History Literature / DresdensHauntedForest

* ConspiracyTheorist: Heine has a mountain of conspiracy theories running through his brain and likes to tell his best friend Reinhardt about it, much to the latter's dismay. The trope is first {{Deconstructed}} as Heine's curiosity ends up leading him to the forest, and to his grave. [[{{Reconstruction}} On a more positive note]], Magdalena reveals that Heine never trusted her start to finish and threatened her.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: {{Averted}}. Killing Reinhardt's bully could've been the one good thing Magdalena did, but knowing how much more depraved she is, Reinhardt's bully merely ends up being yet another innocent victim of Magdalena.

* MadArtist: Magdalena has a huge passion when it comes to painting. Except it was revealed that she painted several otherworldly and horrific creatures in order to brutally murdered several innocent people so that she could use their corpse for her Magnum Opus: Mural of million bodies to summon the seven demon lords of hell in order to become a goddess that could rule the world.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Heine has a mountain of conspiracy theories running through his brain and likes to tell his best friend Reinhardt about it, much to the latter's dismay. The trope is first {{Deconstructed}} as Heine's curiosity ends up leading him to the forest, and to his grave. [[ReconstructedTrope On a more positive note]], Magdalena reveals that Heine never trusted her start to finish and threatened her.

* AGodAmI: This is ultimately Maggie's goal: becoming a goddess through her million-corpse mural.

* BigBad: DJ Maggie, aka Magdalena, is the WickedWitch of the tale who, in the backstory, murdered almost a million people and added their corpses to her mural, and plans to make Reinhardt and his parents her final addition so she can [[AGodAmI become a goddess]].

* ConspiracyTheorist: Heine has a mountain of conspiracy theories running through his brain and likes to tell his best friend Reinhardt about it, much to the latter's dismay. The trope is first {{Deconstructed}} as Heine's curiosity ends up leading him to the forest, and to his grave. [[ReconstructedTrope On a more positive note]], Magdalena reveals that Heine never trusted her start to finish and threatened her.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Name-dropped by Maggie, but averted within the story itself, as Maggie uses this line of thinking [[WhatIsEvil to justify her atrocities]].

* WickedWitch: Much like ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'' story, Magdalena is a hundred years old evil witch living in the forest and eats children for her immortality ritual. In addition, she also has an additional crimes on her belt as she slaughtered several innocent people who entered the forest for her own twisted mural in order to become the goddess that could rule the world.

* VillainsOutShopping: Despite the fact that Magdalena is an evil witch who eats children and tried to become a goddess, she is shown to have interests and a job like other normal people had as she had a passion on painting, broadcasting or several talented bands from Germany like Kraftwerk, Snap! and so on. Even at one point, she claims herself to be a vegetarian until it was revealed to be a ruse on her part. In addition, she used to work as a teacher and a radio personality.

* TakingYouWithMe: Upon being defeated by Reinhardt's father, Joachim blows the whole place up in a mad attempt to kill [[WouldHurtAChild Reinhardt, his friends]] and his father, uncaring that [[BadBoss his underlings are still around]].

* DirtyCoward: Reinhardt starts out as such due to having dealt with Joachim in the past. As such, he's afraid to even enter the forest, and it takes Heine's disappearance for him to [[TookALevelInBadass finally grow a spine]].

* MadArtist: Magdalena had a huge passion when it comes to painting. Except it was revealed that she painted several otherworldly and horrific creatures in order to brutally murdered several innocent people so that she could use their corpse for her Magnum Opus: Mural of million bodies to summon the seven demon lords of hell in order to become a goddess that could rule the world.

* MadArtist: Magdalena has a passion on becoming a painter. Except it was revealed that she painted several otherworldly and horrific creatures in order to brutally murdered several innocent people so that she could use their corpse for her Magnum Opus: Mural of million bodies to summon the seven demon lords of hell in order to become a goddess that could rule the world.

* VillainsOutShopping: Despite the fact that Magdalena is an evil witch who eats children and tried to become a goddess, she is shown to have interests and a job like other normal people had as she had a passion on painting and broadcasting and has an interest with Germany bands like Kraftwerk, Snap! and so on. Even at one point, she claims herself to be a vegetarian until it was revealed to be a ruse on her part. In addition, she used to work as a teacher and a radio personality.

* VillainsOutShopping: Despite the fact that Magdalena is an evil witch who eats children and tried to become a goddess, she is shown to have interests and a job like normal people as she had a passion on painting and broadcasting and has an interest with Germany bands like Kraftwerk, Snap! and so on. Even at one point, she claims herself to be a vegetarian until it was revealed to be a ruse on her part. In addition, she used to work as a teacher and a radio personality.

''[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3341252/1/Dresden-Haunted-Forest Dresden's Haunted Forest]]'' is a story written by [[Tropers/{{ElfenLiedFan90}} DeltaHorizon020]] on Fictionpress. The story is based on the tale of Hansel and Gretel.

* VillainsOutShopping: Despite the fact that Magdalena is an evil witch who eats children and tried to become a goddess, she is shown to have interests and a job like normal people as she had a passion on painting and broadcasting and has an interest with Germany bands like Kraftwerk or Snap! Even at one point, she claims herself to be a vegetarian until it was revealed to be a ruse on her part. In addition, she used to work as a teacher and a radio personality.

* VillainsOutShopping: Despite the fact that Magdalena is an evil witch who eats children and tried to become a goddess, she is shown to have interests and works like normal people as she had a passion on painting and broadcasting and has an interest with Germany bands like Kraftwerk or Snap! Even at one point, she claims herself to be a vegetarian until it was revealed to be a ruse on her part. In addition, she used to work as a teacher and a radio personality.

* DirtyCop: Joachim is a former member of UsefulNotes/{{Stasi}} during the East Germany regime notorious for his cruelty. After the Germany's reunification, he then began to hide himself in an abandoned building along with his underlings while planning to perform a coup d'etat against Germany's current regime.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: DJ Maggie befriends Reinhardt and pretends to care about him. Reinhardt is understandably saddened and angered when he finds out that she's merely ''pretending'' to, and intends to add him to her corpse mural.

* HotWitch: Magdalena/DJ Maggie/The Wicked Witch herself is depicted as a rather attractive woman in her late 20s with her design almost based on Cornelia from VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses, Lust from Manga/FullmetalAlchemist and Akeno Himejima from LightNovel/HighschoolDxD combined. In addition, she also has a rather alluring and motherly voice.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Heine has a mountain of conspiracy theories running through his brain and likes to tell his best friend Reinhardt about it, much to the latter's dismay. The trope is first {{Deconstructed}} as Heine's curiosity ends up leading him to the forest, and to his grave. [[ReconstructedTrope On a more positive note]], Magdalena reveals that Heine never trusted her start to finish.

''[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3338283/1/Pinot-Noir Dresden's Haunted Forest]]'' is a story written by [[Tropers/{{ElfenLiedFan90}} DeltaHorizon020]] on Fictionpress. The story is based on the tale of Hansel and Gretel.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Heine has a mountain of conspiracy theories running through his brain and likes to tell his best friend Reinhardt about it, much to the latter's dismay.

* KickTheDog: DJ Maggie reveals to Reinhardt that she never truly cared for him and planned to eat him from the start. She also shows to Reinhardt Heine's corpse in her corpse mural.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: DJ Maggie/Magdalena/The Wicked Witch claims that HumansAreBastards, herself included, and that this excuses her actions.

* AGodAmI : This is ultimately the Wicked Witch's goal : becoming a goddess [[spoiler: through her million-corpse mural.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy : The Wicked Witch surpasses her original counterpart in sheer depravity, still being a ChildEater while also creating a mural from a million bodies. 
* AtLeastIAdmitIt : [[spoiler:DJ Maggie/Magdalena/The Wicked Witch]] claims that HumansAreBastards, herself included.
* ConspiracyTheorist : Heine has a mountain of conspiracy theories running through his brain and likes to tell his best friend Reinhardt about it, much to the latter's dismay.
* BitchInSheepsClothing : DJ Maggie befriends Reinhardt [[spoiler:and pretends to care about him. Reinhardt is understandably saddened and angered when he finds out that, well, she's merely ''pretending'' to.]]
* BodyHorror : The Wicked Witch [[spoiler:DJ Maggie]], planning to TakeOverTheWorld, plans to summon seven demons Lords of Hell and make them do her bidding and becoming a goddess. For that, she needs to create a mural from a million corpses. 
* DirtyCoward : Reinhardt starts out as such due to having dealt with Joachim in the past. As such, he's afraid to even enter the forest, and it takes Heine's disappearance for him to [[TookALevelInBadass finally grow a spine]].
* DoomedByCanon : Hansel and Gretel are mentioned, but knowing that the Wicked Witch survived in the present day, [[DeathByAdaptation their fate is drastically different from the original tale]].
* EvilIsPetty : Joachim, all so that he can get his old job back, plans to stage a coup in Germany.
* FauxAffablyEvil : [[spoiler: [[BigBad DJ Maggie]] keeps her friendly demeanor even when she's about to kill Reinhardt and his parents.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse : While Joachim lost his job as a result of Germany's reunification, that doesn't gives him the right to wipe out chunks of Berlin, nor kidnapping and attempting to kill kids.
* KickTheDog : [[spoiler:DJ Maggie]] reveals to Reinhardt that she never truly cared for him and planned to eat him from the start. She also shows to Reinhardt Heine's corpse in her corpse mural.
* KillThePoor : That was Magdalena's original goal. She planned, upon becoming Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, to kill the peasants. [[FromBadToWorse And then, she went even further]].
* ObviouslyEvil : DJ Maggie's house is made of chocolate and candies. Despite her friendly demeanor, [[spoiler: it's quite clear to the viewer that she's the Wicked Witch]].
* TheSocialDarwinist : [[spoiler: Magdalena/DJ Maggie starts out as a KnightTemplar noble who believes that the [[KillThePoor peasants must be killed]] because they don't contribute to society and fails her personal standards. CharacterDevelopment kicks in and as she becomes more depraved, she ends up believing that the strong should destroy the weak. Once she becomes a goddess and summons the seven lords of hell to do her bidding, she plans as such to wipe out Africa and then Asia out of disgust towards the sheer poverty in these continents. Then, she plans to kill until only a billion people are left alive, people "worthy of her guidance".]]
* TakingYouWithMe : Upon being defeated by Reinhardt's father, Joachim blows the whole place up in a mad attempt to kill [[WouldHurtAChild Reinhardt, his friends]] and his father, uncaring that [[BadBoss his underlings are still around]].
* {{Yandere}} : {{Averted}}. While Magdalena wants to get rid of Annabelle so that she could marry Charles, this isn't out of twisted love, but so that she could rule over the Holy Roman Empire.

* KillThePoor : That was Magdalena's original goal. She planned, upon becoming Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, to