Princess Tutu Trivia Quiz

Answer: "There was a man who died."

The "man who died" is Drosselmeyer, the author of the story "The Prince and the Raven." He dies before completing it, but the story comes to life and he watches from some sort of parallel vortex to make sure the story ends in the tragic manner he always hoped for.

The narrator speaks at the beginning of each episode, offering deconstructions or subversions of fairy tales or ballets that will relate to the action of the episode.

Answer: Marriage to him

Every time he mentions marriage, he begins to glow as Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" plays. The couple of times when he does have an interested lady, he doesn't want to marry her.

Answer: glory

There's a lot of fate-defying going on. Princess Tutu does not want to turn into a speck of light, Fakir does not want to die, and so on.

Answer: Author's bypass

Called "author's convenience" in the subtitles for the Japanese dub. Presumably this stone is the ability of an author to get past a plot hole or suspend disbelief.

Answer: Giselle

She can't do it, so Duck turns into Princess Tutu and takes over. Instead of violence, Tutu always uses dance to solve problems and heal others' spirits. In "Giselle," the title character dies when she finds out that the man she loves is betrothed to another and doesn't mean to marry her.

Answer: Princess Tutu

Since Tutu has been restoring his emotions to him and most of them are less than pleasant (loneliness, sorrow, etc.), it's no wonder that he would begin to fear her and what harsh feelings she keeps giving him. This is sad for Duck, who only wants to see him smile. Thinking about it, the line "I'm scared of Princess Tutu" sounds very bizarre out of context.

Answer: She wants to save Mytho from drowning.

Mytho follows a heart shard into the water, and Duck can save him only as Tutu. Whenever she touches the water while wearing the pendant, she turns from a duck into a girl.

Answer: An underground lake

This is a nod to the ballet "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky. Music from this ballet, as well as "Cinderella" and "Lohengrin," play over the action. The show also uses music from "The Nutcracker," "Sleeping Beauty," "La Sylphide," "Coppelia," "Carmen," and works by Strauss, Chopin, Debussy, Satie, Saint-Saens, and others.

Answer: Tutu will turn into a speck of light.

Yet her dancing touches him, and he chooses her over Kraehe. While episode thirteen ends with the possibility that they will stay together, we see very quickly that things become even more complicated.

Answer: Love

Again we see the downside of getting one's personality back. His sense of love is warped, which makes him cut up Mr. Cat's prized pair of ballet shoes.

Answer: Femio

Femio loves being dramatic: he enters amid rose petals that a man waves in front of him while music from "Carmen" plays. Siegfried is Mytho's real name, and also the name of the prince from "Swan Lake". While normally Mytho is out for hearts, this time Rue tries it; unfortunately for her, Femio is incapable of loving just one woman and can't give her his heart.

Answer: no

The Raven claims that his ugly daughter is really a crow, but he actually stole her as a baby to be his daughter. He named her Kraehe, which is German for "crow". Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre" plays in its entirety during the end of episode 24 when the Raven is released.

Answer: Duck's pendant

In order for Mytho to regain his heart, Duck must give up her ability to become a girl and Princess Tutu, but when she becomes a duck again, she can still dance.

Answer: He writes the ideal ending.

The characters don't want the tragic endings Drosselmeyer desires. Fakir, Drosselmeyer's descendant, has the power to make stories come alive and helps Duck write the happy ending she wants.

Answer: Swimming in a pond near Fakir

In the end, "Duck is still a duck," and seems content to live her life as what she is. Luckily, Fakir accepts her too and looks like he'll spend plenty of time with her.