Characters that appear in Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Main Characters
Snow White, "Red Shoes"
- Voiced by: Chloë Grace Moretz (English); Baby K (Italian)
click here to see her Red Shoes form
- Action Girl: She takes situations into her own hands, and even slugs Prince Average in the face when he refuses to let go of her.
- Affectionate Nickname: Merlin calls her "Red".
- Armor-Piercing Question: When she takes off her shoes and reveals her true self to Merlin, he asks her why she didn't tell them at the beginning that she was under a curse.Red Shoes: If I had given up their magic, you wouldn't have helped me find my father, would you?
Merlin: Well...
Red Shoes: Would you? - Adaptational Nationality: German in the original story, Korean in this version.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: She's very beautiful, both in her slender and original forms, and she's kindhearted and caring.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Her original self is this, and she's happy with her body.
- Daddy's Girl: She loves her father, and his disappearance is the entire reason she's searching for him.
- Fat and Proud: She's fine with the way she looks. In the end, she decides to keep her body as it normally is and not bother using the shoes. It is possible the shoes stopped working, just like all the other fruit of Regina's magic.
- Genre Savvy: She's very aware that people would judge her based on her looks and only help if she wears the shoes and looks conventionally beautiful. She also asks Merlin if he would have helped her in her original form if she never came upon the shoes, to which he's flustered in giving a response.
- Nice Girl: Snow White is very kindhearted, loving, caring and levelheaded.
- Only the Chosen May Wield: As an easy demonstration of her character, she effortlessly pulls Excalibur from its stone, whose inscription says only the noble and truthful can do.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Well, she is Snow White. Unlike most versions, her hair is more brown than black.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the only one who cares (and is able to do something) about what caused her father's disappearance. This is how she came upon the red shoes.
- Stout Strength: One of the things she likes about herself is that she's very strong. She says she can bench 250 and she does manage to move a large boulder off of Merlin's body when he's pinned underwater.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She got her looks from her father.
Merlin
- Voiced by: Sam Claflin (English)
click here to see his human form
- Appearance Angst: Complains about the curse the most.Green is like an ogre. Blue or yellow would've made us look cute and cuddly.
- Character Development: He spends the first half of the movie doing whatever he can to get back to normal, as he feels that he's not himself if he isn't handsome. When Snow White even asks him if he would have helped her if she weren't wearing the shoes, he pauses and later on has an internal argument with himself on how he shouldn't judge her based on her looks alone. He spends the rest of the movie learning to love himself and realizing his growing feelings towards Snow White and not her Red Shoes form. In the final fight of the movie, he chooses to sacrifice himself in order to help Snow White, even if it means he'll never get his original body back. After she kisses him and breaks the curse, he has come to appreciate Snow White for her beauty within, not surface-level beauty.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He wants to turn back to his original self for selfish reasons, but he is very kind as when he ran into Snow White in her original form. He helps her out and cautions her to get home safe before leaving.
- Logical Weakness: Merlin needs to clap his hands in order to use his lightning magic. So if one of his arms is incapacitated, he's pretty weak.
- Paper Talisman: What he uses in his spells.
- Proud Beauty: He's handsome and he knows it. So he's desperate to lift the curse and return to his original self and not his "ugly" dwarf form.
- Shock and Awe: The kind of magic he performs is mainly lightning-based.
- Squishy Wizard: He's incredibly powerful in terms of magical abilities, but in terms of physical strength, he's the opposite.
- Time for Plan B: When Prince Average's soldiers outnumber the group Merlin uses one of their cannonballs; this leads to the fall of Seven's front house wall but the defeat of Prince Average.
Fearless Seven (F7)
Arthur
- Voiced by: Simon Kassianides (English)
click here to see his human form
- Character Development: His first attempts to flirt with Red shoes are douchey and shallow though after time he does grow to genuinely like and respect her. During the credits, he meets a red riding hood that turns out to be a werewolf under the full moon. He still tries to court her.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: As his name implies, he wields a sword.
- Lovable Jock: He's brash and brutish but at the end of the day he's a loyal buddy.
- Old Friend: Merlin and Arthur bicker the most of the group and seem to know one another's habits very well.
- Oop North: Has a Yorkish accent.
- The Strength of Ten Men: While Jack, Merlin, and Hans struggle together on one side of a rope, Arthur lifts them effortlessly with one arm.
Pino, Noki, Kio
- Voiced by: Frank Todaro (English)
- The Dividual: Compared to the rest of the seven they're given little distinguishing characteristics amongst themselves and seem to be a set of triplets mostly just to round out the group.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Invented a mecha made of wood with a working jetpack, a combination camera and copy machine and in the end credits apparently an entire DJ setup.
- Gratuitous Italian / Rambunctious Italian: With their Pinocchio theme. Also they self congratulate themselves.
- Happy Ending: In the end credits the triplets are still dwarfs but seem perfectly fine continuing their experiments and research.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: They all wear the same kind of hat but it has a different number of bands on the front to distinguish them.
- Low Culture, High Tech: The society seems to be at a vaguely medieval level but they seem to be the greatest source of technological advancement. As seen above, they name their invention:Pino: I call it a Post-Portrait!
Noki: I call it the Duplicatortron!
Kio: I call it Selfie! - Same-Sex Triplets: They're all male.
Jack
- Voiced by: Frederik Hamel (English)
click here to see his human form
- Agent Peacock: He's shown to be slightly more concerned with beautification than the others but is also a renowned hero.
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Jack is proud to know many jewelers and punches with a large diamond ring.
- Gratuitous French: Peppers his speech with French.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: He's shown to have a nightly moisturizing routine with a special face mask.
- Invisibility Cloak: What he wears in battle.
- Mermaid Problem: In the credits he finds a mermaid whose a fish head on a human body and he immediately falls for her. She shares his love of shiny gems.
Hans
- Voiced by: Nolan North (English)
click here to see his human form
- Accent Adaptation: Hans has a German accent, in respect to his "Hansel& Gretel" roots.
- Chef of Iron: He's the chef of the group and a hero of renown.
- Frying Pan of Doom: His shield is a wok pan with a handle that folds in. He sometimes has the handle folded out to use it as a bludgeon.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His main weapon is a shield, which reflects his protective nature towards the others.
- Supreme Chef: His cooking is so good the smell of it inadvertently awoke a sleeping beauty from her cursed slumber in the credits.
- Sweet Baker: He bakes a lot and is incredibly kind to those around him, even making a batch of doughnuts for Red Shoes when they find her.
Antagonists
Queen Regina
- Voiced by: Gina Gershon (English)
- Forced Transformation: A lot of her magic involves transforming others against their will.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: As the reigning queen of Snow's kingdom, it's revealed that she's been sacrificing her subjects for years in a bid for eternal youth and beauty.
- Green Thumb: A majority of her spells are all in someway plant based. Her Magic Mirror is attached to tree that it can control, all of her minions are plant monsters transmuted from humans who eat from her apples and her magic shoes were apples grown from apple trees transmuted from her victims.
- Expy: There are significant similarities between her and Mother Gothel from Tangled. They both want to stay young and beautiful using magic while also being evil mother figures to their “daughters”. There are even some shot-for-shot similarities too
◊. Interestingly, Jin Kim was the creative director and character designer for this movie. This is important to note because he also worked on ''Tangled'' and did the character design for Mother Gothel. - Repetitive Name: "Regina" is Latin for Queen.
- Vain Sorceress: Her primary motivation is a pair of magic shoes that'll make her eternally young and beautiful. Possibly subverted: it is stated more than once that her power is waning, in a way that suggests the shoes might restore her power along with her youth, making her an Immortality Seeker.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: For a tyrannical wizardess, she sure stands out in something as light-hearted as this.
Magic Mirror
- Voiced by: Patrick Warburton
- Adaptational Badass: Here, he can control the branches of a tree and use them to attack.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the original story, he was a neutral party. Here, he's not only Regina's willing assistant who has helped her kill many subjects in the latter's quest for eternal youth but is also a sadist who actively takes joy in mocking Merlin that Snow White will be killed.
- The Dragon: Regina's loyal top servant who provides her with intel.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: His name. Though it's apparently a shortening of Magichard Mirror.
- Magic Mirror: This is exactly what he is. Well, he claims it's just his name, Magic is apparently short for "Magichard".
- Servile Snarker: He loyally obeys Regina but doesn't hesitate to crack jokes at her expense.
- When Trees Attack: He's mounted in the branches of a barren tree whose roots have spread throughout the entire castle. He can freely move these roots to attack.
Prince Average
- Voiced by: Jim Rash
"Is it dwarfs with an F or dwarves with a V? I want to know what's more offensive."
- Dumb Blonde: He is very kooky, and has blonde hair.
- Forced Transformation: In the credits he's fished out of the water by the same fairy princess that cursed the F7, and his similar reaction to her incites her to inflict the same curse on him as well.
- Funny Foreigner: He has a stereotypically French appearance and accent.
- Karmic Transformation: In the end credits he is found by the fairy princess after she fishes him out of the lake and treats her with disdain, leading to her immediately transforming him into a green dwarf in retaliation.
- Pronouncing My Name for You: As he'll say to everyone who mispronounces it, his name is "Av-Ooh-Raj".
- Skewed Priorities: When he tells his soldiers to capture Red Shoes, they fire at her with cannons and he asks for a time-out and drags them off to scold them.Prince Average: And she can't come to my party if you blow her up!
Soldier: Uh, sorry sir.
Prince Average: Alright, time back in. - Spoiled Brat: He always wants something and gets annoyed when other's are obviously ignoring him.
