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[[WMG: The fables killed at the end of Jack's series will be resurrected]]

[[WMG: Bill's absurdly right-wing author tracts are parodies.]]

[[WMG: FanFiction of the Fables written by the comics' Mundanes increases their [[PopularityPower powers through popularity]] and subtly influences their lives, though the Fables don't know about it.]]

[[WMG: Every bit of new literature since the Fables of old eventually spawns a living, breathing Fable.]]
As stated above, the fact that Jack Horner thought he could improve his own personal power by creating movies of his fables to increase people's belief in him proves that Fables can use modern media to spread belief of them and increase their power (Snow White, Cinderella, etc. must ''really'' be loving Disney for the assist), but what if it goes farther than that? Some Fables, like Pinocchio, have tales that are old but not ancient (the wooden puppet's stories being produced at the turn of the 20th Century), so obviously how long your personal fable's been going on in the Mundane world doesn't dictate whether or not you exist in the Homelands (though it does dictate how powerful you are, to a point). And with the onset of movies, TV, and video games, fictionalized worlds are being created practically every second, so it's likely that there ''is'' a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mushroom Kingdom]], a [[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]], and a [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Sunnydale]] in the Homelands, newly formed with their respective characters and undiscovered by the Adversary or any other "old-time" Fables. Of course, that means, that with such a huge rate of expansion, there's no way the Adversary would be able to conquer the Homelands entirely, and the new, modern-day and/or future weapons would give him much more problems than he ever dreamed of. Wait until he runs into the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' Fables. Or any of the omnipotent and omniscient Main/{{Mary Sue}}s pumped out by fanfiction authors everyhwere...

* If we include anime into the mix, the Adversary is pretty much screwed... Just imagine Goku, Sailor Moon, Kenshiro, Guts, Naruto, Ichigo, Kinnikuman, Guy, and much, much other anime heroes reuniting to defeat their enemy? Ouch. Taking in consideration that only the Ginzuishou has practically an infinite ammount of power, Sailor Moon could transform the Princesses into ultra-powerful sailors almost like her. Goku is, by canon definition, "the strongest warrior in the Universe". Muscleman (or Kinnikuman, as you prefer), has super wrestling skills that rendered him as the most powerful wrestler of all times. Ichigo... Well, when Bleach comes to an end, he'll probably have the most powerful spiritual technique ever, so, technically, he's training. Naruto has a bigass, nine-tailed demon, that's the most powerful thing in his Universe (although he's still training, too). Guy has hammer that can crush stars for godsake. Kenshiro can punch people to death in milliseconds, and Guts... He's the goddamn Guts. Unless, you know, the Adversary ''is'' the anime forces...
** In a similar vein the "classic" Fable Lands of East and Central Asia would be a nightmare to conquer. Many East Asian and Central Asian myths make very little distinction between a god, demon and spirit resulting in many very powerful creatures. Rakshaha, Deva, Pontianak, Yuki-no-onna, etc. Furthermore if the "popularity power" hypothesis is true, the characters from Chinese epics like ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', ''Literature/LegendOfTheWaterMargin'' and especially ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' would be pretty tough. Especially since the first involves multi-generational armies, the second 108 outlaws and lastly the Monkey King himself who was powerful enough to thumb his nose at the forces of the Jade Emperor himself. Oh yes and the armies of the Jade Emperor (ie the local version of God) mentioned in Journey to the West would probably make an appearance too in the Fable Lands of the Far East....

** Not neccesarily- they may ally themselves with him conditionally- he may be bad, but not as evil or inhuman as most things the Imperium fights.

[[WMG: The Arabians who visited Fabletown are not the real Arabian Fables.]]

[[WMG: If Americana exists, then Superman can show up.]]

[[WMG: [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis The Jack movies are standins for]] ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'']]

[[WMG: Popularity increases more then just durabillity]]
In FABLES, Jack is extremely popular and such nearly impossible to kill. Having Excalibur stabbed through him was only horrible in that he could not wander about in regular society sporting a sword in his chest. Then [[spoiler: he actually removed it, despite the protests of his story-mage friend]]. This also explains why Bigby Wolf can do a lot more then just blow things over.

[[WMG: The reason why no modern literary characters have become Fables is because the story of the Fable has to come to an end before the Fable is created with all the memories of of its "Story".]]
Due to things like [[Main/CashCowFranchise Cash Cow Franchises]], [[Main/{{Spinoff}} Spinoffs]], Main/FranchiseZombies, [[Main/{{Sequel}} Sequels]] and worst of all [[FanFic Fan Fiction]] most modern stories never actually end and never get the chance to become Fables.

[[WMG: Bufkin is responsible for [[spoiler:Prince Charming's demise]] during Operation: Thunder Cloud.]]

[[WMG: It takes a while for stories to become Fables.]]

[[WMG: The Fables ''are'' real and Mundy minds merely pick up mental images of them and tell stories about them.]]

[[WMG: The ever increasing length of copyright protection is a ploy by the Authority to keep new Fables from popping up.]]

** Deadpool is already more unkillable than most of Fabletown so it's not like it'd matter much.

[[WMG: Fables existed before the stories about the stories of their adventures became stories in the mundy world.]]

What kind of spell? Maybe it's to enhance her powers. Maybe it's a sealing spell for Mr Dark, or some future BigBad we don't know about but she does.
** Jossed- she was knitting a trinket for [[spoiler: Beast and Beauty's baby]]

[[WMG: The "Red Riding Hood" that Boy Blue knew in the Homelands was the Snow Queen.]]

[[WMG: Blue Beard and Shere Kahn are alive and plotting their vengeance.]]

[[WMG: Frau Totenkinder secretly owns an abortion clinic.]]

[[WMG: Jack Frost is going to become an updated version of his father.]]

[[WMG: Frau Totenkinder is a great power.]]

[[WMG: Ozma's prophecy about the cubs]]

** Now that [[spoiler: Winter is being groomed to be the next North Wind, and Therese is Queen of Toyland, either could be 1, unless King specifically refers only to the boys]]

[[WMG: Mr. Dark will be defeated on/by Halloween]]

[[WMG: Frost Taker will become a ChekhovsGun in the main series.]]

[[WMG: The 100th issue was actually a parody of [[WhamEpisode Wham Episodes]].]]
Think about it: a ton of stuff happens, but most of it cancels out. [[spoiler: Mr. Dark is trapped, but gets out. Frau Totenkinder is dead, but then she's alive again. In the end, we went through all that, and we're right back where we started, only with Frau Totenkinder going into what's likely to be a TenMinuteRetirement]].

[[WMG: Ambrose will become a historian.]]

[[WMG: The pigs in charge of the revolution from Animal Farm weren't actually the three little pigs]]
They were in fact Snowball Napoleon and Squealer from the george orwell book animal farm. Snowball was Colin and was executed because the other two hate him more than any real lack of loyalty or to send a message. that's why they were starting revolutions for the sake of starting ti. as for why the rest of the characters aren't from Animal Farm there the pigs killed and took the identities of those pigs and left the rest to die because the pigs are just like that.

[[WMG: Dorothy Gale is bi.]]
In ''Fables are Forever,'' she passed as a man well enough to thoroughly fool [[spoiler: Cinderella]], who is by no means inexperienced. Even with the magical aid she had, I do not think it was her first time for that sort of thing. And she did have other options, rather than letting things go in the direction they did.

[[WMG: Winter was intended from the beginning to be the [[spoiler:new North Wind]]]]

1) the very first cub born is a dark haired girl who is completely human in appearance - ie, Winter is the firstborn.
2) there is only one cub who is completely human in appearance (Winter) - ie, Winter, of all her siblings, has the least among of "wolf" in her nature.
3) the completely human appearing cub (Winter) was the first one to start floating - ie, Winter, of all her siblings, is the most attuned to her "wind" nature.
4) Winter is named after Bigby's mother - ie, the "consort" of the previous North Wind.

[[WMG: There are Fables who were born on Earth]]

[[WMG: Frau Totenkinder is a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord]].]]

[[WMG: Nurse Spratt/Leigh Duglas will take Mr. Dark's place as a greater power.]]

* [[spoiler:Apparently confirmed in issue #143.]]

[[WMG: {{God}} is a fable.]]

[[WMG: Rapunzel's missing twin daughters are Snow White and Rose Red's mother and aunt]]

[[WMG: Issue 109 hid the answer to the prophecy in plain sight.]]

[[WMG: Fables don't exist because their stories were written, their stories were written because the Fables already existed.]]

[[WMG: Totenkinder will play the role of Lancelot in the second version of Camelot]]

This might sound silly, but in ''1001 Nights of Snowfall'' she does state in her story: ''"Unfortunately I wasn’t immune to the lures of handsome young men then, any more than I could resist lovely Aurac in all those days gone by. Young flesh makes its own demands. So I began to let myself age..."'' and we know she always had a taste for inflicting nasty fates to princes and other handsome young men she happened to run into. More recently (in the Mr. Dark arc), she let herself look young again and allowed herself to have a romantic relationship for the first time in centuries (or even longer).
* However, ''Fairest in All the Land'' saw [[spoiler:her new husband Dunster Happ get killed with no chance of returning]]. Which might make her more vulnerable to falling in love, or just feeling attracted to some other handsome young man in the future... so why not Lancelot?
* Besides, we know that the original King Arthur and Lancelot were fairly close before the affair with Guinevere came to light. Rose has always been fond of Totenkinder ever since she and Snow first rescued as shown in ''1001 Nights of Snowfall''. And as of issue #145 they’ve grown even closer as allies [[spoiler:to take down Bigby.]] It might not be that far-fetched a theory.

[[WMG: The nameless soldier whose words helped avert the brewing battle between Snow White and Rose Red was Boy Blue]]

[[WMG: Frau Totenkinder is (either literally or her story is the basis for) Lillith of Jewish/Kabbalist legend]]

[[WMG: There are alternate versions of the Fables characters]]

[[WMG: Bigby is the SpannerInTheWorks that breaks or weakens the curse that had driven the [[spoiler: SiblingRivalry among Snow and Rose female family members for generations]]]]
The increasing rivalry between [[spoiler: Rose Red and Snow White]] after the Camelot arc was revealed to be the result of a tontine curse that affected [[spoiler: pairs of female siblings of Rose’s and Snow’s family]] for many generations. A massive war is prevented when a “soldier” hints to [[spoiler: Rose]] that the curse is broken or weakened, because [[spoiler: Snow gave birth to male children while Rose was still alive, something impossible with the curse in full effect]]. Given that Bibgy is the [[spoiler: children’s father]], being one of the most powerful fables, and son of the North Wind, who is one of the greatest powers of the Homelands, it’s possible that the immense power of his family line was enough to affect the tontine curse.

[[WMG: Mister Kadabra's magic [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou effects the reader beyond the fourth wall]].]]
To those who have no idea who Mister Kadabra is, he is the one guy with the top hat living in the Thirteenth Floor alongside the rest of the Witches and Wizards of Fabletown. He was said to be the most powerful wizard in his realm and he had the unique magical ability to induce LaserGuidedAmnesia upon his enemies, making him a walking blindspot for his enemies. It's implied that he was instrumental in keeping The Adversary from invading the Mundane World for so many years, so why is he treated so innocuously? Because his magic not only effects his enemies in the Fabled realms, but the plot itself is bewitched by his spell to keep from focusing on him.

The Homelands are simply another reality populated by beings that apear to be human and animal but in reality are a single race that just has a wider dimorphism than we are used to. As said above the stories about these beings were passed into the heads of mundy storytellers. The reason no modern fiction becomes fables is because they don't exist outside of our imaginations.

The increasing rivalry between [[spoiler: Rose Red and Snow White]] after the Camelot arc was revealed to be the result of a tontine curse that affected [[spoiler: pairs of female siblings of Rose’s and Snow’s family]] for many generations. A massive war is prevented when a “soldier” hints to [[spoiler: Rose]] that the curse is broken or weakened, because [[spoiler: Snow gave birth to male children while Rose was still alive, something impossible with the curse in full effect]]. Given that Bibgy is the [[spoiler: children’s father]], being one of the most powerful fables, and son of the North Wind, who is one of the greatest powers of the Homelands, it’s possible that the immense power of his family line was enough to affect the tontine curse.

[[WMG: If Americana exists, then Main/{{Superman}} can show up.]]

** Not neccesarily- they may ally themselves with him conditionally- he may be bad, but not as evil or inhuman as most things the Imperium fights- they are Main/LawfulEvil, after all (perhaps Main/LawfulGood. Its hard to tell. Either way, they'd ally).
** Now, if he came across the Main/{{anime}} Fables, specifically Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann, land of Main/ChaoticGood freedom fighters who oppose all forms of autocracy outright and have the ability to shatter worlds...

Confirmed in the spinoff ''Jack Of Fables'', though the only ones seen are alternate versions of TheDevil.