Fantasia/YMMV
- Alternative Character Interpretation: While there's a literal bird made of fire (and lava) in The Firebird Suite, the Firebird is also commonly known as a Phoenix... and the Wood Sprite rises from the ashes of the forest.
- Awesome Music: It's pretty much a given - this was part of the point of Fantasia anyways.
- Complete Monster: Chernabog, being The Devil, is pretty much nothing but this.
- Ear Worm: Many of the pieces, but Carnival of the Animals, Finale in particular.
- Evil Is Cool: Between the Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria sections, representing in turn the profane and the sacred. Take a guess which one has burned itself into people's memories the most.
- The Firebird from 2000. Make the pun at your own peril.
- Ensemble Darkhorse Darkhorse: Apart from Mickey as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, who is the character everyone remembers? Let us give you a hint: how many tropes listed on this page are dedicated to Chernabog?
- From the 2000 edition, The Firebird Suite; as the Spring Sprite and also the Firebird appear in California Adventure's World of Color show.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: So the "Pastoral Symphony" has rather small equines prancing around. They're also in nearly every colour of the rainbow, and pretty much all include pegasi and unicorns. Are these the precursors to something we all know today?
- Nightmare Fuel: Night on Bald Mountain
- The Problem with Licensed Games: Castle of Illusion fans were not pleased with the Genesis adaptation of this movie. The gameplay was bad and It didn't even have Chernabog as a final boss!
- Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying: Rite of Spring, filled with Stock Dinosaurs (including the T. rex) of different Mesozoic periods and sometimes-questionable anatomy.
- Going by the 1940s understanding of dinosaurs, however, it's pretty accurate, apart of course from the Anachronism Stew.
- Unfortunate Implications: Sunflower, the servant centaurette in "The Pastoral Symphony", whose human half looks like a black "pickaninny" and who performs menial tasks for the white-featured centaurettes. Deleted from all releases since 1969, so most modern viewers haven't seen her. If you're curious, there's YouTube (first appearance about 1 minute in).
- On a less offensive level, the dancing mushrooms, which are clearly made to resemble old-fashioned Asian caricatures with slit-eyes and those funny cymbal-shaped hats.
- Ironically, nobody feels any need to complain about the fish in Nutcracker Suite, the Russian flowers, or even any implications people interpreted from Dance of the Hours.
- On a less offensive level, the dancing mushrooms, which are clearly made to resemble old-fashioned Asian caricatures with slit-eyes and those funny cymbal-shaped hats.
- Vindicated by History: The film was derided by many in its original release as a kitschy travesty, but now is regarded as one of the great masterpieces of Western Animation
- Visual Effects of Awesome: One of the late Walt Disney's greatest pieces of animation. No, there's no CG-I here.
- What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?:
- Come on, dancing mushrooms?
- The very idea that something could start off involving Mickey Mouse and end up with THE DEVIL of all things later down the line also counts.