Gallery: Tweaking Fairy Tales to Suit Our Troubled Times

  • Once Upon a Time Snow White and prince
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    *In new fairy tale-infused TV show* Once Upon a Time, *Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas portray Snow White and the Prince.*
  • Once Upon a Time Evil Queen
    Craig Sjodin
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    *Lana Parrilla plays the Evil Queen in* Once Upon a Time*.*
  • Once Upon a Time Snow White
    Kharen Hill
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    *In* Once Upon a Time, *Ginnifer Goodwin plays Snow White, aka Mary Margaret.*
  • Grimm monster
    Scott Green
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    *Silas Weir Mitchell plays monster Monroe in NBC's new series* Grimm*, which debuts Oct. 28.*
  • Grimm witch
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    *In* Grimm, *which reimagines classic storytellers the Brothers Grimm as criminal profilers, Claire Coffee plays lawyer/witch Schlauraffen.*
  • Once Upon a Time Pinocchio
    Jack Rowand
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    *Jakob Davies (left) and Tony Amendola play Pinocchio and Geppetto in* Once Upon a Time.
  • Once Upon a Time Riding Hood
    Jeff Petry
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    *Meghan Ory portrays Little Red Riding Hood in* Once Upon a Time.
  • Mirror Black Mirror Succubus Spring
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    *In her upcoming book* Mirror, Black Mirror*, artist Camille Rose Garcia puts a dark twist on fairy tales.*
  • Mirror Black Mirror Leaky Refuge
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    *Camille Rose Garcia, who grew up near Disneyland, presents a different vision of Snow White in her art book* Mirror, Black Mirror*.*
  • Pinocchio graphic novel
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    *In his graphic novel* Pinocchio, *French illustrator Winshluss pictures the title character as an exploited robot boy.*
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