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| 12 | Character page for the Creator/CSLewis book saga ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' and its 2005-2010 [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia film adaptation]]. |
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| 14 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 15 | |
| 16 | !The twelve human [=POV=]-characters |
| 17 | |
| 18 | [[folder:Peter Pevensie]] |
| 19 | [[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peter_narnia.png]] |
| 20 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/WilliamMoseley, Noah Huntley (adult self), Ammar Duffus (West End) |
| 21 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Creator/HectorEmmanuelGomez, Creator/RicardoTejedo (adult self) |
| 22 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Juan Antonio Soler, Creator/ClaudioSerrano (adult self) |
| 23 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura, Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (adult self) |
| 24 | |
| 25 | The oldest of the Pevensie siblings. He tries his best to protect his other siblings and to act like a responsible young adult. In the book it is implied that he is more mature than his other siblings because, after their father was called out to fight in the war, it was left to Peter by his mother to support his three siblings through the ordeal of their father going away. At the end of the first film, he is crowned by [[{{God}} Aslan]] to the clear Northern Skies as High King of Narnia. |
| 26 | ---- |
| 27 | * ActionHero: Especially in the movies, where his proactivity as a leader, a king, and a WarriorPrince are given more emphasis. |
| 28 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the novel ''Prince Caspian'' Peter was more than happy to support Caspian being the leader of the rebellion. In the film adaptation on the other hand he disputes being leader with Caspian, due to a mixture of becoming a bit of a ControlFreak over the years and what is implied to be a severe and understandable resentment that he went from being universally respected High King in his prime to being an ordinary lower middle/working class teenager again, resulting in a ''lot'' of DudeWheresMyRespect. [[CharacterDevelopment Fortunately he eventually realizes this and matures, becoming a close advisor to Caspian like in the book.]] |
| 29 | * AdaptationDyeJob: In the books, he is dark-haired; in the movies, he is fair-haired. |
| 30 | * AlliterativeName: '''P'''eter '''P'''evensie. |
| 31 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Towards all his siblings, but he seems especially close to Lucy. |
| 32 | * BlitzEvacuees: Evacuated to the countryside along with his siblings in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''. |
| 33 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: In the film of ''Prince Caspian''. |
| 34 | * {{Determinator}}: In the first film, he gets a front-seat view to Oreius the Centaur and an unnamed white rhino [[spoiler:be turned to stone by the White Witch]], and then [[spoiler:his little brother get ''impaled'' with the shattered remains of her wand]]. His response? To charge ''harder.'' |
| 35 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: In the film version of ''Prince Caspian''. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this version of Peter was not quite so sanguine about going from 40 year old universally respected High King to ordinary nobody teenager, though he matures throughout the film. |
| 36 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Literature/TheBible Saint Peter]], but as High King instead of Pope. |
| 37 | * FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. In the second film, Peter's resentment at simply being a teenager/ young adult rather than a Narnian king causes him to develop some prideful tendencies. Luckily, as the film goes on, Peter matures and grows out of this. |
| 38 | ** When looking for Prince Caspian, Trumpkin points out that Peter is going the wrong way, but Peter simply waves it off and says Trumpkin is wrong...though he's proven correct when his intended route doesn't initially work. When Susan starts to explain why it failed, Peter tells her to shut up. |
| 39 | ** After finding Prince Caspian and the Narnian army, Peter takes command and is shown to be visibly angry when Caspian tries to do so as well. |
| 40 | ** For the attack on the Telmarine Castle, Peter's pride is at its worst. First, Lucy insists on waiting for Aslan and tells Peter that he was the one who truly killed the White Witch. Instead of acknowledging her point and potentially fueled by pride, Peter says he won't wait. When Prince Caspian ruins the surprise attack by confronting Miraz, Peter blames him for the plan failing and the deaths of many Narnian soldiers. While Peter isn't wrong that Caspian's recklessness ruined the plan, Peter was told to call off the attack, but refused to do so. Susan implies this is out of pride when she asks whom Peter is doing this for. |
| 41 | %%* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Cynic, and at times, The Realist. He and Susan often trade places. |
| 42 | %%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric. |
| 43 | * GenreSavvy: In ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', his familiarity with fantasy stories serves him fairly well, prompting him to, for example, trust the robin which leads the Pevensies to Mr. Beaver, because robins in stories are always good creatures. |
| 44 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Although he tends to be a bit HotBlooded at times, it is only because he truly cares for Narnia and her people, and is often portrayed as making an effort to be a good king. |
| 45 | * TheHero: He fills the classical role in the films, though Lucy's faith in Aslan makes her the lynchpin in both of the first two, and the second is really Caspian's story, with Peter learning to step back and smooth his fellow King's path to the throne. |
| 46 | * HotBlooded: His temper's more prominent in the films, and comes to a boiling point in ''Film/PrinceCaspian''. |
| 47 | * ICallItVera: His sword is named Rhindon. |
| 48 | * InSeriesNickname: The people closest to him call him "Pete." |
| 49 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''The Last Battle''. |
| 50 | * {{Knighting}}: Peter has an awesome one after he kills [[spoiler:Maugrim]] in defense of his sisters. |
| 51 | * TheMagnificent: Aslan calls him "King Peter the Magnificent". |
| 52 | * MasterSwordsman: Grows into this, and in the movie, dominates his duel with Miraz, despite the latter's advantages in height and weight. |
| 53 | * MeaningfulName: In keeping with Aslan's role as an analogue of Jesus Christ, the Pevensie children are loose analogues of his Apostles. Fittingly, the firstborn child and the leader of the group is named "Peter", after Christ's right-hand Apostle who was appointed to lead his Church. Peter's eventual role as High King of Narnia parallels his namesake's role as Father of the Church. |
| 54 | * ParentalFavoritism: Or in this case brotherly favoritism, as ''Prince Caspian'' flat-out states that Lucy is his favorite sister. |
| 55 | * ParentalSubstitute: He basically has to replace his father for the younger siblings (which Edmund profoundly resents) during World War II. |
| 56 | * RedOniBlueOni: Red Oni to Edmund and Susan's cold blue, in the movie. When compared to Edmund, he's definitely the vibrant, determined, impulsive one of the two, and he is, to an extent, more sensitive than Edmund who is logical, stoic and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] even after his HeelFaceTurn. The books mention that King Peter was a brash man, less wise than the cold-thinking King Edmund who represented [[JusticeWillPrevail justice]]. |
| 57 | * RedBaron: Sir Peter Wolfsbane and King Peter the Magnificent. |
| 58 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Goes on one after he sees [[spoiler:Edmund get stabbed by Jadis.]] Not even a charging Minotaur can get in his way. |
| 59 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's absent from ''the Horse and His Boy'' ... because he's off beating up a bunch of troublemaking giants. |
| 60 | * SiblingYinYang: With Edmund, the two having mirrored temperaments - Edmund is the cool-headed pragmatist, while Peter is the HotBlooded inspiring leader. It's even colour coded in the films, with Peter having blond hair and blue eyes, and Edmund having dark hair and dark eyes. |
| 61 | %%* StandardizedLeader |
| 62 | * TeamDad: Team Older Brother, really, but he acts as this. |
| 63 | * TheStrategist: And a pretty good one at that. |
| 64 | ** In the first film, after [[spoiler:Aslan]] is thought to be dead and receiving a much-needed YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech from his brother, Peter employs modern war tactics, such as making the gryphons fly over head ''a la'' bomber plane and drop boulders on the Witch's army. [[HollywoodTactics Negative points however]], for abandoning a well-defended position and charging at a numerically superior army beyond the range of his supporting archers. |
| 65 | ** In Film/PrinceCaspian, he and his siblings come up with a plan to attack the Telmarine army from the front and the back. |
| 66 | * TookALevelInBadass: As depicted through the course of ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'' and especially in the final chapter, where he has grown from a kid to an experienced warrior king. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Susan Pevensie]] |
| 70 | [[quoteright:266:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/narnia2_5061.jpg]] |
| 71 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/AnnaPopplewell, Creator/SophieWinkleman (adult self), Robyn Sinclair (West End) |
| 72 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Creator/KarlaFalcon, Yadira Aedo (adult self) |
| 73 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Anahí de la Fuente, Marta García (adult self) |
| 74 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Yuki Takahashi, Creator/SanaeKobayashi (adult self) |
| 75 | |
| 76 | The elder sister and the second eldest Pevensie child. She is crowned to the Radiant Southern Sun as Queen of Narnia by [[{{God}} Aslan]], and shares the monarchy with her brothers Peter and Edmund and her sister Lucy. She later becomes known as Queen Susan the Gentle. |
| 77 | ---- |
| 78 | * ActionGirl: In the movies, where she's depicted as just as competent a fighter as her brothers. |
| 79 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the books Susan was depicted as NiceGirl who was able to take most of the strangeness of Narnia in stride once the initial shock wore off, and who tended to avoid conflict and mediate disputes between her siblings - at least until she grew too old to return. Susan of the films is a DeadpanSnarker of the passive-aggressive kind and the most cynical of the four siblings, regularly undermines her older brother's decisions, and generally acts like a wet blanket for most of her screen time. |
| 80 | * AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: With Prince Caspian in the second film. The book made no references to any sort of deeper connection forming between the prince and the four Pevensie siblings beyond close friendship. The film develops a romance side plot between Susan and Caspian that culminates in a BigDamnKiss just before she and her siblings return to their homeworld. The film can get away with this because canonically Susan never returns to Narnia after the events of the second book, ensuring there are no lasting consequences for such a dramatic deviation. |
| 81 | * AgentScully: |
| 82 | ** In ''The Last Battle'', she is the only visitor to Narnia who now denies it ever happened. Because of this, some readers believe that she will not be allowed into Aslan's Country when she dies; others say that this view misreads Lewis' intent. |
| 83 | ** In the movies, she's skeptical to almost every fantastic event that takes place at the beginning of the [[Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe first film]]. When Edmund leads them to hide in the wardrobe, she outright says "You've got to be joking." There are also other similar lines: |
| 84 | --->'''Susan:''' He's a beaver. He shouldn't be saying ''anything''. |
| 85 | ** And: |
| 86 | --->'''Susan:''' Logically, it's impossible. |
| 87 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has a cooler demeanour than her siblings, especially in comparison to Lucy. |
| 88 | * BlitzEvacuees: Evacuated to the countryside along with her siblings in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''. |
| 89 | * BlowThatHorn: She has a hunting horn that, when blown, ensures that help ''will'' come, no matter what. |
| 90 | * BookDumb: By ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', it is stated that she is not a particularly good student. |
| 91 | * BrainyBrunette: Subverted. She may seem capable in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'' and ''Prince Caspian'' (especially in the movie adaptations), but by ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', it is stated that she is not a particularly good student and that she is regarded as the pretty one of the family. Of course, school disagreeing with her does not ''necessarily'' mean that she is unintelligent, especially considering [[AuthorTract Lewis' frequent bashing of the British school system]] as a breeding ground for bullies and [[KnowNothingKnowItAll vapid shallow thinkers]] throughout the series. |
| 92 | * DeadpanSnarker: In the movie. |
| 93 | -->"He's a beaver. He shouldn't be saying ''anything!''" |
| 94 | * DemotedToExtra: Her role in later books is severely decreased, to the point that she doesn't even appear in the last book, despite the rest of her family playing roles. [[spoiler:Of course, that's because she isn't dead.]] |
| 95 | * DudeMagnet: Is noted, especially as an adult, as being very beautiful and attractive to men from all over. Unfortunately, this aspect also results in her attracting the attention of some very unsavory men like Prince Rabadash, who doesn't take kindly to her rebuffing his attention. |
| 96 | * DisapprovingLook: Is a master of this. |
| 97 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the films, at least. Whenever she goes into battle, Susan is shown as having her hair pulled back into a ponytail. Justified as her main weapon of choice is the bow, and having her hair down would simply get in the way. |
| 98 | * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Realist, and at times, The Cynic. She and Peter often trade places. |
| 99 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Primarily Melancholic, but very Choleric at times as well. |
| 100 | * GirlishPigtails: Had these in the books. Averted in the first film when her hair is loose, but pinned to the sides instead, and simply pulled back in a low ponytail for the second. |
| 101 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: While she is the GirlyGirl among the Pevensies, her interests, both as a Narnian monarch and an English schoolgirl, include archery and swimming, and she is said to be quite good at both. |
| 102 | * TheHighQueen: Queen Susan the Gentle. |
| 103 | * IcyBlueEyes: In the movies, at least. Comes with her AloofDarkHairedGirl shtick. |
| 104 | * InSeriesNickname: "Su." |
| 105 | * InformedAttractiveness: In at least two books, Susan is said to be beautiful, and her looks drive a couple of subplots. There's one ''very'' easy to miss reference to Susan's hair being black, and nothing else about her appearance is described anywhere. |
| 106 | * LadyOfWar: In the movie. |
| 107 | * MartialPacifist: In the books, it is stated that Queen Susan hates violence and, unlike her sister, avoids going to war if she has a choice. Even when she does fight, she tries to minimize the damage she causes. For example, when she has to snipe at a Telmarine officer to save Trumpkin in ''Prince Caspian'', she aims carefully so she won't kill him. |
| 108 | * OjouRinglets: Has these as a young girl. |
| 109 | * RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Lucy and Peter's red. Susan is more cautious, calm, and down-to-earth than the [[{{Tomboy}} tomboyish]] Lucy and extroverted, impulsive Peter. |
| 110 | * SiblingYinYang: With Lucy and Peter. |
| 111 | * TheSmartGirl: Only in the ''Prince Caspian'' movie. Certainly not in school, where she's said to be more of a PassionateSportsGirl. |
| 112 | * SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:The only Pevensie not killed in the train station accident in ''The Last Battle''.]] |
| 113 | * TeamMom: Really the Team Older Sister, but acts as this. |
| 114 | * TenderTears: When Aslan dies. |
| 115 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Lucy's Tomboy. |
| 116 | * WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: In Narnia, at least. |
| 117 | * {{Xenafication}}: In the movie adaptation of ''Prince Caspian''. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Edmund Pevensie]] |
| 121 | [[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skandar_8505.jpg]] |
| 122 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/SkandarKeynes, Mark Wells (adult self), Shaka Kalokoh (West End) |
| 123 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Creator/MemoAponte, Raúl Aldana (adult self) |
| 124 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' David Sánchez, Adolfo Moreno (3rd film), Sergio García Marín (adult self) |
| 125 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TasukuHatanaka, Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (adult self) |
| 126 | |
| 127 | The second of the Pevensie children to go to Narnia. He betrays his siblings to the [[BigBad White Witch]] while [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil under her influence]], but as the story goes on, he accepts the error of his ways and is ultimately reformed. He is redeemed with the intervention of Aslan and joins the fight against the Witch. Fulfilling an ancient prophecy, he becomes King Edmund the Just, King of Narnia and, with sisters Susan and Lucy, co-ruler under High King Peter. |
| 128 | ---- |
| 129 | * AdaptationDyeJob: In the Pauline Baynes illustrations, he's blond. In the movies, he's black-haired. |
| 130 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: A very minor example, but in the book Edmund reveals he had been in Narnia with Lucy by carelessly mentioning the lamppost, which he couldn't have known about if he had never been there before. In the 2005 film, just seeing Narnia is enough to convince Peter that Edmund was lying. |
| 131 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: For Peter and Susan. He's also an annoying ''older'' one to Lucy, but only until his CharacterDevelopment sets in. |
| 132 | * AntiHero: He's the darkest of the four siblings, initially being a selfish traitor and a spiteful jerk. Even after his HeelFaceTurn, he's often the one arguing for practicality over chivalry, and it's telling that his Kingly title is "[[GoodIsNotNice The Just]]". |
| 133 | * BashBrothers: With his brother, Peter, and eventually, his surrogate brother, Caspian. |
| 134 | * BadLiar: He's not particularly good at lying, but is shown lying on several occasions for no particular reason other than he ''can''. He grows out of this with CharacterDevelopment. |
| 135 | * BeingEvilSucks: He realizes this after he is tricked by the White Witch, which brings his HeelRealization. |
| 136 | * BerserkButton: Eustace constantly manages to piss him off in ''The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader''. |
| 137 | * BiblicalBadGuy: He was meant to represent [[http://pillars2discuss.blogspot.ro/2006/01/judas-and-edmund.html Judas himself]]. Although, unlike Judas, he gets to atone for his sin and return to Aslan's good graces. |
| 138 | * BigBrotherBully: He constantly bullies his youngest sister, Lucy, out of "spite" in ''The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.'' |
| 139 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He develops this later on for Lucy. It's most evident during [[Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader their third return to Narnia]], seeing as Peter and Susan aren't there to help him watch out for her anymore. He inverts this trope by protecting his older brother from the White Witch whom he notices trying to sneak up on Peter while he’s fighting a Minotaur. |
| 140 | * BlitzEvacuees: Evacuated to the countryside along with his siblings in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''. |
| 141 | * CallMyName: He and Lucy constantly call each other's name in ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', especially when they're separated from each other. |
| 142 | * CharacterDepth: Edmund stands out as being the most complex character of the siblings and protagonists in general. Even though he [[HeelFaceTurn is redeemed]] in the first part, he still has many traits that make him quite different from the [[AntiHero typical hero]]. There is a full page dedicated to his [[http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Edmund_Pevensie/Personality personality]]. |
| 143 | * CharacterDevelopment: Over the course of the first two books, we see him move from a rude and sassy jerk to an outright traitor to a much nicer person. |
| 144 | * TheComicallySerious: While Edmund matures to the point of being the most serious one in his family, he still has some hilariously snarky moments. |
| 145 | * DeadpanSnarker: Perhaps the biggest one in the series prior to his HeelFaceTurn. |
| 146 | * DisneyDeath: Has one in the first film after being stabbed by the White Witch. Luckily, Lucy gives him a drop of her cordial in the nick of time. |
| 147 | * FaceHeelTurn: In the first book, Edmund betrays his siblings. C.S.Lewis intentionally made Edmund to represent [[BiblicalBadGuy Judas Iscariot]] as Edmund betrays Aslan (who represents [[{{God}} Jesus/God]]) and his siblings (The Apostles) to the White Witch (a SatanicArchetype) for Turkish Delight, which is a synonym for the silver that Judas betrayed Jesus for. Fortunately, [[HeelFaceTurn Edmund doesn't end up like Judas]]. |
| 148 | * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Apathetic |
| 149 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic, even though you can't tell until the second half of the first movie. |
| 150 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 151 | ** Lewis mentions the reason for his Jerkass behavior in ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' was because before the book began he was sent to a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors that made him go "wrong". His talk with Aslan turns him into his nicer pre-school self. |
| 152 | ** In the films, it's implied that he's reacting badly to being evacuated and his father being sent away to war, as well as resenting his older brother trying to act as a ParentalSubstitute. Since all the Pevensies are shown to be somewhat scarred by the Blitz, this isn't surprising. |
| 153 | * HatesBeingTouched: It's noticeable that before his HeelFaceTurn, Edmund hated receiving any kind of affection from his family, be it a kiss from his mother or Peter helping him with his luggage. After his rescue, he is shown as having a warmer attitude towards them, even accepting hugs from his sisters when they first reunite. |
| 154 | * HeelFaceTurn: Starting with realizing that BeingEvilSucks and that the White Witch is a sadistic {{Jerkass}}, he rebels against her and returns to his siblings' side. |
| 155 | * InSeriesNickname: Although only his family calls him "Ed" at first, this eventually extends to Caspian in the third film when they grow much closer. |
| 156 | * {{Jerkass}}: In ''The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe'', especially when he betrays Lucy by lying that he never was in Narnia with her, really just [[ForTheEvulz for a kick]]. |
| 157 | ** The film takes the aforementioned scene up a notch by showing him smiling quite smugly to himself when Lucy bursts into tears and runs off. |
| 158 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After the first half of the first book. |
| 159 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In the first half of the first book. |
| 160 | * KidsAreCruel: He bullies Lucy in ''The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe''. [[CharacterDevelopment He gets better.]] |
| 161 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''The Last Battle''. |
| 162 | * KubrickStare: [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9y9xyuCYX1qgnixfo2_400.jpg In the movie version]]. |
| 163 | * LovableTraitor: Though the lovable part only starts after his HeelFaceTurn. |
| 164 | * MeaningfulName: A ShoutOutToShakespeare of all things. Like the character Edmund in Theatre/KingLear, he betrays his brother and later redeems himself. |
| 165 | * MiddleChildSyndrome: One of his many issues in ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.'' Peter and Susan are the older ones, Lucy is the baby of the family, while he just gets in the way. |
| 166 | * TheMole: In ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', Edmund listens in on his siblings' conversation with the Beavers, then goes to turn over all he learned to the White Witch. |
| 167 | * TheNotLoveInterest: He fulfils this role for Lucy in ''Voyage Of The Dawn Treader'', as they have only each other when they are sent away to their ignorant, uncaring relatives. They depend on each other and constantly look out for one another, as they are practically alone in an unwelcoming place. Additionally, during the course of the entire adventure, they become the closest siblings of the main four, as Edmund's main and most important priority is [[BigBrotherInstinct to take care of Lucy and keep her safe]] from the many dangerous obstacles they encounter on their journey. |
| 168 | * PerpetualFrowner: Mainly in the last movie. |
| 169 | * PetTheDog: In ''Prince Caspian'', Edmund takes care to support Lucy's claims about seeing Aslan so he can make up for being mean to her in the previous book. Also, in the third film, he gets into the [[BigBrotherInstinct protective, older brother mode]]. |
| 170 | * PragmaticHero: Especially when compared [[TheHero to the chivalrous, idealistic Peter]]. Edmund has a more cold-natured way of thinking, a sharp mind, and lots of logic. He is rarely driven by emotions and is mostly collected and down-to-earth, having an acute sense of justice, often to the point where he becomes unsympathetic towards enemies and downright cruel, as opposed to Peter, who is more impulsive and emotional. In Film/PrinceCaspian, this is proven when Peter battles Miraz and Edmund, watching from the sidelines, advises him to kill Miraz as soon as the older man is knocked off his feet. This suggests that, if Edmund had been in Peter's place, he wouldn't have hesitated and killed Miraz in a heartbeat. This is one of the reasons he is considered an AntiHero. |
| 171 | -->'''Edmund:''' Now is not the time for chivalry, Peter! |
| 172 | ** In the books he's portrayed as having a greater understanding of wickedness because of his own experiences. This makes him ferocious when evil must be defeated, but merciful once it's vanquished. |
| 173 | --->'''Grown Edmund''' ''(advising clemency for Prince Rabadash):'' Even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did. |
| 174 | * RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Peter and Lucy's red. The books say he was the silent, wise, cold-thinking king who represents [[JusticeWillPrevail justice]], as opposed to Peter and Lucy, who are both impulsive, extroverted, and empathetic. |
| 175 | * ReformedButNotTamed: In the third movie, due to Edmund's [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]] and [[DeathGlare death glares]] towards [[{{Jerkass}} Eustace]], as well as the general temptation Edmund has to beat the crap out of the other boy. |
| 176 | --> '''Edmund:''' (''walking towards Eustace'') ''Please'' let me hit him. |
| 177 | --> '''Lucy:''' (''visibly restraining her brother'') No! |
| 178 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Lucy, a brother-sister example. The book describes that the adult Edmund was a silent, wise, collected man who had a cold judgement, while Lucy was a wild, bright, tomboyish girl, driven by impulse. Their movie versions are close, since Edmund is a witty DeadpanSnarker while Lucy is a joyous PluckyGirl. |
| 179 | ** Due to their actors having the same personalities in real life, younger [[DeadpanSnarker Skandar]] and [[MotorMouth Georgie]] tended to have this dynamic as well. |
| 180 | * SiblingRivalry: Between him and Lucy in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', where he constantly torments her. The movie also plays this up between him and Peter. Fortunately they all grow out of it. |
| 181 | * SiblingYinYang: With Peter and Lucy. |
| 182 | * TheSmartGuy: He is definitely more level-headed and logical than Peter and Caspian. He was also known as 'the wise king' during the Golden Age. |
| 183 | ** This shows especially in his OffscreenMomentOfAwesome in the book version of ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. As Peter's recapping the battle to his sisters, he explains how Edmund singlehandedly kept the battle from being lost until reinforcements arrived. Specifically, he fought his way to Jadis and instead of trying to attack her, ''the mistake every other fighter was making'', he attacked her wand, shattering it and destroying her ability to turn people to stone, which gave Peter's Narnians a fighting chance. |
| 184 | * TheStoic: Most of the time in ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'', but he has his [[NotSoStoic moments]] too. |
| 185 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: In the movies. |
| 186 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: As he grew up to be mature, intelligent and rational, he still kept his sarcasm and wittiness. |
| 187 | * ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: The things he does after he eats [[GRatedDrug counterfeit Turkish Delight]]. |
| 188 | * ThousandYardStare: Sports one of these at the end of the third film, after it is revealed that he and Lucy [[spoiler:have visited Narnia for the last time.]] |
| 189 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Until he realized how much of a jerk he was and that the Witch was a monster. |
| 190 | * TookALevelInBadass: In ''Film/PrinceCaspian,'' ''and how''. |
| 191 | ** In ''Film/PrinceCaspian'', Edmund charges into the final battle with a crossbow ''on horseback.'' After retreating for a bit with his siblings and Caspian, he goes back in ... only this time with [[DualWielding two swords]] and can be seen using them quite efficiently. Not bad for someone who'd only recently touched a sword again after at least a year of next to no practice. |
| 192 | * TookALevelInKindness: By the time of the sequels, Edmund has become more selfless and loyal to his siblings. [[spoiler:Best established when he stops the White Witch from being resurrected.]] |
| 193 | * TheUnfavorite: In the Pevensie family, in the first book, especially to Peter. This is due to [[{{Jerkass}} his behavior]]. |
| 194 | * UnwittingPawn: Edmund to the White Witch, in the beginning. After having his pride wounded by Peter, he transforms from this into TheMole. |
| 195 | * VanityIsFeminine: Averted in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' when the Witch often appeals to Edmund's vanity in the "Turkish Delight" tempting scene. |
| 196 | * VillainProtagonist: In ''The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe''. He even has a [[VillainSong villain soundtrack]]. Needless to say, [[MustMakeAmends he regrets it deeply]]. |
| 197 | * WasTooHardOnHim: The reason given for him betraying his siblings in the first film, something his siblings even admit was the likely explanation. |
| 198 | * WhenHeSmiles: Edmund rarely smiles in the films, but when he does, it's something to behold indeed. |
| 199 | ** His broad grin during their coronation is an especially heartwarming one. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Lucy Pevensie]] |
| 203 | [[quoteright:261:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/large-georgie-henley_5136.jpg]] |
| 204 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/GeorgieHenley, Rachael Henley (adult self), Delainey Hayles (West End) |
| 205 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Creator/MelissaGedeon, María Roiz (adult self) |
| 206 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Celia Rocha, Blanca "Neri" Hualde (3rd film), Cristina Yuste (adult self) |
| 207 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Reika Uyama, Creator/ShizukaIto (adult self) |
| 208 | |
| 209 | The youngest of the four Pevensie children, and the first to find the entrance to Narnia in ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. Of all the Pevensie children, Lucy is the closest to Aslan. Also, of all the humans who have visited Narnia, Lucy is perhaps the one that believes in Narnia the most. She is ultimately crowned to the glistening Eastern Sea as Queen Lucy the Valiant, co-ruler of Narnia along with her two brothers and her sister. Lucy is the central character of the four siblings in the novels. |
| 210 | ---- |
| 211 | * ActionGirl: She's handy with weapons, particularly archery and her trusty dagger. |
| 212 | * AdaptationDyeJob: She is fair-haired in the books, but has somewhat auburn hair in TheMovie. |
| 213 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Edmund in ''The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe''. |
| 214 | * BadassAdorable: She is sweet, kind-hearted and idealistic, but she wasn't called "Lucy the Valiant" for nothing. She participated in numerous battles alongside her brothers and sister, including the Battle of Anvard. |
| 215 | * BarefootLoon: Downplayed. She is not crazy, but she can be considered somewhat eccentric due to her childlike free-spiritedness (more so as she gets older) - and her penchant for going barefoot emphasizes this. Being barefoot also means she is in touch with the Earth, like healing magic - which her cordial is - is known to be in legends. |
| 216 | * BlitzEvacuees: Evacuated to the countryside along with her siblings in ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''. |
| 217 | * CallMyName: With Edmund in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader''. |
| 218 | * CloudCuckoolander: Sometimes comes across as this with her unwavering faith in miracles, especially when she gets older. However, [[{{Cuckoosnarker}} this doesn't prevent her from snarking from time to time]] (see DeadpanSnarker). |
| 219 | * CombatMedic: She fought alongside her brothers in Narnia's wars and tended to the sick afterwards with her healing cordial. |
| 220 | * CoolBigSis: To Aravis. In the film version of ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', she becomes this to Gael. |
| 221 | * CuteBruiser: Much more played up in the films, where Lucy, not even grown yet, manages to briefly hold her own in a melee with Nikabrik, and later takes out a number of slavers in the skirmish on the Lone Islands. |
| 222 | * DeadpanSnarker: It's downplayed, but Narnia is, after all, a WorldOfSnark, and Lucy does have her occasional moments. |
| 223 | -->'''Edmund:''' They [girls] never carry a map in their heads. |
| 224 | -->'''Lucy:''' [[InsultBackfire That's because]] ''[[InsultBackfire our]]'' [[InsultBackfire heads actually have something in them.]] |
| 225 | * {{Determinator}}: Keep in mind that Lucy is a pre-teen and the youngest of four children, yet steadfastly refuses to recant her stories about her encounters in Narnia, despite her older siblings demanding she drop it. Lucy later holds firm to her belief that she can see Aslan, despite almost all the others disbelieving her, and asserts that she will go alone to seek him if need be, even through dark woods in the heart of enemy territory. |
| 226 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Lucy in the first two films is depicted as having her hair down. When she finally fights alongside the others in the third, her hair is pulled back into a ponytail and stays that way for the rest of the film. |
| 227 | * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Optimist. She is the most idealistic among her siblings, and the only one who didn't give up her faith in Aslan in ''Prince Caspian''. |
| 228 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine. She is emotional, compassionate and sensitive, but also cheerful, [[DeadpanSnarker having a sense of humor and a sharp wit]]. |
| 229 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: As befitting her NiceGirl status. |
| 230 | ** In the first book and film, despite it being her first time seeing - and meeting - a faun, Lucy is nothing but kind towards Mr Tumnus, even after he reveals that he has been assigned to kidnap her. |
| 231 | ** She trusts the Beavers almost immediately, and was in visible distress when Maugrim and his pack torture Mr. Fox to get information out of him. |
| 232 | ** She also has a habit of greeting and waving at the many creatures they meet along the way, such as the dryads from the first film and the mermaids in the third. This serves her well in the later parts of the stories (e.g. [[{{Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe}} the dryads telling Peter and Edmund that Aslan is dead so that Lucy and Susan could stay with his body for a little longer]] or [[{{Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader}} the clearly-worried mermaids warning Lucy that going into Dark Island is a bad idea]]). |
| 233 | *** Subverted in the second film, when she greets a black bear and it almost ends up killing her. To be fair, however, she had no idea that the animals had turned Wild again during their absence. |
| 234 | * GirlishPigtails: Lucy is drawn as having these in the books, and during the scenes of Film/PrinceCaspian that are set in the real world. |
| 235 | * GreenEyedMonster: She's not immune to this, as ''Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' shows how her jealousy of the older, more beautiful Susan ''almost'' drives her to perform a magic spell to turn her into the most beautiful. |
| 236 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: In the books, Lucy is the youngest and most innocent of the Pevensie children, and has "golden hair". Her special relationship with Aslan can be seen for example in ''Prince Caspian'' when initially nobody but her believes enough to see him. Not so much in the films, because of AdaptationDyeJob, although she still has the heart of gold. |
| 237 | * IJustWantToBeBeautiful: It is revealed in the third book that Lucy envies Susan's beauty and popularity. |
| 238 | * IJustWantToBeYou: In the film version of Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader she expresses this towards Susan. |
| 239 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Especially so in the first film, when her actress was only all of nine-years-old. |
| 240 | * InSeriesNickname: She is called "Lu" several times by her family, but mostly by her big brother, Peter. |
| 241 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''The Last Battle''. |
| 242 | * LittleMissBadass: She was noted to have become quite the warrior in her later years as Queen, fighting on the front lines of battle with her brothers. |
| 243 | ** Keep in mind that Lucy often fought with her ''dagger,'' a weapon which would require extremely close contact, as opposed to her brothers who often used swords. [[WarriorPrincess Warrior Queen]], indeed. It probably helps that she's small. |
| 244 | ** In Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader, she borrows Susan's bow and, despite all the chaos going on around her, lands a spectacular hit on the Sea Serpent they are fighting. |
| 245 | * MedicalMonarch: Queen Lucy tended to the wounded after battles with her trusty healing cordial. |
| 246 | * NiceGirl: Lucy is definitely one. Crosses over with FriendToAllLivingThings. |
| 247 | ** In the third film, Lucy is kidnapped by the Dufflepuds. She is furious at first, but the minute she hears that they have been wronged (or so they think), she immediately softens and agrees to head into Coriakin's manor to undo the spell laid upon them. |
| 248 | * TheNotLoveInterest: With Edmund in the third film. {{Justified}}, as they are *cough* ''siblings''. This is likely intentional, as Lewis lamented in his work ''The Four Loves'' that deep filial love is often mistaken for romance by modern readers. |
| 249 | * {{Panacea}}: One drop from her healing cordial - which was said to be made from the juice of the fire-flower - could heal any injury. |
| 250 | * PluckyGirl: Almost always bubbly and upbeat, even in the most harsh and uncertain of circumstances. When it is discovered that Mr. Tumnus has been arrested, it is her ironclad conviction that they must rescue him that shames her older siblings into helping him. And just check out the scene where Lucy faces down the ''entire'' Telmarine army on Beruna's bridge, alone for several seconds with nothing but her dagger before Aslan appears at her side. She earned the sobriquet "The Valiant" in spades. |
| 251 | * ThePollyanna: Starts as a generically cheerful girl, but after encountering Aslan, she has the view that things can't get ''too'' bad as long as she shows faith. |
| 252 | * PrefersGoingBarefoot: At the very least, she ''doesn't mind'' going barefoot, as she found it quite pleasant after she kicked off her shoes in the middle of the ocean in ''Voyage of the Dawn Treader''. |
| 253 | ** In Film/PrinceCaspian, she gleefully kicks her shoes off upon returning to Narnia and is still barefoot a few scenes later when she and her siblings explore the ruins of Cair Paravel. |
| 254 | %%* RedOniBlueOni: Red Oni to Susan and Edmund's blue. |
| 255 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With adult Edmund, who was a silent, wise and down-to-earth man, who had a cold judgement, as opposed to the adult version of her, a bright, wild, tomboyish girl, driven by impulse. |
| 256 | * SiblingRivalry: Between her and Edmund in the [[Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe first book]], due to [[BigBrotherBully Edmund]]'s tendency of tormenting her. |
| 257 | %%* SiblingYinYang: With Edmund and Susan. |
| 258 | * TenderTears: |
| 259 | ** She does this a lot as a child: |
| 260 | *** She cries when her siblings don't believe her story of discovering another world inside the wardrobe, and later when Edmund lies about having been there too. |
| 261 | *** She was noted to have cried heavily upon seeing Aslan's death. |
| 262 | *** When she and her sister find Mr Tumnus' petrified form in the Witch's castle, she bursts into tears at once, having fully believed up until that point that he was alive. |
| 263 | *** Does this again when Edmund almost dies after being stabbed by the White Witch. |
| 264 | ** As a young woman in ''The Last Battle'', she cries after seeing Narnia destroyed, even though she and her siblings and friends have moved on into a paradise. King Tirian joins her with ManlyTears and concurs that it would be wrong not to mourn. |
| 265 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: In the books, Lucy is contrasted with Queen Susan the Gentle as a {{tomboy}} who rides to war with her brothers and fights like a man. |
| 266 | %%* TomboyPrincess: Becomes a Tomboy ''Queen''. |
| 267 | * TomboyishPonytail: Ties her hair into one during the entire third film. |
| 268 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She was a renowned LadyOfWar, and in the fifth book, she is shown discussing dresses and other girly things with Aravis quite happily. |
| 269 | * VanityIsFeminine: Lucy, generally shown as more virtuous than her older and vainer sister Susan, is so tempted by the idea of being more beautiful and desirable than her that only the appearance of Aslan stops her from casting a spell allowing her to do so. |
| 270 | * YoungestChildWins: She is referred to as Peter's favorite sister in "Prince Caspian", (and likely Edmund's as well, after his HeelFaceTurn), and definitely seems to enjoy favored status with Aslan. She is highly revered and respected in her adult years as being not only beautiful, but courageous, with many seeking her hand in marriage. All of this is justified, as it is all because of Lucy that the Pevensies come to know of Narnia in the first place. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Eustace Scrubb]] |
| 274 | [[quoteright:341:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Eustace_dawntreader_945.jpg]] |
| 275 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/WillPoulter |
| 276 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' José Antonio Toledano |
| 277 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Carlos Bautista |
| 278 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/RomiPark |
| 279 | |
| 280 | The Pevensies' annoying younger cousin. He first appears in ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''. He fancies himself (not entirely without reason) to be rather intelligent, and considers this a valid reason for nurturing an arrogant attitude toward his cousins. He accompanies Lucy and Edmund on their third trip to Narnia, albeit accidentally. Upon learning that Narnia is real, his feelings toward it go from amused disdain to fear and outright hatred. It isn't until transforming into a dragon (long story) and having Aslan change him back by breaking the curse that his attitude towards Narnia and his cousins change for the better. |
| 281 | |
| 282 | He later appears as a main character in ''The Silver Chair'' and ''The Last Battle''. In these books, his adventuring companion is his friend Jill Pole instead of his cousins. |
| 283 | ---- |
| 284 | * AntiHero: Once CharacterDevelopment sets in and he stops being a complete {{Jerkass}}. |
| 285 | * AscendedExtra: He's a major character, but not a main one, in ''Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', and becomes one of the main characters in ''The Silver Chair'' and ''The Last Battle''. |
| 286 | * BeetleManiac: "Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned on a card." |
| 287 | * BrattyHalfPint: It's extraordinarily difficult not to hate him until his CharacterDevelopment finally kicks in. |
| 288 | * TheBully: Pre-development, it's hard to find him having a nice word for anyone. |
| 289 | * ButtMonkey: Throughout most of ''Dawn Treader'' up till his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 290 | * CharacterDevelopment: Like Edmund before him, Eustace becomes a much better person as his adventures in Narnia make him aware of his failings. |
| 291 | * TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Eustace is ''way'' down on the cynical side of the idealist/cynic scale when he first enters Narnia. And in truth, even after he's matured, he still tends to take the gloomy view. (Not as gloomy as Puddleglum, of course.) |
| 292 | %%* DeadpanSnarker |
| 293 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Before he even does anything: "There was a boy named [[UnfortunateNames Eustace Clarence Scrubb,]] and he almost ''deserved'' it." |
| 294 | * FantasticRacism: Towards the animals, but especially Reepicheep: he thinks 'performing animals' are tasteless. |
| 295 | * FlatEarthAtheist: For the first half of ''Dawn Treader.'' |
| 296 | ** Amusingly quite literal in this case, since he's an (implied) atheist in a definitively flat world. |
| 297 | * ForcedTransformation: Gets turned into a dragon. |
| 298 | %%* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The Cynic. |
| 299 | * HeelFaceTurn: Being turned into a dragon makes him a much nicer person. |
| 300 | * HeelFaithTurn: Faith in Aslan, that is. |
| 301 | * {{Jerkass}}: A thoroughly cynical, bitter, self-centered little know-it-all. Fortunately, he improves. |
| 302 | ** Edmund is pretty tolerant of this attitude, because he remembers his ''own'' earliest days in Narnia. |
| 303 | * KidsAreCruel: Even though Edmund's misdeeds were far more serious (as Edmund himself admits), Eustace is more ''obnoxiously'' cruel. |
| 304 | * KilledOffForReal: In the ''Last Battle''. |
| 305 | %%* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Before his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 306 | * {{Narrator}}: In the Walden Media Adaptation. |
| 307 | * NerdyBully: In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', he first appears as an effete KnowNothingKnowItAll whose bland modernist upbringing taught him to wield intellectualism as a form of petty dominance over others. Much of the story focuses on him cultivating courage, humility, faith, and genuine wisdom through his adventures, and he returns in ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' and ''Literature/TheLastBattle'' as a far more agreeable and heroic sort. |
| 308 | %%* PlatonicLifePartners: With Jill. |
| 309 | * PunnyName: He is, indeed, a "scrub" (as in an insignificant, worthless jerk), something the narration points out within the first two sentences of ''Dawn Treader''. After his CharacterDevelopment, though, he becomes a much better person, and by the start of ''The Silver Chair'', the narration playfully acknowledges that he's not a bad guy despite the very unfortunate name. |
| 310 | * SelfServingMemory: Excerpts from his diary in ''Dawn Treader'' portray him as tragically put-upon by arrogant prigs who willfully refuse to see him as the voice of reason in every situation. [[UnreliableNarrator Of course.]] |
| 311 | * SpoiledBrat: It's discussed that he's such a pill [[spoiler:prior to his HeelFaceTurn]] because of vapid educational and parenting philosophies that over-indulged his sense of self-importance. |
| 312 | * TenderTears: Sheds these in the 2010 film when Reepicheep has decided to stay in Aslan's Country, where there is no way back. |
| 313 | * TookALevelInBadass: In ''The Silver Chair'' it's obvious that Eustace, both during the previous book and in the time between, has focused a lot more on practical skills and helping others. The film of ''The Voyage of The Drawn Treader'' takes this a little farther and [[spoiler:lets him fight in dragon form]]. |
| 314 | * TookALevelInKindness: Midway through ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', after being turned into a dragon. |
| 315 | * UnfortunateNames: ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' memorably begins with "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." Later in ''Literature/TheSilverChair,'' he's introduced with, "His name unfortunately was Eustace Scrubb, but he wasn't a bad sort." It's mocked again when a hard-of-hearing dwarf thinks his name is "Useless". This is explicitly a reference to Lewis' own given name, "Clive Staples", which he intensely disliked, and from childhood preferred to be referred to as "Jack". |
| 316 | %%* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Not a comedy, but he still fits. |
| 317 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: It is mentioned in ''The Silver Chair'' that Eustace is afraid of heights, causing him to overreact when Jill goes too close to the edge of a cliff. |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder:Jill Pole]] |
| 321 | Eustace's companion throughout The Silver Chair. Aslan gives her the task of remembering the Signs that lead them on their journey. |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | * ActionGirl: She doesn't hesitate to get in the midst of the fighting, though as an archer she does tend to keep back a bit. |
| 324 | * CharacterDevelopment: Develops a much better sense of direction in the last book, whereas she had previously been known for having a poor sense of direction. She joined the Girl Guides between books for this very reason. |
| 325 | * {{Claustrophobia}}: It's mentioned briefly when the companions are trapped underground. She's really, really uncomfortable for a while. |
| 326 | %%* FireForgedFriends: With Eustace. |
| 327 | * KilledOffForReal: In the ''Last Battle''. |
| 328 | * NoiselessWalker: King Tirian flat-out wonders if she has dryad blood in her, due to how noiselessly she walks, with or without shoes on. |
| 329 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Does it around the giants so they won't suspect anything. |
| 330 | %%* PlatonicLifePartners: With Eustace. |
| 331 | * ScarilyCompetentTracker: She is skilled in "woodcraft" (tracking and moving quietly through forested areas), as noted by King Tirian in ''The Last Battle''; Eustace credits this to her time as a Girl Guide, but no doubt this was supplemented by her travels and experiences in ''The Silver Chair''. |
| 332 | * ScoutOut: Averted; Jill is flat-out called a member of the Girl Guides and has various skills enhanced by her membership, namely tracking and archery. |
| 333 | * TookALevelInBadass: Between ''The Silver Chair'' and ''The Last Battle''. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Digory Kirke]] |
| 337 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/JimBroadbent, Johnson Willis (West End) |
| 338 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Héctor Lama Yazbek |
| 339 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Ángel Amorós |
| 340 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Tadashi Nakamura |
| 341 | |
| 342 | Introduced in ''The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe'' as an old man ("the Professor"), with whom the Pevensies have been billeted. Eventually turns out to have a {{Backstory}} connected with that of the wardrobe, as revealed in ''The Magician's Nephew''. |
| 343 | ---- |
| 344 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: In ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' and ''The Last Battle''. |
| 345 | * AuthorAvatar: C.S Lewis essentially wrote Digory's journey to save his mother as a happier alternative to his own life. |
| 346 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Digory to Uncle Andrew, throughout the entire book. |
| 347 | * CatchPhrase: "What ''do'' they teach them in these schools?" |
| 348 | * CoolOldGuy: A magical land in a wardrobe? Well, why not? (Of course, in ''The Magician's Nephew'' the reader learns he knew the truth all along, and was just pretending he didn't know about Narnia.) |
| 349 | * {{Expy}}: A gender-flipped one for Eve of Literature/TheBible: he's the one who is tempted regarding an apple. Unlike Eve though, he resists giving into that temptation. |
| 350 | * GenreSavvy: When he learns that magic is real, he refers to the EvilSorcerer trope and shows other signs of knowing how 'these kinds of stories' work... though he's got a blind spot when it comes to the SchmuckBait bell in Charn. When he's a much older man in LWW, of course, he's even savvier. |
| 351 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''The Last Battle''. |
| 352 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Digory's the reason Jadis was brought to the universe of Narnia. |
| 353 | %%* PlatonicLifePartners: With Polly Plummer. |
| 354 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Asks Peter and Susan if Lucy is the sort of girl who makes up stories and, if not, why don't they believe her then? |
| 355 | --> '''The Professor:''' If she's not lying, and she's not mad, then she must be telling the truth. That's logic. ''(aside)'' What ''do'' they teach them in these schools? |
| 356 | ** Of course, this turns out to be a whole different mindset once we learn he was in Narnia himself and has obvious reasons to believe Lucy is telling the truth. |
| 357 | * RedOni: Spends a lot of his time in ''The Magician's Nephew'' falling into scrapes and pulling Polly in with him. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Polly Plummer]] |
| 361 | Introduced as Digory's neighbour in ''The Magician's Nephew'' and is caught up in Uncle Andrew's plot [[spoiler:and transported to The Wood Between the Worlds]], starting the main adventure of the book. Returns in ''The Last Battle'' as a 'Friend of Narnia'. |
| 362 | ---- |
| 363 | * AlliterativeName: Brought to you by the letter 'P'. |
| 364 | * BlueOni: Definitely more level headed than the impulsive Digory. |
| 365 | %%* CoolOldLady: In ''The Last Battle''. |
| 366 | * FireForgedFriends: She and Digory. ''The Last Battle'' reveals they remain in contact their whole lives. |
| 367 | * GirlNextDoor: Not in the romantic sense but she does fit the characteristics of the type as a friendly, down to earth, childhood friend. Also lives over the wall to Digory. (It's even how they first meet.) |
| 368 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''The Last Battle''. |
| 369 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Digory Kirke. |
| 370 | -->Polly and Digory were always great friends and she came nearly every holiday to stay with them at their beautiful house in the country; and that was where she learned to ride and swim and milk and bake and climb. |
| 371 | * PluckyGirl: Doesn't bat an eye at the existence of different worlds and happily gives Jadis a piece of her mind throughout the book. |
| 372 | * VanityIsFeminine: The otherwise completely down to earth Polly immediately starts to trust Digory's ObviouslyEvil uncle after he calls her pretty. |
| 373 | * WomenAreWiser: While she has her faults, Polly is consistently more sensible and cautious than Digory, particularly when she tries to stop him from ringing the bell that awakes Jadis. |
| 374 | %%* {{Tsundere}} |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Caspian the Seafarer]] |
| 378 | [[quoteright:266:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caspian12_8946.jpg]] |
| 379 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/BenBarnes |
| 380 | --> '''Voiced in European French by:''' Creator/EmmanuelGarijo |
| 381 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Ricardo Palacio Reynaud (''Prince Caspian''), Creator/EdsonMatus (''Voyage of the Dawn Treader'') |
| 382 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Fernando Cabrera |
| 383 | |
| 384 | King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Emperor of the Lone Islands, also called Caspian the Seafarer and Caspian the Navigator (born 2290–died 2356, Narnian Time) was one of the greatest leaders of the Narnian Empire who took part in the successful Narnian Revolution and began the Age of Exploration. Caspian was descended from the Telmarine Dynasty, but unlike his ancestors he chose to ally with the indigenous Narnians (talking animals, satyrs, fauns, centaurs, etc.) instead of persecuting them. Succeeded by his son Rilian. |
| 385 | ---- |
| 386 | * AdaptationDyeJob: He is described as fair-haired in the books. However, since [[spoiler:the Telmarines are descended from pirates and the native tribe of an uncharted island on Earth,]] the choice to portray him as dark-haired and Hispanic stands to reason. |
| 387 | * AuthorityEqualsAsskicking |
| 388 | * TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Caspian is thrown into his adventures when his aunt has a baby, making him... [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness redundant]] to his evil uncle. |
| 389 | * BashBrothers: Is this with both of the Pevensie boys, but mostly with Edmund in the third film. |
| 390 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Develops one for Edmund and Lucy in the third film. |
| 391 | * BigDamnHeroes: In Film/PrinceCaspian, when Susan is about to be killed by a Telmarine soldier after being knocked to the forest floor. |
| 392 | --> '''Caspian:''' (''gives her a dashing smile'') Sure you don't need that horn? |
| 393 | * CharacterDevelopment: From a hesitant but trustworthy ruler-to-be, to a skilled FatherToHisMen seafaring captain to a just and noble king. Not bad, Caspian, not bad at all. |
| 394 | * DashingHispanic: In the movie, he comes off as this. Bonus points on Ben Barnes basing his characterization on Inigo Montoya, a Dashing Hispanic himself. |
| 395 | * DistractedByTheSexy: In the movie version of ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', by Lilliandil, Ramandu’s daughter. |
| 396 | * FamilyOfChoice: In ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader,'' he outright calls Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace as the closest thing he has to a family. |
| 397 | * TheHero: Caspian starts out as TheChosenOne. In ''Prince Caspian'' he's almost acting as an understudy to Peter, but in ''Dawn Treader'' he's undertaking a heroic journey of his own volition. (In the film of ''Prince Caspian,'' Caspian is more confident and goes through MoreHeroThanThou with Peter.) |
| 398 | * HeroicVow: Caspian made one at his coronation to search for the seven missing lords. ''The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader'' takes place during that journey. |
| 399 | * ItHasBeenAnHonor: Towards Edmund in ''The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader''. |
| 400 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: Especially in the third film, where he is shown tying it back from time to time, especially when adventuring or during battles. |
| 401 | * MoreHeroThanThou |
| 402 | * MrFanservice: Especially in the movies. |
| 403 | * AProtagonistShallLeadThem: Played with a bit - he's a SupportingProtagonist for the Pevensies, but still the person chosen by the Old Narnians to be their leader and champion. |
| 404 | * ReluctantRuler: He was unsure he had any right to the Narnian throne, and didn't believe himself ready to take it when the time came. Aslan assures him that those very doubts prove that he has what it takes to be a good leader. |
| 405 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: An emphatic example. In ''Prince Caspian'' he leads a successful revolution against his wicked uncle. By the time of ''Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' - a matter of just two or three years - he's repaired the damage caused by the civil wars, brought peace between the remaining Telmarines and the formerly oppressed Old Narnians, and is revitalizing Narnia's long-dormant seafaring traditions with an epic voyage of discovery. His brief cameo in ''The Silver Chair'' shows that he goes down in history as a soldier, sailor, lawmaker and administrator. |
| 406 | * SecondaryCharacterTitle: In ''Prince Caspian''. |
| 407 | * SheatheYourSword: Used in the movie version of ''Prince Caspian'', when Caspian, after seeing an entire squadron of Telmarine assassins downed by something underfoot, is himself tripped and set upon by the unseen assailant... Reepicheep the Mouse. Reepicheep orders Caspian to retrieve his sword and face him in honorable combat, as he refuses to kill an unarmed man. Caspian's reply: "Then I'll live longer if I don't." Reepicheep doesn't have infinite patience, though, so this tactic doesn't last Caspian forever. |
| 408 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: In the movies. |
| 409 | * TheLostLenore: To Susan, in the movies, and vice-versa. |
| 410 | * WhatTheHellHero: Caspian in his pride wants to stay at the end of the world; the entire crew and even Aslan calls him out on abandoning his responsibilities and promises. In the film version, Caspian is very much tempted by the prospect of staying at the end of the world to the point of [[ManlyTears crying]], but he realizes that his father wouldn't have wanted him to throw away the kingdom his father died for. |
| 411 | * TheWisePrince: He tends to put the wrong foot forward on some occasions, but in general, Caspian has good instincts and a very kind heart. |
| 412 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Towards Miraz. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Shasta [[spoiler:aka Prince Cor]]]] |
| 416 | Shasta grew up in poverty in some nameless fishing village in Calormen, the son of an abusive fisherman named Arsheesh. When his father decides to sell him into slavery, Shasta overhears that he was adopted and decides to run away. Over the course of ''The Horse and His Boy'', he grows up (somewhat), teams up with runaway princess Aravis, and saves Archenland from the greatest danger it had ever faced. Only at the end does he learn that he's the long-lost Prince Cor, son of King Lune of Archenland. He was abducted as a baby and taken to Calormen in a (vain) attempt to avert the prophecy that he would save the country. He eventually married his one-time traveling companion Aravis, and the two ruled together after King Lune's death. Their son was King Ram the Great. |
| 417 | ---- |
| 418 | * BarefootPoverty: To his suffering, AgonyOfTheFeet included. |
| 419 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Aravis. {{Lampshaded}} by the author who says that they had many quarrels and fights after which they made up again [[spoiler:and eventually they married so that they could do this in a more convenient fashion]]. |
| 420 | * BigDamnHeroes: He pulls this twice. The first time when he rushes to protect Aravis and Hwin from what he believed was a hungry lion chasing after them. The second one was when he ran non-stop, after having been through almost a whole book's worth of shit -- most recently a potential suicide mission through a desert -- to warn King Lune about the impending invasion. |
| 421 | * ABoyAndHisX: Inverted -- Bree seems to regard Shasta as ''his'' pet. This is even lampshaded in the title of the book- it's not called "The Boy and His Horse," after all. |
| 422 | * ChangelingFantasy: Shasta, a peasant orphan, turns out to be the long-lost prince of Archenland. Atypically for the trope, Shasta is quite dismayed because, being the eldest twin, he'll be ''forced'' to rule as king, and his brother is only too happy to be relieved of the responsibility. |
| 423 | * ExactEavesDropping: Hearing his adoptive father preparing to sell him into slavery is what prompts his escape. |
| 424 | * AFriendInNeed: When Shasta tells the horse that he really needs someone who could tell him whether the nobleman is evil, Bree reveals his ability to speak to tell Shasta exactly that. Which gives Bree the opening to suggest that they could run away together. |
| 425 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: At least in the Pauline Baynes illustrations he is portrayed as having blond hair, and he had the wholesome and kind aspect down pat. He's described by the Tarkaan who tries to buy him from Arsheesh as being "fair" (like the cursed barbarians of the North). |
| 426 | * HappilyMarried: To Aravis, though they remain very [[BelligerentSexualTension hot-tempered about it]]. |
| 427 | * MadeASlave: What Shasta is fleeing. Bree hints this would be AFateWorseThanDeath, as the Tarkaan is buying Shasta [[SexSlave for his looks]]; which the narration naturally downplays to stay family friendly - the [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil general point]] this would be ''very bad'' is made, though. |
| 428 | * MasterSwordsman: What he grows up to be in the epilogue. |
| 429 | * MosesInTheBulrushes: Shasta's [[spoiler:aka Prince Cor's]] backstory. |
| 430 | %%* NiceGuy: He is one of the genuinely nicest characters in the whole book. |
| 431 | * SlapSlapKiss: His relationship with Aravis is initially hostile, even though he's clearly taken with her. Their volatile friendship ultimately becomes romance and then marriage. |
| 432 | * TrueCompanions: His devotion to his own is uncontested. Made all that much clearer when out of sheer loyalty he jumps off Bree’s back to face down a freakin' lion, who's actually Aslan, chasing Aravis and Hwin. |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
| 434 | |
| 435 | [[folder:Aravis Tarkheena]] |
| 436 | [[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aravis.jpg]] |
| 437 | A young Tarkheena, a female member of the ruling nobility of Calormen. She ran away from home with her talking horse, Hwin, in order to escape an ArrangedMarriage to an old man. |
| 438 | ----- |
| 439 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Shasta. {{Lampshaded}} by the author who says that she had many quarrels and fights with him, and eventually they got married so that they could quarrel and make up more conveniently. |
| 440 | * BreakTheHaughty: Her personal character arc is much about her learning humility. |
| 441 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Towards Shasta. At first she treats him with a degree of arrogance due to her being a noble Tarkheena, and him a poor street urchin, but eventually she warms up to him. |
| 442 | * ForgedMessage: She covers her escape by having an OldRetainer write a letter from Ahosta Tarkaan saying that they've already married and her father should meet them in Tashbaan with her dowry. |
| 443 | * AFriendInNeed: Hwin reveals she can talk just when Aravis needs her the most. |
| 444 | * GildedCage: Marriage in Calormen, for high-status women. Aravis hates her prospective husband, but it's suggested she wouldn't have been happy as any Tarkaan's wife. |
| 445 | * HappilyMarried: With Shasta, though they remain in SlapSlapKiss mode. |
| 446 | * InfallibleNarrator: Aravis recounts her entire backstory like this, and Bree explains that Calormene nobles are taught story-telling in school. She isn't entirely infallible, either, and is actually a LemonyNarrator: in keeping with the standards of her culture, she colors her narrative with painful amounts of PurpleProse, even when recounting what Hwin, who is present, said - causing Hwin to comment that she didn't say it in nearly as fancy words. |
| 447 | * InterruptedSuicide: Aravis in her back story, contemplating forced childhood marriage to an old man. Hwin stops her and convinces her to run away instead. |
| 448 | * NiceToTheWaiter: Initially {{averted}}: as part of Aravis's backstory, she drugged one of her servants in order to escape. When Shasta asked what happened to the servant, Aravis casually speculated that she was whipped for oversleeping and shows no remorse, saying the girl was a lackey of her WickedStepmother. Aravis eventually learns to put aside her class pride through CharacterDevelopment, especially after Aslan gives her [[LaserGuidedKarma the same wounds as the servant received]]. |
| 449 | * RebelliousPrincess: She is a Tarkheena from noble family who loves adventures, bows, arrows, dogs and horses and hates the high-class conventions. |
| 450 | * RunawayFiance: When her father [[ArrangedMarriage arranges her marriage]] to [[OldManMarryingAChild a hump-backed, sycophantic man many times her age (when she's only about 12),]] she takes 'her' mare and flees to Narnia. |
| 451 | * SamusIsAGirl: Though the confusion happens at their first meeting, at night, and is cleared up quickly. |
| 452 | * SlapSlapKiss: She and Shasta have a stormy relationship. They eventually get married so they can fight and make up more 'conveniently'. |
| 453 | * TheStoryteller: As a Tarkheena, she was educated in the art of storytelling, so she can tell stories 'in the grand Calormen style' (aka overloaded with PurpleProse), and apparently enjoys doing this. |
| 454 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Lasaraleen's Girly Girl. |
| 455 | * TomboyPrincess: A girl from Calormen's upper caste with several 'unfeminine' interests. Though she does have those too... |
| 456 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She and Queen Lucy immediately bond due to their similarity in this regard, and go off chatting about clothes and [[LemonyNarrator 'the other things girls talk about on these occasions.']] |
| 457 | * {{Tsundere}}: She behaves this way towards Shasta, flipping between arrogant and friendly. Overlaps with DefrostingIceQueen. |
| 458 | * WellExcuseMePrincess: This defines her relationship with Shasta from the very beginning. Their first words to each other: "Why, you're only a girl." "And you're only a boy. A rude, common little boy. A slave probably who's stolen his master's horse!" |
| 459 | * WickedStepmother: Her father's new wife didn't like her, and it was she who encouraged/persuaded him to marry her off to Tarkaan Ahoshta. |
| 460 | [[/folder]] |
| 461 | |
| 462 | [[folder:Tirian the Last]] |
| 463 | The king of Narnia at the time of ''The Last Battle'', who becomes aware of something seriously wrong with his country one day, and goes to investigate it. |
| 464 | ---- |
| 465 | * CrazyPrepared: He keeps an out-of-the-way watchtower stocked up with supplies of all kinds, just in case anyone ever needs to use it. This includes Calormene weapons and equipment, on the off-chance he ever needed to pretend to be one. |
| 466 | * DemotedToExtra: After being the viewpoint character for most of the book, once the Pevensies show up, he's shoved to the side. |
| 467 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jewel the unicorn. |
| 468 | * HonorBeforeReason: After killing a guard who was abusing a talking horse, he and Jewel surrender for killing an unarmed opponent. Who is invading Tirian's country. Tirian still surrenders. |
| 469 | * LastOfHisKind: The last king of Narnia, since it's destroyed at the end of the book. |
| 470 | * ModestRoyalty: Tirian's pretty chill for a king. When first introduced, he's just relaxing in a tiny, out of the way little place instead of at his actual castle. |
| 471 | * ShooTheDog: He tries getting Jill and Eustace to leave before going to fight the Calormenes, but they point out there's nowhere for them to go by that point. |
| 472 | * ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: The narrator notes that if he and Jewel hadn't been so determined to investigate what was going on, and had gone and gotten some actual back-up, things might've not gone so wrong for them. |
| 473 | [[/folder]] |
| 474 | |
| 475 | !Terrestrials |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:Helen Pevensie]] |
| 478 | The Pevensie siblings' mother. While Mr. Pevensie is off fighting in the Second World War, Helen has to send the children off to Professor Kirke's house in the country to protect them from the air raids. |
| 479 | ---- |
| 480 | * AfterlifeWelcome: Other than [[OneSceneWonder her short appearance]] seeing her children off to keep them safe from the air raids, she has a tiny cameo in the last book, where she and Mr. Pevensie welcome someone dead into the Narnian equivalent of Heaven. The narration states [[BackForTheDead they died]] in a railway accident; and we have it on WordOfGod that all the Pevensie family ([[spoiler:including Susan]]) will eventually be reunited there. |
| 481 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Helen got her name from an ad lib in the film adaptation - Lucy's actress saying she was not a Daugther of Eve because her mother's name was Helen - which was widely thought to be fitting as it inadverently names her after the author's wife Helen Joy Davidman. The film adaptation gives her a bigger role than the book, too: first showing her sheltering with her children in a cellar from the air raids, then giving her a larger farewell scene when she sees them off on the trip to the professor's house. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Mrs. Macready]] |
| 485 | ->"Mrs. Macready?" |
| 486 | ->"I'm afraid so." |
| 487 | Professor Kirke's cranky old housekeeper, who inadvertently chases the protagonists into Narnia in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. |
| 488 | ---- |
| 489 | * TheDreaded: Downplayed compared to the Narnia threats but present. After she snaps at the kids on the way into the house, they're naturally terrified of earning her wrath by breaking one of her rules. So when Edmund accidentally breaks a window, the prospect of her catching them sends all four kids fleeing into the wardrobe. In the video game adaptation, upsetting her is treated with the same severity as getting caught by an angry ogre, complete with horror movie-esque music and an automatic game over if she catches them. |
| 490 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all her brusque, blunt, and busybodiesque demeanor she's actually quite alright - even though she ''does'' need the professor to prompt her about how to comfort the terrified Lucy in the film adaptation. |
| 491 | * WouldNotHurtAChild: She thinks children ''are'' a nuisance, but would never intentionally hurt one. |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | [[folder:Alberta Scrubb]] |
| 495 | Eustace's mother, the Pevensie siblings' aunt, and married to Harold Scrubb. Progressive, holistic, and very modern (quoth the narration: "very up-to-date and advanced"), Alberta is also the one responsible for naming [[UnfortunateName Eustace]] "Eustace Clarence" - and the only one to resent his CharacterDevelopment. |
| 496 | ---- |
| 497 | * GranolaGirl: with a proseolytising streak. Inadverently, it was she who carefully trained Eustace into some of his nastier character traits (like looking down on others who aren't as "enlightened") - along with teaching him things like CallingParentsByTheirName and a progressive (for the time) and "[[AuthorTract up-to-date]]" worldview. |
| 498 | * ParentalNeglect: She views her son more as a sort of status symbol to broardcast the extraordinary quality of her worldviews than as a person with his own rights and needs (that he's brutally bullied and miserable at school isn't as important to her as the school being "modern", for example). Thus, when Aslan does a bit of [[ParentalSubstitute substituting]] by taking Eustace on ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' (helping him overcome his loneliness and make new friends, providing learning opportunities, assisting in his CharacterDevelopment, caring for him when he's cursed, making sure the bullying at his school stops), [[HateSink Alberta is]] ''pissed'' at the beneficial result of someone actually treating her son as a person. |
| 499 | * SkewedPriorities: The narration notes that "everyone was saying how Eustace had improved" - [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks except for]] her (because it interferes with her nonconformity): |
| 500 | -->"he'd become very commonplace and tiresome, and it must have been the influence of those Pevensie children". |
| 501 | * ValuesDissonance: Some of the views Eustace learned from her and displays in ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' before Aslan gets a hold of him come off as [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunately like]] "white man's burden" and "soft bigotry of low expectations" views. This is [[AuthorTract deliberate]]. |
| 502 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Alberta's son was named "Eustace Clarence", much to his (and the narration's) chagrin - and you get the distinct feeling that only because the time in which the book was written keeps her and her husband from being HippieParents, it didn't end up becoming something like "Pippin Spock Moonchild". |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder:Andrew Ketterley]] |
| 506 | Mabel Kirke's brother, Digory Kirke's uncle, and the titular magician in ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' |
| 507 | ---- |
| 508 | * AdmiringTheAbomination: Even after his character development, he still expresses admiration for Jadis. |
| 509 | * BigBadWannabe: He's introduced as a sinister figure and the main antagonist for the first section of the book, but once Jadis arrives it's made clear how out of his depth he is. Diggory notes that after seeing Jadis, he would never be again frightened of Uncle Andrew. |
| 510 | * ButtMonkey: Nothing goes right for Uncle Andrew after Jadis arrives and once he winds up in Narnia it becomes worse. [[HumiliationConga He is forced to spend large amounts of money, gets caught in an hansom crash, gets dragged into another world, gets chased by a number of talking beasts, and finally gets mistaken for a tree and planted.]] |
| 511 | * TheDogBitesBack: After being dragged around London by Jadis, he finally loses his temper and calls her out. Fortunately for him she gets distracted before she can retaliate. |
| 512 | * EvilColonialist: He is intrigued by the idea of exploiting Narnia's unique properties to make a fortune by burying bits of scrap iron to grow trains and battleships, and contemplates building a health resort. Thankfully his schemes never get off the ground. |
| 513 | * FairyGodmother: He inherited a box of magic dust from his godmother Mrs. Lefay, who claimed to be one of the last people in England with fairy ancestry. It's hinted that she either is or is related to [[Characters/ArthurianLegend Morgan Le Fay]]. |
| 514 | * IgnoredEpiphany: When Diggory points out that as an evil magician he's going to come to the same bad end as the ones in fairy tales, he look horrified but quickly dismisses Diggory's claim as "old wives tales". |
| 515 | * IneptMage: He's able to create magic rings that teleport people to other worlds but without fully understanding how they function, and he's completely outclassed and humiliated once he meets the likes of Jadis and Aslan. |
| 516 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Pretty much his default function as he's only interested in how things benefit him. When Diggory brings up the possibility Narnia might have a cure for his mother, Andrew rudely dismisses him. |
| 517 | * MadScientist: He's willing to sacrifice Digory's friend Polly in a magical experiment. |
| 518 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Uncle Andrew talks a good game about necessity and the high and lonely destiny of men like him, but as Diggory observes, it only means that Andrew thinks he can do whatever he likes to get whatever he wants. |
| 519 | * PhlebotinumInducedStupidity: Enforces this on himself by making himself believe that the Lion could not possibly be singing, causing Andrew to become incapable of understanding Aslan or any of the talking beasts. |
| 520 | --> ''Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.'' |
| 521 | * TookALevelInKindness: He eventually gives up experimenting with magic and becomes a kinder, less selfish person. |
| 522 | * WouldHurtAChild: Would use children as experimental subjects with magic rings that will send them to an unknown dimension where they might encounter literally anything, at least. |
| 523 | [[/folder]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | [[folder:Letitia "Letty" Ketterley]] |
| 526 | Mabel Kirke's sister and Digory Kirke's aunt. |
| 527 | ---- |
| 528 | * ExactEavesdropping: Digory overhears her saying to a neighbor that nothing but a panacea would do her sister any good at this point, prompting him to search for one in other worlds [[spoiler:and eventually ask Aslan, who grants it with his blessing]]. |
| 529 | * NeverMessWithGranny: |
| 530 | ** Seriously: don't mess with her, not even if you are the BigBad of the series. Aunt Letty is quite unimpressed by Jadis - taking the latter's [[YourMagicsNoGoodHere failed incantations]] to be drunken ravings, telling her off for being drunk and disorderly, and attempting to throw her out of the house - and although she has to catch her breath a bit due to her old age when Jadis throws her across the room; she is tough as nails, lands safely, and is otherwise quite alright. |
| 531 | ** She's adamant that she won't lend her brother any money, or let him draw Digory into his studies of black magic, either. |
| 532 | * [[NiceGuy Nice Old Lady]]: One of the kindest people you'll ever meet, first taking in her wayward brother Andrew; then later her ill sister and her nephew, caring for Mabel and supporting Digory. Letty usually has a kind word or a kind thought for everyone - unless you get on [[BewareTheNiceOnes her bad side]]. |
| 533 | * ParentalSubstitute: To her nephew Digory Kirke while his father is deployed in India and his mother is unable to care for him because of being terminally ill - with the implication that she will become the foster parent to him should his mother die. She generally supports him and tries to protect him as best she can from the titular magician (her brother), too. |
| 534 | [[/folder]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | [[folder:Mabel Kirke]] |
| 537 | Digory Kirke's mother |
| 538 | ---- |
| 539 | * DelicateAndSickly: She is suffering from terminal cancer and at death's door. This is what spurns Digory and his new friend Polly to quest through other worlds hunting for a cure as soon as they have the means to travel to them, bringing them first to Charn and eventually Narnia. |
| 540 | * {{Panacea}}: Digory searches for it[[spoiler:, and eventually is gifted one by Aslan,]] to heal her. |
| 541 | [[/folder]] |
| 542 | |
| 543 | [[folder:King Frank and Queen Helen]] |
| 544 | The first King and Queen of Narnia. \ |
| 545 | Frank is an English cab driver who is accidentally transported to the empty void that will eventually become Narnia in ''The Magician's Nephew''. He is selected by Aslan to be Narnia's first King and his wife is teleported there to be his Queen. Their dynasty rules Narnia until it is overthrown by the White Witch. The monarchs of Archenland are also descended from them. |
| 546 | ---- |
| 547 | * ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Helen seems to be fond of them - and the narration notes that if she'd had time to bring any of her good clothes, she would have looked ''dreadful''; and that the Narnian style "made a great improvement to her appearance". |
| 548 | * RagsToRoyalty: Frank is initially a cab driver and Helen is a housewife who appears in Narnia with hands covered in soapsuds. |
| 549 | %%* SheCleansUpNicely |
| 550 | * UnfazedEveryman: Frank's pretty chill about being transported to an empty void and watching the creation of a universe. So is Nelly about being teleported into another universe and being welcomed by a strange deity - in person. |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | [[folder:The "Them"]] |
| 554 | The schoolyard bullies who prey on smaller children at Experiment House, including Jill and Eustace who go to said school - ranging from typical bully tactics up to and including ColdBloodedTorture. |
| 555 | ---- |
| 556 | * AuthorTract: Lewis was badly bullied at school, and makes no bones about how unpleasant it is. |
| 557 | * BullyingADragon: Aslan [[GuardianEntity is]] ''not'' amused about Jill, Eustace, and the other kids being bullied - and in best "not a tame lion" fashion [[CorporalPunishment sees to it]] that the bullies don't ever try that again. |
| 558 | [[/folder]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | !Narnians |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[folder:Fledge [=/=] Strawberry]] |
| 563 | A 19th-century draft horse who may be the ''only'' character from Earth to wind up in Narnia by accident. He is twice transformed by Aslan during ''The Magician's Nephew.'' |
| 564 | ---- |
| 565 | * {{Pegasus}}: After his ''second'' transformation. |
| 566 | * TalkingAnimal: After his ''first'' transformation. |
| 567 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Fledge becomes 'the father of all flying horses,' but none of his progeny appear in any subsequent book. Not necessarily sinister, since the world of Narnia is incredibly large and there are only seven books. |
| 568 | [[/folder]] |
| 569 | |
| 570 | [[folder:Mr. Tumnus]] |
| 571 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Jez Unwin (West End) |
| 572 | --> '''Voiced in European French by:''' Creator/AlexisVictor |
| 573 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Ortos Soyuz |
| 574 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Artur Palomo |
| 575 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TomokazuSeki |
| 576 | |
| 577 | A faun and typical citizen of Narnia in the age of the Hundred-Year Winter, Mr. Tumnus is the first Narnian to encounter a human being, [[spoiler:at least since the last humans descended from King Frank and Queen Helen were driven out of Narnia at the beginning of the Witch's reign.]] |
| 578 | ---- |
| 579 | * TheAtoner: After hearing that Lucy Pevensie thought him to be her friend, Tumnus immediately gets a determined look on his face and brings her back to the Lamppost, despite being under strict orders from Jadis to bring any humans that wandered into Narnia to her. |
| 580 | --> '''Tumnus''': No matter what happens, Lucy Pevensie, I am glad to have met you. You've made me feel warmer than I've felt in a hundred years. |
| 581 | * {{Bookworm}}: One of the things Lucy takes note of when she enters his house is the huge number of books lining his walls. |
| 582 | * DontTryThisAtHome: Under ordinary circumstances, it is not advisable for a little girl who is wandering alone to agree to go off to a total stranger's home. |
| 583 | ** And to be fair, it was very nearly a bad idea for Lucy to wander into his home. |
| 584 | * IconicOutfit: Doesn't exactly have a complete one, due to being a faun, but he is often depicted as wearing a red scarf. |
| 585 | * PlatonicLifePartners: With Lucy. |
| 586 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In ''The Horse And His Boy.'' |
| 587 | * TenderTears: He sheds these when he starts to regret his decision to kidnap Lucy. |
| 588 | * VagueAge: The books never explicitly state how long fauns live comparative to humans, but it's speculated to far exceed humans. For Tumnus, we never get an answer of how old he is, nor what his age is comparative to a human. He claims to remember songs and stories from before the Long Winter, sudgesting he's over a hundred years old as the Age of Winter lasted a hundred years. However given that he couldn't recognize Lucy as a human, thinking she was a dwarf, this suggests he might be younger than a hundred years. Though this may have been a ruse. By the end of the Golden Age, Tumnus was noted for being a “middle-aged faun” without any direct reference of the age. |
| 589 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Lucy is more curious about him than frightened, and he goes on to become her closest Narnian friend. |
| 590 | [[/folder]] |
| 591 | |
| 592 | [[folder:Bree]] |
| 593 | A Talking Horse born in Narnia abducted and brought to Calormen, where he was treated as a normal horse. |
| 594 | ---- |
| 595 | * BeastOfBattle: He was a warhorse, though he's not quite as badass as he thinks he is. |
| 596 | * BreakTheHaughty: His overinflated ego gets punctured twice -- first, when he realizes that Shasta, the fisherman's boy, was braver than he was, and a second time when Aslan gives him an unsubtle reminder that he is indeed a lion. |
| 597 | * MilesGloriosus: He feels himself unusually brave. Eventually he breaks himself of this habit after a wiser character says he's been comparing himself to ''normal'' horses, "and you could hardly help being braver than them." |
| 598 | * OldSoldier: During his time in Calormen he served as a war-horse in the Tisroc's army and apparently was the veteran of several campaigns. |
| 599 | * SlaveMook: Well, kind of by definition being a warhorse. But on the other hand he was an aristocrat's warhorse so he was not just a mook. |
| 600 | * TalkingAnimal: A significant plot point, since he puts himself in charge of the group's escape (and, in Shasta's case, is the one to suggest it). |
| 601 | [[/folder]] |
| 602 | |
| 603 | [[folder:Hwin]] |
| 604 | Like Bree, Hwin was a Narnian Talking Horse who was abducted as a foal and lived most of her life in Calormen. |
| 605 | ---- |
| 606 | * CloserToEarth: Much less self-absorbed than the other three, and probably the wisest member of the group. |
| 607 | --> '''Bree:''' Is ''that'' how we want to arrive in Narnia?! |
| 608 | --> '''Hwin:''' Well, the main thing is to ''get'' there. |
| 609 | * HumbleGoal: To go home. |
| 610 | * PurpleProse: Not the ''real'' Hwin, but when Aravis is recounting their adventures she makes Hwin sound that way. |
| 611 | --> '''Aravis''' ''(describing Hwin's dialogue):'' 'O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!' |
| 612 | --> '''Hwin:''' [[HeroicSelfDeprecation I didn't say it half so well as that.]] |
| 613 | * TalkingAnimal: As with Bree. By ContrivedCoincidence, she talks ''her'' human into fleeing just a few days before Bree 'steals' Shasta. |
| 614 | [[/folder]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | [[folder:Lilliandil]] |
| 617 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lilliandil_6.png]] |
| 618 | [[caption-width-right:350:“And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins”]] |
| 619 | -->'''Played By:''' Laura Brent |
| 620 | |
| 621 | The daughter of "Resting Star" Ramandu and an unknown Human woman, Lilliandil stood guard over Aslan's Table with her father. She married Caspian X and had one son, Rilian, before being killed by the Lady of the Green Kirtle. Known only as "Ramandu's Daughter" in the books, she's given the name "Lilliandil" in the films. |
| 622 | ---- |
| 623 | * AdaptationalBadass: She gets her father's role of secondary BigGood (behind Aslan, of course) in the movie. |
| 624 | * GoodCounterpart: To the Lady of the Green Kirtle: Both are described as impossibly beautiful, both are shape shifters, Lilliandil is instrumental to the defeat of the Green Mist (confirmed to be the work of the Lady behind the scenes), and the Lady kills her in ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' as an instrumental step in capturing and corrupting her son. |
| 625 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: In the movies, Lilliandil is depicted as having almost platinum blonde hair, and is firmly on the side of good. |
| 626 | * HalfHumanHybrid: She's part Daughter of Eve, part Star. |
| 627 | * KilledOffForReal: Lethally poisoned by the Lady of the Green Kirtle in snake-form. |
| 628 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Caspian was certainly very taken with her, and it seems it was mutual. Ironically, they don't seem to have been StarCrossedLovers and Ramandu presumably approved of the relationship. |
| 629 | * MagicalBarefooter: She is depicted barefoot in [[https://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Caspian_and_Lilandil.png the book illustration]], which may imply that she has no need for footwear due to being a half-star (her father Ramandu and [[spoiler:his fellow star Coriakin]] are barefooted as well). |
| 630 | * MissingMom: Her death sparks her son's tireless search for vengeance. |
| 631 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Specifically the 2010 cinematic adaptation. In the books, she has NoNameGiven and is only referred to as Ramandu's daughter, Rilian's mother, Caspian's wife or the Queen of Narnia. |
| 632 | * NiceGirl: Or star, rather. She doesn't have much screen time (at least in human form), but one of her first lines when she finally speaks is to welcome the weary crew of the ''Dawn Treader'' to Ramandu's Island and offer the bounty of Aslan's Table to them. |
| 633 | * VoluntaryShapeShifting: Implied, as she suggests she can change her supernaturally beautiful appearance when she realizes it's distracting Caspian and Edmund. She was also, apparently, the Blue Star guiding the ''Dawn Treader'' throughout its voyage. |
| 634 | [[/folder]] |
| 635 | |
| 636 | |
| 637 | [[folder:Dr. Cornelius]] |
| 638 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/VincentGrass |
| 639 | --> '''Voiced in French by:''' Vincent Grass |
| 640 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Luis Mas |
| 641 | |
| 642 | A wise little old man who tutors Caspian ... and in the process tells him things Miraz ''really'' didn't want him to know. |
| 643 | ---- |
| 644 | * HalfHumanHybrid: A hybrid of Telmarine human and dwarf. |
| 645 | * TheMentor: He provides Caspian with a comprehensive education and gets him out of the castle. |
| 646 | * ParentalSubstitute: He's more of a father figure to Caspian than Miraz. |
| 647 | * YouWillKnowWhatToDo: Supplies Caspian with the Horn of Queen Susan. |
| 648 | [[/folder]] |
| 649 | |
| 650 | |
| 651 | [[folder:Coriakin]] |
| 652 | [[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coriakin.jpg]] |
| 653 | --> '''Played by:''' Preston Lockwood, Bille Brown |
| 654 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Luis Mas |
| 655 | |
| 656 | The wise old magician who was sent by Aslan to govern the Dufflepuds. The Dufflepuds are fearful of him, and believe him to be a sinister warlock (an obvious metaphor for the relationship between God and humanity). |
| 657 | ---- |
| 658 | * AbnormalAllergy: Whenever he is under the invisibility spell, it always makes him feel sleepy. |
| 659 | * TheAnticipator: He is always aware of the Dufflepuds' antics (probably due to his supernatural powers; the story implies that he has the gift of precognition), but sometimes he allows them to believe that they have outwitted him in order to teach them a lesson. He also knew all along that Lucy would come to his house to read the spell. |
| 660 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:{{Inverted}}: he was once a star shining in the sky, but was demoted to a mere magician in human form for some sort of misdeed. It is implied that eventually he served his penance and returned to the sky.]] |
| 661 | * BarefootLoon: He is implied to be quite eccentric and mischievous in Dumbledore-esque fashion, using methods like CoolAndUnusualPunishment to govern his subjects. He never wears anything on his feet, which may be due to his quirkiness [[spoiler:or due to the fact that he is a star]]. Or because it allows him to walk around silently and sneak up on the Dufflepuds. |
| 662 | * BarefootSage: A wise old sorcerer who is perpetually barefoot (obviously by choice). |
| 663 | * BenevolentMageRuler: He rules the Duffers on the behalf of Aslan, with the intent of guiding them to enlightenment. |
| 664 | * CelestialBody: [[spoiler:A star in human form. In the past, he was prideful and this led him into errant ways, so Aslan punished him by making him ruler of an island of fools.]] |
| 665 | * TheChessmaster: Benign version. He offhandedly mentions that when he allowed the Duffers to make themselves invisible, he knew all along that Lucy would come to lift the invisibility spell. This implies that everything that happened to the protagonists on his island was indirectly orchestrated by him (probably as a SecretTest of sorts), and that he wanted Lucy to read his book so that she could learn valuable lessons from it. |
| 666 | * EccentricMentor: He has a quirky Dumbledore-esque sense of humor, as evidenced by the fact that [[PrankPunishment he turned the Duffers into Monopods for disobedience]], and put up a bearded mirror in his mansion (most likely to prank his guests). |
| 667 | * {{Expy}}: [[{{Downplayed}} To some extent]], of Prospero from ''Theatre/TheTempest''. Like Prospero, he is a magician who is exiled to an island inhabited by foolish and unruly beings, and has to govern them with the use of "rough magic" (Coriakin directly quotes Prospero when he describes his magic as such) in order to guide them to wisdom. He also helps the sailors who arrive to his island, and looks forward to the day he can return to his homeland[[spoiler:, that is, the sky]]. Some other attributes of Prospero were given to Ramandu, [[spoiler:who is also a star like Coriakin]]. |
| 668 | * GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler:Well, a star in human form, which is Narnia's closest equivalent of an angel.]] His relationship with the Dufflepuds also mirrors the relationship between God and humanity: just like humans, the Duffers are both afraid of Coriakin, seeing him as a cruel tyrant, and dismissive of him, believing that he can be easily fooled by their antics. He always sees them through, but sometimes plays along to teach them a lesson (as was the case with the invisibility spell). |
| 669 | * GoodAllAlong: The protagonists initially see him as an evil sorcerer, based on what the Dufflepuds told them about him, and the chapter where Lucy enters his house is one of the scariest in the whole book. Eventually, it is revealed that he is a bevevolent ([[TricksterMentor if somewhat eccentric]]) magician who was sent to the island by none other than Aslan. |
| 670 | * GoodIsNotSoft: By his own admission, he has to resort to "rough magic" sometimes to rule the Duffers, such as [[PrankPunishment transforming them into funny one-legged creatures called Monopods as a punishment for disobedience]]. However, he only wants them to learn the necessary life skills and spiritual lessons and eventually achieve enlightenment and meet Aslan. [[spoiler:He succeeds in this, since in ''The Last Battle'' the Dufflepuds are seen entering Aslan's Country alongside other creatures.]] |
| 671 | * MagicalBarefooter: He is a magician [[spoiler:and a star]], and his bare feet may be indicative of his ethereal, otherworldy nature (as opposed to the earthly Dufflepuds [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/narnia/images/8/83/Dufflepuds.JPG who are depicted wearing fancy shoes in the illustrations]]). It may also be that he relishes touching the ground with his feet and toes because [[spoiler:he spent so much time as a star in the sky, and tactile sensations are new to him.]] |
| 672 | * MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:Ramandu reveals that Coriakin is a former star in human form who was assigned to rule the Dufflepuds as a punishment for some misdeed, but he refuses to tell what kind of misdeed it was.]] |
| 673 | * NoiselessWalker: The Dufflepuds mention that he walks around noiselessly in his bare feet, making no more sound than a cat. |
| 674 | * PrefersGoingBarefoot: In the words of the Dufflepuds, "he always did go about with his bare feet on, making no more noise than a great big cat". |
| 675 | * {{Seers}}: He mentions that he knew all along that Lucy would come to his mansion to lift the invisiblity spell, implying that he has the gift of foresight. Probably bordering on TheOmniscient, since he also knows that Lucy is from England and what kind of food she likes; he also sees through the Dufflepuds all the time, even when they believe they have outsmarted him. |
| 676 | * SentientStars: [[spoiler:Revealed to be a star in human form.]] |
| 677 | * SorcerousOverlord: {{Subverted}}. The Duffers perceive him as this because he rules them with the use of magic and tricks, but he is actually a BenevolentMageRuler who has to do this in order to help them survive and guide them to wisdom (they would not listen to him otherwise, preferring to obey the orders of their Chief). |
| 678 | * StaffOfAuthority: He is described as having "a curiously carved staff", which highlights his status as the ruler of the island and the mentor and overseer of the Dufflepuds. |
| 679 | * SurefootedBarefooter: He is noted to always go around barefoot, using his unhindered mobility and awareness of the ground [[NoiselessWalker to make "no more noise than a cat"]]. As a result, the Dufflepuds (a race of dwarf-like creatures that he rules and looks after) constantly fear that he may be watching them, especially after he becomes invisible. |
| 680 | * SympatheticSlaveOwner: The Duffers see him as their oppressor, but in reality, he has to force them to work in the garden using tricks and magical spells because they are TooDumbToLive, and would not survive without his oversight (the Duffers working in his garden is an obvious religious metaphor for humans "working in God's vineyard"). |
| 681 | * TricksterMentor: |
| 682 | ** First of all, he turned the Duffers (a race of foolish dwarves he was assigned to govern) into funny one-legged creatures called Monopods as a PrankPunishment for disobedience. Everyone else agreed that the change was for the better, and their new form had advantages like being able to use the giant foot for swimming - [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment but the Duffers themselves were horrified by the change because they were extremely conceited about their appearance, and thought that the transformation had made them "ugly"]]. |
| 683 | ** Then, he allowed the Duffers to make themselves invisible to teach them a lesson, and did not lift the invisibility spell himself, so that they had to sort out the problem they created on their own. |
| 684 | ** Finally, he mentions that he knew that Lucy would come to lift the spell. It implies that all of her and her companions' adventures on his island were indirectly orchestrated by him, and that he wanted Lucy to read his book and learn some important lessons from it. This makes him not only a Trickster Mentor for the Dufflepuds, but also a StealthMentor for Lucy. |
| 685 | * WizardsLiveLonger: It's implied that he's been living on his island and governing the Dufflepuds for centuries, if not millenia. His longevity likely has to do with him being [[spoiler:a star in human form.]] |
| 686 | [[/folder]] |
| 687 | |
| 688 | [[folder:Ramandu]] |
| 689 | [[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ramandu.jpg]] |
| 690 | --> '''Played by:''' Geoffrey Bayldon |
| 691 | --> '''Voiced by:''' John Turner, Martin Friend |
| 692 | |
| 693 | The old star in human form who lives on an island with his daughter. He came to Earth to rest and rejuvenate, and will return to the sky once he becomes young again. |
| 694 | ---- |
| 695 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: {{Inverted}}: he was once a star shining in the sky, and descended to Earth to get some rest and rejuvenate. |
| 696 | * BarefootSage: In his human form, he appears as an old wise man, and he is always barefoot. |
| 697 | * CelestialBody: A star in human form. |
| 698 | * ElixirOfLife: The birds bring him Fire-berries every day, which make him younger. Once he is as young as a newborn baby, he will return to the sky as a star. |
| 699 | * {{Expy}}: [[{{Downplayed}} To some extent]], of Prospero from ''Theatre/TheTempest''. Like Prospero, he is a magical being who came to live on an island with his beautiful daughter. When a crew of sailors comes to his island, he welcomes them, and their captain (Caspian) falls in love with his daugher and eventually marries her. Some other attributes of Prospero were given to the magician [[spoiler:and fellow star]] Coriakin. |
| 700 | * GodInHumanForm: A star in human form, which is Narnia's closest equivalent of an angel. |
| 701 | * GoodWearsWhite: He is Narnia's equivalent of an angel, and he is dressed in a robe that appears to be made from the fleece of silver sheep. |
| 702 | * MagicalBarefooter: He is a magical creature (namely, a star in human form), which may be the reason why he doesn't need (or want) to wear shoes. It may also be that he relishes touching the ground with his feet and toes because he spent so much time as a star in the sky, and tactile sensations are new to him. |
| 703 | * SentientStars: A sentient star in the guise of an old wise man. |
| 704 | * VerbalTic: He addresses all his human guests as "my son" and "my daughter", which lampshades his higher spiritual status (it's a common tradition among Catholic priests and monks to address worldly people in this fashion). |
| 705 | [[/folder]] |
| 706 | |
| 707 | [[folder:The Hermit of the Southern March]] |
| 708 | [[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hermit_1.jpg]] |
| 709 | --> '''Voiced by:''' Peter Jones |
| 710 | |
| 711 | The 109 year old hermit who lives on the Southern Border of Archenland. |
| 712 | ---- |
| 713 | * BarefootSage: He is an old wise hermit who does not wear shoes. |
| 714 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His name is never revealed, and he is referred to as just "the hermit". |
| 715 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He gave exhausted Shasta no time to rest, telling him to run and warn King Lune about the impending attack because this was needed to be done urgently to save Narnia and Archenland. {{Lampshaded}} by the author: "if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one". |
| 716 | * InstantOracleJustAddWater: By his art, he can see what is happening at the present moment in the different parts of the world, with the use of a magical pool. |
| 717 | * MagicalBarefooter: Does not wear shoes, which is implied to be connected to his spirituality and his magical gift of remote viewing. |
| 718 | * MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about his past, except for the fact that he has lived for 109 years. Fans have speculated that he may be a star like Ramandu [[spoiler:and Coriakin]] due to their similar physical description (long beard and bare feet), his longevity, his supernatural powers, and his tendency to address his guests as "my son" and "my daughter", which is another common trait between him and Ramandu. |
| 719 | * VerbalTic: He addresses Shasta and Aravis (and presumably all of his human guests) as "my son" and "my daughter"; Aravis also calls him "father" in return. This lampshades his higher spiritual status, as it's a common tradition among Catholic priests and monks to address worldly people in this fashion. As for the animals, he refers to them as "cousins", probably due to being a FriendToAllLivingThings. |
| 720 | * WizardsLiveLonger: He's 109 years old, which is not outside the realm of possibility for a human in real life, but it still feels somewhat supernatural, especially given that he also has the gift of remote viewing. |
| 721 | [[/folder]] |
| 722 | |
| 723 | [[folder:Dufflepuds]] |
| 724 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dufflepuds.jpg]] |
| 725 | |
| 726 | The Dufflepuds were initially a race of foolish dwarves known as the Duffers, who were governed by Coriakin the magician. As a PrankPunishment for disobedience, he turned them into funny one-legged creatures called Monopods; eventually they mixed it up with their previous name, and started calling themselves the Dufflepuds. |
| 727 | ---- |
| 728 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:In ''Literature/TheLastBattle'', they are seen entering Aslan's Country, which implies that Coriakin did eventually succeed in enlightening them.]] |
| 729 | * BizarreAlienLocomotion: They have only one leg, so they move around by making huge leaps. [[spoiler:They can also use their huge feet as canoes.]] |
| 730 | * CaptainObvious: Their usual mode of thinking: for instance, they describe water as "powerful wet stuff". |
| 731 | * CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:Eventually they come to see their new one-legged form as this, especially after they discover that their giant feet can be used as boats for swimming.]] |
| 732 | * MuggleInMageCustody: They are governed by Coriakin the magician; the relationship between him and them is quite informal, and his role is more akin to a caregiver than a ruler in the political sense. He desires to have an even more personal relationship with them, but due to their foolishness, he has to rule them [[TricksterMentor with the use of tricks and magical spells]]. |
| 733 | * TooDumbToLive: They are close to this, and Coriakin has to look after them because they are barely clever enough to survive on their own. For example, when a cat gets into their food stores, the entire group relocates all the food to a new location, and it never even occurs to any of them to just get the cat out of there and close the door. |
| 734 | |
| 735 | [[/folder]] |
| 736 | |
| 737 | [[folder:Reepicheep]] |
| 738 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reepicheep.jpeg]] |
| 739 | --> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard (''Prince Caspian''), Creator/SimonPegg (''Voyage of the Dawn Treader'') |
| 740 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Abraham Aguilar |
| 741 | |
| 742 | The chief of his people, the Talking Mice, from late in the reign of Miraz til about three years into the reign of Caspian X. Reepicheep is dauntless and true, living every moment for honor, justice and the good of his people. His greatest shame is that he is BadassAdorable. |
| 743 | ---- |
| 744 | * AdaptationalBadass: While nobody could doubt his courage, spirit or sheer determination, the Reepicheep of the books doesn't really get to show off his prowess in battle too often. His movie incarnation is far more formidable, and is even introduced taking on several grown men all on his own. |
| 745 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:It's revealed in the final book that he found his way to Aslan's Country without the usual prerequisite of dying first. In fact, he's at the door to greet the others as they arrive.]] |
| 746 | * BadassAdorable: One of the reasons he's got such a short temper is that people persist in regarding him as adorable, and therefore harmless. |
| 747 | * BadassBoast: But he's not boasting. He's in dead earnest. |
| 748 | --> '''Reepicheep''' ''(to Something in the Darkness):'' Who calls? If you are a foe we do not fear you, and if you are a friend, we shall teach your enemies to fear us. |
| 749 | * BloodKnight: He sure loves battle, and is eager to challenge anyone who would dare look down on him. |
| 750 | * BoisterousBruiser: A rather small one. |
| 751 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: Though he presents himself as a hardened knight, he does have a softer side. Notably seen with Eustace during the latter's stint as a dragon. |
| 752 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: A frequent source of jokes, since he regards himself as a classic hero proving his worth, while his friends see him as a lovable LeeroyJenkins. |
| 753 | * DeadpanSnarker: Particularly in the movies. |
| 754 | -->'''Pattertwig the Squirrel''': We could collect nuts! |
| 755 | -->'''Reepicheep''': Yes! And then throw them at the Telmarines! *glaring* ''Shut up.'' |
| 756 | * {{Determinator}}: “My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise…” |
| 757 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He's... displeased... at someone calling him "cute". Then he sees it's Lucy and the whole situation is dropped since Lucy is a queen and must be honoured and respected. |
| 758 | * FamedInStory: Of all the great kings and heroes of Narnia that Tirian meets in Aslan's Country in ''The Last Battle'', the one he finds most legendary is Reepicheep. |
| 759 | * GlorySeeker: His greatest wish to do great deeds that will have him remembered as an honorable knight. |
| 760 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Despite his violent aspects, Reepicheep holds himself to high standards of courtesy, courage, honor, charity and faith. |
| 761 | * HeroicSacrifice: He's carried from the battlefield at the Second Battle of Beruna covered with wounds and with a bloody stump where his tail was. |
| 762 | * HeroicVow: To find Aslan's country in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader''. |
| 763 | * HonorBeforeReason: For example, his first instinct when hearing of a dragon nearby is to challenge it to single combat. Later in the book, he jumps into the ocean because he thought a Mer-king was challenging him. |
| 764 | * InSeriesNickname: Some of the characters call him "Reep" at some points. |
| 765 | * InterspeciesFriendship: Everyone aboard the Dawn Treader has this with him, Eustace especially. |
| 766 | * KillerRabbit: Or Killer Mouse at any rate; despite being a mouse, and the appropriate size therefore, he's no less a dedicated fighter. |
| 767 | * KnightInShiningArmor: Obviously played for laughs, but he lives for honor and knows no fear. |
| 768 | --> '''Caspian:''' You may say what you like, Reepicheep. There are some things no man can face. |
| 769 | --> '''Reepicheep:''' It is, then, my good fortune [[NoManOfWomanBorn not to be a Man.]] |
| 770 | * LightningBruiser: Due to his small form, he tends to dart around the battlefield with his opponents often wondering what the hell just hit them. |
| 771 | * NiceMice: Talking Rats don't seem to even exist.[[note]]The "Water Rat" in ''The Last Battle'' is probably a Vole.[[/note]] |
| 772 | * PhraseCatcher: In the film of ''Prince Caspian''. He doesn't appreciate it. |
| 773 | -->'''Reepicheep:''' Choose your last words carefully, Telmarine!\ |
| 774 | '''Caspian:''' ...You are a mouse.\ |
| 775 | '''Reepicheep:''' I was hoping for something a little more original.\ |
| 776 | ''(later)''\ |
| 777 | '''Telmarine soldier:''' You are a mouse!\ |
| 778 | '''Reepicheep:''' ''You people have no imagination!'' |
| 779 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: Talking mice are quite a bit larger than normal mice, but he's still barely the size of a cat. |
| 780 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Lucy sees him as this. He isn't too amused. |
| 781 | --> '''Lucy''' ''(in an undertone to Susan):'' He's so cute! |
| 782 | --> '''Reepicheep:''' [[BerserkButton Who said that?!]] |
| 783 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: And he's a fairly decent player--as long as he doesn't project himself onto the pieces and blunder away a piece in a LeeroyJenkins charge. |
| 784 | * StealthMentor: To Eustace, especially in the 2010 film. |
| 785 | ** When the boy steals an orange, Reepicheep challenges him to a duel, all the while not-so-subtly teaching him how to use a blade and improve his stance, seeing as Eustace had never held a weapon before in his entire life. |
| 786 | [[/folder]] |
| 787 | |
| 788 | [[folder:Trumpkin]] |
| 789 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/PeterDinklage |
| 790 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Mario Arvizu |
| 791 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Pedro Tena |
| 792 | |
| 793 | A grumpy red dwarf whose life was saved by the Pevensies. |
| 794 | ---- |
| 795 | * BreakTheHaughty: When the Pevensies appear to him, he's more than a little disgruntled that he got the ''child'' versions, not the age they were when they departed. He has to lose contests to Edmund and Susan before he acknowledges that 'the children' might be up to the job after all. |
| 796 | * TheCynic: Very pessimistic and cynical. |
| 797 | * LawfulStupid: In ''The Silver Chair'' Glimfeather notes that while he's unquestionably loyal, his stubbornness makes him unwilling to bend the rules, regardless of the circumstances. |
| 798 | * SourSupporter: Tends to be pessimistic, doesn't believe in the old legends or that some old horn can summon help, or that mythical kings can make a return, or even that the resistance can win, but is fiercely loyal to Caspian. When they need to send someone on a very dangerous scouting trip to the ruins of Cair Paravel, he insists on the job. |
| 799 | --> '''Trumpkin:''' Crumbs and crumpets! Send me, Sire, I'll go.\ |
| 800 | '''Caspian:''' I thought you didn't believe in the Kings and Queens?\ |
| 801 | '''Trumpkin:''' [[FlatEarthAtheist No more I do.]] But I know the difference between giving advice and taking orders. I've given my advice, and now it's time for orders. |
| 802 | * TheReliableOne: Like his friend Trufflehunter. Caspian leaves Trumpkin in charge of Narnia while he goes on his great voyage, and assigns the (now very old and stone-deaf) Dwarf to the job again just before ''The Silver Chair'' begins. |
| 803 | * UnusualEuphemism: All of his swearing is creative nonsense. |
| 804 | [[/folder]] |
| 805 | |
| 806 | [[folder:Puddleglum]] |
| 807 | A Marsh-wiggle who lives in marshes and is perpetually gloomy and pessimistic. He guides Eustace and Jill in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. |
| 808 | ---- |
| 809 | * TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: He's assigned to Jill and Eustace rather than seeking out heroics on his own. |
| 810 | * DeadpanSnarker: It's rare for the group to do anything without him muttering in an undertone that it's a foolish idea. |
| 811 | * {{Determinator}}: [[TheEeyore He constantly complains about how everyone is doomed]]... but throughout it all he just keeps on plowing his way through trials and tribulations that would have made a lesser will give up many times over. In a way, [[DeterminedDefeatist his resignation may be the source of his strength of character]] - if one is convinced that everything will go wrong no matter what, one can never truly suffer a harsh blow from a twist of fate, but can still be pleasantly surprised. |
| 812 | * DeterminedDefeatist: Everything is going to turn out horribly. The prince is of course already dead, we're all going to die instead of finding him, that food was surely poisoned, we're out of water, and we're going to freeze to death out here tonight. [[TheDeterminator Oh well, no point in delaying the inevitable: on we go.]] |
| 813 | * TheEeyore: He's lugubrious to a preposterous degree, yet claims that other Marsh-Wiggles call him a hopeless optimist. We see more of this in Underland, where, the text notes, he proves a steady rock for the children to cling to in the face of crushing depression. Perhaps it's that he remains at a ''steady level'' of lugubriousness regardless of the circumstances? |
| 814 | * FishPeople[=/=]FrogMen: Straddles the line between the two. |
| 815 | * HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:He is the only member of the party who manages to resist the [[MagicMusic hypnosis]] of the Lady of the Green Kirtle, and breaks the enchantment on the rest of the party.]] |
| 816 | * KirkSummation: His reply to the blandishments of the Queen of Underland. |
| 817 | * NoSenseOfHumor: Played with. He gets very giggly when he's drunk. |
| 818 | * TheReliableOne: The Parliament chose him not so much for his wilderness travel skills, but because he will do Aslan's bidding regardless of any personal cost to himself. Despite his droopiness and fatalism, he's vital to the success of the quest on several occasions. |
| 819 | [[/folder]] |
| 820 | |
| 821 | [[folder:Shift]] |
| 822 | [[quoteright:278:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shift_0.jpg]] |
| 823 | An ape who lives by the Great Waterfall with Puzzle the Donkey, who Shift treats as a servant. One day they find a lion's skin, which helps set in motion the last days of Narnia. |
| 824 | ---- |
| 825 | * BadLiar: In spite of his success at convincing the Narnians that Alsan has returned and made him his spokesperson, Shift isn't a particularly good liar. He frequently makes [[FreudianSlip slip ups]] and all but admits to being [[ItsAllAboutMe only out for himself,]] yet the talking animals of Narnia still take him at his word, even after he sells them all into slavery. |
| 826 | * BigBadWannabe: He's the initial cause of the problems in ''The Last Battle'', but by the time Tirian finds him he's been demoted to flunky and done in by his own hedonism. |
| 827 | * BlatantLies: His only mode of speech, but only on the talking animals of Narnia, who are gullible enough to believe him. |
| 828 | * FalseFriend: For Puzzle, who he uses as a servant, gaslighting and manipulating the poor donkey at every turn, and then turning him into an actual slave for the Calormenes. |
| 829 | * FalseProphet: Claims to bring the message of Aslan, but is just building a following for himself. |
| 830 | * FantasticRacism: Looks down on every other kind of animal. |
| 831 | * TheHedonist: After setting up a cult of Aslan, he spends his time stuffing his gob. |
| 832 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Shift sells out the entirety of Narnia, and every living being in it, to the Calormenes for bananas and drink. |
| 833 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Shift's plan has everyone claim Aslan and Tash are the same. This summons the ''actual'' Tash, who then proceeds to ''eat'' Shift.]] |
| 834 | * ManiacMonkeys: He's a greedy and selfish ape who looks down on every other type of animal, and a compulsive liar and cheater, going as far as selling out Narnia to the Calormenes. |
| 835 | * {{Narm}}: In-universe, his "kingly" apparel isn't made for an ape, and just makes him look stupid. |
| 836 | * TheSociopath: Meets a lot of the criteria -- he's a reflexive liar, and has a layer of superficial charm hiding a complete LackOfEmpathy. |
| 837 | |
| 838 | [[/folder]] |
| 839 | |
| 840 | [[folder:Puzzle the Donkey]] |
| 841 | |
| 842 | A not very intelligent donkey who lives with Shift the Ape, utterly oblivious to how vile his "friend" is. Puzzle helps play a large part in the downfall of Narnia when he is browbeaten into playing the part of Aslan in the ape's scheme. |
| 843 | ---- |
| 844 | * ButtMonkey: Poor, gullible, stupid Puzzle goes through a lot of abuse in the story, including outright physical abuse at the Calormene hands, none of which he really deserves. |
| 845 | * EasilyForgiven: While Tirian and Eustace are less willing to forgive him for being duped, with Tirian outright wanting to execute Puzzle on the spot, Jill is more tolerant. Aslan himself mercifully doesn't seem to hold any grudge, though it helps Puzzle was genuinely sorry (and also not intelligent or willful enough to have had much agency in the wrongdoing). |
| 846 | * FatIdiot: Mentioned as being pretty chubby, even after his treatment at the hands of the Calormenes, and not very smart at all, falling for every one of Shift's BlatantLies. |
| 847 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He's easily tricked by Shift's emotional and verbal abuse into doing whatever the ape wants, and never once holds it against him even when what he's talked into doing nearly kills him. |
| 848 | * PaperThinDisguise: A donkey in a badly stitched together lion skin would be a hard sell, even without Puzzle's very obvious donkey-ness shining through, but it helps that Shift and the Calormenes make sure the talking animals only see him very briefly, at night, and make sure Puzzle doesn't say anything. Animals who are smart enough to notice "disappear" (or in the case of Ginger, don't care). Any human looking at him can instantly see through it. |
| 849 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Puzzle agreeing to Shift's latest plan helps set in motion the conquest of Narnia. |
| 850 | |
| 851 | [[/folder]] |
| 852 | |
| 853 | [[folder:Ginger the Cat]] |
| 854 | |
| 855 | A cat, and a particularly nasty one, who quickly determines the truth of Shift's "Aslan"... and decides he wants in. |
| 856 | ---- |
| 857 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Once he joins in the scheme, it's pretty clear this cat's got the brains Shift doesn't. |
| 858 | * CatsAreMean: A cat who sells out his country apparently just 'cuz. |
| 859 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Ginger gets a good look at Tash, which scares the sentience right out of him.]] |
| 860 | * TheQuisling: Sides with the Calormenes once he figures out what's going on with the fake Aslan, and it's suggested he's managed to find or turn some other Narnian animals over to his way of thinking. |
| 861 | * SmugSnake: Ginger ''is'' a cat, after all, and a particularly smug one at that. |
| 862 | * TomTheDarkLord: Ginger is not exactly the sort of name you'd normally get for someone so vile. |
| 863 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last anyone sees of him, [[spoiler:Ginger's running up a tree, literally terrified out of his mind, and the narrator notes no-one ever saw him again.]] |
| 864 | |
| 865 | [[/folder]] |
| 866 | |
| 867 | !Calormenes |
| 868 | |
| 869 | [[folder:Prince Rabadash]] |
| 870 | |
| 871 | The oldest son of the Tisroc (the Calormene emperor). A very impulsive and childish man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. After Queen Susan refuses to marry him, he plans to conquer Narnia, but is defeated during an attempt to conquer Archenland. |
| 872 | ---- |
| 873 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Plans to kidnap Queen Susan and force her to marry him. |
| 874 | * AntagonisticOffspring: Is this to the Tisroc, who lets him chase after Susan to prevent him from attempting a coup. |
| 875 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He was quite gallant while a guest in Narnia, hence why Susan considered marrying him in the first place, but seeing his behavior towards others in his home country was enough to convince her otherwise. |
| 876 | * GameFace: Subverted — Rabadash rolls his eyes, sticks out his tongue, and wiggles his ears. It terrifies his underlings (who know he can have them boiled in oil at any minute), but it has no effect on the free Narnians; Lucy just worries for a moment that he's going to be sick. |
| 877 | * GodEmperor: He becomes the new Tisroc after the events of ''The Horse and His Boy''. |
| 878 | * TheGoodKing: It's mentioned in the epilogue of ''The Horse and His Boy'' that Rabadash, being unable to wage war due to Aslan's curse, actually did wonderful things for Calormen while he was ruler - even if they didn't appreciate it and mocked him for it after his death. |
| 879 | * HotBlooded: Possibly the best example in the series. |
| 880 | * HumiliationConga: A very good example that went on for the rest of his life. [[spoiler:During the battle for Archenland, he gets stuck on a hook on a wall. He demands to be released in order to duel King Edmund, but is denounced as a traitor, due to attacking during peacetime. After this, he is put on trial for his treachery and given multiple opportunities to redeem himself, but keeps threatening his captors. As punishment, Aslan temporarily turns him into a donkey and tells him that he'll be healed in the temple of Tash in Calormen but if he goes more than 10 miles from the temple, he will be permanently transformed. Since this prevents him from waging war, he is known as Rabadash the Peacemaker during his rule as Tisroc. But after his death, he is known to history as Rabadash the Ridiculous and the expression 'Second Rabadash' is also used for students who act incredibly stupid.]] |
| 881 | %%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Plans to kidnap Queen Susan and force her to marry him. |
| 882 | * KarmicTransformation: He was being an ass to the Narnians as well as how he tried to wage war in peace times, so Aslan naturally made him into a donkey, aka a "jackass". |
| 883 | * MemeticLoser: An InUniverse example, [[spoiler:Due to his HumiliationConga, Rabadash is remembered by his people as "Rabadash the Ridiculous" rather than his preferred title "Rabadash the Peacemaker." It is also stated that if a Calormene student were to do something stupid, they would be labeled a "Second Rabadash."]] |
| 884 | * RoyalBrat: Textbook definition, given his attitude and his actions. The story indicates that Aslan's punishment ''did'' knock some sense into him and he became a good ruler, but it wasn't enough to prevent him from being remembered as "Rabadash the Ridiculous". |
| 885 | * SmugSnake: Keeps insulting the Archenlanders and Narnians despite being their prisoner, and goes so far as [[BullyingADragon to yell in Aslan's face]]. Aslan ''still'' only warns him about it - until Rabadash starts insulting and threatening Susan, which brings out Aslan's PapaWolf towards her. |
| 886 | * VillainousValour: For all his many, many deficiencies as a person, Rabadash has EvilVirtues aplenty, and he's a brave and skilled swordsman. The text outright says that he could've endured torture well. |
| 887 | * {{Yandere}}: Wants to conquer Archenland and raid Narnia just to force Susan to marry him. |
| 888 | [[/folder]] |
| 889 | |
| 890 | [[folder:Lasaraleen]] |
| 891 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/las.jpg]] |
| 892 | Another Calormene noblewoman, and Aravis's old friend. |
| 893 | ---- |
| 894 | * AmbiguousInnocence: While she's quite friendly towards Aravis, she's also fully committed to some of her country's more questionable aspects. |
| 895 | * InThatOrder: She says that any of her servants who reveal Aravis's presence will be "beaten to death, burned alive, and kept on bread and water for six weeks." |
| 896 | * NiceGirl: Lasaraleen means well, and she helps Aravis escape. |
| 897 | * SpoiledSweet: She's very wealthy and also very kind to her friend. |
| 898 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Aravis's tomboy, being very fashion-conscious and a bit ditzy. |
| 899 | [[/folder]] |
| 900 | |
| 901 | [[folder:Emeth]] |
| 902 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emeth.jpg]] |
| 903 | --> '''Voiced by:''' Charlie Burnell |
| 904 | A Calormene soldier in ''The Last Battle''. Despite his lifelong devotion to Tash, he ends up in Aslan's country after the end of Narnia. |
| 905 | ---- |
| 906 | * DefectorFromDecadence: He is disgusted by the trickery his fellow Calormenes use and exposes Shift the Ape's trickery. |
| 907 | * MeaningfulName: "Emeth" (אמת) is Hebrew for "truth" |
| 908 | * NobleDemon: Despite being a follower of Tash, he earns him a place in Aslan's country as Aslan puts more value on good character and noble deeds than on worshiping the "correct" god. |
| 909 | * TokenGoodTeammate: He's the most good-natured Calormene in the whole series. |
| 910 | * WorthyOpponent: Jewel views him as one for his honesty and devotion. Emeth himself cites a poet who wrote "A noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best," indicating that he sees Peter as such. |
| 911 | [[/folder]] |
| 912 | |
| 913 | !Witches |
| 914 | |
| 915 | [[folder:Jadis, The White Witch]] |
| 916 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/turkdel8.jpg]] |
| 917 | --> '''Played by:''' Creator/TildaSwinton, Samantha Womack (West End) |
| 918 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Patricia Palestino |
| 919 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Conchi López |
| 920 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Mao Daichi |
| 921 | Jadis, commonly known as the White Witch, is the [[BigBad main villain]] of ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. Jadis is also explored extensively in depth in ''The Magician's Nephew'', concerning her origins and the origins of Narnia. She is the Witch who froze Narnia in the Hundred Years Winter. |
| 922 | |
| 923 | The prequel revealed that she is an [[HumanAlien alien]] of [[AnotherDimension extradimensional]] origin, who singlehandedly [[OmnicidalManiac exterminated all life]] except for herself through a secret ceremony. |
| 924 | ---- |
| 925 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: As the traditional EvilSorceress, Jadis runs Narnia as she wishes. Downplayed in that it does win her a few friends - Talking Wolves, Hags, and the People of the Toadstools, for example. Dwarves (especially Black Dwarves) also seem to have done alright under her rule, though there were plenty of dwarves loyal to Narnia as well. |
| 926 | * AboveGoodAndEvil: Jadis thinks she's exempt from morality just because she's magical and special. "Ours is a high and lonely destiny." |
| 927 | * AdaptationDyeJob: The original design for Jadis is pale skin and dark hair. However, the recent revamp for the film franchise has a blonde portraying her. Everything else about her (the red lips, the pale skin, and her outfit) are the same. |
| 928 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: This is commented through the books, mostly coming from the fact that, while she and the Charn race look exactly like just tall humans, there is ''something'' on them that hints they are not. Jadis herself is said to claim to be human in order to justify her place in the Narnian throne, but Mrs. Beaver opines she is actually of Djinn and giant blood, as well as a descendant of Myth/{{Lilith}} of all people. |
| 929 | * BackFromTheDead: |
| 930 | ** Jadis is killed in ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', but in ''Prince Caspian'', the possibility of reanimating her and using her as a weapon against an oppressive tyrant is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]], but eventually [[AvertedTrope averted]]. Apparently, Witches of this power never truly die and can always be brought back with a dark ritual, which is quite mercifully interrupted partway in. |
| 931 | ** ''The Silver Chair'' features another Witch of great power as its BigBad, and it is the subject of much debate whether she is a reincarnation or some sort of figment/avatar of Jadis, or just another unrelated witch. |
| 932 | * BigBad: In ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' and ''The Magician's Nephew'', at least (arguably ''The Silver Chair'', if the Lady of the Green Kirtle is indeed supposed to be a reincarnation of Jadis); after that, she is little more than a bad memory. However, the movies seem to be giving her a much greater presence post-mortem particularly in ''Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', which the scriptwriters insisted had to have a villain. Apparently it's not a spiritual journey without a BossBattle. |
| 933 | * BlessedWithSuck: After biting the Silver Apple, gains immortality but intensifies her misery. |
| 934 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: In ''The Magician's Nephew'', she points out torture chambers, dungeons, and locations of massacres in Charn as casually as if they were minor tourist sites. |
| 935 | * BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: She ceremonially slaughters Aslan, seemingly securing her tyrannical reign over Narnia. But given that Aslan is explicitly Narnia's UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, he comes BackFromTheDead and destroys her, freeing Narnia from her grasp once and for all. Aslan specifically mentions that the "Deep Magic" which predates them both was carved onto the stone table. C.S. Lewis mentions this was a reference to Moses's stone tablets, and the shattering was an end of the old religion of Narnia and the beginning of the new. It was the Witch's own actions which triggered this event. |
| 936 | * BroughtDownToBadass: In Charn, the Witch is an unstoppable force that annihilated all life aside from herself with a single spell and can effortlessly blast apart large structures with nary a word. In our world, however, she is incapable of using magic altogether, but is still a titan of a woman with SuperStrength due to her bloodline. In Narnia, she is somewhere in between, she is a powerful spellcaster but requires a wand and her selection of spells may be a bit more limited. |
| 937 | * CainAndAbel: Fought a long and bloody civil war against her sister for control of their kingdom that culminated in the destruction of their ''entire universe''. She says she was the one with the rightful claim to the throne, and that her sister was the first to break their mutual agreement not to use magic, but given who's talking it's just as likely to be a case of UnreliableNarrator. Though her sister may have been no angel either, given that the royal house of Charn is described as having gotten worse with each generation. But at least her sister didn't use the Deplorable Word. |
| 938 | * CompositeCharacter: She is based on four characters in fiction: {{Satan|icArchetype}} from Creator/JohnMilton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', Ayesha from ''Literature/{{She}}'' by Creator/HRiderHaggard, the Snow Queen from Creator/HansChristianAndersen's fantasy story of the same name, and the Queen of Babylon from the ''Story of the Amulet'' by Nesbit. The mythological character of Myth/{{Lilith}} was also an inspiration for her character and Jadis is said to be descended from her in the stories. |
| 939 | * CrystalDragonJesus: The [[SatanicArchetype Satan version of this]], though in ''The Last Battle'' Tash elbows her out of that role. |
| 940 | * DarkActionGirl: In the movies, where she's shown to be just as good a fighter as a mage and schemer. |
| 941 | * TheDreaded: Jadis ruled Narnia with an iron fist for a hundred years not only through the icy grip of magic, but sheer terror. Tumnus, the Beavers and others relate how utterly terrified all Narnians are at the prospect of arousing her wrath. |
| 942 | * DualWielding: [[MagicKnight A wand and a sword]] in TheMovie. She switches to two swords once her wand breaks. |
| 943 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: In the books, her hair is black and her skin is literally white "like snow, or paper, or icing sugar," clearly intended to look creepy and unhealthy. Not true in the movies, in which she is blonde and has a more or less natural skin tone. |
| 944 | * EndlessWinter: Her shtick, and the main reason why she's known as the White Witch. |
| 945 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: Plunges Narnia into an infinite winter in which Christmas never occurs. |
| 946 | * EvilIsPetty: Wiped out all other life on Charn just to "win" the war with her sister when she was on the edge of defeat. |
| 947 | * EvilOverlord: First of Charn, although ''all'' rulers of Charn in her era were wicked. Then of Narnia. |
| 948 | * EvilSorcerer: Magic comes naturally to her species, namely her royal family. Stranded in Narnia, where magical knowledge from her homeworld was useless, she eventually became adept in the local magic. |
| 949 | * EvilVsEvil: She describes the sister she warred against in Charn as bloodthirsty and tyrannical. Jadis herself is no saint and pulled an EvilerThanThou on her by using the Deplorable Word to destroy Charn entirely rather than surrender. In addition, [[UnreliableExpositor we only have her word]] on how bad her sister really was. |
| 950 | * FantasticNuke: An understatement. The Deplorable Word, a spell that kills [[ApocalypseHow absolutely everything in the world]] aside from the caster, makes nukes look like party poppers. |
| 951 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She's very good at appearing to be trustworthy, telling people exactly what they want to sway them to her side, but it doesn't take much to for her to drop the act and reveal the callous monster within. |
| 952 | * GenocideFromTheInside: When she ruled Charn, she learned a spell known as the Deplorable Word that would kill every living thing in the world except the speaker. When she lost the civil war, [[SoreLoser she used it]]. |
| 953 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She reigns as the Queen of Narnia, and she's incredibly evil by virtue of plunging the whole land into eternal winter and violently disposing of anyone who opposes her. Fittingly enough, [[LiteralMetaphor she does get disposed of thanks to a divine intervention]]. |
| 954 | * GodzillaThreshold: Invoked in ''Prince Caspian'', where the Black Dwarf Nikabrik, a [[WickedWitch hag]] and a werewolf attempt to perform a ritual to bring Jadis BackFromTheDead to fight against Miraz. It is worth noting that all three of these are on the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil eviler end of magical creatures]], and therefore have not particularly suffered under the reign of the White Witch. On the other hand, when the heroes realize what their plan entails, they refuse to even entertain the possibility and kill the three of them - summoning a force as uncontrollable and powerful as Jadis to deal with a relatively mundane tyrant would be akin to dropping a nuke on a city to get rid of a rat infestation. |
| 955 | * HateSink: She's so loathsome and despicable as a villain that when she dies, it's incredibly satisfying to watch due to how cruel and psychotic she is. |
| 956 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: Her insistence on demanding Edmund's life, and her gleeful willingness to kill Aslan in Edmund's place, leads to her defeat thanks to her ignorance of the Deeper Magic beneath the Deep Magic she invokes. |
| 957 | * HumanoidAbomination: She's an immortal monster who's destroyed ''an entire universe'', turned [[{{Arcadia}} Narnia]] into [[{{Mordor}} a frozen wasteland]], appears human [[UncannyValley until you take a good look]], and [[SatanicArchetype became Narnia's very own Satan in the end]]. [[invoked]] |
| 958 | * IceQueen: About as literal as you can get without a Queen actually being made of ice. The movie has her wearing a crown made of ice as well. |
| 959 | * InhumanlyBeautifulRace: The Charnites Polly and Digory see were all inhumanly beautiful, but also more and more terrible in that beauty as the generations passed. |
| 960 | * InTheBlood: She mentions that one of her ancestors single-handedly slaughtered over seven hundred nobles, because some of them had rebellious thoughts. Apparently it was a normal thing in her family. |
| 961 | * ItsAllAboutMe: In her mind, the whole Universe pretty much revolves around her. |
| 962 | * KarmicDeath: Oh so very much, especially in the film. |
| 963 | * KnightOfCerebus: The most powerful and longest lived villain in the series, who appears in not one but two books. Jadis destroys the entire universe of Charn with the Deplorable Word, rules Narnia with an iron fist, plunges the entire realm into an endless winter, and manipulates Edmund Pevensie into betraying his siblings. She attempts to get Edmund sacrificed for his betrayal in order to appease the Deep Magic, and takes great pleasure in taking Aslan's life instead. She is essentially Narnia's version of the devil, rivalled only by Tash himself. Yeah, this woman was bad news. |
| 964 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: Elegant and merciless, she is an incredibly powerful sorceress who put Narnia in an eternal winter and could turn beings into stone with her wand. |
| 965 | * LadyOfWar: In the film, she wields her swords with considerable grace. |
| 966 | * LargeHam: In the [=BBC=] adaptation in the 80s. |
| 967 | * LastOfHerKind: The sole survivor of the entire population of Charn, her home universe. [[GenocideFromTheInside She killed all the rest herself.]] |
| 968 | ** It came as something of a jar to her when she realized that her magic didn't work elsewhere. Apparently it took her centuries after arriving in Narnia to learn how to manipulate magic there. |
| 969 | * LightIsNotGood: Despite being the ''[[ColorCodedCharacters White]]'' Witch, she's very evil. Though, in her case, the white is associated more with [[AnIcePerson ice and cold]] than light. Given her [[SatanicArchetype religious motifs]], it might be '''both''', seeing as Lucifer is "the bringer of light", meanwhile in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' Satan lives in a frozen lake. |
| 970 | * MageInManhattan: Ends up on Earth for a few hours in the prequel. Her magic doesn't work here but she still works up some chaos. |
| 971 | * MageSpecies: The House of Charn, of which she is the sole survivor. If Mr Beaver is to be believed, this lineage included both Jinns and Giants. Magicians like Uncle Andrew that [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic went by-the-book]] did exist in Charn, but were "[[UnequalRites inferior]]", and [[FinalSolution were wiped out long ago]]. |
| 972 | * MagicalBarefooter: ''The Magician's Nephew'''s [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/narnia/images/5/53/Queen-jadis-charn-tmn.jpg illustration shows her barefoot]], which may be because she doesn't care about cold or injuries due to her magical powers and/or heritage. |
| 973 | * MagicKnight: In the {{film of|thebook}} ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', she went into battle with a sword and a wand of petrification. A pretty nasty combination by anyone's standards, and she put both to pretty good use. Additionally, she has SuperStrength, so even when her magic is unavailable (such as in our world), she is still a monstrously powerful foe. |
| 974 | ** In the book itself, she mostly uses her wand, but when Edmund shatters it, she switches to her ritual knife as a backup weapon and is still a deadly force with it. |
| 975 | * ManipulativeBitch: She tricks Edmund into giving up his siblings just so she could kill the four of them. |
| 976 | * MysteriousPast: The Beavers tell the Pevensies that she's some kind of djinn-giantess something, without explaining where she came from (presumably they don't know). ''The Magician's Nephew'' fleshes out her origin and past. |
| 977 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Half Jinn and half Giant, if Mr Beaver is correct. This would presumably also apply to her sister. |
| 978 | * NothingIsScarier: Just what was the "terrible price" for learning the Deplorable Word? |
| 979 | * OmnicidalManiac: Via SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum, which [[StayingAlive she survived]]. [[IfICantHaveYou She REALLY doesn't take defeat well]]. Charn is so utterly depopulated that when she, the last living being, is removed, the whole universe collapses into an existential hole. |
| 980 | --> "That world is over now." |
| 981 | * OurWitchesAreDifferent: The name "White Witch" refers to her attire and complexion. Not to be confused with folklore in which a "white witch" is one who practices WhiteMagic (that is, good and harmless magic) -- [[LadyOfBlackMagic she does the opposite]]. |
| 982 | * RedBaron: "The Queen of Queens and the Terror of Charn". |
| 983 | * RoyalBlood: In her homeworld of Charn, she was a royal. She claims to be a Daughter of Eve in Narnia to justify her rule, but everyone knows she isn't. |
| 984 | * SatanicArchetype: She is a representation of the Devil just like Aslan represents God/Jesus. Interestingly enough, however, she doesn't seem to have any connection with Tash, the ''other'' representation of the Devil in the Narnia universe. |
| 985 | * SealedEvilInACan: In ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' she put herself into suspended animation after destroying her world, and left [[SchmuckBait a way for any visitors to wake her up]], so that they’d take her to a new world. |
| 986 | * ShmuckBait: An appreciator of this, given the inscription left on the bell used to wake her up in a WorldOfSilence: "Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, or wonder, till it drives you mad, what would have followed if you had." Jadis is apparently GenreSavvy enough to not even '''attempt''' denying that waking her is super bad news, instead choosing to appeal to a traveler's curiosity. It works. |
| 987 | * SignatureMove: Her [[TakenForGranite petrification]] spell, which she tosses out like cookies during her reign over Narnia. This may be a matter of necessity, since magic in Narnia does not seem to work the same way it did in her homeworld. While she can obviously cast other spells (as proven by the whole "everlasting winter" thing), this may be the only one she can cast without an elaborate ritual, or at least the most efficient one. Given that it both [[OneHitKO gets any target out of her way with one wave of her wand]] and [[VainSorceress gets her a nice statue for her gardens]], it may just be the only spell she really ever '''needs'''. |
| 988 | ** The [[FantasticNuke Deplorable Word]] could be considered another one, as she may be the only one to have ever learned it and is '''definitely''' the only one to have used it, if only once. [[ApocalypseHow Once was more than enough.]] |
| 989 | * TheSociopath: She has [[LackOfEmpathy zero empathy]], a [[{{Narcissist}} sense of grandiosy]], and [[ItsAllAboutMe believes the entire universe should revolve around her]]. What else could she possibly be? |
| 990 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's what, eight feet tall? Nine? (Her family is part giant) And gorgeous, especially before eating that apple and turning paper-white. |
| 991 | * SuperStrength: Even without magic, she's quite unnaturally strong, able to rip part of a lamp-post off with her bare hands and little apparent effort. This hints at her nonhuman nature, given that not even a tall woman like her could do such feats of strength and make them look easy. |
| 992 | * TakenForGranite: Her main method of dealing with her enemies, using her magic wand. [[HumanPopsicle She even did it to herself in the film]]. |
| 993 | * TheVamp: For Edmund and Digory. Uncle Andrew has just as strong an infatuation with her, though in his case the reason is not that Jadis is deliberately seducing him like a Vamp; he's attracted to her just because he finds evil sexy, without any deliberate effort on Jadis's part. [[invoked]] |
| 994 | * VainSorceress: While she doesn't do the "who's the fairest of them all" shtick, she still feels like this archetype, being as unearthily beautiful as she is unspeakably arrogant. The fact that she uses the petrified bodies of those who stand in her way as statues to decorate her garden also feeds into this impression. |
| 995 | * VillainousLegacy: The villain in ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' is described as one of Jadis's sort, and aims to conquer Narnia like Jadis did. But since that later villain is a DiabolusExNihilo outside that vague hint, we don't know what the nature of this connection would be. |
| 996 | * WaxMuseumMorgue: Her entire castle courtyard, filled with statues. Take a wild guess where she got them. Her hall in Charn ''resembles'' this, but the statues are actually just statues in this case -- except Jadis herself. |
| 997 | * WhereIWasBornAndRazed: Destroyed all life in not just the city she lived in, but her entire home universe before the events of ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew''. |
| 998 | * WinterRoyalLady: "The White Witch" who casts eternal winter. Ironically, she was ''real'' royalty before her reign in Narnia. |
| 999 | * WouldHurtAChild: No qualms whatsoever about fighting and killing children to get what she wants. |
| 1000 | * WrongContextMagic: Her magic is unique to Charn and normally unusable outside of it, but she can remedy this through a MagicWand. It's definitely alien to Narnia, where magic naturally permeates everything, but actual '''spellcasting''' seems to be rare, and usually treated as evil just like the Witch's magic. |
| 1001 | * YourMagicsNoGoodHere: She can casually blast buildings to pieces in Charn, but seems to be unable to cast in Narnia without a special MagicWand, [[BroughtDownToNormal or at all in the human world]], though it's unclear whether she might have been able to remedy that with a similar wand if given the time to develop one, or whether our world is too poor in magic altogether to allow her to cast anything in any way. Though her SuperStrength still works on Earth. |
| 1002 | [[/folder]] |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 | [[folder:Lady of the Green Kirtle]] |
| 1005 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grla1.png]] |
| 1006 | The main antagonist of ''The Silver Chair'', a mysterious sorceress who has the ability to transform into a giant green serpent, and intends to conquer Narnia. |
| 1007 | ---- |
| 1008 | * AllWitchesHaveCats: Although she's not seen with a cat, she claims to love them. |
| 1009 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Her ultimate goal is [[spoiler:to have a brainwashed Rilian conquer Narnia and then marry him, making her the legal queen of the realm.]] |
| 1010 | * {{Animorphism}}: She can transform into a giant green serpent. |
| 1011 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Unlike the White Witch, this woman initially seems like anything but a villain (other than her outfit, which is what the owls tell the heroes that Rilian's captor wore). |
| 1012 | * CompellingVoice: One of her abilities, courtesy of some enchanted incense and MindControlMusic. |
| 1013 | * DiabolusExNihilo: Our only lead on her backstory is that she ''might'' have something to do with the White Witch. |
| 1014 | * FemmeFatale: Jadis may have been beautiful, which was a major factor in why Edmund Pevensie and especially Andrew Ketterley tried to join her, but she was always obviously intimidating and traded on that too. ''This'' woman relies primarily on her bewitching beauty (combined with her ''literally'' bewitching powers of MindManipulation), and she's far more outwardly nonthreatening than Jadis was. All in all, this makes her Narnia's closest equivalent of [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 Brigid O'Shaughnessy]] or [[Film/BasicInstinct Catherine Tramell]]. |
| 1015 | * FlatEarthAtheist: Exploited. [[spoiler:She pretends to be an atheist and makes [[CompellingVoice magically augmented arguments]] about Aslan and the land above being nothing but stories in an attempt to brainwash the protagonists, although she knows perfectly well that isn't true. It nearly works.]] |
| 1016 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She is the Queen of the Underlands [[spoiler:and has brainwashed all her subjects into following her and assembling to invade Narnia.]] |
| 1017 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Her turning into a snake removes Rilian's concerns about finishing her off, as he admits after the fact that he doesn't think he would have been able to strike down a lady no matter how evil.]] |
| 1018 | * LadyAndKnight: A dark version. She travels around Narnia with her loyal Black Knight, [[spoiler:who is actually the brainwashed Prince Rilian.]] |
| 1019 | * InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Both she and Jadis (the only witches in the series) are described as otherworldily beautiful. Rilian fell in love with her at first sight. At one point he states that she is "of divine race" and therefore won't age or die of natural causes. |
| 1020 | * MindControlMusic: The Lady carries a magical mandolin that enhances her brainwashing abilities. |
| 1021 | * MindManipulation: One of her abilities is to hypnotize others. She has done this to [[spoiler:both Rilian and the entire race of gnomes.]] |
| 1022 | * ReptilianConspiracy: From within her ElaborateUndergroundBase, she subtly acquires power through governmental infiltration and mind control, and she alternates between a regular human form and a ScaledUp form. Of course, since this largely remained an UnbuiltTrope back in TheFifties, the Lady bears many differences from this trope as we know it today. For example, her reptilian form isn't humanoid like most examples today, but rather a massive venomous snake. Also, instead of being a whole species of invaders, the Lady is the only example that we see. Lewis never reveals her origins beyond vaguely hinting that she could be somehow connected to the White Witch from ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', nor does he specify whether her original form is humanoid, reptilian, or something else entirely. |
| 1023 | * ScaledUp: She possesses the power to transform into a giant snake. |
| 1024 | * SnakesAreSinister: In her green serpent form, she isn't any nicer than in her human form. |
| 1025 | * TheSpook: [[MysteriousPast Nothing is known about her past or about where she came from]], except the possible VillainousLegacy mentioned below. Fans have also theorized [[http://www.cobaltjade.com/2022/07/green-as-absinthe/ a connection to the fin de siècle "Green Fairy" imagery associated with absinthe]] (which would be appropriate, given her mind-bending powers). |
| 1026 | * VillainousLegacy: The owls describe her as a "Northern Witch" and postulate some kind of link to Jadis the White Witch. |
| 1027 | [[/folder]] |
| 1028 | |
| 1029 | !Cosmic Entities |
| 1030 | |
| 1031 | [[folder:Aslan]] |
| 1032 | [[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aslan.png]] |
| 1033 | --> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/LiamNeeson, Chris Jared (West End) |
| 1034 | --> '''Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by:''' Creator/JoseLavat |
| 1035 | --> '''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Luis Porcar |
| 1036 | --> '''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Masane Tsukayama |
| 1037 | |
| 1038 | ''The Great Lion'', King of the Beasts; the Son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea; a wise, compassionate, magical authority (both temporal and spiritual); a mysterious and benevolent guide to the human children protagonists; the creator, guardian, and savior of Narnia. [[Creator/CSLewis The author]] described Aslan as an alternate version of Christ — that is, as the incarnate form in which Christ might have appeared in a fantasy world full of [[TalkingAnimal talking animals]]. |
| 1039 | ---- |
| 1040 | * AuthoritySoundsDeep: Given that he's voiced by Creator/LiamNeeson, a deep, commanding voice goes hand in hand with Aslan's status as the greatest force of good in the story. |
| 1041 | * BackFromTheDead: After a HeroicSacrifice. Considering [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} who]] Aslan's supposed to be, this was just inevitable. |
| 1042 | * BeautifulTears: Digory comments in ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' that Aslan's tears look beautiful when they shine in the light. |
| 1043 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: ''The'' most sure way of dealing with either a villain or a hero tempted to the dark side is for Aslan to give a show of force, which terrifies hero and villain alike... He's also more than willing to back it up with action if necessary (as the Witch found out). |
| 1044 | * BigDamnHeroes: He comes roaring (literally) to the rescue in the battle at the end of ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', together with Lucy, Susan, and everybody they rescued from the Witch's castle. Lucy is very disappointed in ''Prince Caspian'' when Aslan ''doesn't'' do the same. |
| 1045 | -->'''Aslan:''' Nothing happens the same way twice. |
| 1046 | * BigGood: The biggest force for good seen in the series, though there is stated to be an even higher power behind the scenes ([[{{God}} The Emperor Beyond the Sea]]). |
| 1047 | * ButNowIMustGo: It's noted that once what needed to be done has been accomplished, Aslan tends to disappear without warning. The characters say Aslan has other lands and other worlds he must attend to, and often reiterate that: "He is ''not'' a tame lion". |
| 1048 | * TheChessmaster: Aslan still manages to accomplish goals even when things don't go perfectly according to plan (e.g. when Jill forgets the signs given to her in ''The Silver Chair''). |
| 1049 | * TheChooserOfTheOne: Aslan chooses who enters Narnia (and would be the kings and queens), and picked the children. |
| 1050 | * CruelToBeKind: When it's necessary This can range from roaring at Lucy when she's tempted to try black magic, or giving uncharacteristically aspiring-to-tyranny Caspian ''such'' a telling-off that the later is visibly shaken and borderline traumatized; over ''not'' providing a [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment meal]] (in the form of letting a fruit tree grow overnight) for the questing Digory ''until asked''; over having to hurt Eustace rather badly while undoing the self-transformation Eustace [[AchievementsInIgnorance inadverently managed by tapping into ambient magic]] - all the way to where it's even a plot point that teaching Aravis to put herself in another's place is exactly equivalent to her [[ATasteOfTheLash being]] ''flogged''.\ |
| 1051 | That being said: in the majority of appearances where the reader would ''expect'' this from an inscrutable eldritch power and stern judge of the living and the dead, Aslan subverts it by acting ''not'' cruel-to-be-kind but ''just'' overwhelmingly kind - even when the protagonists have done something He does ''not'' agree with: |
| 1052 | --> Then, after an awful pause, the deep voice said, "Susan." Susan made no answer but the others thought she was crying. \ |
| 1053 | "You have listened to fears, child", said Aslan. "Come, let me breathe on you. Forget them. Are you brave again?" \ |
| 1054 | "A little, Aslan", said Susan. |
| 1055 | * CrystalDragonJesus: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Aslan is not merely a vague knockoff of Jesus, he is literally "Jesus if Jesus were a huge sodding lion". |
| 1056 | * DeusExMachina: He spends the entire series behind the scenes, spinning the adventure and coming onscreen [[GuardianEntity only when]] the heroes need him most. He comes in during the last battle in ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'' to help the Narnians win after they began to lose hope. |
| 1057 | * ADogNamedDog: His name means 'lion' in Turkish. |
| 1058 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: Aslan remains full of dignity even while being humiliated, mocked, and ultimately killed by the White Witch,. |
| 1059 | * FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Aslan's entire concept as a character is what Jesus would be like and what He would do if He created and incarnated in a magical world full of [[TalkingAnimal Talking Animals]] and other fantastic creatures. |
| 1060 | * FertileFeet: |
| 1061 | ** This becomes an impressive WorldHealingWave in ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. His mere presence lets Narnia go from the endless January of the One Hundred Years' Winter to the May of a new spring in a few hours or so. |
| 1062 | ** In the ''The Magician's Nephew'', it's an even more impressive "World-Creating Wave", since first grass and then other growing things spread out from the Lion like ripples and waves of water from a wellspring during the [[MagicMusic creation song]]. |
| 1063 | ** In ''Prince Caspian'', an entire forest [[GreenThumb is woken into sentience]] by Aslan's roar. |
| 1064 | ** In ''The Horse and His Boy'', the wellspring of a stream of water comes into existence out of Aslan's paw print. |
| 1065 | * FlatCharacter: Lewis couldn't intentionally write Aslan to have any personality flaws or weaknesses, lose a fight, make any mistakes, [[CharacterDevelopment or change]] - because of being Jesus (and thus, {{God}}), whose perfection is very important in ''Literature/TheBible'' and Lewis's beliefs. However, Lewis still managed to make Aslan an interesting and likeable character to many people while working with these major constraints. |
| 1066 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The Son of Man has taken many different forms across the countless worlds that make up the Narnia universe, but only two of them have been confirmed by Creator/CSLewis. He took the form of Jesus Christ on Earth, due to humans being the dominant inhabitants of that world. In Narnia, which is mostly populated by talking animals and other magical creatures, it's the form of Aslan the Lion. What the true form looks like is currently [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm unknown]]. |
| 1067 | * FriendToAllChildren: Despite being essentially an eldritch power; Aslan is a warm, welcoming protector and insuperably gentle, kind caregiver (at times bordering on a ParentalSubstitute) to the books' child protagonists. |
| 1068 | * {{God}}: He's implied very heavily to be UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} in the books, which is outright confirmed by the author. |
| 1069 | * GodWasMyCopilot: While most of the time, Aslan appears clearly as himself, there are at least a couple of occasions of sneakily appearing to other characters incognito as a way of guiding them or teaching them a lesson: |
| 1070 | ** He appears in ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy,'' [[spoiler:to Shasta]] as a small house cat [[spoiler:to comfort him, though Shasta ''is'' scratched at one point for having been pointlessly cruel (to a stray cat).]] |
| 1071 | ** In the same book, Aslan [[spoiler:chases Bree and Hwin to make sure they make it to their destination on time.]] He ''has'' the form of a lion, but a normal lion; because of this, they don't recognize Aslan [[spoiler:and think a normal wild lion is hunting them.]] |
| 1072 | ** In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' Aslan appears as an albatross - telling only Lucy (whose call for help this is answering) explicitly who it is - to guide the ship out of the darkness surrounding the island where nightmares come true. |
| 1073 | ** He appears as a lamb near the end of the same book to give the three children a hint about the "other name" in their own world. There are serious hints Aslan does this ''again'' in [[spoiler:''Literature/TheLastBattle'', appearing as the lamb who asks more or less the same ArmorPiercingQuestion later more thoroughly explained to Emeth - nearly toppling Shift's reign of terror before it even really got going.]] |
| 1074 | * GoodIsNotNice: |
| 1075 | ** "Not safe, but good" is a frequent and accurate description of Aslan, who ranges from a warm, welcoming [[GuardianEntity protector]] and insuperably gentle, kind caregiver (at times bordering on a ParentalSubstitute to the books' child protagonists); to being deft, almost abrasive, and definitely prone to CruelToBeKind and BrutalHonesty where He deems it necessary; over at other times an aloof, stern, and inscrutable, but ReasonableAuthorityFigure; or on occasion even an [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm unknowable eldritch power]] which is outright threatening (at times borderline ''traumatising'') to allies and antagonists alike - to outright ''trolling'' characters[[note]]mostly [[TeasingParent in a]] friendly [[DopeSlap manner]], for when they get [[KnowNothingKnowItAll too full]] of themselves and Aslan knows better; but still[[/note]] - sometimes all within the same book. As a Biblical allegory, this is actually incredibly spot on. Including the part where God likes to troll the self-righteous. |
| 1076 | -->'''Mr. Beaver''': "Safe"? Who said anything about "safe"? Of course he isn't safe! But he's good. |
| 1077 | ** He scratches Aravis very badly across her back to punish her for letting her servant get whipped. The amount of pain is specified to be exactly equal to her servant's pain. |
| 1078 | ** In the end of ''Literature/TheLastBattle,'' [[spoiler:all of the people who reject Him are not allowed into the Narnian heaven, instead disappearing into the outer darkness of Aslan's shadow for an ambiguous fate. However, this judgement of rejection or acceptance is made in and for the exact moment in which He personally looks at them - if they love Him right then and there (no matter if they're terrified as well, no matter anything else past or present), they're in.]] |
| 1079 | ** There are multiple occasions where Aslan punishes [[TalkingAnimal Talking Animals]] to become [[FateWorseThanDeath ordinary animals.]] |
| 1080 | ** He delivers the final blow to [[spoiler:the White Witch, which in the film version consists of biting off her face.]] |
| 1081 | * GuileHero: He offers to Jadis to die in place of Edmund knowing full well the Deeper Magic will bring such a HeroicSacrifice back to life afterward - meaning the witch does not get what she ''[[ExactWords thinks]]'' she agreed for (Aslan dead), does not get her original claim (Edmund dead) either, ''and'' gets set up for a lovely surprise attack later. |
| 1082 | * TheHighKing: He is the High King Above All High Kings, and frequently referred to as such (after all, Aslan is meant to be Jesus-as-a-[[RunningGag huge-sodding-lion]]). |
| 1083 | --> The High King above all kings stooped toward him. Its mane, and some strange and solemn perfume that hung about the mane, was all round him. It touched his forehead with its tongue. He lifted his face and their eyes met. Then instantly the pale brightness of the mist and the fiery brightness of the Lion rolled themselves together into a swirling glory and gathered themselves up and disappeared. He was alone with the horse on a grassy hillside under a blue sky. And there were birds singing. |
| 1084 | * HolyIsNotSafe: He's the TropeNamer: while definitely good, Aslan is an unknowable eldritch power that is outright threatening (at times borderline ''traumatizing'') to allies and antagonists alike - and if someone's idea of "good" doesn't align with the real thing, they find out very quickly just what the real thing is like. |
| 1085 | * IncorrectAnimalNoise: In the movie, they used ''tiger'' vocalizations for Aslan instead of actual lion roars. This is actually a very common practice done for most movie lions, as tigers are generally considered to have a much fiercer sounding roar compared to lions. |
| 1086 | * JudgementOfTheDead: He fully assumes the role of Judge of the Living and the Dead in The Last Battle. |
| 1087 | * KingOfAllCosmos: He's literally UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} himself, but in a form that's more suitable for Narnia. He took the form of a man on Earth, which is dominated by humans. In Narnia, which is mostly populated by {{Talking Animal}}s and [[FantasyKitchenSink mythical creatures]], it's the form of a [[PantheraAwesome giant talking lion]]. [[FriendToAllChildren Children]] are allowed to ride and stroke the Great Lion, too. |
| 1088 | * KingOfBeasts: He's [[RunningGag a huge sodding lion.]] |
| 1089 | * KungFuJesus: He plays more of a direct fighting role in the plot than you would [[GodsHandsAreTied expect]] for a deity, such as personally killing [[spoiler:the White Witch.]] |
| 1090 | * LackOfEmpathy: Averted. Similar to Lewis' positive use of this trope in ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'', Aslan has immense compassion for others, but cannot be manipulated or emotionally blackmailed. This compassion can and will ''not'' be misguided: Aslan [[HolyIsNotSafe does]] whatever needs to be done, with neither favor nor false consideration. However inexorable the Lion is about ''that'' the needful is going to be done, though: ''how'' it's done is quite another matter - and one Aslan can be insuperably gentle about ''when it's not necessary to be CruelToBeKind.'' |
| 1091 | * LighterAndSofter: His death compared to Jesus's death. He's sheared, mocked, and then killed quickly by being stabbed once; and while that's all awful enough, it's all that happens. Jesus was tortured ''much'' more painfully for hours before finally dying. It's obvious there would have been a similarly brutal death if the book didn't have to be family friendly, given that the scene is based on this, and [[SatanicArchetype the type of person Jadis is.]] |
| 1092 | * MagicMusic: Aslan created Narnia, the animals, and the rest of the world by singing them into existence. |
| 1093 | * MeaningfulName: His name means "Lion" in Turkish. |
| 1094 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: He gets executed by the White Witch in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. Unlike most examples of the trope, however, [[BackFromTheDead it doesn't stick]]. |
| 1095 | * MessianicArchetype: The man himself, in fact. He says at the end of ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' that He is known by a 'different name' on Earth. |
| 1096 | * TheOmniscient: Heavily implied to be the case, although in the film version of ''Film/PrinceCaspian'' the dialogue was altered in such a way it made it ambiguous. He answers Lucy's question, specifically, with "We can never know what would have happened" when they meet. He says "we," not "you". Also, in the [=BBC=] miniseries of ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', after Aslan comes back from the dead, Lucy says that they cried their heads off when he knew all along he would be alright. He replies that knowing of the old incantation, but also knowing it had never been put to the test until now, it wasn't nearly as certain as it appeared in hindsight. |
| 1097 | * PantheraAwesome: He's [[RuleOfThree a huge sodding lion.]] |
| 1098 | * RealityWarper: [[ThePowerOfCreation Creates Narnia]] and can teleport people to places at will. He chooses not to abuse his power. |
| 1099 | * SacrificialLion: Quite literally. He chooses to die in place of Edmund when Jadis demands Edmund’s death. |
| 1100 | * SternOldJudge: Frequently. |
| 1101 | ** Most notably as [[JudgementOfTheDead Judge Of The Living And The Dead]] in ''The Last Battle''. |
| 1102 | ** In the Horse and His Boy, just as everyone rises when the judge enters the courtroom; a room full of kings, queens, and princes immediately stand at attention when Aslan makes his presence known. He's there to judge Rabadash for what are essentially war crimes. |
| 1103 | ** In the Magician's Nephew, Aslan fulfills this role to both Digory (for bringing Jadis into Narnia) and Uncle Andrew (for attempting to exploit Narnia's creation energy) - though both are downplayed. |
| 1104 | * SuperBreath: He sometimes [[HealingHands lays on a paw]] or [[WordsCanBreakMyBones says something]] for additional emphasis, but most of the time Aslan's supernatural power is conveyed through breathing on people or things. His breath [[HealingWinds restores]] those who have been turned into stone (and it's hinted generally undoes enchantment and evil), breathes [[HeroicSecondWind courage]] into the protagonists (and the narration implies it turns them into better versions of themselves) and sentience into ordinary animals (turning them into talking beasts), and carries Jill and Eustace on an intercontinental flight. As a roar it wakes rivers and whole woods into sentience, teaches a whole people the fear of God, and absolutely terrifies the BigBad. And as a [[MagicMusic song]] it brings whole worlds into existence. |
| 1105 | * TalkingAnimal: He's a huge sodding lion. Who talks. |
| 1106 | * ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: He says this of Peter when Peter faces down the wolf, allowing Peter to prove himself in battle and earn his first kill. |
| 1107 | [[/folder]] |
| 1108 | |
| 1109 | [[folder:The Emperor Beyond The Sea]] |
| 1110 | He is the God of all life and all of Narnia who has made the Deep Magic. |
| 1111 | * BigGood: The Emperor is the even [[TheManBehindTheMan greater good]] behind Aslan's big good. |
| 1112 | * {{God}}: Just as Aslan represents Jesus the Emperor represents God. |
| 1113 | * TheGhost: He has not made any physical appearances in any of the books or movies and is mainly talked about with Aslan being the one who mentions his power. |
| 1114 | [[/folder]] |
| 1115 | |
| 1116 | [[folder:Tash]] |
| 1117 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tash_and_rishda.jpg]] |
| 1118 | The primary god of the Calormenes, who unwittingly summoned him to Narnia during ''The Last Battle''. |
| 1119 | ---- |
| 1120 | * TheAntiChrist: Subverted. He's established as the EvilCounterpart of Aslan, and since Aslan is another form of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, this would make Tash the Antichrist, especially since his summoning helps bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. However, Tash is portrayed more as TheAntiGod (see below) than as an Antichrist: whereas your typical Antichrist is a human or at least partly human DarkMessiah, Tash is a full-on GodOfEvil, and whereas the Antichrist is usually born around the time of Armageddon, Tash has apparently been around long before that -- he may even be as old as Aslan, since he's described as an equal opposite. (That said, since Christian theology traditionally views God and Jesus--and the Holy Spirit--as one and the same, the Antichrist/Anti-God distinction might be muddled there the same way the Christ/God distinction is.) |
| 1121 | * TheAntiGod: He makes an interesting departure from ''Narnia'''s Anglican Christian eschatology, because although his role is similar to the Antichrist, his true nature is actually Aslan's direct, equal counterpart, the yin to Aslan's (and presumably his father's) yang. This makes him actually more similar to [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Catharism]]'s conception of {{Satan}}, which regarded him as a twin deity to God who did only evil just as God did only good. |
| 1122 | -->'''Aslan:''' "...we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him, for I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath's sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted." |
| 1123 | * DeathGlare: Gives an unsettling one to Tirian, his next target. |
| 1124 | * EldritchAbomination: A shadowy bird-man appearing to be made of smoke. |
| 1125 | * EvilIsNotAToy[=/=]NoMereWindmill[=/=]NotSoImaginaryFriend: Before he stepped up to the plate, many of the characters doubted his existence, even some of his supposed followers- Rishda, Shift, and Ginger- the former two being killed by it and the latter being driven to insanity by seeing it. |
| 1126 | * GodOfEvil: This is Tash's role, whose cult even includes idols and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] in the vein of the [[MesopotamianMonstrosity ancient Mesopotamian gods]], which were considered devils by Biblical authors for good reasons. Tash's appearance is more in line with [[MysticalIndia Hindu]] goddess Kali, who's not evil but not the most gentle deity. |
| 1127 | * GreaterScopeVillain: As revealed in ''The Last Battle'', he serves as this for the whole series, being an even more malign and powerful force than even Jadis. |
| 1128 | * HellIsThatNoise: That such a creature would even speak to a human, let alone question him. |
| 1129 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: He has multiple arms, which makes him resemble a multi-armed god of UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}, fitting Calormen's MysticalIndia theme. |
| 1130 | * OffstageVillainy: Tash doesn't actually harm anyone "on page" except for the villain who summoned him [[PayEvilUntoEvil serving as karma for the lack of faith in it and for using it for his own agenda in spite of that]]. {{Justified|Trope}}, as he's not there for a long time besides in that scene, and it's implied that if [[spoiler:King Peter]] hadn't stopped him, he would have gone after the heroes. Even so, it's mentioned that he requires HumanSacrifice. |
| 1131 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: He kills Rishda, eats Shift, and drives Ginger insane to the point she reverts to being a normal cat. While horrific, the former had done horrible things in his name without truly believing in him, and the latter two sold out their kind to gain favor with the enemy. |
| 1132 | * ShesAManInJapan: In the Russian translation of ''Narnia'', Tash was made into a female goddess. |
| 1133 | * SpeakOfTheDevil: Rishda and Ginger were in for a nasty surprise that literally left them speechless. |
| 1134 | -->'''Tash:''' "Thou hast called me into Narnia, Rishda Tarkaan. Here I am. What hast thou to say?" |
| 1135 | * TouchOfDeath: He seems to represent death and decay, and everything that comes near him suffers for it. |
| 1136 | * VileVulture: Is described with the head of a vulture, and not particularly pleasant. |
| 1137 | * WalkingWasteland: When he walks through Narnia everything around him dies and decays. |
| 1138 | * YouWillBeSpared: Curiously, he attacked everyone who encountered him in the stable but left the kowtowing sentry alone. |
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