History Film / TaleOfTales

* BatOutOfHell: In the climax of ''The Enchanted Doe'' plotline, Elias and Jonah get attacked by a monstrous man-sized bat creature [[spoiler: which turns out to be the OneWingedAngel form of the Queen]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The necromancer explains to the Queen of Longtrellis that Elias and Jonah are truly inseparable, and that her violent desire to kill Jonah can be achieved only through violence. She accepts to go through with anything, [[spoiler: and ends up getting transformed into a bat-like abomination]].
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: When Violet comes back to Highhill she still wears the dress she had on the day she was married off to the ogre, now tattered and blood-splattered [[spoiler: as she has just slaughtered her ogre husband.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Zigzagged with the king’s giant flea. It looks a little intimidating, but behaves very quiet and docile.

* EvilRedHead: When Dora is rejuvenated by a generous witch she becomes an attractive red haired maiden, and she cuts all ties with her sister Imma and lies to her about the way she got younger [[spoiler: which leads to Imma skinning herself]].

* IdenticalStranger: Elias and Jonah. Amazing, seeing as how they both have unnaturally white hair and eyebrows. [[spoiler: They're actually related through magic, though it's unclear if anyone involved realizes this. You'd think they couldn't help but notice, though]].
* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler: The Ogre survives his apparent DisneyVillainDeath during Violet's rescue and catches up to murder the heroic circus troupe with the fury of a SlasherMovie villain]].

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: The family of circus performers rescue Violet from her abusive husband only to be murdered by said husband shortly after.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: You'd think the ogre would have died falling into the deep chasm, but he just shows up again after a while]].

* PowerAtAPrice: The Necromancer's advice to the Queen of Longtrellis is made of this. [[spoiler: First he advises the queen to eat a dragon's heart if she wants to get pregnant, and the king dies fighting the dragon. Then he changes the queen into a monster herself to have her kill Jonah in exchange for the safe return of her son Elias, but she's killed by Elias himself]].

* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Violet kills the Ogre this way, along with some good element of surprise]].

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: The monster killed by Elias turns into [[spoiler: his mother, the Queen of Longtrellis]].

* UnnervinglyHeartwarming: The film basically runs on being deliberately unsettling. In particular, there are several moments when Princess Viola's husband acts tenderly towards her (as tenderly as he can, at least). He is also a huge, brutish FrazettaMan ogre to whom she is married against her will and who regularly rapes her, not to mention that he makes a bloodbath of [[spoiler: her would-be rescuers]]. The ogre and Viola share one particularly affectionate moment with hand-holding and held gazes right after that bloodbath and right before [[spoiler: Viola manages to kill him.]]

* EvilRedHead: When Dora is rejuvenated by a generous witch she becomes an attractive redhead, and she cuts all ties with her sister Imma and lies to her about the way she got younger [[spoiler: which leads to Imma skinning herself]].

* EvilReadhead: When Dora is rejuvenated by a generous witch she becomes an attractive redhead, and she cuts all ties with her sister Imma and lies to her about the way she got younger [[spoiler: which leads to Imma skinning herself]].