The Flames of Love and War/Tropes


 * An Aesop:
 * Racism and prejudice are destructive forces that, if left unchecked, will result in the destruction of all parties involved.
 * Sometimes, love is all it takes to change the world.
 * There's nothing wrong with being curious and embracing what's new.
 * Awesome Art: The film's hand-drawn animation is a beautiful splash of art and color that feels reminiscent of the Disney Renaissance.
 * Darker And Edgier: The film is one of Disney's darkest love stories in animation, with Grey-and-Gray Morality and WarvIs Hell being both oromenient aspects in addition to its exploration of racism.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything: Aqua's father has anti-fire propaganda all-around, dowbplays any sort if curiosity in favor of blind obidience, and tries to destroy a race simply for not being like him. This is all-but-stated to be a facistic regime.
 * Evil All Along: Aqua's father at first seems reasonable, but, as the film goes by, it us revealed that he us a small-minded tyrant who turned his kingdom into a facist regime and is all-too-willing to destroy anything different from him.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Phoenix can be racist abd quite rude, but its hard to not to feel bad for her upon seeing she suffers from PTSD.
 * Realism-Induced Horror:
 * Arguably one of the scariest part of the film is how realistic both war and its psychological effects are potrayed.
 * Another terrifying aspect is that, much like in Dana Terrace's previous Disney work, the way Aqua's father's tyranny is potrayed, due to hiw similar it is to real-life facism.
 * Salvaged Story: The film having LGBTQ+ leads is a great relief following Disnry's poor attempts in cinema to potray queer characters. The fact that most of the film's writers are queer certainly helped.
 * Shout-Out: Phoenix at one point describes Aqua as "the incredibly annoying girl in frobt of [her] with the staring problem", calling back to episode 2 of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
 * They Also Did:
 * Director Dana Terrace and co-writers Rachel Vine and Molly Ostertag were the showrunner and writers, respectively, for Disney's The Owl House.
 * ND Stevenson, showrunner of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power also co-wrote the script, in addition to voicing a character himself.
 * What Do You Mean Its For Kids?!: Being a love story by Disney may make people think this is good family-friendly fun. But uts potrayal of war is eerily realistic, one of the lead characters explicitly suffers from PTSD, and there are terrifyingly true-to-life potrayals of facism. Safe to say, this isn't one for little kids.