History Series / JackAndTheBeanstalkTheRealStory

* {{WelDoneSonGuy}}: His reason to climb up the beanstalk and leading to him stealing the harp and the goose from [[spoiler: kind]] Thunderdell was to make his mother proud of him.

* WelDoneSonGuy: His reason to climb up the beanstalk and leading to him stealing the harp and the goose from [[spoiler: kind]] Thunderdell was to make his mother proud of him.

* ImpoverishedPatrician: Robertson were gentry who was struggling from the combination of Jack’s father’s disappearance and poor harvest. This was averted after [[spoiler: Jack manipulated Ondine into revealing the location of the harp and the goose that they were able to use that latter’s gold eggs for wealth.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: Bren was not able to save [[spoiler:Thunderdell]] when the beanstalk was cut down.

* HellIsThatNoise: Thunderdell's scream as he falls from the sky.

* InterspeciesAdoption: Thunderdell the giant adopted the human Ondine after she lost her parents.

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Siggy should've known better than to shoot '''''giants'''''! Thor quickly kicks him away for his troubles.

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: Siggy set himself up as a ParentalSubstitute to modern day Jack and encouraged him to not settle down and have children so when Jack is killed by the HereditaryCurse, Siggy can produce a faked will that leaves everything to him and no one would have reason to question it.]]

* DyingDeclarationofHate: During the sequence that details the "fairytale version" of the story, as Thunderdell plummets to his death from the sky after Jack and his mother cut the beanstalk, he roars: "'''THAT ENGLISHMAAAAAN!!!'''"

* BigBad: Siggy's actions to take over Jack's business for money drives much of the miniseries' plot and [[spoiler:Ondine and Jack must stop him before it's too late]].

* GoryDiscretionShot: When Wilhelmina kills Thunderdell with the axe used to knock down the beanstalk, the impact is not shown.

* ImmuneToBullets: The giants a bit [[GiantEqualsInvincible too big for bullets to have any effect on them]] not that doesn't stop [[spoiler: Siggy]] from trying.

* TakeMyHand: In the backstory, Bren tries to [[spoiler:help Thunderdell up the beanstalk when it's cut down, only for the latter to fall to his death]].

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The giants possess glass vials that teleport the holder to Earth or back when smashed which makes the whole "climbing the beanstalk" thing a bit pointless.

* WrittenByTheWinners: The show posits that the giant atop the beanstalk, Thunderdell, was in fact nothing but friendly and benevolent with most of the fairy tale being a lie made up to cover for what Jack and his mother did for their own selfish ends. [[spoiler: This includes killing the giant after he falls off the beanstalk.]]
* YearOutsideHourInside: Time in the land at the top of the beanstalk passes at a rate of one day for every year on Earth.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The fairy tale version of Jack and his mother were heroic characters. In this adaptation, [[spoiler:Jack betrayed the trust of Thunderdell and Ondine by stealing the Harp of Harmony and the golden Goose of Prosperity, and helped Wilhemina kill Thunderdell, resulting in the curse that plagued him and his descendants for the next 390 years]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original fairy tail, the Giant was a straight-up villain who wanted to eat Jack. Here, the Giant, named Thunderdell, is a kind-hearted man and a loving father to Bren.

* HereditaryCurse: Jack's family suffers from a curse that kills the sons after they turn 40 years old, which is ultimately the result of [[spoiler: the original Jack's theft and his mother killing the giant.]]

Jack Robinson (Creator/MatthewModine) is the rich CEO of a large company who’s having dreams about his father and an angry giant while trying to keep healthy since no Robinson male has lived to be over 40. Strange things start happening like a giant humanoid skeleton being found during construction of a casino around his ancestral castle and a mysterious woman who keeps suddenly appearing, accusing him of being "a thief and a murderer". Jack soon learns from a relative that he thought long dead that he is the descendant of Jack from the FairyTale and that the truth of the tale is not clear cut as it seems.

* SinsOfOurFathers: The protagonist and his family have been punished for the actions the original Jack for fifteen generations to the point that the Giants [[spoiler:sentence Jack Robinson to die]].

Jack Robinson is the rich CEO of a large company who’s having dreams about his father and an angry giant while trying to keep healthy since no Robinson male has lived to be over 40. Strange things start happening like a giant humanoid skeleton being found during construction of a casino around his ancestral castle and a mysterious woman who keeps suddenly appearing, accusing him of being "a thief and a murderer". Jack soon learns from a relative that he thought long dead that he is the descendant of Jack from the FairyTale and that the truth of the tale is not clear cut as it seems.

* SinsOfOurFathers: The protagonist and his family have been punished for the actions the original Jack for fifteen generations.

* GoryDiscretionShot: When Wilhemina kills Thunderdell with the axe used to knock down the beanstalk, the impact is not shown.

Jack Robison is the rich CEO of a large company who’s having dreams about his father and an angry giant while trying to keep healthy since no Robinson male has lived to be over 40. Strange things start happening like a giant humanoid skeleton being found during construction of a casino around his ancestral castle and a mysterious woman who keeps suddenly appearing, accusing him of being "a thief and a murderer". Jack soon learns from a relative that he thought long dead that he is the descendant of Jack from the FairyTale and that the truth of the tale is not clear cut as it seems.

* CosmicKeystone: The Harp and the Goose contained the guiding energies of the lands at the top of the beanstalk and due to the original Jack's theft, the lands have become desolate and barren.

* TalkingAnimal: Gallaga, the goose that Goose that laid the Golden Eggs, until it was taken to Earth.

Jack Robison is the rich CEO of a large company who’s having dreams about his father and an angry giant while trying to keep healthy since Robinson male has lived to be over 40. Strange things start happening like a giant humanoid skeleton being found during construction of a casino around his ancestral castle and a mysterious woman who keeps suddenly appearing, accusing him of being "a thief and a murderer". Jack soon learns from a relative that he thought long dead that he is the descendant of Jack from the FairyTale and that the truth of the tale is not clear cut as it seems.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: An InUniverse example. The woman who found and sheltered Jack in the fake tale is a haggard, old woman whereas the "real" woman, Ondine (played by Mia Sara), was young and had a relationship with Jack. This seems to be effort to hide that the original Jack took advantage of her trust to steal from the giant.

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: Siggy set himself up as a ParentalSubstitute to modern day Jack and encouraged him to not settle down and have children so when Jack is killed by the HereditaryCurse, Siggy can produce a faked will that leaves everything to him and no one would question it.]]

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: Siggy set himself up as a ParentalSubstitute to modern day Jack and encouraged him to not settle down and have children so when Jack is killed HereditaryCurse, Siggy can produce a faked will that leaves everything to him and no one would question it.]]