
Chekhov's Gun: Baba's little handmade figures of herself and Hilda.Call-Back: It's not the first time Johanna found another child in Hilda's bedroom with her daughter nowhere to be found - the first time being when Hilda switched places with David in " The Nightmare Spirit".And when Johanna decides to go back to get Twig herself and tells her daughter to stay put, Hilda looks torn and cries some more behind the rock, over fear of losing Twig and her mother. This causes Hilda to try to twist away from her mother’s grasp, desperately saying to get off her and starting to cry over having to lose Twig again. Broken Tears: When the first escape attempt goes awry and Hilda realizes that Twig was left behind, Johanna holds her back to stop her from getting lost again.Break the Haughty: Hilda suffers this hard when her actions send her family to the unfamiliar, perilous, troll-filled Stone Forest.Ascended Extra: Frida and David were little more than guest characters in the graphic novel, with both of them vanishing from the story after the first quarter.After their tribulations in the Stone Forest, Hilda and Johanna reconcile properly. Here, Hilda once again gets into an argument with her mother and decides to sneak out, setting the episode's events in motion. but the episode also ended with Hilda telling her mother a lie-by-omission about sneaking out of the house, implying that the lesson didn't completely sink in.

Aesop Amnesia: In " The Fifty Year Night", Hilda learned a lesson about the consequences of one's actions, and respecting her mother's wishes.In the show, Hilda chases it down in opening scene of " The Troll Circle", but it doesn't appear after that. In the graphic novel, it ended up showing Hilda and Johanna the way out of the Stone Forest, and they took it home with them afterward.
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The creature that looks like a patch of earth with legs is likewise absent.He was the one who saved Hilda from falling off a cliff in the comic, but here she is saved by a "lucky" white woff instead. The Great Raven is removed from the adaptation.Hilda blackmails Tontu into letting her going into Nowhere Space, but for a different reason (she wants to see the lights of the Bird Parade in the comic, where she wants to go to Frida's here).


The circumstances have also been reversed (in the comic, Hilda had already spent all day at home, and pushes back when her mother refuses to let her go out in the show, Hilda had spent all day with her friends, and Johanna is the one who pushes back after Hilda insists on going back out when Johanna had already made arrangements), though both end with Hilda's outburst landing her in trouble.
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Hilda, her mum and Twig look for a way out of a mysterious forest full of trolls, while a worried David and Frida journey out of Trolberg to find them.
