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— Digital instruction manual for: Kid Icarus A series of platformer/shooter games made by, Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami note Myth of Light: The Mirror of Palutena) in Japan. They take place in Angel Land, though largely influenced by, in which a Goddess named Palutena (either a of ', or a portmanteau of Pallas-Athena) rules the and Medusa rules. Medusa invades Skyworld and kidnaps Palutena which leaves her bodyguard, the erstwhile angel Pit (artistically based on the putti and Cupid), to escape from the Underworld, gather up the three sacred relics, and defeat Medusa and her legions of demons, a few of which were inspired by Greek/Roman mythology, and. Life-energy sucking aliens called Komaytos, which aren't even trying to hide the fact that they're based on (the game was designed by Metroid creator, used the same engine, most of the development was done by Toru Osawa who also worked on Metroid and, in international releases of the first game (except the 3D Classics, which has a save feature worldwide), similar password systems are used for resuming games). It was followed by a sequel for the ( Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters) in which Pit had to train himself to use the sacred relics once more to defeat an invading army of demons lead by Orcos. The character also starred as a member of the of.

After that, the series dropped completely off the radar for over ten years, despite a small but regular desire for a sequel pretty much since the days of the SNES. Then Pit was included in Brawl, complete with a radical makeover, and the crowd went wild. A new title, called, was released for the in March 2012, using and expanding on the character redesigns from Brawl and giving new personalities and voices to many of the characters.

The gameplay retained its shooter aspects, but shifted to a 3D third-person perspective, and gave Pit access to many more weapons and powers. Pit would then return for Super Smash Bros. For 3DS/Wii U, along with Palutena (in her first playable appearance) and Dark Pit, a new character from Uprising;, many of the elements from that game found their way into Smash. All three games were headed by, with both the Smash and Kid Icarus series at that point. Now has and pages in progress. Put all tropes specific to Uprising on. Tropes that apply to the series as a whole: •: Many of the characters fall into this post-redesign due to their quirky personalities and occasional use of.

Pit himself is probably the biggest example, but Palutena is no slouch either. •: Three shorts based on the series were released to promote Uprising. While two of them mostly served as Uprising side stories, one of them ( Medusa's Revenge) is a prequel to the first game, fleshing out Medusa's transformation into a monster at Palutena's hands. •: The Underworld monsters. Only one's been introduced, but presumably those who dwell in the Evil land too. •: • The sticky talons wear sunglasses.

• You can acquire a credit card note And not an early 1900s charge account card either, it clearly has a magnetic strip for an electronic card reader. •: Collin, an enemy in the games, is a soldier of Palutena that had his body taken over by Medusa, and monsters pop out of his body! •: The franchise's characters and aesthetics were redesigned in a more realistic, anime-like style when Sakurai brought them back for Brawl (which continued into Uprising). Unlike, Kid Icarus was stagnant and largely unknown for almost 20 years; Pit's Brawl redesign was based on the premise of in the same manner as Link, but the contrast is much more noticeable due to Link still having gone through himself while Kid Icarus was dormant. •: • Not an animal, but Pit can be in all three of the games (though in it wears off without the need for a hospital). In the he is turned into a monster. • In the first game and as seen in Medusa's Revenge, Medusa was turned into a hideous monster by Palutena as punishment for her evil deeds.

• There is also the harp item which turns enemies into hammers. They will change back if you don't grab them quickly enough. •: Mostly played straight. Palutena fits this trope like a glove, being a beautiful goddess (in fact, her redesign makes her attractiveness no longer ). While Medusa is just as beautiful at first, Palutena turns her into a monster for her evil deeds, playing even more into this trope. •: Medusa in the first game and Orcos in the second.

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Uprising brings back Medusa as the, with Hades as the primary threat. •: Palutena, in all three games. She's the Goddess of Light and ruler of Skyworld; in Uprising, she actually lives up to this trope and assists Pit throughout his quest. •: • Getting turned into an ambulatory eggplant?

Oh, that's creepy. Particularly if you can't get to the hospital. • Medusa was turned into a monster by Palutena. •: As a nod to its sister game, one of the enemies that shows up in the first and third games is the Komayto, short for 'Little.' Note In Japanese, it's spelled as 'Kometo': short for 'ko metoroido.' The resemblance is stated outright in Uprising. This doubles as a dev team in-joke, since Kid Icarus was built on the same game engine as Metroid and shared the same staff.

•: Palutena and Medusa have this type of relationship. It's not hard to guess which one is the It's subverted in that Palutena did not kill her herself, she only turned her into a monster and banished her. The angel Pit the •: Despite the manual artwork of Medusa as an overweight woman, she is actually a version of Medusa cursed into a hideous cyclops head. •: The residents of the Underworld including are, and Medusa is the Goddess of Darkness.

•: enemies are very hated for it. •: Palutena, which is more apparent with her redesign.

•: Palutena and Medusa; see below. •: Has a mix between this and Greek/Roman gods.

•: Pit has the classic for some unexplained reason. It's quite the sore spot for him. In, Palutena can grant Pit the Power of Flight to guide him places as if he were flying, but not for more than five minutes at a time, or else Pit's wings will come aflame. By contrast, his Dark Pit gained limitless flight under his own power by slaying Pandora and plundering her powers until he travelled to the Rewind Spring, where Pandora revived herself from said powers. •: While it's probably not actually supposed to be heaven, Skyworld certainly looks the part. •: * The of the games serves the very literal Skyworld and its benevolent goddess, Palutena. The realm is overflowing with clouds, brave soldiers with, and temples dedicated to Palutena.

In case you forget where the good guys work after all that, every level in Uprising ends with the protagonist being surrounded by and flying straight up towards the realm of Palutena. •: Palutena seems to like to turn people into monsters as punishment. She also gives the sacred treasures to monsters in the Game Boy game, because she knows they will fight Pit when he tries to reclaim them. This side of her personality would be emphasized more in later games, where she became an outright despite her status as the radiant Goddess of Light. •: Medusa was originally as beautiful as Palutena, but Palutena into a hideous Gorgon.

However, it looks like her spell is wearing off somewhat. It's implied the ◊ seen at the end of the original Kid Icarus was actually her goddess form, as it resembles ◊ •: Averted: Pit wears a helmet in the last level of the first game, even though it wasn't one of the mentioned treasures he collected. The Silver Armor comes with a helmet in Of Myth And Monsters. In Uprising and for his Final Smash in the fourth Smash Bros., Pit wears a helmet again (along with a full set of armor) due to his having collected the Three Sacred Treasures. •: The games are themed after Greek mythology, but the Underworld, Overworld, and Skyworld that make up the setting are collectively referred to as 'Angel Land', and Pit is an angel. Overworld even has graves with crosses on them in the first game. • A putto is not out of place in a Greek Mythology world, and while putti in Greek myth were much different from angels, that did not stop Italian artists from treating them like angels during the renascence period, meaning the hijack predates Kid Icarus.

• That Medusa is a goddess (in the classical tales she was the only Gorgon not to be immortal) may refer to Hellinism highjacking Berber culture. Some historians argue Medusa was an aspect of Athena in Libya before Greek scribes got their hands on her. •: The games feature a curious example: Pit's bows do have strings, but only when he is shooting an arrow. They strangely disappear when not in use. Smash not only omits the bowstring, but allows him to separate the bow into two swords, which plays even more into this trope.

•: Medusa's goal in both of her appearances. •: The Underworld theme is the most iconic music of the series. Though given the it's not too uprising. •: Palutena, in direct contrast to Medusa, is the Goddess of Light. •: The of the first game and the third game.

•: Though, since Pit's arrows are made of light. (At least as part of the Three Sacred Treasures, and in the newer games he shows up in.) •: The title. There's no one named Icarus,. The second game names Palutena's guard the 'Icarus Army' of which Pit is a member, making it a little less jarring, though the Japanese had to wait until the early 2010s to be able to play that game, when it got a Virtual Console, since only international releases were made, with the Japanese receiving the North American version (fortunately for them, English classes are mandatory there, and the game isn't very plot-heavy). • many years later in Uprising, where in one of the tutorial videos, Pit wonders just who this 'Icarus' guy is, and when he'll get to meet him. Palutena tells him not to worry about it.

And then again in Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, where the cast discusses the naming mistake in relation to being called 'Metroid'. • Surprisingly it has a relation to the Icarus from Mythology. Icarus was a human who attempted to fly with wings made of wax, and died because he flew near the sun which melted the wax. Pit can't fly. The only relation you can get in the first games of the series.

Uprising has Pit able to fly for a 5 minutes or less, or else his wings would hypothetically burn up, somewhat like the namesake. That is exactly what happens when he demands more air time in order to.

•: Pit resembles Cupid and the putti of the Renaissance art. His proportions would sometimes be baby-like and sometimes child- or teenager-like, before finally settling on the latter for his redesign. •: Hewdraw is little more than a sea serpent. In Uprising he becomes a flying hydra.

•: Throughout the series, Pit defeats all manner of powerful gods and. •: Rare example of this trope not belonging to the. Palutena has one in the form of the Icarus Army. Pit,, is their leader. •: • In the manual and Japanese advert, and even in the final battle, Medusa is depicted as a giant, overweight cyclops monster, even so big that she takes up a whole wall in the final stage.

Once defeated, however, she returns to being the same size as Palutena, This version of Medusa is more prominent in Uprising, where her monstrous form is a last-minute transformation. • Both Pit and Palutena received brand-new, anime-styled redesigns for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which were retained and further refined for subsequent games. •: Pit grew rapidly from child to adult in the good ending of the first game. Post-series revival, he remains a young teenager, so this ending is widely assumed to be non-canon; however, a younger Pit appears in the anime short Medusa's Revenge more closely resembling his appearance in the early games, which brings the whole thing into question (whether the ending is truly non-canon or whether he aged naturally for 25 years). •: Palutena has hair that goes down to her ankles.

•: Medusa, the, has snakes growing in her hair. •: Pit is able to use the holy Light Arrows, once wielded by the goddess Palutena. •: Several enemies are named after deities and beasts from Greek mythology, though many of these names have been slightly altered (or, more likely, bungled in the translation). Also look out for (Shulm) and. Finally, one monster is called and takes the form of an oversized mouth with its tongue sticking out, and the worm-like Eeleye which emerges from the Collin soldiers/suits of armour is called Phil in Japan.

Note The English version of Uprising drops the pretense and reverts the Eeleye's name back to 'Phil'. • The items Pit needs to collect on his quest are called the Three Sacred Treasures (there's four of them; the Light Arrows and Wings of Pegasus are in both games, but the Mirror Shield was replaced by the Silver Armor in Of Myths and Monsters, though it seems some kind of armor was part of the original set anyway) While they're not, the naming convention for the set of items was probably intentional. •: In both the polygonal and pop-out-at-you sense.

Though most people tend to forget the second game existed, just counting the first and Uprising. •: The two lead characters underwent this under Sakurai. • In Brawl, Pit got a much more physically able, realistically-proportioned design, and gained the ability to separate his Palutena Bow into dual swords or use it as a double-bladed staff. Uprising then gave him access to even more weapons and had him take down the universe's version of, and he would bring all these traits back into the fourth Smash game. • Brawl also had Palutena actively help Pit during his Final Smash by summoning her army of Centurions. In Uprising, she would take an even more proactive role and aid Pit by granting him various powers and helping him along the way, and fought him directly when possessed by the Chaos Kin.

The fourth Smash game then had her fight on her own, using the powers she granted Pit. •: Probably the strangest rendition of ever conceived.

Then Pit's Brawl appearance gave an illusion of Zelda-like semi-normalcy to the uninitiated. Only to be completely shattered in Uprising where the quirkiness levels were cranked.

•: Pit obviously, as well as Dark Pit, his not-so- in Uprising. Also the Syren.

•: Palutena,. •: Palutena (green; later becoming a case of ), and Pit goes through different hair colors at different power levels in the NES game and blue is the strongest. Uprising adds many more crazy hair colors, most notably those belonging to Hades and Amazon Pandora. Tropes that apply to the first two games: •: In the of the first game. Oddly, it's that does it to him. Maybe this is really supposed to be the joke ending? It likely is — that ending is actually considered the hardest to achieve in the game, since getting that ending means you have to be playing a, and a minimal equipped Pit is a wimpy Pit, and the.

Still, who can say? •:The second game feels more like a prequel in this regard. Pit has no strength levels, health extension or times from the NES game and is told he is not ready to use the three sacred treasures even though he can use them for free in the first. •: The invincible Pluton would steal one of Pit's special weapons and. Even worse; there was.

Sticky talons too, but they are destructible. •: •: The Angel Feather in the first game. If you fall down with at least one in your inventory, Pit will slowly fly back up.

You have to land him on a platform after the Feather's effect wears off, or else he'll actually die. •: In the ending of Of Myths and Monsters, Pit's wings fall/rip off in front of a overly, presumably leaving Pit to plummet to his death. No wonder it's called Kid. •: Pit has been making cameos for in his 8-bit form. •: Palutena in the original game. Apparently, being a goddess does not make one immune to this trope. •: The Overworld fortress guardian in Of Myth And Monsters.

•: Considering what Kid Icarus shares its engine with, it is not surprising. •: The American version made a few changes to the: the screen scrolls automatically rather than based on the player's movement, you no longer have to hold the Jump button to fly, you can fly through the bricks and pillars, and enemy patterns have been changed. These differences make the American version a little easier. •: Especially in the vertically scrolling levels. •: Palutena having a dream about her palace's destruction is what kicks off the Of Myths And Monsters plot. •: Pit can collect hammers to use in the fortress. Hammers deal a good deal of damage to enemies but the main usage is using them to free stone Centurions.

Hammers were much more useful in the sequel. •: The first couple levels are very difficult due to the lack of powerups and health. Gets a lampshade in Uprising, with Pit and Palutena reminiscing about how deadly the Underworld is.

•: The pre-Sakurai era can seem rather bizarre to people who got acquainted with Pit through Smash and Uprising. Character designs were very simplistic and cartoonish (mostly apparent in-game with Pit's sprite), Pit could only fight with his bow (which he couldn't even split into two swords like in Brawl), and he had to go to to be transformed back from an eggplant note granted, Uprising would introduce different anachronisms, but not to that extent. •: In both Kid Icarus and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters. The latter's one can be considered as a particular case of, if only because how Pit looks while he's facing the player when killed, not to mention his soul separates from his body, which proceeds to fall down the screen while his soul ascends to the heavens.

•: In the Famicom version, to get the bad ending where Pit turns into a monster, you'll have to do a. •: Due to a loss in the form's mobility, Of Myth And Monsters lets Pit use hammers to defend himself if struck with the egg plant curse. This does not remove any need to get to a nurse to complete the fortress but makes the trip bearable. •: This is how the first and second games start — Pit has fallen into Hades and must fight his way back up. •: A happy looking sun appears at the end of the second game.

•: Most enemies appear in groups of four, most notably the Reapettes. The centurions come in waves of three and they fight alongside Pit, making four. •: The NES manual has a depiction of a fully nude (nipples and everything) •: The Big Toes that fall from the sky in the Game Boy game are a little smaller than most examples. Also, Orcos shows one of the usual size. •: The first world is technically Pit escaping from his imprisonment in the Underworld to go kick Medusa's ass. No wonder it was •: Don claims the lakes in the game boy game are poisoned. •: The good ending of the first game shows Pit growing in size and getting by Palutena.

•: Hot springs heal you, Of Myths and Monsters however is not above sticking tower-enemies in them. •: The fortress guardians in the first game have counters for how many hits they need to take. •: The good ending of the first game. •: In both games, every door outside of the fortress remains shut once you've entered and exited it but the gameboy game lets you buy one time use keys, which can reopen any door and once you've used every door in a level you can use Palutena's key to open them all back up. Even after making Palutena's key available you still have to destroy the level with hammers to reveal where it is hidden. •: Pit killed Medusa in the first game.

•: Medusa is larger then any other enemy in the game. Orcos from the Game Boy sequel seems to be a subversion, but eventually goes to size! •: Orcos impressively goes up to size. •: The final stage in the original game.

• In truth, the final level runs as long as it takes for you to accumulate enough points in the level to continue on to the battle with Medusa. If you don't have enough points, the stage will loop back from the start. It shouldn't take more than two trips through the level, though, unless you're not killing anything. •: If you beat Kid Icarus (NES) in a minimalist speed-run instead of making an honest time-consuming grind, Palutena 'promotes' you to serve as some kind of Janitor because she believes that you are a lucky fraud for saving Angel Land from Medusa. •: The Underworld fortress guardian in of Myth And Monsters. Few players got by him.

Those that did tended to be annoyed to learn he was an. •: Myth and Monsters has updated graphics but is otherwise nearly identical to the first game for the gameplay and progression.

•: The ending you get in the first Kid Icarus is affected by the number of hearts, weapons, hit point upgrades and strength upgrades you've collected. • The first Kid Icarus is a rare example that PUNISHES: You get the bad ending if you fail to max out any of the four categories. •: In the NES version only, pressing 'Start' at the conclusion of the end credits restarted the game but with Pit as powered up as he had been before (minus the three sacred treasures, of course).

•: Like difficulty curves? Then you'll love the new 'difficulty cliff'! It starts out extremely difficult, but out of nowhere it becomes easy.. It is • For some, the last dungeon ( 3-4) might be a brain-wreckingly difficult.

• Its difficulty is alleviated in the -port, which seems to be mainly based on the Japanese version, and thus has a save-feature (comparable to ), meaning you can just reload your savestate on the latest level reached. Additionally, you can choose between two control modes, ' and 'ORIGINAL'.

ORIGINAL has Pit maneuver like in his NES-title; CUSTOM, on the other hand, gives him much smoother run- and jump-physics, a faster shooting-frequency, being able to jump while aiming up, and being able to slow his descent like in Of Myths and Monsters. Believe it or not, this makes the game much more accessible and manageable. •: While Pit's sprites in Of Myths and Monsters generally look better than in his NES-debut, ◊ -sprites look pretty weird, the latter being quite the bit of.

•: One of the main sources of difficulty in the first game. •: The Centurions.

Turned into stone by Medusa, you spend half your time in the dungeons saving them with Hammers(?!) only to have them drop like flies when they attempt to fight the bosses, who aren't that tough anyway. •: The -rerelease of the first game has some really nice-looking backgrounds. •: Infamously so. The first levels are teeth-gnashingly difficult, not only because you have no power-ups, but since you're climbing upward, the is effectively chasing you. ( Uprising has a nod to this, with Pit having very unpleasant memories of dying repeatedly there.) The second world is side-scrolling and quite a bit easier. The third spikes the difficulty with another upward climb, and the final level (where you have laser arrows) is so easy it's practically a. In addition, each fortress is an exercise in eggplant-induced masochism, but the fortress bosses are pushovers.

•: The Fire Serpent in Of Myth And Monsters, guardian of the Skyworld fortress. The head is different from the other parts and is the only part that can be damaged. Foundry Nuke Software Free Download With Crack more.

— The Fairies, William Allingham Modern society has lived with the version of fairies for so long — the of and, Tinker Bell in note That very much depends which version you're talking about; even in the Disney movie she tries to have Wendy killed — that it seems hard to imagine that some would consider Fairies evil. And yet, some of them were. The fairies of old weren't. Elves didn't. At best, they would interact with humans with either no thought to the consequences of their actions (the who put to sleep) note That was the ghosts of Henry Hudson and his crew; however, traditionally, the line between fairies and ghosts has. Not been sharp.

Or as tricksters that delight in the mess they're making of mortal lives (Oberon, Puck, and the rest in ). At worst, they're like; otherworldly horrors who kidnap humans for use as playthings to assault, torture, or eat — or sometimes even worse things (some versions of '). The Fair Folk almost always live in the, and may be depicted as an. They are usually vulnerable to, though not always. (Dullahan are weak to gold.) For more information, including much of what used to be this page's description, please see. In a manner of speaking, the old version of fairies has been replaced with. In both cases, you have who are ineffable and don't understand humanity, who randomly abduct humans, play with them, and return them with and occasionally.

Periodically, there are tales of those who have dealt with them and benefited, but for the most part, mundanes are merely their playthings. Frequently found in concert with, as the original folklore of the darker breeds of fairies needs little exaggeration.

Compare and contrast,,,,,,, and. See also, a specific subtrope having to do with fairy abduction,,. Not to be confused with, which is a type of. All of the above aside, it's entirely possible for the fairies to be as diverse in their beliefs and actions as humans. Some fairies may be malevolent, but others may be friendly to humans, or at least willing to leave humans alone as long as the humans do the same. In some cases, the fairies may be more in conflict with each other than humans, and act accordingly.

Is an often-overlapping trope from. Are a rough Japanese equivalent.

Is a more modern trope with. When not are often also portrayed this way.

An extreme example may be a. • subverts this trope with Celty Sturluson, an desperately searching for her missing head.

At first she may look intimidating and a little bit sinister, but soon we discover she is genuinely a very kind, gentle, and caring person. For an Unseelie Fae she is actually one of the most friendly and affable characters in the series.. As Shinra points out, part of this may have to do with the fact that Celty's an amnesiac Dullahan. She might not have been so nice if circumstances were different (quarter-Dullahan Ruri Hijiribe, for example, is a serial killer with a monster fetish). • The Guardians of the are known in the legends as Fae.

Not only are they all sorts of weird looking (Headon is a bipedal bunny with eyes in his ), they can be rather manipulative and are implied to plot the destruction of the current ruling system. • The Diclonii from are heavily influenced by the Fair Folk and are in fact the 'elves' from the title. They reproduce by secretly altering humans so that, and they are all very beautiful or handsome. In feudal Japan, they used to live like nobles, ruling over normal humans until they were hunted almost to extinction. They are not particularly evil, but when they grow older, they develop telekinetic abilities with which they almost always accidentally kill their human families and only survive by becoming deadly killers.

Except the only remaining queen, Lucy, who can give birth to pureblood diclonii and has the unstoppable instinct to. • 's is probably the best example of this trope being used properly in manga. From the protagonist's debating whether or not to eat him in the beginning, to a Tuatha Dunann being weak to a pair of scissors (and being unable to cross fresh water), to the presence of changelings replacing children, a lot of classic fairy-lore is involved. Granted, some of it is modernized (said fairy companion is played as more of a non-romantic, for example), but the effort is easily appreciable. • plays this trope dead straight with Rosine, a fairy-like Apostle who likes to carry kids off in order to turn them into her creepy little pseudo-elves in a rather twisted version of the. The real Elves of the series, such as Puck, are more the benevolent version. Oddly, while the real Elves are indeed harmless, they have a very serious case of.

Puck, for instance, seems to forget that he's living in a, finds being a a more repellent trait than, and follows Guts primarily to. • In, Fairies are malevolent butterfly-like creatures who dwell in the Underworld and work alongside and his army. • has all the usual elements; abductions, curses placed upon mortals who eat the food of spirits, evil beings who enslave mortals by stealing their names, that sort of thing. • In, the local Morgan Le-Fay is explicitely mentioned to be a fairy. She is also to Celestine, the. Though she's more than properly evil. • In, the so-called 'fairies' of Dressrosa go around stealing people's valuables and causing property damage in urban areas.

They are actually a race of little people called the Tontatta, who do their best never to be seen, and the who also inhabit Dressrosa created and perpetuated the belief of the fairies. Their intentions are to observe and gather supplies needed to fight Don Quixote Doflamingo, the dictator of Dressrosa, and the Tontatta and Toys are allied with each other. The Tontatta provide the military might while the Toys manipulate the public image of their actions. • is a good example of this. • In,, the title guild's resident lightning mage, may be considered to embody this principle, as than people who insult Fairy Tail as a guild in his presence or hearing, regardless of which side of the / divide one is on. • is another example of classical ideas of fairies.

They prefer being known as 'good neighbors' in this manga, hearkening back to more Gaelic mythology. The rest of the series so far has kept up with this trend, using terminology and creatures from British mythology as well as others. However, some fairies from the series do eat humans. • by reinvigorated this trope for the modern era.

Directly crosses over with a number of other DC comics, meaning that nasty elves also play a part in,, and several other Vertigo series. • The female fairies in Proof look like cute little green people, but act like ferocious predators with huge appetites (e.g. After mating, the butterfly-sized female eats the male, who's about as tall as a house). Fortunately, these fairies are non-magical and an endangered species. 'The Corpse' has Hellboy exposing a changeling and performing a number of difficult tasks for it so that The Fair Folk will return the baby he replaced. The story ends with the fairies discussing how few children have been born to them lately and, which likely partly inspired the Hellboy movie The Golden Army. Said changeling, seeking vengeance against Hellboy, becomes the driving force behind an army of fae seeking to restore the glory days.

Restoring the good old days, or going out with a bang, they don't seem to be picky. Resurrecting an ancient sorceress named ( aka, ) to lead the army adds destroying the world to the list. • In, the fairy residents of Otherworld are similar to the DC versions. In particular, 's Wisdom and feature Oberon's daughter (yes.), who resembles a foul-mouthed cross between Boudicea and a punk rocker. • The Sheeda from the DC miniseries — fairies who live at the ass-end of time and who back to raze human civilization and plunder its profits whenever humanity reaches a certain tech level. •: the eponymous girl lives in a, where are sold by goblins to the rulers of the. • A late issue of focuses on a group of actors filming the type of Disneyfied, Bowdlerized fairy tale made for children, shot on location in Ireland.

They get together at a pub to express contempt for the film and the irresistible amounts of money that compelled them to take part in it, and the older Irish natives talk about the terror and brutality of the real fairy tales they grew up with. When Shade arrives and enters a fairy ring, his madness amplifies the effect across the entire country, with results deadly and deranging. The madstorm also wipes out the entire film production, to the relief of the surviving actors. • The Fair Folk pop up from time to time in, although the miniature pixies/goblins are more common. Notably, they don't seem to have any of the weaknesses listed at the beginning of this article. • seems to be going for this in his run of. Malekith the Accursed calls on Tony Stark pretty much entirely because he calls himself 'Iron Man' and elves hate anything associated with iron since it's one of their few weaknesses.

It should be noted one of the Mandarin's Rings wanted him to go after Tony as part of the rings' scheme and was set to mentally manipulate him into doing so, as the other rings had been doing to other wielders, but Malekith went along with it anyway, apparently for the hell of it. Gillen has stated that he wants the elves to come across as alien in mindset as anything Tony has encountered in outer space. • It also led to a profoundly satisfying moment or two when Malekith unwisely provokes Tony with a changeling crack or two (Tony had recently discovered that he was adopted), and gloats about.

He wanted to make Tony angry. And Tony, using a suit armed with weapons, hunting down Malekith personally. Malekith, who it should be noted is someone who enjoys pissing off Thor, admits that Tony on the rampage genuinely frightened him. • has the Sound Sprites, who create objects from sound. Because of this, they prize aural perfection and speak entirely in to reflect this. Anything and anyone that doesn't communicate in this manner is considered imperfect and a source of bad audio and must be imprisoned. • fought an army of fairies.

At first they were tiny winged women but then what looked like winged actual size showed up. Their names are largely consonants, and according to Elsa Bloodstone, those are the same kind of true fae that Lovecraft wrote about. • The Eldritch in are heavily inspired by the Melniboneans in: a brutally and immoral race of fae humanoids that despises humanity and regularly goes on killing sprees against them known as '. • ': Rumpelstiltskin helps a young woman spin straw into gold, but then demands her first-born child as payment.

• It's never explained in-story who or what was, but some theorize he may have been one of the Fair Folk. • 's ', the prince is forced to leave his bed every night to dance at the fairy hall, and is deathly ill because of it. (One notes that this was a folk explanation of TB — the victims wasted away because they got no sleep by night.) The same thing, albeit, happens in. • ' is gifted by six fairy godmothers with beauty, grace, wit, and great skill in music, singing and dancing, then cursed out of spite to prick her hand on a spindle on her sixteenth year and die by a seventh fairy. The curse is softened, but cannot be completely removed, by the final fairy.

• The Fairy of the Desert in Madame d'Aulnoy's 'The Yellow Dwarf' could count as one of these — she is a wise but malevolent being who looks more like a witch than a stereotypical fairy. She is allied with the Yellow Dwarf, and when Princess Toutebelle breaks her promise to marry the dwarf, the Fairy of the Desert and the Yellow Dwarf show up at her wedding to wreak havoc at the celebration. • Madame d'Aulnoy's works feature several other fairies who fit in this category, such as the Fairy of the Spring in 'The White Doe', who curses Princess Desiree to not see sunlight for fifteen years in revenge for the queen forgetting to invite her (after she helped the queen out) and Carabosse in 'Princess Mayblossom' (who curses the titular princess to spend her first twenty years miserable). • In the fairy tale ', Burd Ellen is kidnapped by elves when she inadvertently runs around a church 'widershins', and two of her brothers attempting to rescue her are trapped and enchanted by the King of Elfland, until Childe Rowland saves them. • In ', the Jezinkas have the charming habit of gouging out men's eyes. • Iruoch in the second novel of the Widdershins Adventures trilogy is an evil faerie with, eight unnaturally long spider-like fingers, and a. • In, the 'green gentlewoman' saves a woman's pig but demands her son in payment. Making Your Own Wii Theme Remix there.