Line #3 WesternAnimation/Faeries1999


1	[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/faeries_film_from_1999.jpg]]
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3	''Faeries'' is a 1999 British animated film.
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5	While waiting for their new home to be renovated, Nellie and her younger brother George are sent to a farm in the countryside, much to George's delight and Nellie's disgust. However, the soon find out the farmhouse where they're staying is a stone's throw away from the portal to the faery world where magical adventure awaits them.
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7	Not to be confused with the 1981 Creator/{{CBS}} special of the same name.
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10	!!Examples
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12	* AdultsAreUseless: Nellie and George do almost everything important in the movie.
13	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: George is this to Nellie in the beginning of the film. Once she gets over her bad mood, she tolerates him a lot better.
14	* ArrangedMarriage: Between the Prince and faery Princess [[spoiler:Brigid. He calls it off after falling in love with a girl who also fits the prophecy. The Princess was okay with it after learning the Shapeshifter tricked her into thinking the Prince was being rude about no longer wanting to marry her.]]
15	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The good, beautiful fairies vs. the evil, ugly Shapeshifter and his minions. Though the Prince does hint that the latter are ugly ''because'' they are evil.
16	* CainAndAbel: The Shapeshifter is the Cain to the Prince's Abel.
17	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Prince and the Shapeshifter are called just that.
18	** The Prince is called Albrecht a few times, while his brother's name is never revealed.
19	* TheFairFolk: Most of the cast.
20	* FoodChains: George [[spoiler: takes a bite of a faery cake and is told he may never again leave...unless he and his sister complete three tasks.]]
21	* FourthDateMarriage: After their LoveAtFirstSight meeting, the Prince and [[spoiler: Brigid]] get married almost immediately.
22	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:After the misunderstanding caused by the Shapeshifter on that matter is cleared, faery Princess Brigid is so okay with the Prince calling off their marriage she lends a dress to her 'rival'.]]
23	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Broom. Grumpy, hates faeries, comes through and helps Nellie in the end when it's really needed.
24	* {{Keet}}: George, much to his sister's annoyance.
25	* LandOfFaerie: Where most of the movie takes place.
26	* LoveAtFirstSight: Between the Prince and [[spoiler: Brigid]].
27	* MacGuffin: The Orb. Not only does it contain very powerful magic, but [[spoiler: if the faeries lose it they also lose their immortality and become old and decrepit]].
28	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Said word-for-word by [[spoiler: Brigid]] after she steals the orb to save her friend's baby...and almost [[spoiler: kills all the other faeries by doing so]].
29	* OneSteveLimit: There are two characters named Brigid. One is a human and the other is a faery Princess.
30	* PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime:
31	-->Two human children from otherwhere,
32	-->One foot wet, flaming hair,
33	-->When they appear,
34	-->The time is near!
35	* ProphecyTwist: The Prince believes he must marry [[spoiler:faery Princess Brigid because a prophecy requires him to marry someone who goes by that name. Then he meets and falls in love with a human who also goes by that name.]]
36	* ReplacedWithReplica: After Brigid trades away the Royal Orb to the Shapeshifter, causing the Faeries to start rapidly aging, she and the kids steal it back by disguising a brooch on a needle with hobgoblin magic and switching them out. When the Shapeshifter comes to claim the Faerie kingdom, not only are they fully recovered, he has a piece of junk that falls apart and the Faerie prince has the real Orb, [[OhCrap with all its power.]]
37	* TheVoiceless: One of the faeries never speaks.
38	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Shapeshifter's main power. He transforms into people, animals, other faeries and [[spoiler: a monstrous mantis-dragon type creature.]]
39	* WingedHumanoid: All the faeries have either butterfly or dragonfly wings.
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