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The enduringly popular Italian story of the living puppet Pinocchio has appeared in various media over the years. This is an index for all the Pinocchio-related pages on TV Tropes.
If you are looking for a trope, try Pinocchio Nose or Become a Real Boy.
Original work:
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), novel by Carlo Collodi.
Adaptations & derivative works:
Anime & Manga- Mokku of the Oak Tree (1972) — An anime version by Tatsunoko Production, adapted by Saban Entertainment for the Western world in 1990.
- Piccolino no Bouken (1976) — an anime done by Nippon Animation.
- A Tree Of Palme (2002) — An anime film by Takashi Nakamura, the same guy who made Catnapped!. Imagine post apocalyptic Pinocchio with a tablespoon of David Lynch thrown in alongside some sweet music by Takashi Harada.
- One Armed Amy (2020)— A single-chapter manga that tells the experiences of a female variant of Pinocchio made of cloth and cotton.
Comic Books
- Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer (2009) — Comics series written by Van Jensen where Pinocchio is portrayed as a vampire slayer.
Film — Animation
- Pinocchio (1940) — The Disney Animated Canon film.
- Pinocchio in Outer Space (1965) — Belgian-American film. As you might guess, the story is Recycled In Space
- Un Burattino Di Nome Pinocchio (1972) — Italian film by Giuliano Cenci.
- Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) — Film by Filmation.
- Pinocchio (1992) — Golden Films production distributed by GoodTimes Entertainment.
- Pinocchio 3000 (2004) — CGI-animated film by Daniel Robichaud, often shortened to "P 3 K". Also lapses into Recycled In Space territory.
- Welcome Back Pinocchio (2007) — Italian film directed by Orlando Corradi.
- Pinocchio (2012) — Italian film by Enzo D'Alò.
- Pinocchio: A True Story (2022) — Russian CGI-animated adaptation, distributed in the US by Lionsgate.
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) — A Netflix stop-motion musical adaptation by Guillermo del Toro set in Fascist Italy using Gris Grimly's designs of the characters.
Film — Live-Action
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1911) — Italian silent film, first film adaptation.
- Nine Six Four Pinocchio (1991), a Japanese cyberpunk film by Shozin Fukui, where the main character is a brain-modified sex cyborg. Not exactly based on Pinocchio but the protagonist's codename is Pinocchio and he was created by scientists. He also kind of turns more "human" as the film progresses.
- Turlis Abenteuer (1967) — An East German adaptation by Walter Beck released November 3, 1967 in Germany. Gained a US release in February 1969 with Ron Merk directing the English version.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) — Directed by Steve Barron and starring an animatronic Jim Henson's Creature Shop puppet voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
- The New Adventures Of Pinocchio (1999) — Sequel to the above film directed by Michael Anderson and replacing most of the cast except Martin Landau and Udo Kier.
- Geppetto (2000) — A retelling of the 1940 Disney film from Geppetto's perspective.
- Pinocchio (2002) — Directed by and starring Roberto Benigni.
- Pinocchio (2019) — Directed by Matteo Garrone. Stars Roberto Benigni again, but this time as Geppetto.
- Pinocchio (2022) — Live-action remake of the 1940 Disney film, directed by Robert Zemeckis and released on Disney+.
Literature
- The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino (1936) — a Russian retelling of Collodi's book by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy that has itself seen several movie adaptations.
Live-Action Television
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972) — Italian series by Luigi Comencini, readapted into a feature film as well.
- Pinocchio (2009) — A star-studded miniseries with, among others, Bob Hoskins as Geppetto, Robbie Kay as Pinocchio and popular Italian comedian Luciana Littizzetto as a female Talking Cricket.
- Once Upon a Time (2011-2018) — The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio and Geppetto appear as recurring characters.
Theatre
- Pinokkio, de Musical
(2000) — Belgian musical adaptation by Studio 100. - Pinocchio: The Musical (2003) — Italian musical adaptation of the book.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (2007) — opera by Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton.
Video Games
- Pinocchio (1996) — a Licensed Game based on the 1940 Disney film, released by Virgin Interactive for the SNES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy.
- Kingdom Hearts (2002-) The Disney-Square Enix crossover franchise has often featured the 1940 Disney film, most prominently with Jiminy Cricket serving as the royal chronicler of Disney Castle who joins Sora, Donald, and Goofy on their adventures, maintaining the franchise’s database journals in most installments he appears in and sometimes playing a larger role.
- Kingdom Hearts (2002) - Monstro the whale appears and houses an entire level, or "world", within his insides. With Pinocchio’s original world having fallen to darkness, Sora’s party must rescue him and Gepetto from Monstro.
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) - A remixed version of the first game’s story is depicted. Jiminy also plays a major role in the main plot.
- Kingdom Hearts II (2005) - Jiminy returns as the chronicler albeit Demoted to Extra.
- Kingdom Hearts coded (2008) - Jiminy serves another major role as the characters investigate a mysterious message in his journal.
- Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] (2012) - The film gets another world, this time called "Prankster's Paradise" that adapts Pleasure Island as half of the world, with the other half being Monstro again.
- Kingdom Hearts III (2019) - Jiminy once again serves as the chronicler with a supporting role towards the climax of the game.
- Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (2020) - Stages based on Monstro from the first game appear.
- Lies of P (2023) - Souls-like action video game inspired by the original fairy tale.
- RWBY —The character Penny Polendina is a 'Robot Girl' combat variant of Pinocchio. Her father Pietro Polendina 'The Engineer' of it world's most advanced kingdom compared to his original counterpart who was a carpenter.
Webcomics
- Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio — A webcomic adaptation by KC Green, largely adapted from the Puffin Classics edition, written with the goal of preserving the outlandish and dark nature of the original.
- Dimension 20's Neverafter features Pinnochio as one of the player characters, portrayed by Lou Wilson as a warlock who uses his broken-off nose as a staff.
Western Animation
- The New Adventures Of Pinocchio (1960) — Television program by Rankin/Bass Productions. 130 5 minute episodes, done with stop motion animation, which was done in Japan.
- Pinocchio's Christmas (1980) — a Rankin/Bass special that's a holiday-flavored adaptation of the book.
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995-2000): An episode loosely adapted the story in 1997 where Pinocchio and Geppetto are black in this adaptation. Unlike other adaptations, the story takes place in Jamicia instead of Italy.
- Pinocchio And Friends (2021) — Series by Rainbow S.r.l..
