Fairy tales helped popularize many tropes and character archetypes. Fairy tales are generally associated with love, magic, and danger. Tropes popular in fairy tales are also popular in nearly every genre of fiction. Almost everyone can recognize a downtrodden yet kind and hopeful character like the Cinderella archetype, regardless of whether she lives in a fantasy world or in a sci-fi universe.
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