History WesternAnimation / Zarafa

** A food bowl with bamboo-like plant is shown in koalas enclosure. [[note]]Aside from koalas not eating bamboo, they cannot even recognize their actual food - eucalyptus - if it's not on a branch.[[/note]]

The film focuses on a young slave boy named Maki who, while escaping his master, Moreno, encounters a baby giraffe whose mother is killed by the master. Before he could be taken back into the slave camp, Maki is rescued by a nomad named Hassan, who names the giraffe Zarafa and looks after them both. They come across a merchant named Mahmoud, who gives them a pair of Tibetan cows named Mounh and Souhn. Then Maki discovers his friend, Soula, being abused by Moreno. The two are once again saved by Hassan. It turns out that Hassan is actually trying to reach Mehemet in Egypt, who wishes to offer a baby giraffe to king Charles X in Paris. Accompanied by an areonaut named Malaterre, the group decides to take Zarafa there in a balloon.

** A food bowl with bamboo-like plant is shown in koalas enclosure.

* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his baby giraffe. Maki makes a promise to Zarafa's mother and he'll take care of her, and the movie centers around their relationship.
* ADogNamedDog: Zarafa's name is literally "giraffe" in Arabic.

* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler:Maki.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted: [[spoiler:Maki and Soula bite Moreno's hands and send him plummeting from the balloon from a considerable height, seemingly spelling his end. He survives, but [[BearsAreBadNews fell into the polar bear enclosure]] and is eaten alive.]]

* BearsAreBadNews: [[spoiler: Moreno falls into a polar bear enclosure near the end of the movie and is promptly devoured by the polar bear.]]

* JustDesserts:[[spoiler: Moreno is eaten alive by a polar bear after falling into the enclosure]].

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Hassan shows up at the end to save Maki from Moreno.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Maki makes it out of the movie alive, but Zarafa is trapped in a zoo. At least another giraffe is brought to the zoo so she won’t be alone. Hassan has also become an alcoholic after losing Maki, but it was shown that he recovered in the hospital and fell in love with Bouboulina.]]

** A hippo's tail is too long and slender.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Maki makes it out of the movie alive, but Zarafa is trapped in a zoo. Hassan has also become an alcoholic after losing Maki, but it was shown that he recovered in the hospital and fell in love with Bouboulina.]]

* MadeASlave: Maki and Soula at the beginning.

* SavageWolves: A pack of these takes one of the cows. [[spoiler:One of the is killed]].

* SavageWolves: A pack of these takes one of the cows.

* GenialGiraffe: Zarafa.

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Maki and Soula marry and raise a whole village.]]

* TheAlcoholic: Hassan becomes this at the end.
* ADogNamedDog: Zarafa's name is literally "giraffe" in Arabic.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Maki makes it out of the movie alive, but Zarafa is trapped in a zoo. Hassan has also become an alcoholic after losing Maki, but it was shown that he recovered in the hospital and tell in love with Bouboulina.]]

* LooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It is actually based on the journey of a real life giraffe, albeit you can easily spot where the historical embellishment comes through.

* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler: Maki.]]

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Hassan. He gets better.]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: See above.

* HisToricalVillainUpgrade and HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The Turks and Greeks for some reason are switched in regards to their conflicts with Egypt.

%% * ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his baby giraffe. %% Add more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%

* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his baby giraffe.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Maki makes it out of the movie alive, but Zarafa is trapped in a zoo.]]

The film focuses on a young slave boy named Maki who, while escaping his master, Moreno, he encounters the titular baby giraffe, whose mother is killed by the master. Before he could be taken back into the slave camp, Maki is rescued by a nomad named Hassan, who gives Zarafa her name and looks after them both. They come across a merchant named Mahmoud, who gives them a pair of Tibetan cows named Mounh and Souhn. Then Maki discovers his friend, Soula, being abused by Moreno. The two are once again saved by Hassan. It turns out that Hassan is actually trying to reach Mehemet in Egypt, who wishes to offer a baby giraffe to Charles X in Paris. Accompanied by an areonaut named Malaterre, the group decides to take Zarafa there in a balloon.