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== Dorothy ==
The cute witch that Ginta meets soon after entering MÃR Heaven is pretty much a walking ''[[
* First of all, she is a "good witch" named Dorothy.
* And secondly, her Ãrms, guardians and otherwise, are almost all references to Oz!Dorothy's companions, or other things from the story:
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** A rarely used guardian of hers is the Flying Leo, a Lion.
** Her last guardian is the Crusified Scarecrow, like the Scarecrow Dorothy meets in the book.
** Another guardian of hers is the Crazy Quilt, a reference to another character from [[Land of Oz
** And Dorothy's favored weapon and favorite piece of transportation is the Broom of Zephyrus. Oz popularized the image of witches riding boomsticks.
== Jack ==
Let's see, a gardener in a poor family, named Jack. Pretty clear reference to [[Jack and
* His dream is to one day grow a beanstalk like the one seen in the fairy tale, large enough to reach into the skies.
* Once he gets some better magic power, he starts using a wide variety of magic beans and seeds. Well, actually, he uses magic beans from the very start; special beans that grow into edible food overnight, just like the kind that the fairy tale Jack thought he had bought.
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* He may be inspired somewhat by Ichabod Crane from [[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]], due to his intelligence, and relationship with Halloween.
And the entirety of Team MÃR is a further Snow White reference, as a Lestavan fortuneteller told Snow to seek out the "Seven Dwarves" who would save MÃR Heaven. Snow plus the seven others (Ginta, Jack, Dorothy, Alan/Edward, Alviss, Nanashi, and Babbo) makes "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (
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== Rapunzel ==
One of the Knights. Rapunzel is very clearly a reference to the [[Rapunzel
* Her main weapon is the Ärm "Hair Master", which allows her to manipulate her hair as a weapon. A reference to the fairy tale character's long hair, which people used as a ladder. Funnily enough, this one does not have [[Rapunzel Hair]], but rather has it all bound up into a massive [[Beehive Hairdo]].
* In the fairy tale, Rapunzel was locked in a tower by her wicked mother figure (having been given away to the witch by her real mother). In MÄR, Rapunzel and her brother were also abused by their mother figure. [[Murder Is the Best Solution|So they killed her with an axe]].
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== Lesser Chess Pieces ==
A lot of the low-rank Chess Pieces (Bishop and lower) who only get one fight scene are one-note references to fairy tales. They include:
* '''Alibaba'''. An Arabian-styled chess piece whose main Ärm (A Guardian called the Genie of the Lamp) marks him as an obvious reference to ''[[Aladdin (
* '''Emokis'''. A [[Stout Strength|fat gorilla of a woman]], and one of the strongest Bishops in Chess. She is some sort of unholy fusion of the evil queen from Snow White and [[Hansel and Gretel
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