Yzma
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| First appearance | The Emperor's New Groove (2000) |
| Created by | Mark Dindal |
| Voiced by | Eartha Kitt |
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| Notable aliases | Principal Amzy |
Yzma is the main villain in Disney's The Emperor's New Groove and its spin-off television series The Emperor's New School. In both roles Yzma is voiced by Eartha Kitt.
Originally serving as the Emperor Kuzco's advisor, she is later fired after meddling in his affairs and attempting to act as Empress in his absence. Enraged at her banishment, Yzma conspires with her dim-witted assistant Kronk to dispose of Kuzco. The two head to the "secret lab" (which everybody already knows about) to concoct a plan to kill Kuzco. Her original idea was to transform Kuzco into a flea, then put the flea in a box, put that box in another box, and mail that box to herself. When that box arrives, she would smash it with a hammer. But after thinking it over, she decides to save on postage and simply poison him. The concept of her formulating a nonsensical plan before settling on an easier-to-pull-off idea would later be used as a running gag on the series
Like must Disney supervillains, i.e. Jafar, Scar, and Dr. Drakken, she comes up with grandiose plans and schemes with a set objective in mind but fails to pay attention to the minor details of it. More often than not it causes the scheme to backfire on her. For example in Officer Kronk she, as Principal Amzy, makes Kronk the campus police chief in order to trap Kuzco into indiscretions that would get him expelled. She fails to take into account Kuzco's deviousness and Kronk's dimwittedness. As a result she ends up in the school jail with everyone else.
In The Emperor's New School episode, Monster Masquerade, Yzma takes a cobra form similar to Jafar's from the Classic Disney film Aladdin. Ymza possesses many of Kuzco's more negative traits including impatience, selfishness and vanity.
Another major running gag in the movie and series is the lever to the lab, which she more often than not triggers with her catch phrase "To the secret lab!" What follows is her commanding Kronk to pull the lever, which usually results in him pulling the wrong lever, causing something to happen for comedic effect. For example, in the movie, when this happens, Yzma falls through a trap door and into a moat below. She returns, detaching a crocodile from her dress, and mutters, "Why do we even have that lever?!" Afterwards, Yzma and Kronk (or whoever's pulling off the routine) go through a roller coaster that deposits them in the secret lab, wearing lab coats. This gag now comes back to the TV series.
Yzma also appears in the direct-to-DVD sequel Kronk's New Groove. She is also a regular on the spin-off Disney Channel TV series The Emperor's New School, where she tries to make Kuzco fail his classes. In the series, she is undercover as Principal Amzy. As a running gag, Kronk can never seem to remember that she and Principal Amzy are one and the same, in spite of how obvious it is ("Amzy" is Yzma's name spelled backwards). Yzma also has the unique ability to change into any thing she desire by pulling her oufit as demonstrated in the ENS eipsode Kuzclone where she turn in to things like a clown and a sea monster wearing a top hat playing a tuba.
In the Emperor's New Groove soundtrack, Yzma has a song called Snuff Out The Light, which was cut out from the movie when the plot of her trying to block out the sun was removed from the story.
In The Emperor's New School, some of Yzma's known relatives appear at times. They (so far) include her twin nephews, Zim and Zam, (voiced by Dylan and Cole Sprouse) who appear in Chipmunky Business, and her mother, who appears in The Bride of Kuzco and looks just as ancient looking as Yzma (possibly even more so).
In one scene in the movie, where Yzma and Kronk are trapped inside a closet, one can see that Yzma eyes, after she loses her patience, have a spiraling effect. This is perhaps an allusion to Jafar, whose eyes have the same effect when he is triumphant (notably directly following his reprise of Prince Ali).
Another running gag is that she gets frustrated by Kronk's inability to see that Yzma and Principal Amzy are the same person, despite how much she reveals it to him.
[edit] Potions Yzma has been affected by throughout her life
- Kitten (The Emperor's New Groove)
- Bunny (Kronk's New Groove)
- Scary beyond all reason (The Mystery of Macchu Pichu, never worked because she was already)
- Kuzcogartener (Kuzcogarten)
- Cobra (Monster Masquerade)
[edit] Trivia
- In the movie it is revealed that Yzma is bald and has no eyelashes. (This can clearly be seen when Kronk barges into her tent, as her hair and eyelashes are hanging on a coatrack and are also absent from her face.) This was also seen in the episode Kronk Moves In and the season finale, Yzmopolis.
- In the movie's end, Yzma is turned into a cat. In Kronk's New Groove, she is human again, but still has a fluffy gray cat tail.
[edit] References
- Hill, Jim (September 2000). "The Long Story Behind the Emperor's New Groove". LaughingPlace.com. Retrieved part 1 and part 2 on February 6, 2006.
- "Leight, Danny (Feb. 14, 2001). "Llama drama." Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved on February 6, 2006.
| The Emperor's New Groove | |
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| Main Characteres | |
| Kuzco • Pacha • Yzma • Kronk | |
| Movies | |
| The Emperor's New Groove • Kronk's New Groove | |
| Animated Television Series | |
| The Emperor's New School • List of Episodes • Malina • Minor Characters | |
