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!!Main Characters
[[folder:Arthur/"Wart"]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Richard Reitherman, Robert Reitherman, Rickie Sorenson; Creator/DominiqueCollignonMaurin (European French dub); Salvador Nájar (Latin Spanish dub); João Carlos Barroso (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Peter Schildt (Swedish dub)

[[Myth/KingArthur Arthur]], better known as Wart, is the main character. He is an orphan boy who becomes King of England.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: Downplayed -- Wart's still smart (albeit in the process of learning), but in [[Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing the original book]], he knew how to read and write just fine. In the film, Archimedes has to teach him.
* AttractiveBentSpecies: A female squirrel falls for him while he's in squirrel form.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:Sort of. He draws the sword out of the stone, the heavens part, and everyone bows to him. We don't see the crowning itself but for the in-universe crowd, this is the part that matters.]]
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Subverted. It appears the only reason he was able to pull the sword out of the stone is because he is the chosen one. But Arthur was tutored by Merlin to understand wisdom is a greater quality than [[MightMakesRight brute strength]] and avert a civil war in England.
* BeleagueredAssistant: To Kay because he's a page. Going into the forest to retrieve an arrow is part of the job.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Sir Ector calls Merlin a devil, he steps up to his defense and he only gets heaped more cleaning duties and eventually his position of squire being revoked as punishment. Even while he's crying, he still gets the courage to call Sir Ector on how he's always treating him that way while he can't do anything to defend himself. Granted, it doesn't stick, but points for effort.
* ChasteHero: He doesn't understand romance and is more annoyed by the girl squirrel's interest in him than flattered. Justified, he's a child who likely doesn't interact with girls his age and she wasn't of his species.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Part of Merlin's motivation is he wants to teach Arthur some valuable lessons an adult in medieval England wouldn't be receptive to.
* AChildShallLeadThem: Becomes the King of England at around 11 or 12-years-old.
* TheChosenOne: Merlin has a hard time figuring for ''what'' but he knows the boy is destined for something.
* DubNameChange:
** In the Latin American Spanish dub, his nickname was changed to ''Grillo'' (Cricket), very likely because Wart (Spanish: Verruga) would have had a very offensive nickname for a kid there, not to mention the word is feminine in Spanish.
** The same happens, through in a rather odd way, in the Japanese dub: Unlike Spanish, his nickname "Wart" is kept there, but with a catch, as it was spelled in [[GratuitousEnglish English on katakana, the alphabet for foreign names and terminology]] as "ワート", rather than using the Japanese word "疣/Ibo", possibly for the same reasons.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Didn't hesitate to accept the girl squirrel's help when she tried to pull him up from falling and showed regret for breaking her heart. He may not have returned her affections, but he never wanted to hurt her.
* ForcedTransformation: He spends a good third of the movie being transformed into various animals, in order to "teach him about life".
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Part of the reason he's able to pull the sword from the stone is his pure and noble nature ("The one who was meant to rule the land / And worthy of the throne / He will seek the sword with a humble heart / ''And not for himself alone''").
* HeroicBSOD: When he loses his chance to be Kay's squire, he has a funk.
* HiddenBackupPrince: {{Averted|Trope}}. Unlike the myths and the book, [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation nowhere in the film]] is it said that he is the previous king's son. The dead king's identity is included in the pages of the book during the beginning narration to be Uther Pendragon, but his relation to Arthur is not mentioned. He is just said to be an orphan Ector took in, and it seems he really is TheChosenOne solely based on [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield drawing the sword]] as a SecretTestOfCharacter.
* IconicOutfit: His outfit when he pulls the sword from the stone -- a red tunic and yellow scarf. Ironic also in that it doesn't fit him at all (the sleeves are too long and it's constantly falling off him), it triggers Merlin's rage when he sees him in it and he wears it only for two scenes.
* KidHero: {{Averted|Trope}}. He's not doing any sort of heroics in this movie. He does attempt to go after Mim during the wizard duel while he's in sparrow form, but Archimedes holds him back. All of his adventures during the film boil down to him running for his life.
* LikesOlderWomen: His mouth goes agape upon Madam Mim assuming her [[MsFanservice curvier, sexier form]] and makes a lovesick face when she comes up to flirtatiously rub the underside of his chin.
* MuggleFosterParents: He is being raised by a "muggle" (really a minor noble) when he is the destined king of England.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Once he's human, seeing the female squirrel's reaction, he feels bad. He also feels this way after trying to defend Merlin results in his revocation of his position of squire.
* NiceGuy: Arthur is noble, brave, kind, caring, and hard-working.
* ObliviousToLove: He initially has no idea why the girl squirrel acts so "funny" around him.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Just "Wart". No one refers to him as Arthur, until the end when he becomes King of England.
* PinballProtagonist: He doesn't really do a whole lot in the movie, mostly being ferried around by Merlin or dumbly reacting to the latest oddity. Even in the pivotal decision to draw the sword from the stone, he was totally unaware of the consequences and only does so because he really needed a sword for Kay. Even worse, he doesn't even find the sword himself, it's pointed out to him by Archimedes.
* PrimaryColorChampion: His IconicOutfit is a red tunic with a yellow scarf. Most of the film however he's in a brown/orange page boy outfit.
* RagsToRoyalty: From unfavorite foster kid to King of England.
* TheUnfavorite: Arthur's adoptive father Ector treats him quite harshly, and dotes on his birth son Kay. He's not mistreated however, and Ector does show serious concern and berrates Kay for letting Wart go into the woods alone.
* WouldHitAGirl: Either by shoving them (squirrel girl) or threatening to "peck her eyes out" (Madam Mim).
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[[folder:Merlin]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Karl Swenson, Hamilton Camp (''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents The Wonderful World of Disney]]''), Creator/AlanYoung (''Christmas Carol''), Creator/JeffBennett (currently), Jim Meskimen (''Once Upon a Studio'') ; Alfred Pasquali (European French dub); Alberto Gavira (Latin Spanish dub); Creator/MagalhaesGraca (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Lars Ekborg (Swedish dub)
->'''Appears in:''' ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' | ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst''
->'''Appearances in other continuities:''' ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' | ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' | ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity''[[note]]NPC only[[/note]]

Merlin is a powerful wizard and the deuteragonist. Merlin is the wizard master and friend of 12-year-old orphan Arthur, a.k.a. Wart. Merlin is also the magical rival of Madam Mim and has a pet owl named Archimedes.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Sir Ector keeps referring to Merlin as "Marvin".
* AbsentMindedProfessor: The Disney’s version of Merlin is forgetful and clumsy. He’s constantly getting his beard caught in contraptions or twisted in knots.
* AdaptationNameChange: Albeit very minor: T.H. White spelled it as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "Merlyn"]] while Disney used the more common spelling.
* BerserkButton: Merlin does not like the martial aspect of English nobility, considering the whole culture of knighthood a glorification of DumbMuscle.
* BreakoutCharacter: He's one of the only characters (alongside his nemesis Mim) from this movie to appear in other Disney works.
* CoolOldGuy: Wizard duel! Who needs a young body when the old mind can take any form it wants?
* DeadpanSnarker: Tends to make a few wisecracks here and there, such as watching a jousting match.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: The second main focus after Arthur.
* DidntSeeThatComing: For all his ability as a {{Seers}}, he never onced realized the Arthur he decided to mentor would become ''King'' Arthur of Britain.
* EccentricMentor: Merlin has some odd ideas and behavior and they are especially odd to someone like Wart, who has only known kitchen duty. One of the most egregious is trying to teach Wart things that haven't even been discovered or invented yet! As Archimedes points out, if he goes telling people the things Merlin is trying to teach him he'll end up locked up and called a lunatic.
* FatalFlaw: Merlin is an earnest teacher who wants the best for Wart, but his judgemental pride causes as much trouble as it helps at first: he constantly looks to the stars and not at what's around him, even though he should know better. His just assuming Arthur’s duties don't matter gets the boy in trouble with Sir Ector, he's so intent on teaching Wart physics that he doesn't even consider whether his student can ''read,'' and eventually the fact that he looks down on Wart's life without considering Wart's feelings is what causes their falling out.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Upon returning from a holiday in twentieth-century Bermuda.
* TheHermit: He's a hermit who only associates with his owl before Wart.
* HypocriticalHumor: Merlin finds the idea of a female squirrel crushing on Wart to be really amusing....up until a point when another female squirrel starts to give ''him'' [[AbhorrentAdmirer the same treatment.]]
* MagicWand: He doesn't seem to require it as he can perform some of his strongest spells without it and it doesn't seem to be particularly special, it appears to be used more as a walking stick than anything. But it does seem to help him focus his magic.
* TheMentor: To Wart. He's his teacher and mentor.
* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: At the height of the wizard duel, Mim turns into a purple dragon after they had previously established "only animals" and "no ''pink'' dragons and stuff". Merlin transforms into a germ and infects her.
* NiceGuy: Merlin is a kind man.
* NoSympathy: When Arthur tearfully breakdown to Merlin why someone like him can't even hope to be anything but a squire, Merlin is completely unable to comprehend Arthur's grief and lack of ambition before literally blowing himself to next millennia.
* OmniscientHero: This is an aspect directly related to the {{Seers}} example below.
* PapaWolf: When Mim nearly "destroys" Arthur, Merlin is ''furious'' and challenges the witch to a duel to protect the boy.
* ParentalSubstitute: Merlin acts a like a real father figure to Arthur.
* RealityWarper: Thanks to his FunctionalMagic he can bend local reality to his whim. For example, a personal snow cloud, inside, ''in summer''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He teaches Arthur all sorts of valuable lessons that would normally be closed to Wart (although Merlin does have irrational moments, they're few and far between, hence he's still this trope).
* RobeAndWizardHat: A tall and midnight blue wizard hat.
* RomanticWingman: When Arthur is hiding from the red girl squirrel in Merlin's tail, Merlin helpfully gives away his hiding place to her.
* SarcasticWellWishing: When Arthur announces that he has finally become Kay's squire, Merlin, disappointed that the boy would choose war games over education, chastises him for wearing "a fine monkey suit for polishing boots" and culminates his rant with a sarcastic commendation:
-->"And I thought you were going to amount to something. I thought you had a few brains! Great future, ha! A stooge for that big lunk, Kay. Congratulations, boy!"
* {{Seers}}: He can see the future, and indeed has seen many modern (for the time) technologies and discoveries that mankind would make long after his time; like newspapers, steam locomotives and helicopters not to mention the discovery of the Americas. Archimedes wishes he would be more prudent about mentioning future events, as he runs the risk of making Wart sound like a lunatic if he goes around parroting Merlin's predictions.
* SequentialSymptomSyndrome: When Merlin describes the symptoms of malignalitaloptereosis to Mim.
* ShipperOnDeck: To Wart and the red girl squirrel, but mostly because he finds it amusing than heartwarming.
* SpinningOutOfHere: Merlin spins as he arrives at places.
* TimeTravel: Being a Wizard, he has the power to time travel even into the far future, and has taken souvenirs back with him, such as modern umbrellas into the Middle Ages. When he leaves to Bermuda in a fit of rage he apparently went into modern days since he comes back wearing sunglasses and shorts.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Merlin means well in his teaching Arthur important lessons, but frequently almost gets the boy in harm's way. Whether it be almost getting eaten by predators, chased by an overly amorous squirrel, or getting him more and more in trouble with Sir Ector. There's also his lesson involving squirrels has him indirectly get an innocent girl squirrel's heart broken and leave her sobbing.
* WizardBeard: A long white beard that fits for the most powerful wizard. Usually a problem, as it gets caught on things rather frequently.
* WizardClassic: Robe, pointed hat, long white beard, talking pet, AbsentMindedProfessor persona.
* WizardWorkshop: Merlin's cottage is filled with teetering stacks of books, alchemical devices of unclear purpose, an antiquated globe, a pair of mechanical wings on the wall, and a perch for his owl familiar. He later moves his entire collection of wizardly trappings to the top of the tallest tower of Sir Hector's castle.
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[[folder:Archimedes]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Junius Matthews, Andre Stojka (WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse); René Hiéronimus (European French dub); Luis Manuel Pelayo (Latin Spanish dub); Creator/OrlandoDrummond (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Guy de la Berg (Swedish dub)

Archimedes is the tritagonist. He is Merlin's pet owl who has the ability to speak like a human.
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* AscendedExtra: While Archimedes did have a decent-sized role in the book, he was nevertheless a secondary character who was mainly there to be a supporting player to Merlyn and occasionally to Wart. Here, he's one of the main characters and arguably goes through the most CharacterDevelopment of them all. He even stays with Wart when Merlin temporarily leaves, which he did not do in the book.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Poor Archimedes... assisting the bumbling old wizard can't be easy.
* BerserkButton: When people insult his intelligence. He also wasn't too happy when Wart mistook him for a ''stuffed'' owl.
* DefrostingIceKing: He starts out rudely indifferent towards Arthur. In progression, he rescues Arthur while denying it, takes a begrudging then genuine interest in his education, being impressed with the boy's flying, before finally staying by his side when Merlin takes off in a tantrum leaving them both alone.
* DubNameChange: In the first Polish version of the movie, his name was changed to Minerwa.
* {{Familiar}}: An owl that accompanies Merlin wherever he goes.
* HelplessWithLaughter: Upon witnessing Merlin's failed attempt to demonstrate manned flight, Archimedes snarks "Man will fly alright — just like a rock!" and then goes on a prolonged laughing fit that causes him to fall off his perch. Merlin can only fume in his chair as the owl laughs himself to exhaustion.
* IntellectualAnimal: A "highly educated owl".
* JerkassHasAPoint: His objections to how Merlin is teaching Arthur, jumping straight to complex things like the world being round and confusing the boy, are fairly accurate, and when he's put in charge he actually does things like start from the basics and work their way up to more difficult things, which leads to him actually teaching Arthur how to read and write.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's insulting and bad-tempered, but he genuinely cares for Arthur, so much so that he risks his life to save him from the pike when Arthur is transformed into a small fish.
-->'''Arthur:''' That big fish almost swallowed me, and Archimedes... he saved me!
-->'''Archimedes:''' [[BlatantLies I did nothing of the sort!]] I intended to ''eat'' him! [[IWasJustPassingThrough Young perch is my favorite dish, you know that!]]
* TheOwlKnowingOne: He's not just a talking owl, but arguably the smartest character in the movie too.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Archimedes, the talking owl.
* ShesAManInJapan: He is female in the first Polish version of the movie.
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: For example, when Merlin predicts the invention of manned flight.
-->'''Archimedes''': If man were meant to fly, he would've been born with wings!
* TalkingAnimal: A talking owl in this case.
* {{Tsundere}}: He becomes a platonic Type A to Arthur. He’s initially rude and dismissive of Arthur when he meets the boy. However, during Merlin’s lesson with the boy in the moat, Archimedes is scrambling to get Arthur away from a pike that’s trying to gobble him up. His pride gets the better of him as he refuses to admit to Merlin he saved Arthur from certain death.
* VerbalTic: "Who? What, what?"
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!!Arthur's Family
[[folder:Sir Ector]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Sebastian Cabot; Creator/ClaudeBertrand (European French dub); Dagoberto De Cervantes (Latin Spanish dub); Macedo Neto (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Ingvar Kjellson (Swedish dub)

Sir Ector is a supporting character and an anti hero of the film. He is a knight who is the father to Kay and adopted father to Arthur/Wart.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Keeps calling Merlin "Marvin".
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the original book, Ector wasn't nearly as strict towards Arthur and actually wanted him to have an education, and his JerkWithAHeartOfGold qualities are much more clear, with him being proud of Arthur well before he got the Sword, and he was on much better terms with Merlin, to the point where he was as distraught to see him leave as Arthur. The Disney adaptation throws out his more shaded and sympathetic qualities and makes him more strict and unpleasant.
* AntiVillain: He acts antagonistic to Arthur but he's closer to "strict father" then "antagonist".
* BerserkButton: Try pissing off Ector by coming up with (in his view) extremely far-fetched excuses for ducking out on your kitchen duties, or try to defend Merlin's behavior, and you'll send him flying off the handle so far that you'll be doing dishes for the entire castle.
* BigOlEyebrows: Sir Ector has thick, spiky eyebrows.
* ButtMonkey: Gets a HumiliationConga in the kitchen scene.
* FatBastard: He's obese and has a bossy, unlikable attitude, although he's not a bad guy rather than an anti hero.
* {{Foil}}: He serves as a foil to both Arthur and Merlin.
** For Arthur -- Arthur is a skinny young boy who is nonetheless humble, considerate, and understanding; Sir Ector is a huge adult man who is also an [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogant]], [[HolierThanThou judgmental, and self-righteous]] [[MiseryBuildsCharacter disciplinarian]].
** For Merlin -- Merlin is cantankerous and eccentric but eager to make Arthur’s life better with education and friendship; Ector believes in strict rules and hard work for their own sake, and is even against the idea of Wart being educated because it would interfere with his rigid schedules.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Even after seeing several examples of Merlin's magic, he doubts Arthur's story about the wizard turning him into a fish.
* HateSink: He treats Wart and Merlin coldly, carries a thoroughly unpleasant HolierThanThou attitude and only owes up to what a jerk he was in the ending. He also has no real charismatic elements to his personality to balance it out, coming across as just a taskmaster giving orders.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He gets upset at Kay for letting Arthur venture into the woods alone.
* JerkassRealization: He's briefly taken aback when Arthur stands up to him for insulting Merlin, and calls him out on always heaping punishments on him while he can't do anything to defend himself. Unfortunately, it doesn't stick.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's very strict and demanding with Arthur, he does care about his well-being, as shown when he is worried that Wart is dead at the beginning of the film. He's also quick to apologize to Arthur for the way he's treated him.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: When Merlin subjects him to an indoor snowstorm, he thinks it's awesome, gushing about it to Kay, who's less than thrilled.
* MuggleFosterParents: To Wart/Future King Arthur.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he realizes that Arthur is the new King of England.
* ParentalFavoritism: Ector's partiality to Kay is somewhat justified by the fact that Arthur/Wart is only his foster child, and Kay is both his biological son, heir and a knight-to-be. Though, while he could be nicer to Arthur, it's not to the point of being an AbusiveParent. More just strict and demanding, which seems to be his personality in general.
* PetTheDog:
** During his first scene, he scolds Kay for letting Arthur go alone in the forest and expresses his worries for the boy.
** He also decides to make Arthur Kay's squire without a second thought, despite Kay's protests, especially when Hobbs came down with the mumps.
** When he realizes that Arthur is now king, he drops the nickname and properly refers to him as "Arthur", as well as apologizing for how hard he was on him before.
* ProperlyParanoid: His concern for Arthur’s safety is this given the fact that a wolf, a pike, a hawk and an ugly, old witch have tried to kill him on separate occasions.
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[[folder:Sir Kay]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Norman Alden, J. Pat O'Malley (fighting); Creator/JacquesBalutin (European French dub); Carlos Petrel (Latin Spanish dub); Paulo Gonçalves (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Sven Holmberg (Swedish dub)

Sir Kay is a supporting character and one of the two anti heroes of the film. He is the biological son of the knight Sir Ector and the adoptive brother to Arthur.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: He's a much more sympathetic, shaded character in the book, where he suffered from a SiblingRivalry with Arthur and had some serious insecurity issues. The Disney adaptation makes him an unsympathetic, one dimensional bully and throws out his better qualities.
* AgeLift: In the book he was only two years older than Arthur, while in the movie he's a young adult around his early 20’s.
* AloofOlderBrother: He is distant and uncaring to Arthur, as well as being a [[BigBrotherBully bully]] to him.
* AntiVillain: Similar to Ector, his rude behavior never crosses the line into abuse.
* BigBrotherBully: Often pushing Wart around and disrespecting him.
* ButtMonkey: He's involved in a few slapsticks, particularly in the kitchen scene, along with Ector.
* DumbMuscle: Kay is not very bright and has a rather muscular appearance.
* EvilRedhead: Again, not really evil, just a jerky older brother.
* FieryRedhead: He is quick to lose his temper with his younger foster brother.
* {{Foil}}: To Arthur. Arthur is friendly, small, scrawny kid who is taught by his ParentalSubstitute, Merlin, actual education; Kay is a jerkish, big, muscular adult man who is bred by his biological father, Sir Ector, to know how to fight in order to become a knight.
* GiftedlyBad: Kay would certainly have to be to [[EpicFail lose a joust with a practice dummy and get catapulted into the side of Merlin's tower in the process]]. Ouch. He may have improved by the time of the tournament, but as his chance to joust never comes to pass, we may never know.
* HateSink: Kay is a short-tempered brute and a bully, callous towards Arthur and uncaring about his well-being.
* {{Jerkass}}: Far more so than Ector. Until the very end, he acts arrogant, boorish and obnoxious. He even lets Wart risk his life by going off into the woods on his own, and doesn't even care if he's in danger.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** {{Subverted|Trope}}. Kay stops Arthur from pulling the sword Ector put back, reasonably stating that ''anyone'' can pull it out after it's already been pulled out. Except he can't.
** Kay isn't too happy when Arthur falls on top of him while trying to shoot a deer. He calls Arthur a "clumsy little fool" and chases him.
** When Ector tells Arthur that he is Kay's squire, the first thing Arthur does is trip down a flight of stairs while carrying dishes. Naturally, Kay objects to his seemingly clumsy foster-brother being his squire.
* JerkJock: The medieval version; a rude knight and jouster instead of a football player.
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!!Villains
[[folder:Madam Mim]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Sounds like someone's sick. How lovely! I do hope it's serious -- something ''dreadful''."]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Martha Wentworth, Creator/RussiTaylor (''Halloween Surprises'' and WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse); Lita Recio (European French dub); Maruja Sen (Latin Spanish dub); Ida Gomes (Brazilian Portuguese dub); Isa Quensel (Swedish dub)

Madam Mim (sometimes named Mad Madam Mim) is the primary antagonist in the film. Madam Mim is a witch who is equally or more powerful than Merlin himself.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Mad Madam Mim is a genuinely villainous character here who tries to kill Arthur because, as she makes no effort in hiding, ''[[CardCarryingVillain she's evil]]''. In the Disney comics that later feature her, she is more of a harmless witch or occasionally even a heroic one. Mostly because she is paired up with Magica de Spell, and plays the lackey or quirky best friend role in relation to her.
* AlliterativeName: '''M'''adam '''M'''im. And she refers to herself as the '''m'''agnificent, '''m'''arvelous, '''m'''ad Madam Mim, for some further AddedAlliterativeAppeal.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Combined with MorphicResonance. Whatever animal she shapeshifts into, be it a snake, a chicken or a rhinoceros, she keeps her pink-and-purple color scheme.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Madam Mim certainly believes this, as illustrated in the below quote:
-->'''Madam Mim:''' And [Merlin] must see something good in you.\\
'''Arthur:''' I guess so...\\
'''Madam Mim:''' Yes, and in my book, that's bad!
* BerserkButton: Mim does ''not'' like sunshine.
* TheBrute: While not remotely stupid, during the wizard duel Mim focuses mostly on turning into bigger animals like an alligator to Merlin's turtle or a rhino as opposed to his goat. She mostly focuses on winning through overpowering him as opposed to strategy, which he turns against her.
* BuxomBeautyStandard: When she magically transforms her appearance into an attractive woman, she makes herself very slender and with a tiny frame, but with huge breasts.
* CardCarryingVillain: She sings a whole song about how wonderful it is that she's proud to be mad and evil, and she takes "terrible" as a compliment (and finds it lovely when someone's sick--though she doesn't find it so lovely when ''she'' gets sick later...).
* CharacterCatchphrase: "I win! I win!" whenever she believes she's won one of her demented games.
* CombatPragmatist: In the words of Archimedes, she only wants rules so she can break them.
* DemotedToDragon: From a villain in her own movie to Magica's weird best friend/servant in the comics.
* TheDreaded: If Archimedes's reaction upon seeing her is of any indication, she doesn't have a particularly good reputation.
* EmeraldPower: Mim has lime-green eyes and is a powerful magic user and the most dangerous antagonist of the movie.
* EvilCounterpart: To Merlin. Both are powerful magic users with a distinct color scheme (Merlin - blue, Mim - purple). Except Merlin is a good magic user who sees something great in Arthur and wants to mentor the young boy in order to help him flourish with education and friendship. Mim is an evil magic user who tries to ''kill'' Arthur after the boy says Merlin said there was something great about him.
* EvilIsHammy: Expect a lot of over-the-top shouting to come from her.
* ExactWords: "DID I SAY NO PURPLE DRAGONS? '''DID I?"''' That said, this turns against her as well.
%%* FatalFlaw: Overconfidence is her biggest flaw.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Madam Mim is cheerful, amiable, and pretty friendly when Arthur blunders into her house, and while he can tell she's unpleasant, he doesn't even realize she's dangerous until she tells him she has to kill him, which she says with about as much fanfare as someone saying it's suddenly started raining.
* ForTheEvulz: She doesn't even play a plot part, apart from being... well, a filler. Madam Mim commits evil because she herself is evil. There is no EvilPlan.
* GenkiGirl: Madam Mim is cheerful, exuberant, hammy, and ''incredibly'' enthusiastic about postulating about how wicked she is with the gleeful zest of someone a few decades younger than she clearly is.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In her WizardDuel with Merlin, her insistence on ExactWords ("Did I say no purple dragons?") ultimately ends up being her downfall when Merlin turns it against her.
-->'''Mim:''' No disappearing.\\
'''Merlin:''' I did not disappear. I have simply become very small.
* HypocriticalHumor: She's an openly compulsive cheat, though still objects whenever Merlin uses LoopholeAbuse. She ends up throwing an ''enormous'' tantrum over how underhanded turning into a germ was.
-->'''Mim:''' OOOHHHH, YOU-YOU-YOU-YOU SNEAKY OLD SCOUNDREL!!!
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: In her beautiful form, she has a ''tiny'' waist and much larger chest. Then again, it is a magical transformation.
* {{Irony}}: Madam Mim is introduced hearing Wart coughing while she plays solitaire (see image quote) and hoping that someone is badly ill. Merlin defeats her by transforming into a germ and getting her sick.
* JustEatHim: This seems to be her preferred tactic for [[NeverSayDie "destroying"]] those she comes across. She's a cat the entire time she's chasing bird!Arthur around her house and she tends to turn into animals when dueling Merlin, suited to hunting his choices (fox vs. hare, snake vs. mouse, etc.). She only moves away from this tactic after Merlin pisses her off.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Her very first line has her hearing a cough and hoping whoever it was has something dreadful and serious. When we leave her, she's stuck in bed sick with something dreadful, but lucky for her not too serious.
* LaughablyEvil: Madam Mim sings a VillainSong about herself, complete with dancing and shapeshifting. Merlin is far more restrained.
* TheMadHatter: Self-admitted by the Mad Madam.
* MsFanservice: Her younger, slender form is a complete knockout.
* NightmareFetishist:
--> "I take delight in the gruesome and grim!"
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: She has been described as filler for a good reason. She does spice things up and provides an entertaining battle, but most of the film could have happened without her, as it is about Merlin giving Arthur life lessons.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: She often acts like a bratty little kid: showing off, acting immature, and finally throwing a fit when she loses. This is especially noticeable with her propensity for "games".
* PsychoticSmirk: Gives a very devious one when Arthur says Merlin's good magic is better than hers, coupled with ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive.
* RealityWarper: Just like Merlin up there, and it is lampshaded by her VillainSong.
-->With only a touch\\
I have the power\\
Zim zabberim zim\\
[[TouchOfDeath To wither a flower]]
* ScaledUp: Her final shapeshift in the wizard duel is a ''purple'' dragon.
* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: During her VillainSong, Mim shapeshifts numerous times in order to show off her magical powers to Arthur. At first, [[SizeShifter she grows tall enough to bump her head on the rafters]], then small enough to sit on a teacup next to Arthur, then returns to normal size and gives herself the face of a boar, then transforms into a beautiful woman, before finally returning to her true form. With her song over, she then transforms into a cat and prepares to eat Arthur alive - only to be stopped by [[BigDamnHeroes the arrival of Merlin]], neatly segueing into their ShapeshifterShowdown.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Merlin and her seem to have a past together, and while Mim gleefully heckles Merlin, the latter spends most of their clash scolding and arguing with her like she's a naughty child.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the book, she's killed after Merlin becomes an infectious disease, but in the movie, she is merely bedridden, and Merlin actually has to use sunlight in order to cure her.
* SolitarySorceress: Lives in a hut out in the wilderness.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The only part of her, aside from her hair, that she retains when changing form is her golden eyes. Thus they are significant in showing her magical affinity.
* TheTease: She acts like this towards Arthur after changing into a more attractive form, playfully caressing the underside of his chin while [[DrearyHalfLiddedEyes gazing seductively]] into his eyes.
* VainSorceress: Mim defies this trope. She says she ''could'' be beautiful if she wanted to be, and in fact, does change herself into such a form as if it were a parlor trick. Then she admits that such a form is only skin deep and she's happy being ugly.
* VillainSong: "The Marvelous Mad Madam Mim" is her demonstrating her powers and wickedness in using them. It's basically an IAmSong.
* WickedWitch: Madam Mim lives in a cottage in the woods brewing up trouble. When she hears coughing, she hopes that it's a serious illness.
* WouldHurtAChild: Gleefully tries to murder Arthur. Only when she learns that Merlin sees something good in him.
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[[folder:The Wolf]]
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A wild animal who occasionally follows Arthur in hopes of eating the boy.
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* BigBadWannabe: He'd be a more legit threat if he were in better health. Arthur only notices he exists in ''one'' scene.
* TheChewToy: Old Wolfy could share notes with [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]]; try as he may, he can ''never'' catch Wart.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Between how skinny and pathetic he looks to how he’s constantly suffering bad luck, it’s hard not to feel sorry for the poor mutt.
* LeanAndMean: Extremely thin due to a lack of food.
* MisplacedWildlife: Averted. Wolves were a common sight in Britain at the time the movie is set, but have since been hunted to extinction (along with many other native megafauna).
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Hilarious as he can be to watch, he's trying to eat someone alive. He almost ate Squirrel!Arthur had it not been for the girl squirrel.
* SavageWolf: Downplayed. He's a hungry predator who tries to eat Arthur, but he's incredibly inept at it and mainly PlayedForLaughs.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After he falls into a river and gets stuck in a log, he's never seen again. We don't know if he ever got out of either.
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[[folder:The Pike]]
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A pike who lives in the moat in Sir Ector's castle.
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* AdaptationalNonsapience: Here, it's a normal fish (though it appears smart enough to sneak behind Arthur). In the book, it was the ruler of an underwater kingdom who tries to convince Arthur that "might is right".
* TheDreaded: Feared by the other animals in the moat.
* {{Foil}}: To the Wolf. They're both predators, but the wolf is a more comical animal in poor health, while the Pike is of more ideal condition and treated more seriously.
* KnightOfCerebus: Unlike Mim or the Wolf, the Pike has nothing comedic when it appears. Unless you count when he gets rammed headfirst onto a rock while trying to snatch Arthur from Archimedes.
* PikePeril: There's a good reason that this one provides the page image.

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[[folder:The Hawk]]

A hawk that flies after sparrow Arthur.

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* FeatheredFiend: Not evil, but definitely very aggressive.
* FlatCharacter: All it does is to try and catch sparrow Arthur.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: On the close up to its face, it's shown to have bright red eyes.

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!!Others

[[folder:Sir Pellinore]]

->''''Voiced by:'''' Creator/AlanNapier

An old knight and friend of Ector who informs of The Tournament to crown The new King of England
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* CoolOldGuy:
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Arthur claims he pulled out The Sword, he supports him and believes he should be allowed to prove it.
* RunningGag: Stuff falling on his mustache and him sniffing
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: PlayedForLaughs but he dreads the possibility of [[DumbMuscle Kay]] becoming King
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[[folder:The Frog]]

A frog that pesters Arthur while in fish form.
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* DirtyCoward: Had no problem pushing Arthur out of the hole to get the pike as far away from where he was hiding as possible.
* HateSink: It pesters Wart for no valid reason. Whereas the predatory animals were looking for food, the squirrel sought him for a mate and Sir Ector, despite his strictness, showing genuine concern for his well-being, the frog just picks on him for amusement and leaves him for dead.
* {{Jerkass}}: Picks on Fish Arthur for no good reason.
* KarmaHoudini: Pushes Wart out of the hole he's hiding in, leaving him to be bait for the pike. He's never seen getting his comeuppance for this, unless the pike found and ate him.
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[[folder:Girl Squirrel]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Ginny Tyler

A young, female squirrel who falls in love with Squirrel Arthur.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: She warms up to Wart very fast, something he wasn't prepared for and quickly grows annoyed with her and genuinely uncomfortable around her. This is justified since he's a human boy and she's a cute little squirrel who can't take a hint he's not interested.
* ActionGirl: When she saves Wart from the wolf.
* AffectionateNickname: She calls Wart “Chicoo” several times. The old lady squirrel called Merlin this at one point, suggesting it's a squirrel chirp meaning something on the lines of "darling" or "my love".
* AllForNothing: She played what she thought was a game of playing hard to get and faced off against a wolf to finally have her love, only to learn her feelings were not reciprocated when he was revealed to be human.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The amorous chirp she made after Arthur yanked her tail off of him, threw it over her head and pushed her is a definite sign she wanted Wart for her mate even more.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Sadly for her yes. The boy she wanted to be her mate and fell hard for had no feelings for her, something she only realizes when he's changed form. On the other hand that's just because Arthur was a human, and too young to understand romance, in squirrel form. Considering she's very cute-looking she would have probably been more lucky with a real squirrel.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Downplayed. Red squirrels are a real thing, though her fur is slightly more pinkish than the red-brown they are seen in. Real squirrels also do not have a pink underbelly like she does.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: While not magically enhanced like Archimedes, she's clearly smarter than a real squirrel. She quickly would use her front paws like hands in many scenes, like trying to save Wart, and seemed smart enough to figure out how to outsmart the wolf. She also seemed to have recognized in some way after Wart turned human that he was trying to tell her the truth but obviously couldn't understand him.
* BitCharacter: Her screen time isn't even 1/4th of the movie's entire runtime and 90% of her dialogue consists of chirps and chatter that barely sound like words. However, her entire time is falling for Wart and saving him, only to find he's not a squirrel and doesn't return her feelings, giving him a brief lesson on love and the pain it can cause, something he'd learn in later years upon meeting his future wife. She's also one of the more memorable characters of the movie as a result of this.
* BreakTheCutie: Her reaction to finding out that Arthur is really a human.
* CallForward: For those familiar with Arthurian lore, she serves as a Meta {{Foil}} to Guinevere and {{Foreshadowing}} to Arthur's relationship with her. He too would fall in love, only for his heart to break when he discovers something about her, in this case that she wasn't faithful to him. The fact that the squirrel is never seen again after she cries her eyes out and is last seen watching him return home also can be compared how Arthur's heartbreak led to him meeting his end, never to be seen again.
* CanonForeigner: Since there's no other adaptation of King Arthur involving him being turned into a squirrel.
* ChivalrousPervert: She seeks to mate with a squirrel without knowing he's a human boy barely reaching puberty, but she also is willing to stop flirting and kissing him when his life is in danger and come to his aid.
* CuddleBug: She keeps hugging Wart whenever she can get her paws on him.
* DidNotGetTheBoy: She saves Arthur, but because he still doesn't return her affections or want to remain a squirrel, he reveals himself as a human and ends up breaking her heart.
* TheDulcineaEffect: She hadn't known her chosen mate for more than 10 minutes and is quick to drop her chase to rescue him from a hungry wolf.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She stops trying to play with and kiss Wart whenever his life is in danger. She only resumes once he's safe. She also stops entirely trying to earn his love upon realizing he's really a human, choosing to run away while crying.
* {{Expy}}: She falls for someone of the opposite sex who resembles a member of her race, makes unwanted romantic advances like kissing and hugging, and there's a LanguageBarrier that prevents the object of her affections from talking and outright saying he's neither interested nor even what he appears to be while misinterpreting his actions. She's essentially a younger, female WesternAnimation/PepeLePew.
* FailedASpotCheck: During the entire time she's around Arthur, she fails to notice that while he looks like a squirrel, he clearly doesn't ''sound'' like one. She seems to at least know what a human is after he changes back, which means she must know that humans and squirrels don't make the same vocal noises.
* FieryRedhead: Passionate for Arthur, and hostile towards the wolf trying to eat him.
* {{Foil}}: To the Frog. The Frog was a {{Jerkass}} who picked on Wart for amusement and pushed him out of the hole to be eaten by the pike in order to save his skin. The Girl Squirrel is enamored with Wart, getting in his personal space in order to show him affection and saves him from the wolf.
* ForcefulKiss: A less violent and more passionate example, attempted to make Arthur interested. She kisses him five times before he changes back.
* TheGlomp: She tends to do this to Wart when he least expects it. She REALLY loves physical contact with him.
* InterspeciesRomance: She has no idea that she, a squirrel, fell for a boy who was human. When she finds out, it breaks her heart.
* LanguageBarrier: As an animal, she's unable to understand Arthur (which he realizes when he turns back to normal) and vice versa, which prevents her from understanding him when he says he's a human.
* LoveAtFirstSight: For Arthur, when the both of them were running up to each other.
* LoveHurts: The scene where she tearfully watches Arthur walk away is a real TearJerker.
* MotorMouth: As far as squirrel gibberish goes, she never stops chirping affectionately towards Wart.
* NoNameGiven: Only known as the "little girl squirrel", although fans know her as "Hazel". Justified since she's a wild animal.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: She's always getting close to Wart, whether to hug him, kiss him or even wrap her tail around him.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Until Arthur turns human again, she spends her entire scene cheerful and in love. Even her slight confusion and hostility to the wolf can be played for laughs. If one looked carefully when she hears Wart's voice after he turns human, her warm smile is quickly replaced with a wide-eyed startle. She's at first shocked and confused, and then she runs into a tree and starts crying her broken heart out, with Wart briefly seeing her looking with tears in her eyes.
* PluckyGirl: Until learning Wart isn't another squirrel, she is resolute.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Arthur unsuccessfully tries to tell her that he's not a squirrel but a human. But since she can't understand human language she repeatedly keeps on stalking him.
* PrehensileTail: She at one point was able to grab Wart with her tail and wrapped her it around him to keep him close. He struggles out of and it's only when she lowers her guard by kissing him that he gets out.
* RejectionAffection: Arthur’s attempts to get away from her and push her away only make her more amorous towards him.
* SatelliteCharacter: She has less than 5 seconds of screen time before meeting Squirrel Arthur. After that, being in love with him and wanting to win his heart is her whole character.
* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: Not verbally, but really interested in Arthur and seems to think he feels the same way. As far as she's concerned, he's her mate.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: She keeps chasing and pestering Wart, even though Arthur tries to keep her away from him. As Merlin even brought up during "A Most Befuddling Thing".
-->'''Merlin''': You're wasting time resisting, you'll find the more you do; the more she'll keep insisting, her "him" has got to be you!
* TragicHero: She was genuinely in love with Arthur to the point she risked her own life to save him from the wolf. Unfortunately all her actions have been vain since the squirrel she loved was a human and obviously her feelings for him were not returned.
* TheUnintelligible: She speaks in chittering noises. Not one of them sounds like a word, except for a slightly decipherable "You're cute!" and "Oh no!".
* VagueAge: As squirrels age faster than humans, her exact age isn't clear. It's likely she's at the point where she and Arthur would likely be around the same age range, hence why she was drawn to him as a mate.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: A mild example. When she saw the wolf getting ready to eat Wart, she saved him by chewing on the wolf's leg, causing him to yelp.
* WrongAssumption: Assumes the squirrel who isn't falling in love with her as fast she did for him is just shy and playing hard to get, and thus continues to get close to him to get him to accept her. When she finds out he's a human, and likely realizing he didn't have any interest or attraction to her, it broke her little heart.
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[[folder:Older Squirrel]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Martha Wentworth

An old, female squirrel who falls for Squirrel!Merlin.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Like the Girl Squirrel is to Wart, she is one to Merlin.
* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite being wider than the other squirrels, she can run just as fast as them. She's also insanely strong for her size, able to send Merlin flying into the tree with a casual push.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: While not confirmed, a common interpretation is that she is the mother of her younger counterpart.
* {{Foil}}: To the Girl Squirrel. Old to her young, dull colored to her light colored, chubby to her slim, ugly to her cute. And while the Girl Squirrel learning her love is unrequited and isn't a real squirrel is heartbreaking and she cries, Old Squirrel reacts with horrified anger and is PlayedForLaughs.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Merlin, seeing him play with an acorn as if it were a Soccer ball.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Greatly interested in Merlin's squirrel form.
* StockScream: A rather hilarious moment after Merlin reverts to human form.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hobbs]]
An unseen resident of Ector's castle who is given Arthur's position of squire.
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* GameBreakingInjury: Illness variant. He comes down with the mumps before Kay is due to arrive in London. Ector promotes Arthur to squire in his stead.
* TheGhost: Is never seen despite being mentioned.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sir Bart]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Thurl Ravenscroft
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* BaritoneOfStrength: He is a black knight from the tournament with a very deep voice provided by Thurl Ravenscroft.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being dressed in black armor, Sir Bart is quite a NiceGuy and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* NiceGuy: Despite his two short scenes in the finale, he is quite a reasonable and fair-minded man who calls out the other knights for their unfair treatment of Wart/Arthur and agrees with Sir Pellinore's suggestion of letting the boy have a shot at pulling the sword from the stone.
-->'''Sir Bart:''' (''to the other knights trying to pull the sword while pushing Wart/Arthur aside'') Now hold on. That's not fair! \\
'''Sir Pellinore:''' I say we let the boy try it. \\
'''Sir Bart:''' That's what I say. Give the boy a chance!
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He, alongside Sir Pellinore, comes to Wart's defense and demands the other knights trying to pull the sword themselves to give the boy a chance to try pulling the sword.

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