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** ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' omits the two crows, the Prince and Princess, the Robber Girl's mother and the rest of her robber band, and the Lapp and Finn women.



* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In Villeneuve's original version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Beauty was the daughter of a king and a good fairy. A wicked fairy had tried to murder baby Beauty so she could marry her father, and Beauty was put in the place of the merchant's deceased daughter to protect her. In this version, as in most retellings starting with Beaumont's, this backstory is cut and Beauty is the merchant's biological daughter.

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In Villeneuve's original version of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Beauty was the daughter of a king and a good fairy. A wicked fairy had tried to murder baby Beauty so she could marry her father, and Beauty was put in the place of the merchant's deceased daughter to protect her. In this version, as in most retellings starting with Beaumont's, this backstory is cut and Beauty is the merchant's biological daughter.daughter.
** In ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', the Lady of Summer (the sorceress with the eternal summer garden) is the Snow Queen's sister. They're not related in the original Andersen tale.
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* GRatedSex: The series as a whole does not shy away from implied sexuality, but there is one odd example in "Rapunzel" where the title character apparently manages to give birth to twins after ''one'' visit with the Prince where they merely confessed their love for each-other and made out for a bit. Although by the time the Witch finds out, Rapunzel is almost finished making the ladder to escape with the Prince, so presumably some time has passed that could have included more visits where the twins were conceived.

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* GRatedSex: The series as a whole does not shy away from implied sexuality, but there is one odd example in "Rapunzel" "Literature/{{Rapunzel}}" where the title character apparently manages to give birth to twins after ''one'' visit with the Prince where they merely confessed their love for each-other and made out for a bit. Although by the time the Witch finds out, Rapunzel is almost finished making the ladder to escape with the Prince, so presumably some time has passed that could have included more visits where the twins were conceived.



* HandBlast: [[spoiler: King Vladimir]] in ''The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'' has this power and tries to use it against Martin at the climax, but Martin deflects the beams back at him with a metal plate, temporarily blinding him.

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* HandBlast: [[spoiler: King Vladimir]] in ''The ''[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'' Shivers]]'' has this power and tries to use it against Martin at the climax, but Martin deflects the beams back at him with a metal plate, temporarily blinding him.



* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: In "LiteratureBeautyAndTheBeast", her name really is "Beauty"! Her two sisters are understandably resentful.
* TheIgor: Attila from ''The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers''.
* InformedAttractiveness: Creator/KlausKinski as a handsome prince in "Beauty and the Beast".

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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: In "LiteratureBeautyAndTheBeast", "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast", her name really is "Beauty"! Her two sisters are understandably resentful.
* TheIgor: Attila from ''The ''[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers''.
Shivers]]''.
* InformedAttractiveness: Creator/KlausKinski as a handsome prince in "Beauty and the Beast"."Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast".
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* FacePlantingIntoFood:
** In ''Literature/{{Thumbelina}}'', the Mole is obsessed with ancient cultures and insists on reclining while eating like the ancient Romans. As he and the Field Mouse recline on either side of the wide, low table, they repeatedly ask Thumbelina to pass them certain food items, forcing her to do acrobatics to reach for them, until she finally faceplants from exhaustion into a plate of powdered sugar donuts.
In ''The Princess Who Had Never Laughed'', the King [[WantedASonInstead tries to compensate for his lack of a son]] by giving his daughter Princess Henrietta a masculine upbringing. In the opening scene, for her 21st birthday, he gives her a suit of armor, which is too heavy for her to wear and causes her to faceplant into the birthday cake.

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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:King Vladimir]] from "[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers]]" is only doing what he does because [[spoiler:he does not want to lose his daughter.]]

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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:King Vladimir]] from "[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas ''[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers]]" Shivers]]'' is only doing what he does because [[spoiler:he does not want to lose his daughter.]]


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** At the beginning of ''The Princess Who Had Never Laughed'', the narrator says that the King's only child was raised "as a serious-minded young prince." The opening scene then shows the royal court celebrating the 21st birthday of the heir, whom the King addresses as "Hank." Hank is dressed in a full-body suit of armor, a "princely" birthday gift from the King, and finally [[FaceplantingIntoFood faceplants into the birthday cake]] because the armor is too heavy. The king has the helmet taken off... and reveals that Hank is actually [[SamusIsAGirl a pretty girl with long blonde hair]], who asks her father to stop calling her [[TomboyishName Hank]] because she prefers her real name, Henrietta.
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:King Vladimir]] from "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers" is only doing what he does because [[spoiler:he does not want to lose his daughter.]]

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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:King Vladimir]] from "The "[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers" Shivers]]" is only doing what he does because [[spoiler:he does not want to lose his daughter.]]



* BedlahBabe: In "Literature/SleepingBeauty", the prince is at one point being flirted with by a princess called Debbie, who wears this kind of outfit.

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* BedlahBabe: In "Literature/SleepingBeauty", ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'', the prince is at one point being flirted with by a princess called Debbie, who wears this kind of outfit.
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The show brings to life many traditional {{fairy tale}}s, from standbys like "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs", "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" and "Literature/SnowWhite" to more obscure ones like "Literature/TheSnowQueen", "[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers]]" and "The Dancing Princesses". Some adaptations are PlayedForDrama, others are PlayedForLaughs; some are extremely faithful to the original stories, some are playfully loose. Many were directed by such luminaries as (then a mere upstart) Creator/TimBurton and (then certainly well-known!) Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, and -- owing to Duvall's professional and friendly associations with many major Hollywood performers -- often featured an AllStarCast.

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The show brings to life many traditional {{fairy tale}}s, from standbys like "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs", "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' and "Literature/SnowWhite" ''Literature/SnowWhite'' to more obscure ones like "Literature/TheSnowQueen", "[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', ''[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers]]" Shivers]]'' and "The ''[[Literature/TheTwelveDancingPrincesses The Dancing Princesses".Princesses]]''. Some adaptations are PlayedForDrama, others are PlayedForLaughs; some are extremely faithful to the original stories, some are playfully loose. Many were directed by such luminaries as (then a mere upstart) Creator/TimBurton and (then certainly well-known!) Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, and -- owing to Duvall's professional and friendly associations with many major Hollywood performers -- often featured an AllStarCast.



** In ''The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'', [[spoiler: the "haunting" of the castle turns out to have been staged by King Vladimir to get rid of his daughter's suitors.]]

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** In ''The ''[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'', Shivers]]'', [[spoiler: the "haunting" of the castle turns out to have been staged by King Vladimir to get rid of his daughter's suitors.]]



* {{Dracula}}: A variation in "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers": Not actually a vampire, but the sorcerer son of the original Dracula (UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler) played by none other than Creator/ChristopherLee himself, complete with [[TheIgor a hunchbacked servant]], and a coffin scene.

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* {{Dracula}}: A variation in "The "[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers": Shivers]]": Not actually a vampire, but the sorcerer son of the original Dracula (UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler) played by none other than Creator/ChristopherLee himself, complete with [[TheIgor a hunchbacked servant]], and a coffin scene.



** In ''The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'', Princess Amanda faints when a giant axe swings from the ceiling in the haunted castle.

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** In ''The ''[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'', Shivers]]'', Princess Amanda faints when a giant axe swings from the ceiling in the haunted castle.



* HereWeGoAgain: The ending of ''The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'': Martin and Princess Amanda are living HappilyEverAfter, when one day Amanda is depressed and says she has "the blues." Martin realizes he's never experienced this before, so he sets off on another journey, "to find out about the blues."

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* HereWeGoAgain: The ending of ''The ''[[Literature/TheStoryOfTheYouthWhoWentForthToLearnWhatFearWas The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers'': Shivers]]'': Martin and Princess Amanda are living HappilyEverAfter, when one day Amanda is depressed and says she has "the blues." Martin realizes he's never experienced this before, so he sets off on another journey, "to find out about the blues."
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** ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' fleshes out the pigs' and the wolf's personalities and adds a female pig love interest.

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** ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' fleshes out the pigs' and the wolf's personalities personalities, and adds a female pig love interest.interest, Tina, who starts out pursued by Paul (the stick house pig) but ends up with Larry (the brick house pig) instead.

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