, his example is in a less fanservicey [[{{Pun}} fashion]] than hers.

** In Exodus Moses actually had Aaron speak to Pharaoh on his behalf and also perform most of the miracles, as Moses was a poor orator. In this film Moses speaks to Pharaoh himself, which is common in adaptations of Exodus.

** The Bible never identifies Pharaoh by name, but the film goes with Seti I as the Pharaoh who ordered the purge, and Ramses II as the Pharaoh at the time of the Plagues. This is one possibility, but not one considered very likely by most scholars, mostly because Egypt thrived under Ramses II and Canaan was part of the Egyptian Empire during his time. Most scholars today do not even think the Exodus story really happened in the specific manner described in the Bible, time-wise. In fact, the term "Pharaoh" wasn't even used until after Ramses died, so clearly it was written down later.

** The Bible never identifies Pharaoh by name, but the film goes with Seti I as the Pharaoh who ordered the purge, and Ramses II as the Pharaoh at the time of the Plagues. This is one possibility, but not one considered very likely by most scholars, mostly because Egypt thrived under Ramses II and Canaan was part of the Egyptian Empire during his time. Most scholars today do not even think the Exodus story really happened, or at least not in anything like the manner described in the Bible. In fact, the term "Pharaoh" wasn't even used until after Ramses died, so clearly it was written down later.

* AnimatedMusical: The film won an Oscar for its songs.

* {{Epigraph}}: The film ends on Moses-centric quotations from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an, emphasizing how he became an important figure to all three Abrahamic religions.

* {{Negative Space Wedgie}}: The Angel of Death appears as a strange unexplained comet-like structure as it heralds the last of the Ten Plagues.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NieC8KA0EvI When You Believe]]" has a segment where a children's chorus begins singing in Hebrew a verse praising God for His deliverance of the Isrealites.

* TheMockbuster: There were not [[WesternAnimation/MosesEygptsGreatPrince one]], not two, but ''three'' direct-to-video cash-ins that were not only released the same year as ''Prince Of Egypt'', but (in the case of two of them) made little to no attempt in changing their titles.

** Aaron, in the background, when Miriam tells Moses “You’re our brother."

* HandsInPockets: An accidental example. There's a scene of Moses tending to the sheep right before he meets the burning bush. According to the directors, the animators realized too late that they mistakenly made him barefoot in this scene, making a noticeable continuity error since he has to have sandals to take off at God's order. Their solution was to cover his feet by adding more sheep because it was easier than reanimating what they already had.

** ZigzaggedTrope with Moses' staff devouring Huy and Hotep's snakes. The shot initially cuts away from the three snakes striking at one another to their shadows, showing Moses' snatching one of the others, before cutting to Hotep and Huy singing, then cutting back to the shadow of Moses' snake now devouring both of the others, then panning back to Moses' snake as the tails of the other snakes disappear down its throat.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Hotep and Huy's snake conjuration was done with such theatrics that it is hard to tell if they actually did magic or just managed some sleight of hand, although at some points in their song, the positions they're in could only be managed by {{Offscreen Teleportation}}, walking off in one direction and coming in from another, or disappearing in a puff of smoke (unless they had some ''very'' well-trained slaves acting as body doubles). They also do some unambiguous magic in the same song, summoning glowing sigils in the air and controlling flames; it makes the actual stick-to-snake trick seem kind of petty. Their attempt at turning water to blood and other "magic", however, is demonstrably accomplished through showmanship and artificial tools.[[note]]While the stick-to-snake trick had a lot of unnecessary flash, it's rather hard to believe two cowards like them would handle live snakes - that haven't even been defanged! - barehanded unless they had ''something'' controlling the critters.[[/note]]

* AnachronismStew: For all the filmmakers' efforts to accurately portray 19th-Dynasty Egypt, [[CriticalResearchFailure some mistakes managed to slip through the cracks]]:

''Deliver us, there's a land you promised us.''\\

--->''I send the locusts on a wind/Such as the world has never seen/On every leaf, on every stalk/Until there's nothing left of green/I send my scourge, I send my sword/THUS SAITH THE LORD.''

I send my scourge, I send my sword\\

* SelfImposedExile: Moses' departure from Egypt was an act of self-exile, unlike in [[Literature/TheBible the source material]] (where he fled to escape punishment) and ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'' (where it ''is'' his punishment).

%%* FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
%%** The Cynic - Aaron
%%** The Optimist - Miriam. No matter how hard her life as a slave gets, she never loses faith, and she encourages those around her to do the same.
%%** The Realist - Moses
%%** The Apathetic One - Tzipporah

%% * BibleTimes

%%** The Optimist - Miriam

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* CherubicChoir: When the Israelites are finally leaving Egypt, a song of praise to God is being sung by children in the background. In Hebrew, no less. The song in question is taken straight from the original Biblical text of the song sung by the Hebrews while crossing the Red Sea.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Moses (until he goes back to the Hebrews) and Rameses.