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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Very nearly played straight by Alyosha and Vas’ka in their final confrontation with Tragimor. [[spoiler:Then his magic ring turns out to be a fake, and Alyosha is able to turn his spell on him]].
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-->'''Vas’ka''': Well, I’ll die in the arms of my dear master and with Murka’s name on my lips!
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* OnlyThePureOfHeart: …can destroy Tragimor’s otherwise indestructible artifacts.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Aurint finishes]] the replica of the Serpent’s Eye Ring [[spoiler:''after'' his repentance]]. It’s only done to avoid Tragimor’s suspicions, but the ring [[spoiler:can’t be handled by the good-hearted and therefore fails to work]], leading to its owner’s downfall.
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* BearyFriendly: The white bears in the northern regions of the Fairytale Ocean.
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* OminousOwl: Tragimor’s NonHumanSidekick, an eagle-owl called Secret Informer.
* PrettyButterflies: Every morning, Wennie is woken up by friendly butterflies. They leave her when she gives away her soul, but return once she gains it back.
* PrettyButterflies: Every morning, Wennie is woken up by friendly butterflies. They leave her when she gives away her soul, but return once she gains it back.
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist. Books 2-3 and 4-5 pair up quite neatly.
** The [[spoiler:clever and attractive pirate lady]] and a crew of foolish cowardly mooks who want to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking kill, rob and drink rum]] mostly ForTheEvulz vs. The foolish, vain and ugly king who relies on the brains of his courtiers and his fiancée and whose firmly set goal is making lots of money (and thus avoiding MarriageOfConvenience).
** The conflicted Kargor, secretly tormented by his love for Dozhdirena and his guilt over her death vs. Tragimor, CompleteMonster, period.
** The [[spoiler:clever and attractive pirate lady]] and a crew of foolish cowardly mooks who want to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking kill, rob and drink rum]] mostly ForTheEvulz vs. The foolish, vain and ugly king who relies on the brains of his courtiers and his fiancée and whose firmly set goal is making lots of money (and thus avoiding MarriageOfConvenience).
** The conflicted Kargor, secretly tormented by his love for Dozhdirena and his guilt over her death vs. Tragimor, CompleteMonster, period.
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* LoveRedeems: That's what led to the salvation of [[spoiler:Aurint and Wennie]].
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* LoveRedeems: That's what led to the salvation of [[spoiler:Aurint and Wennie]]. Even in their soulless state, they retain feelings towards their loved ones.
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''Ruler of the Magical Keys'' (Повелитель волшебных ключей) is a series of fairy-tales written by Sofia Prokofieva in 1957, 1977, 1985, 1989 and 1992. The eponymous ruler of the magical keys is the wizard Alyosha, a gentle and rather absend-minded BlueCollarWarlock who lives in a small [[AmbiguousTimePeriod Soviet/Russian]] town. He has a piece of chalk with which he can draw a key on any door and get into a parallel reality. These keys are involved in every story in some way:
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''Ruler of the Magical Keys'' (Повелитель волшебных ключей) is a series of fairy-tales fairy tales (shifting towards fantasy in the later books) written by Sofia Prokofieva in 1957, 1977, 1985, 1989 and 1992. The eponymous ruler of the magical keys is the wizard Alyosha, a gentle and rather absend-minded BlueCollarWarlock who lives in a small [[AmbiguousTimePeriod Soviet/Russian]] town. He has a piece of chalk with which he can draw a key on any door and get into a parallel reality. These keys are involved in every story in some way:
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Some elements from the plot of ''A Girl Named Glazastik'' (the king’s name being Krapodin, the love story of Miel and the violinist, and the presence of a courtier who has no talent in music and wants to find the instrument that suits him) were used in ''While the Clock Chimes'', a 1976 feature adaptation of another fairy-tale by Prokofieva.
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The series gradually gets DarkerAndEdgier (that doesn’t mean worse) with each book, starting from ''The Wizard’s Pupil'' which is an adorable fairytale comedy with only one nominal antagonist in the shape of Vas’ka, and ending with ''Princess Wennie'' which has a wizard who steals humans’ (and animals’) souls by forcing them to cross the MoralEventHorizon and keeps the stolen souls in an eerie supernatural world. Either Prokofieva, like J. K. Rowling, was writing for the audience that grew up as the series went on, or the weakening and later abolishment of the Soviet censure allowed her to write more freely (especially considering the Christian allusions that grow especially prominent in ''Wennie'' and that can be found in many of Prokofieva’s other post-Soviet works).
Some elements from the plot of ''A Girl Named Glazastik'' (the king’s name being Krapodin, the love story of Miel and the violinist, and the presence of a courtier who has no talent in music and wants to find the instrument that suits him) were used in ''While the Clock Chimes'', a 1976 feature adaptation of anotherfairy-tale fairy tale by Prokofieva.
Some elements from the plot of ''A Girl Named Glazastik'' (the king’s name being Krapodin, the love story of Miel and the violinist, and the presence of a courtier who has no talent in music and wants to find the instrument that suits him) were used in ''While the Clock Chimes'', a 1976 feature adaptation of another
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* LighterAndSofter: With Vas’ka being the only antagonist, it’s considerably lighter than the following books.
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* VegetarianCarnivore: Vas'ka and Murka stop eating birds after he becomes friends with Swallow Two Spots, and after meeting the Mouse Queen, Vas'ka quits eating mice too. By ''Princess Wennie'', he only seems to care for milk products.
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** Vas'ka and Murka stop eating birds after he becomes friends with Swallow Two Spots, and after meeting the Mouse Queen, Vas'ka quits eating mice too. By ''Princess Wennie'', he only seems to care for milk products.
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Some elements from the plot of ''A Girl Named Glazastik'' (the king’s name being Krapodin, the love story of Miel and the violinist, and the presence of a courtier who has no talent in music and wants to find the instrument that suits him) were used in ''While the Clock Chimes'', a 1976 feature adaptation of another fairy-tale by Prokofieva.
The first three books of the series were also adapted as stop-motion short movies in 1983, 1985 and 1987 respectively. While ''The Wizard’s Pupil'' and ''The Magical Bells'' (the adaptation of ''Glazastik'') only retain the most basic plotline, ''The Island of Captains'', being at almost thirty minutes twice as long as each of them, manages to cover all the major events and characters of the book.
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* NoCureForTheCommonCold: Not even in Alyosha’s magic books. You can find out how to defeat a fire-breathing dragon but not how to cure a cold.
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* NoCureForTheCommonCold: Not even in Alyosha’s magic books. You can find out how to defeat a fire-breathing dragon but not how to cure a cold.
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* DemotedToExtra: Alyosha himself, oddly enough. His only prominent appearances are in the beginning (where he bring the swallow to life and explains about the Island of Captains) and closer to the end, when the crew of the ''Dream'' comes visiting from the magical world to ask his advice about the pirates.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Black Island, where the pirates are hiding.
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* RavenHairIvorySkin: The Lovely Gina.
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* ShipperOnDeck: A sinister example, for it's not kindness that drives Tragimor when he wants to organize Aurint and Smirinka's wedding...
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* ShipperOnDeck: A sinister example, for it's ShipperWithAnAgenda: It's not kindness that drives Tragimor when he wants to organize Aurint and Smirinka's wedding...
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'''Ruler of the Magical Keys''' (Повелитель волшебных ключей) is a series of fairy-tales written by Sofia Prokofieva in 1957, 1977, 1985, 1989 and 1992. The eponymous ruler of the magical keys is the wizard Alyosha, a gentle and rather absend-minded BlueCollarWarlock who lives in a small [[AmbiguousTimePeriod Soviet/Russian]] town. He has a piece of chalk with which he can draw a key on any door and get into a parallel reality. These keys are involved in every story in some way:
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** Or tell John and Jack they aren't identical.
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* FatAndSkinny: Played with. The twin pirate brothers Jack and John are exactly that in appearance, but they are dead certain that they are perfectly identical. [[ImplausibleDeniability Woe betide anyone who disagrees]].
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** The fate reserved for [[spoiler:Kargor]] in ''Astrel''. He will be burnt alive if he tries to kill a single bird.
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** And then there'a InterspeciesFriendship (bordering on romance) between Glazastik and Vihrik who is a ''wind''.
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* ExactWords: Kargor promised to hand over his mook Skipp's voice. He just didn't promise he'll hand over the voice to Skipp.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Subverted, as Wennie is red-haired and gets golden hair as a bonus from Tragimor after her FaceHeelTurn.
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* EvilChef: [[spoiler:Gina]], so very much.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Played straight when the pirate ship sets sail at first – the pirates are too busy singing songs and drinking rum to notice that the ship is falling to pieces. Then they are forced to go in hiding and do nothing because they lose the ship.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The pirates are forced [[spoiler:to become the crew of ''The Flying Dutchman'']].
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Miraklus]].
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-->'''[[spoiler:Miraklus]]''': Now I understand. If when listening to music people can't be moved to smile, the music is dead for them.
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: At one point Alyosha is bound with a magical rope that kills anyone who unites it. [[spoiler:But there happens to be a very sad tornado in the neighborhood that only wants to stop causing death and chaos.]]
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: At one point Alyosha is bound with a magical rope that kills anyone who unites unties it. [[spoiler:But there happens to be a very sad tornado in the neighborhood that only wants to stop causing death and chaos.]]
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* BettyAndVeronica: Queen Vetrenitsa is the Veronica with her capricious behavior and ever-changing temper, and Krapodin is secretly planning to marry the quiet, warm-hearted Nitochka. She doesn't love him in the least, quite the contrary, but it doesn't matter.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: King Krapodin and Queen Vetrenitsa.
* TheRocinante: Pegash, Auntie Oh's old sad horse.
* VoiceChangeling: Vihrik.
* TheRocinante: Pegash, Auntie Oh's old sad horse.
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* ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis: As Kargor goes more and more crazy, it's increasingly difficult for him to keep his human shape [[spoiler:until he can't at last and becomes a raven permanently]].
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* ElementalShapeshifter: Not only could Dozhdirena summon rain, she could also turn into it. When she died, she turned all into rain and fell on the ground, [[spoiler:and there are hints that it was only her human form that died, since rain seems to be pretty intelligent whenever Astrel's in trouble...]]
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* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler:Smirinka almost dies, Aurint gets a HeelRealization]] – and then the friendly sparrow Prohvostik flies inside and asks the girl what she's doing there, lying down in daytime like an idiot.
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* ShipperOnDeck: A sinister example, for it's not kindness that drives Tragimor when he wants to organize Aurint and Smirinka's wedding...
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* VegetarianCarnivore: Vas'ka and Murka stop eating birds after he becomes friends with Swallow Two Spots, and after meeting the Mouse Queen, Vas'ka quits eating mice too. By ''Princess Wennie'', he only seems to care for milk products.
