History Characters / FablesLiterals

* TheExtremistWasRight: As he points out, his harsh actions were absolutely necessary to bring order to the lives of Fables and Mundanes and allow the advancement of science. He was making the world (and universe) safer and better for both Mundanes and Fables by protecting them from his father who would change the laws of physics, history, or anything on a whim. This is all later proven true as the moment Kevin Thorn gets his pin back he immediately starts screwing around with reality and plotting the end of the universe.

[[folder: The Pathetic Fallacy/ Gary]]
-> ''"But I don't know '''what''' I know, or how I seem to know it right now. I don't normally know anything, except how to talk to my special friends that no one else can talk to. I'm not used to real people-- even '''fictional''' real people. Does that make '''any''' sense?"'' - Gary
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's just who I am. The Pathetic Fallacy. Of course, I always ''hoped'' that people would call me-- oh, you don't care."'']]

--> ''"My nuts!'' I ''need'' those!"

[[folder: Kevin Thorn]]
-> ''"I have an '''author's''' responsibility to make the story as good as possible. Haven't you heard that 'all writing is '''re'''writing'? Ever hear of the storyteller's rule, 'kill your darlings'?"'' - Kevin Thorn
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Now the ideas for my new work are starting to come to me, fast and unfettered. Now I can put my practice notebook aside, take up the formal journal and write an '''end''' to this sad and silly story with a single, cogent, declarative line. Right '''now.'''"'']]
Introduced in ''Fables'' as a reporter with the strange ability to see the fable community and its residents for who they really are. He is eventually revealed to be the amnesiac personification of storytelling itself, as well as the creator of all fables. [[spoiler: As his memories and powers return, the once mild-mannered reporter begins showing a much more sinister side...]]

* CreatorBacklash: InUniverse. Disgusted by how his stories have spun out of control without his direct influence. He cites Bigby winding up the Sheriff of Fabletown and [[spoiler: Geppeto becoming a BigBad]] as examples.

* HumanPopsicle: Jack Frost freezes him in order to [[spoiler: prevent his world-destroying sentence from being finished.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Has been stripped of his memories by Mr. Revise on several occasions because [[spoiler: his stories were wreaking havoc upon the Mundane world.]]

* RetGone: [[spoiler: Uncreates Old Sam as punishment for attempting to steal his pen. It is also his ultimate fate- he is exiled to a different reality so that his stories will no longer trouble our world.]]

[[folder: Writer's Block]]
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[[folder: Mister Revise]]
-> ''"I am '''Revise!''' I am the Warlock's Bane, the Cutting Man, the Unmaker, Slayer of Stories! It was '''I''' who rid this world of its witches and werewolves! It was I who trimmed all that was dangerous and unwholesome from the ''plague'' of Fabledom!"'' - Mr. Revise
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"No one has '''ever''' escaped me. Resign yourself to the fact that you're here for life. Now get out of my office."'' ]]
Son of Kevin Thorn, and the AnthropomorphicPersonification of editing and censorship. Has dedicated his life to creating a stable world for Mundanes to live in. To this end, his organization abducts Fables so that he can strip them of their inherent magic by gradually erasing the Mundane world's memories of their stories. He is also the father of [[spoiler: one third of]] the Page Sisters.

* BenevolentBoss: Provides the Mundanes working for him with money and new identities after [[spoiler: his organization is destroyed.]]

* HumiliationConga: After Jack enters his life, [[spoiler: a mass jailbreak occurs, his daughters turn on him, his brother razes his compound, he is forced to give back every bit of magic he took from the Fables in order to give them a fighting chance, and what remains of his life's work is blown to smithereens by a volcanic eruption.]] Needless to say, he is left an embittered, cynical shell.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Chief of his powers. He does it to Mundanes in order to erase their memories of the Fables, and to [[spoiler: Kevin Thorn, in order to prevent him from creating more]].
* LoveTriangle: Had one with his brother over Prose Page. He eventually won her, but not before [[spoiler: Bookburner had unknowingly fathered two of the Page Sisters.]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Though cynical in nature, his mission to protect the Mundane world from magic is arguably very idealistic in nature. After [[spoiler: his life's work is completely destroyed]] he nosedives into the cynical end.

[[folder: The Bookburner]]
-> ''"I gave big brother Revise his chance. He '''blew''' it. And now he's going to '''pay''' for his mistakes."'' - The Bookburner
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[[caption-width-right:342:"Isn't it grand?"]]

* PutOnABus: According to the Pathetic Fallacy, his eventual [[spoiler: "death"]] can best be described as this. He will return when he "comes into fashion" again.

--> ''' to Revise, after getting shot by Jack multiple times during wartime negotiations:''' "Do you see it, Revise? Do you see what a ''pestilence'' these creatures are? Underneath all their magic and pretty stories is the belief that they're above everyone else. That they are ''better'' ".

[[folder: Deus Ex Machina ("Dex")]]
-> ''"At long last, I'm here to fix everything and save the day."'' - Deus Ex Machina
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Impossible? I believe that's my cue."'']]

[[folder: The Walls]]
-> ''"I'd like to tell you a story."'' - Eliza Wall
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[[folder: Prose Page]]
-> ''"Once upon a time, a '''very''' long time ago, there was a certain young lady of the '''Literal''' persuasion who longed for a life of adventure."'' - Mr. Revise

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[[caption-width-right:293:''"But until the day of her death, the young woman told no one of the half-breed child that she had abandoned so many years before."'']]
Mother of the Prose Sisters, as well as [[spoiler: Jack of the Tales]].

* AlliterativeName

* ParentalAbandonment: Knowing that having a relationship with a Fable is strictly taboo for Literals, she is forced to leave her baby by [[spoiler: Prince Charming]] with a kindly old farm couple. That baby grows up to become [[spoiler: Jack Horner]].

[[folder: General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We're the '''Page Sisters'''. We're the biggest, baddest, hottest librarians the world has ever seen."'']]
-> ''"Even if we don't stand a chance, it's better to go down fighting. We aren't fragile little Mundys, or even Fables. We're '''Literals'''! Better than that, '''we're the Page Sisters!'''"'' - Priscilla Page

Tropes applying to all of them:

* BigNo: All three let out one when [[spoiler: Jack the Dragon incinerates the True Books]].

[[folder: Hillary Page]]
-> ''"It's not the end of the world. It's the beginning of a whole new '''chapter''' in our lives. Once again, the Page Sisters are about to kick '''ass''' and take '''names'''!"'' - Hillary Page
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[[caption-width-right:310:''"We're about to bring Literals back to this blighted place, and this time do it with grace, elan and '''style'''."'']]

* KilledOffForReal: The Tin Woodsman [[spoiler: blasts a hole through her during the final battle in the dragon's cave.]]
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Undertakes a huge quest to Americana to locate the Bookburner, thinking he is her father. [[spoiler: He is not: it's actually Mr. Revise. Bookburner rather cruelly disabuses her of this notion]].

[[folder: Priscilla Page]]
-> ''"I'm not so vain as most, but I happen to know for a fact that I'm hotter than any six other women combined. I'm so hot I should be continued on the next girl."'' - Priscilla Page
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's a bigger, badder, stranger world than you might suspect."'']]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Incinerated by Humpty Dumpty]] during the melee inside Jack the Dragon's cave.

[[folder: Robin Page]]
-> ''"When the Page Sisters were little girls, Robin was always the one in charge. As she blossomed into a young woman, Robin was often the center of attention- and she liked it that way. And as far as her relationships with men went, well- let's just say she liked to be in charge there as well. Yes, Robin enjoyed being in charge- which made her choice of vocation as Mister Revise's head skull-cracker a no-brainer."'' - Eliza Wall
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[[caption-width-right:289:''"Let's go nab us some '''fairy tales''', sis."'']]

* {{Irony}}: She used savage tigers to enforce security at the Golden Boughs Village, and it is [[spoiler: another savage big cat, the Lion from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' that ultimately kills her]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The ''Fiercely'' Lion of Oz mauls her to death]] during the final battle in Jack the Dragon's cave.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Asks herself this when it's revealed that Jack Horner [[spoiler: is her half brother]], and that she has nevertheless fallen in love with him.

[[folder: General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Not pictured: "Horror", "Literature" and "Romance".]]

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* BoobsOfSteel: Prodigious as they are, they in no way impede her effectiveness.

* BareYourMidriff: Her usual mode of dress includes a very tight, not all there t-shirt, emblazoned with some spiffy phrase.

[[folder:In-General]]

* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler:His true persona. Cruelly toys with the fates of Fables and Mundanes alike, subjecting Bigby to a series of [[BalefulPolymorph humiliating transformations]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution giving a woman who sent him an ugly look cancer.]] ]]

* CoolHat: Wears a nice skipper's cap.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: Undertakes a huge quest to Americana to locate the Bookburner, thinking he is her father. [[spoiler: He is not: it's actually Mr. Revise Bookburner rather cruelly disabuses her of this notion]].

* SlidingScaleofIdealismVersusCynicism: Though cynical in nature, his mission to protect the Mundane world from magic is arguably very idealistic in nature. After [[spoiler: his life's work is completely destroyed]] he nosedives into the cynical end.

* GodIsEvil: He views Fables and Mundanes as nothing more than characters in a story to do with as he wishes and barely has more respect for his fellow Literals. When he first gets his powers he turned a park into a nightmare to test them out and casually writers horrible fates for several people who annoyed him. He is not hesitant in the least to destroying everything because he doesn't like how it turned out.

* {{Meganekko}}: All three are attractive, but Hillary is more on the "cute" side than her more conventionally "beautiful" sisters.

* BadassMustache: Sports sleek, stylish facial hair on his upper lip.

* ShapedLikeItself: As the being responsible for attributing human characteristics to inhuman things, Gary is literally the anthropomorphic personification of anthropomorphic personification.

* {{Irony}}: She used savage tigers to enforce security at the Golden Boughs Village, and it is [[spoiler: another savage big cat, the Lion from TheWizardOfOz that ultimately kills her]].

* MySignificenceSenseIsTingling: Action has the ability to sense when cool explosions happen and where.

* TheJester: "Comedy" fills this role as one of Kevin Thorn's "advisors", though he never offers any really useful advice or guidance.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Kevin Thorn is a meek, polite and friendly individual. When his memories return, however, he simply keeps it up [[FauxAffablyEvil as a facade]]. Upon regaining his powers, he drops the act altogether.]]

--> ''"My nuts! I ''need'' those!"'

* YourCheatingHeart: Had an affair with Mister Revise while she was with Bookburner, resulting in [[spoiler: the births of Priscilla and Robin Page]].

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Appears as an stern, elderly man. Cross him, however, and he will remind you that he is ''not'' a human.

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Mother of the Prose Sisters.