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| 7 | [[quoteright:320:[[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zelda_lttp_faries.png]]]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:320:Even in the same game, they're different.]] |
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| 10 | -> '''Theo:''' You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.\ |
| 11 | '''Applecore:''' Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe — from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not? |
| 12 | -->-- ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'' |
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| 14 | Fairies today are thought of as little or human sized WingedHumanoid with butterfly wings, that fly around [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles in a sea of sparkles]], and have magical powers (including granting wishes). [[UnbuiltTrope This is not the original concept]]; genuine folkloric fairies are [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]], dangerous, powerful, and not always winged. |
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| 16 | Although these vary depending on the story (hence the trope title). Much like [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]], what classifies as "Fairy" is often as varied as "Mammal" or "Alien". Four standard forms stand out, however: |
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| 18 | * A tiny humanoid, usually with [[WingedHumanoid insect wings]], between one and twelve inches tall. Variations other than size include [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation skin]] or hair colors, the type of wings they have, what they wear (if anything), and often whether or not they generate their own light. These are usually called some variation of "fairy", "sprite", or "pixie". |
| 19 | * A [[LittlePeople small, often old-looking or childlike, humanoid]] between one and three feet tall. {{Leprechaun}}s are the most common type seen, but other types such as brownies, redcaps or spriggans are often common. [[OurGnomesAreWeirder Gnomes]] and even [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] may also fall into this category. |
| 20 | * An inhumanly beautiful/graceful human-sized humanoid, often with pointed ears. Usually an [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]] in all but name with more overt magical nature or ability than your "standard" fantasy elves. Sometimes they ''are'' that work's version of elves. Other common variations are water (often called nereids or undines) or tree/forest fey (usually called nymphs or dryads). Others may have animal features, such as a stag's head, goat legs, or a fox's tail, or plant features like wooden skin or vines wrapping around their body (especially nymphs/dryads). These always seem to be near or at the top of the fairy totem pole. They'll usually be called some variation of "fae" or "sidhe"[[note]]pronounced "Shee"[[/note]]. |
| 21 | * Animal-like beings that often verge on {{Animalistic Abomination}}s, typically with a taste for human flesh or souls, or, barring that, are harbingers of doom or bringers of disease and hardship. More benign ones may be benevolent (or, at the very least, not actively malevolent), but, like most fae, should be approached with great caution and a good deal of knowledge of what you're getting yourself into. They are often also shapeshifters, though this is not a hard-and-fast rule, while others may be MixAndMatchCritters or have some anthropomorphic traits. Common examples include pucas, water horses, and barghests/black dogs. |
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| 23 | * They also may or may not be [[OneGenderRace exclusively female]]. |
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| 25 | Regardless of size, many fairies also have [[WingedHumanoid wings]], usually iridescent or butterfly-like. Whether or not they have wings, and what kind they have, are often another difference between fairy species'. |
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| 27 | But these are hardly the full extent of what Fairies can be. Just as [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons]] can encompass many related creatures, fairies can include other mythological/fantasy creatures such as [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]], [[OurNymphsAreDifferent nymphs]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk]], and even [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]], [[OurOgresAreHungrier ogres]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger giants]]. They often hang around with animals (especially Unicorns), which might possibly be Fay (or the equivalent) themselves. |
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| 29 | A common form is a FairyGodmother, who gives characters help with wishes. Although modern stories will heavily add BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor. |
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| 31 | Borrowing from British mythology, Fairies are often divided into Courts. The most common are the ''Seelie'' or Summer Court, and the ''Unseelie'' or Winter Court. Summer fairies are usually depicted are being more benevolent (for a given value of benevolent), and tend to include types like Sprites, nymphs, satyrs and high elves. Winter fairies on the other hand are typically seen as wicked, and include types like redcaps, boggarts, trolls, and dark elves. This isn't always a case of AlwaysChaoticEvil, however, and it's just as possible for a summer fairy to kidnap a child as a winter fairy is to save you from a blizzard. Some works play it straight, while others see it as lighter and darker shades of [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue and Orange]]. |
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| 33 | {{Fairy Tale}}s often involve fairies, at least they do nowadays, but that term comes from Creator/MadameDAulnoy's ''Les Contes de Fées''. The original folk tales seldom involved them, and even if they did, it was only in Western European folklore.[[note]]Creator/TheBrothersGrimm expurgated all the Fees in their first edition on the grounds that they were French, not German, folklore.[[/note]] |
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| 35 | A SuperTrope to: |
| 36 | * AlienFairFolk: Either fairies who look like [[TheGreys aliens]], or aliens mistaken for fairies. |
| 37 | * TheFairFolk: These kind of fairies may very well ''not'' be harmless, and this can range from impulsively acting without consequence to outright wickedness. |
| 38 | * FairyCompanion: A fairy that hangs around a particular character, most often giving help in various ways. The quality of the help may vary. |
| 39 | * FairyDragons: Diminutive dragons with fairy wings, often directly linked to fairies in some manner. |
| 40 | * FairyInABottle: For when playing high-stakes roulette by trapping a demon or a genie just won't do.... |
| 41 | * FairyGodmother: A fairy patron who grants a limited number of wishes and looks out for a particular character, but doesn't generally stick around to do so. |
| 42 | ** FairyDevilmother: Pretty much same as the above, but on Evil. So, even if the effects of any wish isn't technically an outright curse, it's still going to be as dangerous as one. |
| 43 | * FairySexy: Smokin' hot fairies; actual fire optional. |
| 44 | * FairyTrickster: This or any of its sister tropes, and TheTrickster. |
| 45 | * FaunsAndSatyrs: Wingless, goat-legged fairies notorious for their [[TheHedonist appetites]]. |
| 46 | * HouseFey: Brownies, hobgoblins (traditional ones), house elves, Christmas elves... all domestically inclined, usually small, often helpful, always protective and not to be taken lightly. Or insulted. |
| 47 | * {{Leprechaun}}: The most common Irish, as well as [[BizarreSexualDimorphism male]] fairy in fiction. |
| 48 | * OurGnomesAreWeirder: The largely Forgotten Fair Folk who tend be short, greedy, and weird. |
| 49 | * OurNymphsAreDifferent: While strictly speaking originating in an entirely different mythical tradition, nymphs of various sorts are often classified as fey in fantasy settings. |
| 50 | * OurPixiesAreDifferent: Wings, size, glow, abilities, clothes, weapons and meanness may vary. |
| 51 | * PeeveGoblins: Beings (often but not always fairies) made up to explain life's inconveniences. |
| 52 | ** GripingAboutGremlins: Tiny, malicious fairies notorious for disassembling machinery. |
| 53 | * SparkFairy: No need for a phone or a flashlight with these dots of light flying about. Beware possible heightened fire risk or dazzling. |
| 54 | ** WillOTheWisp: Also balls of a usually colder brand of ethereal light. Can be used as guides, if you like. Bad, ''bad'', '''bad''' idea, though. |
| 55 | * ToothFairy: Leave a tooth under a pillow as you sleep and gain a coin. And, perhaps, free NightmareFuel. |
| 56 | * TheWildHunt: While many cultural variations exist, British Isles variants are almost always made up of fairies. |
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| 58 | See also OurElvesAreDifferent, for a type of fictional creatures originally closely tied -- or synonymous with -- fairies but which in modern fiction has become something else entirely. |
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| 60 | Compare OurAngelsAreDifferent and OurMermaidsAreDifferent. |
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| 62 | Not to be confused with a euphemism for gay men. |
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| 65 | !!Examples: |
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| 67 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 69 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 70 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': The {{Fairy Companion}}s Puck and Ivalera (stated to be of a race of Elves) are revealed to actually be a sort of wind spirit. |
| 71 | * In ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'', many of the spirit forms of the Clow Cards appear humanoid, with a majority of them resembling elves or fairies. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': it's explained in supplementary material that the fairies which accompany some of the Canaries are a type of [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculus]] and do not appear to be sapient. They're used as a form of magical walkie-talkie; anything said to a fairy will be telepathically passed along to another fairy of choice, which relays the message. An {{omake}} has Marcille discovering fairies are made out of semen, various herbs, horse manure, and other items, which is fermented into a blob-like fetus that needs to fed blood every day for forty weeks straight before it's viable. She's understandably revolted by the process and is immediately turned off from wanting one. |
| 73 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': |
| 74 | ** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has Palmon's Ultimate Form -- Lilymon. She takes the form of a pink flower pixie with the power to shoot energy out of a "Flower Cannon". Her Mega Form -- Rosemon -- is quite similar though overlaps with LadyOfWar. |
| 75 | ** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' has Izumi Orimoto (Zoe in the English dub), whose Human Spirit form is Fairymon (or Kazemon). |
| 76 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' focuses heavily on a [[Myth/CelticMythology Dullahan]] who rides a headless horse disguised as a motorbike around modern day Japan. |
| 77 | * The five main characters of ''Anime/FairyRanmaru'' are all fairies who are disguised as humans. As fairies, they don't look much different from humans aside from having wings and PointyEars. The fairy world they hail from is ruled by the Fairy Queen and runs on a HiveCasteSystem, with each of the fairies hailing from one of the five fairy clans. |
| 78 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': A few of the tiny humanoid variety appear. They, along with the other [[FantasyKitchenSink magical creatures of the world]], are InvisibleToNormals, and they're the [[InterspeciesFriendship close friends]] of both England and [[DeadpanSnarker Norway]]. |
| 79 | * ''Literature/HumanityHasDeclined'' takes place in a future where fairies have become Earth's dominant species. They're about 10 centimeters tall, don't have wings, grin stupidly constantly, have undefined supernatural powers, and really like sweets. Oh, and they're apparently evolved from normal humans (who are still around, but dying out). |
| 80 | * ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Peter Pan is a fairy with many tinkerbells, and he adores children and wants to befriend them. He can even turn ordinary humans into fairies. |
| 81 | * ''Anime/ModestHeroes'': The ''Kanini & Kanino'' story briefly shows fairies with dragonfly wings and tails flying above the river the titular characters live in. Given how they find a detached wing underwater and use it to distract a large trout from eating them, it's implied that the fairies also get snatched up by fish on occasion. |
| 82 | * ''Anime/PersiaTheMagicFairy'': The fairies live in a land called Lovely Dream, where dreams are made. They have magic that allows them to do almost anything, and can apparently transfer it to humans like Persia. The Fairy Queen, however, is a bit of a pompous bitch who threatens to turn Persia's friends Riki and Gaku into girls if she doesn't help her. |
| 83 | * In the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, ''all'' fairies are different. They don't even look remotely human, being {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s instead, and every series shows another kind of fairies from different worlds. Most fairies can transform into something, e.g. {{Transformation Trinket}}s or humans, and some of them have special powers to support the heroines. A few [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo mascots]] [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure are]] [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure able]] [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure to]] [[Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure fight]], and two of them are even heroines themselves. |
| 84 | * ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'': King and his sister, Elaine, are long living child-like wingless humanoids capable of levitating themselves and other things. King, though, can transform himself into an older, fatter version of himself as he sees it as a form of respect when dealing with royals and others. |
| 85 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'': The fairies that live in the cave where Excalibur resides. Like everyone else they can't stand him. |
| 86 | * ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': The second story arc introduces an MMO called ''[=ALfheim=] Online'', with all players playing as fairies. By the end of the arc, everyone from SAO is playing, with each player using a different race: |
| 87 | ** Kirito selects a Spriggan, a race that specializes in illusory magic and treasure-finding (making this race fairly unpopular, since neither skill is useful in combat). |
| 88 | ** Leafa, the second story arc's deuteragonist, is a Sylph, and as such specializes in wind-based magic and high agility. |
| 89 | ** Asuna plays an Undine. Her race's forte is support and healing magic and underwater combat. She also has an alternate Sylph character. |
| 90 | ** Lizbeth selects Leprechaun as her race. While having no combat specializations, it's an ideal class for item crafters. |
| 91 | ** Silica plays a Cait Sith. Aside from being agile, Cait Siths are the only race in the game that can be beast tamers. |
| 92 | ** Klein rolls a Salamander, specialists in fire-based magic and possessing naturally-enhanced strength. |
| 93 | ** Agil picks Gnome as his race. Gnomes specialize in earth-based magic and, among the other fairy races, are quite massive. |
| 94 | * In ''Anime/WandabaStyle'', one of the characters [[ImaginaryFriend sees invisible fairies]] that look like small, bald, musclebound, winged men. |
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| 97 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 98 | * ''Animation/CatchTeenieping'': The Teeniepings. They're small creatures, or "mind fairies", with magical powers and hail from another world. They're not evil, just mischievous, as the synopsis puts it. |
| 99 | * ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': The Little Fairy resembles a [[MixAndMatchCritter mix between a goat and a platypus]], which is a far cry from most depictions of fairies. |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
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| 102 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 103 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Faeries appear in multiple sets and planes as diminutive insect-winged humanoids. They are typically aligned with Blue, the color of magic, thought and mentalism. |
| 104 | ** In Ravnica, faeries are mischievous Blue-aligned tricksters who often play pranks on other natives of the plane. |
| 105 | ** In Lorwyn, they're often particularly insect-like, with insectoid legs and antennas, and are cruel and mean-spirited tricksters. Unlike other depictions, they don't live particularly long, often just a few years, and spend their lives pursuing amusement, often at the expense of others. They're particularly fascinated by the dreams of other races, which they frequently harvest. The faeries and their Queen, Oona, are also [[spoiler:the only creatures not affected by the Great Aurora that periodically turns the idyllic Lorwyn into the dark and haunted Shadowmoor and back]]. There's also a variant of faeries named [[https://scryfall.com/card/eve/154/groundling-pouncer groundlings]], which do not have wings. |
| 106 | ** In Eldraine, faeries vary widely in size and are divided into three types. Meddling fae are aligned with White, human-sized and very morally-minded, wandering around human lands to help or punish people based on their actions. Thieving fae, the most common type, are aligned with Blue, no larger than an apple and delight in stealing objects. Prankster fae, aligned with Black, are the size of human children, have batlike wings and yellow eyes, and are particularly malicious in nature. Regardless of type, they all live in the Wilds and are opposed to the five knightly courts. |
| 107 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': "Fairy" is one of the twenty-odd monster types in the game, and encompasses fairies of all kinds as well as [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] (as that was indeed the type's name in Japanese). It's also the go-to categorization for various otherworldly or supernatural creatures, from [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Arcana_Force Lovecraftian alien abominations]] to [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Counter_Fairy crystalline constructs]] to [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Trickstar magical idol singers]]. |
| 108 | [[/folder]] |
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| 110 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 111 | * In Polish comic book ''ComicBook/LilIPut'': Fairies have coal-black skin, humanoid bodies with what appear to be cross between antennae and horns on top of their heads. They live in dark caves, are [[HigherTechSpecies technology obsessed and appear to be the most tech advance race in the land]] (to the point of making references to contemporary objects in contrast to the series' medieval setting) [[Theatre/PeterPan1904 Their language sounds like ringing of a bell]] which is represented by [[PictorialSpeechBubble drawings of bells in their speech bubbles]] (which leads to a [[VisualPun lot of variation depending on what they're expressing at the moment.]] ) |
| 112 | * ''ComicBook/{{Proof}}'': Fairies are dangerous carnivores that can easily kill humans in swarms. [[BizarreSexualDimorphism Female fairies are only a few inches tall; males are ''much'' larger than humans and have no wings]]. Their society and behavior is fairly insectoid, in that the females dramatically outnumber males, males are eaten after mating, and giving birth is fatal for the females. |
| 113 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The faeries of the Shamrock Lands are mostly magical winged humanoids, but their queen rules over some small wingless magical humanoids as well including leprechauns. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
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| 116 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 117 | * The elves of Creator/HansChristianAndersen's stories are pretty standard winged human-type fairies, except that they're ''very'' tiny, being variously the size of a human thumb ("Literature/{{Thumbelina}}"), to knee-high to a mouse, to literally microscopic. They also have particularly BizarreTasteInFood, using hemlock juice as salad dressing, for instance. |
| 118 | * In "Literature/HeartOfIceAndrewLang", fairies are mostly humanoid, have reality-warping powers -can change shape, transform people and objects into animals, cast curses...-, and are prone to meddle with human affairs (whether humans like or not). |
| 119 | * In Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's "Literature/TheThreeFlowers", Katie's brothers find a wood sprite in a cottage in the middle of a vast forest. The unnamed sprite is a tiny and shy humanoid creature who is afraid of humans and tries to stay out of their way. Schönwerth includes a brief description of wood sprites according to German folktales: "Wood sprites, or forest sprites, are tiny creatures that make their homes near hearths. Their clothing is made of spun moss that hangs in ropelike strands from trees. We think of them as enchanted beings hounded by phantom hunters. They live together as married couples and bear children. Their enemies are the phantom hunters, who rage through the lands like wild beasts during autumnal storms. The wood sprites' only protection against them is to take refuge on a tree stump that has three crosses carved into it." |
| 120 | * In "Literature/NineBagsOfGold", house elves are small magical humanoid creatures who live beneath human houses, keeping themselves hidden from adult menfolk (albeit they like befriending and even teaching children). Although clever and benevolent, they are tricksters who are not above of making people ill to further their goals. |
| 121 | * "Literature/{{Reygoch}}": Curlylocks is a human-sized fairy who lives over the clouds and owns a flying veil and a magic bag containing pearls which she can turn into anything. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 125 | * In ''Fanfic/TheBlueBlurOfTermina'', fairies are brightly colored winged humanoids around Sonic's general size, instead of the tiny, winged orbs of light from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the original game]]. |
| 126 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the vaguely Tolkienian Light Elves of Alfheim -- to the point where Prince Faradei is described as the in-universe inspiration for Legolas -- and the Faerie Courts of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', who are a fairly quintessential example of TheFairFolk, with even the 'nicer' Summer Fae being a bit alien. They aren't related -- the former were pre-existing before the foundation of Yggdrasil, so over a million years old. The latter, on the other hand, were a prehistoric human population that found its way into the Nevernever and slowly evolved not just to use magic, but to essentially be one with it. |
| 127 | * ''Fanfic/TheCrystalCourt'': [[AdaptationSpeciesChange Instead of being aliens, the gems are presented as different kinds of fairies]], their powers depending on what Court they belong to. |
| 128 | * ''Fanfic/Homecoming2026'': The fae have PointyEars, as the only one that appears does. |
| 129 | * In ''Fanfic/KeepersOfTheElements'', fairies are magical females that can transform into their own unique fairy forms. The Keepers themselves are this, but with ElementalPowers thrown in as well. |
| 130 | * Lily from ''Fanfic/ResonanceDays'' has all the hallmarks of modern depictions of fairies, being an inhumanly beautiful elf-like woman with gossamer wings. She's even the head of a hidden faction who live in a forest! She's actually a witch, a former Magical Girl (who in this setting function like a HumanSubspecies) who lost her memories in death and retains one inhuman trait from her [[EldritchAbomination old form]], and her witch remnant happens to make her look like a fairy. And like TheFairFolk, [[spoiler:her kindness and beauty is all a front hiding her true nature as a callous slaver and drug dealer who uses her CompellingVoice to turn her victims into lovestruck slaves to her every whim]]. |
| 131 | * ''Fanfic/TheirMidnightRevels'': There are some differences in Miranda and Ariel's interactions with Thomas and Edith that are contrary to typical folklore portrayals. For example, nothing goes wrong when Edith and Thomas eat the food in Faerie, perhaps because they are enchanted already, or because Miranda and Ariel swore that they were under their magical protection, nothing would happen to them. Also Miranda and Ariel make it clear that nothing is being done with Edith or Thomas' free will. They ask them to join the Revels and later ask them to remain in Faerie letting them know all of the consequences beforehand. While O'Brien mentions the possibility that Sybil's child may be a changeling, one look shows that he is not, perhaps because Bobby was not taken by either his own free will or his parents'. Also, Miranda and Ariel’s characters evolve when they realize that they love Edith and Thomas. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 135 | * Creator/{{Disney}}: |
| 136 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': The fairy godmother appears as a kindly older woman with no wings and seems to have to sing to get her magic to work (or at least say the magic words "bibidi bobidi boo"). |
| 137 | ** ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Tinker Bell is of the small winged kind, and includes elements such as ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve. ''Franchise/DisneyFairies'' focuses chiefly on her and others like herself, which are referred to as "pixies" or (when male) "sparrow men". |
| 138 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': The blue fairy appears as a full-sized woman with exceptionally large wings. Naturally she's dressed in blue. |
| 139 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': The fairies are shorter than the average human but larger than dwarves, all take the forms of sugary older women. They have wings but they can make those disappear. It appears they can't do magic without their wands. WordOfGod claimed that Maleficent is also a fairy -- one that takes the form of a green-skinned horned sorceress. |
| 140 | * ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'': Fairies (or "tree spirits," as they call themselves), who serve as the guardians of the rainforest, are reminiscent of Tinker Bell, in terms of design. |
| 141 | * In ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'', fairies are [[OneGenderRace all-female]] and can be human-sized or tiny. |
| 142 | * ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': The fairies look like [[FairySexy attractive]] humans with butterfly wings. They're very small, except the film operates on [[MouseWorld their scale]]. The have knights who can fly despite being fully armored. They live in a kingdom with other sapient races and seem to be the ruling class. |
| 143 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'' has human(ish)-sized elves with wings, elves without wings, and tiny winged fairies, too. |
| 144 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheKingsBeard'', fairies are a MageSpecies of humanoids with pointy ears and small dragonfly wings, who seemingly live openly among humans, being seen as unusual, but not ''that'' remarkable. As his name implies, Sophie's father Wizzy is a WizardClassic, but he's still considered a fairy. As an additional wrinkle, a fairy's wand is an AmuletOfDependency for them, and they die if separated from it for too long — even though it is ''very much'' possible for an unscrupulous human to steal a fairy's wand and use it for themselves. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 148 | * ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', all female Gelflings have fairy wings. |
| 149 | * ''Film/FairyTaleATrueStory'' is (loosely) based on the Cottingley Fairies. |
| 150 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': The Shobijin, Mothra's twin fairy companions, stand about six inches tall and are able to teleport short distances as well as understand what the monsters are saying... oh, and they can summon Mothra as well to aid them. In the "Return of Mothra" films, they are accompanied by Fairy Mothra, essentially a toy-sized Mothra that acts as a guardian and transport. |
| 151 | * ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': The fairies look like your stereotypical little magical flying sparkly things, but they bite. Sarah ''thought'' they were kind and wish-granting and was surprised and horrified to see Hoggle coming after them with an insecticide gun. |
| 152 | * ''Film/LeapinLeprechauns'': Fairies appear prominently. In ''Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns'', their queen joins the main cast of Leprechauns in their quest. |
| 153 | * ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'': "Fairy" is used to identify any magical creature that inhabits the Moors. Fairies range from {{Winged Humanoid}}s like the title character to small pixies to [[PlantPerson Plant People]], and all manner of water, dew, and stone fae. Like in actual folklore, ColdIron burns them and is their one true weakness, a fact which is a major plot point. |
| 154 | * ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': |
| 155 | ** Fairies that look like flying praying mantises... which can shapeshift into more human-like shape when shown a picture of what they're "supposed" to look like. |
| 156 | ** The [[EyesDoNotBelongThere Pale Man]], a monstrous, child-devouring fae. |
| 157 | %%* ''Film/PhotographingFairies'' is (loosely) based on the Cottingley Fairies. |
| 158 | * ''Film/{{Willow}}'' has a scene with a whole swarm of tiny, glowing fairies... and their enormous, hovering queen, Cherlindrea. |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 162 | * In ''Literature/AmagiBrilliantPark'', the vast majority of the workers at the titular theme park are fairies. Some of them look like cute, bipedal talking animals (which they cover up by pretending to be people in mascot costumes), while others appear mostly human, and all of them have magical abilities of some kind. Their existence depends on keeping the park open so that the energy from people's happiness can keep them alive. |
| 163 | * ''Literatur/{{Angelology}}'': The Anakim, servants of the Nephilim, are short, albeit human-sized, and of delicate build with yellow eyes and insectile wings, as opposed to the avian ones of [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the Nephilim]]. |
| 164 | * ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': |
| 165 | ** "Fairy" is a catch-all term for all non-human sapients who refer to themselves as "the People", which includes [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]] and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], as well as {{unicorn}}s before their extinction, as well as more obviously fey creatures like [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]], [[OurPixiesAreDifferent pixies]], sprites, [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]], [[GripingAboutGremlins Gremlins]], [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] and [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]]. Only sprites have natural wings (batlike ones, notably); other species have built mechanical ones, and they're a metre tall on average, although one character is said to be "barely half a metre" tall, on one occasion they're able to find clothes that fit a 13-year-old human (probably somewhere around 1.5 metres), so there's obviously a decent range, as with humans. |
| 166 | ** In most People, magic gives healing ability, invisibility, hypnotism, and the ability to speak any language; only a few, called warlocks, can use it for anything more complicated, like playing with the flow of time. They also have [[MagicAIsMagicA very strict rules]] they must follow to use their magic. They have to perform certain rituals to recharge their magical energies, and forfeit their magical ability when they break certain rules. Each species also has certain unique qualities, such as sprite's wings, demonic metamorphosis, and dwarven {{Fartillery}}. The ability to speak any language, while perhaps helped along by a bit of magic, seemingly comes from the fact that the People's Gnomish is the ancestor of all languages (including American Dog). |
| 167 | ** It's also noted that all of the fairy species evolved from ''pterosaurs'' towards the end of the Cretaceous. The presence of bony spurs on their shoulder blades is given as proof of long-vanished wings, although this makes very little sense when considering that pterosaur wings were modified arms, not an additional set of limbs. |
| 168 | * ''Literature/BonesOfFaerie'' has faeries that are humanoids with powers. Though not immortal, they have a longer life span, and can be identified by their white hair. |
| 169 | * ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': Fairies are beautiful but mischievous beings that appear in legends all over the world. They can be the same size as people, taller or no more than three feet tall. They kidnap people and imprison them underground, and the Italian fata morgana creates mirages with which to confuse sailors and make them run aground. While they may take mortal lovers, they will often kill their partners once this whim passes. They are fond of song, music and the color green. |
| 170 | * ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheEmergedWorld'': The fairies -- ''folletti'', in Italian -- are diminutive winged humanoids very closely connected to magic and nature, and which make their homes in forests where other races do not go. They're a declining species in the series' time, as the Tyrant has destroyed most of the forests where they live and armies on both sides of the war are in the habit of systematically hunting them to force them to be scouts, jesters or mascots. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/ClandestineDaze'': The Aellisar are a modernized 21st century society which employs covert agents to influence events in the human world. They have their own countries, technology, and SpySpeak. |
| 172 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 173 | ** Strictly speaking ,the Nac Mac Feegle, being small humanoid beings from Fairyland, probably count as fairies. They prefer "Pictsies". Several other weird beings that are probably fairies appear in ''Literature/TheWeeFreeMen'', mostly based on Richard Dadd's painting "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke". |
| 174 | ** Discworld mythology also counts any supernatural being who exists to bring something or take it away as a fairy. The Tooth Fairy is the most famous, but ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' introduces the Hair Loss Fairy, the Veruca Gnome, and various others. In the same book Ridcully off-handedly mentions "them little buggers that live in flowers, used to collect 'em myself as a lad". The Tooth Fairy, meanwhile, mostly employs humans to collect teeth these days, though their actual species is [[spoiler:boogeyman]]. |
| 175 | ** The actual Fairies, so-called, are portrayed in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' and are very much TheFairFolk; people are afraid of them, they are very dangerous, and they have a Queen and King reminiscent of Titania and Oberon in some ways, and horned gods like Cernunnos in others. |
| 176 | ** This trope in itself is actually a major plot device in ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld II'': Fairies, as described above, are horrendous monsters that prey on human imagination from their [[PocketDimension parasite universe]], but their intervention is needed to give the humans of our Earth the spark of creativity that gets civilization started. However, allowing them to keep interfering results in Earth being locked in MedievalStasis, with reason and the scientific method never catching on. The solution? Make sure that Creator/WilliamShakespeare writes ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', which permanently changes the human perception of fairies to be comical and harmless, rendering them incapable of influencing us further. |
| 177 | * ''Literature/{{Domina}}'': The fey are insane people who use the [[BioAugmentation toy maker]] to make monsters. They also apparently ''actually'' think they're Celtic fairies, and lapse into Irish when angry. |
| 178 | * In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Faerie is more of a descriptor for certain kinds of creatures from the spirit world, particularly the ones that originate from the region called, well, Faery. The most prominent of the fay races is the incredibly humanoid, [[TheFairFolk achingly beautiful, frighteningly amoral Sidhe]] (pronounced as "She"). Others run the gamut from tiny, pizza-loving pixies, to hulking trolls, to centaurs and humanoid Billy Goats Gruff, and even possibly SantaClaus. Everything that shows up in the books that's not a mortal, vampire, deity, or demon is likely a kind of Faerie. All of them are burned by iron. Of course, to the Sidhe specifically, being called a "Fairy" is considered to be a slur, similar to calling a human an "ape". |
| 179 | * ''Literature/EccentricCircles'': Aelvirum is careful to point out that he's an elf, not a fairy. |
| 180 | * In ''Literature/{{Elfstruck}}'', she makes a ticking noise like a clock and her wings are silver and crystal, with visible gearwork inside. |
| 181 | * "Ever After" by Susan Palwick is about a fairy godmother who takes a young woman under her care. The girl is well aware of the Cinderella type myths and is looking forward to finding a prince to marry. The twist comes when we find out that [[spoiler:the "fairy godmother" is actually a vampire who is changing the girl into her vampire daughter]]. |
| 182 | * In ''Literature/{{Everworld}},'' fairies are a ProudMerchantRace; Fairyland seems to be the financial hub of Everworld and is one of its ostensibly nicer kingdoms, mainly because the fairies keep things pretty for the tourists. The fairies themselves look like twelve-year-old humans, but also have SuperSpeed. They seem to favor archery and can be employed as bodyguards. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/{{Fablehaven}}'': Fairies are the standard tiny, winged and female humanoids; although most have the usual dragonfly and insect wings, some have those of beetles, locusts, bats and birds. They also have aa [[BlueAndOrangeMorality rather alien moral system]] and are ruled by a Fairy Queen [[spoiler:who is in fact an elder unicorn]]. If kept indoors overnight, they will be transformed into hideous, wingless imps; it's revealed in the last book that [[spoiler:there used to be male fairies once, but they were all transformed into the first imps]]. |
| 184 | * Most fairies in ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' are pretty average humans and elves, except they are more beautiful, magical, and private than your average folk. Most of the "faerie's" we see are knights and royals (like the unseen titular queen), and it's not until in Book IV that meet a proper one in Agape, mother of the noble triplets and friend of the Fates. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/AFantasyAttraction'' has a fairy popping in to steal a cookie, and a pixie causing trouble is also mentioned. |
| 186 | * ''Literature/FlowerFairies'': The titular fairies are the standard "tiny winged humanoid" but resemble their flower in appearance and personality (for instance, the Buttercup fairy is cheerful and "sunny"). Basically very small dryads. |
| 187 | * ''Literature/ForestOfBolandLightRailway'': There are two types of fairy: the benevolent cowsies and the ugly, malevolent goblins. |
| 188 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Fairies are [[AdaptationalNonsapience non-intelligent]] creatures that, while humanoid, have lifecycles akin to insects, laying eggs and then metamorphosing from larvae. They have [[AdaptationalWimp weak magic]] which can be used to ward off predators and are very vain; wizards often use them as decorations the same way that Muggles might catch fireflies in a jar for light. The good press Muggles give them is a matter of some confusion to wizards. |
| 189 | * In ''Literature/TheIronKing'' by Julie Kagawa, faeries are [[spoiler:born from the dreams of humanity and sustained by humans and other fey remembering them]]. This leads to you having not just the traditional fey (TheFairFolk) represented by the Summer (Seelie) and Winter (Unseelie) Courts, but the [[spoiler:Iron Fey that named the series. The Iron fey are born from dreams of science and technology, of innovation and industry, and thus are not only immune to iron, but are essentially walking faerie krptonite. They also do not try to capture you in favors as much as the "oldblooded" fey, as they call the older fey species. Ferrum, their first king, was born when mankind first started to forge iron]]. |
| 190 | * ''Literature/JohnGolden'': Fairies can create pocket dimensions in computer networks. This necessitates humans called "Debuggers" physically entering them in order to slay the fae within. Otherwise they might play havoc with the data around them -- or steal the souls of users. |
| 191 | * ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' takes TheFairFolk and adjusts them to fit the [[RegencyEngland Georgian-era]] setting. The basic concept, as [[FootnoteFever one of the many easy-to-miss footnotes]] explains, is that logic and magical ability are diametrically opposed; humans have great powers of logic and very little magical skill, while Faeries have tremendous magical power but most of them would be considered severely mentally ill by human standards. Accordingly, they don't even need wings since they can travel wherever on Earth they want via the King's Roads, and they wear clothes that are made of broken dreams or are "[[FictionalColor the color of heartbreak]]" or that sing or scream. They also have tremendous powers that no human can fight while simultaneously having a wide variety of {{Weaksauce Weakness}}es, and are shown to stay out of human affairs less for the standard reasons than because they just don't care -- they'd rather be at their all-night balls. In other words, they're a ShadowArchetype of what human British society was like at the time. |
| 192 | * Creator/JRRTolkien: |
| 193 | ** In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', the word "fairy" is occasionally used, but seems to be synonymous with [[OurElvesAreDifferent elf]], much as ''The Hobbit'' refers to "goblins" where the same creatures in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' are called "orcs". |
| 194 | *** It's possible Tolkien intended for Hobbits themselves to have some traits of faeries -- a race of little people living where humans cannot see, with an uncanny knack for going unseen and a close kinship with the earth -- are all traits common in older (read "pre-Disney") faeries. Meanwhile the Elves got the depiction of a forest-dwelling, InhumanlyBeautifulRace, which were the other most common traits. He seems to have dropped the [[TheFairFolk child-stealing]] and ColdIron bits altogether. |
| 195 | ** In ''Literature/OnFairyStories'', Tolkien describes the little and winged conception as the sophisticated and literary creature, not rooted in folklore. |
| 196 | * ''Literature/{{Katabasis}}'': The fae are a species of shapeshifters which use voice mimicry to hunt humans, however they are also sentient and can have relationships with their supposed prey. |
| 197 | * The fairies in ''Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book'' and its sequels by Creator/TerryJones and Creator/BrianFroud are small winged humanoids, ranging from minuture humans to more amphibious or goblin-like creatures. Their most unusual characteristic is that, if you shut a book on them in the same way as pressing a flower, a psychic image is recorded on the paper, while the actual fairy is completely unharmed. (At least, that's what the text claims. Whether the images themselves entirely support this is another matter.) |
| 198 | * ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'': The Fain are mistaken for fairies by the toddler Alexa. ("Fainies") It's a bit of a twist, considering that they're thought beings and so they don't have an actual form without a host. |
| 199 | * ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'' has faerie, who are shapeshifters, meaning they can appear perfectly beautiful or extremely horrifying, depending on their whim. They use powerful magic, are basically immortal and can travel through worlds and dimensions. They can be harmed only by [[ColdIron iron]] and their only weakness is [[GoldFever gold]]. And the ''pure'' faerie look at their ''tainted'' cousins (trolls trapped in human world) with contempt. |
| 200 | * ''Literature/MerryGentry'''s fey relations resemble the FairFolk of the Old World in name, power, appearance and moral ambiguity. But with that special LKH twist. |
| 201 | * ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'': The [[TheFairFolk fairies]] are one of four known races of downworldlers, but they're considered the strangest of them. |
| 202 | ** They are considered the common descendants of angels and demons. In general, they are as beautiful as angels for that reason, but at the same time as evil as demons. However,m the books also show less beautiful fairies, and only very few of them are really as vicious as demons. |
| 203 | ** There are generally two groups of fairies. Some of them look very inhuman and have distinct features of animals and plants, almost always humanoid. The other group, the nobles among the fairies, look much more human-like. More like the third type (see above). They resemble typical elves, but often have horns, claws, wings, tails, or other animal features, and sometimes even plant characteristics. In some cases they look just like elves, except that they have unusual hair, skin or eye colors. In addition, they are also considered [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace very pretty]]. |
| 204 | ** They organize themselves in royal courts (Seelie and Unseelie), but most fairies move around alone, without belonging to a certain royal court. Etiquette and decency are very important to them. |
| 205 | ** They are also known for their cruel sense of humor, and for being particularly insidious. Often, they offer a pact and their magic to a person, but later put it in. [[CannotTellALie They cannot lie]], but they formulate their words in such a way that there are loopholes. Because they can become hundreds of years old, they gain a lot of wisdom over time, as well as guile. |
| 206 | ** They are physically [[SuperStrength very strong]], and they also have [[SuperSenses sharp senses]]. In addition they have a magic, which is almost unique, and can be very powerful. They often use their magic to pretend to be human, but some humans [[InvisibleToNormals still recognize they]]. |
| 207 | ** They also have several weaknesses. [[ColdIron Cold iron]], rowan wood and salt weaken they. Likewise, someone can gain power over a fairy when he [[IKnowYourTrueName knows their true name]]. |
| 208 | ** Fairies are slow to multiply, and so that their bloodlines do not weaken, they often [[ChangelingTale exchange human children for their own weak children]]. For unknown reasons, the children receive magical powers in the fairy kingdom, and after a while they turn into fairies. |
| 209 | ** Fairies can also have [[HalfHumanHybrid common children with humans]]. If this child grows up among humans, it differs only slightly from other humans, but still has some fairy features, such as [[PointyEars pointed ears]], or can detect magical illusions. |
| 210 | *** Unlike full faeries, half-faeries can lie. |
| 211 | *** As the half-fairy grows among fairies, she develops the same powers as other fairies. At the same time, she is much less affected by the weaknesses. Half-fairies, unlike pure fairies, can also lie. |
| 212 | *** The child of a [[{{Nephilim}} shadowhunter]] and a fairy is also a shadowhunter, albeit with fairy traits. |
| 213 | ** Officially, most fairies are bisexual. |
| 214 | ** For creatures with keen senses, such as vampires and werewolves, fairies smell like dead flowers. |
| 215 | * ''Literature/MyVampireOlderSisterAndZombieLittleSister'' has various kinds of fairies, both humanoid and non-humanoid, though the only one to make an appearance so far is the Leanan Sidhe. Leanan Sidhe can designate a human (or multiple humans) as their lover, giving them inspiration but draining their life force in exchange. They are also invisible and intangible to everyone and everything that isn't their lover. |
| 216 | * Creator/JamesHerbert's ''Literature/{{Once}}'' depicts folkloric conception of the ''faerefolkis'' to have been inspired by race memory. Elemental beings who live on a dimension usually beyond human senses, their nurture of nature enables the planet to support life. While widely varied in form, they come in three ranges of size: tiny; dwarfish, or tall enough to be mistaken for short humans. |
| 217 | * ''Literature/PeterPan'': Fairies -- especially the complicated character of Tinker Bell, a friend of Peter and a great enemy of Wendy at the same time -- are very important. It is said that since they are so small, [[BizarreAlienPsychology they can only hold one emotion inside themselves at a time]], and hence are totally consumed by it. Like insects, they also [[spoiler:don't live long; Tinker Bell is dead within a year of the Darlings leaving Neverland]]. |
| 218 | ** ''Literature/PeterPanInKensingtonGarden,'' which was basically Baum's rough draft of the above, has a whole host of fairies living in the titular locale. They're more benevolent, lacking Tinker Bell's emotional issues, and return Peter's flying power when he loses it. They also have a custom of marrying with the bride jumping into the groom's arm. |
| 219 | * ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': Fairies are at least referable in the imagination of the game's world: |
| 220 | ** In Episode 2: |
| 221 | *** Flora, on becoming a level four {{Druid}} princess, gets "magical resistance to evil fairy-type magic". |
| 222 | *** Dryads are described as "fey tree-women", and woods with a YearInsideHourOutside, are called a "fey-wood", and "fey" is shown to be [[CreaturesByManyOtherNames another way]] of referring to elves, in Episode 8. |
| 223 | ** In Episode 4, Bianca's headache is described by involving fairies: |
| 224 | ---> Behind her forehead, a tiny little fairy with a whomping big hammer was ringing her skull like a bell. |
| 225 | * ''Literature/RainbowMagic:'' Fairies are depicted as the "tiny human with insect wings" variant; additionally, almost all of them appear as young females. They're led by King Oberon and Queen Titania, and they function as OddJobGods, with their magic commanding nearly everything imagineable -- from colors to weather to parties to music to the days of the week. |
| 226 | * ''Literature/RiverOfDancingGods'': The fair folk take the place of our world's natural processes. They live eternal, but sadly limited, lives. |
| 227 | * ''Literature/{{Shadowmarch}}'': The Rooftoppers, although they don't have wings. Rather they use birds, bats and rats as transport. |
| 228 | * ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'': = Fairies look like beautiful humans except for their pointed ears. Claudine chooses to cover hers with her hair, while her brother Claude had them surgically altered. They are allergic to lemons and iron and Vampires are very attracted to their blood. |
| 229 | * ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'': Elphin is a thousand-year-old fairy who looks like a teenage girl with wings, is abnormally strong for her size, skewers people with her magic spear and is vulnerable to cold iron. She can also summon lightning, much to [[WeCanRebuildHim Fatalle's dismay.]] |
| 230 | * A society of fairies appear in the ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novel ''The Day of the Dissonance''. They look like classic tiny winged humanoids, but they're too heavy to fly, and they occasionally have a craving to eat passing travellers. Tom-Jon quickly realises that the issue is their typical diet (nectar and ambrosia are pure sugar), but since they refuse to change it, he instead teaches them the strange magic of "aerobics". |
| 231 | %%* ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles''. |
| 232 | * ''The Stolen Child'': The fairies/hobgoblins are largely in the FairFolk mold, with the twist being that they were all human originally. They kidnap a human child and, though some mystical process not fully explained, turn him or her into a fairy, while one of their own makes himself into the child's double and replaces him or her. They're functionally immortal until they turn themselves back into humans, and don't age in any normal way (although they're implied to be odd-looking), and are just generally [[WildChild uncivilized]] and self-interested. |
| 233 | * ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': One of the main characters has a companion windspren named Syl that takes the traditional fairy form and she really is different even from other windspren who mostly just look like streaks of mist and lack self awareness. [[spoiler:This is because she's actually an honorspren.]] |
| 234 | * ''Literature/StrangerAndStranger'': The fae are taller than humans, gifted with a powerful type of magic called a Blessing,rarely have wings, and tend to isolate themselves from humans. For example, the fae of Duircean, where the book is set, live in a forest. The fae also practice something called "snatching", where they cast a spell over a human child to turn them into a changeling faerie (which they actually have legal right to do). |
| 235 | * ''Literature/ToughMagic'': The races on Emis are fairies, leprechauns, pixies and sprites. However, as they are about human size and without wings, the only distinction between them and regular humans is the unusual colors of their skin, hair and eyes. |
| 236 | * ''Literature/TheTreacheryOfBeautifulThings'': Even the little, winged Foletti, like PrettyButterflies, are still nasty. |
| 237 | * ''Literature/TheTwelfthEnchantment'': Fairies actually are [[spoiler:the undead]]. |
| 238 | * ''Literature/LesVoyageursSansSouci'': Ted's idea of fairies is influenced by the tales of his Irish grandmother, who grew up in the Victorian Era. So, when a young girl wearing a strange winged costume flies into his room, Ted believes her to be a fairy, and he assumes she is friendly, well-meaning and English-speaking (since he believes fairies must come from Ireland). |
| 239 | * ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': Faeries only are seen in the world, when winter comes, as it is their duty to bring it to the world. Citizen of the world can't actually see their real appearances, instead of they only perceive a blue blur, thus don't think of them as actual people, but as a natural phenomenon. |
| 240 | * ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'', also by Creator/TadWilliams, is set in AnotherDimension populated by all kinds of fairies. The ruling class, however, seems to resemble standard elves more, including the attitude. |
| 241 | * ''Literature/WellWorld'': The Faerie are a species of glowing insect-like beings with humanoid faces, living in colonies consisting of many tiny lesser specimens and a single large queen. They are native to the hex of Ivrom, where the local rules of physics give them abilities that are, for all intents and purposes, powerful magic. They are cruel and manipulative beings, delighting in tormenting and transforming unfortunates who stumble into their clutches, and once threatened to overrun a great deal of the Well World before the Markovians acted to limit them to their hex. Faeries who made their way to Old Earth were responsible for myths of fairies, witches and evil spirits. |
| 242 | * ''Literature/WingsQuartet'': Fairies are actually highly evolved plants who resemble humans. They don't have wings, though, but they do "blossom". |
| 243 | * ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'': Creator/LFrankBaum wanted to distance his "American fairy tale" from the old fairy tales of Europe, so he went out of his way to make his fairies very different. For instance, none of Baum's fairies fly, with only a couple possible exceptions. Fairies in Baum's universe are on a god-like level, immortals ruling over various aspects of nature (an entire pantheon is given in ''Tik-Tok of Oz''). |
| 244 | * ''Literature/TheFeyAndTheFallen'': Most of the fairies we see are the Irish Tuatha Dé Danann, and they are in a war with {{Fallen Angel}}s. Irish fey are vulnerable to iron, have clans and political infighting among themselves, and are capable of making HalfHumanHybrids. While other kinds of fey exist, they are from countries outside of Ireland and seldom seen in-story. |
| 245 | * ''Literature/{{Moonflowers}}'' is a FantasyKitchenSink set in Ireland, where the traditional version of TheFairFolk are {{Nature Spirit}}s... and TheWildHunt is a hundred-strong group of warriors terrorizing the rural areas, whose leader the Horned Hunter is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[NatureIsNotNice predators.]] They cursed the Asian-American protagonist and her family to impending death in a ritual hunt called [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the Fairy Raid,]] which has pissed off a growing number of deities. |
| 246 | * In ''Literature/ArcanaMagi'', some fairies, so far, work for Avalon Tech Enterprises. One fairy is on the Board of Directors and another fairy is a scientist dealing with chemicals and diseases |
| 247 | * ''Literature/{{Defection}}'': Fairies are any sentient being not currently residing in their dimension of origin, I.E. A dimensional traveler. Strange things happen when you aren't where you are supposed to be. |
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| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 251 | * In ''Series/Charmed1998'' fairies can only be seen by children, though adults can see them if they believe and a spell can be cast to make them innocent again. Along with trolls, fairies live in "in-betweens" -- windows, doorways, shadows -- and thus are able to cross over into our world. They are able to do so freely during midnight when the world itself becomes an in-between. After the fairies' debut episode, the sisters apparently created a spell that allows them to see fairies from then on as they appear frequently in the series. They are also notorious for stealing things -- which results in a funny moment when (taking Paige's advice too literally) the fairies return everything they ever stole from Henry, including things he lost in high school. |
| 252 | * ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': Fairies are all pale and wear light-colored clothing. Aside from that, they look basically like humans, though also [[BizarreAlienReproduction grow from mushrooms]]. They fit many of the folktale cliches, such as making exploitative deals with the humans, or switching others for their children. |
| 253 | * ''Series/Merlin2008'': |
| 254 | ** There are several episodes with the Sidhe, a fairy race associated with the legends of England and Ireland. They're blue-faced and many carry [[MagicStaff magic staffs]]. A Sidhe can entrance a human and can be placed inside a human child to take full control later in life. The two in "The Gates of Avalon" had been banished and were seeking a human prince to sacrifice so the daughter could return to Avalon. Pixies, another race, sometimes work with them. |
| 255 | ** Queen Mab makes an appearance in the Dark Tower episode. She is a mischievous trickster. |
| 256 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Episode 13 has a sketch about fairies on the police force. For once in the series, "fairy" is not synonymous with "poofter." |
| 257 | * ''Series/TheOtherKingdom'': In this universe, fairies tend to resemble humans in terms of height, coloring, and body structure but they have characteristics that reveal their otherworldly and magical nature. A fairy's glowing wings distinguish them from other mystical creatures. They aren't born with their wings but grow their wings at a certain age but the exact age differs from fairy to fairy. Wings may be a sign that a fairy has received her full powers as Peaseblossom seemed to lack any form of fairy magic when she lacked wings. They can change into a tiny orb of light the same hue as their wings. Fairies revert to this form instantly and without consent when they enter the Other Kingdom but a few can maintain their human-sized shape such as the Athenian monarchs. |
| 258 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'' has the tiny, winged vareity who grant wishes, though they are able to assume human size. According to seasons 3 and 4, fairies are not all good wish granters and not always humanoid. The "Black Fairy" is said to be the most evil and most powerful dark fairy, and the giant demon Chernabog (yes, [[http://www.doctordisney.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/night-on-bald-mountain-chernabog.jpg THAT]] Chernabog) is also heavily implied to also be a fairy. |
| 259 | * In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' a fairy is actually a '''[[HumongousMecha zord]]'''. The Mystic Sprite belongs to the (what else) Pink Ranger. |
| 260 | * ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'': Fairies are known as Seelies. They are among the Downworlder species (species that are part demon) and have the distinction of also being part angel. They cannot tell lies, but are still considered untrustworthy. Meliorn is a Seelie that has an affair with Isabelle and helps Clary and Jace open a portal to another dimension in "The World Inverted." |
| 261 | * In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E5SmallWorlds Small Worlds]]", fairies are actually children snatched out of time and turned into creatures humans initially see as light, but who have a true form of a gremlin-like monster. They choke people with rose petals that wrong the children they'd chosen to join them and spontaneously cause severe weather. Side note: their scientific name is "[[HumanSubspecies Homo fata vulgaris]]". |
| 262 | * ''Zapped'': An office worker is accidentally zapped into a fantasy universe where the laws of fantasy are enforced by big burly thuggish brutes called fairies who can shapeshift into a more traditionally fairy-like, small and agile form for traveling. |
| 263 | * There was a horror-themed show on CITV (name forgotten) that had a segment on a girl wishing she could see a fairy one day and finding some at the bottom of her garden. Unfortunately, instead of being happy, wish-granting creatures they were these horrible little creatures with large teeth that bit her... and after she found them, they started turning up everywhere, causing her to cage them to stop from being attacked, but they just kept on coming... |
| 264 | [[/folder]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 267 | * ''Music/ClamaviDeProfundis'': Fairies are present in the world of Hammerdeep, where they're short, insect-winged women who inhabit wild forests. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
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| 270 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 271 | * Many cultures, countries and localities have their own local variation of fairy-like creatures. For example, Myth/GreekMythology has [[MsFanservice Nymphs]], Naiads and Dryads (water and tree spirits respectively), fawns, satyrs, centaurs and other semi-divine races of creatures, usually a OneGenderRace. |
| 272 | * German legends have wood or forest sprites. Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's books on Bavarian folklore describe them in this way: "Wood sprites, or forest sprites, are tiny creatures that make their homes near hearths. Their clothing is made of spun moss that hangs in ropelike strands from trees. We think of them as enchanted beings hounded by phantom hunters. They live together as married couples and bear children. Their enemies are the phantom hunters, who rage through the lands like wild beasts during autumnal storms. The wood sprites' only protection against them is to take refuge on a tree stump that has three crosses carved into it." |
| 273 | * [[Myth/{{SlavicMythology}} Slavic Mythology]]: |
| 274 | ** In the Slavic-speaking world, there are the ''vilas'', beautiful maidens with supernatural powers that get caught in the affairs of mortals in some way or another. They usually are present in South Slavic tradition, and are often translated as "fairies" in Anglophone works. |
| 275 | ** A related personage is the ''samodiva'' or ''samovila'' of Bulgarian folklore, who plays a somewhat similar role to the Slavic vilas. |
| 276 | * In modern Greek folklore, the ''Neraidas'' (not to be confused with the Ancient Greek "Neraidas", who are water-based nymphs) are said to be beautiul maidens that live in wild nature (mountains, rivers, streams) who, in folktales, get married to hunters and shepherds when mortal men steal their garments. |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 280 | * ''Pinball/{{Farfalla}}'': The butterfly fairy hangs out in flower gardens and entices players with her attractive looks. |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 284 | * ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'': In ''Hogwarts: The New Class'', Shannon befriends a dust nymph (also referred to as a dust bunny) and names it Usagi. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 288 | * ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': Fairies subconsciously take on roles from human stories and reenact them with (usually) unwitting humans to obtain the vitality they crave. This trait makes faeries difficult to combat (except by apotropaic magics) since in many cases their "death" is part of the story and only provides additional vitality. |
| 289 | * ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'': Fairies are a varied group of creatures that originate from the fairy realm and can cross into Dere when holes open between the two worlds. They sicken and die if they spend too much time away from their home, however, requiring them to periodically return to the fairy lands to rest and recover. |
| 290 | ** Blossom fairies are the classic tiny, butterfly-winged, forest-dwelling humanoid kind. They're the most common type and the ones most people think of when they think of fairies. They are all female, and wear clothing shaped like flower blossoms. |
| 291 | ** Nymphs and dryads are larger and resemble beautiful humanoid women, and appoint themselves as protectors of ancient trees and of bodies of water, respectively. |
| 292 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. |
| 293 | ** [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Category:Fey_Type This list]] contains just ''some'' of the canon and fan-made species. |
| 294 | ** Pixies are noted for being one of the few truly playable high ECL (basically you get racial abilities instead of a higher character level) races, thanks to their strong racial ability scores, invisibility, spell-like abilities and flight. |
| 295 | ** As of ''Heroes of the Feywild'', Pixies have become an official PC race for 4th Edition. Along with Satyrs and Hamadryad. |
| 296 | ** In ''Arcana Evolved'', the fairies are made when either "Loresong" or "Quickling" Faen, essentially Elves and Halflings, secrete a sticky substance that becomes a chrysalis, and within 7 days time, the faen permanently metamorphs into a Spryte. |
| 297 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'': In the supplement ''Tall Tales of the Wee Folk'', a centaur scholar claims that fairies are, in fact, the Immortals (gods) of a previous iteration of the multiverse. They helped nurture and preserve the Sphere of Life when opposing forces dominated the cosmos, and will do so again when the present Life-dominated reality yields to the Sphere of Death in an ever-repeating cycle. Until then, the fairy folk -- pixies, sprites, leprechauns, sidhe, wood imps, drakes, brownies, pookas -- retain their immortality but their power is diminished. |
| 298 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' finally nails down what the fey actually ''are''. They have a lot of elemental traits (but that's covered by elementals), they have a lot of nature traits (but that's covered by plants or magical beasts), and even some malific or benevolent traits (covered by fiends or angels). This is because fey are ''living stories''. A treant is a living tree, but a dryad is the ''idea'' of a living tree--which is why they are [[CuteMonsterGirl far more humanoid]]. Many parts of Thelanis (the fey plane) are absurd or completely illogical because they don't actually have to make sense; they are a story, and have no need to exist outside of that specific plot or idea they embody. Of course, problems arise when the fey end up in the mortal realm, where logic and physics are more important than theme and dramatic tension. |
| 299 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': TheFairFolk are natives of the Wyld, the unshaped ocean of potentiality outside of Creation where things like "physics" and "causality" are foreign concepts. Unlike most other beings, the Fair Folk don't have a Motivation. Rather, they have something they adopt as a passing fancy, a role they enter into because it seems dramatically appropriate at the time. Oh, and they eat souls. Basically, they're role-playing gamers, Creation is their gameworld, and your [=PCs=] are just [=NPCs=] to them. Unsurprisingly, they have a hard time with concepts like empathy and consequences. |
| 300 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Godforsaken}}'': Faeries are puckish and whimsical magic creatures resembling tiny winged humanoids. Some might only perform a silly song or follow people for a while, flitting around and asking questions like an annoying young child. Some are crueller and delight in stealing clothing, equipment or prized objects. A few are downright malicious and, under the guise of a helpful guide or a pretty light in the distance, lure lost travellers to their dooms. The less malicious ones can be bargained with using offerings of sweet foods or wine, but still tend to have short attention spans. |
| 301 | * ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', being designed as a UniversalSystem, supports all sorts of concepts of fairies, as appropriate to the setting. For example: |
| 302 | ** Fairies in ''GURPS Fantasy'' are living illusions. Their magic can be as easily destroyed by iron as they are. |
| 303 | ** Fairies in ''TabletopGame/GURPSThaumatologyAlchemicalBaroque'' are a category of supernatural being who can take a whole range of weird and wonderful shapes -- though manifesting as gigantic monsters tends to burn out their shapechanging powers, leaving them stuck as ogres, dragons, or whatever. |
| 304 | * ''TabletopGame/MiddleEarthRolePlaying'': "Fairy" is a general term used to refer to the lesser Maiar, mostly ones who are tied to nature in some way. Many played some role in shaping the world during the Elder Days, although a few are comparatively more recent spirits. Almost all the ones remaining in the world are tied to guardianship of something, usually a specific place or landform. |
| 305 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Fey are the natives of the First World, the collected amalgam of the gods' rough drafts and experiments left behind when they created the material world. The fey themselves descend from those experimental beings, including both variant versions of creatures included into finished creation and beings that never left the metaphorical sketch pad, or otherwise embody aspects of the natural world -- dryads are embodiments of arboreal plant life, for instance, while {{gr|ipingAboutGremlins}}emlins embody entropy and the tendency for complex systems to break down. The First World's status as something the gods left behind also places fey apart from the cycle of life, death and afterlife -- fey don't have souls and are usually reincarnated in the First World after death, although ones that perish in the material world risk permanent death. They're consequently unused to thinking in terms of mortality or permanent consequences, giving them a rather alien mindset from the point of view of mortals. |
| 306 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'': Faerie Folk come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. They can be less than six inches or up to three feet tall, cute or horrendous, friendly (for [[BlueAndOrangeMorality a given value of such]]) or mean, and have varying powers. And of course, this being ''Rifts'' and all, can take almost as much damage as a modern Armored Personnel Carrier. Also, don't eat their food. They seem to have a penchant for {{Visual Pun}}s involving the name of their food and what [[BodyHorror Transformations]] or charm effects it causes. For example, Tarts tend to make women extremely amorous, Burgundy wine turns you that color, and you should stay the hell away from the Frog's Legs, unless that's what you want. |
| 307 | * ''TabletopGame/TheSmallFolk'' has fairy folk whose ancestors were very traditional, but who've moved with the times to survive in the modern world. |
| 308 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Spites (often corrupted into "Sprites" in peasant folklore) are a kind of diminutive forest spirit found in woodlands throughout the Old World, and especially in the vast enchanted forest of [[EnchantedForest Athel Loren]]. They're cruel tricksters with extremely nasty tempers, and not to be trifled with lightly. They're adept shapeshifters, and can appear as glowing orbs of light, tiny elves riding beetles or black birds or skeletal horses, diminutive winged humanoids, odd-looking forest animals or anything else they've a mind to. They also tend to gather around the mightier denizens of the forest, and can often be seen nesting among the branches of treemen or clinging to the bodies of forest dragons. |
| 309 | * ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'': Both ''Changeling'' gamelines make heavy use of the Fae: |
| 310 | ** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' splits its changelings up into Kiths; the Kithain, European-style fairies, range from Boggans to [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Nockers]] to [[TheTrickster Pooka]] to [[ExtremeOmnivore Redcaps]] to [[CantArgueWithElves Sidhe]] to [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Trolls]]. And that's just the Kithain -- you've got the Nunnehi (Native American fae), the Inanimae (elemental embodiments), the Hsien (Asian "small gods")... |
| 311 | ** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has [[TheFairFolk the True Fae]], which are so different from one another as to give you whiplash. Not only that, but every single of them ends up different over the years; what may have been a man-eating giant a century ago could turn into La Belle Dame Sans Merci (or Baba Yaga). There's even a True Fae transforming robot (his alt is a motorcycle). Then you have the changelings, their escaped servants, who are split up into Seemings (general patterns of their durances in Arcadia) and Kiths (specified durances). A Ogre kept in a charnel pit may turn into a Gristlegrinder or an Oni, a Beast kept as a falcon may be a Windwing or a Cleareyes, or a Wizened forced to maintain his Keeper's estate may turn into a Chatelaine or a Drudge, or some combination if you use optional rules. And then you have the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent hobgoblins]]... |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 315 | * ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'': Most fairies are of TheFairFolk mold, but Titania's attendants are generally more common portrayed as child-sized winged creatures. |
| 316 | * ''Theatre/{{Iolanthe}}'': |
| 317 | ** Fairies are immortal beings who look like human-sized 17-year-old girls with wings, though they have the ability to shrink, and are ruled by a queen. |
| 318 | ** The title character, after marrying a mortal, has a half-fairy son named Strephon, taking the "half" part quite literally: His top half is fae while his bottom half is mortal, meaning [[BlessedWithSuck his legs will eventually age and die while his top half looks young forever]]. |
| 319 | ** Part of the plot's confusion is that Strephon's fiancé catches him [[NotWhatItLooksLike embracing his incredibly young-looking mother]] [[MistakenForRomance and assumes the worst]]. When he later explains that his mother and all of his aunts look like attractive young women, we get this exchange: |
| 320 | --> '''Phyllis''': Whenever I see you kissing a very young lady, I shall know it's an elderly relative.\ |
| 321 | '''Strephon''': You will? Then, Phyllis, I think we shall be very happy! |
| 322 | * ''Theatre/PeterPan1904'': Tinker Bell isn't a humanoid figure but just a floating point of light, and her voice is represented by the tinkling of bells. |
| 323 | * ''Theatre/LaSylphide'' (or ''The Sylph''): The protagonist falls in love with a beautiful fairy with rainbow wings. He abandons his mortal fiancee to chase after her. WickedWitch Old Madge tells him she is unable to be with him as she will always fly away. She then presents him with a magic scarf that will prevent her from flying away. [[spoiler:It makes her wings fall off and she dies]]. |
| 324 | * ''Theatre/SheKillsMonsters'': Farrah is an evil fairy who serves as one of the bosses in the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons campaign Tilly Evans created for her sister, Agnes. The character description is as follows: "A little forest faerie. Appears very young. She’s adorable, but she’s actually an angry savage in a small package." |
| 325 | [[/folder]] |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 328 | * ''VideoGame/AtelierSeries'': Fairies are males the size of little boys and dressed in green. The only exceptions are their old village leader, and the hideous muscle-bound "fairy" from ''VideoGame/ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy''. Also, despite the fact that they don't age physically, faeries can age in personality. This becomes a minor plot point in the [[VideoGame/AtelierIris3GrandPhantasm third Atelier Iris game]], in which an npc gets majorly weirded out by a fairy talking like an old man. |
| 329 | * ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has Airy, a crystal fairy [[spoiler:who turns out to be the BigBad and a despicable liar who serves an EldritchAbomination.]] |
| 330 | * ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'': Glaistain is loosely based on the glaistig, a kind of elusive fairy from the Scottish highlands. Glaistain's title is "stained glass fairy", and it vaguely resembles a WingedHumainoid with the planes of glass that float behind its back. |
| 331 | %%* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': The fairy familiar. |
| 332 | * ''VideoGame/{{Chantelise}}'': They are small {{Winged Humanoid}}s that emit fairy dust. [[spoiler:They are former humans turned into fae by being imbued with magic stones by a castle in order to seal away an Archdevil, enabling their partner to slay monsters with ease, but they die if they use up all their fairy dust]]. |
| 333 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Fairy-Type is one of the many types in Digimon. Most of them are humanoid, like Lilimon and Fairimon/Kazemon, while others resemble small animals, like Cutemon and Luminamon. |
| 334 | * ''Videogame/DonkeyKongJungleBeat'': The combo fairies resemble flying balls of light that circle around Donkey Kong in larger numbers the longer his combos get. |
| 335 | * The ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' series: Fairies appear as heroes (and therefore, usually antagonists to the player) in both games. In both games they are humanoid with dragonfly-type wings and fly, but are of a similar size to human heroes. They are potent spellcasters and fast-moving but rather weak in combat and have few hit points, making them both {{Glass Cannon}}s and {{Fragile Speedster}}s. In both games, they can be converted to the player's side. |
| 336 | * ''VideoGame/EternalSenia'': Little Fairy, about hands-sized and her Queen, human-sized appear in multiple games: |
| 337 | ** ''VideoGame/EternalSenia1'': The Fairy Forest is the first area of the Tower that Senia ascends. |
| 338 | ** ''VideoGame/EternalSeniaHydrangeaAfterTheRain'': Elemental Fairy Queens appear, in Fire, Water, Wind, Light, and Dark versions, also having their own appearances. |
| 339 | * In ''VideoGame/FaeryLegendsOfAvalon'', the titular faeries come in various shapes and sizes. The player character is small by human standards, but there are faeries who are even smaller. Their wings and other attributes vary, but are generally insect-derived (dragonflies, butterflies, etc). They can also be a variety of colours — your own character can be particularly striking, if you use the [[CharacterCustomization character creator]]. They range in attractiveness from FairySexy to {{Gonk}}. |
| 340 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 341 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'': A fairy gives the player an item that enables them to breathe underwater. |
| 342 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'': They inhabit the Living Wood and will give the player a gift if they save their home. |
| 343 | ** They appear as enemies in ''Final Fantasy Legend II'' and ''III'''. |
| 344 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'': Faerie is a summon and heals the party. She has wings of a bird rather than the traditional dragonfly or butterfly wings. |
| 345 | ** There's the recurring summon Sylph that appears either as one or a group of fairies. The traditional attack "Whispering Wind" drains HP from the enemy and gives it to the party. In ''Revenant Wings'' Sylph instead deals non-elemental damage with "Aero". |
| 346 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' reintroduces Sylphs as a beast tribe that reside in the Black Shroud who tend to shun human contact outside of one village. The expansion ''Shadowbringers'' also introduces fae folk in the region of Il Mheg, including the Pixies, mischievous sprites that like to play games and pranks with any mortals that cross their path. |
| 347 | * ''VideoGame/{{Folklore}}'': Fairies are wingless creatures who are roughly three feet tall, and only appear in TheLostWoods-like "Faery Realm". Some are helpful to you, while others (later in the game) are not. |
| 348 | * ''VideoGame/HelensMysteriousCastle'': The FairyCompanion of Zack, who has NoNameGiven. She's a small WingedHumanoid can fly and carry Zack with her. |
| 349 | * ''VideoGame/HuniePop'': Kyu is a love fairy, which means basically she goes out to hopeless young men and helps them find romance. She can also produce a device for tracking women, and turn invisible and change colour at will. She's also TheLadette. |
| 350 | -->'''Kyu:''' ''[after eating pizza]'' "Mmmmmm, ''fuck'', that's good! Yo, I'm about to bust a nut over here!" |
| 351 | * In ''VideoGame/LaMulana'', once you get the Diviner Sensation ROM (or Isis's Pendant in the remake), you can summon fairies to restore your health and, by equipping it with another [=ROM=] at specific spots, key fairies which unlock many things necessary for HundredPercentCompletion. |
| 352 | * ''VideoGame/LaTale'', [[ElementalEmbodiment sylphs]] show up in this form on the icons for all of the Wizard's Wind skills, as well as generic fire [[SpellMyNameWithAnS faeries]] in the Lair of the Evil Dragon instance, and [[NoExportForYou eventually]] the Xenadia area. |
| 353 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': In the original games, fairies simply restored hearts. Starting with the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', the Great Fairies can also grant gifts, like extra powers and more item carrying capacity. In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' we meet fairies who have been broken apart into dozens of littler fairies, and you had to restore them. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' introduces the Queen of the Fairies, who looks like a little girl. Also, they constantly switch from being winged to wingless and having insect-like antennae or not. |
| 354 | ** And of course there's the [[SparkFairy spark fairies]] seen from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' onwards with the little butterfly wings. |
| 355 | ** The true form of Veran, [[EvilSorceress Sorceress of Shadows]] and BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]'', is that of an evil fairy. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/MarchenForestMylneAndTheForestGift'': The mushroom creature is called a fairy in the original and a sprite in the remaster. |
| 357 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'': Sol Titanion is a fire-specialized robot who is inspired by the fairy queen Titania. |
| 358 | * ''VideoGame/{{Meteos}}'': The planet Vubble is home to a species of bubble-like StarfishAliens that resemble fairies. They are 10 cm in height, breathe out bubbles, sport butterfly wings, loathe all sharp objects, and spend their free time skating on the surface of Vubble's foamy oceans. |
| 359 | * In ''VideoGame/Mother3'', the "fairies", called Magypsies, look like men in heavy makeup and dresses. Apparently, they transcend mortal genders as well as mortal lifespans. |
| 360 | * In ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'', fairies are odd lumps with varying shapes and sizes (though even the tallest ones are shorter than human children), have a love for comedy, speak in welsh accents, frequently use the word "tidy!" and are a [[OneGenderRace all male]] with the exception of the Fairy Godmother, who is a mountain-sized face that holds what looks like a kindergarten inside it, where she keeps the egg-shaped baby fairies until they are old enough to fend for themselves, after which she proceeds to fire them from the chimney on her top so they can land on a nearby river. |
| 361 | * ''VideoGame/NobodySavesTheWorld'': On the map, fairies look like balls of pale blue light with butterfly wings. Talking to them shows that they look more like shady drug dealers (''also'' with butterfly wings). Each fairy increases your maximum mana and finding them all is one of the sidequests. |
| 362 | * Willo from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' is a fairy who looks like a [[PlantPeople plant-based organism]], with her clothes and body appearing to be merged to a certain degree. She may be the size of a small child, but with her wand and seedlings, she's a powerful damage champion that specializes in explosive area damage. |
| 363 | * ''VideoGame/PanelDePon'': Ruby is the stereotypical winged fairy. The other non-villanous playable characters, and the final boss, are fairies as well, but they look more like [[PointyEars long-eared]] humans. |
| 364 | * ''VideoGame/{{Plantasia}}'': Holly, the player character, looks almost exactly like a normal human, albeit with pointed ears and pink hair. She can apparently pull clothes out of nowhere to disguise herself as a human, as seen in the intro of the game, and can make multiple shovels, watering cans, weeding tools, and extermination tools work simultaneously on the field, depending on how many of the tool she has and how many are available for her to use at the time. She can also fly or at least hover, despite having no visible wings. |
| 365 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' have always had a few creatures that are based on fairies and fairy-like creatures. Many of them are [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter small adorable creatures]] like the Clefairy, Roselia, and Snorunt lines. All of them belong to an egg group (a classification of Pokemon that can [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction breed with each other]]) called the Fairy egg group (including SeriesMascot Pikachu). It wasn't until ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' that Fairy was introduced as an actual type in order to [[{{Nerf}} combat the overpowered]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon-types]], and many older Pokemon [[{{Retcon}} were given the new type]]. These range from the previously mentioned Clefairy line to more mystic ones like the Ralts line and devious ones like Mawile. The Fairy-types introduced in later generations include the elegant and stately Flabébé line, the mischievous key-stealing Klefki, the Cutiefly line, which approaches the traditional WingedHumanoid image by way of being a humanoid bee, and the [[OlympusMons Legendary Pokémon]] Xerneas, [[TheMarvelousDeer a massive deer]] and effectively a god of rebirth. Outwardly malevolent ones were also introduced, namely the soul-eating Morelull line, the silent, territorial, witch-styled Hatenna line, and the violent, aggressive, and mischievous Impidimp line. Fairy-types are vulnerable to Steel-type attacks, as a nod to fairies' weakness to ColdIron, and to Poison-type ones, representing nature's weakness to pollution. And then there's Galarian Weezing. A pair of floating sea mines stuck together (as with normal Weezing), now sporting top hat shaped chimmneys and moustaches of pea souper smog. And it's a Poison/Fairy type. |
| 366 | * The ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker'' series: They have PointyEars and are {{Winged Humanoid}}s: |
| 367 | ** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker1'': In ''Refine'', there's Martial Arts Tournament contestant, Tiny Fairy Spring Wind. |
| 368 | ** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker3'': Ruled by a queen, as seen in the opening, and can have unnatural hair colors. |
| 369 | * ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'': Big fairies, small fairies, fairies with wings, fairies with tails, fairies that glow, fairies that don't, fairies with or without silly hats. You name it. |
| 370 | * ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': Fairies are tiny, flying, mostly-female humanoids, who live in a blue-tinted magical kingdom where sheep and cows can talk. The fairies are responsible for things like the weather changing, crops growing and teeth being collected. There is also a Faerie Mafia. |
| 371 | * In ''VideoGame/ShiningTheHolyArk'' you can capture various types of "pixies". The Pixie a blond that looks like she's wearing a swimsuit; the Fairy a "traditional" looking fairy; the Succubus a green haired woman that shows a lot of ass; the Incubus a male fairy and the Leprechaun who looks as you would expect. You would collect each type and unleash them just before a battle to cause quick damage. The direction the enemy would enter the screen would indicate which type of fairy to use. Once you had all 50 pixies you could visit the queen of the pixies to get a magic wand that would allow you to attack with all 50 pixies at once, no matter the direction the enemy entered the battle. |
| 372 | * ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' offers a wide selection of TheFairFolk to serve as the Fairy race, from the standard Pixie, to Oberon and Titania themselves, to Trolls and Jack Frost. Other entities commonly associated with the race such as Setanta and Tam Lin sometimes join them. |
| 373 | * ''VideoGame/TheSims3'': Fairies are introduced in the ''Supernatural'' expansion pack. They look like normal sims, except with wings of different colors and shapes. They have various nature-related abilities and live 5 times as long as normal Sims. |
| 374 | * ''VideoGame/SolomonsKey'': Fairies are summoned by obtaining the Bell of Lyrac, and collecting ten fairies gives Dana an extra life. |
| 375 | %%* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'': Fairies mostly serve as checkpoints. |
| 376 | * ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'': The UsefulNotes/GameboyAdvance installment gives you fairy units, and they are typical foot-tall-winged-girl {{Squishy Wizard}}s. One hit splatters them but they make for good [[TheMedic healers.]] |
| 377 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Fairies are depicted as being childlike in both appearance and personality. However, they possess ResurrectiveImmortality, as when they die they will just respawn elsewhere. Gameplay-wise, this makes them the perfect {{Mook}}s for the heroines to mow through. In general, fairies are pranksters, childish, and have limited capabilities to learn from experience. They're also at the bottom of the ladder when it comes to power (with some exceptions, like Clownpiece). Setting-wise, fairies are actually the embodiment of life and nature, and thus have the power to control lifeforce (they're just too stupid to realize that). A lifeless land will become a lush, fertile land when fairies inhabit it. Special mention deserves to go to Cirno, one of the franchise's more popular characters. She calls herself the strongest being in Gensokyo, [[BoisterousWeakling but is only a Stage 2 boss at best]]; on the other hand, it has been noted by other characters that she's abnormally strong for a fairy. She also calls herself a genius, which is only true when compared to other fairies, since she's literate and her attention span is slightly longer than average. Since she's immortal like all fairies, her GaidenGame ''Fairy Wars'' doesn't use a LifeMeter, but rather a "Motivation Meter", and if it empties [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny she forgets what she was doing]] [[NonStandardGameOver and wanders off to do something else]]. |
| 378 | * ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', faeries (spelled as such in-game) protect the [[WorldTree Mana Tree]] and require Mana to live. They can harmlessly inhabit the head of a human, allowing them to live away from the Sanctuary of Mana for extended periods of time, but can't inhabit a new human until the chosen human dies. And the one faerie who follows around the heroes [[spoiler:eventually becomes the new Mana Goddess.]] |
| 379 | * ''VideoGame/ValleyOfUnicorns'': The spring fairies are horses with fairy wings. They're the second least common species on the site in terms of color variations, and the majority have been released only during events or for real-money purchases. |
| 380 | * ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': Emil's information on the various types of Mana that can be used for crafting, discusses a lot about fairies, such as: |
| 381 | --> '''Raw Mana:''' Fairies are known to carry mana. The weaker the fairy, the less concentrated the mana.\ |
| 382 | So you might want to look for the weakest fairies, like the forest pixies in the Green Vein. |
| 383 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'': Faeries are a playable race in later games. Their small size restricts them from most weapons and armor, but they make excellent mages, priests, and (funnily enough) ninjas. |
| 384 | * ''VideoGame/ZanZarahTheHiddenPortal'': Fairies are small beings with magic powers that can move between [[AnotherDimension astral plane]] where the duel battles take place and [[MagicalLand Zanzarah]]. There are 77 types of fairies that belong to 12 diferent elements. Some look like stereotypical WingedHumanoid with butterfly or bird wings, but others look like polar bears, mushrooms, fish, dragons, demons, undead, and other bizarre creatures. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 388 | * ''Webcomic/AddictiveScience'': Fairies, at least in Geenie's universe, are [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/page1112/ mothlike insects]] with immense magical power. |
| 389 | * ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'': In the fairy-tale and space arcs, fairies look like [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0423.htm this]]. (In the contemporary arc the same beings are fictional aliens from Merlin's [and now Arthur's] webcomic.) |
| 390 | * ''Webcomic/AtArmsLength'': |
| 391 | ** Greg is a college-frat type transformed into the winged human-sized variety, [[http://atarmslength.smackjeeves.com/comics/1453581/fairy-tale-2/ and he's none to pleased about it.]] |
| 392 | ** Plus Britt and 2Q, who are of the cute winged pixie variety. |
| 393 | * ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'': The faeries of Kellwood are split into the Seelie and Unseelie courts and are size shifting humanoids with butterfly like wings and an attraction to power. |
| 394 | * ''Webcomic/CityOfTrees'' uses the term "fae" to describe beautiful, humanoid being with pointed ears and strange defining features. In this story, fae stand out as industry titans, having replaced iron in this world with a faerie-friendly material from their wold called "titanium." |
| 395 | * ''Webcomic/DailyGrind'': Since all characters are [[FunnyAnimal talking animals]], the Fae are big glowing spiders. They also claim to have no free will but say that they're animated by the spirit of [[{{God}} Lord Cyrios]] in everything they do. |
| 396 | * ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': Any humanoid or animal with an aura is counted as a fae. The drowalath (black drow), drowussu (grey drow) and vanir (light elves) are the dominant kinds. There are also tiny fairies, also known as Locust Queens, who are small humanoid/insect hybrids and are considered vermin by the drow. |
| 397 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': |
| 398 | ** Nanase's Fairy Doll Spell causes her mind to temporarily leaves her body to inhabit a tiny version of herself with wings. Great for communication/scouting, not so great for fighting. |
| 399 | ** The introvert Dex gains summoning magic through mysterious means. His main summon is a fairy companion, since he's lonely. He acknowledges that she's not a real fairy, and is guided by his own desire for friendship. |
| 400 | ** [[spoiler:Susan has an item-summoning spell that, when she tries to summon one of Nanase's Fairy Dolls, winds up creating a fairy not unlike Dex's, which independently acts on the emotions and desires [[BrokenBird Susan herself doesn't want to express]].]] |
| 401 | ** Eventually, it's revealed that there are, in fact, real fairies. [[spoiler:They're the "immortals" that have been part of the storyline all along. Why they stopped using that name is unclear, but Heka insists on continuing to use it, on the grounds that there's more than one type of creature with immortality and they need to have distinct names.]] |
| 402 | * ''Webcomic/{{Footloose}}'': The Fey are fairly badass swords-and-sorcery fairies. Smart people don't mess with them. |
| 403 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' has "Regional Fairies". They have spots on their shoulders showing which "region" they live in. They learn magic and make their own wings, and they don't gain ''names'' until they've come of age. ''Webcomic/CityFace'' shows the regional fairies offering important advice to pigeons and magpies. Their dialogue hints that they don't distinguish between lengths of space and lengths of time -- and the twin sisters Ogee and Torus can never be seen at the same time by humans, because they occupy the same space and time, but at different periods along a non-linear time scale. |
| 404 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 405 | ** Tavros is mildly obsessed with insect-winged, ''Peter Pan''-esque fairies. The narration usually goes out of its way, on occasions when these come up, to point out the fairies' dual attributes of being a) lovely, and b) fake and imaginary. |
| 406 | ** Trolls who reach the god tiers develop transparent butterfly-like wings tinted with their blood colors; some, such as Tavros' ancestor the Summoner, seemingly grow them naturally. Trolls with such wings are often described as or referred to as fairies. |
| 407 | * ''Webcomic/MyRoommateIsAnElf'' features a pixie named Flint. He's very small and from a distance resembles a glowing shape with wings. Griswold, the elf, rescued him some time before the comic began and is very protective of him, threatening Dearg after Dearg tried to eat him. |
| 408 | * ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'': [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-02.html The innkeeper expects a disguised fairy who reward the kind and generous after testing them in disguise.]] |
| 409 | * ''Webcomic/NothingSpecial'': They're split into four classes of ElementalPowers: Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Though Hybrids are rare. One of the main character, Declan, turns out to be one of such. Able to wield Earth and Fire. He's also much taller then most, being a HalfHumanHybrid as well. |
| 410 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has Celia, an air elemental sylph (originally one of matched set of four). She sometimes [[IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat forgets the differences]] between herself and mortal creatures. |
| 411 | * ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' (and it's spin offs like ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'') has TheFairFolk type and most are human sized and wingless (pointy ears are common but not required) except to date the Green Fairy who is small winged and FairySexy. |
| 412 | * ''Webcomic/{{Seekers}}'': Giselda is a Wingling, not a Fairy. And she'll be sure to correct you. |
| 413 | * ''Webcomic/SoDamnBright'': Flikker and others seem to be basically humans with some unspecified difference and butterfly wings growing from their backs. No magic powers or ability to fly has been shown, and they seem to have sexual relations with humans (a dating site asks if you are looking for "fae" or "anthro", and on another occasion Flikker mentions that one of the other human characters didn't strike her as the sort who might be "faesexual" ). Flikker sheds her lower wings at one stage, this apparently being a mark of ageing or growing up. Fairies seem to shed and regrow their wings from time to time. |
| 414 | * ''Webcomic/TheStrangeTalesOfOscarZahn'': In the past, the Fey once walked alongside mankind when they were still aware of the existence of forces beyond mortal comprehension. At some point, such knowledge was lost to humanity, leaving the Fey to pick up on their work alone. In the present, Sebastian is the last one remaining to shepherd the dead as the rest left the world behind. |
| 415 | * ''Webcomic/VirtualPetPlanet'': The wold has a race of Pixies that basically run everything. Some of them even sell curious wares. |
| 416 | * ''Webcomic/TheWeave'': Called fairies, though technically they are more of TheFairFolk: Human-sized, very beautiful, pointy-eared, don't have wings (in default mode at least), can have unusual eye or hair colors and some non-human features (at least one of them has been seen with antlers), and all of them are capable of doing magic in some way, i. e. [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform themselves]]. They are definitely ''not'' the sunny, wish-fulfilling sort of fairies, but more likely the sort of people who'd abduct you and leave you lost in the deep dark woods. |
| 417 | * ''Webcomic/TheWolfAtWestonCourt'': Faeries are [[OneGenderRace all-female]] human-sized creatures with pointed ears, retractable wings, and a penchant for gun powder. They have no apparent ''magical'' advantage over other races, but they pride themselves in their powerful military. At the time of the story, they wear World War I-esque uniforms (with open backs for the wings) and their canon accent is standard American. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 421 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Eleenin's fairies are summoned to help in combat, rather than being a FairyCompanion. Also, they're transparent. |
| 422 | * Website/Everything2 has detailed [[FauxToGuide instructions]] of how to [[BlackComedy gather]] [[http://everything2.com/title/Pixie+dust#DonJaime pixie dust]]. |
| 423 | * ''Felarya'' has size-changing, man-eating fairies. |
| 424 | * In ''[[https://horrorflora.com/monster-menageries/midgaheim/ The Midgaheim Bestiary]]'', fairies, or TheFairFolk, are a loose and diverse group of beings native to FairyLand. They are descended from natives of the physical world that remained stranded in Fairyland for whatever reason, eventually becoming mutated and spiritually altered by the omnipresent magic there. Some are still recognizable as members of a specific group of living things, while others have become mutated beyond recognition. Most fairies lose their powers if they spend too much time in the mundane world, and the more magical or mutated kinds aren't very well suited for surviving there at all in the long term. They cannot lie or go back on their word -- a fairy that breaks an oath risks being destroyed by magical backlash. They're divided in several types, based off of their origins, role in Fairyland's ecosystems and societies, and general appearance. |
| 425 | ** Boogeymen are a family of fairies that includes [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]], bugbears, [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] and [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], and specialize in forming connections between Fairyland and the mortal world or subsuming small portions of mundane reality into the fairy world to maintain some measure of internal stability there. They're generally looked down on in fairy society, despite the importance of their role, and are the type of fairy most attuned to life in the physical world. |
| 426 | ** Humanoid fairies are the classic tiny winged humanoids. They're descendants of mundane animals and plants that mutated to take on humanoid shapes, and generally form the middle class and lower aristocracy of fairy society. |
| 427 | ** [[OurElvesAreDifferent High elves]], or human fairies, descend from humans who became trapped in Fairyland. They're highly magical and often the rulers of Seelie fairy courts, and their difficulty in surviving outside of Fairyland means that they tend to rely on servants and minions to interact with the human world. |
| 428 | ** Bestial fairies resemble normal or monstrous animals with minimal or no anthropomorphic traits. They otherwise think and behave like normal fairies, and many can shapeshift into regular animals. Kelpies belong to this family. |
| 429 | ** Monstrous fairies, such as nuckelavees, are the oldest inhabitants of Fairyland, and are so highly mutated that it's effectively impossible to determine their mortal ancestors or their position in taxonomy. They are very powerful, and tend to rule Unseelie fairy courts. |
| 430 | ** Occult fairies, such as [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshees]], are closely tied with death and the afterlife and are halfway to being undead themselves. Their link to one of the cardinal truths of mortal life means that they also tend to be more mentally grounded than other fairies. |
| 431 | * ''WebVideo/MittenSquad'': [[https://youtu.be/pBCK54qMwbQ?t=255 "Blueberries & Fairies"]], where the movie, ''Film/TheToothFairy'', is mentioned. |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 435 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvezVousDejaVu'' features two. One, "la fée fagot" (the faggot[[note]]In the British sense of "bundle of sticks"[[/note]] fairy), is the "tiny flying humanoid" type and grants wishes, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext but only to wood]] ([[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]] is a frequent recipient/victim). The other, human-sized, is a [[TheSlacker lazy bum]] who uses magic to do everything without ever getting up from her couch. |
| 436 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'': A fairy befriends Flora in "Adventures on Big Island". |
| 437 | * Franchise/{{Barbie}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} movies]]: |
| 438 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieFairytopia'' has Barbie and friends as fairies. |
| 439 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAFairySecret'' has Barbie and friends as fairies. |
| 440 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BarbiePresentsThumbelina'': Thumbelina and her friends are part of a species known as the Twillerbees. Twillerbees are no larger than a grown human's hand, have wings, and have a magical connection with nature. On one hand, they can make plants grow faster, on the other Twillerbabies are born from flowers. |
| 441 | * The fairies on ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'' have PointyEars and cookie-like wings. However, Butterbean and her friends are the only fairies consistently shown flying. |
| 442 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' is about fairies that have taken up the task of watching over a miserable human child in need. There is, however, a distinction between a fairy and a fairy godparent. Fairies are able to roam free in fairy world, living as they please. By going to the Fairy Academy, a fairy can become a fairy godparent and get assigned to a godchild. Fairy godparents have more power in reality warping than normal fairies, and are trained in happy wishmaking, as shown in "This Is Your Wish". The leader of the fairies is a muscular Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger-inspired character named Jorgen Von Strangle. This is because creator Creator/ButchHartman thought it would be funny to have the fairy leader be someone you'd least expect, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first thing that came to his mind. |
| 443 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FillyFuntasia'', Fairies are actually another ''race'' of Filly entirely. One of the main characters, Will, is one of them. |
| 444 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''' "Third Race" aka "Oberon's Children" leans more towards TheFairFolk variety: AllMythsAreTrue (though not necessarily "accurate"), and these "fairies" basically include all sorts of legendary creatures, from Norse and Egyptian gods to Shakespearean characters. |
| 445 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': One episode briefly features an actual fairy, which is accidentally killed by Soos, to the horror of the twins. In another episode, one acts as a mosquito and tries to bite Stan, and it's later shown that fairy dust acts as as {{unicorn}} knock-out gas. |
| 446 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has an in-universe example. In Tofoten, fairies are depicted as tiny winged humanoids. In truth, [[spoiler:most of them are former humans, abducted through the watchtowers, while the naturally born fairies have PointyEars and blue hair]]. |
| 447 | * ''WesternAnimation/AKindOfMagic'': Willow is a humanoid fairy. |
| 448 | * ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'': |
| 449 | ** The G3 and G4 iterations have fairy-like creatures called "Breezies". Basically they're ponies with antennae and insect wings, much like stereotypical fairies. |
| 450 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' also has changelings, who are closer to TheFairFolk. They resemble a cross between [[BigCreepyCrawlies winged-insects]] and [[BodyHorror partially decomposed corpses of ponies]]. They have the ability to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting perfectly mimic a pony's appearance]] (although [[LackOfEmpathy their nasty personalities]] give them away) and can become more powerful as [[EmotionEater they feed on someone's love]]. Their favorite tactic is draining the love from others that is intended for the one [[ChangelingTale they captured and copied]][[spoiler:which is what they did to Princess Cadence before her wedding.]] |
| 451 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{The Owl House}}'': Upon arriving in the Boiling Isles, Luz bumps into a seemingly innocent fairy, who then proceeds to [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily bare a mouthful of giant teeth]] and [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment screams to have her skin.]] |
| 452 | * ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': |
| 453 | ** The Three Good Fairies and Maleficent from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' appear alongside [[SixthRangerTraitor Miss Nettle]]; Tinker Bell (due to sharing continuity with ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''), which may possibly also include [[Franchise/DisneyFairies the Pixie Hollow fairies]]; fliegels (such as Grotta), the small, obnoxious and pesty, prankster kind of fairies; fairies from the Mystic Isles (including [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the Sugar Plum Fairy]]), where fairies can age and have children, have to earn their wings by winning the Fairy Cup, and seem to have an attribute system similar to the Pixie Hollow fairies' talents, albeit much more broad (such as being [[DreamingOfThingsToCome Dream Fairies]]); fairy godmothers like WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'s or Ruby's (Tizzy); and Merryweather mentions having wanted to be a tooth fairy in one episode |
| 454 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Orizaba]] is a moth fairy. She is resembles a deathly pale woman with giant moth wings, and due to being a nocturnal being who can only survive in the shade (especially during solar eclipses), she is WeakenedByTheLight. She's also a powerful magic user whose power would otherwise surpass that of the {{Big Bad}}s and could only be defeated by the ancient Maruvians in the previous solar eclipse by stalling her out until the eclipse ended. |
| 455 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' fairies are human-sized [[MagicalGirl Magical Girls]] from different planets all around the Magic Dimension. Though they're not always nice, they usually try to help people and protect the realms from evil. They also only have wings when they're transformed. |
| 456 | %%* The fairies from the Amalgamated Do-Gooding Fairies in ''Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?'' |
| 457 | [[/folder]] |
| 458 | |
| 459 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 460 | * The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies Cottingley Fairies]] were supposedly photos of actual fairies (small and winged, not the [[TheFairFolk other]] [[TheWildHunt kind]]) in 1917. A numbers of celebrities were caught up in the hype, including Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, before the cousins who took the photos confessed they were fake. They still claimed to have seen actual fairies, and one cousin would later insist that [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Cottingley-sunbath.jpg one]] of the pictures (the lowest-quality one, incidentally) was real. Also served as the inspiration for [[DuelingMovies two]] films in [[ExtyYearsFromPublication 1997]]: ''Photographing Fairies'' and ''Film/FairytaleATrueStory''. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
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