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The 10th Kingdom

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The 10th Kingdom	comment	Take just about every well-known Western Fairy Tale, myth, legend, oral history, and fantasy story known to man. Cross them with screwball comedy, an epic Hero's Journey, fantastic (for television, anyway) special effects, and a lot of surprising twists. Add a dash of tragedy and mystery, a sprinkling of some rather serious (or should we say, ''Grimm''?) issues, and some great British casting, and what do you get?Not the Wicked Stepmother's potion, but the 2000 NBC/Hallmark miniseries The 10th Kingdom.Virginia Lewis (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), a down-on-her-luck New York City-based waitress, and her ne'er-do-well janitor father Tony (John Larroquette), are accidentally dragged out of their boring, miserable lives when they cross paths with a golden retriever (actually an enchanted prince) and an ex-convict werewolf (actually, half-wolf) — one fleeing his stepmother the Evil Queen (Dianne Wiest), the other working for her (sometimes). Complications and hi-jinks result, as magic spills over into New York (the Tenth Kingdom of the title), and soon the foursome end up via magic mirror in the world of the Nine Kingdoms, where fairy tales are real but "Happy Ever After didn't last as long as we'd hoped." Pursued by vengeful Trolls and their odious father, and Rutger Hauer as a typically villainous but effectively chilling Huntsman, they must chase after the magic mirror and wend their way in and out of the lives of many fairy tale characters (always with a twist) in order to find their way home again.Oh, and restore the prince to his throne, save the Kingdoms, learn a few valuable lessons, and discover some secrets that will resolve past tragedies. Something for everyone!Not to be confused with The Twelve Kingdoms, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, or any of the several works named Seven Kingdoms.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_11519098	type	Stop, or I Shoot Myself!
The 10th Kingdom / int_11519098	comment	Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: The fake prince threatens to hang himself and screw up the Queen's plans if she doesn't turn him back into a dog. The queen quickly realizes the material he's using won't actually hold his weight and pushes his support away, causing him to choke briefly before it tears.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
The 10th Kingdom / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Tony's punishment for trying to break into the Governor's office with the copied key. What is particularly odd, considering the history of flogging in Britain and Simon Moore being British, is that there seems to be no consequences to this: the very next time Tony is shown he doesn't seem to be unduly suffering, nor is he ever shown favoring his back, nor is it ever mentioned again in the miniseries. Either despite Tony's cries beanstalks aren't particularly painful (note that in Real Life whipping can kill at forty lashes), or this is another example of straddling the line between What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? and What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? due to it being a Bowdlerized Fairy Tale world.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The 10th Kingdom / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After killing her own mother in self defence and realising what she has done, Virginia goes into a version of one of these - she falls asleep for almost 2 days from both physical and emotional exhaustion.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The 10th Kingdom / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: NBC was notorious for doing this during most if not of all of their miniseries "events", but a particularly egregious example occurred twice: just after the suspenseful scenes in which Virginia and Tony were trying to buy the Traveling mirror at auction, the trailer revealed that it gets broken, and right as we're wondering if the heroes will get to the ball and stop the Evil Queen's plot in time, the trailer revealed all of Wendell's guests collapsing from poison. Next commercial break then shows us both the same guests awakening, revealing they weren't really dead and Prince and Wendell switching backâ€”though granted, this was the point of the journey and surely expected by that late in the game. About the only major plot point not revealed by the trailers, thankfully, was that the Evil Queen was Virginia's mother. Not to mention Wolf stopping the Huntsman from killing Virginia at the end.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The 10th Kingdom / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Subverted: Wolf believes his rescue of Virginia from the Trolls will earn him her love, but she refuses to trust him because, as she points out, "You tried to eat my grandmother!"
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The 10th Kingdom / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The 10th Kingdom / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: See Rock Bottom.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_16c3b640	type	Apple of Discord
The 10th Kingdom / int_16c3b640	comment	Apple of Discord: The Trolls are holding Virginia captive, and Wolf throws a box into the room. The note says that it's a present for the strongest, bravest Troll. Cue all three knocking each other out.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The 10th Kingdom / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Subverted—for a miniseries which purports to deconstruct fairy tales, surprisingly few characters seem to possess this trait. Street smart Virginia certainly doesn't, other than when she realizes that "everyone in this place is crazy!" And unsurprisingly, most of the times he attempts it, Tony fails woefully. The one character who does play it straight fairly consistently is, naturally, Wolf. Exhibit A, his knowledge of fairy tale endings: "We either live happily ever after or we get killed by horrible curses." Exhibit B: his explanation, after Prince gets turned to gold, that "things have a way of bouncing back here"...only to admit, when confronted by Tony, that he was "just saying that" and proceeding to tempt Prince with a stick with delicious snark. Exhibit C: his stopping Tony from eating an apple at Snow White's cottage, because it probably grew from the one that poisoned her.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_17a268d5	type	G-Rated Mental Illness
The 10th Kingdom / int_17a268d5	comment	G-Rated Mental Illness: Played with. Christine is described as having been mentally ill and was "getting worse and worse." No specifics are given about the illness, but her homicidal tendencies toward young Virginia are disconcerting to say the least.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The 10th Kingdom / int_17ce80aa	comment	Snow White. She calls herself a fairy godmother, but also freely admits she is actually dead (something which is never really stated about fairy godmothers). Only Virginia and Wendell (the latter either because he's gone doggy at the time or because he's her grandson) can see and speak with herâ€”Tony cannot. She later appears in Virginia's dreams. According to the Novelization, she was also disguised as the old woman from the forest who gave them a lesson in solidarity and warned them of the Huntsman, and the little Cupid girl from Kissing Town who told them where to find the cart which had taken the mirror away.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_1bd5dac6	type	TheWhitePrince
The 10th Kingdom / int_1bd5dac6	comment	The White Prince: Wendell. Quite literally.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_1d3e44f5	type	Artifact of Attraction
The 10th Kingdom / int_1d3e44f5	comment	Artifact of Attraction: The Troll King's magic shoes again—the longer you have/wear them, the more you want to keep wearing them. This seems to depend on the user, the Troll King and Virginia get it hard but Wolf shrugs it off. Possibly because shoes that make you invisible are less valuable to animals or people who rely more on scent. Magic items in general are implied to be this, and the more useful they are to you, the more addictive they are.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The 10th Kingdom / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: See Punny Name.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_1f8cb7f5	type	Exploding Closet
The 10th Kingdom / int_1f8cb7f5	comment	Exploding Closet: Happens to Wolf with a broom closet near the end when he, Tony, and Virginia are looking in Wendell's palace for the Evil Queen's room of Magic Mirrors. Played with in that as a wolf his senses should have told him it was the wrong room, except at the time he was actually working for the Queen (but only to fool her so he could save the poisoned guests and eventually Virginia), so he did this on purpose to keep anyone from being suspicious.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_1fe5e35b	type	A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll"
The 10th Kingdom / int_1fe5e35b	comment	A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll": In a "shepherdess contest" which includes a singing portion, Virginia goes with "We Will Shear You" (in the style of Queen's "We Will Rock You").
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The 10th Kingdom / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
The 10th Kingdom / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Tony, while he does love Virginia, is too selfish and greedy to really pay attention to her. Her mother Christine, abandoned the family when Virginia was only 7, though in fact she fled in horror after in a manic episode she tried to drown Virginia in the bathtub, and the Swamp Witch, aka. Snow White's Step-Mother, sensing her mental instability reached out to her, pulling her into the Nine Kingdoms and instructing her on how to enact her revenge upon the House of White, and in essence mentoring Christine into become the new Evil Queen. Due to this, Virginia has deep rooted trust issues, but after her adventures in the Nine Kingdoms, she learns to make peace with both of them.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The 10th Kingdom / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Tony assumes that because he's in a fairy tale world, the name of the blind axeman who demands he guesses his name to get a magic axe must be named Rumpelstiltskin. He apparently failed to grasp the all-important fact that they were in the world where the fairy tales took place, not in the fairy tales themselves. Something of a running gag is that he and Virginia know and understand the Lighter and Softer modern versions of the fairy tales (implied to be the Disney versions), but this is the world where the original versions happened.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
The 10th Kingdom / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: The Queen cuts off the Troll King's head. Fake Wendell holds the head out the carriage window as they ride through the village.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The 10th Kingdom / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Wolf tries to cook and eat Virginia's grandmother, but the stove's a bit too small. Well, he is the grandson of the Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood. Later, however, he confesses he was just playing. Given the playful nature of wolves that he exemplifies, this is believable, though he does get very tempted by the shepherdesses, in more ways than one. This is primarily due to them arriving in the town at the absolute worst time for him to be around sheep and such, though, with the full moon bringing out his wolfish side.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
The 10th Kingdom / int_22a27b19	comment	Sally Peep is a downplayed example. The shepherdess is most certainly unlikable from the first moment she's encountered, not only hitting on Wolf despite him being interested only in Virginia but also acting like a smug Alpha Bitch for nearly her entire screen time—mostly due to her family's great wealth and status in the village making her feel entitled to all the attention and praise, though she also comes across as rather vain as well. So when she ends up dead, it's difficult to muster much sympathy. However, her flirting with Wolf is actually inadvertently encouraged by him (thanks to the moon being full), while Virginia has yet to reciprocate Wolf's interest. And while Sally's reaction to losing the shepherdess contest is another mark against her, knowing that the Peeps are so fortunate only because they've trapped the magic well water for only their own use makes her retaliation against her grandfather rather cathartic. Threatening to kill her if she tells anyone about the well, and then actually doing so after she destroys it, is also played for the disturbing drama it rightly should be; knowing her last word was to shriek her grandfather's name is rather heartbreaking.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
The 10th Kingdom / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: One of the troll kids begins cutting himself after hearing that their father was killed.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
The 10th Kingdom / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: The queen gets all three Troll children in one swing.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_26ea11ed	type	Mysterious Parent
The 10th Kingdom / int_26ea11ed	comment	Mysterious Parent: Virginia's mother, who is the Evil Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The 10th Kingdom / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Virginia's mother tried to drown her daughter when she was younger. She tries to choke her to death several times later too. Although the last example is done without her pulling away in horror at her actions. invoked Also, Wilfred Peep kills his own granddaughter to keep from having the secret of the family's magic well revealed to the town. If you listen closely to the mob after Sally's killer is revealed, her mother, quite justifiably, screams her intention to kill him in retribution.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The 10th Kingdom / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: In the first episode, while he still appears 100% ravenous and murderous, Wolf corners Virginia's coworker in a small room to force information out of her, and she is never seen again, leaving the implication at the time that he assaulted and/or ate her. While he vaguely apologises for trying to kill Virginia and her grandmother, Virginia never knows this happened so it's never explained.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The 10th Kingdom / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Virginia shows traits of this due to being left by her mother, and the Queen, her mother, is finally proud of her daughter as she lays dying
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The 10th Kingdom / int_29f510be	type	Auction
The 10th Kingdom / int_29f510be	comment	Auction: Thanks to the old Elf revealing what it really was (and receiving his reward for it), the Magic Mirror ends up being sold at one of these in Kissing Town. The heroes rush in with the money they'd earned gambling at the local casino...only to have the Huntsman pull a Whammy Bid on them thanks to the money he stole from the Elf. This of course leads into a reverse Hostage for MacGuffin situation, where the Huntsman will smash the mirror unless they give him Prince for the Evil Queen. Trying to find a way around that, it turns out, just makes things worse.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The 10th Kingdom / int_2a090d00	comment	Another scene features two doors with a frog. The frog tells Virginia, Tony, and Wolf that one door leads to safety and the other leads to a horrible death. The frog also tells them that they must ask him one question, but he always lies. When Virginia and Wolf can't decide in time, Tony asks the frog why there would be a door with a great death behind it, picks the frog up, and throws him into the door on the left, wherein the frog is consumed by flames.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
The 10th Kingdom / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell:
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The 10th Kingdom / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The 10th Kingdom / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Averted in that the "Golden Age" is referred to several times in which the Nine Kingdoms prospered under the rule of their queens, and we specifically never see anything but wisdom, goodness, and heroism from Snow White and Cinderella. It is played straight, however, with the Evil Queen. Nowhere is this more apparent than when she reveals herself to the servants in Wendell's castle.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
The 10th Kingdom / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Tony questions the gold watch he receives from Mrs. Murray as "not being one of those cheap imitations". This same suspicion is brought up by the Tooth Fairy when Tony tries to pay him with it.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The 10th Kingdom / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Huntsman. He'll massacre an entire gypsy camp, shows almost no regret for killing his own son, and does pretty much everything the Evil Queen asks of him, but apparently poaching just pisses him right the hell off. Although this could just be a case of not wanting anyone to steal from his forest, or that only he is allowed to poach there.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_326bcf35	type	Most Common Card Game
The 10th Kingdom / int_326bcf35	comment	Most Common Card Game: The aristocrats at the casino play Happy Family and Snap.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The 10th Kingdom / int_352def2a	comment	Unsurprisingly, this happens in Little Lamb Village after Sally Peep's murder, first when the crowd captures Wolf and then after he is found guilty and about to be burned at the stake. Interestingly (and somewhat realistically, since once people's tempers are riled it's a lot easier to change their target by redirecting their rage) the crowd ends up turning on Wilfred Peep after Tony proves his guilt.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
The 10th Kingdom / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Inversion: the Queen uses a hypnotic mirror which shows her merely standing behind Virginia, when in fact she is strangling her. It isn't until Virginia glances to the side and sees the truth in another mirror that she is able to break free. Played with when Wendell, Tony and Virginia get lost in the dwarves' mines. As Wendell stands in front of the Truth mirror, it shows his human form instead of his dog form; while this is something the audience (and Tony and Virginia) already knew, it was not known to the dwarves, which is critically important in keeping them all from being sentenced to death for trespassing.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
The 10th Kingdom / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: The Troll King arrives early for his meeting with the Queen in an orchard to position his men to ambush her. The Queen had already been there hours before to poison all the apples, even choosing a poison that would take just long enough to kick in at the dramatically appropriate moment.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
The 10th Kingdom / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: In the final episode Virginia finally remembers why her mother left - she tried to drown Virginia and ran away. Tony knew the whole time but couldn't bring himself to tell her and noted Virginia didn't seem to have remembered the event, presumably because she blocked such a traumatic event from her mind.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
The 10th Kingdom / int_36754cc7	comment	"Freaky Friday" Flip: The Queen makes her pet dog Prince switch bodies with Prince Wendell, which is what gets the entire plot going.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
The 10th Kingdom / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: The fairy tale universe has some interesting cover-ups for swearing. The Trolls are fond of the phrase "Suck an elf!", the phrase "What in the fairying forest?" is heard at least twice, and Mrs. Merrypip uses "Fruit of the forest!" Cinderella apparently went through "magic surgery".
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
The 10th Kingdom / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: When Wolf is put on trial for the murder of Sally Peep, one of the other shepherdesses falsely claims that he'd previously attempted to forcibly "touch" them. (In reality, they approached and aggressively flirted with him, and he never touched them.) When Virginia and Wolf call her out for the obvious slander and imply that she Really Gets Around, the judge accuses them of using the "she was asking for it" defense.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_37c95f05	type	Asleep for Days
The 10th Kingdom / int_37c95f05	comment	Asleep for Days: Virginia, after the adventure ends. See Heroic BSoD for details.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The 10th Kingdom / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Wolf is in trouble in Little Lamb Village, but Tony says he'll be able to help—he used to be a lawyer. Tony is played by John Larroquette, who also played D.A. Dan Fielding on Night Court
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The 10th Kingdom / int_39b05e11	type	Fantastic Arousal
The 10th Kingdom / int_39b05e11	comment	Fantastic Arousal: Wolf's tail. See the entry on "What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?".
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The 10th Kingdom / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Or in this case woman behind the woman, since it's the Swamp Witch behind the Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
The 10th Kingdom / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: Played straight and lampshaded with the Trolls' use of dwarf moss (it makes one "see fairies" and all that).
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
The 10th Kingdom / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Tony does this when the heroes are pursued by the Trolls in the castle, eventually defeating all three.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3ce9c9fa	type	Fortune Teller
The 10th Kingdom / int_3ce9c9fa	comment	Fortune Teller: The self-styled Gypsy Queen. Interestingly, we see her use three different forms of it—Tarot cards for Tony, palm-reading for Wolf, and scrying for Virginia (with a bit of Sympathetic Magic thrown in through a lock of her hair). Of course Tony's fortune consists of nothing but gaining and losing wealth and a whole series of fictitious cards painting him out to be an idiot. (The only real one, the Fool, might have been misread thanks to Hollywood stereotypes, since Tony does turn out to later have some Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass traits.) In the Novelization she even says "I see nothing more beneath the surface"—whether this is completely accurate or an example of the fortune teller being misled by her own first impressions is left to the reader to decide. Wolf and Virginia's fortunes, in any event, are insightful and correct, with his predicting the future (albeit taken out of context to cast him in the worst possible light) and hers hinting at her Dark and Troubled Past and Because Destiny Says So heroine status.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The 10th Kingdom / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: From the first meeting of Wendell's privy council, after they have been discussing Wendell not stopping in Beantown, his conspicuous absence and lack of communication, and the Evil Queen's breakout.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
The 10th Kingdom / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army: The Troll King's armies conquer about half of the Fourth Kingdom in Wendell's absence, if the maps are to be believed, but the entire invasion apparently collapses after their king dies.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3e2c9d95	type	Rock Bottom
The 10th Kingdom / int_3e2c9d95	comment	Rock Bottom: After Virginia finds out Wolf spent all the money he'd won at gambling on dinner instead of buying the Traveling mirror, she walks out on him, thinking he's a selfish bastard who doesn't really love her. Feeling depressed, she sits down on the steps, and says aloud that at least things can't get any worse. At exactly that moment, her father Tony, climbing around on the roof, drops the Traveling mirror, and it smashes into a million pieces right at Virginia's feet. This is a fairy tale land we're talking about, and breaking a mirror has its consequences...
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The 10th Kingdom / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The 10th Kingdom / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Played with. It is apparently Virginia's destiny to stop the Evil Queen, save all the monarchs of the Kingdoms, and restore Prince Wendell to his rightful throne, but the whole reason she is able to do so is because the Queen is her long-lost mother, so thus she has a special advantage; this might even be seen as her responsibility, a personal problem she must clean up after. She is also receiving help from her Spirit Advisor, Snow White, and at least part of her motivation in doing so is simply so she can get to the Traveling mirror and go home. Yet to judge by the Gypsy Queen's fortune she has "a destiny that stretches way back in time", and Snow White tells her that Wendell "needs you to save his kingdom, we all do," so you get the feeling there's something rather arbitrary about all this. The fairy godmother does do a very good (if slightly anvil-on-head) job of comparing her life to Virginia's to explain why she "found the right person." On the other hand, Virginia would never have come to the Kingdoms if Wendell hadn't knocked over the mirror when running from the Trolls and Wolf, then gone through it, there is no indication how or why the mirror ended up in the basement of a prison, and Christine becoming the Evil Queen was made possible by the Swamp Witch having a mirror which opened to New York. So clearly some sort of organizing principle seems to have guided the plot. By the end, after killing her mother in self-defense with the poison comb, when Wolf tells her it was not her fault, even Virginia seems to buy into it by saying the fateful words: "It was my destiny..." One possible explanation as to how the mirror ended up in the basement of a prison is that the Evil Queen mentions to fake!Wendell that Snow White's Evil Stepmother once had five castles, and one of the prison guards mentions that the stuff in the basement of the Snow White Memorial Prison is from before the SWMP was a prison. It's possible that the prison was one of her castles, and that it was turned into a prison after her exile. Not only would that explain why a magic mirror just happened to be in the basement, it would also make for delicious irony that the Swamp Witch's apprentice was imprisoned in her mistress' former castle. It is very strongly implied throughout the story that Virginia is actually a reincarnation of Snow White. She has the look—dark hair, pale skin, very blue eyes, and her mother left her when she was young. (Her mother being a combination of both the kindly figure who died and the Wicked Stepmother, since Christine tried to drown Virginia in a moment of madness, but Virginia still makes it clear she loved her mother very much and Christine reciprocated—even as the Evil Queen, she kept wanting to let Virginia go even though she didn't know why. The original Evil Stepmother was manipulating Virginia's mother into carrying out her revenge.) Snow White appears only before Virginia and guides her on her journey and Prince Wendell tells Virginia that on the day Snow White left, she left him a rose and told him they would meet again—just in another form.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
The 10th Kingdom / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: An in-universe principle, but one which also comes true for Wendell and, to some extent it seems, for Wolf and Virginia.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The 10th Kingdom / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Parodied by the Troll children with Virginia (complete with Burly refusing to accept her confession because that went against tradition, and wasn't as fun), but played horrifyingly straight with Relish and the red-hot shoes, as well as Tony getting beanstalk lashings. The first got interrupted and the second used a Discretion Shot / Distant Reaction Shot, but even so...
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The 10th Kingdom / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The 10th Kingdom / int_433e732f	comment	Only Smart People May Pass: Though on one occasion this is subverted — confronted with two doors and told by a toad that one is the right door and the other "will lead to a horrible death," Tony angrily picks it up, decries how stupid the whole scenario is, and throws it through a door at random. It explodes, so they take the other door. Oddly enough this is the only logical solution, since the version of Knights and Knaves it gives is unsolvable (the toad gives the rules ending with "I always lie", meaning the rules themselves are in doubt). Alternatively, the "I always lie" rule might only apply once the puzzle has properly begun (his descriptions of the doors certainly are truthful), in which case Virginia and Wolf are majorly overthinking a very straightforward puzzle.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
The 10th Kingdom / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: The Troll King, who is fairly clever and competent (though no match for the Queen), is supported only by his dimwitted children and soldiers. He doesn't seem happy about this lack of competence in his henchmen. (In the Novelization, when one of his advisors questions why they were in the apple grove so long before meeting the Queen, Relish thinks to himself that this Troll was no longer his advisor, though "he didn't know that yet".)
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The 10th Kingdom / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
The 10th Kingdom / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: When Virginia asks Snow White's Magic Mirror who is the Fairest in the Land, the mirror shows her and Tony the Queen in response, which Tony recognizes as his long lost wife Christine, who in New York society was noted for her grace and beauty.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The 10th Kingdom / int_447d9e50	comment	The Queen's main plan would be one of these, with even a bit of Xanatos Speed Chess thrown in: originally she clearly intended to hold Wendell prisoner while training the Dog Prince, with his escape necessitating the involvement of Wolf and the Troll children (to ensure he did not warn anyone of her plans or find a way to switch back) but her training plan continuing without a hitch. This plan, in turn, was meant merely to allow her access to Castle White and the chance to poison all the ball guests; whether or not the Dog Prince succeeded in passing his tests, was crowned, or even fooled anyone was only a smokescreen to keep anyone from becoming suspicious until the toast could be performed, so in the end it didn't really matter what happened to the prince—she would win regardless. Explained by the fact she had seven years in prison to plot it.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The 10th Kingdom / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: After the climax, Virginia talks about her mother having a fur coat, and would rub the fur against Virginia's cheek as she told her stories.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The 10th Kingdom / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Virginia has a Life-Saving Haircut.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The 10th Kingdom / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The Huntsman inadvertently killed his own seven year old son to prove his worthiness to the Queen. Later, he kills an entire Romani camp including an innocent half-wolf boy. It's also heavily implied that the Queen killed an entire family including a young girl because the Dog Prince told them too much about her plans. Not to mention that she tried to drown her own daughter years before becoming Queen. She also threatens the entire castle staff during Wendell's coronation that if any of them reveal the truth, she will kill their children in front of them.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The 10th Kingdom / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The Nine Kingdoms portion of the miniseries was filmed for the most part on-location in Europe. Notable examples would be the castle and surroundings which double as Snow White Memorial Prison, the countryside used for Dragon Mountain and its approach, and Krimml Waterfall which doubles for Snow White Falls.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_4abd0b32	type	I'll Take Two Beers Too
The 10th Kingdom / int_4abd0b32	comment	I'll Take Two Beers Too: Two examples, both from the Grill on the Park. One diner, there with his wife, orders a slew of drinks and dishes, then follows this up with "And my wife will have..." Meanwhile Wolf's order of lamb with six glasses of warm milk highlights his Big Eater nature.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
The 10th Kingdom / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: The Dog Prince with a pillar, early on when he is still resisting the Queen's "human training".
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The 10th Kingdom / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The 10th Kingdom / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Virginia asks Snow White's mirror who the fairest in the land is, The Queen appears to her and Tony, leading to Tony in horror to state, "Christine! Oh my God! That's your Mother!"
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The 10th Kingdom / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The 10th Kingdom / int_50b05d30	comment	Played with when Wendell, Tony and Virginia get lost in the dwarves' mines. As Wendell stands in front of the Truth mirror, it shows his human form instead of his dog form; while this is something the audience (and Tony and Virginia) already knew, it was not known to the dwarves, which is critically important in keeping them all from being sentenced to death for trespassing.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The 10th Kingdom / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: The Queen, after poisoning all of the guests at "Wendell's" coronation.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
The 10th Kingdom / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Though conspicuously beardless. And apparently Communist. (Which considering what hard workers they are, and how much they would surely hate being exploited and looked down upon, makes a twisted kind of sense.)
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The 10th Kingdom / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: "My name is Virginia, and I live at the edge of the forest."
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The 10th Kingdom / int_534793ae	type	Methuselah Syndrome
The 10th Kingdom / int_534793ae	comment	Methuselah Syndrome: Cinderella, complete with humorous implications.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5353bf39	type	With This Ring
The 10th Kingdom / int_5353bf39	comment	With This Ring: Conflict arises when Wolf spends all his money on a magic engagement ring with a sentient, singing pearl on top. Virginia is upset that he didn't use the money to buy the mirror they've been chasing the entire series. See Wacky Marriage Proposal.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The 10th Kingdom / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The Huntsman is the Queen's Dragon. Relish the Troll King was supposed to be this, but went out of control quickly.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
The 10th Kingdom / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Although never actually spoken, it is heavily implied (and even nearly subverted) during the scene at the Huntsman's treehouse, when Wolf is about to kill him with the magic axe and Virginia stops him. And of course, he's right.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_55f4dd10	type	What Are You in For?
The 10th Kingdom / int_55f4dd10	comment	What Are You in For?: Tony is technically arrested for being found in the Queen's cell (wearing handcuffs) when everybody awoke to find her gone. When asked though, he says that he was arrested for a bank robbery. Which is technically true, he was arrested on Earth for the robbery before fleeing through the Magic Mirror. It also leads to the Black Comedy responses from his cellmates: Clay Face the Goblin, who first asks him if he likes carving and shows him the little statue he's making, is in for carving...and Acorn the Dwarf is in for aggravated assault—"I'm very easily aggravated!"
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5650223c	type	Plot Device
The 10th Kingdom / int_5650223c	comment	Plot Device: The Magic Mirror.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The 10th Kingdom / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Wolf turns out to be a hero by the end, but along the way he still displays a number of darker traits which get used to their advantage.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The 10th Kingdom / int_57b80b45	comment	Also Wolf, a victim of Fantastic Racism, having prejudices against Gypsies. ("Do not refuse anything they offer you, but do not consume anything you haven't seen them eat first.") Granted, that particular band ends up placing a Curse on Virginia, but that is only because she frees the magic birds and ruins their livelihood...
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5805c059	type	Werewolf Theme Naming
The 10th Kingdom / int_5805c059	comment	Werewolf Theme Naming: Wolf.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5b47c8c7	type	Magic Mirror
The 10th Kingdom / int_5b47c8c7	comment	Magic Mirror: Lots of these. Besides the main set of mirrors that the Evil Queen has ("mirrors to travel, mirrors to spy, mirrors to remember, mirrors to forget, mirrors to rule the world!"), people can use them like videophones. The Huntsman even has a small pocket mirror that acts as a video cellphone! At one point, the heroes are shown to a mirror which answers questions, and finds that that particular kind of mirror is incapable of even understanding a question that isn't spoken in rhyme.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
The 10th Kingdom / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: With a jury made up of sheep in this case.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5dd880f5	type	Cave Mouth
The 10th Kingdom / int_5dd880f5	comment	Cave Mouth: The cave entrance is not just a dragon's head, it's an actual dragon's head.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
The 10th Kingdom / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: In Little Lamb Village, Wolf is placed on trial for the murder of Sally Peep.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
The 10th Kingdom / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: Subversion. Tony tastes baked beanstalk (no, not baked beans. BEANSTALK). "It tastes like an old mattress!" "No, it doesn't. Old mattresses have a sweaty, meaty taste."
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The 10th Kingdom / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The 10th Kingdom / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Virginia and her father have an extremely bizarre and disturbing example of this, complete with the ghost of Snow White doing her level best to snap them out of it. Christine's usage of the poisoned comb on her little girl's hair is particularly chilling, while the weird Electra-complex suggested by Virginia being Tony's wife (not to mention Wendell the dog as her brotherâ€”or is that prophetic?) is just plain odd. But what do you expect from something inspired by eating magic mushrooms? Of special note (something which appears throughout the miniseries) is the emphasis on the decidedly more grim aspects of fairy tales...
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The 10th Kingdom / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The 10th Kingdom / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Wolf.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The 10th Kingdom / int_6201e8b0	comment	Her method of dealing with the Troll King is an even better example: after using a threat to his children (whom she didn't even have) to get him to agree to a meeting, if Relish had agreed to withdraw his armies and cease threatening the Fourth Kingdom, her plans would be back on schedule. But if he didn't agree and tried to kill her, she planned to poison him, counting on his greed and gluttony (as well as being Genre Blind—meeting the protege of Snow White's stepmother in an apple orchard?) to be his undoing. This not only eliminated his threat to the kingdom (and Wendell's advisors signing away sovereignty so she couldn't use the Dog Prince's coronation for her murder spree), it provided an "act of bravery" to present to the courtiers at the ball. And when Relish revealed he had arrived early and broken her demand to Come Alone, she in turn revealed she'd arrived even earlier, and the poison was thus there to eliminate not just him, but his soldiers too. So again, no matter what happened, she won.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The 10th Kingdom / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: In Virginia's closing narration she mentions that another Crisis in the Kingdoms called her and Wolf back to the Nine, and ends her tale as "this is the end of the first book of the Tenth Kingdom". Nothing came of it, though. The writer Simon Moore has had the sequel written for years but hasn't been able to get it made yet.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The 10th Kingdom / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being abusive and dysfunctional to the extreme, the Troll King Relish and his children genuinely love each other. He explodes with rage when the Queen threatens to kill his children, and after he dies, they immediately swear vengeance against Virginia, who they were tricked into thinking was his killer.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
The 10th Kingdom / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Or, rather, a rich son of a bitch — Prince Wendell, that is. And for most of the miniseries, that's quite literal. Virginia's Grandmother as well.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
The 10th Kingdom / int_6492f4ca	comment	Something of this comes through in the Troll King's impatient, sardonic, and contemptuous attitude to the Evil Queen when she continues to pursue her plan to train the Dog Prince as an imposter, take over the Fourth Kingdom, and then through him rule the Nine Kingdoms as the power behind the power—since his modus operandi is to invade and take the kingdom by force. In a perhaps delicious twist, the Evil Queen eventually decides, after receiving advice from her own dark Spirit Advisor, to heed Relish's advice...by using it against him with a handy bit of poison after he has become too large a thorn in her side.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The 10th Kingdom / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The Huntsman.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
The 10th Kingdom / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: The Queen finally remembers everything and reverts to her pre-madness personality...right after Virginia is forced to mortally wound her in self-defense.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
The 10th Kingdom / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Wolf. Oddly, because of him being a werewolf this also makes him an example of Species Surname (just without the first name).
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The 10th Kingdom / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The 10th Kingdom / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Sally Peep mistakes Wolf as having one when she sees the bulge in the back of his pants caused by his tail.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The 10th Kingdom / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Christine is even stated to be missing. Until we find out she's the Evil Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_67e84a8e	type	Wild Mass Guessing
The 10th Kingdom / int_67e84a8e	comment	One possible explanation as to how the mirror ended up in the basement of a prison is that the Evil Queen mentions to fake!Wendell that Snow White's Evil Stepmother once had five castles, and one of the prison guards mentions that the stuff in the basement of the Snow White Memorial Prison is from before the SWMP was a prison. It's possible that the prison was one of her castles, and that it was turned into a prison after her exile. Not only would that explain why a magic mirror just happened to be in the basement, it would also make for delicious irony that the Swamp Witch's apprentice was imprisoned in her mistress' former castle.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_68ddad6b	type	Pedestrian Crushes Car
The 10th Kingdom / int_68ddad6b	comment	Pedestrian Crushes Car: A troll wandering around New York City is hit by a car; he suffers no injury, but the car is badly damaged.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
The 10th Kingdom / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Wolf, on the day/night of the full moon, is eager to eat everything in sight, particularly the scenery.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The 10th Kingdom / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The Queen is Virginia's mother. See also Luke, I Am Your Father above. Made particularly well done because the few bits of Foreshadowing relevant to it were very subtle. The Backstory about Christine seems on first viewing to be merely setting Virginia up as yet another protagonist dealing with Parental Abandonment issues, not a Missing Mom who will actually become directly relevant to the plot; the fact the Queen has another Traveling Mirror (and thus could conceivably have come from Earth) is only noticeable using Freeze-Frame Bonus or if the viewer is paying very close attention (and is revealed in the narrative only a short time before her identity is); and the "strange feeling" Virginia gets in her cell could easily be chalked up to magic.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The 10th Kingdom / int_6b35bdff	comment	The three Troll children, thanks to their love of shoes and leather, consider it a terrible crime when shoes are "very badly cared for—scuffed and cracked and neglected", and Blabberwort tells Virginia so. Lampshaded in the Novelization, first when Virginia notes Blabberwort's tone "suggested she had committed mass murder" and then when she decides they weren't "bent on destruction, only on defending shoes".
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
The 10th Kingdom / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Despite the fact that in part one, Wendell's transformation into a dog and of the dog into him is shown through a now-somewhat-dated but still effective slow-morph, his later restoration at the end of the series occurs in only a few split seconds while he and the Dog Prince whirl around in each others' arms and then fly apart with a burst of magical sparkles. The only explanation for this sudden change in the speed of transformation is an attempt to show off the special effects, most likely as a minor example of the Rule of Cool. (More dramatic, after all!).
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The 10th Kingdom / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The dog in Wendell's body nearly hangs himself because he's unhappy in a human body. Poor thing.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6d693f7e	type	Fractured Fairy Tale
The 10th Kingdom / int_6d693f7e	comment	Fractured Fairytale: Let's just say that the very first indication in-story that we'll be exploring a world based on fairy tales is the onscreen locator telling us we're at the Snow White Memorial Prison...and it just gets more twisted and tongue-in-cheek from there.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The 10th Kingdom / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Done with a surprisingly subtle touch: if the romantic leads should marry, Virginia will be Virginia Wolf. However, considering that, of the two, she's the only one with a surname, it's more likely that Wolf would become Wolf Lewis.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The 10th Kingdom / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Played with at the end. At the same time that he is asking her to marry him, Wolf tells Virginia (who is completely unaware of anything unusual) that she is pregnant with their "wolf cub", claiming that he "just knows these things". But, as she says at the end, they did not have a Happily Ever After just yet, as there was more trouble ahead of them in the Kingdoms very soon.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The 10th Kingdom / int_6f059863	comment	Oddly Small Organization: Tony appears to be the only employee in his building. This means that despite only officially being a janitor, he's also expected to maintain the plumbing, electricity, and elevators. The miniseries does imply (and the novelization makes it clearer) that Tony's position comes with the apartment, which is not exactly typical of janitors, but in general it seems likely from the condition of the building that Murray is just that much of a cheapskate, insisting Tony do all that work for the pay of one job so he wouldn't have to hire anyone else.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
The 10th Kingdom / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: The world of the Nine Kingdoms to ours (and vice versa), linked via Magic Mirror. The scene where Prince first crosses over to New York (as well as when Virginia and Wolf return there at the end—but no other time) displays a whole series of mirror frames the traveler smashes through, implying there may be a whole network of alternate dimensions, mirror worlds, and alternate universes. (One rather exceptional Fan Fic, ''Reality'', made use of this notion by having the Wicked Stepmother continually try and change the course of events through different "shard" worlds splintered off by the power of her mirrors). The original VHS artwork, as well as the opening title sequence shown in the page picture, invokedreflects this by making the New York skyline and the fantasy world of the Nine Kingdoms literal parallel images in the water. It's a very interesting design motif that sadly didn't get pursued in the actual story. Whether it would have been in sequels, we'll never know.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
The 10th Kingdom / int_6feaf27b	comment	Scarily Competent Tracker: The Huntsman. Wolf is shown to be a superior tracker to the Huntsman, nearly able to camouflage Virginia and Tony well enough to fool him. Wolf says this is because the Huntsman is a highly trained and skilled tracker, but lacks the animal senses that Wolf himself uses. Falling behind Wolf are the Troll kids. While they may be stupid, they show a remarkable amount of tracking skills and manage to dog the heroes whenever they aren't a golden statue.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_70638525	type	Luke, You Are My Father
The 10th Kingdom / int_70638525	comment	Luke, You Are My Father: Virginia has to tell the Evil Queen that she is her long-forgotten daughter.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The 10th Kingdom / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: After returning home, Virginia mentions in passing that even though she and Wolf were able to live "happily ever after" for a short while, another crisis in the Nine Kingdoms broke out, with her stating that this was just "the First Book of the 10th Kingdom".
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The 10th Kingdom / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The 10th Kingdom / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The Dwarves of Dragon Mountain Store their magic mirrors all lined up like dominoes, just waiting for someone with bad luck to destroy them all.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_7431b974	type	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
The 10th Kingdom / int_7431b974	comment	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Subverted. For the first half or so of the miniseries (before the Queen's Xanatos Gambit is fully revealed), a case could be made that both the Troll King and the Huntsman act as this, since the Nine Kingdoms otherwise come across as a silly, funny, and not particularly threatening place (aside from the Third). As more of the Queen and her plans come out, and as the heroes travel and become exposed to the underbelly of the Kingdoms and the ramifications of certain fairy tales and attitudes, it seems much grimmer indeed, to the point of being a Crapsaccharine World.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_7621a56b	type	Poison Is Evil
The 10th Kingdom / int_7621a56b	comment	Poison Is Evil: Especially when it's used in apples and an ancient comb. Unsurprising, considering the source material.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
The 10th Kingdom / int_777c0033	comment	Also invoked by Wolf when they have the Huntsman at their mercy. Virginia stops him from doing it. Justified, since Virginia doesn't want to be a murderer.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_792cf48d	type	House of Broken Mirrors
The 10th Kingdom / int_792cf48d	comment	House of Broken Mirrors: Interesting variation: the mirror in question was not smashed by the person looking into it, or in order to keep from seeing something terrible (it was a simple accident), and because of this it is no longer magical. However, considering the point this happens in the narrative (the smashing of the mirror itself keeps the characters from getting back to our world, their princely companion is losing his mind in the dog body he's been trapped in, and Virginia just learned (she thinks) that Wolf didn't love her and so she has left him), having the heroine see her shattered reflection in the pieces they've managed to gather is still extremely symbolic.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The 10th Kingdom / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: About half way through the second episode Tony interrupts Wolf when he's talking to the Queen in a mirror. If Wolf hadn't managed to turn the mirror over he and Virginia would have known about Wolf's conflicted loyalties far earlier. And if he got a good look at the Queen's face it's very possible he would have have recognized her as his ex-wife and Virginia's mother. Assuming he told Virginia straight away this would have probably lead to them breaking off their quest for the mirror and confronting her far earlier. Virginia would have wanted to see her... if only to get answers to all the questions she had about why she left and how she ended up in the Nine Kingdoms.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_7a19a69b	type	Not Quite the Right Thing
The 10th Kingdom / int_7a19a69b	comment	One scene features Virginia and Tony deciding which path to take to their destination. One road takes 39 miles and the other takes 13. The 39 mile path is a pleasant road that cuts through the countryside lined with trees. The 13 mile road on the other hand is through a thick dark wood. Virginia chooses the 13 mile road. Tony's reaction to her decision is priceless. Then of course, we learn that the 13 mile road leads into the Deadly Swamp. In the Novelization this is explained by Virginia receiving a dream from Snow White, giving her more information about the poisoned comb she had earlier told her to find (that it would be "in a grave"); but since this didn't make it into the final script, it isn't clear why she would take the shorter, more dangerous-looking route (other than being in a hurry to get to the castle, and Genre Blind).
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The 10th Kingdom / int_7ba00b55	type	Superstition Episode
The 10th Kingdom / int_7ba00b55	comment	Superstition Episode: Tony breaks a whole roomful of magic mirrors, and immediately starts to suffer from bad luck - starting with losing his way, and ending with literally breaking his back.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
The 10th Kingdom / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Used when they get to the appropriately named Kissing Town, where love is literally in the air in the form of CGI butterflies. The first time is at Snow White's coffin, then later on the balcony, but thanks to the Rule of Three Wolf finally gets one the third time.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_805b13e	type	Wacky Marriage Proposal
The 10th Kingdom / int_805b13e	comment	Wacky Marriage Proposal: Wolf's proposal to Virginia. Not only does he preface the evening, when Virginia initially tries to weasel out of dinner, by saying he "spent a lot of time planning this spontaneous evening", he: has a song composed especially for her, played by a string quartet on the roof of their carriage (which is filled to overflowing with flowers); rents an entire restaurant just for the two of them, with a meal consisting of 13 main courses; and purchases the most expensive engagement ring he can findâ€”a magical singing ring with a saccharinely cute cherub face and shimmering, bell-like voice which extols the virtues of their love to Virginia. She turns him down out of outrage when she learns he spent money they could have used to accomplish their goals on the proposal instead. At the end of the miniseries, he tries again, in a much more restrained manner, and she accepts.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The 10th Kingdom / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When the Trolls walk towards the Queen's cell in the prison, three signs pop up which say, in order of appearance: "Absolutely no communication with the prisoner", "Absolutely no physical contact with the prisoner", and "No food beyond this point". Considering who the Queen is, that third one makes quite a lot of sense, actually.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The 10th Kingdom / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Wolf, most certainly, and also the Troll King and his children. The Queen mostly averts Evil Is Hammy and is normally underplayed and calm, outside of a couple of scenes.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
The 10th Kingdom / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Juliet The Blind Woodsman. Tony remarks that it's no wonder a man with such a name turned into a sadist who gleefully beheads people.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_82f0f232	type	Where the Magic Went
The 10th Kingdom / int_82f0f232	comment	Where the Magic Went: This series posits that The Brothers Grimm were Multiversal travelers who discovered the Nine Kingdoms. Upon returning to Earth, they wrote books of fairy tales, which were actually true accounts of the people they met in that world (which implies an Alternate History where none of these fairy tales were known on Earth until the Grimms wrote them down in the 1800's).
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The 10th Kingdom / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The 10th Kingdom / int_83445b04	comment	Mirroring this, the Swamp Witch (Snow Whiteâ€™s Wicked Stepmother) acts as an advisor to the Evil Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
The 10th Kingdom / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: Invoked by Virginia when she tries to defend Wolf during his trial and suggests that the Peep girls are the easiest shepherdesses in the village. Cue shocks from most of the people present, as well as quite a few giggles from some of the other shepherdesses. Of course, it seemed to do more harm than good, considering what this "trial" really was.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The 10th Kingdom / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We never actually see what happens to the Troll siblings. The novelization reveals that they were originally going to be put to death, but Tony pleads for them and they are returned to their kingdom to rule as the Troll King is no longer living. A deleted scene reveals that they did originally film something along the lines of this. Funny enough, it was a blooper scene that was shown during the credits of the Making of featurette. We never find out what happened to the Peep Family after Wilfred Peep is revealed to be Sally's killer, and that the family had stolen the magic well water and hoarded it for themselves for decades. Chances are, they either fled the town in shame, they were banished, or some of them might've been jailed. Wilfred is pretty heavily implied to have been killed by Sally's mother. Clayface the Goblin abruptly drops out of the narrative once Tony escapes prison, after giving Tony a startlingly prophetic carving. According to the Novelization, which was based on an earlier version of the script, he was originally going to be the one encountered at the Swamp Witch's cottage rather than Acorn although with the prophetic carving still left unexplained, interestingly enough.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_8d8c3304	type	Deadly Scratch
The 10th Kingdom / int_8d8c3304	comment	Deadly Scratch: Snow White's poisoned comb kills within seconds from the slightest injury. In their final confrontation, Virginia grabs it from the Queen and scratches her with it, leaving them just enough time for a Dying Truce.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The 10th Kingdom / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Relish the Troll King. After seeing him not only continually abusing his children, but also spending most of a month attacking the Fourth Kingdom, ravaging the countryside, and imprisoning/flogging/slaughtering its people, it's quite satisfying to see him get poisoned by the Evil Queen (after rather stupidly consuming apples from the grove where he goes to parlay with her), then be decapitated. Sally Peep is a downplayed example. The shepherdess is most certainly unlikable from the first moment she's encountered, not only hitting on Wolf despite him being interested only in Virginia but also acting like a smug Alpha Bitch for nearly her entire screen time—mostly due to her family's great wealth and status in the village making her feel entitled to all the attention and praise, though she also comes across as rather vain as well. So when she ends up dead, it's difficult to muster much sympathy. However, her flirting with Wolf is actually inadvertently encouraged by him (thanks to the moon being full), while Virginia has yet to reciprocate Wolf's interest. And while Sally's reaction to losing the shepherdess contest is another mark against her, knowing that the Peeps are so fortunate only because they've trapped the magic well water for only their own use makes her retaliation against her grandfather rather cathartic. Threatening to kill her if she tells anyone about the well, and then actually doing so after she destroys it, is also played for the disturbing drama it rightly should be; knowing her last word was to shriek her grandfather's name is rather heartbreaking. The Gypsies are also portrayed as this, mainly due to the Curse they cast on Virginia and the fact that they traffic in sentient creatures. Plus their matriarch insists on giving Virginia a fortune telling when she tries to politely decline and drags out some painful memories. After seeing the malice with which the Gyspy Queen curses Virginia, and how much despair she's driven to by it, it's hard to feel too sorry for them as they get killed by the Huntsman. That said, there is at least some sympathy shown, even to the Queen crying over one of them, and her grandson who was also revealed to be a half-wolf, and had bonded with Wolf, is completely innocent but dies anyway. So this example is also somewhat downplayed.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
The 10th Kingdom / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Not as many as you might think, since not every commercial break was at an exciting, momentous development. The endings of each of its five parts, however, do all count. Part 1 ended with the Evil Queen revealing she was the apprentice/successor of Snow White's stepmother (aka the Swamp Witch). Part 2 ended with the capture of Virginia by the Huntsman, Part 3 with the revelation that the mirror was now at Auction at a price they could never pay, and Part 4 ended when Virginia and Tony realized the Queen was Virginia's mother. And Part 5 ends with mention that there was soon another crisis in the kingdoms.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The 10th Kingdom / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: A number of characters throughout, minor and major. From major, The Troll King, killed by the Queen while attempting to backstab her; the Huntsman, killed by his own magic crossbow (which he even fired the time it killed him); and the Queen herself, of course, killed by a poison comb, after attempting to poison the royalty of the Nine Kingdoms and making poison her weapon of choice in general. For minor, Wilf Peep is strongly implied to have been killed by Sally's mother after Tony revealed he killed her.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The 10th Kingdom / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: The Queen's plan is enacting this upon the Nine, particularly the Fourth Kingdom of the House of White, in the name of her Mistress and Mentor the Original Evil Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_93773e14	type	TransformationTrauma
The 10th Kingdom / int_93773e14	comment	Transformation Trauma: For Wolf.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_937fc70c	type	Chalk Outline
The 10th Kingdom / int_937fc70c	comment	Chalk Outline: Parodied—after Sally Peep is murdered, the location of her body is outlined in chalk, including her shepherd's crook. The Novelization lampshades this by having Tony reflect in his thoughts: "They were nothing if not thorough."
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The 10th Kingdom / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
The 10th Kingdom / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Tony in Little Lamb Village, thanks to evidence provided by Wendell. And it's damn effective.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_95614e0e	type	One-Night-Stand Pregnancy
The 10th Kingdom / int_95614e0e	comment	One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: Virginia and Wolf have a single tryst, from which she gets pregnant.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_958d9c62	type	Short Cuts Make Long Delays
The 10th Kingdom / int_958d9c62	comment	Short Cuts Make Long Delays: Lampshaded. There are two roads leading to Wendell's castle, and the pair of unlikely heroes are on foot: they must choose whether to take the long and pretty path or the short and scary path. "Virginia, don't you think there's a chance that it's going around something? But... but one path has trees, and the other... argh!" They take the scary path.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_9657fe0f	type	Transformation Sequence
The 10th Kingdom / int_9657fe0f	comment	Transformation Sequence: For Wendell/Prince.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_97af4479	type	Ill-Timed Sneeze
The 10th Kingdom / int_97af4479	comment	Ill-Timed Sneeze: How the Huntsman catches Virginia.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_99023982	type	Move Along, Nothing to See Here
The 10th Kingdom / int_99023982	comment	Move Along, Nothing to See Here: Used when the rich elf dies. Made more amusing by the exact wording used:
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The 10th Kingdom / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The 10th Kingdom / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The original Evil Queen. In addition to her role in the tale of Snow White, she was the one who drew Christine Lewis to the Nine Kingdoms and mentored her into becoming her successor so Christine could finish her work.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The 10th Kingdom / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: The Huntsman. And for that matter, the Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_9e335555	type	Single-Issue Psychology
The 10th Kingdom / int_9e335555	comment	Single-Issue Psychology: Subverted and lampshaded: Wolf's issues with food, love, and his animal urges are hilariously sent up in scenes with a New York Jewish psychiatrist, and after only one session (which he later describes to Virginia as "extensive therapy") he suddenly pronounces himself a changed man and produces "the books to prove it," consisting of several titles of real, well-known self-help books. However, Wolf only shows the beginning of change (acknowledging that he has the problem) and several times shows that he is still a slave to his stomach. Later, the others read passages that relate to each of them, but show no immediate changes. Similarly, but much more darkly, the source of the Evil Queen's wicked nature seems to stem from one event: once it is revealed that she is actually Virginia's missing mother, Tony then reveals that she attempted to drown Virginia as a little girl because she was 'sick and getting worse and worse', a rather vague statement of mental illness. And it was this instability that made her easy prey for Snow White's Wicked Stepmother.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_9f5e99a7	type	DistressedDamsel
The 10th Kingdom / int_9f5e99a7	comment	Distressed Damsel: Though sometimes subverted.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_9ff7276d	type	Literal Transformative Experience
The 10th Kingdom / int_9ff7276d	comment	Literal Transformative Experience: The immature Royal Brat Prince Wendell gets usurped, transformed into a dog, and chased out of the kingdom. The Break the Haughty experience, combined with being forced to cooperate with and rely on others for the first time, forges him into a much better person by the time he regains his human form and throne.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The 10th Kingdom / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: A very interesting subversion: the crowning of King Wendell goes off with all the pomp and circumstance you could hope for, with tons of rich courtiers and royals in attendance, a panoply of gorgeous decorations and architecture, and a rousing final speech just prior. But not only does the royal toast which follows this end up seemingly killing all the guests, but it isn't even really Wendell being tested or crowned, it's the Evil Queen's dog under a spell. There is, however, a genuine version of the trope later when, after the heroes have saved the day, they're all given medals and other rewards.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a066d9f3	type	Tempting Apple
The 10th Kingdom / int_a066d9f3	comment	Tempting Apple: The Queen's Spirit Advisor suggests she use poison apples to gain the upper hand. She follows through by poisoning an entire orchard of apples to kill the Trolls.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a139f52b	type	Fantasy World Map
The 10th Kingdom / int_a139f52b	comment	Fantasy World Map: On the wall of Snow White Memorial Prison, so that both the hapless heroes Trapped in Another World and the viewers can learn exactly what the Nine Kingdoms look like. Unlike most versions of the fantasy map, it displays places which are never visited in the miniseries, since the story remains confined to the Fourth Kingdom (with brief forays into the Third and Ninth). It also has the amusing location marker "You Are Imprisoned Here" — this becomes a slight Running Gag in the Novelization with a map in Kissing Town marked "You Are Romantically Here" — and has the interesting feature of being remarkably similar in outlines to Europe... a feature which has led to some interesting theories among the fandom, ranging from the Nine Kingdoms having diverged from our timeline centuries ago to our world being a nonmagical, cursed offshoot of the Kingdoms. According to Simon Moore, if any of the sequels he'd planned to write had been allowed to make it out of Development Hell, they would have involved visits to or taken place entirely in each of the other kingdoms. The first sequel, which was to be called House of Wolves (about Wolf's past), would have been set in the Second Kingdom, Red Riding Hood's.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The 10th Kingdom / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Virginia after she kills her mother, the Evil Queen. She even says the trope name (minus the "my God"). Not spoken, but Virginia's mother's reaction when she realized that she was trying to drown her own daughter says it all. Later on, Christine also acknowledges her horrible actions as the Queen. Her final words before dying "I sold my soul," sums up her feelings of regret.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The 10th Kingdom / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The entire first disc (or third, roughly) is very goofy and humorous, but the second grows far more dark to the point that the Troll children are the only steady comic relief. Though they're out of commission for awhile.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
The 10th Kingdom / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: The Oaf and the Buffoon aren't real tarot cards.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
The 10th Kingdom / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: The Ninth Kingdom is run by a "Dwarf Union," with a banner that includes red figures and crossed pickaxes, and they even call people "comrade." Them insistently referring to Dragon Mountain as "our mountain" also becomes hilarious in hindsight due to memes.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The 10th Kingdom / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Implied with Virginia and Wolf's first encounter. Instead of being in pain or angry, Wolf treats the vase being bashed over his head like it's nothing and grins.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a9dc5293	type	Development Hell
The 10th Kingdom / int_a9dc5293	comment	According to Simon Moore, if any of the sequels he'd planned to write had been allowed to make it out of Development Hell, they would have involved visits to or taken place entirely in each of the other kingdoms. The first sequel, which was to be called House of Wolves (about Wolf's past), would have been set in the Second Kingdom, Red Riding Hood's.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The 10th Kingdom / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Tony defeats all three super-humanly strong troll siblings in a running battle during the finale.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_abf92023	type	Wolf Man
The 10th Kingdom / int_abf92023	comment	Wolf Man: Wolf. Duh.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The 10th Kingdom / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Wolf often exclaims "Oh, cripes!"
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The 10th Kingdom / int_ad40d85	type	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
The 10th Kingdom / int_ad40d85	comment	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: At Snow White's cottage.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
The 10th Kingdom / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Tony, mainly because of the consequences of his Genre Blind wishes have left him in major legal trouble back home in New York City. Ironic, considering for most of the series he was absolutely determined to get back home.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The 10th Kingdom / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Tony, Wolf, Virginia, Prince Wendell, the Evil Queen, the prison warden... pretty much everybody, really.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_aedad804	type	Mage in Manhattan
The 10th Kingdom / int_aedad804	comment	Mage in Manhattan: The Trolls, but only for a short while.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The 10th Kingdom / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Wolf has two: "Huff Puff" when he's excited or surprised and "Oh, Cripes!". The Troll children like to shout "Suck an elf!" when annoyed.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The 10th Kingdom / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: See Literal Genie, particularly the swamp example.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The 10th Kingdom / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: The Queen to Prince Wendell. Snow White's shows up as the Swamp Witch.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The 10th Kingdom / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Relish the Troll King. Upon hearing that his three children were captured without killing any enemy soldiers, he yells out, "Who wants to be whipped first?!" He wasn't just bluffing, either: after hearing that he's dead, the troll siblings cheer each other up by reminding each other that this means "No more beatings!" That said, they're still clearly upset when he dies and swear revenge on his killer (the Evil Queen uses this to her advantage and frames Virginia for the crime, telling them "the girl" poisoned him).
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b1d44353	type	Courtroom Antics
The 10th Kingdom / int_b1d44353	comment	Courtroom Antics: Virginia exclaims, after Wolf has practically incriminated himself while being grilled by the Judge, "Your Honor, my client is suffering from post-menstrual tension!" Wolf's existential self-defense is "Ohhhh, I'm twisting everything I'm saying!"
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
The 10th Kingdom / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: A particularly well-done example in Wolf, who seems to change sides at the speed of light. Only in the very end do we find out whose side he had been on.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
The 10th Kingdom / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: After a while, Prince Wendell becomes dumber and starts to think and act like a dog, while the dog also slowly starts thinking more like a human (but never quite gets it), although the latter may simply be training.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b58642b1	type	Trapped in Another World
The 10th Kingdom / int_b58642b1	comment	On the wall of Snow White Memorial Prison, so that both the hapless heroes Trapped in Another World and the viewers can learn exactly what the Nine Kingdoms look like. Unlike most versions of the fantasy map, it displays places which are never visited in the miniseries, since the story remains confined to the Fourth Kingdom (with brief forays into the Third and Ninth). It also has the amusing location marker "You Are Imprisoned Here" — this becomes a slight Running Gag in the Novelization with a map in Kissing Town marked "You Are Romantically Here" — and has the interesting feature of being remarkably similar in outlines to Europe... a feature which has led to some interesting theories among the fandom, ranging from the Nine Kingdoms having diverged from our timeline centuries ago to our world being a nonmagical, cursed offshoot of the Kingdoms.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The 10th Kingdom / int_b588a9b6	comment	Too Dumb to Fool: Subverted. The village idiot repeatedly mentions that Prince reminds him of someone, causing Tony to think this trope is in effect and he sees through the spell. It turns out he just meant a similar-looking dog.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The 10th Kingdom / int_b58b4e3c	comment	This also occurs later in the Deadly Swamp (because Tony never learns):
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b5f7b739	type	Evil Overlooker
The 10th Kingdom / int_b5f7b739	comment	Evil Overlooker: Relish, the Troll King, on the front cover of the DVD set.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
The 10th Kingdom / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Wolf is extraordinarily distracted by food.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b8b7a21a	type	Fairy Tale Free-for-All
The 10th Kingdom / int_b8b7a21a	comment	Fairy Tale Free-for-All: The Nine Kingdoms (the titular "Tenth Kingdom" represents our world) were founded by the heroes and heroines of the classic Grimm fairy tales (who didn't so much write the stories as stumble upon said world and steal the stories). Only the Third, Fourth and Ninth Kingdoms were physically seen in the miniseries, but representatives from most of the others made cameos.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
The 10th Kingdom / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: The Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The 10th Kingdom / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Both Human and Dog Wendell are transformed into the other by the Queen's magic, and both are unhappy about their respective new forms.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_ba7747ed	type	Literal Ass-Kissing
The 10th Kingdom / int_ba7747ed	comment	Literal Ass-Kissing: Because of his wish, Butt-Monkey Tony has his boss follow him around and continually try to do this. Tony ends up having to shoo him away frequently. The rest of Murray's family eventually shows up and ends up giving him the same treatment. It doesn't help that at least one of the Murrays must have been something of a brown-noser already, since he insists on kissing Tony's ass repeatedly. (Or could that also have been covered under the "and be my slaves forever" part?)
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The 10th Kingdom / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The 10th Kingdom / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Parodied in-universe when one of the dwarves blatantly makes one up on the spot for something that had just happened. The other dwarves get a laugh out of it, but poor Tony is just confused.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_bc113022	type	Kindness Button
The 10th Kingdom / int_bc113022	comment	Kindness Button: It wasn't a good idea for Virginia to free the talking birds, as it gets her cursed by the gypsy matriarch, but when one of them mentions she has babies waiting for her at home and they will starve without her, it clearly hits too close to home for Virginia for her to ignore.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The 10th Kingdom / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Something of this comes through in the Troll King's impatient, sardonic, and contemptuous attitude to the Evil Queen when she continues to pursue her plan to train the Dog Prince as an imposter, take over the Fourth Kingdom, and then through him rule the Nine Kingdoms as the power behind the power—since his modus operandi is to invade and take the kingdom by force. In a perhaps delicious twist, the Evil Queen eventually decides, after receiving advice from her own dark Spirit Advisor, to heed Relish's advice...by using it against him with a handy bit of poison after he has become too large a thorn in her side. Also invoked by Wolf when they have the Huntsman at their mercy. Virginia stops him from doing it. Justified, since Virginia doesn't want to be a murderer.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_bd5ddcc4	type	Banister Slide
The 10th Kingdom / int_bd5ddcc4	comment	Banister Slide: Fake!Prince Wendell at his coronation ceremony.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_bdbfdf8a	type	The Dying Walk
The 10th Kingdom / int_bdbfdf8a	comment	The Dying Walk: How the Queen reacts to being hit with her own poison.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_bdd7fd6b	type	These Hands Have Killed
The 10th Kingdom / int_bdd7fd6b	comment	These Hands Have Killed: An "almost killed" variation—in flashback, after nearly drowning her own daughter, Christine runs sobbing into Central Park and stares in horror at her hands.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The 10th Kingdom / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Prince Wendell Winston Walter White. Wolf uses one with the Peeps. Warren Wolfson.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The 10th Kingdom / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The portal which opens between our world and the world where fairy tales are real is, of course, located in New York's Central Park. What makes this miniseries a particularly striking example of the trope is how the opening titles quite conspicuously, and jaw-droppingly, magically morph New York City into a fantasy land to suggest the crossing over of magic into the real world. The sequence, quite justifiably, won an Emmy. To watch the sequence, go here.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
The 10th Kingdom / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: The father accidentally stumbles upon this when dealing with a frog who is giving them an Only Smart People May Pass moment involving two doors, one leads to where they need to go, the other horrible doom. He picks the frog up, rants at him for these needlessly stupid puzzles, then throws the frog in one of the doors. The loud explosion that follows clues them into which door they need to go to.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
The 10th Kingdom / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	Double Agent: Wolf was actually working for the Queen, but only to fool her so he could save the poisoned guests and eventually Virginia.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
The 10th Kingdom / int_c2e295cd	comment	The Gypsies are also portrayed as this, mainly due to the Curse they cast on Virginia and the fact that they traffic in sentient creatures. Plus their matriarch insists on giving Virginia a fortune telling when she tries to politely decline and drags out some painful memories. After seeing the malice with which the Gyspy Queen curses Virginia, and how much despair she's driven to by it, it's hard to feel too sorry for them as they get killed by the Huntsman. That said, there is at least some sympathy shown, even to the Queen crying over one of them, and her grandson who was also revealed to be a half-wolf, and had bonded with Wolf, is completely innocent but dies anyway. So this example is also somewhat downplayed.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The 10th Kingdom / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: The Queen's main plan would be one of these, with even a bit of Xanatos Speed Chess thrown in: originally she clearly intended to hold Wendell prisoner while training the Dog Prince, with his escape necessitating the involvement of Wolf and the Troll children (to ensure he did not warn anyone of her plans or find a way to switch back) but her training plan continuing without a hitch. This plan, in turn, was meant merely to allow her access to Castle White and the chance to poison all the ball guests; whether or not the Dog Prince succeeded in passing his tests, was crowned, or even fooled anyone was only a smokescreen to keep anyone from becoming suspicious until the toast could be performed, so in the end it didn't really matter what happened to the prince—she would win regardless. Explained by the fact she had seven years in prison to plot it. Her method of dealing with the Troll King is an even better example: after using a threat to his children (whom she didn't even have) to get him to agree to a meeting, if Relish had agreed to withdraw his armies and cease threatening the Fourth Kingdom, her plans would be back on schedule. But if he didn't agree and tried to kill her, she planned to poison him, counting on his greed and gluttony (as well as being Genre Blind—meeting the protege of Snow White's stepmother in an apple orchard?) to be his undoing. This not only eliminated his threat to the kingdom (and Wendell's advisors signing away sovereignty so she couldn't use the Dog Prince's coronation for her murder spree), it provided an "act of bravery" to present to the courtiers at the ball. And when Relish revealed he had arrived early and broken her demand to Come Alone, she in turn revealed she'd arrived even earlier, and the poison was thus there to eliminate not just him, but his soldiers too. So again, no matter what happened, she won.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The 10th Kingdom / int_c4240537	comment	invoked Also, Wilfred Peep kills his own granddaughter to keep from having the secret of the family's magic well revealed to the town. If you listen closely to the mob after Sally's killer is revealed, her mother, quite justifiably, screams her intention to kill him in retribution.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
The 10th Kingdom / int_c54d550d	comment	Clayface the Goblin abruptly drops out of the narrative once Tony escapes prison, after giving Tony a startlingly prophetic carving. According to the Novelization, which was based on an earlier version of the script, he was originally going to be the one encountered at the Swamp Witch's cottage rather than Acorn although with the prophetic carving still left unexplained, interestingly enough.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
The 10th Kingdom / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: The three Troll children, thanks to their love of shoes and leather, consider it a terrible crime when shoes are "very badly cared for—scuffed and cracked and neglected", and Blabberwort tells Virginia so. Lampshaded in the Novelization, first when Virginia notes Blabberwort's tone "suggested she had committed mass murder" and then when she decides they weren't "bent on destruction, only on defending shoes". Clayface the Goblin is in prison for "carving". Tony worries that this means carving flesh, but Clayface is only ever seen carving figurines.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c6fa273c	type	Knights and Knaves
The 10th Kingdom / int_c6fa273c	comment	Knights and Knaves: Parodied, lampshaded, and otherwise completely hung out to dry. Oddly enough this is still completely in the spirit of the original, since the puzzle as presented here contains a logical contradictionnote the guardian explains the rules then ends with "I always lie", which neither someone who always tells the truth nor someone who always lies would be capable of saying and cannot be solved normally.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The 10th Kingdom / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Inverted, see below.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The 10th Kingdom / int_ce6555f0	comment	Something of a running gag is that he and Virginia know and understand the Lighter and Softer modern versions of the fairy tales (implied to be the Disney versions), but this is the world where the original versions happened.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_cef6a167	type	Second Place Is for Losers
The 10th Kingdom / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: Sally Peep is sure of this.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The 10th Kingdom / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: At the coronation, the Dog Prince breaks down and confesses that he's really just a dog. Sadly for him, the crowd believes he's being metaphorical and humble, claiming he doesn't deserve the crown.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
The 10th Kingdom / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Sally Peep is a realistic example, since she comes from a family who always win and have the best of everything, so she doesn't take losing very well - Virginia was even perfectly happy to leave the Peep family with the trophy and prize money as long as she could have the magic mirror, but obviously this doesn't work.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
The 10th Kingdom / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: The Huntsman.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The 10th Kingdom / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Huntsman gets hit in the heart by the magic bolt from his magic crossbow. The Peep Family, who stole the magic well water that belonged to their town and used it for their own gain for decades, didn't count on Tony and Virginia finding out and using it to their advantage in the Shepherdess contest. And much later, Sally Peep, utterly embarrassed at having lost, gets back at her grandfather (whom she blames for her loss) by destroying the well water's hiding place. She planned to reveal her family's secret to the town, but Wilfred killed her. She tried screaming his name but everyone who heard it thought she was saying "wolf", so naturally they were planning on executing Wolf. Tony and Wendell discover what really happened and out Wilfred and the entire family to the whole town. Wilfred admits what he did with no other available option, Sally's mother goes into a homicidal rage and tries to kill Wilfred, and a riot breaks out. The next day the town seems all right, but the Peeps aren't heard from again.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d498390f	type	Fruit Cart
The 10th Kingdom / int_d498390f	comment	Fruit Cart: While in New York, a police car takes out several outdoor book stands and a fruit cart for good measure.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The 10th Kingdom / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The Peep family. They call Virginia a cheat during the shepherdess contest, but they had been cheating for years because they blocked up their village's wishing well. Also Wolf, a victim of Fantastic Racism, having prejudices against Gypsies. ("Do not refuse anything they offer you, but do not consume anything you haven't seen them eat first.") Granted, that particular band ends up placing a Curse on Virginia, but that is only because she frees the magic birds and ruins their livelihood...
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d5921e22	type	Prince Charmless
The 10th Kingdom / int_d5921e22	comment	Prince Charmless: Wendell starts out this way, spoiled, selfish and arrogant. However as Snow White suspects, his stint as a dog teaches her grandson the humility and kindness it takes to be The Good King when he is turned back into a human.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d69dea33	type	Addictive Magic
The 10th Kingdom / int_d69dea33	comment	Addictive Magic: The magic shoes of invisibility. The Troll King appears to already be suffering from a crippling addiction to them at the story's outset, and Virginia falls under their spell very quickly. Somewhat deconstructed as well: the Troll King has an established shoe fetish and Wolf thinks Virginia just has a strong desire to be invisible, shrugging it off himself. Played with and lampshaded in that one of the pieces from the soundtrack is actually entitled "Addicted to Magic"...but instead of playing during anything to do with the magic shoes, it appears when Wolf tempts Tony with the magic bean, during the Dog Prince's Urine Trouble scene, and when the magic mushrooms are tempting Tony to eat them in the Deadly Swamp.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The 10th Kingdom / int_d7f21602	comment	Holding Out for a Hero: The Fourth Kingdom's entire defense strategy seems to be "let the prince take care of it". When the Trolls invade while he's missing they put up no resistance whatsoever. Relish even comments that war's much more fun when there's no enemy. Thankfully, the Troll army turns out to be similarly limited.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The 10th Kingdom / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Suck an elf!" Although this could be very wrong sounding...
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The 10th Kingdom / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
The 10th Kingdom / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted. Wolf does get the girl in the end, but being a bad boy didn't help, and after his disastrous initial encounter with Virginia he spends a good part of the series reading self help books to reform himself. Played straight however with Sally and the shepherdesses, it seems. However, they're implied to be more an example of Really Gets Around, and directly accused as such at one point.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_dc335a04	type	Ear Worm
The 10th Kingdom / int_dc335a04	comment	Ear Worm: The Trolls discover The Bee Gees while in "The 10th Kingdom", and subsequently can't get the music out of their heads.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The 10th Kingdom / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Though she was apparently mentally unstable beforehand, Christine had a complete breakdown after nearly drowning her young daughter. She immediately ran away which led to her discovering the portal to the Swamp Witchâ€™s lair and subsequently becoming the Evil Queen.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_debd9bdf	type	Distant Reaction Shot
The 10th Kingdom / int_debd9bdf	comment	Distant Reaction Shot: To Tony being given fifty beanstalk lashes, complete with increasingly distant shots of Snow White Memorial Prison.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_df1baa1f	type	Love Is in the Air
The 10th Kingdom / int_df1baa1f	comment	Love Is in the Air: The entire purpose of the ludicrous Kissing Town, which makes this trope quite literal, since not only are there magical hearts floating everywhere around every happy couple getting married, but every time Virginia seems ready to dismiss Wolf as a love interest, in swoop the hearts to change her mind and turn her into a hopeless romantic. They even form a gigantic heart over the pair's heads when they share their first kiss.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The 10th Kingdom / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Lord Rupert's sexual interests are never brought up, but his behavior is Always Camp.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_e3b1ae34	type	Two Roads Before You
The 10th Kingdom / int_e3b1ae34	comment	Two Roads Before You: Boy, howdy... One scene features Virginia and Tony deciding which path to take to their destination. One road takes 39 miles and the other takes 13. The 39 mile path is a pleasant road that cuts through the countryside lined with trees. The 13 mile road on the other hand is through a thick dark wood. Virginia chooses the 13 mile road. Tony's reaction to her decision is priceless. Then of course, we learn that the 13 mile road leads into the Deadly Swamp. In the Novelization this is explained by Virginia receiving a dream from Snow White, giving her more information about the poisoned comb she had earlier told her to find (that it would be "in a grave"); but since this didn't make it into the final script, it isn't clear why she would take the shorter, more dangerous-looking route (other than being in a hurry to get to the castle, and Genre Blind). Another scene features two doors with a frog. The frog tells Virginia, Tony, and Wolf that one door leads to safety and the other leads to a horrible death. The frog also tells them that they must ask him one question, but he always lies. When Virginia and Wolf can't decide in time, Tony asks the frog why there would be a door with a great death behind it, picks the frog up, and throws him into the door on the left, wherein the frog is consumed by flames.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
The 10th Kingdom / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: Unsurprisingly, this happens in Little Lamb Village after Sally Peep's murder, first when the crowd captures Wolf and then after he is found guilty and about to be burned at the stake. Interestingly (and somewhat realistically, since once people's tempers are riled it's a lot easier to change their target by redirecting their rage) the crowd ends up turning on Wilfred Peep after Tony proves his guilt. Happens again in Kissing Town, of all places, after Tony breaks the magic mirror and everyone runs him, Wendell, and Virginia out of town to keep his bad luck from causing them trouble. Especially notable because just a short time before, this same crowd had been celebrating the return of "Wendell" and the death of the Troll King. Apparently it is very easy to stir one of these up in the Nine Kingdoms.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
The 10th Kingdom / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: The swamp seems to work this way, in a truly disturbing way of forcing the Idiot Ball onto people. You get warned explicitly not to eat or drink anything, avoid doing so when the food is literally begging to be eaten, and then unexplainably forget every single warning given to you. Then when you remember the rules, you forget that you've already broken them.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_eabb8130	type	Swamps Are Evil
The 10th Kingdom / int_eabb8130	comment	Swamps Are Evil: The Deadly Swamp. Not only is it the home of the Swamp Witch (Snow White's Wicked Stepmother), it has mischievous fairies that enjoy being "naughty" to travelers and magic mushrooms which tempt people to eat them...after which they fall asleep and are consumed by the swamp.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Prince Wendell, at the beginning (he gets better through his time as a dog), and plenty of minor characters encountered throughout the kingdom. The Troll King also.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The 10th Kingdom / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Virginia frees the magic birds from the Gypsy camp, so they won't get eaten and used in youth and beauty spells—and what does she get for her troubles? A curse of hair that never stops growing, which ends up getting her captured by the Huntsman. Sure, taking away the Gypsies' livelihood after they had shown the travelers hospitality (sort of) wasn't a wise move on her part, but it certainly doesn't seem fair to punish her for being sympathetic to a Talking Animal. Of course the Gypsies immediately get Laser-Guided Karma courtesy of the Huntsman...but so does the young wolf-boy, who never did anything wrong. Grim, indeed.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: While in the dungeons of Wendell's castle, Virginia and Tony come across a carved message, in German, left by Wilhelm Grimm.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_ecd42310	comment	Goldfish Poop Gang: The Troll children.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Relish the Troll King swiftly becomes this, since he doesn't have the patience to wait for the Queen to carry out her Xanatos Gambit. And, to be fair, because he got tired of her constantly ordering him around like a Mook and giving him headaches and hemorrhages with her Magic Mirror summons.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Wolf's list of self-help books. Granted, he picked the last one up by mistake.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: For the Evil Queen, since it also frees her from Mind Control / Demonic Possession.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f1f76	comment	Quirky Mini Boss Squad: The Troll children. From the very beginning of the series, when the Evil Queen sends them to capture Prince Wendell in his dog body, they prove to be rather lackluster in their abilities, with their only major threat factor being their superhuman strength and Virginia and Tony being just normal everyday New Yorkers. Throughout the rest of the series, they continually chase the characters, popping up again and again to cause trouble after easy defeats, until finally removed from the plot for a while by being turned into gold. Eventually this is undone (by Tony's bad luck, it is implied), and thanks to the Queen making them think Virginia killed their father while they were out of commission, they once again resume the pursuit. While they manage to be a little more effective this time (mostly because they have the Huntsman's help), Virginia and Tony still are able to escape them from them while the Huntsman is sleeping (as they're too busy singing "Night Fever"); it isn't till the very end that they make for real adversaries, and by that time Tony has leveled up enough he can take them out.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: Despite being told by the fairies to not eat anything in the forest under any circumstances, Tony and Virgina eat the wild mushrooms. They get giggly, pass out, and end up in a strange, joint nightmare.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f25493f4	comment	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: In an odd variation, despite living in the Big Applesauce, Virginia thinks to herself (in voiceover narration) on the way to work at the beginning of the miniseries that she knew "nothing exciting was ever going to happen" to her and "some people just lead quiet lives". Cue her running into a golden retriever on her bicycle who is actually a transformed prince from the world of fairy tales, and...
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
The 10th Kingdom / int_f2877d9e	comment	Falling behind Wolf are the Troll kids. While they may be stupid, they show a remarkable amount of tracking skills and manage to dog the heroes whenever they aren't a golden statue.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f2af9fae	comment	Torture First, Ask Questions Later: Burly, Blabberwort and Bluebell have Virginia strapped to a chair with the intentions of torturing her for information on her "kingdom". When she makes it clear that she'll tell them anything they want without torture, they make it clear they plan on torturing her regardless.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The 10th Kingdom / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Despite having every reason to hate her mother, Virginia still loves her and is genuinely horrified when she realized that she scratched her mother's neck with the poisoned comb, thus killing her.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Virginia gets pregnant by Wolf with no intent to.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The 10th Kingdom / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: For all the crap he goes through, the poor dog prince is able to return to normal and Wendell decrees that he will get to live out his life in luxury with "a mountain of bones".
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f6b5441c	comment	Right in Front of Me: While defending Wolf in court, Virginia gets a seemingly bright idea: the real criminal is a man who was wearing a wolf mask for the village festivities the day before; the victim's shouts of "Wolf!" were directed at him. Virginia proceeds to call the 'criminal' all sorts of names... until she is told that the judge was wearing the mask and her argument falls flat. The real killer was Wilfred Peep, and the victim was actually shouting "Wilf!"
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Via the magic mushrooms in the Deadly Swamp. Literally, since they sing and sway.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f8a82c75	comment	I Always Wanted to Say That: Acorn says this when he tells Virginia to go into the cellar. Wolf also says this in regards to asking Virginia to drop her long hair so he can climb it.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Though admittedly we only meet a half-wolf, not a true werewolf. To judge from Wolf, Nine Kingdoms wolves do not seem to be vulnerable to silver, change only on the three nights of the full moon, and while changed have no control over their actions and no memory of what they have done. They also seem to be afflicted by the 'take on lupine mannerisms and characteristics' aspect of this trope, since Wolf is constantly scratching at his temple, whines and whimpers and growls, nuzzles Virginia, and scrapes the ground with his feet to cover his tracksâ€”although this may merely be a product of actor Scott Cohen's enthusiastic character immersion. What makes the half-wolves interesting is the twists: they always possess tails, even in human form, which change size with the time of the month and apparently act as erogenous zones, and explicit reference is made to the female cycle by how Wolf starts gaining PMS-like symptoms as the full moon approaches and, when fighting the change, ends up with...cramps. Still more interestingly, it is never truly explained what the term 'half-wolf' actually means. Are they the literal product of a coupling between a full wolf and a human, and this is what grants them their ability to change forms? Or is it merely a euphemism for werewolf, which could be considered a half-wolf because they can also appear as humans? Or is it even possible, taking into account the prejudice against them in the Kingdoms, that the term is meant to be parallel to mulattos, quadroons, and octaroons in the real worldâ€”so if a half-wolf had a child with a human, their offspring would be a quarter-wolf, and so on? Wolf's sole Transformation Sequence during the miniseries is inconclusive, since all we see is him becoming a typical Lon Chaney Wolf Man. According to Simon Moore, however, Wolf was intended to become a Dire Wolf, but they didn't have the budget for such special effects. What this says about the nature of half-wolves isn't clear.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: Kissing Town, and just afterward on Dragon Mountain: Believing Wolf to have lied to her and used her, Virginia turns down Wolf's marriage proposal and walks out on him, causing him to return to the Evil Queen's service in his despair. Or so it seems. Tony, after getting drunk and being trapped in the Huntsman's tower, causes the Magic Mirror to fall off the roof and smash into a thousand pieces. With the Troll King dead, the Evil Queen's plan is back on schedule and the Dog Prince looks like a hero; meanwhile the real Wendell is losing his mind and becoming more doggy. The Huntsman is still after Virginia and Tony, the latter cursed by seven years' bad luck, and the Troll children, freed from gold, are also after them thanks to the Evil Queen telling them Virginia killed their father.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: Not entirely, but for all the horrible, evil acts she had done, Wendell does ensure that Christine's body is treated with dignity and respect, most likely of his gratitude to both Virginia and Tony.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: After entering New York and discovering what Earth culture was like, the three Troll siblings come upon a CD boom box with the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in it. Upon hearing it, they immediately become instant fans, toting it everywhere with them and singing along as loudly and annoyingly as possible until the batteries on the boom box die. They attempt to explain the music and its origin to their father, with genuinely hilarious results â€” although the usage of the Bee Gees' full name as the Brothers Gibb, hardly common knowledge, seems rather out of place, especially coming from such moronic characters who can't even read properly. (See: East Eighty-onest Street.) Presumably this was included in order to avoid being obvious or to make it funnier (and it works); possibly also a nod to "the Brothers Grimm", famed collectors of fairy tales. They then proceed to continue singing the song for the rest of the miniseries.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_fd752bc3	comment	All Trolls Are Different: Trolls are human-sized, ugly, with overdone mullets, and an obsession with leather. Especially shoes. It isn't clear if the shoe fetish is a racial trait or not: all of the Trolls who exhibit it are immediate family. Despite their human size, they are incredibly strong. At one point one was hit by a car, leaving a deep indent in the front of the car but barely moving the Troll. And they can read.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_fe61495d	comment	Grail in the Garbage: The mirror which allows passage between our world and the Nine Kingdoms turns up for dirt cheap at an auction. When the auctioneers find out what it can do, however... It was also this to begin with, since it was first found amid piles of junk in the basement of Snow White Memorial Prison, something which is never explained.
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The 10th Kingdom / int_feb72f62	comment	Literal Genie: Tony's dragon dung bean fulfills this trope to a tee: his first wish of making his landlord and his family become his slaves included the phrase 'and kiss my ass'...so every single Murray family member insists on doing exactly that with obsessive attention. The beer in the fridge is indeed neverending, to the point of making it explode, the vacuum he asked to 'clean the entire house' follows the directions to the letter (including trying to vacuum up the curtains), and even the beneficial wish of being able to speak to Wendell the dog is limited to only Tony being able to hear him, since he said "I" rather than "we". And when he wishes for money, it is stolen from the bank, and the cops are quick to track it down. This also occurs later in the Deadly Swamp (because Tony never learns):
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The 10th Kingdom	hasFeature	Young Love Versus Old Hate / int_c717e9ce

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