How Powerful is The Blue Fairy

[tombo671]

@TimeSpacer wrote:

@Keb wrote:

I think that she was called the original power, but not more powerful. I believe that dark magic is more powerful than anything but true love, because the price is high.

I don’t think that BF is capable of paying the price for dark magic, and so her power is far more limited. They’ve said that it requires a pure heart to get her to come, and she seems capable only of granting a very deep wish under particular conditions (like being selfless, brave, and true or whatever–it’s said that August couldn’t have been transformed if he was not).

I agree. It appears that the Blue Fairy’s magic, while powerful, is limited by things outside of her control. She can’t just cast a spell to do anything she wants but she can manipulate certain pre-existing conditions. The requirement that Pinocchio be selfless, brave, and true is the clearest example. She also stated on several occasions that there are things she can’t do: she couldn’t undo the effects of becoming The Dark One on Rumple, she couldn’t transform Gepetto’s parents, etc… I think this is part of the reason that fairies don’t have to pay the kind of price that users of dark magic must pay. Someone else (sorry, I can’t remember who) also mentioned the fact that the fairies can’t fall in love may be the price they pay for their magic.

So dark magic is more of a “Give me what I want and here’s the payment” sort of bargain while fairy magic is more like an altruistic sort of ability to find things that can make other people happy.

And yet The Blue Fairy is still considered the most powerful in the land…

[Phee]

@PriceofMagic wrote:

I wonder if Blue’s backstory is going to be tied to Tinkerbell’s since the writers did say that Tinkerbell deserved her own back story. Perhaps Tinkerbell fell in love with Peter Pan but her love was unrequited and Peter only ever saw her as his companion. Tinkerbell stayed with Peter because of her love for him but maybe Blue saw how sad Tinkerbell was because of her unrequited love even though Tinkerbell would pretend to be happy for Peter’s sake.

Blue then didn’t want Nova ending up the same way as Tinkerbell.

That’s a great theory, would love to see something like that. I really hope we get a Blue ep towards the beginning of season 3, because I feel like there’s gotta be so much more to her story and it’s starting to bug me that they haven’t coughed up more information about her history yet.

@tombo671 wrote:

@TimeSpacer wrote:

So dark magic is more of a “Give me what I want and here’s the payment” sort of bargain while fairy magic is more like an altruistic sort of ability to find things that can make other people happy.

And yet The Blue Fairy is still considered the most powerful in the land…

She’s considered by the good guys to be the most powerful being who is on their side, which is true enough.

[tombo671]

@Phee wrote:

@PriceofMagic wrote:

I wonder if Blue’s backstory is going to be tied to Tinkerbell’s since the writers did say that Tinkerbell deserved her own back story. Perhaps Tinkerbell fell in love with Peter Pan but her love was unrequited and Peter only ever saw her as his companion. Tinkerbell stayed with Peter because of her love for him but maybe Blue saw how sad Tinkerbell was because of her unrequited love even though Tinkerbell would pretend to be happy for Peter’s sake.

Blue then didn’t want Nova ending up the same way as Tinkerbell.

That’s a great theory, would love to see something like that. I really hope we get a Blue ep towards the beginning of season 3, because I feel like there’s gotta be so much more to her story and it’s starting to bug me that they haven’t coughed up more information about her history yet.

@tombo671 wrote:

@TimeSpacer wrote:

So dark magic is more of a “Give me what I want and here’s the payment” sort of bargain while fairy magic is more like an altruistic sort of ability to find things that can make other people happy.

And yet The Blue Fairy is still considered the most powerful in the land…

She’s considered by the good guys to be the most powerful being who is on their side, which is true enough.

The Script doesn’t specify that, it states she’s the most powerful in all the land.

[Myril]

It’s not like we have the original script to rely on. We have Tracy’s statement from an interview, what she read in the script (without knowing exact what was written there, who said it, was it a note), we have the show and the transcript of the show.

In the show it’s the statement from a girl, who had heard it from soldiers, what makes it for me hear-say and not a fact. That the Blue Fairy is “bigger than anything” (the most powerful being in all the realms) is a legend of the Enchanted Forest, saying little about if the Blue Fairy in fact, objectively is the most powerful. I am quite sure that many people would say, that the President of the United States is the most powerful person in the world. But as well you will find many people who would question such a statement. And there are limits to the power of the President.

Even if going with idea of the Blue Fairy being the most powerful of the (Fairy Tale) realms, that doesn’t imply that she is all-powerful. It doesn’t mean that she is able to always counteract or stop what others do, or that she can do everything what others do, besides that her code might prevent her from using every means to try. Most powerful is relative, and doesn’t say how much more powerful. The Blue Fairy still could have been the most powerful in the (magical) lands (mind that that statement was likely about the Enchanted Forest, Fairy Tale lands, or maybe magical realms and lands people there knew of, and it was made long before the Dark Curse), but Rumple (the Dark One) and later Cora and Regina coming pretty close to match her powers.

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[Ishan]

Okay, so we know that the Blue Fariy is the most powerful being in the magical realms (In the show it was said by a girl and later confirmed by the fairy herself. There is some confusion over this, because she implied that she was powerful because she was good. “powerful” could mean “holds the most influence” or something. Now, we have seen that dark magic is more powerful than light, so yeah.) Then, we also know that the Blue Fairy is the most powerful magic user in “all the land” (whatever that means), because the actress who plays her confirmed it.

Now, why is that? Well, I believe that she may have power in the sense that she has magical ability (fairy dust was described as being the substance that powers the world. Could that mean that someone who can fully harness its power, like the Blue Fairy, may be able to create or completely erase elements like land and water and air, or maybe gravity and electromagnetism and so on, or possibly even space and time. Maybe she can do all that, but 1. it comes at a price, and 2. why would she?) but she cannot cast spells the same caliber as other, more powerful magic users, and has more limitations, and cannot defeat other, more powerful magic users in battle. She would still be more capable than they could imagine, and still would have to fear other, more “Powerful” magic users.

[hjbau]

I think the Blue Fairy could defeat people in battle. She just doesn’t help in that way because she has her own purpose and if it isn’t part of her purpose then she doesn’t do it.

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