Divided/Tropes

Divided would be a 2029 animated comedy adventure film directed by Nyla Innuksuk and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film would center on a princess who has to learn to work with her seven alternative personalities in order to save their kingdom.

Tropes

 * Alternative Identity Amnesia: Jessica initially experiences this with her other alters, but eventually stops after she develops a close bond with them
 * An Aesop:
 * The only way to live with a traumatic experience is letting go, and don't let it control the rest of your life.
 * Don't be what people tell you to be.
 * Never try to bury your true self. Embrsace it and show it with pride.
 * Author's Saving Throw: The film's more emotional and lighthearted tone helped alivinate worries that it may be "another scary Split Personality movie".
 * Awesome Music: Kris Bowers' score is definetly awesome and touching.
 * Dark and Trobuled Past: Jessica's trauma is that she nearly killed her mom as a child, and didn't recovered in months.
 * Darker and Edgier / Lighter and Softer: The film actually manages to be both things from different point-of-views:
 * Within the Disney Animated Canon, the film is in some ways darker than other films, as it centers on themes such as trauma and mental illness in a realistic way, to not to mention it features one of the most insane and sadistic Disney Villains ever.
 * Within the Split Personality sub-genre, this film is one of the most lighthearted entries, featuring big amount of jokes and family-friendly moments, albeit without overcoming the more emotional elements.
 * Deconstruction: The film descontructs the idea of getting rid of a mental illness featured in media. Unlike most movies and TV series, it potrays the idea of a person with DID wanting to get rid of her alters as completly, outright, and undeniably wrong, and DID itself is potrayed as a coping mechanism needed to deal with trauma as in real life instead of a side effect of the trauma or a hindrace or problem.
 * Disney Villan Death: After Extreme Jessica and Genius Jessica manage to over power Alexandra and escape her by electrocuting her, she ends up losing his feet and falls off her ship to his death.
 * Enemy Within: Lampshaded, as Jessica suggests that she fears one of her personas may turn on her, only to be corrected by Genius Jessica. Ultimately averted, as the personalities, as much as they bicker with one another, they care and love each other.
 * Evil Is Hammy: Averted. For all the gloating and one-liners Alexandra delivers througth the film, not a single one of them is even close to be considered hammy. Word of God would state that this would be because the filmmakers felt that, while her joy was already very felt when they recorded them in a hammy way during production, they ultimately decided it was even more felt, and she was more threatening, without the hammy aspects.
 * For the Evulz: Alexandra, and how much. She clearly not only enjoys doing evil, but she dosen't even care about what happens, even if it derails her plans of conquest, as long as it means she gets to do more evil. As best described by director Nyla Innuksuk: "Most villains do evil because they want power. But Alexandra, instead, wants power because that's evil. For her, evil is another word for fun, and she deeply loves having fun".
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: When Martha tries to ask Jessica where she has been going, she notices her daughter's child-like behavior (as its actually her Wonder persona who's in control), and comments that "she has figured out one of those places".
 * She Also Did: Irene Berdard first worked with Disney on Pocahontas (1995). Here, she goes from Disney Princess (albeit one by actions rather than title, as Pocahontas wasn't a princess), to Disney Queen (througth refered to as Chief).
 * He Really Can Act: Its not easy to voice 7 main characters in one movie, but Anna Lambe managed to voice all of them very convincingly.
 * Meaningful Echo: "We're all with you". First said by Wonder Jessica as a way to state that all of Jessica's alters are in the same body as her. She later repeats this near the climax, througth, this time, as a way to tell Jessica that, no matter what happens, they will always have each other, and they will always be with her.
 * Medium Blending: While predominantly done througth CG animation, the film would also see one of Jessica's personality being created througth hand-drawn animation. Hand-drawn animation would also be used when the Genius persona is co-conscious, and in the "Art Creation Room" sequence. Additionally, Artist Jessica would be created using the CGI/2D hybrid animation system used in Paperman.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Alexandra crosses it many times:
 * In her debut scene, she learns that her plot to take over Alexandra's kingdom is mving smoothly, yet when she asks one of her soldiers if he prefers to live or die and he responds with living, she throws him off her ship and then she displays geniune enjoyment from doing so.
 * While talking to Jessica for the first time, Alexandra tortures her emotionally by bringing up her traumatic experience, before destroying her relationship with her mother by revealing the truth about Jessica's secret attack on Alexandra's base, and finally, she makes Jessica essentially relive her trauma by taking her mother and threatening to kill her in response to Jessica's actions. All while smiling with joy.
 * Finally, after torturing Martha by revealing her kingdom is about to be hers and Jessica dissappeared, Alexandra asks whether she prefers to live or die. This time, she displays her biggest smile yet, knowing that, if Martha chooses to live, she'll kill her, and her kingdom will finally be hers, and if Martha chooses to die, she'll lket her live, knowing that she'll suffer emotionally for years, if not the rest of her life. All in all, she was going a lot of pain.
 * Shown Their Work: Thanks to its "Pyschiatric Story Group", the film is argubly one of Hollywood's most accurate depicitons of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
 * Split Personality: The film's bread-and-butter.
 * Take That!: Genius Jessica's entire explicaton about DID is a big example of this towards Hollywood's previous films featuring characters with split personalities.
 * Throw It In: Many of the dialogues between Jessica's personalities would be add-libbed by Anna Lambe.
 * Villanous Breakdown: While always clearly insane, Alexandra would still have some semblance of composture througth the film. Any sort of composture, however, would be gone by the film's climax, as her lust for blood and joy for evilness would completly consume her. Much like with Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective, this makes her even more threatening than before.
 * What Do You Mean Its For Kids?!: It may be quite funny, but, at the same time, Divided explores the life of the daughter of the chief of a futuristic Native American Inuit tribe plagued with mental illness, having both Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder. And when it explores them, it explores them in a very deep way.
 * The Woobie: Jessica. She nearly got her mother killed for accident when she was a child, got traumatized by the event, suffers from two mental illness (DID and PTSD), and just when she started to recover, a villain appears and makes her essentially relive her trauma. Supringsly for a movie about Dissociative IDentity DIsorder, Jessica's life would have been worse if her alters didn't showed up.