Line #74 Film/JungleCruise


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Of all the jungle cruises you can take in the Amazon, this one is undoubtedly the cheapest, but also the most thrilling."'']]
3	->''"Legend has it there is a tree in the Amazon that possesses unparalleled healing powers. And the Arrowhead is the key to unlocking it."''
4	-->-- '''Lily Houghton'''
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6	''Jungle Cruise'' is a 2021 adventure film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, produced by Creator/WaltDisneyPictures and based on the Ride/DisneyThemeParks ride [[Ride/JungleCruise of the same name]], and in turn loosely based on ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', the film that inspired the ride.
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8	Set during the early 20th century, a riverboat captain named Frank Wolff (Creator/DwayneJohnson) takes Lily Houghton (Creator/EmilyBlunt), an English scientist, and her brother [=MacGregor=] (Creator/JackWhitehall) on a mission into a jungle to find the Tree of Life, which is believed to possess healing powers. All the while, the trio must fight against dangerous wild animals, a competing German expedition and a rather unexpected [[UsefulNotes/LopeDeAguirre enemy]].
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10	The film also stars Creator/EdgarRamirez, Creator/JessePlemons and Creator/PaulGiamatti. It was released on July 30, 2021, simultaneously in theaters and on Creator/DisneyPlus with Premier Access. The film became available to all Disney+ subscribers on November 12, 2021. In August 2021, it was announced a sequel, again featuring Johnson and Blunt, had been greenlit.
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12	Previews: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydnzilTiBcY Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_HvoipFcA8 Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJZ82pwwJqA Trailer 2]].
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14	!!''Jungle Cruise'' contains examples of:
15	* AccidentalMurder: [=MacGregor=] punches [[spoiler:Joachim]] into a wall, who then happens to be crushed by a piece of stone that falls from above. [=MacGregor=] immediately lampshades that he didn't mean for that to happen.
16	* ActionGirl: Lily is quite the swashbuckler, having even more stunts than Frank, as well as throwing a pretty solid punch.
17	* AdaptationExpansion: Like with ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Jungle Cruise'' adds plenty of new characters and lore that didn't exist in the original ride, such as the Tears of the Moon, the tree that can heal anything, the Conquistadors who were cursed while trying to take it, the Germans seeking to seize it for their war effort, and many of the Amazon creatures in general as the Amazon River has the most minimal role of all the rivers in the ride, being primarily represented by piranhas or Inspiration Falls depending on the version.
18	* AffectionateNickname: Lily and Frank playfully refer to each other as "Pants" and "Skippy" respectively.
19	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Shortly after getting the arrowhead from the society, Lily and [=MacGregor=] recount an [[NoodleIncident incident]] where he apparently lost two toes from an expedition to Bhutan when he was 7 when [=MacGregor=] is arguing against joining her on her planned Amazon trip. Later, he hurts the other foot when escaping from Aguirre and his men.
20	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Proxima the jaguar acts a lot like a dog.
21	* AmbiguouslyGay: [=MacGregor=] is rather heavily implied to be gay, but not explicitly said to be so. He admits to Frank that he has rejected three attempts by his family to marry him off to highborn young ladies because his affections lie "elsewhere," and his sister Lily is the only relative who doesn't regard him with disgust. Given the social conventions of upper-class Edwardian English society, it's ''possible'' that he's talking about being in love with a working-class ''woman'', but his evasive description (and the fact that he's an able-bodied military-age male who's ''not'' in the army at the height of WWI), and the fact he never mentions an actual love interest and the specification that he could not accept ''any'' offer (which could be loyalty to another woman he has fallen for, but is more likely to mean that the issue is in the gender) pushes the audience's suspicions pretty far in the other direction. It's worth noting that this is accurate for the time period the movie is set in.
22	* AmusingInjuries: Poor Frank gets punched a whole lot. [[spoiler:And after he's revealed to be immortal, he gets even worse, since he can survive things like being stabbed, shot, and attacked by piranha.]]
23	* AndIMustScream: Tired of Aguirre and his crew constantly tracking him down, Francisco lured them into a trap that dropped them down into a cave out of sight of the river. When the jungle tried to drag them back, they were immobilized, turned to stone, and their bodies began to erode, becoming part of the jungle itself. [[spoiler:At the end, he leaves them in the same state once again, and nearly suffers this fate himself.]]
24	* AndStarring: "With Creator/JessePlemons, And Creator/PaulGiamatti"
25	* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: At one point, Lily and Frank discuss [[spoiler:Aguirre's cartographer, with Frank saying that he spent his life searching for the Tears of the Moon to no avail. He fails to mention that ''he'' was said cartographer, and had been searching for the Tears of the Moon for centuries.]]
26	* AngryAngryHippos: Invoked. During his boats trips, Frank uses a fake hippopotamus to scare the tourists, even though (As one of the tourists points out) hippos don't live in the Amazon.
27	* ArtisticLicenseFirearms:
28	** When Joachim shoots at Frank's steamboat with dual mounted machine guns, he runs out of ammo, calls for "reload", and then sits around as if he expects it to happen automatically (the actual reloading process occurs offscreen). The guns he's using have ammo drums that have to be swapped out manually.
29	** At least one of the German soldiers uses an American shotgun despite being a member of the Imperial German Navy (and Imperial Germany's contentious relationship with shotguns on the battlefield, which [[ArtisticLicenceLaw they insisted was a war crime]]).
30	* ArtisticLicenseShips:
31	** Frank's riverboat, ''La Quila'', doesn't make much sense mechanically. The "engine" seen being lifted out of the ship near the start of the film looks vaguely like a dressed-up steam engine piston assembly, but it has no obvious physical connection to the firebox or propeller (such connections would also make the engine more difficult to remove and reattach than shown). The firebox is misplaced, being located in a stove-like chamber at the base of the (excessively large) funnel instead of being under the boiler (which either doesn't exist, or is also not where it should be). The mechanical parts of the ship in general are overdressed with pointless components and pipes while the actual working parts are too small for a boat the size and speed of the ''Quila'' (an engine with one or two pistons, a stove-size firebox, and a boiler small enough to stow away are more fitting for the small steam launches used by the real-life ride).
32	** The interior of Joachim's U-Boat is excessively roomy, to the point where it's not immediately obvious that the scenes taking place in his personal study are actually inside a part of the sub until he opens the door. Needless to say, this sort of accommodation would not be possible in a World War One-era submarine (which were notoriously cramped, greasy, and generally filthy).
33	* AristocratsAreEvil: Prince Joachim is one of the main antagonists of the movie, seeking the Tree of Life to use its powers to win the war for Imperial Germany.
34	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
35	** [=MacGregor=] sums up Lily's excursion at the Society.
36	--->'''[=MacGregor=]:''' Breaking and entering, larceny and, worst of all, having to take public transport.
37	** At the end, when [=MacGregor=] is [[spoiler: telling the Society about the adventure, they seem to take in all the crazy exploits, the battles with evil Germans and the undead monstrous conquistadors...but it's when he mentions a ''woman'' being chief of a native tribe that the Society members act in outraged disbelief, as if they're unaware of the female monarchs their own country has had in the past—including Queen Victoria, whose reign had only ended with her death in 1901, ''well within living memory of the setting'']].
38	* AwesomeButImpractical: A German U-boat might have allowed Joachim to smuggle himself and a crew of supporters into the Amazon river undetected, as well as boasting more offensive capability that anything else in the river, but U-boats were built for the open ocean, ''not'' rivers. Even a river as big as the Amazon can only barely fit the sub, and the closest it gets to being a threat is at the start of the journey, when the river mouth is widest and Joachim can maneuver without too much difficultly, allowing him to bring the guns and torpedoes on board to bear against Frank's decisively less well-equipped craft, but once Frank used his boat's smaller size and greater agility to his advantage, Joachim accomplishes little to inconvenience him, save wrecking Nilo's rival boating company in the crossfire. By the time of the FinalBattle, the submarine becomes beached when Frank and Lily uncover the secret entrance to the Tears of the Moon through lowering the water level in the basin they're in, whereas Frank's boat can still proceed through to the tree no problem.
39	-->'''Frank:''' Who brings a submarine to the Amazon?
40	* TheBarnum: Frank's "thrilling" cruise is purposefully engineered to be exciting without any real danger, using fake submerged hippos and natives acting the part of blowgun-wielding "marauders".
41	* BeastlyBloodsports: In the bar where Lily and [=MacGregor=] meet Frank, some fights between [[SpidersAreScary spiders]] and [[ScaryScorpions scorpions]] are organized.
42	* BeenThereShapedHistory: A mild case as it turns out [[spoiler:Frank is the one who founded the town he lives in centuries before]].
43	* BelligerentSexualTension: It does not take long after Frank and Lily meet for them to [[ArsonMurderAndLifesaving start bickering, giving each other sassy nicknames, and saving each other's lives]].
44	* BigBadDuumvirate: Prince Joachim and [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/LopeDeAguirre]] are the main villains of the movie.
45	* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:The name of Frank's original rescued animal was the Spanish phrase La Proxima[[note]](Meaning "The Next")[[/note]]. It was also the name of the next one, and the next one, and the next one.]]
46	* BlingOfWar: Aguirre's armor was both more ornamental than the rest of his troops and gilded with gold.
47	* BloodlessCarnage: Justified in Frank's case as [[spoiler:a side-effect of the curse prevents him from losing any blood. When the curse stops working again, he happily notes that he's bleeding]].
48	* BookEnds: The film begins with [=MacGregor=] giving a speech to the Society, stuttering and using cue cards from Lily while going along as a distraction to ask for their approval. The movie ends with him giving his own speech and fully confident after his CharacterDevelopment, soundly and rightfully rejecting their request for Lily to join on her own behalf.
49	* BrickJoke: Early on in the film, Lily taunts Joachim by switching the arrowhead in it's container with a Toucan toy that was in the same packaging crate. Joachim keeps hold of it, and in the finale [[spoiler:Frank does the same thing to Aguirre, pretending the Toucan toy wrapped up in a cloth is the Petal they're fighting over to distract him long enough for his boat to ram and block the river entrance to the chamber they're in, activating their curse's restrictions against all 5 of them]].
50	* BrotherSisterTeam: Lily and [=MacGregor=] Houghton. Lily's adventurous and determined, and [=MacGregor=] goes with her to keep her out of trouble. Also counts as MasculineGirlFeminineBoy.
51	* ButtMonkey:
52	** Poor Nilo, getting his boating company caught in the crossfire of a ''submarine''.
53	** Also [=MacGregor=], who gets repeatedly dragged into his sister Lily's adventures. Apparently, one such expedition cost him two toes.
54	* ButNotTooGay: Billed as yet Disney's most recent "first openly gay character"[[note]](after Artie in ''Film/{{Cruella}}'', [=LeFou=] in ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast\|2017}}'', Officer Spector in ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'', Larma D’Acy and Wrobie Tyce in ''Film/{{The Rise Of Skywalker}}'' and that one guy Joe Russo played in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'')[[/note]] [=MacGregor=] merely says his "interests lie elsewhere" when discussing his past refusal to marry. (Just to cement that it's this trope, he talks of being ostracized because of "who I love," but has no love interest whatsoever in the film.) Justified in that the timeframe is [=WW1=] and England was known to arrest gay people for 'crime of indecency' so he at least has an excuse of not wanting to discuss it out-loud.
55	* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: [=MacGregor=] is a downplayed example. Lily has a tendency to let her adventurous tendencies get the better of her, while the cooler-headed [=MacGregor=] helps to save her from whatever situation she's put herself in. The opening demonstrates this well when Lily is hanging over a busy street, and [=MacGregor=] gets a double-decker bus to stop under her, allowing her to drop down safely.
56	* CompleteImmortality: The conquistadors [[spoiler:including Frank]] are immune to any form of death, including old age or injury. No matter how damaged they are, they'll just regenerate. The only way to circumvent this is to break their curse with the Tears of the Moon.
57	* CurseCutShort: Frank gets out an "Oh, shi--" before getting taken out with a tranquilizer dart.
58	* DeadpanSnarker: How [=MacGregor=] copes with the situation.
59	* DeathByLookingUp: [[spoiler:[=MacGregor=] knocks Joachim against a wall that causes a pillar to fall on top of him, though he has enough time to let out an "Oh ''scheiße''" before he's crushed.]]
60	* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Frank, after experiencing WhoWantsToLiveForever. He gets over it after Lily lifts his curse and instead goes to London with her to live out his natural lifespan.]]
61	* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Lily pulls off one by proxy in the finale, [[spoiler:shooting Frank to make it look like she was betraying him for a chance at the Tears of the Moon. He wasn't really affected because of his curse, but it gave him the opportunity to fake it and go to rescue [=MacGregor=].]]
62	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Trader Sam likes a trade."
63	* {{Determinator}}:
64	** Lope de Aguirre was this, relentlessly venturing further into the Amazon jungle no matter how many losses he suffered, from his ship, to his crew falling one by one, to eventually himself succumbing to either exhaustion or disease before the natives found him and nursed him back to health. [[spoiler:Francisco reveals this was because his daughter was deathly ill, and he hoped to cure her with the petals, but it's tragically {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} as this very trait of his is ultimately what damns him to a FateWorseThanDeath twice over. The native chief cursed him and bound him to the river because he refused to turn back after finally finding proof of the Tears of the Moon and was willing to slaughter both the natives and even his own brother-in-arms Francisco if it meant getting the arrowhead, and his refusal to accept the consequences of his actions lead to him instead blaming Francisco when he became included in the conquistador's curse, hunting him down and repeatedly killing him over the years until Franciso was ''forced'' to subject him to TakenForGranite, because he would never stop coming after him otherwise]].
65	** Lily is also a good example. She ''will'' get the Tears of the Moon, and no undead conquistadores, German royalty, river rapids, naysaying from Frank, or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking sexist gentleman's club]] will stop her.
66	--->'''Frank:''' You should give up!\
67	'''Lily:''' ''You'' should give up the ''guitar''!
68	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Happens to Frank twice. First, during a fight with Aguirre, he's stabbed through the heart and falls into the river. Then it turns out that he's immortal. And later at the end of the final battle, he [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] by ramming his boat to block the river in order to defeat Aguirre once and for all, turning himself, Aguirre, and his men into stone. Then Lily gives him the petal, which revives him.]]
69	* DontExplainTheJoke: After making a pun about a pair of toucans fighting over something to eat (a game only two can play) that falls flat, Frank starts explaining that they're toucans and only two can play...get it? His passengers aren't impressed.
70	* DragonWithAnAgenda: Prince Joachim indulges in some EvilGloating about how first he will use the Tears to win the war, then TakeOverTheWorld, and finally "reign forever." Given that he's the ''youngest'' son of Kaiser Wilhelm, it sure doesn't sound like he plans on sharing immortality with Papa Willy or any of his five big brothers or his younger sister.
71	* DwindlingParty: Aguirre's expedition got hit with this, first losing their ship on the mouth of the river, then the entire crew dying one by one to the dangers of the jungle, with only 5 conquistadors, including Aguirre himself, being left on the verge of death by the time the native tribe found them and nursed them back to health with the Tears of the Moon. [[spoiler:Then that number dwindles down to 4 once Francisco turns on his compatriots when they start killing the natives to get the arrowhead]].
72	* DyingCurse: After being stabbed, the chief used his last breath to lay a curse on the five conquistadors [[spoiler:to live forever yet never be allowed to leave view of the Amazon River. This also saved his daughter, who had the Arrowhead, as the jungle dragged Aguirre away from her.]]
73	* EvilIsPetty: Prince Joachim's not only a greedy bastard, but he's also quite vindictive shown in the Royal Society at the beginning of the film when he murders many of Sir James's workers with his own hands just because the latter unintentionally mispronounced his name.
74	* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Unlike the similar curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', the Conquistadores' curse doesn't specifically do anything to their appearance, [[spoiler:as demonstrated by Frank/Francisco, their TokenGoodTeammate who looks totally normal]]. Their current BodyHorror is the indirect result of continuing to be evil after being cursed. [[spoiler:Francisco had to trap them in a cave away from the Amazon to stop them pursuing him. Since they were suddenly away from the river, the jungle tried to pull them back, but it couldn't get them through the surrounding stone, and instead merged them with the surroundings. Even after they're re-animated by Joachim bringing the river to them, their original bodies have suffered so badly from erosion that they were replaced with things like bees, mud, and snakes. Had they not gone after Francisco, they'd look much the same as they always had.]]
75	* ExactWords: When Joachim said that only one of them can get the petal, he asks Frank if was willing to give up his petal for Lily. Frank specifically said Lilly will have to kill him for it. So she does. [[spoiler:Or more specifically, she helps him fake his death so he could go help [=MacGregor=].]]
76	* FateWorseThanDeath: The conquistadors were cursed with immortality at the cost that they would always be drawn back to the river if they tried to go out of visual range of it. Later, [[spoiler:Francisco (Frank) managed to trap them in a pit so that they would be kept away from the river for centuries, their bodies collapsing and being 'replaced' by things ranging from bees to snakes until the German forces detonated explosives to send the river into the pit]]. This happens again at the end, [[spoiler:when the heroes use Frank's riverboat to cut off the flow of water into the temple; the curse drags them into the temple walls, where they will presumably stay forever]].
77	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Aquirre mentions getting revenge on a man named "Francisco" one minute before the reveal that [[spoiler:Frank is a former member of their group and is cursed as well]].
78	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
79	** Frank looks surprised when Lily shows the map...which makes sense as [[spoiler:he drew it and is amazed a copy got to England]].
80	** When Lily's about to make a deal with Nilo to take her on the Jungle Cruise instead of Frank once she discovers he's not Nilo, Frank gives a Wolf Whistle to get her attention. Shortly thereafter the bar they're in is attacked by a jaguar that Frank heroically drives off to impress Lily with his capabilities. Said jaguar is actually Frank's trained pet, and the whistle was to summon her for an impromptu performance.
81	*** In said staged fight, when Frank wrestles with the jaguar on the ground, he sees a scorpion skittering towards the cat and immediately throws her to the other side (and when he sees a spider on that side, he tosses her up and onto a table), showing that he's clearly manipulating the fight to keep Proxima away from anything that might ''actually'' hurt her. [[spoiler:He is also more concerned about Proxima's safety than his own, since he is effectively immortal.]]
82	*** During the fight Proxima bites Frank's arm, later prompting him to remark that she did it "way too hard". Such a bite would have, at the very least, left Frank with a noticeably bleeding wound, yet he appears perfectly fine. One may wave it off as being part of the ruse, or a fumble of the FX crew, but it's actually [[spoiler:a subtle hint at him being unable to bleed due to his curse]].
83	** Frank looks noticeably shaken when he sees the arrowhead Lily's wearing around her neck and becomes insistent upon being the one to take her on the cruise to find the Tree, even after she's discovered his lies about being Nilo, whereas before he was determined to take her on a safe, but enjoyable trip to get her money to pay for his boat back. At first, this seems to be foreshadowing that Frank had himself been searching for the Tree before giving up and deciding to become a Riverboat skipper after failing to find it for years, [[spoiler:but instead it's because he's literally just seen the key to breaking his curse dangled right in front of him and knows Lily is actually serious about finding the tree]].
84	** Frank complains Proxima is "the worst cat I've ever had." This seems a joke at first until you learn [[spoiler:Proxima is only the latest in the ''long'' line of cats Frank has owned over the centuries, [[BilingualBonus all sharing the same name]]]].
85	** During a conversation with [=MacGregor=] Frank reveals that he speaks Latin [[spoiler:which was the dominant lingua franca of European scholars prior to the 18th century. As a cartographer Frank would likely have been versed in this language as part of his education.]]
86	** Frank makes reference to having "run out of things to draw" before it's revealed that [[spoiler:he was the cartographer for the conquistador's expedition through the Amazon and has spent centuries drawing maps of the region]].
87	** When Frank and Lily meet the mutated Aguirre, Lily is surprised that the legend of the Conquistadors is true, while Frank just says "this is impossible." [[spoiler:Frank already knew the curse was real, because he was one of the conquistadors and is the reason they were trapped, thus he isn't surprised that Aguirre is alive, just that he escaped the cave.]]
88	** Frank initially nicknames Lily as "Pants", mainly out of his jokes about seeing a woman wearing pants. While it could easily be chalked up to it being an unusual sight in the Amazon, [[spoiler:it may also be combined with Frank's lack of knowledge about the world beyond the Amazon due to his curse, not to mention his age; seeing as it's been a while since he was last in an actual city and may literally not be used to seeing women wear such clothing to begin with. It's not just him either; the conquistadors similarly refer to Lily as the "woman in pants", which hints at both Frank's true age and his history with them.]]
89	** Observant viewers will realize that the terms of the conquistador's curse, that they are 'never to leave sight of the river again' [[spoiler:fits neatly in with Frank's job as a riverboat captain who has intricate knowledge of the estuaries and layout of the jungle landscape.]]
90	** When talking about the local legend that some types of fish in the river as shapeshifter spirits who will curse them with bad nightmares for life if they look them in the eye, Frank warns Lily and [=MacGregor=] that 'If you believe in legends, you should believe in curses too.' Whilst it seems to be foreshadowing the fact that the conquistador's curse is RealAfterAll, [[spoiler:it's actually foreshadowing that Frank himself has first-hand experience with the curse, being a member of the conquistador's party 400 years ago.]]
91	** During Frank's conversation with [=MacGregor=], he has somewhat doubtful expression when [=MacGregor=] claims there haven't been any conquistadors in the area for 300 years. [[spoiler:Because [=MacGregor=] is claiming the cursed conquistadors weren't real, ''to one of the conquistadors in question''.]]
92	** Counts more as FiveSecondForeshadowing, but [[spoiler:when Frank is impaled by Aguirre, he seems remarkably unconcerned with the mortal wound, pulling himself closer on the blade to grab the arrowhead from one of Aguirre's snakes and throwing it to Lily even as he falls off the tree, showing remarkable clarity of mind for somebody who's about to die. It turns out that Frank's actually immortal, and has apparently been impaled before. [[NoodleIncident Repeatedly]]]].
93	** Frank is negotiating with the natives in their own language. After a few moments, we see [[spoiler:the translation where Frank is surprisingly outspoken about Lily being difficult and blasé about their lives in danger. This sets up the reveal the tribe and Frank are working together and this is all a huge performance]]. A similar foreshadowing can be taken from earlier in the film where [[spoiler:the natives who "attacked" Frank's tour group were obviously also putting on a performance]].
94	** Early in the movie, Frank jokingly claims that Zaqueu looks 10, but is actually 47. [[spoiler:Frank is actually the one who is significantly older than he looks]].
95	** In the first scene where Frank is giving a jungle cruise to tourists, he points out two toucans fighting over food [[IncrediblyLamePun ("a game only two can play")]]. [[spoiler:This foreshadows the role of the toucan figurine when two characters are fighting over either the Tears of the Moon or the arrowhead, where the loser is tricked into fighting over the figurine instead.]]
96	** When Frank gets punched by either of the Houghton siblings, he comments on their "strong form." While this is expected for [[ActionGirl Lily]], he also says it about [=MacGregor=]. [[spoiler:[=MacGregor=] happens to be an amateur boxer.]]
97	** Frank seems to be incredibly fond of his riverboat and refuses to part with her or replace her, despite her being...past her prime [[TheAllegedCar (to put it mildly)]]. [[spoiler:Turns out, he built the boat by hand 400 years ago and she has been his home the whole time, which explains his reluctance to part with her.]]
98	** Why would Frank be particularly cold and dismissive of the Houghton siblings, even treating them exploitatively in the first acts? [[spoiler:[[MayflyDecemberFriendship As someone cursed to be immortal, he has already buried many of his friends so he does not want his heart broken again.]] The emotional distancing has become a coping mechanism.]]
99	* FriendshipMoment: Frank explaining to Lily his full backstory for the first time [[spoiler:including his true name and why he was also chasing after the Tears of the Moon]] marks the moment the two characters were able to finally trust each other.
100	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Frank is tossing [=MacGregor=]'s bags in the river, a group of locals on a rowboat can be seen snagging the luggage for themselves.
101	* GaiasVengeance: The Conquistador that's made out of Bees Wax, is dripping honey, and has bees following him everywhere is none too pleased when Prince Joachim kills some of his bees. He learns about it because one of them managed to escape and flew back to tell him. When he appears he says quite angrily "I've been told you were not nice to my little friends."
102	* GenderFlip: The male shrunken head salesman Trader Sam is switched into the female chief of the native tribe.
103	* GotMeDoingIt: Lily unleashes a bad pun at the end, as Frank had been doing throughout the movie.
104	* GuiltByAssociationGag: A dramatic example. [[spoiler:Francisco, who would eventually be known as Frank, was included in the curse on the conquistadors despite turning on them in order to protect the native village.]]
105	* HeKnowsTooMuch: After his identity is accidentally revealed, Joachim kills everyone who was in earshot of it. Justified as he is a German aristocrat in the middle of London during ''World War I''.
106	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Frank uses La Quila to block the river and petrify the conquistadors once more... at the cost of the curse getting him too. Thankfully, it doesn't last long before Lily cures him.]]
107	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: All villains:
108	** Prince Joachim Franz Humbert of Prussia, youngest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II.[[note]]The real Prince Joachim, between being unable to adjust to his change in status after his father was deposed and his marriage falling apart, killed himself in 1920. He also reportedly did not speak English.[[/note]]
109	** [[spoiler:Lope de Aguirre, the 16th Century Spanish conquistador, who's been trapped in the Amazon jungle since his supposed death. His comrades (Melchor, Sancho, and Gonzalo) are all names of historical figures relevant to Aguirre's conquest of Peru.]]
110	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
111	** Prince Joachim of Prussia was a real person; he did serve in the German army during the First World War but doesn't seem to have been particularly villainous. Indeed Irish rebels against the British during the Easter Rising in 1916 even considered offering him the throne of an independent Ireland in the event of a German victory. [[spoiler:Overlaps with DeathByAdaptation as the real Joachim survived the war only to take his own life in 1920 after Germany became a republic and his marriage had fallen apart.]]
112	** However, the trope is also downplayed: Joachim is a villain mostly because he opposes the heroes, and while his goal is not admirable in the slightest using a magical remedy to win the war and extend his own life keeping the monopoly of it are pretty understandable goals for a member of a royal family. His villainous actions are done in pursuit of that goal rather than out of malice. He is also one of only two men never shown to be dismissive of Lily because of her gender.
113	* HollywoodNatives: Invoked by Frank, who works with the Puka Michuna as part of his show, with the tribal leader, Trader Sam, even commenting on how ridiculous the whole show is, and the tribe is actually quite normal, even if they aren't entirely aware of outside happenings.
114	* HumanoidAbomination: The conquistadors, [[spoiler:sans Frank]], due to a side effect of their curse; when they're freed after having been petrified for centuries, erosion had done a serious number on their bodies and they have to take elements from the surrounding area to fill in the missing parts. Aguirre himself is mostly snakes, and his men are made of beehives, mud, and tree branches respectively.
115	* IAteWhat: Subverted. When [=MacGregor=] drinks what he thinks is beer at the native tribe, Frank points out it's actually fermented spit. Though initially disgusted, [=MacGregor=] continues to drink it anyways. It is also a sign of character development.
116	* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: A minor example where one of the U-boat crew threatens Frank with a Winchester '97 12-gauge. The Germans had a major cultural aversion to shotguns being used as combat weapons, enough that in 1918 they threatened to execute any American captured with one as a war criminal[[note]]the US called them out on it, [[{{Hypocrite}} citing their liberal use of flamethrowers and poison gas]], and promised to execute ''all'' German [=POWs=] if they tried it; the Germans quickly backed down[[/note]]. So although not impossible, it is ''highly'' unlikely that any German grunt would even possess, much less use, a combat shotgun.
117	* InevitableWaterfall: Frank and Lily's boat heads towards a waterfall at one point when sailing down the rapids. They almost end up going over it because Frank gets distracted messing around with Lily and fails to notice they've missed the turn into the safer river path.
118	* InvincibleHero: Frank puts on the persona of being one in his river cruises, pretending to be an experienced skipper who can handle any dangers the jungle throws at him and his passengers with ease and cracking jokes all the time. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he's ''literally'' this, as one of the five conquistadors who were cursed by the chief, he literally cannot die or be meaningfully hurt by any dangers of the jungle, and has apparently been stabbed by weapons often enough that Trader Sam has [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight gotten tired of pulling them out of him]] and offers advice to Lily on how to best yank out a sword Frank's impaled by]].
119	* InUniverseFactoidFailure: One of the fake menaces Frank brings up to the tourists is a hippopotamus, but (as one girl points out) there are no hippos in the Amazon.
120	* InvincibleVillain: The conquistadors are cursed and utterly unkillable, with the heroes being able to fight them off, but not being able to keep them down for long, and unlike the cursed pirates from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', breaking their curse isn't easily achievable, as it requires the Tears of the Moon, which only bloom rarely in a secret location, so the heroes' only real choice is to RunOrDie. Thankfully, the 'run' option is made more practical by the curse, as the Conquistadores can only pursue targets so far before they're dragged back to the river.
121	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Of all the snide remarks that Lily makes to Frank, the one that really gets to him is the accusation of playing his guitar off-key.
122	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Frank and Lily, [[spoiler:for each other]].
123	** Frank desperately wants the Tears of the Moon flower [[spoiler:so he can break his [[WhoWantsToLiveForever 400 year old curse.]] When there was only one flower, he decides to not only give it to Lily, but to also [[TakenForGranite allow himself to be turned into stone]] [[TakingYouWithMe (while also trapping the other conquistadors)]] to save Lily's life.]]
124	** {{Downplayed\|Trope}} on Lily's part. [[spoiler:Although the consequences of her giving the last Tears of the Moon to Frank to break his curse isn't as dramatic, it meant all of the effort and money she has spent on finding the flower would have gone to waste, not to mention the possible flak she would have received for failing to get a specimen of the flower.]]
125	** SubvertedTrope: see KarmicJackpot
126	* JerkassHasAPoint: Joachim doesn't have any noble purpose regarding the flower, but he is right in pointing out that Lily owes nothing to the association that wouldn't accept him because of her gender (noticeably, he is the ''only'' man beside [=MacGregor=] to never disregard her because of it, in his first appearance seeming genuinely impressed by her pointing out that the association mislabeled an artifact). [[spoiler:Lily does end up choosing to reject the association in the end because of their mistreatment.]]
127	* KarmicJackpot: [[spoiler:Lily gives up the single petal she has to revive Frank. The moonlight then happens to illuminate a single branch, allowing another to bloom for her to take.]]
128	* KnightInSourArmor: Both Frank and [=MacGregor=], in different ways.
129	** Frank is generally cynical, doesn't think Lily can find the Tears of the Moon, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and runs a tourist attraction]] [[TheBarnum full of fake thrills]]. He's also willing to put himself on the line to save Lily and Trader Sam's tribe. [[spoiler: And during Lope de Aguirre's expedition, he was the only one to turn against Aguirre when he decided to massacre the tribe that took him in.]]
130	** [=MacGregor=] ''really'' doesn't like the jungle and also doesn't think the legends are real. But that doesn't matter to him, because Lily's his sister (and the only member of his family who didn't disown him for his homosexuality), and [[UndyingLoyalty he'd follow her into a volcano]].
131	* LamePunReaction: Frank's many puns are often met with groans. One child begs her mother to make him stop.
132	* LargeAndInCharge: Frank is the skipper of the boat and it's mentioned several times how big he is. He's played by 6'5"/196cm, 260lb/118kg Dwayne Johnson. This actually becomes a plot point, as it means [[spoiler:Frank is too large to fit through the underwater ruins blocking the entrance to the tree's location, and has to help Lily [[FaceYourFears overcome her inability to swim]] to reach the lever that opens the way]].
133	* LetsGetDangerous: [=MacGregor=] is presented as an UpperClassTwit who is shown to hate the jungle, behaves quite effeminately [[spoiler:(he's quite possibly gay)]] and brings an absurd amount of luggage on a trip up the Amazon River. [[spoiler:He's also a Queensberry Rules boxer, and proves himself to be a very competent fighter when he completely ''levels'' the German submariners during the finale. He's even the one who takes out Prince Joachim, albeit partially by accident.]]
134	* LogicalWeakness: Albeit an impractical one; the Conquistadores' curse restricts them to the immediate vicinity of the Amazon river. If you ''really'' want them away from somewhere, you can re-route the river, changing where the curse allows them to go. Of course, this does require significant effort (it's not easy to change the course of the world's largest river), but it's how Joachim awakens the Conquistadores to help him out- he uses explosives to direct the river partially into the cave where they were trapped. [[spoiler:It's also how the heroes defeat the Conquistadores in the end, using Frank's steamboat as an impromptu dam to suddenly define the area they were in as 'too far from the river'.]]
135	* LogoJoke: The bay in the Disney logo is seen to have purple water, and after the Disney logo fully appears the camera dives into the water.
136	* LotsOfLuggage: [=MacGregor=] brings an absurd amount of luggage for a trip up the Amazon. Frank promptly throws most of it overboard.
137	* LovecraftianSuperpower: The trapped Conquistadores have had parts of their body replaced by jungle. This makes them "disgusting" in the words of one and makes Aguirre wonder if they still have souls, but it allows them to control the wildlife in their bodies.
138	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The adventure-seeking Lily who prefers wearing pants to [=MacGregor=], who always tries to be a SharpDressedMan and be clean, no matter how impractical.
139	* MasterOfUnlocking: Lily is quite adept at lockpicking and uses it to get things she wants and into places others don't want her to be.
140	* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:The native chief cursed all five conquistadors for the slaughter of his tribe, including Francisco, who didn't participate in the massacre and actually helped his daughter escape with the arrowhead his 'allies' were trying to retrieve, thus forever including him in Aguirre's eternal punishment despite not having done anything to deserve it himself. It's {{Justified\|Trope}} though, as it's implied the chief's curse was vaguely-worded enough to count all the conquistadors as a group together, and the majority of them were guilty of shedding innocent blood, so the chief's DyingCurse wasn't able to exclude Francisco, not to mention the fact that the chief wasn't able to see Francisco turning on his comrades to protect his daughter. In addition, it also technically saved Francisco's life, as he was mortally wounded by Aguirre and almost died before the curse affected him.]]
141	* MisplacedWildlife: InUniverse. Frank's Jungle Cruise tour includes props of Hippos that he makes move around with loaded weights strategically cut to stimulate the cruise with safe but exciting thrills for the passengers. One little girl tries to point out that hippos aren't native to the Amazon before Frank shushes her.
142	* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler:Frank reveals Aguirre's quest to find the Tears of the Moon was initially to find a cure for his terminally ill daughter, before he succumbed to anger and slaughtered the natives upon being rejected by the chief on the cusp of achieving his heart's desire. His anger at Francisco/Frank protecting the natives and allowing the chief's daughter to flee with the arrowhead they needed to find the tree lead to him spending their immortal lives hunting Frank down and killing him again and again, despite [[SealedEvilInADuel both of them being immortal and thus the outcome pointless regardless]], and his daughter having long succumbed to either her disease or aging over the years. By the present day, he merely wants to break the curse that binds him to the river and give Frank further punishment for the FateWorseThanDeath he gave them]].
143	* MythologyGag:
144	** Frank is the PungeonMaster just like the skippers on the ride the film is based on.
145	** The "dangers" of Frank's boat trips for tourists seen in the trailer are as fake as the ride it's based on. Frank also utters the famous "backside of water" line after he secretly cuts a rope to produce a "waterfall" from a sluice pipe hidden above.
146	** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXjbv-1TbOc deleted scene]] would have reprised the "Backside of Water" joke on a grander scale as the La Quila enters the chamber of the Tears of the Moon through a waterfall.
147	** Dr. Albert Falls is alluded to through a collection of artifacts discovered on his expedition, including the mysterious arrowhead.
148	** While Frank's riverboat operation is the film's version of the Jungle Navigation Company, the competing "Nilo's River Adventure" bears a closer resemblance to the original Disney ride and the bright red and white boats from pre-90s incarnations. Nilo's office also features a door based on the offices seen on the upper floor of the Skipper Canteen at the Magic Kingdom.
149	** Nilo's cockatoo is Rosita, the missing Birdmobile girl from ''Ride/TheEnchantedTikiRoom'' that later made an appearance in person in the Jungle Cruise/Tiki Room themed restaurant ''Tropical Hideaway'' at Disneyland.
150	** The chief of the native tribe is named Trader Sam, albeit a gender-flipped incarnation.
151	** The chamber the Tears of the Moon is hidden in is essentially a {{Mayincatec}} version of the sunken temple found at the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo versions of the attraction.
152	* TheNavigator: Both Frank and Lily are skilled navigators, Lily because she's been adventuring most of her life and is skilled at reading maps and orienteering, and Frank because he lives and works on the Amazon, and knows every branch and tributary, [[spoiler:because he's had centuries to roam them, looking for the Tears of the Moon. In fact, he's the one who drew the very map Lily is using.]]
153	* NeverSayDie: [[spoiler:Frank uses a lot of euphemisms to talk about his intent to commit suicide after breaking the curse.]]
154	* NoKillLikeOverkill: Joachim fires a ''torpedo'' against the ''La Quila'', a tiny riverboat.
155	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: No explanation is ever given for [[spoiler:Frank's clear American accent, even though he's living in Brazil and is a 400-year-old Spaniard.]]
156	* NotSoAboveItAll: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie Lily joins in with making puns while driving Frank off into London.]]
157	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Beeswax Conquistador comes off as the least threatening of the cursed conquistadors, being knocked out and incapacitated twice by mundane means whereas his more threatening compatriots require more effort to subdue, as well as partially enjoying his cursed state because he now tastes delicious, but his connection to the bees nesting inside him means that the conquistadors have a long-range spy network, able to communicate with Joachim and send him after Frank and the others when they evade the cursed group, as well as tracking them down for the FinalBattle when one bee escape Joachim's attempts to crush them all and prevent the conquistadors finding the tree.
158	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Frank only reacts to Lily's demand for a river trip when she starts talking about her wealth, in part because he needs to make 5000 Real in one week in order to pay off his debt to Nilo in order to keep his boat, and his livelihood. [[spoiler:This then becomes subverted when he catches a glimpse of the Arrowhead hanging around her neck, as it offers an opportunity for him to finally break his [[WhoWantsToLiveForever curse]]]].
159	* PantheraAwesome: Proxima the jaguar. Frank exploits this by training her to fake fights with him to make him look good.
160	* PercussiveMaintenance: Lily restarts Frank's engine by giving it a kick.
161	* PiranhaProblem: At one point, Frank throws a small rodent into the river to attract piranhas and eat them. Later in the film, a school of piranhas attacks Frank to eat him.[[spoiler:Since he's [[InvincibleHero immortal]] they aren't successful, but the experience is clearly unpleasant for him]].
162	* PocketProtector: {{Subverted\|Trope}}, but the spirit of the trope is there. Towards the climax of the movie, Lily grabs a gun and fakes turning on Frank in order to take Joachim's offer of 'a single petal' from the tree, shooting him so he falls into the water and can then ambush the remaining Germans back on his cruise boat holding [=MacGregor=] hostage. [[spoiler:Frank actually doesn't have any such protective items to block the bullets, but since he's [[ImmortalHero Immortal]], it enables him to convincingly 'fake' getting shot more realistically]]. The only thing that nearly gives away the ruse is Frank getting equally taken off-guard by Lily's UnspokenPlanGuarantee and needing a second bullet to get the hint.
163	* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Zigzagged. [=MacGregor=] was realistically shunned by most of his family and associates for being gay in the 1910s. When he explains this to Frank, who [[spoiler:is a Spaniard that grew up in the 1500s during the country's conservative Catholic environment]], Frank is surprisingly open-minded about his sexuality and doesn't judge him. [[spoiler:Given Frank's been stuck on the river for 400 years and has likely met plenty of people from all types of cultures and customs, he's had plenty of time to accept such things.]]
164	* ProfaneLastWords: [[spoiler:Joachim says "Oh scheiße" before being crushed to death.]]
165	* ThePunishment: The Conquistadors certainly don't ''like'' their current state, but it allows them some [[LovecraftianSuperpower decent, if creepy superpowers]], [[spoiler:while Frank is entirely human, aside from the immortality]]. The trope is downplayed because the punishers didn't intend for them to get powers, and their curse does come with the hobble of being unable to go too far from the Amazon river. [[spoiler:The chief who cursed them originally wanted them to stop them from pursuing his daughter, and Frank intended to just trap them forever. The reason they are partially made of jungle is because of the effects of erosion on their petrified bodies, and they only escape because Joachim re-directed the river with explosives.]]
166	* UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben: Apart from [[spoiler:Lope de Aguirre]], the villains are Imperial Germans, complete with a U-boat. Bonus points for Joachim specifically being the Prince of Prussia.
167	* PungeonMaster:
168	** True to the original ride, Frank can't help but riff off several puns during his touring spiel, much to the annoyance of everyone who goes on a voyage with him. Some of the jokes are directly lifted from the ride's script.
169	** In the ending, [[spoiler:Lily teaches Frank how to drive. Lily remarks she has no idea what they're getting into, to which Frank replies, "An automobile". Lily replies that that remark was "exhausting". Geddit?]]
170	* RagnarokProofing: {{Justified\|Trope}}. The cursed Conquistadors use archaic weapons like a musket, crossbow, hatchet and swords that are still in working order and sharp as they're ever been--in the case of the crossbow and cusket they're still able to fire despite their wielders being made of Mud and Beeswax without the substances interfering with the firing mechanisms in any way--alongside armour that's still in usable condition, but it's made clear that this is because the items in question have become fused to their bodies through the centuries, and are thus included in the curse that preserves their existence. At once point, Aguirre chucks a knife at Lily that then turns into a snake, showing that they're basically forming the weapons from the surrounding environment to attack their targets with, when they're not using the parts of the environment they're made of to attack instead.
171	* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: When [=MacGregor=] reads Lily's prepared statement at the beginning, he says, "Pause for dramatic effect" in front of everybody.
172	* ReducedToRatburgers: Subverted when Frank shoots a rodent out of a tree and [=MacGregor=] asks if he expects him to eat that. Instead he uses it as piranha bait.
173	* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:[[BelligerentSexualTension Frank and Lily]]]].
174	* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:Frank the skipper is really the 400 year old Francisco, formerly Aguirre's cartographer and right-hand man until the massacre of the natives created a rift between them.]]
175	* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Trader Sam and the other native characters are reimagined as native actors Frank hires to provide thrills to his passengers. Sam even mocks the stereotypical costumes they put on to scare Lily and [=MacGregor=].
176	* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Aguirre could make the most of his immortality like Frank has done, but instead he obsesses over punishing him for his betrayal. This forces Frank to inflict a FateWorseThanDeath on him.]]
177	* RunningGag: One of the Houghton siblings getting surprised by Frank and reflexively punching him in the face, which he shrugs off with minor annoyance (and a remark that they have "strong form").
178	-->'''Frank:''' Every time!
179	* TheSavageIndian: Invoked by Frank as one of the "dangers" of the Amazon. At one point, jungle natives start shooting darts at Frank's boat, which is full of tourists; when one actually gets ''inside'' the boat instead of just hitting the side, Frank mouths "c'mon!" and gives them a disapproving "that could've hit someone!" look, to which they depart with a sheepish wave of apology, meaning they're just in cahoots with him to provide safe thrills to the tourists.
180	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Trader Sam literally jumps ship when Joachim catches up to the heroes and she swims back to her tribe.
181	* SealedEvilInACan: Aquirre and his men into were imprisoned in a cave where they couldn't see the river, resulting in them being turned to stone when the curse tried to drag them back and couldn't do it properly. [[spoiler:It turns out Frank did it.]] Joachim sets them free. [[spoiler:Frank manages to cut them off from the river inside the temple and seal them away again.]]
182	* SealedEvilInADuel: A variant, in that [[spoiler: Frank and Aguirre technically don't ''have'' to fight each other, but Aguirre blames him for losing the arrowhead all those centuries ago and takes his anger out on Francisco by repeatedly hunting him down and killing him, even if the curse prevents Francisco from staying dead. Eventually, Frank gets tired of getting repeatedly stabbed and decides to swap this for SealedEvilInACan instead]].
183	* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler:While cursed to live forever and be unable to leave sight of the river, Aguirre and his men only end up as twisted, undead monsters because they continued to hunt down Frank in the name of {{Revenge}}, leading him to trap then in a place where they couldn't return to the river and were left petrified for centuries]].
184	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Frank is a gun-toting, rough-and-tumble boat captain [[spoiler:and former Spanish ''conquistador'']]. [=MacGregor=] Haughton is a foppish pretty boy, [[spoiler: albeit a surprisingly competent Queensberry Rules boxer]].
185	* SharpDressedMan: [=MacGregor=] ''insists'' on being one, impracticality be damned. Both Frank and Lily point out multiple ways that this is a bad idea. He does not remain one for long.
186	* ShotInTheAss: [=MacGregor=] gets it with a tranquilizer dart.
187	* ShoutOut: Many to ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', to the point of it almost being an {{Homage}}:
188	** The main female character's names are both types of flowers, Lily and Rose.
189	** Frank's outfit is very similar to Charlie's [[https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F6%2F2021%2F07%2F13%2FAfrican-Queen-Jungle-Cruise.jpg in the film.]]
190	** Frank and Charlie when first starting out, point out that there's only two hours of daylight left, but Lily and Rose points out that that is two hours of extra time to go.
191	** Frank and Charlie point out that the only place to take a bath is the river. However, Lily doesn't take them up on the bath, unlike Rose.
192	** After going through a set of rapids, the main male character expects the female character to want to turn back, but instead they enjoyed it.
193	* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: [=MacGregor's=] role is greatly de-emphasized in the trailers (the amount of times he's clearly in frame across all of them could be counted on two hands, and his speaking lines on one hand), while Nilo never shows up or is mentioned at all; justified, as Jack Whitehall and Paul Giamatti aren't nearly as internationally famous as Blunt and Johnson are.
194	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Dr. Albert Falls is only mentioned in passing, but he found and retrieved the Arrowhead that was required to find the Tears of the Moon. There's also Aguirre's cartographer, who made the maps that Lily and Joachim both use. [[spoiler:Subverted with the latter; he's actually a main character.]]
195	* SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring: [=MacGregor=] attempts to play "I Spy" with Trader Sam in the canoe before being ambushed.
196	* SoundtrackDissonance: In comparison to the film mostly using rousing adventure-movie-style music, the tragic backstory portions instead use a re-recorded version of Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Nothing Else Matters".
197	* StaffOfAuthority: Prince Joachim carries a fancy one that also happens to be a SwordCane.
198	* SuperDrowningSkills:
199	** Lily doesn't know how to swim.
200	** During the final fight at La Luna Rota, after [=MacGregor=] knocks some German soldiers into the water, they are not seen again.
201	* TakeMeInstead: When the group is captured by the natives, Frank tries to convince them to let Lily and Macgregor go, insisting that there's no way all three can get out. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed that Frank knew all along they weren't in real danger]].
202	* TakenForGranite: This is the fate of the conquistadors [[spoiler:after Francisco tricked them into falling down a pit far from the river, manipulating the specific wording of their curse against them. When the jungle attempted to drag them back, it couldn't pull them through the rock and they were instead fused into it. By the time Joachim releases them after 300 years, the elements have eroded their petrified bodes enough that they end up forming replacements from the jungle matter around them in facsimiles of their original bodies. Frank exploits this in the climax to petrify them and himself once more]].
203	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Frank]] pulls this on Aguirre and the conquistadors during the finale. [[spoiler:Ramming his steamer to cut off the river's access to the tree chamber causes the curse to ensnare and petrify all five Spaniards, Frank included]]. Only a last second intervention prevents this being fatal.
204	* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Using a pair of MG-08/15 machine guns against Frank's boat? Reasonable enough if you have murderous intent. Escalating to a ''torpedo'' when that fails? Now you're just getting ridiculous.
205	* TribalFacePaint: When [=MacGregor=] befriends some of the locals, one offers what [=MacGregor=] assumes to be red face paint. Only after does he learn it's permanent tattoo ink.
206	* UnderwaterKiss: Frank does the "Breath of Air" type to Lily (twice) to save her from drowning when she's trapped in an underwater cage.
207	* UndyingLoyalty: Despite him loathing his sister's adventurous nature and the scrapes it drags him into, [=MacGregor=] states he would still follow Lily into a volcano if he had to, [[spoiler:because she's the only member of his family who didn't disown him when it was revealed he was gay (or so he implies.)]]
208	* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Lily's plan to trick Joachim at the end is a good example, although it almost fails because Frank is just as in the dark as the audience, [[spoiler:and doesn't know he's supposed to fall into the water after she shoots him, so he can swim over to help free [=MacGregor=]. Luckily, he gets the hint after the second shot.]]
209	* UpperClassTwit: [=MacGregor=] is a benign example. He is the sort of guy who tries to take golf clubs on a trip down the Amazon, but he's also the sort of guy who will follow his sister into a volcano because she stood up for him.
210	* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople:
211	** Frank has a pet jaguar, showing his deep understanding of the Amazon and the creatures living there.[[spoiler:He's also had an ocelot and a cougar over the years.]]
212	** The Beeswax Conquistador also appears to view the bees nesting in him as allies/companions, referring to them as his "little friends" when [[spoiler:confronting Joachim at the sacred tree]].
213	* VomitChainReaction: After the rapids, Frank teases Lily about looking seasick and offers some food, prompting her to vomit. This in turn causes [=MacGregor=] to vomit to Frank's amusement... until he nearly vomits himself.
214	* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Aguirre begs Frank not to seal him and the other Conquistadors away again as they're being turned back to stone.]]
215	* WeaksauceWeakness:
216	** The Conquistadors are effectively immortal and possess incredible powers but have to stay in sight of the Amazon at all times. Several times, their attempts to get the arrowhead are thwarted simply because their target ran a bit too far away, and they get dragged away from the chase. [[spoiler:Intentionally invoked by the chief who cursed them in the first place, as he wanted to make sure they couldn't catch his daughter as she escaped with the arrowhead.]]
217	** The Beeswax Conquistador apparently shares a sympathetic connection to the bees nesting in his body. When Frank vents the furnace on his boat into his face, it floods the cabin with smoke and suffocates the bees, causing the Conquistador to faint in addition to the heat causing the honey and beeswax in his body to soften and lose its integrity.
218	* WhamLine:
219	-->'''Frank:''' Actually...it's [[spoiler:Francisco. And I'm basically 400 years old.]]
220	* WhamShot: When Lily finds Frank [[spoiler:washed up on shore after being stabbed, she thinks he miraculously survived...and then sees the sword still sticking out his back with Frank seemingly feeling no pain, let alone bleeding]].
221	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Aguirre pursued the tree in order to save his daughter's life, and it was being denied that which drove him to turn on the natives. Despite this it's never mentioned what happened to her and so whether she recovered from her illness or died is left unknown. Justified, as the conquistadors were cursed to be unable to leave the Amazon river, and as such had no real way of finding out her fate.
222	* WhatHaveIBecome: The conquistadors are horrified at what has become of their bodies. Aguirre even wonders if they still have souls after being ravaged by the curse for centuries. However, it's {{averted}} by the beeswax conquistador.
223	-->'''Mud Conquistador (in Spanish):''' We're disgusting.\
224	'''Beeswax Conquistador (in Spanish):''' Speak for yourself. I'm delicious!
225	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Obviously the cursed conquistadors aren't happy about their situation, but [[spoiler:Francisco is shown having lived for so long that he's had to bury every friend he's made since]]. At the conclusion, [[spoiler:Francisco is 'freed' of his immortality and enjoys the chance to live a normal life away from the Amazon even knowing that he will now die of old age]].
226	-->"Everything you see as new, I've seen hundreds of thousands of times."
227	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Lily is afraid of swimming, which is a bit problematic when her latest adventure takes her up the Amazon river.
228	* TheWormThatWalks: Aguirre and his fellow conquistadors have had their bodies devolved into this after years of being cut off from the river, with them being made of different jungle parts like snakes, mud and frogs, tree roots and branches, and bee nests.
229	* WrestlerOfBeasts: Frank fights a jaguar in front of the protagonists to convince them to hire him. [[InvokedTrope It is later revealed that the jaguar was tamed and the fight was staged.]]
230	* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: As shown by [[spoiler:Frank]]/Francisco, the conquistadors' curse doesn't actually make them monsters or anything other than Immortal humans who cannot die, age or leave sight of the river for the rest of eternity. Aguirre's pointless anger at Francisco for allowing the chieftain's daughter to flee with the arrowhead instead drives him to spend about 50 years hunting him down and killing him again and again in a pointless demonstration of his wrath towards his former brother-in-arms, rather than doing something productive with the time he had been granted. Whereas Francisco [[spoiler:was able to build a small town, and make a livelihood out of the advantages the curse granted him]], Aguirre's refusal to do anything other than blame others for his situation instead lead to him being [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned]] by Franciso and devolving into a literal and figurative monster by the present day.
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