History WesternAnimation / TheTripletsOfBelleville

* PositiveDiscrimination: The female protagonists are resourceful, creative and generous. All male characters are either villains or weak and passive people -- or turn into horny monkeys.

* HugeGirlTinyGuy: The entire audience in attendance of the Triplets' vaudeville show at the beginning of the movie is composed of large, fat women and their minuscule husbands.

* UnusualUninterestingSight: During the opening vaudeville act, the Triplets witness one of their accompanying acts get mobbed by lustful fans and another get ''eaten by his dance shoes'', yet continue acting as though this were AllPartOfTheShow.

* TakeThat: The scene which shows the run-down apartment house where the Triplettes have to live also shows for a few seconds a toilet clearly not flushed; the feces form the famous Mickey Mouse head.

* MusclesAreMeaningful: The only part of Champion's body that isn't twig thin are his overly-muscled calves. [[spoiler: During the climax, he's proven to have developed superhuman strength within them.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The cyclist who drops out of the Tour de France first due to exhaustion also ends up being the first to pass out on the mafia's simulated bike race, [[YouHaveFailedMe which ends up getting him killed]]. Champion and the guy who passed out second manage to hold out till the end.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: The cyclist who drops out of the Tour de France first due to exhaustion also ends up being the first to pass out on the mafia's simulated bike race, [[YouHaveFailedMe which ends up getting him killed. Champion and the guy who passed out second manage to hold out till the end.]]

* TheEeyore: Champion always looks sad and tired, though it's possible that his face just naturally looks that way, as he wears a contented smile as he listens to his pedal-powered record player.

* TheEeyore: Champion always looks sad and tired, though it's possible that his face just naturally looks that way, as he wears a contented smile as he goes to sleep after a day of TrainingFromHell.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Champion eventually tires out and gets off his bike while racing in the Tour de France, allowing the mafia to capture him, but it's implied the only reason this occurred was because his grandmother wasn't around to continue blowing her training whistle behind him, which had developed a Pavlovian link with his cycling skills over the course of his TrainingFromHell. Notably, he simply gets off his bike and walks into the back of the mobsters' van when he gives up (compared to the other two kidnapped racers who collapsed on the side of the road from exhaustion and were carried in against their will), and is later shown to [[spoiler: have the strength and stamina to easily move an entire stage carrying several people during the climax so long as Madame Souza is blowing her whistle.]]

* WorfHadTheFlu: Champion eventually tires out and gets off his bike while racing in the Tour de France, allowing the mafia to capture him, but it's implied the only reason this occurred was because his grandmother wasn't around to continue blowing her training whistle behind him, which had developed a Pavlovian link to his cycling skills over the course of his TrainingFromHell. Notably, he simply gets off his bike and walks into the back of the mobsters' van when he gives up (compared to the other two kidnapped racers who collapsed on the side of the road from exhaustion and were carried in against their will), and is later shown to [[spoiler: have the strength and stamina to easily move an entire stage carrying several people during the climax so long as Madame Souza is blowing her whistle.]]

* TheQuietOne: Champion. While we hear him make noises a few times as a kid, he's totally silent as a grown man. [[spoiler: The DistantEpilogue has him speak his one and only actual line as an old man.]]

* AscendedFanboy: Champion; as a kid he has a journal full of newspaper clippings of professional bike races. As an adult he's competing in the Tour de France.

* BigThinShortTrio: While the Triplets are all around the same height, one has a

%%* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Though the movie embodies the classic cell animation style, there are moments where one notices conspicuous CG.

%% * AdjustingYourGlasses: Very often with Madame Souza and she adjusts them from the side.

* EyesAlwaysShut: The mafia Dons and the triplets, whose eyes are shown squinted and hidden behind their wrinkles. The maître d tries to do this, but fails at it.

%% * GratuitousItalian: The song heard in the barbershop, which is [[BilingualBonus fucking hilarious if you actually know Italian]].
%% * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Madame Souza's terrible song at the piano in the Triplets' house.

** The film pokes fun at various aspects of the French, such as frog-eating (the Triplets dine on tadpole-seasoned frogs), their obsession with the Tour de France (or the Circuit de France as it's called in-world) and the French's infamous poor-quality [[TheAllegedCar cars]]. Wine is also very prominent with all French characters.

* PaperThinDisguise: Souza's disguising herself as the mechanic, with oven mitts for ears, a false mustache and buck teeth the triplets paste onto Madame Souza's upper lip.

* RedOniBlueOni: The expressive, jovial triplets and the reserved, stoic Madame Souza, respectively.

** When Souza and the triplets are looking through the pictures in the mechanic's wallet, one is of him standing with a Disneyland-esque character and he's holding a lollipop that reads 'sucker'.

* ArtShift: After the opening 1930s-style TV broadcast, the art style changes to what we see in the above image

%% * BigFriendlyDog: Bruno

%% * BookEnds: The only spoken dialogue that Madame Souza has in the movie.

%% * CoolOldLady: Both Madame Souza and the Triplets.

%% * EmpathyPet: To an extent, Bruno.

%% * GiantMook: The Mafia bodyguards are reminiscent of refrigerators.

%% * NoodlePeople: The maître d'.