Jean Marie's Domain

Sorry. I gotta differ again. I was referring to the originals. I've even parsed my way through Grimm in the original German. Children get brutalized, eaten, transformed, but the protaganist either makes it through, or through their death, changes a desperate situation. Which is not to say they don't sacrifice to get there--lost fingers, a wing for an arm, imprisonment, bereavement... But all those sacrifices result in a greater good. That's the empowering aspect, which Pan's Labyrinth entirely lacked. Alas.
Yeah, I play devil's advocate in all my convention panels too.
Hugs and grins,
Jean Marie