History Characters / TheLastUnicorn

-->'''Haggard:''' (to Amalthea)'' Do you dare deny yourself? Do you still ''pretend'' to be human? [[SuddenlyShouting I'll hurl you down to the others]] with my own hands if you ''dare'' deny yourself!

* MixAndMatchCritters: Like all unicorns, she is is a composite creature: a bit horselike but having thinner legs, cloven hooves, a lion's tail, and a single horn. (Males of her species have beards). The animated film also gives her humanlike eyes, an extended neck, ears like a rabbit's, and a muzzle so tiny that her eyes are practically on the front of her head.

* CompositeCreature: Like all unicorns, she is is mishmash of parts: a bit horselike in body but having thinner legs, cloven hooves, a lion's tail, and a single horn. (Males of her species have beards). The animated film also gives her humanlike eyes, an extended neck, rabbit ears, and a muzzle so tiny that her eyes are practically on the front of her head.

-->'''Haggard:''' (to Amalthea)'' Do you dare deny yourself? Do you still ''pretend'' to be human? [[SuddenlyShouting I'll hurl you down to the others]] with my own hands if you ''dare'' deny yourself!

* MysticalWhiteHair: The color of her coat is white, and her hair as a human girl is long and of a pale shade. Many find it exotic and beautiful.

-->'''Haggard:''' ''(to Amalthea)'' Do you dare deny yourself? Do you still '''pretend''' to be human?''

* GodivaHair: When freshly transformed into a human (and NakedOnArrival), her hair covers everything.

* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: At first with Lír, when it seems he died. It's still the same after she revives him, due to the fact that they cannot be together anymore.]]
* HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler: She will always hold Lír in high esteem, even if she cannot stay with him.]]

-->'''Haggard:''' ''(to Amalthea)'' But your ''eyes''. Your eyes have become empty, as Lír's. As any eyes... ''that never saw unicorns.''

* IdentityAmnesia: The more time she spends as a human, the more she forgets that she's the last unicorn.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In stark contrast to her earlier horror at being turned into a human, after falling for Lír Amalthea begs Schmendrick not to change her back into a unicorn.

!!The Unicorn / The Lady Amalthea
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[[caption-width-right:249:''"I am the only unicorn there is? The '''last'''?"'']]

!!Schmendrick the Magician
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Take me with you. For luck, for laughs, for the unknown!"'']]

!!Molly Grue

* BetaCouple: With Schmendrick.

!!Prince Lír

!!King Haggard

The main villain of the story and Lír's adoptive father. Orders the Red Bull [[spoiler: to capture all of the Unicorns and send them into the sea.]]

* BigBad: King Haggard, kidnapper of unicorns
* TheCollector: Of unicorns, of course.

* [[ADogNamedDog A Butterfly Named Butterfly]]

* DeathSeeker[=/=]ImmortalitySeeker: Yes, both. Mommy Fortuna knows full well that Celeano will eventually escape and kill her. In fact, that's what she ''wants'' to happen; the harpy is immortal, and will ''never'' forget the woman who captured and held her.

* ImmortalityThroughMemory: Knows full well that Celeano will one day break free and kill her - because the immortal harpy will ''always'' remember the one who bested her.

* DumbMuscle: Handles most of the manual labor needed to keep the carnival running, but is otherwise dumb as a brick. Schmendrick is frequently able to keep him distracted for hours just by giving him a riddle to solve.

A cat the trio encounters while on Haggard's castle. Initially gives Molly some advice on how to find the bull, but is mystic about it.

* CatsAreSnarkers: Not actually mean but he is a [[TheTrickster trickster]], and could ''probably'' give more help than he does.

-->'''Cat:''' Because I be what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, mum. But I be a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer. ''(removes the eye patch to wink at Molly with an '''undamaged, working eye''')''

* [[ADogNamedDog A Cat Named Cat]]

A talking skeleton the trio encounters in the undergrounds of Haggard's castle, guarding the passageway to where the Red Bull is hidden. Getting him to speak would allow them to enter into the Red Bull's lair.

A, well,[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin butterfly]] that the unicorn encounters in the forest. He's the first being that gives her a clue about the other unicorns' whereabouts.

* GoodParents: Haggard is a detestable person overall, and yet Lír never has a bad thing to say about him as a father. Lir wears Haggard's noxious influences a little bit more openly on his sleeve in the book, but in the movie, there's nothing that Lir has had anything but a well-adjusted upbringing, considering his circumstances.

* InexplicablyAwesome: During the time the audience gets to see him, Haggard displays [[UnskilledButStrong incredible strength and agility for a man his age]] but otherwise shows no sign of truly unhuman abilities or attributes. Yet now only was he able to tame the Red Bull (he claims the bull "[[OnlyTheChosenMayWield must serve those who are fearless]]"), shows signs of being a FisherKing, makes a vague threat to RetGone Schmendrick, somehow got ''[[TheArchmage Mabruk]]'' [[CourtMage on his payroll]], and (given how unicorns have [[LegendFadesToMyth become mere fairytales]]), has apparently been alive for several generations longer than any non-immortal creature in the story.

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Haggard isn't fooled by Schmendrick's claims about Amalthea and almost immediately sees her for what she is, and both know it.

* TheDreaded: Schmendrick and Ruhk are scared of Celeano. And knows she's bad and a killer. That's why he warns the Unicorn not to release her.

* AttentionWhore: He gets rather put out when "RobinHood" appears.

* DaydreamBeliever: Molly believes there really is a RobinHood. She also believes there are unicorns. (She's right in the last, though.)

* LongHairIsFeminine: Her hair reaches down to her thighs, and she is very composed and feminine.

* ProperLady: Has shades of this in her unicorn form, but she shows them to their fullest as a girl; being elegant and soft-spoken when talking.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Initially takes her immortality for granted, and while initially terrified, once as a human she starts to see the value of mortality.

* BarefootPoverty[=/=]DoesNotLikeShoes: She's shoeless probably because she's poor.

* UngratefulBitch: The harpy, who immediately attacks the unicorn three times after she sets her free before turning her wrath on Mommy Fortuna and her assistant. (The unicorn expected this to be the case. She freed the harpy anyway, because she couldn't bear to leave a fellow immortal being caged and knew if she didn't, the Harpy would hold a grudge on her and never stop chasing her.)

* SealedEvilInACan: Discussed. Releasing her will mean certain death to everyone in the area. However, it's noted that since she's immortal, Celeano's breakout is not just likely, but inevitable. Mommy Fortuna knows the harpy will kill her eventually, and the Unicorn opts to free her despite the danger she poses because if she doesn't, Celeano will bear a grudge and hunt her down.

A, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin butterfly]] that the unicorn encounters in the forest. He's the first being that gives her a clue about the other unicorns' whereabouts.

* BadassNormal:[[spoiler:The only mortal to ever best the ''Red Bull'' and force it into serving him.]]

* DaydreamBeliever: Molly believes there really is a RobinHood. She also believes there are unicorns. (She's right in the last, tho.)

* LadyAndKnight: Plays this with Lír, being the soft-spoken lady to his chivalrous knight. Also played with /subverted in the end, [[spoiler: where Lír dies in his attempt to save her and she has to defend his body against the Bull.]]

A witch that captures the unicorn during her adventures, and the owner of the Midnight Carnival. Is pretty poor at magic, hence why she captures normal animals and enchants them to resemble mythological creatures. Her fate changes the day she captures a real harpy and unicorn, though not for the better.

* DeathSeeker[=/=]ImmortalitySeeker: Mommy Fortuna knows full well that the harpy will eventually escape and kill her. In fact, that's what she ''wants'' to happen; the harpy is immortal, and will ''never'' forget the woman who captured and held her. "So there's ''my'' immortality, eh?"

* DefiantToTheEnd: Rather than just quietly slip away once the Harpy is freed, she instead openly ''invites'' it to kill her, her last breath spent mocking it:

->'''Schmendrick''': I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger!
->'''Molly''': ''You are an idiot''! You hear me?!? You've lost her!