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* CookedToDeath: This is the fate of [[spoiler:the narrator, Snow White's stepmother. She is being roasted alive in an oven, explaining to the reader HowWeGotHere in the final moments of her life, and stubbornly trying not to scream. It's a nasty CallBack to earlier in the story, when she had told young Snow White about the winter tradition of cooking a goose in the same manner.]]
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* CookedToDeath: This is the fate of [[spoiler:the narrator, Snow White's stepmother. She is being roasted alive in an oven, explaining to the reader HowWeGotHere in the final moments of her life, and stubbornly trying not to scream. It's a nasty CallBack to earlier in the story, when she had told young Snow White about the winter tradition of cooking a goose pig in the same manner.]]
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* DownerEnding: The queen is burned alive in an oven, knowing the kingdom will fall to ruin into Snow's carnivorous rule.
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* DownerEnding: The queen is burned alive in an oven, knowing the kingdom will fall to ruin into under Snow's carnivorous rule.
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* FracturedFairyTale: Played for horror rather than humor, but every element of the traditional story of Snow White is given a deconstructive twist.
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* StarkNakedSorcery: To create the poisoned apples, the queen has to perform the ritual in the nude at the top of a tower in the middle of autumn and is accordingly unhappy about it. At least she makes sure that no servants are anywhere near the tower during the ritual, preserving some of her dignity.
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"[[https://thedreaming.moteofdust.com/1999/10/10/snow-glass-apples/ Snow, Glass, Apples]]" is a short story by Creator/NeilGaiman. It is a FracturedFairytale of "Snow White" that flips the script.
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"[[https://thedreaming.moteofdust.com/1999/10/10/snow-glass-apples/ Snow, Glass, Apples]]" is a short story by Creator/NeilGaiman. It is a FracturedFairytale of "Snow White" "Literature/SnowWhite" that flips the script.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Disturbingly, when the Queen tries to sleep with the Prince to foster an alliance between their kingdoms and marry him, it fails because he can't get it up long for a living woman.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, the queen's stepdaughter is a vampire and she preys on victims until they've lost all her blood. The queen kills her to save the kingdom, only to fail when a prince saves Snow and sees the power in her, executing the queen. Snow and her Prince tell the story so that the roles are reversed.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe, the queen's stepdaughter is a vampire and she preys on victims until they've lost all her blood. The queen kills her to save the kingdom, only to fail when a prince saves Snow and sees the power in her, executing the queen. [[WrittenByTheWinners Snow and her Prince tell the story so that the roles are reversed.reversed]].
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* AntagonisticOffspring: Snow White tries to feed on her stepmother and only manages to get one bite. She successfully manages to drain her father dry until nothing's left of the man he was. It's all but assumed she would've probably feasted on her birth mother, if given the chance.
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* IdiotBall: The queen takes steps to protect herself from Snow White after the girl bites and drinks from her, but ''doesn't'' think to do the same for her husband. Even if they don't share the same rooms, she doesn't even try to warn him. Inevitably, the king falls prey to his daughter's thirst.
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* IdiotBall: The queen takes steps to protect herself from Snow White after the girl bites and drinks from her, but ''doesn't'' think to do the same for her husband. Even if they don't share the same rooms, she doesn't even try to warn him. Inevitably, the king falls prey to his daughter's thirst. The queen herself lampshades this looking back, realizing there were a lot of things she should've done differently when dealing with her stepdaughter.
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* MyGreatestFailure: The queen regrets that she didn't have Snow White completely butchered and annihilated when she had the chance.
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* NothingIsScarier: It's never explained how or why Snow White was born the way she is. She just... is.
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* BloodCountess: Just like in the original story, Snow White is a princess, but she's also a vampire with skin white and cold as snow, who, in the course of the story, seduces other men - including the Seven Dwarves - [[spoiler: to drink their blood. She kills her own father by drinking his lifeblood and, following the traditional sequence with the poisoned apple, allies herself with a creepy prince to oust her step-mother (who, in reality, was the heroine of the story).]]
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* OhCrap: The queen is awoken in the middle of the night by Snow White's heart, which has been silent and inactive for years, suddenly pulsing and dripping blood on her face.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Snow White marries her prince, takes over the kingdom and makes a public spectacle out of roasting her stepmother alive in a giant oven at her wedding. Guess "happily ever after" isn't for everyone.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In the final moments of her life while being roasted alive in a giant oven, the queen decides not to scream and give her tormentors the satisfaction of hearing her in agony as she dies.]]
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* TheQuisling: The dwarves shelter Snow White in exchange for sexual services, allowing her to prey on the other forest folk and any travelers unfortunate enough to enter the woods.
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* CookedToDeath: This is the fate of [[spoiler:the narrator, Snow White's stepmother. She is being roasted alive in an oven, explaining to the reader HowWeGotHere in the final moments of her life, and stubbornly trying not to scream. It's a nasty CallBack to earlier in the story, when she had told young Snow White about the winter tradition of cooking a goose in the same manner.]]
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* RavenHairIvorySkin: Snow White has this look, and she's considered attractive (in her necrophiliac prince's opinion, at least). This trope is deconstructed as this story shows how unsettling it would be to have a human that's literally pale as snow.
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* RavenHairIvorySkin: Snow White has this look, and she's considered attractive (in her necrophiliac prince's opinion, at least). This trope is deconstructed ultimately deconstructed, as this story shows how unsettling it would be to have a human (or [[MonstrousHumanoid human-shaped being]]) that's literally pale as snow.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. The story never confirmed ''what'' she exactly is. While she has the basic shape of a human, many her traits are just off - like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. The story never confirmed ''what'' she exactly is. While she has the basic shape of a human, many of her traits are just off '''off''' - like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. The story never confirmed ''what'' she exactly is. While she has the basic shape of a human, many her traits are just off - like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can also grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. The story never confirmed ''what'' she exactly is. While she has the basic shape of a human, many her traits are just off - like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can also grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. The story never confirmed ''what'' exactly she is. While she has the basic shape of a human, lots of her traits are just ''off''. Like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can also grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. The story never confirmed ''what'' she exactly she is. While she has the basic shape of a human, lots of many her traits are just ''off''. Like off - like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can also grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. She definitely has the basic shape of a human, but lots of her traits are just... ''off''. Like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can also grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
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* MonstrousHumanoid: Snow White. She definitely The story never confirmed ''what'' exactly she is. While she has the basic shape of a human, but lots of her traits are just... just ''off''. Like a typical vampire, she drinks blood and has cold, unnaturally pale skin ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent but she can also grow up, unlike conventional undead creatures]]). She also can survive while having her heart cut out of her body.
