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Some are [[Fractured Fairy Tale
The main plot features the insomniac Princess November from "[[The Princess and the Pea]]" setting out to save the moon, buried as in the fairy tale "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313091016/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/moreenglish/buriedmoon.html The Dead Moon]". She gathers a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] about her from various tales, and they encounter more fairy tale characters along the way.
Other included fairy tales are "[[Puss in Boots (novel)|Puss in Boots]]", "[
'''Characters''':
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* Anna & Klaus, two children the witch has kidnapped.
* Prince Ricardo, AKA "Picky Dick", the prince from "The Princess And The Pea". A [[Prince Charmless]] if there ever was one.
''No Rest for The Wicked'' seems to have started in late 2002 or early 2003 on a now-vanished website called [https://web.archive.org/web/20030430072223/http://www.icarusfalls.com/wicked/ "icarusfalls.com"]; in October 2005, Peterson moved it to its own domain, where she continued to produce installments until February 28, 2013. The comic abruptly ceased updating after that, with no further posts of any sort by Peterson explaining why, but the site remained functional for another seven years, until some point between the end of January and the beginning of February 2020, when it began returning a WordPress error instead of its content. Fortunately, the [[Wayback Machine]] kept an archive of it; you can read it [https://web.archive.org/web/20191227182426/http://www.forthewicked.net/ here].
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Claire strongly implies that the village parents are like this.
* [[All Trolls Are Different]]: This one lives under a bridge.
* [[An Arm and a Leg]]: Claire's hands were lopped off.
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Red.
* [[Angel Unaware]]: The innkeeper asks Perrault
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: November has one planned in the background.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Clare has a pair of silver gauntlets that work like mechanical hands.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Red, literally.
* [[Back
* [[Badass]]: Red definitly qualifies.
* [[Badass Normal]]: To be just, Ricardo can pull this off.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Prince Orson
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-02.html The boy's meeting with Ricardo.]
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: November's mother knows this
* [[Berserk Button]]: Perrault speaks of "Beauty" to the Beast, as an abstraction; Beast assumes it's his Beauty and goes berserk.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Red at the witch's
* [[Big Fancy House]]: The Beast's
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: November's mother is named Avril, which is French for "April" (thus fitting into the [[Temporal Theme Naming]]).
* [[Blackmail]]: Perrault accuses November of this.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: November denies stories about a witch in the woods.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Red and Clare both went through hell in their backstories; Red, especially, is a [[Broken Bird]].
** Clare is just as much of a [[Broken Bird]], but expresses it in more of a [[One Piece|Nico Robin]] sort of way.
* [[Burn the Witch]]: Clare almost gets this treatment. {{spoiler|The actual Witch does, though less publically.}}
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* [[Death by Despair]]: Beauty thinks the Beast's condition is caused by this.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Limited Palette; Red's cloak is red, as are the roses at the Beast's castle.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Claire may not actually have fallen over it, but she came very close; she was saved by external forces and
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: The Boy's threw him out. Even his foolish and cheerful nature does not entirely protect him from this; he is wistful about how November's father loves her.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]
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*** '''ME TOO.'''
* [[So Proud of You]]: Colette says this of November's mother.
* [[
* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: The Boy got November, the youngest of three sisters, and half a kingdom.
* [[Stay on the Path]]: Perrault prefers it to following Red.
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* [[Tasty Gold]]: Slightly non-standard use: while rummaging through a room full of gold, Perrault bites a ring to confirm that it's [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/02-28.html enchanted].
* [[Temporal Theme Naming]]: November, her sisters August and September, and their father, King January.
* [[Tender Tears]]: Anna cries over the freed Klaus.
* [[They Do]]: Claire and King Gareth did.
* [[Thicker Than Water]]: The Beast resents this.
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* [[The Tragic Rose]]: Red is drawn to them.
* [[The Undead]]: The forest witch. She can [[Our Zombies Are Different|still control bits that get hacked off her main body, and re-attach them to the whole.]]
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Red. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] with a blatant reference to ''[[Monty Python and
{{quote|'''November:''' Well obviously she ''recovered!''}}
* [[
* [[Visible Silence]]: Often invoke.
* [[Weakened by the Light]]: The Moon used to keep creatures of darkness at bay.
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