Pan's Labyrinth: Difference between revisions

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: By the end of the film {{spoiler|nearly every established character is dead, including the protagonist.}}

* [[Astral Checkerboard Decor]]

* [[Audible Sharpness]]: During the shaving scene and during the scene with the eyeless man, first a key, then the knife

* [[Badass]]: The film has plenty of them, but there's a surprising one when {{spoiler|Mercedes proves the kitchen knife [[Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight|beats]] [[Torture Always Works]].}}

** Driven home on the [[Covers Always Lie|cover of the DVD]], which promises that the movie is "on the same altar of [[High Fantasy]] as ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy", and throws another mention of ''The Lord of the Rings'' on the back of the cover, obviously trying to make whoever buys it believe that the movie is going to be just like it. If anything it's more of an [[Urban Fantasy]].

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]

* [[Our Fairies Are Different]]: They disguise themselves as insects.

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Ofelia.

* [[Theme and Variations Soundtrack]]

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Ofelia, in ignoring the warnings of the fairies, during her disastrous face-off against the Pale Man. Though, in following the fairy tale motif, it was ''faerie'' food which is almost always glamoured to make it seem like irresistible, [[Impossibly Delicious Food]].

** That, and it's supposed to show how she doesn't blindly obey orders, unlike Captain Vidal. It was just unfortunate that this was done via a test that anyone [[Genre Savvy]] with fairy tales could recognize.

** It's also worth noting that immediately before, she only found the right hiding place by following her own will and not listening to the fairies.

** YMMV. Ofelia likes fairy tales, and the movie is set up like one. In some fairy tales (but not all), the main character will fail to listen to advice, or do something they were told specifically not to do--and no clear reason is given. In some cases the tale ends here, otherwise the main character must do something to redeem themselves in the eyes of their quest-giver. So Ofelia is just acting in accordance with the fairy-tale princess that she believes she is--or else she can't act any other way because she IS a fairy-tale princess.

* [[Torture Always Works]]: Vidal seems to think so, but it's ultimately subverted.

* [[Unperson]]: {{spoiler|Mercedes tells Vidal his son will not even know his name.}}

* [[Vader Breath]]: The Pale Man.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Ofelia and the grapes.

** As noted under [[Too Dumb to Live]], Ofelia is just acting like a character in a fairy tale.

* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: {{spoiler|The Faun, although he's pretty effective at playacting otherwise.}}

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Almost all the real-world characters, but Carmen (Ofelia's mother) most of all.

* [[You Watch Too Much X]]: According to her [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] mother Carmen, Ofelia reads too many fairy tales.

** Or maybe ''[[Genre Savvy|Right Genre Savvy]] mother'', we never find out for sure...