The 10th Kingdom: Difference between revisions

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Though she was apparently mentally unstable beforehand, Christine had a complete breakdown after nearly drowning her young daughter. She immediately ran away which led to her discovering the portal to the Swamp Witch’s lair and subsequently becoming the Evil Queen.}}

* [[Distant Reaction Shot]]: To Tony being given [[A Taste of the Lash|fifty beanstalk lashes]], complete with increasingly distant shots of Snow White Memorial Prison.

* [[The Dragon]]: The Huntsman is the Queen's Dragon. Relish the Troll King was supposed to be this, but went [[The Starscream|out of control]] quickly.

* [[Dream Sequence]]: Virginia and her father have an extremely bizarre and disturbing example of this, complete with [[Spirit Advisor|the ghost of Snow White]] doing her level best to snap them out of it. Christine's usage of the poisoned comb on her little girl's hair is particularly chilling, while the weird Electra-complex suggested by Virginia being Tony's wife (not to mention Wendell the dog as her brother—{{spoiler|[[Psychic Dreams for Everyone|or is that prophetic?]]}}) are just plain odd. But what do you expect from something inspired by eating magic mushrooms? Of special note (something which appears throughout the miniseries) is the emphasis on the decidedly more grim aspects of fairytales...

* [[Knights and Knaves]]: Parodied, lampshaded, and otherwise completely hung out to dry. Oddly enough this is still completely in the spirit of the original, since the puzzle as presented here contains a logical contradiction and ''cannot'' be solved normally.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Constantly, mainly on the absurdity of the fairy tales the characters encounter for real.

* [[Large Ham]]: Wolf, most certainly, and also the Troll King and his children. The Queen mostly averts [[Evil Is Hammy]] and is normally underplayed and calm, outside of a couple of scenes.

* [[Literal Ass Kissing]]: Because of his wish, [[Pun|Butt]] [[Butt Monkey|Monkey]] Tony has his boss follow him around and continually try to do this. Tony ends up having to shoo him away frequently. The rest of Murray's family eventually shows up and ends up giving him the same treatment. It doesn't help that at least one of the Murrays must have been something of a brown-noser already, since he insists on kissing Tony's ass repeatedly. (Or could that also have been covered under the "and be my slaves forever" part?)