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For those of you who [[RRatedOpening missed the R rating]]: [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids This fairy tale is very definitely not for children]], but is a ''profoundly disturbing'' TearJerker, as well as a great source of {{horror}}. It is notable that many {{squick}}s and nightmares were induced by this movie due to it being advertised as "family friendly." Especially in Europe, trailers shown only mentioned the fantasy parts. The fact that it takes place during Franco's regime is completely ignored, as is every mention of gruesomeness. Rated everything from 12+ (UsefulNotes/{{France}}, UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}}) to 21+ (UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}}) in cinemas.
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Ofelia and her mother are taken to a villa in the mountains near an old labyrinth (the titular Faun's one) to be near Captain Vidal for the birth while he hunts down rebels. She is quickly [[BrokenMasquerade taken into]] a ChangelingFantasy about how she is [[RagsToRoyalty secretly princess]] of the underworld fairy kingdom, lost to humanity for many ages. The Faun and his labyrinth were one of many made by her father, the King of the Underworld, as gateways in the hope she would return.
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Ofelia and her mother are taken to a villa in the mountains near an old labyrinth (the titular Faun's one) Faun'a) to be near Captain Vidal for the birth while he hunts down rebels. She Ofelia is quickly [[BrokenMasquerade taken into]] a ChangelingFantasy about how she is [[RagsToRoyalty secretly a princess]] of the underworld fairy kingdom, lost to humanity for many ages. The Faun and his labyrinth were was one of many made by her father, the King of the Underworld, as gateways in the hope she would return.
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* BlownAcrossTheRoom: An inversion, many times people are shot and barely react at all before dying. One character get shot in the back while walking and doesn't break stride for another couple of steps before falling. This holds true when [[spoiler: Vidal shoots Ofelia in the stomach, she looks more confused than in pain. Vidal himself gets shot just below his [[BoomHeadshot right eye]] and has time to blink two or three times before collapsing]].
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* BlownAcrossTheRoom: An inversion, many times people are shot and barely react at all before dying. One character get gets shot in the back while walking and doesn't break stride for another couple of steps before falling. This holds true when [[spoiler: Vidal shoots Ofelia in the stomach, stomach; she looks more confused than in pain. Vidal himself gets shot just below his [[BoomHeadshot right eye]] and has time to blink two or three times before collapsing]].
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* ForcedToWatch: Mercedes doesn't arrive in time [[spoiler:to treat Ofelia's gunshot, and besides which the doctor who could have saved her has been executed. All she can so is sing to the girl in her last moments, to offer her some comfort]].
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* ForcedToWatch: Mercedes doesn't arrive in time [[spoiler:to treat Ofelia's gunshot, and besides which the doctor who could have saved her has been executed. All she can so do is sing to the girl in her last moments, to offer her some comfort]].
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* SavageWolf: In the novelization Ofelia refers to Vidal as "The Wolf" in her head. Toward the end of the story she decides this is actually [[InsultToRocks an insult to wolves]].
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* PracticalEffects: Due to financial constraints, the decision was made to bring Faun to the screen with an actor in a MonsterSuit rather than creating an expensive CGI version. The human legs were removed in post production. The suit took five hours a day to put on but the convincing result was worth the effort.
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* PracticalEffects: Due to financial constraints, the decision was made to bring The Faun to the screen with an is played by actor Creator/DougJones in a MonsterSuit [[PeopleInRubberSuits physical suit]] rather than creating via an expensive CGI version. The human version; Jones' lower legs and feet were removed in post production. The suit took five hours a day to put on but the convincing result was worth the effort.
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* DoomedMoralVictor: Ofelia, paralleling the Republican side in the actual UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar. [[spoiler:She dies for doing the right thing instead of what she was told, and this small rebel victory cannot last when Franco is destined to rule for decades more, but they have proved themselves more morally courageous than their oppressors, and someday because of people like them Spain will be free again. Dr. Ferreiro [[InvokedTrope tells]] Carmen and Pedro outright that their cause is lost, but they nevertheless continue their struggle.]]
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* DoomedMoralVictor: Ofelia, [[spoiler:Ofelia]], paralleling the Republican side in the actual UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar. [[spoiler:She dies for doing the right thing instead of what she was told, and this small rebel victory cannot last when Franco is destined to rule for decades more, but they have proved themselves more morally courageous than their oppressors, and someday because of people like them Spain will be free again. In the non-magical plot, Dr. Ferreiro [[InvokedTrope tells]] Carmen Mercedes and Pedro outright that their cause is lost, but they nevertheless continue their struggle.]]
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* DoomedMoralVictor: Ofelia, paralleling the Republican side in the actual UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar. [[spoiler:She dies for doing the right thing instead of what she was told, and this small rebel victory cannot last when Franco is destined to rule for decades more, but they have proved themselves more morally courageous than their opressors, and someday because of people like them Spain will be free again.]]
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* DoomedMoralVictor: Ofelia, paralleling the Republican side in the actual UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar. [[spoiler:She dies for doing the right thing instead of what she was told, and this small rebel victory cannot last when Franco is destined to rule for decades more, but they have proved themselves more morally courageous than their opressors, oppressors, and someday because of people like them Spain will be free again.again. Dr. Ferreiro [[InvokedTrope tells]] Carmen and Pedro outright that their cause is lost, but they nevertheless continue their struggle.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:{{Tagline}} Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:{{Tagline}} Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.]]]]
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** The scene with two farmers who were just hunting rabbits and a bottle of wine -- Vidal smashes the son's face with it, and then shoots the desperate father and finishes off the son with a shot. This scene single-handedly establishes Captain Vidal as psychopathic sadist.
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** The scene with two farmers who were just hunting rabbits and a bottle of wine -- Vidal smashes viciously beats the son's face son with it, and then shoots the desperate father and finishes off the son with a shot. This scene single-handedly establishes Captain Vidal as psychopathic sadist.
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* GossipyHens: The kitchen staff, who are forever happy chatting. Although it is implied that they dislike Vidal, they are only in a couple of scenes and are usually just talking and cooking with smiles on their faces.
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And he also kills when he has the slightest suspicion that they were enemies because they happened to be in his way. And for happening to be in his way because he forced them to. And for being irritations. Need I go on?
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Vidal hesitates when [[spoiler:he sees Ofelia talking to the air and saying "I would" ("Yo sacrifico"). He only kills when he needs to get information from the rebels or those disobey him, and Ofelia had only disobeyed him. When he finally takes the baby, he's gently tugging it away before shooting Ofelia. Then he walks out of the labyrinth looking like a dead man, as if he can sense that he went too far]].
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* ClockKing: Captain Vidal, the villain of the movie, is obsessed with being puctual and is often checking his pocket watch.
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* ClassicalLanguage: In the Spanish version, the Faun often uses the ''vosotros'' form, used for addressing multiple people, but to address Ofelia only. This is an example of very old Spanish, a bit like how English speakers might use "thee" and "thou" for the same idea.
* ClockKing: Captain Vidal, the villain of the movie, is obsessed with beingpuctual punctual and is often checking his pocket watch.
* ClockKing: Captain Vidal, the villain of the movie, is obsessed with being
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It's set in 1944, just after the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar (a favorite period for Mexico-born Creator/GuillermoDelToro, the film's writer and director) with UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}'s democratically elected left-wing government overthrown by UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco's Nationalists and the new fascist regime attempting to weed out the last traces of LaResistance, led by TheRemnant of the former Republican government. The story centers on Ofelia (Creator/IvanaBaquero), an only child whose widowed mother Carmen (Creator/AriadnaGil) [[GuessWhoImMarrying has agreed to marry]] the ruthless Captain Vidal (Creator/SergiLopez) to provide for them. In turn, he expects her to bear him a son.
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It's set in 1944, just a few years after the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar (a favorite period for Mexico-born Creator/GuillermoDelToro, the film's writer and director) with UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}'s democratically elected left-wing government overthrown by UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco's Nationalists and the new fascist regime (which ensured Spain remained neutral during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII) attempting to weed out the last traces of LaResistance, led by TheRemnant of the former Republican government. The story centers on Ofelia (Creator/IvanaBaquero), an only child whose widowed mother Carmen (Creator/AriadnaGil) [[GuessWhoImMarrying has agreed to marry]] the ruthless Captain Vidal (Creator/SergiLopez) to provide for them. In turn, he expects her to bear him a son.
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* TheDyingWalk: [[spoiler:Doctor Ferreiro begins walking away from the room where he gave a MercyKill to Vidal's torture victim and revealed himself as TheMole. Vidal shoots the doctor in the back as he's walking, and the doctor continues walking, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhSjnG5pMOY but only for a few more steps]]... Ofelia dies in the same vein, though she's shot in the chest rather than the back of the head.]]
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* TheDyingWalk: [[spoiler:Doctor Ferreiro begins walking away from the room where he gave a MercyKill to Vidal's torture victim and revealed himself as TheMole. Vidal shoots the doctor in the back as he's walking, and the doctor continues walking, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhSjnG5pMOY but only for a few more steps]]... Ofelia dies in the same vein, though except she's shot in the chest rather than the back of the head.back.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In RealLife, fighting the rebel guerrillas was the job of the Guardia Civil - the guys in green uniforms and tricornes seen in the train wreck scene - but Vidal and his underlings appear to belong to the Policía Armada. Del Toro must have thought that the grey police uniform, with its stronger [[PuttingOnTheReich Fascist flavour]], was more appropriate for the BigBad than the GC green.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In RealLife, fighting the rebel guerrillas was the job of the Guardia Civil - the guys in green uniforms and tricornes seen in the train wreck scene - but Vidal and his underlings appear to belong to the Policía Armada. Del Toro must have thought that the grey gray-blue police uniform, with its stronger [[PuttingOnTheReich Fascist flavour]], fascist flavour]] and CommissarCap, was more appropriate for the BigBad than the GC Guardia's green.
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* TheSociopath: Captain Vidal, a Civil Guard officer willing to torture and kill as many partisans as he has to to make sure fascists take power in Spain. He cares for nothing but his own power and legacy, not even blinking when he [[spoiler:shoots his adopted daughter]] to keep his biological son under his thumb.
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* TheSociopath: Captain Vidal, a Civil Guard officer fascist police captain willing to torture and kill as many partisans as he has to to make sure fascists take power in Spain. He cares for nothing but his own power and legacy, not even blinking when he [[spoiler:shoots his adopted daughter]] to keep his biological son under his thumb.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In RealLife, fighting the rebel guerrillas was the job of the Guardia Civil - the guys in green uniforms and tricornes seen in the train wreck scene - but Vidal and his underlings belong to the Policía Armada. Del Toro must have thought that the grey police uniform, with its stronger [[PuttingOnTheReich Fascist flavour]], was more appropriate for the BigBad than the GC green.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In RealLife, fighting the rebel guerrillas was the job of the Guardia Civil - the guys in green uniforms and tricornes seen in the train wreck scene - but Vidal and his underlings appear to belong to the Policía Armada. Del Toro must have thought that the grey police uniform, with its stronger [[PuttingOnTheReich Fascist flavour]], was more appropriate for the BigBad than the GC green.
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* BulletproofHumanShield: Averted, when Vidal turns his gun on the senior hunter, who's being restrained by a soldier. The soldier sees what's about to happen, and quickly changes his position to holding the man at the side, rather than directly behind him as the man's body would most likely have not protected him from Vidal's close range gunshot.
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* BulletproofHumanShield: Averted, when Vidal turns his gun on the senior hunter, who's being restrained by a soldier. policeman. The soldier policeman sees what's about to happen, and quickly changes his position to holding the man at the side, rather than directly behind him as the man's body would most likely have not protected him from Vidal's close range gunshot.
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* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: The soldiers on horseback were ambushed just before they were about to recapture TheMole.
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* CoupDeGrace: The soldiers on both sides do a single shot to the head.
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* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: The soldiers police on horseback were ambushed just before they were about to recapture TheMole.
* CoupDeGrace: Thesoldiers combatants on both sides do it with a single shot to the head.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Vidal -- "It's the right hand." He's in the movie for less than ten seconds and we already have him pegged as a cold bastard obsessed with "correct" ways of doing things. Then he murders two prisoners with a bottle a bit later, just in case you didn't get it the first time.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Vidal -- "It's the right hand." He's in the movie for less than ten seconds and we already have him pegged as a cold bastard sociopathic asshole obsessed with "correct" ways of doing things. Then he murders two prisoners with a bottle a bit later, just in case you didn't get it the first time.
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* InvertedTrope: According to WordOfGod, in this movie, set in Falangist Spain, it's courageous ''dis''obedience, rather than blind obedience, that is the true virtue. This is nearly the opposite of pretty much any normal fairy-tale. Dr. Ferreiro gets a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck]] line aimed at Vidal to this effect.
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* InvertedTrope: According to WordOfGod, in this movie, set in Falangist Francoist Spain, it's courageous ''dis''obedience, rather than blind obedience, that is the true virtue. This is nearly the opposite of pretty much any normal fairy-tale. Dr. Ferreiro gets a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck]] line aimed at Vidal to this effect.
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* MauveShirt: Garcés and Serrano are the biggest examples. Others, like [[AnArmAndALeg Frenchie]], the stuttering rebel, the Guardia Civil captain and the troop medic, either recur or are given slight characterization against the masses. They all die in the course of the movie.
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* {{Mundanger}}: Captain Vidal is a military man with no relation to the magical elements of the setting, which he doesn't even believe in. And yet, Vidal could be considered a more terrifying monster than any of the actual monsters seen, lacking so much in compassion and empathy that he doesn't hesitate to [[spoiler:kill his very young step-daughter for trying to run away with her baby brother.]]
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* {{Mundanger}}: Captain Vidal is a military man fascist officer with no relation to the magical elements of the setting, which he doesn't even believe in. And yet, Vidal could be considered a more terrifying monster than any of the actual monsters seen, lacking so much in compassion and empathy that he doesn't hesitate to [[spoiler:kill his very young step-daughter for trying to run away with her baby brother.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: "Motherfucker, don't you dare touch the girl. You won't be the first pig I've gutted."
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* HellIsThatNoise: When Dr. Ferreiro suggests to Vidal that his unborn child might be female, an ominous rumble sound is heard, as though symbolizing Vidal's rising anger.
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* HellIsThatNoise: When Dr. Ferreiro suggests to Vidal that his unborn child might be female, an ominous rumble sound is heard, as though symbolizing Vidal's rising anger.
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* LuckyTranslation: When Ofelia says, "Yo sacrifico," the subtitles translate it to "I would". To an English viewer, it looks and sounds like the word "sacrifice," [[spoiler:which fittingly happens as Vidal catches up to her]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ofelia dies from her wounds on Earth but is reunited with her true parents of the Underworld.]] To a lesser extent, in the novelization [[spoiler:the rebellion will ultimately fail but Spain will free itself from fascism within a few decades]].
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* SchmuckBanquet: The Pale Man's cursed feast. Ofelia was instructed not to touch it and not to eat under any circumstances, but she could not resist those delicous-looking grapes. Too bad it woke up the horrible creature...
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* SchmuckBanquet: The Pale Man's cursed feast. Ofelia was instructed not to touch it and not to eat under any circumstances, but she could not resist those delicous-looking delicious-looking grapes. Too bad it woke up the horrible creature...
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:By the time Vidal pieces together that the good Dr. Ferreiro is a collaborator with the doomed rebel cause, Ferreiro has already [[MercyKill euthanised]] the stuttering rebel captive to spare him any further pain at Vidal's hands. He gives the fascist thug a concise TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and then calmly walks outside knowing Vidal is going to follow him out and shoot him. Much later in the film, Vidal himself... [[DefiedTrope tries this, but it doesn't work]].]]
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Adult versions of Jaime and Carlos from ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'' appear as rebels....only to be shot dead during Mercedes' escape.
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The word "pregnancy" actually is used.
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Warning, this film is a TearJerker. A ''profoundly disturbing'' TearJerker, as well as a great source of {{horror}}. For those of you who [[RRatedOpening missed the R rating]]... [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids This fairy tale is very definitely not for children]].
It is notable that many {{squick}}s and nightmares were induced by this movie due to it being advertised as "family friendly." Especially in Europe, trailers shown only mentioned the fantasy parts. The fact that it takes place during Franco's regime is completely ignored, as is every mention of gruesomeness. Rated everything from 12+ (UsefulNotes/{{France}}, UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}}) to 21+ (UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}}) in cinemas.
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The others don't qualify as they're not aware of the kind of story they're in.
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* YouWatchTooMuchX: According to her WrongGenreSavvy mother Carmen, Ofelia reads too many fairy tales.
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** In the Pale Man's chamber, there are three locks that Ofelia can use the key from the first task on. The fairies insist on the center lock, but Ofelia tries it and finds no give, so she decides to try the lock on the left instead and succeeds. She also defies the nagging of the fairies and the Faun's stated rule and eats grapes from the table, [[spoiler:proving that she can question authority and think independently enough to pass the final test.]]
** Multiple scenes show Vidal shaving in a mirror with his straight razor, and one time, he frustratedly slashes across his reflection. [[spoiler:Mercedes ends up slashing half his mouth open with a knife she rolls up in her apron.]]
** Multiple scenes show Vidal shaving in a mirror with his straight razor, and one time, he frustratedly slashes across his reflection. [[spoiler:Mercedes ends up slashing half his mouth open with a knife she rolls up in her apron.]]
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: In short, is it better to play it safe and obey, or to take the chance and be disobedient when you don't trust the authority in question? This theme is foreshadowed, in microcosmic form, in Ofelia's bedtime story for her unborn brother. The ultimate test is when [[spoiler:the Faun demands that Ofelia hand over her brother so that he can use the baby's blood to get her back home. She refuses and dies thanks to Vidal catching up to her. It turns out that her decision was the right one, and the Faun is relieved when she appears as Princess Moanna in the Underworld. The Fairy King says it was her refusal to hurt an innocent that proved she was still their princess]].
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: In short, is it better to play it safe and obey, or to take the chance and be disobedient when you don't trust the authority in question? This theme is foreshadowed, in microcosmic form, in Ofelia's bedtime story for her unborn brother. The ultimate test is when [[spoiler:the Faun demands that Ofelia hand over her brother so that he can use the baby's blood to get her back home. She refuses and dies thanks to Vidal catching up to her. It turns out that her decision was the right one, and the Faun is relieved when she appears as Princess Moanna in the Underworld. The Fairy King says it was her refusal to hurt an innocent that proved she was still their princess]]. The test may have been set up even earlier with [[spoiler:the Pale Man's banquet. Ofelia is told very clearly not to eat anything before going to it, but she disregards the rule and wakes the monster. Afterward the Faun berates her for it, which might not be genuine anger, but an attempt to see if her now-proven ability to defy orders can be beaten down or not, leading into the last test. Ofelia is given the mission with a question of whether she can obey properly...when the solution requires she doesn't.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:If you can't accept the magic is real. Then it really is all just the product of a traumatized little girl who loves fairytales, who is brutally abused by her fascist stepfather, whose mother dies, and then who is murdered herself trying to rescue her little brother. Even the only bright spot (that Vidal is dead and Mercedes took the baby) is overridden by the fact that Franco will stay in power for decades, meaning that Mercedes, her brother, and the baby remain in real danger.]]
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* StealthSequel: Adult versions of Jaime and Carlos from ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'' appear as soldiers.
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