Wikipedia Trails: From "Emperor's New Clothes" to "Damsel in Distress"

So I just read The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen so I decided to Wikipedia trails that. Here is the link. This is a story about an emperor who is obsessed with clothes who is swindled by these two guys who say they weave the finest clothes but only people who really know their stuff can see it. So everyone pretends they can see it and the emperor walks naked in a parade, hilarious right?

Ok, so Andersen also wrote the original The Little Mermaid so I followed that link to here. Except it is not the little mermaid you know. She can barely walk because her feet bleed and hurt and her sisters tell her to kill the prince and she does not even end up with him, she ends up being an air-spirit that does good deeds. Crazy right?

Ok, so I guess the little mermaid is mentioned in one of my favorite TV shows, Once Upon A Time, so I followed it here. This show is way cool because it brings common fairytale characters to a modern town called Storybrooke, and all these characters who are used to having magic now have to learn to live in a land without magic while also trying to get home. Way cool. Anyways part of the cool thing about this show is it doesn't focus on traditional themes such as...

The damsel in distress, which is a link I followed to here. And what a journey it was. A damsel in distress is an old school and outdated lady who needs a big macho man to come chop off the dragon's heads. But lately us ladies have been saving ourselves. Yay!

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