History Film / Labyrinth

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: This movie gave me recurring nightmares for years.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: This movie gave me recurring nightmares for years.

* NightmareFuel: This movie gave me recurring nightmares for years.

** Sarah's dream is right out of "{{Cinderella}}" in more ways than one. Plus, it's the result of [[Main/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs her consuming a bewitched fruit]].

* EstrogenBrigadeBait[=/=]PerverseSexualLust: Pretty much everyone on the internet ever wants to get into Jareth's tights.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Though, considering most actual faerie folklore describes them as being selfish pranksters at best (and malevolent at worst), ''Labyrinth'''s depiction actually isn't too far from the mark.
** Granted, all we have to go off of is what Hoggle says about them. And one can hardly blame a fairy for biting Sarah after it's just been sprayed with insecticide by someone she's talking with.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They live in some sort of other realm and whisk away human children when asked to. Their king however appears to be human ([[WildMassGuessing possibly whisked away himself at a young age]]).
** Though this is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than you think]] since, in folk lore, one of the goblins main attributes is that they steal babies.

** "You remind me of the babe" is a direct reference to the ending of ''The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer'' (1947).

A four-novel [[OELManga English manga]] called ''{{Return to Labyrinth}}'' began publishing in 2006 and concluded in 2010.

* IAmNotShazam: Jareth's kingdom is not "the Underground", that's just a song.

* ChekhovsArmory: [[spoiler:Sarah's entire bedroom. Plush Didymus, plush Ludo, the musicbox with Sarah's PimpedOutDress, a Jareth-looking statue, a print of that Escher drawing, it's all there.]]

'' "Thank goodness, all those David Bowie crotch jokes are over!" ''
'' "Hey, look at that bulge..." ''
'' "SHUT UP!!!" ''

'' "Thank goodness, all those David Bowie crotch jokes are over!" ''
'' "Hey man, look at that bulge..." ''
'' "SHUT UP!!!" ''

'' "Hey man, look at that bulge..." ''
'' "SHUT UP!!!" ''

* [[Main/ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself This Is Something She's Got To Do Herself]]: Once Sarah and her friends reach the castle, she tells them she has to face Jareth alone, [[Main/GenreSavvy "Because that's the way it's done."]]

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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization goes into detail on Sarah's backstory and her parents' divorce; it and other tie-ins also reveal names for the Junk Lady (Agnes) and other minor characters and locales.

** Also, the line "With the excitement of David Bowie" from the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_xpFZe20A trailer]] takes a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean whole new meaning]] now that his [[MemeticSexGod crotch]] has gone [[MemeticMutation memetic]].

* Her stepmother seems to be good at backhanded niceties; Sarah protests that her parents don't ''ask'' her to babysit anymore, they just expect her to do it whenever they want to go out on the weekend. Her stepmother says she'd be happy to hear that Sarah had a date instead. Considering that Sarah's an introverted loner with really nerdy hobbies, it's cruel of her mother to suggest that it's okay to take her for granted because she's not popular. Further following the wicked-stepmother story is her ineffectual, oblivious father; his idea of talking to his obviously troubled daughter who is having obvious trouble adjusting to her father's remarriage and new baby and the loss of her mother is to tell her he and his new wife will be back around midnight. No wonder she's dead-set on escaping into fantasy; the labyrinth is the only place she goes where anyone listens to her.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait / PerverseSexualLust: Pretty much everyone on the internet ever wants to get into Jareth's tights.

* [=~Life Isn't Fair~=]

* EvilSoundsDeep: [[EvilisSexy And]] [[AudioErotica sexy.]]

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Jareth. Let's see: {{Bishonen}}, EvilIsSexy, AudioErotica, [[MemeticOutfit those pants and that riding crop]].... The list goes on and on. Why did ya think this movie was so popular with adults?

* ComicBookAdaptation: Marvel did one (Type 1 in that it simply retold the story) as a tie-in when the film hit theaters; spanning three issues, it was collected into one volume afterwards.

** Did... did that small chittering goblin just shake his fist and shout "Your mother is a faggot aardvark!" at Sarah?
*** He actually says "friggin aardvark"

The film is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids mainly]] aimed at children, but has plenty to engage an adult audience -- not least of all [[strike:David Bowie's prominent package]] the many, many tropes available for hunting...