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"Peter and the Wolf" is a combination of children's story and musical composition by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. During performances, a narrator tells the story while accompanied by music played by an orchestra. Each character in the story is represented by a [[Leitmotif]] played on a unique instrument.
The story tells the tale of an encounter of a [[Exactly What It Says
The work has been recorded numerous times by many different orchestras, and has also been adapted to a variety of other media, including animation, stop-motion animation, theatre and ballet. It has also inspired many variants and parodies, some of which include different characters and instruments. For a partial list, see [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Peter and the wolf|article]].
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* [[Cat Up a Tree]] - In this case, the cat is up the tree to escape the wolf, not to get rescued by the fire department.
* [[Conveniently an Orphan]]: It is never implied that Peter is an orphan, but at the same time we only know he has a very protective grandfather. His parents are never mentioned.
* [[Darker and Edgier]] or [[Lighter and Fluffier]] - These tropes apply to some adaptations. For example, the [[Walt Disney]] adaptation has Peter hunting the wolf using a [[Nerf Arm|pop gun]] and makes it clear that {{spoiler|the duck survives}}, whereas the [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] version makes it very clear that {{spoiler|the duck dies a horrible, painful death inside the belly of the wolf}}...and then there's Neil Torbin's ''Peter and The Werewolf'' where {{spoiler|the duck (now a raven) is practically the [[Sole Survivor]]}}...[[Sincerity Mode|which was played for laughs]].
* [[Dead Hat Shot]] - In the Disney animated adaptation of ''Peter and the Wolf'', the wolf chases the duck into a tree, and comes out with feathers flying, licking its chops. {{spoiler|Subverted when the duck turns up alive at the end.}}
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: The music can be quite frightening, especially since children who listen to a CD adaptation use their own imagination to fill in what they hear. And out of nowhere one of the main characters is eaten (even though it is later implied that the duck is still alive inside the wolf's belly.)
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** Hunters: woodwind theme, with gunshots on timpani and bass drum
** Peter: string instruments
** [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Bob the Janitor: accordion]]
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Peter is told by his grandfather NOT to go outside because the Wolf might get him. In the end Peter is taken inside, but when the wolf arrives: guess who does go outside and saves the day? So... er.... what's the moral of the story again?
* [[Swallowed Whole]] - {{spoiler|The wolf swallows the duck whole and alive.}}
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