Line #158 Franchise/DisneyFairies


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5	-> "What if there were a world where fairies lived… where they played music and danced and sang under the light of the fireflies? The wonder of it is that there is such a place. It is the world of ''Disney Fairies''… the secret, tiny world of Tinker Bell and her fairy friends."
6	-->-- '''Creator/{{Disney}} press release'''
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8	Based on the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon's take on ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'''s famous fairy/pixie Tinker Bell. This series expands on her and the other fairies she lives with. The franchise was launched in late 2005 as a counterpart to the Franchise/DisneyPrincess franchise that would catch the interest of older girls and includes two series of chapter books (''Disney Fairies,'' set after the movie, and ''The Never Girls,'' set in the present day), junior novels (three done by [[Literature/EllaEnchanted Gail Carson Levine]]), seven movies released direct to DVD in the USA but in cinemas in other countries (''Tinker Bell'', ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'', ''Pixie Hollow Games'', ''Secret of the Wings'', ''The Pirate Fairy'', and ''Tinker Bell and the Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''), a comic published in several countries, dolls, and other merchandise. There would also be two now-defunct online games based on the movies, ''Pixie Hollow Online'' (an MMO) and ''Disney Fairies: Fashion Boutique''.
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10	There are some differences from the "official" continuity, mainly in Tinker Bell's characterization--Tink is now a PluckyGirl Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}, to fit more into the trends in the target demographic. The books are not of the same continuity as the films, containing many different characters and conceptual differences (Mother Dove, for example, was a major factor in the Never Land of the books).
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12	Disney wanted to develop this franchise since the early 2000s, but it was stalled for other projects, and the first of the movies was already nearly done. When management changed and John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer, he screened it, claimed it was "virtually unwatchable", and ordered a complete overhaul. Creator/DisneytoonStudios, which made those sequels, ditched their hand-drawn equipment for CG and were then completely focused on this franchise, as well as the newer series called ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'', a spin-off of Pixar's ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' movies.
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14	Come ''Secret of the Wings,'' the series began to be phased out due to sales figures not matching to Disney's expectations. As such, further films have been cancelled for the time being, with ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'' being the last entry in the franchise. With the closure of Disneytoon Studios following sexual misconduct allegations towards John Lasseter, the fate of the film series remains indefinite.
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16	Compare ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' and ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}''.
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20	[[folder:List of ''Disney Fairies'' films]]
21	# ''Tinker Bell'' (2008): The first in the series which shows how Tinker Bell came to be and her adjustment into the fairy world.
22	# ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'' (2009): Tinker Bell ends up accidentally destroying a magical moonstone of Pixie Hollow and goes on a quest to find a replacement.
23	# ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'' (2010): While at a summer camp, Tinker Bell is accidentally captured in trap and has her first interaction with humans while her friends try to rescue her.
24	# ''Pixie Hollow Games'' (2011): A 30-minute special that focuses on Rosetta aiding a fellow garden fairy named Chole to try to win the titular games.
25	# ''Secret of the Wings'' (2012): Tinker Bell ends up visiting the snow area of Pixie Hollow called the Winter Woods, normally forbidden, where the the Winter Fairies live. There she finds out she has a twin sister named Periwinkle, and working together, try to reunite both fairies of their respective sides.
26	# ''The Pirate Fairy'' (2014): A dust-keeper fairy name Zarina, who ran away from Pixie Hollow after her magic dust experiments went wrong and cause her to be banned from studying them further, suddenly returns and steals the dust necessary for fairies to fly. Tinker Bell and her friends give chase, find that she has thrown in with several pirates and must contend with them to retrieve the fairy dust.
27	# ''The Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'' (2015): Fawn finds an unfamiliar creature in the woods and tries to both help and protect it from fairies that could see it as a threat.
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30	%%[[folder:List of ''Disney Fairies'' books]]
31	%%# 1 1/10/2006 "The Trouble with Tink" (January 10, 2006)
32	%%** Received a manga adaptation, "Tinker Bell's Secret".
33	%%# 3 "Beck and the Berry Battle" (first Beck title book) (January 10, 2006)
34	%%# 2 "Vidia and the Fairy Crown" (January 10, 2006)
35	%%** Received a manga adaptation of the same name.
36	%%# 4 2006 "Lily's Pesky Plant"
37	%%# 4 2006 "Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon"
38	%%** Received a manga adaptation, "Rani and the Mermaid Lagoon".
39	%%# 6 2006 "Fira and the Full Moon"
40	%%# 9/4/2006 "Tinker Bell Takes Charge"
41	%%# 7 12/12/2006 "A Masterpiece for Bess"
42	%%# 10 4/24/2007 "Prilla and the Butterfly Lie"
43	%%# 4/2/2007 "Rani and the Three Treasures"
44	%%# 9 8/14/2007 "Tink, North of Neverland" (two weeks after "The Trouble with Tink")
45	%%# 12 8/14/2007 "Beck Beyond the Sea"
46	%%# 11 1/8/2008 "Dulcie's Taste of Magic"
47	%%# 12 4/8/2008 "Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse" (first Silvermist title book)
48	%%# 7/22/2008 "Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster"
49	%%# 14 2009 "Rosetta's Daring Day" (paired with "Rosetta's Dress Mess" under Rosetta's Magical Reading Journey)
50	%%# 15 2009 "Iridessa, Lost at Sea"
51	%%# 19 "Queen Clarion's Secret"
52	%%# 1/12/2010 "Myka Finds Her Way"
53	%%# 5/11/2010 "Lily in Full Bloom"
54	%%# 7/12/2009 21 "Vidia Meets Her Match"
55	%%# 1/11/2011 20 "Four Clues for Rani"
56	%%# 5/10/2011 "Trill Changes Her Tune"
57	%%# 22 7/9/2011 "Tink in a Fairy Fix"
58	%%# 23 1/10/2011 "Rosetta's Dress Mess"
59	%%# 22 6/30/2008 "Art Lessons by Beck" (paired with "A Masterpiece for Beck" in Bess: Two Colorful Tales)
60	%%# 24 2014 "Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine"
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63	[[folder:Gail Carson Levine's trilogy]]
64	# ''Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg'' (2005)
65	* ''Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand'' (2007)
66	* ''Fairies and the Quest for Never Land'' (2010)
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69	[[folder:Graphic Novel Series (Original Series)]]
70	# ''Prilla's Secret'' (April 13, 2010)
71	# ''Tinker Bell and the Wings of Rani'' (June 22, 2010)
72	# ''Tinker Bell and the Day of the Dragon'' (October 26, 2010)
73	# ''Tinker Bell to the Rescue'' (December 7, 2010)
74	# ''Tinker Bell and the Pirate Adventure'' (March 1, 2011)
75	# ''A Present for Tinker Bell'' (July 19, 2011)
76	# ''Tinker Bell: The Perfect Fairy'' (January 17, 2012)
77	# ''Tinker Bell and Her Stories for a Rainy Day'' (includes four short stories, including "The Impossible Portrait", "Dulcie's Sweets", "Butterfly's Wings", and "Stories Under the Rain") (April 20, 2012)
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80	[[folder:Graphic Novel Series (Reboot)]]
81	# ''Tinker Bell and Her Magical Arrival''
82	** Adaptation of the ''Tinker Bell'' film.
83	# ''Tinker Bell and the Lucky Rainbow''
84	# ''Tinker Bell and the Most Precious Gift''
85	# ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''
86	** Adaptation of the film of the same name.
87	# ''Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games''
88	** Adaptation of the special of the same name.
89	# ''Tinker Bell and Blaze''
90	# ''Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings''
91	** Adaptation of the film of the same name.
92	# ''Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy''
93	** Adaptation of the film of the same name.
94	# ''Tinker Bell and the Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''
95	** Adaptation of the film of the same name.
96	# ''Tinker Bell and Her Magical Friends''
97	# ''Tinker Bell and the Flying Monster''
98	# ''Tinker Bell and the Not-So-Secret Secret''
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101	[[folder:Guidebooks]]
102	* ''Welcome to Pixie Hollow''
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105	[[folder:Others]]
106	* ''The Petite Fairy's Diary'': A oneshot manga about a fairy named Petite, who is trying to discover her talent before the Moon Banquet, where all fairies are to showcase their talents to Queen Clarion.
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109	!!Fly with these tropes in the franchise as a whole:
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111	* AbortedArc: Because the franchise went through so many iterations, and because the first movie had a notoriously rushed and difficult development, traces of aborted arcs are visible in most of the novels, several of the films, and both [[UniverseCompendium guides to Pixie Hollow]].
112	** While the first ''Tinker Bell'' movie was in development, several books made references to the "Ring of Belief," which was implied to be the official name for the symbiosis between the magic of fairies and the imagination of human children. The movie was originally called ''Tinker Bell and the Ring of Belief,'' and this concept was presumably intended to play a large role in the plot. However, the movie was extensively rewritten before its release, the title "Ring of Belief" was dropped, and the concept completely stopped appearing in supplemental material not long afterwards.
113	** The second UniverseCompendium, ''The World of Fairies: At the Dawn of Pixie Hollow'', devotes a lot of detail to fairly minor characters, including Lyria (the storytelling-talent fairy from ''The Lost Treasure'') and all four of the seasonal Ministers. The writers may have thought these characters would go on to have more significant roles in the franchise, but they were all sidelined after the first two movies, and some (most noticeably the Minister of Winter) were written out completely. The same book also references Kyto the dragon, the BigBad of the books, implying that he exists in the movie continuity—but he never appears in any of the films, and none of the characters ever mention him being a threat.
114	** Tinker Bell's possible romance with Terrence was mostly abandoned after the second movie, and Terrence only appeared in minor speaking roles and non-speaking cameos afterwards.
115	* AdaptationExpansion: The novel states that Tinker Bell is a tinker who mends the pots and pans, and the franchise ran wild with this.
116	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Terence in the books is fairly scruffy-looking, with thrown-together-looking clothes and messy hair. The movies make him out to look like most non-threatening teen idols--wispy features, high cheekbones, and dewey hair.
117	* AdaptationalDumbass: Silvermist was perfectly normal in the chapter books, being somewhat clever, hard-working and with her main character trait being a calm, unflappable demeanor. The movies turn her into a complete space-case who can't even tell irony or exaggeration from fact ("And she just ''exploded''!" "gasp! She ''exploded''!?").
118	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Vidia. Book Vidia could be nice on occasion, but was usually mean, sarcastic, petty, and rude. Movie Vidia begins as something of a schoolyard bully, but eventually becomes a main character who is overall sweet with occasional snarky moments.
119	* AdaptationalWimp: Tinker Bell, while still plot-relevant and important, went through this when she was adapted from the books to the movies. In the books, she stabs a fox in the throat to protect Mother Dove and is generally more self-reliant. In the movies, she's much less calm and collected in dangerous situations, never uses violence at all, relies more on friends and authority figures to help her, and is less capable overall.
120	* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The book characters who weren't AdaptedOut got this when the movies were made. Namely, Tinker Bell became sweeter and more optimistic, Vidia's negative traits were downplayed to make her more sympathetic, and Clarion started going by her full name (as opposed to her InSeriesNickname Ree) and became much less of an ActionGirl.
121	* AdaptedOut: Mother Dove, Rani and Prilla are ''major'' characters in the first book, and reappear in both the chapter books and sequel novels. The movies drop them all entirely, as well as more background characters like Fira, Dulcie, Lily and more.
122	* AerithAndBob: Tinker Bell, Silvermist, Iridessa, Vidia, Bobble (although his real name is Phineas), Clank... compared with Terence, Mary, Rosetta and others. The books continue this, with odd names such as Prilla, Fira and Rani interacting with some very plain, ordinary names in side characters. "Terence" is a possible ShoutOut to Terry Moore, creator of ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise''; the guidebook even says he likes strawberry cake, just like Moore's pixie character, Kixie.
123	* AllThereInTheManual: Two manuals, actually: ''In the Realm of the Never Fairies: The Secret World of Pixie Hollow'' (corresponding to the books) and ''The World of Fairies: At the Dawn of Pixie Hollow'' (corresponding to the movies). Each volume contains snippets of extraneous lore about Never Land, as well as specific details about a handful of chosen characters. Many of these details do not appear elsewhere in the franchise, or are hinted at but not fully developed in the main installments.
124	** From ''In the Realm of the Never Fairies'':
125	*** Fairies can write using a secret language called Leaf Lettering, which is said to be incomprehensible to everyone except Never fairies.[[note]]It's actually a simple mono-alphabetic cipher, minus the letter x; readers can decode the illustration to reveal that it's a letter from Clarion to Prilla inviting Prilla for tea.[[/note]] It's since been supplanted by other alphabets that are easier to write and understand, but fairies still use it to send secret messages and formal invitations.
126	*** There are many kinds of fairies in the world, some of which live on the Mainland and use different kinds of magic. ''Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Wand'' would eventually show the Great Wanded fairies, but none of the other fairy races ever appeared in the franchise.
127	*** Although they look the same in the illustrations, fairies' wing patterns are completely unique, like snowflakes or fingerprints.
128	*** In the distant past, Pixie Hollow covered a much larger swathe of Never Land, including "forests, canyons, mountains, and lakes." Then a battle of some kind destroyed the Pixie Dust Tree and much of Pixie Hollow, rendering the fairies helpless until they found [[BigGood Mother Dove]]. Later books in the series would mention this origin story for Mother Dove multiple times, but none expounded on the battle for very long, and some contradicted this version of events (in many later books, the battle became a volcanic eruption or forest fire).
129	** From ''The World of Fairies'':
130	*** There are 14 fairy languages in the world, and Fairy Gary knows how to say "pixie dust" in every one of them. However, in the movies, the main characters all speak the same language (and Vidia laughs at Rosetta for thinking the Winter fairies might speak another tongue), so it's unclear what these other languages actually are.
131	*** Queen Clarion is among the oldest and most powerful of the Never fairies, and her fairy magic is "complete," granting her extra powers, including the ability to travel as a beam of pure light. Nobody in the setting knows what her original talent was, if she had one at all. The Ministers of the Seasons are similarly old and powerful, although it seems clear that they did indeed have traditional talents before they came to power (The Minister of Spring was a gardener).
132	*** Kyto the dragon, several book-only fairies, and many book-only talents are mentioned, implying that they exist in this continuity even though they never appear on-screen. Fira is specifically mentioned as a light-talent fairy and a friend of Iridessa, and she's depicted hanging out with Fawn in some of the illustrations.
133	* AlternateContinuity: Several aspects of Pixie Hollow are different between the books and the movies. The continuity is essentially 100% different -- the origin of Pixie Dust/Fairy Dust, the status of Mother Dove (major in the novel; not a thing in the movies), and more. Moreover, the books treat ''Peter Pan'' as events of the recent past -- the films clearly are prequels (set ''many'' years in the past of the original movie).
134	** In the films, fairies bring seasons to the mainland; they do no such thing in the books.
135	** Most elements of ''The Secret of the Wings'' are completely absent from the books. There are no Winter Fairies in the book continuity, tearing a wing isn't a big deal (Prilla rips one of her wings running from a hawk, and it's healed within a few weeks), and "sibling" fairies are mildly unusual, but not particularly rare or noteworthy.
136	** The first movie is centered around Tinker Bell trying to take on another talent because the life of a tinker fairy is quite unglamorous in comparison to the lives of nature talents. ''The Trouble With Tink'' states that Tink never wanted to do anything besides fixing pots and pans.
137	** The book continuity also has many, many more talents than the movie continuity. Many book-only talents are mundane necessities (e.g. cleaning, cooking, farming, harvesting, mining, event planning, etc), while others are extremely specialized versions of existing talents (e.g. butterfly herding, crown repair). There are also various music- and art-related talents, including painting, sculpting, conducting, and playing various instruments.
138	** In the books, the "clothing talent" fairies are able to tell a fairy's or a sparrowman's measurements with a glance and have new clothing for them before they get settled into their rooms. In the movie, Tinker Bell's clothing does not fit because the clothing talents haven't been able to measure her and thus she has to mend her dress herself. Bobble and Clank made it sound like they'd prepared the room long before Tink showed up, as soon as they got wind of the birth of a new fairy, clothing included, knowing neither if they were waiting for a Sparrow Man or a Fairy. It looked like a unisex robe that she put on, but she cut it to her own fit.
139	** ''Lost Treasure'' is TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Tink, North of Never Land'', yet the movies are prequels to the ''Peter Pan'' movies and the books are set some time after them.
140	** An odd one, but, Vidia's characterization is different. In the books, she never befriends Tink and her friends (in fact, being consistently characterized as an insincere, often cruel fairy usually getting one moment to taunt the lead character in each book), but in the movies, she becomes a member of the core 6. Unofficial second in command at that.
141	** Clarion's characterization is also different. In the books, she's the latest in a long line of fairy queens, and she doesn't have any unique powers or special magic; her talent literally is leadership/"being the Queen," the way Tinker Bell's talent is fixing things, and this is treated [[WhatsUpKingDude as fairly unremarkable]]. In the movies, she's visibly older than the rest of the fairies, her original talent (if she ever had one) is unclear, and she has much more authority than she did in the novels.
142	** The books are effectively an entirely different continuity with regards to the character of Mother Dove. In the books, she is responsible for the creation of Pixie Hollow, the egg that keeps everyone on Never Land permanently young, and even the fairy dust! In the movies, she never appears, and the dust comes from a magical jewel that creates "blue dust".
143	** Numerous characters from the books do not appear in any movie. In fact, the ''main characters'' of the first book are Rani, Prilla and Vidia, with Mother Dove and Tinker Bell being very important. Only Vidia and Tink appear in the film series at all. Fira is the main Light Fairy as well, and does not appear elsewhere. The movies swap in Rosetta, Fawn, Iridessa and Silvermist, none of whom appeared in the first novel at all, as part of the Main Cast.
144	** Fairies in the books feature many traits never shown in the movies. Book fairies never say "sorry", "excuse me" or call someone "Miss _____". They say things like "Fly with you" (be well) or "I'd fly backwards if I could" (I'm sorry). Additionally, they always refer to humans as "Clumsies" as a casual term.
145	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Japan uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxI7PN6Wrf0 "Fairy Song"]] by Shion Yukawa as the theme song for the first film and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIaX8F2QCzs "You Were"]] by Ayumi Hamasaki for the second film.
146	* ApocalypseHow: Class 0. The Pixie Dust Tree was destroyed in a battle, and the fairies' existence was in peril, but [[GeniusLoci Never Land saved them]] with Mother Dove.
147	* BambooTechnology: Everything in Pixie Hollow is made from natural items, such as leaves, wood, seeds and pebbles. There are even teapots made out of acorns and dresses out of flower petals.
148	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
149	** When everyone gets wishing madness in ''Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand'', and Tink [[spoiler:accidentally wasting the Mirror of Incanta's last wish by wishing Blaze would be quiet]] in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''.
150	** This warning is specifically given when [[TheTaleTeller Lyria]] tells the story of [[ThreeWishes The Mirror of Incanta]]: "Wish only good will or no good will come to you. For the treasure you seek, you may yet come to rue!" [[spoiler:Tink misses this part.]]
151	* BishieSparkle: Especially Terrence in the graphic novels, due to his talent, and the other fairies have shades of this too. Pixie dust is necessary, you know.
152	* BornAsAnAdult: Fairies come into the world as teens/young adults.
153	* CharacterExaggeration: In the ''Peter Pan'' novel, it's stated that Tinker Bell mends the pots and pans for the fairies (given "Tinker" is in her name). In Franchise/DisneyFairies, Tink becomes a miniature Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}. And it works.
154	* ClockPunk: The Tinker Fairies have this aesthetic. Many of their creations are made of intricate gears, cogs, and wind-up clockwork mechanisms.
155	%% * ClothesMakeTheLegend: Tink and her dress.
156	* ContinuityReboot: The franchise as a whole got one after the first movie came out. The setting was massively changed, main characters from the books were either adapted out and replaced with new ones or drastically altered, and key plot points were abandoned to focus on new ones. After the movies, the franchise didn't focus on book-exclusive characters again, and nearly all merchandise and extra material came from the movie canon.
157	* CrapsaccharineWorld: Never Land, for all its wonders, is fraught with deadly peril—not to mention any fairy anywhere could potentially ''drop dead'' from disbelief at ''any time''.
158	* DarkIsNotEvil: Vidia, especially in her focus book. While impolite, short-tempered, cruel and sarcastic, she was not a thief, and only the resentment from being treated like one made her consider stealing the Fairy Crown at all.
159	* {{Disneyfication}}: In the ''Peter Pan'' novel and Disney's adaptation, fairies were closer to TheFairFolk. In the movies, they're responsible for taking care of nature and are a lot nicer overall in both continuities. It actually works out pretty well.
160	* ElementalPowers: Some fairies have talents that fit into this trope, including the control of plants, water, snow, light and wind.
161	* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Light fairies such as Iridessa control and manipulate rainbows.
162	* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Well, you ''do'' gotta have the fairy dust.
163	* FairySexy: Some of the outfits worn are this, including Tink's signature dress.
164	* FictionalDisability:
165	** Since fairies typically fly everywhere, fairies who can't fly are effectively disabled in the setting. The books had Rani, who cut off her wings for a quest, and the movies had Lord Milori, who broke his wing as the result of a [[StarCrossedLovers fling]] with Queen Clarion, a warm-weather fairy. Both Rani and Milori are shown flying on trained birds as a kind of in-universe disability accommodation. In the books, it's also a DisabilitySuperpower, since Rani's lack of wings means she can swim, something other fairies can't do.
166	** In the books, some fairies are born "incomplete," meaning the laugh that created them was broken/damaged during its flight to Never Land. This can manifest itself in the form of physical differences (not glowing properly, not having the PointyEars characteristic of fairies) or mental differences (lacking etiquette, memory issues). The only incomplete character to receive significant page time is Iris, a gardening-talent fairy who has to write everything down in her journal because she doesn't know it intuitively like the others.
167	* FiveTokenBand: The usual American races are represented in Tinker Bell's group of friends in both adaptations, including distinctions for blonde, brunette and redheaded white girls for some reason. (Fawn was likely supposed to be Latina, but has been recast twice with white actresses and redesigned, so it's hard to tell now.)
168	* {{Flanderization}}: Inverted; Tinker Bell's feisty, jealous and sadistic side from the original ''Peter Pan'' novel is mostly gone in the movie series. That version of Tinker Bell probably would have tried to assassinate Vidia in the first movie (this ''is'' the same fairy that almost got Wendy killed because she was getting too close to Peter after all). May overlap with TookALevelInKindness. Or TookALevelInJerkass considering the movies at least all play before she meets Peter. The books keep Tinker Bell's famous temper and jealousy, though she is kind and gentle to her friends. She openly despises Vidia, and is shown in the first novel as having very little patience for the new fairy, Prilla.
169	* FormallyNamedPet: Mr. Twitches, Lizzie's pet cat.
170	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Animal fairies such as Beck and Fawn. Tinker Bell... not quite so much.
171	* GardenGarment: All of the fairies wear leaf- and petal-based clothes.
172	* GeniusLoci: Never Land. It occasionally stretches or shrinks to help the fairies.
173	* HaveAGayOldTime:
174	** Mostly averted—the males of Tink's species are usually called "sparrow men" rather than "fairies", which is a well-known slang term for [[CampGay something else]]. The overseer of dust fairies, however, is addressed as "Fairy Gary".
175	** "Fairy" could be something to add on to anyone who's the head of that particular talent, as the head of the tinker fairies is called "Fairy Mary". Fira isn't called "Fairy Fira", but even though she's the head of the light fairies, the others tend to treat her more like a very talented peer than a boss (likely due to her age).
176	* HartmanHips: Tinker Bell is, well, bell-shaped. As are most of the fairies.
177	* HoldYourHippogriffs:
178	** Tink tells Prilla that fairies don't say "hello" or "sorry", they say "fly with you" and "I'd fly backwards if I could," respectively.
179	** From the movie: "Splinters, Clank!" "Teetering Teapots!" "Who gives a pile of pebbles about the mainland?"
180	* LandOfFaerie: Pixie Hollow is hidden away from the human world, deep in the heart of Neverland.
181	* LimitedWardrobe:
182	** The fairies wear the same outfits nearly all the time, although some seem to have a different outfit for every season. In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', Tink both averts ''and'' plays this straight by wearing an outfit with pants and long sleeves ''under'' her iconic dress.
183	** Also, when Tink is packing for her journey, we see her pick two ''identical'' dresses from her wardrobe, consider them both and then put one away announcing that one isn't for traveling.
184	%% * MacGyvering: Tinker Bell, oh so much.
185	* MadeOfGood: Fairies are stated to be born of a child's first laugh.
186	* {{Masquerade}}: The Fairies go to great lengths to make humans believe that their work is the result of natural processes. This is even [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] by Lizzy and Tinker Bell in ''The Great Fairy Rescue''.
187	* MeaningfulName: Many of the fairies have a name relating to his or her job—which makes sense, because they are named ''after'' discovering their talent. Special mention for Nyx, a HeroAntagonist who shares her name with the Greek [[DarkIsNotEvil primordial goddess of night]].
188	* MerchandiseDriven: The series of books led to a handful of toys made—usually simple one-piece plastic things. The movies were a driving force in getting ''Disney Fairies'' dolls into stores, and each successive movie led to a big push for one particular character (''Secret of the Wings'' for Periwinkle, ''The Pirate Fairy'' for Zarina, and ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'' for a redesigned Fawn).
189	* OnceASeason: Every iteration of the franchise has at least one storyline in which a human girl discovers and ultimately befriends the fairies. The original books had Gwendolyn, a great-great-granddaughter of Wendy Darling, come to Never Land with Peter Pan; the movies had Lizzy, a scientist's daughter, capture Tinker Bell in a fairy house she built at her summer home; and the ''Never Girls'' books had the four eponymous Never Girls come to Pixie Hollow through a portal in a fence post. The human girls are usually AudienceSurrogate characters who symbolize the young, female target demographic of the franchise.
190	%% * OurFairiesAreDifferent
191	* {{Prequel}}: The film series is set before Tinker Bell hooks up with Peter Pan.
192	* PintSizedPowerhouse: In both mediums the fairies are surprisingly strong for their size. Zarina actually blocks a sword from a ''human being'' and can throw blades many times her size.
193	%% * PluckyGirl: Tinker Bell.
194	* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Queen Clarion, with her shiny crown and dress ''made of Pixie Dust''.
195	* {{Retool}}: The book canon was eventually abandoned in favor of the movie canon, which adapts out multiple characters, introduces a couple of new ones, and is overall lighter in tone. Sometimes the movies are treated as {{Prequel}}s to the books, but other times the two canons are treated like [[AlternateContinuity alternative continuities]].
196	%% * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The forest critters and bugs.
197	* SailorEarth: There are many, many talents in both the books and the movies, very few of which are given any page time. Fanfiction writers are more than happy to write stories about the talents that aren’t shown.
198	* SexySantaDress: Tinker Bell items around the holidays have her in her green dress [[PrettyInMink trimmed with fur]]. Or the dress will be red.
199	* {{Sequel}}: All three book series are set after Tinker Bell leaves Peter Pan and comes back to Pixie Hollow.
200	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted; most characters are female, and there are few sparrow-men. However, in the movies, you can see plenty of male extras in the background, and there are more than a few male major characters.
201	* TheHighQueen: Queen Clarion (sometimes called Queen Ree in the books).
202	%% * TallDarkAndSnarky: Vidia.
203	%% * ToylessToylineCharacter: The Season Ministers, Bobble, Clank, and the bird of prey. Terrence was featured in the toyline, perhaps due to his expanded role in the most recently released movie.
204	* TranslationConvention:
205	** The fairies speak English in human voices, but in the third movie, it's revealed that humans like Lizzy can only hear them sounding like tinkling bells. In spite of this, in ''The Pirate Fairy'', James [[spoiler: Hook]] can understand Zarina and the other fairies, and translates for the pirates. This makes a lot of sense [[spoiler: because Captain Hook can later understand Tinker Bell when she's crying about Peter and Wendy. Logically, he had to pick up an understanding at some point.]]
206	** Alternatively, Gwendolyn Carlisle in "Fairies and the Quest for Never Land" can communicate with the fairies in English.
207	* {{Utopia}}: Pixie Hollow is basically a commune.
208	* VagueAge:
209	** In the books, next to no information is given about any of the characters' ages, aside from the fact that none of them are old enough to remember the GloryDays before the [[ApocalypseHow vague, apocalyptic calamity]] that destroyed the Pixie Dust Tree. Of the main characters, Prilla is the youngest, Tinker Bell and Rani have both been around for a while, and Clarion and Vidia seem to be a little older (they [[WeUsedToBeFriends used to be friends]], and Clarion seems to be the only person who remembers a time when Vidia ''wasn't'' snarky and rude). But the previous fairy queen is still within living memory, so even Clarion can't be that old by fairy standards. They do celebrate "Arrival Days," which are the fairy equivalent of birthdays, but all Arrival Day storylines are [[AgelessBirthdayEpisode Ageless Birthday Episodes]]. All fairies are [[BornAsAnAdult born looking like adults]], and they all appear to be roughly the same age regardless of when they Arrived.
210	** In the films, Tinker Bell appears to be BornAsAnAdult, and the majority of fairies are the same generic "young adult" age, save a handful of backgrounders, Queen Clarion, the Ministers of the seasons, and Lord Milori. Essentially, fairies in positions of power tend to look a bit aged. As in the books, fairies celebrate Arrival Days, but they never state specific numbers or years. Some extra material states that Rosetta is the oldest fairy in Tinker Bell's main friend group, but she doesn't look any different from the others.
211	* {{Veganopia}}: Almost; fairies are lacto-vegetarians. They drink mouse milk and eat mouse milk cheese.
212	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If you treat the movies as prequels to the books, nearly all of the movie-exclusive side characters get this. Clank, Bobble, the Ministers of the seasons, all of the winter fairies, and a number of others completely vanish during the TimeSkip between the movies and the books, and nobody ever mentions them again. This has rather horrifying implications if you consider the fact that there was supposedly a massive volcanic eruption during that killed a lot of fairies during the TimeSkip, which is probably why some pieces of media treat the books and movies as separate universes rather than prequels and sequels.
213	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: There's quite a few of fairies whose talents are unbelievably lame or overspecialized. Such talents include helper talent, polishing talent, water-drawing talent, butterfly-herding talent, hibernation bedtime story telling talent, and the talent of knowing exactly when to flip over a pancake.
214	* WingedHumanoid: All of the fairies have wings save for Rani, who cut hers off to fulfill a quest in the first novel.
215	* WolverinePublicity: The media tends to focus on Tinker Bell first and other fairies second, if at all. Much of the later merchandise comes in two editions: "All Tink, All the Time" and "Oh, Yeah, Other Characters Exist Too".
216	* WrenchWench: Tinker Bell, as well as all Pots-and-Pans and Metalworking-talent fairies. Tink takes it to GadgeteerGenius.

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