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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Between the time loop, everything we learn in The City of Old Emperors, and finding out that she'd drawn Bastian into a world that it became more and more impossible for him to escape from even if he was ''frugal'' with his wishes and didn't lose his mind without a single warning, it's not too difficult to read The Childlike Empress as the villain of the story.

* [[Woolseyism]]: The dragon's name was ''Fuchur'' in the original German book. Apparently they changed it because it sounds like ''future'' in English. Or, if pronounced a certain way, an obscenity.

 

 

* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: The great threat in the third film is "the Nasty". Yes, really.

* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: In the English-speaking world, the first movie is far better-known than the book.

* [[Badass Decay]]: The Old Man of Wandering Mountain.

** In the second film, Bastian randomly falls down a completely random chute and ends up in an underground room called "The Ship of Secret Plots" filled with odd fantasy characters who are never explained or seen again.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp7aOzkAWr4 Rock Biter singing "Born To Be Wild"] in ''III''.

** Also, she's part of why he wins the final fight, by using the book to give him super kung-fu moves. While he's still got the amulet and, as noted under [[Idiot Plot]], ''still isn't using it''.

** Hell, even [[Jack Black]] shows more initiative than Bastian!

* [[Ear Worm]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF4PPoEWD4 Never Ending Story...oooaah...]"

* [[First Installment Wins]]: Though the [[Sequelitis]] helped.

* [[Fridge Logic]]: The G'Mork is trying to help the Nothing consume all of Fantasia, so he can control humans once their imaginations are killed... except doesn't "all of Fantasia" include ''him?''

** Note this is only movie-only. In the book, G'Mork tells Atreyu that, as a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf]], he is neither of Fantasia nor of Earth. Rather, he's one of many creatures who have no world to call home. As a result, he is able to traverse the worlds freely and assume any form he pleases. His rationale for helping the Nothing is out of his bitterness for not having a world to call home.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Bastian's gelled-up hair in the 3rd movie. According to [[The Agony Booth]]'s recap:

{{quote|''Over the next few scenes, everyone laughs at Bastian's hair, but to be honest, his hairdo looks completely ordinary and commonplace circa 2008. You could go to any shopping mall in America and see plenty of kids with their hair just like this. So, in fact, NeverEnding Story III was a trendsetter, and well over a decade ahead of its time!'' }}

** The third movie is much worse. Bastian leaves the Auryn out in the open in his bedroom, where it is promptly taken by Nicole. And towards the end, when facing [[Jack Black]], Bastian actually gives into his "Fight me like a man" spiel, [[Just Eat Gilligan|even though he's got the Auryn back, and could easily wreak all kinds of vengeance upon him]].

* [[Large Ham]] / [[Ham and Cheese]]: Jack Black provides this as the only real saving grace for the third movie. What's written as a one-dimensional bully antagonist Jack Black plays as a ''diabolical mastermind''.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: [[Jack Black]] plays the bully in part III.

* [[The Scrappy]]: The Rock Biter baby and the Bark Troll in the third movie [[The Load|literally contribute]] ''[[The Load|absolutely nothing]]'' to the story. The latter may also be a [[Creator's Pet]], seeing how [[Pungeon Master|he's given so many idiotic puns]] for every scene.

* [[Villain Decay]]: The villain of the first film was The Nothing, a classic example of [[Eldritch Abomination]]. The villain of the second film, Xayide, was basically the Nothing with a human form, but she was implied to be the manifestation of dying imagination and controller of "The Emptiness," the big Nothing-esque disaster causing Fantasia harm. Then we get to the third film, and the [[Big Bad]] is....JackBlack and a group of school bullies called "The Nasties."

* [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?]]: The third film's villain, that's Jack Black.