History Characters / StrangeMagic

* CannotSpitItOut: Despite obviously being in love with the Bog King, all she can say is that she'll never see the Dark Forest the same again. It takes a crowd song to force her to confess.

* DeadpanSnarker: Has a lot of dry wit.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: When she becomes a TomboyPrincess as a result of her CynicismCatalyst, Marianne adopts a lot of tomboy traits like wearing pants and [[HeroesPreferSwords learning to wield the sword]]. However, she also starts putting on eyeliner, showing that she isn't completely unfeminine.
* TookALevelInBadass: Marianne starts out a {{Princess Classic}}, running away screaming from the goblins, adorably clumsy, and barely able to hold a sword steady. After seeing her [[CynicismCatalyst fiancé with another woman]], she becomes a [[{{Xenafication}} tomboy who'd prefer to practice sword-fighting blindfolded than to dance.]] She gets good enough to single-handily break into the Bog King's lair and fight him to a standstill.

* HiddenDepths: Despite his introduction as an EvilOverlord, the Bog King isn't cruel his minions, just exasperated and annoyed. He also can be considerate of people's feelings (e.g., he doesn't call the boutonnière Dawn gives him ugly).

* NoNameGiven: Presumably he's not actually ''named'' Bog King.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King can fight like a pro.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With the Bog King. Congratulations Dagda, your daughter will indeed have a king for a husband.]]

--> '''Dawn:''' I love you!\\

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:with Marianne.]]

* ActionGirl: She can really hold her own with a sword, although she does better in one-on-one duels then open brawls.

* TookALevelInBadass: Marianne starts out a {{Princess Classic}}, running away screaming from the goblins, adorably clumsy, and barely able to hold a sword steady. After seeing her [[CynicismCatalyst fiancé with another woman]], she becomes a {{Badass Princess}} who'd prefer to practice sword-fighting blindfolded than to dance. She gets good enough to single-handily break into the Bog King's lair and fight him to a standstill.

* BadassPrincess: Marianne is the heir to the throne and single-handily breaks into the Bog King's castle.

* FaceYourFears: Marianne develops a fear of the [[DontGoIntoTheWoods Dark Forest]] after being attacked by goblins there, so much so that she receives [[{{Trigger}} traumatic flashbacks]] when she goes near it. After [[DamselInDistress her sister]] is kidnapped, she's forced to enter it to save her. [[spoiler: She falls in love with the Bog King and he shows her the beauty of the Dark Forest which helps her get over her fears. ]]

* {{Trigger}}: She's triggered when seeing the Dark Forest and gets flashbacks to being attacked by goblins there.

* EvilCounterpart: To the Bog King. While the Bog King's appearance and initial manner are hard to look at, he proves to be a truly kind and selfless man who falls in love with Marianne's personality. Roland has the looks and princely air that initially won Marianne's heart, but he's really a [[EntitledToHaveYou self-entitled]] jerk who only care about Marianne's looks and her connection to the throne. Also, both them used a love potion on a girl they were interested in, and with different outcomes: Bog eventually feels shame and regret for using it; Roland just keeps trying and trying to use it on Marianne, even though it's clear she wants nothing to do with him.

* TookALevelInBadass: Marianne starts out a {{Princess Classic}}, running away screaming from the goblins, adorably clumsy, and barely able to hold a sword steady. After seeing her [[CynicismCatalyst fiance with another woman]], she becomes a {{Badass Princess}} who'd prefer to practice sword-fighting blindfolded than to dance. She gets good enough to single-handily break into the Bog King's lair and fight him to a standstill.

* WideEyedIdealist: She starts out like this, though she has the excuse of being giddy on her wedding day. She happily proclaims that once she becomes ruler she'll be able to successfully negotiate with the goblins so that everyone can go wherever they want to, brushing over the longstanding fantastic racism on both sides. She's much more cynical after she finds her fiance cheating on her.

Roland is the main antagonist and Marianne's ex-fiance.

Dawn is the daughter of the Fairy King, the sister of Marianne, love interest of Sunny.

* BeastAndBeauty: The fairy beauty to the Bog King's Beast. It's played with as the movie shows that his standard of beauty leans towards his race - according to his culture, Marianne is the one who would be seen as beastly. They fall in love regardless.

* CannotSpitItOut: Despite obviously being in love with the Bog King, she talks about how she'll never see the Dark Forest the same again. It takes a crowd song to force her to confess.

* IWorkAlone: Along with love, being betrayed by her first love convinced Marianne to give up on trust. She takes it to suicidal heights when she stubbornly refuses to trust anyone enough to help her rescue Dawn from the Dark Forest when she could have taken the army that her father offered.

* SecondLove: [[spoiler:To the Bog King, since his first love didn't reciprocate his feelings and found him too hideous to love (in actuality, his first love was already in love with someone else).]]

* TomboyPrincess: Pants wearing, sword wielding and generally lacking traditional femininity. Before Roland broke her heart and her faith in love, Marianne seemed to be more of a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.

* TookALevelInBadass: Marianne starts out a {{Princess Classic}}, running away screaming from the goblins and barely able to hold a sword steady. After seeing her [[CynicismCatalyst fiance with another woman]], she becomes a {{Badass Princess}} who'd prefer to practice sword-fighting blindfolded than to dance. She gets good enough to single-handily break into the Bog King's lair and fight him to a standstill.

* WideEyedIdealist: She starts out like this, though she has the excuse of being giddy on her wedding day. She happily proclaims that once she becomes ruler she'll be able to successfully negotiate with the goblins so that everyone can go wherever they want to, brushing over the longstanding fantastic racism on both sides and security problems that would lead to. She's much more cynical about the goblins and everything else after she finds her fiance cheating on her.

* AmazonChaser: He gets the ''"awe"'' look when Marianne punches him. The King also compliments her sword skills.

* AntiVillain: He appears to be a love-hating bad guy, but it becomes clear that he has very good reason to prevent anyone from brewing love potions. He also shows himself to be completely incapable of harming his hostage.
* BadassInCharge: The Bog '''King''' can kick ass.

* BeastAndBeauty: The Beast to Marianne's fairy Beauty. It's played with as the movie shows that his standard of beauty leans towards his race - according to his culture, Marianne is the one who would be seen as beastly. They fall in love regardless.
* BirdsOfAFeather: The main attraction between him and Marianne is their similarity. Both enjoy having a WorthyOpponent, they have been burned by a previous romance and since have seen love as nothing but a ridiculous feeling.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Bog King may not be the nicest, but he does not approve of anyone using a love potion on someone else. He also forbids the harming or eating of captives.
* EvilOverlord: He's first introduced as a stereotypical one; dark, mean, sinister, giving orders from his ominous lair, etc. The film both reveals more about him and changes him so that he's no longer one by the end.

* HiddenDepths: Despite his introduction as an EvilOverlord, the Bog King proves to be not cruel to his minions, just exasperated and annoyed. He also can be considerate of people's feelings (e.g., he doesn't call the boutonnière Dawn gives him ugly).

* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:He (a goblin) begins one with Marianne (a fairy).]]

* MundaneSolution: His solution to {{gossip evolution}} rendering information useless? Plow through his way down the line until he reaches the original to get the information directly from the source.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Starts a relationship with Marianne.]]

* RealMenWearPink: Bog admits that he liked the boutonnière that was made for him and he promptly puts it on.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The '''King''' who can fight like a pro.

* SimpleStaff: He uses either as a [[StaffOfAuthority royal staff]], weapon, or a makeshift ''microphone''.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Considering what a love potion can do to someone, it's hard not to sympathize with his fervor in banning them.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The second Roland says that he considers Marianne losing her good looks to be worse than losing her life, you know their relationship is not going to last much longer.
* EvilCounterpart: To the Bog King. While the Bog King's appearance and initial manner are hard to look at, he proves to be a truly kind and selfless man who falls in love with Marianne's personality. Roland has the looks and "prince-y" air that initially won Marianne's heart, but he's really a [[EntitledToHaveYou self-entitled]] jerk who only care about Marianne's looks and her connection to the throne. Also, both them have used a love potion on a girl they were interested in, that didn't work for some reason (Bog's first love was already in love with someone else, and Marianne wasn't near Roland at the moment), and with different outcomes in their own outlook on the love potion: Bog truly feels regret and shame over trying to use it and doesn't want any other creature to be a victim of it; Roland just keeps trying and trying to use it on Marianne, even though it's clear she wants nothing to do with him again, which [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard making him fall in love, against his will, with an insect.]]]]
* EvilPlan: Acquire the crown and army of the Fairy Kingdom by marrying Marianne, first by seducing her and then by dousing her with love potion.
* FirstLove: To Marianne. He himself was never in love, since he cheated on their wedding day.
* GoldDigger: He wants to marry Marianne because she's the heir to the throne and can provide him with armies.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Not only did he cheat on Marianne on their wedding day, but when he realised that she's found out, he's only concern was that he wouldn't get his army.

* DumbBlonde: She comes off as silly and ditz and all the more so in comparison to her brown-haired sister.

* ShipperOnDeck: Dawn is as excited for Marianne's wedding to Roland as she herself. When that doesn't pan out, she gives advice to Marianne about how to deal with her feelings with [[spoiler: Bog]].

* JustFriends: With Dawn, much to his chagrin.
* NiceGuy: A really sweet guy, if you ignore the fact that he tried to use a love potion to force Dawn to fall in love with him.

* JewishMother: Distinctly comes off like this, what with the voice, the nagging, the [[IWantGrandkids attempts to get her son to get married]] and the passive-aggressive nature of her complaints.

* MoralityPet: The first clue that the Bog King is not as evil as he appears? His mother loves him, and he treats her kindly in return.

* ItAmusedMe: Not much reason for doing what he does than being amused.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He tells his daughter not to value looks, but is completely shocked and disgusted over both his daughters falling for a goblin and and an elf. It may just take some getting used to.

* ShipperOnDeck: For Roland/Marianne, though he may not be aware that Roland cheated on his daughter. He's no longer on deck when he saw Roland pour love potion on her, but fortunately it has no affect on her [[spoiler:as she's in love with the Bog King]].

* BigSisterInstinct: It's implied that spends the time-skip constantly hovering over her little sister to make sure her numerous suitors walked the straight and narrow. She also threatened the Bog King with death after he kidnapped Dawn.

* DumbBlonde: Not exactly the brightest.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Sunny.]]

* ShipperOnDeck: Dawn gives advice to Marianne about how to deal with her feelings with Bog.

* SleepCute: In the Bog King's cell.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Though he does eventually decide to go with the love potion idea.

* TokenMinority: The only African-American main character.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: With Dawn.

* IWantGrandkids: Never explicitly stated in the film, but fans speculate this is the reason for a lot of the below.
* IWasQuiteTheLooker: So she claims. We never see so for ourselves.

* MyBelovedSmother: Oh so much.
* ShipperOnDeck: Bog/''anyone'', so she's quick to hop on Bog/Marianne.

* TheImp: Well, yeah.

* HeelFaceTurn: Though he was really just a mischief maker, [[OddFriendship the Imp does side with Sunny after he's caught]]. He even puts up with Roland using him as a white flag of truce at one point.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He tells his daughter not to value looks, but is completely shocked and disgusted over both his daughters falling for a goblin and and an elf. It may just take some getting used to, though.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Probably caused by being held in solitary confinement for so long.

* ActionGirl: She can really hold her own with a sword.

* BeastAndBeauty: The fairy beauty to the Bog King's Beast. Slightly subverted as the movie shows that his standard of beauty leans towards his race - according to his culture, Marianne is the one who would be seen as beastly. They fall in love regardless.
* BigSisterInstinct: Threatened the Bog King with death after he kidnapped Dawn.
* BirdsOfAFeather: The main attraction between her and the Bog King. Both have been burned by a previous romance and since have seen love as nothing but a ridiculous feeling.
* BrainyBrunette: One of the most sensible characters of the movie.

* CannotSpitItOut: Despite obviously in love with the Bog King, she talks about how she'll never see the Dark Forest the same again. It takes a crowd song to force her to confess.

* HeroesPreferSwords: As you'd expect.

* IWorkAlone: Along with love, being betrayed by her first love convinced Marianne to give up on trust. She takes it to almost suicidal heights when she stubbornly refuses to trust anyone enough to help her rescue Dawn from the Dark Forest.

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With the Bog King.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: When surrounded by her sister, father, and practically everyone, Marianne verges on this.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Not afraid to get her hands dirty.

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Her dad is way older looking than you'd expect.

* {{Adorkable}}: Almost unbearably awkward when dealing with genuine romance. [[JukeboxMusical Unless he's singing.]]

* AntiHero: He's not afraid of threatening or kidnapping people. However, the Bog King [[HiddenDepths has a lot more to him than what he shows.]]

* BeastAndBeauty: The Beast to Marianne's fairy Beauty. Slightly subverted as the movie shows that his standard of beauty leans towards his race - according to his culture, Marianne is the one who would be seen as beastly. They fall in love regardless.
* BirdsOfAFeather: The main attraction between him and Marianne. Both have been burned by a previous romance and since have seen love as nothing but a ridiculous feeling.

* CannotSpitItOut: Despite being obviously in love with Marianne, he tells her that she's welcome to the Dark Forest. His mother has to repeatedly prod him into actually confessing.
* CardCarryingVillain: He tries very hard to be this.

* DeadpanSnarker: Has enough quips to keep up with Marianne.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Dawn calls him ''"Boggy Woggy Kingy Wingy."''

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Bog King may not be the nicest, but he does not approve of anyone using a love potion on someone else. For the reason why see MyGreatestFailure.
* EvilOverlord: He's first introduced as a stereotypical one; the film both reveals more about him and changes him so that he's no longer one by the end.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: An antihero example.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his introduction as an EvilOverlord, the Bog King proves to not be cruel to his minions, just exasperated and annoyed. He also can be considerate of people's feelings (e.g., he doesn't call the boutonnière Dawn gives him ugly).

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Marianne.]]
* PetTheDog: He takes Dawn as his prisoner but he then treats her fairly nicely, he compliments her, accepts the gifts she gives him when she is loopy on LovePotion, and even makes sure that no one wakes her up when she falls asleep. Although, [[MostAnnoyingSound it also got her to stop singing to him...]]
* PrimalStance: Starts out in the movie incredibly hunched over and stands taller as the movie goes on.
* RealMenWearPink: Bog actually admits that he liked the boutonnière that was made for him and he promptly puts it on.

* SimpleStaff: He uses either as a royal staff, weapon, or a makeshift ''microphone''.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Griselda lampshades that he looks just like his father. We have to [[DisappearedDad take her word]] for it though.

* WouldHitAGirl: He's not afraid to aggressively sword-fight against Marianne.

* BigBad: The whole plot kicked off with him cheating on Marianne, then attempting to use the love potion on her.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Gets ''two''. [[spoiler: Neither one sticks.]]

* FirstLove: To Marianne.

* VillainousCrush: Has one on Marianne.

* IWantGrandkids: The reason for a lot of the below.

* ShipperonDeck: Bog/''anyone'', so she's quick to hop on Bog/Marianne.

->'''Voiced by:''' ''[[Creator/Kristin Chenoweth]]''

->'''Voiced by:''' ''Creator/Kristin Chenoweth''

->'''Voiced by:''' Kristin Chenoweth

* BlueEyes: He has them, and they are ''stunning''.

* SecondLove: [[spoiler:To the Bog King, since his first love didn't reciprocate his feelings and found him too hideous to love.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: He tells his daughter not to value looks, but is completely shocked and disgusted over both his daughters falling for a goblin and and an elf.

* ShipperOnDeck: For Roland/Marianne, though he may not be aware that Roland cheated on his daughter.

* BrownEyes: Goes along with her cynical nature and occasional position as the OnlySaneWoman.

* BeastAndBeauty: The fairy beauty to the Bog King's Beast.

* BeastAndBeauty: The Beast to Marianne's fairy Beauty.

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* UnnamedParent: His real name was never revealed.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: {{Zig zagged}} with the Bog King. They both comfort each other about how past loves deeply hurt them.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: {{Zig zagged}} with Marianne. They both comfort each other about how past loves deeply hurt them.

* YourCheatingHeart: With an unnamed fairy girl.

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