totenkinder has been instrumental in resolving several crises that have hit fabletown. when the evil max piper visited fabletown in the 1920s, she drove him away after a fearsome battle, and worked to restore the fables' fertility after he released virus to sterilize the community. she defeated baba yaga in magical combat during the wooden soldier assault, much to the shock of the latter, who had always considered her opponent to be minor-league at best. she was also responsible for thwarting the plans of yusuf, chief advisor to sinbad of the arabian fables, when he released a d'jinn, instructing it to eliminate all his opponents and bring him great power and wealth. totenkinder anticipated this possibility and ensorcelled him, so that, unknown to him, he actually instructed the genie to kill all his accomplices, then himself (in the same drawn-out and painful a manner that he had intended for his enemies) and then return safely to its bottle.