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Damsel

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141 feature instances
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Damsel	type	TVTItem
Damsel	label	Damsel
Damsel	page	Damsel
Damsel	comment	Damsel is a 2024 Dark Fantasy film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written by Dan Mazeau. It stars Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Brooke Carter, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, and Angela Bassett.Set in a fairy tale kingdom, the film follows a young noblewoman named Elodie who discovers her impending marriage to a handsome prince was a trick and that she is actually to be sacrificed to a fire-breathing dragon. Now she will need all her wits in order to avoid becoming the dragonâ€™s next meal.A novelization based on an earlier version of the script was written by Evelyn Skye.The film was released on March 8, 2024 on Netflix.Previews: Teaser, Trailer
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Damsel / int_11dd3268	type	Empire with a Dark Secret
Damsel / int_11dd3268	comment	Empire with a Dark Secret: Aurea is happy, prosperous, and peaceful...as long as they give up three women to be brutally murdered by a dragon.
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Damsel / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Damsel / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: The dragon needs the blood of the sacrificed princesses, not just their deaths. At one point, Elodie manages to wedge herself deeply into the rock where the dragon could just burn her to death, but would have no way of retrieving her body to eat.
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Damsel / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Damsel / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: The first Aurean king. He murdered the dragonâ€™s helpless offspring without provocation. When the kingâ€™s soldiers were all killed and he was at the dragonâ€™s mercy, he traded his daughters' lives to save his own hide. This also applies to the royal family as a whole, as they have been sacrificing innocent woman rather than face the dragon themselves for centuries.
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Damsel / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
Damsel / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: The dragon has a deep but androgynous-sounding voice, and is a massive Sadist.
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Damsel / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Damsel / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Elodie and her family are caught between a sadistic, bloodthirsty dragon that has been torturing and killing princesses for centuries as punishment for someone else's crime, and a royal dynasty all too willing to continue to procure innocent young women to sacrifice to the beast so that these innocents can bear the brunt of the dragon's vengeance in their place.
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Damsel / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
Damsel / int_16fdd774	comment	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Elodie loses her shoes falling down the pit and goes barefoot for the rest of the film, which although probably lovely for her actress is very unpleasant for her. She eventually makes foot wraps from her dress, but loses those too.
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Damsel / int_188668f2	type	Redemption Quest
Damsel / int_188668f2	comment	Redemption Quest: Implied, the final shot of the movie showing the dragon flying alongside Elodieâ€™s ship as she returns to her kingdom indicates the dragon, having ended its revenge and destroyed the royal family, is going to help Elodie rebuild her kingdom as a way to not only make up for the suffering she caused Elodie, but also to try and make up for all the innocents that she killed.
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Damsel / int_191babbc	type	Trampled Underfoot
Damsel / int_191babbc	comment	Trampled Underfoot: The dragon likes to crush her enemies, smashing at least two men onscreen into a bloody pulp.
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Damsel / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Damsel / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: More specifically a combination of this trope, Elodie explaining to the dragon that the women she had been killing are not from the Aurean royal family and healing/sparing the dragon after tricking her into setting herself on fire.
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Damsel / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Damsel / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: The dragon has been killing three women every generation to avenge her own slain daughters, ensuring that the royal family will always know the pain she did even though the king who actually did it is long dead. It's clear from her dialogue that she considers the entire royal family culpable for her pain, getting angry when Elodie denies that she did anything and yelling that "your kind" are murderers because they slaughtered her children unprovoked. Learning that she has been killing strangers instead horrifies her, and she kills the royal family instead and declares her revenge over. Unlike most examples, the royal family aren't very sympathetic, as they've been feeding women to the dragon all that time and Elodie doesn't really care when the dragon kills them for deceiving her.
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Damsel / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Damsel / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: Narrowly subverted. Lord Bayford orders his daughter not to come out and lets the dragon kill him, but she instinctively cries out anyway as he's stabbed. She only lives because another person in the cave accidentally made a noise, distracting the dragon. However, even before this his arrival provided a crucial distraction that saved Elodie's life when the dragon had her cornered, and the rope he left is what lets Elodie finally escape the cave.
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Damsel / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Damsel / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: While he did originally agree to sacrifice her for the good of his kingdom, Lord Bayford feels so bad for it that he eventually comes to save Elodie. When the dragon captures him and tries to make him call for his daughter, he uses the opportunity to apologize to her...and then orders her not to come out, before the dragon kills him for it.
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Damsel / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Damsel / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: It's established in the beginning that Elodie's kingdom is desperately poor, so even the two princesses are chopping wood and offering their own tapestries and clothes to burn to try and save as many people as possible.
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Damsel / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
Damsel / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: After Elodie tricks the dragon into setting herself on fire, the dragon is mortally wounded and at her mercy, even telling Elodie to â€œEnd itâ€� after being informed she had been unknowingly killing innocents. Rather than kill the dragon however, Elodie not only spares her, but uses the glowworms to save her life, gaining the dragonâ€™s allegiance.
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Damsel / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Damsel / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Itâ€™s not specified why the dragon and her babies (before they were murdered) were the last of her kind. A dragon-plague? Competition with humans? Habitat loss? Dwindling prey? Unclear. Itâ€™s not clear when the Aurean royal family realized they could perform a ritual sharing their blood with chosen victims to trick the dragon into killing them instead of their own daughters. Whether the first Aurean king realized this and never even sacrificed his daughters in the first place, or if it took several generation before they figured out this loophole, is left ambiguous.
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Damsel / int_1fe13afb	type	Dirt Forcefield
Damsel / int_1fe13afb	comment	Dirt Forcefield: Completely averted. Elodie is filthy by the climax.
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Damsel / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Damsel / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy In the movie, Victoria is just another one of the many sacrifices through the ages, namely the one who wrote the messages on the walls. In the book, she was the one who struck the initial bargain. She never intended any princesses to follow her, but accepted the risk as "necessary sacrifices for Aurea," something Elodie curses her for. In the movie, Prince Henry is the royal most uncomfortable with the sacrifices, apologizing to Elodie before he throws her in and later refusing to throw Floria down after her. In the book, he is the least uncomfortable, showing no remorse over tossing Elodie into the pit and dismissing her as a possible future queen because she's "too spirited," and throwing Floria into the pit himself. His final moments are also changed: while the movie Henry is genuinely remorseful and accepts his fate to atone for it, the book Henry is clearly faking the whole thing and runs for it. In the movie, the sacrifices are three women every generation. Here, it is three sacrifices every year, meaning the kingdom and the dragon have killed at least 2400 people for their crops and prosperity.
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Damsel / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Damsel / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The dagger-shaped metal busk that the servants put into Elodie's bodice comes in handy as a tool (unusual, in that historical busks were largely made of wood or bone). The scented wax in the ornate egg serves as a makeshift light. While confronting the dragon, Lord Bayford drops his sword. Elodie later retrieves it, with it proving very useful in defeating the dragon.
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Damsel / int_22ed5d74	type	Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables
Damsel / int_22ed5d74	comment	Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: The source of Aurea's fabulous wealth is aurum wheat (a single loaf of which provides all the nutrients needed for a single day), sangberries with healing properties, and silver pears.
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Damsel / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
Damsel / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Elodie finds messages and a map carved on the walls of the dragon's cave. When she follows the map to a marked exit, she finds that although it leads outside the caves, it doesn't lead to safety, as the exit is halfway up a mountain with no safe way down. She also finds the mapmaker's body next to the exit.
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Damsel / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Damsel / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Elodie has the ability to see people's memories when she touches their blood, but it's not reliable and only awakens on Aurea. It proves valuable, as the former princesses condemned to the dragon left bloodstains she can learn from. It's also why the dragon is so determined: her mother prophesied that a princess' blood would cure her infertility and revive the race of dragons, so she's been killing princesses looking for the survivor. In the end, when she and Elodie perform a Mutual Kill and only survive thanks to the glowworms, the mixing of blood gives Elodie the ability to become a dragon and cures Retaza's infertility.
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Damsel / int_29296c94	type	Regret Eating Me
Damsel / int_29296c94	comment	Regret Eating Me: Princess Victoria, with her sisters dead and her options running low, drank poison and let the dragon eat her. It killed the dragon and left her daughter infertile, starting the tradition of sacrificed princesses.
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Damsel / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Damsel / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Prince Henry goes along with his family's plans to sacrifice three young women, but he's shown to be much more hesitant than most of the family, knowing it is wrong and does grow to like Elodie in the small time they have with each other. He also refuses to sacrifice Floria because she's a child, protesting against it to the Queen, though he just gets sidestepped and ignored. While he's still shown marrying the final bride in the end, it's implied it's more out of the Queen forcing him to. When the dragon finally kills him and the rest of his family, he doesn't run, and acts like a Death Seeker, in contrast to the Queen who just shouts back in futility. Henry just closes his eyes and lets it happen rather than blame Elodie.
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Damsel / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
Damsel / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: Lady Bayford was the daughter of a ropemaker who managed to become the second wife of Lord Bayford.
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Damsel / int_33f89198	type	Blade Brake
Damsel / int_33f89198	comment	Blade Brake: Elodie uses her dagger-shaped metal busk to stop herself from sliding down a rock wall.
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Damsel / int_353f2b06	type	"Die Hard" on an X
Damsel / int_353f2b06	comment	"Die Hard" on an X: Die Hard in a dragon's lair.
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Damsel / int_3767d6f9	type	Ruder and Cruder
Damsel / int_3767d6f9	comment	Ruder and Cruder: By virtue of being an adult book rather than a PG-13 movie. Elodie is not a virgin and is looking forward to her wedding night with Prince Henry. There's a scene where she's stripped naked and painted as preparation for the sacrifice, and the book is freer with profanity like "bitch" and "merde."
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Damsel / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Damsel / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Poor Elodieâ€™s feet take a lot of punishment over the course of the film. She tears strips off her dress to bandage them with.
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Damsel / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Damsel / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Robin Wright's most famous role is arguably that of Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride, famously imperiled on her wedding night at the hand of her homicidal fiancÃ© prince Humperdinck; here, she's graduated to the role of the Evil Queen who sends the eponymous damsel to her death with false promises of marriage to her son, the prince. This is not the first time Millie Bobby Brown has tackled with dragons or giant fire-breathing monsters. Ray Winstone and Robin Wright both starred in Beowulf (2007), as a hero standing against a mythical monster and a queen respectively.
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Damsel / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Damsel / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: At least a few of the former princesses have done this, with Elodie finding a group that just let themselves dehydrate in a cathedral-like cave rather than be burned. Elodie contemplates doing the same herself when the situation looks dire. In contrast to the film, King Roderick and Queen Isabelle calmly hold hands and let the dragon incinerate them to atone for all the princesses they've sacrificed. Their son, on the other hand, runs like a coward.
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Damsel / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
Damsel / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: The duchy of Inophe, where Elodie is from, is a desert province that's also been under a drought for 70 years. Aurea's gifts of fruits, grains, and gold could mean the difference between life and death for them.
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Damsel / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Damsel / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: It at first seems as if the dragon holds this view towards all humans, however this is surprisingly downplayed when itâ€™s revealed that when she referred to Elodie as â€œYou! Your kind, your blood,â€� she was really talking about the royal family, who were the ones who killed her children, rather than humanity in general.
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Damsel / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Damsel / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The attempt to kill the dragon by the first king of Aurea and his knights fails miserably.
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Damsel / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Damsel / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: An entire scene is dedicated to Elodie being dressed in an elaborate, multi-layered Fairytale Wedding Dress by a team of servants before the ceremony. By the end of the film, the dress is utterly ruined.
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Damsel / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Damsel / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: With a slice of Adaptational Dumbass, to boot. Lord Bayford thought the dragon was a metaphor when negotiating Elodie's marriage. It wasn't until they actually threw her in that he realized what he'd given his daughter away for. Queen Isabelle is less of a Hate Sink and doesn't have the classist tendencies she has in the movie. She regrets what she must do for the kingdom and feels bad for the sacrifices, but feels the need to press on since her husband can't. She also faces death with dignity.
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Damsel / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Damsel / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: While Elodie has ended the long line of sacrificing princesses to a dragon, rescued her younger sister, and convinced the dragon to instead burn the royal family responsible for this, her father is still dead, and she helped exterminate an entire castle full of people, which likely has resulted in Aurea falling into chaos. Her own homeland is also still suffering from a terrible winter famine.
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Damsel / int_4215e705	type	Graceful Ladies Like Purple
Damsel / int_4215e705	comment	Graceful Ladies Like Purple: The sacrifices are tossed to the dragon wearing a diaphanous, Gem-Encrusted lavender gown. Unbeknownst to the kingdom, this is the color of fertility among dragons.
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Damsel / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Damsel / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Elodie saws off her hair with a knife before going to save Floria, signifying that she's gone from merely wanting to escape to seeking the dragon herself.
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Damsel / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Damsel / int_479d4e5a	comment	Prince Henry may have reconciled with the need of tossing young women to a dragon, and begrudgingly does so, but throwing Floria, a young child, proves to be too much for him, protesting as such, but gets ignored. Unfortunately for him, his mother has no such qualms.
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Damsel / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Damsel / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Elodie does a lot of screaming over the course of the movie.
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Damsel / int_4866ff50	type	Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product
Damsel / int_4866ff50	comment	Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product: The glowworms' slime can heal wounds almost immediately, as Elodie discovers when she wakes up with a bunch of them clustered around her burnt leg. Being able to heal quickly gets her farther than almost any other princess, and she uses them to save the dragon in the end.
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Damsel / int_4d30004d	type	Wedding Ring Removal
Damsel / int_4d30004d	comment	Wedding Ring Removal: Elodie dumps her ring away in the caves in outrage at her husband's betrayal.
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Damsel / int_54844c6e	type	From Dress to Dressing
Damsel / int_54844c6e	comment	From Dress to Dressing: One of the many reasons why Elodie's dress gets ruined over the course of the film.
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Damsel / int_556a4863	type	Virtue Is Weakness
Damsel / int_556a4863	comment	Virtue Is Weakness: Queen Isabella calls her son Henry weak when he protests sacrificing Floria on the grounds that she is only a child.
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Damsel / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Damsel / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The Dragon may appear to be a satanic, bloodthirsty and evil monster. However, the truth is that she was scary-looking but benevolent creature who did nothing to deserve the murder of her children. It was this unprovoked crime, which drove her species into functional extinction, that resulted in her becoming a vengeful killer to (who she thought were) the family that did it to her.
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Damsel / int_57bb7b55	type	Near-Death Clairvoyance
Damsel / int_57bb7b55	comment	Near-Death Clairvoyance: When she's on the brink of dying, Elodie briefly sees the spirits of the other women who have been sacrificed to the dragon. While it could be written off as just a hallucination, one of them gives her information she couldn't have known beforehand.
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Damsel / int_5a4ae281	type	Hellish Pupils
Damsel / int_5a4ae281	comment	Hellish Pupils: The dragon has rectangular pupils like a sheep or a goat's, seemingly just because it's creepier than the usual slit pupils used for dragons.
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Damsel / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Damsel / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: While the Aureans go to great lengths to keep the would-be sacrifices in the dark about what is going on until it is too late, they are very upfront about the whole situation with the girls' parents when proposing the matches, offering a straight-up trade of a staggering amount of gold for the life of their daughters as sacrifice to a dragon, as while you only need to fool the girls until you sacrifice them, lying to their families would be utterly impractical, since they would eventually come around asking questions. Specially with three of them at the same time. Presumably the payment also insures that word doesn't get out about the situation so potential sacrifices aren't forewarned.
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Damsel / int_5ec9de7d	type	Distress Ball
Damsel / int_5ec9de7d	comment	Distress Ball: After finding safe water to drink in the form of slowly melting icicles, Elodie stands under them with her mouth open and her eyes closed to catch the droplets. She is seemingly too sore, tired, and thirsty to notice or feel anything other than relief when they start melting faster as the dragon approaches and charges her flame-breath until it's almost too late. Elodie narrowly evades being incinerated, and the dragon snidely mocks her for being so careless.
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Damsel / int_60f37373	type	Attack Reflector
Damsel / int_60f37373	comment	Attack Reflector: Elodie finds a large curved rock structure, which she uses to send the dragon's fire breath right back at her.
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Damsel / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Damsel / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Subverted hard. Elodie and Henry are arranged, but seem to get on quite well and bond over both wanting to see the world. Then he uses her as a human sacrifice. Apparently he did catch feelings, but not enough to actually do anything about it.
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Damsel / int_63a2340a	type	Crystal Landscape
Damsel / int_63a2340a	comment	Crystal Landscape: In the area of the caves where the glowworms live, their slime accumulates and hardens into glowing crystal-like stalagmites.
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Damsel / int_6b22aace	type	Not So Invincible After All
Damsel / int_6b22aace	comment	Not So Invincible After All: Much of Aurea's fear of the dragon lies in the fact that they simply do not see any way to kill it, having been curbstomped when they first confronted it, and so have been giving it sacrifices for years without any attempt to fight it. Lord Bayford's troops meet the same fate, being easily picked off and squashed. Elodie is able to take out one of her eyes, stab her in the hand and throat, and trick her to breathing fire on herself. She might have killed the dragon herself, had she not decided to spare her.
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Damsel / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
Damsel / int_6c4ed101	comment	The Dragon's Breath Weapon noticeably resembles a flamethrower, with it being stored in a liquid form within her body and igniting once expelled from her mouth. This foreshadows that for all the advantages her draconic nature grants her, immunity to her own flames is not one of them, with her needing to store her fire-spewing substance in a safe form within herself to avoid self-harming. This is ultimate the main contributor to rendering her helpless before Elodie, despite all the damage she'd dealt to her with a sword.
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Damsel / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Damsel / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King: The novelization makes clear what was only implied in the film: the presence of the dragon infuses the land of Aurea with magic, giving them perfect harvests, a lack of any natural disasters, and fabulous wealth. In fact, they figured out long ago that they could just poison the dragon with a sacrifice, but have decided it's better to keep the sacrifices up to keep their wealth and prosperity.
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Damsel / int_6d5ab39e	type	Fractured Fairy Tale
Damsel / int_6d5ab39e	comment	Fractured Fairy Tale: The story has a number of classic elements from a typical Fairy Tale, such as a princess who is a Damsel in Distress, a hero facing a dragon, an ancient curse that threatens the kingdom, and the princess marrying a prince. However, the story begins with the princess marrying the prince only to be immediately sacrificed in order to appease that curse, making her the hero who must face the dragon in order to survive.
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Damsel / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Damsel / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Everyone assumes that this is the case for the marriage, with Elodie's family and kingdom getting money in exchange for her marrying the prince. The reality is...a lot darker.
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Damsel / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Damsel / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Queen Isabelle mocks Lady Bayford for having common blood. She later dismisses Elodie as just a commoner when she shows up at the third wedding.
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Damsel / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Damsel / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Thanks to Blood Magic, this Elodie gains the ability to transform into a dragon after mixing her blood with Retaza's.
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Damsel / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Damsel / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The prologue shows how the king of Aurea first set out to kill the dragon, the sound of something living breaking and tearing off-screen, and then the dragon arriving and killing everyone but the king, who was forced to make a bargain. Later, Elodie discovers some remains, and the full scene is shown: the king killing the dragon's three newly-hatched daughters was the off-screen sound, and the dragon demanding three daughters in return was the bargain.
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Damsel / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
Damsel / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: Elodie is claustrophobic due to a traumatic incident when she was young. Having to hide in small crevices and travel down narrow tunnels to escape the dragon forces her to face it.
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Damsel / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Damsel / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: The dragon can tell people's lineage from smell, to a point. While she can recognize the relationship between Elodie and her father and sister, and can recognize Aurean royal blood, she can't tell the difference between a woman of Aurean royal blood and a woman who has had Aurean royal blood put in her in a Blood Oath ceremony.
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Damsel / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Damsel / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Elodie's home kingdom is devastatingly poor, and her Arranged Marriage is to win her father enough gold from her bride price to keep their people alive.
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Damsel / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Damsel / int_86ae1278	comment	With a slice of Adaptational Dumbass, to boot. Lord Bayford thought the dragon was a metaphor when negotiating Elodie's marriage. It wasn't until they actually threw her in that he realized what he'd given his daughter away for.
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Damsel / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Damsel / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Twice over. The original king of Aurea offered to just sail away and leave the dragon's home, but it was Princess Victoria who spoke against it, convinced she could slay the dragon. In the centuries since, it's been acknowledged that the royal family could have ended the sacrifices at any time by poisoning a girl before sacrificing her, but consider their crops and wealth to be worth the sacrifices of a few women every year.
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Damsel / int_89909a87	type	Well, This Is Not That Trope
Damsel / int_89909a87	comment	Well, This Is Not That Trope: Elodie's narration at the beginning says that there are many tales of chivalry, of heroic knights saving damsels in distress, and this is not one of those stories.
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Damsel / int_8a1bb4eb	type	Conlang
Damsel / int_8a1bb4eb	comment	Conlang: Khaevis Ventvis, the language of dragons, invented by the author's daughter for the book. The book includes appendixes at the end translating it, and Elodie not only starts figuring it out but leaves notes on it in the Safe Cave in case any princesses come after her.
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Damsel / int_8a97b762	type	Dragons Prefer Princesses
Damsel / int_8a97b762	comment	Dragons Prefer Princesses: Only royal blood will do for the sacrifices, hence why the prince and the princess share blood before they toss her into the chasm. This is because the dragon's daughters were killed, and she demanded the king's daughters in return, every generation.
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Damsel / int_8d08960c	type	Two-Timer Date
Damsel / int_8d08960c	comment	Two-Timer Date: Or in this case, two-timer wedding. The need for three sacrifices without alerting the dragon to the fact that the girls are actually daughters-in-law means that each wedding has to take place so soon after the one before that the brides-to-be can actually coincide at the castle at the same time. Elodie glimpses the first sacrifice on another balcony on her own wedding night.
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Damsel / int_8f1450ba	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Damsel / int_8f1450ba	comment	Pintsized Powerhouse: Elodie is small but tough and this is matched by the dragon, which is capable of Smaug-like levels of destruction but when seen in the light is only about the size of a minibus.
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Damsel / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Damsel / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The tradition of Human Sacrifice started with the first king of Aurea, who cravenly accepted the dragon's demands for his daughter's lives to save his own. Lord Bayford, though initially going through with the Royal Family's bargain to gains much-needed funds for his kingdom, ultimately cannot bring himself to do the same, and leads a doomed attempt to rescue Elodie that leads to his own death in her place, though his efforts do ultimately allow Elodie the chance she needs to escape. This leads to Elodie eventually revealing to the Dragon how the Royal Family deceived them both, and the Dragon burning the entire family away, ending their reign that was brought about by a father's sacrifice, and ended by a different one's.
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Damsel / int_93387c2e	type	Monster Delay
Damsel / int_93387c2e	comment	Monster Delay: The dragon's presence is certainly felt throughout the film and we get brief glimpses of her in part and in silhouette almost right from the start, but we don't get a clear, well-lit look at her until the final act.
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Damsel / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Damsel / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: When the dragon orders Lord Bayford to call out to Elodie to reveal her hiding spot in exchange for sparing his life, he instead orders her to remain hidden while staring the dragon in the eye, prompting her to kill him.
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Damsel / int_979ca348	type	Repurposed Pop Song
Damsel / int_979ca348	comment	Repurposed Pop Song: The trailer is accompanied by â€œRun From Meâ€� by Canadian group Timber Timbre.
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Damsel / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Damsel / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: The Royal House of Aurea is made up of generation after generation of utterly despicable people, going back to its founder who led his people to settle on the island and slaughtered the dragon's innocent children; and who have spent centuries sacrificing three innocent women every generation instead of daughters of their own house as the dragon demanded in retribution for their founder's crime.
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Damsel / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Damsel / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Deconstructed. This is how the kingdom justifies the sacrifices generation after generation, and how Elodie's father justifies letting her go along with it for the sake of saving his impoverished people. However, her father is so wracked by guilt that he comes back to save her anyway, and it's revealed that the sacrifice isn't as straightforward as the royal family claim: the king killed the dragon's three daughters unprovoked, offered his own daughters as collateral, and the royal family have been using a loophole for centuries to sacrifice other, non-royal women to keep avoiding punishment for their crimes. What's worse, it's demonstrated by Elodie that they could have faced and killed the dragon themselves if they genuinely put their minds to it, but chose instead to let the women die because it was easier and have been using this trope to justify it.
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Damsel / int_9ab2d4a	type	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
Damsel / int_9ab2d4a	comment	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: When Lord Bayford drops his sword while fighting the dragon, it lands with the point sticking into the ground.
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Damsel / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Damsel / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Like Elodie, the dragon is a natural-born survivor who has been victimised by the Royal Family. In the end, they put aside their differences.
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Damsel / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Damsel / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Elodie is depicted in the trailer as going from a sheltered Princess Classic destined to be a Human Sacrifice to a battered and hardened warrior. She does have non-standard princess skills: Wood chopping, horseback riding, and interest in mazes. And she's not grossed out by the glowworms. And the strength to pull herself up a rock wall—twice.
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Damsel / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Damsel / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After moving to Aurea, Ellie sees another young noblewoman in the tower next to hers, but before they can exchange greetings the other noblewoman is called away. Later that evening she sees a mysterious fire up on the mountainside that quickly disappears, foreshadowing that this young noblewoman, like Ellie herself not long after, was sacrificed to the dragon. Elodie later finding her half-charred corpse in one of the tunnels. In the prologue, the dragon flies over the castle and the fields on the way to the mountain, showing a thriving kingdom. One notes it's conspicuously unburnt for a king that claims to be "saving" his land from a dragon attacking it, setting up the reveal that the dragon was never a threat to the kingdom until the king killed her daughters. This is further set up later in the movie when it is revealed that this king wasn't just the first of his dynasty, he actually led the first humans to settle on the island. One notes that for a dragon so allegedly hostile to the human settlers, she was surprisingly accommodating of their construction projects, since Aurea's massive royal castle is already completely built. The Dragon's Breath Weapon noticeably resembles a flamethrower, with it being stored in a liquid form within her body and igniting once expelled from her mouth. This foreshadows that for all the advantages her draconic nature grants her, immunity to her own flames is not one of them, with her needing to store her fire-spewing substance in a safe form within herself to avoid self-harming. This is ultimate the main contributor to rendering her helpless before Elodie, despite all the damage she'd dealt to her with a sword.
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Damsel / int_9eb7e397	type	Long-Lived
Damsel / int_9eb7e397	comment	Long-Lived: The Dragon. She is at least hundreds if not thousands of years old by the time she meets Elodie.
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Damsel / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Damsel / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: A Fractured Fairytale where the princess must use all her wits and skill to face the dragon herself and break the tradition of women being used as sacrifices.Elodie ultimately triumphs through the help of the other women sacrificed before her, reconciles with the dragon based on how they were both lied to and used by the royal family, and ends the curse. In addition, the majority of the cast is women, with only two major male characters: the prince, and Elodie's father.
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Damsel / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Damsel / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: King Roderick is a mental wreck due to growing up sacrificing princesses, often barely being aware of what's happening or breaking down when he sees Elodie or any wedding related stuff. There's also mention of Henry's older brother Jacob, who fled the kingdom when he was 15 to avoid having to sacrifice women. Unfortunately, this means that Henry has been the groom for princesses since he was five, and has grown up cold and hardened because of it. Alexandra is a scout for princesses who specializes in fathers that are so duty bound to their kingdoms they'll sacrifice their daughters for it. She was the one who chose Elodie and she emphatically hates her job and herself, but feels it's necessary. After her daughter convinces her to try and rescue Elodie, she leads Lord Bayford to the mountain. In the end, she and her family leave Aurea despite the end of the sacrifices, as there's too much pain there for her.
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Damsel / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Damsel / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Elodie stabs the dragon in the eye with the dagger-shaped metal busk. The wound severely damages the dragon's vision, which Elodie then exploits to defeat it. It's difficult to see, but it seems that the healing glow worms repaired the damage, as the dragon seems to have both eyes when she burns the royal family.
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Damsel / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Damsel / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The Dragon. She is fully prepared to kill grown men and women in some pretty brutal and sadistic ways but the fact that she never harms Elodie's sister Floria even though keeping her alive serves no purpose indicates that she draws the line at harming children. Prince Henry may have reconciled with the need of tossing young women to a dragon, and begrudgingly does so, but throwing Floria, a young child, proves to be too much for him, protesting as such, but gets ignored. Unfortunately for him, his mother has no such qualms.
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Damsel / int_a61fcc3b	type	No Need for Names
Damsel / int_a61fcc3b	comment	No Need for Names: It's clarified that dragons do not have names. The dragon takes the name "Retaza", or "mother", at the end.
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Damsel / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Damsel / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The Aureans offer three sacrifices to the dragon in every generation. Oddly for this trope, Elodie is the second sacrifice. Elodie glimpses the first girl in another balcony of the castle the night she arrives in Aurea and later finds her dead body inside the mountain after her own sacrifice. After she escapes, she goes back into the cave to keep her sister Floria from being offered as second sacrifice in her place, and the third is an unnamed bit character who only shows up in a single scene after Elodie has defeated the dragon.
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Damsel / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Damsel / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The family of the third sacrifice gets to keep their daughter and the gold the Aureans paid them to let them sacrifice her to the dragon. Of course, this would assume they were paid in advance. The Dragon faces no consequences for her sadistic murder of dozens of innocent girls, or Elodie's father. Several generations of the Aurean royal family that sacrificed innocent woman to the Dragon and got to live out their lives punishment-free before Elodie discovered the truth.
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Damsel / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Damsel / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: One of them, at least: After defeating the dragon and explaining to her what is really going on, Elodie uses some glowworms to heal her, and then goes to confront the true villains, her in-laws. Elodie gives the Prince's latest bride, her family, and the castle servants time to run before the dragon sets the castle on fire.
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Damsel / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Damsel / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: Elodie comes within a hair's breadth of dying to the dragon multiple times, diving to safety or the dragon being distracted just barely before she's roasted or caught. The most notable is when the dragon has her cornered by the exit, and is just about to burn her to death...then hears Lord Bayford's voice, and is so outraged she flies to confront him.
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Damsel / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
Damsel / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: Elodie finds a cave within the lair engraved with the names of over a dozen previous sacrifices. However, this isn't the names of all the sacrifices; it's just the names of all those who made it to this one section that the dragon can't reach with her claws or fire. Elodie adds her name to the list before leaving.
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Damsel / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Damsel / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Elodie's skill in making and solving mazes comes in handy.
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Damsel / int_aeb900b8	type	Catlike Dragons
Damsel / int_aeb900b8	comment	Catlike Dragons: The dragon has a notably feline body shape with long, slender limbs and overlapping scales on its neck and chest that resemble a lion's mane. Even its movements and its habit of toying with its prey are quite cat-like.
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Damsel / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Damsel / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Elodie's father ultimately decides that he can't live with himself for selling his daughter to be a Human Sacrifice and goes back to try to rescue her. He fails, to his death, but the attempt provides Elodie with some resources that help her save herself.
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Damsel / int_affc0c98	type	Significant Wardrobe Shift
Damsel / int_affc0c98	comment	Significant Wardrobe Shift: In the prologue, the sigil of the king of Aurea is a gold lion on a blue field. By the time Aurea is revisited in the present day, the royal sigil is a gold "dragon" on a red field. And the Aureans have taken to putting the dragon symbol on everything, including dragon statues in the entry to the harbor. They also have a group of female retainers/emissaries who dress head to toe entirely in red.
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Damsel / int_b156a790	type	Evil Sounds Raspy
Damsel / int_b156a790	comment	Evil Sounds Raspy: Shohreh Aghdashloo's natural rasp is enhanced and deepened for the dragon's voice, befitting a giant reptilian monster stalking the protagonist.
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Damsel / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Damsel / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The dragon kills three women of the Aurean royal family's bloodline every generation. The royal family figured out long ago that mixing their blood with that of a random woman makes them indistinguishable from an actual daughter of the line, and have been tossing temporary daughters-in-law to the dragon for centuries.
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Damsel / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Damsel / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: The dragon says that her prey running in terror is her favorite part and taunts Elodie all the while, even giving her a false sense of hope by letting her escape up the crystals to the door outside, just so she can swoop around and block it. She also states that the whole point of the generational sacrifices is so the Aureans will know the pain of losing their children as she had in every generation until they die out—which is why she gets so angry after learning that they've actually been sacrificing strangers who have only been part of the family by marriage for a matter of hours for centuries.
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Damsel / int_b535a9d6	type	False Utopia
Damsel / int_b535a9d6	comment	False Utopia: Aurea is a paradise where even the poorest live in comfort and safety. And all it costs is the deaths of three innocent women every year.
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Damsel / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
Damsel / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: While Elodie was not actively hostile to her stepmother, she seemed to have a resentment or dismissiveness towards her. She grows to fully trust and embrace her as a mother after she first warns her of a bad feeling about the wedding after speaking with the Aurean queen, and later rides with a chest wound to warn her that her sister is the next sacrifice. Bordering between this and Easily Forgiven above. Elodie spares the dragon's life when she was at her mercy even after the dragon asked Elodie to kill her. Saying "I'm through being told what to do," and taking action to save her life, despite the dragon killing her father, dozens if not hundreds of princesses and almost herself, under the reasoning both were tricked and put in that position by the Aureans. It turned into a heroic sort of Pragmatic Villainy or "Pragmatic Forgiveness" in that both then teamed up to finally kill off the Aurean royals and nobles, while giving the innocents a chance to flee.
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Damsel / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Damsel / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: The dragon not only killed the first Aurean king's three daughters because he killed her children unprovoked, but she also demanded the royal family sacrifice three woman from the royal line for centuries.
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Damsel / int_b82ba58c	type	Excellent Judge of Character
Damsel / int_b82ba58c	comment	Excellent Judge of Character: Lady Bayford, Elodie's stepmother. She almost immediately notices something is wrong with how her husband acts after deciding the Bride Price, and gets very unnerved when the Aurean Queen is casually classist and mistakes Elodie for "Eloise".
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Damsel / int_bba9ea51	type	Good Stepmother
Damsel / int_bba9ea51	comment	Good Stepmother: One of the film's inversions of classic fairy tale tropes. While strict and proper, Elodie's stepmother cares deeply for her two stepdaughters. When she suspects something is amiss about the wedding, she goes straight to Elodie to warn her.
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Damsel / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Damsel / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Elodie seems attracted to the handsome prince, but she also has some gentle touching and pointed looks with other women.
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Damsel / int_c0091e94	type	Dragon Hoard
Damsel / int_c0091e94	comment	Dragon Hoard: The dragon's lair is strewn with jewelry and gold from all of the sacrificed princesses, especially in the initial drop area. Later, the dragon has created one not for herself, but around the bodies of her dead children, laying gold, jewels, and a crown at the base of their broken eggs.
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Damsel / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Damsel / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": At the end, this serves as the Queen's last word while being incinerated by the dragon.
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Damsel / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Damsel / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In the cult, Elodie is at first convinced that she will be sacrificed, but the Queen eventually clarifies that paying her due means tossing a coin down the chasm. She relaxes and lets the prince carry her on the bridge...at which point he throws her off, revealing she was the sacrifice all along. Elodie finds a map that shows a way out to the sun. It does, but the hole is halfway up a mountain with no way down.
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Damsel / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Damsel / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The ship Elodie comes in is called Deomelas, after the short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, another story about a supposed paradise built on the inhabitants quietly allowing others to suffer. At the end, a number of Aureans sail away on it, risking an uncertain future away from the utopia of Aurea rather than continue to be part of such a society.
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Damsel / int_c8498840	type	Delightful Dragon
Damsel / int_c8498840	comment	Delightful Dragon: Downplayed. At first it seems as if the dragon is the classic Demonic Dragon, with the rather sadistic way she tormented and hunted down Elodie. However, itâ€™s revealed that originally the dragon was this trope as she never did anything to provoke the humans that first settled on Aurea and the king who killed her children. This act is what lead to her becoming vengeful and murderous to the royal family, demanding the kings three daughters in exchange for the lives of her murdered offspring and three woman from the royal family every generation, so they would know her pain. However, even despite this, she still drew the line at killing innocents and never sought to take her revenge out on anyone but (who she thought were) the royal family, leading to her rage when Elodie revealed that they had fooled her and they had actually been sacrificing innocent women to her for centuries. This sways the dragon to bring an end to her vengeance after burning the royal family to the ground, and seemingly return to this trope.
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Damsel / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Damsel / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: The dragon makes it clear that she's far more than a simple beast when she speaks to Elodie, explaining her desire for revenge before telling her to run.
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Damsel / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Damsel / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Lady Bayford, Elodie's stepmother, tries and fails to reason first with Lord Bayford and then warn Elodie to call off the wedding after becoming suspicious of the royal family's motives. Subverted later in that Elodie's father is only pretending not to believe her. He already knows his wife's suspicions are justified yet isn't calling off the wedding because he agreed to it, knowing fully what it entailed.
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Damsel / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Damsel / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Elodie has a habit of thinking too quickly and then saying whatever comes out of her mouth somewhere down her train of thought, like thinking about how a man should build a home for his wife and then saying he needs to dig latrines.
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Damsel / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Damsel / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Elodie tricks the dragon into breathing fire on herself.
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Damsel / int_d5921e22	type	Prince Charmless
Damsel / int_d5921e22	comment	Prince Charmless: Henry puts on a facade of charm, aided by his exceptional beauty and grace. All of that drops once the sacrifice comes into play and he's revealed to be a cold, ruthless human being. Elodie later learns that he's used the same exact lines and tactics (right down to giving them the same necklace while claiming that he fell in love with his bride for herself, then taking it back to toss to the next one) for every single bride he's ever sacrificed.
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Damsel / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Damsel / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The dragon is a sentient creature capable of human speech. She also has six limbs (four legs and two wings) (especially different considering several notable dragons portrayed in film resemble wyverns), horizontal pupils, retractable claws, gold blood and scales, an exceedingly long lifespan lasting centuries, and seems to have an inflatable throat sac she uses to breathe fire.
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Damsel / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Damsel / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the end, a fair number of Aureans leave for Inophe, no longer willing to be part of a kingdom built on Human Sacrifice.
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Damsel / int_db08fb56	type	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Damsel / int_db08fb56	comment	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: The dragon loves to taunt Elodie when she's hiding, as it can smell her and is more than happy to drag this out.
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Damsel / int_dbbaed55	type	Monster Is a Mommy
Damsel / int_dbbaed55	comment	Monster Is a Mommy: Given a different twist than the movie. This dragon was not the original dragon that settled Aurea came in conflict with: Victoria's poison killed that one. It's her daughter, who is killing princesses to try and find the one whose blood will cure her and as revenge for her mother's death.
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Damsel / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Damsel / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Two of lord Bayford's soldiers talk about knights who went to fight the dragon in the past, noting that they did so for its blood. In Norse Mythology the hero Siegfried gained Nigh-Invulnerability after slaying the dragon Fafnir and being showered with his blood. Considering the Aurean nobles had been using a blood sharing ceremony to turn the princesses royals and trick the dragon into thinking they were natural-born daughters, it stood to reason that dragon blood might have similar, possibly magical effects. However while Elodie does wound the dragon and makes her bleed, at no point does her blood figure into the narrative. Interestingly, in the novelization, the dragon's blood mixes with Elodie's during their fight and gives her the ability to transform into a dragon herself.
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Damsel / int_e0222ff2	type	Buy Them Off
Damsel / int_e0222ff2	comment	Buy Them Off: This is how the Aureans have managed to keep up the supply of sacrifices for so many centuries. They offer the father of the bride a king's ransom in gold to hand over his daughter and look the other way while they sacrifice her.
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Damsel / int_e03b1c9b	type	Blood Oath
Damsel / int_e03b1c9b	comment	Blood Oath: Part of the Elodie's wedding ritual is sharing blood with her husband through cuts on their hands. This actually serves to mark her as prey for the dragon.
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Damsel / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Damsel / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Elodie puts out a burning bird and expresses sympathy for it, and assures the glowworms that she won't hurt them. While she initially reacts in disgust when the glowworms start crawling on her leg, she apologizes when she realizes they were healing her. She even ends up forgiving and seemingly befriending the dragon after they both learn they were wronged/deceived by the royal family. note Sheâ€™s not above using horses as sacrificial distraction, though.
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Damsel / int_e24de818	type	Cool, Clear Water
Damsel / int_e24de818	comment	Cool, Clear Water: Subverted when Elodie tries to drink from a pool in the dragon's lair, then immediately spits it out upon noticing the plants within it. She has to drink water from the dripping icicles instead.
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Damsel / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Damsel / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Elodie and the Dragon. The former keeps going despite how many injuries she gets or how hopeless her situation. Meanwhile, the latter during the final battle keeps going no matter how many injuries Elodie manages to land on her, with the only injury that brings her down being when Elodie uses her own fire against her.
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Damsel / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Damsel / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Queen Isabelle is less of a Hate Sink and doesn't have the classist tendencies she has in the movie. She regrets what she must do for the kingdom and feels bad for the sacrifices, but feels the need to press on since her husband can't. She also faces death with dignity.
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Damsel / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Damsel / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Between falls, dragon attacks, and Elodie ripping pieces off of it for various reasons, Elodie's wedding dress goes through a lot of abuse over the course of the film. By the end of the film she's down to a red underlayer, which is in rags.
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Damsel / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Damsel / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: By the end of the movie Elodie has wiped out the entire Aurean royal family and left a power vacuum. The movie ends with Elodie leaving Aurea with her sister and stepmother even though she is the only one with a semi-legitimate claim to the throne. On the other hand, the dragon is shown leaving with her, so the Aurean commoners will not have to worry about that at least.
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Damsel / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Damsel / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The dragon's strange way of thinking gets more emphasis here. It gives life to the isle, so it demands life in return, and doesn't see why anyone would complain about a reasonable bargain like three people each year. She's also been killing princesses in the hope of finding the prophesied survivor who will cure her infertility.
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Damsel / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
Damsel / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: Elodie manages to convince the dragon she is not a princess of the Aurean dynasty, and in fact most of the women she has been killing were innocent. Further, her act of forgiving and healing the dragon's rather than killing her cemented the fact that not all humans were bad, and both team up to destroy the Aurean royals. The fact the dragon seems to be following them back to their northern lands even suggests they might have become friends, or at least that Elodie convinced the dragon to literally move on with her life and seek a new home.
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Damsel / int_e957f245	type	Grimmification
Damsel / int_e957f245	comment	Grimmification: The overall premise, as showcased by the trailer and official plot summary, is a Darker and Edgier take on the Fairy Tale Prince Lindworm, which also featured a King and Queen who sacrifice multiple young damsels to a fearsome dragon under the false pretense that they will be marrying a prince. Here, rather than easily taming the dragon thanks to the advice of a friendly witch, the titular damsel is in mortal danger and must fight for her life.
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Damsel / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Damsel / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The Queen gives a speech about how Elodie will join a long line of women who have helped to build the kingdom, a centuries-old tradition, and a legacy of honor and duty she will now inherit. All of this is true—but Elodie was led to believe that it would mean being the new princess, not being sacrificed to a dragon.
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Damsel / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Damsel / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: While Aurea is plenty opulent in the movie, particularly where gold is concerned, Elodie in the book takes special attention to how obscenely Aureans flaunt their fabulous wealth, leaving gold dust on beds, wrapping things in gold paper, giving her opulent feasts and dresses filled with gems. It's later revealed that spoiling the wives with luxury is seen as a final grace before the sacrifices, meaning at least part of this is deliberate.
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Damsel / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Damsel / int_f36c4f98	comment	Bordering between this and Easily Forgiven above. Elodie spares the dragon's life when she was at her mercy even after the dragon asked Elodie to kill her. Saying "I'm through being told what to do," and taking action to save her life, despite the dragon killing her father, dozens if not hundreds of princesses and almost herself, under the reasoning both were tricked and put in that position by the Aureans. It turned into a heroic sort of Pragmatic Villainy or "Pragmatic Forgiveness" in that both then teamed up to finally kill off the Aurean royals and nobles, while giving the innocents a chance to flee.
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Damsel / int_f50eaeec	type	Gold Makes Everything Shiny
Damsel / int_f50eaeec	comment	Gold Makes Everything Shiny: The kingdom of Aurea is covered in gold from the armor to the buildings to the tables, showing off their fabulous wealth. The dragon herself has gold blood and scales, implying that they got all this wealth from the bargain.
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Damsel / int_f8d24fbb	type	BigSisterInstinct
Damsel / int_f8d24fbb	comment	Big Sister Instinct: Elodie actually does escape the caves at the end of the second act. Then she learns that her sister Floria was thrown to the dragon in her stead, and heads back in to rescue her.
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Damsel / int_fd5603b	type	MacGyvering
Damsel / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: Elodie has to make makeshift tools from her wedding dress, jewelry and the remains of the dragon's previous victims.
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Damsel / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Damsel / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Played straight with Elodie's face; she gets some minor cuts, but nothing that detracts from her beauty. She gets some pretty nasty injuries to the rest of her body, including a big burn on her upper chest—but the glowworms heal those, so there is no lasting damage.
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Damsel / int_ff74ef12	type	Adaptation Inspiration
Damsel / int_ff74ef12	comment	Adaptation Inspiration: The novelization is based on an early version of the film's screenplay and author Evelyn Skye stated she was "given free rein to write my own version of the story" with the screenplay as a starting point. Consequently, while the film and book share a basic premise - a girl sacrificed to a dragon by a treacherous kingdom fights back - among other details, they're very different stories (the dragon's motives in particular differ greatly between the two works).
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Damsel / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Damsel / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The dragon has no real reason to keep Floria alive, as Elodie would come for her living or dead. Perhaps she just found killing a child to be too much, as she's shown cradling Floria in her tail in an almost motherly fashion.
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