History Characters / Anastasia

The heroine of our story. She was living a happy life with her family until 1916, when the revolution started, which killed most of her family but her grandmother Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna Romanova. She managed to escape with the help of a young kitchen boy, but when trying to get on a train with her grandmother, she slipped and hit her head on the floor, losing her memories. Ten years later, she is now named Anya and with the help of Dimitri and Vlad, hopes to find out more about herself and her family.

* UnreliableNarrator: She claims that the Romanovs eventually figured out that Rasputin was a conman and a fraud. The movie shows that by the time they did, Rasputin had enough ''real'' magical power to get revenge for being exiled. Marie also speaks nothing but praise about her son Nicholas as the czar of Russia. Given the amount of insurgents that storm the palace and take down his statue, he probably wasn't as good an emperor as she claimed.

* WouldHurtAChild: He had no qualms over trying to kill Child!Anastasia or causing the deaths of the other children of the Romanov family.

* ScaledUp: She transforms into a giant, evil dragon and attacks Russia.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KirstenDunst (young), Creator/MegRyan (adult); Creator/LaceyChabert (young, singing) and Liz Callaway (adult, singing); Vera Voronkova (speaking), Maria Katz (singing) [Russian dub][[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Creator/CristinaHernandez (young), Mirna Garza (young, singing), Dulce Guerrero (adult) and Thalía (adult, singing) [Latin American Spanish dub], Alma Koleci [Albanian dub], Tosca [Italian dub], Limor Shapira [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnCusack, Jonathan Dokuchitz (singing), Glenn Walker Harris, Jr. (younger); Sergey Veshchev (speaking), Andrey Krasnousov (singing) [Russian dub][[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Creator/EnzoFortuny (young), Creator/MarioCastaneda (adult) and Raúl Carballeda (adult, singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]; Aki Avni [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KelseyGrammer; Andrey Yaroslavtsev (speaking), Vladimir Vinokur (singing) [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Esteban Siller (speaking) and Luis Miguel Marmolejo (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]; Ami Mendelman (speaking), Eli Gorenstein (singing) [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AngelaLansbury; Irina Gubanova [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Beatriz Aguirre [Latin American Spanish dub]; Lea Konig [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BernadettePeters; Larisa Golubkina [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Yolanda Vidal (speaking) and Ivette Pérez (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]; Miki Kam (speaking), Tal Amir (singing) [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RickJones [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Creator/ArturoMercado [Latin American Spanish dub]; Shimon Kohen [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} (singing); Alexander Buynov [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Germán Robles (speaking) and Francisco López (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]; Dov Raizer [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HankAzaria, Igor Pismenny [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Creator/JavierRivero [Latin American Spanish dub]; Dor Tsvaigenbom [Hebrew dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KirstenDunst (young), Creator/MegRyan (adult); Creator/LaceyChabert (young, singing) and Liz Callaway (adult, singing); Vera Voronkova (speaking), Maria Katz (singing) [Russian dub][[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Creator/CristinaHernandez (young), Mirna Garza (young, singing), Dulce Guerrero (adult) and Thalía (adult, singing) [Latin American Spanish dub], Alma Koleci [Albanian dub], Tosca [Italian dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnCusack, Jonathan Dokuchitz (singing), Glenn Walker Harris, Jr. (younger); Sergey Veshchev (speaking), Andrey Krasnousov (singing) [Russian dub][[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Creator/EnzoFortuny (young), Creator/MarioCastaneda (adult) and Raúl Carballeda (adult, singing) [Latin American Spanish dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KelseyGrammer; Andrey Yaroslavtsev (speaking), Vladimir Vinokur (singing) [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Esteban Siller (speaking) and Luis Miguel Marmolejo (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AngelaLansbury; Irina Gubanova [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Beatriz Aguirre [Latin American Spanish dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BernadettePeters; Larisa Golubkina [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Yolanda Vidal (speaking) and Ivette Pérez (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RickJones; Creator/ArturoMercado [Latin American Spanish dub]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} (singing); Alexander Buynov [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Germán Robles (speaking) and Francisco López (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HankAzaria, Igor Pismenny [Russian dub] [[labelnote:Click to see other languages]]Creator/JavierRivero [Latin American Spanish dub][[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KirstenDunst (young), Creator/MegRyan (adult); Creator/LaceyChabert (young, singing) and Liz Callaway (adult, singing); Creator/CristinaHernandez (young), Mirna Garza (young, singing), Dulce Guerrero (adult) and Thalía (adult, singing) [Latin American Spanish dub], Alma Koleci [Albanian dub], Tosca [Italian dub]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnCusack, Jonathan Dokuchitz (singing), Glenn Walker Harris, Jr. (younger); Creator/EnzoFortuny (young), Creator/MarioCastaneda (adult) and Raúl Carballeda (adult, singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KelseyGrammer; Esteban Siller (speaking) and Luis Miguel Marmolejo (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AngelaLansbury; Beatriz Aguirre [Latin American Spanish dub]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BernadettePeters; Yolanda Vidal (speaking) and Ivette Pérez (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} (singing); Germán Robles (speaking) and Francisco López (singing) [Latin American Spanish dub]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HankAzaria; Creator/JavierRivero [Latin American Spanish dub]

* BreastExpansion: Her breasts greatly expand in one part of her music number transformation, giving her GagBoobs.

* GagBoobs: During her transformation, her boobs grow to massive sizes.

* AnimalMotif: She has two animalistic sides to her- one draconic, the other more rat-like, which is subtle, but noticeable, as well.

* DelusionsOfBeauty: When Ludmilla drinks a potion that is supposed to increase whatever is inside the heart of the drinker tenfold on the outside, Ludmilla sings an entire song about how she is becoming more and more beautiful. In reality, she is experiencing a [[BitByBitTransformation bit by bit]], KarmicTransformation into a dragon, reflecting her evil, greedy heart. When she finally sees her true transformation, she goes on a rampage.
%%* EvilGloating: Does so during her song.

* PrideBeforeaFall: At the climax of the movie, she triumphantly downs the potion and gloats over her impending victory, but just as she thinks she's got the whole world in her hands she turns into a rampaging monster and dies shortly thereafter.

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* BreaktheHaughty: For her arrogance, she becomes a monster and dies at the hands of the most unlikely hero -- Bartok.

* SexyWalk: She does this after drinking the formula.

%%* TheAntagonist: What she is, and all she is in the movie.

* FauxAffablyEvil: She holds a polite and proper facadem before the final act has her showing everyone her true colors as a sadistic, wrathful beast.

%%* HartmanHips: Her human form and dragon form have this.%%Have what?

%%* MindControlEyes: When Bartok hypnotizes her by juggling the rocks.

%%* SexyWalk: She does this after

* FountainOfYouth: Plausable. During her transformation, she displays powerful, youthful energy and strength, as well as looking, feeling, and acting like she aged backwards a bit during her transformation. Dragons typically live for about 1000 years or so, and since Ludmilla is more or less around her early 50s or so, this means her draconic form is even younger than her human form.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: With Dimitri. He used to work as a servant in the Winter Palace when he was a boy, and saved an eight-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia from being captured in the Revolution. They meet again as adults when "Anya" has TraumaInducedAmnesia and doesn't remember anything about her childhood, while Dimitri for his part remembers the meeting well but doesn't realize she's Anastasia. [[spoiler:Anastasia/Anya later recalls a vague memory of "a boy who worked at the palace" saving her - though she doesn't know it was Dimitri - which tips him off about her true identity. She later regains all her memories properly, although by then, Dimitri is devastated because a former kitchen boy could never be good enough for a Grand Duchess.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Choleric - A headstrong, FieryRedhead who won’t be bossed around.

* MysteriousWaif: A rare protagonist example--she's fallen royalty who doesn't remember her past. Being the protagonist, she's more proactive than most versions of this trope.

* TricksterMentor: Seems evil at first but she's just cranky.


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* BigFun: Very fat and fun to be around.

* OfficialCouple: With Sophie.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RickJones; Creator/ArturoMercado [Latin American Spanish dub]

* ArchEnemy: To Rasputin.

* TheDragon: To Rasputin.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bartok abandons Rasputin during the climax.

* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Far less evil and more comical than his master.

* BellyFlopCrushing: What she does to a group of prisoners below when she finishes singing ''The Real Ludmilla'' and proceeds to divebomb them from her chained perch.
* BitByBitTransformation: Slowly, but surely, and seductively, too, she becomes a proper dragoness.

* BreastExpansion: Her breasts greatly expands in one part of her music number transformation, giving her GagBoobs.

* DragonsAreDemonic: Ludmilla pretty much embodies all the atypical evil dragon tropes, minus the wings, the treasure hoard, and the kidnapping.

* KarmicTransformation: Her dragoness form reflects on the outside what she truly is on the inside -- despicably evil down to the core of her very being.
* LeanAndMean: Ludmilla is skinny at the start, but when she goes through her transformation, this changes.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Has her own torture dungeon and takes great delight in inflicting pain and suffering to the people she has shackled and bound inside. She even mentions this in her song.

* NeverMyFault: In the climax, does Ludmilla lose control of her actions and become a mindless beast, or is she throwing a temper tantrum and destroying the town because she's turned into a dragon due to the potion she willingly drank so she's taking out her frustration due to it not making her as beautiful as she imagined it would do rather than the dragon being a reflection of her true evil nature?

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: By the third act, Ludmilla's ploy is revealed, and becomes a giant dragoness, with all the little consistencies that follow when it comes to accepted dragon lore, such as breathing fire, a foul temper, destructive nature, scales, horns, an overall western design, and so on, minus wings and other draconic stereotypes, however.

* PrideBeforeaFall: Literally falling to her death while getting crushed by a large portion of her castle as well, all after she became a powerful beast bent on burning Moscow to the ground.

* ObliviousTransformation: Barges into the throne room without so much as checking herself before doing so, and one look at her reflection has her quite shocked and enraged (See MirrorReveal). Ironic, given her entire musical number had her aware of her transformation.
* ObviouslyEvil: The true villain of the story, and she does very little to hide that from the audience.

* OneWingedAngel: Implied. She drinks the potion and becomes a large dragon that proceeds to decimate Moscow in the final act.

* SquashedFlat: By her own castle and due to Bartok's quick-thinking. Not to say she was the only victim, since her prisoners were also crushed flat by her massive dragoness body.

* SuddenlyShouting: What she does when she finds out Ivan is still alive, and what she also technically does during her transformation while singing.
* TreacherousQuestGiver: Ludmilla sends Bartok on a quest to rescue Prince Ivan from Baba Yaga, him unaware of what she has planned while he does that, and him even MORE unaware of what dangers lie ahead on this mission.
* TheUsurper: From the get-go of learning that Prince Ivan was kidnapped, she took this chance to set into motion a plan to become Russia's new queen, by planting a trap for when Bartok and Ivan returned, and proceeding to drown them both, before taking on her new draconic form and going off to rule with an iron fist. Or claw, in this case.
* VillainousBreakdown: Gets angry after finding out what Baba Yaga's potion did to her, and proceeds to go on a monstrous frenzy around the city of Moscow.

->''In the dark of the night I was tossing and turning''
->''And the nightmare I had was as bad as can be''
->''It scared me out of my wits''
->''A corpse'' falling to bits!
->''Then I opened my eyes and the nightmare was'' '''ME!'''

* PopularWithFurries: Ludmilla's dragon form has a very strong following among the "Scalies" portion of the Furry Fandom and her infamous transformation scene is also quite popular among Transformation Fiction enthusiasts.

* AnimalMotif: (see YMMV for more) She has two animalistic sides to her- one draconic, the other more rat-like, which is subtle, but noticeable, as well.

* AxCrazy: (see YMMV for more) Her draconic form brings this out as she goes berserk on Moscow.

* BreaktheHaughty: For her arrogance, she becomes a monster and dies at the hands of the most unlikely hero- Bartok.
* BreastExpansion: Her breasts greatly expands in one part of her music number transformation,giving her Gag Boobs.
* BreathWeapon: She is able to breathe fire as a dragon.
* DarkIsEvil: (see ''YMMV/BartokTheMagnificent'', as well) She wears darker colors, despite her having gold adorning her outfit.

* EvilGloating: Does so during her song.

* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: (Also in ''YMMV/BartokTheMagnificent'') Ludmilla wears this to make herself appear more beautiful, but it highlights her evil nature even more.

* FauxAffablyEvil: (see ''YMMV/BartokTheMagnificent'', as well) She holds a polite and proper facadem before the final act has her showing everyone her true colors as a sadistic, wrathful beast.
* FountainOfYouth: Plausable. During her transformation, she displays powerful, youthful energy and strength, as well as looking, feeling, and ACTING like she aged backwards a bit during her transformation. Dragons typically live for about 1000 years or so, and since Ludmilla is more or less around her early 50s or so, this means her draconic form is even YOUNGER than her human form.
* GagBoobs: (See also BreastExpansion) What she gets during her transformation, when her boobs grow to massive sizes for her transformation.

* HartmanHips: Her human form and dragon form have this.
* KarmicTransformation: Her dragoness form reflects on the outside what she truly is on the inside- despicably evil down to the core of her very being.

* Mind-Control Eyes: When Bartok hypnotizes her by juggling the rocks.

* NeverMyFault: In the climax, has Ludmilla lost control of her actions and become a mindless beast, or is she throwing a temper tantrum and destroying the town because she's turned into a dragon due to the potion she willingly drank so she's taking out her frustration due to it not making her as beautiful as she imagined it would do rather than the dragon being a reflection of her true evil nature?
* NightmareFace: Gives this to a guard.

* PopularwithFurries: Ludmilla's Dragon form has a very strong following among the "Scalies" portion of the Furry Fandom and her infamous transformation scene is also quite popular among Transformation Fiction enthusiasts...
* PrehensileTail: She is able to close doors with it, so it's pretty much a second limb sprouting from above her rump.

* OhCrap: (see ''YMMV/BartokTheMagnificent'' for more) Happens three times; When Bartok says the prince is in the tower, when she realizies she became a dragon and when she realized the tower she's on is about to collapse
* OneWingedAngel: (see ''YMMV/BartokTheMagnificent'' for more) Implied. She drinks the potion and becomes a large dragon that proceeds to decimate Moscow in the final act.
* RedisViolent: She has that shade of it when attacking the city of Moscow.
* Sadist: Heavily implied as she is seen strangling a rat and has her own torture chamber underneath the castle.

* SexyWalk: She does this after
* ShakingtheRump: Her transformation song has her doing such an act.

* SmugSnake: Treats a lotta people with disdain, and is so sure of her sinister, sneaky strategy (Say that last part five times fast)

* StealthPun: In one scene of the movie, Ludmilla is shown to have rats in her entourage, and as she consumes the potion, one of the rats laps the drop, it becoming a dragon upon instant consumption. Ludmilla ''also'' becomes a dragon. As such, the writers are implying that Ludmilla herself is a rat. Clever.

* TheAntagonist: What she is, and all she is in the movie.
* TheSociopath: The potion reveals what she always has been deep down inside even before the start of the movie- a sociopath.
* TheUsurper: From the get-go of learning that Prince Ivan was kidnapped, she took this chance to set into motion a plan to become Russia's new queen, by planting a trap for when Bartok and Ivan returned, and proceeding to drown them both, before taking on her new draconic form and going off to rule with an iron fist. Or claw, in this case.

* VillainSong: Once she traps Ivan, Vol, and Bartok inside the flooding cell, she downs her potion and begins strutting her stuff and singing ''The Real Ludmilla'', showcasing her real side coming out more and more as she sings and transforms.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Made regent of the kingdom and is mostly favored despite her villainous personality showing at times.
* WouldHurtAChild: Attempted to drown Prince Ivan, thus making her Queen of Russia.

* BelligerentSexualTension: A ton with Dimitri. They argue and snark with each other at the beginning before gradually warming up to one another, which leads to them mutually falling in love.

* FinalGirl: rather a prolonged example, but Anya, the youngest daughter of the emperor is the SoleSurvivor of the massacre and eludes Rasputin for ten years before finally confronting and eliminating him.

* LastOfHerKind: The last Romanov.

* SoleSurvivor: of the Romanovs.

* TomboyPrincess: Gutsy, practical and isn't afraid to go toe to toe with Dimitri's snark. Played with as she spends most of the movie unaware of her royal status.

* UptownGirl: She (the long-lost princess of Russia) falls in love with Dimitri (a former kitchen boy turned ConMan, though he does lose the last part by the end). Their suddenly-discovered class difference fuels the final portion of the film.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His parents died when he was eight and he worked in the royal castle as a kitchen boy, where he was later attacked during Rasputin's raid. He suffered over a decade under the new communist regime, and what exactly he went through is never explored but he ended up as a ConMan and far more cynical and selfish than he was as a child.

* UpToEleven: ''The Real Ludmilla'' takes her trope of EvilIsHammy (see YMMV for more) up to this as she becomes more bombastic, more flamboyant, more emotive, and more open about her villainous intentions.

* NiceHat: In the beginning, she wore a black Russian cap.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: A headstrong, FieryRedhead who won’t be bossed around.

* RapunzelHair: When her hair is down, it reaches to her waist.

* AdultFear: Whether or not you are a good emperor, you let a conman into your home, who is revealed to be an OpportunisticBastard that gets close to your son. Said conman then vows to make sure your wife and children are all wiped out, even though they are innocent parties in your feud. Nicholas dies knowing his family was murdered.

* FountainOfYouth: Think about it. During her transformation, she displays powerful, youthful energy and strength, as well as looking, feeling, and ACTING like she aged backwards a bit during her transformation. Dragons typically live for about 1000 years or so, and since Ludmilla is more or less around her early 50s or so, this means her draconic form is even YOUNGER than her human form.

* NightmareFace: Gives this to the guard that

* ObviouslyEvil: The true villain of the story, and does very little to hide that from the audience.

* StealthPun: In one scene of the movie, Ludmilla is shown to have rats in her entourage, and as she consumes the potion, one of the rats laps the drop, it becoming a dragon upon instant consumption. Ludmilla ALSO becomes a dragon. As such, the writers are implying that Ludmilla herself is a rat. Clever.