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* The Anime of ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'' has the Fairy Godmother of Cinderella fame become the MonsterOfTheWeek after TheBigBad echoes her worries. She explains to X and the others that each time the story plays out she always helps whoever is fulfilling the role of Cinderella but that after watching thousands of successive ones, she came to realize that not all of them found eternal happiness after wedding their prince. She wants to give the current one a happily ever after that lasts forever by trapping her in a [[LotusEaterMachine dream.]] and desperately tries to kill all of them for standing in her way.

** Actually crowding Lea out in terms of both reputation and active involvement in the books over the course of the series, though, is her immediate superior Queen Mab, to the point where Dresden at one point observes that she could set up a certification system for all the mythical examples of this trope and related ones to make sure they're upt to spec. It's basically understood everywhere in the supernatural community that one simply does ''not'' cross the Queen of Air and Darkness lightly - or if possible, at all. This is because, aside from being fully as powerful as being one of only two known primary acting rulers of Faerie[[note]]While each court nominally has three "queens", in practice the main burden of actual day-to-day ''rulership'' does rather lie on the respective Queens That Are -- Mab and Titania[[/note]] in the setting would imply, her retribution can also be ''spectacularly'' cruel and creative even by the standards of her notional peers -- and that fearful respect is, all by itself, a good part of what lends weight to for example the Unseelie Accords (which are her creation). Breaching the Accords means crossing Mab, and ''Literature/SkinGame'' is one ''very'' thorough demonstration of just why that is a bad idea, with Nicodemus, who has a very well-earned reputation as TheDreaded of his own.

* ''ComicBook/EdgeOfSpiderVerse2022:'' Norma the Fairy-Gobmother has shades of this. True, she doesn't do anything actually ''evil'', in fact she allows Princess Petra to get superpowers and stop the villains, but with a contract that stipulates harsh terms in exchange. There's also the fact she's visually based on the Green Goblin and Maleficent, so she certainly looks damn shady.

** Harry Dresden himself has an actual fairy godmother named Leanansidhe, who wants the best for him - in [[BlueAndOrangeMorality her own, very special way]]. As in, Dresden spends the first three and a half books terrified of entering the Nevernever over justified fears that she'll turn him into one of her dogs for breaking his promise to go with her. This was actually her [[BlueAndOrangeMorality trying to be nice]], and she points out in one of the later books that he'd actually have been very happy as one of her hounds - certainly happier than he is most of the time. Considering that he's a HurtingHero on a scale that rivals Batman, [[VillainHasAPoint she might just have been right.]] Nevertheless, most reasonable humans would consider her way dangerously insane at best...and LawfulEvil at worst.

The Anime of ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'' has the Fairy Godmother of Cinderella fame become the MonsterOfTheWeek after TheBigBad echoes her worries. She explains to X and the others that each time the story plays out she always helps whoever is fulfilling the role of Cinderella but that after watching thousands of successive ones, she came to realize that not all of them found eternal happiness after wedding their prince. She wants to give the current one a happily ever after that lasts forever by trapping her in a [[LotusEaterMachine dream.]] and desperately tries to kill all of them for standing in her way.

The Anime of ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'' has the Fairy Godmother of Cinderella fame become TheMonsterOfTheWeek after TheBigBad echoes her worries. She explains to X and the others that each time the story plays out she always helps whoever is fulfilling the role of Cinderella but that after watching thousands of successive ones, she came to realize that not all of them found eternal happiness after wedding their prince. She wants to give the current one a happily ever after that lasts forever by trapping her in a [[LotusEaterMachine dream.]] and desperately tries to kill all of them for standing in her way.

** Sylphie is a sort of FairyGodmother-wannabe trying to repay Shuichi for saving her life by [[BenevolentGenie granting his wish]] to be ChildhoodFriend with a cute girl. The problem is, she can only do that by turning his guy friend Iori [[GenderBender into a girl]], and Sylphie is hellbent on [[FirstLawOfGenderBending making him stay that way]], regardless of how much he dislikes it. She's also shown to be driven by [[BlueAndOrangeMorality an all-encompassing obsession with granting the wish]] and offense that her spells are being undone. Despite all this, since Iori ''can'' change himself back, Selphie's [[SitcomArchnemesis just treated as a nuisance]].

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', Maleficent takes Riku under her wing under the guise of a protecting, more traditional Fairy Godmother. She rescues him before he is consumed by the darkness when Destiny Islands falls, grants him authority over the Heartless, and even guides him to Kairi. This is all one big ruse, of course, using Riku as a pawn in her machinations.

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->"''The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But... before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she shall prick her finger -- on the spindle of a spinning wheel -- and DIE!''"

* In the Disney Cruise Line Cinderella show Twice Charmed, there is Franco DiFortunato, Lady Tremaine’s Wicked Fairy Godfather, who turns back time to help them ruin Cinderella’s happy ending. They fail, however, and the Tremaines become his servants. He may also be the Evil Queen’s Godfather too, as he mentions helping her against the 7 Dwarfs.

* Later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' reveal that every fairy has an EvilCounterpart called an anti-fairy. They fight for the right to have godchildren but are usually stopped by fairies. Their main interaction with humans is causing bad luck on Friday the 13th.

* ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'': In the original fairy tale, the King and Queen invite all of the fairies in the land sans one (or her actual godmothers, depending on what version you're reading). Carabosse, the one who was left out, felt spited and decided to curse the princess with death.
* In the original telling of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' by Gabrielle Suzanne Barbot deVilleneuve, the prince's mother leaves a fairy advisor to watch after her son while she goes to fight in a war. When the prince is older the fairy tries to seduce him; he refuses her, resulting in his transformation.
* PlayedWith in ''Literature/TheBlueBird:'' the ''evil stepsister'' has a fairy godmother named Soussio, who curses the prince for refusing to go along with the BrideAndSwitch.

* In the original telling of Literature/''BeautyAndTheBeast'' by Gabrielle Suzanne Barbot deVilleneuve, the prince's mother leaves a fairy advisor to watch after her son while she goes to fight in a war. When the prince is older the fairy tries to seduce him; he refuses her, resulting in his transformation.