History Main / FracturedFairyTale

* This is the guiding idea behind the ''Throne of Eldraine'' set (and basically the entire plane of Eldraine in general) in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. For example, the card "Tall as a Beanstalk" has Jack mistakenly ''eating'' the magic beans... [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever and the name says it all, really]].
* A second edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign ''A hero's Tale'' includes adventure ''The Mistake'' which is a take on a Snow White tangentially tied to the main story. In it a group of evil gnomes ambushes travelers to sell them to slavery until in a carriage they find an unconscious woman who won't wake up no matter what. Once they take her to their lair she wakes up with the sunset, turning out to be a vampire, who promptly takes over their operation and makes them her bodyguards.
** A fifth edition adventure ''A Fomorian Who Would Be King'' from ''Through the Veil: Tales of the Feywild'' anthology is another, similar take. Snow White equivalent is once again a vampire, who was trapped in a coffin deep underground by her sister and was discovered by a group of Duegar, enslaved and forced to mine gold for a Fomorian giant. The player characters can try to free her and seek her help in dealing with said Fomorian. if they play their cards right she may even become a long-term ally.

* On ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'', Shadow's stories are often based on traditional [[FairyTale fairy tales]] or NurseryRhymes, but with various pop-culture references or characters that are more hip or off-the-wall than their traditional fairy-tale counterparts. For example, in the story of ''[[NurseryRhyme Little Bo Peep]]'', Little Bo Peep dials up a "lost sheep hotline" and a criminal crook is at first shown during the line "And then she took up her little crook."

* On ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'', Shadow's stories are often based on traditional fairy tales or nursery rhymes, but with various pop-culture references or characters that are more hip or off-the-wall than their traditional fairy-tale counterparts. For example, in the story of ''[[NurseryRhyme Little Bo Peep]]'', Little Bo Peep dials up a "lost sheep hotline" and a criminal crook is at first shown during the line "And then she took up her little crook."

* ''VideoGame/LiesOfP'' is a SoulsLikeRPG video game centered around a DarkFantasy on ''[[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]]''. Set in a dark, [[TheGayNineties Belle Époque]] city called Krat, players control Pinocchio, here a “[[RidiculouslyHumanRobot puppet mechanoid]]”, as he sets off to find his creator, Mr. Geppetto, fighting through countless enemies to do so amid the ruins of a city overrun by mechanical monstrosities.

* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' spoofs and satirizes many common elements of Disney fairy tale films, notably subverting LoveAtFirstSight and TrueLovesKiss. The prince is stuck-up and rather dimwitted, SpontaneousChoreography occurs on the streets of New York, and when Giselle enlists "forest creatures" to clean Robert's apartment, they're [[AdoringThePests rats, pigeons, and cockroaches]]. When PrinceCharming is searching for Giselle, he knocks on an apartment door that is answered by a weary-looking pregnant woman with three small children [[note]]a {{cameo}} by ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' voice actress Judy Kuhn[[/note]]. She glances at him with only mild surprise and deadpans, "Sorry. You're too late."

* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': The Pokémon Bombirdier is essentially a fractured take on the DeliveryStork. It bears a strong resemblance to common depictions of the bird, with long feathers acting as a makeshift bag, but instead of delivering babies it prefers to drop rocks at random (not caring whether they'll hit someone) for seemingly no reason besides being a {{Jerkass}}.

* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': While the game plays it a usually straight, and is based on Japanese folk tales rather than European ones, it does feature quite a few fractured fairytale elements.

* A chapter book based on the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' animated series, ''Raven's Secret'', saw the Teen Titans get trapped in a fractured fairytale world thanks to a combination of Raven and Jinx's powers hitting a book Raven was reading at the time. Starfire became a Fairy Godmother-type character, Cyborg was stuck in the role of [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]], Beast Boy was Literature/TheFrogPrince, Robin was trapped in a golden goose egg at the top of [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk a giant beanstalk]], and Raven had to locate and save them all while trying to remember what her CatchPhrase incantation was (it was the key to getting them out, but she got hit with LaserGuidedAmnesia).

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' has ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segments that are quite prone to fairy tale episodes. Fairy tales messed up on the show include ''The Ugly Duckling'', ''The Tortoise and the Hare'', ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', ''Rumplestiltskin'', and ''Cinderella''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCWcLnWGP8 This]] ad for Symbicort takes a different spin on the Three Little Pigs. Apparently, the poor wolf had COPD. With the right medicine, he can spend time with his happy wolf family--and blow the piggies' house down!

* Some of the Advertising/{{GEICO}} fairy tales ads for the department that does stuff like renters insurance are this, such as retelling of "Ba Ba Black Sheep" in which a guy doesn't have any wool because all of his wool sweaters, as well as his flat-screen television and other stuff were stolen by some hooligan. Fortunately, he had the renters insurance, so they replaced it all and later the guy whole stole the stuff was caught selling it online and arrested.

* A UK advert for Weetabix has the wolf sucessfully blow down the brick house [[DownerEnding and eat all the pigs]] because he had his Weetabix.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', which makes the ogre the main character, the damsel anything but in distress, and the Prince Charming the villain, even coming with a subversion of TrueLovesKiss. The beginning says it all, really, starting with a generic fairy tale storybook that almost immediately gets used as toilet paper. The sequel ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' ups the ante by making the Fairy Godmother a villain as well, who is bound and determined to undo Shrek and Fiona's happy ending because [[FantasticRacism "ogres don't live happily ever after."]] [[spoiler:And we are sure that the fact that Prince Charming was her son did not sway her in the least.]]

* One of the ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' short stories is a complete parody of Cinderella. Cinderella (played by Kaname) learns the moral that "depend on your own hard work and initiative rather than relying on fairy godmothers", sells the glass shoe for ludicrous profit to a wannabe princess, and goes into the wandering merchant business with the fairy (played by Sousuke).

* All the characters, and many of the episodes, in ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' are fairy tale analogues, which in most cases are warped nearly beyond recognition. Particularly funny is the version of Literature/{{Cinderella}} where the "prince" (a popular tennis player) falls for a mysterious girl who accidentally kicked him in the face. So he has all the girls in school line up to kick him until he recognizes who clobbered him from her shoes. Turns out he's [[FootFocus really into it]].

* Episode 3 of ''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'' re-imagines a version of the "Hare of Inaba" story, where Sasami is the "rabbit" and her {{brother|SisterIncest}} is the shark.

* ''Animation/RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarfs'' applies this to the original ''Snow White'' tale. The titular character is a chubby, relatively plain-looking young woman who ends up in possession of a pair of shoes that make her look like a more conventional Disney princess; the dwarfs are a team of heroes who were cursed into their current form, and they need Red Shoes' help to break the curse.

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponATime1995'' retelling ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'', depicted Jack as a poor boy in a grimy miner's town and replaced the giant with a millionaire who owned assorted magical money sources. It went for a very HardTruthAesop by having Jack's efforts to bring money to his poor widowed mother be foiled by her honesty, up until the millionaire offers her a check so that Jack will stop knicking stuff (he didn't care that the boy pinched a few things, but bringing them back all the time is ruining his reputation)... and then ending with Jack watching in disdain as his mother weeps in the kitchen because they've used up the check money and are now as poor as ever. Cue the narrator declaring that being honest does not keep you from starving to death and principles are a poor substitute for money.

* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' usually has many comics that are parodies of fairy tales, and sometimes there are mutliple different parodies of the same tale. If [[HairTriggerTemper Monica]] or [[BigEater Maggy]] are playing the princesses, expect them to act as bratty as they usually are in canon, but of course [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the story treats them as the heroines]]. Jimmy Five usually becomes the PrinceCharmless, and since most stories end with this character marrying the princess, he treats it as a FateWorseThanDeath, ''specially'' if the princess is Monica.

* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' usually has many comics that are parodies of fairy tales, and sometimes there are mutliple different parodies of the same tale. If [[HairTriggeredTemper Monica]] or [[BigEater Maggy]] are playing the princesses, expect them to act as bratty as they usually are in canon, but of course [[ProntagonistCenteredMorality the story treats them as the heroines]]. Jimmy Five usually becomes the PrinceCharmless, and since most stories end with this character marrying the princess, he treats it as a FateWorseThanDeath, ''specially'' if the princess is Monica.

* The ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' TV episode "Recap/HTFDunceUponATime" has this trope as its gist. It's basically a grisly retelling of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', though it also includes elements of ''Rapunzel'' and ''Rumpelstiltskin''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeBears'' turns the bears into an Italian family and Goldilocks into a jazz-loving scamp, but neither group is portrayed as actively malicious and Goldilocks even happily stays with the bears for a while. The real antagonist of the short is an EgomaniacHunter that Goldilocks helps the bears outwit.