Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

A Made for TV Movie by Hallmark, about two couples who are dealing with very different romantic strife and yet have a large amount of impact on the others' stories.

The first couple is a man from New York, employed by a developer company to look for land in Ireland to use for resorts, and Kathleen, the plucky and surprisingly not redheaded Irish woman he meets there.

The second couple is a leprechaun named Mickey and a trooping fairy named Jessica, whose newfound love for each other is challenged by long-running blood feuds between their species.

The fairies' side of the story is essentially a Lighter and Fluffier retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

Not as Light and Fluffy as it sounds, staying well clear of Tastes Like Diabetes territory.

Tropes used in Magical Legend of the Leprechauns include:
  • Genre Savvy: Jentee, who has apparently read Romeo and Juliet, as he suggests to Mickey and Jessica that killing themselves would bring their families 'round.
  • Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: Both sets of the fairy lovers' parents, at the end of the film.
  • Duel to the Death: Mickey and Grogran
  • Everybody Lives
  • Faking the Dead: Mickey and Jessica, as a last-ditch attempt to get their families to reconcile. It works, but only after they die for real. Then they get better.
  • Feuding Families (though rather expanded to Feuding Species): the Fairies and the Leprechauns.
  • Leprechaun: Averted to a degree: while leprechauns are stereotypically Irish, wear green coats, and can turn invisible, they are only about a foot tall, are represented by all major genders (or at least one gender plus Mary and the female dancers), and are far from the only mythical creatures living in Ireland.
  • Masquerade Ball: Three guesses as to where Mickey and Jessica meet, and the first two don't count.
  • Mighty Whitey: Lampshaded by Kathleen, who makes a snarky remark about how the American has come to save the Irish peasants from destruction. Jack insists this isn't the case.
  • Painting the Frost on Windows: It's what the fairies do.
  • Slobs Versus Snobs: The Leprechauns and the Fairies.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: Again, Mickey and Jessica.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Magical_Legend_of_the_Leprechauns?oldid=1757224"