For his eighteenth birthday, he decides to raze a village in order to build a sumptuous summer residence "Kuzcotopia", despite the objections of the village chief Pasha. Kuzco decides to fire his adviser Yzma. Before her termination becomes public knowledge, Yzma plans to poison Kuzco's wine. His clumsy henchman Kronk takes the wrong chemical vial from Yzma's lab, accidentally turning Kuzco into a llama.