History Literature / TheAdventuresOfPinocchio

* AdultFear: The {{Baleful Polymorph}}s. If you thought this aspect was bad in the Disney film, it's even worse in the original book because it goes into more detail.

* CrapsackWorld: The author makes it a point that every time something bad happens to Pinocchio, he had it coming. But usually it's LaserGuidedKarma, which does much more to punish Pinocchio when he does something bad, than reward him when he does something good. It's only because of PlotArmor that he survives to the end of the book.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Fire Eater AKA Mangiafuoco AKA Stromboli AKA Lorenzini, depending on the translation\adaption, is more of a Type V [[AntiHero Antihero]] than a villain in the book; although he is willing to kill any of the puppets and chop them up for firewood, he is easily moved to tears and shows Pinocchio kindness when he regrets his cruelty. He is almost always portrayed as far more evil in film, and has even become an iconic Disney villain.

* AndIMustScream: The {{Baleful Polymorph}}s. Quite a bit worse than in the movie because they elaborate.

* CrapsackWorld: The book does not give any reason why life in its setting is worth living. It does, however, give many reasons why it's better to behave in that world.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Although Pinocchio is being a jerk a lot of the time when things go wrong for him, there is at least once instance where his comeuppance seems far from reasonable: [[spoiler: after promising to go to school and work, Pinocchio is informed that the monster that swallowed his father is in the local harbor. The other boys egg him on, telling him to bunk school and come and see it. He refuses, saying he will go after school. When they tell him that the beast will be gone by then, he agrees to miss one day of school to see the creature that SWALLOWED HIS FATHER. The boys turned out to have tricked him, and of course Pinocchio gets into a fight, is arrested for a murder than he didn't commit, and lands up in another series of horrible misadventures.]] Perhaps if things hadn't gone so badly he would have continued bunking school, though.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: The donkeys, and their treatment was very much TruthInTelevision at the time. Strikingly, being {{Talking Animal}}s doesn't make any difference.]]

!!''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' is the TropeMaker and[=/=]or TropeNamer for these tropes:
* BecomeARealBoy
* PinocchioNose
* PinocchioSyndrome
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* ExecutiveMeddling: See "What Could Have Been".

* ScareEmStraight

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The story originally ended at chapter 15, [[spoiler:with Pinocchio being hung from a tree by the Cat and the Fox]]. The story was continued when people kept writing in, asking what happened next. Interestingly enough, this actually explains why the story goes through such a huge shift in tone, going from a darker, more adult-oriented story to being a more conventional fairy tale.
** Actually, the original story ''was'' written with children in mind. Collodi originally conceived this as a [[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/10/carlo_collodi_s_pinocchio_why_is_the_original_pinocchio_subjecte.html gruesome morality tale]].

* {{Anvillicious}}: Collodi originally conceived this as a [[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2011/10/carlo_collodi_s_pinocchio_why_is_the_original_pinocchio_subjecte.html gruesome morality tale]].

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Pinocchio in Chapter 15. Thankfully, the Cricket, Owl and Crow tend to his injuries.]]

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Since this a moral tale, Pinocchio always faces some kind of punishment for his misdeeds.

* LeftForDead: [[spoiler:Pinocchio after the Fox and the Cat hang him in Chapter 15. Fortunately, in Chapter 16, he gets better.]]

* OurFairiesAreDifferent

** As Pinocchio, The Fox and The Cat are all punished at different stages of the book for their varying levels of wickedness, and the good characters (eg Gepetto, The Fairy, The Talking Cricket, and sometimes Pinocchio as well) tend to be miraculously rewarded in the most unlikely ways, it may be a safe assumption that the villains of the book (none of which get any comeuppance except for the fox and the cat) are headed for trouble as well.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Geppetto hates being called Polendina, but it is never explained why.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Fire Eater AKA Mangiafucco AKA Strombolli AKA Lorenzini, depending on the translation\adaption, is more of a Type V [[AntiHero Antihero]] than a villain in the book; although he is willing to kill any of the puppets and chop them up for firewood, he is easily moved to tears and shows Pinocchio kindness when he regrets his cruelty. He is almost always portrayed as far more evil in film, and has even become an iconic Disney villain.

'''''The Adventures of Pinocchio''''' (''Le avventure di Pinocchio'', [-AKA-] ''Storia di un burattino'' ("The story of a marionette") is Italy’s most famous FairyTale, first published in 1883. Its author, Carlo Collodi, wrote a great deal for children, but ''Pinocchio'' is the only one of Collodi’s tales to have been translated into the English language.

DisproportionateRetribution: Although Pinocchio is being a jerk a lot of the time when things go wrong for him, there is at least once instance where his comeuppance seems far from reasonable: [[spoiler: after promising to go to school and work, Pinocchio is informed that the monster that swallowed his father is in the local harbor. The other boys egg him on, telling him to bunk school and come and see it. He refuses, saying he will go after school. When they tell him that the beast will be gone by then, he agrees to miss one day of school to see the creature that SWALLOWED HIS FATHER. The boys turned out to have tricked him, and of course Pinocchio gets into a fight, is arrested for a murder than he didn't commit, and lands up in another series of horrible misadventures.]] Perhaps if things hadn't gone so badly he would have continued bunking school, though.

* DeadpanSnarker: Gepetto in chapter 2:

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair. {{Justified}} because she is a fairy.

** Something about the color of his wig which looks like the same color of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta polenta]] (a kind of pudding-like food).

!''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' is the TropeMaker and[=/=]or TropeNamer for these tropes:

!''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' features these tropes:

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mastro Cherry only exists in the story to discover the wood that would become Pinocchio and give it to Geppetto. [[spoiler: Later, it says that they don't know what happened to Lamp-Wick, but it [[FridgeHorror can't be anything good]], considering what Pinocchio went through (which included almost being skinned!) This, however, is {{Subverted}} and {{Jossed}} at the end when he dies. He got lucky; all he had to do was draw water.]]

'''''The Adventures of Pinocchio''''' (''Le avventure di Pinocchio'', [-AKA-] ''Storia di un burattino'' ("The story of a marionette") ) is Italy’s most famous FairyTale, first published in 1883. Its author, Carlo Collodi, wrote a great deal for children, but ''Pinocchio'' is the only one of Collodi’s tales to have been translated into the English language.