History WesternAnimation / TrollhuntersRiseOfTheTitans

* BigGood: Taking the role as [[TheCaretaker Nari's main protector]], Douxie serves the most powerful force for good among the heroes and the Arcane Order's main obstacle in their goals.

* AesopAmnesia: {{Justified}}.

* LogoJoke: The Krohnisfere device (displaying scenes from the film) forms the Creator/DreamWorks Animation logo, and Jim steps out of the crescent where the fishing boy would go and holds his sword high.

[[caption-width-right:350:''This summer...they will rise.'']]

* IGotBigger: Puberty was very kind of Eli, though he lampshades that spending it on an alien world certainly helped.
* KungFuWizard: In addition to her magical prows, Bellroc is also proficient in using her magic staff as a spear in close combat, allowing her to hold Jim off when the anti-magic beam blasts her on the train, though she is clearly on the back foot until her magic returns.[[spoiler:Once Jim gains his Magitech Trollhunter armor, with the implied ability to allow him to nullify or cut her magic attacks down, Bellroc is able to hold him off for a while in an impromptu duel, but ultimately Jim's greater combat skills win out and he cuts her staff in two.]]

** [[spoiler:Jim's Akiridion Magitech armor seems to come with this as a feature, as Jim cuts right through Bellroc's fireball with Excalibur when previously the blade alone couldn't stop the force of the blast. This forces Bellroc to finish the fight with him close-range, where Jim is in his element, contributing to the rest of the fight being a CurbStompCushion in his favor.]]

* MilitariesAreUseless: A group of armed jets fly to battle the lava titan, but are blasted off-screen as Jim, Toby, and Aja watch in horror. Likewise, Akiridion weapons, aside from the AntiMagic device, are at best a stalling tactic against the magical prowess of the Order.

* PetTheDog: Subverted. In the final battle, Bellroc has Jim dead-to-rights and could easily strike him down, but instead offers to let him spend his final moments with his friends before the end of all things. It's clear that it's merely an act of CruelMercy just to make Jim give up. Naturally, [[TheDeterminer Jim refuses to surrender]], even when there's no hope, [[spoiler:which calls the reforged Trollhunter Amulet to him and allows him to fight Bellroc on equal grounds]].

* OhCrap: Played for laughs when Steve thinks that kissing Aja has [[spoiler:made her pregnant]], and then doubly so when he's informed [[spoiler:it made ''him'' pregnant]].

* PetTheDog: In the final battle, Bellroc has Jim dead-to-rights and could easily strike him down, but instead offers to let him spend his final moments with his friends before the end of all things. Jim refuses to surrender, even when there's no hope, [[spoiler:which calls the reforged Trollhunter Amulet to him and makes him the Trollhunter once more]].

* CreationMyth: [[spoiler:Blinky reads from Merlin's Grimoire that the Arcane Order created the universe eons ago, using the Titans as their handmaidens in the process of creation. Later on, Bellroc and Skrael tell Douxie (who is in Nari's body) that the world was created as a paradise for all life, but now that humanity has disrupted and abused that balance, they should wipe them out and restart the world. The insinuation is that the Arcane Order created the cosmos, including the Earth, and was disappointed that it didn't turn out the way it was expected to. Nothing in the movie is said otherwise.]]

** [[spoiler:Jim undoes the whole franchise all because of Toby dying and even has Toby take up his job; never mind that he’s aware that he can’t prevent every tragedy. That being said, many parts of the world were reduced to chaos by the titans' rampages, and Toby, Nari, Nomura, and Strickler weren't the only ones who lost their lives to them; countless innocent people were caught in the conflict and many were lost in the process. If anything, Jim didn't go back in time ''just'' to save Toby, but also the future itself because the tragedy the titans have inflicted on everyone was simply ''too much'' to handle.]]
** [[spoiler:Additionally, Jim’s been to a place that literally tells him that being a Trollhunter is his "true" destiny. Of course, Blinky once told Jim that while the amulet made Jim the Trollhunter, he made himself a hero. Jim finally accepts himself as a hero and a Trollhunter (with or without the amulet) and, because of Toby's selfless deeds, he ultimately sees that Toby deserves to experience his own life as a hero.]]

* BigBad: Bellroc turns out to be this by the end of the movie, which is quite fitting as she is the leader of the Arcane Order with Skrael as TheDragon.
* BittersweetEnding: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:The movie and the franchise as a whole end this way, with the heroes managing to stop the titans and save the world, but at a massive cost, with several of the heroes already dead and large parts of the world destroyed due to the titans' rampage. Jim realizes that Nari's last words to him were not about the Kronisphere being used to stop the titans' rampage, but rather being used to right the devastation wrought by the fighting. In order to make sure that everybody gets a happier ending than they got themselves, Jim ends up going back in time to the day he became a Trollhunter, with only himself aware of it, to try and create a better future for everyone. This effectively undoes ''the entire franchise'' back to square one, but all of Jim's loved ones are still alive and Jim is planning to use his knowledge of the future to achieve a happier outcome for everyone, now aware of what threats are coming and how to deal with them.]]

* BookEnds:

* CreationMyth: [[spoiler:Blinky reads from Merlin's Grimoire that the Arcane Order created the universe eons ago, using the Titans as their handmaidens in the process of creation. Later on, Bellroc and Skrael tell Douxie (who is in Nari's body) that the world was created as a paradise for all life, but now that humanity has disrupted and abused that balance, they should wipe them out and restart the world. The insinuation is that the Arcane Order created the cosmos, including the Earth, and was disappointed that it didn't turn out the way it was expected to be. Nothing in the movie is said otherwise.]]
* CrystalBall: The Kronisphere is an AncientArtifact that can predict [[MultipleChoiceFuture potential futures]] for those who stare into it, [[spoiler:this being because it houses the [[DeusExMachina Time Stone]]]]. The Trolldragon Zong Shi hoarded it and does nothing but stare at it so that [[MortalityPhobia he could avoid anything that could lead to his death]].

* DeathByLookingUp: Zong-Shi looks into the Kronisphere and sees himself being crushed by debris. Then he looks up and it happens.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: [[spoiler:To fix the damage and lives lost during the Arcane Order's rampages, Jim turns back time to the day that he first gained the Trollhunter amulet, with only himself aware of the true "past" that occurred. However, it's stated that Jim will be using his knowledge of future events to make sure that things don't turn out so disastrously for everyone, with Toby taking up the role of the Trollhunter in the new timeline, and Jim aware of the coming threats to Arcadia and how best to beat them.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: In the past, Bellroc was the one to kill the original wielder of Excalibur. [[spoiler:In the present, she finally meets her ends at the hands of the newest wielder of the blade]]. Additionally, Bellroc spends most of their interactions mocking Jim for being so powerless and weak without the Trollhunter Amulet empowering him anymore, looking down on him as being a pathetic human who can't do anything without magical aid. [[spoiler:When Toby hits her with the AntiMagic beam, Bellroc is shown to be helpless against the Magitech-powered Jim without her magic, being forced into exactly the same situation Jim was when she was beating him up prior to the amulet's arrival, and unable to resist as fiercely as he did against a superior opponent, showing herself to be the pathetic and powerless one between them]].

** Camelot has since been upgraded with Akiridion technology, using hard light constructs to cover some of the battle damage and otherwise supplementing the castle's defenses.

* RememberTheNewGuy: The location of the Kronisphere is in the realm of the Troll Dragons, a species of troll who have never been brought up before in the series. Justified because not only do they live far away in China, but they are also disconnected from magic and very secretive.

* {{Synchronization}}: The Titans and their respective Arcane Order controllers seem to share pain sensations between them, as [[spoiler:Skrael and Nari each react as if they themselves were being stabbed when their titans impale each other, and Nari growing plants within the ice Titan also causes plant matter to consume Skrael from within. This is not shown to happen when the titans are damaged through non-magical means -- Bellroc isn't affected by the Fire Titan losing an arm to Gun Robot, and Skrael is able to reform the Ice Titan when it's blasted apart by normal explosives -- suggesting that it has to be magic (or each other, specifically) for them to be harmed.]]

* VoicesAreMental: When Douxie switches bodies with Nari to prevent the Arcane Order from taking her, Nari speaks with her voice coming out of Douxie’s body and vice-versa.

* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:Literally. In addition to the final fight taking place in Arcadia, Jim decides to use the time stone from the Kronisphere to turn back time to the day he first found the Trollhunter amulet, re-doing the opening scenes of the first episode and effectively resetting the ''entire franchise'' up to that point. However, Jim plans to use his knowledge of the future to achieve a better ending for everybody on [[MySecondGreatestChance this second attempt]], starting by directing Toby to become the first human Trollhunter instead of himself.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: This movie manages to contain more action and much higher stakes than the previous three ''Tales of Arcadia'' series. An assortment of characters die, gruesomely in some cases, and [[spoiler:even when the day is saved, it is at the cost of the lives of many friends. Jim however, manages to undo this with the Kronisphere.]]

** Zong Shi’s hand is the only part of his body visible when he gets crushed by falling rubble.
* DeathByLookingUp: Zong Shi looks into the Kronisphere and sees himself being crushed by debris. Then he looks up and it happens.

** In order to beat the Arcane Order, the united groups decide to get a future-scrying item called the Kronisphere from a Trolldragon named Zong Shi, who is so fearful of death that he peers constantly into the device to see his future and avoid misfortune. [[spoiler: During a struggle for the Kronisphere, it gets temporarily taken away from Zong Shi, and when he recovers it, the fighting between Bellroc on the Fire Titan and Zarvatos piloting a HumongousMecha styled after Gun Robot in the bay above causes the cavern roof to start collapsing, resulting in Zong Shi getting a vision of himself getting crushed to death by rubble seconds before [[DeathByLookingUp he looks up and sees his incoming doom]].]]