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* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment, "Bedtime Story Blues", Orson attempts to read the story of ''Cinderella'' to Booker and Sheldon (as it's the only book he hasn't read to them yet), but the twins [[FracturedFairyTale make numerous changes to the story]], much to Orson's ire. These changes include [[GenderBender making Cinderella and her stepsisters boys]] (and the latter ninjas), having Cinderella work at a pet store, making the king's messenger a rap master, making the fairy godmother the richest guy in the world, and having the characters get attacked by dinosaurs. Orson eventually becomes so annoyed with the twins' changes that he reads the story the right way [[MotorMouth very fast]].

->''I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot!''
--> Creator/GailCarsonLevine, speaking about ''Literature/EllaEnchanted''.

* ''TheStinkyCheeseMan and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' has the story "Cinderumpelstiltskin (or, The Girl Who Really Blew It)", where on the day of the royal ball, Cinderella is visited not by a fairy godmother, but by [[Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}} a little man who can spin straw into gold]]. This version of Cinderella is not the brightest, and doesn't see how a bunch of gold would help her predicament, so she turns down the little man's offer of help. [[DownerEnding She never goes to the ball, never meets the Prince,]] and to really rub things in, her wicked stepmother and stepsisters change her name to Cinderumpelstiltskin.

* ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'' provides a twist on the story by making Ella ''cursed'' into being obedient, thus removing any choice she has to do as her stepfamily demand. However, she manages to work around the curse through LoopholeAbuse. In this story, Ella's dad is alive, though he's usually away on business and is a {{Jerkass}} when he's around. She eventually leaves to find her FairyGodmother and make her remove the curse.

* ''Literature/TheLunarChronicles'' follows a teenage cyborg named Cinder who lives in New Beijing with her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters (a mean one and a nice one). Since her stepmother refuses to work, she is the one who provides the money for the family by working as a mechanic. One day price Kai visits her shop and they form a connection and eventually fall in love. Meanwhile Cinder learns about a plot against the kingdom and goes to the ball to warn Kai. [[spoiler:This goes wrong and Cinder has to flee and the only thing she leaves behind is her cyborg leg.]]

* ''Literature/MrMen'': In "Little Miss Shy and the Fairy Godmother", Little Miss Shy is invited to go to Little Miss Splendid's ball. A fairy godmother gives her beautiful slippers. At midnight, just when Little Miss Splendid announces that Little Miss Shy is going to receive a prize, the slippers turn back to normal, so Little Miss Shy runs off in shame. Little Miss Bossy and Little Miss Naughty try to put on the normal slippers, but they don't fit either of them. They only fit Little Miss Shy, and as such, Little Miss Shy is given pretty pink slippers.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' did this in one episode where Minnie has a dream where she's "Minnie-rella".

* In ''VideoGame/CrayonShinChanDSArashiwoYobuNutteCrayoonDaisakusen'', one of the candy world's levels involves helping Hiroshi, who is cinderella in his dream, to clean the house, make him a dress and escape the palace before midnight undoes the magic dress.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Volume 8 episode called "Midnight" is a Cinderella-based plot that explores [[TheHeavy Cinder's]] origins. Bought from an orphanage by a wealthy Atlesian hotlier, she is raised as the Madame's step-daughter alongside two biological daughters. The family treats her as a slave, controlling her via a ShockCollar and starving her in the process. A [[HunterOfMonsters Huntsman]] who frequents the hotel offers to teach her how to be a Huntress, hoping that the [[ExtranormalInstitute Huntsman Academy]] will give her a legal escape route from the abuse; the training montages occur in three stages akin to Cinderella's three balls. When Cinder's stepfamily finds out, the confrontation leads to Cinder killing them; she then kills her mentor when he attempts to arrest her. This StartOfDarkness is why she wants to be strong, feared and powerful; her image of that concept is Madame, which has led to her current lifestyle of serving the abusive [[BigBad Salem]] while in turn abusing her own subordinates.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Volume 8 episode called "Midnight" is a Cinderella-based plot that explores [[TheHeavy Cinder's]] origins. Bought from an orphanage by a wealthy Atlesian hotlier, she is raised as the Madame's step-daughter alongside two biological daughters. The family treats her as a slave, controlling her via a ShockCollar and starving her in the process. A [[HunterOfMonsters Huntsman]] who frequents the hotel offers to teach her how to be a Huntress, hoping that the [[ExtranormalInstitute Huntsman Academy]] will give her a legal escape route from the abuse; the training montages then occur in three stages akin to Cinderella's three balls. When Cinder's stepfamily find out, the confrontation leads to Cinder killing them; she then kills her mentor when he attempts to arrest her. This StartOfDarkness is why she wants to be strong, feared and powerful; her image of that concept is Madame, which has led to her current lifestyle of serving the abusive [[BigBad Salem]] while in turn abusing her own subordinates.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder's StartOfDarkness ends up being a twisted version of this. When Cinder was a child, she was raised by a stepmother and stepsisters who treated her like a slave. She eventually meets a huntsman who offers to teach her how to be a huntress and invites her to an academy with her own weapon. However, Cinder's stepsisters and stepmother eventually find out and punish her for it, prompting Cinder to kill them. When her mentor finds out what Cinder had done and intends to arrest her for it, she kills him too. By the time of series proper in season 2, Cinder does start attending Beacon Academy. However, she does so to ruin it in the name of Salem and not to become a huntress.

-> ''I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot!''

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "Finsterella" takes place after the events of ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis: The Movie'', where Chas marries Kira and Kimi becomes Chuckie's stepsister. After Chas tells the babies the story of ''Cinderella'', Angelica tells Chuckie that he has a stepmother and a stepsister just like Cinderella does, and decides to start calling him "Finsterella". Tommy tries to assure Chuckie that Kira and Kimi are nice to him, and not mean like Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters, but Chuckie starts to believe Angelica is right when he overhears Kira rehearsing her lines for a play about the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe and Kimi [[BabySeeBabyDo copying Angelica's behavior when she plays a game where she copies whoever she sees]]. Chuckie also has a dream where he really is Finsterella, and has to do chores for Angelica and Kimi while they get to go to a party. By the end of the episode, Chuckie finds out the truth about Kira and Kimi, who both love him very much and are happy to be a part of his family.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': The first segment of the episode "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales" parodies ''Cinderella''. Cosmo is "Cosmorella", while Doctor Rip Studwell and Juandissio are his stepbrothers Umbrella and Mozzarella, respectively. Instead of a ball, Cosmo's fairy "godmother" (a cross-dressing Jorgen) sends him to Princess Wanda's bowling party in a pumpkin taxi driven by Sparky, where he leaves behind a glass bolwing shoe.

* ''TheCookieCarnival'' has a similar plot, where one of the protagonists, a poor cookie girl who doesn't have any pretty clothes to wear at the cookie carnival she wants to attend, is helped by a hobo cookie who gives her a makeover and creates a dress out of desserts he finds near her house.

''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' is perhaps one of the most famous fairy-tales there is, and it's a fairy-tale that has been around since 9th century China and the story of ''Literature/YehShen''. Over the years, it has seen its fair share of versions and adaptations, one of the most popular being the one by Creator/CharlesPerrault and later adapted by Disney in [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} their version]]. As a result, it's a story that has proven to be easy to tell and adapt, to the point where the basic plot has become something of a stock plot.

''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' is perhaps one of the most famous fairy-tales there is, and it's a fairy-tale that has been around since 1st century Greece and the story of Rhodopis. Over the years, it has seen its fair share of versions and adaptations, one of the most popular being the one by Creator/CharlesPerrault and later adapted by Disney in [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} their version]]. As a result, it's a story that has proven to be easy to tell and adapt, to the point where the basic plot has become something of a stock plot.

''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' is perhaps one of the most famous fairy-tales there is, and it's a fairy-tale that has been around since 9th century China and the story of ''Literature/YehShen''. Over the years, it has seen its fair share of versions and adaptations, one of the most popular being the one by Creator/CharlesPerrault and later adapted by Disney in [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} their version]]. As a result, it's a story that has proven to be easy to tell and adapt, to the point where the basic plot has become something of a stock plot.

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* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar Official Doujinshi'' adapted ''Cinderella'' in one of its {{Fairy Tale Episode}}s with Maki in the lead role. Of course, since this is [[ButtMonkey Maki]], she doesn't end up with the prince because her inexperience with wearing heels caused swelling that kept them from fitting the next day.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', Angelica is a girl mistreated by her wicked stepfamily, brought along on the Titanic journey mostly to act as their servant during the trip; when she's not with them, she lives in her own lower-class cabin. When doing the laundry, she bumps into the wealthy William, who falls in LoveAtFirstSight with her. At night, there's a party on the ship that she can go to after an old lady hands her a dress to wear, and she spends the night dancing with William for as long as she can. While the plot soon shifts to be about the iceberg, she and William do get to live HappilyEverAfter and escape with their lives.

* ''Film/EverAfter'' is a version of the Cinderella story about a courageous young woman, Danielle de Barbarac, who is orphaned within mere days of her widowed father remarrying. She's left to the care of her mentally abusive stepmother, though at least she has the family servants who still love her, and one of her stepsisters is a kind and sympathetic person. Instead of a fairy godmother, this iteration sees her assisted by ''UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci.''

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cinder's StartOfDarkness ends up being a twisted version of this. When Cinder was a child, she was raised by a stepmother and stepsisters who treated her like a slave. She eventually meets a huntsman who offers to teach her how to be a huntress and invites her to an academy with her own weapon. However, Cinder's stepsisters and stepmother eventually find out and punish her for it, prompting Cinder to kill them. When her mentor finds out what Cinder had done and intends to arrest her for it, she kills him too. By the time of series proper in season 2, Cinder does start attending Beacon Academy. however, she does so to ruin it in the name of Salem and not to become a huntress.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E11Scroogerello Scroogerello]]", Scrooge gets a fever and falls asleep while Webby reads ''Cinderella'' to him. In his dream, he is Scroogerello, a servant abused by stepbrothers played by the Beagle Boys and stepfather played by Flintheart Glomgold. To help him and his nephews show up at the ball, Mrs. Beakley as the Fairy Godmother turns his rags into a golden tuxedo and top hat while Webby turns their cookies into a carriage and the nephews into chaffeurs. At the ball, Scrooge dances with Princess Goldie, who introduces him to her father, King Gyro. Just then, Glomgold and the Beagles kidnap her and hold her for ransom, so the ducks give chase. However, the carriage breaks down and their clothes turn back to normal, as fairy magic doesn't work after midnight since it's way past Webby's bedtime. They reach a castle where Goldie is held captive, but a hedge maze is in the way, but Prince Lilypad [=McQuack=] shows up to help them. When she's safe, she has all men in town try the gold top hat on that proves they're her true love, eventually finding Scroogerello and him putting it on, but the Beagle Boys show up to kidnap her again and take him, at which point Scrooge wakes up.

--> '''Narrator:''' Two people who danced together one time entered an ill-advised, long-term relationship. And they lived happily ever after for seven months and then separated. They got into a huge fight and now they don't even follow each other on Twitter. The end.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' episode, "Pigerella", the babies become impatient waiting for lunch, so Scooter and Skeeter sneak snacks from the kitchen against the wishes of both Nanny and Piggy. When Piggy tries to return the snacks to the kitchen, [[PossessionPresumesGuilt Nanny assumes that she was the one who snuck the snacks]], makes her clean the kitchen by herself as punishment, and has Scooter and Skeeter supervise her. As Piggy cleans the kitchen, she complains that she's being treated like Cinderella, and an ImagineSpot occurs where Piggy is "Pigerella", Nanny is the wicked stepmother, and Skeeter and [[DraggedIntoDrag Scooter]] are the wicked stepsisters. In the end, the other babies help Piggy clean up the mess and explain to Nanny that the mess was their fault, not Piggy's, so Nanny rewards them with a fruit salad for lunch.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In "Scroogerello", Scrooge gets a fever and falls asleep while Webby reads ''Cinderella'' to him. In his dream, he is Scroogerello, a servant abused by stepbrothers played by the Beagle Boys and stepfather played by Flintheart Glomgold. To help him and his nephews show up at the ball, Mrs. Beakley as the Fairy Godmother turns his rags into a golden tuxedo and top hat while Webby turns their cookies into a carriage and the nephews into chaffeurs. At the ball, Scrooge dances with Princess Goldie, who introduces him to her father, King Gyro. Just then, Glomgold and the Beagles kidnap her and hold her for ransom, so the ducks give chase. However, the carriage breaks down and their clothes turn back to normal, as fairy magic doesn't work after midnight since it's way past Webby's bedtime. They reach a castle where Goldie is held captive, but a hedge maze is in the way, but Prince Lilypad [=McQuack=] shows up to help them. When she's safe, she has all men in town try the gold top hat on that proves they're her true love, eventually finding Scroogerello and him putting it on, but the Beagle Boys show up to kidnap her again and take him, at which point Scrooge wakes up.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The last segment of "Grimm Job" parodizes ''Cinderella'', by casting Lois as the protagonist, Meg and Stewie as the ugly stepsisters, and Babs as the wicked stepmother. After the villains ruin Lois' dress, she is visited by her fairy godmother (played by Adam West), who gives her a new one and sends her to Prince Peter's ball. The rest of the episode closely follows the plot of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Disney's original adaptation]], but ends with the narrator's cynical description of the toxic nature of their marriage.

* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': The Chipette's foster mother, Miss Miller, gives each of them chores to do before they go shopping for new dresses for a dance. Jeanette and Eleanor do theirs without complaint, but Brittany, ThePrimadonna, doesn?t do her share and instead primps. As punishment, Ms. Miller makes her stay home to finish her chores while she takes the other two shopping, and tells her that she can't attend the dance unless her chores are done. Upset, Brittany falls asleep and dreams that she's Cinderella, with Ms. Miller as her WickedStepmother, and Jeanette and Eleanor as the stepsisters. When the dream ends with Miss Miller refusing to let her marry Prince Alvin, Brittany awakens and finds the real Miss Miller willing to compromise with her, making Brittany realize that she isn't living with a mean stepmother after all.

* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': The Chipette?s foster mother, Miss Miller, gives each of them chores to do before they go shopping for new dresses for a dance. Jeanette and Eleanor do theirs without complaint, but Brittany, ThePrimadonna, doesn?t do her share and instead primps. As punishment, Ms. Miller makes her stay home to finish her chores while she takes the other two shopping, and tells her that she can?t attend the dance unless her chores are done. Upset, Brittany falls asleep and dreams that she?s Cinderella, with Ms. Miller as her WickedStepmother, and Jeanette and Eleanor as the stepsisters. When the dream ends with Miss Miller refusing to let her marry Prince Alvin, Brittany awakens and finds the real Miss Miller willing to compromise with her, making Brittany realize that she isn?t living with a mean stepmother after all.

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