History Literature / RainbowMagic

* ContinuityNod[=/=]CallBack: Sometimes fairies the girls have met before will show up, and previous books' events are mentioned.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The movie, which calls Kirsty and Rachel's friendship into question, has a gang of bullies pick on the girls, and has Jack Frost aiming to conquer the world. It also has Jack Frost acting much nastier than in the books, to the point of firing his loyal goblins and considering his army of snowmen to be weak and easily replaced.

* DisguisedInDrag: One Princess Fairy book has a goblin dressed as a princess, with the narration calling him Princess Goblina.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The very first series of books has Jack Frost capturing the fairies because he wasn't invited to a party--even ''after'' he was told he could stay and have fun once he showed up to crash it.
** This seems to be Jack Frost's modus operandi.

* FairyTale: The Fairytale Fairies are in charge of making sure fairytale stories remain fun for all readers and fairytale characters are safe and sound in their books.

* GuileHero: Trixie the Halloween Fairy and Addison the April Fool's Day Fairy are fond of pranks and tricking people.
** Rachel and Kirsty are able to trick and manipulate the goblins, and sometimes Jack Frost.

* KickTheDog: Any time Jack Frost kidnaps or threatens animals.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the "Pop Star" Fairies, there are fairies named Adele (Adele), Jessie (Jessie J), Miley (Miley Cyrus), and Vanessa, Frankie, Rochelle and Una are all from The Saturdays (Vanessa White, Frankie Sandford, Rochelle Wiseman, Una Healy}

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Sometimes Jack Frost can be downright nasty, like freezing Rachel solid. Also, a lot of the things he does have very negative impacts on the human world. Alicia the Snow Queen Fairy's book brings back some of his old menace by having him try to rule the world, and use her enchanted mirror to charm young fairies into working for him.

* ShoutOut: The fake band A-OK is most likely one to Music/{{JLS}} as it consists of 4 members and 3 letters.

* TakeOverTheWorld: Jack Frost tries this in the movie, planning to conquer Fairyland ''and'' the human world.

* VagueAge: It's never stated how old Rachel and Kirsty are supposed to be. They could be anywhere from very young to middle school aged. Some books even suggest that they might be teenagers. [[Main/LongRunners And given how long the series has been going]], it's not out of the possibility that all of the implied ages are true to some extent, and the girls have simply grown up in that time. Given how many unique Christmas based stories there's been (12; soon to be 13), it's not out of the possibility.
** That said, if you go by the logic that Rachel and Kirsty are still underage, then the number of Christmas events, if every story is considered a seperate year, indicates that they would have to have been at least 6 or 7 at the start of the series.
** Additionally, some sources claim certain facts that hint at age or relative age:
*** Both Rachel and Kirsty are 12 according to some sources, though when this was isn't clear.
*** Rachel's birthday is supposedly on September 16th, making Kirsty's, who's seemingly 3 months older, in December, though some sources state otherwise. To put it simply, there's no real clear answer.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Jack Frost escapes this way in Joy's book.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The series is receiving one in the ''Magical Animal Friends'' series, written by the same 'author.' This series revolves around Jess and Lily, who enter the mysterious Friendship Forest and rescue animals from the wicked witch Grizelda, who sends different servants to cause trouble in each series.

* SugarBowl: Fairyland is this whenever Jack Frost isn't causing trouble, as is the human world.
* SupremeChef: Food-based fairies are often these.

* {{Magitek}}: [[http://rainbowmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Cara_the_Coding_Fairy There's a coding fairy]], meaning that computer technology won't run without the help of fairy magic.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Rachel and Kirsty, contrasting heavily with Jack Frost's childishness.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: King Oberon looks younger and slimmer in the movie than in the books. His beard's less bushy, too.
** Jack Frost also has this to a lesser degree.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The giant snowman in the movie.

* AlternateContinuity: Possible. The movie ignores everything that happened after the first series except the girls' lockets, though whether not the movie fits into the book timeline or simply branches from it is unclear.

* ArtifactTitle: Only the first seven books dealt with the rainbow.

* BigBad: Jack Frost.

* BigGood: King Oberon and Queen Titania.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Most of the time, Jack Frost is content to dispatch his goblins to retrieve or protect the artifacts. It's only when they fail at the tasks repeatedly that he goes to do something himself.
** This is played for drama in the movie, where the fact that he does this while the snowman army does all the work [[spoiler:makes them turn on him]].
* OutOfFocus: Rachel, in a sense. Most books focus on Kirsty.

* WeHaveReserves: Jack Frost says this in the movie, saying his snowman army is comprised of expendable weaklings that can be replaced infinitely in battle. [[spoiler:Said army disagrees]].

* OneSteveLimit: Fairy names are never used twice.

Its website can be found [[http://www.rainbowmagiconline.com/uk here]] for the UK version and [[http://www.rainbowmagiconline.com here]] for the US version, and a listing of most series so far can be found [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Magic_books here]].

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Several fairies.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first series of books took a while to establish Kirsty and Rachel before sending them to Fairyland, the goblins were built up as major threats, they had to find the fairies themselves rather than magical items, and Jack Frost was captured at the end and nearly melted until the fairies relented. It was also ''very clearly'' meant to be a standalone series. The Weather Fairies series was only made due to its popularity.

* SecretKeeper: Rachel and Kirsty are this for the fairies, as is oneshot character Rebecca.

* ActionPrologue: The movie opens with Rachel and Kirsty saving Heather the Violet Fairy, then defending the rest of the Rainbow Fairies from Jack Frost.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Listing all the different fairies would take quite awhile; there was even a hardbound book with details on all the different series. It was over 150 pages.
** As of 2017, there are '''''243''''' fairies, at least according to the [[WikiRule wiki.]]
* LongRunner: Over 150 Rainbow Magic books have been published since 2003.

* ShoutOut: The fake band A-OK is most likely one to Music/JLS as it consists of 4 members and 3 letters.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: The Princess Fairies are all princesses and look after pricness-y things.

** Jack Frost's disguise in the Superstar Fairies series is a rapper. He rapped in the movie.
*** Though this could also be seen as a CallForward, as the movie chronologically takes place rather early (the prologue happens between the 1st and 2nd series of the books (specifically starting at the end of the 1st and showing a specific event from the start of the 2nd), whilst the main movie apparently occurs shortly after the 2nd has ended, though exactly when is unclear), before his appearance as a rapper in the books (Which is in a much later book set. That is, assuming the movie is canon).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first series of books took a while to establish Kirsty and Rachel before sending them to Fairyland, the goblins were built up as major threats, they had to find the fairies themselves rather than magical items, and Jack Frost was captured at the end and nearly melted until the fairies relented.
** It was also ''very clearly'' meant to be a standalone series. The Weather Fairies series was only made due to its popularity.

* FollowTheLeader: ''Candy Fairies'', ''Secret Princesses'', ''Rescue Princesses'', and ''Mermaid S.O.S'' among others. ''Secret Kingdom'' is also inspired by this (it even shares some writers), except there are 3 girls, they don't just help fairies, and the BigBad is female as well as being the king's sister.

Its website can be found [[http://www.rainbowmagiconline.com/uk here]] for the UK version and [[http://www.rainbowmagiconline.com here]] for the US version, and a listing of most series so far can be found [[http://www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/Books/rainbowmagic/index.page here]].

* FollowTheLeader: ''Candy Fairies'', ''The Rescue Princesses'', and ''Mermaid S.O.S'' among others. ''Secret Kingdom'' is also inspired by this (it even shares some writers), except there are 3 girls, they don't just help fairies, and the BigBad is female (as well as being the king's sister).

* FollowTheLeader: ''Candy Fairies'' and ''Mermaid S.O.S'' among others.
** ''Secret Kingdom'' is also inspired by this (it even shares some writers), except there are 3 girls, they don't just help fairies, and the BigBad is female (as well as being the king's sister).

* SpiritualSuccessor: The series is receiving one in the ''Magical Animal Friends'' series, written by the same 'author.' This series revolves around Jess and Lily, who enter the mysterious Friendship Forest and rescue animals from the wicked witch Grizelda and her Boggit servants.

* OneGenderRace: The goblins, though a few books imply that females exist.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: The Princess Fairies.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Sometimes Jack Frost can be downright nasty, like freezing Rachel solid. Also, a lot of the things he does have very negative impacts on the human world.

* VagueAge: It's never stated how old Rachel and Kirsty are supposed to be. They could be anywhere from very young to middle school aged. Some books even suggest that they might be teenagers.

*** Though this could also be seen as a CallForward, as the movie chronologically takes place before his appearance as a rapper in the books (That is, assuming the movie is canon).

* AlternateContinuity: The movie ignores everything that happened after the first series except the girls' lockets.

* PlayAlongPrisoner: Seen in Gabriella's book; the girls deliberately get captured so they can trick Jack Frost.