History ComicBook / Hilda

* CanonForeigner: [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPFn4Y3VwAA5Hi_.jpg Some]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPFn4Y2VwAIk-pD.jpg storyboards]] for the series shows a professor/scientist guy who doesn't appear in any of the books.
* SuddenlyNamed: Hilda's mum introduces herself as Johanna in episode 5.

* NoNameGiven: We still don't know Hilda's mum's name.

-->-- '''Guillermo del Toro'''

[[http://nobrow.net/hilda-is-coming-to-netflix/ The series has recently been announced on June 2016]] to have a Creator/{{Netflix}} show coming in 2018 from Silvergate Media and Creator/MercuryFilmworks. Follow updates on the Netflix show [[https://twitter.com/hildatheseries?lang=en here.]]

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* CanonForeigner: [[https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/005/683/719/large/dermot-walshe-storm-176-02.jpg?1492998076 Some]] [[https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/005/683/720/large/dermot-walshe-storm-214-02.jpg?1492998078 storyboards]] for the series shows a professor/scientist guy who doesn't appear in any of the books.

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* ContinuityNod: The story has Hilda, her mom, and Twig adjusting to moving into their new home at Trolberg [[spoiler:after their first house got wrecked in ''The Midnight Giant'']].

-->'''Mum:''' BECAUSE I SAID SO!

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* FluffyTheTerrible: [[spoiler:Jellybean, the Black Hound.]]

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* TomboyishPonytail: Hilda evidently sports one in this story.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Hilda and Twig out and about in the Great Outdoors.]]

* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: Subverted at first when the first book was titled ''Hildafolk'', but starting with ''the Midnight Giant'', this was played straight. (Eventually, ''Hildafolk'' got republished as ''Hilda and the Troll'' to retain consistency.)
* DisappearedDad: Hilda doesn't really seem to have a father, with neither she or her mother mentioning him.

* OrwellianRetcon: When it was first published, Twig was drawn with blue fur and a white underbelly. When the book got republished as ''Hilda and the Troll'', Twig was recolored as white with little black spots to retain consistency with the other books.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Hilda herself when it turns out that the ringing of the bell that she put on the troll is actually considered torture to trolls.]]

* SuddenlyShouting: Hilda's mom when Hilda gets a little too inquisitive. She immediately apologizes for it though.

->"Plain smart and moving. John Stanley's ComicStrip/LittleLulu [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki Miyazaki]]."
-->-- '''Creator/GuillermoDelToro'''

* OrwellianRetcon: When it was first published, Twig was drawn with blue fur with a white underbelly. When the book got republished as ''Hilda and the Troll'', Twig was recolored as white with little black spots to retain consistency with the other books.

* ShoutOut: There's a train [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--I9TR_y7Wuk/VrJM0QnZo_I/AAAAAAAACk8/BF5yRFhcIgM/s1600/hilda-stone-forest-preview.jpg in this page]] that distinctly looks like ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine''.

* [[spoiler:TheStinger: After the main events of the story, Hilda's mum discovers that Hilda has been replaced with a changeling when she tries to wake her up in the morning. Meanwhile, Hilda wakes up to discover that for some reason she's in a troll cave and has been transformed into a troll child.]]

->"Plain smart and moving. John Stanley's ComicStrip/LittleLulu [[XMeetsY meets]] [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki Miyazaki]]."

[[caption-width-right:350:Hilda and Twig in the Great Outdoors.]]

* ArtEvolution: A weird case. The tone, look, and feel is consistent throughout the books, but the differences in character appearences is very noticeable. Notice how [[http://goodokbad.com/assets/images/books/hilda_bp_hilda.jpg Hilda]], [[http://goodokbad.com/assets/images/books/hilda_bp_mother.jpg her mum]], and [[http://goodokbad.com/assets/images/books/hilda_bp_twig.jpg Twig]] visually change in the first three books. However, the designs start appearing more consistent starting with ''The Bird Parade''.

* DisappearedDad: Hilda doesn't really seem to have a father.

* ''Hilda and the Stone Forest'' (coming September 1, 2016)

[[http://nobrow.net/hilda-is-coming-to-netflix/ The series has recently been announced on June 2016]] to have a Creator/{{Netflix}} show coming in 2018 from Silvergate Media and Creator/MercuryFilmworks.

'''Hilda''' is a series of graphic novels by British cartoonist Luke Pearson and published by Nobrow Press under their children's imprint, Flying Eye Books.

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:Just as it seems that the troll is going to eat Hilda, it turns out that it wanted to give her back her notebook.

* InvisibleToMuggles: The elves and their houses. Evidently, you can see them just fine as long as you fill out the proper paperwork.

* ArtEvolution: A weird case. The tone, look, and feel is consistent throughout the books, but the differences in character appearences is very noticeable. Notice how [[http://goodokbad.com/assets/images/books/hilda_bp_hilda.jpg Hilda]], [[http://goodokbad.com/assets/images/books/hilda_bp_mother.jpg her mom]], and [[http://goodokbad.com/assets/images/books/hilda_bp_twig.jpg Twig]] visually change in the first three books. However, the designs start appearing more consistent starting with ''The Bird Parade''.

* OverprotectiveMom: Hilda's mum. Can't really blame her though, what with the wilderness being, well, wild and weird.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The Midnight Giant itself.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hilda, her mom, and Twig rectify the matter at hand, but their house gets crushed, forcing them to relocate.]]

* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: At the beginning of the book, Hilda is seen going on so many adventures that eventually she can't think of any more excuses. One evening when she comes home covered in slime, she just tells her mum: "Whatever you think it is, it's not that".

* NorseByNorsewest: Trolberg is implied to be somewhere in Scandinavia. WordOfGod confirms that the comic is heavily inspired by one of the Pearsons' family holidays to Norway, as well as the works [[Literature/TheMoomins Tove Jansson]].

* NorseByNorthwest: Trolberg is implied to be somewhere in Scandinavia. WordOfGod confirms that the comic is heavily inspired by one of the Pearsons' family holidays to Norway, as well as the works of ToveJansson.

* ''Hilda and the Stone Forest'' (coming in September 2016)

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Hilda has blue hair, though her mom's a brunette, so maybe it's dyed?

* ''Hildafolk'' (originally published in 2010, and then republished in 2015 as ''Hilda and the Troll'')

[[http://nobrow.net/hilda-is-coming-to-netflix/ The series has recently been announced on June 2016]] to have a Creator/{{Netflix}} show coming in 2018.