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{{trope}}
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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.
This is also a highly [[Discredited Trope]] these days, usually associated with the most archaic parts of [[Fairy Tale
Some stories might make this a [[Deus Ex Machina]].
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Contrast [[Wicked Stepmother]].
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== Fairy Tales ==
* Some "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]"-type tales have one, such the [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Disney version]]. [[Charles Perrault]]'s version appears to be the [[Trope Codifier]]. In folklore collection, she is far more often helped by her dead mother, or something associated with her dead mother.
* In "[[Adalmina's Pearl|Adalminas Pearl]]", the princess has two.
* In "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", she had twelve, or seven, in Perrault or Grimm respectively. However, after they made their initially good wishes, the fairies do never return to aid Sleeping Beauty. Many
* In Henriette-Julie de Murat's literary fairy tale "Bearskin", the princess had a fairy godmother who is quite offended that she was not consulted about her goddaughter's marriage and so refuses to help for a time.
* In "[[Donkeyskin]]", the godmother delivers advices rather than gifts.
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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|has become for all practical purposes the real thing]].
== 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.
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'''Magrat''': Oh, the good one. Definitely.
'''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 [[
* 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 ([[
* In [[Andrew Lang]]'s ''Prince Prigio'', the queen does not believe in fairies and so insists on not inviting them for their first son. They show up anyway and shower him with gifts until the last godmother says that he shall be ''too'' clever.
* In the Old Icelandic "[[The Tale of Norna Gest|Tale of Norna Gest]]" (c. 1300 AD), baby Gest is visited by some norns who make wishes for his life. The set-up is very similar to that of "Sleeping Beauty", and the "norns" are functionally
== Video Games ==
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Fairly
* The Fairy Godmother was the antagonist of ''[[Shrek]] 2''.
* ''[[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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