page_title: Fairy godmother
section_title: In fiction
hierarchical_section_title: Fairy godmother / In fiction
caption_attribution_description: Illustration for Charles Perrault's Cinderella from Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé: Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye(1697). Gustave Doré's illustrations appear in an 1867 edition entitled Les Contes de Perrault. First of three engravings
context_page_description: In fairy tales, a fairy godmother is a fairy with magical powers who acts as a mentor or parent to someone, in the role that an actual godparent was expected to play in many societies. In Perrault's Cinderella, he concludes the tale with the cynical moral that no personal advantages will suffice without proper connections.
  The fairy godmother is a special case of the donor.
context_section_description: Fairy godmothers appear frequently in fairytale fantasy, especially comic versions and retellings of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.  Mercedes Lackey presents a gently lampooned version of the concept in her Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, in which Fairy Godmothers are magically-gifted women who monitor magical forces across the kingdoms. Whenever events are right for a fairy tale to recur, the relevant Fairy Godmother steps in to make sure that the tale in question runs its course with as few fatalities as possible.
  In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters; with the next prince and princess, she gives them "a little misfortune", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.
  In C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, when Uncle Andrew explains how he made the magical rings from dust left to him by his godmother, he points out that she may have had fairy blood, and so he might have been the last man to have a fairy godmother.
  In the television animated Halloween special Witch's Night Out, the witch is mistaken for a "fairy godmother" by the two children, Small and Tender. Their sitter, Bazooey corrects them by addressing the fairy godmother as a "wicked witch".
  The Fairly OddParents is a humorous animated TV series where the fairies Cosmo and Wanda are (rather incompetent) godparents.
  In Shrek 2, the fairy godmother (voiced by Jennifer Saunders) who appears is an evil twin sister of Cinderella's fairy godmother. She is a conniving, crooked businesswoman (with a personality rather like that of the Stepmother in Cinderella), who is quite willing to resort to blackmail and/or murder to further her own interests. The pure reason for helping princesses gain a happily ever after with Prince Charming is the fact that Prince Charming is actually the Fairy Godmother's son, and through the marriage he will gain the throne.
  The Discworld novel Witches Abroad also features a plotting fairy godmother, Lady Lilith de Tempscire, who uses the power of stories to control the city of Genua. During the book Magrat Garlick also takes on the role, but throws away the magic wand at the end.
  In The Dresden Files novels (primarily Grave Peril and Summer Knight), the main character, a modern wizard named Harry Dresden is revealed to have a faerie godmother by the name of Leanansidhe who enjoys ensnaring Harry in one-sided deals.
  Once Upon a Midnight features the character of Angelica, the Blue Fairy, an overzealous fairy godmother.
  Fairy Godmother plays a leading role in web series Wish It Inc. She is portrayed by Portal voice actress Ellen McLain.
  The first King's Quest game features a fairy godmother of the main character Graham who can grant him invincibility.
  The otome game My Candy Love features a fairy godmother who will appear randomly and give the player gifts.  She is a bit of an odd case in that she is implied to be an eccentric aunt who merely dresses as a fairy godmother.
  in Disney's The Princess and the Frog, Mama Odie (voiced by Jenifer Lewis) is the 197-year-old, blind Voodoo queen of the Bayou who appears. As Tiana's "Fairy Godmother of the Swamp," she uses her good voodoo conjuring to counter the voodoo witchdoctor Dr. Facilier's dark magic. Mama Odie is also the one who weds Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen at the end of the movie.
  In the TV series True Blood, Season 4, Episode 1, the character Sookie learns of her fairy heritage, including that she has a godmother who is actually a blood relative on her fairy side.
  In the film Maleficent, Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty, mistakenly assumes Maleficent to be this, as the latter had been watching out for her since she was little, though the Princess Aurora doesn't know about her curse, or the person who cast it.
  In the fourth season of superhero seri
caption: Illustration to Cinderella by Gustave Doré:  the fairy godmother preparing an enchantment for her goddaughter.
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