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{{quote| '''Molly''': ''Then what is magic for? What use is wizardry if it cannot save a [[Unicorn]]?''<br />
'''Schmendrick''': ''That's what [[The Hero|heroes]] are for.'' }}
 
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* [[Broken Angel]]: Played straight immediately after the transformation, then gradually deconstructed.
* [[By the Eyes of the Blind]]:
{{quote| '''Skull:''' Oh, no. No, you don't. Not ''that'' one. Unicorn! Unicorn! Haggard! Haggard! '''''UNICORN! UNICORN!''''' Haggard, where are you? There they go! Down to the Red Bull! The clock, Haggard! There they go! Unicorn! '''''UNICORN!'''''}}
* [[Calling the Old Man Out|Calling The Unicorn Out]]: "Where have you ''been?!''"
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Well, not entirely, but the kitchen cat at Haggard's castle is a [[Trickster]], and could give more help than he does.
{{quote| '''Cat:''' No cat out of her first fur has ever given a straight answer to anyone. ''(removes the eye patch to wink at Molly with an '''undamaged, working eye'''.)''}}
* [[Celebrity Endorsement]]: Folk rock band America provides the soundtrack for the film.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: The butterfly sings songs, recites poetry, quotes a warning from a matchbox at one point, and ''occasionally'' says something useful. It's at least implied, if not stated outright, that verbatim parroting what he's heard others say before is actually the only way ''any butterfly'' can talk at all. He seems to ''understand'' what the unicorn is after well enough, though.
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* [[Daydream Believer]]: Molly and all of Captain Cully's crew believe there really is a [[Robin Hood]]. Molly also believes there are unicorns. (She's right.)
* [[Deconstruction]]. ''And how''. All of the characters [[Functional Genre Savvy|know they're in a fairy tale]], and the fairy tale itself mocks, parodies, subverts and plays straight [[Fairy Tale]] tropes. One of the most moving scenes comes from this exchange:
{{quote| '''Schmendrick:''' Then let the quest end here. I don't think I could change her back even if you wished it. Marry the prince and live happily ever after.<br />
'''Amalthea:''' Yes. That is my wish.<br />
'''Lír:''' No. Lady, I am a hero, and heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned. Unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.<br />
'''Molly Grue:''' ''(quietly to Schmendrick)'' But what if there isn't a happy ending at all?<br />
'''Schmendrick:''' ''(quietly)'' There are no happy endings, because nothing ends. }}
* [[Dem Bones]]: The guardian of the passageway that leads to the Red Bull.
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* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Mabruk, King Haggard, Mommy Fortuna, and Rukh are all extremely quick to take offence, and enjoy bullying and intimidating others.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]. King Haggard.
{{quote| '''Haggard:''' "I ''know'' you! I almost knew you as soon as I saw you on the road coming to my door. Since then, there is no movement of yours that has not betrayed you! A pace, a glance, a turn of the head, the flash of your throat as you breathe... even your way of standing perfectly still--they were all my spies!"}}
* [[Herald]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|That would be Lír.}} [[Back From the Dead|He gets better.]]
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* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Unicorns, Molly, and Lír.
* [[It Must Be Mine]]: Haggard and "his" unicorns.
{{quote| '''Haggard:''' They are MINE! They belong to ME! The Red Bull gathered them one-by-one, and I bade him 'drive each one into the sea!' I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. The first time I felt it, I thought I was going to die. I said to the Red Bull, 'I must have them! I must have ''all'' of them, ''all there are''! For nothing makes me happy... but their shining, and their grace.' So, the Red Bull caught them. Each time I see the unicorns--MY unicorns--it is like that morning in the woods, and I feel young, in ''spite'' of myself.}}
* [[It's All About Me]]: Haggard's biggest vice--and danger--is his selfishness and obsessiveness.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Both Schmendrick and Molly are willing to travel with the unicorn within hours of meeting her.
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* [[Magikarp Power]]: Schmendrick's magic. Similarly, see also [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]].
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: When Schmendrick accidentally converts the tree he's tied to into a living entity, he finds himself in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvEL41kIQg this.]
{{quote| '''Schmendrick''': Oh God. I'm engaged to a Douglas Fir.<br />
'''Tree''': Galls and fireblight! She shall not have you. We shall perish together! }}
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Prince Lír and the unicorn as Lady Amalthea.
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* [[Through a Face Full of Fur|Through A Face Without Flesh]]: The Skull turns rosy-cheeked as it empties a bottle of "wine."
* [[Transformation Trauma]]: Turning the unicorn into a human practically lobotomizes her.
{{quote| "I can feel this body ''dying'' all around me!"}}
* [[Unicorn]]: One of the most famous.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: A few.
{{quote| '''Molly Grue:''' Slit his wizard!}}
** The book explains that she meant either "gizzard" or "weasand" (an archaic term for the throat), and amalgamated the two.
* [[What Measure Is a Non Unique]]
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** A major theme in the story is that immortal beings cannot appreciate mortality.
** Mommy Fortuna had a twisted view of immortality in regards to the Harpy:
{{quote| '''Fortuna:''' Oh, she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that I caught her; that I held her prisoner. So there's ''my'' immortality, eh?}}
** Also Schmendrick comments at the end that Lir will achieve immortality through the unicorn's memory of loving him.
* [[The Wise Prince]]: Lír grows into this.
* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: Not explicitly stated, but when the most beautiful creature in the world [[Humanity Ensues|becomes human]], this seems to be the result. It's worth noting however, that as [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body|she becomes more human]] she stays beautiful, but the mystical quality of her beauty fades away.
* [[You Can See Me?]]: Mommy Fortuna, Schmendrick, Molly, and (terrifyingly) the Red Bull all know the unicorn when they see her. Most ordinary people mistake the unicorn for a white horse, and Mommy Fortuna has to put a fake horn on the unicorn to exhibit her to the public. The cat is also able to see her, because:
{{quote| "No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. [[Take That|Unlike humans, who enjoy them]]."}}
 
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