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· Comics / Grimm Universe
1/4 For dwarves in Grimm Fairy Tales, Bolder and Blagg offer a useful contrast. They're brothers, but their place in the story could hardly be more different. Bolder becomes one of Sela's companions in Myst. Blagg's actions help create the...
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4/4 Belle changes course after seeing Wendy's love for her adopted children. She fights back against Pan and later uses her magic to bring the Earth-based heroes back to New York. The ability that helped Pan prey on another world becomes pa...
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3/4 Tinker Belle's involvement with Pan in the original Neverland is more morally tangled. Pan uses her portals to reach Earth and take children. Belle helps him because she believes in their relationship, even while recognizing the cruelty...
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2/4 Nissa works alongside Shang and the forces opposing the Dark One. Her ability to open portals makes her useful to those allies, but it also makes her a target. Once the Dark One captures and corrupts her, he can turn that same gift agai...
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1/4 Fairies in Grimm Fairy Tales have a particularly dangerous gift: they can help connect worlds. Nissa and Tinker Belle make that power matter in very different stories, because access to another realm can mean rescue, invasion, or a stea...
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Antwone Ficaro is the HiboCorp agent who welcomes Britney for the base tour in Code Red #1. He is the person walking her through Training Facility 004 in upstate New York, so his introduction gives us a look at what the agency wants Red to...
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Zoe Powers works alongside Derrick in HiboCorp's lab, and she introduces herself to Britney as Agent Zoe Powers. That is worth keeping alongside her scientific role rather than treating the two descriptions as different people. She is genui...
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Derrick Sobers is part of the scientific side of HiboCorp, and Code Red gives him an introduction with an actual personality behind the job. He's working on the Cyclops Eye, but the research hasn't exactly produced a satisfying explanation...
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Adam Akiwowo is Agent Akiwowo, another member of HiboCorp's staff. His introduction is indexed in Code Red #2, the issue involving Red, Robyn and the struggle over the Cyclops Eye. He also appears in the Ascension and Robyn Hood: Age of Dar...
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Michael Wisnowski is where the HiboCorp staff discussion gets considerably more uncomfortable. He's a government agent connected to the Realm Knights, and his place in this part of the story goes back to the early Realm Knights one-shot. By...
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11/11 Putting these examples together is why I wanted to spend longer on unicorns. I really like them, and there is much more available in the fiction than a single personality or a single set of powers. Grimm puts its last unicorn between...
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10/11 Acorna: The Unicorn Girl, by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball, takes the imagery into science fiction. Acorna is an alien child with unicorn-like features, found in a drifting pod by three space prospectors. She belongs in this wider...
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9/11 Bruce Coville's The Unicorn Chronicles offers something else again: a world in which unicorns have a home and a larger community to defend. Into the Land of the Unicorns follows Cara into Luster, where she meets Lightfoot, a rebellious...
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8/11 Steven R. Boyett's Ariel takes unicorns into a very different landscape. The Change has stopped modern technology and brought magic into the world. Pete Garey is surviving in the remains of that civilization when he meets the unicorn h...
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7/11 Harry Potter takes another familiar unicorn idea, the value of its magical body, and makes the method of obtaining that value matter. Unicorn hair can be used in wand-making. Drinking unicorn blood can keep someone alive when they are...
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6/11 Ridley Scott's Legend makes the unicorns central to the condition of the world around them. Darkness wants them destroyed and their horns taken. When the stallion is attacked and loses his horn, the consequences extend into the landsca...
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5/11 Jewel, the unicorn in C. S. Lewis's The Last Battle, offers another important version. His relationship with King Tirian is a friendship between companions who have shared danger. The king has someone beside him who knows him, cares ab...
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4/11 Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn is one of the major works in this conversation, and it needs to be kept separate from the Zenescope issue with the same title. Beagle's novel was published in 1968. The 1982 animated film adapts his s...
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3/11 The older unicorn material has more range than the soft, harmless version people sometimes picture. Medieval European traditions could connect the unicorn with purity and associate its horn with the power to counter poison. The Unicorn...
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2/11 The ugly part of Grimm's unicorn story is that wanting to protect it is not enough. Sela and Shang fail to save it. The story actually follows through on the vulnerability built into calling a creature the last of its kind. That gives...
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