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The Film

  • Completely Different Title:
    • Mexico: Satanic Innocence
  • Creator Backlash:
    • While Jennifer Connelly did enjoy working on the film she was upset when she got hospitalized after the chimp (who was poorly trained) nearly bit off her finger.
    • Daria Nicolodi, the actress who played Frau Brückner, vehemently denounced the film upon release for being reactionary and wholly opposed to her personal ideals and worldview, and said she would never work with Dario Argento (whom she was married to at the time) again if he continued to make films like it.
    "The basis of the film is unacceptable and reactionary: the heroes are rich and good-looking, the villains are poor and ugly, and the murders are perpetuated by a handicapped person and his crazy mother. Such a screenplay has my total disapproval, it goes completely against my worldview."
  • The Danza: Jennifer Connelly as Jennifer Corvino.
  • Dawson Casting: Frau Brückner's son was played by Davide Marotta, a 26-year old dwarf actor.
  • Executive Meddling: Was edited down and released in the United States as Creepers, which wasn't well-received. The Director's Cut was released on DVD to better acclaim.
  • No Dub for You: Just like what happened with both Martin and Day Of The Dead, the Japanese dub will include a new, crownfunded one, since the original theatrical release didn't include one.
  • Reality Subtext: Argento's own mother abandoned the family after a phone call from her paramour, just like Jennifer's.
  • What Could Have Been: The role of Professor McGregor was written for Peter Ustinov.

The Book Series

  • Cash-Cow Franchise: Subverted, while having the potential of becoming it does Gyldendal mainly chose to ignore it.
  • Covers Always Lie: Quite minor but on Gyldendal's pages for the 3rd edition of the first book is there no Alk and Ilke on the cover. However ordering it, you'll get a book with them on the cover. The time you could still order paperbacks was they on the cover on that one's picture. So keeping the mistaken image is a really weird oversight.
  • Distanced from Current Events: book 7 was this according to Word of God, because of some recent events, but it was published anyway.
  • Fandom Life Cycle: stage 6 A, although big are Norwegian fans usually really quiet so unless it's foreign with more fans, the law of Jante sets in. Stage X is sure to come to some extent when the TV-series arrives.
  • No Export for You: has only been translated into Swedish, German, Finish, Danish and Italian.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: according to Eliassen himself does he write based on how he feels at the moment.
  • Release Date Change: The 7th book was aparently going to be released much earlier than November 2011, but due to the terror attack did Eliassen wait as he couldn't bring himself to bring fan favorite Ilke's death that close to when so many had at least lost one friend around her age, more death.
  • Shrug of God: Alk and Ilke's clothes are implied to have belonged to Sha-ra and Mentor when they where younger considering that Ilke dresses quite masculine. The clothes are also different from those Sha-ra and other elves currently wear (probably due to Sha-ra being a mage and the elves being slaves), more like a mix of elvish and winter bear clothes. It's never said who made them or when they where made, and Khiri couldn't just make and send them, which implies the first theory. Except for that [[spoiler: the castle Sha-ra and Mentor grew up in burnt down and only a few books survived.
  • What Could Have Been: The book series was supposed to become Picture Books instead as Eliassen was mainly an illustrator, but Gyldendal wanted it to be more mature looking so he could only draw the covers and book part illustrations. Later it did get picture books but these were drawn by Øystein Runde which provided very different artwork for the characters compared to their Canon counterparts.

The Live-Action Series

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