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* BodyGuardCrush: Is strongly implied to have been in love with [[spoiler:Tara.]]
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* MissingMomMissing: His mom is neither seen nor mentioned. Nod's mother may have died before his father.

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* MissingMomMissing: MissingMom: His mom is neither seen nor mentioned. Nod's mother may have died before his father.

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* UglyGuyHotWife: His wife was quite beautigul; Mr. Bomba on the other hand....well, you get it.

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* UglyGuyHotWife: His wife was quite beautigul; beautiful; Mr. Bomba on the other hand....well, you get it.



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* LoveInterestLoveInterest: To MK.
* MissingMomMissing: His mom is neither seen nor mentioned. Nod's mother may have died before his father.

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->'''MK''': "Ozzie! No kisses!"



* DeadpanSnarker
-->'''Mandrake''': Ronin. What a surprise! I don't get many visitors here.
-->'''Ronin''': Must be the stench of decay. Some people don't care for it.



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* [[spoiler:TheLostLenore: To Ronin.]]

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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Averted.
* FieryRedhead: Averted. MK is a pretty calm and rational person, and only gets excited when it's appropriate.



* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter



* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: She even tries to invoke this trope to hair father.



* UglyGuysHotDaughter
* WackyParentSeriousChild: The Serious Child to Professor Bomba's Wacky Parent.



* FieryRedhead: Even more fiery than his daughter.




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* WackyParentSeriousChild: The Wacky Parent to MK's Serious Child.



* ButtMonkey: Especially when Mub's involved.



* IronicName: A nod is a physical sign that someone agrees with or will obey someone else. Now the guy named "Nod" doesn't do either.



* FightingIrish: Can [[{{Badass}}kick butt]] and has a thick, Irish accent.



* NotSoAboveItAll: He joins in with Nod on making fun of Professor Bomba.



* BlackBestFriend: To Ronin in their childhood and maybe more as adults.



* MeaningfulName: "Tara" means "queen" in Irish Gaelic.




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* FieryRedhead: She is an orange marigold and is energetic.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Besides being an orange marigold, she also has green eyes.

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* [[spoiler: AChildShallLeadThem: Tara chooses her as the next queen and Marigold Girl is roughly at the age of 11 or 12.]]
* [[spoiler: TheChosenOne: By Tara.]]

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Lampshaded by her father at the beginning of the movie. Except for her red hair, MK looks a lot like her mother.




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* UglyGuyHotWife: His wife was quite beautigul; Mr. Bomba on the other hand....well, you get it.
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* RedheadedHeroine

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* RedheadedHeroineRedHeadedHeroine
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* YouKnowImBlackRight: Nod's mockery of the "Stomper" whom they'd been misleading for years (her dad) doesn't go over well with MK.

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* YouKnowImBlackRight: [[YouKnowImBlackRight You Know I'm A Stomper, Right?]]: Nod's mockery of the "Stomper" whom they'd been misleading for years (her dad) doesn't go over well with MK.

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->"Just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it's not there."




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* TallDarkAndHandsome



* StopHavingFunGuy



->"You're here for a reason. Sometimes the connections aren't clear, but they're always there."



->"Oh look, it's Ronin. Defender of the weak, pooper of parties."



* DeadpanSnarker



-->'''Voiced by''': Emma Kessey



->"The forest belongs to the darkness."



* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Leader of the Boggans, and also the most powerful.



* TouchOfDeath: The Boggans' weapons can deteriorate anything with one touch.

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* TouchOfDeath: The Boggans' weapons can deteriorate anything with one touch. Mandrake is much more potent than all of the other Boggans, though, being able to destroy an entire tree by himself.


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* TouchOfDeath: The Boggans' weapons can deteriorate anything with one touch.

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* CatchAndReturn: Ronin does one of these.

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* CatchAndReturn: Ronin does one of these. Can be seen at about 1:38 in the second trailer.


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* CloudCuckoolander: Comes across this way in her introductory scene, though it's possibly unintentional. She accuses Ronin of being too serious, but she just comes across as not taking the Boggan threat seriously.

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* [[spoiler:DeadStarWalking: Being [[CelebrityVoiceActor voiced by Beyonce]] didn't help.]]



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* {{Jerkass}}
* OhCrap: When he realizes that the guy he called an idiot general was [[spoiler:Mandrake's son.]]




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A young girl who admires Tara.

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* AgentMulder: He's very dedicated in researching on the Leafmen.

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* AgentMulder: He's very dedicated in researching on the Leafmen. Of course, this destroys his career and marriage.

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I don\'t see how MK is Bratty Teenage Daughter. She isn\'t whiny. She just want her dad to be normal.


* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Doesn't approve of her dad's job, and tries to make him give up his lifelong work. This causes friction between them.


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* AgentMulder: He's very dedicated in researching on the Leafmen.
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* [[spoiler: SealedEvilInACan: Near the end of the movie. And in a tree, technically.]]
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* BigFun


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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Nim is only as powerful as the scrolls that write the forests' activities, which cannot predict the future, and can only record so much. In the climax, MK calls him out on how he's relatively useless on his own.

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* HeroicBSOD: After he thinks he hallucinated MK Leafman-sized and realizes just how far detached from society he is.

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* HeroicBSOD: After he thinks he hallucinated Seeing MK Leafman-sized and is the breaking point for him, where he realizes just he must have hallucinated and how far detached from society he is.is. He turns off his cameras and packs up or outright throws his equipment off tables in a rage.
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A girl in her late teens who moves in with her dad in an isolated house in a forest after her mother passes away. After she blows up at him for his dedication to his work, she unwittingly gets caught the neverending war between the forest's forces of growth and forces of decay.

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A girl in her late teens who moves in with her dad in an isolated house in a forest after her mother passes away. After she blows up at him for his dedication to his work, she unwittingly gets caught up in the neverending unending war between the forest's forces of growth and forces of decay.

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* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}]]: Queen Tara is on her last day of being in charge. When she's picking her replacement, the villains show up, and [[WeHardlyKnewYe well...]]]]

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* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}]]: [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}: Queen Tara is on her last day of being in charge. When she's picking her replacement, the villains show up, and [[WeHardlyKnewYe well...]]]]

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* PluckyGirl




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* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead



* {{Foil}}: Ronin the seasoned warrior, to Nod, the rookie warrior.



** BadassBack: Ronin blocks an attack from behind with the scabbard of his sword, without even a flinch.
** CulturedBadass: Looks very dapper in his white coat, as opposed to scruffy Nod. Also, compare their poses in the [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EpicCharacterComparison_4450.JPG promotional cast picture.]]
* CatchAndReturn: Ronin does one of these.



* CulturedBadass: Looks very dapper in his white coat, as opposed to scruffy Nod.



* {{Foil}}: Ronin the seasoned warrior, to Nod, the rookie warrior.



* BigGood: The rulers of the forest are this in general.



* CrazyPrepared: Queen Tara tells MK how to restore herself to normal size before she's even been shrunk, knowing that MK would follow her subsequent instruction to find Nim Galuu, and from him procure a record of that memory from the Queen's perspective so as to get the message.
* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dies in Ronin's, much to his chagrin.]]



* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Commands the forest to kick ass for her while running around in a gown.

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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Commands She runs through the forest in a leaf dress while commanding the forest to kick ass for smack her while running around in a gown.pursuers around.



* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}]]: Queen Tara is on her last day of being in charge. When she's picking her replacement, the villains show up, and [[WeHardlyKnewYe well...]]]]



* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The 'mother nature'-like figure.
* [[spoiler:TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth]]
* WalkOnWater: The lily pads actually glide to her feet so she has places to step over the water.




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* RealityWritingBook: Nim's tree is a data recorder example. Everything that happens in the forest is recorded on the scrolls within, down to the most minute actions.


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* BigBad: To Tara's BigGood.


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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Obviously frustrated that Queen Tara can regrow whatever they destroy with a wave of her hand.
** EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: It's not made explicit, but it's pretty clear if Mandrake stops a new queen from being crowned, the forest wouldn't be able to come back from him rotting it.
* ItsPersonal: Mandrake ''really'' gives his all in defeating the Leafmen after one of them [[spoiler:kills his son.]]


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* MoralityPet: Mandrake, for his whole EvilOverlord schtick, really does care about his son.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Mandrake, a plant which can send the user into a coma in high doses. Also, in mythology, could kill people with its scream.
* RelativeButton: Mandrake does not take kindly to [[spoiler:Dagda's death.]]


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* [[spoiler: YouShallNotPass: Allows himself to be swarmed by Boggans so that MK and Nod can escape. He manages to survive the ordeal.]]
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The most powerful Leafman in the movie, and the queen's highest-ranked soldier.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The queen's highest-ranked soldier, and the most powerful Leafman in the movie, and the queen's highest-ranked soldier.movie.

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* {{Badass}}: Oh yeah.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The most powerful Leafman in the movie, and the queen's highest-ranked soldier.
* {{Badass}}: Oh yeah.He's not the commander for nothing.
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* YouKilledMyFather: He says his reason for attempting to steal the pod was because [[spoiler:the Leafmen kill Dagda.]] Not really true, he was planning to take it anyway.

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* YouKilledMyFather: He says his reason for attempting to steal the pod was because [[spoiler:the Leafmen kill Dagda.]] Not really true, It's just a convenient excuse, as he was planning to take it anyway.
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-->'''Voiced by''': Collin Farrel

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-->'''Voiced by''': Collin Farrel
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* AmusingInjuries: Bumps into things constantly on account of his lacking depth perception and reduced mobility.



* EvilDetectingDog: He growls at the bat call, which is being sung by Mandrake.



* UglyCute: He's a pug, it's obligatory.

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* UglyCute: He's a pug, it's obligatory.
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MK's old pug.

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MK's one-eyed, three legged old pug.




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* UglyCute: He's a pug, it's obligatory.

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* DeadlyDodging: Ronin dodges a shot from Dagda and [[spoiler:kills him in return]], but Dagda's shot [[spoiler:hits the queen as a result.]]



* GreenThumb

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* GreenThumbCleavageWindow
* GreenThumb: Can control the forest.




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* [[spoiler:WeHardlyKnewYe]]



A caterpillar in charge of keeping the Scrolls, which record every event that happens within the forest. This makes him a valuable source of advice and information.

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A caterpillar glow worm in charge of keeping the Scrolls, which record every event that happens within the forest. This makes him a valuable source of advice and information.
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* TheCastShowoff: Steven Tyler gets to sing as Nim Galuu.


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* AscendedFangirl: Idolizes Queen Tara, especially after the queen saves her from a Boggan attack early in the film. [[spoiler:At the end she gets chosen as Tara's successor.]]
* CheerfulChild
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Becomes the queen at the end of the movie.]]


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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvilOverlord: Wants to overthrow the Leafmen and take over the forest.
* PapaWolf: Singlehandedly destroys an entire tree after someone [[spoiler:makes light of his son's death.]]
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset
* TouchOfDeath: The Boggans' weapons can deteriorate anything with one touch.
* YouKilledMyFather: He says his reason for attempting to steal the pod was because [[spoiler:the Leafmen kill Dagda.]] Not really true, he was planning to take it anyway.


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* OverlordJr: Growing into this.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted; this seems the case during his first appearance but Mandrake really does care about his son.

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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Doesn't approve of her dad's job, and tries to make him give up his lifelong work. This causes friction between them.
* FishOutOfWater: Naturally Leafmen customs are all very strange to her.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Girl]]: How she falls in with the Leafmen.
* MeaningfulName: MK is named after William Joyce's daughter, Mary Katherine, who died back in 2010 around the age MK is.
* MissingMom: Moves in with her dad after her mom passes away.
* RedheadedHeroine
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead
* SkirtOverSlacks: Her attire throughout the movie is a skirt over leggings paired with a pink hoodie.
* YouKnowImBlackRight: Nod's mockery of the "Stomper" whom they'd been misleading for years (her dad) doesn't go over well with MK.



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-->'''Voiced by''': Josh Hutcherson

A free-spirited young Leafman soldier who quits his job because he doesn't work well in a team, much to his superior Ronin's chagrin.

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!!Nod
-->'''Voiced by''': Josh Hutcherson

A free-spirited young Leafman soldier who quits his job because
* AbsentMindedProfessor: His outdated computers and messy house suggest he really doesn't work well in a team, much get out much.
* BumblingDad: Is already unused
to interacting with humans, let alone his superior Ronin's chagrin.
own daughter.
* ChekhovsGun: The bat sounds on his iPod Touch [[spoiler:are used to lure the bats away from the moon, allowing the pod to bloom in moonlight.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Has built gadgets that allow him to adjust to the "speed" of miniature creatures, allowing him to communicate with them.
* HeroicBSOD: After he thinks he hallucinated MK Leafman-sized and realizes just how far detached from society he is.



* BigFriendlyDog: By Leafman standards. He's certainly very friendly and ''loves'' licking.
* HeroesLoveDogs: MK is clearly very fond of him.

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!!Nod
-->'''Voiced by''': Josh Hutcherson

A free-spirited young Leafman soldier who quits his job because he doesn't work well in a team, much to his superior Ronin's chagrin.

* BadassArmFold: On the cast poster.
* DisappearedDad: His father died prior to the events of the movie. This is mentioned several times.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Falls in love with MK.
* InASingleBound: Something common to all Leafmen.
* InterspeciesRomance: With MK.
* LoveInterest
* ReluctantWarrior: Quits the Leafmen because he doesn't play well as part of a team, preferring doing things his way.



* {{Badass}}: Oh yeah.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Tara.
* CulturedBadass: Looks very dapper in his white coat, as opposed to scruffy Nod.
* FailureKnight: Ronin is determined to protect MK and the pod [[spoiler: because the pod is all the forest has left of Tara]].
* IcyBlueEyes
* LadyAndKnight: White Knight to Tara's Bright Lady.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Lampshaded by Grub.
* LikeASonToMe: It's implied Ronin might be growing to see Nod this way, but their mutual stubbornness gets in the way. Only reinforced by the fact that Nod's father was good friends with Ronin.
* {{Mangst}}: His facial expressions show that he's visibly upset over [[spoiler:Tara's death]] well, but he takes it in stride.
* MeaningfulName / {{Foreshadowing}}: A ronin is a samurai without a lord to serve. [[spoiler:Fittingly, he goes through most of the movie without a queen to command him.]]
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Subverted. [[spoiler:Ronin only looked done for; it turned out he was much too badass to just go out surrounded by hundreds of Boggans.]]
* SergeantRock
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Puts up a cold exterior which he only drops around people he's close to, like Tara.



* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first named character to die.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: With Ronin.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: It's the Queen's duty to pick her successor. Later, she picks MK to carry the pod to Nim Galuu.
* GreenThumb
* TheHighQueen: Allows the Boggans to come after her instead of letting them near her people.
* [[spoiler:ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: Is killed by a Boggan arrow while running from them carrying the pod which will bloom into her successor. MK finds her, and Tara bids her to take the pod to Nim Galuu before dying.]]
* InkSuitActor: Looks an awful lot like Beyonce.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Commands the forest to kick ass for her while running around in a gown.
* LadyAndKnight: Bright Lady to Ronin's White Knight.
* PimpedOutDress: Her flower petal gown.
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLamb]]
* SilkHidingSteel: Introduced as flighty and gentle, but willing to go through great lengths to protect her people.

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!!Mandrake
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChristophWaltz

King of the Boggans, the forest's forces of rot, who oppose Tara and the Leafmen. He aims to steal the pod Tara chooses to upset the balance.

!!Dagda
-->'''Voiced by''': Blake Anderson

Mandrake's son.

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!!Mandrake
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChristophWaltz

King of
* AscendedFanboy: Grub spends the Boggans, whole movie wanting to become a Leafman, but obviously can't because he's a snail. Ronin lets him at the forest's forces of rot, who oppose Tara and the Leafmen. He aims to steal the pod Tara chooses to upset the balance.

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-->'''Voiced by''': Blake Anderson

Mandrake's son.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Mub crushes on MK.
* PluckyComicRelief
* ThoseTwoGuys



* MagicLibrarian



A frog deeply involved in bird racing.

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A frog deeply involved in bird racing.racing.

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!!Mandrake
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChristophWaltz

King of the Boggans, the forest's forces of rot, who oppose Tara and the Leafmen. He aims to steal the pod Tara chooses to upset the balance.

!!Dagda
-->'''Voiced by''': Blake Anderson

Mandrake's son.

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Characters of the 2013 animated film ''Epic''. This page is under construction.

!!Mary Katherine "MK"
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AmandaSeyfried

A girl in her late teens who moves in with her dad in an isolated house in a forest after her mother passes away. After she blows up at him for his dedication to his work, she unwittingly gets caught the neverending war between the forest's forces of growth and forces of decay.

!!Professor Bomba
-->'''Voiced by''': Jason Sudeikis

MK's BumblingDad, a professor whose research on the Leafmen ruined his marriage and career.

!!Nod
-->'''Voiced by''': Josh Hutcherson

A free-spirited young Leafman soldier who quits his job because he doesn't work well in a team, much to his superior Ronin's chagrin.

!!Ozzie

MK's old pug.

!!Ronin
-->'''Voiced by''': Collin Farrel

Nod's commanding officer and the no-nonsense captain of Queen Tara's guard.

!!Queen Tara
-->'''Voiced by''': Music/{{Beyonce}}

The current Queen of the Forest, a Mother Nature-like figure who oversees the balance between growth and rot. At the onset of the movie, she is due to choose an pod which will bloom into her successor.

!!Mub and Grub
-->'''Voiced by''': Aziz Anzari (Mub) and Chris O'Dowd (Grub)

A slug (Mub) and snail (Grub) responsible for overseeing the pods' care.

!!Mandrake
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChristophWaltz

King of the Boggans, the forest's forces of rot, who oppose Tara and the Leafmen. He aims to steal the pod Tara chooses to upset the balance.

!!Dagda
-->'''Voiced by''': Blake Anderson

Mandrake's son.

!!Nim Galuu
-->'''Voiced by''': [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]]

A caterpillar in charge of keeping the Scrolls, which record every event that happens within the forest. This makes him a valuable source of advice and information.

!!Bufo
-->'''Voiced by''': Music/{{Pitbull}}

A frog deeply involved in bird racing.

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