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* HeroesWantRedheads: Maria instantly falls in love with the Prince, who is a redhead.
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** Despite that he clearly witnessed (and was [[EverybodyHasStandards repulsed]] by) Mary-Lou's cruelty, he takes pity on her when she ([[WoundedGazelleGambit seemingly]]) sprains her ankle. He even offered to ride them both to get some help. His kindness is rewarded when Mary-Lou [[KickTheDog slaps him with his own riding crop]] and steals his horse. And to (literally) add insult to injury, she tells him to his face she's too good for a [[KingIncognito poor hunter like him]].
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** Despite that he clearly witnessed (and was [[EverybodyHasStandards repulsed]] by) Mary-Lou's cruelty, he against his better judgement, the Prince takes pity on her when she ([[WoundedGazelleGambit seemingly]]) sprains her ankle. He even offered to ride them both to get some help. His kindness is rewarded when Mary-Lou [[KickTheDog slaps him with his own riding crop]] and steals his horse. And to (literally) add insult to injury, she tells him to his face she's too good for a [[KingIncognito a poor hunter like him]].
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Mary-Lou has Maria fetch the garnet necklace from the well from her, she makes it a point to allow her (and Bello) to fall back into the well and drown once she gains her prize. With no one to witness she doomed her stepsister and pet to a watery grave, she boasts about how she'll be queen (with implications she'll kill her prince to reign alone). This is meant to establish that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse in spite of her humble beginnings]], she has [[FromNobodyToNightmare come a long way]] to cruel-hearted wicked stepsister she is today. And it doesn't help her case when she makes a BlasphemousBoast that not even the Heavens can stop her now.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Mary-Lou has Maria fetch the garnet necklace from the well from her, she makes it a point to allow her (and Bello) to fall back into the well and drown once she gains her prize. With no one to witness she doomed her stepsister and pet to a watery grave, she boasts about how she'll be queen (with implications she'll kill her prince to reign alone). This is meant to establish that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse in spite of her humble beginnings]], she has [[FromNobodyToNightmare come a long way]] to cruel-hearted the cruel-hearted, wicked stepsister she is today. And it doesn't help her case when she makes a BlasphemousBoast that not even the Heavens can stop her now.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When Mary-Lou sees Maria and the Prince alone together, she loudly scolds Maria for flirting with someone instead of working. Mary-Lou then proceeds to shamelessly flirt with the prince.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When Mary-Lou sees Maria and the Prince alone together, she loudly scolds Maria for flirting with someone instead of working. Mary-Lou then proceeds to shamelessly flirt with the prince. Not to mention that earlier in the story, she nearly tried to gold-dig her future stepfather.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mary-Lou seems sympathetically down-trodden by hers and her mother's humble lifestyle, but when her mother is trying to seduce Mr. Bottle to be her husband, Mary-Lou tries to [[GoldDigger steal him away]]. This is meant to establish that despite her humble beginnings, Mary-Lou was never a good person to begin with, and will certainly get worse.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: When Mary-Lou returns home with the horse of the "poor hunter", her stepfather is the first to notice the horse's saddle bears the royal emblem, suspecting it belongs to the Prince. Instead of realizing there's some truth to his observation, Mary-Lou dismisses that her stepfather is drunk.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: While bathing in the river, Mary-Lou has Maria hand her a change of clothes like a servant. When Maria accidentally drops to much as a stocking, Mary-Lou's reaction is a cruel and sudden [[BitchSlap slap]] to the face.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Mary-Lou has Maria fetch the garnet necklace from the well from her, she makes it a point to allow her (and Bello) to fall back into the well and drown once she gains her prize. With no one to witness she doomed her stepsister and pet to a watery grave, she boasts about how she'll be queen (with implications she'll kill her prince to reign alone). This is meant to establish that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse in spite of her humble beginnings]], she become a cruel-hearted wicked stepsister. And it doesn't help her case when she makes a BlasphemousBoast that not even the Heavens can stop her now.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Mary-Lou has Maria fetch the garnet necklace from the well from her, she makes it a point to allow her (and Bello) to fall back into the well and drown once she gains her prize. With no one to witness she doomed her stepsister and pet to a watery grave, she boasts about how she'll be queen (with implications she'll kill her prince to reign alone). This is meant to establish that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse in spite of her humble beginnings]], she become has [[FromNobodyToNightmare come a long way]] to cruel-hearted wicked stepsister.stepsister she is today. And it doesn't help her case when she makes a BlasphemousBoast that not even the Heavens can stop her now.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Mary-Lou has Maria fetch the garnet necklace from the well from her, she makes it a point to allow her (and Bello) to fall back into the well and drown once she gains her prize. With no one to witness she doomed her stepsister and pet to a watery grave, she boasts about how she'll be queen (with implications she'll kill her prince to reign alone). This is meant to establish that [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse in spite of her humble beginnings]], she become a cruel-hearted wicked stepsister. And it doesn't help her case when she makes a BlasphemousBoast that not even the Heavens can stop her now.
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"Could", not "will". My mistake.
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* DramaticIrony: After learning the [[KingIncognito poor hunter]] was the Prince all along, Mary-Lou realizes that the red garnet he gifted Maria is the necklace that will make her queen. Unbeknownst to her, he's already witnessed her true nature when she was nasty towards Maria, and [[EverybodyHasStandards he did not approve]]. Not to mention getting whipped in the face with his riding crop and being robbed of his horse certainly left a bad impression of her. So Mary-Lou is wasting her time trying to win the Prince's heart over with the garnet necklace alone.
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* DramaticIrony: After learning the [[KingIncognito poor hunter]] was the Prince all along, Mary-Lou realizes that the red garnet he gifted Maria is the necklace that will could make her queen. Unbeknownst to her, he's already witnessed her true nature when she was nasty towards Maria, and [[EverybodyHasStandards he did not approve]]. Not to mention getting whipped in the face with his riding crop and being robbed of his horse certainly left a bad impression of her. So Mary-Lou is wasting her time trying to win the Prince's heart over with the garnet necklace alone.
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* HenPeckedHusbands: Maria's father ends up being this to Mary-Lou's mother. In order to avoid dying as she "foretold", the widower father marries her and lets his new wife and step-daughter buy whatever they please, even though it depresses him.
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* HenPeckedHusbands: HenPeckedHusband: Maria's father ends up being this to Mary-Lou's mother. In order to avoid dying as she "foretold", the widower father marries her and lets his new wife and step-daughter buy whatever they please, even though it depresses him.
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-->"You're too nice for me. When I get hitched, it'll be to a witch, like your sister!"\\
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-->"You're too nice for me. When I get hitched, it'll be to a witch, like your sister!"\\sister!"
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* DramaticIrony: After learning the [[KingIncognito poor hunter]] was the Prince all along, Mary-Lou realizes that the red garnet he gifted Maria is the necklace that will make her queen. Unbeknownst to her, he's already witnessed her true nature when she was nasty towards Maria, and [[EverybodyHasStandards he did not approve]]. Not to mention getting whipped in the face with his riding crop and being robbed of his horse certainly left a bad impression of her. So Mary-Lou is wasting her time trying to win the Prince's heart over with the garnet necklace alone.
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* HenPeckedHusbands: Maria's father ends up being this to Mary-Lou's mother. In order to avoid dying as she "foretold", the widower father marries her and lets his new wife and step-daughter buy whatever they please, even though it depresses him.
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* KickTheDog: Mary-Lou just ''loves'' this trope to bits. She abandons Bello in the woods to freeze to death, steals the Prince's horse after he helped her [[WoundedGazelleGambit "broken"]] ankle, and drops the garnet necklace he gifted to Maria to spite how she allegedly fell in love with a "[[KingIncognito poor hunter]]". She just seems to have a penchant for spiting everyone around her.
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** Despite that he clearly witnessed (and was [[EverybodyHasStandards repulsed]] by) Mary-Lou's cruelty, he takes pity on her when she ([[WoundedGazelleGambit seemingly]]) sprains her ankle. He even offered to ride them both to get some help. His kindness is rewarded when Mary-Lou [[KickTheDog slaps him with his own riding crop]] and steals his horse. And to (literally) add insult to injury, she tells him to his face she's too good for a [[KingIncognito poor hunter like him]].
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* UngratefulBastard: The Prince is rather kind to Mary-Lou when she [[WoundedGazelleGambit fakes]] a broken ankle, helping her onto his horse and offering to ride her home. On the basis that he's a "[[KingIncognito poor hunter]]" , Mary-Lou repays his generosity by cruelly whipping his face with his own riding crop and stealing his horse.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The leader of the kangaroo army in Mrs. Holle's world.
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* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry
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* FortuneTeller: Mary-Lou's mother poses as one.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Mary-Lou to a T.
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* MacGuffin: The garnet stone.
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* PrinceCharming
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* WickedStepmother: Naturally, though Mary-Lou is far worse.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Mary-Lou is frequently nasty to Bello. The only time she tries to be nice to him is so she to get him to find the garnet stone for her. When he refuses, she ties him up in the woods and leaves him to freeze to death.
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* {{Padding}}: The cartoony chase between the boar, the hunters, their dogs, and the other woodland denizens, and the sequences of Master Shoelace and the notary trying to get down from the roof add nothing to the story.
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* VanillaProtagonist: Maria is good, kind, and pure almost to the point of blandness.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mary-Lou pretends to twist her ankle in order to gain the Prince's sympathy and steal his horse.
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** Maria and the Prince's more realistic designs put them at odds with the very cartoony characters and, most notably in regards to certain expressions Maria makes, puts them firmly in this.
** Mary-Lou gets this as well whenever she is rotoscoped.
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** Maria and the Prince's more realistic designs put them at odds with the very cartoony characters and, most notably in regards to certain expressions Maria makes, puts them firmly in this.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mary-Lou pretends to twist her ankle in order to gain the Prince's sympathy and steal his horse.
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** Maria and the Prince's more realistic designs put them at odds with the very cartoony characters and, most notably in regards to certain expressions Maria makes, puts them firmly in this.
** Mary-Lou gets this as well whenever she is rotoscoped.horse.
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** Maria and the Prince's more realistic designs put them at odds with the very cartoony characters and, most notably in regards to certain expressions Maria makes, puts them firmly in this.
** Mary-Lou gets this as well whenever she is rotoscoped.
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[[TheGoodKingdom In a faraway kingdom]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness kind-hearted Maria]] lives an idyllic life with her father, [[TheAlcoholic Mr. Bottle]], and [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife her blue dog]] [[PreciousPuppy Bello]] - until a [[PhonyPsychic fake fortune-teller]] cons Mr. Bottle into marrying her. She and her spoiled daughter Mary-Lou make the Bottles' lives miserable, from spending Mr. Bottle's fortune on themselves to [[CinderellaCircumstances forcing Maria into servitude]]. One day while hunting in the woods, a Prince finds and comforts a crying Maria after Mary-Lou slaps her. [[LoveAtFirstSight The two fall instantly in love]]. The Prince, who tells Maria that he is only a poor hunter, gives her [[MacGuffin a garnet stone necklace]], saying it will bring them together again. Unfortunately, Mary-Lou steals the necklace and drops it down a well.
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[[TheGoodKingdom In a faraway kingdom]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness kind-hearted Maria]] lives an idyllic life with her father, [[TheAlcoholic Mr. Bottle]], and [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife her blue dog]] [[PreciousPuppy Bello]] - until a [[PhonyPsychic fake fortune-teller]] cons Mr. Bottle into marrying her. She and her spoiled daughter Mary-Lou make the Bottles' lives miserable, from spending Mr. Bottle's fortune on themselves to [[CinderellaCircumstances forcing Maria into servitude]].servitude. One day while hunting in the woods, a Prince finds and comforts a crying Maria after Mary-Lou slaps her. [[LoveAtFirstSight The two fall instantly in love]]. The Prince, who tells Maria that he is only a poor hunter, gives her [[MacGuffin a garnet stone necklace]], saying it will bring them together again. Unfortunately, Mary-Lou steals the necklace and drops it down a well.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: This should come as no surprise since this is a variation of the Cinderella tale. Evil stepfamily? Check. Good girl forced to be a servant? Check. A prince trying to identify his beloved via a specific article of clothing? Check. The fact that Maria bears a passing resemblance to Disney's Cinderella right down to similar clothing is no coincidence.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: This should come as no surprise since this is a variation of the Cinderella tale. CinderellaPlot: Evil stepfamily? Check. Good girl forced to be a servant? Check. A prince trying to identify his beloved via a specific article of clothing? Check. The fact that Maria bears a passing resemblance to Disney's Cinderella right down to similar clothing is no coincidence.
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* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: When it gets cold out, Mrs. Holle and her babies shake out pillows, the feathers from which is where snow comes from in her world.
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* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: When it gets cold out, Mrs. Holle and her babies shake out feather pillows, the feathers from which is where snow comes from in her world.becomes snow.
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: You'd expect Mary-Lou to learn some sort of lesson or at least stop being mean to everyone while in Mrs. Holle's world in order to get the garnet stone, but she actively turns down any chance to change.
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* RedemptionRejection: You'd expect Mary-Lou to learn some sort of lesson or at least stop being mean to everyone while in Mrs. Holle's world in order to get the garnet stone, but she actively refuses to change.
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[[OnceUponATime In a faraway kingdom]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness kind-hearted Maria]] lives an idyllic life with her father, [[TheAlcoholic Mr. Bottle]], and [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife her blue dog]] [[PreciousPuppy Bello]] - until a [[PhonyPsychic fake fortune-teller]] cons Mr. Bottle into marrying her. She and her spoiled daughter Mary-Lou make the Bottles' lives miserable, from spending Mr. Bottle's fortune on clothes and jewelry to [[CinderellaCircumstances forcing Maria into servitude]]. One day while hunting in the woods, the Prince finds and comforts a crying Maria after Mary-Lou slaps her. [[LoveAtFirstSight The two fall instantly in love]]. The Prince, who tells Maria that he is only a poor hunter, gives her [[MacGuffin a garnet stone necklace]], saying it will bring them together again. Unfortunately, Mary-Lou steals the necklace and drops it down a well.
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While this seems like a version of Cinderella crossed with Alice in Wonderland, it is actually an adaptation of the fairy tale ''Literature/MotherHolle''.
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While this seems like a version mashup of Cinderella crossed with and Alice in Wonderland, Wonderland[[note]]one of the alternate titles even advertises it as such[[/note]], it is actually an adaptation of the fairy tale ''Literature/MotherHolle''.
''Literature/MotherHolle'', which shares some similarities to Cinderella.
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* PrincessClassic: Maria is sweetness and innocence personified, and she marries the Prince at the end.
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* TrueBlueFemininity: Mary-Lou's dress for most of the film is blue and orange, and Maria wears a blue skirt.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: Mrs. Holle, a wise, magical old woman who looks after babies and imparts lessons of patience and kindness onto Maria and Mary-Lou, wears a pink dress and bonnet.
** The princess dress Maria wears at the end has pink accents.
** Mary-Lou's dress at the start of the film has pink on it.
** The princess dress Maria wears at the end has pink accents.
** Mary-Lou's dress at the start of the film has pink on it.
