History Main / OurFairiesAreDifferent

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has in-
universe example. In Tofoten, fairies are depicted as tiny winged humanoids. In truth, [[spoiler:most of them are former humans, abducted through the watchtowers, while the naturally born fairies have PointyEars and blue hair]].

* In ''Literature/{{Everworld}},'' fairies are a ProudMerchantRace; Fairyland seems to be the financial hub of Everworld and is one of its ostensibly nicer kingdoms, mainly because the fairies keep things pretty for the tourists. The fairies themselves look like twelve-year-old humans, but also have SuperSpeed. They seem to favor [[TheArcher archery]] and can be employed as bodyguards.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has in-universe example, where fairies are described by Tofoten residents as tiny winged humanoids, but in truth [[spoiler:they look close to normal humans, except for pointy ears and most of them having blue hair]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}} has in-universe example, where are described by Tofoten residents as tiny winged humanoid, but in truth [[spoiler:they look close to normal humans, except for pointy ears and most of them having blue hair]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'': Fairies are males the size of little boys and dressed in green. The only exceptions are their old village leader, and the hideous muscle-bound "fairy" from ''VideoGame/ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy''. Also, despite the fact that they don't age physically, faeries can age in personality. This becomes a minor plot point in the [[VideoGame/AtelierIris3GrandPhantasm third Atelier Iris game]], in which an npc gets majorly weirded out by a fairy talking like an old man.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has the fairies that live in the cave where Excalibur resides. Like everyone else they can't stand him.

* The elves of Creator/HansChristianAndersen's stories are pretty standard winged human-type fairies, except that they're ''very'' tiny, being variously [[Literature/{{Thumbelina}} the size of a human thumb]], to knee-high to a mouse, to literally microscopic. They also have particularly BizarreTasteInFood, using hemlock juice as salad dressing, for instance.

* A small, often old-looking or childlike, humanoid between one and three feet tall. {{Leprechaun}}s are the most common type seen, but other types such as brownies, redcaps or spriggans are often common. [[OurGnomesAreWeirder Gnomes]] and even [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] may also fall into this category.

** In the TabletopGame/{{Mystara}} supplement ''Tall Tales of the Wee Folk'', a centaur scholar claims that fairies are, in fact, the Immortals (gods) of a previous iteration of the multiverse. They helped nurture and preserve the Sphere of Life when opposing forces dominated the cosmos, and will do so again when the present Life-dominated reality yields to the Sphere of Death in an ever-repeating cycle. Until then, the fairy folk -- pixies, sprites, leprechauns, sidhe, wood imps, drakes, brownies, pookas -- retain their immortality but their power is diminished.