History Literature / TheAdventuresOfPinocchio

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: a whole book, "Pinocchio: un libro parallelo" (Pinocchio: a parallel book), by Giorgio Manganelli, is dedicated to this aim. The author remarks that some figure are really ambiguous and suspended between life and death: the Blue Fairy appears to be the main one. On her first apparition, the Blue Fairy herself states to be a dead girl waiting for her coffin. She is very pale. Azure hair is often a characteristic of corpses. After Pinocchio is hanged by the Cat and the Fox and almost dead, she is declared a fairy and becomes a helper of the main character, a sort of surrogate sister and mother. After, she is said to be dead another time. Also the Cricket is innocently creepy (but not like the Fairy): now dead (killed by Pinocchio at the begin), now a ghost, now living (in the house of the Blue Fairy). A conjecture of Manganelli is that the Fairy was a dying goddess and mistress of beasts (dogs, woodpeckers, ...), and that the "sacrifice" of Pinocchio at the oak gave her a temporary new life. The fact that Pinocchio is originated by wood needs consideration, too and it is possible to think that Pinocchio has some hidden , unknown connection with her world.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints that the Fox and the Cat are [[BitchInSheepsClothing not the kindhearted crippled philanthropists they seem to be]] before they steal Pinocchio's money. Like when they tell Pinocchio that education and studying is how they became crippled. And when they arrive at the inn on their way to the field of miracles (a non existent field the two made up where money grows on trees) to eat and rest (the real reason being as a place they could lose Pinocchio, in order to attack him in disguise later), the narrator states that they were very sick and could only eat 35 mullets and 25 chickens for dinner, and leave Pinocchio to pay for it all (under the excuse that [[BlatantLies they were so polite, they did not want to him offend him by not giving him the honor of paying the bill.]]) And if that weren't enough for Pinocchio to see through, when they attack him in disguise later for his money, Pinocchio [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids cuts off the Cat's paw.]] The next day, when Pinocchio sees the Cat has lost his paw too, he [[TooDumbToLive does not put two and two together.]] So sadly, not realizing any of these useful warnings, he is tricked into burying his money in the field of miracles, and while he goes to wait in the city, the two dig up his money and Pinocchio is robbed.

* EverybodysDeadDave: The first appearance of the Maiden. With assassins chasing him, Pinocchio bangs on the door, and the shutters of an upstairs window fly open revealing a beautiful child, who is clearly ''dead'', saying "In this house there is no one. They are all dead." She's just waiting for the undertaker. Pinocchio is caught and hanged. That was supposed to be ''the end''. It wasn't until his editor requested him to continue the story that Collodi decided the Maiden was a fairy who could save Pinocchio and put him on the right path. This isn't the last time we see her dead, either. The story is so uneven and episodic that when read as a book, it looks like the Fairy has been playing guilt-tripping head games the whole time.

In [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940,]] Creator/{{Disney}} made an animated film based on this story, simply called ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}.'' It scores a 2 on the sliding scale of adaptation modification. In 1936, ''Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy'' published his retelling of the ''Pinocchio'' story in the Soviet Union called ''The Golden Key.''

** Although Pinocchio is being a jerk a lot of the time when things go wrong for him, there is at least one 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 to 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.

* FalseFriend: The Fox and the Cat feign being friends to Pinocchio to steal his coins. And they try to''kill'' Pinocchio.

* PlotHole: At the start, Pinocchio doesn't know how to read, but he can read perfectly the marker of the Fairy's grave. How did he learn to read? The ''Luigi Comencini'' version fixes this by having a peasant read it to Pinocchio.

* DisneyDeath:
** [[spoiler: Pinocchio in Chapter 15. Thanks to reader demands, the Cricket, the Owl, and the Crow tend to his injuries.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Although Pinocchio is being a jerk a lot of the time when things go wrong for him, there is at least one 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 to 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.

* OnlyKnonwByTheirNickname:

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Pinocchio in Chapter 15. Thanks to reader demands, the Cricket, the Owl, and the Crow tend to his injuries.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Although Pinocchio is being a jerk a lot of the time when things go wrong for him, there is at least one 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 to 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.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep:
** Everyone calls Mastro Antonio, "Mastro Cherry" because of his cherry-like nose.
** Lampwick's real name is "Romeo," but he is too slim, hence the nickname.
** The Coachman a.k.a. the Little Man is just known in those nicknames.

* FalseFriend: The Fox and the Cat feign being friends to Pinocchio to steal his coins. And they almost try to ''kill'' Pinocchio.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Lampwick is this for Pinocchio.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mastro Cherry only exists in the story to discover the wood that would become Pinocchio and give it to Geppetto. Adaptations usually [[AdaptedOut adapt him out,]] mix [[CompositeCharacter Geppetto with him,]] or [[AscendedExtra give him a bigger role.]]

* WonderChild: Pinocchio himself, natch, brought to life by Geppetto's wish for a child.

* AuthorTract: This is a whole text dedicated to teach that if you are a disobedient child and don't go to school, you will be tortured, bound, and killed. The book has some shades of social criticism in the Fox, the Cat, and the Coachman.

* FatBastard: The Coachman is also fat.

* KidsAreCruel: Pinocchio is a jerk and a hedonist, despite all Geppetto does for him.
** His classmates are worse.

* ParentalSubstitute: The Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair.

* PlotHole: At the start, Pinocchio doesn't know how to read, but he can read perfectly the marker of the Fairy's grave. How did he learn to read? The ''Luigi Comencini'' version fixes this by making a peasant read it to Pinocchio.

''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (''Le Avventure di Pinocchio,'' AKA ''Storia di un Burattino'' ("The Story of a Marionette") is UsefulNotes/{{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.

* BellyOfTheWhale

* SpoilerTitle: Most of the chapter titles follow the InWhichATropeIsDescribed formula, which reveals several plot points, but this is comically {{averted}} with the title of Chapter 35:

* AdaptationalHeroism: Some versions make Pinocchio's bad behaviour driven by naivete rather than maliciousness.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Fire Eater AKA Mangiafuoco AKA Stromboli AKA Lorenzini, depending on the translation / adaptation, is more of a Type V 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 Creator/{{Disney}} villain.

* AscendedExtra: The Cricket in almost all adaptations, maybe because the [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} the Disney version]] was the first one in doing so. One major exception is the ''Luigi Comencini's version,'' where the Cricket [[DeathByAdaptation dies and remains dead.]]

* BornOfMagic: Pinocchio is brought to life by being a puppet made of magical wood, or by a [[MakeAWish wish upon a star]], or other magical methods in nearly all incarnations.

* 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; consider what happens to the other puppets and children...

* AdaptationalVillainy: Fire Eater AKA Mangiafuoco AKA Stromboli AKA Lorenzini, depending on the translation / adaptation, is more of a Type V 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.

* BigEater: The Cat and the Fox. Just look at the amount of food they wolf down during the dinner at the "Red Lobster Inn".
* BackForTheFinale: The Cricket, the Fox, the Cat and Lampwick reappear in the last chapters.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The fox and the cat, and the coachman.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Pinocchio in Chapter 15. Thanks to reader demands, the Cricket, Owl and Crow tend to his injuries.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Although Pinocchio is being a jerk a lot of the time when things go wrong for him, there is at least one 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.

* DoNotCallMePaul: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Geppetto hates being called Polentina, maybe because the color of his wig looks like the same color of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta polenta]] (a typical Italian pudding-like food made from maize flour).

** Everyone calls Mastro Antonio, Mastro Cherry because of his cherry-like nose.
** Lampwick's real name is Romeo, but he is too slim, hence the nickname.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints that the Fox and the Cat are [[BitchInSheepsClothing not the kindhearted crippled philanthropists they seem to be]] before they steal Pinocchio's money. Like when they tell Pinocchio that education and studying is how they became crippled. And when they arrive at the inn on their way to the field of miracles (a non existent field the two made up where money grows on trees) to eat and rest (the real reason being as a place they could lose Pinocchio, in order to attack him in disguise later), the narrator states that they were very sick and could only eat 35 mullets and 25 chickens for dinner, and leave Pinocchio to pay for it all (under the excuse that [[BlatantLies they were so polite, they did not want to him offend him by not giving him the honor of paying the bill.]]) And if that weren't enough for Pinocchio to see through, when they attack him in disguise later for his money, Pinocchio [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids cuts off the cat's paw.]] The next day, when Pinocchio sees the cat has lost his paw too, he [[TooDumbToLive does not put two and two together.]] So sadly, not realizing any of these useful warnings, he is tricked into burying his money in the field of miracles, and while he goes to wait in the city, the two dig up his money and Pinocchio is robbed.

** {{Averted|Trope}} with The Fox and the Cat. 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 (e.g. Geppetto, 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.

* PleasureIsland: The base for the {{Trope Namer|s}}, [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} the Disney version.]] Here, you will have a life with lots of fun, no school, no responsibilities, but you will convert into a jackass.
* PlotHole: At the start, Pinocchio doesn't know how to read, but he can read perfectly the note of the Fairy's grave. How did he learn to read? The ''Luigi Comencini'' version fixes this by making a peasant reading it to Pinocchio.

* PublicDomainCharacter

* AnimateInanimateObject: Pinocchio started out as a sentient block of wood. Fire Eater's puppets are also sentient.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Inverted. Geppetto hates being called Polentina, maybe because the color of his wig looks like the same color of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta polenta]] (a typical Italian pudding-like food made from maize flour).

** Everyone calls Mastro Antonio Mastro Cherry because of his cherry-like nose.

* FaceOfAThug: Fire Eater definitely has this.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints that the fox and the cat are [[BitchInSheepsClothing not the kindhearted crippled philanthropists they seem to be]] before they steal Pinocchio's money. Like when they tell Pinocchio that education and studying is how they became crippled. And when they arrive at the inn on their way to the field of miracles (a non existent field the two made up where money grows on trees) to have bite to eat and rest (the real reason being as a place they could lose Pinocchio, in order to attack him in disguise later), the narrator states that they were very sick and could only eat 35 mullets and 25 chickens for dinner, and leave Pinocchio to pay for it all (under the excuse that [[BlatantLies they were so polite, they did not want to him offend him by not giving him the honor of paying the bill.]]) And if that weren't enough for Pinocchio to see through, when they attack him in disguise later for his money, Pinocchio [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids cuts off the cat's paw.]] The next day, when Pinocchio sees the cat has lost his paw too, he [[TooDumbToLive does not put two and two together.]] So sadly, not realizing any of these useful warnings, he is tricked into burying his money in field of miracles, and while he goes to wait in the city, the two dig up his money and Pinocchio is robbed.

* HeroicSacrifice: Pinocchio decides to die instead of Mangiafuoco's puppets and offers himself to be burned. Fire Eater spares the puppets after noting this.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Maestro Cherry and Geppetto. One minute they're beating the crap out of each other thanks to the mischief of the talking piece of wood that would eventually become Pinocchio, the next they're shaking hands and renewing their friendship.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Maestro Cherry only exists in the story to discover the wood that would become Pinocchio and give it to Geppetto. Adaptations usually [[AdaptedOut adapt him out,]] mix [[CompositeCharacter Geppetto with him,]] or [[AscendedExtra give him a bigger role.]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Pinocchio is far too trusting with shady individuals, most notably, the fox and cat.

** {{Averted|Trope}} with The Fox and The Cat. 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 (e.g. Geppetto, 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.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Crow and Owl, who for some reason are doctors.
* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the story [[spoiler: the Cat eventually got blind for real, and the Fox was forced to sell his own tail for a living and now they're both alone and miserable. They try to ask Pinocchio help, but he reminds them all what they did to him and that they had it coming.]]

* LeftForDead: [[spoiler: Pinocchio after the Fox and the Cat hang him in Chapter 15. This was originally meant as the ''end of the story.'' Fortunately, in Chapter 16, he gets better.]]

* PleasureIsland: The base for the {{Trope Namer|s}}, [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} the Disney version]]. Here, you will have a life with lots of fun, no school and no responsibilities, but you will convert into a jackass.

* WouldHurtAChild: The Fox and The Cat try to kill Pinocchio; and The Coachman...

* AdaptationalVillainy: Fire Eater AKA Mangiafuoco AKA Stromboli AKA Lorenzini, depending on the translation\adaptation, is more of a Type V 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.

* AntiHero: Pinocchio genuinely loves Geppetto and the Blue Fairy, but ''dear God'', is he a reckless irritant.
* AscendedExtra: The Cricket in almost all adaptations, maybe because the [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} the Disney version]] was the first one in doing so. One major exception is the Luigi Comencini's version, where the Cricket [[DeathByAdaptation dies and remains dead]].
* AuthorTract: This is a whole text dedicated to teach that if you are a disobedient child and don't go to school, you will be tortured, bound and killed. The book has some shades of social crticism in the Fox, the Cat and the Coachman.

* PlotHole: At the start, Pinocchio doesn't knows to read, but he can read perfectly the note of the Fairy's grave. How did he learnt to read? The Luigi Comencini version fixes this by making a peasant Reading it for Pinocchio.

* TallPoppySyndrome: As you know, the blue fairy promised him he'd become a real boy if he's always well-behaved and gets good grades in school. Then one day, the other boys tell him that the monster whale was seen near their place, and that they should skip school to look for it. Pinocchio hesitates, but then decides to join them because he cares about Geppetto. When they go to the sea, no whale. Pinocchio gets suspicious, and wants to know what's going on. Then, the other boys tell him, that they'll look bad if he's an A-student, but if everyone in class was as lazy as they are, they'd be just average.

In [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940,]] Creator/{{Disney}} made an animated film based on this story, simply called ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. It scores a 2 on the sliding scale of adaptation modification. In 1936, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy published his retelling of the Pinocchio story in the Soviet Union called ''The Golden Key''.

Since it's in the public domain, you can read it [[http://www.literaturepage.com/read/pinocchio.html here]].

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

* AbuseMistake: When Pinocchio escapes after being created, Geppetto is mistaken for an [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]], but he only wants to catch his son to scold him.
* AccidentalMurder: Pinocchio throws a mallet at the Cricket in retaliation for scolding him, [[spoiler:seemingly killing it]].

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

* GrowsOnTrees: Invoked. The Fox and the Cat make Pinocchio believe that if he plants his coins, plants of money will grow. It's a lie.

** Averted with The Fox and The Cat. 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 (e.g. Geppetto, 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.

** When Pinocchio first runs away from Gepetto's house, a little after he's created, it's stated that he has no ears because Gepetto "had forgotten to make them!" Later in the story are several references to Pinocchio's ears, especially when they turn into donkey's ears.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Maestro Cherry and Gepetto. One minute they're beating the crap out of each other thanks to the mischief of the talking piece of wood that would eventually become Pinocchio, the next they're shaking hands and renewing their friendship.
* WellThisIsNotThatTrope: The opening of the book. "Once upon a time... There was a king! No, there was a piece of wood."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mastro Cherry only exists in the story to discover the wood that would become Pinocchio and give it to Geppetto. Adaptations usually [[AdaptedOut adapt him out]], mix [[CompositeCharacter Geppetto with him]] or [[AscendedExtra give him a bigger role.]]

* WonderChild: Pinocchio himself, natch, brought to life by Gepetto's wish for a child.
* WouldHurtAChild: The Fox and The Cat try to kill Pinocchio; and the Coachman...

''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.

An old Italian woodcarver, Geppetto, receives a piece of wood which looks perfect for making a puppet. The wood is magical, and the puppet comes to life. Geppetto calls it Pinocchio [[MeaningfulName (which means "pine nut")]] and tries to bring it up as his son. Yet the task is anything but easy, as Pinocchio tends to be cheeky, naughty, disobedient, and all-too-susceptible to the bad influence of liars and false friends. Pinocchio tumbles from one disastrous adventure to another, but things take a turn for the better when he meets the Blue Fairy, who promises him that he can one day become "a real boy" if he changes his ways.

In [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940]], Disney made an animated film based on this story, simply called ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. It scores a 2 on the sliding scale of adaptation modification. In 1936, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy published his retelling of the Pinocchio story in the Soviet Union called ''The Golden Key''.

* DeadpanSnarker: Geppetto in chapter 2:
-->"What brought you here, friend Geppetto?" "My legs."

** Lampwick. Sure, he's a bit of a brat, who bunks off school, and causes trouble, but he's still a little boy, who could have changed. And is there really any need for him to die??

* DoNotCallMePaul: Inverted. Geppetto hates being called Polentina, maybe because the color of his wig looks like the same color of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta polenta]] (a typical Italian pudding-like food made from maize flour).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints that the fox and the cat are [[BitchInSheepsClothing not the kindhearted crippled philanthropists they seem to be]] before they steal Pinocchio's money. Like when they tell Pinocchio that education and studying is how they became crippled. And when they arrive at the inn on their way to the field of miracles (a non existent field the two made up where money grows on trees) to have bite to eat and rest (the real reason being as a place they could lose Pinocchio, in order to attack him in disguise later) , they narrator states that they were very sick and could only eat 35 mullets and 25 chickens for dinner, and leave Pinocchio to pay for it all (under the excuse that [[BlatantLies they were so polite, they did not want to him offend him by not giving him the honor of paying the bill.]]) And if that weren't enough for Pinocchio to see through, when they attack him in disguise later for his money, Pinocchio [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids cuts off the cat's paw]]. The next day, when Pinocchio sees the cat has lost his paw too, he [[TooDumbToLive does not put two and two together.]] So sadly, not realizing any of these useful warnings, he is tricked into burying his money in field of miracles, and while he goes to wait in the city, the two dig up his money and Pinocchio is robbed.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Fairy states this to be the case with Pinocchio when he [[spoiler: [[OnlyMostlyDead weeps over her grave.]] [[note]] He felt guilty because the grave marker said she died from a broken heart after Pinocchio abandoned her[[/note]]]] Noting that it means, in spite of his faults, he does have a good heart and in that, he has a possible chance for redemption. Mangiafuoco also counts because he sympathizes with Pinocchio.

* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the story [[spoiler: the Cat eventually got blind for real, and the Fox was forced to sell his own tail for a living and now they're both alone and miserable. They try to ask Pinocchio help, but he reminds them all what they did to him and that they had it coming]].

* LeftForDead: [[spoiler:Pinocchio after the Fox and the Cat hang him in Chapter 15. This was originally meant as the ''end of the story.'' Fortunately, in Chapter 16, he gets better.]]

* MeaningfulName: Pinocchio means "pine nut".

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Maiden is actually first seen as a ''living corpse''.

* PoliceAreUseless: The authorities don't do anything about all the antagonists. When they actually lay down the law, it's on the good guys. Pinocchio actually gets jailed just for being robbed, and when all the prisoners are set free for no reason except that the emperor feels like it, he's not released until he says he's a thief.

** When Pinocchio first runs away from Gepetto's house, a little after he's created, it's stated that he has no ears because Gepetto "had forgotten to make them!". Later in the story are several references to Pinocchio's ears, especially when they turn into donkey's ears.
* PublicDomainCharacter

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: At one point, Pinocchio finds a huge snake with smoke coming out of its tail blocking the path. Pinocchio can't get past it, but he falls down and gets stuck in the road... The snake, after seeing the funny scene of Pinocchio's legs sticking out of the road, thrashing wildly, literally [[DieLaughing laughs itself to death]].
* ScareEmStraight: 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]].

* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:The Cricket in Chapter 14.]]

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Lampwick is this for Pinocchio.
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:The Cricket, after being crushed by Pinocchio, and then turning up alive in Chapter 16.]]

* WellThisIsNotThatTrope: The opening of the book. "Once upon a time... there was a king! No, there was a piece of wood".
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mastro Cherry only exists in the story to discover the wood that would become Pinocchio and give it to Geppetto. Adaptations usually [[AdaptedOut adapt him out]], mix [[CompositeCharacter Geppetto with him]] or [[AscendedExtra give him a bigger role]].

* MoralityPet: The Fairy and later Lampwick are the people which Pinocchio cares about.

* WouldHurtAChild: The Fox and The Cat try to kill Pinocchio, and the Coachman...

* FranchiseZombie: ''Again'', see "What Could Have Been" in the [[Trivia/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Trivia section]].