History YMMV / TheLionTheWitchandtheWardrobe

* CompleteMonster: Jadis. See [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Sandbox/CompleteMonsterDrafts here]] for more juicy details.

** ''Do not cite the dark magic to me witch! I was there when it was written.'' [note]]A quote made by Aslan. Thanks to the movie adaptation, it has become popular to people who witnessed how something started (for example, the first season of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'') to quote it.[[/note]]

* MemeticMutation: Sophie Wilcox who played Lucy in the BBC series says she got lots of comments about being chubby in the first season.

** Film Susan's status as the AgentScully is widely accepted by fans as BetterThanCanon. Partly because Susan was OutOfFocus for the two books she was in, and thus didn't have [[TheGenericGuy much of a personality]]. It also acts as {{Foreshadowing}} that she will eventually convince herself that Narnia was AllJustADream, and sets it up in a way that lacks the books' gendered UnfortunateImplications. Unfortunately, the film series was cut short before her arc could fully play out... but [[FanficFuel that's what fanfic is for.]]

* BetterThanCanon: Susan's status as the AgentScully in the Walden Media film is widely accepted by fans. Partly because Susan was OutOfFocus for the two books she was in, and thus didn't have [[TheGenericGuy much of a personality]]. It also acts as {{Foreshadowing}} that she will eventually convince herself that Narnia was AllJustADream, and sets it up in a way that lacks the books' gendered UnfortunateImplications. Unfortunately, the film series was cut short before her arc could fully play out... but [[FanficFuel that's what fanfic is for.]]

* FairForItsDay: Lewis has taken a lot of flak for his ValuesDissonance-laden statement that "battles are ugly when women fight." But other books do show that Susan and Lucy and Jill Pole are capable enough to hold their own in a battle. Even the U.S. Military didn't allow women in combat zones until the 1990s, and not in direct combat at all until ''2013''. (Technically, anyway; in practice, lack of clear battle zones meant women were fighting anyhow.) MenAreTheExpendableGender, after all. That's not to mention that Jadis is quite the badass herself - as she took control of Narnia entirely on her own and Beruna was practically a CurbStompBattle for her until Aslan showed up.

** Jim Broadbent playing Professor Kirke [[Film/HarryPotter becomes this after he played Professor Slughorn]] considering that one of the characters in Literature/HarryPotter was named after Professor Kirke.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: All the various fantasy creatures in the climactic battle in the 2005 film are near perfectly rendered.

* BetterThanCanon: Susan's status as the AgentScully in the Walden Media film is widely accepted by fans. Partly because Susan was OutOfFocus for the two books she was in, and thus didn't have [[TheGenericGuy much of a personality]]. It also acts as {{Foreshadowing}} that she will eventually convince herself that Narnia was AllJustADream.

** In the book, Edmund's betrayal of his siblings is said to be due to magic in Jadis's Turkish Delight (although Lewis handwaves at it the end of the book as having all been because of horrible influences at school). The film puts forward the interpretation that it's more due to Peter's BigBrotherBully tendencies, and Jadis is the [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe first person to really show him affection in a long time]].

* AngstWhatAngst: In the book, none of the siblings ever miss their parents, or think about what effect their sudden disappearance will have on the rest of their family. Nor do any of them express a wish to go home.

* {{Narm}}: Quite a lot. (Narm-nya, anyone?)

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Edmund when he first enters Narnia. The prose may lay him out as a BigBrotherBully to Lucy, but he does try to call out to her to admit that he was wrong about doubting her, and worries about her being alone in the winter. He also is shivering in the snow when a beautiful woman in white takes pity on him and shields him from the cold. How was he supposed to know that she was an evil witch and that the food she summoned was a GRatedDrug, which made him addicted to it and spoiled the taste of ordinary food?

* WTHCastingAgency: The choice of actors in the BBC adaptation. Lucy is of course the youngest sibling but is the tallest of them. Meanwhile Peter is the oldest but is played by the shortest actor.
** On the other hand, Susan's actor is considered a better choice than her actor in the 2005 film by some fans.
* WhatAnIdiot: In the 2005 film, Susan starts arguing with Peter over whether or not the huge, menacing wolf at the head of the Witch's SecretPolice is really their enemy, even agreeing with Maugrim that Peter should drop the sword (that he was given by Father Christmas, of all people). Bonus points for taking this patently ridiculous stance while they're trying to cross a river that's melting under their feet.

* {{Woolseyism}}: An ad-lib from Georgie Henley - "my mother's name is Helen" - adds a nice bit of symbolism. The Pevensie mother had not been named in the books. But in the film, she now shares the same name as the first Queen of Narnia.

** Jim Broadbent playing Professor Kirke [[Film/Harry Potter becomes this after he played Professor Slughorn]] considering that one of the characters in Literature/HarryPotter was named after Professor Kirke.

* {{Narm}}: Occasionally in the books and the film. The BBC Version also has some instances due to being low budget.
** Barbara Kellerman is a LargeHam who behaves in a ridiculously over the top manner as Jadis. She responds to a simple question from Edmund with a hilarious BigNO.
** The scene where the Pevensies and the beavers have to escape from the wolves. Mrs Beaver holds them up by insisting on packing loads of ridiculous things. It's the same scene as the book and 2005 film but lacks any of the urgency - because the rest of the characters treat this as a mild annoyance, as if she's going to make them late for a train rather than get them all killed with her SkewedPriorities.
** Peter's use of expressions like "by jove" and "by golly" don't even sound anything other than forced.

** In the book, Edmund's betrayal of his siblings is said to be due to magic in Jadis's Turkish Delight - and helped along by horrible influences at school. The film puts forward the interpretation that it's more due to Peter's BigBrotherBully tendencies, and Jadis is the [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe first person to really show him affection in a long time]].

* {{Narm}}: Plenty of it to be found in the BBC adaptation:

** The BBC version has a lot of Narm, but some of it is endearing because it is still very faithful to the books.

** Peter and Susan seem more concerned with trying to look like responsible older children, Peter picking on Edmund to keep him in line and Susan scoffing at Lucy's stories. But in doing so they just expose their own immaturity, only behaving how they ''think'' adults should act. Both call each other out for this at different points in the film.

** When Edmund complains that it's raining outside, Susan mentions that they have a "wireless" inside to entertain them.

* FairForItsDay: Lewis has taken a lot of flak for his ValuesDissonance-laden statement that "battles are ugly when women fight." But other books do show that Susan and Lucy and Jill Pole are capable enough to hold their own in a battle. Even the U.S. Military didn't allow women in combat zones until the 1990s, and not in direct combat at all until ''2013''. (Technically, anyway; in practice, lack of clear battle zones meant women were fighting anyhow.) MenAreTheExpendableGender, after all.
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'' is the best-known and most adapted book of the series.
* FoeYay: Some signs of it between Jadis and Edmund. Though it goes a little on the MemeticMolester territory since she's an immortal adult and Edmund ....10.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Aslan's death on the first read, and even on further readings since the scene is a symbol of Jesus' death and resurrection if you're familiar with the Bible.]]
** It's even worse to watch in the 2005 movie, where we get to see the incredibly sad and scared look in his eyes as he's stabbed. Not to mention also seeing Susan and Lucy hidden away, watching the whole thing while sobbing their eyes out and then trying to clean up the body after.
** In the 2005 movie, the girls find Mr. Tumnus's petrified body before they know Aslan can change him back. Poor Lucy's just as upset as you'd think, sobbing against Susan.

** JerkassWoobie: Edmund, while the White Witch's prisoner. It's during this point that he actually redeems himself.

** Edmund, while the White Witch's prisoner.