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* {{Homage}}: The film pays a debt to Creator/MauriceSendak. To drive the point home, copies of ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre'' and ''Outside Over There'' are in Sarah's room, and Sendak is acknowledged in the end credits.

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The film pays a debt to Creator/MauriceSendak. To drive the point home, copies of ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre'' and ''Outside Over There'' are in Sarah's room, and Sendak is acknowledged in the end credits.credits.
** Sarah also has ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz'' book. Jareth, everyone, and everything Sarah encounters from the Labyrinth being AndYouWereThere representations of her possessions -- and her dog -- back home is inspired from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' film.
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* StarringSmurfette: Sarah is the only major female character, as well as the protagonist.
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* OdeToApathy: "Chilly Down" is effectively this from a narrative standpoint, despite taking the structure of a HakunaMatata song; the Fire Gang tries to invite Sarah to abandon her cares and join up with them, so she won't have to worry about anything and can just have fun all day, even though she's on a limited timeframe and ''needs'' to start being responsible. Fortunately, the Fireys are so wild, off-putting and innocently threatening that she never even considers it.
-->''Don't got no problems / Ain't got no suitcase''\\
''Ain't got no clothes to worry about /'' ''[[MotorMouth Ain'tgotnorealestateorjewelryorgoldminestohangmeup]]'' ''(aw, c'mon!)''\\
''I just throw in my hand / With the chilliest bunch in the land''\\
''They don't look much / They sure chilly, chilly''\\
''They positively GLOW glow, ha!''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I saw my baby trying hard as babe could try..."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I saw [[caption-width-right:350:''"Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my baby trying hard as babe could try...way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen..."'']]

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* NothingIsScarier: Toby begins crying absolutely uncontrollably, and Sarah says, "I wish the goblins ''would'' come and take you away-- right now." And ''instantaneously,'' there is silence, and the audience (and Sarah) realize that's ''exactly what happened.''

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* NothingIsScarier: Toby begins crying absolutely uncontrollably, and Sarah says, "I wish the goblins ''would'' come and take you away-- right now." And ''instantaneously,'' instantaneously, there is silence, and the audience (and Sarah) realize that's ''exactly exactly what happened.''



** Depending upon your interpretation, possibly Sarah herself, unwittingly; see also YourMindMakesItReal. The goblin world is heavily influenced by her interests and imagination, she is able to defeat Jareth with mere ''words'', and she obviously has influence over the goblins and other creatures at the end.



* StormingTheCastle: The film's climax, naturally.

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* StormingTheCastle: The film's climax, naturally.climax has Sarah and her friends to attack Jareth's castle in the center of the labyrinth to rescue her baby brother.



* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Or thirteen (goblin time being what it is). Toby will become one of them if Sarah doesn't solve the Labyrinth by then. The ballroom dance sequence climaxes just as the clock strikes twelve, as per the ''Cinderella'' motif. When she defeats Jareth, it's just as the clock strikes thirteen; when Sarah and Toby are returned to their world, it's midnight there.
** In a {{subversion}}, Jareth actually ''spins the hands on his clock forward'' after Sarah works up the nerve to boast that the Labyrinth is a piece of cake.

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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Or thirteen (goblin time being what it is). Toby will become one of them if Sarah doesn't solve the Labyrinth by then. The ballroom dance sequence climaxes just as the clock strikes twelve, as per the ''Cinderella'' motif. When she defeats Jareth, it's just as the clock strikes thirteen; when Sarah and Toby are returned to their world, it's midnight there. \n** In a {{subversion}}, Jareth actually ''spins the hands on his clock forward'' after Sarah works up the nerve to boast that the Labyrinth is a piece of cake.

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