Line #27 YMMV/DisneyFairies


1	!!General
2	* AdaptationalDisplacement: Many book-only characters like Rani and Prilla are obscure due to the films being more popular than the original books.
3	* {{Adorkable}}: Chloe is new and eager to do her best, making her this. Her nervous, but genuine, enthusiasm in ''The Pixie Hollow Games'' is a shining example of the trope.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Mark Cote, Denise Shimabukuro (character designer), David Christiana (cover artist), Judith Holmes Clark (cover artist), Charles Pickens (cover artist), and Adrienne Brown (cover artist) all do an excellent job of capturing the mystical and whimisical lives of the Never Fairies.
5	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
6	** [[SameCharacterButDifferent Tinker Bell.]] In the [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan original]] [[WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverland movies]], she was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a HairTriggerTemper who attempted to outright [[WouldHurtAChild kill]] Wendy because [[ClingyJealousGirl she was jealous of her getting close to Peter]]. Meanwhile, she's shown to be a CuteClumsyGirl, NiceGirl, AllLovingHero, and sometimes a whimsical soul in the Disney Fairies franchise. ''Disney Fairies'' either just characterized her in what was best marketable to little girls, depicted Tink before she lost her innocence in whatever tragedy that fan theories like to make, and/or showed Tinker Bell as a multifaceted person. There's also the fact that [[SuddenlyVoiced she speaks]] unlike in the original ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' film and most other Disney media. Some don't mind her having a voice and find it to be a necessity given that she's the main protagonist, while others feel her having a voice is an insult to the original intention with Tink and takes away much of what made her fun in the original material. (The later films do show that the fairies' speech is only intelligible to themselves, and sounds like small bells ringing to humans, as was the case in the original JM Barrie story, so the full voice is really TranslationConvention.)
7	** Vidia. Is she a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who doesn't wholly deserve her reputation, or an unrepentant {{Jerkass}} and KarmaHoudini who never learns her lesson? Not helping matters is the fact that her level of niceness and jerkassery [[DependingOnTheWriter changes constantly]] from book to book, and she's pretty much a completely different character in the movies.
8	* CultClassic: The franchise isn't nearly as popular or as well known as other Disney franchises and was QuietlyCancelled due to poor sales, but the charming and interesting setting, on top of the fun cast of characters has led to it gaining a small cult following amongst Disney fans, especially amongst those who are already fans of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''.
9	* BrokenBase: There's a split between book fans and film fans due to the {{Canon Foreigner}}s of the movies replacing several AdaptedOut characters. There's a similar split between fans of Gail Carson Levine's original trilogy and fans of the later LighterAndSofter books.
10	* FandomRivalry: The book fandom and the movie fandom sometimes fall into this, and there are regular arguments over which adaptation is better. That being said, plenty of people enjoy both.
11	* FandomSpecificPlot: Several:
12	** A fairy is born with a new talent that's either incredibly rare or has never been seen before. Fan talents tend to be of the StoryBreakerPower variety, with many being much better versions of canon talents or simply [[AllYourPowersCombined combinations of multiple powerful talents]]. Popular talents are {{poison\|ousPerson}} and [[PlayingWithFire fire]].
13	** In particular, an original fairy character being a fire-talent and causing trouble by either being an omen of doom or just having PowerIncontinence. This became AscendedFanon when ''Never Girls'' introduced Pixie Hollow's first-ever fire-talent fairy, Necia.
14	** A character from the main cast turns out to have a sister, who is usually extremely powerful and sometimes dangerous. Queen Clarion having a secret EvilTwin is probably a common enough plot to be a FandomSpecificPlot all its own.
15	* FanficFuel:
16	** Only a couple of talents are ever explored, and lore books list many groups of talents that the movies and the original three novels never even mentioned. There's plenty of room for fanfic writers to make original characters that work in those talents, or just invent completely new talents.
17	** With the movie's reveal that fairies can have siblings, it's not uncommon for fanfiction authors to invent sisters for other characters in the main cast.
18	** Gail Carson Levine's books say that there are multiple other types of fairies on Never Land, but the Pixie Hollow fairies and their shallow, lazy Great Wanded counterparts are the only ones to receive significant page time, leaving fans to speculate on what the others might be like.
19	** Some books state that there was "a great battle" some time between the movies and the books, which killed many fairies and destroyed most of Pixie Hollow, thus explaining the differences between the two halves of the franchise. The audience receives no further details about said battle, including why it happened or what the two sides were. Fanfiction authors have plenty of room to invent their own fantasy wars.
20	* FanNickname:
21	** For those familiar with ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', guess who's called the [[Music/JesseMcCartney "Roxas]] Fairy"?
22	** Who doesn't want to call young James Pirate [[Creator/TomHiddleston Loki]]?
23	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The franchise enjoys a good amount of popularity in Japan, as several manga were made based on it and the franchise is planned to get a ride themed around it in Tokyo [=DisneySea=] as part of the Fantasy Springs expansion, even though the franchise had concluded and died out in the West several years prior.
24	* GirlShowGhetto: Despite the franchise's general appeal to everyone, the feminine aspects are heavily played up in advertising and merchandise, which may have hurt the franchise in the long run.
25	* OlderThanTheyThink:
26	** Some have criticized the film for using "fairy" to refer to the main characters and their magic dust as opposed to "pixie" as was the case in Disney's ''Peter Pan'' films. However, this is actually TruerToTheText, as J. M. Barrie's original ''Peter Pan'' books had used "fairy" instead of "pixie", which was made up for Disney's film.
27	** Although Tinker Bell was known for being TheVoiceless prior to this franchise, she has spoken in several comics from the 1950s released shortly after the original ''Peter Pan'' film, years before the franchise was conceptualized. She also speaks in the original book of ''Peter Pan'', although just in the fairy language that sounds like tinkling bells to anyone who doesn't understand it (the latter is shown to be the case in this series, especially in ''The Pirate Fairy''.)
28	** The setting of Pixie Hollow also predates the franchise by several decades and even the release of ''Peter Pan'' itself by a month, as an early version of Pixie Hollow called Pixieland appears in a 1953 comic titled ''[[https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Wendy_and_Tinker_Bell_in_Pixieland Wendy and Tinker Bell in Pixieland]]''. Pixieland is also shown to have a reigning queen, predating Queen Clarion by several decades.
29	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: How some feel about Tinker Bell being SuddenlyVoiced, on top of having become [[TookALevelInKindness nicer]] compared to how she was depicted in ''Peter Pan''.
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31	!!Books
32	* DesignatedVillain: Arguably Clarion in ''Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand'' when she used her wish to shrink the hawks so they wouldn't eat fairies anymore. This is treated by others like it was an act of cruelty, even though hawks in this universe are sentient and perfectly capable of surviving without eating fairies but do nevertheless.
33	%%** Almost always Vidia, though less so in ''The Great Fairy Rescue'' (later stories turn her into a more grouchy protagonist than the villain), and Ginger in ''Dulcie's Taste of Magic''.
34	* EnsembleDarkHorse: Rani and Prilla are among the most popular book-exclusive fairies, Rani largely because of the arc where she sacrifices her wings for Pixie Hollow, and Prilla because of her unique talent, cute design, and GenkiGirl personality. Both characters were AdaptedOut of the movies and eventually sidelined from the franchise in favor of movie-exclusive fairies, but they retained a small, dedicated contingent of fans throughout, and their return in the ''Never Girls'' books was met with happiness.
35	* GeniusBonus: Some of the fairies' names are references to things many readers wouldn't get on first glance.
36	** There's an instrument-maker called Strad, presumably in reference to Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier.
37	** One of the nurses is called Poppy, possibly in reference to opium and other narcotics/traditional medicines derived from poppies.
38	* InferredHolocaust:
39	** The fairies being subjected to a hurricane, a flood, and an escaped dragon in the span of what seems to be several months or years could not have been helpful to society as a whole, and it's mentioned that multiple people died in each of those events.
40	** It's also stated in some tie-in material that the movies are prequels to the books, and the reason the movie and book versions of Pixie Hollow are so different has to do with a massive volcanic eruption that happened in the TimeSkip between them. This explanation implies that the movie-exclusive characters don't appear in the books because they ''died in the eruption.'' It also explains why the book characters act more jaded, aggressive, and self-sufficient than their movie counterparts; of course book Tinker Bell would carry around a knife and have no qualms about stabbing animals to death if she lived through a regional apocalypse.
41	* JustHereForGodzilla: Everyone has a particular fairy that they want to show up in each book. Rani and Prilla are two of the most popular, as they [[AdaptedOut don't exist in the movie canon]], so the books are really the only place they get to have ADayInTheLimelight.
42	* ValuesDissonance: In-universe:
43	** Peter Pan brings Gwendolyn to visit him, but he has no concept of passing time and changing cultural values, so he expects her to behave just like Wendy did. Gwendolyn, meanwhile, has no interest in playing mother to the Lost Boys or cleaning up their messes, and she doesn't know or want to learn how to darn socks. Peter is confused and surprised by this.
44	** The fairies [[DependingOnTheWriter generally]] don't have the same ideas of etiquette as humans do, so they come across as rude to humans, while humans come across as weird to them.
45	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The books have their moments, especially Gail Carson Levine's trilogy. For an innocent series about fairies, it has a surprising amount of blood, gore, and character deaths. BloodlessCarnage and NeverSayDie are ''completely'' averted, and although some of the deaths amount to peaceful "fading away," others are violent and scary, like the shoemaker who drowns and the flutist that burns to death. Later books and adaptations seem to have taken note of the fact that the violence is too intense for the age range the series is aimed at (or at least too upsetting to [[MoralGuardians their parents]]) and toned things down accordingly, becoming LighterAndSofter until the franchise was discontinued.
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47	!!Films
48	* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Parents who were forced to watch these movies with their children have come up with all manner of alternate Aesops, ranging from "your life is predestined, accept it already" to "Pixie Hollow is a commune and Tinker Bell is communist propaganda." These are ''mostly'' ironic, but searching for "Tinker Bell" and "communism" pulls up a variety of thinkpieces that play this straight.
49	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "The Frigate That Flies" from ''The Pirate Fairy'', an upbeat pirate shanty sung by Creator/TomHiddleston himself.
50	** ''Pixie Hollow Games''’s “Dig Down Deeper”, a rhythmic sports anthem by Creator/{{Zendaya}}.
51	* CrackShip: For a while, Queen Clarion was shipped with the Minister of Spring, until ''Secret of the Wings'' introduced Lord Milori and revealed that she and Lord Milori are an OfficialCouple.
52	* CrossoverShip: Shipping the ''Disney Fairies'' with either ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'' characters or ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'' characters.
53	* FanficFuel: Every 972 years, Gruff must go through something similar to ''Legend of the Neverbeast''. How many Fawns and Nyxes has he known throughout the eons? How many more will he know in eons to come? Will the fairies he encounters the next time he wakes up even understand what Fawn wrote about him, or will they be as confused as Nyx was?
54	* {{Fanon}}: For a while, a popular theory was that Tinker Bell was born from Wendy's first laugh. This largely died out by the time Periwinkle was introduced.
55	* FanonDiscontinuity: Some like to ignore the movies for contradicting Tink's depiction in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' while accusing the movies of making ''Peter Pan'' into a CashCowFranchise.
56	* GeniusBonus: At the end of ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'', Fawn checks Gruff's heartbeat. It's not commented on, but it's [[spoiler:slower than normal, which is how Fawn realizes that he's about to hibernate]].
57	** In the same film, the rocks which Gruff is collecting have a distinct rusty-red hue. This implies that they contain significant iron oxide. [[spoiler:And metal is a good conductor of electricity.]]
58	* HarsherInHindsight: The ending scene of ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'' where [[spoiler:the fairies have a ceremony for Gruff before he goes into his millennia-long sleep ([[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything which is played like he's on his deathbed]]) and the last shot being of Gruff looking at Fawn before he falls asleep as the camera goes black]] became this after the film series (and the franchise as a whole) was cancelled. As a result, the final scene makes it seem like [[ThankingTheViewer the fairies are saying goodbye to the viewer as the franchise's last lights go out quietly]].
59	* HilariousInHindsight:
60	** This isn't the only time a geeky Creator/RobPaulsen character shows interest in a Creator/MaeWhitman character... Just ask [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 Donatello]].
61	** Tinker Bell having a distant sister who wears all blue, has a pale hair color, and ice-based powers. [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Sound familiar?]] To add to the coincidence, when Tinker Bell is hiding in the basket to cross the border, Clank and Bobble cover for her by pretending that they're sad to see the basket go. Fairy Mary's response? "Just let it go!" Periwinkle's hair even looks near identical to several of [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Elsa's prototypical hairstyles]].
62	** In ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'', Fawn, a fairy good with animals, is voiced by Creator/GinniferGoodwin. She even has a scene near the beginning where she's teaching baby rabbits how to hop. About a year later, [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} Goodwin would voice an actual animal. A rabbit, to be exact.]]
63	** Gruff from ''Legend of the Neverbeast'' looks quite a bit like a cross between the [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 Bandersnatch]] and WesternAnimation/{{A\|vatarTheLastAirbender}}ppa.
64	** ''The Pirate Fairy'' won't be the last time Creator/TomHiddleston plays a character [[Series/Loki2021 who will have]] his hand bitten off by a reptile.[[note]]Though by an alligator instead of a crocodile[[/note]]
65	** The plot of ''Neverbeast'' involves a magical creature that only awakens every thousand years in conjunction with a comet and forms a friendship with a person for the few days they are awake but eventually has to leave them-- much like the plot of ''Anime/PokemonJirachiWishMaker''.
66	* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of people watched ''The Pirate Fairy'' mainly because it featured Creator/TomHiddleston as James [[spoiler: Hook]].
67	* [[HoYay Les Yay]]:
68	** [[AmbiguouslyGay Silvermist]], the water-talent fairy seems pretty into Tinker Bell. Or at least more affectionate than is "proper" for two platonic fairies! She greets Tink by stroking her nose and saying, "Easy... Silvermist's got ya."
69	** The high ratio of female characters does increase the possibilities. Vidia & Tinker Bell can easily be turned into a BelligerentSexualTension situation, especially with Vidia's constant use of "sweetie" and "dear".
70	*** In ''The Great Fairy Rescue'', Vidia seems like the only fairy who's genuinely worried about Tink after she gets captured. Sure, Tink's other friends care about rescuing her too and what Tink's in isn't a laughing matter, but they at least soften the situation they're in with humor. Vidia doesn't. Throughout the journey, she's just so... concerned and anxious about her. It seems less like someone worrying about their friend and more like a spouse worried about their lover...
71	*** To add to that, Vidia actually helped out with a ''tinker job'' in building the boat. This is something she probably would have avoided in the past, but she puts that aside just to help Tinker Bell. And then, when the tables are turned with Vidia being the one caught after ''risking her life'' for the green dressed fairy, Tink appears to be flying faster then she's ever gone before, like a ''Fast-Flying Fairy''. And, she's the only one of the seven fairies who attempt to stop the car.
72	*** Also, when Vidia is freed (thanks to the efforts of Tink, mostly) who is the first person that embraces her? Tinker Bell, of course! The two even twirl a little in their hug before the others join in. Then, at the end, Tink and Vidia share a cup of tea. Oh, and, did we mention that they're practically leaning on themselves when they do so? The whole thing is adorable.
73	*** After her HeelFaceTurn Vidia gets really touchy-feely with Tink, is always the first to console her and tends to stand closest to her. She comes across as having a bit of a crush on Tink.
74	*** Come ''The Pirate Fairy'', Vidia gets hit with the Tinker Talent Pixie Dust. This doesn't go well at first, but when she knocks out one of the pirates, she starts to really embrace her switched talent. Tink is also shown to be impressed. Plus the fact they appear to have more interaction here then any other movie, aside from ''Great Fairy Rescue''. Now if only Tink was turned into a Fast-Flying Fairy one of these days...
75	*** Close to the end of ''Pirate Fairy'' the fairies and blue dust are finally safe. What's the first thing Tink and Vidia do. Hold hands. No, seriously. They hover in front of each other, hands linked, and look into each other's eyes until Zarina tries to return the blue dust.
76	*** And, if that wasn't enough, at the end of one of the coloring books that was released around ''The Great Fairy Rescue'' (called ''Super Special Coloring and Activity Book'') Tink and Vidia seem to be shooting each other ''bedroom eyes''.
77	** At the very end of ''Pirate Fairy'' Tink and Zarina are holding hands and staring into each other's eyes as the rest of Pixie Hollow rushes up to congratulate them on their performance.
78	** Tinkerbell and Periwinkle have this despite being twins. Of course it helps that their relationship is played as and compared to StarCrossedLovers.
79	** Most of Fawn and Nyx's interactions in ''Legend of the Neverbeast'' seem less like a character doing their job and another doing the right thing and, without the context, a lot more like couple chatter, with Fawn being the happy, energetic girl and Nyx being the dry, deadpan one.
80	** In ''Legend of the Neverbeast'', after Tink gets [[spoiler:knocked out by Gruff (though this action was to save her, as revealed later)]], Fawn holds Tink close in her arms, and later is visibly, hauntingly distressed about it, to the point where [[spoiler:she gives Gruff up to Nyx.]]
81	* MisaimedMerchandising: There's a line of dolls with some of the characters in beachwear visiting a tropical island. This line includes Periwinkle, a winter fairy who could ''[[FridgeHorror wilt to death in heat]]''.
82	* MoralEventHorizon:
83	** In ''Pixie Hollow Games'', Rumble crosses this when he [[spoiler:shoots Rosetta and Chloe's race car with a lightning bolt]]. Certainly, it's a horizon crossing in the eyes of his partner, who reacts by [[spoiler:throwing the race]]. Of course, it probably didn't help his situation that [[spoiler: Rumble used Glimmer's magic to do it, as he himself can only create thunder, not lightning]].
84	** James in "The Pirate Fairy" after he [[spoiler:leaves Zarina to drown]].
85	* {{Narm}}: Nyx's staff/spear/lance, which looks hilariously like a striped toothpick.
86	** Gruff in ''Legend of the Neverbeast'' sprouting his wings and taking to the sky. Sure, it's foreshadowed in one of the tapestries but otherwise it comes out of nowhere, and the sight of a bison-sized creature flapping on disproportionately small wings may be mildly giggle-inducing.
87	* {{Squick}}:
88	** Some people find the idea of mouse milk and cheese disgusting.
89	** The weird ShipTease that came up between Captain Zarina, an ageless fairy, and her first mate James, who is a human adult male. He came across as lovingly admirable of her abilities, even wistful of her, and he was the only one who understood anything she said. Zarina was clearly happiest with him and was the most fond of him. [[spoiler:Then he stabs her in the back and you learn for certain that he's Captain Hook]].
90	** In ''Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand'', when [[spoiler:Rani is stuck in the mind of a bat and forced to eat live bugs]].
91	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The film series has little in common with the books, such as making the attire of many of the fairies ColorCodedForYourConvenience depending on their talent, using an almost entirely new cast of characters with slightly altered personalities (such as Queen Clarion being more distant instead of [[WhatsUpKingDude close to her subjects]] and there being little to no references to the cast from the books), and introducing new lore for marketing reasons (like the winter fairies and alchemy).
92	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The animation in all the movies is far prettier and more detailed than a direct-to-DVD movie series has any right to be.

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