Line #26 Characters/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio


1	Characters from ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.
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5	[[folder:Pinocchio]]
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8	* AdaptationalHeroism: In the Disney version, some Live-Action versions and other adaptations, his misbehavior is driven by naivete rather than selfishness.
9	* AesopAmnesia: He keeps forgetting his morals, even after suffering too much.
10	* AnimateInanimateObject: He is alive even as a log.
11	* AntiHero: He loves his father and the Fairy, but he is a reckless irritant. He starts out as mischievous, lazy and irresponsible.
12	* BrattyHalfPint: He starts as an arrogant, mischievous, misbehaved kid.
13	* BreakTheHaughty: He has to pay dearly for his bad decisions.
14	* CantTakeCriticism: At least at the beginning, he did not take kindly that the Cricket scolded him.
15	* DisneyDeath: When he gets hanged in Chapter 15. It was originally meant to be ''[[DownerEnding the end of the story]]'', but thanks to his editor and reader demands, Collodi was forced to write additional chapters in which the fairy saves him, Pinocchio gets better, and learns his lesson to [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn His Happy Ending]].
16	* DitzyGenius: A proficient student and a good worker, but a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.
17	* EveryoneHasStandards: Pinocchio has many flaws, but willingness to accept bribes is not one of those. Two weasels learn it the hard way.
18	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He trusts the Fox and the Cat even when there are many clues that indicate that they're evil. Later, the same happens with some classmates, despite warnings of his teacher.
19	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is a jerk at the start, but his willingness to sacrifice for Mangiafuoco's puppets and his crying for the Fairy's supposed death demonstrates that he is a good guy deep down. He is good in essence, but his will is weak and almost always takes the wrong decision.
20	* KidHero: He is the hero of this story.
21	* LivingToys: He is a puppet.
22	* MistressAndServantBoy: He becomes a "servant boy" of the Blue Fairy who cares for him, but also can tease him sometimes and give him {{Prank Punishment}}s. There's no romantic angle though, since he considers her more of a mother-like figure.
23	* MuggleInMageCustody: The relationship between him and the Blue Fairy is of this kind. He lives with the Fairy in her house, she takes care of him, but when he misbehaves, she often resorts to {{Prank Punishment}}s like making his nose grow for lying or giving him fake food.
24	* PinocchioNose: The TropeNamer. In the Fairy's house, his nose grows when he lies about his money. Strangely, the last time he lies in the novel, his nose doesn't grow. That's because the lie he told was more to 'be polite' and not worry Geppetto - it even echoes a lie that Geppetto told early on.
25	* PlotArmor: It's really a miracle that he has survived all of the awful things of his world.
26	* TookALevelInKindness: By the end of the book, he has stopped getting in trouble and works to help his sick father.
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30	* TheAlcoholic: The most likely reason for his nickname.
31	* CassandraTruth: Tries to make Geppetto believe the piece of wood really is alive. Geppetto later learns it to be true.
32	* GagNose: He even has a nickname for it.
33	* RaceLift: In the ComicBook/GrimmFairyTales adaptation he is a black woodcutter, who supplies Geppetto with wood.
34	* SmallRoleBigImpact: He disappears after the two first chapters, but without him, Geppetto would have not built Pinocchio.
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37	[[folder:Mister Geppetto]]
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40	* BerserkButton: He hates when he is called 'Polentina'. This term is to mock his wig, because it resembles polenta.
41	* GoodParents: Although he doesn't get along with children, he does his best to be a good father to Pinocchio. He gives him the pears he intended to eat as a breakfast, he made him clothes of newspaper and crumps of bread (Geppetto is extremely poor) and sells his coat to buy him an alphabet book for school. Furthermore, he is willing to wander the world to find his son.
42	* GrumpyOldMan: A minor example; he is polite enough to adress people, but is short-tempered. That trait gets weakened with time since he is still the nicest character of the novel.
43	* KindheartedCatLover: Implied; there is a cat in Geppetto's old house.
44	* MoralityChain: He is the one influencing Pinocchio to be good without even being present.
45	* TrulySingleParent: He carves Pinocchio.
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51	* AscendedExtra: In many adaptations, like the Disney version, he is promoted to Pinocchio's sidekick and moral advisor.
52	* CassandraTruth: Pinocchio refuses to believe him when he tries to convince him about the consequences of a hedonistic life and the true colors of the Fox and the Cat.
53	* SpiritAdvisor: He becomes this after Pinocchio squashes him with a mallet.
54	* TurnTheOtherCheek: Despite being killed by Pinocchio, he still tries to warn him about the Fox and the Cat and lets him live in a cabin.
55	* UnexplainedRecovery: Pinocchio accidentally kills him, but he revives without explanation in the Fairy's house. It is possible that he's an enchanted animal capable of resurrecting himself, given that he claims that he has lived in the house Geppetto resides in for more than one hundred years.
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58	[[folder:Mangiafuoco]]
59	* EvilPuppeteer: While he does threaten to burn Pinocchio and then Harlequin, he ultimately changes his mind and subverts this trope by sparing Harlequin and gifting Pinocchio some coins to help Geppetto.
60	* FaceOfAThug: He is terrifying, but he hides a positive side.
61	* LargeAndInCharge: He's described being a frighteningly towering and imposing figure.
62	* SmallRoleBigImpact: The five coins still have an impact on the story after he is long gone.
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65	[[folder:The Fox and the Cat]]
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68	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The Cat silences a blackbird trying to warn Pinocchio by eating him.
69	* BitchInSheepsClothing: They feign to be kindhearted people with handicaps, but they're con artists.
70	* CatsAreMean: The Cat is a conman and a murderer.
71	* ConArtist: Both of them, pretending to be handicapped, then stealing the money of people trying to help them.
72	* CunningLikeAFox: The Fox is a conman trying to cheat people out of their money.
73	* FalseFriend: They fake to be kind to Pinocchio to steal his money and they even try to kill him.
74	* FoulFox: The Fox, along with his partner-in-crime the cat, is a con artist who [[ObfuscatingDisability pretends to be handicapped]] to take advantage of people's kindness. Not only that, but the two of them feign kindness to Pinocchio to steal his money and later try to kill him.
75	* LaserGuidedKarma: By the end of the story, the Fox is now truly lame, nearly hairless, and tailless (he had to chop it off and sell it as a fly swatter for money), and the Cat truly blind. And how does Pinocchio respond to their pleas? By politely telling them to bugger off.
76	* ObfuscatingDisability: Both fake handicaps. The Fox feigns to have a limp and the Cat feigns to be blind; they do so to beg money. At the end, they become handicapped for real.
77	* VerbalTic: The Cat has the tendency of repeating the last word of the Fox's sentences.
78	* WouldHurtAChild: Their willingness to kill Pinocchio shows that they are not above murdering children.
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82	* CoolBigSis: She's described to be a young girl when she rescues Pinocchio from being hanged and heals him, making her this by default. It also helps that before she returns in adult form, Pinocchio refers to her as his sister.
83	* DeathByDespair: Her SecretTestOfCharacter for Pinocchio is pretending to be this by replacing her house with a tombstone that says "Here Lies The Little Girl With Blue Hair, Died Of Sorrow For Being Abandoned By Her Little Brother Pinocchio". The puppet's devastated reaction proves to her that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's good deep down]] and decides to take care of him.
84	* GoodIsNotSoft: While being loving and helpful in most of her appearances, the Fairy leaves Pinocchio outside for a whole night and gives him a breakfast of fake food as a punishment for getting in trouble.
85	* MadonnaArchetype: She appears as a normal maiden who dresses like a ProperLady, but is actually a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent millenary fairy]] Pinocchio grows to worship as a beloved mother figure. Furthermore, her characteristic blue hair can be seen as a stand-in of the Virgin Mary's blue cloak.
86	* MistressAndServantBoy: She plays the role of "mistress" for the young and naive Pinocchio, whom she loves, but can also tease him sometimes and give him {{Prank Punishment}}s. There's no romantic angle though, since he considers her more of an adoptive mother.
87	* MoralityPet: Pinocchio loves the Fairy. He cries when he believes she died and donates her the money he wanted to use for a jacket when he hears that she's ill.
88	* ParentalSubstitute: She acts as Pinocchio's maternal figure and adopts him as a son while Geppetto is trapped in the Terrible Dogfish.
89	* PrankPunishment: She is really fond of those. Making Pinocchio's nose grow when he lies and giving him fake food as a punishment for skipping school are her usual methods.
90	* Really700YearsOld: The book states that she lived near the forest for more than a thousand years.
91	* {{Shapeshifting}}: She first appears as a young girl, then as a grown woman after faking her death and then as a talking blue-haired goat.
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