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A list of some of the [[Subjective Tropes]] found in ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'' and all its adaptations. MOD: Needs to be split by individual work.
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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.
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* [[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.
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** 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''.
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** Hell, even [[Jack Black]] shows more initiative than Bastian!
* [[Ear Worm]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwF4PPoEWD4 Never Ending Story...oooaah...]"
* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: The third film. If you need help understanding why, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031005623/http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_NeverEnding_Story_III__Escape_from_Fantasia_1994.aspx look no further than this recap].
* [[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?''
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* [[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.
** Julie Cox, who played the Childlike Empress in the same film, is an example of both this and [[Dawson Casting]], considering that she was 19 during filming and a good four or five inches taller than Jason James Richter, who played Bastian. In fact, Cox is only slightly younger in real-life than Tami Stronach, the Childlike Empress from the first
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