History Literature / JackAndTheBeanstalk

* ''Disney/Gigantic2020'': Another Creator/{{Disney}} film. This time it's an AllCGICartoon musical and pretty InNameOnly, as it involves Jack helping a 60-foot, 11-year-old girl find her home.

* ''Disney/Gigantic2018'': Another Creator/{{Disney}} film. This time it's an AllCGICartoon musical and pretty InNameOnly, as it involves Jack helping a 60-foot, 11-year-old girl find her home.

* GiantFood: Whatever the giant's wife feeds him qualifies.* ImAHumanitarian: Perhaps the giant and the witch from "Literature/HanselAndGretel" swap recipes.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Creator/StephenSondheim's ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', Brian Henson's ''Series/JackAndTheBeanstalkTheRealStory'' and Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' all have a go at Jack.

* FloatingContinent: The Giant's [[OminousFloatingCastle cloud castle.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Perhaps the giant and the witch from "Literature/HanselAndGretel" swap recipes.

* MysteriousBenefactor: The man with the beans.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: This variety of giant lives in gravity-defying castles in the clouds.
* RuleOfThree: Gold, Goose and Harp.

* GiantFood: Whatever the giant's wife feeds him qualifies.

* The Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse book ''Literature/TimeLordFairyTales'' retells this as "Jack and the Wormhole", in which Jack is more of a straight-up hero as the story is ''also'' a TwiceToldTale retelling of [[spoiler: the Fourth Doctor serial "The Horns of Nimon"]].

* ''Disney/Gigantic2018'': Another Creator/{{Disney}} film. This time it's an AllCGICartoon musical involving a human Jack helping a 60-foot 11-year-old girl find her home.

* OlderThanDirt: as noted above, variations of Jack's story have been told in many cultures going back as far as the ''Indo-European Language'', the root of almost all languages on earth.

The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" seems to be an amalgamation of many of the giant-killing stories such as "Literature/JackTheGiantKiller" (which has its links to [[KingArthur Arthurian]] lore), and the tale of "Literature/TheBraveLittleTailor". A 2016 Linguistic study traces its roots to at least 3500 B.C.E. as 'The Boy Steals The Ogre's Treasure' making it one of the oldest continuously told tales in all of history.

* The DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse book ''Literature/TimeLordFairyTales'' retells this as "Jack and the Wormhole", in which Jack is more of a straight-up hero as the story is ''also'' a TwiceToldTale retelling of [[spoiler: the Fourth Doctor serial "The Horns of Nimon"]].

* TheNoseKnows

* OurGiantsAreBigger

* WealthyEverAfter
* GiantFood

* OlderThanPrint: While the story has its roots in various folktales, it also shares striking similarities with [[Myth/NorseMythology The Theft of Idunn]]: a trickster travels to a giant's lofty castle and steals a few magical treasures, only to be found out and chased back home, where the giant meets his doom.
** OlderThanDirt. "The Boy Steals The Ogre's Treasure" - style stories have been traced to the Indo-European language circa 3500 B.C., making this one of the oldest stories ''ever'' told.

* The original ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonOriginalSeries Harvest Moon]]'' game had a part where you could grow a giant beanstalk. This led to fans [[FanNickname calling]] the protagonist, and almost every other male protagonist, "Jack" - despite the fact that his CanonName is "Pete".

* OlderThanPrint: While the story has it's roots in various folktales, it also shares striking similarities with [[Myth/NorseMythology The Theft of Idunn]]: a trickster travels to a giant's lofty castle and steals a few magical treasures, only to be found out and chased back home, where the giant meets his doom.

* ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'': The WaltDisney version, with a [[MickeyMouse certain mouse]] playing the part of Jack.
* ''Disney/{{Gigantic}}'': Another WaltDisney film. This time it's a CG musical involving a human Jack helping a 60-foot 11-year-old girl find her home.

* The original ''HarvestMoon'' game had a part where you could grow a giant beanstalk. This led to fans calling the protagonist, and almost every other male protagonist, "Jack" - despite the fact that his name is "Pete".

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The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" seems to be an amalgamation of many of the giant-killing stories such as "Literature/JackTheGiantKiller" (which has its links to [[KingArthur Arthurian]] lore), and the tale of "Literature/TheBraveLittleTailor". A 2016 Linguistic study traces its roots to at least 3500 B.C.E. as 'The Boy Steals The Ogre's Treasure' making it one of the oldest continuously told tales in all of histiry.

** OlderThanDirt. "The Boy Steal The Ogre's Treasure" - style stories have been traces to the Indo-European language, making this one of the oldest stories ever told.

The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" seems to be an amalgamation of many of the giant-killing stories such as "Literature/JackTheGiantKiller" (which has its links to [[KingArthur Arthurian]] lore), and the tale of "Literature/TheBraveLittleTailor". a 2016 Linguistic story traces its roots to at least 3500 B.C.E. as 'The Boy Steals The Ogre's Treasure' making it one of the oldest continuously told tales in all of histiry.

The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" seems to be an amalgamation of many of the giant-killing stories such as "Literature/JackTheGiantKiller" (which has its links to [[KingArthur Arthurian]] lore), and the tale of "Literature/TheBraveLittleTailor".

* TheSevenBasicPlots: ''Overcoming the Monster''. Booker uses this story as the quintessential example of the three forms of the Monster: Predator (fee fi fo fum), Holdfast (sleeping / guarding the treasure) and Avenger (coming after Jack to get his treasure back).

* Fragments of the tale appear in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', where Prince Charming and a GenderBent Jack climb the beanstalk in order to rob the giants and kill them all and the last surviving giant is a human-enthusiast. The Beanstalk still stands in the middle of the enchanted forest long after the events of the tale have passed.

* AntiHero: However you look at it, the protagonist goes from gullible fool to thief to killer(albeit in self-defense) over the course of the story.

* The original ''HarvestMoon'' game had a part where you could grow a giant beanstalk. This led to fan's calling the protagonist, and almost every other male protagonist, "Jack" despite the fact his name is "Pete".

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* OlderThanPrint: While the story has it's roots in various folktales, it also shares striking similarities with [[NorseMythology The Theft of Idunn]]: a trickster travels to a giant's lofty castle and steals a few magical treasures, only to be found out and chased back home, where the giant meets his doom.

* ''Disney/{{Gigantic}}'': Another WaltDisney film. This time it's a CG musical involving a human Jack helping out a 60-foot 11-year-old girl find her home.

* ''Disney/Gigantic'': Another WaltDisney film. This time it's a CG musical involving a human Jack helping out a 60-foot 11-year-old girl find her home.