The Fair Folk TV Tropes. They will not go gently into the night they are the night. The fairies of old werent cute little bewinged pixies who fluttered happily around humans. Elves didnt make children toys or live deep in forests with no interaction with mortals. At best, they would interact with humans with either no thought to the consequences of their actions the Little People who put Rip Van Winkle to sleepnote That was the ghosts of Henry Hudson and his crew however, traditionally, the line between fairies and ghosts has. At worst, theyre like The Jokerwith magic otherworldly horrors who kidnap humans for use as playthings to assault, torture, or eator sometimes even worse things some versions of. The Fair Folk almost always live in the Land of Faerie, and may be depicted as an Inhumanly Beautiful Race. They are usually vulnerable to Cold Iron, though not always. In both cases, you have creatures who are ineffable and dont understand humanity, who randomly abduct humans, play with them, and return them with Time. Loss and occasionally strange powersafflictions. Periodically, there are tales of those who have dealt with them and benefited, but for the most part, mundanes are merely their playthings. Compare and contrast Fairy Companion, Witch Species, Our Elves Are Better, Our Fairies are Different, Our Goblins Are Different, Our Mermaids Are Different, Nature Spirit, and All Trolls Are Different. See also Changeling Tale, a specific subtrope having to do with fairy abduction, doppelgangers, and the like. Not to be confused with Changeling Fantasy, which is a type of Cinderella Situation. Best British Tv Miniseries Of The Decadent Royals' title='Best British Tv Miniseries Of The Decadent Royals' />Some fairies may be malevolent, but others may be friendly to humans, or at least willing to leave humans alone as long as the humans do the same. In some cases, the fairies may be more in conflict with each other than humans, and act accordingly. Youkai are a rough Japanese equivalent. The Greys is a more modern trope with many similarities. Demons when not The Legions of Hell are often also portrayed this way. An extreme example may be a Humanoid Abomination. At first she may look intimidating and a little bit sinister, but soon we discover she is genuinely a very kind, gentle, and caring person. Best British Tv Miniseries Of The Decadent DogsTake a journey through space and time, and explore all the stuff that makes the 80s the decade that made us Episode information for Sex and the City on HBO, featuring videos, images, music, schedule information, and episode guides. The Pandora section of Disneys Animal Kingdom also opened in Florida over the weekend. It took fans about two hours just to get into the Pandora park, and ride. 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The Diclonii from Elfen Lied are heavily influenced by the Fair Folk and are in fact the. They reproduce by secretly altering humans so that any children they have will be born as diclonii, and they are all very beautiful or handsome. In feudal Japan, they used to live like nobles, ruling over normal humans until they were hunted almost to extinction. They are not particularly evil, but when they grow older, they develop telekinetic abilities with which they almost always accidentally kill their human families and only survive by becoming deadly killers. Except the only remaining queen, Lucy, who can give birth to pureblood diclonii and has the unstoppable instinct to Kill All Humans. From the protagonists Fairy Companion debating whether or not to eat him in the beginning, to a Tuatha Dunann being weak to a pair of scissors and being unable to cross fresh water, to the presence of changelings replacing children, a lot of classic fairy lore is involved. Granted, some of it is modernized said fairy companion is played as more of a non romantic Tsundere, for example, but the effort is easily appreciable. The real Elves of the series, such as Puck, are more the benevolent version. Oddly, while the real Elves are indeed harmless, they have a very serious case of Blue and Orange Morality. Puck, for instance, seems to forget that hes living in a Crapsack World, finds being a Jerkass a more repellent trait than carving ones way through walls of enemies and civilians alike, and follows Guts primarily to partake in the adventure. Not unlike the reader. My Goddess. The Movie, the local Dark Magical Girl Morgan Le Fay is explicitely mentioned to be a fairy. Though shes more lonely and broken than properly evil. They are actually a race of little people called the Tontatta, who do their best never to be seen, and the Living Toys who also inhabit Dressrosa created and perpetuated the belief of the fairies. Their intentions are to observe and gather supplies needed to fight Don Quixote Doflamingo, the dictator of Dressrosa, and the Tontatta and Toys are allied with each other. The Tontatta provide the military might while the Toys manipulate the public image of their actions. Earl and Fairy is a good example of this. They prefer being known as good neighbors in this manga, hearkening back to more Gaelic mythology. The rest of the series so far has kept up with this trend, using terminology and creatures from British mythology as well as others. The Sandman directly crosses over with a number of other DC comics, meaning that nasty elves also play a part in The Books of Magic, Hellblazer, and several other Vertigo series. Fortunately, these fairies are non magical and an endangered species. The story ends with the fairies discussing how few children have been born to them lately and how they may eventually fade away, which likely inspired in part The Golden Armysee below under Film. Said changeling, seeking vengeance against Hellboy, becomes the driving force behind an army of fae seeking to restore the glory days. Restoring the good old days, or going out with a bang, they dont seem to be picky. Resurrecting an ancient sorceress named the Queen of Blood aka, Nimue to lead the army adds destroying the world to the list. In particular, Paul Cornells Wisdom and Captain Britain and MI1. Season 7 Smallville Episode Guide more. Oberons daughter Tinkabelinos yes., who resembles a foul mouthed cross between Boudicea and a punk rocker. They get together at a pub to express contempt for the film and the irresistible amounts of money that compelled them to take part in it, and the older Irish natives talk about the terror and brutality of the real fairy tales they grew up with. When Shade arrives and enters a fairy ring, his madness amplifies the effect across the entire country, with results deadly and deranging. The madstorm also wipes out the entire film production, to the relief of the surviving actors. Notably, they dont seem to have any of the weaknesses listed at the beginning of this article. Malekith the Accursed calls The Wild Hunt on Tony Stark solely because he calls himself. Gillen has stated that he wants the elves to come across as alien in mindset as anything Tony has encountered in outer space. Because of this, they prize aural perfection and speak entirely in alliteration to reflect this. Anything and anyone that doesnt communicate in this manner is considered imperfect and a source of bad audio and must be imprisoned. At first they were tiny winged women but then what looked like winged actual size cthulhumanoids showed up. Their names are largely consonants, and according to Elsa Bloodstone, those are the same kind of true fae that Lovecraft wrote about. The curse is softened, but cannot be completely removed, by the final fairy. She is allied with the Yellow Dwarf, and when Princess Toutebelle breaks her promise to marry the dwarf, the Fairy of the Desert and the Yellow Dwarf show up at her wedding to wreak havoc at the celebration. The Most Deathly Power also has a similar shtick. As in their native canon, theyre very prone to using Exact Words, each and every one of them is a Rules Lawyer and they love making deals.