History Literature / TheAdventuresOfPinocchio

** The land of toys is meant to be this If you actively avoid school and bettering your education, you'll end up ignorant (donkey = the famous donkey-eared cap used in late 1800s schools to humiliate dumb students) and won't go far in life, having to do grunt work in order to make a (meager) living. This is further shown when Pinocchio finds Lampwick dying, beaten, and sick after having worked for the rest of his life as a donkey.

** Specifically, she is an {{Expy}} of the Virgin Mary, whose traditional blue scarf is often mistaken by little children for blue hair.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Blue Fairy.

* PleasureIsland: Lampwick and Pinocchio are persuaded to travel with the mysterious Coachman to the Land of Toys. In the Land of Toys, children live a life with lots of fun, no school, and no responsibilities, but they will convert into a jackass after three months of this lifestyle. The Coachman then sells children-turned-donkeys for work in farms, mills, mines, and circuses.

* SkippingSchool: Pinocchio chose to go to Mangiafuoco's puppet show instead of going to school and sells his schoolbook to pay for it. As a consequence, Pinocchio ends up going missing. When he is studying in the Busy Bee Island, he is manipulated by his envious classmates into skipping school with the lie that the Dogfish could be found there.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The Land of Toys the Little Man takes Pinocchio, Lampwick and other children to is presented as a [[PleasureIsland playground utopia]] where kids don't have to study and instead can indulge themselves and play all day long every day. It's all fine and dandy until three months into the lifestyle of this place transforms Pinocchio and the others into donkeys that are sold to workers and circuses, revealing it to be essentially an AmusementParkOfDoom the Little Man set up to make a profit out of lazy children.

** A blackbird tries to warn Pinocchio that the Fox and the Cat are up to no good, but the Cat gobbles him up and explains that he just wanted to punish the blackbird for [[YouTalkTooMuch talking too much]].

* CassandraTruth: Geppetto didn't believe that it was the log and not Mastro Cherry who was mocking him. Mastro Cherry tried to do so, with no success.

* GreenAndMean: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Green]] Fisherman, a ghastly green skinned and green haired fellow with a big appetite for fish who catches Pinocchio from the sea and attempts to fry him believing that he's some sort of rare fish, even though Pinocchio tells him he's not and begs for his life. He also responds aggressively when Alidoro comes to his cave hoping to get a fried morsel. Thankfully TheDogBitesBack upon noticing Pinocchio in peril.

In [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940,]] Creator/{{Disney}} made an animated film based on this story, simply called ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}.'' It scores somewhere between a 1 and a 2 on the SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification, retaining only a handful of characters (but altering the personalities of most of them drastically) and a few basic plot elements. In 1936, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy published his retelling of the ''Pinocchio'' story in the Soviet Union called ''Literature/TheGoldenKeyOrTheAdventuresOfBuratino''. An Italian animated adaptation was made in 1972 called, ''Animation/UnBurattinoDiNomePinocchio'' (''A puppet named Pinocchio''), which is noteworthy for being the most book accurate adaptation of Collodi's story, probably helped by the fact that the author's grandchildren--Mario and Antonio Lorenzini--advised the production.

In [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940,]] Creator/{{Disney}} made an animated film based on this story, simply called ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}.'' It scores somewhere between a 1 and a 2 on the SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification, retaining only a handful of characters (but altering the personalities of most of them drastically) and a few basic plot elements. In 1936, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy published his retelling of the ''Pinocchio'' story in the Soviet Union called ''Literature/TheGoldenKeyOrTheAdventuresOfBuratino''. An Italian animated adaptation was made in 1972 called, ''Un burattino di nome Pinocchio'' (''A puppet named Pinocchio''), which is noteworthy for being the most book accurate adaptation of Collodi's story, probably helped by the fact that the author's grandchildren--Mario and Antonio Lorenzini--advised the production.

In [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940,]] Creator/{{Disney}} made an animated film based on this story, simply called ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}.'' It scores somewhere between a 1 and a 2 on the SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification, retaining only a handful of characters (but altering the personalities of most of them drastically) and a few basic plot elements. In 1936, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy published his retelling of the ''Pinocchio'' story in the Soviet Union called ''Literature/TheGoldenKeyOrTheAdventuresOfBuratino''.

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

* 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.

* AuthorTract: The book has some shades of social criticism in the Fox, the Cat, and the Coachman, alongside of the depiction of the justice system as inefficient.

* IAmNotWeasel: Averted. After failing to reach Geppetto at sea, Pinocchio arrives on a beach and addresses to a dolphin mistakingly calling him "[[SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying Sir Fish]]", but the dolphin is enough of a polite NiceGuy to not correct him.

* AuthorTract: The book has some shades of social criticism in the Fox, the Cat, and the Coachman, alongside of the depicton of justice as inefficient.

* IAmNotWeasel: Averted. After failing to reach Geppetto at sea, Pinocchio reaches a beach and addresses to a dolphin mistakingly calling him "[[SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying Sir Fish]]", but the dolphin is enough of a polite NiceGuy to not correct him during their chat.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: The Terrible Dogfish. A dolphin tells is larger than a five-storied building and has a mile-long body so deep that a whole train could pass through it. Geppetto reveals that he survived so long inside its belly because he survived by eating the supplies of a cargo ship the Dogfish swallowed up.

** At the start, Pinocchio doesn't know how to read, but later 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.

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

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Pinocchio invokes this trope when he was forced to fill in for a gardener's deceased guard dog. While on duty, Pinocchio learns that the dog had been accepting bribes from the other animals, letting them steal from the garden and pretending to see nothing. When they offer the same to Pinocchio, he instead alerts the gardener. When the gardener comments about how loyal his dog was, but never seemed to be able to catch them, Pinocchio decides not to tell him the truth about the dog since he's no longer alive to defend himself.

* ManiacMonkeys: The Judge Pinocchio consults seeking justice after being deceived and robbed by the Fox and the Cat is described to be an old gorilla, who decides to put the blame on Pinocchio's naivety and has him arrested and locked in prison instead of bringing the real criminals to justice.