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| title = Snow White
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| original title = Sneewittchen
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{{quote|''23. I will never buy an apple from peddlers plying their craft in remote places where the customer base could not possibly support a full-time merchant.''|'''[[The Universal Genre Savvy Guide/Just for Fun|The Universal Genre Savvy Guide]]''', ''[http://www.geocities.com/evilsnack/truelove.htm The True Love List]''}}▼
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| author = The Brothers Grimm
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| genre = Fairy tale
| publication date = 1812
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▲{{quote|''23. I will never buy an apple from peddlers plying their craft in remote places where the customer base could not possibly support a full-time merchant.''|'''[[
Once upon a time, a little girl was born that was exceptionally beautiful. Due to jealousy, a wicked witch wanted her dead. She ended up being raised in fosterage in the forest by magical midgets, but eventually the queen found a way to poison her and put her in a coma resistant to aging. Eventually, Prince Charming showed up, kissed the girl and woke her up, and slew the evil witch.
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"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is one of the best known of [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|the Grimms']] stories, although it existed in numerous countries before being compiled into their ''Children's and Household Tales''. It was one of the early victims of their [[Bowdlerise|bowdlerising]] edits; they changed the antagonist from Snow White's biological mother to a [[Wicked Stepmother]].
Because of Snow White's rather [[Goth|unusual]] [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|appearance]] and the disturbing psychological issues in the story, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is frequently subject to [[Grimmification]] or [[Darker and Edgier]] treatment. One such example is a [[Snow White: A Tale of Terror|1997 horror version]] with [[Sigourney Weaver]] as the queen. There's also a 2001 version subtitled [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255605/ Fairest of Them All] with Miranda Richardson as the queen and Kristin Kreuk as Snow White, and [[
By far the most well-known adaptation of this story is [[Disney]]'s first full-length animated feature, ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''.
Other adaptations have varied from ''[[Snow White and The Three Stooges]]'' to ''[[Prétear]]'', which rewrites it as a [[Magical Girl Warrior]] show, the very loose [[Betty Boop]] adaptation entitled only as ''[[Snow White (short)|Snow White]]'' and then there's ''[[Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs]]'', which would be a side-splitter had not excessive [[Uncle Tomfoolery]] [[Values Dissonance|ruined it]]. Snow White is also the inspiration for the character of [[This Is My Name on Foreign|Weiss Schnee]] in ''[[RWBY]]'', and references to the fairy tale are made by the song from [[RWBY/Recap/Trailers/P2 White Trailer|the "White" Trailer]].
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* [[Happily Ever After]]
* [[Historical Fiction]]: Gregory Maguire's version called Mirror Mirror takes place in Italy, with Lucrezia Borgia as the wicked witch.
** A number of scholars have theorised that the Snow White tale, or at least the one by the Brothers Grimm, was at least in part based on the lives of either [[wikipedia:Margaretha von Waldeck|Margaretha von Waldeck]] or Maria Sophia von Erthal.
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: Poisonous!
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The queen eats what she thinks is Snow White's heart. Not her fault it was a cheap knockoff.
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* [[Rule of Three]]: The queen makes three assassination attempts in person before they pay off.
* [[Vain Sorceress]]: The queen.
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: As mentioned above, scholars [[wikipedia:Origin of the Snow White tale|propose]] that the Grimms may have based their version of the tale on either Margaretha von Waldeck, daughter of Philip IV, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1493–1574) and his first wife, Margaret Cirksena (1500–1537), daughter of Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, or Maria Sophia von Erthal, daughter of 18th-century landowner, Prince Philipp Christoph von Erthal and his wife, Baroness von Bettendorff. Both von Waldeck and von Erthal's lives drew several parallels to the fairy tale, including a vanity mirror, diminutive people working in mines (in this case, children being pressed into labour at the nearby copper mines), and the mysterious circumstances of their deaths.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Was added in the Brothers Grimm version. In first editions, it was averted since the queen in those version's was actually Snow White's mother.
* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: The queen, and then Snow White.
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