Fairy Sexy

"You're a...you're a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and I don't know why you have wings, but you have very lovely legs and you're a very nice tiny person and what am I saying..."

— Peter, Hook

Fairies and related beings are often portrayed as highly attractive, regardless of whether they're tiny pixies or human-sized. They might even be considered an Inhumanly Beautiful Race. They don't generally wear too many clothes, sometimes just leaves or flower petals, and sometimes nothing at all.

This is also a common trait given to nymphs going back to Classical Mythology, where just about every nymph was a Ms. Fanservice (which is why highly promiscuous people are called nymphomaniacs).

Subtrope of Our Fairies Are Different and Cute Monster Girl. Compare Hot God.

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Examples:

Advertising

• Marks & Spencer Christmas TV ad with cute fairies, Magic & Sparkle, flying around granting Christmas wishes.
• Bouygues Telecom has a commercial with fairies getting up and going to work, before flying off to their destinations.

Anime & Manga

• The Ancient Magus' Bride: The fairies come in all shapes and sizes, but Queen Titania and Redcurrant the leanan sídhe take the gold medal in terms of beauty.

• Berserk:
  • Puck and Evarella, the Fairy Companions of Guts and Schierke respectively, are very much this. Interestingly, the male elf, Puck, is practically naked (though he lacks genitals), whereas Evarella has something of a skirt to hide her womanly parts.
  • Subverted by Rosine, who first appears as this. However, she isn't actually an elf but an Apostle, and once she goes One-Winged Angel, what started as Fanservice turns into Fan Disservice.

• Hana no Ko Lunlun: The people of the Flower Star are beautiful humanoid creatures and some have butterfly wings. Fairy Nubo is a handsome male humanoid with butterfly wings.
• Kind of the entire point of Nectar Fairy joint from Interspecies Reviewers. A whorehouse staffed by Faeries. The standout being the Miss Kitty of the place, Aloe, who topped an out-of-universe popularity poll for favorite Succu-Girl. Interestingly, which girls can service you depends on the size of your penis; if it's too big then you can only be served by the largest girl, Bubulala, who's actually about 2-3 feet tall in contrast to her palm-sized compatriots and not really all that cute. If it's way too big, you can be refused service completely (no refunds).
• In Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, Miyuki lands on two lingerie-clad flower fairies named "Lily" and "Violet". It's implied that she interrupted a romantic romp... and (of course) they want her to join them.
• Rosario + Vampire: The Lilith mirror sprite is very attractive. She also wears a sheer slip as clothing, leaving very little if anything at all to the imagination. In the anime, it's blue, but still pretty see-through.
• This is the entire point of the long-running Hentai manga series Bondage Fairies. Even when they are actually wearing clothes, protagonists Pfil and Pamela tend to dress like showgirls or dominatrixes at absolute best.

Arts

• Luis Royo's painting "Wings of Dreams" (contained in the art book Malefic) shows a nude fairy (riding a rat and menaced by a snake) with the caption "The story of snowy days, or fairies and moons. A place where long ears don't reduce the size of breasts, where butterfly wings don't force legs closed, where moonlight doesn't weaken a sensuous look and where danger doesn't wake up fear but challenge."

Comic Books

• The celestial sprite Tala from The Mythology Class. Also depicted with Barbie Doll Anatomy.
• XXXenophile gives us a recruiting spiel from one of the fairies of wet dreams, who wears a corset, a garter belt and fishnet stockings, and stiletto heels. She also has a very, um...hands on way of handling her duties.

Fan Works

• While Navi looked like just a little ball of bluish light with wings in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, many artists have pictured her as having light-blue skin, hair, and eyes, and is often safely nude. See this example◊.

Films — Animation

• Disney Animated Canon:
  • Fantasia has lengthy segments of tiny, (non-detailed) nude fairies who bring dew, Autumn, and frost during the Nutcracker suite.
  • Hercules has a group of nymphs playing around before getting chased by Phil. They have a very brief appearance in the movie, though some get featured in a few episodes of the TV show; in particular, Phil's girlfriend Syrinx is very attractive.
  • Peter Pan: Tinker Bell. Since it was a different day, her first appearance lacked a Magic Skirt. There's a popular (but false) claim is that she is modeled after Marilyn Monroe, and it's not hard to see how someone would come to that conclusion.
  • Pinocchio: The Blue Fairy is a slender fair-skinned blonde that wears an elegant glittery blue dress. When she offers the position of conscience to Jiminy Cricket he is somewhat dumbstruck by her beauty. Additionally she was modeled after Jean Harlow, noted blonde bombshell of the era.
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Crysta, the female lead, is a pretty, young fairy who wears a midriff-baring red dress.

• Rise of the Guardians: The Tooth Fairy is portrayed as a pretty woman with hummingbird-like features.
• Strange Magic: Every fairy, male or female, is fairly attractive except for their king, who is a case of Adipose Rex. The two Fairy Princesses in it play it straight — Dawn is a blond, blue-eyed Princess Classic, while older sister Marianne is a brunet Action Girl. The Bog King certainly thinks this is the case with Marianne.
• Tom and Jerry: Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure features Red as a sexy fairy.
• Wizards: Elinore is a human-sized fairy with a very transparent Stripperiffic outfit.

Films — Live-Action

• Hook: Tinkerbell is played by the sexy Julia Roberts. Her crush on Peter is also maintext, since she outright says that this is why she became his Fairy Companion, and kisses him after assuming human size near the end.
• Labyrinth: They're only briefly seen, but the fairy Sarah sees is an attractive, scantily clad female. Too bad fairies are vermin that bite people. Arguably, the (human-sized) Spear Counterpart of this trope is the Painted-On Pants-wearing Goblin King, who's one of the most famous examples of The Fair Folk and of Mr. Fanservice.

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: In the 2005 film version, dryads can only become visible as blowing leaves, flower petals, etc., but they often take the shape of sexy humanoids wearing nothing but the petals.

• Pan's Labyrinth: The fairies try to adopt this appearance for Ofelia as A Form You Are Comfortable With, but they're not very good at it; their natural form is something more like a praying mantis.

Literature

• Artemis Fowl: Holly wishes she weren't. Or rather, that there were more females in her profession. As the first female officer of the Lower Elements Police, she faces a lot of sexism from her male, usually less attractive co-workers. To humans, she's a bombshell. Among other elves, she's slightly above average.
• The Dresden Files describes most Fae as beings of unearthly beauty. Even the ones you could step on. Harry's buddy Toot-Toot is just as beautiful as the Lords of Faerie, just scaled down to (initially) about six inches. The small fae are never described in any sexual terms, but the human-sized ones like Maeve, Lea, Aurora, and Mab are an entirely different story.
• The Kingkiller Chronicle: In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe learns about the Felurian, who is the most beautiful and sensual Fae in the world. She often lures men into having sexual relations with her. But she's such a Sex Goddess that the experience will either outright kills them via exhaustion/pleasure overload, or they survive and are driven mad knowing they'll never feel such ecstasy again.
• Modern Faerie Tales portrays many types of faeries as much more beautiful than mortals — if a little bit inhuman-looking along with it.
• October Daye: Tybalt, a Cait Sidhe king is a male example who almost always appears in tight leather pants.
• In James Herbert's Once, the faerefolkis, extra-dimensional, nature-nurturing elementals, are interpreted by human senses in proportion to their demeanour. The undines, "waterfays" who emerge from a forest lake, rather overwhelm protagonist Thom with their scantily-clad nubility - Jennet, his introducer to this midst, he finds "fantastically beautiful."

• The fairies from The Shadowhunter Chronicles qualify for this. They are extremely beautiful and do not have large nudity taboos, so that many of them are sparsely dressed. It is even implied that many of them seek active romantic or sexual contacts with mundanes and shadowhunters.
• The War of the Flowers: Applecore. Theo is somewhat disturbed when people ask if they're together, and to learn that the size difference can apparently be resolved through (magical) surgery.

Live-Action TV

• Once Upon a Time:
  • The Blue Fairy's outfit is painted on. Although, while in Storybrooke, the fairies' human personas are nuns, so they dress more conservatively, even after regaining their memories and power.
  • Tinker Bell wears a short green dress similar to the one in Disney's animated version of Peter Pan.
  • The spin-off introduces us to the fairy Silvermist, who it turns out had a fling with Will Scarlett.
  • Season 6 introduces the evil Black Fairy, with a cleavage-emphasising dress and a very seductive way of speaking.
  • The same season reveals that Tiger Lily was once a fairy. In contrast to her child form in the source material, here she's a sexy adult woman. Her fairy dress pays lots of attention to her figure.
• Shadowhunters:
  • Rare Male Example in Meliorn, Isabelle's Seelie lover. His first appearance is a Shirtless Scene and he's an outright Mr. Fanservice.
  • Although the Seelie Queen first appears as a young girl, she can take on an older form if she wishes. And she does, assuming the form of the very attractive Sarah Hyland.
• Supernatural
  • Dean is attacked by a fairy (one too small for the audience to see) and gets distracted for a couple of seconds when he realizes it's a "tiny naked lady".
  • Charlie Bradbury encounters the beautiful fairy Gilda and is likewise Distracted by the Sexy, especially when it turns out Gilda is also into girls.
• True Blood: Faries are considered extremely attractive and enticing (especially towards vampires, who find their blood deeply intoxicating). Played with, since it turns out their ethereal looks are an illusion projected into other minds and their real forms are less pleasant-looking, resembling goblins. With that said, those with fae ancestry not only inherit their limited powers, but their beauty too, such as Sookie Stackhouse and her brother Jason-though he only got the looks. This trope gets lampshaded by Holly Cleary when she complains that Andy's daughter (a Half-Human Hybrid) seduced her son using her fairy charm.
• Carnival Row: The Fae, the fairy equivalents, are winged humanoids mainly represented with Vignette and Tourmaline, two beautiful female members of their species. Both of them show nudity while having sex with human men. Tourmaline and many other female Fae are sex workers, flying down to their clients as part of the attraction. She and Vignette had been lovers in the past too, with them shown kissing once.
• Bewitched: Samanta Stevens is a witch, but she embodies this trope in two successive episodes, "Mary the Good Fairy" and "The Good Fairy Strikes Again", in which she takes on the role of the tooth fairy, wearing a short white dress that highlights her legs.

Pinballs

• Farfalla: The butterfly fairy wears nothing but a gossamer robe and a smile.

Tabletop Games

• Changeling: The Lost: A common trait of the Fairest. All changelings are shaped by the purposes for which they were used while they were in Arcadia, and the Fairest are those changelings who were made to satisfy the aesthetic or sexual whims of their Fae masters. As a result, even those Fairest who started out unattractive will come out the other side looking quite pretty... although whether you consider that a good thing depends on your perspective. Many other changelings are similarly warped by their Durance, coming out of Arcadia looking significantly different from how they did when they entered. Sometimes, it results in this trope, but other times, not so much.
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Nymphs are so supernaturally beautiful that, depending on the edition of the game, they're capable of blinding or even outright killing mortals who see them (the death effect was typically caused by seeing them naked).
  • In 2nd Ed., sylphs are summonable "elemental-kin". Always Female, as they reproduce by laying eggs and what hatches is always another female sylph.
  • The artwork for 5th ed. pixies shows them scantily clad, gazing seductively out of the page. However they're also very child-like in face and behaviour.

• Exalted: The raksha can reshape their physical forms at will, which means they'll usually give themselves the sexiest body they can manage (assuming they're not trying to scare you, at least). This satisfies their famously enormous egos, while also making a great lure for drawing mortals close to feed on.

Theater

• In Iolanthe, all the fairies look like winsome teenage girls of seventeen years or thereabouts. This causes a misunderstanding when half-human Strephon's fiancee sees him embracing a young looking woman unaware it's his mother
• La Sylphide: The eponymous character is a beautiful fairy that attracts the protagonist enough to chase after her on his wedding day.

Video Games

• Beyond Oasis: In the first game, Beyond, and in its sequel Legend, Dytto, the elemental spirit of water, a petite female sprite that wears a bathing suit.
• Bravely Default has Airy, a crystal fairy who comes with Zettai Ryouiki, being the Big Bad, she follows the tradition of having many forms, one of which crosses the Bishōnen Line, the other two alternate forms on the other hand... Its sequel has the same thing with Anne, Airy's equally evil older sister

• Notte from Dragalia Lost is a subversion, as while she can be attractive, she is also quite decently dressed and never directly presented from a fanservice angle. After Chapter 18, however, she's not the only thing that grew, if you know what we mean...

• Dragon's Crown: Tiki and the rest of her kin fall into this by virtue of every single one of them being Expies of Tinkerbell and her fairy friends. Tiki especially; the only outward differences between her and Tinkerbell is that Tiki has Girlish Pigtails and is drawn by George Kamitani, which means her physical features are more pronounced.
• Dragon Rage: Adara The Sprite is portrayed as a attractive woman in a leotard with a Navel-Deep Neckline and Impossibly-Low Neckline. The game's manual also describes her as being sultry, but aside from her physical appearance we don't really see that.

• Fantastic Night Dreams Cotton has the bikini-wearing redhead Silk. She sported Navel-Deep Neckline in Magical Night Dreams: Cotton 2 & Magical Night Dreams: Cotton Boomerang.

• The fairies in the Galaxy Angel II trilogy are depicted as a race of miniature beautiful women with butterfly wings and revealing clothes. Kelsie and Santa Rosa respectively wear a halter top with a Navel-Deep Neckline and a crop top that leaves her midriff completely exposed. Their boss Hartcourt, while a bit more covered, still sports a Cleavage Window in her dress. Lastly, all of them wear long skirts with side slits showing off their naked legs.
• Granblue Fantasy: The "Pixie" type enemies are fairies with revealing legs, while there are also "Sprite" type enemies with exposed midriffs.
• Heroes of Might and Magic: Pixies in III. The first level unit of the Conflux Town, Pixies are portrayed as beautiful blond women with wings who wear just enough foliage-themed "clothes" to keep the game from being rated Mature. Upgrading them into Sprites grants them larger wings, low-cut blue dresses to replace their vegetation-bikinis, and turns them into brunettes for some reason.
• HuniePop has Kyu, a cute love fairy in a revealing pink outfit. She is also a nymphomaniac who talks in Totally Radical lexicon and has a job teaching hopeless men to get laid through morally questionable means.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Great Fairies wear ridiculously little clothing — they're more wrapped up in vines than anything else. Though the clunky graphics of the N64 caused them to look more creepy than sexy to some players.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the "attractive young Great Fairies" return (after being replaced in Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap by more abstract-looking fairies), but instead of vine-clothing, they have Godiva Hair, a much higher polygon count, and no creepy voice.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: During the second battle with her (not counting the battles where she's possessing someone), Veran reveals her "hideous" true form to be a dark blue Great Fairy... with the same face, the same curvaceous body, and an even skimpier outfit.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The four Great Fairies are portrayed as busty big, beautiful women clothed only in mermaid-like scales with jewels to act as pasties. They are also incredibly affectionate with Link and (hilariously) have No Sense of Personal Space.
• Monster Rancher: The normal Pixie monster is dressed in nothing but a red bikini. Other versions of Pixie monsters that are made by combining with other monsters range anywhere from bikinis to 1-piece swimwear.
• Odin Sphere: The fairies you encounter have very revealing outfits, except for Mercedes who is still a child.
• Paragon (2016): The Fey is a human-sized female fairy whose leaf and vine attire leaves quite little to the imagination.

• Twisted Wonderland: Malleus Draconia and Lilia Vanrouge are incredibly hot Bishōnen with dark, gothic-inspired designs.
• Quest for Glory: Downplayed. Faerie Folk are known to be quite beautiful, but are also eerie, otherworldly, and can be incredibly dangerous.
  • In the VGA remake of Quest for Glory I Zara, the Magic Shop proprietor and half human, is a striking redhead wearing a shoulder-baring gown, whereas in the EGA version she has a plunging neckline, but chalk-white skin and dark hair.
  • Erana (who like Zara is also half-human) is also noted for her beauty and is certainly quite cute in Quest for Glory V, however her dress is rather modest.
• Rayman Origins: Betilla the Nymph and her sisters, who have large breasts and ridiculously wide hips that swivel every time you save one of them.
• Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale: Both the fairies seen , to varying degrees, though they're more adorable than precisely hot. In the earlier Chantelise that takes place in the same universe, after Chante's cursed into the form of a fairy, younger sister Elise is so taken by how adorable she is she's reluctant to find a way to turn her back, much to Chante's irritation.

• Sable's Grimoire: Pixies, being an One-Gender Race, need to seduce human males to reproduce. Thankfully they have magic to grow up to human size.
• Shining the Holy Ark: The pixies generally show a lot of skin. The Pixie is in what seems like a skin-tight swimsuit. The Succubus likes to show off her ass. While the Incubus provides some eye-candy for the ladies. Also the Queen of the pixies shows a lot of cleavage.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Pixies tend to be depicted like this to help emphasize how they're among the few supernatural creatures not likely to rip your throat out the instant they see you.
• Stormlord: The fairies are naked blondes with wings.
• Tree Sprites in Wizardry VIII are tiny naked women with Monarch butterfly wings. Fully detailed, too. Unfortunately their tendency to cast Acid Splash at you can detract from their sexiness somewhat...
• Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim has Crevia◊, guardian of the Alma's Trials unique to the PlayStation 2 port. Notably, while other fairies appear in the game, they're less conventionally attractive and work for the Big Bad.

Web Animation

• Dreamscape: Eleenin's fairies are cute fairy girls, compared to her more gorgeous serenity.

Webcomics

• Axe Cop: The Best Fairy Ever. She's dating Sockarang, who has to spend a lot of time brewing growth potions for her.
• The NSFW Bloomin' Faeries! relies on the increasingly kinky hijinks of a mischievous fairy who wears (at most) a long loincloth, and a halter that barely contains her head-sized breasts. When other fairies appear, they wear variants of the same costume.
• Cheshire Crossing: Tinkerbell yet again, or at least Peter seems to think so thanks to suddenly having puberty thrust upon him. She reciprocates enthusiastically. As for the problem of scale? This is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover which includes Alice In Wonderland, so there are workarounds.
• In El Goonish Shive, the attractiveness of Nanase's fairy doll avatar is used to increase sales at the comicbook shop and on a meta-level as fanservice.
• Homestuck: Vriska convinces boy skylark Tavros to make a stand for daring and derring do, don his plucky "Pupa Pan" costume and fly to fight the horror awaiting which turns out to be her waiting in a skimpy fairy costume. At this point he falls into her web and her black widow motif is made evident.
• Oglaf: Parodied in the 'Cleansing' strip. A guy pays to get a sexy facial cleanse from some pixie callgirls...and ends up in total agony because they get tons of soapy water in his eyes, mouth, and nose with their inept attempts at arousing him. He can't make them stop because he was strapped down for the cleanse to keep him from accidentally swatting pixies.
• Celia from The Order of the Stick is a human-sized fairy called a "Sylph". She's an elemental rather than a fairy, even though in OotS sylphs aren't Always Female. Also, there are her co-workers: an Earth counterpart (though she doesn't looks like Pech) who was just quietly offed, and a Fire one who was Killed Offscreen. Celia was "lucky" enough to "only" be petrified.
• Spare Keys for Strange Doors: Toby's mother apparently likes greeting guests undervarious kinds of glamour, including a giant fairy.
• In The Wolf at Weston Court Elgin finds the Faeries "intriguing" for this reason. On their part, the Faeries don't make an effort to be sexy, but the open-backed clothes must draw attention.

Web Original

• Mortasheen parodies this. The Mothstrous is one of the most humanoid creatures in the setting, looking like an attractive woman with moth wings and antennae. The subversion comes with the fact that it's considered hideously ugly by the inhabitants of Mortasheen. There's also the Blighterfly, which mocks this trope in a different way—it's anything but sexy, being a repulsive, tumor-ridden, troll-like creature with butterfly wings. Naturally, it's the one considered attractive in Mortasheen.
• Neopets: The various faeries. Not too fanservicey, as it's a site used by kids, but their depictions are still quite good-looking.
• In Tales of MU it's considered taboo for nymphs to wear any clothing, due to their infamous beauty being considered a gift from nature. Thus, Amaranth runs around stark naked all the time, except for her Nerd Glasses. Except when she's in private, wherein she wears clothing for the texture.

Web Videos

• The Legend of Neil features a remarkably slutty fairy in a leaf bikini.

Western Animation

• Willow in A Kind of Magic due to her large butt with wide hips to match.
• Disenchantment: Parodied — all fairies we see look like aging sex-workers.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • The Tooth Fairy is recognized as the most beautiful fairy. It helps that she has a humanoid body compared to other fairies in the show.
  • Also the Amazonian Fairies in "Chicken Poofs".
  • Juandissimo, on the other hand, is a rather...unconventional take on this trope. He has ripped pecs, which he is fond of showing off at every opportunity, and talks in a seductive Mexican-Spanish accent.
• Gargoyles: Titania, the Bean Sidhe, and the Lady of the Lake . In the case of Titania, Greg Weisman is on record stating that "she's got it, so she flaunts it."
• The Legend of Zelda (1989): Spryte is the series' Fairy Companion. She looks like she's modeled after Tinkerbell, wears a mini-dress with no underwear, and is something of a gender-inverted Handsome Lech who's trying to get Link to kiss her.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series:
  • A variation where the faeries are two attractive teenagers named Dawson and Felicity (wonder what that's referencing). Although they're disguised as humans, all they need to do is hide their wings and feelers.
  • Cassandra invokes this when she gets the part of Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She gets excited about dressing up in a sexy costume since Harvey will be acting alongside her.
• Samurai Jack: The Spring Spirit in "The Four Seasons of Death" is a beautiful slender wood nymph with pale white skin, long flowing hair, almost completely transparent wisps of cloth covering her lady bits, and a soft gentle voice provided by Grey Delisle.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Pixie Empress from "Pixtopia" has a shapely body, and Ferguson quickly grows infatuated with her to the point of almost marrying her.
• Winx Club: The heroines of the series are a whole team of attractive girls that have perfectly shaped figures and frequently bare their midriffs to show off their girliness. Most of their magical transformations also makes them fairies, so add 2 and 2. The Sophix transformation takes the cake for how much of the body is shown off.

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