A Snow White Christmas is a 1980 Christmas Special based on the Snow White franchise which first aired on CBS.
In the years since Snow White and Prince Charming's Happily Ever After, the two, now the benevolent and beloved Queen and King of a kingdom called Noel, have a daughter also named Snow White. Life is happy as they all prepare for the upcoming Christmas season. However, as the younger Snow White wishes to have that "creepy old castle" on top of a mountain on the outskirts of the town turned into a Christmas castle for the children, her parents worry about their traumatic past experiences with the long-frozen Evil Queen...
This special has the following tropes:
- Ancestral Name: Princess Snow White from the original fairy tale marries the prince, becomes a queen, and has a daughter she also names "Snow White".
- Animorphism: One of the Evil Quen's plans is to turn herself into a giant black rat, enter the giants' cottage, and try to devour Princess Snow White.
- Cheerful Child: The Princess Snow White. While her age is unstated, she has a heart of gold and only thinks about others in the kingdom, even wishing to build a castle for the (younger) children.
- Evil Laugh: The Queen lets out a vicious one upon being defrosted.
- Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: The Evil Queen wears heavy blue eyeshadow to match her Evil Eyebrows.
- Gainax Ending: For reasons left unexplained, the Evil Queen melts when the Magic Mirror is destroyed.
- Gentle Giant: All of them, but especially Tiny, the rotund and kindhearted one. He even sleeps with a teddy bear. Aww.
- Good Princess, Evil Queen: As usual, the Evil Queen, Snow White's stepmother, is the main antagonist. However, Snow White, this time around, is The Good Queen of her kingdom, and has a daughter, also named Snow White. It is the princess Snow White who is pitted against her villainous queenly step-grandparent.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Hicker's hiccups. The more stressed he is, the worse they become, even to the point of destroying the Evil Queen's castle.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Brawny. He has a tough, unfeeling exterior and attitude, but he's actually quite fond of Snow White and even cries when he thought she was dead.
- History Repeats: Just like with Snow White, the mother, and the poisoned apple, the Evil Queen recycles her plan by transforming into a giant old woman and giving a flower with a sleeping spell for the Snow White, the daughter, to smell.
- Implacable Woman: Good God does the Evil Queen have a serious bone to pick with Snow White, having no qualms with killing anyone who stands in her way.
- It's Personal: The Giants set out to get revenge on the Queen after she poisons Snow White.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Queen Snow White builds a large stained glass structure in her snowy kingdom. At a certain time of the day, the Sun shines its ray on the glass structure just right, and it reflects on the mound of snow that hid a frozen Evil Queen. This causes her to defrost, thus starting the story of the special.
- No-Sell: The Queen tries to drown Snow White, Grunyon and the Giants. Whereas the former two are saved by getting on Brawny's ax, the giants themselves were stunned and temporarily knocked out, but being giants they were fine.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: Instead of the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White meets their cousins, the Seven Giants. Like the dwarfs in the Disney version, they each have names indicative of their personality.
- Real Men Hate Affection: Brawny.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Evil Queen wears a long black dress with a matching red cape.
- The Reveal: As her castle crumbles, the Evil Queen begs the Magic Mirror for more power. However, in a strange twist, the mirror says it is the Evil Queen, then cracks in pieces. The Queen melts and dissolves into purple smoke after that.
- Rule of Seven: Snow White's helpers this time around are not seven dwarves, but "seven friendly giants".
- Summon Magic: The Evil Queen summons her "pets", seven giant demons, to protect her castle in the climax.
- Vague Age: Snow White. She is obviously a minor, but it's unclear if she's a preteen (10-12) or a teenager (13-19). She also mentions a desire to have a castle for children of Noel to be built, which may or may not exclude herself from that group.
- Weather Manipulation:
- After being unfrozen, the Evil Queen commands the cold winds to freeze Snow White's entire kingdom, leaving the princess and Grunyon the only survivors.
- Near the end of the movie, the Evil Queen summons lightning and thunder to deter the giants before they reach her castle.
- Would Hurt a Child: In addition of trying to kill Snow White and Grunyon, the Evil Queen also freezes every child in Noel, including babies.
