History Anime / GrimmsFairyTaleClassics

* AccidentalKiss: In "Snow White and Rose Red", the Bear and Snow White are playing with an apple and trying to "balance" it between her nose and his snout. The apple falls and they kinda kiss by accident, with both of them blushing.

** Maria's/Beauty's sisters actually love their father and their younger sister. Unlike their original counterparts, they don't try to sabotage their sister's relationship with the Beast; while the three were grieving over their dad's death from his illness, Maria forgot that she had to return after a certain period of time, and they're scared for her safety when she tells them.

** The Queen in "The Six Swans" gets some of this. Even before she turns her stepsons into swans, she summons a gigantic snake in an effort to kill her new family, and later murders her husband. When she encounters her stepdaughter Elise again, she [[CompositeCharacter takes the role of the mother-in-law from the original story]] by first bullying and threatening Elise to the point of tears... then kidnapping Elise's infant son and leaving him to die and framing his mother for it in an attempt to get her executed.

* AdaptationExpansion: Sometimes, especially for short tales. "Snow White and Rose Red", for example, has the Prince's younger brother meet Rose Red a few times on his own while the main story occurs, showing that he fell in love with her on his own (plus she's a bit of a SmittenTeenageGirl to him, showing that she ''also'' likes him a lot) '''and''' that he was desperately searching for his missing big brother aka the Prince himself.

** Likewise there is no [[ObnoxiousInLaws jealous Mother-In-Law]] in "The Six Swans". Her role is instead handed to the witch. [[note]](The Witch's [[TheUglyGuysHotDaughter much uglier mother]] IS seen at the start, but she disappears from the story almost immediately)[[/note]] Moreover, Elise had ''[[RuleOfThree three]]'' children in the original story; she only has one here (though nothing says that she and her beloved didn't have more after the episode ended).

* AscendedExtra: The Bear Prince's brother from "Snow White and Rose Red" is barely mentioned at the end of the original tale, as a sort-of afterthought to give Rose Red a boyfriend after her big sister marries the Prince. Here the younger Prince is properly seen searching for his missing brother ''and'' is [[ShipTease seen having cute interactions]] with Rose Red after she takes care of him.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Circled around in "The Crystal Ball" as the Princess' youth and beauty is literally sucked out of her by the WickedWitch every night, but by morning she is returned to her lovely youthful self.

** Inverted in "Snow White and Rose Red", where the Bear Prince's younger brother is the protective one and has been searching from him.

** William and the Princess in "The Man of Iron", get a romantic blush and haze with their kiss.

** After being told that the prince has been slain by his grief stricken father in "The Water of Life" Princess Anna drops her water after seeing the reflection of the kind man who offered it too her, and has a slow-motion passionate embrace when reunited with her handsome Prince Joseph.
** Heidi and Sean, after being separated for years after escaping from "The Water Nixie", has a glorious one in a beautiful meadow, when Heidi comes across Sean shepherding sheep.

* BurnTheWitch: It almost happens to [[spoiler: Elise from "The Six Swans"]] when [[spoiler: the stepmother frames her for infanticide and cannibalism.]] In fact, [[CrucifiedHeroShot she's tied up to a cross]] and ''right about to be burned alive'' when [[spoiler: her brothers pull a BigDamnHeroes ''and'' bring her son back, to repay her for breaking their curse and reveal the witch's plans.]]

** Princess Anna in "The Waters of Life" is held prisoner by a demon in the moonlight palace.

** The Miller agrees to give The Water Nixie his first born in return for riches to keep his family alive. When he does not come through on his end, and on his death-bed has his son Sean promise never to go to the Witch's pond. When Sean wanders too close by mistake the Nixie abducts him, and his wife Heidi goes on a quest to rescue him.

* DecompositeCharacter: In their version of "Snow White" the Evil Queen and the Witch are separate characters, and the Huntsman's role of helping Snow White escape into the forest instead being given to [[CanonForeigner Klaus]], with the Huntsman himself undergoing AdaptationalVillainy as a result of this.

** Also the prince in "The Old Woman in the Woods", whose kingdom has been cursed and his subjects turned into trees and he himself into an Owl by the witch. He must team up with the ActionSurvivor Lisbeth to defeat the witch and when he's released at the end, he and Lisbeth marry.
* DoubleInLawMarriage: "Snow White and Rose Red" ends with the titular sisters marrying the princes, who are brothers themselves.

** "The Coat of Many Colors" begins with poor Aleia running away from her mad father and then barely escaping with her life from her burning castle, while her dad burns to death there.

** "Bluebeard" has the titular character killing his second-to-last wife on screen.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The young princess went through so much to get where she is, starting when her father remarried to a witch. First, she and her brothers were nearly assasinated by a giant snake she sent. She and her brothers were sent into hiding by their father, but their efforts were in vain when the witch found them anyway. She witnessed her brothers be turned into swans, who then tasked her with knitting the sweaters that would turn them human again, all while never laughing or speaking. This took seven years in the making. Although it helped that she married a nice prince and bore his children, it was nearly [[YankTheDogsChain negated]] when her stepmother returned into her life. Because of this, the stepmother stole the child, framed the princess for the crime and nearly had her executed as a witch. But when her brothers arrive and use the sweaters to turn human, things start looking up. She's cleared of her crime, reunited with her missing baby, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty the stepmother is burned alive]], and the princess and live her life to the fullest with her husband and son.

* EvilDetectingBaby: Elise's baby son in "The Six Swans" starts crying whenever the witch approaches him. Considering she would later throw him into the forest and make it look like his mother ate him, one can hardly blame him.

* EyelidPullTaunt: "Snow White and Rose Red" has Rose do this to the gnome after he berates her sister for cutting off part of his beard to help him.

** The gnome from "Snow White and Rose Red" is very ill-mannered and worst, he had no qualms into endanger a couple of girls.

** The Nixie from "The Water Nixie" agreed to help the farmer to scape his difficulties, but the cost was the first living being born in his house(however, it ended being his son), and one wonders why a magical being wants so bad a living being...

** The witch from "The Six Swans" turns her royal husband's six sons into swans with cursed white capes. Their sister must make six other capes to break the curse, [[spoiler: which the swans manage to put on when they come to rescue her and bring her kidnapped son back.]]
** The prince in "Snow White and Rose Red" caught the wicked gnome stealing the castle's treasures and got turned into a bear for his trouble. He didn't recover his human form until he managed to kill the gnome.

** In "The Six Swans", the witch kidnaps Princess Elise's son and makes it look like she ate him.

** Fredrick, in "The Spirit in the Bottle", starts as a kindhearted, well-meaning young man, who agrees to help his father with his woodcutting to help pay for his schooling to become a doctor. After receiving the magic silk from the Spirit however, he goes on a bender that turns him from a good son, to a drunken, gluttonous fool. Even beforehand, while a good souled boy, he believes that money can solve all his and his father's problems.

** The Prince from ''Rapunzel'' falls into one when thrown out of the tower by the Witch, and has to crawl out of it despite [[EyeScream having his eyes injured]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "The Six Swans", the witch, having been exposed for what she really is, attacks with a wind spell. But in doing so, she reignites the pyre where Elise would've been burned to death, and sets herself aflame.

*** The Witch becomes Queen Consort in "The Six Swans".

*** Aleia, a FallenPrincess becomes Princess Consort of Alexander's kingdom in "The Coat of Many Colors".

-->'''Elise''': ''(thinking while being tied to the pyre)'' Oh my brothers, I'll remain true to you...even if it means my death!

* KarmicTwistEnding: Fredrick in "The Spirit in the Bottle", is asked by his father John on his deathbed to burn his magic cloth that granted him material wealth, but he refuses. Yet it catches on fire by accident, and as Fredrick runs to the forest to find the spirit, he himself is entrapped within the bottle.
* KillAndReplace: The witch in "The Crystal Ball" did this to Anton's mother in the original Japanese. In the English dub, she actually seems to be his mother.

* KissOfTheVampire: Subverted in the episode "The Crystal Ball", although it is a wicked witch, not a vampire, who routinely bites the neck of an innocent princess, in one of the most cruel and sadistic scenes ever imaginable. The princess also turns into a corpse afterwards, and somehow regenerates... only for the Witch to bite her neck and life energy away the following night...
* KneelBeforeFrodo: At the end of "Snow White and Rose Red" the sisters kneel before the Bear Prince when he reveals himself, but the Prince kneels in front of the girls to thank ''them'' for their help. And then he proposes to Snow White, [[BetaCouple with his brother proposing to Rose Red]].

* LetThePastBurn: This type of ending was used at least more than once. The Bluebeard episode ended this way, and Hansel & Gretel had the witch's house get struck by lightning and burn down, and the kids reunited with their father the next day.

* ManOnFire: At the end of "The Six Swans", the witch accidentally sets herself on fire when she summons a mighty wind.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as alongside the classic dual title Snow Whites in "Snow White" and "Snow White and Rose Red", both the daughter in "The Magic Heart" and the maid in "Old Woman in the Woods" are named Lisbeth, Hans is both the name of the hero of "The Golden Goose" and the titular "Man of Iron", Peter is both the Name of the Soldier in "The Worn Out Dancing Shoes" and one of the "Four Skillful Brothers", William is the Prince in both "The Iron Stove" and "The Man of Iron", and Franz is the name of both the {{Jerkass}} older brothers in "The Waters of Life" and "The Golden Goose" and one of the "Four Skillful Brothers" and Fredrick is both the Huntsman in "The Magic Heart" and the Woodcutters son in "The Spirit in the Bottle". Somewhat so with Rose Red, Briar Rose and Queen Rose from "Brother and Sister", however the Queen isn't named in the English dub, and merely referred to as Sister.

** Rose-Red from "Snow White and Rose-Red" counts too, never losing her energy and her smiles.

* PrincessesPreferPink: Most of the princesses and other leading ladies have at least some pink in their outfits. It's easier to list the exceptions: Snow White from "Snow White and Rose Red" (in her case it's because Rose Red is already wearing pink), and the Princess from "The Iron Stove", who all wear green, Lisbeth from "The Magic Heart" who wears [[TrueBlueFemininity blue]], and Aleia from "The Coat of Many Colours", who has purple, yellow, blue, white, and red dresses, but not pink.

** In "Snow White and Rose Red", the girls find a well-cared for horse without its rider. Rose-Red finds said rider (a rather handsome young man) passed out, tends to him as he wakes up, [[AfterActionPatchUp patches up his leg]] and, when they say goodbye, she's clearly crushing on him. He turns out to be the younger brother of the Bear Prince, and they marry at the end.

** "Snow White and Rose Red" finishes with a brief scene featuring the girls in royal clothes (and [[SheIsAllGrownUp apparently older]]) as they marry their princes. The last scene features them with their beloved mother, who is dolled up in a nice blue gown.

* SuperpowerLottery: The HotWitch and WickedStepmother of "The Six Swans" has many, MANY skills: SummonMagic (the snake she summons against her stepfamily), some RealityWarper skills (when the King has a GutFeeling after meeting her and almost refuses her mom's marriage proposal, his surroundings begin to change inexplicably), MasterOfDisguise (she disguises herself as the King before cursing the princes), ForcedTransformation (which she applies to her stepsons), [[BlowYouAway Wind Magic]] (which leads to her KarmicDeath, ironically), etc.

** In "Snow White and Rose Red", Snow is pretty much a younger version of her and Rose's mother.

** Used twice in "The Six Swans". First, in a bit of AdaptationExpansion the HotWitch transforms a magic branch into a golden needle and then sews six white capes to imbue them with the magic that transforms her stepsons into the titular swans. Then, Princess Elise puts her own sewing skills to work by sewing six shirts from starflowers to free her brothers from the Witch's curse. [[spoiler: She finishes right before being burned at the stake for crimes that she never commited, and the shirts are also tied to her stake/cross; right after they save her, the swan princes wrap themselves in Elise's shirts and are released from the spell.]]
** Poor Gretchen from ''Rumpelstilskin'' gets in trouble when her dad brags about how skilled she is with her spinning wheel.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: In "Snow White and Rose Red", Rose-Red is a very cheerful and no-nosense tomboy who wears pink clothes, has long reddish hair and sometimes ThinksLikeARomanceNovel (especially when the Bear Prince's brother is around).
* TongueTrauma: In "The Six Swans" the witch threatens to cut out the princess's tongue when they meet again.
* TooDumbToLive: The evil wizard in ''Puss In Boots''. Probably a bad, bad idea to turn into a mouse with a clever cat about...

* TheUnfavorite: Hans, despite his kindness towards them, is treated horribly by his family, while his older brother Franz is adored.

** Peter, having come from war, is filthy and his clothes are tattered, and even still Genevieve and her sisters comment that he is good looking.

** "The Crystal Ball" has an evil witch murdering a beautiful woman and stealing her identity. To keep herself young and beautiful, she keeps a beautiful princess trapped in her castle, and performs a ghastly and unholy ritual every night where she bites into her neck and drains her of her lifeforce, and leaves her a rotting corpse. For reasons unexplained, the princess revives within a matter of seconds after the ritual is performed. When the murdered woman's sons find out what is going on, she turns two of them into animals, but the youngest escapes and is able to destroy her.

** In "The Six Swans", the witch abandons Elise's infant son to die. [[spoiler: Fortunately, the titular Swans find the baby and rescue him.]]

* YoungestChildWins: The Saban English dub averts this in "Bearskin" by making the heroine the middle daughter (she was the youngest in the original dialogue and story, however.)

** One episode that Nickelodeon ''did'' show that still didn't have a happy ending was [[spoiler:''The Spirit in the Bottle.'' Even better, the DownerEnding is one actually ''added'' to this adaptation--the original fairy tale ''did'' end happily.]]

** The Queen from "The Six Swans" is burned do death after she accidentally sets herself on fire.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: You gotta feel a little bad for Beelzebub from ''The Naughty Spirit.'' Despite being a feared devil, he's actually really bad at his job, his fellow devils bully him and his boss holds him in pure contempt with his current marks being his last shot to get anywhere. Not only does that go wrong, heaven itself rather cheats to give the hero Nicholas the answers to his riddles, and it's ''quite'' debatable if his companions have learned anything. And they were the ones who called Beelzebub on them to begin with!

* KarmicTwistEnding: Fredrick in "The Spirit in the Bottle", is aked by his father John on his deathbed to burn his magic cloth that granted him material wealth, but he refuses. Yet it catches on fire by accident, and as Fredrick runs to the forest to find the spirit, he himself is entrapped within the bottle.

* TooDumbToLive: The evil wizard in ''Puss In Boots.'' Probably a bad, bad idea to turn into a mouse with a clever cat about...

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: "The Marriage of Mrs. Fox" has Mr. Fox, a vain smug jerk who mistreats his housemaid and believes his loving and beautiful wife to be unfaithful with incredible flimsy evidence. We actually do get an answer, though. He's rockin' nine tails in his pants, and she won't settle for anything less.

** One episode that Nickelodeon ''did'' show that still didn't have a happy ending was [[Spoiler ''The Spirit in the Bottle.'' Even better, the DownerEnding is one actually ''added'' to this adaptation--the original fairy tale ''did'' end happily.]]

* WomenAreWiser: In "Brother and Sister", Rose is quite savvier than her brother Rudolf and restrains her thirst, warning him not to drink from the stream. When he cannot resist any longer, disobeys her and is transformed into a deer, she hugs and comforts him.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While nothing is said about the specific looks of the soldier from [[Literature/TheTwelveDancingPrincesses "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes"]], it ''is'' mentioned that he's ''not'' young. Peter from the episode featuring the tale is a young man who's a bit of an UnkemptBeauty and even has a nice hat.

** The boy of "Literature/GodfatherDeath". In the original story he's rather greedy and selfish and wants to save the princess just so he can marry her and become the future king. Here he performs a HeroicSacrifice in order to do the right thing and to be a real doctor for the first (and last) time. Notably this is in the Saban dub, as the Japanese version has him closer to his fairytale counterpart, only to change his ways at the last moment to save the princess [[note]] a child in the Japanese version, an adult in Saban’s dub [[/note]].

** To a smaller degree, Elise's husband in "The Six Swans" was also a victim of this. In the original the King rebuked the mother-in-law's [[spoiler: infanticide]] accusations, and it wasn't until the ''third'' one that the mother-in-law could override his authority and get the protagonist near executed. In the episode he ''does'' desperately ask Elise what happened but doesn't openly defend her from the WickedStepmother's claims, which led some viewers to (mistakenly) believe that he ''also'' wanted her to die.

** The witch in "Rapunzel" as well, albeit more subtly. Here, she apparently locked Rapunzel away from the world immediately after kidnapping her, rather than when she turned twelve. In addition to giving her adopted daughter a TraumaticHaircut and casting her out into a desert after finding out about the prince's visits, she beats her into unconsciousness, and it's implied she was originally intending to ''kill'' her. Shortly before said beating, she says she wanted to keep the girl all to herself, rather than wanting to protect her from the world. Moreover, [[DestinationDefenestration she pushes the prince out of the tower with her magic]], unlike in the original stories where he jumped out or fell off on his own.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In [[Literature/{{Rapunzel}} the original story]], the prince heard Rapunzel singing. Here, he hears her playing a lyre. This raises the question of how he knew it was a woman up in the tower. (Funny, in the original Rapunzel is voiced by [[Creator/MitsukoHorie a famous singer]])

** The Imp in "The Iron Stove" has PointyEars and bat-like wings, making her seem like some sort of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] or [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]]. On the other hand, she's never stated not to be human, and she flies without moving her wings, so it's possible that there are other explanations, especially considering she's a magic user, and referred as the Imp-Fairy. Maybe they're just illusions, traits she gave herself via shapeshifting, the result of her magic use causing a physical transformation, or something else.

** In comparison to the [[Literature/{{Bluebeard}} original story]], which had a HappyEnding, "Bluebeard" ends this way. While Josephine makes it out alive, and the murderer Bluebeard is killed, the castle where she was to stay in as a princess is set aflame, and is burned to the ground, with all her treasures burned too. It's implied this was a sort of LaserGuidedKarma for Josephine treating her servants so cruelly.

** The Nickelodeon dub also went a bit further, shortening scenes where characters are beaten, making deaths cleaner, and removing instances of breastfeeding. Infamously, "The Coat Of Many Colors" had to be redubbed to omit references to incest (instead, the princess flees the destruction of her kingdom). Strangely enough, the original dub is the only version available online.

** One of the Spanish dubs (and the Portuguese dub, which seemed to be based on it) occasionally rewrote dialogue to downplay certain dark elements. For example, in "The Coat of Many Colors", the king was rewritten to be the princess's uncle instead of her father, with the dead queen the princess resembles now being her aunt. This also implies the king isn't a blood relative.

** The mad king in "The Coat of Many Colors", the show's version of "Allerleirauh", is heavily implied to die in a fire he set by accident. In the original it's never mentioned what happened to him [[note]](Perrault's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkeyskin own version of the tale]] has the King surviving, recovering his sanity, marrying a widow and apologizing to his daughter.)[[/note]]
** The father in "Beauty and the Beast" is implied to start the story terminally ill, and dies before the end. (Possible subversion in that this adaptation is actually very close to a version the Grimms collected, [[http://beautybeast.enchanted-rose.org/fairytale_summergarden.php "The Summer And Winter Garden".]])

** The Imp-Fairy attempts this with Prince William, to pull him into the flames that leads to her dark kingdom.

** ''Rapunzel'' has the protagonist as a skilled musician, and her signature instrument is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre the lyre]]. The Prince actually hears her playing and [[LoveAtFirstNote falls in love with her music]], ''then'' meets up with her. [[spoiler: She keeps her lyre after [[StarCrossedLovers she and the Prince are separated]] by the Witch, and the now blinded Prince finds her after [[BookEnds he hears her play the same song that she played when they met]].]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The soldier character in "The Six Who Went Far" is always referred to as Hero. Also, in "King Grizzlebeard", Elena calls her husband, who is a musician, "Musician" (before [[spoiler: she learns that he is in fact King Grizzlebeard]]).

* {{Expy}}: The grouchy dwarf Thursday in "Snow White" is obviously inspired by [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Disney's Grumpy.]]

** The imp-fairy from "The Iron Stove" is quite "fair" but very dangerous to come with...

** The 13th Witch "from "Briar Rose" justified the reason she was not invited quite well.

** Subverted with Elena from "King Grizzlebeard", since [[spoiler: her fall from grace is a BatmanGambit from her father and one of her suitors (the titular "King Grizzlebeard", who already had a crush on her) to teach her to be less of a RoyalBrat.]]

** Rudolf in "Brother and Sister" was turned into a Deer when he drank water from a pond that was enchanted by his and Rose's evil Step-Mother.

* GlamorFailure: Invoked in "Hansel and Gretel". The white bird is actually the witch's imp familiar, the sugar-coated facade of the Witch's house melts away into a more traditional haunted house, a strawberry from said house turns into a toad

** "The Iron Stove" is also darker than its source by including a conflict between the princess and the imp-fairy over the prince.

* HotConsort: Many examples

*** Cinderella, Rapunzel and the maid Lisbeth from "Old Woman in the Woods" become Princesses Consort to their respective Princes.
*** Peter marries into royalty in "Worn-Out Dancing Shoes".

*** "Snow White" becomes Princess Consort while her little sister Rose Red marries the Crown Prince's younger brother.

*** The Princess, after rescuing Prince William and his kingdom from the Evil Imp-Fairy in "The Iron Stove" becomes his Princess Consort.
** Likewise some of them are unknown to be royalty after some circumstances and become consorts of another kingdom.

*** Aleia, a FallenPrincess becomes Princess Consort of Alexander's kingdom in "Coat of Many Colors".

* HotWitch: Three of them - the one in "The Iron Stove" (who more closely resembles a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] than a typical witch and is referred to as an Evil Imp-Fairy), the one in "The Six Swans" (whose beauty briefly manages to charm the heroine's father), and the one in "The Water Nixie" (who wears a pink see-through dress). All three witches are the villains of their respective episodes.
* IGaveMyWord: Elise in "The Six Swans", remains to her vow towards her brothers to remain silent for six years in order to break their spell. Even when her step-mother the Queen convinces the kingdom that she is an evil witch who ate her own child, Elise refuses to speak her innocence despite her husband's pleas, even when the Queen is arranging her death by burning.

* IWantGrandkids: Upon learning of his plan to use the ball to find a suitable wife for their son, the Queen from "Cinderella" immediately accuses her husband of this. The King doesn't see the problem with wanting to bounce adorable grandchildren on his knee and says he knows she wants that just as badly as he does. Mere moments after Cinderella and the Prince are set to be married, the King excitedly tells the Queen it's time to decide the number of grandkids and what their names will be.

* InformedFlaw: InUniverse, Elena cannot see anything past the fact of King Grizzlebeard's, well Grizzled Beard, even though the man is very kind, incredibly rich, noble and rather handsome.

* MasterOfIllusion: The fairy in "The Iron Stove" is suggested to be this. She makes Prince William see himself as an ancient, ugly old crone, and the Princess must find her way through the Imp-Fairy's illusions to her castle.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Some of the episodes give the characters names they didn't have in the original stories (though this depends on which language you're watching the show in). Examples include: Elise (the Princess of "The Six Swans" [[note]](apparently inspired by the "Elisa" name that she was given in Andersen's version)[[/note]]), Josephine (Bluebeard's last wife), Franz and Joseph (the princes of "The Water of Life"), Phoebe and Griselda (Cinderella's stepsisters), Leonora (the princess in "The Frog Prince"; this is an addition of the English dub as she had no name in the Japanese version), Rudolf and Rose (the siblings from "Brother and Sister"), Lily (the cat maid in "The Marriage of Mrs. Fox"), Elena (the princess from "King Grizzlebeard"), Peter and Genevieve, Louise and Julia (the soldier and princesses from "The Worn Out Dancing Shoes"), Alexander (the prince from "The Coat of Many Colors"), among others who are unnamed in the original stories.

** The haughty Princess Elena in "King Grizzlebeard" knows full well her beauty is unmatched.

* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: The Imp-Fairy from "The Iron Stove" has traits of this, as she's one Hell of a ClingyJealousGirl and some of her retorts against the Princess remind of a SpoiledBrat throwing a fit after not getting what she wants. The Latin-American dub of the series empathizes this by giving the Fairy [[Creator/RocioGarcel a VA who makes her sound quite child-like.]]

** In "Snow White and Rose Red", the girls find a well-cared for horse without its rider. Rose-Red finds said rider (a rather handsome young man) passed-out, tends to him as he wakes up, [[AfterActionPatchUp patches up his leg]] and, when they say goodbye, she's clearly crushing on him. He turns out to be the younger brother of the Bear Prince, and they marry at the end.
** Once the titular "The Iron Stove" recovers his human form as Prince William, he's taken away by the Imp-Fairy and the Princess must rescue him.

** Snow White, who's beauty causes her to gain the lethal envy of her step-mother the Queen.

** The Princess from "The Crystal Ball" was targeted and enslaved by the wicked-witch, because she was the most beautiful maiden in the land, and has her beauty painfully sucked out of her by the witch every night.

** The older sisters in "Bearskin". In the original story, reduced to envy, they commit suicide and the Devil takes their souls. Here they are clearly upset when they find out what they lost, but they don't actually kill themselves.

** Also subverted in "The Frog Prince": the Frog and his servant Henry believe that Princess Leonora has to kiss him to change him back into a Prince. But when he asks her to kiss him near the end[[note]]In the English dub; the dialogue in Japanese is different[[/note]], she throws him against a wall in anger, [[DisneyDeath apparently killing him]]. Then she instantly [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regrets what she's done]] and cries TearsOfRemorse, and her [[SwissArmyTears tears]] break the spell instead of a kiss, bringing him back to life in human form. The English narrator adds at the end of the episode that the kiss of true love came ''later'', assumedly at Leonora and the prince's wedding.

** In a sibling version, "Bluebeard" has Friederich and Josephine looking much younger and prettier than their two eldest brothers.

** Peter, having come from war is filthy and his clothes are tattered, and even still Genevieve and her sisters comment that he is good looking.
* UndignifiedDeath: In "The Six Swans" not only the HotWitch fatally catches fire but as she's running around while burning, the huge cross that Elise was bound to ''falls on her'' and definitely kills her.
* TheUnmasking: Inverted in "The Six who would go far". In the beginning, our soldier protagonist first approaches the greedy king and his daughter for a reward whilst wearing his helmet. After they send him away with little more than moldy coins, he doesn't wear his helmet for the better part of the story, making him unrecognizable the next time their paths cross. Towards the end when the royal villains are defeated, he dons his helmet once more to let them know he's the same soldier from before.

* VillainousGlutton: The wolf from "The Fox And The Wolf", who's always complaining about wanting to eat. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It costs him in the end]].

** In "The Water Nixie", the little son of the main couple is never mentioned at the end of the story. Maybe a choice of writer because in the original story it is implied that he, alone and without parents, starved to death.

* The Saban dub does this to the titular character in "Literature/GodfatherDeath". In the fairy tale, and in the Japanese version of the episode, he’s a simple force of nature AboveGoodAndEvil. He has a job to do and there is a balance to be kept, and he goes about both in a matter-of-fact way. In Saban’s dub, he’s played as a sneaky and selfish figure who waited til the boy was of age to approach him not because he had to, but because "I said I’d help him, I didn’t say I’d help him ''today,"'' and it’s at ''his'' urging that the doctor steals gold from a soon-to-be-widow.

** The third brother is gone in "The Waters of Life."

** Maria has only sisters and no brothers as compared to Belle/Beauty to most retellings of "Beauty and the Beast."

** The Imp in "The Iron Stove" has PointyEars and bat-like wings, making her seem like some sort of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] or [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]]. On the other hand, she's never stated to not be human, and she flies without moving her wings, so it's possible that there are other explanations, especially considering she's a magic user, and referred as the Imp-Fairy. Maybe they're just illusions, traits she gave herself via shapeshifting, the result of her magic use causing a physical transformation, or something else.

* BarefootPoverty: Lisbeth from "The Old Woman..." is the only person in the royal caravan she works in to not wear shoes, signifying her poverty.

** Most especially demonstrated in "The Man of Iron," as lazy RoyalBrat Prince William first appears grotesque in Hans' magic pond, but after he TookALevelInKindness his handsome features are not only restored, but greatly increased.

** Rose and Rudolf from "Brother and Sister" try protecting one another from their own WickedStepmother, with Rose first trying to reason with her and then Rudolf shielding Rose from the whippings.

** William and the Princess in "The Man of Iron," get a romantic blush and haze with their kiss.
** Aleia and Alexander glow with their first in "Coat of Many Colors."
** Peter and Genevieve share a sweeping one at the end of "The Worn Out Dancing Shoes."

* BlatantLies: Despite what the (English) theme song tells you, not every story "ends so happily." Although one could be forgiven for not knowing this if familiar only with the Nickelodeon cuts (or having not seen the episodes Nickelodeon didn't show).

*** There were also some episodes skipped altogether by Nickelodeon (although they were dubbed), among them the very dark and sinister "Bluebeard."

** One of the Spanish dubs (and the Portuguese dub, which seemed to be based on it) occasionally rewrote dialogue to downplay certain dark elements. For example, in "The Coat of Many Colors," the king was rewritten to be the princess's uncle instead of her father, with the dead queen the princess resembles now being her aunt. This also implies the king isn't a blood relative.

** Lisbeth from "The Magic Heart" helped her evil mother the Witch to trick the huntsman Frederick. When Frederick [[TheDogBitesBack turned the tables on them]], she got turned into a donkey... [[spoiler:The witch lived the rest of her life as a donkey while Frederick took pity on Lisbeth, defended her from her cruel caretaker and decided to undo the spell on her, and the two got married. It's similar to what happened in the original, only the witch died before Frederick's return.]]

* TheCaligula: In "The Coat of Many Colors," Aleia's father loses his mind and tries to force his daughter to marry him.

** The mad king in "The Coat of Many Colors," the show's version of "Allerleirauh," is heavily implied to die in a fire he set by accident. In the original it's never mentioned what happened to him [[note]](Perrault's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkeyskin own version of the tale]] has the King surviving, recovering his sanity, marrying a widow and apologizing to his daughter.)[[/note]]
** The father in "Beauty and the Beast" is implied to start the story terminally ill, and dies before the end. (Possible subversion in that this adaptation is actually very close to a version the Grimms collected, [[http://beautybeast.enchanted-rose.org/fairytale_summergarden.php "The Summer And Winter Garden."]])

* DrowningMySorrows: After the doctor’s attempt on setting himself free from Death after saving the king in "The Godfather Of Death", he is seen depressed and anxious as he drinks wine.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The soldier character in "The Six Who Went Far" is always referred to as Hero. Also, in "King Grizzlebeard," Elena calls her husband, who is a musician, "Musician" (before [[spoiler: she learns that he is in fact King Grizzlebeard]]).

** The Nixie from "The Water Nixie" agreed to help the farmer to scape his difficulties, but the cost was the first living being born in his house(unfortunately it ended being his son), and one wonders why a magical being wants so bad a living being...

* {{Fartillery}}: In the original cut of "Jorinde and Joringel," when Joringel picks up the cat (really the witch in disguise) by his tail, the cat farts right into his face. The English dub (or at least the Nickelodeon edit thereof) cut the cheese-cutting.

* {{Forgiveness}}: In "The Magic Heart", Frederick gets his revenge on Lisbeth and her witch mother by tricking them into eating the magic cabbage that turns people into donkeys. But when he sells them to a farmer, he proves rather merciful towards Lisbeth (who was against tricking him) and makes the farmer promise to not work her and feed her well. Days later, Frederick learns the farmer went back on his word shortly after the donkey!witch died from excess work. Although he could turn a blind eye, Frederick can't find it in himself to let her suffer, and instead buys her back. He gives her the white cabbage that restores her humanity, and Lisbeth lauds that his ability to show mercy and compassion are more magical than anything else.

* GoodIsDumb: Hans in "The Golden Goose", is kindness exemplified but unfortunately isn't the most intelligent man.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: In "Briar Rose," the invitations the witches receive to the christening party are written in romanized Japanese (and to boot, in medieval-style font).

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Considering what the show is based on, it should come as no surprise that this is a common trait for protagonists and love interests. i.e., there's the Princess from "The Iron Stove", Princess Briar Rose, Rapunzel [[spoiler: and her son]], Cinderella, [[spoiler: the Beast's original human form]], FallenPrincess Aleia ''and'' her boss/prospect lover Prince Alexander from "The Coat...", the poor Princess from "The Crystal Ball"...

*** Rose becomes Queen after marrying the king in "Brother and Sister."

*** Peter marries into royalty in "Worn Out Dancing Shoes."
*** The Witch becomes Queen Consort in "The Six Swans."

*** Elena becomes Queen Consort after marrying "King Grizzle-beard."

*** Either Joseph or Anna will be the consort of either kingdom they return to in "The Water of Life."

*** William becomes Prince Consort by the end of "The Man of Iron."
*** Aleia, a FallenPrincess becomes Princess Consort of Alexander's kingdom in "Coat of Many Colors."
*** Elise is Princess Consort to her Crown Prince husband's kingdom and later discovered to be a FallenPrincess after saving her brothers in "The Six Swans."

* KilledOffscreen: The Evil Queen from "Snow White" is attacked by the friendly wolves of the forest, and seems to be [[DarkActionGirl holding her own]]... [[ZergRush until wolves swarm in by the hundred]]. Cue the SmashCut, with the narrator [[GoryDiscretionShot discreetly confirming she didn't survive]].
* KissOfTheVampire: Subverted in the episode "The Crystal Ball," although it is a wicked witch, not a vampire, who routinely bites the neck of an innocent princess, in one of the most cruel and sadistic scenes ever imaginable. The princess also turns into a corpse afterwards, and somehow regenerates... only for the Witch to bite her neck and life energy away the following night...

* NeverSayDie: The English dub does this on occasion, typically whenever reference is made to someone dying a violent death (not if someone dies a natural death, such as Maria's father in "Beauty and the Beast"). For example, in "The Six Who Went Far," it's mentioned that those who lose the race against the Princess "never come home", and we even see an executioner raising his sword to [[PublicExecution behead one such loser]], but the words "kill" or "execute" or any variation thereof are never used.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as alongside the classic dual title Snow Whites in "Snow White" and "Snow White and Rose Red", both the daughter in "The Magic Heart" and the maid in "Old Woman in the Woods" are named Lisbeth, Hans is both the name of the hero of "The Golden Goose" and the titular "Man of Iron," Peter is both the Name of the Soldier in "The Worn Out Dancing Shoes" and one of the "Four Skillful Brothers," William is the Prince in both "The Iron Stove" and "The Man of Iron," and Franz is the name of both the {{Jerkass}} older brothers in "The Waters of Life" and "The Golden Goose" and one of the "Four Skillful Brothers" and Fredrick is both the Huntsman in "The Magic Heart" and the Woodcutters son in "The Spirit in the Bottle". Somewhat so with Rose Red, Briar Rose and Queen Rose from "Brother and Sister," however the Queen isn't named in the English dub, and merely referred to as Sister.
* PapaWolf: In "The Six Swans," the King springs into action in defense of Elise and his sons when the Queen materializes a giant serpent in their bed chamber.

** Rose-Red from rom "Snow White and Rose-Red" counts too, never losing her energy and her smiles.

** In "Brother and Sister", the siblings had been looking out for one another ever since the beginning, but after they escape and Rudolf gets turned into a stag Rose begins taking care of him more openly.

** In "The Six Who Went Far," men from the village are forced to compete against the Princess in a race and are publicly beheaded if they lose (although the English dub specifically [[NeverSayDie avoids mentioning the word "killed" or "executed"]], even though the shot of the executioner raising his sword was not cut).

** Lisbeth of "The Old Woman..." is a red-haired maid who must protect herself and her MysteriousProtector the Owl from the WickedWitch.

** Prince Joseph wins the heart of Princess Anna after rescuing her from a demon on his quest to obtain the titular "Water of Life."

** In "Brother and Sister", a TimeSkip takes place right after Rudolf/Brother becomes a stag. The siblings live peacefully in a tiny cabin, with Rudolf as a sleeker and slightly older stag and Rose/Sister as a cute GirlNextDoor.

** At the end of "The Hare and the Hedgehog," the Hare collapses in exhaustion, but doesn't cough up blood and die the way he does in the original story.

* TakeAThirdOption: Gretchen in "Rumplestiltskin" either has to guess the nymph's name or hand over her child. The last night she has to guess, her husband proposes another solution: "If the name my men gave me today is not correct, [[PapaWolf I'm going to protect our child from that nymph]] [[CuttingTheKnot with my sword]]."

** In "Brother and Sister", the younger brother Rudolf transforms into a deer from drinking enchanted water, but luckily is still able to talk just fine, eventually regaining his human form some years later.

** The wicked King and Princess in "The Six Who Went Far," also gets one.

** Nothing is mentioned of what happened to William's mother or his kingdom by the end of "The Man of Iron."

* WhenSheSmiles: At the end of the "The Golden Goose" the boy protagonist (after some people were stuck to him because of the Golden Goose's curse) went to a city where a worried King had decreed that his PerpetualFrowner of a daughter should marry whoever made her laugh. The sight of the procession made the Princess smile and laugh, and so the curse is broken, the boy marries her and inherited the kingdom.

---> '''Witch:''' You can run, but you can't hide! But don't worry, you're safe for the moment. ''[as tree eats Joringel]'' Sorry, I lied! Hahahahaha!

** "Mother Holle" has Hildegard's own stepmother. Although she married into Hildegard's family, she rather favors her own lazy biological daughter Elena, and works Hildegard to the bone. Even when Hildegard is nothing but kindly and obedient, it doesn't change that she treats her stepdaughter like a slave.

* WomenAreWiser: In "Brother and Sister", Rose is quite savvier than her brother Rudolf and restrains her thirst, warning him to not drink from the stream. When he cannot resist any longer, disobeys her and is transformed into a stag, she hugs and comforts him.

** The boy of "Literature/GodfatherDeath". In the original story he's rather greedy and selfish and wants to save the princess just so he can marry her and become the future king. Here he performs a HeroicSacrifice in order to do the right thing and to be a real doctor for the first (and last) time.

* HeroesWantRedheads: In "The Six Swans", Elise (herself a redhead) marries a red-haired prince from another kingdom while working on the shirts.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: “The Coat of Many Colors” opens with Aleia narrowly escaping her mad father, who wishes [[ParentalIncest to marry her]]. Unlike the original story, the episode shows that this has left the princess completely traumatized, and it takes a long time before she finally overcomes it and marries the prince.

* KarmicTwistEnding: When Fredrick in "The Spirit in the Bottle", refuses his father John's dying request, to burn his magic cloth that granted him material wealth, he refuses. Yet it catches on fire by accident, and as Fredrick runs to the forest to find the spirit, he himself is entrapped within the bottle.

** The poisoned comb is not present in the adaptation of ''Literature/SnowWhite''. This might be due to time restraints, as the episode tends to focus to the relationship between Snow White and the dwarfs. The lace and the poisoned apple are both present, however.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The gnome in "The Golden Goose" makes a practice of this. He takes the form of an old beggar and asks passersby if they would be willing to share some food. Franz angrily refuses to share the lavish meal his mother made for him, ultimately injuring his arm while chopping wood. By contrast, Hans doesn't hesitate to share a far more meager meal with the guy. The seeming beggar both uses magic to enhance the food for Hans's benefit and tells him that he'll find something very special if he chops down a particular tree. After the WhenSheSmiles example plays out, the gnome departs with the goose to go to a new town and find another kindhearted person deserving of help.

* StockholmSyndrome: Maria in the "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" episode eventually develops for the Beast rather quickly. In return, Beast has quite the case of LimaSyndrome.

* TalkingAnimal: In "The Iron Stove", a bunch of these aid the Princess, particularly the frogs. [[spoiler: They're humans under a spell, and when the Fairy is defeated and implied to be killed, they recover their human forms.]]

* VainSorceress: "The Crystal Ball" has an evil witch murdering a beautiful woman and stealing her identity. To keep herself young and beautiful, she keeps a beautiful princess trapped in her castle, and performs a ghastly and unholy ritual every night where she bites into her neck and drains her of her lifeforce, and leaves her a rotting corpse. For reasons unexplained, the princess revives within a matter of seconds after the ritual is performed. When the murdered woman's sons find out what is going on, she turns two of them into animals, but the youngest escapes and is able to destroy her.

* WhenTreesAttack: A group of evil trees appear in the episode "Jorinde and Joringel" — brought to life by the witch who holds Jorinde hostage. The trees chase Joringel through the woods. When he loses sight of them and thinks they are gone, one of them sneaks up behind him and eats him. Luckily, it's revealed to be AllJustADream as Joringel wakes up in a bed right after the tree eats him. Later, he's attacked by trees - and the Grim Reaper - for real while going to rescue Jorinde. Only the Deus Ex Machina appearance of the Red Flower - which grows on the spot where his tear fell on the ground - makes the trees and Reaper disappear and saves Joringel's life.

* WickedStepmother: You can't have a collection of fairy tales without one of these in at least one such story. It's only a matter of taking one's pick.