The events in Kingdom of the Sun happened before Emporer's New Groove
So hear me out, in his youth, Pacha looked a like like Kuzco's dead dad, Manco. Yzma was somewhat younger and still vain, and the pretty boy lackey was the previous model before Kronk. Yzma's father being the Grand Mortician allowed her to stay alive much longer than she otherwise should have, and some act of heroic forgiveness on Manco's part forgave Yzma of her crimes, an action he would not live to regret. Manco died and Yzma ruled in his stead, raising Kuzco. Kuzco is left handed.
The arm he has to use later is his left. He also does the kiss stamping thing with his left. Yzma isn't evil.
Think about it. She tries to kill a greedy, selfish emperor in order to seize the throne. She buries this with a lie in order to preserve her own safety. She did "practically raise" the man and he constantly insulted her and fired her in a cruel way. Her compassion and empathy is shown when Kronk fails his task, putting her life severely at risk, and instead of killing him as most villains would, she gets him to help her find the enemy. She never seems to consider killing Kronk despite his failure. And as for putting Pacha's life in danger, well, he was helping said emperor and being a risk to her freedom and possibly her life.- Did we forget the part where Yzma is pretending to be Empress? You know, the scene where she tells a peasent she doesn't care about his starving family, and he should have thought about not having food before becoming a peasent?
- Eh, I'd say she's at least somewhat better then Kuzco, at least when one of her guards got turned into another animal she let him go home without any repercussions.
- I have entertained the idea Yzma might not be that evil for the same reason listed above. I mean, Kuzco did have an old man thrown out a window for "throwing off [his] groove." But I ultimately decided against because the only reason why she's trying to kill Kuzco is because he not only stays in the way of a potential position for her, but fired her from a position of power. So she essentially tried to kill him because she was power hungry. So she's probably could be considered Nominal Hero at best and at worst an outright villain.
- She raised him since infancy and it was implied she offed his parents to do so. Most if not all of Kuzco's petty and narcissistic tendencies came from her. Also, she may or may not have been planning to use him as puppet ruler until he fired her.
- Yzma didn't originally plan to kill Kuzco - it seems she was happy enough with the immense power of being Royal Vizier. After all, she's been loyal for years - all through Kuzco's youth; she says so herself. She only comes up with the idea of killing him once she's fired. This is actually fairly important - in Kuzco's Heel Realisation in the swamp, he knows it's even his fault she wanted to kill him.
- He was right to fire her though. She had been repeatedly trying to rule behind his back.
- Theoretically he had a reason - but he's not even 18 yet, and from the sound of things ("Nobody seems to care he's gone") that he didn't even do much ruling anyway - he only calls in Pacha to tell him he's destroying the village.
Yzma is immortal.
That's what some of her potions are used for, and indeed, likely the reason she started making potions to begin with.- Take another look at that dagger. She's not immortal because of her potions; she's the Dark One.
Pacha's kids are psychic.
They dream about his rescue of Kuzco, so it could be some form of clairvoyance or possibly a weak telepathic connection to people they're closely related to. Kuzko will become the greatest king in his people's history.
He'll use the potions from Yzma's lab to make super soldiers and make a massive empire, naming the new capital after himself. Unfortunately as time goes on records of king Kuzko will disappear and all that will be left will be his city. Pacha and Chicha and their children are incarnations or avatars of Incan Gods.
Pacha and Chicha are incarnations of Pachakamaq and Pachamama, and they incarnated as humans in order to make sure Kuzco's character flaws are corrected before he comes of age. Yzma is the reason Kuzco's parents aren't around
She poisoned the original royal couple in an attempt to gain the throne. Unfortunately, she didn't take into account the fact that their son was still legally allowed to inherit the throne. She decided that she can get by on being his vizier, until he fired her and started the movie.- Not impossible, but unlikely. If she had resorted to murder before, she probably would have thought of it on her way out the door. Rather, she just takes out her anger on the busts of Kuzco's head, until the idea to kill him is practically giftwrapped for her - by Kronk, of all people.
- Real history is full of scheming viziers and advisors who don't want the throne themselves, but very much want to ensure that whoever's on the throne does what they want and will go out of their way to make sure that person is someone they can manipulate. Many sets of royal parents have been murdered with the *goal* of getting their very young child on the throne, who can easily be controlled by whoever winds up being their regent. Yzma probably intended to use Kuzco as a puppet king—and did so successfully until he got old enough to start thinking and acting for himself and demonstrated that she had failed in brainwashing him into doing what she wanted (a very common problem that the historical examples ran into). It doesn't occur to her that she could actually take the throne herself until she realizes that Kuzco doesn't have an heir and she would be the obvious choice to succeed him.
The movie's lack of a fourth wall is directly responsible for Kuzco's Heel Realization and subsequent Heel–Face Turn.
Narrator!Kuzco represents Kuzco's inner monologue as he goes back in time to review the events of the movie, intent on persuading the audience that he's not the bad guy. However, upon seeing things from the other characters' perspectives (as well as Pacha's family, Yzma's motives, ect.), he realizes that this is not the case. When the real Kuzco tells Narrator!Kuzco to shut up, it's because he knows he can no longer fool himself—or us, because we saw the whole thing. Kronk will teach Princess Sofia how to speak squirrel.
Her amulet enables her to understand other animals but not squirrels as evidenced by Whatnaught. Chicha hit Kuzco with the frying pan on purpose.
She was already annoyed with the emperor at the beginning of the movie (when Pacha came back and told her Kuzco couldn't see him). So nailing him with a frying pan was a way for her to finally give him a piece of her mind like she wanted, under the pretense that she was startled by a strange talking llama. She certainly didn't sound very remorseful about it after the fact. Kronk is Haruhi Suzumiya.
And that's how he and Yzma got to the lab first.She spoiled him because she knew he wouldn't trust or like her if she abused him and may well plotted to use him as a pawn by implanting that "you are the most important person in the universe" mentality into his head. Unfortunately for her, this worked too well and Kuzco started to put himself above her too.Disney will make "Kingdom of the Sun" (the original, Darker and Edgier concept for this movie) as a live-action movie, if not a direct live-action remake of this movie.
Considering their trend of Darker and Edgier live-action remakes of their classic movies, this could be.- The llama herder will be named Malina because that's the name most fans (even those who hate the series) associate with Kuzco's love interest.
This franchise takes place in an alternate timeline where the Inca were never conquered by Spain.
Hence what appear to be anachronisms are, in fact, just commonplace items.Kuzco fired Yzma because she disregarded his sense of responsibilities.
Earlier in the film, Kuzco is seen doing things that come with the position of Emperor but are boring to him. it shows that, while he was raised to expect peasants to do as he wishes, he understands there are things he's expected to do in return. While he didn't have a full understanding back then, he understood enough to be upset over Yzma doing things he's supposed to do even if she only did things he hated doing. The only reason he only fired her instead of having her thrown off the window like he did with the old man and why he waited until she turned her ruling behind his back into a "bad habit" is the fact she raised him.