Fairy Tail – Strongest Team / Characters

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The Strongest Team

The Main Characters in the series, considered to be the strongest team in the entire Fairy Tail guild. This team initially consists solely of Natsu Dragneel, Lucy Heartfilia, and Happy at the suggestion of the Celestial Spirit Plue, with Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet joining the team shortly after tagging along with them a number of times. Wendy Marvell and Carla also become unofficial additions to the team later on.

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In General

Almighty Janitor: In a sense, despite Mirajane coining the term calling them the "Strongest Team," they are not literally comprised of the individual strongest members of Fairy Tail. At least not at that time. They are just the strongest team because it comprises of several of the strongest members (Natsu, Gray and Erza) of the guild. Gildartz and Mystogan go on solo-missions, and Laxus has more a trio of followers (the Raijin Tribe) rather than actual teammates.
Armed Females, Unarmed Males: The core team of Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Erza functions under this in early chapters. Natsu is a Bare-Fisted Monk who attacks with fire, and Gray has an Imagination-Based Superpower that involves creating ice in any shape or form; meanwhile, Lucy uses magical keys to summon spirits and keeps a whip on hand, and Erza is a Magic Knight whose power revolves around switching out different weapons from Hammerspace. This gets dropped with the team's inclusion of Wendy, a Combat Medic who uses air and wind in the same style as Natsu's fire.
Badass Crew: They're recognized up as Fairy Tail's strongest team.
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Zig-Zagged for the three females. Erza is the Brawn as she's the headstrong leader and very powerful fighter, while the other two play with the roles. Lucy the attractive, sexy fashionista but is also a very intelligent and cultured girl, while Wendy is very mature and quiet for her age but is also a lovable cutie.
Big Damn Heroes:
- Lucy saves Love & Lucky from a Dark Guild all by herself and later summons the Celestial Spirit King, destroying Plutogrim and freeing Fairy Tail from Alegria. Later, in her and Natsu's fight with Jacob, she rescues Mavis from Jacob's cruel beatdown and frees the entire guild again.
- Happy and Carla help rescue Lucy from being sentenced to death in Edolas and they later destroy Hades' heart in his ship on Sirius Island so that Fairy Tail can defeat him.
- In the Edolas arc, Erza and Gray come to the rescue when the rest of the team is on the ropes.
- In the Alvarez Empire arc, Wendy saves Sherria from DiMaria by way of a well timed kick to the face, and later saves Juvia from the brink of death with her healing magic.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The ladies: Lucy as the Blonde, Wendy as the Brunette (dark blue), and Erza as the Redhead.
Boke and Tsukkomi Routine:
- Every interaction between the Strongest Team involves some form of this, with the characters taking turns as boke according to their individual quirks: Natsu's burning itch to fight, Lucy's naïve romanticism, Gray's stripping habit, Erza's absurd stoicism, and Happy's strange mix of worldliness and childishness. Any of the others will then become the tsukkomi and criticize them, sometimes violently.
- After Wendy and Carla join, Wendy proves much too meek and gentle to be either, but the catty Carla often becomes a snarky tsukkomi to any and all of the others, but her tsukkomi-est is reserved for fellow Exceed Happy. He can scarcely get a single sentence out without a heaping of scorn escaping her lips.
- In its first few dozen episodes, the anime had a more standardized routine during the On the Next Episode segments, with Limited Animation of Natsu and Happy standing in front of the guild's job board and talking about the latest plot developments.
Cast Calculus: Typically, another major Fairy Tail member will temporarily join the team for the duration of a story arc as the ensemble's Sixth Ranger. So far, these members have been Juvia, Gajeel, Pantherlily, Elfman, Mirajane, and, lately, Laxus. For more information, refer to their own entries in the other tabs.
Childhood Friends: Natsu, Gray and Erza have been friends since they joined the guild in their childhood. They were close enough as to take baths together when they were kids.
Combination Attack: Despite not actually fighting a single enemy together very often, during their battle with Hades, they displayed this in the form of launching Natsu at the enemy at high speeds. Twice.
Covert Perverts: Natsu, Gray and Erza freely looked through Lucy's underwear drawer while Lucy keeps centerfolds of a bikini-clad Mirajane.
Dark and Troubled Past: All of their backstories are quite tragic and sad. To elaborate:
- Natsu died along with his mother and father several hundred years ago by a dragon attack before his older brother Zeref sacrificed just about everything to bring him back as a demon. Then, he was left by Igneel and the person he made a Childhood Marriage Promise dies (not really).
- Gray lost his birth parents at Deliora's hands and then lost his new Parental Substitute because of his actions, as well as causing his technical brother to hate him.
- Erza was abandoned by her own mother after she attempted and failed, in the midst of her Face–Heel Turn, to steal her body for herself, and that was after spending 400 years in her womb being protected by her and nearly being killed by her father. She was later enslaved by Zeref cultists, until she led a revolt that cost her not only an eye, but her friends' loyalty. Also, she lost her grandmother figure in a carriage accident.
- Lucy's mother committed a Heroic Sacrifice when she was young, and her father spent his time maintaining his business with his company. Eventually, Lucy is forced to leave her family life behind and join Fairy Tail.
- Wendy, like Natsu, was left by her dragon when she was only about 5 years old and then left to wander the world with Mystogan until he left her.
Destructive Saviors: Most of their missions' pay goes to the repairs of the place that they destroyed, much to Lucy's ire.
Determinator: No matter what, they never give up, and if they can help it, they never let themselves lose to the same opponent twice.
Disney Death: After Acnologia blasts Sirius Island they, along with those who participated in the S-Class exam and Laxus, go missing for seven years.
Face–Monster Turn: After they're soundly defeated by her servants, Selene has Natsu and Gray brought up to her temple, while she has Youko transform the girls and Happy all into Youkai, altering them into cruel, sadistic monsters, who have no problems trying to kill the boys when they're sent down to fight them. Fortunately, they all get better fairly quickly.
Fish out of Temporal Water: They spent seven years inside the Fairy Sphere after the Sirius Island incident.
Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- Lucy and Happy (Sanguine, with Lucy also having some Phlegmatic traits)
- Natsu (blend of Sanguine and Choleric)
- Carla (Melancholic)
- Wendy and Gray (Phlegmatic, types 1 and 2 respectively)
- Erza (Supine).
Honor Before Reason: A lot of the times they don't end up having to pay a huge repair bill, Natsu or Erza are usually refusing a payment for one reason or another.
Iconic Outfit:
- Natsu's signature outfit includes a sleeveless vest, sandals and a scarf that was given to him by Igneel.
- Lucy often wears a white and blue shirt, along with a blue skirt and brown boots.
- Erza wears her silver Heart Kreuz armor and a blue skirt in most of her appearances.
Interclass Friendship: Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray, Wendy, Happy and Carla. Lucy comes from the formerly wealthy Heartfilia while the others are orphans by different circumstances. Lucy actually considers them and the rest of Fairy Tail as her friends and true family.
Like Brother and Sister:
- Erza, Natsu, Gray and Lucy. Natsu and Gray are prone to even more excessive levels of violence and bad-assery if they learn Erza and/or Lucy are in genuine danger and Erza was willing to be vaporized and then later atomized to try and protect Natsu.
- Also, Wendy is often treated like a daughter or little sister by Erza and Gray.
Next Tier Power-Up: They're all substantially weaker after the Time Skip, even weaker than Max, but take a massive level in badass when Ultear helps them achieve "Second Origin", activated by Ultear's Arc of Time, which gives them access to their latent magical reserves and effectively doubles their power.
Nonindicative Name: Played with; when Mira first gives the team this nickname, Lucy initially thought it literally meant that Natsu, Erza, and Gray were the strongest members of the guild. While Natsu and Gray do grow stronger over time and become qualifiers for the strongest members of the guild, the team itself, as a whole, isn't made up solely of Fairy Tail's strongest members, with other powerful members of the guild instead being part of different teams.
Older Than They Look: Courtesy of the Sirius Island incident coupled with the Time Skip, they are all seven years younger than they're supposed to be and look.
Parental Abandonment. This extends to the guild as a whole but it really shows when the core team is focused upon.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: If it wasn't already obvious by their respective hair colors and abilities, Natsu the Fire Dragon Slayer and Gray the Ice Make Wizard/Demon Slayer. Natsu has this dynamic with Gajeel and Lucy too...and any other character he tends to be paired with.
Staking the Loved One: Selene and Yoko puts Natsu and Gray in the situation after they transformed their friends into monstrous yokai shadows of their former selves, forcing them to fight and possibly leaving them with no choose, but to put them down if they run out of options, fortunately, they managed to get them back to normal and make through the ordeal alive.
The Three Faces of Eve: Wendy is the Child, Lucy is the Wife, and Erza is the Seductress.
Three Plus Two: As mentioned above; Natsu, Happy and Lucy are the three, Gray and Erza are the two. If discounting the Exceeds; Natsu, Gray and Erza are the three for knowing each other in the backstory, Lucy and Wendy as the two who join during the story itself.
True Companions: Everyone in Fairy Tail are this, but the team stands out for sticking the together the closest through thick and thin.
Took a Level in Badass: There's no doubt they get more and more badass as the story progresses, but all the levels they obtain are instantaneously doubled when they unlock their "Second Origin". It lets Natsu single-handedly beat Dragon Forced-powered, Unison Raid-using Sting and Rogue without having to do the same, lets Erza use her Infinity +1 Sword on Minerva, and lets Gray use his Ice Magic with unlimited energy.
- Wendy, Lucy, and Gray get their moments in the Tartaros arc. Wendy attains Dragon Force to defeat Ezel. Lucy summons the Celestial Spirit King, who destroys Cube and frees Fairy Tail from Alegria, temporarily gains Aquarius's Water Magic and defeats Jackal by casting Uranometria. Gray gains his father's Ice Demon Slayer Magic, allowing him to curb-stomp Tempester.
Two Girls to a Team: The series mostly played this straight, with Lucy and Erza as the two girls to Natsu, Gray, and Happy, making the ratio 3:2 in favor of the guys... Unless you don't count Happy, the nonhuman, which makes it equal. Even if you do count Happy, Wendy coming into the picture tips the ratio in favor of the girls, since she brings Carla, another nonhuman, with her.
Tyke-Bomb: Eventually subverted with both Happy and Carla. Ever since her hatching, Carla was sent to Earth-land with implanted memories of an operation to hunt down Dragon Slayers with Wendy being her target... or so she thinks. Meanwhile, Happy doesn't even realize that he is one of the eggs sent to Earth-land to hunt down Natsu until the Edolas arc. In their defense, their "mission" was a misinterpretation of future events due to Carla's precognition abilities going haywire.
Undying Loyalty: Even though they bicker quite often, the group remains fiercely loyal to each other.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Natsu and Gray. Occasionally Natsu and Erza. Happy and Lucy have shades of it as well.
What the Hell, Hero?: Since the team is not without its fair share of disagreements, this is bound to happen when someone makes a decision at least one other person doesn't like.
- In the Galuna Island arc, Erza, having tracked Gray, Natsu, Lucy and Happy down when Gray didn't come back after being sent to bring the other three in, she expresses disappointment with him for failing to capture them. When Erza reveals that she plans on taking everyone back immediately and leaving the job to someone else, Gray gets upset with her for abandoning the villagers to their fate, and despite usually being scared of her, insists on finishing the job and letting her deal with him as she sees fit once he's done.
- After the second Time Skip, Natsu gets angry when he finds out that the guild was no more in his absence, at which point Lucy tells him that she was upset when he went off on a training journey while only leaving a note behind.
- In the Avatar arc, Natsu gives one to Gray and Erza when he finds out that Gray infiltrated the Avatar Cult for six months while working with Erza without telling Juvia, who literally worried herself sick fearing that the worst had happened to him. Gray doesn't try to defend his actions, but Erza points out that she was the one who came up with the idea, as it would be safer for Juvia to be left in the dark.
- In the final battle, Erza does this to Natsu and Gray when she finds them fighting to the death, breaking up the fight and tearfully telling them to remember their friendship and how, even if they fought, they never did it out of hatred for the other.
You Can't Go Home Again:
- Erza's hometown of Rosemary Village was destroyed by Zeref cultists.
- When the guild war with Phantom Lord's done, Lucy makes Jude aware she can't return home after everything that's happened between them. She also associates her house with her memories of Layla. By the time of Fairy Tail's return from Sirius Island, Lucy finds out that her father passed away over that time.
- Happy and Carla can't return to Extalia just like Panther Lily and the other Exceeds due to the kingdom's destruction and the magic disappearing from Edolas.
- As a child, Gray lost his hometown to Deliora.
- As for Wendy and Natsu, they can't return to their original timelines since Eclipse has been destroyed.

Happy

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)^note

"Aye, sir!"

"We are not your puppets to control!!!! We are... Fairy Tail Wizards!!!!!"

Happy is a member of the Exceed, a race of cat-like beings from the parallel world of Edolas that can sprout wings and fly using the magic Aera. Separated from his parents as an egg and sent to Earth-land along with 99 other unborn Exceed when his homeland's destruction was prophesied, he was found and hatched by Natsu, and the two have remained inseparable friends ever since. He is an invaluable source of support for his friends, though he's not above exchanging snarky quips with them, especially Lucy.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: The sack he carries is about the only article of clothing he wears in most of his appearances.
Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: You don't get much more amazing or technicolor than a blue cat.
Animal Jingoism: According to his profile, and as eventually shown in Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, Happy has a natural fear of dogs. The only exception to this is Plue, who doesn't look anything remotely like a dog.
Badass Adorable: Downplayed. Happy has next to no combat experience and is pathetically weak as a fighter, but his speed and reliability help make Natsu's life a whole lot easier.
Badass Normal: If one thinks about it, out of the three Exceed of Fairy Tail, he is the only one who doesn't possess combat abilities, the power to change forms, the ability to turn into a human or anything. Flight is the only thing he can do. He makes up for it by being a very loyal Determinator.
Blue Is Heroic: Is a blue furred Exceed and one of the main heroes of the story.
Blush Sticker: He has two light-blue blush marks on his cheeks.
Bond Creatures: After hatching from his egg, Happy flew around and landed on Natsu's head, and has been with him ever since. Noticeably, Happy is one of the very few who can carry Natsu without him getting sick because Natsu views him as a friend rather than transportation.
Butt-Monkey: Seeing how incredibly weak he is, he tends to get tossed around a lot in the middle of the action. Forms of abuse include falling into the water and hitting his head on a rock, being tied up by Erza, getting kicked in the face by Lucy, etc.
Can't Catch Up: Played for laughs when after a Time Skip, the only significant training he did was trying to resist his urge to eat fish, which he genuinely thought was impressive. When he reunites with Carla, he is shocked to find she can take human form and has learned martial arts. She calls him out on not learning anything useful.
Cats Are Magic: He comes from an entire race of these from the parallel world of Edolas, where they are the only creatures who can naturally store magic in their bodies.
Cats Are Snarkers: He always has a sarcastic jab in store for his friends, especially Lucy.
Character Catchphrase: "Aye!" (or "Aye, sir!", as shown in the image quote) and "S/He liiiiikes you!"
The Cutie: Apart from his serious sarcastic streak, Happy is the youngest and most adorable of the entire team.
Death Glare: Happy gives a somber one to Nichiya and Nadl when he decides to give an "up yours" regarding the Exceed's mission to hunt down the Dragon Slayers.
Dogged Nice Guy: He becomes smitten by Carla the first time they meet, but she often demonstrates her Lack of Empathy every time he tries to win her over. Once Happy sticks up for Carla in Extalia and they realize that the operation was a farce set up by Chagot, Carla rethinks her feelings toward him.
Doomed Hometown: Downplayed. Happy's egg was evacuated from his home realm of Edolas after Chagot foresaw the disappearance of magic from their world, which she mistook for some kind of apocalypse. Then, his homeland is destroyed for real after returning to Edolas.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the manga, Happy started out with a much more cartoonish appearance and an oversized head. Hiro Mashima gradually redrew Happy into a more cute and well-rounded design, and the anime used and kept this perfected appearance from the very beginning.
Equippable Ally: He can basically become Natsu's wings by wrapping himself around his teammate.
Face–Monster Turn: Like the rest of Team Natsu, except Natsu and Gray, he gets transformed by Youko into a yokai, specifically a monstrous cat called a Suiko, and is turned savage and violent; the only remaining aspect of his old personality was his iconic "Aye".
Funny Animal: Although he's a cat, he can talk, speak, use magic, and occasionally wear clothes.
The Gadfly: He is prone to saying some of the most ridiculous things just to get a rise out of his friends. For instance, when asked why he is blue or has wings, Happy responds simply, "Because I'm a cat!"
Heroic Resolve: After realizing that Carla unwittingly accomplished the Exceed's mission to hunt down the Dragon Slayers (or so she thinks), he finally snaps and gives an "up yours" to Nichiya and Nadi.
Hidden Depths: Even though Happy's the Team Pet of the group, he's capable of having an unbreakable Determinator mindset, refusing to plead or die as any of his stronger guildmates. He even takes a serious beating now and then, and he still rises to his feet to help his friends. He also has an uncanny level of knowledge about magic and physics.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Subverted. All Exceed must know about their kind as well as a Dragon Slayer-hunting operation to prevent them from destroying Extalia, or so Carla thinks; Happy, on the other hand, does not. Around the time of Faust's defeat, Carla realizes that she is the only one who knows about the operation because of her precognition, which means Happy's lack of memory is normal.
Leitmotif: A happy-go-lucky flute and guitar tune.
Love at First Sight: Happens when he first lays eyes on Carla. He's tried presenting her with fish ever since despite her initial Lack of Empathy.
Meaningful Name: Natsu gave Happy his name because he was born while the rest of the guild was in the middle of a tense argument, and his birth eased the tension like a bluebird of happiness.
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: After being turned into a suiko, Happy becomes a savage, and violent beast, practically unrecognizable beyond his usual "aye".
My Friends... and Zoidberg: He is frequently not listed when the team presents themselves. He even does this with himself on occasion.
Non-Human Sidekick: He is a talking blue cat who is rarely seen without Natsu.
Panthera Awesome: In Chapter 74 of 100 Years Quest, he and Carla are turned into suiko, Youkai that resemble giant predatory cats.
Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females: Happy wears nothing but a satchel around his neck, while Carla's always fully clothed. However, the Edolas arc shows that Happy is practically a streaker even compared to other male Exceed.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: While he's nowhere near a fighter like Pantherlily or Carla, Happy has shown himself to have impressive physical ability, being strong enough to easily carry Natsu around in flight, fast enough to dodge magic spells while still carrying Natsu, and most impressively surviving Jackal's suicidal explosion that would have destroyed an entire town with nothing to show for it aside from some burns and a ruined hairdo.
Power Gives You Wings: His brand of magic, Aera, instantly sprouts white, feathery wings on his back that enable Flight.
Prefers Raw Meat: Being a cat, he loves his fish raw rather than cooked. This is shown when he gets upset over Natsu using his fire magic to fry a whole fish bigger than the two of them combined.
Relocating the Explosion: He does this against the badly wounded Jackal when the Etherious attempts a Taking You with Me with a suicide explosion powerful enough to take out the whole town by flying them both as high as he can into the sky. He survives this.
Secret-Keeper: He becomes one for Natsu by helping him keep his discovery that he is actually E.N.D. a secret from the rest of the guild, and he would die if Zeref is killed. Unfortunately, doing so eventually results in Natsu almost completely turning into E.N.D. when Brandish enlarges his Demon Seed, thinking it would kill him, not to mention Gray's discovery from the enemy while in an emotionally vulnerable state; that foreknowledge would have avoided the problems that came with it.
Secret Legacy: Happy discovers that he is a member of the Exceed, a race of catlike creatures that are revered as angels in Edolas. Downplayed since the Exceed aren't actually anything special other than being the only creatures in Edolas who possess latent magic energy in their bodies.
Series Mascot:
- While all the Exceeds are like this in someway, Happy is the most prominent. Notably, unlike Pantherlily and Carla, he gets no power up throughout the series.
- In an in-universe sense, he's also in many ways the mascot for the guild.
Shipper on Deck: Happy will drop his "You loooove him/her!" Catchphrase whenever anyone has a moment that could even vaguely be considered to be romantic in his presence. Among his victims have been: Lucy and Loke, Lucy and Gray, Lucy and Natsu, Gray and Juvia, and Erza and Jellal. In an Ironic Echo, Lucy has also used the phrase against him and Carla in the anime.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: In Edolas, Happy tells Nichiya and Nadi that they aren't pawns in their operation to hunt down the Dragon Slayers before he makes his escape with Carla.
Team Pet: He's the cute talking cat of the team. Unlike most examples, however, he can be extremely useful in a fight, such as when he uses Kain Hikaru's voodoo doll against him.
Throw the Dog a Bone: He gains Carla's reluctant respect when he sticks up for her against the Exceed's "mission" to hunt down the Dragon Slayers.
Token Flyer: He's the only member of the team who can grow wings to fly, later joined by Carla. His only role on the team seems to be carrying Natsu around.
Trademark Favorite Food: He loves fish. He loves it so much that he considers his greatest training accomplishment to be slightly withstanding the sight of it.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Happy may take every opportunity he has to mock Lucy, but when the chips are down, he is just as loyal to her, and she as dear to him, as Natsu. No better is this demonstrated than when the X792 Lucy takes the bullet for her main timeline counterpart at the conclusion of the Grand Magic Games, leading to Happy's Heroic BSoD.
Whale Egg: Like the rest of his kind, Happy is a cat who hatched out of an egg.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Happy's afraid of dogs, given the natural instincts of cats and dogs in real-life.
Wise Beyond Their Years: Having been a member of Fairy Tail for six years, Happy has complete knowledge of magic and physics.

Gray Fullbuster

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura, Eri Kitamura [young] (Japanese); Newton Pittman, Ryan Reynolds [young] (English)^note

Portrayed by: Atsushi Shiramata (stage)

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"You do whatever you like!!! This is the path I've chosen!!!"

Gray is an ice wizard and rival of Natsu, who happens to be a fire wizard. Though more down-to-earth than most of his guildmates, he has the unhealthy habit of taking off his clothes without thinking. He was taught everything he knows about magic by the wizard Ur, whom he took up training under for the sole purpose of taking vengeance against the demon Deliora for killing his family. But his overconfidence resulted in Ur's sacrifice, and he's tried to remain level-headed ever since.

Gray's magic, Ice Make, lets him create ice and mold it into various weapons and tools almost instantly. After his encounter with Silver, a Demon Slayer from the dark guild Tartaros, Gray inherits his Ice Demon Slayer Magic, which gives him superhuman abilities similar to a Dragon Slayer that are particularly effective against demons, but comes with the risk of corrupting his body and mind.

Aborted Arc: Ultimately the threat of Gray killing Frosch is never followed up on, with Hiro Mashima stating he wasn't able to satisfactorily resolve it, so it was dropped.
Accidental Pervert:
- A bizarre example as he subconsciously takes off his clothes on a semi-regular basis, which results in him walking around in public without a shirt, in his underwear, or without any clothes at all.
- He's also had a few of these moments with Juvia. During their first fight when they were enemies, he accidentally groped her breast when he used an ice attack to freeze her into a block of ice. In a different situation, he unintentionally grabbed her butt when he had to push her and Meredy down to prevent them from getting hit by an attack.
Adaptational Jerkass: He's more of a jerk in the anime-original Daphne arc than he ever was in the manga.
Aesop Amnesia: Tries to use Iced Shell again in the Alvarez arc, forgetting the lesson he learned back on Galuna Island. Natsu even calls him out on this.
Almighty Janitor: Like Natsu, he's much more powerful and skilled than his standard guild rank implies. This is because Fairy Tail, the strongest guild in Fiore, has higher standards for the S-Class rank than other guilds.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite his outright rejection of Juvia's love declaration after the Grand Magic Games, he's frequently had these moments with her ever since, not counting all the times he's rushed to her rescue beforehand. He ultimately warms up to her at the end of the Tartaros arc when he learns she was forced to kill the Necromancer who was controlling his undead father and in the finale, he ultimately (if awkwardly) tells Juvia that she's "kind of his". In 100 Years Quest, Gray admits that he does love her in return.
Badass Biker: He instantly learns how to ride a motorcycle in his fight against Racer, and uses his skills to fight Sugar Boy in Edolas.
Badass Longcoat: Quite a few of his outfits are long coats, though it's bound to disappear sooner or later.
Battle Couple: With Juvia. Gray even notes that they work very well as a team. This becomes more evident during the Alvarez Empire arc, since they have had time to train with each other.
Battle Strip: He often loses his shirt for one reason or another in the middle of battle whenever he gets serious.
Bloody Murder: When Ultear uses her Arc of Time to melt and evaporate Gray's ice, he freezes his own blood to fight her since her magic doesn't work on humans.
Blue Is Heroic: Is prominently associated with blue thanks to his guild mark and the aura of his magic, and is one of the main heroes.
Body Horror: His Demon Slayer demonification technique makes him look like half his body is charred. It's also a sign of his magic's corruptive capabilities.
Boring, but Practical: Ice Make is not by any means flashy, super powerful, or even rare. Instead, it's able to let Gray win because he has virtually the largest arsenal of abilities. To put this in perspective, Ultear and Lyon have stronger versions of Ice Make, but they don't follow Ur's teachings and rely on their own style. They both lose because Gray follows Ur's style, and his creativity and adaptibilty allow him to trump them. Demon Slayer magic, on the other hand, is not only extremely powerful but is also the only known magic of its kind to exist.
Breath Weapon: His Ice Demon's Rage is the Demon Slayer's equivalent of a Dragon Slayer's Roar or a God Slayer's Bellow.
Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Despite previously being annoyed by her clingy behavior, Gray allows Juvia to live with him after the guild's disbandment. Following the reunion of the guild, he claims to everyone that Juvia practically "haunted" him during that time. Come several chapters later, he privately tells Juvia that he appreciates her being there for him.
Celibate Hero: Like most of the male characters, he seems to be uninterested in anything relating to romance. This becomes problematic for him once Juvia enters the picture.
- Subverted as of 100 Years Quest, as Gray admits that he does in fact have feelings for Juvia, but feels unworthy of being in a relationship with her.
Characterization Marches On: He initially serves as The Rival to Natsu, and both are far more vitriolic towards each other in earlier chapters. Later on, they prove to be equally quirky and rarely fight. In the Alvarez Empire arc, however, their rivalry gets thrust back into the spotlight with Gray's discovery that Natsu is E.N.D., the demon he swore to kill, compounded by the corruption Gray suffers from his Demon Slayer magic.
The Coats Are Off: When on a mission or at the start of a fight, Gray usually wears a long coat or a vest. But whenever Gray starts to get serious in a fight, he will almost unconsciously strip off whatever he is wearing and fight topless.
Comedic Underwear Exposure: Played for laughs. He will frequently appear in his boxers it seems every arc for comedic purposes.
The Corruption: His Demon Slayer magic slowly corrupts his heart and mind, which manifests as ominous black markings that appear on his body, essentially transforming him into a demon much like a Dragon Slayer would become a dragon. While he manages to keep it in check thanks to some help from Porlyusica, it starts taking hold once he learns Natsu is E.N.D. in the Alvarez Empire arc. This, combined with Juvia's apparent death, compels him to throw all reason aside to kill Natsu until Erza steps in to end their feud, snapping him out of it completely.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Downplayed: Though he's usually annoyed by Juvia's romantic gestures, Gray is strangely territorial of her when Lyon (who's in love with her) flirts with her, refusing to allow his rival to "steal her" from the guild.
Create Your Own Villain: In the alternate X792, he ends up killing Frosch after the former transforms into a demon, which sets Rogue on his Face–Heel Turn.
Crush Blush: Juvia can have this effect on Gray whenever she's giving him a token of her affection.
Cry into Chest: Gray ends up crying into Juvia's chest when she confesses to slaying the necromancer that was controlling his undead father, thus freeing the latter.
Cuteness Overload:
- He admits at the end of the Avatar Arc that Frosch is just too adorable when close up.
- In 100 Years Quest, Gray has to visibly hold himself back from gushing when interacting with Greige, Edolas Gray and Juvia's son, as he admits the kid's so adorable in both looks and personality.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Iced Shell, which permanently freezes the caster's target but also destroys the user's body by turning them into the ice that freezes the target. Natsu stops him from using it twice on Galuna Island because he doesn't want to lose his friend, and he has since made a vow to never use it. By the Alvarez Empire arc, Gray has developed an upgraded version called Lost Iced Shell, which not only has the same effect but also erases all memory of the caster.
Dark Is Not Evil: After he obtains Ice Devil Slayer Magic, which corrupts the user while manifesting as black marks on his body. Nevertheless he remains as dedicated to protecting his guildmates and loved ones as ever.
Deadpan Snarker: His ice-cold personality and level head also lead to some biting sarcasm.
Death Glare: He gives a somber one to Erza on Galuna Island when he calls her out on her Lack of Empathy regarding the villagers and her abrasiveness towards her guildmates.
Death Seeker: Gray grapples with this every time he considers using Iced Shell, which effectively (if ambiguously) freezes the caster to death. While he backs down either because Natsu stops him or he finds another method of victory, he never quite shakes it off. It comes to a head in the Alvarez Empire arc where, after overcoming his corruption and realizing he tried to kill his best friend, he reveals he has learned a version of Iced Shell that would erase his friends' memory of him once cast, further attempting to justify his use of the spell.
Demon Slaying: Gray learns how to channel Silver's Ice Demon Slayer magic through his body in the Sun Village arc. He later becomes a fully-fledged Ice Demon Slayer in the Tartaros arc when Silver passes his magic onto Gray to kill E.N.D.
Determinator: He's at least prepared to cut his own side open in order to win a fight, and then go fight someone a hundred times stronger while woozy from blood loss.
Everyone Has Standards: Although he trash talks his friends, he won't tolerate anyone being abrasive and overly strict with the guild's rules, as demonstrated when he calls out Erza for trying to take Natsu and their friends to Fairy Tail without any concern for the situation on Galuna Island.
Fighting Your Friend: His rivalry with Natsu has occasionally spiraled out into this, though usually with good reason. In a Filler arc, he becomes a Fake Defector by helping kidnap Natsu to power a mechanical dragon, but only so he can fulfill a forgotten promise he made as a child to lift a curse the villain put on her hometown. He does it again when he joins Avatar and pretends to be corrupted by his Demon Slayer magic, butting heads with an unaware Natsu to keep his cover. Finally, he inevitably succumbs to said corruption for real upon discovering Natsu's true identity as E.N.D., leading to a fight to the death between the two friends.
Fire/Ice Duo: He has ice powers to complement his friend/rival Natsu's fire.
Forgot About His Powers: After getting his Ice Demon Slayer Magic, Gray's use of it tends to be inconsistent and often less creative than what Silver was able to pull off. Despite being able to consume his element like the Dragon Slayers, he never tries to use this against the Ice Magic of Invel or the Ur Historia. However this is justified in a few ways. The first is that Gray would tend to default to what magic he was most familiar with as he's only had Demon Slaying Magic for a year. The second is that the corruptive nature of Demon Slaying Magic makes it a double-edged sword to be held in reserve.
Genius Bruiser: Gray's Ice Make is based on magical power and creativity, meaning one has to be relatively smart and observant to get the most usage out it. He also wins most of his battles by strategizing and staying one step ahead of his opponents.
Good Hair, Evil Hair: He normally has messy hair fitting of a Shōnen protagonist's Friendly Rival, and wears it slicked back when he activates his Demon Slayer powers. He also wears the slicked hair while a member of Avatar, an evil cult, and messes his hair back up again upon revealing he is actually spying on them.
Heroes Prefer Swords: He's more of The Lancer, but some of his most common finishing moves are bladed weapons. A few notable examples are his Ice Blade, a pair of elbow blades; Cold Excalibur, a BFS; Ice Bringer, dual-wielded swords; and his Ice Demon Zero's Long Sword, a Demon Slaying weapon.
Heroic BSoD: He falls into a brief one when Juvia commits suicide and uses her water magic to heal him towards the end of the series. It quickly turns into Unstoppable Rage that causes him to unleash hell on Invel and then on Natsu, only to fall even harder into this once he comes back to his senses straight into Death Seeker territory before Natsu snaps him out of it.
How Do I Shot Web?: In 100 Years Quest while fighting Sai of Gold Owl, Gray is left befuddled for a bit when he's transformed into Juvia right down to the magic, as his initial attempt to use Ice-Make fails completely and struggles to figure out how to use Juvia's own magic. Aside from an entirely instinctive usage of Juvia's Water Body, he resorts to a compromise of using Juvia's Water-Make with his own usual spells, some of which work well (Water Make: Lance and Battle Axe make full use of water's piercing properties) and others not so much (Water Make: Hammer just drops a big waterfall on Sai's head).
Hunk: He's quite muscular, has a deep voice, and many females in-universe, especially Juvia, find him very attractive.
An Ice Person: He's noted to be a highly skilled ice wizard, able to create many different constructs through his Ice Make. He later becomes an Ice Demon Slayer, which gives him the same level of physical versatility as Natsu.
I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Gray can unintentionally do this to Juvia, due to his stripping habits and her tendency to misinterpret his words.
Improbable Aiming Skills: He can hit a target from countless miles away using an ice bow and arrow. He demonstrates this when he finishes off Racer in the Nirvana arc, and Mard Geer in the Tartaros arc.
Innocently Insensitive: Has a tendency to unknowingly insult others and then desperately try to save face with them. It's often Played for Laughs, especially with Juvia due to him just not getting the hint, but it's also Played for Drama a few times as well: his comment on the depressing downpour Juvia causes in her first attempt to confess to him causes her to snap after years of ridicule for her rain; later in an Omake, he rejects Juvia's attempts to celebrate the 413th day anniversary of their first meeting because he's mourning what also just so happens to be the anniversary of Ur's death.
Insecure Love Interest: After spending most of the main series ignoring or outright rejecting Juvia's advances, Gray somehow finds a different reason to keep away from her as of 100 Years Quest. Mainly, he feels that he needs to step up and grow more as a person before he can even think about being with Juvia.
Irrational Hatred: His whole grudge against Rufus Lore in the Grand Magic Games arc kinda comes out of nowhere. While Rufus beat him in the opening, the worst Rufus did was showboat a bit and it wasn't really personal. While Rufus does prove to be as much a Jerkass as the rest of Sabertooth, Gray's obsession with beating him feels odd. Maybe he just wanted his hat?
It's Personal: Apart from those who hurt his friends, there are two other kinds of opponents in this series that Gray takes especially personally more than anything: those who seek to tarnish the legacy of Ur, whom he thought the world of; and those directly associated with Deliora, the demon responsible for Ur's sacrifice and the death of his family. He traces both grudges all the way up to E.N.D., the worst of all the demons of Deliora's ilk—unaware that this very demon also happens to be his best friend, Natsu.
Jerkass Has a Point: In the Galuna Island arc, Erza notes she was disappointed that Gray didn't bring Natsu and the others back to Fairy Tail for taking the S-Class mission without Makarov's explicit permission. Gray's response is to give Erza a "The Reason You Suck" Speech on the equally fair point that the guild expects a lot more than her strictness towards the rules and leaving the innocent islanders to die. Even Erza comes to realize how dubious her actions were.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gray has a tendency to trash talk every now and then, but he's extremely loyal his friends and his guildmates.
The Lancer: When Natsu takes up the mantle of The Hero on their team, Gray serves this role for him. I.e. the guy with the contrasting power-set and personality who often argues with him.
Love Epiphany: After Juvia transfuses her blood with Gray at the apparent cost of her life in the Alvarez Empire arc, he finally accepts her love and cradles her body in tears. It would have been a Belated Love Epiphany if Wendy didn't narrowly nurse Juvia back to health.
Lust Object: Seeing Gray strip can cause Juvia to fantasize some very lustful thoughts. She even envisioned him proposing to her shirtless. That said, it is clear that Juvia loves Gray for more than just his looks.
Magic Knight: Gray has a primarily weapon-based fighting style, instantly creating his weapons out of ice.
Man of Kryptonite: As an Ice Devil Slayer, Gray notably possesses two hard counters to the power of the strongest Etherious E.N.D., that being his ice matches up with the demon's fire on an elemental basis, and as a Devil Slayer his moves naturally do high damage to demons in general. This was intentional on the part of his father, Silver, who learned this brand of magic specifically to take down E.N.D. and entrusted Gray with it to do the job in his stead. As a result, Gray is actually able to stalemate Natsu once he awakens into E.N.D. during the Alvarez Empire arc despite the demon likely outclassing him in raw strength and power and having just turned DiMaria, who wields the power of a god, into a wall decoration after No Selling her Time Stands Still power. Of course, it should also be noted that E.N.D. was far more focused on just barreling through anything between him and Zeref rather than interested in indulging Gray in his vengeance, which is implied to have caused him to hold back somewhat, compared to having attacked DiMaria in a personal rage for her attacking Lucy in front of him.
Manly Tears: Even the Only Sane Man in the guild isn't afraid to cry a few times, mostly whenever more of Ur or his family's tremendous suffering is brought to light, and when he believes Juvia to be dead after she saves his life.
Maybe Ever After: The series concludes with Gray and Juvia's relationship as this. Given that Gray becomes comfortable enough to (albeit sheepishly) stammer that Juvia's body belongs to him, however, it's safe to say that it's closer to a "yes".
Mirror Character: For all his and Natsu's bickering, they share the same Hot-Blooded tendencies from time to time. For example, after Natsu storms Saber Tooth's inn to avenge Yukino's expulsion, Gray chews him out not for doing something so reckless, but because he wanted in on it too to get back at Rufus.
The Mole: In the Fairy Tail Revival arc, Erza plants him into Avatar's ranks to gather intel on the organization for Jellal. However, he's forced to keep his undercover mission a secret from Juvia and the others, who think he's been possessed or corrupted by his Demon Slayer magic.
Mr. Fanservice: Gray is good-looking and cool, in addition to his tendency to strip subconsciously. This is one of the reasons Juvia almost immediately develops a crush on him when they first meet. ^note
Multi-Melee Master: His Ice Make grants him access to virtually any weapon he can imagine, from swords, to lances, to battle axes. He also dips into Multi-Ranged Master territory with his Ice Cannon and Super Freezing Arrow.
My God, What Have I Done?: He does not take the realization he tried to murder Natsu after learning he was E.N.D. well after he's snapped out of his rage by Erza, no matter how much The Corruption of his Demon Slaying magic played a role. It's so bad he tries to perform a Heroic Sacrifice on Zeref that would erase everyone's memories of himself, believing he didn't deserve to be around anymore if he would stoop to that level.
My Greatest Failure: Ur's death serves as such for Gray, since he wound up dragging her into his quest for revenge against Deliora, which cost Ur her life to protect him. Whenever someone comes looking for a bone to pick with Gray over Ur or the demon, he's quick to take responsibility and fix the problem himself.
Mythical Motifs: He gains a demon, after obtaining Ice Devil Slayer Magic.
No Body Left Behind: A subverted example occurs in 100 Years Quest, when Skullion Raider seemingly reduces his body into ashes, only for Gray to be rescued by Brandish.
Not Distracted by the Sexy: In 5th OVA, when the team goes to the Water park, Gray is approached by Juvia, who is hoping that her new bikini will entice him. Much to Juvia's dismay, he only notices that she forgot to remove the price tag from her bikini.
Not So Above It All: His role as the guild's Only Sane Man sometimes takes a back seat to show he's just as weird and quirky as some of his guildmates, particularly thanks to his stripping habit.
Oblivious to Love: Gradually subverted. He doesn't take the hint when Juvia falls in Love at First Sight with him during their battle in the Phantom Lord arc, and it remains this way for much of the early series. When Erza confronts him about it in the Grand Magic Games arc, however, he shows that he does notice Juvia's feelings, but is rather put off by her overly forward approaches.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Following his father's Last Request, he inherits Silver's Demon Slayer powers and vows that he will be the one to take down E.N.D. After learning that Natsu is actually E.N.D., and overcoming the Demon Slayer corruption that compels him to fight his friend, he manages to fulfill that vow by exorcizing the remnants of E.N.D. within the demon's book when it attempts to infect Lucy while she makes Natsu fully human.
Only Sane by Comparison: Apart from his tendency to take off his clothes and his destructive rivalry with Natsu, he is easily among the most level-headed of Fairy Tail's members next to Lucy.
Phrase Catcher: Every time someone says, "Gray, your clothes!", Gray realizes he's taken off his clothes without noticing.
Purple Is Powerful: His Demon Slayer ice has a purple coloration in the anime, and is phenomenally more powerful than his usual Ice Make magic.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: He has fair skin and spiky black hair, and quite a few females in-universe, especially Juvia, find him attractive.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Erza was perfectly willing to let Galuna Island's inhabitants die because the rules dictated it, so naturally Gray lets her have it and tells her that everyone expects a lot more than that mentality from her. This hits her hard and she realizes the others view her as a strict officer rather than a guildmate so she takes steps to lighten up.
Revenge Before Reason: He suffered from this as a child when he went off to kill Deliora, recklessly throwing himself into danger and costing his mentor's life. He later succumbs to this in the Alvarez Empire arc when he discovers Natsu is his sworn enemy E.N.D., though it's justifiably so as he is suffering from The Corruption of his Demon Slayer magic, and is thus not in his right mind when he decides to kill the one being capable of killing Zeref.
The Rival: He is Natsu's main rival. He also can be considered this to Lyon.
Scars Are Forever: He gets a permanent scar on his forehead and abdominal when he's injured by Lyon in the Galuna Island arc. His latter injury also comes into play in later battles, such as a weakness while it's still healing in the Phantom Lord arc, or when he deliberately reopens the wound to use his blood as a weapon in the Sirius Island arc. He gets yet another scar on the other side of his abdomen when he impales himself to keep Invel from forcing Juvia to kill him in the Alvarez Empire arc.
She Is Not My Girlfriend: His relationship with Juvia develops into this after Erza encourages him to give Juvia a straight answer. His response is to ultimately try to deny himself and Juvia as an item, but Juvia doesn't go down so easily. Eventually, he becomes more comfortable around her over the second Time Skip, and he promises to give Juvia a real answer once they defeat the Alvarez Empire. It's all but directly stated at the end of the series that they end up together.
Sore Loser: Discussed when he tells Rufus that he hates losing, and refuses to do so to the same opponent twice.
Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Maker magic is this at its absolute core, with Gray's Ice Make specializing in instantly creating ice.
Stock Shōnen Rival: To Natsu's Stock Shōnen Hero. He's a somewhat aloof Jerk with a Heart of Gold and is generally quite stoic and reserved, particularly compared to Natsu's Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero tendencies. However, in a departure from typical examples, he, like the rest of Fairy Tail, does believe as strongly in the Power of Friendship as Natsu does.
Stripperiffic: He's a Rare Male Example who spends most of his appearances without a shirt, if not without pants.
Strong and Skilled: Obtaining Ice Devil Slayer magic lets him graduate from being Weak, but Skilled to this, retaining all the skill and versatility of his Ice Make Magic, but adding on raw power that ranks up there with Tartaros' elite. Much later, he proved capable of clashing evenly with E.N.D. Mode Natsu, who had just curb stomped a God Take Over!
Superdickery: Gray's behavior in the anime original Daphne Arc is pretty much this, for the first half Gray apparently joins up with the Big Bad Daphne and captures Natsu so she can use him as a power source for her Dragonoid, taunting Erza and Lucy for good measure. It then turns out he set the whole thing up to remind Natsu of a promise he'd forgotten, to help the people the villain had trapped years ago, so he could stop Daphne and free them. Why he felt the need to beat up Natsu in the process or why didn't just tell him from the start is not explained. To his credit, Gray admits the situation got out of hand with the Dragonoid attacking Magnolia and apologizing after helping to fix the situation.
Super Mode: Activating his Devil Slayer powers to the point the marks start spreading, in addition to empowering his ice with Demon Slaying properties, also boosts his physical abilities by a fair amount. In 100 Years Quest, he's strong enough to punch through the armor of Fried's Absolute Shadow and fast enough to perform a Flash Step on Evergreen and Bickslow.
Taking the Bullet: When Juvia was about to be shot by a Dragon minion's laser, Gray pushes her out of the way at the very last second. This proves to be fatal, as he is shot several times by the lasers, with one going right through his head. It would have been a Heroic Sacrifice had Ultear not turned back time by a mere minute, thus averting Gray's death.
Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's one of the taller members of the guild, has dark hair, and is a definite Deadpan Snarker.
Tareme Eyes: They reflect his serious, no-nonsense personality. They're also one of the many insults Natsu has for him.
Trauma Conga Line: This sums up the life that Gray lived. In his childhood, he lost his parents to Deliora, and was taken in by Ur, who'd trained him alongside Lyon. Because of his rage towards Deliora, he carelessly attacks the demon, and is overwhelmed, forcing Ur to perform a Heroic Sacrifice, killing herself along with Deliora. He is immediately spurned by Lyon, and is forced to fight him years later. Fast-forward to the Sirius Island arc, he fights Ur's daughter and his sisterly figure and is suspended in time along with many of the other Fairy Tail members. During the Grand Magic Games arc, he loses spectacularly during the Hidden challenge, and becomes a laughingstock to the audience. Then, he is violently killed by a dragon, only to be revived by Ultear's time reversal, which ends up turning her into an old woman instead, and Gray is the only one to know of what she'd done for Fairy Tail. Fast-forward to the Tartaros arc, where he faces the threat of everyone who Ur cared about being murdered. On top of that, he was almost forced to kill his zombie father Silver and loses him anyway as Silver told Juvia to deactivate Face, which would kill Silver in the process. Subsequently, he inherits Demon Slaying magic after battling Silver, which unknown to him would come at risk of The Corruption, and was set to kill Frosch in one year's time, as Future Rogue had warned during the latter half of the Grand Magic Games arc. In turn, this would lead to Ultear's Heroic Sacrifice. Even though he avoids that due to changes in the timeline, he then had to deal with the two-fer blow of watching Juvia commit Heroic Suicide to save him despite his own attempt at it, and then after beating down Invel Yura in a rage learns that E.N.D., the demon he's pinned much of his life's suffering on and that he swore to his father he would kill, is in fact his best friend Natsu. Overcomed by The Corruption at last, he tries murdering Natsu and, upon realizing what he tried to do after coming to his senses, tries to kill himself with a Heroic Sacrifice on Zeref that would have erased everyone's memories of himself, believing he didn't deserve to live after being willing to murder his best friend. No wonder Gray is so somber, especially compared to Natsu and Lucy.
Tsundere: A bit towards Juvia. Gray is very put off by her clinginess and would prefer her to give him some space. He still cares about her and eventually starts reciprocating her feelings, but doesn't like being open about it.
Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Natsu frequently engage in Volleying Insults, but work well together when they're on the same team, which shows that they have a healthy, Friendly Rivalry and admire each other's respect. The mere fact that he attempted to actually kill Natsu when he lost control of his own mind and emotions in the Alvarez Empire arc nearly drives Gray to cast Iced Shell on Zeref, unable to bear the thought of killing his best friend, E.N.D. or not.
Walking Shirtless Scene: He strips whenever he gets serious. He also strips whenever it would be funny. He doesn't even realize he's doing it, because he's so used to being cold.
Weak, but Skilled: His Ice Make isn't as powerful as Natsu or Erza's magic is. However, his wits and creativity allow him to take down opponents even they have trouble with. Once he gets his hand on Demon Slayer magic, however, he skyrockets in the "strength" department and essentially gains an ice version of Natsu's fighting style.
Would Hit a Girl: He states in his battle against Juvia that it he will show no mercy to those who hurt his friends, even if his opponent is a woman. True to that, he's fought against Juvia and Ultear with all he's got.

Wendy Marvell

Voiced by: Satomi Sato (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)^note

Portrayed by: Misaki Momose (stage)

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Wendy is a young Sky Dragon Slayer raised by the dragon Grandeeney in the art of healing and support magic. Grandeeney's disappearance in X777 set off a chain of events that resulted in her arrival at the Cait Shelter guild, which she represents in an alliance with Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus, and Lamia Scale against the dark guild Oración Seis. Her battle alongside her fellow Dragon Slayer Natsu ultimately results in her joining Fairy Tail and discovering her own potential as a fierce warrior capable of harnessing the power of wind against her enemies.

A-Cup Angst: She feels insecure about the idea of growing up with a flat chest, and generally being the only flat girl in a World of Buxom. Ironically, when she's temporarily forced to take over Irene's body after the latter invades hers, she finds herself struggling with D-Cup Distress, but she's still happy to at least know how large breasts feel.
Affectionate Gesture to the Head: She is often on the receiving end of this trope, most notably from Gajeel and Cana. Fitting, considering she's a good five years younger than the rest of the cast.
Animal Motifs:
- Cats, between her initial guild of Cait Shelter, and her longstanding friendship with Carla.
- Birds, between her wind based magic, prominent feathers in her design, and her dragon parent looking the most avian out of the ones shown.
Awesomeness by Analysis: She's had her moments, the most prominent of which being her fights with Sherria and Ezel. In the former, after gauging the strength of her opponent's magic, Wendy proceeded to bolster Sherria's powers enough so that her next attack was thrown off course, missing her entirely. In the latter, Wendy theorized that, if she were to absorb the high concentration of Ether-nano in the air around Face, she could activate her Dragon Force, which she successfully did.
The Baby of the Bunch: Wendy is the youngest member of the Dragon Slayers and Gajeel even and treats her as a little sis.
Badass Adorable: She's one of the youngest wizards in the series, and she can be meek and polite to an almost impossible degree. However, she uses her magic to fight toe-to-toe with man-eating dragons.
Bad Powers, Good People: Thanks to the fight with Irene, Wendy learns Personality Enchantment, which she can use to effectively commit Grand Theft Me whenever and on whoever she wants. Luckily, Wendy has no interest in using that power in such a way.
Barbarian Longhair: In Dragon Force, her hair goes from straight to a wild mane not unlike Acnologia's, emphasizing the ferocity of the form's power.
Bare-Fisted Monk: She displays a surprising level of proficiency in hand-to-hand combat once she begins taking after Natsu.
Battle Aura: After Zirconis threatens to eat Lucy, Wendy begins to give off a strong green glow. Zirconis lampshades that it was because she got pissed, which she most certainly did.
The Beastmaster: In 100 Years Quest, once she turns into a bakeneko, she commands both Happy and Carla now turned into suiko to attack Gray.
Beware the Nice Ones: She's a kind, compassionate, and helpful young girl, while also a highly skilled and powerful Dragon Slayer who can and will mess you up if you get on her bad side.
Blow You Away: Her sky magic doesn't just heal injuries, but it also lets her blow powerful gusts of wind, particularly with her Sky Dragon's Roar.
Can't Hold Her Liquor: Whenever she drinks in OVAs and Omake, she always ends up sprawled on the floor, the room spinning around her. Then again, it isn't really wise to give a twelve-year-old sake.
Cat Girl: In Chapter 74 of 100 Years Quest, it's revealed she was turned into a bakeneko Youkai, which basically gave her fur over most of her body aside from her stomach and face, cat paws, tail, and whiskers.
Character Development: Wendy first appears as a shy, meek little girl, prone to crying at times, and without a shred of fighting skills. However, after taking part in numerous battles, overcoming endless challenges, and powering through all the conflicts that her guild undergoes, she's become someone else entirely. No longer a shy, weak little girl, she's since grown into an extremely prodigious wizard, as well as a very competent Combat Medic, who won't back down from a fight, and, if necessary, will raise hell on the battlefield for the sake of her guild.
Cheerful Child: She's a sweet and innocent 12-year-old who's almost always shown smiling around her friends, despite everything she's been through.
Child Mage: She's 12 years old when the series starts, but is also a capable wizard with her healing, support, and wind magic.
Child Prodigy: She starts off as having no combat skills whatsoever, but is able to learn how to fight very quickly just by observing her fellow Dragon Slayers Natsu and Gajeel. So far, she's replicated two different attacks after only seeing Natsu perform them once, successfully learned two more attacks, along with a Secret Art, in three days, with nothing more than handwritten notes to go off of, and mastered activating Dragon Force at will in less than a year. She also figured out how to copy Irene's Enchantment spell to transfer her conscience into another body after only seeing it once, and used on her first try, no less. Irene herself notes after taking over Wendy's body that she has much more latent potential than even she herself expected, casting high-level spells comparable to when she was still using her own body (though still being overwhelmed by Wendy now using Irene's old body). By 100 Years Quest, Irene after the battle with Dark Dragon Slayer Knight Haku outright tells Wendy that she's already at the level of a High Enchanter.
Close-Call Haircut: Gets a portion of her hair lopped off during her fight with Ezel.
Combat Medic: Shapes up to be one once she learns how to use her Sky Dragon's Roar in addition to her support and healing magic. She actively fights alongside her friends while providing support on the battlefield in the Edolas and Sirius Island arcs, and can be considered a serious threat in a one-on-one fight by the Grand Magic Games arc.
Cute Clumsy Girl: Her Establishing Character Moment is a Face Fault as she runs in to join her fellow guild alliance members. It happens less frequently as the series progresses.
Cute Little Fangs: They can't be seen with her mouth closed like most examples, but she shows fangs when she opens her mouth, a trait held by all Dragon Slayers.
The Cutie: Stands out among her guildmates for her gentle compassion and love for all her friends. This being an action-heavy series, though, she often experiences her fair share of hardship and torment, but she always comes out of it with a genuine smile in the end.
Damsel in Distress: She becomes this in the Nirvana arc when the Oración Seis kidnap her to revive Jellal, while the rest of her friends go to rescue her to save Erza's life. She is also caught in the Edolas arc for Faust to power his Draconic Chain Cannon with her and Natsu's Dragon Slayer Magic. And in 100 Years Quest, she's captured after having her magic drained by Gold Owl, both as a hostage and to prevent her from using her enchantments against Duke/Viernes to render his spirit vulnerable, which necessitates rescuing her as a top priority to defeating the Gold Dragon God.
Death Glare: She pulls off an utterly spectacular one whenever she enters Dragon Force, sending her foes a look that would make Natsu and Gajeel weak at the knees.
Declaration of Protection: After being protected by her friends, she makes it her goal in the Alvarez Empire arc to repay them in full.
Defeat Means Friendship: It was technically a draw with Sherria in the Grand Magic Games, but she accepts Sherria's offer of friendship immediately afterward, nonetheless.
Determinator: Natsu and the others seem to have rubbed off on her in that department. Best shown during her fight with Sherria during the Grand Magic Games where, despite her magic being countered and even trumped by her opponent in several areas (particularly in the ability to self-heal), Wendy manages to unleash multiple powerful Dragon Slayer techniques including a Secret Art, take multiple hard-hitting God-Slayer wind blasts she couldn't negate or eat, and yet still forces a draw in hand-to-hand combat by running out the 30-minute timer for the match.
Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Her ultimate attack, Shattering Light: Sky Drill, traps her opponent inside a tornado before blasting them with a ray of light.
Does Not Like Spam: She doesn't like pickled plums. Two anime-only scenes involve characters terrifying her by eating them.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Wendy says this trope verbatim to Sherria in their Grand Magic Games match after the latter suggests that she just gives up because she's so beat up.
Everyone's Baby Sister: She's the youngest member of the Strongest Team, and one of the youngest in Fairy Tail generally, and a good way to piss off everyone in the guild (even the more jerkish members like Gajeel and Laxus) is to threaten her.
Expecting Someone Taller: When she debuted in the Nirvana arc, the guild alliance was wondering what caliber of a wizard Cait Shelter could be sending to be confident in just one. Cue a small girl tripping over her own feet.
Eye Colour Change: Dragon Force turns her eyes from brown to red.
Face–Monster Turn: Though not as predatory as Lucy, becoming a Youkai still turns Wendy into a cruel, sadistic (albeit cute) monster. Ironically, Wendy still has a decent amount of her usual cheerfulness (in fact, she's even more peppy than she usually is). It's just that she can talk about killing Gray, and then let loose the similarly transformed Happy and Carla on him with that same cheerful smile.
Feather Motif: Her magic is occasionally accompanied by the appearance of feathers, and she grows them on her wrists, ankles, and back while in Dragon Force. This likely symbolizes the bird-like appearance of her foster mother Grandeeney.
Fish out of Temporal Water: Wendy is actually from 400 years back in the past, sent to the present day through the Eclipse Gate.
Flash Step: In Dragon Force, she moves so fast that she's just a blur of motion that only resolves when she's about to throw a punch. It's heavily implied it has something to do with her manipulating the very air around her.
Fling a Light into the Future: She and the other four Dragon Slayers with dragon parents are children from 400 years in the past and sent to the future through the Eclipse Gate for the purpose of defeating Acnologia in an era where magic is most abundant, allowing them to develop their powers more fully.
Foil: One could say she serves as one to Gajeel. Wendy is kind, humble, and pacifistic, while Gajeel is gruff, initially arrogant, and nothing short of a Blood Knight. Wendy, after being left by Grandeeney, simply wanted to find her again, while Gajeel grew bitter and claimed not to care about Metalicana. Wendy's magic is about healing and support, while Gajeel's is about combat and destruction. Wendy mastered her Dragon Force, while Gajeel mastered his dual-element mode. Wendy's first interaction with Fairy Tail was helping them as part of the alliance, while Gavel's first interaction with the guild was attacking it. Wendy was very keen to meet Natsu because he was also a Dragon Slayer, while Gajeel disliked him all the more for the very same reason.
Force and Finesse: She is the Finesse to Natsu's Force, as she tends to stay calm and collected during battle, and often fights by devising clever and creative ways to use her magic.
Friend to All Living Things: She was adamant that they warn the Exceed of Faust's plan to destroy them, regardless of how cruel and callous they appeared. And just look at what she did to Hiroshi for attacking one of the frozen giants.
Full-Contact Magic: If magically enhanced strength wasn't enough, she can also punch and kick you with wind.
Geometric Magic: At first, she needed to draw a magic circle in order to cast Milky Way. It has since been subverted, and the spell instead became something akin to Soul Power.
Girlish Pigtails: She begins wearing her hair in pigtails from time to time after the Tartaros arc.
Girly Bruiser: She wears her hair in pigtails, is fond of cute things, and, in her own words, fights like a dragon.
Glass Cannon: Her spells pack a punch, but she can't take a hit herself due to her small size and lack of hand-to-hand combat experience. This becomes less of an issue when she uses a Status Buff on herself.
Good Is Not Soft: Her Character Development allows her to play this trope straight. Exemplified by her interaction with Sylph Labyrinth. They disregard her plea to stop harming the giants? Fine. Being buffeted with high-speed winds proves a little harder to ignore.
Grand Theft Me: In the Alvarez Empire arc, Irene takes over her body in order to regain her humanity. However, Wendy manages to turn the tables on her by taking over Irene's discarded body, eventually getting back in her proper place.
Had to Be Sharp: Porlyusica notes how remarkable it is that she was able to master the Secret Art spell from her book in such a short time.
Hair Reboot: She cuts her hair short in the Tartaros arc, but Cancer uses his magic to return it to its original length.
Hand Blast: Shattering Light: Sky Drill, her strongest offensive spell, is an absolutely massive take on this trope.
Healing Hands: This is the main benefit of being a Sky Dragon Slayer, though she can't heal herself.
Healing Winds: She has wind-based Dragon Slayer magic, and specifically has an ability where she manipulates clean air to heal someone. Polluted air hampers this. She's used it to cure Erza of poisoning.
Heroic Sacrifice: She attempts one when she stays behind with Carla to make sure Face was deactivated, but it's Subverted when Doranbalt saves the both of them.
Heroic Safe Mode: She nearly enters a Heroic BSoD in the Tartaros arc when she learns that there are countless Face mechanisms left to destroy after she'd nearly died alongside Carla destroying just one. However, she wills herself out of it with an Important Haircut.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: At first, she doesn't have much confidence in her abilities, and is quick to blame herself when things go wrong, which Carla complains is why people see her as "unreliable." However, after gaining more combat experience, and coming into her own as a fighter, she largely grows out of it but is quick to share the credit when people congratulate her or thank her for something she did.
Hidden Depths: At first glance, Wendy is a sweet, innocent young girl. However, she's revealed to possess a tactical, strategic mind, and an unparalleled ability to learn things, even complex and powerful magic, incredibly quickly. Also, surprisingly enough, it's been noted on more than one occasion that her temper is not to be trifled with, despite her being the most pacifistic of the team.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: She inadvertently undoes her yokai-transformation when Aquarius tricks her into thinking she just drank poison, and she uses her magic to reverse any adverse effects, which the transformation counts as.
Humble Hero: She is insanely modest about Fairy Tail's victory in the Grand Magic Games, and is quite surprised when Cana informs her that she's considered an idol by other children her age.
I Choose to Stay: A subverted example. Wendy initially declines her friends' offer to come back to Fairy Tail around the time of the Alvarez Empire's invasion of Fairy Tail, choosing instead to remain Lamia Scale to keep Sherria company since her cousin Sherry was Put on a Bus. However, she changes her mind after Sherria insists she'll be fine on her own.
Ineffectual Death Threat: After being turned into a bakeneko, she teasingly states her intent to play with him until he dies, only for Gray to point out that she's far too cute to be threatening like that. Unfortunately for him, this is followed in short order the arrival of Happy and Carla.
I See Dead People: Her Milky Way spell gives her the power to communicate with the souls of dead dragons. Uniquely, this spell also allows others to communicate with them.
Idol Singer: After Fairy Tail's dissolution, she forms a singing group with Sherria called "The Sky Sisters". Their performance has several elements of this, such as the angel costumes, cute dancing and love lyrics. If the crowd's reaction was anything to go by, they're quite good, but Wendy finds it really embarrassing.
Important Haircut: Wendy cuts her hair short with Razor Wind after getting a Close-Call Haircut during her battle with Ezel, signifying her newfound confidence and determination. However, she gets a Hair Reboot courtesy of Cancer once the war with Tartaros is won.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Let's see, kind and innocent, doesn't have a mean bone in her body, a pacifist, selfless and loves to help people to boot. That said, the fact she's pure-hearted does not mean she's stupid.
Instant Runes: She summons up intricate magic circles while casting her enchantments. Interestingly enough, while most everyone had them in the anime, Wendy was one of the only ones shown to use them in the manga as well.
It's All My Fault: She's struck with this in the Nirvana arc when she revives Jellal, who activates Nirvana and brings the Oración Seis one step closer to world domination. Her dark feelings bring her close to falling under Nirvana's control, but Hibiki knocks her out before it takes hold.
Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Most of her outfits are fancy, frilly dresses, and she's kicked ass in every single one.
Kid-Appeal Character: The main reason Wendy was created in the first place was to play the role of the cute and clumsy kid who joins the main group for added adorableness. However, Character Development has made her a heck of a lot deeper than that.
Formal Characters Use Keigo: She is a very polite and mild-mannered young lady, who speaks formally toward everyone except Carla, with their close relationship allowing for informality. Chelia advises her not to use it so much when she's trying to make new friends. Amusingly enough, she greets Yukino, Rogue, and Sting of Saber Tooth by thanking them for their help in the Grand Magic Games, prompting Carla to remind her that Saber Tooth was Fairy Tail's main rival.
Kung-Fu Wizard: Her primary combat style (like other Dragon Slayers) consists of barehanded martial arts augmented with elemental magic, though she also gets a lot more mileage out of her Breath Weapon than Natsu or Gajeel do.
Lady of War: Unlike her fellow Dragon Slayers, Natsu and Gajeel, she remains cool and collected during combat, and employs a more refined and graceful style of fighting.
Leitmotif: It's not used often, but an odd, chiming melody, most likely a reference to the initial mystery surrounding her introduction, is attributed to her.
Leeroy Jenkins: Being the only Dragon Slayer present when Acnologia appears, Wendy activates Dragon Force and prepares to face him head-on, despite Erza and Jellal's protests.
Let's Get Dangerous!: While normally a very kind individual, she's perfectly capable of kicking ass when she needs to.
Lightning Bruiser: She's fast enough to move through the air in a blur and strong enough to send fully grown adults flying. In Dragon Force, she becomes fast enough to Flash Step around the battlefield.
Like Brother and Sister: Her relationship primarily with Erza and Gray to a lesser extent, and especially with Natsu, who Wendy even compares to an older brother.
Little Miss Badass: At first she doesn't know any offensive magic other than the Sky Dragon's Roar. Since then, she's been observing and copying Natsu's fighting style. While she has had her moments before, she most definitely graduates to this once and for all during the Tartaros arc, where she fights for the first time on a level that would rival Natsu or Gajeel, and single-handedly defeats one of Tartaros's Nine Demon Gates. She goes even further in the Alvarez Empire Arc, where she takes a hand in fighting Dimaria and Irene Belserion of the Spriggan 12 and proves instrumental in providing support to defeating them.
Long Hair Is Feminine: Has long blue hair, and is a rather demure young girl.
Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Her hairclips and sandals are blown away and her socks shredded up to the calves when Ezel hits her with a mighty shockwave of cutting wind, which damages her clothing in a way that compliments the debut of her Dragon Force when the transformation causes her to sprout wings on her ankles and makes her hair bristle and glow violet.
Lovely Angels: After the battle with Tartaros, Wendy teams up with Sherria when the former joins Lamia Scale.
Magical Incantation: Aside from the standard Calling Your Attacks, Wendy's spells are usually accompanied by a brief chant or incantation.
Magic Enhancement: She's able to grant a variety of these with her magic to strengthen herself or allies. During her fight with Irene alongside Erza, she eventually figures out how to impart her magic into objects as well, such as Erza's swords, to give them dragon-slaying properties. It finally reaches its peak during the final battle with Acnologia, where she enchants the magic of herself and the other Dragon Slayers directly into Natsu for one final powerup. 100 Years Quest takes it even further when she learns how to absorb and enchant other sources of magical energy aside from Ethernano into herself and other people with some advice from Irene.
Martial Pacifist: Wendy prefers to solve things peacefully whenever possible, and takes no joy in combat. But don't think for a second that she's not still very, very good at it.
The Medic: Her Sky Magic is used to recover lost strength and remove any abnormalities in the body. Given that Wendy's a Dragon Slayer, she's also one of the best medics in the field.
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Like the others on her team, becoming bakeneko completely inverts her personality, to the point she cheerfully, and proudly identifies as one, and her personality becomes cruel and sadistic.
Moe: She is a in-universe example. Her earnestness and honesty when she says she wants to be useful to her new guild makes her guild members in Fairy Tail remark how they want to cheer on her.
Morality Pet: Gajeel is generally kinder to her than to most other people; even when he was playfully abusing his Council authority by putting his guildmates under arrest for petty reasons, he couldn't think of anything he could actually hold against her. Porlyusica also became much more sociable with the guild since revealing that she is the Edolas counterpart of Wendy's foster mother. Similarly, Mest, while still in his persona as Doranbalt, a Council wizard who was infiltrating Fairy Tail, protected her from Azuma even though it seemed like he was kidnapping her, and saved her from the exploding Face.
Mystical Waif: Has elements of this in the Nirvana arc, including a mysterious past, bad guys wanting her, a non-action status, and being a bit of a Damsel in Distress, pure-hearted and kind, and The Medic.
Mythical Motifs: Dragons, being raised by one and it being the focus of her magic.
Nice Girl: Wendy's a gentle, shy little girl who loves to help people.
Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The nicest (shy, helpful, and compassionate) of Fairy Tail's three first-generation Dragon Slayers.
No Self-Buffs: Played with. Wendy's Healing Hands don't work on herself (which is a noted difference between herself and Chelia), but her Enchantments works just as well on herself as they do others.
No-Sell: She is completely immune to magic that targets her bodily functions such as forced sleep.
Overnight Age-Up: She receives one in Chapter 88 of 100 Years Quest to combat a magical energy overflow. It isn't far off from what Reedus imagined she'd look like aged up.
Overshadowed by Awesome: More in terms of her looks than power. Many characters comment on her attractiveness, but next to the better-endowed Lucy and Erza, she is overlooked.
Pacifist Wind: Unlike her fellow Blood Knight Dragon Slayers Natsu and Gajeel, Wendy personally doesn't enjoy combat and would rather solve things peacefully if possible. In fact, before she learned to fight, she used her wind magic primarily to heal and enhance the powers of others. Over time, she's become one of the most powerful members of a guild that ranks among the strongest in the world, and has proven time and time again that though she may avoid a fight if possible, she is not someone who should be toyed with should she have to fight.
Parental Abandonment: Like Natsu and Gajeel, the dragon Grandeeney left her without a word.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's the smallest and youngest member of her team,^note but can still kick ass with the best of them.
Poke the Poodle: She attempts to terrorize the citizens of Edolas during the Dragon Slayers' Zero-Approval Gambit... by simply growling at them with puppy-dog eyes.
Power Copying: A more mundane version; she learned at least two of her offensive spells (Sky Dragon's Wing Attack and Sky Dragon's Claw) from watching Natsu perform his own versions with Fire Dragon Slayer Magic. During the fight with Irene, she quickly learns and copies several of her opponent's Enchantment spells to use on Erza or disrupt Irene's own magic, such as Deus Zero (which can nullify other Enchantment spells or magical defenses) or even Irene's own body-swapping Enchantment.
Power Dyes Your Hair: Her Dragon Force Mode dyes her hair (and eyes) light pink.
Power Gives You Wings: Grows feathery wing-like protrusions on her back, wrists, and ankles in her Dragon Force Mode, giving her the power to levitate.
Power Glows: Wendy tends to glow a bit when using her enchantment spells on herself. The color of said glow has actually changed between different installments of the series, with it being blue in the original series, green in the 2014 series, and pink in the movie Dragon Cry.
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: I'm ruling over this space!
Red Baron: She is known as both the "Sky Dragon" and "Sky Maiden", both for her proficiency with sky magic.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her Dragon Force turns her eyes from brown to red. In that state, her power is also on par with Natsu's.
Red Mage: Wendy is very proficient in both the multi-faceted art of Enchantment, as well as Sky Dragon Slayer Magic.
Running Gag: Wendy's small breast size being compared to someone else's, to her dismay.
Save the Villain: In 100 Years Quest, she DePowers Nebaru in part to save him from his Dragonification during the Wood Dragon God Arc. Later still in the Great Labyrinth of Dogra, she asks Panther Lily to grab the defeated and unconscious Haku as the labyrinth suddenly begins to transform around them.
Sharing a Body: 100 Years Quest reveals that Irene's personality is still inside of Wendy thanks to their body-switcheroo, though Wendy only became aware of this after she was forced to utilize the remaining magic power of Irene to defeat Nebaru. Irene makes it clear she's not interested in stealing Wendy's body again and is content with simply being a Spirit Advisor.
Shrinking Violet: She's introduced as such, being so shy that she practically mumbles most of her self-introductory speech to her allies. This starts to change once she joins Fairy Tail.
Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She has blue hair and is painfully shy around strangers.
Slipknot Ponytail: As she is about to fend Acnologia, when she changes into Dragon Force, her pigtails come off.
Sobriquet Sex Switch: In the "Wendell's Adventure" arc of her spinoff manga, Wendy poses as a boy named Wendell.
Status Buff: She can make herself and others faster, stronger, and more durable, to the point of being able to break steel and move in a blur. Her Sky Dragon Slayer magic is very practical because of this.
Stepping Stones in the Sky: After being sent flying by Haku, she arrests her momentum and hovers in the air with platforms of wind at her feet.
Super Mode: She obtains Dragon Force by absorbing the Ether-nano around Face during the fight with Ezel. After the second Time Skip, she's learned to activate it at will.
Supernatural Sensitivity: More than once, Wendy's shown to have a rather keen perception of any surrounding magic, such as the newly restored Sirius Tree, and Atlas Flame's lingering spirit.
Super-Reflexes: It's next to impossible to dodge a surprise shot taken by an accurate sniper. Not only does Wendy do just that, but she also pushes Lucy out of way as well.
Super-Senses: Like Natsu and Gajeel, her eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell are shown to be far above average.
Super-Speed: After attaining Dragon Force, she makes it from the floor to high above Ezel in a series of jumps, and proceeds to strike him from behind, all before he could do more than blink. Bonus points for, in the anime, vaulting off his arm when he tried to strike her back.
Super-Strength: Of a variety. With the use of her Arms enchantment, she's capable of breaking apart a metal fist, roughly the same size as herself, merely by pushing against it. She gains it naturally with Dragon Force, and in the anime, it's enough to let her stop and shatter one of Ezel's Absurdly Sharp Blades with her bare fists.
Sweet Polly Oliver: Wendy's spinoff manga has her disguising herself as a boy when on her mission, since she'd heard that girls were being targeted by a dragon.
Sweet Tooth: Like Erza, she loves eating sweets. The two even went on a mission together where their only reward was sweets.
Swiss-Army Superpower: Wendy's Enchantment magic quickly branched out from simply providing StatusBuffs. Within her repertoire is the ability to summon the souls of deceased dragons, transfer her own consciousness into another body, withdraw and convey magic between multiple people, and even temporarily impart Dragon Slaying properties unto others.
Sympathy for the Devil: After hearing about Irene's Dark and Troubled Past, she admits that she does feel genuinely sorry for her, but also notes that won't stop her from fighting her with her full strength.
Tareme Eyes: She particularly stands out against the fierce, often slit-pupiled glares of the other six Dragon Slayers.
Tender Tears: Is reduced to broken sobs as she watches her old guild fade away from existence. And again when her mother, Grandeeney vanishes alongside the other dragons.
This Is a Drill: One of her Secret Arts: Shattering Light: Sky Drill. It lives up to the name.
Token Mini-Moe: Wendy is a preteen girl who joins Fairy Tail's Strongest Team later in the series, officially becoming its youngest member. She's adorable, short, and flat-chested, in direct contrast with the other two female members who are tall and busty.
Took a Level in Badass: After joining Fairy Tail, she gradually evolves from a meek young girl with no battle skills and less self-confidence to a fully-fledged Combat Medic who can hold her own in a fight. She goes a step further when she attains Dragon Force in the Tartaros arc, and further still when she learns to activate it at will.
Town Girls: The Femme to Lucy's Neither and Erza's Butch. Wendy is the girliest of the three girls in the team.
Trauma Conga Line: Let's see: She has no biological family to speak of, instead having been found and raised by the Sky dragon Grandeeney, only for said dragon to vanish, along with the others, without so much as a goodbye. Five years old, and entirely alone, Wendy has to good fortune to cross paths with Mystogan, who cared for her for a few months before leaving her at the guild Cait Shelter. Seven years later, Wendy watches as the guild; her home and family, vanish right before her eyes. Again, she finds a new home in Fairy Tail, only for it and the entire city to get swallowed up by an Anima (though she is able to help reverse this). Skip forward to the conclusion of the Tartaros arc, and we find Wendy finally reunited with Grandeeney, but it turns out she, and the other dragons, are little more than ghosts. Wendy can only cry as the dragons bid their children one last goodbye before vanishing entirely.
Two Guys and a Girl: Her partnership with Natsu and Gajeel, with her role being The Heart. She fulfills her role rather well, acting as a mediator between her more hot-headed counterparts.
Unskilled, but Strong: A variation of this. While there is no questioning that she's very strong for a wizard in her age group, she still lacks a lot of fighting experience. This trope is increasingly being subverted post-Sirius Island proven by the way she competed in the Grand Magic Games and during Lucy's rescue from Mercurius' labyrinthine Hell Palace. Finally put to bed when she attained Dragon Force in her fight against Ezel.
Villain Respect: More than once during their fight, Irene remarks upon Wendy's surprising level of skill in Enchantment magic.
Waif-Fu: She's in her early preteens at the oldest throughout the series, and has sent fully grown adults flying with relative ease on numerous occasions.
Weaksauce Weakness:
- After the second Time Skip, she develops the same motion sickness weakness that all other Dragon Slayers have. The worst part is that she can't even heal herself while in this state.
- Several anime-exclusive scenes show opponents intimidating her with pickled plums, namely Gray and Loke during the S-Class exam, and Cosmos during the Grand Magic Game.s
- Though it's never become in issue within the story, her profile states that her magic stops working in polluted areas.
Wind Is Green: Her magic gains a green aura as the anime continues.
Wise Beyond Her Years: Despite being only thirteen years old, she's tied with Lucy as the most mature member of the team, has displayed both a very keen intellect, and a very strong sense of morals, and possess a wealth of resolve and determination otherwise unheard of in someone so young.
The Worf Effect: Wendy suffers from this somewhat during her battle with DiMaria. Despite being in Dragon Force, she fails to so much as injure DiMaria after the latter activates her God Soul Takeover, and would've been killed had Sherria not intervened. However, she does successfully shield Sherria from DiMaria's desperate counterattack and give her time to land the finishing blow.
Worf Had the Flu: In the Wood Dragon God arc of 100 Years Quest, Wendy uses up most of her magic and strength fighting Nebal of Diabolos before forcibly separating the White Mage from Touka. By the time she goes up against the God Seed Doom she's running on fumes with her previous injuries catching up to her and no time to replenish herself, with her noting she only has enough magic left to cast a few more Enchantments and not nearly enough to land an attack strong enough to finish him in one go. She instead chooses to power up the minor members of Fairy Tail who came to her aid and let them defeat the God Seed in her stead.
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: What anyone unfortunate enough to get on her bad side quickly realizes. Case in point; trying to eat her friends is a bad idea, as shown two times. The first is when Zirconis threatens to eat Lucy, prompting Wendy to activate her Battle Aura with the promise to "crush him". The second is when Ezel came very close to actually eating Carla alive; he suffers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from a Super Mode-enhanced Wendy, a direct hit from her Limit Break, which is essentially a Kamehame Hadoken that's been taken up a notch, before finally being thrown into, and through, a giant monolith of stone for his troubles.

Carla / Charles

Carla

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)^note

^{Click here to see her human transformation}

Carla (Charles^notepronounced "Sharl" in Japan) is Wendy's serious-minded but well-meaning female Exceed partner and caretaker, born and raised at Cait Shelter after being sent from her native Edolas by her mother, Queen Chagot. Since then, Carla accompanies Wendy on her missions. Joining Fairy Tail along with Wendy to keep an eye on the latter in X784, Carla's slow to befriend the guild, particularly fellow Exceed Happy. Once she witnesses Happy's efforts to protect his friends in Edolas during Extalia's final days, however, her friendship with them significantly improves.

In addition to her kind's Aera ability, Carla has the power to see future events. This precognitive ability is further enhanced when Carla learns transformation magic to assume a humanoid form, which also grants her more combat-oriented spells and skills.

Accidental Truth: She tells Nightwalker that she's the Exceed Princess during her Big Damn Heroes moment in Edolas, and it later turns out that she is secretly Chagot's daughter.
Armor-Piercing Question: She asks Happy about who he really is by the time of the Edolas arc, leading to the latter's Heroic BSoD.
Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Downplayed. She walks barefoot most of the time, though some of her outfits include shoes. This becomes more common when she needs to assume her human form.
Bond Creatures: To Wendy, just like all the other Exceed belonging to Dragon Slayers raised by dragons.
Break the Haughty: She goes through one of these during the Edolas arc. In the beginning, she's an insufferable cat who cares about protecting Wendy, despite her mission to destroy the Dragon Slayers. After inadvertently causing Wendy and her friends to be captured, as well as witnessing Happy's Undying Loyalty to his friends, and discovering that the mission was actually her precognition abilities going haywire, she matures up and cares about people other than Wendy and herself.
British Stuffiness: Jad Saxton provides a British accent for Carla in Funimation's dub, reflecting her formal way of speaking in the original Japanese.
The Cassandra: Her belief about Faust's plans to kill the Exceed off is dismissed by her own kind, but it later turns out to be true.
Cat Girl: Her human form still has her cat ears and tail.
Cats Are Snarkers: Just like Happy, she willingly throws a few sarcastic jabs towards others.
Cats Are Superior: She considers herself above everyone else before she had a dose of Break the Haughty in the Edolas arc.
Declaration of Protection: Despite her mission to kill off the Dragon Slayers (or so she believes at first), Carla decides to abandon it in order to protect Wendy.
Defrosting Ice Queen: While she starts off as an insufferable jerk who's only close to Wendy, she becomes friendlier with and care about her guildmates from Fairy Tail as she recognizes them as her friends.
Distaff Counterpart: As the first of her kind besides Happy himself, she serves as his female counterpart.
Doomed Hometown: Her native homeland Extalia is destroyed in the Edolas arc.
Dub Name Change: Her Japanese name is Charles, pronounced Sharuru in Japanese, which would roughly equate to the French pronunciation "Sharl". Because this could easily be confused for a male name by readers unfamiliar with the pronunciation, it was changed to the more feminine "Carla" in the manga. Even though this problem wouldn't exist in the English dub, however, Funimation still opted to go with "Carla".
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Even more drastically than Happy in the manga. In her debut appearance, Carla had a more traditionally feline head with angular curves, tufted ears, a more realistically proportioned body, and a muzzle, and an aristocratic and condescending look on her face, with her head cocked like she was constantly looking down on people. She became more chibi by default with a rounded head that no longer has a pronounced muzzle but retains an occasional cat smile (or pout), a top-heavy stubby bodily appearance that all the Dragon Slayers' Exceed partners share, and a less snooty countenance with wider eyes. Once again, the anime revamps her debut appearance as already having the chibi redesign.
Establishing Character Moment: Her first moments is arriving with Wendy at the guildhall to help Wendy and demonstrating a Lack of Empathy towards Happy's advances upon meeting him, showing the audience her arrogance and compassion at the same time.
Face–Monster Turn: Like Happy, she's transformed into a monstrous cat-yokai called a Suiko, but also like Happy, she seems to maintain some of her original personality, including a fierce protectiveness to Wendy.
Fantastic Slurs: Carla often refers to Happy as "male cat" when she first meets him. When they are in Extalia, she begins to call Happy by his name once he does his Heroic Resolve.
Flight: Like all Exceed, her Aera ability lets her grow angelic wings and fly.
Hey, You!: Back in the Oración Seis arc, Carla refers to Happy as "male cat". When Happy gives his "up yours" speech to Nichiya and Nadl in Edolas, Carla permanently addresses him by name, a change that Lucy notices.
Humanity Ensues: Carla learns how to transform into a Cat Girl at will after the second Time Skip, which she says gives a boost to her magic and precognitive abilities.
Humble Pie: When she first appears back in the Oración Seis arc, she's an insufferable and arrogant jerk to many of her peers, especially Happy. However, she's brought down a few pegs after witnessing Happy's Heroic Resolve while in Extalia.
Inconsistent Spelling: Her Japanese name, "Charles", is alternatively spelled "Charle" in Funimation's subtitles to preserve the Japanese pronunciation (Sharuru).
Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being a jerk to Happy, she has a reasonable point about Extalia's destruction and the disappearance of Edolas's magic thanks to her precognition.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Though she can be a snarker, as well as an insufferable jerk towards her friends, she's at heart a very good person.
Kick Chick: In her human form, she fights using primarily kicks.
Lack of Empathy: When Happy first falls in love with her, Carla finds his attempts to win her over quite annoying, to say the least. She reconsiders after Happy sticks up for her against their own kind in Edolas.
Light Is Good: Has white fur and wings, on top of being one of the most moral, if snarky, members of Fairy Tail.
Little Miss Snarker: Despite being a 6-year-old cat, she can spurt out biting sarcasm when she wants to.
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Much like Happy, being turned into a yokai causes Carla to turn violent and savage, with little trace of her old personality, beyond a protectiveness of Wendy.
My God, What Have I Done?: While she doesn't utter the phrase, she has a visible look of horror and guilt on her face after realizing that leading her friends to be captured by Faust's army at the worst possible time is a case of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero and goes into a major Heroic BSoD because of it.
No Social Skills: She doesn't quite fit in with Fairy Tail by the time of the Edolas arc.
Oh, Crap!: She visibly panics after she unintentionally leads her friends to be captured by Faust's forces in Edolas.
Only Sane Woman: She is one of the very few members of Fairy Tail to have no personality quirk, which also makes her keenly aware of how crazy her guildmates are.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: This trope happens only in Funimation's dub; Jad Saxton did a mostly good job giving Carla a light British accent, but slip-ups were made. The scene of her emotional shutdown after hearing what her "mission" was is a notable example.
Panthera Awesome: In Chapter 74 of 100 Years Quest, she and Happy are turned into suiko, Youkai that resemble giant predatory cats.
Perpetual Frowner: She's first seen with a scowl on her face and never smiles once. Well, until Happy gives an "up yours" to the Exceed, at least.
Pink Is Feminine: Typically wears dresses and/or ribbons with some pink in them, and is the most prominent female Exceed in the series.
Properly Paranoid: Her distrust towards Mest Gryder turns out to be correct when he's revealed as a Council spy.
Prophetic Fallacy: She foresees future events that mention Queen Chagot using Dragon Slayers as scapegoats for sending her and 99 others of their kind to Earth-land as eggs. Not only does she mistake the queen's bluff of killing Dragon Slayers to be her actual mission, but a major part of her initial jerkassery towards Happy is because she also assumed that the Exceed living in Earth-land must know about it; Happy, on the other hand, doesn't. This comes back to haunt Carla big time once she becomes aware of her precognition ability by the time of Extalia's destruction.
The Resenter: When she first meets Happy by the time of the Oración Seis arc, she's resentful of the latter's obliviousness to the Exceed's operation to hunt down the Dragon Slayers, or so she thinks. All of this is thrown out the window the moment she witnesses Happy's Heroic Resolve.
Seers: She inherited Chagot's ability to foresee future events, which she initially mistakes for artificially implanted memories relating to her false mission. Once she's aware of this ability, she begins to develop it more and more later on, from predicting immediate events and vague portents of doom to multiple outcomes of a single event. Her human form extends her clarity of the future even more.
Shoot the Dog: Her mission to kill the Dragon Slayers, which later turns out to be a bluff.
So Proud of You: Carla always expresses her utmost pride in Wendy whenever the latter comes further out of her shell and becomes a powerful warrior.
This Cannot Be!: She invokes the trope to the letter in her Heroic BSoD when she learns from Nichiya about what her Dragon Slayer-killing operation really was.
Token Flyer: She shares the role of the team's flying cat with Happy.
Took a Level in Badass: Her human transformation after the second Time Skip turns her from a mostly powerless bystander into a fully capable fighter.
Took a Level in Kindness: Carla starts out as a self-centered, insufferable cat who only cares about Wendy. By the end of the Edolas arc, Carla is more mature, friendly, and likable, being willing to help Happy and Wendy's newfound friends when they are in danger.
Tsundere: By the time of the Sirius Island arc, she has a friendlier relationship with Happy, though she is still critical of his more idiotic moments.
Unwitting Pawn: She accidentally helps out Faust's Evil Plan to declare war on the Exceeds in more ways than one.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: By the time of the Avatar arc, Carla has learned to transform into a human form.
When She Smiles: She rarely smiles before the Edolas arc, but when she does, it shows how soft and kind she can be.
Winged Humanoid: She can use Aera in her human form as well.
Wise Beyond Their Years: She's only six years old by the start of the series, but thanks in large part to her precognitive ability, she is far more mature than the 12-year-old Wendy.

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Happy

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)^note

Gray Fullbuster

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura, Eri Kitamura [young] (Japanese); Newton Pittman, Ryan Reynolds [young] (English)^note

Portrayed by: Atsushi Shiramata (stage)

Wendy Marvell

Voiced by: Satomi Sato (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)^note

Portrayed by: Misaki Momose (stage)

Carla

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)^note

Alternative Title(s): Fairy Tail Team Natsu

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Happy

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)note Other languages: Jennifer Medel (Latin American Spanish); Nina Romero (European Spanish); Fanny Bloc (French); Charlotte Uhlig (German); Monica Bertolotti (Italian); Letícia Celini, Luísa Viotti [redub] (Brazilian Portuguese)

Gray Fullbuster

Portrayed by: Atsushi Shiramata (stage)

Wendy Marvell

Voiced by: Satomi Sato (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)note Other languages: Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish); Nina Romero (European Spanish); Jennifer Fauveau (French); Sarah Tkotsch (German); Joy Saltarelli (Italian), Sicília Vidal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Portrayed by: Misaki Momose (stage)

Carla

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)note Other languages: Erika Ugalde (Latin American Spanish); Greta Ruiz (European Spanish), Frédérique Marlot (French); Sarah Alles (German); Maura Cenciarelli (Italian), Bianca Alencar (Brazilian Portuguese)

Alternative Title(s): Fairy Tail Team Natsu

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