History Characters / Nimona2023

* AdaptationalDumbass: Ballister in the webcomic is a meticulous schemer who is implied to have evaded capture for years. Ballister in the movie gets captured during his first attempt to clear his name and has to be bailed out by Nimona, though that isn't to say he's completely inept, [[spoiler:as he pulls an EngineeredPublicConfession on the Director after he finds out she was the one who framed him]]. It's implied that the main difference is that comic book Ballister had had years to accept his situation and decide to work with it to still achieve his goals, whilst film Ballister is still reeling from the recent dramatic change in his life and clinging onto the hope that he can put everything right if he can just find the right evidence to prove he was framed, [[spoiler:as his planning competency instantly jumps up the second it becomes clear he can't convince others that he's not a villain]].

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz[[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Alicia Vélez (Latin American Spanish), Claudia Caneda (European Spanish), Creator/RyokoShiraishi (Japanese), Creator/MargheritaDeRisi (Italian), Christina Ann Zamalea (German), Mia Alon (Hebrew), Creator/LisaCaruso (French), Nihan Omuz (Turkish)[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RizAhmed[[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Gerardo García (Latin American Spanish), Roger Isasi-Isasmendi (European Spanish), Creator/TarusukeShingaki (Japanese), Gabriele Sabatini (Italian), Jeremias Koschorz (German), Ido Rozenberg (Hebrew), Benjamin Penamaria (French), Mehmet Zorlu (Turkish)[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Eugene Lee Yang[[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Luis Leonardo Suárez (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AlbertTrifolSegarra (European Spanish), Creator/KazuyukiOkitsu (Japanese), Gabriele Vender (Italian), Henning Nöhren (German), Liron Lev (Hebrew), Guillaume Lebon (French), Fatih Özkul (Turkish)[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FrancesConroy[[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Ruth Toscano (Latin American Spanish), Victòria Pagès (European Spanish), Eri Saito (Japanese), Roberta Pellini (Italian), Peggy Sander (German), Hila Sorjun Fisher (Hebrew), Juliette Degenne (French), Özden Ayyıldız (Turkish)[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BeckBennett[[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Alan Bravo (Latin American Spanish), Hernan Fernandez (European Spanish), Hiroo Sasaki (Japanese), Massimo Triggiani (Italian), Golan Gross (Hebrew), Creator/EmmanuelGarijo (French), Uğurcan Akbaş (Turkish)[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Karen Ryan[[labelnote:Other voice actors]]Creator/LilianaBarba (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]

* AxCrazy: Nimona expresses great desire to cause destruction and chaos and is enthusiastic about killing or torturing anyone she has to clear Ballister's name. Despite this, Nimona [[DownplayedTrope only kills one person]] throughout the movie, [[spoiler: the Director,]] despite having many, many opportunities.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, having had enough of how everyone had treated her over the course of her life, she turns into a kaiju and goes towards the statue of Gloreth, with the intent of killing herself, as she exposes her heart and goes towards the statue sword to impale herself. Thankfully, Ballister arrives in time to stop her.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Years, [[spoiler:if not a millennium]], of being rejected and persecuted by everyone because of her powers, with the biggest offense being [[spoiler: Gloreth's betrayal]], turned an overall benevolent shapeshifter with a strong desire of being accepted as a person into a cynical, chaotic troublemaker, [[spoiler: who considered to commit suicide to end her pain]].

* GoodShapeshiftingEvilShapeshifting: Nimona's nature as a semi-heroic shapeshifter is emphasized by the fact that almost all her forms are colored [[RoseHairedSweetie pastel scarlet]], to the point that she can't resist adding pink hair or pink irises while impersonating humans. Plus, most of them tend to look cute and cuddly - even the whale. By contrast, [[spoiler: in the Institute's propaganda of "Gloreth's Monster", Nimona is portrayed as a huge, menacing dragon rendered all in black.]] As such, in the finale, [[spoiler: when Nimona suffers a HeroicBSOD and becomes a pitch-black EldritchAbomination, it's a sure sign that she's all but crossed the DespairEventHorizon.]]

* HeartBrokenBadass: An incredibly powerful shapeshifter with seemingly no limit on what she can turn into but also [[spoiler: mentally a profoundly lonely and deeply traumatized teenager, who is still nursing a thousand-year-old broken heart from when her first, and until the events of the movie, OnlyFriend was turned against her by the fear of those around them, a wound that simply could not heal because this incident would go on to be the legend around which an entire civilization was formed, a civilization based solely on demonizing '''her'''.]]

** [[spoiler: When her friendship with Ballister breaks down due to a seed of mistrust being planted between the two, Nimona can only flee in despair. Soon after, she suffers a flashback to her friendship with Gloreth, has a meltdown that ends with her transforming into a Kaiju-sized monster, and very nearly commits suicide.]]

* MysteriousPast: [[spoiler: Aside her time with Gloreth thousand years ago]], nothing about her life before said event is known. It's never revealed where she came from, how she came to the world or why she has shapeshifting powers. Even when people asks her about her true origins, she prefers to keep things vague.

** Also, she rarely seems helpless or vulnerable - to the point of almost never needing help in combat; she can even have an arrow removed from her leg without flinching. As such, it's a sure sign that something has gone horribly wrong when she's so shell-shocked that Ballister has to rescue her. [[spoiler: In the finale, the fact that her monster form is ''screaming'' in grief and seeming genuinely wounded by the Institute's bombardments is a telltale sign that she's all but crossed the DespairEventHorizon.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: Nimona reaches her DespairEventHorizon and transforms into what can only be called a "monster", a colossal {{Kaiju}} with multiple glowing white eyes and a glowing white mouth, shrouded in wisps of darkness]]. It's quite the twist on the trope and fulfills the movie's theme regarding "monsters". [[spoiler: She looks EXACTLY like the type of monster the Institute is supposed to slay and they do indeed try, but Ballister recognizes that even this form is only skin deep, and that his friend is in terrible emotional distress. Instead of slaying, he hugs her, and that does a much better job at de-escalating the scene without collateral damage.]]

* PrimalPolymorphs: A relentlessly chaotic PerpetuallyProtean ShapeshiftingTrickster who operates almost exclusively through spur-of-the-moment decisions - though on the upside, her more primal viewpoint allows her to understand things that more civilized individuals have trouble accepting. It's eventually revealed that she used to live almost exclusively as an animal in search of companionship before she finally took human form and introduced herself to the human being she wanted to befriend. [[spoiler: Said human was none other than Gloreth, the founder of the Institute a thousand years prior to the events of the movie.]]

* ShapeshifterLongevity: [[spoiler: Despite looking like a kid in her apparent default form, Nimona is actually a thousand years old... and in point of fact, was actually the "monster" that Gloreth "fought" all those centuries ago. Indeed, her ''true'' age is still unspecified.]]

* YourWorstMemory: In the climax of the film, she flashes back to the worst moment of her life during a HeroicBSOD. [[spoiler: Namely, a long period of being rejected by the various animals she tried to make friends with, followed by her brief friendship with a young human child who accepted her shapeshifting powers... followed closely by the violent reaction from the girl's parents and fellow townsfolk, ending in an accident that burned down her village. In the wake of this catastrophe, the little girl rejected Nimona as well, ending their friendship in heartbreak. Remembering this is enough to leave Nimona on the very edge of the DespairEventHorizon, giving in to every negative thing said about her and transforming into a monster.]]

* CurseCutShort: [[spoiler: Ballister ends off the movie with an excited "HOLY SH-" once he sees Nimona somehow alive and well.]]

** His role in Ballister losing his arm. In the movie he did so solely to disarm the weapon and is shown to be extremely guilty over the act despite this. In the graphic novel [[spoiler: he knew he was given a weaponized lance for a normal joust and admits to having fired it after losing, seemingly in a fit of anger and jealously. He also never apologised for this until near the end of the graphic novel, although he is horrified once he realises his lack of apology.]]

* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: He confidently flies in to battle Nimona, until he sees [[spoiler: her kaiju form]], at which point he turns tail and runs.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Being forced to retreat in combat, getting smashed facefirst into a billboard of himself, and being completely overshadowed as a hero by both Ballister and Nimona pretty much snaps Todd's ego in two. In the finale, he's seen meekly placing flowers on Nimona's memorial, nodding respectfully to Ballister, and then leaving in total silence.]]

* LethallyStupid: In the finale, he leads the Institute's forces in attacking [[spoiler: Nimona's Kaiju form]] in the most boneheadedly destructive way. [[spoiler: Not only does the bombardment end up doing more damage to the city itself than the "monster," but upon finding himself right in front of Nimona, Todd panics and rockets away in the opposite direction - right into his oncoming backup. It's only by sheer dumb luck that Todd ends up surviving the ensuing crash.]]

* TooAnnoyedToBeAfraid: After belatedly realizing that he's ''gravely'' underestimated [[spoiler: Nimona's Kaiju-sized OneWingedAngel form]], Sir Thoddeus Sureblade AKA "Todd" screams in terror, flies in the opposite direction, collides with his backup and is sent spiralling out of control... into an animated billboard of himself, who is calling for a high five. Todd's response to the imminent collision is an annoyed "''bro...''"

* AmbiguouslyGay: Nimona had a PseudoRomanticFriendship with [[spoiler:Gloreth]] when the two were children, with the pair openly cuddling and generally being inseparable. [[spoiler:It ended badly with Gloreth being convinced by her parents that Nimona was a monster, making whether it could have developed into anything more openly sapphic unknown.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: Gloreth had a PseudoRomanticFriendship with [[spoiler:Nimona]] when the two were children, with the pair openly cuddling and spending their time together. [[spoiler:It ended badly with Gloreth being convinced by her parents that Nimona was a monster, making whether it could have developed into anything more openly sapphic unknown.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_704.png[[/labelnote]] to see [[spoiler:Gloreth as a child.]]]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: He's more open-minded compared to the rest of the Institute, but he was still raised under the kingdom's anti-monster propaganda. He's aghast when he first finds out that Nimona is a shapeshifter and is quite insensitive when telling her not to show off her abilities so openly, wording it as him wanting her to be "normal". While he does learn to accept Nimona's shapeshifting as a natural part of her halfway through, [[spoiler:his instilled biases unfortunately lead to him impulsively lashing out at Nimona after Abrosius reveals that Nimona is the monster that Gloreth "fought" 1000 years ago.]]

* AxCrazy: Nimona expresses great desire to cause destruction and chaos and is enthusiastic about killing or torturing anyone she has to clear Ballister's name. Despite this, Nimona [[DownplayedTrope only kills one person]] throughout the movie, [[spoiler: Director,]] despite having many, many opportunities.

* AxCrazy: Nimona expresses great desire to cause destruction and chaos and is enthusiastic about killing or torturing anyone she has to clear Ballister's name. Despite this, Nimona [[DownplayedTrope only kills one person, [[spoiler: the Director,]]]] throughout the movie despite having many, many opportunities.

* AxCrazy: Nimona expresses great desire to cause destruction and chaos and is enthusiastic about killing or torturing anyone she has to clear Ballister's name. Despite this, Nimona [[DownplayedTrope never actually kills anyone]] throughout the movie despite having many, many opportunities.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's not clear if she genuinely gave into peer pressure and actually started to see Nimona as a monster or if it was an act to get her friend to leave for her own safety, Either way the result was the same, Nimona leaves with a shattered heart and spends the next millennium nursing that while condemned as a monster by everyone she meets while Gloreth ends up falsely reveared as a god-like monster killing hero, regardless of whether or not she wanted that.]]

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Downplayed, gender inverted, and same-sex example. While Ambrosius never goes full violent, he's still shown to be very protective over his boyfriend, Ballister. When Todd makes a tactless joke against his beloved, Ambrosius was about to start a fight before Ballister stopped him. [[spoiler:And when the Director's leaked confession gets out that she framed Ballister, Ambrosius is livid and goes to arrest before she manipulates him]].

* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:Her followers think she killed a great and terrible evil, and view everything non-human with scorn, treating them as monsters. In truth, she was actually friends with said "great and terrible evil," even after she revealed her shapeshifting power. She never killed her either, instead betraying Nimona's trust and telling her to leave. Her “victory” is also used to impose a classist system of only enlisting knights of noble blood, while the real Gloreth appears to have been little more than a villager herself.]]

* FriendlessBackground: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] but present. He contrasts Ballister and Nimona's AllTheOtherReindeer status by being publicly adored and held in high esteem by the Director, but once Ballister is framed Ambrosius has no one else. [[JerkJock Todd]] highlights this especially, bantering and being supported by the other knights; they default to Ambrosius' authority without question, but silently observe when Todd antagonises him (and Ballister in front of him) indicating that any respect for him is purely professional. This contributes severely to the strain he's under during the events of the movie, and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome makes it easier for the Director to manipulate him.]]

* BlackKnight: Asides from having black armor at the start, He is also a knight who lost his queen and living in a life of shame similar to how real black knights are knights with no master and are close to being European counterparts to the Japanese Ronin.

* FeelNoPain: At one point an arrow pierces through her leg, but she reacts calmly to it, even when it's forcefully pulled out. According to her, it still hurts but she's had worse. [[spoiler:When transformed into Ambrosius, the Director stabs her through the stomach, and it doesn't stop her from being a [[LargeHam total ham]] in a mock death scene before getting up like nothing happened.]] [[spoiler:However, that doesn’t make her immune to emotional pain, not by a longshot]].

* FeelNoPain: At one point an arrow pierces through her leg, but she reacts calmly to it, even when it's forcefully pulled out. According to her, it still hurts but she's had worse. [[spoiler:When transformed into Ambrosius, the Director stabs her through the stomach, and it doesn't stop her from being a [[LargeHam total ham]] in a mock death scene before getting up like nothing happened.]] [[spoiler:However, that doesn’t make her immune to emotional pain]].