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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful Damsel in Distress, a handsome hero on an epic quest, his magical sidekick, and a spell they needed to break before the stroke of midnight. But wait! The damsel's not so distressed after all! The hero's a buffoon! The heroine falls for the homely comic relief sidekick instead of the Knight in Shining Armor! The Wicked Stepmother is an angel with a bratty stepdaughter! The sweet little girl in the red cloak is a Heroic Comedic Sociopath! And just about everyone's ridiculously Genre Savvy! And that's before you get to the ending, which may be pointedly different from the familiar version.

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  • Once upon a time, there was a beautiful Damsel in Distress, a handsome hero on an epic quest, his magical sidekick, and a spell they needed to break before the stroke of midnight. But wait! The damsel's not so distressed after all! The hero's a buffoon! The heroine falls for the homely comic relief sidekick instead of the Knight in Shining Armor! The Wicked Stepmother is an angel with a bratty stepdaughter! The sweet little girl in the red cloak is a Heroic Comedic Sociopath! And just about everyone's ridiculously Genre Savvy! And that's before you get to the ending, which may be pointedly different from the familiar version.
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  • Once upon a time, there was a beautiful Damsel in Distress, a handsome hero on an epic quest, his magical sidekick, and a spell they needed to break before the stroke of midnight. But wait! The damsel's not so distressed after all! The hero's a buffoon! The heroine falls for the homely comic relief sidekick instead of the Knight in Shining Armor! The Wicked Stepmother is an angel with a bratty stepdaughter! The sweet little girl in the red cloak is a Heroic Comedic Sociopath! And just about everyone's ridiculously Genre Savvy! And that's before you get to the ending, which may be pointedly different from the familiar version. What you have here is an example of a Fractured Fairy Tale, a story with all the basic elements of a classic fairy tale, but all of them subverted or spoofed, and with modern-day sensibilities and morals. May also be a parody of fairy tales. Virtually every Fractured Fairy Tale features (at least) one of perhaps a dozen fairy tales that are considered common knowledge in the culture. This is because they don't work without the audience recognizing the original and so being able to appreciate the divergences. When the Fractured Fairy Tale sticks to, and warps, one specific tale, it is a form of the Twice-Told Tale. Massive Multiplayer Crossover is also possible, though it, too, sticks mostly to the best known tales -- perhaps even more so, since the characters have shorter periods to make their character known. These are a lot more common than the naive observer would be led to believe. In fact, just about any myth or folktale presented to anyone over the age of 12 is bound to contain subversions of some sort, to the point that a completely non-ironic fairy tale itself feels like an irony. May contain elements of Grimmification. Nursery Rhyme elements and characters frequently also appear. Aesop's Fables are somewhat rarer but not unknown. Not to be confused with Derailed Fairy Tale, when the chaos comes from outside the setting of the story. The Trope Namer comes from a Rocky and Bullwinkle segment of the same title and overall premise. Compare and contrast Ironic Nursery Tune and Derailed Fairy Tale (when the listener or the teller takes the story Off the Rails). Subtrope of External Retcon.
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