History Characters / WhiteSnake2019

* EvilSoundsDeep: She talks with a much deeper voice when speaking with her wolf-head, which she usually only uses when she's being threatening and aggressive.

* SiblingYinYang: Where Blanca is gentle, learns to love humans, values kindness, and is dressed in fine white robes, Verta is more aggressive, believes [[HumansAreBastards all humans are cruel and untrustworthy]], values strength, and is dressed in dark armored clothing. Even their names mean Black (Verta) and White (Blanca).

* GutturalGrowler: Yaohan Zhang gives him a deep, gravelly voice befitting an evil sorcerer.

* BirdPeople: * BirdPeople: As a Raksha demon, she's a humanoid birdwoman, though she's noticeably more human-like than her fellow Raksha, having only a few feathers on her body to show she's related to birds.

* HumanDisguise: They're both snake demons who use their shapeshifting powers disguise themselves a young women.

* SheFu: She's extremely agile and acrobatic when fighting, especially in ''Green Snake'' as she's been BroughtDownToBadass and can no longer use her powers.

* SnakePeople: They're both snake demons, being with both snake and human characteristics. They in particular have cultivated their shapeshifting powers to such a degree that they can completely pass off as humans and mostly use their snake forms for combat. They originally did this for assassination missions for the Snake Clan, but after the clan was wiped out and they lost their distaste for humanity, they found no problem living among humans.

-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Zhang Zhe\\

* BigSisterInstinct: While not quite in the same way, she loves Verta deeply and will do anything to protect her as the Master learns the hard way. In the sequel we see this devotion even transcends death.

* MindOverMatter: Blanca can use her Taoist magic to perform telekinesis, as seen when she tries to use the Jade Hairpin to assassinate the Dark General at the beginning of the movie. By the beginning of the second movie she's grown so powerful that she can conjure massive tsunamis.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: At the beginning of the movie, she has been meditating for five hundred years to regain her powers, and presumably had to undergo a similar process to obtain them in the first place.

* ScaledUp: Blanca can transform from a human form into a SnakePeople form with a humanoid head and torso and serpentine lower body, and after absorbing the Little General's chi she becomes able to transform into a massive draconic serpent with horns and a ridge of spikes running down her spine.
* TailSlap: In her partially transformed and snake-demon forms, Blanca can lash out and even [[WhipSword slice things to pieces]] with her tail.
* UpliftedAnimal: Like the other snake demons, Blanca was once a white snake who cultivated enough spiritual energy to become a demon and then take on human form, with the goal of [[ImmortalitySeeker eventually attaining immortality]].

-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Tang Xiaoxi\\
'''Voiced by (English):''' Vivian Lu\\

* AmbiguouslyBi: In the first movie, Verta is ''very'' affectionate towards Blanca and extremely jealous of her romance with Xian, but mockingly flirts with Xian after he becomes a demon and in the sequel falls for both the ruggedly handsome gang-leader Simon and a mysterious mask-wearing grey-haired young man [[spoiler:who turns out to be Blanca's reincarnation]].
* AnimalBattleAura: In the climax of ''Animation/{{Green Snake|2021}}'', [[spoiler:Verta spends 20 years fighting Fahai, conjuring a spectral snake from her chi that eventually matures into a draconic form similar to Blanca's from the first ''White Snake'']].

* BroughtDownToBadass: When trapped in Asuraville in ''Green Snake'', Verta is stuck in her human form and unable to use any of her cultivated supernatural powers. However, she still possesses a keen mind that lets her rapidly adjust to modern technology, and centuries' worth of martial arts and combat skills that let her keep up in battle against far larger and stronger opponents.
* ChainPain: In the first movie, her weapon of choice is a length of chain she wreathes in ethereal green chi to form a snake.
* DarkActionGirl: Verta dresses mainly in black and despises humans -- trying to kill Xuan several times and sneering at his declaraton of love towards Blanca -- but cares deeply about her sister, to the point that she helps her track down Xuan's reincarnation after Blanca regains her powers.

* KickTheDog: Literally. While Blanca and Xuan are having sex in a demon-execution chamber, Verta sits outside in the rain with one foot on Dudou's head, fuming. When they emerge, she promptly boots the dog-demon towards them.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Verta is of a similar age to Blanca -- being well over five centuries old -- though [[OlderThanTheyLook she appears to be a young woman]].
* ScaledUp: Verta can transform from a human form into a SnakePeople form with a humanoid upper body and a serpentine lower body.
* TomboyishPonytail: She wears her hairstyle in a ponytail that resemble a snake’s tail. She is a skilled warrior who had a much more aggressive personality than her sister and use to wear armour in the first film.
* UpliftedAnimal: Like the other snake demons, Verta was once a green snake who cultivated enough spiritual energy to become a demon and then take on human form, with the goal of [[ImmortalitySeeker eventually attaining immortality]].

! Supporting Characters

-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Yang Tianxiang\\
'''Voiced by (English):''' Paul Yen\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Daisuke Sakuma

-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' He Zhang\\
'''Voiced by (English):''' Matthew Moy\\

* UpliftedAnimal: Blanca turns him into a demon as a prank, giving him sapience and the ability to speak, though he still otherwise acts like a dog.

[[folder:Foxy Boss]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Xiaopu Zheng\\

* AllPowerfulBystander: Much like the creatures of Chinese mythology she's based on, she borders on the heavenly divine/celestial and therefore outstrips all the characters in power and status but prefers to take a backseat to Blanca and Xuan's love story. Uniquely, she is able to swim in the Pool of Return without losing her memories or obsession, as well as manipulate its waters at-will.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: It's never revealed exactly how she wound up in Asuraville or set up the All-Good Market, but by the time Verta arrives she's the leader of one of the main factions there.

[[folder:Sun]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Qiu Qiu

A human inhabitant of Asuraville and member of the Octopus Gang who Verta befriends.

* CharacterDeath: Early into the movie she's unceremoniously killed by an Ox-Head while helping Verta escape the gang's takeover of the Octopus Gang hideout. Her death enrages Verta, who kills the Ox-Head with Sun's shotgun and keeps pumping bullets into him even as his body disintegrates.
* FireForgedFriends: After she and Verta narrowly escape an Ox-Head demon, Sun takes her to the Octopus Gang's hideout. When Verta saves Sun from a demon who tries to rape her, Sun commits to being Verta's mentor -- educating her on the last 1000-or-so years of Chinese history, and showing her how to shoot a gun and ride a motorcycle.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She comes from approximately 1000 years after the Song Dynasty, having fallen off a cliff while rock-climbing, and informs Verta that time has no place in Asuraville and people from all eras of Chinese history end up rubbing elbows there.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: After Sun saves Verta from an Ox-Head Clan member and Verta saves her from being raped by a demon, the two become good friends and Sun starts showing Verta the ropes -- teaching her how to shoot a gun and ride a motorcycle. Unfortunately, Sun is killed helping Verta escape when the Ox-Head & Horse-Face Clan attacks the Octopus Gang's headquarters.
* SacrificialLamb: Is the first of Verta's allies to die, and isn't the last.
* TheSocialDarwinist: She warns Verta that in Asuraville only the strong survive. Unfortunately, she's proven correct within the first half of the movie.
* TragicKeepsake: After she's killed, Verta takes up her shotgun as a ranged weapon.

[[folder:Masked Man]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Wai Wai
A seemingly human inhabitant of Asuraville and employee of the All-Good Market.

* HeroicNeutral: According to Sun he doesn't take sides in the gang wars across Asuraville, but he still intervenes to protect Verta several times.

* IdentityConcealmentDisposal: He wears opaque goggles and a leather mask over his face, and even when Simon forcibly removes it the audience doesn't see what he looks like until the midpoint of the movie, where he unmasks himself to snap Verta out of a DespairEventHorizon. [[spoiler:And even this is a disguise, hiding that he's actually disfigured. However, he choses to make the disguise permanent, and it is revealed to have been his original appearance before he was badly burned in a fire Kalpa.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:He's revealed to be a spy for Mr. Ox's gang towards the 2/3 mark of the movie, disguising himself to look like Blanca after seeing her face when Verta looked into the Pool of Return.]]

-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Wei Chao
A human inhabitant of Asuraville and high-ranking member of the Raksha Clan.

* RomanticFalseLead: Is set-up to be a love interest for Verta, but [[spoiler:dies halfway through the movie, and the narrative instead shifts that role to the masked man.]]

!Antagonists

[[folder:The General]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Yaohan Zhang\\
'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/JamesSie\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):'''
A powerful Taoist sage tasked by the Emperor with finding the secret of immortality.

* BigBad: While merely TheDragon of [[GreaterScopeVillain the Emperor of China]], the Dark General is the main human antagonist of the first movie.
* BlackMagic: The General uses his Taoist magic to drain the cultivated chi out of snake-demons, causing them to revert back to their animal forms and even killing them.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: The dark Taoist magic he performs has turned his skin dark grey, leaving him with a flattened nose, VillainousCheekbones, no eyebrows, and no ears.
* ImmortalitySeeker: The General was tasked by the Emperor with finding a means of attaining immortality, and believes the secret lies in draining the chi of snake demons.
* GodhoodSeeker: The General decides against using his soul-destroying apparatus on Blanca, Verta, and Xuan out of a desire to drain their ''chi'' and become a god to stick it to the Emperor.
* GutturalGrowler: Yaohan Zhang gives him a deep, gravelly voice befitting an evil sorcerer.
* PaperMaster: The General mainly fights using enchanted paper talismans and origami soldiers.

[[folder:The Little General]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Boheng Zhang\\
'''Voiced by (English):''' Vincent Rodriguez III\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):'''
A taoist sage apprenticed to the General, who aids him in hunting for snake demons.

* CoolMask: He wears a translucent white veil over the lower half of his face to hide that his dark magic has been [[EvilMakesYouUgly deforming his otherwise handsome features]].
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He wants to capture Blanca for himself so that he can [[TheStarscream take credit from his master]].
* TheHeavy: The Little Daoist/General is the Dark General's apprentice, and as such as been delegated the task of hunting down snake-demons.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: The Little Daoist/General rides a gigantic beast with four pawed feet and three crane heads.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He casually threatens to kill a baby if the residents of Snakecatcher Village don't tell him which of them has been helping the Dark General's would-be assassin, and changes a half-eaten bun into a bat-monster just to scare the residents of Snakecatcher Village for his own amusement.
* TheStarscream: He misdirects the Dark General as to Blanca's location intending to capture and consume her essence himself.

[[folder:Chang Pan]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' \\
'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/KaijiTang\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):'''
A rattlesnake demon who is sent to kill Blanca when it's believed she betrayed the Snake Clan.

* AlienBlood: His blood is dark blue in coloration, to match his scales, and getting splashed with it almost freezes Blanca to death after she kills him and causes rime frost to form on everything around her.
* BewareMyStingerTail: One of Chang's first movies in his fight against Blanca is to use his tail to impale the ferryman and toss him aside.
* TheBrute: Chang Pan is a large and aggressive rattlesnake-demon who is unquestioningly loyal to the Snake Master and more-than happy to obey her order to kill Blanca.
* DelayedCausality: As he lunges at Ah Xuan, Blanca transforms and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slices him to pieces with a slash of her tail]], but it takes a few seconds for his body to fall apart.
* {{Flight}}: One of his magical abilities, which enables him to change the trajectory of his strikes and hover in midair.
* AnIcePerson: His blood is freezing cold and almost kills Blanca when she's splashed with it.
* LoudOfWar: He can use his rattle to perform a sonic attack to incapacitate his enemies.
* MakingASplash: He uses water magic to create a makeshift arena to fight Blanca in, and block Blanca's boat from escaping.
* PaperThinDisguise: Chang Pan is unable to fully assume human form, and thus hides his true appearance with a conical straw hat.
* ScaledUp: He starts out in a humanoid snake form, then fully transforms to fight Blanca.
* SnakePeople: The most he can manage is a humanoid torso and head with spikes jutting from his shoulders, and the lower body of a giant rattlesnake.

[[folder:The Snake Master]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Wei Liu\\
'''Voiced by (English):''' Karen Huie\\
'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/TakakoHonda

The leader of the snake demons, who charges Verta with reclaiming the wayward Blanca.

* AnimalBattleAura: She can summon an ethereal golden serpent, which she uses to re-empower one of the snake demons who'd lost his powers.
* BigBadEnsemble: With the General. She dispatches Verta to retrieve Blanca, and then the moment she's gone sends Chang Pan to assassinate Blanca. At the end of the first movie, the Snake Master betrays the snake-demon clan and becomes the final villain of the first movie.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: In her monstrous true form, the Snake Master has black sclerae, red irises, and glowing yellow pupils, which she sports in her human form after draining Verta's ''chi'' and preparing to unleash the Dark General's magic on the rest of the snake-demon clan.
* DeaderThanDead: The General's apparatus freezes her solid before destroying her soul, preventing her from reincarnating.
* GodhoodSeeker: After seeing how powerful Blanca had become from absorbing a massive amount of chi, the Snake Master consumes the ''chi'' and souls of her subordinates in a bid to replicate the feat and become a demon-god -- starting with Verta.
* KillItWithIce: Just before she can devour Blanca, she is killed by the Dark General's apparatus, which freezes her solid and destroys her soul.
* MultipleHeadCase: In her demon form, she has two heads -- [[AHeadAtEachEnd one on each end of her body]].
* OneWingedAngel: After draining the life energy of the other snake demons, she transforms into her true form -- a gigantic two-headed snake-demon -- and tries to eat Blanca.

[[folder:Fahai]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Song Xuchen

A monster-slaying Buddhist monk who seals Blanca away at the beginning of ''Animation/{{Green Snake|2021}}''.

* AntagonistAbilities: With a single mantra, he is able to easily disperse the multi-layered tsunami that Blanca and Verta created to destroy his temple, and then easily seals Blanca away. It takes twenty years of constant fighting for Verta's powers to surpass his, but by then Fahai is an old man.
* BaldOfEvil: He has a completely bald head, owing to his status as a Buddhist monk.
* BigBad: As the one who sealed Blanca away, Fahai is the primary target of Verta's RoaringRampageOfRescue in ''Green Snake''. [[spoiler:He's also Mr. Ox's benefactor, charging him with purging Asuraville of its lost souls in exchange for being resurrected. However, Verta succeeds in killing him after 20 years of fighting.]]
* CloakOfDefense: Fahai wears a golden cloak emblazoned with the script of a sutra, which he can use to cast defensive and offensive spells powerful enough to effortlessly defeat Blanca and Verta.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Ultimately he is defeated by Verta's pure determination. Years of fighting her over and over again begin to weigh on him, not helped by the fact that while his powers stay more or less the same, Verta grows with each encounter.
* EnlightenedAntagonist: Fahai is a powerful Buddhist sage who leads an island temple of monks, but shows no mercy to Blanca or Verta despite Xu Xian begging him to spare them. When he confronts Verta after sealing Blanca, she accuses him of being a lecherous murderer no better than the demons he persecutes. Fahai [[AtLeastIAdmitIt calmly acknowledges this]], saying that he's only human and that even men of faith can fall prey to their base impulses, but that it is nevertheless his duty to administer the justice of Dharma.
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Fahai's status as a Buddhist monk grants him an array of holy powers that are vastly superior to Blanca and Verta's Taoism-derived powers, letting him CurbStompBattle them both at the beginning of the movie without even leaving his LevitatingLotusPosition.
* FantasticRacism: He sees demons and monsters as sinful things to be exterminated, despite not contesting Verta's accusation that he's no better than he claims the demons he hunts are.
* TheFundamentalist: He is an extremely staunch Buddhist and views pretty much anything outside of the religion as evil. His hatred of Asuraville and wish for its destruction is not because he wishes to free the people who suffer there, it's because the place interrupts the cycle of reincarnation. That assumption isn't exactly right either, as Asuraville gives people a chance to rid themselves of bad Karma before reincarnating, but he still hates it because it doesn't adhere to Buddhist canon.
* HolyHalo: When using his powers, a halo of golden light appears behind his head.
* HunterOfMonsters: According to Verta, Fahai has a reputation as a monster-hunter and demon-slayer who shows no mercy to non-humans.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He sneers at demons for being sinful creatures deserving only extermination, but openly admits to being a sinner himself. [[spoiler:He's also working alongside Mr. Ox -- a demon -- with the promise of resurrecting him once Asuraville is cleansed.]]
* LightIsNotGood: Despite being a Buddhist monk and associated with golden light, Fahai's hands are tainted with sin, something he openly acknowledges.
* MagicalIncantation: Fahai's most powerful offensive and defensive powers come from chanting sutras.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: After his temple is destroyed by Verta, [[FaceDeathWithDignity he calmly accepts defeat]] and DisappearsIntoLight.
* OldMaster: While a young man in the film's opening, [[spoiler:after fighting Verta for 20 years he's shown with white eyebrows, wrinkles on his forehead, and liverspots on his scalp and hands. Despite having visibly aged, he's no weaker than he was in his prime. Unfortunately for him, Verta grows even more powerful and ultimately succeeds in defeating him and destroying his temple.]]
* SinisterMinister: The Buddhist variety; a true believer whose interpretation is twisted into 'kill the impure races and let Buddha sort them out'.
* SummonMagic: By chanting a sutra, Fahai can conjure a phoenix manifested from golden light and Chinese lettering.

[[folder:Mr. Ox]]
-> '''Voiced by (Mandarin):''' Baomu Zhongyang

A bull-headed demon and leader of the Ox-Head and Horse-Face Clans, one of the main gangs in Asuraville.

* TheDragon: He and his gang are the main antagonistic force that Verta comes up against in Asuraville, with his gang being responsible for the death of Sun and the massacres of the Octopus Gang and Raksha Clan. [[spoiler:He is revealed to be working for Fahai in order to subjugate and cleanse Asuraville. He ultimately outlives his master, which causes the wards rendering him invulnerable to dissipate.]]
* KarmicDeath: Mr. Ox seeks to carry out a genocide on the inhabitants of Asuraville so that he can escape it and be reborn, [[spoiler:but is bitten by an evil spirit -- making him a prisoner of Asuraville -- and then dies after being decapitated by the Masked Man]].
* LargeAndInCharge: Mr. Ox towers over even the other members of the Ox-Head Clan, who stand head-and-shoulders over most other characters.
* MakerOfMonsters: Mr. Ox distributes skin masks to his followers that let them {{glamour}} themselves. If his followers prove themselves worthy, Mr. Ox imbues the masks with his power, letting them transform his followers into a form of their chosing -- with most either transforming into Ox-Head or Horse-Face demons.
* NoSell: [[spoiler:Due to wards placed on him by Fahai, Mr. Ox is completely invulnerable to damage. However, these wards disappear after Fahai dies.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Mr. Ox seeks to slaughter everyone in Asuraville, citing Buddhist scripture regarding the cycle of reincarnation, but it's mainly so that he can escape Asuraville himself without needing to be reincarnated.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Unlike the other Ox-Head demons, Mr. Ox has a mostly-human face with SupernaturalGoldEyes, and a broken horn.
* SkeletonMotif: His pauldrons have skulls attached to them, and his belt has a skull emblazoned on it.
* SkywardScream: When he sees that [[spoiler:Baoqing the ''huli jing'' has killed all his minions, Mr. Ox lets out a scream of rage and begins relentlessly pursuing Verta and the Masked Man]].
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Baoqing uses the Pool of Return to kill all of his minions, Mr. Ox only surviving due to the wards Fahai placed on him.]]
* SuperEmpowering: Unlike all the other demons and monsters, Mr. Ox is able to imbue skin masks with his power, and putting them on transforms his minions into Ox-Head and Horse-Face demons.

* TheFundamentalist: He is an extremely staunch Buddhist and views pretty much anything outside of the religion as evil. His hatred of Asuraville and wish for its destruction is not because he wishes to free the people who suffer there, it's because it interrupts the cycle of reincarnation. Which is isn't exactly right either, as it gives people a chance to rid themselves of bad Karma before reincarnating but it also isn't a place that comes from Buddhism.

* BackFromTheDead: In ''Green Snake'', she gets her soul taken away and imprisoned in the Leifeng pagoda, she would be [[spoiler:reincarnated as the masked man but with amnesia. Upon the movie's climax, he sacrifices himself to throw Verta through the Wish Bridge so she can return to the real world as he succumbs to the demon infection, disappearing afterwards. Blanca would return in the ending after Verta reconstructs her hairpin, releasing her soul to be reborn again, this time in her original form.]]

** While it's ambiguous as to the exact nature of her feelings, in the sequel movie ''Green Snake'' [[spoiler:after her death and imprisonment at the hands of Fahai, Blanca gained an obsession with being reunited with Verta. Despite reincarnating twice after being freed from the pagoda, the obsession was still so strong she ended up being sent to Asuraville upon her third death, where as the Masked Man she would even suffer from amnesia but still the obsession to find Verta lingered as a strong urge to find someone whose face she couldn't really remember. She does eventually meet Verta again as the Masked Man, fall in love with her, and ultimately sacrifices herself to free Verta from Asuraville. Verta, once freed, finds Blanca's hairpin and frees her soul; and the movie ends with Blanca's 4th reincarnation, with her memories and soul fully restored, meeting Verta in modern times.]]

* CanisMajor: Her true form is an enormous pink fox demon that rivals Blanca's true snake form.

* AnAxeToGrind: Mr. Ox's weapon of choice is a massive ornate battle-axe.

* ShesGotLegs: Barely wears anything below the waist to show off her bare legs and feet. And even when wearing winter attire, she wears a pair of leggings.

: BadassBiker: In ''Animation/{{Green Snake|2021}}'', Verta takes to riding a motorcycle after acclimating to the seemingly modern world of Asuraville, and becomes adept performing high-speed stunts as well as combat atop it.