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The NeverEnding Story

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The NeverEnding Story	comment	The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, originally released in 1979, with an English translation published in 1983.A troubled, insecure young boy named Bastian who loves to read happens upon an antique bookstore owned by a Mr. Coreander, when hiding from some bullies. Inside Mr. Coreander's shop, Bastian comes across a book titled The Neverending Story, which claims to have No Ending. Unable to resist, Bastian steals the book and hides in the school attic where he can read it undisturbed. In the book is the story of an otherworldly Magical Native American boy named Atreyu on a quest to save a Magical Land from vanishing. As Bastian reads more and more of the story, he finds that the book seems to be aware of him. Eventually, it is revealed that the magical land within the book is actually another dimension encompassing all of human imagination, and only a human with creative ideas can save it.Bastian is then transported to the world, where he finds that every wish he makes will come true. However, he begins to lose a part of himself for every wish he makes.The story purposefully has lots of loose ends (in the form of left-off side stories and secondary characters), to drive home the point that it is a "Neverending Story". In addition, there is a scene where to convince Bastian that this was "real", the Childlike Empress tells the Historian to read the story over. Which includes what Bastian had done that day. This gets them all stuck into a time loop until Bastian accepts it and enters the story.Has received three major film adaptations, though only the first film tried to follow the plot of the novel, being an adaptation of roughly the first half, with the second only making a few loose references to the book's plot (mainly the second half), and the third one going off to do its own thing entirely. There was also a short-lived Animated Adaptation, and a live-action miniseries called Tales from the Neverending Story that created an entirely new plot loosely based on the premise of the book and its characters. More recently, the Warner Bros. fighting game Multi Versus was announced to have The Nothing as the major antagonist/driving force.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1186fcb5	comment	Supernatural Gold Eyes: The Childlike Empress, which leads to her official title, "The Golden-Eyed Commander of Wishes."
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The NeverEnding Story / int_11dc879d	type	Reading Ahead in the Script
The NeverEnding Story / int_11dc879d	comment	Reading Ahead in the Script: Subverted when the Childlike Empress asks the Old Man of Wandering Mountain to read ahead in the Neverending Story that he is writing. He tells her there is nothing but empty pages.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_137ed72e	type	Phlebotinum
The NeverEnding Story / int_137ed72e	comment	The second doorway to the Oracle is a mirror you have to step through, which shows fears or thoughts of the seeker. The third door, on the other hand, plays this a bit more... strangely: you can't pass it if you want to, because it's made of some kind of phlebotinum that shuts the door ever faster the more you want it to open. Good thing then that the mirror also temporarily wipes your memory to see if you'll go through on curiosity alone.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The NeverEnding Story / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Subverted with Hero Hynreck, who saves his one true love Princess Oglamar but decides that he no longer wants to marry her.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The NeverEnding Story / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Ivory Tower is given a very similar description, in terms of its design and layout, to Minas Tirith. The only major difference being the Ivory Tower is about ten times taller.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_16a21271	type	Walking Wasteland
The NeverEnding Story / int_16a21271	comment	Walking Wasteland: Grograman, the Many Colored Death. The desert in which he lives travels with him, and extends for many, many miles around him, so intense is the heat that he carries with him. Only Bastian has ever been able to speak with him without dying, and that's because he had the protection of AURYN.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The NeverEnding Story / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: After his wife's death, Bastian's father became emotionally distant and Bastian couldn't figure out how to even get him to care about him anymore.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The NeverEnding Story / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Perrilin the night forest can only live and grow at night; by day, it withers and dies and is replaced by a scorching desert where nothing can live. This ignores the fact that plants need sunlight to thrive in the real world.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The NeverEnding Story / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "The Neverending Story" is, of course, the name of the book Bastian is reading, but within the book the phrase is first used by Gmork:
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
The NeverEnding Story / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: In the end of the first half, Bastian must say the Childlike Empress's new true name, so that she can be healed, the Nothing can be dispelled, and Bastian can be brought to Fantastica. It takes some doing to get him to actually say it. Many other things in Fantastica are affected by one saying their true name; see I Know Your True Name. Al Tsahir is one prime example.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1c0a333d	type	Day-Old Legend
The NeverEnding Story / int_1c0a333d	comment	Day-Old Legend: The story explores this idea in-depth, as Bastian can create whole worlds from scratch, and they come with their own history and mythology, even if Bastian did not think this up himself.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
The NeverEnding Story / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: Uyulala, the rhyming voice of silence beyond the No Key Gate.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The NeverEnding Story / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: The city of Salamander is made of fire. Atreyu is able to enter because he protected by AURYN, but anyone without such powerful protection would be incinerated before even reaching the gates.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1d435a4d	type	A Boy and His X
The NeverEnding Story / int_1d435a4d	comment	A Boy and His X: Atreyu starts off as A Boy and His Horse, with his talking horse Artax as his only companion. Artax's loss in the Swamp of Sadness is what makes Atreyu realize how truly arduous his journey will be. Later, the story becomes a Boy and His Luckdragon when Atreyu rescues and befriends Falkor. The two become inseparable for the rest of the book.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The NeverEnding Story / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: Ilwan, the blue djinn, sacrificed himself to save Ghemmal, the belt of invisibility, from a fire. While chasing after Atreyu, Bastian fell off his iron steed after it broke apart, dropped Ghemmal, and never thought of it again.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1eefabd2	type	Late for School
The NeverEnding Story / int_1eefabd2	comment	Late for School: The streets around the school are described as deserted, as a student would feel if he was very late for school. Likewise, the corridors of the school were described as echoing his footsteps.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The NeverEnding Story / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Many, if not most, of the animals in Fantastica seem to be able to talk.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_1f7c89f6	type	Nigh-Invulnerability
The NeverEnding Story / int_1f7c89f6	comment	Nigh-Invulnerability: Anyone who wears AURYN effectively has this, since no resident of Fantastica will intentionally harm them. There are some who might hurt them unintentionally, though, and it seems to offer no protection from natural hazards like starvation, drowning, etc. Bastian wishes this for himself: his strength, endurance, and determination are limitless, but he still feels the discomfort of thirst and exertion in the desert.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_207c3447	type	Can't Take Anything with You
The NeverEnding Story / int_207c3447	comment	Can't Take Anything with You: A non-time travel example. Bastian cannot leave Fantastica with anything the Childlike Empress gave him or that he received in Fantastica. This means his clothes fell off him and he changed from the Oriental Prince look to his normal look as both were given to him by the Childlike Empress. This is also why the Childlike Empress is the only being in Fantastica who can never enter the inside of AURYN - she can't leave herself behind.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
The NeverEnding Story / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Happens to Bastian towards the end.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The NeverEnding Story / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Subverted with Al Tsahir, which Bastian uses for something else before he can use it for its intended purpose (which Yor laments upon finding this out). The fox, eagle, and the owl mentioned in the attic have a chapter more or less revolving around them, sort of.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The NeverEnding Story / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: If a human who comes to Fantastica fails to find their way back to the human world, without exception they all eventually attempt to supplant the Childlike Empress as supreme ruler of Fantastica, losing their memories all the while through wishing. The fate of all who stay on this course is to wind up in the City of Old Emperors as nearly mindless creatures without memory or ability to speak, performing ridiculous meaningless activities forever.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_2683dd96	type	Voice for the Voiceless
The NeverEnding Story / int_2683dd96	comment	Voice for the Voiceless: Interesting variant on this. The Childlike Empress only hears The Old Man of Wandering Mountain as if she remembered that he just spoke as he is writing the very scene they are in. His mouth never moves.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The NeverEnding Story / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: The night hob Vooshvazool is really fond of saying "hoo hoo". Other night hobs do not appear in the novel, so it could be just a generic trait of his species.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The NeverEnding Story / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Hero Hynreck has quested for years to prove himself to Olgamar, Princess of Luna, whose standards are so high that nothing impresses her. Bastian eventually has to invent an impossible peril for Hynreck to save Olgamar from to make her change her mind. By that time, though, Hynreck no longer wants her.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
The NeverEnding Story / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: A disturbing example when Atreyu introduces himself to Gmork as 'Nobody.' They then use that name as a disturbing and serious play on words regarding the hopelessness of the situation.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_2973a4d6	type	Turtle Island
The NeverEnding Story / int_2973a4d6	comment	Turtle Island: The ancient Morla who lives in the Swamps of Sadness is so large that her carapace can be easily mistaken for a hill, and in fact forms the landmark known as Tortoise Shell Mountain.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The NeverEnding Story / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded when Bastian himself, in the scene directly preceding his move to Fantastica, contemplates whether someone might be reading this scene right now.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The NeverEnding Story / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Time in Fantastica flows in strange ways: When Bastian arrives at the Ivory Tower, he finds out that the Childlike Empress has not been there "for a long, long time" — even though Atreyu has not aged noticeably since he met her up there. Later, when Bastian makes his way to Dame Eyola's House of Change, she tells him his travels began 100 years ago. Bastian doesn't believe it at first, but he eventually acknowledges it has indeed been 100 years without him (or anyone in Fantastica) aging.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_2f5b9954	type	Alphabetical Theme Naming
The NeverEnding Story / int_2f5b9954	comment	Alphabetical Theme Naming: The residents of Amarganth all have the letter 'q' in their names. Mostly it was their first letter such as Querquobad, the Silver Sage. However, as per Bastian's story of the history of the Amarganthians (which came true as he told it), leaders such as Quana and Quin as well as Aquil and Muqua existed.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_30ab0aa1	type	Worldbuilding
The NeverEnding Story / int_30ab0aa1	comment	Worldbuilding: One of the most prominent deconstructions of this trope. Many chapters end by tailing off abruptly, excusing itself by saying that it's Another Story for Another Time. It gets through illustrating people, places and things and then stops because the story recognises that a world should be far greater than the narrative it serves. Fully fleshing it all out would bog the story down in endless description of yet more people, places and things in order to explain where these people, places and things came from. In doing so it posits that, in order to fully realise a fictional setting, you'd have to literally write a neverending story.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The NeverEnding Story / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Even evil Fantasticans respect AURYN and its bearer. Gaya, the Princess of Darkness. Alhough she is never shown as a character, she sweet-talks and captures Gmork for his Evil Plan to destroy her home of Fantastica and herself.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_3356ed55	type	I Wish It Were Real
The NeverEnding Story / int_3356ed55	comment	I Wish It Were Real: The story is in a sense, an in-depth analysis of the idea of Wish-Fulfillment, playing it straight in the first half of the novel, then deconstructing it and rebuilding it at the end. The story itself even comments on this:
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The NeverEnding Story / int_34a9299c	type	It Was with You All Along
The NeverEnding Story / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: In Bastian's case, his ability to enter Fantastica and to leave it was with him all along, though he had to read the story and then live as a part of it until he could make use of either. In the former case, all he had to do was give the Childlike Empress a name by calling it aloud in the human world. In the latter case, all he had to do to return to the human world was to give up AURYN of his own free will.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The NeverEnding Story / int_35a858b3	comment	The name of the Luckdragon. The German name is "Fuchur", derived from the Japanese word "fukuryu" (meaning "Lucky Dragon"). Due to the magic that is English pronunciation the resulting name would be more fit for an unintentional Cluster F-Bomb. The original name is roughly pronounced "/foo/-throaty German/Scottish 'ch'- oor" in German.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
The NeverEnding Story / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: The Mirror Gate trial shows your true inner self, which sends most would-be heroes screaming in the other direction. Atreyu looks in the Mirror Gate and sees Bastian.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The NeverEnding Story / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The Childlike Empress sends Atreyu out on a quest to find a cure for her mysterious illness. It turns out that the Empress knew the cure (to be given a new name by an imaginative human) all along; the actual purpose of the quest wasn't to find the information, but rather to provide a long, harrowing adventure that would summon the savior, and make him sympathetic enough to Atreyu and Fantasia/Fantastica that he would give her a new name when the time came. The Empress also had a back-up plan in case Bastian was too reluctant to name her immediately.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
The NeverEnding Story / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Neither for real, nor inside the book. The point of the book is that the book that Bastian is reading is luring Bastian into breaking its fourth wall. His scream is heard in the book, Atreyu enters into his image in the second gate to the Southern Oracle, and Bastian actually sees the Childlike Empress as Atreyu first saw her. Eventually, Bastian broke through the fourth wall. The narration describing the geography of Fantastica is introduced as a pause in the story to talk directly to the audience. Lampshaded when Bastian himself, in the scene directly preceding his move to Fantastica, contemplates whether someone might be reading this scene right now.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
The NeverEnding Story / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: AURYN identifies what the wearer really and truly wants, and can then guide them on their task or, if they have memories of the human world to give up, turn those wishes into reality. Humans can also warp reality in Fantastica without assistance; since Fantastica is the land of imagination, peopled with beings who cannot fashion anything new, anyone from the real world with a little creativity can do it. If you actually tell a story in Fantastica, it will become true, and will always have been true, even if history must be changed to accommodate that, because reality and fantasy are one and the same in Fantastica. Once Bastian finds AURYN, he starts to make very liberal use of its powers to create and reshape lands and creatures and casually rewrite history. This becomes one of the driving problems of the second half of the book, both because Bastian's cavalier attitude to rewriting reality to suit his needs, whims, and passing interests causes him to quickly develop a serious god complex and because overuse of this power starts to eat away at his memories and personality.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_3ce2dc84	type	Save Both Worlds
The NeverEnding Story / int_3ce2dc84	comment	Save Both Worlds: If humans stop inventing new stories, Fantastica begins to decay, and its residents are forced into the human worlds as lies and delusions that stifle human imagination and further hastens Fantastica's destruction, resulting in a deadly cycle that can only be stopped when Fantastica is healed.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_3d4bdbb8	type	AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere
The NeverEnding Story / int_3d4bdbb8	comment	All Stories Are Real Somewhere: Because Fantastica is a land literally made of stories, Bastian finds that his storytelling while wearing AURYN can bring things into existence. Not only that, if he tells a story of something set in the past, that something will have always existed.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The NeverEnding Story / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Dame Eyola becomes this to Bastian for a time, taking the role of his deceased mother.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The NeverEnding Story / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: Ygramul offers to bite Atreyu, which is fatal but allows him to teleport to the southern oracle and have an hour or so to live, or he can stay where he is and let the nothing consume Fantastica. Subverted in that Ygramul points out the first option does allow for a sliver of hope for success, which does indeed pay off when the gnomes who find Atreyu at the southern oracle also happen to have a cure for the poison.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The NeverEnding Story / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Princess Oglamar after Bastian explained she was captured by a vicious dragon so that Hero Hynreck can save her, which makes it happen.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_41bf7d00	type	Canon Fodder
The NeverEnding Story / int_41bf7d00	comment	Canon Fodder: Invoked in-universe. Everything Bastian does in the story-world creates several new plot hooks which tail off with some variation on the phrase, but that's another story for another time. In the end, Bastian is told he can't leave until he 'ends all the stories he began', but Atreyu volunteers to do this on his behalf.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
The NeverEnding Story / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: The literally green-skinned Greenskins (Atreyu's people) who live on the plains of the Grassy Ocean are Native Americans with the serial numbers filed off. They even hunt a purple kind of buffalo.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
The NeverEnding Story / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: This is Gmork's reason for wanting to see Fantastica destroyed; the Fantasticans have a world to call home, and he never did.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
The NeverEnding Story / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: Gaya, the Dark Princess, is described by Gmork as "very beautiful... to me anyway". Given that her admirer is a ferocious werewolf who loves the sinister and fiendish, a human might find her to be either a malevolent yet alluring temptress or a stark reminder that other beings' preferences may be a tad different than our own.
The NeverEnding Story / int_4864031b	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_48c99edc	type	Cast from Sanity
The NeverEnding Story / int_48c99edc	comment	Cast from Sanity: Bastian's wishing power turns out to require sacrificing memories of the human world.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The NeverEnding Story / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: skooB dlO rednaeroK darnoK lraK. Makes no sense, does it? Well, Look at the mirrored text on the VERY FIRST PAGE OF YOUR BOOK.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_4fa65449	type	Dream Land
The NeverEnding Story / int_4fa65449	comment	Dream Land: Fantastica, created from human imagination. The literal bedrock of Fantastica is composed of layers of all the dreams humans forget upon waking.
The NeverEnding Story / int_4fa65449	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
The NeverEnding Story / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The book uses two different colors or typefaces for the two reality levels.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The NeverEnding Story / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Ever wonder what it would feel like to lose a part of your body, even half your face or a whole limb, and not die or even feel pain? The Nothing would be happy to show you.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The NeverEnding Story / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The book begins with a description of viewing the bookstore from the inside looking out the glass door. Bastian then opens the door "violently" causing the bells on the door to ring for a while. It ends with Bastian looking out the same door at his father, opening the door "vigorously" and causing the bells on the door to ring. Smaller versions, relate to the events in the book when the clock chimes in Bastian's world. At 9am, Bastian reads as the four travelers resume their trip to the Ivory Tower. At 9pm, Atreyu and Falkor are traveling to the Ivory Tower. At 10am, Cairon has just appeared from meeting with the Childlike Empress. At 10pm, Atreyu first sees the Childlike Empress. At 11am, Atreyu accepts his mission from Cairon. At 11pm, Atreyu's mission officially ends after his meeting with the Childlike Empress ends. Towards the end of Atreyu's portion of the quest, when encountering a stranger he comes wary of revealing his true identity and purpose, and merely refers to himself as "Nobody". Similarly, towards the end of Bastian's quest, he too encounters a stranger and becomes wary of revealing his true identity and purpose, but this time refers to himself as "Somebody".
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The NeverEnding Story / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
The NeverEnding Story / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Referred to as dream words for the Childlike Empress's response:
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The NeverEnding Story / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
The NeverEnding Story / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted, lampshaded, and discussed by Bastian in the real world while reading the book, where Bastian thinks to himself that the need to go to the bathroom is often one of his most pressing, immediate, and embarrassing needs. During his bathroom trip he remembers how he once asked in class if Jesus ever peed, which made his classmates laugh and got him in trouble with the teacher. After he goes into Fantastica, it is then played straight.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The NeverEnding Story / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The point of the book is that everyone is the hero of his own story, but Hero Hynreck takes the cake not only by virtue of being a professional hero and having the word 'hero' in his name, but also because we see Bastian purposefully creating a story of adventure for him after he complained about getting dumped by Princess Oglamar and having no monster to fight as a hero. But, as the book says, that is another story and shall be told another time.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_58aedae3	type	Our Doors Are Different
The NeverEnding Story / int_58aedae3	comment	Our Doors Are Different: Appropriately, in the Temple of a Thousand Doors. Doors were described as extremely thin, thick, gingerbread, buttoned, caves, shaped like an ear, mouth, etc.
The NeverEnding Story / int_58aedae3	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The NeverEnding Story / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Subverted in the character of the lion Grograman. Yes, all land around him is turned into scorching desert, and no one can touch him without being burnt to a crisp, but this is an involuntary part of his nature and not a sign of malice or inner evil. When Bastian, protected by AURYN, is able to speak with him, Grograman comes across as a quite personable, even friendly, beast, as well as rather melancholy due to his enforced solitude, ignorance about his origin, and painful (daily) Transformation Sequence. The scenes where Bastian discovers the truth about him, and sits with him so he won't be alone, are genuinely moving, and Grograman himself is actually treated as a brave companion by Bastian to the point he wants the lion to come with him on his journey (which Grograman points out to him is sadly impossible since he takes the desert with him wherever he goes).
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The NeverEnding Story / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
The NeverEnding Story / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: The Childlike Empress fits this perfectly when she has to basically mentally torture Bastian in order to get him to say her new name. Of course, the people of two worlds were hanging in the balance, so she had justification.
The NeverEnding Story / int_5dfa0fde	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The NeverEnding Story / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Be honest now, does "Gmork" sound like the name of someone/something you'd entrust your life with?
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The NeverEnding Story / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
The NeverEnding Story / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: The Purple Buffalo that Atreyu didn't kill in his ritual hunt to officially become a hunter becomes this in Atreyu's dreams. He is the one who points Atreyu to Morla as a thanks for not killing him and instead answering the call of Cairon, whose job was to send him on the mission to save Fantastica.
The NeverEnding Story / int_6492f4ca	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
The NeverEnding Story / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: Bastian gets a bit too fond of being an all-powerful unbeatable Marty Stu with the ability to make his every wish come true, eventually turning outright villainous as he decides to attempt to usurp the Childlike Empress and crown himself ruler of Fantastica.
The NeverEnding Story / int_64b303c0	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_6628e603	type	Synchronized Swarming
The NeverEnding Story / int_6628e603	comment	Synchronized Swarming: Ygramul the Many, which forms a devilish face, a giant scorpion, a fist...
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The NeverEnding Story / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
The NeverEnding Story / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: The belt Ghemmal that Xayide gives to Bastian, is made of glass and makes the wearer invisible. Bastian was disconcerted the first time he wore it as he couldn't even see himself so he couldn't take it off without Xayide's help.
The NeverEnding Story / int_66f69cd4	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
The NeverEnding Story / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Falkor. His body is so light that he can swim through the air, even without wings.
The NeverEnding Story / int_67677940	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
The NeverEnding Story / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: The Yskalnari are physically identical to underscore their lack of individuality: in their minds, they all exist as a single unit, distinguished only by their duties.
The NeverEnding Story / int_67f26dcc	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_68f95429	type	That's No Moon
The NeverEnding Story / int_68f95429	comment	That's No Moon: Morla. Atreyu thinks she lives on Tortoise Shell Mountain so he climbs it to find her - only to find out that Morla is the Tortoise Shell Mountain.
The NeverEnding Story / int_68f95429	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The NeverEnding Story / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: In his own language, Atreyu means "Son of All"note He is an orphan who was raised by the whole tribe. This is in comparison to Bastian, who feels like the son of no one. Bastian's surname, Bux, is pronounced as "books" (rather than "bucks"). Lampshaded by the novel itself, which points out how appropriate the name is for a boy who loves books.
The NeverEnding Story / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_6ca339ed	type	Born as an Adult
The NeverEnding Story / int_6ca339ed	comment	Born as an Adult: There's a race of Fantasticans called Sassafranians, who are born old and die as infants. This is also true of Fantastica itself. The minute Bastian wishes something into being, it's as if it has always existed.
The NeverEnding Story / int_6ca339ed	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
The NeverEnding Story / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: After Bastian abandons her, Xayide appears to suffer one of these, as she appears to allow her hollow army to trample her to death while making no move to escape them.
The NeverEnding Story / int_6d871385	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_6dcc4ae6	type	Oh Look, More Rooms!
The NeverEnding Story / int_6dcc4ae6	comment	Oh Look, More Rooms!: In the Temple of a Thousand Rooms, each door leads to a new room with two other doors. If a person doesn't have a concept where he wants to go, he will never leave. finding a new room behind every door. Eventually, for those who can find a way, a door will open into a part of Fantastica that is relevant to where the person wants to be.
The NeverEnding Story / int_6dcc4ae6	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
The NeverEnding Story / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: After Uyulala, the voice of the Southern oracle, tells Atreyu she will cease to exist, the first gate, the sphinxes go away. That part of the gate then falls and the large boulders left look as though they have been sitting on the ground for centuries complete with old moss growth.
The NeverEnding Story / int_704d7e91	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_706bff99	type	MadeOfAir
The NeverEnding Story / int_706bff99	comment	Made of Air: Uyulala is literally made of sound. For her, to stop singing is to die.
The NeverEnding Story / int_706bff99	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
The NeverEnding Story / int_70c73c20	comment	The Unseen: The Manipulators that Gmork works for. Also Gaya the Dark Princess, who traps him in Spook City.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_71d3801a	type	Reality-Writing Book
The NeverEnding Story / int_71d3801a	comment	Reality-Writing Book: The book the Old Man of Wandering Mountain writes doesn't change reality, but merely records everything that happens in Fantastica. Of course, when you're in Fantastica and someone reads the book, history literally repeats itself.
The NeverEnding Story / int_71d3801a	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The NeverEnding Story / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: All the threads left hanging are waved goodbye with the phrase "But that is another story, to be told another time" ("Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte und soll ein andermal erzÃ¤hlt werden."). This is also the final sentence of the book as a whole.
The NeverEnding Story / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_7a19a69b	type	Not Quite the Right Thing
The NeverEnding Story / int_7a19a69b	comment	Not Quite the Right Thing: Bastian falls into this trap with a lot of his wishes. In many cases it's because he's careless or he means well but hasn't fully thought through the potential consequences of his actions, although there are some situations where he is also doing the 'right' thing for selfish reasons (namely, doing something that seems good because he wants everyone to see him as benevolent or because he thinks he'll benefit from doing so rather than because it's the right thing to do). This is lampshaded when he makes his beloved mule's most fervent desire to have children come true in order to give himself a reason to 'upgrade' to a seemingly better mount, only to feel curiously ambivalent and guilty afterwards despite seemingly doing a good thing for her:
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The NeverEnding Story / int_7d46e5df	type	MacGuffin-Person Reveal
The NeverEnding Story / int_7d46e5df	comment	MacGuffin-Person Reveal: An unusual version when Atreyu realizes that a human is needed to save the Childlike Empress's life by giving her a new name. It wasn't until Atreyu meets with her that she reveals to him that the human in question has been following Atreyu's adventures with him by reading a book chronicling them. In this case, the shock is far bigger for Bastian, the MacGuffin in question than for Atreyu, the one who only had been searching for him for the short time he knew about the cure.
The NeverEnding Story / int_7d46e5df	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_7d81759e	type	Magical Land
The NeverEnding Story / int_7d81759e	comment	Magical Land: In its way, Fantastica is every Magical Land created by human imagination.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
The NeverEnding Story / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Bastian is described as being a boy of ten or twelve.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The NeverEnding Story / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bastian grants the Acharis their wish of being beautiful and happy, transforming them into the Shlamoofs. They then proceed to bother Bastian and company and he has doubts about whether he did the right thing. Towards the very end of the book, they are unhappy and want to be changed back, and Moru, the Lake of Tears has dried up since they don't cry anymore. Bastian, of course, can't change them back at that point, having no memories and thus not the ability to wish, and they destroy the only thing that can return him home since they don't want him escaping.
The NeverEnding Story / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The NeverEnding Story / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Morla, due to her long lifespan, has seen things come and go, and became convinced that nothing matters.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_819bef18	type	Deus ex 'Scuse Me
The NeverEnding Story / int_819bef18	comment	Deus ex 'Scuse Me: At the start of the book, Coreander is called away for a long phone call, allowing Bastian time to take the book.
The NeverEnding Story / int_819bef18	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The NeverEnding Story / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Invoked: "But that is another story and shall be told another time".
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The NeverEnding Story / int_86968c96	type	Above Good and Evil
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The NeverEnding Story / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The NeverEnding Story / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Nothing. There are quite literally no words to adequately describe it, as shown in the first chapter when one of the messengers struggles through describing a lake being replaced by nothing. Not like a hole or a dried-up lake, because then there would be a hole or a dried lake bed there. The closest anyone comes to describing the Nothing is that looking at it is like being blind. And when Atreyu takes a look at it from afar, he can't even glance at the Nothing head-on, and his eyes hurt just from seeing it, because his brain can't comprehend it. It isn't just blackness, because black is a thing that can be comprehended. It isn't even empty space which matter once occupied, because empty space is still something that can be occupied. It is, long story short, something that should not be... because it isn't. One can easily replicate what Atreyu saw. To do so one must simply close their eyes as they normally do at night. However try to focus on what you see and well, you can't. In other words, The Power of the Void, at its most frightening form. There're also the Manipulators, Gmork's employers, who wish to drive humanity mad with lies and delusions born out of Fantasticans who have been erased by the Nothing.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
The NeverEnding Story / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: The Childlike Empress uses her power as ruler of Fantastica to turn to the beginning of the book YOU are reading, creating a loop only Bastian can break, being effectively part of the loop at that point. Having read the book The Neverending Story himself, after finding himself in Fantastica Bastian theorizes that his current experiences may be recorded in the book, and that "maybe someone was reading it at that very moment".
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The NeverEnding Story / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The NeverEnding Story / int_89631688	comment	Bastian is The Chosen One to stop the Nothing.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The NeverEnding Story / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: Fantasia? Fantastica? Depends which version you're reading (or watching). "Fantasia" is a more direct equivalent of the German original (PhantÃ¡sien), but the standard English translation of the novel uses "Fantastica", possibly to avoid confusion with any of the several things already called Fantasia in English, like Walt Disney's movie. The name of the Luckdragon. The German name is "Fuchur", derived from the Japanese word "fukuryu" (meaning "Lucky Dragon"). Due to the magic that is English pronunciation the resulting name would be more fit for an unintentional Cluster F-Bomb. The original name is roughly pronounced "/foo/-throaty German/Scottish 'ch'- oor" in German.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_8b17c5ce	type	Mistaken for Granite
The NeverEnding Story / int_8b17c5ce	comment	Mistaken for Granite: There's a pair of sphynx statues that might paralyze you with all the riddles in the world if you get too close to them.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_8c30c2ac	type	Rewriting Reality
The NeverEnding Story / int_8c30c2ac	comment	Rewriting Reality: The Neverending Story is a book inside Fantastica (which makes it a book within a book within a book). The Old Man of Wandering Mountain sits in solitude, writing in it. Everything written in the book happens, and everything that happens is written, by the Old Man, into the book. At one point, the Childlike Empress forces Bastian's hand by having the Old Man recite what he has written. This leads to him reciting every line in the book (beginning with the first line of the actual book, recounting Bastian's tale), and writing what he says, which creates more lines for him to read, and causes those events to re-happen, ad infinitum.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_8cb4b589	type	Symbolic Baptism
The NeverEnding Story / int_8cb4b589	comment	Symbolic Baptism: The only way to ultimately restore Bastian's humanity and ability to love is the Water of Life, an enormous fountain located inside the AURYN itself, and from which he emerges naked and reborn.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
The NeverEnding Story / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Using Sikanda without the consent of the blade itself.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The NeverEnding Story / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The Yskalnari are so much a community that they lack any form of individualism, when a member of the crew dies not only does nobody seem to care, nobody even seems to notice. Ygramul the Many is a swarm of steel-blue insects that move with a single will, the entire thing speaking and acting with a single consciousness and taking different forms and bodies by arranging the swarming of its component insects.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_95dfff97	type	Animated Armor
The NeverEnding Story / int_95dfff97	comment	Animated Armor: Xayide's guards are nothing but empty suits of armor animated by her magic.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_95f4a369	type	Attack on One Is an Attack on All
The NeverEnding Story / int_95f4a369	comment	Attack on One Is an Attack on All: Seen with Gaya, the Dark Princess of Spook City and the Land of Ghosts. She turns on Gmork when he arrives searching for Atreyu, because he lets slip his true mission to bring about Fantastica's destruction. While it's implied Gaya is an evil or at least foul Fantastican, since she rules over a land of vampires, ghosts, witches and night hobs, she nevertheless defends her world against Gmork.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_9620c3a1	type	God-Emperor
The NeverEnding Story / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: The Childlike Empress. The City of Old Emperors is full of people who tried to set themselves up as one and learned the hard way why it is not a good idea.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
The NeverEnding Story / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The Childlike Empress, who has existed at least as long as Fantastica has (that is, she is as old as human imagination). The Old Man of Wandering Mountain is just as old, and has existed just as long. Morla, and some of the residents of the City of Old Emperors, may also count.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
The NeverEnding Story / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: As Uyulala/The Southern Oracle outright tells Atreyu, no being from Fantastica can ever truly create something new, because they are just characters fulfilling their parts in stories. The power to create new things, to name things, is explicitly the power of humanity.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The NeverEnding Story / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The mysterious power behind the Nothing who sent Gmork to kill Atreyu. It or they are mentioned once by Gmork and never play any role in the story after the Nothing is defeated. If they're even sentient creatures is up for debate.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The NeverEnding Story / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The Mountain of Destiny, said to be as a big as a whole country yet never occupies the same place twice. One cannot climb it until the last person to do so has not only died but passed out of all memory, or else the mountain will simply not be found. The Wandering Mountain, wherein dwells the Old Man who records the Neverending Story, can only be found if fated - never searched for. The Southern Oracle, which can only be entered through a Stargate-like door called the No-Key Gate. This door simply stands alone in an open field, and the only way to unlock it is to forget the reason you came in the first place. Each of the latter two gates are not there until you pass through the previous gate. Behind the Great Riddle Gate is nothing but endless land. Once through the gate, the Magic Mirror Gate appears about twenty paces ahead. Beyond that gate is nothing until you pass into it, then the No Key Gate appears. Salamander, a city whose buildings and people are made entirely of fire. Atreyu's horse, quite naturally, would not go near the place. Fantastica itself, if the incident at the Star Cloister is any indication. Bastian uses an enchanted stone to produce a light so blinding it pierces the heavens, and the space beyond is revealed to be... the attic of Bastian's school. In other words, he is looking out through the pages of the book. The Ivory Tower, which is basically a mountain the size of a city nearer its base, is always at the center of Fantastica. However, since Fantastica has no borders and is infinite, its center is nebulous. Ivory Tower has been stated to be equally near to and far from everywhere in Fantastica and that how far they must travel is dependent on the state of the travelers.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_9cb5e4bb	type	Evil Costume Switch
The NeverEnding Story / int_9cb5e4bb	comment	Evil Costume Switch: A minor, unintentional version. Bastian's mantle (cloak) was silver until the battle when it was described as black. It remained black for the remainder, even after his switch back to sanity. It was finally left at the House of Change.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The NeverEnding Story / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Bastian goes From Nobody to Nightmare all by the fulfillment of his own wishes; while there are some evil Fantasticans like Xayide who manipulate him, the fact is that he wished them into being in order to defeat them with the ultimate goal of being loved and feared by everyone. Bastian is the purest example of how a small, helpless yet good-natured little boy can slowly yet inevitably turn into a cruel, heartless little tyrant by gaining unlimited power.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
The NeverEnding Story / int_9f35bf5a	comment	Riddling Sphinx: The Southern Oracle is protected by two sphinxes whose gazes hold the victim still until they have answered every riddle in the world. Needless to say, anyone who is caught by the sphinxes dies of thirst long before they even make a dent in that task.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_a19c0517	type	Anatomy of the Soul
The NeverEnding Story / int_a19c0517	comment	Anatomy of the Soul: The Mines of Memory, where Bastian attempts to retrieve his final memory of himself.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The NeverEnding Story / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Bastian, after turning to the dark side for a while and nearly killing Atreyu....in fact, he thought he flat-out HAD killed Atreyu, which makes his "My God, What Have I Done?" even more dramatic.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
The NeverEnding Story / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Bastian's father is well-intentioned, but he has become depressed and distant after his wife died and has ended up pretty much ignoring his son.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
The NeverEnding Story / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Atreyu spends what he feels is just less than a day at the Southern Oracle but actually a week has passed for everyone outside the Oracle, though it is slightly averted as time did pass for Atreyu as he notices his wounds are significantly healed.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_a633a438	type	Really700YearsOld
The NeverEnding Story / int_a633a438	comment	Really 700 Years Old: The Childlike Empress is as youthful as her name implies, but has existed as long or longer than Fantastica itself. On metaphysical level, giving her a new name makes her a new person, just as Fantastica is reborn whenever it is rescued. However, as the book itself explains, a story written yesterday can be about something that happened a thousand years old, therefore everything in that story is a thousand years old to those within the story.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_a74bd88e	type	Taxidermy Terror
The NeverEnding Story / int_a74bd88e	comment	Taxidermy Terror: Bastian sees the preserved heads of a fox, an eagle and an owl, and later in Fantastica he meets three sages with the heads of said animals.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_a8d6bd1f	type	Reality-Breaking Paradox
The NeverEnding Story / int_a8d6bd1f	comment	Reality-Breaking Paradox: What happens to humans in Fantastica who crown themselves emperor, or try to. Through wishing upon AURYN, they try to use the Childlike Empress's power to take her power away from her which results in their minds utterly breaking from the paradox. AURYN disappears from them and they suffer a complete loss of memory of the human world. This renders them mindless gibbering fools who can never return home. After all, the Empress is called "The Golden-Eyed Commander of Wishes" for a damn good reason.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_abb9819	type	In Defence of Storytelling
The NeverEnding Story / int_abb9819	comment	In Defence of Storytelling: The human neglect of story-telling doesn't just make Fantastica sick, but our world too. Bastian's job as storyteller is to "make both worlds well".
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The NeverEnding Story / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The NeverEnding Story / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Sort of. The names of the chapters are ordinary enough, but Ende notably begins each of them with a successive letter of the alphabet. Since the book's only illustrations are said capital letters (which each take up an entire page), it's hard not to think of the book in terms of "Chapter A", "Chapter M", "Chapter X", etc.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
The NeverEnding Story / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: Bastian gets attacked by the Schlamoofs at the end, who destroy the picture he needs to get home and try to kidnap him. At that very moment Atreyu and Falkor show up and rescue him.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The NeverEnding Story / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: And this after the villain is dead! After Gmork dies, Atreyu gets too close and Gmork's jaws clamp down on his leg, holding him fast. Intended to keep him from leaving as the Nothing moves in, it also keep him from walking into the Nothing, which attracts Fantasticans who get close to it. This allows Falkor to arrive in time to save him.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_ad44a161	type	Ouroboros
The NeverEnding Story / int_ad44a161	comment	Ouroboros: AURYN takes the shape of a two-serpent ouroboros, one black and one white. Inside it is a pocket dimension where the Water of Life is guarded by the actual two giant serpents, whose strength would destroy the world if they let go of each other's tails.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The NeverEnding Story / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Gaya captures Gmork to stop him from helping the Nothing. Then the approaching Nothing drives her crazy and she and her people walk into it voluntarily.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_af19229b	type	Plant Person
The NeverEnding Story / int_af19229b	comment	Plant Person: Barktroll is a humanoid, ambulatory tree with leaf-hair and twigs growing from his back.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The NeverEnding Story / int_b06bbf4b	comment	The words on the back of AURYN: DO WHAT YOU WISH. It does not mean "Do as you please", but rather "What you wish will happen."
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b08b0f0e	type	Serpent of Immortality
The NeverEnding Story / int_b08b0f0e	comment	Serpent of Immortality: This is the visual motif behind AURYN, the amulet representing the power of the immortal Childlike Empress.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
The NeverEnding Story / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: In the third episode of the live-action adaptation, Atreyu and Tartus enjoy a meal they got from the escaped Woodlanders children, but when they hear the ingredients, they stop immediately.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The NeverEnding Story / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: You risk this with even the first gate leading to the southern oracle. It is guarded by a pair of sphinxes who might let you pass if you're lucky, because who they let pass appears to be completely arbitrary. If you're one of the unfortunate many who they won't admit, they will gaze at you, sending out all the riddles of the world for you to solve. This paralyses you until you either solve them all or die from starvation and dehydration. You do not want to end up trapped in the City of Old Emperors. Stay away from the Nothing, or you'll get what the Bark Trolls did. Even Gmork, magically chained, refused Atreyu's offer of food, preferring to die of hunger before the Nothing could get to him. According to him, a Fantastican who enters the Nothing enters the human world as a fantasy that no one believes in — that is, a lie.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b4754f84	type	The Worm That Walks
The NeverEnding Story / int_b4754f84	comment	The Worm That Walks: Ygramul the Many, a myriad of blue beetles acting as one, most of the time forming a big spider but changing into other forms when fighting with its prey or into a huge face with antennae instead of a tongue when talking to Atreyu.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b58642b1	type	Trapped in Another World
The NeverEnding Story / int_b58642b1	comment	Trapped in Another World: The City of Old Emperors is full of former humans who eventually turned into true Fantasticans and can never leave. Bastian narrowly avoids this fate.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b6f33a21	type	Rainbow Speak
The NeverEnding Story / int_b6f33a21	comment	Rainbow Speak: A rare literature example, used to distinguish Bastian reading the book from the actual adventures in the book. Only certain editions of the book do this (namely hardcover versions), while the others (paperback) simply use italics.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
The NeverEnding Story / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: Briefly touched upon; Gmork's conversation with Atreyu in Spook City implies that Fantastica and the human world are part of one.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The NeverEnding Story / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: This is Bastian's fatal flaw and the reason why most of his wishes in Fantastica go horribly wrong. Because he starts out as a Loser Protagonist, he wishes for strength, good looks, favorable opinions, to be feared and so forth. Even when Bastian wishes for good things to happen for others, it's always about secretly getting something he wants, or increasing his own appearance of benevolence. The story even points out that the motive behind doing a good turn for someone is as important as the good turn itself. It takes all of Bastian's selfish wishes going wrong to show him how low he has sunk after mortally wounding Atreyu and later seeing what becomes of the other humans who went down similar selfish paths and became trapped and mindless in Fantastica. Bastian's last remaining wish breaks this cycle for him, because it's a wish to love someone other than himself and thus put another person first before his own wants.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_bb4b7f7c	type	Threshold Guardians
The NeverEnding Story / int_bb4b7f7c	comment	Threshold Guardians: The two golden sphinxes Atreyu has to pass on his way to the Southern Oracle. The second doorway to the Oracle is a mirror you have to step through, which shows fears or thoughts of the seeker. The third door, on the other hand, plays this a bit more... strangely: you can't pass it if you want to, because it's made of some kind of phlebotinum that shuts the door ever faster the more you want it to open. Good thing then that the mirror also temporarily wipes your memory to see if you'll go through on curiosity alone.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The NeverEnding Story / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Al Tsahir, a magical shining stone, taken from a unicorn's horn. When he receives it, Bastian is shown a prophecy. Three things of note: speaking the stone's true name will have it shine its light for Bastian for a hundred years. Bastian does this. Speaking the stone's name backwards will have it release all its hundred years of light in a single instant. Bastian does this, and the stone then vanishes. But another part of the prophecy "I will guide him in Yor's Minroud" comes to bite him in the butt when he finds out that he managed to Screw Destiny by destroying the stone. Yor's Minroud is a mine, and without Al Tsahir, he must dig and grope for his lost dream in total darkness.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The NeverEnding Story / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "Go to hell, you little fool! Do you want to keep me alive until the Nothing gets here?"
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The NeverEnding Story / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The NeverEnding Story / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Triply so with Bastian, whose full name is Bastian Balthazar Bux. It also the case with the owner of the bookstore, whose full name is Carl Conrad Coreander.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_c46c1d19	type	Towering Flower
The NeverEnding Story / int_c46c1d19	comment	Towering Flower: The top of the Ivory Tower, where the Childlike Empress herself resides, is shaped like an enormous magnolia bud. Its petal-wall sometimes "blossoms" to reveal the Empress herself seated in the center, a sight Falkor has witnessed. Horok, Xayide the witch's hand-shaped castle, is surrounded by a forest of orchids taller than a man â€” orchids that also happen to be carnivorous, thus serving as a first layer of protection around her lair.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
The NeverEnding Story / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Bastian thinks nothing of trusting one of Fantasica's most infamous sorceresses, despite the fact she obviously tries to turn him against Atreyu. She also quite obviously feigned defeat when she kidnapped the knights and Bastian rescued them, as Atreyu points out, but he thinks nothing of it. This can possibly be explained as a result of Bastian gradually losing his memories, and consequently his humanity.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_c6044ad2	type	The Old North Wind
The NeverEnding Story / int_c6044ad2	comment	The Old North Wind: Lirr, the black North Wind, is one of the four giant elemental embodiments who guard the winds of Fantastica.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_c614edde	type	Another Story for Another Time
The NeverEnding Story / int_c614edde	comment	Another Story for Another Time: Many chapters end using this on the characters important to that section.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The NeverEnding Story / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Quite a few meta-examples, meant to imply that other famous authors had at one time visited Fantastica: The City of Old Emperors, filled with madmen, is modelled on the "madhouse of Cairo" where Peer Gynt is brought in the famous Henrik Ibsen play. William Shakespeare is mentioned by one of the knights as having visited Fantastica in the past, and the knight then quotes a song Shakespeare taught him (from Twelfth Night) that begins: Tolkien's Legendarium is referenced on a number of occasions: The dragon Smerg, which sounds an awful lot like Smaug. Smerg's lair is said to be in a land called Morgul, which is a Sindarin term for "black magic" and is used as part of the names of multiple places and objects. The construction and layout of the Ivory Tower is quite similar to that of Minas Tirith. The bark trolls are awfully similar to Ents in their description.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The NeverEnding Story / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Applied only in the last part of the book and only for a few pages. After Bastian loses his memory of who he was, he is referred to in the narrative as "the Boy Who No Longer Had a Name" (or some variant) or just "the Boy".
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The NeverEnding Story / int_cc427069	type	Hard Work Hardly Works
The NeverEnding Story / int_cc427069	comment	Hard Work Hardly Works: Hero Hynreck is a professional hero who spent his whole life being the best at everything he does, but he can't hold a candle against Bastian, who outmatches him with ease by virtue of holding Sikanda, the sword that made him undefeatable as well as AURYN.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
The NeverEnding Story / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: Smerg's ice-cold breath has this effect, and turns some trees to stone. Grogramann turns to stone every night, and is reborn with the dawn.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d0c8e54	type	Monkeys on a Typewriter
The NeverEnding Story / int_d0c8e54	comment	Monkeys on a Typewriter: A disturbing take on this and, ironically, explained by a monkey. In the City of Lost Emperors, the humans who could not find their way back are unable to change, age, or die and have no knowledge of who they were or much of anything. Argax, the monkey in charge, gives some of them letter blocks they can play with and arrange into words. Argax explains that, since they are there forever, they will eventually live up to this trope.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d24b61a8	type	Patchwork Map
The NeverEnding Story / int_d24b61a8	comment	Patchwork Map: Exaggerated and justified. Fantastica itself constantly molds its shape, sending people traveling to various places depending on where they want to go. Thus, the geography of Fantastica can't be pinned down and it would be impossible to draw an accurate map of the place.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d3b02ffb	type	I Know Your True Name
The NeverEnding Story / int_d3b02ffb	comment	Many other things in Fantastica are affected by one saying their true name; see I Know Your True Name. Al Tsahir is one prime example.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d4f376f9	type	Canon Sue
The NeverEnding Story / int_d4f376f9	comment	Canon Sue: Deconstructed in the second half of the book, with Bastian becoming an in-universe Canon Sue. There's also an implication that whoever reads the book will end up reading a story about a character somewhat like what they are and also what they want to be. Since Bastian is a young boy who wants to be brave he ends up reading about Atreyu, a young boy warrior. This is heavily implied at the Oracle which revealed Atreyu's inner self to be Bastian, and when Carl Coreander told Bastian that his experiences with the Neverending Story, including the appearance of the book itself, were entirely different from Bastian's. If Coreander was reading, the story probably would have featured Engywook or someone similar.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The NeverEnding Story / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: "The Nothing". Characters from Fantastica who are swallowed are "reborn" in the real world — as lies (at least that's what Gmork claims). It's implied that the Nothing is caused by people in the real world becoming less honest and happy.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d5c1bd82	type	Shakespeare in Fiction
The NeverEnding Story / int_d5c1bd82	comment	Shakespeare in Fiction: When the three knights stroll along with Bastian, they sing "When That I was and a Little Tiny Boy" (which we know from Twelfth Night), which they learned from a previous human visitor to Fantasia/Fantastica, "name of Shexper, or something of the sort."
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d68aa8e9	type	Inexplicably Speaks Fluent Alien
The NeverEnding Story / int_d68aa8e9	comment	Inexplicably Speaks Fluent Alien: When Bastian enters Fantastica, he has no problem conversing with anyone. Justified, maybe, since he's wearing AURYN; or maybe it's because the new Fantastica is rebirth out of his own imagination, language(s) included.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d72b162f	type	Technicolor Eyes
The NeverEnding Story / int_d72b162f	comment	Technicolor Eyes: The Childlike Empress has solid golden eyes.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
The NeverEnding Story / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: Each wish made on AURYN consumes a memory of home. To be precise, the amount of memory consumed is proportional to the difficulty of the wish. Woe betide you should you run out before finding your way back. A wish will also consume a memory of its opposite: Wish to be handsome and you will lose your memory of ever having been ugly; wish to be strong and you will forget that you were ever weak. Wish to rule Fantastica and you'll forget that you ever came from a different world.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The NeverEnding Story / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Falkor is a luckdragon, a benevolent, essentially Eastern dragon in a story otherwise employing Western themes. Luckdragons are "creatures of light, air, and pure joy", who can fly without wings and resemble slow lightning flashes when seen from the ground. Their voices like the ringing of bells. "Ordinary dragons" are also mentioned in contrast to luckdragons in Falkor's introduction. They are loathsome, foul-tempered serpents that lurk in deep caves, guarding real or imaginary treasure, and spew smoke and fire. They have large batlike wings, but are noisy and clumsy flyers. They may or many not also be extinct. Smerg is a dragon created by Bastian as a foe for Hero Hynreck to test himself against. He lives the land of Morgul, where fire burns cold as ice, and lairs in a castle of lead surrounded by moats filled with acid and scorpions in the middle of a petrified forest. He has huge slimy wings, a body like a rat's, grasshoper legs on which he stands like a kangaroo, wizened arms like a small child's, a retractable neck, and a crocodile head that has the wizened heads of an old man and woman instead of eyes. He breathes icy fire and can only be killed if his eye-heads are struck off with a lead axe that he guards in the depth of his lair. Every generation or so, he flies out across Fantastica to kidnap a maiden that he forces to serve him for the rest of her days.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_d99add77	type	Symbolic Weapon Discarding
The NeverEnding Story / int_d99add77	comment	Symbolic Weapon Discarding: The magical sword Sikanda will leap into Bastian's hand and fight for him whenever he is threatened, making him practically invincible. However, he has been sternly warned never to pull it out himself, but he forcibly draws it to fight Atreyu's well-meaning coup. This causes its blade of light to turn dark, indicating that it's now corrupted and will no longer make sure he's doing the right thing when he wields it. After he wounds Atreyu, he comes back to his senses, and sorrowfully buries Sikanda so it won't cause further harm — and, more broadly, he stops seeking Fantastica's power and accolades.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The NeverEnding Story / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Bastian, driven semi-insane by excessive wishing, decides that he should become the new Emperor — like dozens of saviors before him, who are now all stuck in Fantastica as idiot children.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The NeverEnding Story / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Bastian believes two events are this in the book. The first is when he screams , the characters hear a scream. That was justified in thinking it a coincidence. The second is when Atreyu is looking into the Magic Mirror, the second gate to the Southern Oracle. He sees Bastian and the description Bastian reads is an exact description of him and his surroundings. It freaks him out, but Bastian tries to think of it as a coincidence. It isn't.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_de2ee4e8	type	Two-Act Structure
The NeverEnding Story / int_de2ee4e8	comment	Two-Act Structure: The first half of the book is a fairly conventional fantasy adventure. The second half is considerably heavier and more philosophical.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_df02a97f	type	City of Canals
The NeverEnding Story / int_df02a97f	comment	City of Canals: More precisely, a silver city of floating palaces on a lake of tears. Acidic tears!
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
The NeverEnding Story / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Since Fantastica is the world of human imagination, it is only appropriate that humans are special to its inhabitants. Only humans can give names and create stories.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The NeverEnding Story / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: Bastian's sword, Sikanda, a blade of living light that can perfectly perform any task the user requires, from slaughtering an entire army to delicately cutting a suit of armor to pieces without leaving a scratch on the wearer's body.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
The NeverEnding Story / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Bastian looks out at the fourth wall outright of the book he was reading during one chapter... And the Childlike Empress outright demands for the Old Man Of Wandering Mountain to read the book that YOU are reading, creating an endless loop based round that one event!
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The NeverEnding Story / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Bastian starts out as an overweight, ugly, unathletic scared little boy who tells stories to himself. He reads the Neverending Story and gives the Childlike Empress a new name, propelling him into the world of Fantastica. He is granted the power to make wishes using Auryn, the symbol of the Empress, and his first wish is to be strong, handsome, athletic and brave. This first wish also robs him of the memory of ever being that overweight, ugly, clumsy, scared little boy — and thus part of the understanding and empathy for what it means to be bullied and downtrodden that comes with it. Each subsequent wish removes his memory of something vitally important to Bastian's character that made him a good person, and so he slowly transforms from the savior of Fantastica to a bloodthirsty conqueror who seeks to depose the Empress and sit on her throne.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
The NeverEnding Story / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: The German name of Faulkur is "Fuchur" /Foo-Xoor/note Where X represents the sound in Scottish "loch" you can imagine why there was a name change.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
The NeverEnding Story / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: The Swamps of Sadness. The two fan theories about it are if Morla has gotten as selfish and cynical as she is from living there for so long, or if her selfishness and cynicism has caused the Swamps to become such a dangerously morbid place.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e5c9dde9	type	Mechanical Horse
The NeverEnding Story / int_e5c9dde9	comment	Mechanical Horse: Xayide created hollow metal horses that she could control with her mind. Bastian, due to Auryn, could also control these horses and rode one away from a battle until it shattered from overuse.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The NeverEnding Story / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Argax is fond of inserting "in a manner of speaking"note At least that's how it comes out in the English translation. into his dialogue.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
The NeverEnding Story / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: No one knows why the sphinxes let some people pass and paralyze others. The Childlike Empress. She is Fantastica personified and only wants to keep it alive. She does nothing to stop evil Fantasticans, because humans would not care for a Fantastica without dangers. When she needs Bastian to rebuild Fantastica with his imagination, she does not warn him that this will make him forget the real world and eventually trap him in Fantastica as a lunatic.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The NeverEnding Story / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The words on the back of AURYN: DO WHAT YOU WISH. It does not mean "Do as you please", but rather "What you wish will happen." The Childlike Empress's command to the Old Man Of Wandering Mountain... to turn to the beginning of the book... She didn't tell him WHICH book...
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The NeverEnding Story / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The NeverEnding Story / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The book purposefully leaves almost all subplots — such as what happened to the four messengers, Cairon's fate after meeting Atreyu, the adventures of Hero Hynreck, what became of Ghemmal and of Sikanda — hanging. Hence the title. However, Bastian's main plot is resolved.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
The NeverEnding Story / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: It's implied that William Shakespeare was one of the previous people to visit Fantastica.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_ed61457c	type	The Illuminati
The NeverEnding Story / int_ed61457c	comment	The Illuminati: The "Manipulators" spoken of by Gmork, implied to live in and, to a great extent, control the human world.
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The NeverEnding Story / int_eeb2c175	type	Eat Dirt, Cheap
The NeverEnding Story / int_eeb2c175	comment	Eat Dirt, Cheap: The race of the Rock-Chewers subsist on a diet of rocks and stone, and have turned their mountain homes into something resembling Swiss cheese as a result.
The NeverEnding Story / int_eeb2c175	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_eeb2c175	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_eeb2c175
The NeverEnding Story / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
The NeverEnding Story / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Sikanda. The only way for Bastian to claim the sword that was destined for him was to name it, something only he could do.
The NeverEnding Story / int_ef2582c3	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_ef2582c3	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_ef2582c3
The NeverEnding Story / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The NeverEnding Story / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The second half of the book deconstructs the idea of The Chosen One Trapped in Another World. After physically entering Fantastica and rebuilding it, Bastian's newfound ego runs amok. Rather than heal the world, he does tremendous harm to feed his power fantasies, leading to a number of tragic events. He is ultimately only able to go home when Atreyu and Falkor selflessly agree to fix all the damage he did. But the book predates these tropes becoming very commonplace in children's fiction by a wide margin.
The NeverEnding Story / int_f0e85546	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_f0e85546	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_f0e85546
The NeverEnding Story / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
The NeverEnding Story / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Gaya, the Princess of Darkness. Alhough she is never shown as a character, she sweet-talks and captures Gmork for his Evil Plan to destroy her home of Fantastica and herself.
The NeverEnding Story / int_f2d8e3c2	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_f2d8e3c2	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_f2d8e3c2
The NeverEnding Story / int_f48d0f54	type	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
The NeverEnding Story / int_f48d0f54	comment	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Ygramul the Many is spoken of as a force of evil by the greenskins, who sing a song about the danger of falling into his clutches if they should venture into the dead mountains. Despite this, he is just a creature who needs food to survive like any other, although his meals tend to be rather large and some of them are sentient, like Falkor. He gives Atreyu some helpful advice; he must measure his quest in terms of The Childlike Empress's life and not his, which means he can't afford to take months or years to find her a cure. He even gives Atreyu the means to reach the southern oracle instantly, although the means are fatal; his poison bite allows the victim to teleport to anywhere their heart desires. Ygramul can't help this as it's simply his nature, and he suggests that it's still a better deal than sitting around waiting for the Childlike Empress to die and the nothing to overtake all of Fantastica.
The NeverEnding Story / int_f48d0f54	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_f48d0f54	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_f48d0f54
The NeverEnding Story / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
The NeverEnding Story / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The war between Atreyus forces and Bastian's forces was mostly fought while Bastian was at the Ivory Tower still in a ceremony ushering him in as Emperor. The only part that was highlighted was the one-on-one fight between Bastian and Atreyu.
The NeverEnding Story / int_f722f635	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
The NeverEnding Story / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: The Childlike Empress is the muse or goddess of fantasy, the embodiment of imaginative and creative potential. The Old Man of Wandering Mountain represents the end result: stories written down, fixed and unchanging.
The NeverEnding Story / int_f76b8969	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_f76b8969	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_f76b8969
The NeverEnding Story / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
The NeverEnding Story / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Gmork, despite looking like an enormous wolf, describes himself as this. He tells Atreyu that neither Fantastica nor the Human World are his true home, for he has none. Therefore, he is able to travel between both worlds, appearing as a human in our world and a wolf in Fantastica.
The NeverEnding Story / int_f8b3fa5d	featureApplicability	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_fa8a26f8	type	Name Amnesia
The NeverEnding Story / int_fa8a26f8	comment	Name Amnesia: After making his final wish, Bastian forgets the last memory he had, his own name. Afterwards, the narration refers to him as "the boy without a name".
The NeverEnding Story / int_fa8a26f8	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_fa8a26f8	featureConfidence	1.0
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The NeverEnding Story / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
The NeverEnding Story / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: Uyulala. In fact, she can't speak without rhyming, and also cannot hear people if they do not talk to her in verse. (Atreyu manages to get a knack for it rather quickly.)
The NeverEnding Story / int_fb17af62	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_fb17af62	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_fb17af62
The NeverEnding Story / int_fd0eb09b	type	JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope
The NeverEnding Story / int_fd0eb09b	comment	Jumped Off The Slippery Slope: Bastian becomes an evil psychopath toward the end of the book due to Xayide's manipulation, but snaps out of it, leading to a My God, What Have I Done? moment.
The NeverEnding Story / int_fd0eb09b	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_fd0eb09b	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_fd0eb09b
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: The Ã„nderhaus (Changing House) is, for all intents and purposes, a TARDIS. The trope is name-checked word for word. And for added points, the woman who lives there undergoes a sort of regeneration upon death, becoming a new person, and having a succession of lives.
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe1b2e75	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe1b2e75	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_fe1b2e75
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe2352ea	type	Magical Underpinnings of Reality
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe2352ea	comment	Magical Underpinnings of Reality: Fantasticans are only real in their world; once they are taken into our world, they become lies.
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe2352ea	featureApplicability	1.0
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe2352ea	featureConfidence	1.0
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The NeverEnding Story / int_fe2352ea
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
The NeverEnding Story / int_fe61495d	comment	Grail in the Garbage: The physical Neverending Story itself, the book which contains the entire world of Fantastica, is housed in an unsuccessful antique bookstore.
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The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	A Chat with Satan / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	A Protagonist Shall Lead Them / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Above Good and Evil / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Aliens Speaking English / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Alphabetical Theme Naming / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Animated Adaptation / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Another Story for Another Time / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Anthropomorphic Personification / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Anti-Escapism Aesop / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Artifact of Doom / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Attack on One Is an Attack on All / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Barrier Maiden / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Beat Them at Their Own Game / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Because Destiny Says So / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Best Friend / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Bigger on the Inside / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Born as an Adult / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Breaking the Fourth Wall / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Bright Castle / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Canon Fodder / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Can't Take Anything with You / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Capital Letters Are Magic / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Cast from Experience Points / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Cast from Sanity / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Catlike Dragons / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Cloudcuckooland / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Cool Gate / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Creative Sterility / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Dangerously Garish Environment / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Day-Old Legend / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Death of Personality / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Deliberately Monochrome / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Delightful Dragon / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Deus ex 'Scuse Me / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Die Laughing / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Down the Rabbit Hole / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Dragon Rider / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Dragon Works / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Dream Land / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Droste Image / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Eat Dirt, Cheap / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Empathic Environment / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	"End of the World" Special / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Equivalent Exchange / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Excalibur in the Rust / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Eye of Newt / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Failure Is the Only Option / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Fiery Lion / int_bd184166
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The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Framing Device / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	From Beyond the Fourth Wall / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Functional Magic / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Giant Flyer / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_bd184166
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The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Gym Class Rope Climb / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Hope Sprouts Eternal / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Hurricane of Puns / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	I Wish It Were Real / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	In Defence of Storytelling / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Intrepid Fictioneer / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Invisibility Cloak / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	It Was with You All Along / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Kid Hero / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Kudzu Plot / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Late for School / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Left Hanging / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Little Miss Almighty / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Loser Protagonist / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	MacGuffin-Person Reveal / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Magic Librarian / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Magical Land / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Magical Native American / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Magical Underpinnings of Reality / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Mechanical Horse / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Medium Awareness / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Metafictional Title / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Mistaken for Granite / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Monkeys on a Typewriter / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Name Amnesia / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	National Animal Stereotypes / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Near-Villain Victory / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Negative Space Wedgie / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Nested Story / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Never Trust a Title / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	No Fourth Wall / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Nobody Poops / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Not Quite the Right Thing / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Oh Look, More Rooms! / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	One of These Doors Is Not Like the Other / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	One Size Fits All / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Only the Worthy May Pass / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Our Doors Are Different / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Our Gnomes Are Weirder / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Paint It Black / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Parental Neglect / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Patchwork Map / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Pegasus / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Portal Book / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Portal Door / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Preppy Name / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Quicksand Sucks / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Rainbow Speak / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Raised by the Community / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Reading Ahead in the Script / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Reality-Breaking Paradox / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Reality-Writing Book / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Rejected by the Empathic Weapon / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Rewriting Reality / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Rhyming Episode / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Riddle Me This / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Riddling Sphinx / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Rock Monster / int_2081e946
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The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Sapient Steed / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Savage Wolves / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Senseless Sacrifice / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Separate Scene Storytelling / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Serpent of Immortality / int_bd184166
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The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Shoo the Dog / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Silly Simian / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Silver Has Mystic Powers / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Situational Sword / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Beauty / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Speedy Snail / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Spirit Advisor / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Stuffed into a Trashcan / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Summon Everyman Hero / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Supernatural Gold Eyes / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Swamps Are Evil / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Symbolic Baptism / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Symbolic Weapon Discarding / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Synchronized Swarming / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Take Away Their Name / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Taken for Granite / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Talking Animal / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Taxidermy Terror / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Technicolor Eyes / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	That's No Moon / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Cabin Boy / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Emperor / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_bd184166
TheNeverEndingStory	seeAlso	The NeverEnding Story
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Nothing After Death / int_bd184166
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The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Philosopher / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Resenter / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Storyteller / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	The Worm That Walks / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Threshold Guardians / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Tough Leader FaÃ§ade / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Towering Flower / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Trapped in TV Land / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	True Neutral / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Turtle Island / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Turtle Power / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Two-Act Structure / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Universally Beloved Leader / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Unseen Evil / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Unusual Chapter Numbers / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Voice for the Voiceless / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Walking Wasteland / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Weapon Wields You / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Wise Old Turtle / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Witch Species / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	World's Best Warrior / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	World's Strongest Man / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Writer-Induced Fanon / int_2081e946
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Year Inside, Hour Outside / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Geographic Flexibility / int_bd184166
The NeverEnding Story	hasFeature	Ouroboros / int_bd184166

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