Glass Armor Cinderella (Disney Warriors Project)

In DC's Vertigo series 'Fables', Cinderella is the secret assassin for an exiled community of storybook characters.  At series' end she makes an assassination attempt on the Black Forest Witch, a onetime ally that's practically a force of nature.  At the battle's end, they're both in dismal shape.  Before "Granny Totenkinder" can recover, Cinderella crawls over and spikes her head with a nearby stiletto heel!  Then Cindy dies.

Yeah.  I'm a tireless promoter of the 'Fables' setting, and make no apologies for it.  Especially since so many people know about and love the tamed Disney clone it obviously inspired.

Although Rumplestiltskin running a pawn shop is a cool idea, Fables is willing to go anywhere to make good content.  That seedy pawnbroker in the sleeveless undershirt?  The one that seems like a blend between Clint Howard and Stan Lee?  He's the glamor-cloaked Jersey Devil.  More examples:

• The 'Prince Charming' of so many tales is actually the same man, a shameless serial womanizer who tends to sponge a living off his lovers these days.

• Pinocchio is furious because the Blue Fairy interpreted Geppetto's wish too literally: having a boy's body for centuries has made it impossible for him to get laid.

• Geppetto himself has become a heartless megalomaniac ruling a worlds-spanning Empire, and carved an elite army of hardwood soldiers.

• Beast's curse starts to reassert itself whenever Belle's love is sufficiently overshadowed by other feelings.

• On a related note, the girl Beast fell in love with isn't even Belle, which is something few Fables know. She's a monster that murdered the original, and has assumed her identity so absolutely that she's forgotten the fact.

• Briar Rose issues a bare-knuckle beatdown to the fairy that issued her childhood death curse because her strictly-structured defense wards refuse to activate against a 'dead' attacker.