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* Recap/TheMetamorphosesArachne: One of Mommy Fortuna's exhibits is a simple brown spider that she displays as the Arachne of mythology. It's a more effective illusion than most because the ''spider'' believes it too.
-->'''Rukh:''' The greatest weaver in the world -- her fate's the proof of it. She had the bad luck to defeat the goddess Athena in a weaving contest. Athena was a sore loser, and Arachne is now a spider, creating only for Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, by special arrangement. Warp of snow and woof of flame, and never any two the same. Arachne.
-->'''Rukh:''' The greatest weaver in the world -- her fate's the proof of it. She had the bad luck to defeat the goddess Athena in a weaving contest. Athena was a sore loser, and Arachne is now a spider, creating only for Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, by special arrangement. Warp of snow and woof of flame, and never any two the same. Arachne.
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** Unicorns are immortal, though they can be killed.
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** Unicorns are immortal, though although they can be killed.
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* BarefootPoverty: Molly Grue.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When the unicorn blows off the princess that tries to summon her because she thinks her time is more valuable than a mortal's, Molly wistfully remarks that she wishes the unicorn could turn into something mortal. The next chapter, this is exactly what happens.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** When the unicorn blows off the princess that tries to summon her because she thinks her time is more valuable than a mortal's, Molly wistfully remarks that she wishes the unicorn could turn into something mortal. The next chapter, this is exactly what happens.
** When the unicorn blows off the princess that tries to summon her because she thinks her time is more valuable than a mortal's, Molly wistfully remarks that she wishes the unicorn could turn into something mortal. The next chapter, this is exactly what happens.
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* BerserkButton: For the unicorn, being confused for a horse, or compared to a mortal in any way. [[spoiler:The death of Prince Lír by the Red Bull]].
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* BerserkButton: BerserkButton:
** For the unicorn, being confused for a horse, or compared to a mortal in any way. [[spoiler:The death of Prince Lír by the Red Bull]].
** For the unicorn, being confused for a horse, or compared to a mortal in any way. [[spoiler:The death of Prince Lír by the Red Bull]].
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* BetaCouple: [[spoiler:Schmendrick and Molly]].
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Indicated to be the case with immortal creatures and cats.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Indicated to be the case with immortal Immortal creatures -- and cats.cats -- do not operate on human morality, but have their own peculiar systems of looking at the world.
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* BornAsAnAdult: Lady Amalthea.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass[=/=]TookALevelInBadass:
** Schmendrick's magic only works on occasion, and when it does, something usually goes wrong with it. [[spoiler:But by the end of the book, he is able to return the unicorn to her true form - a feat his teacher, Nikos, the greatest of magicians, couldn't perform. Years later, Schmendrick's name would become even greater than that of his master's.]]
** Schmendrick's magic only works on occasion, and when it does, something usually goes wrong with it. [[spoiler:But by the end of the book, he is able to return the unicorn to her true form - a feat his teacher, Nikos, the greatest of magicians, couldn't perform. Years later, Schmendrick's name would become even greater than that of his master's.]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass[=/=]TookALevelInBadass:
CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:
** Schmendrick's magic only works on occasion, and when it does, something usually goes wrong with it. [[spoiler:But by the end of the book, he is able to return the unicorn to her true form- --- a feat that his teacher, Nikos, the greatest of magicians, couldn't perform. Years later, Schmendrick's name would become even greater than that of his master's.]]
** Schmendrick's magic only works on occasion, and when it does, something usually goes wrong with it. [[spoiler:But by the end of the book, he is able to return the unicorn to her true form
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* EmotionlessGirl: Lady Amalthea, initially.
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* EmptyEyes:
-->'''King Haggard:''' ''(to Amalthea)'' Your eyes! Your eyes have become empty as Lír's, as any eyes that... never saw unicorns.
-->'''King Haggard:''' ''(to Amalthea)'' Your eyes! Your eyes have become empty as Lír's, as any eyes that... never saw unicorns.
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* EnchantedForest: Most unicorns take up solitary residence in a forest, which becomes enchanted due to their presence. The titular unicorn lives in a "lilac wood" where it's always spring, and where locals never bother to hunt because her magic protects the resident animals.
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* FeatheredFiend: Celaeno the Harpy
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** The hopeless wizard, rather than a figure of fun and amusement, is so beaten down by constant failure that he can barely function. For extra ironic cruelty, he keeps taking jobs as an entertainer/clown.
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** The hopeless wizard, rather than a figure of fun and amusement, is so beaten down by constant failure that he can barely function. For extra ironic cruelty, he keeps taking jobs as an entertainer/clown.entertainer and clown.
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* HannibalLecture: King Haggard.
-->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I almost knew you as soon as I saw you on the road coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe... even your way of standing perfectly still--they were all my spies!
-->'''Haggard:''' I ''know'' you! I almost knew you as soon as I saw you on the road coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe... even your way of standing perfectly still--they were all my spies!
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* {{Herald}}: The hunters and the butterfly for the last unicorn.
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* TheHerosJourney
* HerosMuse: Amalthea to Lír.
* HerosMuse: Amalthea to Lír.
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* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Schmendrick. See OlderThanTheyLook below.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Unicorns, Molly, and Lír.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Unicorns, Molly, and Lír.
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* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Schmendrick. See OlderThanTheyLook below.
*Schmendrick was cursed to never age until he mastered his magic, and has been stuck at about the cusp of adulthood ever since.
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* ItMustBeMine: Haggard and "his" unicorns.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Molly Grue is all but stated to be this.
-->'''Captain Cully:''' It is only natural that she should become suspicious, pinched, dour, prematurely old, even a touch tyrannical . . . But she's a good heart, a good heart.
-->'''Captain Cully:''' It is only natural that she should become suspicious, pinched, dour, prematurely old, even a touch tyrannical . . . But she's a good heart, a good heart.
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* KarmicDeath: Mommy Fortuna and [[spoiler:King Haggard]].
* KnightInShiningArmor: Lír.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Lír.
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: After the day has been saved, Lír decides to go find the Unicorn. Schmendrick tells him that he can't have her, and Lír has a flash of jealous rage that makes him look just like his father. Fortunately, he is wise enough to stand down.
** Amalthea's love for Lír also counts, because in loving Lír she comes to completely forget her past and true self as a unicorn, though she recovers some of it before the end.
* LoveMartyr: ''Oh, Lír.''
* MagikarpPower: Schmendrick's magic. Similarly, see also CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.
** Amalthea's love for Lír also counts, because in loving Lír she comes to completely forget her past and true self as a unicorn, though she recovers some of it before the end.
* LoveMartyr: ''Oh, Lír.''
* MagikarpPower: Schmendrick's magic. Similarly, see also CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: LoveMakesYouCrazy:
** After the day has been saved, Lír decides to go find the Unicorn. Schmendrick tells him that he can't have her, and Lír has a flash of jealous rage that makes him look just like his father. Fortunately, he is wise enough to stand down.
**Amalthea's love for Lír also counts, because in In loving Lír she Lír, Amalthea comes to completely forget her past and true self as a unicorn, though although she recovers some of it before the end.
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-->'''Rukh:''' The greatest weaver in the world --- her fate's the proof of it. She had the bad luck to defeat the goddess Athena in a weaving contest. Athena was a sore loser, and Arachne is now a spider, creating only for Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, by special arrangement. Warp of snow and woof of flame, and never any two the same. Arachne.
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-->'''Rukh:''' The greatest weaver in the world --- -- her fate's the proof of it. She had the bad luck to defeat the goddess Athena in a weaving contest. Athena was a sore loser, and Arachne is now a spider, creating only for Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, by special arrangement. Warp of snow and woof of flame, and never any two the same. Arachne.
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Amalthea, the unicorn's human form.
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* NighInvulnerable: The Red Bull is essentially indestructible... [[spoiler:but that's not to say it cannot back down.]]
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* NighInvulnerable: The Red Bull is essentially indestructible... [[spoiler:but that's not to say it cannot back down.]]down]].
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* OlderIsBetter: The unicorn speaks about the Red Bull this way after their first encounter.
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* OlderIsBetter: The After their first encounter, the unicorn speaks about remarks that the Red Bull this way after their first encounter.was older and stronger than she was.
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* UnusualEuphemism:
-->'''Molly Grue:''' Slit his wizard!
** The book explains that she meant either "gizzard" or "weasand" (an archaic term for the throat), and amalgamated the two.
-->'''Molly Grue:''' Slit his wizard!
** The book explains that she meant either "gizzard" or "weasand" (an archaic term for the throat), and amalgamated the two.
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* UnusualEuphemism:
-->'''Molly Grue:''' SlitUnusualEuphemism: Molly Grue uses "Slit his wizard!
**wizard!" The book explains that she meant either "gizzard" or "weasand" (an archaic term for the throat), and amalgamated the two.
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* VisibleToBelievers: Unicorns are visible as themselves only to those who believe they exist -- otherwise they look like horses.
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* VisibleToBelievers: Unicorns are visible as themselves only to those who believe they exist -- otherwise exist. Otherwise, they look like horses.
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--->'''Schmendrick:''' I was born mortal, and I have been immortal for a long, foolish time, and one day I will be mortal again--so I know something that a unicorn cannot know. Whatever can die is ''beautiful'', more beautiful than the unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world.
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--->'''Schmendrick:''' I was born mortal, and I have been immortal for a long, foolish time, and one day I will be mortal again--so again -- so I know something that a unicorn cannot know. Whatever can die is ''beautiful'', more beautiful than the unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world.
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* ChildlessDystopia: Hagsgate, due to a prophecy that a child from the town would bring down the king. [[spoiler:And it turns out to be true. Haggard adopted his son Lír as a baby, when he found the abandoned infant on a street in Hagsgate surrounded by a group of cats trying to keep him from freezing to death. Lír unwittingly causes Haggard's downfall by enabling the unicorn to defeat the Red Bull.]]
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* ChildlessDystopia: Hagsgate, Hagsgate has no children, due to a prophecy that a child someone from the town would bring down the king. [[spoiler:And it turns out to be true. Haggard adopted his son Lír as a baby, when whom he found the abandoned infant on a street in Hagsgate surrounded by a group of cats trying to keep him from freezing to death. Hagsgate. Lír unwittingly causes Haggard's downfall by enabling giving the unicorn a reason to defeat stand against the Red Bull.]]
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* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:The Lady Amalthea dies when Schmendrick restores the unicorn to her rightful shape.]]
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* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:The As she stays human, the unicorn slowly fades out and is replaced by the Lady Amalthea Amalthea. [[spoiler:Amalthea herself dies when Schmendrick restores the unicorn to her rightful shape.true self.]]
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* HereWeGoAgain: When Schmendrick and Molly part ways with Lír, they assure him that a hero will have more work than he can handle. Not five minutes later, a princess in distress runs up to them, and Schmendrick gives her his horse and points her back the way they came.
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* ThePowerOfLove: The desire to be someone worthy of Amalthea's love spurns Lír to change from a lazy coward into a GenreSavvy hero.
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* ThePowerOfLove: The desire to be someone worthy of Amalthea's love spurns spurs Lír to change from a lazy coward into a GenreSavvy hero.
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** The Lady Amalthea's love for Lír gives her courage to [[spoiler: finally face the Red Bull]].
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** The Lady Amalthea's love for Lír gives her the courage to [[spoiler: finally face down Schmendrick and refuse to go along with his plans to separate them. It also enables her [[spoiler:to stand against and ultimately conquer the Red Bull]]. Bull]].
** Sadly and tragically subverted with Haggard, who adopted Lír in the hope that fatherhood would make him happy, only to find no lasting joy there.
** Sadly and tragically subverted with Haggard, who adopted Lír in the hope that fatherhood would make him happy, only to find no lasting joy there.
* RiddleForTheAges: At the end of the book, the Unicorn comes to the main characters in their dreams. We see Schmendrick's conversation (and Lír says she looked at him and didn't say a word), but Molly just giggles and says she'll never tell what they talked about, not even under torture.
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* ScrewDestiny: Just before the final encounter with the Red Bull, Lady Amalthea [[spoiler:wants to back out, marry Lír, and live happily ever after--Lír is the one who insists that the story can't end that way.]]
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* ScrewDestiny: Just before the final encounter with the Red Bull, Lady Amalthea [[spoiler:wants to back out, marry Lír, and live happily ever after--Lír after -- Lír is the one who insists that the story can't end that way.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Schmendrick by changing the unicorn into a human ended up saving her from King Haggard and the Red Bull, because the Red Bull can't sense her while she's human. While she understandably freaks out on being put in a mortal body and feeling emotions magical creatures aren't meant to feel, he says it buys them time to find out where Haggard is keeping the unicorns and how to free them. Her love for Lir is enough to get her to [[spoiler:charge at the Red Bull in her true form and defeat him]].
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Schmendrick by changing Schmendrick's WildMagic transforms the unicorn into a human ended up saving her from King Haggard and the Red Bull, because the Red Bull can't sense her while she's human. While she understandably freaks out on at being put in a mortal body and feeling emotions magical creatures aren't meant to feel, he says it buys them time to find out where Haggard is keeping the unicorns and how to free them. Her magic must have had its reasons. When her human self falls in love for Lir is enough with Prince Lír, it ultimately [[spoiler:gives the unicorn the courage of heart to get her to [[spoiler:charge at face the Red Bull in her true form and defeat subdue him]].
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* EvilDesiresInnocence: The purity and grace of the unicorns is why Haggard had the Red Bull gather all of them and drive them into the sea, where he could keep them to himself.
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* DaydreamBeliever: Molly and all of Captain Cully's crew believe there really is a RobinHood. Molly also believes there are unicorns. (She's right, of course.)
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* DaydreamBeliever: Molly and all of Captain Cully's crew believe there really is a RobinHood.Robin Hood. Molly also believes there are unicorns. (She's right, of course.)
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* ThisIsReality: Captain Cully gets upset over the RobinHood incident. Molly turns it back on him:
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* ThisIsReality: Captain Cully gets upset over the RobinHood Robin Hood incident. Molly turns it back on him:
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** Captain Cully ''hates it'' when people unfavorably compare him to RobinHood.
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** Captain Cully ''hates it'' when people unfavorably compare him to RobinHood.Myth/RobinHood.
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** The prince and son of prophecy is an overweight layabout. By the time he grows into himself and fulfills his destiny, the beautiful maiden he's fought so hard to save... leaves him forever.
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** The prince and son of prophecy is an overweight layabout. By the time he grows comes into himself his own and fulfills his destiny, the beautiful maiden he's fought so hard to save... leaves him forever.'won' is irretrievably lost.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Molly Grue goes barefoot, although in her case it's probably more like [[BarefootPoverty cannot]] ''[[BarefootPoverty afford]]'' [[BarefootPoverty shoes]].
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The short story "Two Hearts", published in 2005, is set after ''The Last Unicorn'' and features some of the characters from the novel.
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The short story "Two Hearts", published in 2005, is set after ''The Last Unicorn'' and features some of the characters from the novel.
novel. It was followed by the novella ''Sooz'' in 2023.
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* HumanityIsInfectious: Amalthea eventually gains enough to the point where she "dies" when Schmendrick changes the unicorn back.
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* HumanityIsInfectious: Amalthea eventually gains enough to [[spoiler:to the point where she "dies" when Schmendrick changes the unicorn back.back]].
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--> '''The Unicorn:''' Don't look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. [...] Never run. [...] Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but walk slowly and she may not follow.
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--> '''The Unicorn:''' '''Unicorn:''' Don't look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. [...] Never run. [...] Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but walk slowly and she may not follow.
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--> '''The Unicorn:''' Don't look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. [...] Never run. [...] Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but walk slowly and she may not follow.
