History Characters / FablesTheFarm

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Especially Jack, off and on. [[spoiler: As of the ''Happily Ever After'' arc, she's decided to get Bigby to be with ''her'' after he kills Snow.]]

* RefusalOfTheCall: After [[spoiler: Boy Blue's death]], she sinks into a deep depression, neglecting her duties as Farm Administrator, and expressly rejects "Colin's" demands that she get up and help save the day.

[[folder: Rose Red]]

-> '''The Embodiment of Hope:''' But what '''sort''' of hope will you inspire in those whose lives you touch?
-> '''Rose Red:''' Something to do with '''second chances''', I think. God knows '''I've''' needed enough of them.

* CainAndAbel: After issues #148 and #149 bring the truth about their bloodline to light, [[spoiler:Rose is now fully prepared to have Snow killed in order to inherit the family magical power]]. In the finale, however, [[spoiler: when she realizes that the tontine curse upon her and Snow is broken or, at least, weakened (when a "soldier", possibly Boy Blue, reminds her that Snow had male children while Rose is still alive, what would be impossible if the curse were in full effect), she ends the rivalry peacefully, preventing a massive war from happening.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from the original wild child to capable leader of the Farm. [[spoiler: And from capable leader to power-mad murderess.]]

* FieryRedhead: She's mellowed out quite a bit, but she'll still sass you and threaten to kill your progenitor if you get in her way. [[spoiler: And, like with many other tropes, in ''Happily Ever After'' she's getting even more outspoken and angry as the power of her magical bloodline affects her.]]

* TheMourningAfter: When Blue dies Rose is devastated to the point she’s unresponsive at times, while others she seems to be losing her grip on reality. During the period of sorrow and self loathing, she constantly states she must make herself “worthy of blue”. When she finally recovers while she moves forward, it’s clear Blue was the one for her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She had the best of intentions, bur Rose's ill-advised attempt at giving Prince Brandish a shot at redemption results in [[spoiler: the deaths of Weyland Smith and Sir Lancelot]], both at his unrepentant hands.
--> '''Snow White: ''' Set him free and you '''are''' responsible, for everything that happens afterwards.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: On his deathbed]], Boy Blue rejects Rose's hasty marriage proposal, stating that she doesn't really love him: Rose is just fascinated by whomever is the "most exciting man in the room" at the time, citing Prince Charming, Jack Horner, Weyland Smith and Sinbad as examples, never truly being in love with any man. He tells her she's "broken", and doesn't know how to "fix" her. Despite telling Rose flat out he deserves better, Blue nevertheless wishes her the best.

* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: With Boy Blue. Just before the war with the Empire, he expresses his romantic intentions towards Rose, who rejects him, stating that he's like a brother to her, and she doesn't want to ruin their friendship. The tables are turned when later, after the war is over and Blue is [[spoiler: lying on his deathbed]], a sorrowful and regretful Rose confesses that she does truly love him and asks him to marry her. Blue refuses, stating that he deserves better than Rose's mercurial affections.

[[folder: Boy Blue]]

-> ''"I had no love of playing the hero. Why would I willingly do it again? I've wanted an ordinary life, and I'm finally on my way to a place where I can have one."'' - Boy Blue

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Dies from a wound from a magical arrow inflicted at the end of the war against the Empire]]. But Stinky and other Farm Fables vehemently (and fanatically) believe [[spoiler: he'll return to life one day, which he does in issue 150]].

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: More like '''decapitating the feared and almighty Emperor!'''. Too bad [[spoiler: he's just a giant puppet so it wasn't permanent]].

* TheHeart: An earnest, straightforward young man, polite to everyone, often plays the peacemaker and beloved by just about the entire Fable community. So his eventual [[spoiler: death]] hits them all pretty hard.

* IconicOutfit: He tends to wear blue wherever he goes, starting with a simple blue coat and eventually donning the Witching Cloak. [[spoiler: The person who convinces Red Rose to stop the needless conflict with Snow White in the final issue wears a similar outfit, revealing him to be a resurrected Boy Blue.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers one to [[spoiler: Rose Red, talking about how she immediately falls in love with the greatest hero in the room without ever truly loving the person behind the heroics.]]

* WoundThatWillNotHeal: [[spoiler: Winds up with one after the war. While it was initially believed to be due to an enchanted arrow from the Adversary hitting him in the arm, it's actually a spell of [[GreaterScopeVillain Mr. Dark]], as revenge for using the [[ArtifactOfDoom Witching Cloak]].]] Even Dr. Swineheart, one of the best healers in the Homelands, can't do anything to save him.

[[folder: Goldilocks]]

-> ''"I am the unsilenced voice of the oppressed masses, and we have power you can't imagine!"'' - Goldilocks

* BoomHeadshot: Blows a chunk out of Snow White's head with a high-powered rifle. [[spoiler: It doesn't finish her.]]

[[folder: Reynard The Fox]]

-> ''"Every kingdom has its villains, and this one was no exception. Reynard was a thief, liar, trickster and general contrarian of considerable renown."''

[[folder: Bo Peep Piper]]

-> ''"If I let you walk out that door- and believe me, I can still stop you if I need to- then it will only be because I have your solemn promise that you won't try to talk to [Max] first. You'll use every dirty thing I've ever taught you and just do the dirty business and walk away."'' Bo Piper

[[folder: Peter Piper]]

[[folder: Brock Blueheart ("Stinky")]]

-> ''"There are more than a hundred of us now, with more joining daily. Soon we'll be a great power on the Farm. And in time, the '''greatest''' power."''

* EmbarrassingNickname: "Stinky" is not his given name- he was bequeathed with it after an encounter with a skunk. Subverted, as [[spoiler: he later reveals to Bigby Wolf that he actually doesn't ''mind'' the sobriquet.]]

--> ''"For drinking water, of course!"''

[[folder: The Three Little Pigs]]

-> ''"The time is '''now'''! Our '''destiny''' waits only for each of us to reach out and '''claim''' it!"'' - Dun Pig

[[folder: Clarathea the Dragon ("Clara")]]

-> ''"There's a Mundy song stuck in my head. I especially liked the chorus, as the singer screamed about setting the night on '''fire'''. Which resonates with me, for obvious reasons. As '''dragons''' by nature are '''firestarters'''"''.

[[folder: The Three Bears]]

-> ''"As long as Ma and Pa Bear have the ear of the Farm's more '''predatory''' element, and '''I''' pull the strings of the Bears, I'm the '''muscle''' end of our revolution."'' -- '''Goldilocks'''

[[folder: Bagheera]]

-> ''"I'm '''Bagheera''', the silent stalker of the night. I'm no lowly ox or plow-horse. I '''refuse''' to labor in the fields, like some common '''draft''' animal."''

Literature/TheJungleBook's stealthy panther character, close friend and protector to Mowgli. He was sentenced to captivity after taking part in the Farm revolution, but Mowgli managed to win his freedom through service.

[[folder: Shere Khan]]

-> ''"You've shown yourself to be nothing to be a '''paper''' tiger, while I'm a '''real''' one -- of the '''man-eating''' variety!"'' - Shere Khan, to Bluebeard

The feared predator from Literature/TheJungleBook, he continued his tradition of cultivating terror and respect among not only the Kipling Fables but pretty much all Farm dwellers, right up until his death.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Very prone to growl "You '''DARE?!?'''" whenever someone offends, crosses or otherwise irritates him.

[[folder: Mister Sunflower]]

-> ''"This is all a mere distraction from the '''real''' issues! I'm being victimized for taking a stand against the human oppression of Farm folk!"''

* HeroesWantRedheads: Had it bad for both versions of "Red Riding Hood", as well as Rose Red.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dies from a wound from a magical arrow inflicted at the end of the war against the Empire]]. But Stinky and other Farm Fables vehemently (and fanatically) believe [[spoiler: he'll return to life one day]].

* HumiliationConga: Between her disappearance in Fables and her return in Fairest In The Land, Goldilocks goes through a series of plans of try to gain power in the Homelands, all of which fail. This includes: trying to sell communism to a tribe of hunters, only to realize it wouldn't work in a subsistence economy, nearly being killed by beasts, managing to masquerade as a sorceress and become a king's adviser, only to be run out after seducing his young son, and then nearly being eaten.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Her reasons for arming the Farm Fables notwithstanding (revolution), her idea of mass producing modern weapons for Fable use is such a good one, Snow (the woman she tried to kill), adopts it in her plan to take down the Empire.

* KilledOffForReal: Finally [[spoiler: meets her end at the hands of Cinderella, with the Sword of Regret]].

* ReallyGetsAround: Bluebeard, Jack, Baby Boo Bear, among who knows how many other.

* [[CoolUncle Cool Aunt]]: To the Cubs. [[spoiler:Until the ''Happily Ever After'' arc, when she sends Bigby to kill them.]]

* {{Envy}}: His jealousy of Reynard the Fox's ability to travel out in the Mundy (as well as him flaunting his knight status) is the main reason Sunflower stirs up trouble over the glamours. But he disguises his motives with the usual grievances over being trapped on the Farm.

* KnifeNut: Extremely skilled with small blades.

* KnifeNut: A deft hand with a blade, though not to the level of his wife, Bo.

* IAteWhat: On a dinner date with tree lady Princess Alder, Reynard is shocked to discover that the "delicacy" he sampled from her plate is manure, taken from local "sources", including, quite possibly, his own. In Alder's defense, she tried to warn him.

-> ''"You've shown yourself to be nothing to be a '''paper''' tiger, while I'm a '''real''' one- of the '''man-eating''' variety!"'' - Shere Khan, to Bluebeard

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-> ''"There's a Mundy song stuck in my head. I especially liked the chorus, as the singer screamed about setting the night on '''fire'''. Which resonates with me, for obvious reasons. As '''dragons''' by nature are '''firestarters'''"''. - Clara

now White's wilder younger sister who has a troubled relationship with her older sibling and is the leader of Fabletown's farm. Is later pegged the Paladin of Hope.

Snow White's wilder younger sister who has a troubled relationship with her older sibling and is the leader of Fabletown's farm. Is later pegged the Paladin of Hope.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Yeah, it seems I was a bad girl again."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"And always with a healthy dose of, 'a kid like you ain't '''lived''' enough and '''suffered''' enough to play the blues.'"'']]

* {{Blues}}: His signature musical genre.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not only down with the struggle- I'm the '''tip''' of the fucking spear."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:250:''"I'm '''Reynard the Fox'''. There're entire nations where the official word for fox is '''my''' name. Check that if you want. It's a cold '''fact'''."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Reynard's human form]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I think I'm catching on. You want Peter and me to do some dirty business behind enemy lines."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"But Frost doesn't belong to Fabletown. It belongs to me."'']]

* InterspeciesRomance: With Missy Skunk, though he later vehemently denies it.
** Later has a brief sexual encounter with Goldilocks.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Colin, Dun and Posey]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:Johnny, Donny and Lonny]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[Rose]'s my boss. I don't serve Fabletown or the Farm so much as I serve '''her'''"''.]]

-> ''"As long as Ma and Pa Bear have the ear of the Farm's more '''predatory''' element, and '''I''' pull the strings of the Bears, I'm the '''muscle''' end of our revolution."'' - Goldilocks
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[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from lower left: the new Baby Boo Bear, Mama Bear and Papa Bear]]

* BearsAreBadNews: Feared and respected, Goldilocks was easily able to have her way on the Farm with them in her pocket.
** At the Battle of Fabletown, this family were. along with Beast, Grimble the Troll and Hobbes the Goblin, among Snow's "Big Fighters"- the largest, most dangerously powerful of the Fable counterattack force. When they enter the melee they promptly wreak huge amounts of havoc and destruction in the enemy force.

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[[caption-width-right:320:''"'''I'll''' show that aristocratic asshole, Khan, a thing or two."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Does the mighty sultan invite a '''peasant''' to share his table?"'']]

-> ''"This is all a mere distraction from the '''real''' issues! I'm being victimized for taking a stand against the human oppression of Farm folk!"'' - Mister Sunflower
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[[caption-width-right:239:''"It's time to make our voices '''heard'''! Are you '''with me'''?"'']]

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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish sibling to Snow White's Responsible. Though she's become an efficient leader of the Farm, and was usually more rebellious than foolish. Lampshaded in ''Happily Ever After'' when Morgan tells her a bit about how magic works; the sole thing Rose takes away from the conversation is that she should ''name her sword''.
** Ironically, Rose cites this trope as the reason she is adamant about giving the evil murderer and kidnapper Brandish a second chance: as the "Paladin of the Hope For Second Chances", she sees this as her being "truly responsible" for the first time ever.

* TheTrickster: Right up there with [[ConMan Jack Horner]] when it comes to deception and chicanery.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The main reason why Goldilocks butchers Colin, and why his cousins seemingly have no problem with it. He was supposed to steal a key to Fabletown's Business Office, as well as garner support for the planned revolution; Colin failed in both tasks, assuming he even attempted either at all.

* MadeOfIron: Axe to the head, beaten brutally with a cane, falling down a cliff and shattering limbs, getting hit by an 18-wheeler, floating away face-down in a river... And she recovers fully.

* TheMourningAfter: When Blue dies Rose is devastated to the point she’s unresponsive at times, while others she seems to be losing her grip on reality. During the period of sorrow and self loathing, she constantly states she must make herself “worthy of blue”. When she finally recovers while she moves on, it’s clear Blue was the one for her.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. His fall (and rumored "encounter") with Missy Skunk happened years ago, but everyone on the Farm and beyond calls him "Stinky" without fail.

* Hypocrite: Grouses about King Ambrose and Rose Red trying to "cheat the system" by obtaining extra tickets for the Glamour Lottery, all the while he himself is plotting to steal them for himself.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shreds Bluebeard to bloody scraps when he becomes weary of his dissembling and delays.

Two different groups of porcine residents of the Farm. The originals were cousins Colin, Dun and Posey, and they (except for Colin), are notable for being the ringleaders and probably the main initiators and architects of the Farm insurrection of a few years ago. After their deaths, they were replaced by three new pigs, named Johnny, Donny and Lonny, formerly a trio of giants known as The Three Brothers.

A place for Fables whose physical appearances prevent them from passing for human among the Mundanes, this huge property in Upstate New York has been aptly described (visually) as a cross between Old {{MacDonald}} and Disney and Munchkinland. But to many of its non-human citizens, it is between a highly regimented community and a glorified prison camp. With these tensions lingering, there have been several disruptions of the peace over the many years, but only one has erupted into a full-on revolution.

A place for Fables whose physical appearances prevent them from passing for human among the Mundanes, this huge property in Upstate New York has been aptly described (visually) as a cross between Old MacDonald and Disney and Munchkinland. But to many of its non-human citizens, it is between a highly regimented community and a glorified prison camp. With these tensions lingering, there have been several disruptions of the peace over the many years, but only one has erupted into a full-on revolution.