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* MathematiciansAnswer: Momo, when asked about her age: "As far as I can remember... I've always been around."
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* MathematiciansAnswer: MathematiciansAnswer:
** Momo, when asked about her age: "As far as I can remember... I've always been around."
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--->"Are you Agent BLW/553/c?" asked the man in the center. "Yes, your honor."\\
"How long have you been employed by the Timesaving Bank?"\\
"Ever since I came into existence."\\
"That goes without saying. Spare us such unnecessary inanities! When did you come into existence?"\\
"I have existed for eleven years, three months, six days, eight hours, twenty-three minutes, and—at this exact moment—eighteen seconds."
** Momo, when asked about her age: "As far as I can remember... I've always been around."
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--->"Are you Agent BLW/553/c?" asked the man in the center. "Yes, your honor."\\
"How long have you been employed by the Timesaving Bank?"\\
"Ever since I came into existence."\\
"That goes without saying. Spare us such unnecessary inanities! When did you come into existence?"\\
"I have existed for eleven years, three months, six days, eight hours, twenty-three minutes, and—at this exact moment—eighteen seconds."
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: Momo spends months looking for her friends in the city. One day, she believes to see her friend Beppo standing on a bridge, but by the time she arrives at the bridge, he is long gone.
-->''Over the next few weeks, Momo wandered aimlessly around the big city in search of Beppo. Since nobody could tell her anything about where he was staying, the only hope that remained for her was that their paths might randomly cross. But in such a big city, the chances of two people randomly running into each other are as slim as the chances of a message in a bottle from a shipwrecked sailor being found by a fisherman across the ocean.''\\
''By the same token, though, Momo told herself that they could just as easily be extremely close to each other. Who knew how many times Momo had passed a spot where an hour, a minute, or even just a moment before Beppo had been standing. Or vice versa: how often had Beppo passed a spot shortly before or after Momo had been standing there, looking for him? So sometimes Momo waited in one spot for many hours on end, but she would always eventually have to keep moving and the possibility that they had just missed one another continued to weigh on her.''
-->''Over the next few weeks, Momo wandered aimlessly around the big city in search of Beppo. Since nobody could tell her anything about where he was staying, the only hope that remained for her was that their paths might randomly cross. But in such a big city, the chances of two people randomly running into each other are as slim as the chances of a message in a bottle from a shipwrecked sailor being found by a fisherman across the ocean.''\\
''By the same token, though, Momo told herself that they could just as easily be extremely close to each other. Who knew how many times Momo had passed a spot where an hour, a minute, or even just a moment before Beppo had been standing. Or vice versa: how often had Beppo passed a spot shortly before or after Momo had been standing there, looking for him? So sometimes Momo waited in one spot for many hours on end, but she would always eventually have to keep moving and the possibility that they had just missed one another continued to weigh on her.''
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Master Hora can watch anybody and anything from his house whevener he wants thanks to his magic Omnivision glasses.
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* FlawExploitation: After failing to trick, corrupt and capture Momo, the Grey Men are wondering if there may be some way to bribe her at least. One Grey Man points out that Momo's weak point are her friends. If they take her friends away from her, leaving her utterly and unbearably alone, Momo can be willing to cooperate with them to get her friends back.
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* SpeakOfTheDevil: Non-villainous example. The Grey Men are frightened of even saying Master Hora's name, using "Him" instead.
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* TrueCraftsman:
** Subverted with Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best. He often gets drunk, because that's the only way he can stand the thought of what he's now having to build.
** Subverted with Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best. He often gets drunk, because that's the only way he can stand the thought of what he's now having to build.
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**TrueCraftsman: Subverted with Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best. He often gets drunk, because that's the only way he can stand the thought of what he's now having to build.build.
* VagueAge: Momo is an orphan kid with no recollection of her birthdate, so small and slim that nobody could tell whether she was eight of already twelve.
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** At first glance, Momo herself, with her listening power, might qualify. Until that scene with Gray Man BLW/553/c, where she gets him to betray himself. The earlier scene of her inviting the builder and the bar/restaurant owner can also count; all she does is listen and yet they make up. The book makes a point that she often listens to people pouring their heart out and that helps them realize important truths: like after such a session, a person who thinks they are a dime a dozen will feel like they are irreplaceable and one in a million, and so on.
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** At first glance, Momo herself, with her listening power, might qualify. Until that scene with Gray Man BLW/553/c, where she gets him to betray himself. The earlier scene of her inviting the builder and the bar/restaurant owner can also count; counts; all she does is listen and yet they make up. The book makes a point that she often listens to people pouring their heart out and that helps them realize important truths: like after such a session, a person who thinks they are a dime a dozen will feel like they are irreplaceable and one in a million, and so on.
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* AdultsAreUseless: The Grey Men can very efficiently and easily trick adults into giving their spare time away, but they have a very hard time convincing children, whom they consider their greatest threat. Even when Momo and her kid friends try to warn the adults about the Grey Men, the latter ones easily prevent their attempt. At the end, the Grey Men are destroyed by a twelve-year-old girl.
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* BeingEvilSucks: When Momo listens to one of the Men in Grey and elicits a confession of their scheme, he also finds himself admitting that it's a wearisome business that consumes most of the time they've stolen, and they wouldn't continue it except that it's the only way they know to survive. When Momo foils the scheme and returns the stolen time to its rightful owners, the last of the Men in Grey to wink out of existence does so with the words, "I'm glad it's all over."
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* BeingEvilSucks: When Momo listens to one of the Men in Grey Men and elicits a confession of their scheme, he also finds himself admitting that it's a wearisome business that consumes most of the time they've stolen, and they wouldn't continue it except that it's the only way they know to survive. When Momo foils the scheme and returns the stolen time to its rightful owners, the last of the Men in Grey Men to wink out of existence does so with the words, "I'm glad it's all over."
* CessationOfExistence: The Grey Men are parasitic soulless beings which only exist by stealing time from humans. When their stolen time is taken away from them, they simply fade out of existence forever.
* EldritchLocation: Never Street is a place beyond the edge of the time. The streets leading to it are devoid of all life, and the atmosphere is still and quiet, flooded by a fading light which seems simultaneously to come from nowhere and everywhere. As walking through the place, Momo can see strange monuments and weird houses which haven't been built for people at all, and realizes what the slower she walks, the quicker she advances...until she steps on the proper Never Street and she cannot move at all until she walks backwards because Time itself flows backwards through that place.
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: The title character defeats and destroys the Grey Men, humanoid parasites who were turning men into joyless husks by tricking them into giving them their time. Their disappearance instantly causes people to feel happier and carefree. However, they never knew why; and they would have not believed it, either. Only Momo's friends knew and believed what she had saved humanity.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Momo is a little kid. Her two best and greatest friends are Beppo, an old and reserved streetsweeper, and Gigi, a lighthearted young man who loves to tell tales.
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* MeaningfulName: Master Secundus Minutius Hora.
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* MinorLivingAlone: Momo is a little orphan kid who lives alone in the ruins of an old amphitheater despite being twelve-year-old at best. Momo has no known family, she absolutely refuses to go to an orphanage, she does not want to be adopted either, and she insists she can take care of herself; so the people living near from the amphitheater decided to help her by cleaning up and making habitable the dungeon she had settled in, bringing her food and checking on her routinely.
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** Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best. He often gets drunk, because that's the only way he can stand the thought of what he's now having to build.
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** Subverted with Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best. He often gets drunk, because that's the only way he can stand the thought of what he's now having to build.
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* DealWithTheDevil: When Beppo Roadsweeper ends up in a BedlamHouse, [[spoiler:the Grey Men approach him with two deals. The first one is that they will get him released if he stops trying to tell everyone about them. The second is that they will release Momo from their custody if he manages to save up a hundred thousand hours (about 11.5 years) - they don't have any means to hold up their end of the second deal, but Beppo, not knowing this, accepts both deals.]]
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* DealWithTheDevil: When Beppo Roadsweeper ends up in a BedlamHouse, [[spoiler:the Grey Men approach him with two deals. The first one is that they will get him released if he stops trying to tell everyone about them. The second is that they will release Momo from their custody if he manages to save up a hundred thousand hours (about 11.5 years) - they years). They don't have any means to hold up their end of the second deal, but Beppo, not knowing this, accepts both deals.]]
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** Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best, is frustrated and best. He often gets drunk.drunk, because that's the only way he can stand the thought of what he's now having to build.
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* TurtlePower: Cassiopeia the tortoise, who can see half an hour into the future, and communicates by making letters appear on her shell.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Because Hora falls asleep as part of his plan to save humanity’s stolen time, the Grey Men manage to reach his world, hoping to find the source of time. But with Hora asleep, the time itself freezes, which means that not only they can’t steal it, but that their cigars made by stolen time (which is also what keep them alive) will run out eventually. As they realize it, they run back to the Time Bank to survive.
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* DealWithTheDevil: When Beppo Roadsweeper ends up in a BedlamHouse, [[spoiler:the Grey Men approach him with two deals. The first one is that they will get him released if he stops trying to tell everyone about them. The second is that they will release Momo from their custody if he manages to save up a hundred thousand hours (about 11.5 years) - they don't have any means to hold up their end of the second deal, but Beppo, not knowing this, accepts both deals.]]
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* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The arrival of one of the Grey Men is always accompanied by any humans present thinking that it's got chilly all of a sudden. The effect is multiplied when more than one is present.
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* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The arrival of one of the Grey Men is always accompanied by any humans present thinking that it's got chilly all of a sudden. The effect is multiplied when more than one is present. [[spoiler:This is also how they keep the stolen time flowers in their HQ from going back to their owners, keeping them frozen in a great vault.]]
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* BeingEvilSucks: When Momo Listens to one of the Men in Grey and elicits a confession of their scheme, he also finds himself admitting that it's a wearisome business that consumes most of the time they've stolen, and they wouldn't continue it except that it's the only way they know to survive. When Momo foils the scheme and returns the stolen time to its rightful owners, the last of the Men in Grey to wink out of existence does so with the words, "I'm glad it's all over."
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* BeingEvilSucks: When Momo Listens listens to one of the Men in Grey and elicits a confession of their scheme, he also finds himself admitting that it's a wearisome business that consumes most of the time they've stolen, and they wouldn't continue it except that it's the only way they know to survive. When Momo foils the scheme and returns the stolen time to its rightful owners, the last of the Men in Grey to wink out of existence does so with the words, "I'm glad it's all over."
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* AnAesop: The book's message is that we need to make time for each other, and all the things we love in our lives. If we don't, we'll be just as lifeless as the victims of the Grey Men.
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* OneWordTitle: As a first name of ProtagonistTitle.
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which night? the grey men are around for weeks
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That night, a tortoise named Cassiopeia appears and leads her to the house of Master Hora, who guards the stores of time against the grey men, but needs Momo to help him. Meanwhile, the gray men are bringing all their powers against her, since they know that she is the only one who can stop them.
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* MoveInTheFrozenTime: during the timestop in the finale, a few beings can still move around: Cassiopeia the tortoise, as part of her time-based powers; the Grey Men, who are implied to be made of (corrupted) time, and [[spoiler:Momo, who has been given a time flower]].
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* MoveInTheFrozenTime: during During the timestop in the finale, a few beings can still move around: Cassiopeia the tortoise, as part of her time-based powers; the Grey Men, who are implied to be made of (corrupted) time, and [[spoiler:Momo, who has been given a time flower]].
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One day a tortoise named Cassiopeia appears and leads her to the house of Master Hora, who guards the stores of time against the grey men, but needs Momo to help him. Meanwhile, the gray men are bringing all their powers against her, since they know that she is the only one who can stop them.
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* ChattyHairdresser: Herr Fusi / Mr Figaro, the barber, starts out as one, until the Grey Men get their claws into him and he becomes obsessed with dealing with each customer as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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* BlameGame: In one example of the power of Momo's listening, two of her friends get in a prank war and go to her to settle it. One of them accuses the other of starting it, the other responds with an earlier offense by the first, and they go back and forward several times until they reach a prank that both agree was the start of the whole thing. They then admit that it was a silly thing to be still fighting over, and make up.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook:
** From 1986, with Creator/JohnHuston as Master Hora.
** An Italian animated movie in 2001.
** From 1986, with Creator/JohnHuston as Master Hora.
** An Italian animated movie in 2001.
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* TheMovie:
** From 1986, with Creator/JohnHuston as Master Hora.
** An Italian animated movie in 2001.
** From 1986, with Creator/JohnHuston as Master Hora.
** An Italian animated movie in 2001.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Beppo Roadsweeper. Even when a policeman asks him if Roadsweeper is his surname or his job, he replies "Both".
* FatAndSkinny: Nino and Liliana, the couple who run the inn; Nino is skinny and Liliana is plump. Nino tends to be the more bad-tempered and impulsive one, while Liliana tends to be more easy-going and wiser.
* FramingDevice: The story of ''Momo'' was supposedly told to the author by a stranger on a train.
* FramingDevice: The story of ''Momo'' was supposedly told to the author by a stranger on a train.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Beppo Roadsweeper. Even when a policeman asks him if Roadsweeper is his surname or his job, he replies "Both".
* FatAndSkinny: Nino and Liliana, the couple who run the inn; Nino is skinny and Liliana is plump. Nino tends to be the more bad-tempered and impulsive one, while Liliana tends to be more easy-going and wiser.
* FramingDevice: The story of ''Momo'' was supposedly told to the author by a stranger on a train.
* FatAndSkinny: Nino and Liliana, the couple who run the inn; Nino is skinny and Liliana is plump. Nino tends to be the more bad-tempered and impulsive one, while Liliana tends to be more easy-going and wiser.
* FramingDevice: The story of ''Momo'' was supposedly told to the author by a stranger on a train.
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* BeingEvilSucks: When Momo Listens to one of the Men in Grey and elicits a confession of their scheme, he also finds himself admitting that it's a wearisome business that consumes most of the time they've stolen, and they wouldn't continue it except that it's the only way they know to survive. When Momo foils the scheme and returns the stolen time to its rightful owners, the last of the Men in Grey to wink out of existence does so with the words, "I'm glad it's all over."
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* DeathsHourglass: Played with. Momo visits the house of Master Hora, whose task is to see that every human gets their allotted span of time -- which may or may not be a euphemism for him being an avatar of Death -- and finds it full of clocks, each different and each displaying a different time. She asks if each clock represents an individual human, and he says no, he just has a hobby of collecting clocks.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: The children play a make-believe game where they are explorers in the South Seas investigating a phenomenon that's threatening shipping. It turns out to be an enormous prehistoric creature, and the head scientist is enraptured by what a marvelous specimen it is; when he's reminded that they're there to destroy it, he says sadly that it's a shame they can't just examine it and leave it be.
* BinomiumRidiculus: When the children are playing at being a scientific expedition in the South Seas, they invent new scientific names for the creatures they discover, including the ''Blancmangius viscosus'', the ''Jellybeania multicolorata'', the ''Chocolatus indigestibilis'', and the ''Teetotum elasticum''.
* DubNameChange: Several of Momo's friends have different names in the English translation, mostly due to different cultural ideas about which names sound male or female. Girolamo has the nickname "Guido" instead of "Gigi", Nicola the bricklayer becomes Salvatore, and Herr Fusi the barber becomes Mr Figaro.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The arrival of one of the Grey Men is always accompanied by any humans present thinking that it's got chilly all of a sudden. The effect is multiplied when more than one is present.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The arrival of one of the Grey Men is always accompanied by any humans present thinking that it's got chilly all of a sudden. The effect is multiplied when more than one is present.
* FatAndSkinny: Nino and Liliana, the couple who run the inn; Nino is skinny and Liliana is plump. Nino tends to be the more bad-tempered and impulsive one, while Liliana tends to be more easy-going and wiser.
* LastOfHisKind: When the children are playing at being a scientific expedition, they discover an enormous creature that they believe to be the last living specimen of its species.
* LaymansTerms: When the children are playing at being a scientific expedition in the South Seas, the first mate of the expedition ship at one point asks the chief scientist to translate what he just said in terms that "simple sea-faring folk" can understand.
* LudicrousPrecision: The Grey Men, when it comes to time. In one scene, a Grey Man gives his age to the exact second.
* MagicalGuide: Cassiopeia to Momo. She's a friend/familiar of the protagonist's {{Mentor}} and uses a thematically-appropriate power to guide her safely through danger. She also cheers Momo up in her own snarky way.
* LaymansTerms: When the children are playing at being a scientific expedition in the South Seas, the first mate of the expedition ship at one point asks the chief scientist to translate what he just said in terms that "simple sea-faring folk" can understand.
* LudicrousPrecision: The Grey Men, when it comes to time. In one scene, a Grey Man gives his age to the exact second.
* MagicalGuide: Cassiopeia to Momo. She's a friend/familiar of the protagonist's {{Mentor}} and uses a thematically-appropriate power to guide her safely through danger. She also cheers Momo up in her own snarky way.
* PerceptionFilter: The Grey Men can do their work effectively because they are visible but inconspicuous. They can reconnoiter without being noticed, or persuade people into saving time without being remembered.
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* TimeAbyss: Master Hora is implied to be this -- then again, how couldn't he be, seeing as he's the keeper of time for all humans?
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* TimeAbyss: Master Hora is implied to be this -- then again, how couldn't he be, seeing as he's the keeper of time for all humans?humans? Twice in the book he is described as being inexpressibly old, not the way a human is old but the way a mountain is old.
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* TurtlePower: Cassiopeia the tortoise
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* TrueCraftsman:
** Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best, is frustrated and often gets drunk.
* TurtlePower: Cassiopeia thetortoisetortoise, who can see half an hour into the future, and communicates by making letters appear on her shell.
** Momo's friend the bricklayer. When the Grey Men have taken over, he and his co-workers have to work faster, building a new floor in a week, but he admits it's crappy work which may last a few years at best, is frustrated and often gets drunk.
* TurtlePower: Cassiopeia the
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* LongTitle: The original German subtitle translates to "The strange story of the time-thieves and of the child who returned the stolen time to the people/humans."[[note]] Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte[[/note]]
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* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: The original German subtitle translates to "The strange story of the time-thieves and of the child who returned the stolen time to the people/humans."[[note]]Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte[[/note]]
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* TheAirNotThere: During the timestop, Momo can still move around, as can the Grey Men and Cassiopeia. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because all of them carry a bit of their own time with them - Momo has the time flower, the Grey Men have their cigars, and Cassiopeia is explicitly stated to have her own time within her.
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* TheAirNotThere: During the timestop, Momo can still move around, as can the Grey Men and Cassiopeia. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because all of them carry a bit of their own time with them - -- Momo has the time flower, the Grey Men have their cigars, and Cassiopeia is explicitly stated to have her own time within her.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Momo herself. She refuses to wear shoes unless it's winter.
* DontFearTheReaper: Momo asks Master Hora whether he's Death - he doesn't answer, but says death is nothing to be scared of.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Grey Men are an aversion, [[spoiler:fighting each other over the last remaining cigars]] - until the very end, when the final words of the last one are "It's good that it's all over."
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: In this case, definitely evil - the Grey Men are always seen smoking small, grey cigars [[spoiler: made of stolen time]].
* DontFearTheReaper: Momo asks Master Hora whether he's Death - he doesn't answer, but says death is nothing to be scared of.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Grey Men are an aversion, [[spoiler:fighting each other over the last remaining cigars]] - until the very end, when the final words of the last one are "It's good that it's all over."
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: In this case, definitely evil - the Grey Men are always seen smoking small, grey cigars [[spoiler: made of stolen time]].
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Momo herself. She refuses to wear shoes unless it's winter.
* DontFearTheReaper: Momo asks Master Hora whether he'sDeath - Death; he doesn't answer, but says death is nothing to be scared of.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Grey Men are an aversion, [[spoiler:fighting each other over the last remaining cigars]]- -- until the very end, when the final words of the last one are "It's good that it's all over."
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: In this case, definitely evil- -- the Grey Men are always seen smoking small, grey cigars [[spoiler: made of stolen time]].
* DontFearTheReaper: Momo asks Master Hora whether he's
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Grey Men are an aversion, [[spoiler:fighting each other over the last remaining cigars]]
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Being able to listen to people doesn't sound special, and the narrator notes it outright. But Momo's willingness to listen to anyone, about anything, really does help people work through their worries, fears, and quarrels. Her listening skill also helps her against the Grey Men, since she listens to the depth of her interlocutor's being - and the Grey Men are, ultimately, nothingness.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Being able to listen to people doesn't sound special, and the narrator notes it outright. But Momo's willingness to listen to anyone, about anything, really does help people work through their worries, fears, and quarrels. Her listening skill also helps her against the Grey Men, since she listens to the depth of her interlocutor's being - -- and the Grey Men are, ultimately, nothingness.
* SameStoryDifferentNames: In-universe, Gigi falls into this after he becomes a famous storyteller. He has to keep up such a prolific output that he runs out of inspiration and falls back on retelling old stories with names and minor details changed. Nobody seems to notice, and if anything the number of reviewers hailing him as an original talent increases.
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* TimeAbyss: Master Hora is implied to be this - then again, how couldn't he be, seeing as he's the keeper of time for all humans?
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* AYearAndADay: Momo spends this period of time in Master Hora's house learning what time is.
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A film was made in German in 1986. Michael Ende involved himself in the production of the film, after having been disappointed in the adaptation of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. The best way to get the DVD is from South Korea via Ebay, as that version is All-Region and has English subtitles. The European version is Region 2 only and has no subtitles. Another (and easier) reccomendation is to get the Spanish Bluray via Amazon, as that version is All-Region, comes on 1080p and has the English language.
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A film was made in German in 1986. Michael Ende involved himself in the production of the film, after having been disappointed in the adaptation of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. The best way to get the DVD is from South Korea via Ebay, as that version is All-Region and has English subtitles. The European version is Region 2 only and has no subtitles. Another (and easier) reccomendation is to get the Spanish Bluray via Amazon, as that version is All-Region, comes on 1080p and has the English language.
''Film/TheNeverendingStory''.
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* LongTitle: The original German subtitle translates to "The strange story of the time-thieves and of the child who returned the stolen time to the people/humans."[[note]] Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben un von den Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurueckgebracht[[/note]]
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* LongTitle: The original German subtitle translates to "The strange story of the time-thieves and of the child who returned the stolen time to the people/humans."[[note]] Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben un und von den dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurueckgebracht[[/note]]zurückbrachte[[/note]]
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* MoveInTheFrozenTime: during the timestop in the finale, a few beings can still move around: Cassiopeia the tortoise, as part of her time-based powers; the Grey Men, who are implied to be made of (corrupted) time, and [[spoiler:Momo, who has been given a time flower]].
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* TimeMaster: Master Hora is an extreme example: he is ''the'' one who controls and distributes time in the Universe, and stops just short of being an AnthropomorphicPersonification.
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On 2001, an animated adaption was made in Italy.
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A film was made in German in 1986. Michael Ende involved himself in the production of the film, after having been disappointed in the adaptation of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. The best way to get the DVD is from South Korea via Ebay, as that version is All-Region and has English subtitles. The European version is Region 2 only and has no subtitles.
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A film was made in German in 1986. Michael Ende involved himself in the production of the film, after having been disappointed in the adaptation of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. The best way to get the DVD is from South Korea via Ebay, as that version is All-Region and has English subtitles. The European version is Region 2 only and has no subtitles.
subtitles. Another (and easier) reccomendation is to get the Spanish Bluray via Amazon, as that version is All-Region, comes on 1080p and has the English language.
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* NewTechnologyIsEvil: There are certain undertones of it, e.g. the toys that are made for modern kids and the marketing schemes to go with them. And all the "timesaving" technology, though in the end it is not the technology but the philosophy of what is more or less important in life that is truly evil.
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* TakeThat: Gigi tells some American ladies the story of the tyrant Marxentius Communus who wanted to reconstruct the world to make it better. So he forced the world population to build a globe which would depict Earth 1:1. Of course, this meant that people eventually had to move to the globe, and at the end, after a lot of hard work, nothing had changed at all. After which Marxentius averted his face and left, never to be seen again.
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Not to be confused with ''Momo'', the English translation of ''La Vie Devant Soi'' by Romain Gary, or the infamous WebOriginal/Momo.
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Not to be confused with ''Momo'', the English translation of ''La Vie Devant Soi'' by Romain Gary, or the infamous WebOriginal/Momo.
WebOriginal/{{Momo}}. [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Ducks]] or [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender winged lemurs]] also have nothing to do with this story.
