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But then, this article isn't about "[[Sleeping Beauty]]"...
 
A queen wishes for a child with lips as red as blood, [[Eerie Pale -Skinned Brunette|hair as black as ebony]], and [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin|skin as white as snow]]. She gets her wish and names the child Snow White, but promptly dies and is replaced by a [[Wicked Stepmother]] who prides herself on her great beauty. Every day the stepmother asks her magic mirror:
 
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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 (Film)|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 [[Colour -Coded for Your Convenience|rainbow dwarves]], named after the days of the week. Finally, let's not forget [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short story "[http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples Snow, Glass, and Apples]", where we have a perspective flip that takes some of the more eerie parts of the story, and makes them much much worse.
 
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)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''.
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* [[Distressed Damsel]]
* [[Don't Touch It You Idiot|Don't touch it, you fools!! It might be poison!!]]
* [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]]: Although, in all fairness, the prince thought she was dead.
** [[Squick|And this is better, how?]]
** In the original tale, he doesn't kiss her. Instead, he falls in love with her beautiful corpse and takes it home. During the journey, the bit of apple in her throat is dislodged and she wakes up. There isn't the squick of him kissing someone he thought was dead, but it still raises some questions.
*** There are probably plenty of normal reasons he could do that. Perhaps he was having trouble finding an interesting coffee table and thought a crystal casket would be a nifty conversation piece.
* [[Eerie Pale -Skinned Brunette]]: Snow White traditionally has skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.
* [[Extremely Dusty Home]]: The dwarfs home before she cleans it up.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]]
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: The queen.
* [[Fairy Tale]]
* [[Fairest of Them All]]
* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: The evil stepmother is forced to dance in red-hot shoes until she dies.
* [[Faux Death]]: Snow White. She got better.
* [[Green -Eyed Monster]]: Spurs the Queen on.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]
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** "Snow, Glass, Apples", by [[Neil Gaiman]], is also told from the perspective of the Queen, who came to realize that Snow White's father died because the little girl was sucking his blood (and [[Lampshaded Double Entendre|other]] [[Squick|parts]] [[Parental Incest|of]] him). The queen eventually succeeds in poisoning Snow White with the apple, but the prince who finds her is explicitly stated to be a necrophiliac who wants her ''because'' she's dead. The two marry and shut the stepmother up in an oven--did I mention the queen is narrating the story while being ''roasted alive''?
* [[Prince Charming]]
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Snow White.
* [[Rule of Three]]: The queen makes three assassination attempts in person before they pay off.
* [[Vain Sorceress]]: The queen.
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