The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey souris to Hercules by
John Grant
Character description of The Blue Fairy from "Pinocchio" (1940)
The Force of good might seem to be underrepresented in the movie when compared with the force of evil, incarnate in John Worthington Foulfellow, The Coachman, Stromboli, Lampwick... On the side of good are only Gepetto (a fairly passive ally), Jiminy Cricket, the Blue Fairy and eventually towards the end, the late-discovered integrity of Pinocchio himself. Yet good, of course, eventually triumphs (although, as noted, it does not destroy...
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