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== Every bit of new literature since the Fables of old eventually spawns a living, breathing Fable. ==
As stated above, the fact that Jack Horner thought he could improve his own personal power by creating movies of his fables to increase people's belief in him proves that Fables can use modern media to spread belief of them and increase their power (Snow White, Cinderella, etc. must ''really'' be loving Disney for the assist), but what if it goes farther than that? Some Fables, like Pinocchio, have tales that are old but not ancient (the wooden puppet's stories being produced at the turn of the 20th Century), so obviously how long your personal fable's been going on in the Mundane world doesn't dictate whether or not you exist in the Homelands (though it does dictate how powerful you are, to a point). And with the onset of movies, TV, and video games, fictionalized worlds are being created practically every second, so it's likely that there ''is'' a [[Super Mario Bros.|Mushroom Kingdom]], a [[The Matrix|Matrix]], and a [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Sunnydale]] in the Homelands, newly formed with their respective characters and undiscovered by the Adversary or any other "old-time" Fables. Of course, that means, that with such a huge rate of expansion, there's no way the Adversary would be able to conquer the Homelands entirely, and the new, modern-day and/or future weapons would give him much more problems than he ever dreamed of. Wait until he runs into the ''[[
** The Jack movies were worldwide blockbusters seen by millions. Fanfic appeals only to a relatively tiny few.
* Although not referred to by name for copyright reasons, the [[
** By its own Canon, the "normal" Narnia ''is'' dead and gone for anyone not in Heaven, but although it was going to pot in the final book, ''[[God|Aslan]]'' was ultimately the one who decided it was time to lay his creation to rest and who started its Armaggedon. In ''Fables'', how certain is it that the Adversary personally destroyed that world, and how possible is it that he simply ''claims'' to have destroyed that world? Is this whole thing a [[Shout-Out|simple nod]] to Narnia, or merely another author's [[Take That]]?
*** Not just that: in Animal Farm Snow White kills Shere Khan when Mowgli is an adult, but in ''[[The Jungle Book (
*** Honestly, it's hard to be sure it's ''actually'' Narnia. There are at least three different lions that could be Aslan -- one that gets killed in his Homeland near the beginning, one who lives on the Farm, and a third. Of course, it's possible that, since it's an Aslan, the lion who was killed in his Homeland came back to life (it's what he does, after all).
*** This brings up an interesting question: at what point in a series' timeline does Fables take place? In one like Narnia, which spans several hundred years and allows popular characters to die off the Homeland might not actually resemble any one story much at all, and instead become a big mashup of all the books. In this way Narnia might not have been destroyed before the Adversary got to it.
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* Of course, if The Adversary finds and decides to conquer the more recently-created lands, he'd have the assistance of the Villains of those fictions. (I mean, wouldn't Darth Sidious make a deal with the Emperor, at least to betray him later?)
* If we include anime into the mix, the Adversary is pretty much screwed... Just imagine Goku, Sailor Moon, Kenshiro, Guts, Naruto, Ichigo, Kinnikuman, Guy, and much, much other anime heroes reuniting to defeat their enemy? Ouch. Taking in consideration that only the Ginzuishou has practically an infinite ammount of power, Sailor Moon could transform the Princesses into ultra-powerful sailors almost like her. Goku is, by canon definition, "the strongest warrior in the Universe". Muscleman (or Kinnikuman, as you prefer), has super wrestling skills that rendered him as the most powerful wrestler of all times. Ichigo... Well, when Bleach comes to an end, he'll probably have the most powerful spiritual technique ever, so, technically, he's training. Naruto has a bigass, nine-tailed demon, that's the most powerful thing in his Universe (although he's still training, too). Guy has hammer that can crush stars for godsake. Kenshiro can punch people to death in milliseconds, and Guts... He's the goddamn Guts. Unless, you know, the Adversary ''is'' the anime forces...
** In a similar vein the "classic" Fable Lands of East and Central Asia would be a nightmare to conquer. Many East Asian and Central Asian myths make very little distinction between a god, demon and spirit resulting in many very powerful creatures. Rakshaha, Deva, Pontianak, Yuki-no-onna, etc. Furthermore if the "popularity power" hypothesis is true, the characters from Chinese epics like ''[[
* Also if the Adversary ever made contact with the [[Warhammer
** Not neccesarily- they may ally themselves with him conditionally- he may be bad, but not as evil or inhuman as most things the Imperium fights- they are [[Lawful Evil]], after all (perhaps [[Lawful Good]]. Its hard to tell. Either way, they'd ally).
** Now, if he came across the [[Anime]] Fables, specifically [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]], land of [[Chaotic Good]] freedom fighters who oppose all forms of autocracy outright and have the ability to shatter worlds...
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* This is a rather cultural ignorant theory as it largely ignores all of the tales of 1001 night (which really exist, yes, it's true) and every other legend of now muslim countries. The only misconceptions may be Sindbad who, for newer researches, may not only be historical as a person but also chinese. But that is debateable to the aspect that most people know Sindbad as a somewhat arabian guy.
** However, I'm fairly certain there is no belief that all djinns are confined to lamps in actual Arabian fables.
*** There isn't. Even Qu'ran itself has a part about Djinns, and they are, in general, trickster devils, and that was rather difficult to deter their irremediable nature. The whole story of genie in a lamp is, in fact, a [[Sealed Evil in
*** Traditionally (in Arabic myth) Suleiman/Solomon was responsible for canning up large numbers of malicious spirits, including jinni by tricking them into entering enchanted flasks and bottles. The lamp is from elsewhere. Note that similar legends exist in Kabbalah Judaism...
*** Remember Bill Willingham is very, ''very'' pro Israel, which is why here it's Snow that does [[Arabian Night]] while Scheherazade goes form [[Magnificent Bastard]] to just another of King Shahryar's brides to be saved by Snow via the delays, yeah...
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== The 100th issue was actually a parody of [[Wham! Episode|Wham Episodes]]. ==
Think about it: a ton of stuff happens, but most of it cancels out. {{spoiler|Mr. Dark is trapped, but gets out. Frau Totenkinder is dead, but then she's alive again. In the end, we went through all that, and we're right back where we started, only with Frau Totenkinder going into what's likely to be a [[Ten
== Ambrose will become a historian. ==
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