Cinderella's stepsisters
Jun-li and her mother slay and eat the fish, not knowing that Ye Xian has salvaged the creature's bones and buried them beneath her bed, and once again her wishes are granted.
Outraged at their cruelty toward her, the warlord exiles forever Jun-li and her mother to the wilderness, where they are killed by a rain of flying stones.
[4] Indeed, the stepsisters are also traitors since, under the stepmother's advice, they attempt to trick the prince by cutting off their heels and toes to make the Glass Slipper fit their foot, not having more need to go on foot when one of them will be queen, but the prince spots the blood on their stockings thanks to Aschenputtel's magic doves, her loyal friends and minions, and realises they are imposters.
Nonetheless, the false stepsisters try to profit by getting rich and invite themselves to Aschenputtel's royal wedding, with the hope to worm their way into her favour as the future queen.
But Aschenputtel's doves tear the stepsisters' eyes out, sentencing them to a lifetime of horrible blindness as truly awful comeuppance for their diabolical behaviour.
They are portrayed as unruly man-eaters who provide much of the story's comic relief, flirting with men in the audience and repeatedly insulting each other yet teaming up to torment Cinderella.
In order to ensure no man will want to marry her, they reduce her to their maidservant and force her into waiting on them non-stop and doing all the dirtiest kitchen jobs.
and the jealous stepsisters rename her "Cinderella" due to the fact she mostly sweeps and cleans the firesides and is constantly covered in ashes and cinders.
Sometimes they are forgiven for their cruelty, other times they are demoted to servants in the prince's castle, or sometimes the Baron Hardup at last puts his foot down and stands up to them.
[citation needed] Sometimes she has died or other times she has absconded with the family fortune and left Cinderella to cope with her two ugly daughters.
Notable ugly sisters have been played by Terry Scott and Julian Orchard (Theresa and Julia), Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce (Georgina and Mildred after their sitcom characters George and Mildred), real life sisters Elsie and Doris Waters (Gert and Daisy after their radio sitcom characters), Brian Murphy and Roy Hudd (Amnesia and Magnesia), and Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett (Lucretia and Griselda).
By the end of the third film, she has broken free of Lady Tremaine's evil influence, while her older sister remains unrepentantly on their mother's side.
In the second Storybook, the stepsisters retain their Disney names of Anastasia and Drizella, portrayed by Yael Yurman and Adelaide Kane.
Jasper Fforde in the novel The Big Over Easy presents a (notional) claim for damages from publishers over what is termed the persistent defamation of Ella's step-sisters.
"A spokesman for the sisters explained: 'My clients are fed up with being constantly portrayed as physically repellent obnoxious harpies, and have decided to take action against the 984 publishers that have repeated the allegations without bothering to check their veracity'".
