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The Iron Stove ["Tetsu no sutoobu" (Japanese: 鉄のストーブ)] is the 39th episode of Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. It's about a naive Princess who makes a marriage promise with a talking iron stove in exchange for help, but soon finds out that this is just the beginning of the adventures she'll go through for him. . .
The tropes used in this episode include:
- Action Girlfriend: The Princess was already an Action Survivor in the original, but here it's reaffirmed when her last "trial" to regain Prince William's love is more physical-geared than in the tale itself.
- Adaptational Badass: The Princess is seen crawling between hedges of thorns or jumping off huge flights of stairs to make sure her dear Prince William will hear her Anguished Declaration of Love.
- The Imp-Fairy who's a stand-in for the second princess is not only a beauty, but an extremely powerful magic user who's especially good at casting illusions, Mind Control-ling people and using blue flames.
- Ambiguously Human: The Big Bad is referred to as an Imp-Fairy, but her looks and powers resemble both a Hot Witch and a a succubus.
- The Big Damn Kiss: William and the Princess' kiss at the very end not only is the corolary to their adventures, but it also undoes the Fairy's spell on his subjects, who had been turned into animals.
- Brainwashed and Crazy - Hypnotize the Prince: When all of the Imp-Fairy's attempts to seduce Prince William fail and she learns that his Action Girlfriend is on her way, she pulls this on him. The Princess' Anguished Declaration of Love breaks it off soon, however.
- Disney Death: It's never fully confirmed if the Imp-Fairy died at the very end, as she's just seen being thrown through the cave and into a rock wall, which then closes behind her. If she is a succubus rather than a witch or a fairy, she probably was sent back to Hell.
- Evil Redhead: The Imp-Fairy has dark red hair and is a huge bitch.
- Friend to All Living Things: William aka the Stove Prince has some degree of affinity with animals and flowers. In his first meeting with the Princess she accidentally sits on a flower and the alarmed "Stove" waters it as if nursing it to health, which helps her warm up to him.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: How the HELL did the animators get away with all the fetishes they used in the Imp-Fairy's design?
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: The Princess is shown to be a green-eyed blonde, and she's a super naive and sheltered but very kind and brave girl.
- Heroes Want Redheads: Nope: William hates and fears the redhaired Imp-Fairy who enchanted his Kingdom and himself, and at first he only seeks out the blonde Princess to break the spell but ended up falling for her.
- The Hedge of Thorns: The Princess' trials include going past one of these. It turns out to be an illusion and fades away as soon as she passes through, though not before tearing off her dress (which is back to normal afterwards).
- Horny Devils: The Imp-Fairy looks SO much like one
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Princess and the Imp-Fairy.
- Mind Control Eyes : Prince William briefly gains these when the Imp-Fairy brainwashes him.
- Miss Fanservice: The Imp-Fairy, holy shit.
- My Greatest Failure: One of the reasons why the Princess wants to save her Prince so badly is that he was re-captured and re-enchanted in an attempt to protect her from the Witch. She feels horribly guilty for it and wants to be the one protecting him instead.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Stove Prince's name is William, but his girlfriend remains nameless.
- Plucky Girl: The Princess never ever falters in regards to her goal of rescuing her beloved boyfriend.
- Pragmatic Adaptation: Only one disguised lower-class girl tries to trick William aka the Stove Prince into believing that she is the Princess, rather than two.
- There is no second princess. Instead, the Witch who enchanted the Prince into a stove is the Princess' rival.
- The princess' trials are somewhat shorter and more simple than in the original.
- Psychopathic Manchild : The Imp-Fairy has the personality of a Bratty Teenage Daughter .
- Rescue Romance: First, the Princess undoes the spell on the "Stove" and helps him recover his human form as Prince William. Then, he shields her from the Imp-Fairy and gets re-captured for it. Then the Princess rescues him from the her.
- Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains : The Princess wears a long Pimped-Out Dress with just a little bit of cleavage, whereas the Witch is a Miss Fanservice who shows lots of boob and legs.
- Talking Animal: Two talking toads aid the Princess in her quests to save her beloved. They're actually the Prince's servants, who the Fairy enchanted too. They're back to their human forms at the very end, alongside the rest of his citizens who were transformed into rats.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: The Imp-Fairy certainly does!
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Inverted: the Princess never uses physical violence against the Imp-Fairy, and her pure and selfless love for William is her most powerful "weapon".
- Who Wants to Live Forever? : The Imp-Fairy offers Prince William eternal life if he stays with her. He refuses it every single time, even when the Witch taunts him by either temporarily draining away his youth or just as temporarily making him a stove again.
- Yandere: The Imp-Fairy, natch.