History Characters / Cinderella

'''Voiced by''': William Phipps (original film) , Mike Douglas (singing); Michael Gough (Villain's Revenge), Creator/ChristopherDanielBarnes (sequels)\\

* CatchPhrase: "It simply isn't done!"

* FatalFlaw: Her sheer pettiness to make Cinderella miserable. When it becomes clear that Cinderella is in fact the one who danced with Prince Charming and thus the one the Prince wishes to marry, her first action is to lock Cinderella in her room to prevent her from meeting the Grand Duke. And Cinderella finally gets out, Tremaine shatters the glass slipper just to deny the Grand Duke from confirming her identity. As a result of her open misdeeds, she and her daughters are denied the life of royalty that would have been given to them had Tremaine not been so petty about Cinderella. It's even more prevalent in ''Cinderella III'', where her usage of Fairy Godmother's wand is solely dedicated to deny Cinderella's happy ending from ever happening that she ends up alienating her biological daughter Anastasia, who finds that her wants and desires are different from her mother's.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Just as Anastasia starts to become more sympathetic in canon, [[spoiler: karma for her actions in the first film comes back to haunt her in the form of Lady Tremaine, who by contrast is an even bigger jerk than in the first film and turns her ''more mundane'' nastiness on Anastasia]].

* HateSink: She is an abusive stepmother who dedicates her life to make her stepdaughter be miserable no matter what. And there is no redeeming or cool qualities given to her. She is given no FreudianExcuse for her mistreatment of Cinderella, is abusive to her ''own'' daughters as well (just not as much as Cinderella), and lacks any magical powers despite living in a world where magic is most certainly real. All of this combined creates a realistic, vile character on par with the most truly wicked of the Disney Villains.
* HonorBeforeReason: A truly despicable and stupid example of this trope. Her pride is so great that she would rather see Cinderella defeated than become in-laws with the royal family.

* HateSink: She is an abusive stepmother who dedicates her life to make her stepdaughter be miserable no matter what. And there is no redeeming or cool qualities given to her. She is given no FreudianExcuse for her mistreatment of Cinderella, is implied to be abusive to her ''own'' daughters as well (just not as much as Cinderella), and lacks any magical powers despite living in a world where magic is most certainly real. All of this combined creates a realistic, vile character on par with the most truly wicked of the Disney Villains.

* HateSink: Like [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]], she's more serious and less cartoonish than the other Disney villains, and being a thoroughly despicable person in a realistic way makes her more hateable.

[[folder: Lady Tremaine]]

[[folder: Anastasia and Drizella Tremaine]]

[[folder: Prince Charming]]

'''Voiced in French by:''' René Marc (speaking), Dominique Tirmont (singing) (1950), Emmanuel Jacomy (speaking), Michel Chevalier (singing) (1991), Creator/DamienBoisseau (speaking), Emmanuel Dahl (singing) (sequels)\\

[[folder: The King]]

[[folder: The Grand Duke]]

[[folder: Prudence]]

[[folder: The Queen]]

[[folder: Jaq and Gus]]

'''Voiced in French by''': Jacques Bodoin (1950), Emmanuel Jacomy (1991 and sequels), Georges Costa (singing voice in sequels)\\

'''Voiced in French by''': Jacques Bodoin (1950), Jacques Frantz (1991 and sequels speaking voice), Michel Costa (sequels singing voice)\\

[[folder: Lucifer and Pom-Pom]]

[[folder: Bruno]]

[[folder: Major]]

[[folder: Fairy Godmother]]

'''Voiced in French by''': Emmanuel Curtil\\

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* [[DatingWhatDaddyHates Dating What Mommy Hates]]: Lady Tremaine doesn’t approve of Anastasia’s interest in the Baker, but near the end, Anastasia decides that she doesn’t care what her mother thinks anymore and goes to the ball with the Baker.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Verna Felton, Creator/RussiTaylor (2001-2019, sequels)\\

* {{Foil}}: To Lady Tremaine. Both are overbearing authority figures who want the best for their biological offspring. But whereas Lady Tremaine is pure evil [[spoiler: and is revealed in the sequels to have ''no'' concern for their daughters and is merely using them as tools]], the king is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, albeit with a bit of a temper, who truly loves his son and wanted nothing more than for him to be happy.

* PetTheDog: In her very first scene, she's seen gently stroking her RightHandCat Lucifer.

* TookALevelInJerkass: She is '''worse''' in the sequels. In the third movie, [[spoiler: she poofs Cinderella into a twisted pumpkin carriage with Lucifer as its human driver, and attempts to get Lucifer to kill Cinderella. Especially heinous because up until that point she was satisfied with just making Cinderella's life a living hell. She also has Anastasia posing as Cinderella to fool the prince. If anyone doesn't know, this is rape by deception... and worse, she tries to use one of her own flesh and blood daughters for such shit and right when Anastasia is becoming more and more sympathetic. And when Anastasia finally refuses to marry the Prince in front of an amazed Cinderella, she resorts to attacking Anastasia and later both her and Cinderella when she tries to protect her stepsister]]. Just goes to show that ''everyone'' is at risk when dealing with her.

* DomesticAbuse: Lady Tremaine treats her stepdaughter as a slave and constantly belittles and mistreats her, a vice she encourages in her biological daughters. Almost as much as [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]], the Evil Stepmother is arguably Disney's most chillingly realistic villain, the one who lives behind closed doors and commits [[EvilIsPetty petty]] abuses against a helpless and innocent victim on a daily basis.

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'''Voiced in Polish by:''' Jacek Bończyk (2012), Jacek Braciak (speaking) (''Dreams Come True''), Wojciech Paszkowski (singing (''Dreams Come True''), speaking and singing (''A Twist in Time''))

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: She was a very good and warm-hearted Queen, beloved by her subjects.

* {{Foil}}: To Lady Tremaine. Both are overbearing authority figures who want the best for their biological offspring. But whereas Lady Tremaine is pure evil [[spoiler: and is revealed in the sequels to have ''no'' concern for their daughters and is merely using them as tools]], the king is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, albeit with a bit of a temper.

* KarmicDeath: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Lucifer falls from the tower at the end, although comic stories produced shortly after the film as well as the even later sequels show that he survived. Must have something to do with being a cat (be it landing on their feet, having nine lives, or their fatal velocity being higher than their [[IncrediblyLamePun terminal velocity]]).

* FatBastard: He looks obviously overweight and is more than happy to follow the lead of his master to torment Cinderella no matter how many times she has helped him in the past.

* EvilOldFolks: More like middle-aged, but definitely evil.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Lady Tremaine and her schemes.