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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The original Puss in Boots is a talking cat but still a cat. Minkus turns human once Hans brings him the boots.


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* GratuitousFrench: Probably as a nod to the story's origins, Minkus loves lapsing into French in his human form.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Cat himself is called Minkus.
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* AlliterativeFamily: The three brothers are called Hermann, Hubert and Hans.
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* BabyBeMine: This version makes it clear Rumpelstiltskin plans to adopt the baby, as he is shown preparing a crib and even a mobile.
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* PlotAllergy: The king develops a severe allergy to gold, which forces him to abdicate in favor of his son and in addition ensures he will never force Lisa to spin gold again.
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* RaceLift: In the opera, [[ValuesDissonance notoriously]], Monostatos is black, while the lead characters are all presumably white; Papageno is terrified of Monostatos at first because he's never seen a black man before. In this version, Monostatos is white, while Papageno is black and Tamino's actor is of Moroccan descent.

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* RaceLift: In the opera, [[ValuesDissonance notoriously]], Monostatos is black, a black Moor, while the lead characters are all presumably white; Papageno is terrified of Monostatos at first because he's never seen a black man before. In this version, Monostatos is white, while Papageno is black and Tamino's actor is of Moroccan descent.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the opera, Tamino is a real prince. This version of Tamino is an orphan who survives by being a con artist, and only poses as a prince.
* RaceLift: In the opera, [[ValuesDissonance notoriously]], Monostatos is black, while the lead characters are all presumably white; Papageno is terrified of Monostatos at first because he's never seen a black man before. In this version, Monostatos is white, while Papageno is black and Tamino's actor is of Moroccan descent.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: The Queen of the Night is Pamina's stepmother rather than her real mother.
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''Sechs auf einen Streich'' (''Six with one Blow'', 2007—) is a German live-action TV series of fairytale adaptations, shown on Das Erste Deutsche Fernsehen. The seasons air yearly during Christmastime. The first season consisted of six episodes (hence the title). Initially concentrating on stories by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, the series has now adapted other authors too. Currently the show has fifteen seasons and 54 episodes, with the sixteenth season due December 2023.

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''Sechs auf einen Streich'' (''Six with one Blow'', 2007—) is a German live-action TV series of fairytale adaptations, shown on Das Erste Deutsche Fernsehen. The seasons air yearly during Christmastime. The first season consisted of six episodes (hence the title). Initially concentrating on stories by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, the series has now adapted other authors too. Currently the show has fifteen sixteen seasons and 54 56 episodes, with the sixteenth seventeenth season due December 2023.2024.
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!! Die verkaufte Prinzessin
Based on old Bavarian legends.
!! Das Märchen von der Zauberflöte
Based on ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute''.
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* GoodStepmother: The ending implies Marie is soon to become one to Hänsel and Gretel.
* HistoryRepeats: Many years ago, Marie and her sister have been abandoned by their parents in the forest.

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* GoodStepmother: The ending implies Marie is soon to become one to Hänsel and Gretel.
* HistoryRepeats: Many years ago, Marie and her sister have been were abandoned by their parents in the forest.
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* {{Transflormation}}: Whenever a witch's captive attempts to escape, they start to turn into a tree as soon as they are thirty-three steps away from the house. Gretel almost meets that fate and barely escapes by turning back.

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* {{Transflormation}}: Whenever a witch's captive attempts to escape, they start to turn into a tree as soon as they are thirty-three steps away from the house. Gretel almost meets that fate and barely escapes by turning around. In the end, many other captives who attempted to run away are turned back.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: A minor case with Hänsel and Gretel. In the original story, there is no mention of any strife between them, while here, Hänsel occasionally belittles Gretel for being a "fearful hare".


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* TookALevelInBadass: Gretel starts off more timid than her assertive brother, as well as a ClingyChild (which is natural since she is several years Hänsel's junior). She becomes the one to defeat the witch.
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* NonHumanSidekick: Marie and the witch each have one in the form of a duck (and their ducks are called [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Jakob and Wilhelm]] respectively).

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* NonHumanSidekick: Marie and the witch each have one in the form of a duck (and their ducks are called [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Jakob and Wilhelm]] respectively).respectively), except that the witch has turned hers into a toad.
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* {{Transflormation}}: Whenever a witch's captive attempts to escape, they start to turn into a tree as soon as they are thirty-three steps away from the house. Gretel almost meets that fate and barely escapes by turning back.

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* AdaptationalSympathy: The stepmother's lack of love for the children is shown to be not ''solely'' her own fault, since Hänsel and Gretel constantly bring up the times when "Mama was alive", even when the stepmother is doing nothing wrong, and blame the stepmother for the famine even though she has nothing to do with it.

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The stepmother's lack of love for the children is shown to be not ''solely'' her own fault, since Hänsel and Gretel constantly bring up the times when "Mama was alive", even when the stepmother is doing nothing wrong, and blame the stepmother for the famine even though she has nothing to do with it.it.
** The witch was abandoned by her parents in the woods. She even gets a HiddenDepths moment when she is reminded of that day by the stormy weather and ''almost'' opens up to Gretel.



* BerserkButton: It's almost impossible to offend Marie... unless you call you a ''witch''.



* EvilTwin: The witch to Marie the forest fairy.
* FaceHeelTurn: Happened long ago to the witch, courtesy of her parents.
* FreudianExcuse: The witch was left by her parents in the woods. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Downplayed]], since her sister suffered the same fate and nevertheless hasn’t grown evil.

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* EvilTwin: The witch to Marie the kind and sweet forest fairy.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Happened long ago to the witch, courtesy of her parents. \n They abandoned her in the woods, and she began to hate them, until there was nothing left in her but the hatred.
* FreudianExcuse: The witch was left abandoned by her parents in the woods. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Downplayed]], since her sister suffered the same fate and nevertheless hasn’t grown evil.



* NonHumanSidekick: Marie and the witch each have one in the form of a duck.
* LightIsGood: The first definite sign that Marie and the witch are different people is when Marie goes into the bright sunshine and smiles happily.

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* NonHumanSidekick: Marie and the witch each have one in the form of a duck.duck (and their ducks are called [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Jakob and Wilhelm]] respectively).
* LightIsGood: LightIsGood:
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The first definite sign that Marie and the witch are different people is when Marie goes into the bright sunshine and smiles happily.happily.
** Marie's house is a pure white tent.
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* NonHumanSidekick: Marie and the witch each have one in the form of a goose.

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* NonHumanSidekick: Marie and the witch each have one in the form of a goose.duck.
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* LightIsGood: The first definite sign that Marie and the witch are different people is when Marie goes into the bright sunshine and smiles happily.
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* WeakenedByTheLight: Sunlight is painful to the witch, and even her house is kept mostly dark.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Marie can be a bit... off, what with her, for example, giving magical berries to the children's father and causing him to briefly turn green, all because she mixed up these berries with ordinary blueberries by accident. It's part of a RedHerring, since for quite a while, the viewer isn't aware it's not the witch.


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* RedHerring: At first, it seems that the witch has tracked down the children's father and is now either stalling him or planning to curse or trap him, until it's finally revealed it's not the witch but her [[PolarOppositeTwins twin sister]] Marie.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Although the stepmother still decides to abandon the children, before that, she fervently tries to fetch a good price for the wood, something her literary counterpart never did. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished However]], it backfires, since her attempts to raise the price result in the merchant refusing to trade altogether.


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* AdaptationalSympathy: The stepmother's lack of love for the children is shown to be not ''solely'' her own fault, since Hänsel and Gretel constantly bring up the times when "Mama was alive", even when the stepmother is doing nothing wrong, and blame the stepmother for the famine even though she has nothing to do with it.

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* ChicAndAwe: Anton starts saying "How ugly the princesses must...", only for twelve gorgeous princesses to appear in the windows and on the walls of the castle. He lamely finishes "...be" when it's clear he's already giving Amanda a LongingLook.



* InstantlyProvenWrong: Anton starts saying "How ugly the princesses must...", only for twelve gorgeous princesses to appear in the windows and on the walls of the castle. He lamely finishes "...be" when it's clear he's already giving Amanda a LongingLook.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The little mermaid Undine [[SparedByTheAdaptation doesn't die in the end]]. It turns out that the witch only made her believe she would die if the prince married another as a SecretTestOfCharacter: by refusing to kill the prince even to save her own life, she proves that she already has a soul. So she remains human, gets her voice back, and sets out to explore the world.

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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The little mermaid Undine [[SparedByTheAdaptation doesn't die in the end]]. It turns out that Mydra, the witch witch, only made her believe she would die if the prince married another as a SecretTestOfCharacter: by refusing to kill the prince even to save her own life, she proves that she already has a soul. So she remains human, gets her voice back, and sets out to explore the world.
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* MythologyGag: The magical servant from the blue light suggests making the princess work like a housemaid for the soldier, which is what happens in the original story. Here, though, Jakob rejects the idea at once.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The witch plots to trap the soldier into marriage.

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Based on ''Literature/SnowWhite''
* DeathByAdaptation: The original tale never mentions Snow White's father the King again after he remarries. In this version, he has a heart attack from the shock of his daughter's disappearance and dies.

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Based on ''Literature/SnowWhite''
''Literature/SnowWhite''.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Probably an ubiquituos trope in ''Snow White'' adaptations – unlike in the original, the prince appears (in disguise) early in the film and shares a romantic moment with Snow White.
* DeathByAdaptation: The original tale never mentions Snow White's father the King again after he remarries. In this version, he has dies of a heart attack from the shock of when he realizes his daughter's disappearance wife was EvilAllAlong and dies.his daughter was (as he believes) killed by her.



* EvilIsPetty: The Queen orders the portrait of Snow White's mother to be thrown away, just to make sure there's no one whose rank equals hers.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The King genuinely thinks his new wife loves him. He only realizes how wrong he has been when she gloats about Snow White being "away forever". Even Snow White wises up a lot earlier than that.



* SparedByTheAdaptation: The Queen isn't killed in the end, but simply banished by Snow White, who refuses to execute her because [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim she doesn't want to be like her.]]

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: The Queen isn't killed in the end, but simply banished by Snow White, who refuses to execute her because [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim she doesn't want to be like her.]]her]].

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: As king, Ilsebill decides to outlaw flounder fishing as thanks for the magical flounder granting her wishes. She does no such thing in the original.

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** In the original, Ilsebill does nothing but bully and boss around her husband. Here, while she does get DrunkOnPower, even in her emperor and Pope stages she makes it clear that she loves him.
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* WackyCravings: Hein and Ilsebill get the first hints of her pregnancy thanks to her craving unusual foods.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: As king, Ilsebill decides to outlaw flounder fishing as thanks for the magical flounder granting her wishes. She does no such thing in the original.
* AdaptationalSympathy: Ilsebill's earlier demands aren't made out of mere selfish greed — when she wishes first for a nicer house and then for a palace, she genuinely wants both both herself and Hein to live more comfortably, and when she wishes to become a king, it's after her aristocratic neighbors scorn her.
* BabiesEverAfter: By the end, Ilsebill realizes she is pregnant.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Ilsebill is the Pope, she confesses she feels terribly constrained by the heavy elaborate clothes and is tired of the smell of frankincense. Not to mention the beyond weird SexlessMarriage she now has with Hein.
* HotterAndSexier: For a children's fairytale film, and compared to the rest of the episodes — certainly. Hein and Ilsebill duck under the blankets with the pretty transparent implication they'll have sex, and later, when Ilsebill is the Pope, she rejects Hein when he reaches out to her at night.
* SheIsTheKing: Like in the original, Ilsebill becomes the king, the emperor, and the Pope.
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Based on Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's tale ''The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack''

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Based on Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's tale ''The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack''''Literature/TheTableTheDonkeyAndTheStick''



* BreakTheHaughty: The whole premise of Richard’s plan is to get Isabella to be more humble and see beyond appearances.
* CanonForeigner: Thrushbeard’s father, Ottokar, and sister, Maximiliane, don't appear in the fairytale.
* TomboyPrincess: Maximiliane walks around in a man’s clothing and practices fencing with her brother.
* YoungLoveVersusOldHate: The adaptation gives the couple another set of problems in making their fathers each other’s enemies.

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* BreakTheHaughty: The whole premise of Richard’s Richard's plan is to get Isabella to be more humble and see beyond appearances.
* CanonForeigner: Thrushbeard’s Thrushbeard's father, Ottokar, and sister, Maximiliane, don't appear in the fairytale.
* TomboyPrincess: Maximiliane walks around in a man’s man's clothing and practices fencing with her brother.
* YoungLoveVersusOldHate: The adaptation gives the couple another set of problems in making their fathers each other’s other's enemies.



Based on ''Mother Hulda''. It borrows some traits from the 1977 German adaptation.

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Based on ''Mother Hulda''.''Literature/MotherHolle''. It borrows some traits from the 1977 German adaptation.



Based on Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's tale ''The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs''.

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Based on Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's tale ''The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs''.''Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs''.
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* DanceOfRomance: Subverted. Nikolas and Undine share a dance, complete with romantic music… but moments later, Nikolas makes it abundantly clear he sees Undine as a sister and loves Anneline.

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* DanceOfRomance: Subverted. Nikolas and Undine share a first dance, complete with romantic music… but moments later, Nikolas makes it abundantly clear he sees Undine as a sister and loves Anneline.

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