Line #176 Characters/TheLastUnicorn


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6	[[folder:The Unicorn/Lady Amalthea]]
7	[[quoteright:249:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ladyamalthea_8.jpg]]
8	[[caption-width-right:249:''"I am the only unicorn there is? The '''last'''?"'']]
9	-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiaFarrow; Traudel Haas (German dub), Rocío Garcel (Spanish Dub)
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11	The unnamed protagonist of the story, a unicorn who one day finds out she is the last of her kind. She ventures out into the wild to find out what happened to the other unicorns, and meets many colorful characters along the way. Aloof and melancholy, she initially has a detached view of humans until she is turned into one herself and given the alias of Amalthea--after which she runs the very real risk of forgetting her identity and her quest.
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13	* ActionSurvivor: She's not a traditional action heroine but when the going gets tough, she does jump to the call and aid in any way she can. She is brave and decisive as a unicorn: she frees the captive animals from Mommy Fortuna's festival, [[spoiler: avenges Lír by standing against the Bull, drives the beast into the sea, and frees the other unicorns (this also indirectly kills Haggard).]] Even as a woman, in her most helpless form, she defeats Mabruk without saying a word.
14	* AntiMagic: Her power often manifests as this. She breaks spells cast by others, unfastens magic locks, and disenchants a tree Schmendrick accidentally made sentient. She also prevents the use of magic against her.
15	* {{Angst}}: She has a ton of this about being the last of her kind, and when she becomes a human. Seeing as how nobody would wish to be the last of their race, and how the more time she spends as a human the more she forgets her true identity, her reaction is understandable.
16	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Her human form, although the GodivaHair might contribute a bit.
17	* BecomingTheMask: The danger of the unicorn's human guise.
18	* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' call her a mare. And, much later, do not harm someone she loves.
19	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Unicorns, and magical creatures in general, have different emotions and worldview than humans. For a start, regret is an emotion she can't naturally feel. [[spoiler:This makes her the only unicorn alive who knows what it's like to feel this way after being human.]]
20	* BornAsAnAdult: The Lady Amalthea, the unicorn's human form, is a young woman.
21	* BrokenAngel: Played straight immediately after her transformation into a human, then gradually deconstructed.
22	* CharacterDevelopment: At the start of the story, she's very cold towards humans and thinks very low of them. [[spoiler:Towards the end, she has fallen in love with one, and even considers a few others to be her friends (suggested that they're some of her very few friends she has, due to the lonely life she lives).]]
23	* CursedWithAwesome: The unicorn becomes the only one of her kind to have known love, a terrible pain for a pure immortal creature. However, this is also really useful since it [[spoiler:is her love for Prince Lír and anguish over his death]] that gives her the power and motivation to [[spoiler:best the Red Bull and restore unicorns to the world. She is aware of this, and admits it was a two way street in the end, and thanks Schmendrick for it, even the painful parts]].
24	* DeathOfPersonality: The unicorn slowly forgets who she is while she remains human. When she returns to her true form, she regains her sense of self, but the woman Amalthea is lost forever.
25	* DefrostingIceQueen: Initially starts her journey as a [[EmotionlessGirl little cold and aloof]], only interested in finding the unicorns and little else, but by the end she has started to feel human emotions like love and regret. It's loving Prince Lír what allowed her to feel more complex emotions and start regretting her quest.
26	* EmotionlessGirl: Lady Amalthea initially has no comprehension of emotions, though the longer she spends as a human the more human she becomes.
27	* EmptyEyes: Haggard immediately becomes suspicious of Amalthea when he cannot see his reflection in her eyes, and correctly guesses that she is a unicorn. When she becomes more human, he starts seeing his reflection instead.
28	-->'''King Haggard:''' ''(to Amalthea)'' Your eyes! Your eyes have become empty as Lír's, as any eyes that... never saw unicorns.
29	* EyesNeverLie: Haggard knows there's something up with the Lady Amalthea when he can't see his reflection in them, and instead sees a vision of the Unicorn's forest.
30	* FacialMarkings: The unicorn has a pink star-shaped mark where her horn is. She keeps it as Amalthea, but it vanishes as she becomes more human.
31	* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's much closer to animals than humans, initially. She lived in a forest all her life and cared for all the animals that lived there, protecting them by driving hunters away and looking after them. Afterwards she freed the hurt animals captive in Mommy Fortuna's carnival, and in the book later on as a human attempted to save Lír's dying mare, but it is futile as she lost her powers during her transformation. In the film, her animal friends bid her farewell the night she leaves on her quest. And Mommy Fortuna's crow eventually settles down in her forest to live with her after the story ends.
32	* GodivaHair: When first transformed into a human (and NakedOnArrival), her hair covers everything.
33	* GoodIsNotNice[=/=]GoodIsNotSoft: She's the heroine and her quest for finding her people is admirable, but she's a little too aloof to be an AllLovingHeroine. Unicorns are good, but they're also ''wild''.
34	* TheGlovesComeOff: The unicorn's fear of the Bull is shattered when she sees the dead Prince. At that point, she stops holding back.
35	* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: The gown she wears in the movie is a soft lilac shade.
36	* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: At first with Lír, when it seems he has died. It's still the same after she revives him, due to the fact that they cannot be together anymore.]]
37	* HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler: She will always love Lír, even if she cannot stay with him.]]
38	* HotInHumanForm: Prince Lír falls desperately in love with her human form.
39	* HumanityEnsues: The unicorn is transformed by Schmendrick into a human woman against her will. The longer the Lady Amalthea remains human, the more human she becomes.
40	-->'''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!
41	* HumanityIsInfectious: The Lady Amalthea eventually gains enough humanity to the point where she "dies" when Schmendrick changes her back into a unicorn.
42	* IdentityAmnesia: The more time she spends as a human, the more she forgets that she's a unicorn.
43	* IJustWantToBeNormal: In stark contrast to the unicorn's initial horror at being turned mortal, after falling for Lír Amalthea begs Schmendrick not to change her back.
44	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: A trait of all unicorns.
45	* IndifferentBeauty: Becomes this as the Lady Amalthea. She knows humans find her beautiful, but couldn't care less.
46	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's very aloof, blunt and can seem uncaring towards others; but she has a deep care for animals and the people she gets close to. She broke in tears at the death of Lír's mare and how useless she felt for not being able to save her.
47	* JerkassHasAPoint: When Molly gently chides the Lady Amalthea for refusing to acknowledge Prince Lír's heroic deeds for her, and claims that Lír just wants her to think of him, the unicorn-in-human-form counters that he doesn't wish to know her thoughts, but he wants her just as the Red Bull did, and it frightens her. Considering [[spoiler:Prince Lír jumps at the chance to encourage the Lady Amalthea to stop struggling to remember anything before she met him, happily rewrites her history and opinions for himself once she's sufficiently a blank slate, and for a wild moment considers chasing after her when she's restored to unicorn form with a glint in his eyes just like Haggard's]], she has a point.
48	* 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 her anguish at his death pushes her to defeat the Red Bull.]]
49	* LivingForeverIsAwesome: The Unicorn lived for countless years in her forest in peace and is ''horrified'' when she becomes the mortal human Amalthea, and once restored to Unicorn form, she remains in it and returns to her forest home, where her immortality is guaranteed.
50	* LastOfHerKind: The Unicorn is shocked to learn from a pair of hunters and a butterfly that she is the last of her kind. [[spoiler:But not exactly. It turns out that there ''are'' more unicorns... but they have all been imprisoned in the sea by King Haggard, with the help of the Red Bull.]]
51	* LongHairIsFeminine: As "Lady Amalthea", her hair reaches down to her thighs, and she is very composed and feminine.
52	* LossOfIdentity: After being transformed into a human, the unicorn gradually forgets who she was, to the point she doesn't know anymore who (and what) she is.
53	* MeaningfulName: Amalthea means "tender goddess" in Greek. And was the name of Zeus' nanny goat who incidentally lost a horn.
54	* MessianicArchetype: Her story has elements of both Moses' and Jesus'. For starters, she's an incorruptible pure mythical creature who enters into "Man's World" with a mission. During her adventure, she gains loyal followers who drop everything they're busy with at the moment to help her in her quest. Her main nemesis is a wrathful, greedy king who won't rest until he captures her. Once disguised as a mortal human, she starts to understand humanity better during her quest, even with all our pros and cons. She "dies", her human form disappearing in the climax, giving way again only to the unicorn. She sacrifices her chances of living a peaceful life as the wife of a king, but by doing so she frees the rest of the unicorns and therefore saving the world from decaying further.
55	* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: The unicorn's frightening personality change following her transformation. She goes from blunt but determined into afraid, demure and weepy.
56	* 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.
57	* MorphicResonance: When she turns into a woman, she keeps the white mane/hair and purple eyes that she had as a unicorn. She also has a mark on her forehead where her horn had been. In the animated film it looks like a star; the book describes it as resembling a flower. In the movie it disappears as she becomes more human.
58	* MosesArchetype: Her main drive is finding the rest of the unicorns and saving them from being imprisoned. She even hides as a member of Haggard's (the Pharaoh figure) Royal Court at one point, much like Moses did with Pharaoh.
59	* MysticalWhiteHair: The color of her coat is white, and her hair as a human girl is white-blonde. Many find it exotic and beautiful.
60	* NakedOnArrival: Due to an aversion of MagicPants, the unicorn's human form is naked after she is transformed. Copious amounts of GodivaHair were used, naturally; though when she transforms back, her clothes simply disappear.
61	* {{Nephewism}}: Gender flipped and invoked. When Haggard tries to get Schmendrick to admit the truth about who Amalthea is, he claims that she's his niece.
62	* NoNameGiven: The protagonist is called simply "the unicorn." "Amalthea" is just an alias used when in human form.
63	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Likely to further emphasize her beauty and elegance, her smooth and almost anime-like appearance as The Lady Amalthea stands in large contrast to other adult human women seen in the movie, who tend to appear more homely and sometimes wrinkly.
64	* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: [[spoiler:After Prince Lír sacrifices himself to protect her from the Red Bull, she gets the resolve and rage to stand her ground and fight back against it. This allows her to drive the Red Bull into the ocean and free the unicorns, as the Red Bull's nature means it serves ones who have no fear.]]
65	* PersonalHorror: The Lady Amalthea starts losing her sense of self when she's transformed into a human.
66	* PrincessClassic: The Lady Amalthea acts like this once she falls in love with Lír and her humanity becomes more evident. She also nearly becomes an actual princess during the story.
67	* ProperLady: Has shades of this in her unicorn form, but she shows them to their fullest as a human girl; being elegant and soft-spoken when talking.
68	* PureIsNotGood: The unicorn lives in the unchanging grace and beauty of her unicorn nature. She ''can't'' understand human morality or experience emotions the way mortals do. Once her quest is done, she is permanently changed and no longer 'pure.'
69	* ReallyWasBornYesterday: The Lady Amalthea. Once transformed she takes the form of an adult woman, but she struggles with walking as much as a toddler.
70	* Really700YearsOld: Unicorns can live forever if not killed. The book describes her as very old but unaware of it. Naturally, it doesn't show when she becomes a young woman.
71	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The unicorn herself and all her forest companions. Even as a woman she still holds this element of vulnerability and adorableness.
72	* SatelliteLoveInterest: In-universe, the Lady Amalthea becomes this after she [[IdentityAmnesia forgets she was ever a unicorn]] and falls in love with Prince Lír. Since she has no memory or identity before meeting him, and Lír loves inventing her history and opinions for her, her entire being is devoted just to him. The book spells it out.
73	-->[Prince Lír] told her everything he knew, and what he thought about all of it, and happily invented a life and opinions for her, which she helped him do by listening. Nor was she deceiving him, for she truly remembered nothing before the castle and him. She began and ended with Prince Lír.
74	* ScrewDestiny: Just before the final encounter with the Red Bull, the Lady Amalthea wants to back out, marry Lír, and live happily ever after. Lír is the one who insists that the story can't end that way.
75	-->'''Schmendrick:''' I don't think I ''could'' change you back, even if you wished it. Marry the Prince and live happily ever after.\
76	'''Amalthea:''' Yes. That is my wish.\
77	'''Lir:''' No, my lady. I am a Hero. [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest cannot simply be abandoned]]. Unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.\
78	'''Molly:''' But what if there ''isn't'' a happy ending?\
79	'''Schmendrick:''' There are no happy endings because ''nothing'' ends.\
80	'''Molly:''' Schmendrick, her stay the way she is. Let her be.\
81	'''Schmendrick:''' That's not in the story. Lir knows this, and so does she.
82	* SilkHidingSteel: She's very withdrawn, soft-spoken and can seem aloof to others, but she shows great strength and diligence by continuing into the quest, even when she's captured or endangered many times during her adventures. Also as a woman, when she was her most helpless, she stood still against Mabruk when the others flinched, and lashed at Haggard to not touch her.
83	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: She's ''the'' unicorn, and as a woman she is ''the'' Lady Amalthea.
84	* StumblingInTheNewForm: It takes some time for her to figure out how to walk in a human body.
85	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The feminine, delicate lady to Molly's rough tomboy.
86	* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Goes from fleeing from the Red Bull to actively fighting him in the climax.]]
87	* {{Unicorn}}: One of the most famous.
88	* UniquenessValue: The Last Unicorn is so very, very precious to all involved because she is the last of her kind. [[spoiler:After freeing all the other unicorns she remains unique because she's the only one to have ever experienced (and will remember) human emotion.]]
89	* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Experiences love for the first time with Lír as a human, since unicorns have a limited range of emotions and thus cannot fall in love the way humans do. By the end she's the only unicorn to know what love is.
90	* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Not explicitly stated, but when the most beautiful creature in the world [[HumanityEnsues becomes human]], this seems to be the result. It's worth noting however, that as [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody she becomes more human]] she stays beautiful, but the mystical quality of her beauty fades away.
91	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: As the mortal human Lady Amalthea, she would rather stay with Prince Lír and grew old with him rather than turn back into the immortal Unicorn and outlive him.
92	* WorthIt: [[spoiler: She assures Schmendrick that she is grateful for him making her human, because she is the only one of her kind to ever know emotions such as love and regret.]]
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95	[[folder:Schmendrick the Magician]]
96	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/book_tluni_schmen_1.jpg]]
97	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Take me with you. For luck, for laughs, for the unknown!"'']]
98	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlanArkin (English), Jesús Brock (Spanish)
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100	The magician who accompanies the unicorn in her adventure. Though well-meaning, is usually considered to do poorly in magic.
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102	* TheAgeless: As a result of a spell cast upon him by his master, he will not age until he masters the usage of his magical power.
103	* AmbiguouslyJewish: His name seems to indicate this, Schmendrick meaning "fool" in Yiddish.
104	* BetaCouple: With Molly.
105	* BlessedWithSuck: Nikos considered his "gift" of immortality to him to be more of a curse than a blessing, especially since he is doomed to be an immortal incompetent, and to start aging again as soon as he actually becomes the great wizard he has the potential to be. As such, he has the perspective to see what's beautiful about mortality, though the unicorn doesn't understand him until she, as a human woman, falls in love.
106	* TheChewToy: How other wizards constantly treat him. He eventually says he's tired of being laughed at.
107	* CourtMage: Becomes Haggard's. Entertaining him with magic tricks to distract him from their search for the Red Bull.
108	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Usually the most IneptMage you've ever seen, but when push comes to shove he is capable of channeling enormous magical power that rivals and even surpasses that of the greatest wizards.
109	* DeadpanSnarker: After trying and failing to help her magically, he resorts to stealing the keys to her cage. Then tells the Unicorn she deserves the services of a great wizard; she'll have to settle for a second rate pickpocket.
110	* EmergencyTransformation: He does this to the unicorn when she is in trouble. [[spoiler:He is eventually able to pull off an Emergency Re-Transformation.]]
111	* FunctionalMagic: For most of the movie, Schmendrick sucks majorly at wizardry and his attempts to cast spells constantly backfire. It is only by [[WildMagic letting the magic do as it will]] that he is able to cast proper spells, though he has no control over their outcome. By the end of the film, however, he has full control of his powers.
112	-->"Magic, do as you will!"
113	* GeekPhysique: Tall, thin, generally a bit scraggly.
114	* GiftedlyBad: With magic. His ineptitude is ''so vast'' that his old master Nikos became ''convinced'' that he must have great potential with magic that isn't coming out properly, and made him immortal so he could live long enough to get his act together and see his potential fulfilled.
115	* GreenEyedMonster: After Molly first joins the party, he quickly becomes very jealous of the bond that forms between her and the unicorn, and the fact that the former can touch the latter while he can't. Bonus points for literally having green eyes.
116	* IneptMage: He is completely incompetent at all magic but cheap circus tricks, and sometimes fumbles even those. Eventually subverted when it turns out he is actually UnskilledButStrong.
117	* JumpedAtTheCall: Offers to join the Unicorn in her travels just after a few hours of knowing her.
118	* MagikarpPower: Schmendrick's magic. Similarly, see also CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.
119	* MeaningfulName: A schmendrick is a foolish, dumb man. Guess how the rest of the characters treat our favorite magician.
120	-->'''Haggard:''' A master magician has not made me happy. I will see what an incompetent one can do.
121	* MediumAwareness: Most characters seem to possess it in some way or the other, but he's the one who routinely explains things by the fact that they're in a story.
122	* MyGreatestFailure: At the end of the novel, he apologizes to the unicorn for [[spoiler:turning her human, and laments that he did her more harm than Mommy Fortuna, the Red Bull, and King Haggard combined.]] The unicorn reassures him.
123	-->'''Schmendrick:''' I am sorry. I have done you a great evil and I cannot undo it.\
124	'''Unicorn:''' No. [[spoiler:Unicorns are in the world again.]] No sorrow will live in me with that joy save one. And I thank you for that part, too.
125	* MysticalHighCollar: Schmendrick wears a flared collar with his robes.
126	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Schmendrick is unfazed by the unicorn/Amalthea being completely nude after he turns her into a human.
127	* ObfuscatingStupidity: When asked what he sees when he looks at the unicorn, Schmendrick claims to see only a white mare. But by his earlier startled look and stammering, it's obvious he knows exactly what she is. Mommy Fortuna also suspects that he's lying.
128	* OlderThanTheyLook: WordOfGod says Schmendrick is anywhere between his early 40's to his ''60's''. (In the book he is TheAgeless, made immortal by his old magic teacher to give him time to figure out his magic).
129	* PunnyName: As well as being a Yiddish word (see above), "Schmendrick the Magician" is also a pun on "ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician."
130	* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Molly's Red. Initially played with in their first scene where he seems to take on the Red role.
131	* RobeAndWizardHat: Both are stitched together from random bits of cloth, giving him the appearance of a very down-on-his-luck mage.
132	* SmallNameBigEgo: He routinely tries to impress or menace others by boasting about his great magical prowess, which is anything but ([[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass under normal circumstances]]). He's actually quite insecure, but pretending.
133	* UnskilledButStrong: He has enormous raw magical power which occasionally allows him to pull off feats even great wizards would find impossible. "Occasionally" is the key word here. He has zero control over his full power, so 99% of the time he is an IneptMage.
134	* WildMagic: Every time Schmendrick tries to do magic, he can barely control it. The only spell he can cast without it backfiring on him for most of the film is "Magic, do what you will." It's implied in this universe magic is uncontrollable and behaves on a whim, so Schmendrick can only call for it, hope for the best and little else.
135	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Only in the book and graphic novel. A great wizard named Nikos realized that Schmendrick was ''so'' incompetent, he must have a vast talent for magic which was working backwards, so he made him TheAgeless so he'd have time to get himself together.
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138	[[folder:Molly Grue]]
139	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/molly_grue_the_last_unicorn_17387936_200_200_1.jpg]]
140	[[caption-width-right:200:''"Where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you, how '''dare''' you to come to me now when I am '''this'''!"'']]
141	->'''Voiced by:''' Tammy Grimes (English); Ema Andrea (Albanian), Gloria Gonzalez (Spanish)
142
143	A middle aged woman who dreamt all her life of seeing unicorns until life shattered her dreams. She finally meets one during the story. Accompanies the Unicorn in her adventures and often tends to offer good (if blunt) counsel. She's also the only one that seems to be able to touch the unicorn in that form - this is explicit in the book where Schmendrick is jealous of this for a time (though it passes as their relationship grows), and the cat notes he will not touch even Amalthea lest he lose himself.
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145	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Not much, but she's described to look rather plain in the book, while in the movie she looks relatively younger and cuter.
146	* BarefootPoverty: She's shoeless probably because she's poor.
147	%%* BetaCouple: With Schmendrick.
148	* BrokenBird: Her life experiences have turned her a little cynical, but despite all that she still clings to her fantasy of meeting unicorns. It eventually turns real.
149	* DaydreamBeliever: Molly believes there really is a Myth/RobinHood. She also believes there are unicorns. (She's right in the last, though.)
150	* DeadpanSnarker: Most of her lines are delivered in this way.
151	* DeconstructedTrope: She eloped with Captain Cully as a young woman because she wanted to live JustLikeRobinHood, but learned the hard way that life with a bunch of outlaws on the road and in the woods wasn't as romantic as she had pictured it.
152	* EveryoneHasStandards: She is ''horrified'' when she learns that Hagsgate leaves their children to die of exposure.
153	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's described as pinched, bitter, and cynical, but she has a good heart under it all.
154	* JumpedAtTheCall: Decides to leave with Schmendrick and the unicorn within ''seconds'' of seeing the latter. However, she soon remarks that she was planning on leaving with Schmendrick even ''before'' she saw the unicorn.
155	* MeaningfulName: Molly can mean "bitter", and it surely fits with how she feels concerning Captain Cully.
156	* MisplacedAccent: Every Irish character in this movie has a British or American accent, but Molly is Scottish.
157	* NiceGirl: After she TookALevelInKindness, she genuinely becomes this. She forms an OddFriendship with Lír, happily feeds and chats with Haggard's four men-at-arms, and becomes very attentive and supportive to Schmendrick rather than mocking or berating him like when they first met.
158	* OddFriendship: Develops one with Lír during her stay at King Haggard's.
159	* ThePigpen: Rare female version. She starts off very dusty, dirty, tattered, and grimy from a life of poverty out in the woods. This changes after living in Haggard's castle for a while.
160	* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Schmendrick's Blue.
161	* SculleryMaid: Molly takes a job as one in Haggard's castle.
162	* TeamMom: She's a very bitter and cynical one for Captain Cully's gang, and becomes a kind one in King Haggard's castle. She makes sure everyone is fed and looked after no matter where she goes, and offers a kind word and understanding ear for everyone in Haggard's castle. (The four men-at-arms, Prince Lír, the Lady Amalthea, and Schmendrick himself.)
163	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The rough, impoverished Tomboy to the Unicorn's/Amalthea's feminine Lady.
164	* TookALevelInKindness: After leaving Captain Cully, she quickly starts to mellow out significantly.
165	* WhamLine: Puts a quick stop to Schmendrick's self-congratulatory speech when he thinks he's saved the day by transforming Amalthea into a human.
166	-->'''Schmendrick''': I am a bearer, I am a dwelling, I am a messenger!\
167	'''Molly''': ''You are an idiot''! You hear me?!? You've lost her!
168	* WhatTheHellHero: Surprises even herself by calling the unicorn out on her callousness, twice; first by claiming her time is more valuable than mortals, and then later for calling Schmendrick a fool when the latter works himself night and day trying to keep Haggard too distracted to realize she's a unicorn.
169	* WhenSheSmiles: At the end of the book, after she lets her hair down and smiles for pure joy [[spoiler:because all the unicorns in the world have been saved]] the narration (through Schmendrick's [=POV=]) remarks that she's even more beautiful than the Lady Amalthea.
170	* WomenAreWiser: She suspects the secret of Hagsgate -- that the townspeople knew Haggard was capturing all the unicorns of the world but did nothing to stop him -- before it's ever revealed. She is also more generally down-to-earth and willing to adapt to her surroundings, without any illusions of a grand destiny.
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173	[[folder:Prince Lír]]
174	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_lir_the_last_unicorn_17387637_200_200_8.jpg]]
175	[[caption-width-right:200:''"The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."'']]
176	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JeffBridges (English), Javier Pontón (Spanish)
177
178	King Haggard's son. Falls deeply in love with the Lady Amalthea and eventually wins her heart.
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180	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The film presents Lír as a genuine Prince Charming; somebody nice, caring and understanding. Meanwhile, the book reveals a few obvious flaws, such as breaking off his arranged marriage to pursue Amalthea, and having a possessive streak.
181	* AdoptedIntoRoyalty: Lír was adopted by King Haggard; his biological parents were villagers.
182	* ChallengeSeeker: Goes on many heroic quests off-screen, like battling orcs or solving riddles. It's done less to challenge himself but mostly to impress Amalthea.
183	* CharacterDevelopment: Turns from a lazy schmuck into a noble hero. Book-verse mostly, since in the movie he's portrayed as perfectly adequate from the start. In the book it's stated often that before Lír met Amalthea, he was pretty lazy and unmotivated. After he falls for her he finds the will to go on heroic quests.
184	* CryForTheDevil: [[invoked]] He is the only one to grieve for [[spoiler:Haggard's death]], and even then it's only a little.
185	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:He is killed by the Red Bull towards the end of the film, but the unicorn uses her magic to bring him back to life.]]
186	* DoggedNiceGuy: He falls in love at first sight with Amalthea and does everything he thinks a knight 'should do' to attract her attention, even killing giants and dragons. He's very pushy towards her even when she has expressed to have no desire to interact with him. It's hinted at some points that he loves her because he can project on to her his ideal of a perfect woman.
187	* DoorstepBaby: Haggard admits Lír is not his son but rather he found him on a doorstep as a baby where a peasant had left him. (In the book, he found him abandoned while traveling Hagsgate) Haggard adopted him to see if raising a child would bring him happiness, but it didn't last long.
188	* EntitledToHaveYou: Book-verse, but a few bits of dialogue here and there suggest Lír may have inherited some of Haggard's possessive tendencies regarding unicorns. The Lady Amalthea is in fear of him initially since she believes he wants her as much as the Red Bull does, and at one point Lír starts projecting onto her his ideal of a woman. In the movie their romance is portrayed more idealistically, but the book has a few red flags. He also breaks off his previous engagement to his fiancee due to being infatuated with Amalthea, and at the end of the book [[spoiler:he becomes ''very'' bitter when the unicorn doesn't talk to him in his dream, and demands Schmendrick tell him where she is so he can hunt her down, and the glint in his eye reminds Schmendrick of Haggard's possessive attitude toward unicorns.]]
189	* ForHappiness: [[spoiler: After losing Amalthea, he dedicates himself to making his subjects happy, as he doesn't believe he will ever know it again.]]
190	* FriendlessBackground: Tells the others when they leave that he's never had any friends before.
191	* HappilyAdopted: Is a bit lonely but otherwise content living with Haggard.
192	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He dies trying to protect the Unicorn from the Red Bull.]] [[BackFromTheDead He gets better though.]]
193	* HeartbrokenBadass: Becomes this in the end. [[spoiler:He's the new king of Haggard's kingdom and still a hero from all his deeds to win the Lady Amalthea, but deeply grieved that he can never be with the one he loves.]]
194	* ImmortalityThroughMemory: Schmendrick comforts Lir by telling him Amalthea will remember him and his love "when humans are fairy tales in books written by rabbits."
195	* ItsAllAboutMe: Downplayed. He starts off as a lazy bum, but starts to get his act together after falling in love with the Lady Amalthea. However, by his own admission he doesn't care about his heroic deeds as they're just a way to impress the Lady Amalthea. He's also indifferent when a dragon's burns cause his mare to die a slow and painful death (and acts surprised when the Lady Amalthea is driven to tears over it). While he develops an OddFriendship with Molly Grue, he mostly just asks advice on how to woo Amalthea, and often cuts her off when she starts to talk about herself. He does eventually grow into a selfless hero, if [[KnightInSourArmor bitterly]].
196	* KnightInShiningArmor: Wants to be this for the Lady Amalthea; by fighting monsters and winning trophies and tributes. He eventually earns the title, but [[spoiler: at the cost of his life. He gets better, though.]]
197	* KnightInSourArmor: Book-only. By his own admission, he only became a KnightInShiningArmor to gain the Lady Amalthea's favor, and couldn't care less about the monsters he fights or people he saves but keeps at it just because he's gotten into a habit of it. While he does encourage the Lady Amalthea to find her people [[spoiler:and become a unicorn again]], he's also deeply bitter and grieved about it.
198	* LadyAndKnight: The brave, selfless knight figure to Amalthea's elegant lady.
199	* LoveAtFirstSight: By his side only. He gets so infatuated with Amalthea the moment he first sees her that he breaks off his engagement to his previous fiancé (book only). It's hinted at he only loves her for her beauty and due to projecting onto her the personality he finds more appealing for her. He certainly jumps at the chance to encourage her to forget the life she struggles to remember, and then happily rewrites her history and opinions for her when she becomes a meek, demure PrincessClassic.
200	* LovedINotHonorMore: In the end, [[spoiler:it's he who encourages the Lady Amalthea to find her people and become a unicorn again when all she wants is to abandon her quest to marry him, because as a hero he knows that quests shouldn't be abandoned in the middle. After the unicorn revives him and returns to her lilac wood, for a few wild moments he wants to find her, but Schmendrick convinces him that his duty to his people as a king and a hero come first.]]
201	* MeaningfulName: Lír is the name of the sea god in Irish Mythology. And it just so happens that he lives close to the sea...
202	* MediumAwareness: He seems to know he's in a fairy tale.
203	* OddFriendship: Develops one with Molly after she comes to Haggard's castle.
204	* TheOneThatGotAway: In "Two Hearts", it's revealed that he pines after Amalthea into his old age.
205	* ThePoorlyChosenOne: Book-only; it's hinted that due to the bizarre circumstances of his birth (surrounded by stray cats as a baby, being the first and only child born in a generation), that by a prophecy he would be the one to bring down King Haggard. [[spoiler: It isn't him, ultimately, but he is the SpannerInTheWorks in a plan that relies on no unicorn in the world having a reason to turn on the Red Bull and push him into the sea]].
206	* PrinceCharming: Initially seems this, but his myriad of flaws (in the book) and his sad ending prevents him from ever achieving properly the role.
207	* ScatterbrainedSenior: Downplayed. In "Two Hearts", he's in his old age and is suffering Alzheimer's disease, making it difficult for him to remember when he is or who he's talking to. He bonds with Sooz because she helps him stay present.
208	* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Learning that Lady Amalthea is actually a unicorn in human form doesn't affect Prince Lír's feelings for her at all.
209	-->'''Prince Lír:''' Unicorn, mermaid, sorceress... no name you could give her would surprise ''or'' frighten me. I love whom I love.\
210	'''Schmendrick:''' Well, that's a very nice sentiment. But when I change her back into her true self --\
211	'''Prince Lír:''' ''(firmly)'' '''I love whom I love.'''
212	* WarriorPrince: He's good with a sword and showcases courtly manners.
213	* ThatWasNotADream:
214	-->'''Lír:''' Father? I had that dream again... no... [[spoiler:I was ''dead''. ''(with awe) I was dead.'']]
215	* WellDoneSonGuy: Discussed and Averted. He realized nothing short of a unicorn would ever make his father happy, so he gave up trying years before we see him.
216	* TheWisePrince: Turns into one after loving the Lady Amalthea and growing into the true role of a hero: a selfless person willing to do the ultimate sacrifice.
217	[[/folder]]
218
219	[[folder:King Haggard]]
220	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haggard_1.jpg]]
221	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I like to watch them, they fill me with joy. The first time I felt it I thought I was going to die!"'']]
222	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristopherLee (English), Antonio Raxel (Spanish)
223
224	The main villain of the story and Lír's adoptive father.
225	----
226	* AllTakeAndNoGive: He doesn't keep anything around that doesn't make him happy. He adopted Lír as an abandoned baby simply to find out if being a parent would make him happy, but quickly lost interest. And while he ''takes'' things that make him happy (and then discards them when they fail), he never ''creates'' or ''gives''.
227	* AntiVillain: The reason ''why'' he [[spoiler:captured the unicorns. Not from greed, or a lust for power... but because they're the only thing that makes him ''happy'']].
228	* BadassBoast: After Haggard's HannibalLecture, he parts, saying, "You may come and go as you please. My secrets ''guard themselves''... may yours do the same."
229	* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:The only mortal to ever best the ''Red Bull'' and force it into serving him.]]
230	* BeardOfEvil: He has a wicked white beard.
231	* BigBad: His capture of all but one of the unicorns in the world is what sets off the Last Unicorn's journey to begin with, and undoing his work takes up most of the climax of the story.
232	%%* TheCollector: Of unicorns, of course.
233	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Haggard has a ''very'' [[FleetingPassionateHobbies long list of former pursuits]], having tried everything he could think of to see if it made him happy. None did, and collecting unicorns is as close as he came.
234	* DisneyVillainDeath: The last we see of King Haggard is him plummeting to his death into the ocean after his castle's tower crumbles.
235	* DoNotTauntCthulhu: [[spoiler:The first thing the unicorns do after being set free is to collapse his castle and kill him.]]
236	* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Most apparent when he looks into the Lady Amalthea's eyes, and reflects none of the light they emit.
237	* TheEeyore: To the point that the ''only'' happiness he can feel is [[spoiler: watching the unicorns he's imprisoned in the sea]]. He's tried other methods of feeling happy, including adopting the Prince, but none of them last for long.
238	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Of the "I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member" kind. In the book, it's mentioned that even he wouldn't want a woman whose standards were low enough that she would marry a man as miserable as he is, if such a woman existed.
239	* EvilOverlord: One of the few evil kings in fiction whose motivation ''isn't'' power (he's already a king during the events of the story and has no interest in riches or the palace life, based in what state the castle is in), but the consequences of his actions leave his kingdom in disarray anyway.
240	* EvilSoundsDeep: In the novel, his voice is described as more of a dry rustle, but what with being one of Christopher Lee's villains, he's a deep baritone in the film adaptation.
241	* FisherKing: Some people say his land was originally green but became rocky and barren when he entered it.
242	* ForHappiness: His only motivation is to find things that make him happy.
243	* 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 suggesting that Lir has had anything but a well-adjusted upbringing, considering his circumstances.
244	* HiddenDepths: Haggard has sent away everyone except the absolute minimum staff in his castle, because he won't keep anything around that doesn't make him happy. There are so few people left, in fact, that he and Lír have to help with the cooking and doing shifts on guard duty. However, this indicates that doing these things actually ''does'' make Haggard at least a little happy. If they didn't, he would be happier with the extra employees (which makes sense - having work he needs to attend to is better than just sitting on his throne all day doing nothing).
245	* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Haggard isn't fooled by Schmendrick's claims that Amalthea is the magician's niece and almost immediately sees her for what she is, and both of them know it.
246	* 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 not 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 other non-immortal creature in the story.
247	* InkSuitActor: In the film, his facial features very much look like exaggerated versions of Christopher Lee's own.
248	* ItMustBeMine: Haggard and "his" unicorns. Of note, even though he's got every single one except the title character, he's ''obsessed'' with having ''all'' of them. [[spoiler:This obsession directly results in his demise.]] His speech provides the trope page quote.
249	-->'''Haggard:''' There. There they are. There they are! They are MINE! They belong to ME! The Red Bull gathered them, one by one, and I bade him drive each one into the sea! ...I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. The first time I felt it, I thought I was going to ''die''. I said to the Red Bull, "I must have them! I must have ''all'' of them, ''all there are''! For nothing makes me happy... but their shining, and their grace." So the Red Bull caught them. Each time I see the unicorns - MY unicorns - it is like that morning in the woods, and I am truly ''young'', in spite of myself!
250	* ItsAllAboutMe: His only thought and concern in the world is making himself happy. To that end, he'll use and discard anyone on a whim [[spoiler:and capture and imprison all the unicorns in the world]] without a thought or care to how it affects ''them''. Haggard's biggest vice, and greatest danger, is his selfishness and obsessiveness.
251	* KingIncognito: The doormen that let the gang into the castle turn out to be Haggard and Lír.
252	* LackOfEmpathy: The only thing that matters to Haggard is his own happiness, everything and everyone else doesn't matter to him. Notabbly, he only adopted Lír in a vain attempt to see if it'd make him happy and describes it more as a hobby than becoming a father.
253	* MeaningfulName: He's old and looks very gaunt and wasted.
254	* ModestRoyalty: Aside from his red cape, his typical attire seems to be his armour, which looks to have seen better days decades ago and to have been made for a man of a much lower rank.
255	* MotiveRant: Haggard has one when he wistfully tells Lady Amalthea why he holds all the unicorns prisoner in the sea.
256	* OddlySmallOrganization: His court only consists of four men at arms because he only keeps people around if they make him happy. Haggard will have nothing around him that does not make him happy, so he cut his castle's staff to such an absolute minimum that he and his son have to take a shift guarding the castle gates on occasion.
257	* PetTheDog: Haggard admits he only adopted Lír for the purpose of seeing if it would stir him to love and gradually found not even parenthood could reliably fill the emptiness within him. Nevertheless, Haggard has continued to faithfully raise Lír well into adulthood after the point where Haggard abandoned everything else in his castle that didn't make him happy. Lír, for his part, [[GoodParents never has a negative thing to say about his father]] despite his pop's objectively evil actions.
258	* SourOutsideSadInside: His reason for capturing the unicorns in the first place.
259	* TragicVillain: He's never felt happiness in his life before he saw the unicorns. This prompts him to capture them. One of the darkest examples of this trope as there doesn't seem to be a specific reason for his depression, so he selfishly keeps the beauty of those miracles away from the world, making both them and the rest of the world miserable, in order to keep this single pleasant feeling that they give him.
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:Other characters]]
263
264	!!The Butterfly
265	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cinemum_net.jpg]]
266	[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name]]."'']]
267	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RobertKlein
268
269	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.
270	----
271	* AuthorAvatar: Beagle has stated frequently in interviews that the butterfly who constantly quotes song lyrics is supposed to be him (Beagle is fond of songs). In a meta-sense, he explains that he, the author, needed a reason for the Unicorn to start her quest, therefore he inserted himself in the form of the butterfly to tell the story of the Red Bull that the unicorn could not have otherwise learned. In the film adaptation, it even has a scruffy beard resembling Peter's own at the time he wrote the book (even including the funky beret).
272	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The butterfly sings songs, recites poetry, quotes a warning from a matchbox at one point, and ''occasionally'' says something useful. It's at least implied, if not stated outright, that verbatim parroting what he's heard others say before is actually the only way ''any butterfly'' can talk at all. He seems to ''understand'' what the unicorn is after well enough, though. ("The king is in the counting house -- counting, counting!")
273	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The butterfly has some good advice hidden in his string of nonsense songs.
274	* ADogNamedDog: It's only ever referred to as "the Butterfly".
275	* SpeaksInShoutOuts: The Butterfly speaks only in poetry and song.
276
277	!!Mommy Fortuna
278	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crh8tapwiaer4hw.jpg]]
279	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh, she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that '''I''' caught her, and '''I''' held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, eh?"'']]
280	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AngelaLansbury (English), Carmina Vásquez (Spanish)
281
282	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... not like she cares.
283	----
284	* AlasPoorVillain: She wasn't a good person by any means, but Schmendrick still mourns for her death, regreting that his actions led to it.
285	* BadBoss: She exploits Schmendrick and belittles his magic capacity at any opportunity she gets. She also threatens to feed Rukh's liver to the harpy, and means it.
286	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The animals left in her care are in very bad shape, like a chimp with a broken ankle or an old lion that's missing all of its teeth.
287	* CreepyCrows: She kept one as a pet. After her death he follows Schmendrick and Amalthea in their adventures and eventually goes on to live with the unicorn in her forest.
288	* DeathSeeker: Paradoxically, she's both this and an ImmortalitySeeker. 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. In so doing, she will achieve true immortality, after a fashion.
289	-->'''Unicorn:''' She chose her death long ago.
290	* DefiantToTheEnd: Rather than just quietly slip away once the Harpy is freed, she instead openly ''invites'' her to kill her, her last breath spent mocking her:
291	-->'''Mommy Fortuna:''' Not alone! You never could have freed yourselves alone! '''I ''HELD'' YOU!!'''
292	* EquivalentExchange: Discussed. Though not delved too deeply into, the Unicorn implies that her FatalFlaw is her desire to escape paying the price for what she wants, and that "true" witches know better, and by extension don't have to rely on weaker illusion spells like she does. [[ArmorPiercingResponse This is enough for Mommy Fortuna to shed a (dust) tear of shame]].
293	* HiddenDepths: She has just enough magic to make the unicorn believe (even for a brief moment) that she's starting to age, and that a little spider's web is really Arachne's weave.
294	* ImmortalityThroughMemory: She 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.
295	* JadedWashout: Reveals to the unicorn that she knows her magic is a sham, and angrily asks if the unicorn really believes that becoming a third-rate carnival mistress peddling third-rate illusions to gullible peasants is what she wanted to be when she was young and full of ambition?
296	* WickedWitch: She has the look and mannerisms of one. However, her magic is weak and the most she can really do is create illusions.
297	* YourMindMakesItReal: Downplayed. Her illusions are still just that, but people's belief makes her illusions stronger. Her customers see fantastical beasts in her midnight carnival because they ''want'' to see magical creatures, and the spider's web is stronger than most of the other illusions because the spider truly believes it's really weaving Arachne's web.
298
299	!!Rukh
300	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruhk.jpg]]
301	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Okay, Schmendrick, I give up. Why '''is''' a raven like a writing desk? Heh?"'']]
302	->'''Voiced by:''' Theodore Gottlieb
303
304	Mommy Fortuna's not too bright assistant. Conducts the guests through the Midnight Carnival.
305	----
306	* DumbMuscle: He 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.
307	* TheIgor: He's a hunchbacked little man who works as Mommy Fortuna's loyal, if surly, assistant.
308
309	!!The Harpy Celeano
310	[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harpy_28the_last_unicorn29.jpg]]
311	[[caption-width-right:340:''"Set me free. We are sisters, you and I."'']]
312	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeenanWynn
313
314	The one true mythological creature, aside from the unicorn, that Mommy Fortuna captured. She awaits the day she is freed.
315	----
316	* AxCrazy: She's locked in a state of perpetual homicidal rage, and the first thing she does upon being freed is try to kill the very unicorn who released her.
317	* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[FanDisservice Rather disgustingly averted]], for her three saggy breasts have rather visible nipples.
318	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Unicorn implies this is the case, as she doesn't seem to hold Celeano trying to kill her against the Harpy, and implies this is simply her nature ''period''.
319	** In the book, she openly warns the Unicorn that she will kill her if she sets her free ''before'' demanding she do it anyway. The unicorn complies, presumably understanding that [[AppealToNature this is just how it has to be]].
320	* CapturedSuperEntity: Celano is a SemiDivine embodiment of darkness and Mommy Fortuna knows full well that she signed her death-warrant when she captured her. Still, she milks her fleeting dominance for all its worth despite knowing that it will only make her inevitable death worse.
321	* TheDreaded: Schmendrick and Ruhk are scared of Celeano. And Schmendrick knows she's bad and a killer. That's why he warns the Unicorn not to release her.
322	* FeatheredFiend: She persuades the Unicorn into freeing her -- "We are sisters, you and I..." -- and then tries to kill her once she does so.
323	* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: She's called a harpy, though the only real humanoid part of her in the film are the breasts. Celeano otherwise looks like a demonic vulture.
324	* {{Multiboobage}}: The Harpy has three breasts.
325	* 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 she cannot bear to see a fellow immortal be caged.
326	* ToothyBird: In addition to her beak, the movie also gives the harpy some scary-looking fangs.
327	* 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.)
328	* VileVulture: Her design in the film is based on a vulture, which just makes her all the more monstrous.
329	* VocalDissonance: In the film, she is obviously voiced by a male.
330	* WeatherManipulation: Though she presumably has other powers as well, the Harpy is able to cast an unnatural darkness over the caravan as a threat to Mommy Fortuna. Especially ominous is how she can do this even when supernaturally bound.
331
332	!!Captain Cully
333	[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/images_7370.jpeg]]
334	[[caption-width-right:210:''"Tell me what you've heard of dashing Captain Cully and his band of free men. Have a taco."'']]
335	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeenanWynn
336
337	The leader of the Merry Men-wannabes group of outlaws that reside in the forest and capture Schmendrick. Is stated to be Molly's old flame yet still clings on to his fantasy about their group being a genuine band of heroic outlaws.
338	----
339	* AttentionWhore: He gets rather put out when "Robin Hood" appears.
340	* BerserkButton: He is offended when Molly requests a song about Robin Hood, deriding him as a myth.
341	* JustLikeRobinHood: Captain Cully and his outlaw gang certainly aspire to be, but instead are quite the opposite. They rob the poor because they can't fight back, and pay off the rich to turn a blind eye.
342	* SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks of himself as a romantic folk hero, but in reality he's just a petty brigand who doesn't understand the hopes and dreams of his crew.
343
344	!!The Red Bull
345	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_red_bull.jpg]]
346
347	The fiery demonic creature that Haggard commands; he's tasked with finding all of the unicorns in the land and drive them into the sea. His first encounter with the unicorn is what leads to Schmendrick transforming her to save her.
348	----
349	* AlmightyIdiot: A being of immense power with no will of its own; it serves anyone who has no fear. It does not have any particular malice toward unicorns, but Haggard wants them, so it collects them. In the book, the Bull is blind.
350	* AnimalisticAbomination: It's less a bull and more a manifestation of fear that ''looks'' like one.
351	* DragonInChief: Subverted. He is a mindless entity who works for Haggard who however would never have been able to capture the unicorns without it.
352	* GracefulLoser: The Bull doesn't bother counter-attacking the Unicorn. It simply concedes defeat and walks back into the sea. This is because it serves those who feel no fear, and thus her overcoming her fear of it gives her power over it.
353	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The Red Bull is a massive, fiery red bull with tusks and glowing eyes.
354	* SupernaturalFearInducer: It's implied to be some kind of fear elemental and fills any creature that encounters it with blind terror. Notably, only someone who has no fear can claim control over it.
355
356	!!The Cat
357	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lastunicorn02.jpg]]
358	[[caption-width-right:350:''"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."'']]
359	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PaulFrees
360
361	A cat that the trio encounters while on Haggard's castle. Initially gives Molly some advice on how to find the bull, but is mystic about it.
362	----
363	* CatsAreSnarkers: He's not actually mean but he is a [[TheTrickster trickster]], and could ''probably'' give more help than he does.
364	-->'''Molly:''' Why won't you help me? Why must you always speak in riddles.
365	-->'''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)''
366	* CatsAreSuperior: He states that cats, unlike humans, are not deceived by appearances, being able to know Amalthea was a unicorn from the start.
367	-->'''Cat:''' No cat out of her first fur was ever deceived by appearances. Unlike humans, who seem to enjoy it.
368	* ADogNamedDog: It's only ever referred to as "the Cat".
369	* FurryReminder: He may talk and style himself like a pirate, but he's still a cat who does cat-like things, including playing with a ball, rubbing his body against people's legs, and yowling when aggravated.
370	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: He doesn't purr in the movie, he just ''says'' "purr."
371	* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only talks in one scene, but he points the protagonists in the direction they need to go with his riddle.
372	* TalkLikeAPirate: The cat, who also sports an eyepatch and pegleg (the former apparently a complete affectation, since at one point he switches which eye it covers to reveal a perfectly normal eye had been behind it).
373	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Of course, in a world with dragons and harpies, Molly isn't shocked the cat can talk, just that it didn't speak up sooner.
374	-->'''Molly:''' Oh! You ''can'' talk!
375
376	!!The Skull
377	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eltsugqwoaefkiq.jpg]]
378	[[caption-width-right:300:''"You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you."'']]
379	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ReneAuberjonois
380
381	A talking skeleton that 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.
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383	* BewareTheSillyOnes: He acts more like a jester than anything, laughing, poking fun at the protagonists, and being a huge buffoon. However, he stops being jolly and becomes a lot more menacing the second he notices the unicorn.
384	* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind:
385	-->'''Skull:''' Oh, no. No, you don't. Not ''that'' one. Unicorn! Unicorn! Haggard! Haggard! '''''UNICORN! UNICORN!''''' Haggard, where are you? There they go! Down to the Red Bull! The clock, Haggard! There they go! Unicorn! '''''UNICORN!'''''
386	* DemBones: The guardian of the passageway that leads to the Red Bull is also a skeleton.
387	* DrunkOnMilk: He gets tipsy just by "drinking" an empty ''bottle'', the mere memory of wine being enough to give him a buzz.
388	* FriendlySkeleton: The skeleton that guards the way to the Red Bull is jovial, though he isn't exactly on the protaganists' side.
389	* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: The skull, during the "HAGGARD! HAGGARD!! '''UNICORN!'''" tirade.
390	* TheHyena: He spends most of his screentime laughing his skull off.
391	* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Skull displays such eyes when he recognizes the eponymous character for what she truly is. See also GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath.
392	* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: The Skull turns rosy-cheeked as it empties a bottle of "wine."
393	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / TheLastUnicorn