History Sandbox / TheFairFolk

* Webcomic/TheKatbox: ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' Adventurer Dan learns how to cope with being what he's been taught to [[FantasticRacism hate]]. Also features, [[TheFairFolk Fae]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] and other demons.

* ComicBook/WarOfTheRealms - LegionOfDoom: [[BigBad Malekith]] has assembled one consisting of (TheFairFolk) [[green:himself]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dario Agger]], [[AllTrollsAreDifferent King Ulik]], [[AnIcePerson King Laufey of Jotunheim]], [[PlayingWithFire Sindr, Queen of Cinders]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen]] of [[ComicBook/AngelaAsgardsAssassin Heven]], [[TheBrute Kurse]], ComicBook/TheEnchantress, ComicBook/{{Loki}} and their associated armies.

'''Note''': For pothole examples, I removed the trope link from the pothole, put it in parentheses besides the text it was potholed to, and then make that text green.

* mysterious / dangerous = 8

* antagonistic / evil = 12
* tricksters, manipulators, changelings = 9
* interchangeable with "fairy" and associated creatures = 13
* unclear = 3
* potholes = 14
* zce = 10

[[folder:Potholes that don't provide enough characterization info]]
* UnwinnableByDesign - ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has "Snakes and Foxes", played with dice and tokens on a simple board. Kids grow out of it once they realize they can only escape the titular creatures and win by cheating. The game turns out to explain how to [[spoiler:deal with the (TheFairFolk) [[green:Aelfinn and Eelfinn]], including the fact that cheating is necessary and that they work together to trap human victims.]]
* ComicBook/TheMightyThor: BadassNormal: In a world populated by supernatural creatures all far more powerful than your average human every once in a while through brains, training, or just pure grit holds their own or triumphs. A prime example is Roger Willis who held his own against (TheFairFolk) [[green:Dark Elves]] and Fire Demons in Creator/WaltSimonson's run.
* Literature/MovingPicturesDiscworld: The last book to use the idea of the [[CosmicHorror Things from the Dungeon Dimensions]] invading as a generalized threat -- later books would shift the idea of extradimensional threats to the (TheFairFolk) [[green:elves]] and others, while the former are simply used as reasons why Wizards are careful about using magic.
* MysticalWhiteHair/Literature - ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'': [[UnevenHybrid Helen Blackthorn]] is the daughter of a [[{{Nephilim}} shadowhunter]] and a (TheFairFolk) [[green:fairy]]. And like her fairy mother, she has light blonde hair. These are so light blonde that they look almost white.
* PlayingWith/EgyptIsStillAncient: '''Justified''': Egypt is trapped in a time limbo bubble created by a [[AWizardDidIt wizard]], or a (TheFairFolk) [[green:fairy]] (or possibly a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs fairy wizard]]), thus preventing them to advance to the modern age.
* Webcomic/TheKatbox: ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' Adventurer Dan learns how to cope with being what he's been taught to [[FantasticRacism hate]]. Also features, [[TheFairFolk Fae]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] and other demons.
* TabletopGame/InNomineSatanisMagnaVeritas: Dragons, (TheFairFolk) [[green:fairy peoples]] and lots of other supernaturals were wiped out (or almost so), mostly by [[KnightTemplar George]] (yes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon that George]]), [[PureIsNotGood Archangel of Purity]], shortly after Christianity began, and not exactly for altruistic reasons. Most of the less militant (and even a few militant but more tolerant) Archangels hate his guts as a result.
* HalfHumanHybrid/TabletopGames:
** ''TabletopGame/{{Ponyfinder}}'': "Satyrs" in this setting are the result of a human having a child with oine of several of the sapient quadrupedal animals from the setting. The result is a being who is human from the waist up and a bipedal non-human from the waist down, with extra traits like wings or horns depending on their precise ancestry. Explicitly compatible couplings include the myriad species of ponies, the purrsians (cats with wings), the ruminants (deer), and the krava (cows). Justified in that these sapient beasts all explicitly have origins as (TheFairFolk) [[green:fey creatures]], which means they are rooted a bit more in magic than in biology.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Sorcerers (innate magic users, as opposed to wizards who got their powers through study or warlock who got them through dark pacts) gain their powers from various supernatural forces breeding into their bloodline. The following is a current (early 2012) list of things which have created bloodlines for sorcerers: Aberrant (think Cthulhu Mythos-like monsters), Abyssal (Demons or worse), Accursed (Hags), Proteans (chaos spirits), Aquatic (anything from sea elves to deep ones), Arcane (plain ol' AWizardDidIt -- and how!), Boreal (giant and troll kin ala Norse Myth), Celestial (heavenly creatures), Deep Earth (earth spirits), several different kinds of genies and all four Western elemental types, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Draconic]], (TheFairFolk) [[green:Fey]], Infernal (Devils), Maestro (some musical monster from trumpet-wielding angels to shoggoths), Orc, Rakshasa (evil spirits of Buddhist myth), Serpentine (your friendly reptoids), Shadow (another dimension), Starsoul (spacefarers), Storm (unknown elemental spirits), [[ILoveTheDead Undead]], and Verdant (plants). It's probably better not to ask how some of those happened. There are even more bloodlines available from third party developers or for characters with unusual archetypes.
* Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake - ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': A member of (TheFairFolk) [[green:the Third Race]], she moved Excalibur to New York for unknown reasons, and came out of the artificial lake in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens when King Arthur came looking for it. WordOfGod says that Nimue also exists in this universe, [[DecompositeCharacter but as a separate character]].
* VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey: The first three strata are beautiful woodscapes. The fourth stratum is a barren, sandy land where you have to kill a bunch of (TheFairFolk) [[green:Forest Folk]], but at least it's still nothing really out of the ordinary. Then comes the fifth stratum and you find the ruins of Shinjuku, establishing that the game's fantasy setting actually takes place after the end of a modern Earth.
* TabletopGame/BattlefleetGothic: (TheFairFolk) [[green:Dark Eldar]] ships have a unique form of boarding pod known as Impaler Assault Modules. Far larger than the Assault Boats of other races, the Impaler carries far more troops, and so has a far greater chance of causing damage in a boarding action, than a regular boarding pod but requires the Dark Eldar ship to forgo taking other weaponry.
* Literature/TheLightFantastic: Twoflower is initially excited at the thought of fairies being around. Swires informs him, to no avail, that they don't have that kind of fairy. They have the (TheFairFolk) [[green: other kind of fairy]].
* ComicBook/WarOfTheRealms - LegionOfDoom: [[BigBad Malekith]] has assembled one consisting of (TheFairFolk) [[green:himself]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dario Agger]], [[AllTrollsAreDifferent King Ulik]], [[AnIcePerson King Laufey of Jotunheim]], [[PlayingWithFire Sindr, Queen of Cinders]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Queen]] of [[ComicBook/AngelaAsgardsAssassin Heven]], [[TheBrute Kurse]], ComicBook/TheEnchantress, ComicBook/{{Loki}} and their associated armies.
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[[folder:mysterious, often dangerous magical/otherworldly beings]]

[[folder: seemingly used interchangeably with "fairy", "nymph", "elves" / Unclear]]
* Fanfic/DigitalStorageSolutions: It is mentioned by the Troubleshooters that Fairy types think differently than normal humans and pokemon.

* Literature/InCryptid: Many cryptids are mistaken for the faerie. In "Survival Horror", Antimony mentions that the Covenant banished Robin Goodfellow from this plane of reality, implying he was real.
* Literature/SleepingBeauty: Don't snub them. The bad fairy seems to be a BlackSheep among a generally benign species, though.

* VideoGame/SaGaScarletGrace: In the region of Marchiam Ria, outside the influence of the Celestials, there are rumors of faeries and even people trying to hunt them. [[spoiler:If you play your cards right, they can teach you about DualWielding.]]

* Series/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell: They're so self-centered that if it wasn't for their powerful magic they'd quickly end up extinct. It's debatable whether the gentleman with the thistle-down hair even understood the concept that other people might have different opinions.
* Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E14InTheNameOfTheGrandfather: Leprechauns appear.
* Recap/NatsumesBookOfFriendsEpisode22TheManAmidstTheRowsOfCherryTrees: Natsume, who sees youkai every day and has a talking cat who is a giant inugami trapped in a ManekiNeko, thinks Nyanko is ridiculous for suggesting the flowers might have been left by fairies and getting a net to catch them with saying he doesn’t think imaginary creatures are to blame. Especially since TheFairFolk are traditionally described in ways that mirror descriptions of {{Youkai}}.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Ponyfinder}}'': "Satyrs" in this setting are the result of a human having a child with oine of several of the sapient quadrupedal animals from the setting. The result is a being who is human from the waist up and a bipedal non-human from the waist down, with extra traits like wings or horns depending on their precise ancestry. Explicitly compatible couplings include the myriad species of ponies, the purrsians (cats with wings), the ruminants (deer), and the krava (cows). Justified in that these sapient beasts all explicitly have origins as [[TheFairFolk fey creatures]], which means they are rooted a bit more in magic than in biology.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Sorcerers (innate magic users, as opposed to wizards who got their powers through study or warlock who got them through dark pacts) gain their powers from various supernatural forces breeding into their bloodline. The following is a current (early 2012) list of things which have created bloodlines for sorcerers: Aberrant (think Cthulhu Mythos-like monsters), Abyssal (Demons or worse), Accursed (Hags), Proteans (chaos spirits), Aquatic (anything from sea elves to deep ones), Arcane (plain ol' AWizardDidIt -- and how!), Boreal (giant and troll kin ala Norse Myth), Celestial (heavenly creatures), Deep Earth (earth spirits), several different kinds of genies and all four Western elemental types, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Draconic]], [[TheFairFolk Fey]], Infernal (Devils), Maestro (some musical monster from trumpet-wielding angels to shoggoths), Orc, Rakshasa (evil spirits of Buddhist myth), Serpentine (your friendly reptoids), Shadow (another dimension), Starsoul (spacefarers), Storm (unknown elemental spirits), [[ILoveTheDead Undead]], and Verdant (plants). It's probably better not to ask how some of those happened. There are even more bloodlines available from third party developers or for characters with unusual archetypes.
* Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake - ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': A member of [[TheFairFolk the Third Race]], she moved Excalibur to New York for unknown reasons, and came out of the artificial lake in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens when King Arthur came looking for it. WordOfGod says that Nimue also exists in this universe, [[DecompositeCharacter but as a separate character]].

* Literature/TheChildThief: Most of the book takes place in Faerie after all.
* WMG/PokemonFutureSpecies: An Unseelie Fae.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Ponyfinder}}'': "Satyrs" in this setting are the result of a human having a child with oine of several of the sapient quadrupedal animals from the setting. The result is a being who is human from the waist up and a bipedal non-human from the waist down, with extra traits like wings or horns depending on their precise ancestry. Explicitly compatible couplings include the myriad species of ponies, the purrsians (cats with wings), the ruminants (deer), and the krava (cows). Justified in that these sapient beasts all explicitly have origins as [[TheFairFolk fey creatures]], which means they are rooted a bit more in magic than in biology.

* Literature/TheChildThief: Most of the book takes place in Faerie after all.

* Literature/TheLightFantastic: Twoflower is initially excited at the thought of fairies being around. Swires informs him, to no avail, that they don't have that kind of fairy. They have the (TheFairFolk) [[green: other kind of fairy]].

* WMG/PokemonFutureSpecies: An Unseelie Fae.

* VideoGame/Unavowed: The Fae are considered highly dangerous, infamous for trading in [[DealWithTheDevil "favors"]] which those who seek them out swiftly come to regret. The ArcVillain for Wall Street is Roy Fellows, AKA [[LouisCypher Robin Goodfellow]] of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''.

[[folder: used interchangeably with "fairy", "nymph", "elves"]]

[[folder:Not enough Information to know how it's being used]]
* Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake - ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': A member of [[TheFairFolk the Third Race]], she moved Excalibur to New York for unknown reasons, and came out of the artificial lake in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens when King Arthur came looking for it. WordOfGod says that Nimue also exists in this universe, [[DecompositeCharacter but as a separate character]].
* VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey: The first three strata are beautiful woodscapes. The fourth stratum is a barren, sandy land where you have to kill a bunch of (TheFairFolk) [[green:Forest Folk]], but at least it's still nothing really out of the ordinary. Then comes the fifth stratum and you find the ruins of Shinjuku, establishing that the game's fantasy setting actually takes place after the end of a modern Earth.
* TabletopGame/BattlefleetGothic: (TheFairFolk) [[green:Dark Eldar]] ships have a unique form of boarding pod known as Impaler Assault Modules. Far larger than the Assault Boats of other races, the Impaler carries far more troops, and so has a far greater chance of causing damage in a boarding action, than a regular boarding pod but requires the Dark Eldar ship to forgo taking other weaponry.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Antagonistic and/or Evil]]

[[folder: Creepy, Changeling Myth Related, Potentially Steals Children]]
* NightmareFuel/PokemonPokedex: Morelull might be an adorable fairy mushroom, but the same cannot be said about its evolution Shiinotic, one of the [[TheFairFolk most explicitly malevolent Fairy-type Pokémon]] in the series. Not only does it have hyphae resembling CreepyLongFingers and a blank, staring face coupled with a rather disturbing SlasherSmile which also happens to look eerily cute, it also makes people lose their way in the woods via its luminescence, and uses its lights to put its victims to sleep, then use said hyphae to drain their strength.

[[folder:Tricksters, Manipulative, Changelings]]
* Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}: Fae in Gray World are severely persecuted by humans, and treated as third-class citizens. Everyone thinks of them as thieves and tricksters, a stereotype the nick... plays into perfectly happily. Whoops.
* Literature/FaeTales: (TheFairFolk) [[green:Fae]] [[ManipulativeBastard being]] [[JerkassGenie fae]]....or in the specific examples featured so far, a prayer heard by an underworld god, and a wish upon a falling star corrupted by a Mage's curse.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: used to just mean "fairy"]]

[[folder:ZCE and unclear potholes]]
* Literature/MovingPicturesDiscworld: The last book to use the idea of the [[CosmicHorror Things from the Dungeon Dimensions]] invading as a generalized threat -- later books would shift the idea of extradimensional threats to the (TheFairFolk) [[green:elves]] and others, while the former are simply used as reasons why Wizards are careful about using magic.
* Literature/TheChildThief: Most of the book takes place in Faerie after all.
* Literature/TheFeyAndTheFallen: The Sidhe are in a war with "The Fallen." Liam's father is a Sidhe warrior who is attempting to protect him and his mother from backlash from the Other Side.
* Literature/TheLightFantastic: Twoflower is initially excited at the thought of fairies being around. Swires informs him, to no avail, that they don't have that kind of fairy. They have the (TheFairFolk) [[green: other kind of fairy]].
* Literature/TheSeaOfTrolls: Elves in general, but they ''are'' capable of doing a HeelFaceTurn and gaining a soul.
* Literature/TheWickedYears - AdaptationSpeciesChange: Glinda is a normal human woman rather than of TheFairFolk.
* Literature/WyldingHall: William implies he believes the mysterious girl to be this.

* Roleplay/AWorldOfHeroes: Red Cap, an incredibly creepy girl ((TheFairFolk) [[green:who may not be human]]) who stalks Anima.
* Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace: Some of the wizards come off this way.
* WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans: Tasha in "Tale of the Mighty Knights".
* WMG/PokemonFutureSpecies: An Unseelie Fae.

[[folder:mysterious, often dangerous magical beings]]
!!Specified as fairies

[[folder: Other Assorted Fairy Associations]]
!!Antagonistic and/or Evil

!! Creepy, Changeling Myth Related, Potentially Steals Children

!! Tricksters, Manipulative
* Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}: Fae in Gray World are severely persecuted by humans, and treated as third-class citizens. Everyone thinks of them as thieves and tricksters, a stereotype the nick... plays into perfectly happily. Whoops.
* Literature/FaeTales: (TheFairFolk) [[green:Fae]] [[ManipulativeBastard being]] [[JerkassGenie fae]]....or in the specific examples featured so far, a prayer heard by an underworld god, and a wish upon a falling star corrupted by a Mage's curse.

!! Creepy, Antagonistic, Potentially Steals Children

!! Tricksters

* WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}: The Other Mother is no sparkling winged fairy, but she is heavily implied to be one of the Fair Folk. Her habit of luring away children to another world is reminiscent of changeling myths, and her creating the denizens of the Other World out of mundane objects like rats and pumpkins recalls the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. In addition, her weakness for games and challenges is a common trait of the faerie.

[[folder: used interchangeably as "fairy"]]
* Webcomic/TheKatbox: ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' Adventurer Dan learns how to cope with being what he's been taught to [[FantasticRacism hate]]. Also features, [[TheFairFolk Fae]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] and other demons.
* VideoGame/SaGaScarletGrace: In the region of Marchiam Ria, outside the influence of the Celestials, there are rumors of faeries and even people trying to hunt them. [[spoiler:If you play your cards right, they can teach you about DualWielding.]]

[[folder: fairies are tricksters and thieves]]
* Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}: Fae in Gray World are severely persecuted by humans, and treated as third-class citizens. Everyone thinks of them as thieves and tricksters, a stereotype the nick... plays into perfectly happily. Whoops.

[[folder:mysterious, often dangerous beings]]

!!Not Specified as a fairy

[[folder:not about a fairy, but maybe inspired by fairies]]
* WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}: The Other Mother is no sparkling winged fairy, but she is heavily implied to be one of the Fair Folk. Her habit of luring away children to another world is reminiscent of changeling myths, and her creating the denizens of the Other World out of mundane objects like rats and pumpkins recalls the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. In addition, her weakness for games and challenges is a common trait of the faerie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:not about a fairy, but maybe inspired by fairies]]
* WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}: The Other Mother is no sparkling winged fairy, but she is heavily implied to be one of the Fair Folk. Her habit of luring away children to another world is reminiscent of changeling myths, and her creating the denizens of the Other World out of mundane objects like rats and pumpkins recalls the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. In addition, her weakness for games and challenges is a common trait of the faerie.

[[folder:Correct]]

-> B: He just has that vibe, you Know?.\\
-> C: He's got more a [[Main/TheFairFolk Fae]] vibe.\\
-> B: What's the difference?\\
-> C: Abominations don't usually notice the puny mortals they squish beneath their foot-equivalents. Fae recognize that you're there, but they're likely to kill you for blinking at them. In other words, the Fae would answer your questions, even in their disturbing alien mentality manner.

[[folder:mysterious, dangerous beings, but not specified as fairies]]
* Webcomic/AllRosesHaveThorns: The sidhe, who are mysterious, beautiful, and completely, dangerously, unpredictable. ([[red:another example on the page calls them "magical creatures"]])