The Olympic Quest/Trivia


 * The film was originally going to be focused on the mascots of the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, Miraitowa and Someity, but due to the film going to be released around 2024-2025, some years after the 2020 Games, Disney focused on making it about the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 2020 mascots are now planned to reappear on a movie titled "Miraitowa and Someity: Hope", releasing in 2028.
 * The film wasn't originally going to be focused on the mascots, but fictional athletes instead, and the plot was nearly similar. That was until 2021, where Disney replaced all the athletes with mascots.
 * This is the first Disney movie to include voices from Cartoon Network stars (Zach Callison, Jeremy Shada, Tara Strong).
 * Both Sean Bean and Steve Coogan, the voices of Zeus and Hades, also voiced Zeus and Hades in the Percy Jackson film series.
 * Several easter eggs and references are spotted in this film, primarily Disney ones:
 * Hades references Prometheus getting bounded in the cliffs when he trapped Zeus there. However, unlike Prometheus, Zeus did not get his stomach eaten by a bird and getting it regenerated.
 * Jules's full name, Jules Baron Coubertin, is named after Pierre de Coubertin's full name, Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, the founder of the International Olympic Committee and the modern Olympic Games
 * When he is officially announced as the mascot of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Louis yells out a "YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!!", which made his mom's stovetop popcorn explode. This is a reference to Chicken Little, where Chicken Little yells out a "NOOOOOOOOO!!!" when he sees that a remnant of the sky fell in his room and hit him, which made Buck's stovetop popcorn to also explode.
 * While Louis and Bela are in the Charles de Gaulle Airport, three easter eggs related to Disney are spotted.
 * One of the people entering the bus in the background is wearing a Mickey Mouse hat, meaning that the person might be taking a bus to Disneyland Paris.
 * When Louis and Bela are embarking, a kid can be seen in the background playing with Buzz Lightyear. This easter egg makes this movie the second non-Pixar film to include Pixar characters, the first one being Ralph Breaks the Internet.
 * While Louis and Bela are talking on the plane, the man sitting in front of them looks exactly like Mr. Litwak, the owner of Litwak's Arcade in Wreck-it Ralph.
 * Bela gives Louis the code to access the mascots' hideout, which is A113. This is a common running joke in Disney films.
 * When Louis is looking at the statues inside the hideout, they organized and look almost similar to the Bronze Medal meme, which was also recreated by Brazilian swimmer Bruno Fratus when he won the bronze medal in the men's 50m freestyle swimming event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
 * Some mascots make cameo appearances while Bela is introducing the types of mascots.
 * When Bela mentions some mascots are animals, Cobi can be seen. Cobi later appears as a supporting character.
 * When Bela mentions some mascots are humanoids, Schuss can be seen jumping in the background.
 * When Bela mentions some mascots are humans, Håkon and Kristin are seen skating in front of them.
 * When Louis calls everyone to gather around, Vinicius says "Sheesh, fine. My roast is ruined anyways." This is a reference to The Simpsons, where Principal Skinner says "Oh egads! My roast is ruined!" when his lunch was burnt in the oven in the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield". This is part of a segment where Skinner buys Krusty Burgers and disguises it as his roast to have lunch with Superintendent Chalmers, which became an internet meme called "Steamed Hams".
 * When Louis was about to do his final move at the final of the surf competition, he throws himself into the sky and lands on the board in the sand. The pose he makes on the sky is similar to Vinicius's pose before he lands on the ground in the reveal trailer for Vinicius and Tom, the mascots of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
 * Louis also does a Y pose when he lands on the board, which is also a reference to Vinicius doing the same pose near the end of episode 3 of Vinicius and Tom: Fun by Nature.
 * During the football match, either the mascots or the Dark Rings do goal celebrations that are similar to the goal celebrations of famous football stars.
 * When Cobi scores his second goal, he does Edinson Cavani's goal celebration, which is the pose of an archer.
 * When Vinicius scores a goal, he jumps and does a pirouette while saying "That's what I'm talking about!", which is similar to Cristiano Ronaldo's goal celebration where he does the same, but shouts "Siii!" meaning "yes" in Spanish.
 * When Miraitowa scores a goal from afar, he smirks and points to the sky, which is similar to Lionel Messi's goal celebration.
 * Whenever the Dark Rings score, they do celebrations similar to the celebrations of the Iceland football team.
 * When Number 21 of the Dark Rings score, he does Ante Rebic's goal celebration, where he puts his hand behind his ears to hear the cries of the fans, which are mostly Hades's minions.
 * When Louis scored the final goal, he does Kylian Mbappe's Two Hands Across the Chest pose.
 * An adult joke in the movie also references to another Disney movie. When Vinicius and Louis are talking outside after getting eliminated from the badminton competition, Vinicius stutters while saying "I have this little habit" where he says "I have this little... little...", which made Louis look down and say "But you don't have one?" This is a reference to an adult joke in Ratatouille where Linguini is trying to explain to Collette that he has Remy by saying "I have this tiny, little..." and then Collette looks down for a split second.
 * When Louis and Wenlock disguised themselves to enter the party hosted by Athena in Doha, Louis dresses himself up to look like Jean-Cristophe, the disputed head of the House of Bonaparte, the relatives of Napoleon Bonaparte.
 * Whenever the yellow ring is touched, it makes a sound that sounds exactly like the ring collecting sound from Sonic the Hedgehog. This is a joke in the movie because the yellow ring looks exactly like the rings from Sonic.
 * During the final marathon, when Louis and the marathon minions reached Paris, several easter eggs are spotted and referenced.
 * The marathon runners run past a building that looks exactly like Gusteau's from Ratatouille, and when they reach the building, mice started to appear, which is also a reference to the mouse colony Remy is part of in Ratatouille.
 * After running past the Notre-Dame Cathedral, two people are seen at the top of the cathedral cheering for Louis. Those people look like Quasimodo and Esmeralda, the main characters of the Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
 * When they were passing by a lane, a hair salon called Marianne Beauté is seen as one of the stores and the logo is nearly similar to the Paris 2024 logo. This was a joke added as a reference to someone saying on social media that the Paris 2024 logo "would be better suited to a dating site or a hair salon". The name Marianne was also a reference to the logo, which represents the national personification of France, Marianne.
 * During the final meters where Louis took over the last marathon runner and won the blue ring, the main theme of Chariots of Fire started playing. This is a reference to the famous scene of the athletes training at the beach to participate at the 1924 Summer Olympics, also held in Paris.
 * When Hades is hanging from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Louis goes up to him and says "Long live the king... of the underworld." before throwing him into the fiery mouths of Hydra before the portal closes. This is an obvious reference to Mufasa's death in The Lion King, where Scar also told him before dropping him into the stampede, "Long live the king."
 * Coincidentally, Louis is voiced by JD McCrary, who voiced young Simba in the Lion King live-action remake.
 * When the mascots are about to return home, some references to other media franchises appear:
 * In the scene showing Cobi going back to Barcelona, he opens the door where he only meets Petra, meanwhile his family members are outside. Cobi having a family is a reference to a TV show called The Cobi Troupe.
 * In Izzy's scene, he jumps into the Atlanta Olympic Cauldron, which is a reference to the TV special Izzy's Quest for Olympic Gold, where they mention the Torch World that is inside the Olympic cauldron.
 * In Vinicius's scene, he is seen looking at the view of Rio de Janeiro and later, Tom joined him. This is a reference to the Cartoon Network shorts Vinicius and Tom: Fun by Nature, which showed both Vinicius and Tom as good friends.
 * In the credits scene, two easter eggs are spotted.
 * When the Grand Palais is shown when introducing Ron Clements as the storywriter, a person is seen riding a bicycle in the roof. This is a reference to the short film "Course sur les toits de Paris" made to advertise the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 2020 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.
 * In the Notre-Dame Cathedral part which introduced the cinematographer, a silhouette of a hunchback man is seen on the top. This could be Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
 * Three adult jokes are present in this film.
 * On their way to Miami, when Louis shoved his head in the water to look at the fish, Miraitowa tells him that he could enjoy putting his face in the water, but he'll never understand the joy Miraitowa felt when he put his face between Someity's "burger buns". This made Louis take his face out of the water and look at Miraitowa, who has a relaxed face, with a raised eyebrow and horrified expression.
 * After losing the badminton tournament, Vinicius stutters when he is about to say "I have this little habit" by saying "I have this little... little...", which made Louis look down between his legs and saying "But you don't have one?". This then made Vinicius say "Wait, you have one?"
 * When Louis, Wenlock, and Huanhuan are entering Athena's party in Doha, Wenlock says "This party looks different than the last party I've been in." When Huanhuan says what kind of party, Wenlock answers that last party had "gymnasts spinning around vertical poles".
 * This movie is the first ever motion picture film to be based on Olympic mascots.
 * Ryo Taniguchi, the artist behind Miraitowa and Someity, was one of the leads of the character designs. He also gave Disney the idea of the end scene where Miraitowa explained to Louis about how he wasn't that popular during the 2020 Summer Olympics, despite Taniguchi saying he wanted the mascots to be the "face of the Games". The macots' unpopularity also made the New York Times to make an article about how unpopular the mascots were in the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
 * This is the first ever movie where 20th Century Studios (20th Century Fox) has collaborated with one of Disney's companies instead of working on their own movie.