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By gelfling hand or else by none."'' }}

 

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Played with. The protagonists, the Gelflings, are obviously intended to be attractive, despite any [[Uncanny Valley]] that may be invoked by looking at them. The pure urRu are made to look noble and sagacious, and when they die, they fade into sparkles. The Skeksis on the other hand, are clearly intended to look twisted, deformed and vulture-like, which is made even worse by their advanced age. Aughra, however, is quite hideous and warty, yet proves to be a helpful character. A bit of background checking shows that in the grand scheme of things, she's actually supposed to be [[True Neutral]], and not one to take sides. It gets really confusing with the Podlings, who are supposed to be a good, [[Closer to Earth]] race, yet somehow they wound up looking cute yet ugly at the same time. Brian Froud did admit that he toned down their appearance from the earliest incarnations, because those were far too grotesque and potato-like.

* [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]: Gelfling females have wings; males don't.

'''Kira''': Of course not. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|You're a boy.]] }}

** Yet they're never seen to be used to actually fly up. More like [[Toy Story|falling with style.]]

* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: The narration and Jen repeat what we already know ''a lot''.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: The Chamberlain's whimper.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: as seen in some of the DVD extras, the Skeksis were originally going to speak an "alien" language. A lot of Skeksis words were kept in the novelization.

** The Podlings were also supposed to have many eyes coming out of their heads (since they were based off potatoes), but that looked too unnerving, so it was scrapped.