Da Rules

Da Rules
Uses:	Guidelines used by Fairy Godparents to limit their magic and prevent misuse that will cause disaster (Cosmo Rules)
Additional Information
Created by:	Fairy Council
Production Information
First Appearance	The Fairly OddParents!
Destroyed In:	Cosmo Rules (Almost destroyed, but revived)

Da Rules, otherwise known as Fairy Law, is a fairy rulebook written by the Fairy Council that all fairies and their godchildren have to follow and is filled to the brim with rules, guidelines, and stipulations that dictate specifically how a fairy godparent may behave and all the parameters that define what a godkid can or cannot wish for.

All of these rules exist to keep both fairies and humans safe from magic being dangerously misused, such as disputes, injuries, or potentially life-threatening consequences that reckless or improperly worded wishes can harbor. Others exist to prevent actual Earth laws from being broken. They are usually broken by Timmy or are used as a plot device to prevent him from simply wishing something away, thereby sending him on some sort of quest for a McGuffin of any given variety that will undo the wish, all the while learning why the wish was a bad idea. He is actually the reason a few of these rules exist.

Known rules

• If others learn that a fairy godchild has fairy godparents, the fairies are taken away (by Jorgen or the rulebook itself). This often entails the godchild and the people who discovered having their memories of the fairies and their magic erased.
  • This does not apply to godchildren learning of other godchildren, or if someone becomes aware of the fairies but does not know that they are fairies (like Jimmy Neutron believing that Cosmo and Wanda are merely "reality-bending computer programs").
• A godchild cannot wish to win a competition or use magic to win one. For example: Timmy was free to wish that he was super-intelligent, but his new intellect vanished when he was competing in an academic competition against another school.
  • This rule prevents Timmy from wishing to win the student body presidential race in "Hail To The Chief", yet was not enforced when he made himself President of the United States, made his father president and later mayor, or made Chester the best baseball player. The rule evidently does not apply to Magical Duels.
• Fairies cannot interfere with true love. This includes destroying romantic love, parental love, and love with something abstract, as well as creating any of those.
  • In "Information Stupor Highway", this is extended to acts of true love; Cosmo and Wanda cannot stop a romantic email before it reaches Trixie.
  • This rule is not enforced in "Love at First Bark" when Timmy unintentionally makes his father fall in love, but does prevent him from wishing the love away.
• Fairies cannot directly kill, maim, or injure living beings.
  • However, there have been instances in which fairies directly harm someone on their own accord by zapping them with their wands.
• Pixies can grant wishes instead of fairies if they are the only magical creatures on Earth.
• A fairy godparent cannot tell their godchild what other kids fairies have; the kid has to find out on their own (Although children can wish to know if a fairy of another child knows their own, as proven in "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary", when Timmy wishes for Wanda to tell him if Remy's godparent knows her).
• "Fairies cannot be wished away by other fairies." They have to be wished away by their godchild or lost in a Magical Duel.
• "All fairy godparents must be assigned to the children of the dominant species of the planet Earth."
• "Fairies can only be assigned to children in need." If a godchild for whatever reason becomes cheerful or they say, "I'm happy and I don't need my godparents anymore," their fairy/fairies will leave them.
• Fairies only grant wishes to children, or at least people who are children at heart. Once a godchild is considered old, mature, or independent enough, they will forget about their godparent(s), who will return to Fairy World, and traces of the fairies' magic will disappear.
• Magic cannot be used on invisible teachers, sleeping clowns, French New Wave filmmakers, or "people who wear clear glasses as a fashion statement".
• As of "Christmas Every Day", godchildren may not wish that every day were Christmas.
• Wishes for breakfast are not allowed after 10:30 a.m.
• Fairies cannot create copies of documents, as those are considered forgeries.
• Wishes can only be granted if made by the godparents' designated godkid, the godkid wishes for their fairies to grant someone else's wishes.
• Spoken wishes can only be granted if they are requested in the godchild's own voice.
• No fairies other than the Tooth Fairy may retrieve teeth.
• "No wishing someone back to life."
  • It is possible to wish for a ghost, however, as Timmy is able to summon a ghost pirate in "Wish Fixers".
• Fairies may not create money, as that is considered counterfeiting.
• A godchild cannot wish to steal.
• A godchild can loan their godparent(s) only to a person who is twice as miserable.
• Sleep-related wishes must be approved by the Sandman.
• A godchild may receive a "Fairy-versary" if they have had their Fairies for over one year without exposing them. They are given a muffin that grants anyone a rule-free wish when they take a bite. The only thing they are unable to wish for is a better tasting muffin.
• A wish to clone someone can only be undone when all the copies are in the same room.
• One day in a certain number of years, a fairy godparent has to be "bad" and if during that day that fairy godparent cannot be bad, then that fairy has to train for another 500 years at the Fairy Academy.
• If all Fairy Godparents in the universe want to have the same godchild, they must compete against each other in a Texas cage match; the winner will have the wanted godchild.
• The "finders keepers" law: "Whoever holds [a] wand has complete control over it", meaning a godchild cannot wish to have it.
• Any rule of Da Rules can be removed if one of the fairies "accidentally" cuts a page.
• A godkid cannot wish away Da Rules or wish away any of the rules. (Including this one)
• A godkid cannot wish away what can last forever. (It is almost impossible even with magic due to their properties)
• Fairies must always grant the wishes of the godchild when they say "I wish ..."
• No wishing for an electric car.
• If a fairy godparent quits, any magical creature can take their place.
• "No Tom Cruise."
• If a godkid injures a holiday icon, causes them to be sick, or do anything else that makes them incapable of performing their royal duties, then that godchild must fix all the consequences they have caused by filling in for said holiday icon until they are back on their feet.
• Every wish made by a godchild must be accounted for. (Details in Ultimate Violation section)
• A godchild cannot wish for another person to not exist. (Only mentioned in the Game Boy Advance version of Breakin' Da Rules.)
• A godkid cannot wish for themselves or other people to not age.
• A godchild cannot wish for good grades.
• If a godparent loses their wand, they can no longer be a fairy godparent.
• A godchild cannot unwish someone else's wish.
  • Timmy breaks this rule in "Summer Bummer" and Chloe does in "Marked Man".
• A godkid cannot wish for a licensed brand merchandise item as it is considered copyright infringement.
• Humans cannot wish to be fairies, but can become fairies if they come into contact with magical items such as the Abracadabrium (proven in "A Fairly Odd Summer"), or if fairies themselves turn the human into a fairy (proven by Cosmo and Wanda in "When Nerds Collide"). Another way is to sign a magical contract to become a fairy, but humans who become fairies in this manner cannot wish their magic away unless the contract is torn up.
• Evil Bug addendum: Evil bugs will look for a new host once removed from their previous one.
• A godchild cannot transfer or give away their godparent to another person without permission by Jorgen.
• You can't mind control anyone (contradicted earlier in Fairly Odder, however).
• If fairy godparents choose their own godchild, they have to participate in the Fairy Trials to ensure that they are capable of working together, otherwise the godkid will be assigned to a different fairy.
• You cannot change anything in a universe that is not the Fairly OddParents! universe. (Only mentioned in Nicktoons Unite!)
• A godchild must get what they want.

These rules have been featured in the TV show and video games, but there are likely far more rules in Da Rules book that have never come up.

• A fear can only be fought by the one who fears it.
• If a godkid tries to start a ghost apocalypse, do nothing.

The Timmy Turner Loop-hole

At the end of A Fairly Odd Movie, after Timmy loses his fairies because he wanted to save them from Hugh J. Magnate Jr., Jorgen tells Timmy that the Fairy Council had created a loop-hole that states the following): "If there was ever a boy named Timmy Turner who has kept and loved his fairies for over 13 years (A fairy council member added "And has saved Fairy World on more than a few occasions", but this part was not written down), and if he promises to make wishes ONLY FOR OTHERS and not for his own selfish purposes, he may KEEP his fairies." Due to Timmy becoming a fairy himself at the end of "A Fairly Odd Summer", the loophole was presumably rendered null and void.

Losing one's fairy/fairies

There seems to be variations to losing (a) fairy godparent(s) depending on how the child acts them out.

• If the fairy/fairies are willingly wished away by the godchild, the fairy/ies must fulfill the wish and never come back. The child will still remember them and any wish made prior will stay the same.
• If the fairy/fairies are revealed by the godchild on purpose, Da Rules will appear and the fairy/ies will be sucked into it, but the godchild and everyone around will remember they exist and everything they caused will remain the same. Despite this, Crocker and a few other people seem to be aware of Timmy's godparents without any consequence.
• If the fairy/fairies are taken away by the fairy court, the godchild will never see them again, but will still remember them, and everything he/she had from them will remain. There is also the possibility of the godchild retrieving their fairy/ies if proof is found that he/she is worthy of having them.
• If the fairies are accidentally revealed (as proven by Timmy, Cosmo, and Denzel in "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker"), the Fairy Council and Jorgen Von Strangle will appear and take them away. They will wipe the godparents' memory, the godchild's memory, and the memory of anyone involved. Everything they wished up will remain, however, but if someone spots a godchild's fairy godparents but doesn't figure out who's fairy godparents they are, or the godchild they belong to, they don't have to go away forever (proven by Wanda in "Information Stupor Highway"), but fairy godparents don't have to go away forever if they are seen by something that is not a person. However, in "Pipe Down", Crocker saw Timmy's fairies, but they didn't go away forever although this could be because he couldn't get anybody to see them due to the meteor, and the fact that Timmy wished for no sound.
• If the existence of fairies is revealed to the world by anyone (as proven by Dev in "The Battle of Big Wand"), Jorgen Von Strangle will erase the memory of the perpetrator, and if that perpetrator is a godchild, he will also take away their fairy/ies. Also, he will also erase everyone's memories of the event.
• If a fairy is challenged by another fairy or a godchild to a Magical Duel (proven by Timmy in "Fairy, Fairy Quite Contrary", though Remy ended up lucky and secretly got his memory back from Juandissimo), the loser's fairy/ies will be taken away from their godchild, who will forget they ever had godparent/s.
• If the godchild leaves home (proven by Jorgen in "A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!"), that is, if they start living without their parents/guardian(s), the fairies will be lost.
• If the godchild wishes they were an adult (Proven by Timmy in "The Big Problem"). In the most rare occasion, the fairy bell boy will let the godchild keep their fairy/ies until they are reassigned and will only make exceptions through a bribe. The Fairies also cannot grant any wishes while the godchild is an adult. The godchild will have a chance to prove they're still as childish as always in an attempt to keep their fairy/ies. Although this rule contradicts the previous one, when the godchild becomes an adult, they are supposed to immediately forget about their Fairies.
• If a wish is made for another species to become the dominant species of life on Earth, the fairies are reassigned to become that species' godparents. (Bippy wished for monkeys to be the dominant species with the Fairy-versary Muffin, so all fairies were assigned to monkey children.)
• If a godchild says: "I'm happy and I don't need my godparents anymore" (Proven by Vicky In "The Switch Glitch"), their fairy/ies will instantly be taken away, and have a smile stamped to their face. However, the godchild does not forget about the fairies afterward, because in that episode, there was no evidence that Vicky forgot about Cosmo and Wanda. In fact, it was pretty obvious that she did remember having them, considering the fact she complained about how miserable she was without them.
• If a kid has fairies loaned to them, then the godchild who loaned them will get them back at the day and time they and their godparent(s) agreed upon and the kid who had the fairies loaned to them will forget that they had them when the time runs out. But they will still have everything that they wished up. (proven by Tootie)
• If a fairy has lost their fairy diploma, then the fairy will have 24 hours to prove that it was handed in. Otherwise, the fairy will be taken away from the godchild. If the fairy who hasn't handed in their diploma is paired with another fairy, then both fairies will get taken away from their godchild.
• If two godchildren are sharing fairies, if one godchild does something that will cause them to lose their fairies, both godchildren will immediately lose them. However, both godchildren do not forget about the fairies. (This is completely contradicted in all of Season 10 of the original series).
• If the fairy/fairies and/or a godchild makes the fairy/fairies quit, the godchild memories will immediately be purged by Jorgen Von Strangle and everything that the godchildren had wished for will be taken away alongside any magical entity in their household. After this, the fairy/ies and any other magical being will be able to go through a "Fairy Idol" and if the winner is not a fairy, they will become one, and will be assigned to the most miserable child on earth (excluding the same child that said fairies were assigned to before they quit), in an attempt to make them happy. However, a fairy who quits being a child's godparent is considered having quit the position altogether, meaning they have to go the same audition to be reassigned.

Ultimate Violation

• If a godchild makes a secret undocumented wish that threatens the fabric of the universe itself (like Timmy and the 1986 Little Joshua Applebee did) or is found guilty of being the worst fairy god child ever by the fairy council, the godchild and fairies will get the ultimate punishment that includes: their memory will be wiped out by Jorgen Von Strangle, The Fairy Council, or Father Time, the godchild will never experience having fairies, all of their wishes will be undone (including their secret wish if they made one), those wishes will be sent to Hocus Poconos, their life will be 10 times as miserable and they will not be allowed to be lent fairies. The fairies will have all of their memories of their godchild wiped and they will be stripped from their position as fairy god parents and banished back to fairy world with absolutely no memories of their god child or their wishes. The wish is counted as the ultimate violation of Da Rules because when it is made, it will backfire by causing a secret alteration of the fabric of the universe. (From "Timmy's Secret Wish!")

Other limitations on fairy magic

• Fairies are completely powerless against butterfly nets, because "if it has wings and flies, a butterfly net can catch it".
• The following are immune to fairies' magic:
  • Certain people with superpowers
  • Dragons
  • More powerful magical items
  • Armadillo shells
• If a wish involves something with its own set of rules, those rules also govern the wish.
  • When Timmy wished for magical kung-fu skills, they only worked when he followed the rules of kung-fu.
  • When Timmy wanted a batch of Nana Boom Boom's award-winning brownies, Cosmo explained that because they're magical, he can only poof them up by knowing the secret recipe.

Trivia

Da Rules as it appeared in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts.

Da Rules book as it appears in A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!

• Da Rules were actually created after one of the notes Butch Hartman was given after he pitched The Fairly OddParents to Fred Seibert and Larry Huber which says that he can't give Timmy unlimited magic. So as he pitched it again, he brought up the concept of "Da Rules" and it became a cornerstone of the show.
• If Cosmo and Wanda try to wish Timmy up something that goes against the rules, their wands will wilt and make a farting sound. Sometimes when their wands malfunction, the same thing happens. (Example: "Land Before Timmy") In other instances however, Jorgen will appear just as a rule-violating wish is about to be granted to explain why the wish is forbidden.
• In Season 0 in the pilot episode, "The Fairly OddParents!", Da Rules was colored yellow and the text was colored orange and was changed when it entered season 1. It is also Da Rules' first appearance. Since its change in season 1, Da Rules is now colored purple and the text is colored yellow.
• Almost all of these rules have affected Timmy in some way, and he has lost or nearly lost his fairies in most of the ways listed possible above. However, he always regains his fairies by the end of the episode/movie.
• In the past seasons, it was said that each fairy has their own copy of Da Rules. However, in later episodes, there is only one official copy of the book.
• In "Hassle in the Castle", Cosmo and Wanda made up a rule that Timmy wasn't allowed to come into their castle because they didn't want to spoil the surprise about the Hall of Timmy.
• It is shown that Juandissimo Magnifico's copy of Da Rules is entitled "El Rules".
• There was a live-action Da Rules book, for A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!. Here, a special loophole is made for Timmy in gratitude for his loyalty to his Fairies and him having Fairy World on several occasions. It allows Timmy to keep Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof, so long as he uses their magic for the good of other people. In addition, Tootie is allowed to know about their existence and presence.
• In the episode "Cosmo Rules", when Timmy started altering the contents of Da Rules, the world was in chaos. Jorgen mentioned that if the chaos continues, Da Rules will burst and destroy the entire universe. That being said, the greater purpose of Da Rules is to keep the universe together.
• Only Von Strangles (meaning having their blood line) can contain the magic in the rules, as stated in "Cosmo Rules".
• Da Rules have control over the Rule-free wishes and do not allow them to be given to godchildren unless there are certain conditions to be met (such as a Fairy-versary Muffin or a reward from a competition). Additionally, when godchildren are given rule-free wishes, they are given only a limited amount.
• In "Abra-Catastrophe!", Jorgen was seen reading a giant copy of Da Rules.
• Beginning in Season 9, Da Rules are constantly broken or ignored, mainly either due to being used as a plot device or for the sake of plot convenience. In addition, the writers started to abandon or rewrite continuity to accommodate new characters or plots.
• It's likely that it had forbid the fairies from ever using the Magic TV Remotes again following the events of "Channel Chasers", mostly because of Vicky.

Known rules that haven't appeared in the series/games

• Fairies cannot have children with non-fairies.