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* NoodleIncident: Kargor's voice labyrinth features a lot of snippets of life that sometimes make little to no sense out of context. In particular, there is the voice of a woman who apparently keeps bats as messengers and has a collection of human heads. She beats some man at a game and he tells her he will pay his debt in bats, while another man argues bats aren't a big deal.
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* BeingEvilSucks: Unlike other villains of the series who are ecstatic about their wickedness, Kargor is deeply unhappy. He is constantly tormented by the memory of Dozhdirena's death, his current life brings him no joy, and it is increasingly harder for him, when he is in raven form, to turn back into a human. Instead of being remorseful, though, he lashes out at the world, which naturally leads to him getting yet more embittered.
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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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* ExactWords: Kargor promised to hand over his mook Skipp's voice. He just didn't promise he'll hand over give the voice to Skipp. Skipp.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Overly the bird thinks Kargor is a good and compassionate wizard. Apparently, a creepy dark castle, the voice labyrinth and the flame snakes don't trigger any suspicions in her.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Overly the bird thinks Kargor is a good and compassionate wizard. Apparently, a creepy dark castle, the voice labyrinth and the flame snakes don't trigger any suspicions in her.
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Every story finishes with Alyosha sitting at his desk and starting to write down his adventures.
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Every Almost story finishes with Alyosha sitting at his desk and starting to write down his adventures.
* KickTheDog: Most of the villains have these moments.
** [[spoiler:Gina]] throws boiling water over Swallow Two Spots and leaves Squirrel, who trusts [[spoiler:her]] absolutely, on a sinking ship among enemies.
** Kargor turns his teenage maidservant into an elderly tortoise.
** [[spoiler:Gina]] throws boiling water over Swallow Two Spots and leaves Squirrel, who trusts [[spoiler:her]] absolutely, on a sinking ship among enemies.
** Kargor turns his teenage maidservant into an elderly tortoise.
* FairWeatherFriend: The moment the pirates are overcome, [[spoiler:the Black Cat]] immediately tries to ingratiate herself with the captains.
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* MultinationalTeam: The captains (at least, the ones we meet) include: a Russian, a Scandinavian, two Italians, a Frenchman, an African-American, and a German.
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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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* AlasPoorVillain: When Miraklus learns the king plans to pocket the golden smiles for himself merely to mint them into coins, his breakdown is so heartbreaking that even the palace guards feel sorry for him.
* 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'tmatter.matter to him.
* 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
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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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-->'''[[spoiler:Miraklus]]''': Now I understand. If when listening to music people can't be moved to smile, smile when listening to music, the music is dead for them.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: King Krapodin and Queen Vetrenitsa.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: King Krapodin and Queen Vetrenitsa. Krapodin only courts her because she brings him [[spoiler:the invisible keys]].
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* VoiceChangeling: Vihrik.
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* VoiceChangeling: Vihrik.Vihrik can perfectly mimic people's voices.
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* CainAndAbel: Kargor and Rengist.
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* CainAndAbel: Kargor and Rengist. Kargor does not kill his brother, but by stealing his memory he dooms him to a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* MeaningfulRename: Aunt Tortoise was only called that after Kargor turned her into something in between a human and a tortoise.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Aunt Tortoise looks and behaves like a very old woman, but she is in fact a teenage girl under a curse.
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* PerilousOldFool: Downplayed. Christopher Columbus is so infirm he can't even walk by himself, and yet he sets sail to chase the pirates. Happily for him, the one time their ships cross paths, the pirates aren't ready to go out of hiding and blow off their lamps, so he doesn't notice them and it never comes to actual battle.
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* BearyFriendly: The white bears in the northern regions of the Fairytale Ocean.
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* BearyFriendly: The white bears in the northern regions of the Fairytale Ocean.Ocean who help the crew of the ''Dream'' find the way to the ocean's border.
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* AFatherToHisMen: When Captain Tin Tinych learns the ''Dream'' is sinking, his only concern is to rescue his crew [[spoiler:who are drugged and asleep]].
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The genie suggests throwing Alyosha's friends into the abyss for daring to say magic is an old-fashioned profession.
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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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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 1977 feature adaptation of another fairy tale by Prokofieva.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The grey thread's effects [[spoiler:can be reversed by genuine repentance]]. Hence [[spoiler:Aurint, Little Mouse and Wennie]] turning to playing ReverseMole in Tragimor's palace.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The grey thread's effects [[spoiler:can be reversed by genuine repentance]]. Hence [[spoiler:Aurint, Little Mouse and Wennie]] turning to playing ReverseMole in Tragimor's palace.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Tragimor.
* ForcedMarriage: Subverted as Smirinka got engaged to Aurint for love and she still does love him, but she refuses to marry his new soulless, harsh and cruel self.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Subverted, as Wennie is red-haired and gets golden hair as a bonus from Tragimor after her FaceHeelTurn.
* HeldGaze: Alyosha of all people. He is absolutely enchanted by Smirinka's beauty, and the narration states how “he couldn’t take his eyes off her” from the moment he saw her. At that point she’s [[spoiler:happily reunited with Aurint]], and anyway she doesn’t even know Alyosha exists.
* ForcedMarriage: Subverted as Smirinka got engaged to Aurint for love and she still does love him, but she refuses to marry his new soulless, harsh and cruel self.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Subverted, as Wennie is red-haired and gets golden hair as a bonus from Tragimor after her FaceHeelTurn.
* HeldGaze: Alyosha of all people. He is absolutely enchanted by Smirinka's beauty, and the narration states how “he couldn’t take his eyes off her” from the moment he saw her. At that point she’s [[spoiler:happily reunited with Aurint]], and anyway she doesn’t even know Alyosha exists.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Tragimor.
* ForcedMarriage: Subverted as Smirinka got engaged to Aurint for love and she still does love him, but she refuses to marry his new soulless, harsh and cruel self.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Subverted, as Wennie is red-haired and gets golden hair as a bonus from Tragimor after her FaceHeelTurn.
* HeldGaze: Alyosha of all people. He is absolutely enchanted by Smirinka's beauty, and the narration states how “he couldn’t take his eyes off her” from the moment he saw her. At that point she’s [[spoiler:happily reunited with Aurint]], and anyway she doesn’t even know Alyosha exists.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: For Wennie, it all began with a small quarrel.
* ForcedMarriage: Subverted as Smirinka got engaged to Aurint for love and she still does love him, but she refuses to marry his new soulless, harsh and cruel self.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Subverted, as Wennie is red-haired and gets golden hair as a bonus from Tragimor after her FaceHeelTurn.
* HeldGaze: Alyosha of all people. He is absolutely enchanted by Smirinka's beauty, and the narration states how “he couldn’t take his eyes off her” from the moment he saw her. At that point she’s [[spoiler:happily reunited with Aurint]], and anyway she doesn’t even know Alyosha exists.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: For Wennie, it all began with a small quarrel.
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* AltoVillainess: In the animated adaptation, voiced by the very deep-voiced Yekaterina Vasilieva, famous for her portrayals of antagonists.
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''Ruler of the Magical Keys'' (Повелитель волшебных ключей) is a series of fairy tales (shifting towards fantasy in the later books) written by ''Creator/SofiaProkofieva'' 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 (shifting towards fantasy in the later books) written by ''Creator/SofiaProkofieva'' Creator/SofiaProkofieva 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 (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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''Ruler of the Magical Keys'' (Повелитель волшебных ключей) is a series of fairy tales (shifting towards fantasy in the later books) written by Sofia Prokofieva ''Creator/SofiaProkofieva'' 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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** The conflicted Kargor, secretly tormented by his love for Dozhdirena and his guilt over her death vs. Tragimor, CompleteMonster, period.
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** The conflicted Kargor, secretly tormented by his love for Dozhdirena and his guilt over her death vs. Tragimor, CompleteMonster, irredeemable bastard, period.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Astrel is based on Prokofieva’s daughter-in-law Astrid.
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* GoodEyesEvilEyes: If a character has big, bright, clear, deep eyes, you can safely bet they’re good (Katya, Christopher Columbus, Rengist, Smirinka etc.). Sharp and piercing equals irredeemably bad ([[spoiler:Gina]], The Chief
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Gatherer of Smiles, Tragimor).
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* GoodEyesEvilEyes: If a character has big, bright, clear, deep eyes, you can safely bet they’re good (Katya, Christopher Columbus, Rengist, Smirinka etc.). Sharp and piercing equals irredeemably bad ([[spoiler:Gina]], The Chief
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tragimor, for all that he’s genuinely terrifying and clever, isn’t above grabbing the VillainBall from time to time. The most prominent example include:
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tragimor, for all that he’s genuinely terrifying and clever, isn’t above grabbing the VillainBall from time to time. The most prominent example examples include:
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* AntiClimax: Most probably done on purpose: the story arc involving Tragimor’s Sword of Death. It has that grand name and Tragimor muses on how nothing can escape its blow, [[spoiler:and then it gets destroyed in one go by the remorse of Wennie and the Little Mouse.
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* AntiClimax: Most probably done on purpose: the story arc involving Tragimor’s Sword of Death. It has that grand name and Tragimor muses on how nothing can escape its blow, [[spoiler:and then it gets destroyed in one go by the remorse of Wennie and the Little Mouse.Mouse]].
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* AntiClimax: Most probably done on purpose: the story arc involving Tragimor’s Sword of Death. It has that grand name and Tragimor muses on how nothing can escape its blow, [[spoiler:and then it gets destroyed in one go by the remorse of Wennie and the Little Mouse.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The word “remorse” is stuck somewhere very far in Tragimor’s passive vocabulary, and in all his carefully laid plans, he doesn’t seriously consider that convincing his victims to do something really bad can lead to MyGodWhatHaveIDone on their part instead.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tragimor, for all that he’s genuinely terrifying and clever, isn’t above grabbing the VillainBall from time to time. The most prominent example include:
** He wants Smirinka to give up her soul, and he gives Aurint a box of magic jewels for her, thinking it should do the trick. [[spoiler:Not only doesn’t Smirinka waver, but she is almost killed by the jewels’ magic, which leads to Aurint’s repentance, which ultimately leads to Tragimor’s downfall]].
** He casually allows the Fire Servants and the Knights of Darkness to kill the Little Mouse if they want. [[spoiler:Cue MistreatmentInducedBetrayal]].
** He wants Smirinka to give up her soul, and he gives Aurint a box of magic jewels for her, thinking it should do the trick. [[spoiler:Not only doesn’t Smirinka waver, but she is almost killed by the jewels’ magic, which leads to Aurint’s repentance, which ultimately leads to Tragimor’s downfall]].
** He casually allows the Fire Servants and the Knights of Darkness to kill the Little Mouse if they want. [[spoiler:Cue MistreatmentInducedBetrayal]].
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* EasilyForgiven: Pretty much everyone by Smirinka. She actually gets called out for that by [[spoiler:Aurint]], one of her worst offenders throughout the book, and promptly answers that try as she might, she can’t find anything good in Tragimor.
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* HeldGaze: Alyosha of all people. He is absolutely enchanted by Smirinka's beauty, and the narration states how “he couldn’t take his eyes off her” from the moment he saw her. At that point she’s [[spoiler:happily reunited with Aurint]], and anyway she doesn’t even know Alyosha exists.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Astrel can become invisible, but [[InvisibilityWithDrawbacks only during dusk and away from direct sources of light such as lamps]]. Since she can’t run very far between sunset and nighttime, the ability only enables her to visit Rengist and Tortoise but can’t help her otherwise.
** Subverted when it becomes the crucial clue to [[spoiler:identify Astrel who’s been turned into a tree. Even as a tree, she becomes invisible at dusk]].
** Subverted when it becomes the crucial clue to [[spoiler:identify Astrel who’s been turned into a tree. Even as a tree, she becomes invisible at dusk]].
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* LetsGetDangerous: After being bullied by pretty much everyone for the whole book, Smirinka decides to help Wennie to [[spoiler:destroy Wen’s death warrant]] and ends up fighting off Tragimor’s eagle-owl.
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* LetsGetDangerous: LetsGetDangerous:
** After being bullied by pretty much everyone for the whole book, Smirinka decides to help Wennie to [[spoiler:destroy Wen’s death warrant]] and ends up fighting off Tragimor’seagle-owl.eagle-owl.
** Alyosha also qualifies. Since most of his magic doesn’t work in parallel universes, he usually sabotages the villains’ plans without any direct confrontation (and if one happens, like in ''Glazastik'', he tricks the villains and runs away). Here, in the climactic scene he comes face to face with Tragimor, who’s infinitely more dangerous than the previous antagonists.
** After being bullied by pretty much everyone for the whole book, Smirinka decides to help Wennie to [[spoiler:destroy Wen’s death warrant]] and ends up fighting off Tragimor’s
** Alyosha also qualifies. Since most of his magic doesn’t work in parallel universes, he usually sabotages the villains’ plans without any direct confrontation (and if one happens, like in ''Glazastik'', he tricks the villains and runs away). Here, in the climactic scene he comes face to face with Tragimor, who’s infinitely more dangerous than the previous antagonists.
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* BerserkButton: Never ever try to remind Captain Nils that his ship has paper sails.
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** Never ever try to remind Captain Nils that his ship has paper sails.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The pirates are forced [[spoiler:to become the crew of ''The Flying Dutchman'']].
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Exploited by Tragimor when he persuades Wennie to give up her soul. [[spoiler:When the girl repents, she immediately stops calling herself Princess]].
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* LetsGetDangerous: After being bullied by pretty much everyone for the whole book, Smirinka decides to help Wennie to [[spoiler:destroy Wen’s death warrant]] and ends up fighting off Tragimor’s eagle-owl.
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** Wennie [[spoiler:after Tragimor coaxes her into signing Wen’d death warrant]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Aurint [[spoiler:when his jewels nearly kill Smirinka]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
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** Wennie [[spoiler:after Tragimor coaxes her into signing Wen’d death warrant]].
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* EvilUncle: Kargor for [[spoiler:Astrel]], who’s unaware of the relationship.
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* GoodEyesEvilEyes: If a character has big, bright, clear, deep eyes, you can safely bet they’re good (Katya, Christopher Columbus, Rengist, Smirinka etc.). Sharp and piercing equals irredeemably bad ([[spoiler:Gina]], Tragimor).
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* GoodEyesEvilEyes: If a character has big, bright, clear, deep eyes, you can safely bet they’re good (Katya, Christopher Columbus, Rengist, Smirinka etc.). Sharp and piercing equals irredeemably bad ([[spoiler:Gina]], The Chief
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Gatherer of Smiles, Tragimor).
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* CelibateHero: Alyosha is single and never shows any noticeable romantic interest in anyone, although any DamselInDistress can be sure he'll rush to her aid as soon as possible.
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* CastingGag: In the stop-motion adaptations, Vas’ka is voiced by Oleg Tabakov whose star roles include a snarky talking striped cat in ''Prostokvashino'', and the pirate leader from ''The Island of Captains'' by Yekaterina Vasilieva, who also played the bandit leader in ''Bumbarash''.
* CelibateHero: Alyosha is single and never shows any noticeable romantic interest inanyone, anyone (except, very briefly, for Smirinka), although any DamselInDistress can be sure he'll rush to her aid as soon as possible.
* CelibateHero: Alyosha is single and never shows any noticeable romantic interest in
