History ComicBook / IHateFairyland

''I Hate Fairyland'' is a {{Fantasy}} ComicBook series written and drawn by Skottie Young (best known for his variant covers for Creator/MarvelComics, adaptations of the first six Literature/LandOfOz books, and his Rocket Raccoon ongoing series) and published by Creator/ImageComics that's started October of 2015.

** At a pub in issue #2, she wished to be normal for one day without being under Fairyland's magical influence. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome happens. See the mentioned trope for context.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** After drinking a magic beer, Gert wishes to be a grown up for one day. Unfortunately, she failed to take into account that she's been living on a sugar-based diet for the last twenty-seven years. So Gert ends up looking like a morbidly obese blob for a whole day, which is a serious {{understatement}}. In Larry's words, she was suffering from ''Type-nineteen diabetes''.
** Gert is taken from her loving home and sent to a saccharine hell for twenty-seven years, a place full of monsters that eat children, adults who are useless at best or outright murderous at worst, and where most authority figures are little better than violent thugs or uncaring jerks. In that time, she has had no parental guidance, and while her body hasn't aged, she has continued to develop mentally, leaving her in a state comparable to Baby Doll from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' - an adult in a child's body. However, when children grow up with no parental figures to show them right or wrong, have been left with little to no guidance both morally and ethically, and have been left to mature in an environment that is unloving, and often outright hostile to them, they tend to grow up to be mentally unhinged. Gert is a terrifyingly realistic result of her environment. Her horrific, nightmarish, toxic environment.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Over thirty years of living in Fairyland with no schooling, knowledge of the real world, and social skills has rendered Gertrude unable to properly function on Earth. As a result, she has trouble keeping a job, is socially inept, has gone through over dozens of therapy sessions that clearly go nowhere, and is almost homeless.
** Thanks to Fairyland's illogical cartoony nature, Gert spent her time there as a nigh-unstoppable killing machine who slaughtered her way out of most situations and fought hugely powerful opponents. After she's returned to Earth as an average adult woman with no particular fighting ability, she can only fantasize about the kind of murderous rampages she used to go on, and the one fight she picks against [[BullyingADragon someone much bigger]] ends with Gert [[CurbStompBattle getting the shit kicked out of her]].

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Gert gets herself thrown into prison to help break Cloudia into prison so that she can help her and Duncan complete their journey and leave Fairyland. While the two manage to find the key and door, Cloudia betrays them at the last second by taking the key and escaping to the real world herself]].

** The alternate cover to issue ten depicts a send-up to the ''ComicBook/SpiderMan No More'' storyline's iconic scene where Peter Parker walks away after tossing his Spider-Man costume in the trash can, this time depicting Gertrude walking away in the buff while flipping the bird with Larry's cigar smoke [[SceneryCensor covering up her behind]].