History Franchise / DisneyFairies

Based on the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon's take on ''Disney/PeterPan'''s famous fairy/pixie Tinker Bell. This series expands on her and the other fairies she lives with. The franchise was launched in late 2005 as a counterpart to the Franchise/DisneyPrincess franchise that would catch the interest of older girls and includes two series of chapter books (''Disney Fairies,'' set after the movie, and ''The Never Girls,'' set in the present day), junior novels (three done by [[Literature/EllaEnchanted Gail Carson Levine]]), seven movies released direct to DVD in the USA but in cinemas in other countries (''Tinker Bell'', ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'', ''Pixie Hollow Games'', ''Secret of the Wings'', ''The Pirate Fairy'', and ''Tinker Bell and the Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''), a comic published in several countries, dolls, and other merchandise. There would also be two now-defunct online games based on the movies, ''Pixie Hollow Online'' (an MMO) and ''Disney Fairies: Fashion Boutique''.

There are some differences from the "official" continuity, mainly in Tinker Bell's characterization--Tink is now a PluckyGirl Series/MacGyver, to fit more into the trends in the target demographic. The books are not of the same continuity as the films, containing many different characters and conceptual differences (Mother Dove, for example, was a major factor in the Never Land of the books).

* CharacterExaggeration: In the ''Peter Pan'' novel, it's stated that Tinker Bell mends the pots and pans for the fairies (given "Tinker" is in her name). In Franchise/DisneyFairies, Tink becomes a miniature Series/MacGyver. And it works.

%%[[Folder:List of ''Disney Fairies'' books]]
%%# 1 1/10/2006 "The Trouble with Tink"
%%# 3 1/10/2006 "Beck and the Berry Battle" (first Beck title book)
%%# 2 1/10/2006 "Vidia and the Fairy Crown"

%%# 5/10/2011 "Trill Changes Her Name"

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[[caption-width-right:274:Part of the books' main cast[[labelnote:Clockwise starting from the top]]Rani, Bess, Fira, Tinker Bell, Beck, Lily[[/labelnote]].]]

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* AccidentalArt: Used in "Pixie Hollow Paint Day".
* ADayInTheLimelight: Most of the chapter books are based around one fairy or another. Many are focused on in the first novel (Vidia, Rani, Prilla and Tink all get some), but others were invented later, such as Rosetta and Iridessa.
* AnAesop : Most of the books have morals at the end, some more {{Anvilicious}} than others.
* TheArtifact: Tinker Bell's outfit. Its simplicity looks really out-of-place compared to the far more elaborate and detailed wardrobes of the other fairies.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The wand in ''Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand''. If you thought the One Ring was bad...
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Rani is transformed into a bat by mermaid song in the second book, with her consciousness trapped inside. By the end, the bat agrees to trade places with her, becoming a kind of Greek Chorus in her mind.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: Rani really is put through the wringer in the novels. [[spoiler:She has Prilla cut off her wings to be able to swim and ask the mermaids for assistance. As the only wingless fairy, she needs to ride a bird to fly, but not even the other water fairies can explore underwater like Rani can.]]
* BrokenAesop: ''Tinker Bell in a Fairy Fix'' tried to teach AnAesop about not thinking you can fix everyone's problems and not forcing everyone to conform to your definition of perfection, and that flaws make your friends more interesting, but it ended up coming off as suggesting you should never try to fix peoples' problems, even if they ask you to, because flaws are always a part of who you are and should never be done away with, even if they cause problems for others. Also, it seemed to teach that you should only stick to what you're good at and not look for new ways to help others, as Tinker Bell branching out from pots, pans and other simple fix-its is what causes all the problems. Possibly this was intentional and it actually is a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Prilla is in charge of this (somehow.) She's kind of an advocate, playing with kids to boost their belief and specifically asking them to clap for the fairies during emergencies.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The Japanese titles on occasion.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Gail Carson Levine's books, compared to the 1953 movie.
* DemotedToExtra: Pretty much the entire book cast was demoted once the movie was released, replaced with characters who were, up until then, {{Recurring Extra}}s. The most obvious examples were Prilla (the focus character of the first novel, and a major character thereafter) and Rani (a water-talent who lost her wings). Fira was also the primary light-talent fairy in the books. All three were absent from the movies.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Rani cannot fly due to having no wings, but this grants her the ability to actually swim -- other fairies sink like stones thanks to their wings.
* DisneyDeath: Averted. Several fairies die throughout Gail Carson Levine's books (of disbelief), and they stay dead.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Queen Clarion goes by "Queen Ree" at first, and this is eventually dropped. Moth is suddenly changed to "Fira" in later books, with the explanation that "Moth" was her nickname. The book features none of Tinker Bell's friends from the first ''Tinker Bell'' movie, all of whom become recurring characters in later books. The first book is also full of extremely dramatic life-or-death struggles, with a few fairies dying, while the chapter books are much less dramatic and more "Young Girls Light Reading", with themes about friendship, working too hard, and belonging.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Vidia does a pretty nasty version of this to Silvermist in ''Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse''. While she doesn't spread the rumors about the "curse", she's there to insincerely offer Silvermist her "support", speak about the severity of the curse, smirk when things go wrong, never help when they ''do'', and just kind of hovers around to make sure Sil knows what's going on.
* GenkiGirl: Prilla.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In "Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg", Vidia has to pluck a feather from a golden hawk, who sends the pain it feels to her:
-->"She could have acknowledged then and there how much plucking hurt. She could have admitted she'd been cruel to pluck Mother Dove. She could have recognized that pain is pain, whether it's pain to others or pain to oneself. She could have sworn not to inflict pain on purpose ever again. But instead, she convinced herself that the hawk was the one who'd been cruel. She decided he'd made the pain worse than it really was.
* InferredHolocaust: The fairies being subjected to a hurricane, a flood, and an escaped dragon in the span of what seems to be several months or years could not have been helpful to society as a whole. Also, if you assume that the movies happen before a massive battle that caused the changes from the films to the books, and there are many characters present in the movies before the battle and not in the books afterwards, it's inferred that many of those characters died.
* InterspeciesRomance: Vidia [[spoiler:nearly sells out her whole race because she falls in love with a genocidal ''dragon''. He seems to like her back, too!]]
* InvisibleToNormals: Fairies are invisible to adult humans, in one of the books' many moves that defy both the movies and the original ''Peter Pan'' film to stay closer to Barrie's book.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Vidia, from time to time.
* LighterAndSofter: The chapter books compared to Gail Carson Levine's novels. They are largely themed around "Fira works too hard" or "Rani runs away to hang out with mermaids because she's sad", not "all of Pixie Hollow is doomed, and a few fairies literally ''die''."
* MirrorRoutine: Fawn pranks Beck this way in "Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster".
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: In "Vidia and the Fairy Crown", the queen's missing crown was accidentally placed in a room full of duplicate crowns. in this case, there was no [[SecretTestOfCharacter secret test]]-- the fairies had to figure out which was which through trial and error.
* OddFriendship: Prilla and Vidia. Vidia actually slaps her in the original book, but their quest to save Mother Dove's egg actually makes Vidia somewhat try to help Prilla later (usually via a sarcastic lecture). Prilla is also the only person to see ''any'' good qualities in the much-hated Vidia, helping her out when nobody else would. Vidia ''actually smiles at her'', which basically never happens anywhere.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: While the mermaids in the Mermaid Lagoon look as you'd expect them, they're selfish, vain, catty, and have the attention span of a gnat. When Rani briefly considers living with them, they're quick to disregard her, and find the concept of ''working'' to set up a party bizarre.
* RedShirt: Nilsa, Temma and others.
* ShownTheirWork: According to the inside flap of ''Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg'', J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'' was one of Gail Carson Levine's favorite books as a child. In selfsame book, we find out that Captain Hook's blood is purple and it's one of only two things he's afraid of - something directly from Barrie's book that you don't find in most adaptations.
* StopDrowningAndStandUp: Vidia gets this in "Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse".
* SupremeChef: Dulcie.
* TemptingFate: Rosetta and her new shoes in "Rosetta's Daring Day".
* TenderTears: Water fairies are very prone to tears.
* TokenMiniMoe: Prilla.
* {{Tomboy}}: Fawn.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Fawn and Rosetta in "Rosetta's Daring Day".
** Vidia's the Tomboy to Rani and Prilla's Girly Girls in the books.
* UnreliableIllustrator: Even though Gail Carson Levine describes Prilla as looking like an adult in most respects in ''Fairies and the Quest for the Egg'', illustrator David Christiana draws her as looking like an eight-year-old child.
* WickedCultured: Captain Hook, so much that he ''snores in iambic pentameter''.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: It's very clear from the books (especially the first, and ''Tink, North of Never Land'') that Terence is in love with Tink (when trying not to think about her after a fight, he finds himself "failing to not-think-about Tink for an hour now"), but that she refuses to "have her heart broken again" after Peter brought "The Wendy" to his hideout. She seems to notice him and his looks in ''Tink, North of Never Land'', but she seems to just consider him a friend.
* ZettaiRyouiki: An unusual variation of this as Bluebell achieves this with her ''leg warmers''. They shift between grade B and C from scene to scene.
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Based on the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon's take on ''Disney/PeterPan'''s famous fairy/pixie Tinker Bell. This series expands on her and the other fairies she lives with. The franchise was launched in late 2005 as a counterpart to the Franchise/DisneyPrincess franchise that would catch the interest of older girls and includes two series of chapter books (''Disney Fairies,'' set after the movie, and ''The Never Girls,'' set in the present day), junior novels (three done by [[Literature/EllaEnchanted Gail Carson Levine]]), seven movies released direct to DVD in the USA but in cinemas in other countries (''Tinker Bell'', ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'', ''Pixie Hollow Games'', ''Secret of the Wings'', ''The Pirate Fairy'', and ''Tinker Bell and the Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''), a comic published in several countries, dolls, and other merchandise.

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* ActionGirl: Zarina in ''Tinker Bell And The Pirate Fairy'' is even more this trope than the other fairies.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** ''Pixie Hollow Games'' focuses on Rosetta and Chloe.
** ''Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The [=NeverBeast=]'' is more of a Fawn story (to the extent that Ginnifer Goodwin (the voice of Fawn) is billed ''above'' Mae Whitman in the end credits). See OutOfFocus below.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Fireflies act like affectionate puppies.
* AllCGICartoon: Which didn't turn out as badly as one might expect.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Japan uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxI7PN6Wrf0 "Fairy Song"]] as the theme song for the first film and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIaX8F2QCzs "You Were"]] for the second film.
* AmbiguouslyGay: The Minister of Spring.
* AnachronismStew: The picture of the red-headed fairy wearing purple was colored in with markers. Markers weren't invented until the 1940's, and markers for children wouldn't become available until even later.
* AndroclesLion: {{Zigzagged}}. Fawn's relationship with Gruff starts out like "The Lion and the Mouse", with Fawn removing a thorn from Gruff's paw. Turns out he was going to protect Pixie Hollow whether the fairies wanted him to or not.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: ''The Secret of the Wings'' has a rather obvious example, since Queen Clarion and Lord Milori tell Tinkerbell and Periwinkle [[SwitchingPOV the same story]] about why warm fairies and frost fairies remain separate, and since Lord Milori never flies.
* AnIcePerson: The Winter fairies.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Bugs are cute!
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Tink gets the receiving end of this in "Great Fairy Rescue" after kicking the compass.
* AsianAirhead: Silvermist, especially in the later movies.
* AStormIsComing: And fairies can't fly with wet wings...
** It's later established that if a 'warm' fairy's wings get frozen, they are impossible to repair... [[spoiler: except if you have someone with the same exact wings...]]
* BadLiar: Tink when Bobble and Clank question her about the moonstone in the second movie.
* TheBait: Fawn lures Gruff into a trap set by the scout fairies, but only after she thinks he's become a TragicMonster.
* BeYourself: Tinker Bell tries to become something other than a tinker [[spoiler:when she learns that tinker fairies never go to the mainland]]. Guess how well that works out.
* BigEntrance: Tink, Terence, and Blaze flying in on Tinker Bell's cotton boll balloon at the last minute in the Autumn Festival in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''. {{Lampshaded}} by Queen Clarion with a hushed "Now that's an entrance!"
* BiggerOnTheInside: Tink's various houses, and pretty much the inside of everything a fairy can go inside.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: Bobble and Clank.
* BrickJoke: In TheStinger for ''Pixie Hollow Games'', [[spoiler:Rosetta wears her new ring on her thumb.]]
* BuffySpeak: "No, no, this is supposed to be a rock arch, not a twisty... branchy... tree arch!"
* CallForward:
** ''Tinkerbell'' has a cameo by The Darling House. The repaired music box also plays the tune to "You Can Fly" from the original movie.
** ''The Secret Of The Wings'' has a similarly subtle one to Peter Pan, when Tinkerbell and Periwinkle are comparing favourite things, one of them they mention explicitly is ''The second star to the right''.
** ''The Pirate Fairy'' has plenty of them including [[spoiler: James being a younger Captain Hook, the birth of the alligator that would later bite off his hand, James having to use a hook to keep himself afloat on his debris while out in the ocean and the ship that picks him up having a younger Smee aboard it, James being able to (somewhat, with some inability at points) understand Fairy.]]
* CatsAreMean: Mean in the beginning, [[spoiler:but later sedated by catnip.]]
* CasanovaWannabe: Scribble makes a valiant effort with Nyx in ''Legend of the Neverbeast'', alas to no avail. His pitch even suggests he's on WhatsUpKingDude terms with [[TheHighQueen Queen Clarion]], referring to her as "QC, Claire".
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: Used for ''Lost Treasure'', ''Great Fairy Rescue'' and ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''.
* ChattyHairdresser: Rosetta is this, without the hairdresser part. But in the "bloopers" in the second movie's special features, she can be seen giving a manicure to an owl... Yes, you read that correctly.
* ChekhovsGun:
** In ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'' [[spoiler:early in the movie, Tinker Bell examines the underside of the car belonging to Lizzy's father, and manages to figure out what makes it run. Later in the movie, after Lizzy's father has captured Vidia and intends to take her to the London museum, Tinker Bell uses this knowledge to stop the car, delaying him from reaching the museum long enough for Lizzy to catch up with him (with the help of the other fairies) and convince him to release Vidia.]]
** In ''The Secret Of The Wings'', Tinkerbell is warned about damaging her wings while they are frozen, and later, an odd flash occurs when her wings exactly overlay [[spoiler: Periwinkle's]]. [[spoiler: Later, they end up too brittle to repair damage to them due to the cold, and it's that self-same touching method that completely restores them.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The colors of the fairies' clothing typically has something to do with their talent; e.g., Water faries wear blue, Light fairies wear yellow, Garden fairies wear pink, and Winter fairies wear pale blue.
** Taken UpToEleven in ''The Pirate Fairy'' -- the different kinds of talent-based pixie dust created by Zarina are each a different color, corresponding to their respective talents, and when Tink and her friends have their talents switched, their dresses get splashes of color not [[ShoutOut unlike]] [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Aurora's dress after Flora and Merryweather's color quarrel]].
* CrisisMakesPerfect: After getting doused with rainbow-colored pixie dust in ''The Pirate Fairy'', Tinker Bell and her friends have swapped talents that they [[HowDoIShotWeb have trouble controlling]] at first, but suddenly master them when they need to stop the flying frigate and save Zarina.
* CueTheFlyingPigs: Fairy Gary tells Zarina that the day anyone finds pink Pixie Dust is the day he'll trade in his kilt for trousers. Just a couple scenes later:
-->'''Zarina''': Tinker Fairy Gary some trousers, cuz I just made pink Pixie Dust!
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: In ''The Great Fairy Rescue'', how Tinker Bell and Vidia felt when they saw the wall of specimen display cases containing pinned butterflies. They rightfully feared that might happen to fairies if they get caught.
* DemotedToExtra:
** Terence, after ''Lost Treasure''. He was easily the second-main character in the second film, but was reduced to a line or two in each of the other films!
** Periwinkle after ''The Secret of the Wings.'' She only had a non-speaking cameo in ''The Pirate Fairy.''
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Fawn dies]] when the storm explodes near the end of ''Legend of the Neverbeast''. Fortunately, Gruff is able to revive her with a kind of energy that is almost, but not entirely, unlike SwissArmyTears.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In the first movie, when Tink first shows up in her classic mini dress, Bobble and Clank quickly forget the fight they were having just seconds ago. Considering that Tink is the poster girl for the FairySexy trope, this isn't much of a shock.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Fawn doesn't wear any in ''Great Fairy Rescue'' and some of the Pixie Previews that seem to be set around that time period.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Wendy Darling]] at the end of ''Tinker Bell''.
** [[spoiler:Smee, Captain Hook, and the crocodile]] in ''The Pirate Fairy''.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Taken UpToEleven at the end of ''The Pirate Fairy'' by Tink, Dessa, and Sil, diffracting moonlight through a diamond solitaire and bouncing it off mirrors and a splash from a water droplet, casting hundreds of points of light across a stadium full of fairies.
* {{Expy}}: Not sure if it would count, but ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'' is just a more dramatictized verson of the ''Tink North of Neverland'' book.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: ''The Great Fairy Rescue'' has Lizzy's father and his single-minded insistence that his nine-year-old daughter shouldn't 'waste her time' on silly things like using her imagination or being a child.
* FieryRedhead: Bobble. "I SAID SEVEN!"
* TheFilmOfTheBook: ''Lost Treasure'' is one for ''Tink, North of Never Land'' (and the "outtakes" on its DVD reference ''Vidia and the Fairy Crown''). Otherwise, the movies cover original stories.
* {{Flanderization}}: Over time, Silvermist has gone from a bit silly to flat-out [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weird]] and Iridessa's gotten more anxious and panicky.
* FlatEarthAtheist: The only reasonable explanation for how scientists who would have been observing things like the lifecycles and development of insects under controlled conditions, could have possibly failed to note that there was something other than natural forces at work.
* GetOut: Tinker Bell says this to Terence after the latter accidentally breaks the scepter in "Great Fairy Rescue".
* GracefulLoser: Glimmer doesn't mind healthy competition from the other fairies, and congratulates Rosetta when she performs well in one of the games. By contrast, her partner Rumble is a SoreLoser.
* HandSignals: Tinker Bell must describe to Lizzie all she wants to know about fairies without being able to communicate verbally.
* HartmanHips: Many of the female fairies, but particularly Fawn and Rosetta.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Tink yelling at Vidia from ''Tinkerbell'' "When have you ever done anything for someone else?" Then in ''Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue'', she tells the group her role in getting Tink fairy-napped and they forgive/console her, later she pushes Tink out of the way and gets captured herself when Lizzy's father tries to capture Tink in a jar.
** This is Zarina's story arc in ''The Pirate Fairy.''
* HereWeGoAgain: A strange subversion of this is used just before the climax of ''Great Fairy Rescue'', rather then the ending.
-->'''Tinker Bell''': Look, Lizzie's Father trapped Vidia in a jar [[TakingTheBullet while she was saving me]]. We have to hurry and rescue her.
-->'''Rosetta''': Here we go again.
* HeroAntagonist: Nyx is the primary antagonist in ''The Legend of the Neverbeast''. She and the other scout talent fairies are charged with protecting [[{{Protectorate}} Pixie Hollow]] from harm, which makes them antagonistic to Fawn and her potentially threatening stray animals.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[ThoseTwoGuys Bobble and Clank]].
* HighPressureEmotion: Tinker Bell whenever she's ticked off.
* IconicOutfit: When he [[spoiler: resumes his position as]] captain, James puts on the Captain Hook hat and coat, he later starts holding a boat hook in one hand
** Tinkerbell also gets this when she first appears in her green mini-dress partway through the first movie.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Pretty much sums up Tink in the first movie. She wants to be ''anything'' that gets her to the mainland instead of a boring tinker fairy.
* InevitableWaterfall: "Ease the sheet and get ready to gybe!"
* InkSuitActor: Several fairies, including Rosetta and Terence, bear striking resemblances to their voice actors.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[ShipTease Teased]] between Zarina and James, [[spoiler: a young Captain Hook]]. This serves a narrative purpose, as either a MythologyGag or a CallForward to the titular character's relationship.
* IronicEcho: On the first day of the ''Pixie Hollow Games'', Rosetta shows up all dolled up and wearing a dress instead of something more suitable to a competition. She justifies this to Chloe by saying they've got no chance of winning anyway and "If we're going to look bad, we might as well look ''good'' doing it." Later, after [[spoiler:Rosetta chokes and drops their position to dead last for the final race]], Chloe sadly repeats this.
** Then there's this one in ''The Pirate Fairy''. Vidia spots the shell of the hatched crocodile egg and thinks she can turn it into a boat, then realises to her dismay that...
--> '''Fawn:''' ''(Singsong voice)'' You're thinking like a tinker.
--> '''Vidia:''' ''(Groans)''
** Later on however, after she makes a contraption that knocks out one of the pirates, she has a hint of pride in her voice in this exchange with Tinker Bell.
--> '''Tinker Bell:''' Nice work.
--> '''Vidia:''' Just thinking like a tinker.
** BodyLanguage variant: Throughout the Games, the Storm Fairies' trademark gesture is a thumbs up, reinforcing their plan to win "One for the thumb". At the end, Glimmer gives her partner another thumbs up and a smile [[spoiler:then smirks as she turns it around.]]
* JerkJock: ''Pixie Hollow Games'' has Rumble, the male half of TheAce Storm Fairies team.
* JustInTime: Lizzy and the fairies stop Lizzy's Dad just before he reaches the museum entrance.
** Also, in ''Secret of the Wings'' [[spoiler:the Winter/Frost Fairies frost the Pixie Dust Tree just before the frost takes over the other seasons, saving the tree via stasis]].
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Zarina's experiments with Pixie Dust in ''The Pirate Fairy'', which are expressly forbidden, prove to be a useful talent that she calls "alchemy".
* KarmaHoudini: Lizzy's father has a very large collection of pinned anthropomorphic butterflies. At best the movie ends with the implication he'll stop doing that in the future.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: In ''The Pirate Fairy'', while Tinker Bell and crew were forced by Rosetta to hide when she saw the poppy mist, Zarina had gassed everyone in the stadium to sleep. Clank managed to avoid the same fate since he had earlier left to use the bathroom.
* LighterAndSofter: Than Gail Carson Levine's books.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Disney is surprisingly good with this trope. Anything that's not a bug, bird or bat needs pixie dust to fly, period. Fairies outside of a talent can't do that talent if it requires magic, and aren't very good if they can.
* MagicMirror: The Mirror of Incanta, which grants three wishes.
* MagicSkirt: Not a single thread moves, on anyone.
** Except for Terence...
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: Bobble's goggles, which make his eyes look ''huge''.
* ManInAKilt: Fairy Gary.
* MineralMacguffin: The moonstone in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''.
* MoodWhiplash: Ha! Mrs Perkins fainting after seeing Lizzie fly... oh no! Vidia can't escape.
* MotivationOnAStick: In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', used in the dust mill to make a millipede run on a wheel to help with the dust sifting process.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Almost all Winter fairies have white hair.
* MythologyGag: Multiple examples...
** In an older promo, the sequence of Tinker Bell using a wand to tap on the ''Disney Fairies'' logo to change its form into ''Disney Fairies: Pixie Hollow'' is a reference to a similar sequence in the Fast Plays that were shown on DVD releases before the actual movie.
** ''Tinker Bell'':
*** The opening shows Tink being born from a baby's first laugh, and before she arrives in Pixie Hollow, she seems to be in [[Literature/PeterPanInKensingtonGardens Kensington Gardens]].
*** The girl who the music box belongs to at the end is called Wendy, and the closed captioning on the DVD makes it clear that she is indeed Wendy Darling. The music box itself plays "You Can Fly".
** In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', Tinker Bell's travel outfit strongly resembles the outfit Disney gave Peter Pan, even to having a red feather in her hat.
** In ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue''
*** [[spoiler:Lizzie's father]] moves the minute hand of Big Ben.
*** This Troper remembers the trailer for Great Fairy Rescue calling Lizzie "Wendy", and is pretty sure she had a dog called "Nana".
*** Tinkerbell's favourite star is ''The second one to the right''.
** ''The Pirate Fairy'' is even more full of them:
*** That baby crocodile Rosetta wind up befriending? [[spoiler:He swallows a ticking clock and ends up chasing James.]]
*** [[spoiler:James imprisoning Zarina in a lantern after revealing his true colors.]]
*** Although he still has [[spoiler:both hands, James takes to holding a boat hook in one of them.]]
*** The pirates use [[spoiler:fairy dust to fly the ship to the world via the "Second Star".]]
*** James boasts of his "Eton education".
*** "I am not a cod fish!"
*** James hides a key in a hollowed-out edition of ''Literature/TreasureIsland''. [[spoiler:In the book ''Peter Pan'', it is said that he's the only one Long John Silver fears.]]
* NeatFreak: Terrence. "Gotta keep that workspace clean!".
* NeverSayDie: Averted in ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''. While explaining to Fawn that Gruff [[spoiler:is still good]], Tink mentions that if it weren't for what Gruff did to her, she would‘ end been killed.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The teaser for ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'' is largely comprised of [[MissingTrailerScene scenes that never happened in the actual movie]] and show different characterizations - for example, Lizzie carries around Tink in a jar and declares that "every museum will want one!"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5VStr3Wzg Many]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkTQEiWE7KM of]] the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0CTqqTkXH8 trailers]] for the first movie were ''very'' different than the actual movie.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''Secret of the Wings'', Lord Milori [[spoiler:has his Snowy Owl knock off the snowmaker off the bridge and into the stream, which gets stuck near the limitless ice on the winter shore, causing the snowstorm]]. This then causes the existence of the rest of Pixie Hollow to be threatened [[spoiler:as it threatens to kill the Pixie Dust Tree]]. And yet, he becomes a KarmaHoudini.
** In the beginning of ''The Pirate Fairy'', Zarina committed the taboo of tampering with pixie dust after being warned by Fairy Gary not to as it was too volatile. She winds up destroying the dust depot and some of Pixie Hollow as a result.
** A more literal example happens near the climax of ''Legend of the Neverbeast'' [[spoiler: Nix, a KnightTemplar scout, destroys one of the lightning rods the titular beast is using to drain the energy from a cursed storm]], making a bad situation much worse.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Zarina, the titular character from ''Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy''.
* NoNameGiven: Dr. Griffith's first name is never made known.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Gruff in ''Legend of the Neverbeast''. The fragments of his role in fairy history suggest that he's a threat, while in fact he protects Pixie Hollow from the effects of the CometOfDoom.
* NoodleIncident:
** The stinkbug incident in ''Lost Treasure''.
** The various incidents that befell all the other Garden Fairies who previously participated in the ''Pixie Hollow Games''.
** The reason Rosetta "still can't sit up straight" in ''Legend of the Neverbeast''.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The encounter between Tinker Bell and Gruff. The first time it looks like Gruff's become a TragicMonster and tries to kill her. Tink's retelling adds the context of Gruff saving her life.
* TheOneGuy: While there are men in Pixie Hollow, they are ''very'' outnumbered compared to women. The only recurring males in the series that aren't Cameos are Terence, Bobble, Clank, and Fairy Gary.
* OpposingSportsTeam: In ''Pixie Hollow Games'', the Storm Fairies Glimmer and Rumble are the team to beat, having swept the competition for four years straight and earning four champion rings. Their rallying cheer for this game is "One for the thumb!" Rumble plays this completely straight, while Glimmer is portrayed more sympathetically.
* OutOfFocus: Many previously important characters (Terence, Zarina, Clank, Bobble, Fairy Mary, and all the Winter Fairies, including Periwinkle and Lord Milori), were nowhere to be found in ''Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast,'' which focused on Fawn. Even Tink, despite the fact that her name appears in the title, and the others in her "core group" (Vidia, Silvermist, Rosetta, and Iridessa), had significantly smaller roles than usual.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Played with in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', when Terence and Fairy Gary try to go to an owl for help, but all the owl says is "hoo".
* [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows Painting the Colors on the Leaves]]: The fairies bring the seasons to the mainland.
* PaletteSwap: Many of the extras comprise of the same fairy models with differently-colored clothing, skin and hair.
** This is actually a plot point in ''The Secret Of The Wings'', in that [[spoiler: Periwinkle]] is Tink with wild, white hair and a different dress.
* ParentalNeglect: Lizzy's father, who is too busy with his research to give her a second thought.
* PirateBooty: The Mirror of Incanta is stowed away among some pirate booty.
* PirateGirl: Zarina in ''The Pirate Fairy''.
* PlaceboEurekaMoment: Terence and the owl in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: "I just want to be your friend!"
* RedheadInGreen: The tinker fairies with red hair since the color of clothing for tinker fairies is green.
* RelationshipReveal: Queen Clarion and Lord Milori in ''The Secret of the Wings'', as both AndThatLittleGirlWasMe and an InUniverse public display of affection.
-->'''Dewey''': I didn't know they were going to do the smoochy, smoochity. Guess they're telling people now.
* {{Retcon}}: In the first movie, we see winter fairies with the Minister of Winter (as well as this movie being their only appearance) and no problems would occur if a non-winter fairy was to enter their part of the hollow (besides getting chilly) and vice versa. Come ''Secret of the Wings'', the minister is replaced with Lord Milori, and the problem of wings in different climates is a plot point.
* RipVanWinkle: Gruff comes out of hibernation when a CometOfDoom causes a storm that threatens Pixie Hollow, which only happens once every 972 years.
* RunningGag:
** The fireworks launcher hooking someone on the leg and flinging them into the air in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''.
** Fairy Mary always calling out to someone name Lucinda to stop slacking off.
* SceneryPorn: The animation style is so beautiful to watch.
* ScienceIsWrong: A major point of ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue''.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Rumble does ''not'' [[SoreLoser take losing well]], even when it's just a single round in the ''Pixie Hollow Games'' and his team's still highly-ranked and regarded.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: The Owl in ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure''.
* SeparatedAtBirth: [[spoiler:Tinker Bell discovers she has a fraternal twin in ''Tinker Bell and the Secret of The Wings''. Both get born from the same laugh but Tinker was the one who reached the Pixie Dust Tree in Pixie Hollow while Periwinkle got lost by the wind and reached the Pixie Dust Tree's branch in the Winter Woods]].
** [[spoiler:DontSplitUsUp: Tinker and Peri try to find a way to be able to cross the border between the warm side and the Winter Woods and be together, since warm fairies's wings can get freeze at the cold weather and winter fairies's wings can't take hot temperatures.]]
* SerendipitousSurvival: In ''The Pirate Fairy'', Clank leaves the stadium to use the bathroom, just before Zarina unleashes clouds of sleeping dust that put everyone to sleep. Clank returns to his seat, asking a knocked out Bobble if he missed anything, [[DelayedReaction before it finally dawned on him what had happened]].
* ShipTease: Terence and Tink, and it goes into TrollingCreator territory in ''Secret of the Wings'' with this exchange: speaking about Terence, Peri asks, "Is he your boyfriend?", Tink looks up and away and goes "Uuuhhhh...", and then they cut to the next scene.
* ShoutOut:
** In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', after Tinker Bell gets lost in a forest and ends up in a clearing, cute woodland bugs come out, surround her, and help her find her way ala ''Disney/SnowWhite''.
** Bobble and Clank are clearly a shout out to the great slapstick movie team Laurel and Hardy, especially when Bobble says "It certainly is".
** Lizzie's crashing against the tree on her flight is a lot like the scene from "Kiki's Delivery Service".
** Tink's frantic attempt to disable the car by pulling the fuel lines and wires, like Mrs. Brisby does with the tractor in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''.
** In ''Secret of the Wings'', there's apparently a book in Pixie Hollow's library that titled [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast "Beauty and the Bees"]].
* ShowWithinAShow: "Fairy Tale Theater".
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Despite being the antagonist, Vidia made no appearances in the trailers for the Tinker Bell movie, outside of a two-second appearance in a sneak peek.
* SnarkyNonHumanSideKick: Blaze.
* SnipeHunt: Vidia sending Tinker Bell to catch the sprinting thistles.
* SnowMeansCold: [[spoiler:Unless it's frost.]]
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Bobble's goggles "popping" at the sight of Tink in her FairySexy new threads.
* SoundEffectBleep: Tink loses her temper and gives a long, furious diatribe to Lizzie's dad in "The Great Fairy Rescue". From his perspective, all we hear is a very angry bell ringing.
* SouthernBelle: How Rosetta sounds when she speaks.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Beck, Fawn and presumably other animal fairies.
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* SpringIsLate: The climax of the first movie.
* StartOfDarkness: In ''Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy'', one particular member of Zarina's crew is a young man named James, [[spoiler:who would later become Captain Hook]].
* StayInTheKitchen: During the ''Pixie Hollow Games'', Rumble mockingly tells Rosetta that garden fairies should focus on staying pretty -- then laughs and pretends to apologize, adding that she already ''is''.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Tinker Bell, having been TheVoiceless in animation and only spoken in comics prior to this. See also TranslationConvention.
** TheVoiceless trope in Disney Fairies mimicks the pre-adaptation depiction of fairy speak as a MythologyGag: when humans are involved (with Lizzy in ''Great Fair Rescue''), as fairies are consistently heard as jingles.
** Most of the films are heard from the fairy perspective, which abides the TranslationConvention of depicting the primary language of the fairies as dialogue in the viewer's language.
* ThatCameOutWrong: "I don't want to be just a... a stupid tinker!" -cue hurt faces from Bobble and Clank-
* TermsOfEndangerment: Vidia regularly refers to Tink as "Sweetie" throughout the first movie. Not necessarily a sign to run away, but her tone is pretty hostile. Thankfully, Vidia drops this during ''The Great Fairy Rescue'' and it doesn't spring up again... [[AlternateContinuity unless you count the books]].
* TheBigGuy: Clank.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Rumble.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Again, Bobble and Clank.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: In ''Pixie Hollow Games'', Chloe and Rosetta fill these respective roles as the two representatives for the Garden Fairies in that season's games.
* TrollBridge: Guarded by actual trolls!
* ToiletHumor: In ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'', one of the Animal Fairies is training a baby skunk how to target its... special ability. It's about to misfire until Nyx shows up and casually stops it by putting its tail over its butt.
* ToylessToyLineCharacter: The usual "girls' show rules" apply of male and/or evil characters getting the shaft. Vidia always toed the line of GoodIsNotNice in the books, but it wasn't until her HeelFaceTurn in the third movie that she went from Toyless Toy Line Character to having a ton of merch.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: The Garden Fairies have always performed poorly in the ''Pixie Hollow Games''. Chloe's response to this is a rallying cheer of "Dig deep and break the streak!"
* UnwantedAssistance: Tink feels this way toward Terrence after his annoying actions cause Tink to [[spoiler:break her scepter.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: In the first film when Vidia accidentally reveals she let the Sprinting Thistles loose on purpose, Queen Clarion punishes her into rounding them all up and returning them to Needlepoint Meadow as fast as she can, prompting her to fly off in anger and is not seen again for the rest of the movie.
* VillainSong: ''The Pirate Fairy'' features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPVvIPykVY The Frigate That Flies]].
* WastefulWishing: In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', when Tinker Bell finds the lost mirror with only one wish left, she unknowingly uses the last wish to get Blaze to be quiet for just a minute.
* WeatherDissonance: In ''The Secret of the Wings'', Winter starts to invade the warm seasons in Pixie Hollow thanks to a snowmaker made by Tink, Clank, and Bobble falling into the path of some drift ice.
* WhamLine: In the first film when Vidia accidentally reveals her thistle plot to everyone:
-->'''Vidia:''' Maybe I should’ve told you to capture the hawk instead of the thistles!
* WhatsUpKingDude: Tinker Bell, the youngest of the Tinker fairies, has a close personal relationship with Queen Clarion throughout the films. She even helps reunite Queen Clarion and Lord Milori.
* WhatTheHellHero: In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', after Tinker Bell tells the trolls everything she's done and been through in her effort to make the scepter and [[spoiler:fix the Moonstone]] (which often involved getting angry with Terence), one of the trolls looks at her and declares, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "You're not very nice!"]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Played with in Tink & Terence's relationship. They basically act like friends, with no ''hint'' of a romance aside from a very close friendship, but it's obvious that's where the fans are supposed to think it's going (even other characters do). There's a gag in ''The Secret of the Wings'' where Periwinkle asks Tinker Bell "is he your boyfriend?" and Tink just goes "UHHHHH..." and the scene cuts away.
* WinterRoyalLady: The Minister of Winter.
* WolverinePublicity: Periwinkle doesn't [[SpotlightStealingSquad take over the story]], but, since she's a BreakoutCharacter and it was shortly after her first appearance in ''Secret of the Wings'' that the series was announced to be cancelled due to low toy sales, merchandise has been shilling her every chance they get. She was in ''The Pirate Fairy'' for two thirty-second cameos but got more merchandise for that movie than Iridessa, Fawn, and Vidia combined, all three of whom were present throughout the main plot!
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Fawn got a more toyetic redesign for ''Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]'', along with a new voice actor. A deleted scene features a sarcastic Vidia questioning "Are we even sure that's really her?" after her makeover.
%%* YouHaveToBelieveMe
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''The Pirate Fairy'', [[spoiler:Zarina is imprisoned (and later dropped to her intended death) by James once he has all the pixie dust he'll ever need]].
* YoungAndInCharge: In ''The Pirate Fairy'', James looks notably younger (and [[PrettyBoy prettier]]) than some of his crews.
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** In an older promo, the sequence of Tinker Bell using a wand to tap on the ''Disney Fairies'' logo to change its form into ''Disney Fairies: Pixie Hollow'' is a reference to a similar sequence in the Walt Disney Home Video commercials that were shown on DVD releases before the actual movie.

* NeatFreak: Terrence. "Gotta keep that workspace clean!"

* TermsOfEndangerment: Vidia regularly refers to Tink as "Sweetie" throughout the first movie. Not necessarily a sign to run away, but her tone is pretty hostile. Thankfully, Vidia drops this during ''Great Fairy Rescue'' and it doesn't spring up again... [[AlternateContinuity unless you count the books]].

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* UnwantedAssistance: Tink feels this way toward Terrence after [[MostAnnoyingSound his annoying actions]] cause Tink to [[spoiler:break her scepter.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: In ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', after Tinker Bell tells the trolls everything she's done and been through in her effort to make the scepter and [[spoiler:fix the Moonstone]] (which often involved getting angry with Terence), one of the trolls looks at her and declares, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "You're not very nice!"]]

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Based on the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon's take on ''Disney/PeterPan'''s famous fairy/pixie Tinker Bell. This series expands on her and the other fairies she lives with. The franchise was launched in late 2005 as the older girls' answer to the Franchise/DisneyPrincess franchise and includes two series of chapter books (''Disney Fairies,'' set after the movie, and ''The Never Girls,'' set in the present day), junior novels (three done by [[Literature/EllaEnchanted Gail Carson Levine]]), seven movies released direct to DVD in the USA but in cinemas in other countries (''Tinker Bell'', ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'', ''Pixie Hollow Games'', ''Secret of the Wings'', ''The Pirate Fairy'', and ''Tinker Bell and the Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''), a comic published in several countries, dolls, and other merchandise.

Based on the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon's take on ''Disney/PeterPan'''s famous fairy/pixie Tinker Bell. This series expands on her and the other fairies she lives with. The franchise was launched in late 2005 and includes two series of chapter books (''Disney Fairies,'' set after the movie, and ''The Never Girls,'' set in the present day), junior novels (three done by [[Literature/EllaEnchanted Gail Carson Levine]]), seven movies released direct to DVD in the USA but in cinemas in other countries (''Tinker Bell'', ''Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure'', ''Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue'', ''Pixie Hollow Games'', ''Secret of the Wings'', ''The Pirate Fairy'', and ''Tinker Bell and the Legend of the [=NeverBeast=]''), a comic published in several countries, dolls, and other merchandise.