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Fei Fei's Family
Fei Fei
Voiced by: Cathy Ang
- Asian and Nerdy: She could build an entire rocket on her own.
- The Ace: She's at the top of her class and she's smart enough to engineer an almost-working rocket.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: In an anguished wish she plans the revelation of Chang'e being real would cease her father's remarrying.
- Innocent Prodigy: Stunted maturity by trauma aside, Fei Fei is genuinely adept at the practical science of building a maglev-propelled rocket, or at least what could be a slick go-kart.
- I Miss Mom: Her grief over the loss of her mother is what drives all her actions. She becomes convinced if she can prove Chang'e exists, then her father with "remember" her mother and not marry Ms. Zhong.
- Important Haircut: The reason behind Fei Fei's shredded hair. Ma Ma used to comb her hair, so Fei Fei chopped it off in grief when she died.
- MacGyvering: Her rocket is made out of random stuff she picks up around town, with the most "machine" like bits identifiable being old car doors, parts of washing machine, and a video game controller.
- Tragic Keepsake: Her mother's scarf with Chang'e's image on it and her Chang'e doll.
- Wrench Wench: How many kids do you know who can build a working rocket?
Chin
Voiced by: Robert G Chiu Robert G. Chiu]]
- Animal Motifs: Chin is associated with frogs. His introduction is playing leapfrog over Fei Fei, he has a pet frog named Croak, and his attitude is very lively and impulsive.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: His enthusiasm and eccentricities cause Fei Fei to think of him as an annoying brother.
- Big Sister Worship: He really admires Fei Fei and is always trying to impress her even before they become siblings.
- Catchphrase: Chin shouts "No barriers!" whenever he tries to use his "superpower".
- Cheerful Child: Chin is very hyperactive and positive, and even after Fei Fei breaks his heart by claiming she'll never be his sister he quickly rallies to get the picture in order to help her anyway.
- Children Are Innocent: Doesn't catch on to Fei Fei's dislike of him until she spells it out, having blamed her being annoyed by him on normal sibling feelings. Also is stunned that despite winning his ping pong game against Chang'e she won't give him what she promised.
- Cloudcuckoolander: One of his many quirks is he thinks he can run through walls. He later decides his hyperactivity and ability to be annoying is another superpower when battling Chang'e. His mother and Fei Fei's father both mostly put this on him being eight and high energy, while Fei Fei is initially less charitable and thinks he's nuts.
- Determinator: He will do anything for Fei Fei, whether it's winning a very rigged game of zero gravity ping pong or running into a magic door for hours.
- Little Stowaway: Chin comes along on Fei Fei's adventure to the Moon when he sneaks aboard her rocket.
- The Load: Literally early in the film, the rocket nearly crashes because Fei Fei didn't know he was on it and to calculate for his and his frog's weight. If Lunaria hadn't caught them in the tractor beam, they could have died in the first third of the film. He grows out of it.
- The Power of Love: Sincerely believes his superpowers will activate to help him help Fei Fei on the moon. When it comes to the Chamber of Exquisite Sadness, he's right.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Despite being so positive and cheerful, he gives a devastating one to Chang'e about the alternate version of her story where she selfishly hoarded immortality during their ping pong match.
Bungee
Fei Fei's ever loyal pet rabbit.
- Badass Adorable: Bungee is ridiculously cute and, once she gets her Deadly Upgrade, becomes a force to be reckoned with.
- Bunnies for Cuteness : A chubby, fluffy rabbit with thick lashes over big blue eyes.
- Cowardly Lion: Bungee is understandably scared during the first half of the movie. She's an intelligent bunny but still a sheltered pet. She does brave going in a rocket out of loyalty to Fei Fei but she's not keen to join Chin in a fight with palace guards, until her Super-Empowering.
- I Choose to Stay: With Fei Fei's blessing, Bungee decides to stay in Lunaria having fallen for Jade.
- Love at First Sight: She's amazed at the first sight of Jade Rabbit deejaying Chang'e's concert.
- Moon Rabbit: Stays on Lunaria to be with Jade on the moon.
- Non-Standard Kiss: Gives a nose-nuzzle to Jade after his potion grants her ears magic laser-powers.
- Righteous Rabbit: Bungee chooses to comfort Chin after Fei Fei hurts his feelings, leaving Fei Fei to find the gift on hr own.
- Super-Empowering: Jade's magic potion splashing on Bungee gives her laser-shooting ears. She loves using them to help her friends.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: She has thick black eyelashes, as if someone put mascara on this rabbit.
- The Voiceless: She doesn't talk.
- White Bunny: Fei-Fei's adorable white rabbit is white.
Ba Ba
Voiced by: John Cho
- Parent with New Paramour: The story kicks off because Fei Fei isn't ready to accept that her father wants to move on from her late mother...and admittedly, he didn't exactly choose the best time to introduce his daughter to his fiancée.
- Second Love: It's implied he is this for Ms. Zhong, as she already has her own kid.
Ma Ma
Voiced by: Ruthie Ann Miles
- Missing Mom: To Fei Fei
- Our Spirits Are Different: It's implied that the crane is her deceased spirit trying to get her daughter, Fei Fei, to move on. In Chinese myth cranes are seen as very spiritual.
- Unnamed Parents: We never learn her name.
- Character Death: she passes away due to a terminal illness at the beginning of the movie.
Ms. Zhong
Voiced by: Sandra Oh
- Famous Ancestor: Claims her family is related to Houyi, Chang'e's husband. It's implied that either she or Chin (as descendants of Houyi) put the mooncake with "The Gift" in Fei Fei's backpack.
- Good Stepmother: Shows potential to be one. She's never anything but kind and patient with Fei Fei and genuinely tries to fit in with the family at dinner.
- Second Love: For Ba Ba, after Fei Fei's mother dies of an unspecified illness.
Others
Other members of Fei Fei's family who show up for the Mid-Autumn Festival dinners.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: In-Universe. Two of Fei Fei's aunts debate which version of Chang'e and Houyi's story is actually "real". One aunt says Chang'e actually took both immortality pills on purpose and is happily living on the moon with a rabbit instead of a husband.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Fei Fei's grandfather wanders around the kitchen during dinner spouting random facts about crabs.
Lunaria
In General
Chang'e
Voiced by: Phillipa Soo
- Defrosting Ice Queen: When Fei Fei meets her she is not like what the girl expected. She starts off haughty and proud, treating Fei Fei and her friends coldly and demanding "The Gift" without explaining what it is. By the end of the movie she is revealed to be struggling with her own grief and she becomes friendly toward Fei Fei.
- Deity of Human Origin: She became immortal by taking a magic potion.
- The Fashionista: She has an Unlimited Wardrobe and wears costumes by real life designer Guo Pei.
- Fisher King: She created Lunaria and her emotions affect everything there, i.e. anger causes meteor showers, grief causes all lights to go dark.
- God of the Moon: The goddess of the Moon as her mythological counterpart.
- "I Am Great!" Song: "Ultraluminary", her introductory-song which has her revel in her own beauty and the Lunarians' worship of her.
- Idol Singer: Three-thousand years old and still keeping up with what the kids like.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Has a very undignified breakdown at one point and ruins her makeup.
- Lunacy: Well, she is the goddess of the Moon. Supposedly her powers revolve around light, but in all honesty she doesn't do many feats of magic in the movie.
- One True Love: To Houyi. Thousands of years after his death, she still can't move on from him and gets pissed off at anyone who even suggests she do so. she eventually accepts that she can't bring him back and resolves to live her life in the present instead of forever mourning the past.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: A particularly painful example—after her brief reunion with him, she tearfully cries out "Please don't leave me again!" to Houyi as he starts to fade.
- The Prima Donna: In the centuries since her arrival on the moon, she's reinvented herself as a somewhat self-centered pop-star.
- Proud Beauty: She's a gorgeous woman and she knows it, if "Ultraluminary" is any indication.
- Seeks Another's Resurrection: Non-villainous example. She needs The Gift to bring Houyi back to life.
- Shadow Archetype: Chang'e's tragic and ultimately hopeless quest to reunite with Houyi embodies how Fei Fei will turn out if she doesn't accept the loss of her mother.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: According to Gobi, she became this way after Houyi died in Earth.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's a very tall woman, thanks in no small part to her incredibly long legs. It seems becoming an immortal Moon Goddess has given her height, because her later transformation into her mortal form gives her a much more "human" height.
- Swiss-Army Tears: She created the Lunarians with her tears, and makes new ones any time she cries.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Despite being mercurial and self-centered at times, her subjects the Lunarians all adore her. Realizing this is what breaks her out of her funk after losing Houyi — she is surrounded by folks who love her.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Becoming immortal caused her to float away from her lover Houyi and become trapped on the moon. Houyi remained mortal and eventually died, leaving Chang'e to keep waiting in vain for him for thousands of years.
Jade
The confidant of Chang'e and a supremely powerful alchemist.
- Alchemy Is Magic: His "potions" can do marvelous magical things, but still need the right ingredients to do so.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife : He has green fur and purple eyes.
- The Confidant: Chang'e is affectionate towards only Jade and also pulls him into a hug when she's sobbing.
- Eyes Always Averted: He's bashful first meeting Bungee.
- Insubstantial Ingredients: Jade used a potion comprised of Chang'e's tears, heartbreak and sighs to create life on the moon. To create the potion to bring back Houyi he uses love as the final ingredient.
- Magic Kiss: Bungee rubbing her nose against his creates an ingredient Jade needed for his potion to bring back Chang'e's lost love.
- Moon Rabbit: The mythical rabbit on the moon and companion to the goddess Chang'e. He's lived there for the last three thousand years or so.
- Nervous Wreck: The pressure to provide potions for Chang'e has him tug his ears. After meeting Bungee he's noticeably more chipper.
- The Voiceless: Like Bungee, has no lines. He communicates solely through expressions.
Gobi
Voiced by: Ken Jeong
- Aardvark Trunks: Looks like a bear at first glance because of how wide his mouth and nose are.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Possibly due to his long exile, but he's a scatterbrained chatterbox.
- The Exile: Was kicked out of Lunaria because he sang a song to Chang'e about moving on from grief.
- Overly-Long Tongue: He has a long tongue which he uses for many purposes, such as lassoing a giant moon frog and grabbing onto a fleeing hover-bike. Justified as he is a pangolin, a creature known to have a tongue longer than its body in real life.
- Small Taxonomy Pools: One of the very few pangolins in fiction.
Others
Houyi
Voiced by: Conrad Ricamora
- Improbable Aiming Skills: While never mentioned in the movie, in the legend, Houyi was responsible for shooting down the nine suns that were overheating the Earth, leaving behind only one sun.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Houyi would rather Chang'e move on from him than waste eternity trying to bring him back.
- Mortality Ensues: When Chang'e took both potions, not only was his lover trapped on the moon forever, but he also lost the chance to be immortal with her.
- One True Love: To Chang'e. When he's briefly resurrected and they reunite, he takes the time he has to beg her to move on from him, because he wants her to be happy.
- Posthumous Character: Died thousands of years ago on Earth prior to the events in this movie. For a brief moment, he reunites with Chang'e. As he fades away, he tells Chang'e that she has to move on.
