Fridge Horror

The blue-haired fairy's appearance in Chapter 15 goes from Foreshadowing to creepy when you realize that the story was originally intended to END on Chapter 15 - which in turn means that she originally wasn't intended to foreshadow anything. Before Executive Meddling caused the story to continue, she really was an Undead Child who only existed to give false hope that Pinocchio might be able to escape the fate he'd doomed himself to as well as make the grim ending even scarier. While she wasn't by any means evil, she not only existed to create a flicker of hope that was then viciously snuffed out, but caused Pinocchio to run to her home and waste time appealing to her for protection while the assassins were closing in on him.

Fridge Brilliance

The whole idea of the boys turning into mules for misbehaving has multiple reasons for this.
- Back then calling someone a mule or a jackass would mean calling them stubborn, which is where the phrase stubborn as a mule comes from.
- Also, misbehaving as a kid instead of getting a good education means that the only thing you will be good at is cheap manual labor, just like a mule.
- Plus the whole idea is the kids have been so badly behaved that they end up no better than beasts.

In most, if not all, adaptations of the story, only boys are taken to the Land of Toys. Why aren't girls included as well? Are they immune, or are we supposed to assume that girls don't misbehave like boys?
- It could be that boys are more likely to make sturdier beasts of burden when they change.
- I assumed that girls were more closely supervised at home and lacked the freedom of schoolboys to be lured away. Were girls even allowed at his school?