Emperor Kuzco

Emperor Kuzco, simply known as Kuzco is the titular protagonist Disney's franchise. He is the titular main protagonist of Disney's 40th full-length animated feature film, and its TV series follow-up, . He also appeared as the overarching protagonist of the 2005 direct-to-video spin-off, .
He starts off as an egotistical spoiled brat and an uncaring teenage emperor, who is turned into a llama on the eve of his 18th birthday by his former adviser Yzma, who wants to take his place. After a journey with a good-hearted peasant Pacha, Kuzco becomes much kinder and nicer, which causes him to adjust his attitude, and gets the potion to turn back into a human.
In the original film, he was introduced as a protagonist villain, but eventually redeems himself.
He was voiced by in the films, who also played Sparx in The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, Joe Dirt in the film series of the same name, Russell Dunbar in Rules of Engagement, and Griffin in the Hotel Transylvania franchise, and in the television series and video games.
==Personality==
Initially, Kuzco is a overly-showoff, rude, kind of lazy, and very spoiled teenager who only cared about himself, even going as far as threaten to destroy an entire village to build himself a summer home for his upcoming 18th birthday. He also casually fires people, like when he fired Yzma out of the blue after a few times, and is very insulting towards women, showing to be quite vain.
He is also prone to be a bit on the snarky side, out right insulting some people in his mind and feels he's in the right most of the time. He also enjoys the spot light being on him at all times, and enjoys to dance and show off his 'groove', but is angered when someone makes this hard, such as when he had an old man thrown out of his castle after he interrupted his intro.
Later in the film, when he turned into a llama and met up with Pacha, the other hero of the film, and realized that his actions gave him enemies, he started to change. While vain and uncaring towards the man whom was in charge of the village he was going to destroy, Kuzco and Pacha began to grow a friendship that in the animated series sort of became a sort of father-son bond. At the end of the film, Kuzco has grown into a more kind hearted but still fun-loving young emperor who, instead of destroying Pacha's home, makes a summer area for everyone in his kingdom to enjoy, including Pacha's family.
In Kronk's New Groove, Kuzco seems to still have some of the spotlight-hogging personality traits from the original film, but shows he wants to be shown that he's changed and is very forward with making sure others remember that he's now a lot nicer than before.
He is also shown to be emotional many times in this film and in his movie as he is prone to crying over things that upset him and when he tells Pacha he wants his help while in tears.
==Story==
In The Emperor's New Groove, Kuzco is turned into a llama by the malevolent Yzma, who intends to poison him to claim the throne for herself, following her termination as his adviser. He is presumed dead, and finds himself lost in the jungle. Kuzco teams up with Pacha, a llama herder, who helps Kuzco turn back into a human again, regaining his humility and his throne. Throughout the film, Kuzco learns the meaning of friendship and generosity.
In Kronk's New Groove, Kuzco has a few cameo appearances. He occasionally shows up on screen acting as if he is the director and breaks the fourth wall by talking to the audience. He admits he has changed: 'I'm nice now. Didn't you see the first movie?' However, he remains arrogant; near the end of the film, he shows up in women's clothing, claiming he is Kronk's wife, announcing, 'You like how I weaseled my way into this movie?'
In The Emperor's New School, to remain emperor, Kuzco must to go to Kuzco Academy, a school he instituted and financed; he must pass all his classes, but Yzma and Kronk are out to thwart him. If he fails even one class, he will not be emperor, and Yzma will take over the empire. In the series, Kuzco develops a love interest named Malina.
In the episode "Father O Mine", Kuzco's real father appears in a flashback. He is a strong, muscular man, and was emperor before Kuzco. According to Kuzco and Yzma, he was lost at sea on a trip when Kuzco was just a baby, thereby granting the throne to Kuzco, who in turn is shown to share two things with his father: a llama birthmark and the same necklace. In another episode, it is revealed that Kuzco has a fear of frogs, after a traumatic childhood experience with them as a baby. 
In another, it is discovered that Kuzco's favourite food is Mudka's Meat Mug which is the only thing he orders. In "Graduation Groove", Kuzco completed school and got to be emperor again; having grown attached to Pacha's family, he lets them move into the palace with him, and hires both Pacha and Kronk to be his advisors but also hired Yzma as Kronk's assistant. Kuzco and Malina also become an official couple and are seen going on a date together.
==Trivia==
*In an earlier draft of the film, the plot would have been similar to The Prince and The Pauper and would have depicted Kuzco and Pacha (who in this version is closer in age to Kuzco and was to be voiced by Owen Wilson) swap lives due to their similar appearances. Yzma would then discover the switch and would have turned Kuzco into a llama and force Pacha to be the kingdom's puppet ruler under the threat of revealing his true identity. Kuzco would have fallen in love with a llama herder named Mata, who would have helped him and Pacha stop Yzma from awakening the dark god Supai and restore the sun to its proper place (as Yzma wished to get rid of the sun as she blamed it for aging her). However it was later decided that the film should be a buddy film and because of this, Mata was scrapped and her name was given to the waitress who serves Kuzco and Pacha at the diner.
*One scene that was not included in the finished film was Kuzco practicing the destruction of Pacha's village to make way for his summer home. It was cut as it would have caused people to view Kuzco as an unredeemable monster and past the point of changing his personality for the better.
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