Released in 2014 and entry number ten in the Tom and Jerry Direct-to-Video Film Series, The Lost Dragon sees the titular cat and mouse duo as pets of main character Athena. She enlists their help to reunite a lost baby dragon with its mother.
Tropes in the film:
- All of the Other Reindeer: The villagers shun Athena because of her evil aunt and fear she will turn out like her due to keeping animals around. Also not helping is her animals often causing trouble in the village, especially Tom and Jerry with their constant chase game.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Buster, Athena's pet warthog, is dark purple.
- Anger Born of Worry: Kaldorf is not happy with Athena's insistence of raising animals, despite how often they cause trouble for the village. He's more worried when she found a baby dragon. He's afraid she'll be more ostracized, due to being much like her aunt. In the end however, he's fed up with the way the villagers treated her.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The film begins with Kaldorf dramatically banishing Drizelda from their hamlet for using dark magic, corrupting animals, and threatening to harm the hamlet. The village matriarch interrupts to demand that Drizelda also be found guilty of calling her hat silly, which it is. A flustered Kaldorf very reluctantly adds that to the list of charges.
- Behemoth Battle: After Athena, Tom and Jerry enlist the aid of Puffy’s mother, she ends up battling dragon-Drizelda.
- Big Brother Bully: Tin, Pan, and Alley are bigger and older than Tom when they're all kittens under Drizelda's care and their comments upon meeting him again years later implies that they bullied him in those days.
- Big "NO!": Drizelda does this when Tom and Jerry destroy her necklace, breaking the curse on Puffy and her mother, upon which she ends up being turned to stone while still in dragon form.
- Cats Are Lazy: Tom usually takes naps rather than doing chores, and when Athena tasks him in getting water from the river, he makes Jerry carry the bucket.
- Doofy Dodo: A dodo bird is among the animals in Athena's care.
- Earthy Barefoot Character: Athena is a barefoot Nature Lover.
- Evil Aunt: Athena's aunt Drizelda.
- Expy: Drizelda is similar to Mother Gothel from Tangled. She also transforms into a dragon for the climax, not unlike Maleficent.
- Friend to All Living Things: Athena, who notably extends it to include the 'unwanted' animals, including rats, snakes, bats, crocodiles, etc.
- Guilt by Association: Athena, due to her evil aunt's actions.
- Hartman Hips: Drizelda, frankly, has enormous hips that at some points appear almost three or four times wider than her shoulders.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Drizelda's curse ends up being turned against her after Tom and Jerry free Puffy and her mother from her curse by destroying her necklace.
- Human-Focused Adaptation: The film follows the concept of having Tom and Jerry as pets by Athena, the real main character of the story who enlists the cat and mouse's help to reunite a lost baby dragon with his mother. The film is essentially a fantasy tale with Tom and Jerry just being there.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: Drizelda had this in the past - after the Time Skip, she's put on some extra weight and appears much more bottom-heavy.
- Imprinting: The baby dragon imprints on Tom due to the cat sitting on the dragon's egg.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Athena, despite all the shun and distrust she receives from the village. Even though she's being forced out of her home for bringing a baby dragon into the village which led to Drizelda controlling the mother dragon, Athena chose to stop her aunt since she has nothing left to lose.
- Jerkass: A short, fat lady is the one out of all the villagers who despises Athena the most. At one point, she threatens to close down her home and kick her and her animals out. After Athena defeated Drizelda, the lady realizes she was wrong to misjudge her.
- Jerkass Façade: The village baker is nicer than his neighbors but hides it. He loudly and rudely berates Athena's efforts to collect food for the unruly animals in her care while winking at her and sneaking some food into her basket.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Subverted. The crocodile in Athena's menagerie is very big, something of a klutz, and takes a few snaps at Tom several times, but is otherwise very sweet-natured and even comes to help in the final battle against dragonified Drizelda.
- Off-Model: Happens a couple of times near the end of the film.
- During and after the fight with Drizelda, the mother dragon's neck appears much longer and slimmer than previously.
- Near the end of her Villain Song, Drizelda appears to have a much rounder and girthier waist than any other scene.
- One-Winged Angel: After absorbing Puffy's essence into the amulet, Drizelda is transformed into a large red dragon with one white horn and one black horn.
- Puzzling Platypus: A platypus is among the unusual animals in Athena's care.
- Screen Shake: Whenever either of the adult dragons take a footstep. One scene shows Puffy's mother shows her stomping through the forest in the night, making sure to emphasize her ability to shake the ground under her paws to make her seem more formidable.
- Shaking the Rump: Drizelda does this many, many times throughout the film, especially so during her Villain Song.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Completely averted with the python in Athena's home. Its most 'sinister' act is using its body to slingshot Tom across the room for giggles, but this is Tom we're talking about.
- The Stinger: A scene after the credits shows that Drizelda, despite being turned into a statue, is shown to still be alive. As a bird tries to perch on her, she breathes a puff a smoke from her nose, replying "Don't even think about it!", scaring it away.
- Taken for Granite: What Drizelda does to Puffy and her mother after stealing their essences and becoming a powerful dragon, but then becomes her ultimate fate when Tom and Jerry destroy her necklace.
- Vain Sorceress: Drizelda, both in her magic and especially in her looks, if her repeated sensual posturing is anything to go by.
- WereDragon: Drizelda turns into a dragon after she uses a magical necklace to steals Puffy’s essence.
- What The Hell, Townspeople?: Kaldorf calls the villagers out for shunning Athena despite the fact that she's been nothing but kind to everyone.
- Witch Species: While not outright called witches, Athena and Drizelda are both green-skinned humanoids with pointed ears and are visibly a different race than the elf villagers or the human Kaldorf, leaving this the most likely case.
