History Franchise / DisneyFairies

** The second UniverseCompendium, ''The World of Fairies: At the Dawn of Pixie Hollow'', devotes a lot of detail to fairly minor characters, including Lyria (the storytelling-talent from ''The Lost Treasure'') and all four of the seasonal Ministers. The writers may have thought these characters would go on to have more significant roles in the franchise, but they were all sidelined after the first two movies, and some (most noticeably the Minister of Winter) were written out completely. The same book also references Kyto the dragon, the BigBad of the books, implying that he exists in the movie continuity—but he never appears in any of the films, and none of the characters ever mention him being a threat.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Terence in the books is fairly scruffy-looking, with thrown-together-looking clothes and messy hair. The movies make him out to look like most non-threatening Teen Idols- wispy features, high cheekbones and dewey hair.

%% * AllThereInTheManual: One for the bookverse and one for the movieverse, as well as a few other books.

%% * WingedHumanoid: Well, natch.

** In the books, next to no information is given about any of the characters' ages, aside from the fact that none of them are old enough to remember the GloryDays before the [[vague, apocalyptic calamity]] that destroyed the Pixie Dust Tree. Of the main characters, Prilla is the youngest, Tinker Bell and Rani have both been around for a while, and Clarion and Vidia seem to be a little older (they [[WeUsedToBeFriends used to be friends]], and Clarion seems to be the only person who remembers a time when Vidia ''wasn't'' snarky and rude). But the previous fairy queen is still within living memory, so even Clarion can't be that old by fairy standards. They do celebrate "Arrival Days," which are the fairy equivalent of birthdays, but all Arrival Day storylines are [[AgelessBirthdayEpisode Ageless Birthday Episodes]]. All fairies are [[BornAsAnAdult born looking like adults]], and they all appear to be roughly the same age regardless of when they Arrived.

%% * ClockPunk: The Tinker Fairies use this a lot.

* ContinuityReboot: The franchise as a whole got one after the first movie came out. The setting was massively changed, main characters from the books were either adapted out and replaced with new ones or drastically altered, and key. plot points were abandoned to focus on new ones. After the movies, the franchise didn't focus on book-exclusive characters again, and nearly all merchandise and extra material came from the movie canon.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Never Land, for all its wonders, is fraught with deadly peril - not to mention any fairy anywhere could potentially ''drop dead'' from disbelief at ''any time''.

** Mostly averted - the males of Tink's species are usually called "sparrow men" rather than "fairies", which is a well-known slang term for [[CampGay something else]]. The overseer of dust fairies, however, is addressed as "Fairy Gary".

* MeaningfulName: Many of the fairies have a name relating to his or her job--which makes sense, because they are named ''after'' discovering their talent. Special mention for Nyx, a HeroAntagonist who shares her name with the Greek [[DarkIsNotEvil primordial goddess of night]].
* MerchandiseDriven: The series of books led to a handful of toys made -- usually simple one-piece plastic things. The movies were a driving force in getting ''Disney Fairies'' dolls into stores, and each successive movie led to a big push for one particular character (''Secret of the Wings'' for Periwinkle, ''The Pirate Fairy'' for Zarina, and ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'' for a redesigned Fawn).

** Ages are never mentioned in the books, other than fairies being born when a baby laughs and Mother Dove having existed forever with her egg that protects Never Land.
** In the first film Tinker Bell appears to be BornAsAnAdult, and the majority of fairies are the same generic "young adult" age, save a handful of backgrounders, Queen Clarion and Lord Milori. Essentially, Fairies in positions of power tend to look a bit aged. Fairies have celebrations to commemorate when they were created, called Arrival Days, but don't celebrate an age with it.

* WolverinePublicity: The media tends to focus on Tinker Bell first and other fairies second, if at all. Much of the later merchandise comes in two editions: one "All Tink, All the Time" and one "Oh, Yeah, Other Characters Exist Too".

!!Tropes regarding the franchise as a whole:
* AdaptationExpansion: The novel states that Tinker Bell is a tinker who mends the pots and pans. Franchise/DisneyFairies ran wild with this.

* AdaptedOut: Mother Dove, Rani and Prilla are major, ''major'' characters in the first book, and reappear in both the chapter books and sequel novels. The movies drop them all entirely, as well as more background characters like Fira, Dulcie, Lily and more.
* AerithAndBob: Tinker Bell, Silvermist, Iridessa, Vidia, Bobble (although his real name is Phineas), Clank... compared with Terence, Mary, Rosetta and others. The books continue this, with odd names such as Prilla, Fira and Rani interacting with some very plain, ordinary names in side characters.
** "Terence" is a possible ShoutOut to Terry Moore, creator of ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise''. The guidebook even says he likes strawberry cake, just like Moore's pixie character, Kixie.
* AllThereInTheManual: One for the bookverse and one for the movieverse, as well as a few other books.

** In the books, the "clothing talent" fairies are able to tell a fairy's or a sparrowman's measurements with a glance and have new clothing for them before they get settled into their rooms. In the movie, Tinker Bell's clothing does not fit because the clothing talents haven't been able to measure her and thus she has to mend her dress herself.
*** Bobble and Clank made it sound like they'd prepared the room long before Tink showed up, as soon as they got wind of the birth of a new fairy, clothing included, knowing neither if they were waiting for a Sparrow Man or a Fairy. It looked like a unisex robe that she put on, but she cut it to her own fit.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When everyone gets wishing madness in ''Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand'', and Tink [[spoiler:accidentally wasting the Mirror of Incanta's last wish by wishing Blaze would be quiet]] in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''.

* ClockPunk: The Tinker Fairies use this a lot.
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Tink and her dress.
* ContinuityReboot: The franchise as a whole got one after the first movie came out. The setting was massively changed, main characters were either adapted out and replaced with new ones or drastically altered, and key. plot points were abandoned to focus on new ones. After the movies, the franchise didn't focus on book-exclusive characters again, and nearly all merchandise and extra material came from the movie canon.

* {{Flanderization}}: Inverted; Tinker Bell's feisty, jealous and sadistic side from the original ''Peter Pan'' novel is mostly gone in the movie series. That version of Tinker Bell probably would have tried to assassinate Vidia in the first movie (this ''is'' the same fairy that almost got Wendy killed because she was getting too close to Peter after all). May overlap with TookALevelInKindness. Or TookALevelInJerkass considering the movies at least all play before she meets Peter.
** The books keep Tinker Bell's famous temper and jealousy, though she is kind and gentle to her friends. She openly despises Vidia, and is shown in the first novel as having very little patience for the new fairy, Prilla.

* GardenGarment: All of the fairies wear leaves and petal based clothes.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Mostly averted - the males of Tink's species are usually called "sparrow men" rather than "fairies", which is a well-known slang term for [[CampGay something else]]. The overseer of dust fairies, however, is addressed as "Fairy Gary".

* MacGyvering: Tinker Bell, oh so much.
* MadeOfGood: They are stated to be born of a child's first laugh.

* MeaningfulName: Many of the fairies have a name relating to his or her job.
** Which makes sense, because they are named ''after'' discovering their talent.
** Special mention for Nyx, a HeroAntagonist who shares her name with the Greek [[DarkIsNotEvil primordial goddess of night]].

* {{Prequel}}: The film series is set before Tinker Bell hooks up with Peter Pan. All three book series are set after she leaves him and comes back to Pixie Hollow.

* {{Retool}}: The book canon was eventually abandoned in favor of the movie canon, which adapts out some characters, introduces a couple of new ones, and is overall lighter in tone. Sometimes the movies are treated as {{Prequel}}s to the books, but other times the two canons are treated like [[AlternateContinuity alternative continuities]].

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted; most characters are female.
** In the movies, you can see plenty of male extras in the background.
** And more than a few male major characters.

* ToylessToylineCharacter: The Season Ministers, Bobble, Clank, and the bird of prey.
** As of this writing (May 2010) Terrence has been featured in the most recent toyline, perhaps due to his expanded role in the most recently released movie.
* TranslationConvention: The fairies speak English in human voices, but in the third movie, it's revealed that humans like Lizzy can only hear them sounding like tinkling bells. In spite of this, in ''The Pirate Fairy'', James [[spoiler: Hook]] can understand Zarina and the other fairies, and translates for the pirates.
** James makes a lot of sense at the end, [[spoiler: because Captain Hook can somewhat understand Tinker Bell when she's crying about Peter and Wendy]]. So logically, he had to pick up an understanding at some point.

* VagueAge: How old are they supposed to be, again?
** In the first film Tinker Bell seems to be born as an adult. All of the fairies seem to be the same generic "young adult" age, save a handful of backgrounders, Queen Clarion and Lord Milori. Essentially, Fairies in positions of power tend to look a bit aged.
** So does that make her a newborn? How much time has passed between the second and first movies? What about the sparrow men? None of them seem to have any facial hair (besides Fairy Gary,) and none of the fairies have underarm or leg hair, which might imply that they're younger, or it might just be something unique to their species. Pixie Hollow in general doesn't seem to recognize age whatsoever. Do fairies have birthday parties?
*** Fairies in this series have celebrations to commemorate when they created, called Arrival Days.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: There's an insane number of fairies whose talents are unbelievably lame or overspecialized. Such talents include helper talent, polishing talent, water-drawing talent, butterfly-herding talent, hibernation bedtime story telling talent, and the talent of knowing exactly when to flip over a pancake.
* WingedHumanoid: Well, natch.
* WolverinePublicity: To the point that much of the later merchandise comes in two editions: one "All Tink, All the Time" and one "Oh, Yeah, Other Characters Exist Too".

* HoldYourHippogriffs: As Tink tells Prilla, fairies don't say "Hello" or "Sorry" they say "Fly with you" and "I'd fly backwards if I could."

** In the films, fairies bring seasons to the mainland; they do no such thing in the books. There are no Winter Fairies in the books, and nothing mentions a fairy's weakness to cold weather.
** The first movie is centered around Tinker Bell trying to take on another talent because the life of a tinker fairy is quite unglamorous in comparison to nature talents. ''The Trouble With Tink'' states that Tink never wanted to do anything besides fixing pots and pans.
** In the books the "clothing talent" fairies are able to tell a fairy's or a sparrowman's measurements with a glance and have new clothing for them before they get settled into their rooms. In the movie, Tinker Bell's clothing does not fit because the clothing talents haven't been able to measure her and thus she has to mend her dress herself.

** The books are effectively an entirely different continuity with regards to the Mother Dove character. In the books, she is responsible for the creation of Pixie Hollow, the egg that keeps everyone on Never Land permanently young, and even the fairy dust! In the movies, she never appears, and the dust comes from a magical jewel that creates "blue dust".

** Tinker Bell's personality is spikier in the books than in the films, where she is very kindhearted and a bit naive, only losing her temper once or twice.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Japan uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxI7PN6Wrf0 "Fairy Song"]] as the theme song for the first film and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIaX8F2QCzs "You Were"]] for the second film.

* LimitedWardrobe: The fairies wear the same outfits nearly all the time, although some seem to have a different outfit for every season. In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', Tink both averts ''and'' plays this straight by wearing an outfit with pants and long sleeves ''under'' her iconic dress.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent

* PluckyGirl: Tinker Bell.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The forest critters and bugs.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Vidia.

Disney wanted to develop this franchise since the early 2000's but it was stalled for other projects, and the first of the movies was already nearly done. When management changed and John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer, he screened it, claimed it was "virtually unwatchable", and ordered a complete overhaul. Creator/DisneytoonStudios, which made those sequels, ditched their hand-drawn equipment for CG and were then completely focused on this franchise, as well as the newer series called ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'', a spin-off of Pixar's ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' movies.

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* [[Masquerade]]: The Fairies go to great lengths to make humans believe that their work is the result of natural processes. This is even [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] by Lizzy and Tinker Bell in ''The Great Fairy Rescue''.

* Masquerade: The Fairies go to great lengths to make humans believe that their work is the result of natural processes. This is even [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] by Lizzy and Tinker Bell in ''The Great Fairy Rescue''.

Come ''Secret of the Wings,'' the series began to be phased out due to sales figures not matching to Disney's expectations. As such, further films have been cancelled for the time being, with ''Legend of the Neverbeast'' being the last entry in the franchise. With the closure of Disneytoon Studios following sexual misconduct allegations towards John Lasseter, the fate of the film series remains indefinite.

# ''The Pirate Fairy'' (2014): A dust-keeper fairy name Zarina, who ran away from Pixie Hollow after her magic dust experiments went wrong and cause her to be banned from studying them further, suddenly returns and steals the dust necessary for fairies to fly. Tinker Belle and her friends give chase, find that she has thrown in with several pirates and must contend with them to retrieve the fairy dust.
# ''The Legend of the Neverbeast'' (2015): Fawn finds an unfamiliar creature in the woods and tries to both help and protect it from fairies that could see it as a threat.

# ''Tinker Bell and Her Stories for a Rainy Day'' (includes four short stories, including "The Impossible Portrait," "Dulcie's Sweets," "Butterfly's Wings," and "Stories Under the Rain") (April 20, 2012)

* MerchandiseDriven: The series of books led to a handful of toys made -- usually simple one-piece plastic things. The movies were a driving force in getting ''Disney Fairies'' dolls into stores, and each successive movie led to a big push for one particular character (''Secret of the Wings'' for Periwinkle, ''The Pirate Fairy'' for Zarina, and ''Legend of the NeverBeast'' for a redesigned Fawn).

Disney wanted to develop this franchise since the early 2000's but it was stalled for other projects, and the first of the movies was already nearly done. When management changed and John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer, he screened it, claimed it was "virtually unwatchable", and ordered a complete overhaul. Creator/DisneytoonStudios, which made those sequels, ditched their hand-drawn equipment for CG and were then completely focused on this franchise, as well as the newer series called ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'', a spin-off of Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' movies.

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# ''Secert of the Wings'' (2012): Tinker Bell ends up visiting the snow area of Pixie Hollow called the Winter Woods, normally forbidden, where the the Winter Fairies live. There she finds out she has a twin sister named Periwinkle, and working together, try to reunite both fairies of their respective sides.

*** Fairies in this series have celebrations to commemorate when they created.

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# ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'' (2010): While at a summer camp, Tinker Bell ends up accidentally captured in trap and has her first interaction with humans while her friends try to rescue her.
# ''Pixie Hollow Games'' (2011): A 30-minute special that focuses on Rosetta aiding a fellow Garden fairy named Chole try to win the titular games.
# ''Secert of the Wings'' (2012): Tinker Bell ends out visiting the snow area called the Winter Woods where the the Winter Faires live. There she finds out she has a twin sister named Periwinkle, and working together to reunite both fairies of their respective sides.
# ''The Pirate Fairy'' (2014): A dust-keeper fairy name Zarina, who ran away from Pixie Hollow after her magic dust experiements went wrong and cause her to be banned, suddenly returns and steals the dust necessary for fairies to fly. Tinker Belle and her friends give chase, find that she has thrown in with several pirates and must contend with them to retrieve the stolen fairy dust.

# ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'' (2009): Tinker Bell ends up accidently destroying a magical moonstone of Pixie Hollow and goes on a quest to find a replacement.
# ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'' (2010): While at a summer camp, Tinker Bell ends up accidently captured in trap and has her first interaction with humans while her friends try to rescue her.
# ''Pixie Hollow Games'' (2011): A 30-minutes special that focuses on Rosetta aiding a fellow Garden fairy name Chole try to win the titular games.

# ''The Pirate Fairy'' (2014): A dust-keeper fairy name Zarina, who ran away from Pixie Hollow after her magic dust experiements went wrong and cause her to be banned, suddenly returns and steals the dust nessercay for fairies to fly. Tinker Belle and her friends give chase, find that she has thrown in with several pirates and must contend with them to retrieve the stolen fairy dust.
# ''The Legend of the Neverbeast'' (2015): Fawn finds an unfamilar creature in the woods and tries to both help and protect it from fairies that could see it as a threat.