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{{trope}}
[[File:godmother 3254.jpg|link=Cinderella (Disney film)|frame|The dream that you wish, she'll grant you.]]
A fairy tasked with helping out the protagonist of a tale, whether it's granting wishes, or other things, often with the aid of a [[Magic Wand]]. Why this is so is almost never said, although some stories will have an organization of them.
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* ''[[The Slipper and The Rose]]'', being a musical adaptation of "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]", of course has a Fairy Godmother.
** Ditto the Rogers and Hammerstein ''[[Cinderella (film)|Cinderella]]'' movie musical.
* Played with in ''[[Maleficent]]'' when Aurora, unaware that the three women who've raised her are the literal fairies, decides that Maleficent (whom she knows has been watching over her for years) is her Fairy Godmother. Maleficent's response is basically [[Sure, Let's Go with That]] -- but by the end of the film she [[Becoming the Mask|
== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]],'' Harry has one of these, literally, and [[The Fair Folk]] are a lot scarier than in the Disneyverse. The Leanansidhe protects him from dangers of Nevernever... in [[Blue and Orange Morality|her own way]]. Due to a [[Magically-Binding Contract]], he belongs to her, and she sometimes tries to collect. What happens if she wins? {{spoiler|You know those hunting dogs that herald her arrival? ''They weren't dogs originally.''}} However, lately, she's proven to be very good (if ''scary'') to have as an ally.
* Played with in ''[[
** Magrat is also (temporarily) a Fairy Godmother, having been left a wand with a tendency to reset to pumpkins by Desiderata Hollow.
{{quote|'''Ella''': Everyone gets two. The good one and the bad one. You know that. Which one are you?
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'''Ella''': Funny thing. That's just what [[Tautological Templar|the other one]] said, too. }}
* In the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' series the Mob has a [[Gayngster|Fairy]] God''father''.
* In ''The Ugly Duckling'' by [[A. A.
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms]]'' series, "fairy godmother" is a trade taken up by women who can't fill the roles that "the Tradition" tries to shoehorn them into and end up with great magical power as a result. The job of being a fairy godmother involves being [[Genre Savvy]] enough to use the Tradition against itself to minimize the harm done to everyone involved; they were originally actual fairies, but eventually the role got handed down to human women and the "fairy" part was only retained as a title.
* ''The Godmother'' by Elizabeth Anne Scarborough. Dame Felicity Fortune ([[Alliteration|"Fair Fates Facilitated, Questers Accommodated, Virtue Vindicated."]]) is a human recruited by [[The Fair Folk]] to act as an agent for them among humans, and is summoned by a social worker in Seattle who wishes for "a fairy godmother for the city". Unfortunately, since magic is uncommon in the world, she has to deal with the occasional [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] to get things done. Sequels include ''The Godmother's Apprentice'', and ''The Godmother's Web''.
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* ''[[Twice Upon a Time (1983 film)|Twice Upon a Time]]'' has a [[Deadpan Snarker]] version.
* The ''[[Private Snafu]]'' series had Technical Fairy First Class, a kind of [[Sergeant Rock]] subversion of the trope.
* There's one in an episode of''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'', and in a rather extreme variation of the theme, she's the ''actual'' godmother of a young child, and also a ferocious [[Mama Bear]] who is willing to hunt down and use violence against anyone who tries to harm or kidnap her godson, [[Baleful Polymorph|turning people into mice]] if they won't cooperate in her quest to do so.
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