Line #7 Film/Toothless


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3	''Toothless'' is a 1997 TV fantasy movie that aired on ''The Wonderful World of Disney''.
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5	Katherine Lewis (Creator/KirstieAlley) is a dentist like her father and grandfather before her, and doesn't have the best view of her coworkers or her patients. When she's suddenly killed in a crossing, she enters Limbo, the place where souls are judged to either enter Heaven or Hell. With her profession and icy demeanor not earning her many points with the pearly gates, Katherine does community service as a mythological creature--the Tooth Fairy--to earn her way to heaven.
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7	Katherine is helped in her new job by Raul (Creator/DarylMitchell) and learns that being the Tooth Fairy has rules of its own, chief amongst them being not to let any mortals see her. When Katherine decides to bend the rules to help children in need, Rogers (Creator/LynnRedgrave), head of Limbo, is determined to send the wayward fairy to the fires below.
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9	The movie has nothing to do with the character of the same name from the [[Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon book]] or [[Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon movie]] series ''How to Train Your Dragon''.
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12	!!This film contains examples of:
13	* AnAesop: Life is short, so make the most of it--and open your heart to new possibilities.
14	* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Katherine wakes up at the moment of her death to find it was apparently a dream and she's been given a second chance at life]].
15	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The entry to Heaven is a literal stairway into glowing light.
16	* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. [[spoiler:Rogers succeeds at punishing Katherine with the {{Hellevator}}, but because it was AllJustADream, Katherine is a-okay with a second chance on her life.]]
17	* BitingTheHandHumor: Katherine compares her tooth fairy dress to Cinderella on Ice, requests to change to a Tinker Bell outfit, and hopes the designer rots in Hell, which he is. The movie was made by Disney.
18	* CaptainCrash: A RunningGag is Katherine failing to stick the landing as she flies and keeps crashing into things or people.
19	* CelestialBureaucracy: Limbo is a desert waiting area where souls are judged worthy or not, with professions such as dentistry being considered detrimental to entering Heaven.
20	* DeadpanSnarker: Roughly half of everything that comes out of Katherine's mouth is snark, especially when she learns the ropes of her new job.
21	* DefrostingIceQueen: Katherine's character arc revolves around her slowly opening up to the people around her and letting herself care about them.
22	* DepravedDentist: Just ''being'' a dentist is enough for Katherine's afterlife to be in jeopardy, as she chose to inflict pain and suffering on countless people. Katherine, of course, denies this.
23	* FirstPersonNarration: Katherine narrates the film and introduces her own life and backstory.
24	* GoIntoTheLight: Katherine's death at the beginning of the movie has the screen fade to a bright light, and her friend going into Heaven is beamed up in a ray of light.
25	* {{Hellevator}}: Those condemned to hell are forced into the "Hellevator", a literal elevator to Hell. (The alternative is a [[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway to Heaven]], because the CelestialBureaucracy loves its puns.)
26	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Katherine reveals herself to the adults in order to tell them off and improve Bobby's life, knowing this will get her sent to Hell for breaking the rules]].
27	* IceQueen: Rogers is strictly business and doesn't let old friends or emotions get in the way of her work.
28	* InvisibleToAdults: Tooth Fairies are normally invisible to adults and can only be seen by children who haven't lost all their baby teeth yet.
29	* IronicHell: Limbo, actually, but a dentist being a tooth fairy and a former divorce lawyer being Cupid are ironic community service punishments.
30	* KnightInSourArmor: She may be working as a tooth fairy, but she is certainly not up to the task of playing the part.
31	* AMinorKidroduction: The movie's prologue begins in 1969 when Katherine's father dies.
32	* MissingMom: Bobby P’s mother has long since passed on.
33	* NeverBeHurtAgain: Katherine is reluctant to care about others due to her grief after her father passed away.
34	* OneWordTitle: A PunBasedTitle, as it involves dentists and tooth fairies.
35	* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler:The ending shows Rogers in the mortal world as a crossing guard, and Bobby and Thomas both remember Katherine from her time as a tooth fairy]].
36	* ParentalSubstitute: Katherine becomes one for Bobby and some of the other kids.
37	* PlanetOfSteves: The afterlife judges are all named "Joe" regardless of sex.
38	* SpinningPaper: During Katherine's time as the Tooth Fairy, spinning newspapers recount epidemics of teeth-pulling and lost molars.
39	* SpontaneousCrowdFormation: When Katherine appears at school to congratulate Carrie on her test, every kid that can see her swarms her for attention, forming a small mob.
40	* SubbingForSanta: The Tooth Fairy, actually. One of Rogers' old friends was Cupid for a while. Other potential jobs include Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Boogie Man, Father Time, and the Sandman.
41	* ToothFairy: Katherine Lewis, a dentist, becomes a tooth fairy to enter heaven.

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