Character page for the C. S. Lewis book saga The Chronicles of Narnia, its 2005-2010 film adaptation, and all other adaptations, including the BBC miniseries and radio adaptations respectively.
Earth Main Characters
See here.Narnian Main Characters


- Played by: Ben Barnes (films), Jean Marc Perret (BBC miniseries, 1st part), Samuel West (BBC miniseries, 2nd part), Geoffrey Russell (BBC miniseries, Silver Chair), Richard Suchet (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Richard Puddifoot (BBC radio adaptation)Voiced in European French by: Emmanuel GarijoVoiced in Latin-American Spanish by: Ricardo Palacio Reynaud (Prince Caspian), Edson Matus (Voyage of the Dawn Treader)Voiced in European Spanish by: Fernando Cabrera
King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Emperor of the Lone Islands, also called Caspian the Seafarer and Caspian the Navigator (born 2290–died 2356, Narnian Time) was one of the greatest leaders of the Narnian Empire who took part in the successful Narnian Revolution and began the Age of Exploration. Caspian was descended from the Telmarine Dynasty, but unlike his ancestors he chose to ally with the indigenous Narnians (talking animals, satyrs, fauns, centaurs, etc.) instead of persecuting them. Succeeded by his son Rilian.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He is described as fair-haired in the books. However, since the Telmarines are descended from pirates and the native tribe of an uncharted island on Earth, the choice to portray him as dark-haired and Hispanic stands to reason.
- Age Lift: He looks to be older in the films than in the books or in the BBC miniseries, where he was implied to be around thirteen.
- Cradle-to-Grave Character: We get to see his upbringing in Prince Caspian, and his death in The Silver Chair.
- Bash Brothers: Is this with both of the Pevensie boys, but mostly with Edmund in the third film.
- Big Brother Instinct: Develops one for Edmund and Lucy in the third film.
- Big Damn Heroes: In Prince Caspian, when Susan is about to be killed by a Telmarine soldier after being knocked to the forest floor.Caspian: (gives her a dashing smile) Sure you don't need that horn?
- Character Development: From a hesitant but trustworthy ruler-to-be, to a skilled Father to His Men seafaring captain to a just and noble king. Not bad, Caspian, not bad at all.
- The Call Knows Where You Live: Caspian is thrown into his adventures when his aunt has a baby, making him... redundant to his evil uncle.
- Dashing Hispanic: In the movie, he comes off as this. Bonus points on Ben Barnes basing his characterization on Inigo Montoya, a Dashing Hispanic himself. Averted in the BBC miniseries.
- Distracted by the Sexy: In the movie version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by Lilliandil, Ramandu’s daughter.
- Family of Choice: In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, he outright calls Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace as the closest thing he has to a family.
- Heroic Vow: Caspian made one at his coronation to search for the seven missing lords. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader takes place during that journey.
- It Has Been an Honor: Towards Edmund in The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Especially in the third film, where he is shown tying it back from time to time, especially when adventuring or during battles.
- More Hero than Thou
- Mr. Fanservice: Especially in the movies.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: He's apparently been taking elocution lessons in between "Prince Caspian" and "Dawn Treader", since his Spanish accent vanishes in between films, replaced by Ben Barnes' natural English accent.
- A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Played with a bit - he's a Supporting Protagonist for the Pevensies, but still the person chosen by the Old Narnians to be their leader and champion.
- Reluctant Ruler: He was unsure he had any right to the Narnian throne, and didn't believe himself ready to take it when the time came. Aslan assures him that those very doubts prove that he has what it takes to be a good leader.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: An emphatic example. In Prince Caspian he leads a successful revolution against his wicked uncle. By the time of Voyage of the Dawn Treader - a matter of just two or three years - he's repaired the damage caused by the civil wars, brought peace between the remaining Telmarines and the formerly oppressed Old Narnians, and is revitalizing Narnia's long-dormant seafaring traditions with an epic voyage of discovery. His brief cameo in The Silver Chair shows that he goes down in history as a soldier, sailor, lawmaker and administrator.
- Secondary Character Title: In Prince Caspian.
- Sheathe Your Sword: Used in the movie version of Prince Caspian, when Caspian, after seeing an entire squadron of Telmarine assassins downed by something underfoot, is himself tripped and set upon by the unseen assailant... Reepicheep the Mouse. Reepicheep orders Caspian to retrieve his sword and face him in honorable combat, as he refuses to kill an unarmed man. Caspian's reply: "Then I'll live longer if I don't." Reepicheep doesn't have infinite patience, though, so this tactic doesn't last Caspian forever.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: In the movies.
- The Lost Lenore: To Susan, in the movies, and vice-versa.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Caspian in his pride wants to stay at the end of the world; the entire crew and even Aslan calls him out on abandoning his responsibilities and promises. In the film version, Caspian is very much tempted by the prospect of staying at the end of the world to the point of crying, but he realizes that his father wouldn't have wanted him to throw away the kingdom his father died for.
- The Wise Prince: He tends to put the wrong foot forward on some occasions, but in general, Caspian has good instincts and a very kind heart.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Towards Miraz.
- Barefoot Poverty: To his suffering, Agony of the Feet included.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Aravis. Lampshaded by the author who says that they had many quarrels and fights after which they made up again and eventually they married so that they could do this in a more convenient fashion.
- Big Damn Heroes: He pulls this twice. The first time when he rushes to protect Aravis and Hwin from what he believed was a hungry lion chasing after them. The second one was when he ran non-stop, after having been through almost a whole book's worth of shit — most recently a potential suicide mission through a desert — to warn King Lune about the impending invasion.
- A Boy and His X: Inverted — Bree seems to regard Shasta as his pet. This is even lampshaded in the title of the book- it's not called "The Boy and His Horse," after all.
- Changeling Fantasy: Shasta, a peasant orphan, turns out to be the long-lost prince of Archenland. Atypically for the trope, Shasta is quite dismayed because, being the eldest twin, he'll be forced to rule as king, and his brother is only too happy to be relieved of the responsibility.
- Exact Eavesdropping: Hearing his adoptive father preparing to sell him into slavery is what prompts his escape.
- A Friend in Need: When Shasta tells the horse that he really needs someone who could tell him whether the nobleman is evil, Bree reveals his ability to speak to tell Shasta exactly that. Which gives Bree the opening to suggest that they could run away together.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: At least in the Pauline Baynes illustrations he is portrayed as having blond hair, and he had the wholesome and kind aspect down pat. He's described by the Tarkaan who tries to buy him from Arsheesh as being "fair" (like the cursed barbarians of the North).
- Happily Married: To Aravis, though they remain very hot-tempered about it.
- Made a Slave: What Shasta is fleeing. Bree hints this would be A Fate Worse Than Death, as the Tarkaan is buying Shasta for his looks; which the narration naturally downplays to stay family friendly - the general point this would be very bad is made, though.
- Master Swordsman: What he grows up to be in the epilogue.
- Moses in the Bulrushes: Shasta's aka Prince Cor's backstory.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: His relationship with Aravis is initially hostile, even though he's clearly taken with her. Their volatile friendship ultimately becomes romance and then marriage.
- True Companions: His devotion to his own is uncontested. Made all that much clearer when out of sheer loyalty he jumps off Bree’s back to face down a freakin' lion, who's actually Aslan, chasing Aravis and Hwin.

- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Shasta. Lampshaded by the author who says that she had many quarrels and fights with him, and eventually they got married so that they could quarrel and make up more conveniently.
- Break the Haughty: Her personal character arc is much about her learning humility.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Shasta. At first she treats him with a degree of arrogance due to her being a noble Tarkheena, and him a poor street urchin, but eventually she warms up to him.
- Forged Message: She covers her escape by having an Old Retainer write a letter from Ahosta Tarkaan saying that they've already married and her father should meet them in Tashbaan with her dowry.
- A Friend in Need: Hwin reveals she can talk just when Aravis needs her the most.
- Gilded Cage: Marriage in Calormen, for high-status women. Aravis hates her prospective husband, but it's suggested she wouldn't have been happy as any Tarkaan's wife.
- Happily Married: With Shasta, though they remain in Slap-Slap-Kiss mode.
- How They Treat the Help: Initially averted: as part of Aravis's backstory, she drugged one of her servants in order to escape. When Shasta asked what happened to the servant, Aravis casually speculated that she was whipped for oversleeping and shows no remorse, saying the girl was a lackey of her Wicked Stepmother. Aravis eventually learns to put aside her class pride through Character Development, especially after Aslan gives her the same wounds as the servant received.
- Infallible Narrator: Aravis recounts her entire backstory like this, and Bree explains that Calormene nobles are taught story-telling in school. She isn't entirely infallible, either, and is actually a Lemony Narrator: in keeping with the standards of her culture, she colors her narrative with painful amounts of Purple Prose, even when recounting what Hwin, who is present, said - causing Hwin to comment that she didn't say it in nearly as fancy words.
- Interrupted Suicide: Aravis in her back story, contemplating forced childhood marriage to an old man. Hwin stops her and convinces her to run away instead.
- Rebellious Princess: She is a Tarkheena from noble family who loves adventures, bows, arrows, dogs and horses and hates the high-class conventions.
- Runaway Fiancé: When her father arranges her marriage to a hump-backed, sycophantic man many times her age (when she's only about 12), she takes 'her' mare and flees to Narnia.
- Samus Is a Girl: Though the confusion happens at their first meeting, at night, and is cleared up quickly.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: She and Shasta have a stormy relationship. They eventually get married so they can fight and make up more 'conveniently'.
- The Storyteller: As a Tarkheena, she was educated in the art of storytelling, so she can tell stories 'in the grand Calormen style' (aka overloaded with Purple Prose), and apparently enjoys doing this.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Lasaraleen's Girly Girl.
- Tomboy Princess: A girl from Calormen's upper caste with several 'unfeminine' interests. Though she does have those too...
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She and Queen Lucy immediately bond due to their similarity in this regard, and go off chatting about clothes and 'the other things girls talk about on these occasions.'
- Tsundere: She behaves this way towards Shasta, flipping between arrogant and friendly. Overlaps with Defrosting Ice Queen.
- Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: This defines her relationship with Shasta from the very beginning. Their first words to each other: "Why, you're only a girl." "And you're only a boy. A rude, common little boy. A slave probably who's stolen his master's horse!"
- Wicked Stepmother: Her father's new wife didn't like her, and it was she who encouraged/persuaded him to marry her off to Tarkaan Ahoshta.
- Beast of Battle: He was a warhorse, though he's not quite as badass as he thinks he is.
- Break the Haughty: His overinflated ego gets punctured twice — first, when he realizes that Shasta, the fisherman's boy, was braver than he was, and a second time when Aslan gives him an unsubtle reminder that he is indeed a lion.
- Meaningful Name: Much like Jonathan Swift's Houhynhms, his full name is meant to mimic the neighing of a horse.
- Miles Gloriosus: He feels himself unusually brave. Eventually he breaks himself of this habit after a wiser character says he's been comparing himself to normal horses, "and you could hardly help being braver than them."
- Old Soldier: During his time in Calormen he served as a war-horse in the Tisroc's army and apparently was the veteran of several campaigns.
- Overly Long Name: His name in full is Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah (i.e. a horse's whinnying). Shasta finds it unpronounceable and suggests that it be shortened to Bree — which (perhaps not coincidentally) happens to be the name of a town in the work of C.S. Lewis' friend J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Slave Mook: Well, kind of by definition being a warhorse. But on the other hand he was an aristocrat's warhorse so he was not just a mook.
- Talking Animal: A significant plot point, since he puts himself in charge of the group's escape (and, in Shasta's case, is the one to suggest it).
- Voiced by: Wendy Craig (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Fiona Shaw (BBC radio adaptation)
- Closer to Earth: Much less self-absorbed than the other three, and probably the wisest member of the group.Bree: Is that how we want to arrive in Narnia?!Hwin: Well, the main thing is to get there.
- Humble Goal: To go home.
- Purple Prose: Not the real Hwin, but when Aravis is recounting their adventures she makes Hwin sound that way.Aravis (describing Hwin's dialogue): 'O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!'
- Talking Animal: As with Bree. By Contrived Coincidence, she talks her human into fleeing just a few days before Bree 'steals' Shasta.

- Baritone of Strength: Ironically, he has one in the BBC miniseries, courtesy of Tom Baker (The Fourth Doctor). This comes out best during his Kirk Summation, showing that the baritone reflects his inner strength, rather than his physical power.
- The Call Knows Where You Live: He's assigned to Jill and Eustace rather than seeking out heroics on his own.
- Deadpan Snarker: It's rare for the group to do anything without him muttering in an undertone that it's a foolish idea.
- Determinator: He constantly complains about how everyone is doomed... but throughout it all he just keeps on plowing his way through trials and tribulations that would have made a lesser will give up many times over. In a way, his resignation may be the source of his strength of character - if one is convinced that everything will go wrong no matter what, one can never truly suffer a harsh blow from a twist of fate, but can still be pleasantly surprised.
- Determined Defeatist: Everything is going to turn out horribly. The prince is of course already dead, we're all going to die instead of finding him, that food was surely poisoned, we're out of water, and we're going to freeze to death out here tonight. Oh well, no point in delaying the inevitable: on we go.
- The Eeyore: He's lugubrious to a preposterous degree, yet claims that other Marsh-Wiggles call him a hopeless optimist. We see more of this in Underland, where, the text notes, he proves a steady rock for the children to cling to in the face of crushing depression. Perhaps it's that he remains at a steady level of lugubriousness regardless of the circumstances?
- Fish People/Frog Men: Straddles the line between the two.
- Heroic Willpower: He is the only member of the party who manages to resist the hypnosis of the Lady of the Green Kirtle, and breaks the enchantment on the rest of the party.
- Kirk Summation: His reply to the blandishments of the Queen of Underland.
- No Sense of Humor: Played with. He gets very giggly when he's drunk.
- The Reliable One: The Parliament chose him not so much for his wilderness travel skills, but because he will do Aslan's bidding regardless of any personal cost to himself. Despite his droopiness and fatalism, he's vital to the success of the quest on several occasions.
- Whoopi Epiphany Speech: As his aforementioned Kirk Summation about the value of faith demonstrates, he's surprisingly well-spoken for an eel-eating liquor drinker who inhabits a wigwam in a remote northern marsh.
- Crazy-Prepared: He keeps an out-of-the-way watchtower stocked up with supplies of all kinds, just in case anyone ever needs to use it. This includes Calormene weapons and equipment, on the off-chance he ever needed to pretend to be one.
- Demoted to Extra: After being the viewpoint character for most of the book, once the Pevensies show up, he's shoved to the side.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Jewel the unicorn.
- Honor Before Reason: After killing a guard who was abusing a talking horse, he and Jewel surrender for killing an unarmed opponent. Who is invading Tirian's country. Tirian still surrenders.
- Last of His Kind: The last king of Narnia, since it's destroyed at the end of the book.
- Modest Royalty: Tirian's pretty chill for a king. When first introduced, he's just relaxing in a tiny, out of the way little place instead of at his actual castle.
- Shoo the Dog: He tries getting Jill and Eustace to leave before going to fight the Calormenes, but they point out there's nowhere for them to go by that point.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: The narrator notes that if he and Jewel hadn't been so determined to investigate what was going on, and had gone and gotten some actual back-up, things might've not gone so wrong for them.
Terrestrials


- Afterlife Welcome: Other than
her short appearance in the film adaptation of the first novel seeing her children off to keep them safe from the air raids (no such scene is depicted in the novel), she has a tiny cameo in the last book, where she and Mr. Pevensie welcome someone dead into the Narnian equivalent of Heaven. The narration states they died in a railway accident; and we have it on Word of God that all the Pevensie family (including Susan) will eventually be reunited there. - The Cameo: Helen only briefly appears at the start of the BBC miniseries, bidding farewell to her offspring.
- Named by the Adaptation: Helen got her name from an ad lib in the film adaptation - Lucy's actress saying she was not a Daughter of Eve because her mother's name was Helen - which was widely thought to be fitting as it inadvertently names her after the author's wife Helen Joy Davidman. The film adaptation gives her a bigger role than the book, too: first showing her sheltering with her children in a cellar from the air raids, then giving her a larger farewell scene when she sees them off on the trip to the professor's house.


- Played by: Elizabeth Hawthorne (films), Maureen Morris (BBC miniseries), Dilys Hamlett (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre)Voiced in European French by: Tania Torrens
- Adaptational Nationality: While her nationality is ambiguous in the books, she's Scottish in the BBC miniseries and Irish in the Walden Media films. She does speak with an English accent in the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production.
- The Dreaded: Downplayed compared to the Narnian threats but present. After she snaps at the kids on the way into the house, they're naturally terrified of earning her wrath by breaking one of her rules. So when Edmund accidentally breaks a window, the prospect of her catching them sends all four kids fleeing into the wardrobe. In the video game adaptation, upsetting her is treated with the same severity as getting caught by an angry ogre, complete with horror movie-esque music and an automatic game over if she catches them. Averted with the BBC miniseries, where she politely explains to the children that she is conducting a tour and they leave.
- Hidden Depths: Given that she is a tour guide, she must know a fair bit about the house - probably because Digory told her.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all her brusque, blunt, and busybodiesque demeanor she's actually quite alright - even though she does need the professor to prompt her about how to comfort the terrified Lucy in the film adaptation.
- Would Not Hurt A Child: She thinks children are a nuisance, but would never intentionally hurt one.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Some of the views Eustace learned from her and displays in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader before Aslan gets a hold of him come off as
unfortunately like "white man's burden" and "soft bigotry of low expectations" views. This is deliberate. - Granola Girl: With a proselytising streak. Inadvertently, it was she who carefully trained Eustace into some of his nastier character traits (like looking down on others who aren't as "enlightened") - along with teaching him things like Calling Parents by Their Name and a progressive (for the time) and "up-to-date" worldview.
- Parental Neglect: She views her son more as a sort of status symbol to broadcast the extraordinary quality of her worldviews than as a person with his own rights and needs (that he's brutally bullied and miserable at school isn't as important to her as the school being "modern", for example). Thus, when Aslan does a bit of substituting by taking Eustace on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (helping him overcome his loneliness and make new friends, providing learning opportunities, assisting in his Character Development, caring for him when he's cursed, making sure the bullying at his school stops), Alberta is pissed at the beneficial result of someone actually treating her son as a person.
- Skewed Priorities: The narration notes that "everyone was saying how Eustace had improved" -
except for her (because it interferes with her nonconformity):"he'd become very commonplace and tiresome, and it must have been the influence of those Pevensie children". - Take That!: At Hippie Parents who prioritize their worldviews over their children's welfare.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Alberta's son was named "Eustace Clarence", much to his (and the narration's) chagrin - and you get the distinct feeling that only because the time in which the book was written keeps her and her husband from being Hippie Parents, it didn't end up becoming something like "Pippin Spock Moonchild".

- Voiced by: Richard Syms (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Robert Eddison (BBC radio adaptation)
- Above Good and Evil: He states that men like him, possessed of great knowledge and wisdom, are above the common rules that apply to other people. Digory calls BS on this, pointing out that all this means is that Andrew thinks he can do whatever he likes to get whatever he wants.Uncle Andrew: Oh, I see. You mean that little boys ought to keep their promises. Very true: most right and proper, I'm sure, and I'm very glad you have been taught to do it. But of course you must understand that rules of that sort, however excellent they may be for little boys—and servants—and women—and even people in general, can't possibly be expected to apply to profound students and great thinkers and sages. No, Digory. Men like me who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny.
- Admiring the Abomination: Even after his character development, he still expresses admiration for Jadis.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He's introduced as a sinister figure and the main antagonist for the first section of the book, but once Jadis arrives it's made clear how out of his depth he is. Digory notes that after seeing Jadis, he would never be again frightened of Uncle Andrew.
- Butt-Monkey: Nothing goes right for Uncle Andrew after Jadis arrives and once he winds up in Narnia it becomes worse. He is forced to spend large amounts of money, gets caught in an hansom crash, gets dragged into another world, gets chased by a number of talking beasts, and finally gets mistaken for a tree and planted.
- The Dog Bites Back: After being dragged around London by Jadis, he finally loses his temper and calls her out. Fortunately for him she gets distracted before she can retaliate.
- Evil Colonialist: He is intrigued by the idea of exploiting Narnia's unique properties to make a fortune by burying bits of scrap iron to grow trains and battleships, and contemplates building a health resort. Thankfully his schemes never get off the ground.
- Fairy Godmother: He inherited a box of magic dust from his godmother Mrs. Lefay, who claimed to be one of the last people in England with fairy ancestry. It's hinted that she either is or is related to Morgan Le Fay.
- Gentleman Wizard: He fancies himself as one, but has neither the money nor the manners to be a real gentleman, and he's not much of a magician, either.
- Ignored Epiphany: When Digory points out that as an evil magician he's going to come to the same bad end as the ones in fairy tales, he look horrified but quickly dismisses Digory's claim as "old wives tales".
- Inept Mage: He's able to create magic rings that teleport people to other worlds but without fully understanding how they function, and he's completely outclassed and humiliated once he meets the likes of Jadis and Aslan.
- It's All About Me: Pretty much his default function as he's only interested in how things benefit him. When Digory brings up the possibility Narnia might have a cure for his mother, Andrew rudely dismisses him.
- Mad Scientist: He's willing to sacrifice Digory's friend Polly in a magical experiment.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Uncle Andrew talks a good game about necessity and the high and lonely destiny of men like him, but as Digory observes, it only means that Andrew thinks he can do whatever he likes to get whatever he wants.
- Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity: Enforces this on himself by making himself believe that the Lion could not possibly be singing, causing Andrew to become incapable of understanding Aslan or any of the talking beasts.Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: While described as a "magician" by the book, he has a more scientific approach to magic, instead of casting spells like the various witches, he crafts and studies magical objects. Jadis has nothing but contempt for this kind of wizardry.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He eventually gives up experimenting with magic and becomes a kinder, less selfish person.
- Would Hurt a Child: Would use children as experimental subjects with magic rings that will send them to an unknown dimension where they might encounter literally anything, at least.

- Voiced by: Evangeline Evans (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Katherine Parr (BBC radio adaptation)
- Exact Eavesdropping: Digory overhears her saying to a neighbor that nothing but a panacea would do her sister any good at this point, prompting him to search for one in other worlds and eventually ask Aslan, who grants it with his blessing.
- Never Mess with Granny:
- Seriously: don't mess with her, not even if you are the Big Bad of the series. Aunt Letty is quite unimpressed by Jadis - taking the latter's failed incantations to be drunken ravings, telling her off for being drunk and disorderly, and attempting to throw her out of the house - and although she has to catch her breath a bit due to her old age when Jadis throws her across the room; she is tough as nails, lands safely, and is otherwise quite alright.
- She's adamant that she won't lend her brother any money, or let him draw Digory into his studies of black magic, either.
- Nice Old Lady: One of the kindest people you'll ever meet, first taking in her wayward brother Andrew; then later her ill sister and her nephew, caring for Mabel and supporting Digory. Letty usually has a kind word or a kind thought for everyone - unless you get on her bad side.
- Parental Substitute: To her nephew Digory Kirke while his father is deployed in India and his mother is unable to care for him because of being terminally ill - with the implication that she will become the foster parent to him should his mother die. She generally supports him and tries to protect him as best she can from the titular magician (her brother), too.

- Voiced by: Jane Gambier (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Joan Matheson (BBC radio adaptation)
- Delicate and Sickly: She is suffering from terminal cancer and at death's door. When Digory overhears Letty say that nothing of this world can cure her, he considers immediately putting on his magic ring to go in search of a cure from another world, and later he asks Aslan if there is anything that can cure her.
- The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: The illness from which she suffers is never directly named, although you can't deny it's terminal. C.S. Lewis' mother, on whom Mabel is loosely based, died of cancer, so it's possible that this is the disease.
- Flat Character: Because she spends the novel ill, she doesn't really get expanded upon in any real manner.
- Panacea: Digory searches for it, and eventually is gifted one by Aslan, to heal her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears at the end, but she provides the main motivation for Digory to travel to the garden.
- Victorian Novel Disease: Justified, since the first novel is set towards the end of Victoria's reign.

- Author Tract: Lewis was badly bullied at school, and makes no bones about how unpleasant it is.
- Bullying a Dragon: Aslan is not amused about Jill, Eustace, and the other kids being bullied - and in best "not a tame lion" fashion, he sees to it that the bullies don't ever try that again.
Narnians

- Voiced by: Peter Goodwright and Polly March (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), John Hollis and Syd Ralph (BBC radio adaptation)
Frank is an English cab driver who is accidentally transported to the empty void that will eventually become Narnia in The Magician's Nephew. He is selected by Aslan to be Narnia's first King and his wife is teleported there to be his Queen. Their dynasty rules Narnia until it is overthrown by the White Witch. The monarchs of Archenland are also descended from them.
- Accent Slip-Up: As Frank spends more time in Narnia, the Cockney accent he acquired in London gradually slips back to the country accent he had when he was a child.
- Country Mouse: Both Frank and Helen are this, having both come from the English countryside. Frank proudly refers to himself as "a country man" and admits that he only moved to London out of economic necessity.
- Funetik Aksent: Frank is established as speaking like this at first, examples being the way he pronounces London as "Lunnon."
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Helen seems to be fond of them - and the narration notes that if she'd had time to bring any of her good clothes, she would have looked dreadful; and that the Narnian style "made a great improvement to her appearance".
- Meaningful Rename: Helen goes by her full first name instead of the shortened version of Nelly once she becomes queen.
- Rags to Royalty: Frank is initially a cab driver and Helen is a housewife who appears in Narnia with hands covered in soapsuds.
- Unfazed Everyman: Frank's pretty chill about being transported to an empty void and watching the creation of a universe. So is Nelly about being teleported into another universe and being welcomed by a strange deity - in person.

- Voiced by: Mervyn Stutter (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Douglas Blackwell (BBC radio adaptation)
- Country Mouse: As with Frank, he's from the British countryside, and Frank brought him to London in order to earn a living. After he regains his memories, he recalls that he actually despises London's hard, cobbled streets, since there's no grass there.
- Culture Clash: There's some brief moments of this between himself and Digory and Polly. When they land somewhere to spend the night, Fledge begins eating grass like there's no next Wednesday and encourages the others to do the same. Digory, to Fledge's confusion, informs him that, since they're humans, they cannot eat grass.
- Genre Savvy: He's the first talking animal to point out that while they now have sentience, they don't necessarily have intelligence, since they only recently gained the ability to talk and thus are like newborns. Frank even mentions how Fledge has more sense than most humans.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He appears initially not to possess any memories of his time on Earth, until Frank appears and reminds him of what he did in London, after which Fledge quickly regains his memories of Earth and is quite annoyed to learn that he was little more than a servant of Frank who did all the work for him.
- Pegasus: After his second transformation.
- Talking Animal: After his first transformation.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Fledge becomes 'the father of all flying horses,' but none of his progeny appear in any subsequent book. Not necessarily sinister, since the world of Narnia is incredibly large and there are only seven books.



- Played by: James McAvoy (films), Jez Unwin (West End), Jeffrey Perry (BBC miniseries), Philip Sherlock (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Norman Bird (BBC radio adaptation)Voiced in European French by: Alexis VictorVoiced in Latin-American Spanish by: Ortos SoyuzVoiced in European Spanish by: Artur PalomoVoiced in Japanese by: Tomokazu Seki
A faun and typical citizen of Narnia in the age of the Hundred-Year Winter, Mr. Tumnus is the first Narnian to encounter a human being, at least since the last humans descended from King Frank and Queen Helen were driven out of Narnia at the beginning of the Witch's reign.
- Adaptational Modesty: As the snow scenes in the BBC series were filmed in actual cold weather, Tumnus doesn't walk around outside shirtless like his book and film counterparts.
- The Atoner: After hearing that Lucy Pevensie thought him to be her friend, Tumnus immediately gets a determined look on his face and brings her back to the Lamppost, despite being under strict orders from Jadis to bring any humans that wandered into Narnia to her.Tumnus: No matter what happens, Lucy Pevensie, I am glad to have met you. You've made me feel warmer than I've felt in a hundred years.
- Bookworm: One of the things Lucy takes note of when she enters his house is the huge number of books lining his walls.
- Don't Try This at Home: Under ordinary circumstances, it is not advisable for a little girl who is wandering alone to agree to go off to a total stranger's home. This serves as an aesop about not going with strangers.
- Iconic Outfit: Doesn't exactly have a complete one, due to being a faun, but he is often depicted as wearing a red scarf. He is also depicted wearing a red jacket in both the 1978 animated film and the BBC miniseries, in contrast to the novel, which does not describe him as wearing any particular clothing other than a scarf.
- Les Collaborateurs: He's collaborating with the witch to find and bring her any human he finds. However, he soon renounces this upon meeting and befriending Lucy.
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Lucy.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: In The Horse And His Boy.
- Taken for Granite: His fate after failing to turn Lucy in to the Witch.
- Tender Tears: He sheds these when he starts to regret his decision to kidnap Lucy.
- Vague Age: The books never explicitly state how long fauns live comparative to humans, but it's speculated to far exceed humans. For Tumnus, we never get an answer of how old he is, nor what his age is comparative to a human. He claims to remember songs and stories from before the Long Winter, suggesting he's over a hundred years old as the Age of Winter lasted a hundred years. However given that he couldn't recognize Lucy as a human, thinking she was a dwarf, this suggests he might be younger than a hundred years. Though this may have been a ruse. By the end of the Golden Age, Tumnus was noted for being a “middle-aged faun” without any direct reference of the age.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Lucy is more curious about him than frightened, and he goes on to become her closest Narnian friend.
- Boxing Battler: He is one. In fact, when he grows up, he becomes a renowned warrior-hero by the name of Corin Thunder-Fist.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: This is his preferred fighting-style.
- Gracefully Demoted: When he learns that his long-lost twin brother is the true heir to the throne, instead of feeling angry, he is relieved to have been freed of the burden of leadership, citing his belief that princes get to have fun. In the epilogue, it's stated that he likes to travel around, defeating enemies of the kingdom in the pursuit of glory.
- Hot-Blooded: He's very vivacious, energetic and pugnacious for a boy his age and absolutely loves getting into fights if it means he gets to knock down his opponent. Deconstructed in that he very narrowly avoids ending up going to prison because of it.
- Identical Stranger: He's a complete stranger to Shasta, and yet the latter gets kidnapped for resembling him. Queen Lucy even notes the resemblance between himself and Shasta the next time they meet.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The reason Shasta gets kidnapped mistakenly by the Narnians is because he bears a striking resemblance to him. It's because he's actually Shasta's identical twin brother, separated from him at birth.
- Long-Lost Relative: Of Shasta, to be precise. When he learns that his previously-thought-dead twin brother is actually to become the new king, rather than feeling slighted, he is instead relieved to be freed from the responsibility of leadership.
- Separated at Birth: He and Shasta were separated at birth because of a prophecy which dictated that the latter would save Archenland from a great danger.

- Voiced by: Peter Jones (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Garard Green (BBC radio adaptation)
The 109 year old hermit who lives on the Southern Border of Archenland.
- Barefoot Sage: He is an old wise hermit who does not wear shoes.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name is never revealed, and he is referred to as just "the hermit".
- Good Is Not Soft: He gave exhausted Shasta no time to rest, telling him to run and warn King Lune about the impending attack because this was needed to be done urgently to save Narnia and Archenland. Lampshaded by the author: "if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one".
- Hermit Guru: He partly fulfills this role to Aravis and the horses while they stay with him.
- Instant Oracle: Just Add Water!: By his art, he can see what is happening at the present moment in the different parts of the world, with the use of a magical pool.
- Magical Barefooter: Does not wear shoes, which is implied to be connected to his spirituality and his magical gift of remote viewing.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about his past, except for the fact that he has lived for 109 years. Fans have speculated that he may be a star like Ramandu and Coriakin due to their similar physical description (long beard and bare feet), his longevity, his supernatural powers, and his tendency to address his guests as "my son" and "my daughter", which is another common trait between him and Ramandu.
- Verbal Tic: He addresses Shasta and Aravis (and presumably all of his human guests) as "my son" and "my daughter"; Aravis also calls him "father" in return. This lampshades his higher spiritual status, as it's a common tradition among Catholic priests and monks to address worldly people in this fashion. As for the animals, he refers to them as "cousins", probably due to being a Friend to All Living Things.
- Wizards Live Longer: He's 109 years old, which is not outside the realm of possibility for a human in real life, but it still feels somewhat supernatural, especially given that he also has the gift of remote viewing.
- Adipose Rex: He's quite fat.
- Antiquated Linguistics: When informing Shasta of his responsibility as the heir to the throne, he speaks in Early Modern English (i.e. the language in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries wrote) in contrast to the more modern, standardised English in which he had spoken during their first meeting.
- Big Fun: As the King of Archenland, he's more of the fat and jolly type.
- The Good King: He's the king of Archenland, and he is a good example of a ruler. When Shasta brings him the warning concerning the Calormene attack, Lune listens to the boy's warning, having recognised that he's telling the truth, and ensures that he is supplied with a steed (not a talking one) so that he can ride back with them to his family castle at Anvard.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: It turns out he's Shasta's biological father, the boy being Corin's older brother by around three minutes, which makes him the heir to the throne.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He is this by virtue of his capacity of the King of Archenland. During the scene where Rabadash has been captured and is led before him, Lune tries desperately to reason with him, but the problem is that Rabadash, as always, is too stubborn to listen and instead keeps issuing empty threats.



- Played by: Vincent Grass (2008 film), Henry Woolf (BBC miniseries), Tenniel Evans (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Tom Wilkinson (BBC radio adaptation)Voiced in French by: Vincent GrassVoiced in European Spanish by: Luis Mas
A wise little old man who tutors Caspian ... and in the process tells him things Miraz really didn't want him to know.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Gets these in the BBC treatment.
- Change the Uncomfortable Subject: When giving his first history lesson with Caspian, when Caspian becomes too inquisitive about the people that the Telmarines conquered, Cornelius, out of fear for his life, keeps changing the subject, by suggesting, at first passively and then firmly that they ought to change the subject from history to grammar.
- Composite Character: In the Walden Media adaptations, since Caspian is given an Age Lift, he becomes a composite between Dr Cornelius and Caspian's unnamed nurse, as his nurse was the one to tell him the stories about what Old Narnia was like in the original novels. Coincidentally, both characters are implied to be hybrids of dwarf extraction, which may have given the filmmakers the perfect opportunity to merge them.
- Half-Human Hybrid: A hybrid of Telmarine human and dwarf. While which half is which is never made clear in the novels, in the Walden Media films, it's made clear that he's a half-dwarf on his mother's side.
- Informed Ability: He states that he has some magical abilities, but he's never shown using them.
- The Mentor: He provides Caspian with a comprehensive education and gets him out of the castle. He also proves useful in advising the Narnians where to make their military base — specifically the tumulus known as Aslan's How.
- Non-Action Guy: Unlike the rest of Caspian's army, Dr Cornelius has no apparent skill in fighting. When he appears on the Dancing Lawn, he specifies that he is unarmed and willingly allows the Narnians to take him captive.
- Parental Substitute: He's more of a father figure to Caspian than Miraz.
- You Will Know What to Do: Supplies Caspian with the Horn of Queen Susan.


- Played by: Peter Dinklage (films), Big Mick (BBC miniseries), Chris Emmett (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Richard Griffiths (BBC radio adaptation)Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by: Mario ArvizuVoiced in European Spanish by: Pedro Tena
A red dwarf whose life was saved by the Pevensies.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Many of his exclamations are this, "crows and crockery!", "tubs and tortoiseshells!", etc.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the Walden Media film adaptation, he's quite rude and ungrateful to the Pevensie children for rescuing him from being drowned, in contrast to the book and previous adaptations where he's grateful to them.
- Break the Haughty: When the Pevensies appear to him, he's more than a little disgruntled that he got the child versions, not the age they were when they departed. He has to lose contests to Edmund and Susan before he acknowledges that 'the children' might be up to the job after all.
- The Cynic: Very pessimistic and cynical.
- Ear Trumpet: When we encounter him as an old dwarf in The Silver Chair, he's become quite deaf as a result of old age, requiring him to use an ear trumpet in order to hear someone. Much comedy is made of his mishearing whatever Glimfeather is trying to tell him.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Despite being a magical being himself and living in Narnia, he doesn't believe in Aslan's presence. When he meets Aslan himself he's quickly disabused of this belief.
- Kicked Upstairs: By the time of The Silver Chair, he's been appointed as Caspian's regent and looks after Cair Paravel while the King is away on a trip to the Seven Isles.
- Lawful Stupid: In The Silver Chair Glimfeather notes that while he's unquestionably loyal, his stubbornness makes him unwilling to bend the rules, regardless of the circumstances.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The In-Between to Trufflehunter's Nice and Nikabrik's Mean of the Narnians that save and treat Caspian.
- Sour Supporter: Tends to be pessimistic, doesn't believe in the old legends or that some old horn can summon help, or that mythical kings can make a return, or even that the resistance can win, but is fiercely loyal to Caspian. When they need to send someone on a very dangerous scouting trip to the ruins of Cair Paravel, he insists on the job.Trumpkin: Crumbs and crumpets! Send me, Sire, I'll go.
Caspian: I thought you didn't believe in the Kings and Queens?
Trumpkin: No more I do. But I know the difference between giving advice and taking orders. I've given my advice, and now it's time for orders. - The Reliable One: Like his friend Trufflehunter. Caspian leaves Trumpkin in charge of Narnia while he goes on his great voyage, and assigns the (now very old and stone-deaf) Dwarf to the job again just before The Silver Chair begins.
- Unusual Euphemism: All of his swearing is creative nonsense.


A cynical dwarf companion of Trumpkin and Trufflehunter, who disbelieves in the old stories.
- Admiring the Abomination: He idolises the White Witch, and firmly believes that she was nice to dwarves in spite of everyone informing him that she wasn't.
- The Cynic: He's a cynic who doesn't believe in Aslan.
- Depraved Dwarf: It turns out he's a traitor to everyone else, since he has collaborated with a hag and a werewolf and plans to resurrect the White Witch, because he believes that the dwarves often get unfair treatment compared to the other Narnians (which Trufflehunter points out is factually incorrect) and believes that the Witch will be able to treat his kind much better because she had a dwarf henchman. Thankfully, he and his co-conspirators are both killed before anything can come of it.
- Establishing Character Moment: He's shown after Caspian regains consciousness, demanding that the prince be killed since he's convinced he will betray them.
- Fantastic Bigot: He's prejudiced against half-dwarf/half-human hybrids and despises them to a greater extent than human beings, perceiving them as little better than "renegade dwarves" and "half-and-halfers". When Doctor Cornelius appears at the Narnian encampment, Nikabrik tries to have him killed for his blood status, until Trumpkin counsels him to stand down, since he recognizes that Cornelius' heritage isn't his fault. One only wonders what he'd think of the Dufflepuds.
- Fighting Irish: The Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production gives him this kind of accent, even though nowhere in the text is he described as having it.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Not least because Narnia is a flat earth, but he expresses extreme doubt about the truth of Aslan and the stories of old and attempts to rationalize them, questioning their accuracy and postulating that perhaps Aslan didn't come back to life, based on the fact that the stories don't chronicle his deeds following the events of the Winter Revolution. Since he's later revealed to be a follower of the White Witch, this is perhaps unsurprising in hindsight.
- Hidden Depths: He apparently has some experience with black magic, since he allies himself with dark creatures and plans a magical ritual which would resurrect the White Witch.
- Horny Vikings: He's portrayed as wearing a stereotypical horned helmet in the BBC miniseries, for some reason.
- Motive Rant: Peter and Edmund overhear him giving one in the novel, explaining his reasons for his actions.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Mean to Trufflehunter's Nice and Trumpkin's In-Between of the Narnians that save and treat Caspian.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims that he's going to bring the White Witch back to life in order to bring the Narnians a fighting chance in the war, but it's clear that he's only doing so for the benefit of his own species.
- Shadow Archetype: To Trumpkin. Much like Trumpkin, he's a cynical dwarf who doesn't believe in Aslan, but he's even more cynical and far more willing to turn traitor than Trumpkin is.
- Token Evil Teammate: Nikabrik is united with the rest of the Old Narnians in their goal of defeating King Miraz, but he advocates much more extreme methods, such as calling upon the White Witch and other evil beings for aid. Also, he's bigoted toward humans and half-dwarves, and tried to kill Caspian when they first met.
- Tragic Bigot: He despises humans because they've forced his species and hundreds of others underground. His Evil Plan to resurrect the Witch makes him much less sympathetic.
- Villain Has a Point: Yes, he is a traitor to Narnia in more ways than one, but he does have a valid point in stating that the Narnians are unable to verify the factual accuracy of their myths and fairy-tales. He also points out that the beavers in Narnia have all gone extinct. He also correctly argues that Caspian should go ahead and use Susan's horn to call for aid instead of waiting until their situation is even worse than it already is.


- Bad Ol' Badger: Subverted. He's nothing but warm and friendly to Caspian when he first encounters him in the forest.
- Berserk Button: In the Walden Media films, he gets annoyed when Caspian accidentally causes him to knock over a bowl of soup he'd spent half-the-morning preparing.
- Deadpan Snarker: In reported speech, no less! When the Old Narnians offer Caspian and the gang chainmail and other gifts, Trufflehunter declines to wear armour, judging it as worthless compared to his skin. However, he does accept a sword, which makes him look really silly.
- Gender Flip: He's female in BBC's miniseries.
- The Medic: He's apparently knowledgeable about medicine, since he's the one treating Caspian when the latter falls off his horse, is knocked unconscious and awakens with himself, Trumpkin and Nikabrik.
- Nice Guy: Of the three Narnians who treat Caspian, the narration calls him the nicest among them.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Nice to Nikabrik's Mean and Trumpkin's In-Between of the Narnians that save and treat Caspian.
- That Liar Lies: He all but screams this trope when Nikabrik accuses Caspian of treating the dwarves like crap.
- Undying Loyalty: He shows uncompromising fealty to King Caspian and wholeheartedly believes in the stories of the Pevensie siblings.



- Voiced by: Suzy Eddie Izzard (Prince Caspian), Simon Pegg (Voyage of the Dawn Treader), Robert Blenfield (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Sylvester McCoy (BBC radio adaptation)Played by: Warwick Davis (BBC miniseries)Voiced in European Spanish by: Abraham Aguilar
The chief of his people, the Talking Mice, from late in the reign of Miraz til about three years into the reign of Caspian X. Reepicheep is dauntless and true, living every moment for honor, justice and the good of his people. His greatest shame is that he is Badass Adorable.
- Adaptational Badass: While nobody could doubt his courage, spirit or sheer determination, the Reepicheep of the books doesn't really get to show off his prowess in battle too often. His movie incarnation is far more formidable, and is even introduced taking on several grown men all on his own.
- Adaptational Modesty: He only wears a swordbelt and his feathered circlet in the booksnote but the BBC series has him wearing a vest, gloves, and shoes. Downplayed with the Walden films, where he has a shoulder-strap, and wears a breastplate for battle scenes, something that's never mentioned in the books.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: It's revealed in the final book that he found his way to Aslan's Country without the usual prerequisite of dying first. In fact, he's at the door to greet the others as they arrive.
- Badass Adorable: One of the reasons he's got such a short temper is that people persist in regarding him as adorable, and therefore harmless.
- Badass Boast: But he's not boasting. He's in dead earnest.Reepicheep (to Something in the Darkness): Who calls? If you are a foe we do not fear you, and if you are a friend, we shall teach your enemies to fear us.
- Blood Knight: He sure loves battle, and is eager to challenge anyone who would dare look down on him.
- Boisterous Bruiser: A rather small one.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Though he presents himself as a hardened knight, he does have a softer side. Notably seen with Eustace during the latter's stint as a dragon.
- Comically Missing the Point: A frequent source of jokes, since he regards himself as a classic hero proving his worth, while his friends see him as a lovable Leeroy Jenkins.
- Deadpan Snarker: Particularly in the movies.Pattertwig the Squirrel: We could collect nuts!Reepicheep: Yes! And then throw them at the Telmarines! *glaring* Shut up.
- Determinator: “My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise…”
- Everyone Has Standards: In the film adaptations by Walden Media, he's... displeased... at someone calling him "cute". Then he sees it's Lucy and the whole situation is dropped since Lucy is a queen and must be honoured and respected.
- Famed in Story: Of all the great kings and heroes of Narnia that Tirian meets in Aslan's Country in The Last Battle, the one he finds most legendary is Reepicheep.
- Glory Seeker: His greatest wish to do great deeds that will have him remembered as an honorable knight.
- Good Is Not Soft: Despite his violent aspects, Reepicheep holds himself to high standards of courtesy, courage, honor, charity and faith.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He's carried from the battlefield at the Second Battle of Beruna covered with wounds and with a bloody stump where his tail was.
- Heroic Vow: To find Aslan's country in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
- Honor Before Reason: For example, his first instinct when hearing of a dragon nearby is to challenge it to single combat. Later in the book, he jumps into the ocean because he thought a Mer-king was challenging him.
- Idiot Ball: Jumps into the ocean to attack a group of merpeople because he thinks they challenged him to a battle. He has to be fished out and reminded he wouldn't be able to fight nearly as well in the water as on land.
- In-Series Nickname: Some of the characters call him "Reep" at some points.
- Interspecies Friendship: Everyone aboard the Dawn Treader has this with him, Eustace and Lucy especially.
- Killer Rabbit: Or Killer Mouse at any rate; despite being a Narnian mouse, and thus the size of a real-life cat, he's no less a dedicated fighter.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Obviously played for laughs, but he lives for honor and knows no fear.Caspian: You may say what you like, Reepicheep. There are some things no man can face.Reepicheep: It is, then, my good fortune not to be a Man.
- Lightning Bruiser: Due to his small form, he tends to dart around the battlefield with his opponents often wondering what the hell just hit them.
- Nice Mice: Talking Rats don't seem to even exist.note
- Phrase Catcher: In the film of Prince Caspian. He doesn't appreciate it.Reepicheep: Choose your last words carefully, Telmarine!
Caspian: ...You are a mouse.
Reepicheep: I was hoping for something a little more original.
(later)
Telmarine soldier: You are a mouse!
Reepicheep: You people have no imagination! - Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Talking mice are quite a bit larger than normal mice, but he's still barely the size of a cat. He's slightly larger in the BBC miniseries, on account of being played by a little person in heavy-duty makeup.
- Resized Vocals: Naturally, being a mouse, in the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre adaptation, he does have a very Helium Speech-like voice. Averted with the other adaptations, including the live-action Walden Media franchise and the BBC miniseries, which give him a normal voice.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: In the live-action Walden Media films, Lucy sees him as this. He isn't too amused.note Lucy (in an undertone to Susan): He's so cute!Reepicheep: Who said that?!
- Smart People Play Chess: And he's a fairly decent player—as long as he doesn't project himself onto the pieces and blunder away a piece in a Leeroy Jenkins charge.
- Stealth Mentor: To Eustace, especially in the 2010 film.
- When the boy steals an orange, Reepicheep challenges him to a duel, all the while not-so-subtly teaching him how to use a blade and improve his stance, seeing as Eustace had never held a weapon before in his entire life.

- Adapted Out: He's omitted from the BBC miniseries, presumably due to budgetary reasons (and the limited technology of the time).
- The Ditz: In the Walden Media films, he is depicted this way, since he comes up with a stupid suggestion (gathering acorns) which is then immediately shot down by Reepicheep as a terrible idea.
- Motor Mouth: Like all Narnian squirrels, he is one, to the point where Caspian and company find it difficult to get him to stop talking.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He stops being mentioned about halfway through the book.


- Played by: William Todd Jones (BBC miniseries), Cornell John (Walden Media films)
- Adaptation Deviation: In the BBC miniseries, he has absolutely no problem in letting Caspian ride on his back (please note that, in the books, it would be considered extremely shameful for a centaur to allow a human to ride on their back).
- Adaptational Skill: In the BBC miniseries, while still retaining his prophetic credentials, he's able to use magic to conjure up armour and weapons for Caspian (something few characters beside Aslan and the witches are shown to be able to do in the books).
- Barefoot Sage: Well, this is a given, since he's a centaur. He is a prophet and a stargazer.
- Blood Knight: Implied. When first meeting Caspian, he's fully expecting a war, and tells Caspian that himself and his sons are already prepared for one should the need arise.
- Composite Character: While still fulfilling most of the same functions as in the novel in the BBC miniseries, adaptational magic aside, he fulfills Camillo the Hare's role in alerting all the other Narnians to Dr Cornelius' presence. He also takes the place of the raven messengers in the book who distribute Caspian's decrees throughout the land.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Caspian asks if he proposes to start a war in order to expel Miraz's forces from the land, Glenstorm's response is "What else?"
- Magical Negro: In the Walden Media films, he is coded in this particular manner, despite not being human.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: He's the most significant Narnian centaur in the books.
- Race Lift: White in the BBC miniseries, and possibly the book as well, but dark-skinned in the Walden Media films.
- Rule of Three: He has three sons. Who their mother was remains uncertain.
- Played by: Freddie Jones (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), John Quarmby (BBC miniseries), David Vallon (Walden Media films)
- Antagonistic Governor: He's the governor of the Lone Islands by the time of the voyage of the Dawn Treader, and he runs an entire slave-trafficking enterprise.
- Corrupt Politician: The most notable example of one in Narnia, given his lucrative human-trafficking enterprise and his mismanagement of the Lone Islands to the point where they have forgotten that they owe fealty to the Kingdom of Narnia.
- Death by Adaptation: Gumpas falls into the harbour in the Walden Media films and drowns as he tries to kill Eustace.
- Greed: The most likely motive for his actions. This is made more explicit in the 2010 adaptation, where Caspian tries the cliched "You'll pay for this!" rebuke, to which Gumpas responds that someone else will pay... for all of them.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Gumpas has virtually no redeeming qualities, since he's all too happy to be a slave trader even though he's meant to be overseeing the Lone Islands in the name of the Narnian empire. He also forbids appointments except on second Saturdays.
- Laser-Guided Karma: As a punishment for his reckless and corrupt tenure over the Lone Islands, Caspian dethrones him and gives the Lost Lord Bern the title of governor in his stead.
- Meaningful Name: His name may be derived from the Victorian slang word "gump" meaning "a foolish person."



- Played by: Jack Purvis and Kenny Baker (BBC miniseries), Bernard Cribbins (Chief, Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Stephen Critchlow, Becky Hindley and Geoffrey Whitehead (BBC radio adaptation)
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: In The Last Battle, they are seen entering Aslan's Country, which implies that Coriakin did eventually succeed in enlightening them.
- Bizarre Alien Locomotion: They have only one leg, so they move around by making huge leaps. They can also use their huge feet as canoes.
- Captain Obvious: Their usual mode of thinking: for instance, they describe water as "powerful wet stuff".
- Cursed with Awesome: Eventually they come to see their new one-legged form as this, especially after they discover that their giant feet can be used as boats for swimming.
- Muggle in Mage Custody: They are governed by Coriakin the magician; the relationship between him and them is quite informal, and his role is more akin to a caregiver than a ruler in the political sense. He desires to have an even more personal relationship with them, but due to their foolishness, he has to rule them with the use of tricks and magical spells.
- Too Dumb to Live: They are close to this, and Coriakin has to look after them because they are barely clever enough to survive on their own. For example, when a cat gets into their food stores, the entire group relocates all the food to a new location, and it never even occurs to any of them to just get the cat out of there and close the door.



- Played by: Preston Lockwood (BBC miniseries), Bille Brown (films), Norman Bowler (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre)Voiced in European Spanish by: Luis Mas
The wise old magician who was sent by Aslan to govern the Dufflepuds. The Dufflepuds are fearful of him, and believe him to be a sinister warlock (an obvious metaphor for the relationship between God and humanity).
- Abnormal Allergy: Whenever he is under the invisibility spell, it always makes him feel sleepy.
- The Anticipator: He is always aware of the Dufflepuds' antics (probably due to his supernatural powers; the story implies that he has the gift of precognition), but sometimes he allows them to believe that they have outwitted him in order to teach them a lesson. He also knew all along that Lucy would come to his house to read the spell.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Inverted: he was once a star shining in the sky, but was demoted to a mere magician in human form for some sort of misdeed. It is implied that eventually he served his penance and returned to the sky.
- Barefoot Loon: He is implied to be quite eccentric and mischievous in Dumbledore-esque fashion, using methods like Cool and Unusual Punishment to govern his subjects. He never wears anything on his feet, which may be due to his quirkiness or due to the fact that he is a star. Or because it allows him to walk around silently and sneak up on the Dufflepuds.
- Barefoot Sage: A wise old sorcerer who is perpetually barefoot (obviously by choice).
- Benevolent Mage Ruler: He rules the Duffers on the behalf of Aslan, with the intent of guiding them to enlightenment.
- Celestial Body: A star in human form. In the past, he was prideful and this led him into errant ways, so Aslan punished him by making him ruler of an island of fools.
- The Chessmaster: Benign version. He offhandedly mentions that when he allowed the Duffers to make themselves invisible, he knew all along that Lucy would come to lift the invisibility spell. This implies that everything that happened to the protagonists on his island was indirectly orchestrated by him (probably as a Secret Test of sorts), and that he wanted Lucy to read his book so that she could learn valuable lessons from it.
- Eccentric Mentor: He has a quirky Dumbledore-esque sense of humor, as evidenced by the fact that he turned the Duffers into Monopods for disobedience, and put up a bearded mirror in his mansion (most likely to prank his guests).
- Expy: To some extent, of Prospero from The Tempest. Like Prospero, he is a magician who is exiled to an island inhabited by foolish and unruly beings, and has to govern them with the use of "rough magic" (Coriakin directly quotes Prospero when he describes his magic as such) in order to guide them to wisdom. He also helps the sailors who arrive to his island, and looks forward to the day he can return to his homeland, that is, the sky. Some other attributes of Prospero were given to Ramandu, who is also a star like Coriakin.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Aslan is the only one to actually call him by his name, whereas everyone else just calls him "The Magician".
- God in Human Form: Well, a star in human form, which is Narnia's closest equivalent of an angel. His relationship with the Dufflepuds also mirrors the relationship between God and humanity: just like humans, the Duffers are both afraid of Coriakin, seeing him as a cruel tyrant, and dismissive of him, believing that he can be easily fooled by their antics. He always sees them through, but sometimes plays along to teach them a lesson (as was the case with the invisibility spell).
- Good All Along: The protagonists initially see him as an evil sorcerer, based on what the Dufflepuds told them about him, and the chapter where Lucy enters his house is one of the scariest in the whole book. Eventually, it is revealed that he is a benevolent (if somewhat eccentric) magician who was sent to the island by none other than Aslan.
- Good Is Not Soft: By his own admission, he has to resort to "rough magic" sometimes to rule the Duffers, such as transforming them into funny one-legged creatures called Monopods as a punishment for disobedience. However, he only wants them to learn the necessary life skills and spiritual lessons and eventually achieve enlightenment and meet Aslan. He succeeds in this, since in The Last Battle the Dufflepuds are seen entering Aslan's Country alongside other creatures.
- Magical Barefooter: He is a magician and a star, and his bare feet may be indicative of his ethereal, otherworldy nature (as opposed to the earthly Dufflepuds who are depicted wearing fancy shoes in the illustrations
◊). It may also be that he relishes touching the ground with his feet and toes because he spent so much time as a star in the sky, and tactile sensations are new to him. - Mysterious Past: Ramandu reveals that Coriakin is a former star in human form who was assigned to rule the Dufflepuds as a punishment for some misdeed, but he refuses to tell what kind of misdeed it was.
- Noiseless Walker: The Dufflepuds mention that he walks around noiselessly in his bare feet, making no more sound than a cat.
- Noodle Incident: His mentorship over the Dufflepuds is a divine punishment from Aslan for some unspecified slight.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: In the words of the Dufflepuds, "he always did go about with his bare feet on, making no more noise than a great big cat".
- Seers: He mentions that he knew all along that Lucy would come to his mansion to lift the invisiblity spell, implying that he has the gift of foresight. Probably bordering on The Omniscient, since he also knows that Lucy is from England and what kind of food she likes; he also sees through the Dufflepuds all the time, even when they believe they have outsmarted him.
- Sentient Stars: Revealed to be a star in human form.
- Sorcerous Overlord: Subverted. The Duffers perceive him as this because he rules them with the use of magic and tricks, but he is actually a Benevolent Mage Ruler who has to do this in order to help them survive and guide them to wisdom (they would not listen to him otherwise, preferring to obey the orders of their Chief).
- Staff of Authority: He is described as having "a curiously carved staff", which highlights his status as the ruler of the island and the mentor and overseer of the Dufflepuds.
- Surefooted Barefooter: He is noted to always go around barefoot, using his unhindered mobility and awareness of the ground to make "no more noise than a cat". As a result, the Dufflepuds (a race of dwarf-like creatures that he rules and looks after) constantly fear that he may be watching them, especially after he becomes invisible.
- Sympathetic Slave Owner: The Duffers see him as their oppressor, but in reality, he has to force them to work in the garden using tricks and magical spells because they are Too Dumb to Live, and would not survive without his oversight (the Duffers working in his garden is an obvious religious metaphor for humans "working in God's vineyard").
- Trickster Mentor:
- First of all, he turned the Duffers (a race of foolish dwarves he was assigned to govern) into funny one-legged creatures called Monopods as a Prank Punishment for disobedience. Everyone else agreed that the change was for the better, and their new form had advantages like being able to use the giant foot for swimming - but the Duffers themselves were horrified by the change because they were extremely conceited about their appearance, and thought that the transformation had made them "ugly".
- Then, he allowed the Duffers to make themselves invisible to teach them a lesson, and did not lift the invisibility spell himself, so that they had to sort out the problem they created on their own.
- Finally, he mentions that he knew that Lucy would come to lift the spell. It implies that all of her and her companions' adventures on his island were indirectly orchestrated by him, and that he wanted Lucy to read his book and learn some important lessons from it. This makes him not only a Trickster Mentor for the Dufflepuds, but also a Stealth Mentor for Lucy.
- Wizard Classic: Along with a robe, a long beard, and a staff. Plus one unusual detail: he always appears barefoot.
- Wizards Live Longer: It's implied that he's been living on his island and governing the Dufflepuds for centuries, if not millenia. His longevity likely has to do with him being a star in human form.


- Played by: Geoffrey Bayldon (BBC miniseries)Voiced by: John Turner (BBC radio adaptation), Martin Friend (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre)
The old star in human form who lives on an island with his daughter. He came to Earth to rest and rejuvenate, and will return to the sky once he becomes young again.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Inverted: he was once a star shining in the sky, and descended to Earth to get some rest and rejuvenate.
- Barefoot Sage: In his human form, he appears as an old wise man, and he is always barefoot.
- Celestial Body: A star in human form.
- Elixir of Life: The birds bring him Fire-berries every day, which make him younger. Once he is as young as a newborn baby, he will return to the sky as a star.
- Expy: To some extent, of Prospero from The Tempest. Like Prospero, he is a magical being who came to live on an island with his beautiful daughter. When a crew of sailors comes to his island, he welcomes them, and their captain (Caspian) falls in love with his daugher and eventually marries her. Some other attributes of Prospero were given to the magician and fellow star Coriakin.
- God in Human Form: A star in human form, which is Narnia's closest equivalent of an angel.
- The Ghost: Despite appearing in both the novel and the BBC miniseries, he's only mentioned by name in the Walden Media continuity.
- Good Wears White: He is Narnia's equivalent of an angel, and he is dressed in a robe that appears to be made from the fleece of silver sheep.
- Hermit Guru: He has shades of this: he lives a solitary life on the island with only his daughter to keep him company, and shares his wisdom with the travellers who sail by.
- Magical Barefooter: He is a magical creature (namely, a star in human form), which may be the reason why he doesn't need (or want) to wear shoes. It may also be that he relishes touching the ground with his feet and toes because he spent so much time as a star in the sky, and tactile sensations are new to him.
- Sentient Stars: A sapient star in the guise of an old wise man.
- Verbal Tic: He addresses all his human guests as "my son" and "my daughter", which lampshades his higher spiritual status (it's a common tradition among Catholic priests and monks to address worldly people in this fashion).
Lilliandil


- Played By: Laura Brent (films), Gabrielle Anwar (BBC miniseries), Katherine Kellgren (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Teresa McIlroy (BBC radio adaptation)
The daughter of "Resting Star" Ramandu and an unknown human woman, Lilliandil stood guard over Aslan's Table with her father. She married Caspian X and had one son, Rilian, before being killed by the Lady of the Green Kirtle. Known only as "Ramandu's Daughter" in the books, she's given the name "Lilliandil" in the films.
- Adaptational Badass: She gets her father's role of secondary Big Good (behind Aslan, of course) in the movie.
- Bus Crash: She's killed by a serpent between the third and fourth books.
- Disposable Woman: She dies before the events of The Silver Chair is what motivates her son to seek out revenge.
- Good Counterpart: In the movies, to the Lady of the Green Kirtle: Both are described as impossibly beautiful, both are shape shifters, Lilliandil is instrumental to the defeat of the Green Mist (confirmed to be the work of the Lady behind the scenes), and the Lady kills her in The Silver Chair as an instrumental step in capturing and corrupting her son.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In the movies, Lilliandil is depicted as having almost platinum blonde hair, and is firmly on the side of good.
- Half-Human Hybrid: She's part Daughter of Eve, part Star.
- Killed Off for Real: Lethally poisoned by the Lady of the Green Kirtle in snake-form.
- Love at First Sight: Caspian was certainly very taken with her, and it seems it was mutual. They don't seem to have been Star-Crossed Lovers and Ramandu presumably approved of the relationship.
- Magical Barefooter: She is depicted barefoot in the book illustration
◊, which may imply that she has no need for footwear due to being a half-star (her father Ramandu and his fellow star Coriakin are barefooted as well). - Missing Mom: Her death sparks her son's tireless search for vengeance.
- Named by the Adaptation: Specifically the 2010 cinematic adaptation, which named her Lilliandil. In the books and BBC miniseries, she has No Name Given and is only referred to as Ramandu's daughter, Rilian's mother, Caspian's wife or the Queen of Narnia.
- Nice Girl: Or star, rather. She doesn't have much screen time (at least in human form), but one of her first lines when she finally speaks is to welcome the weary crew of the Dawn Treader to Ramandu's Island and offer the bounty of Aslan's Table to them.
- Satellite Love Interest: She has little to do besides be Caspian's love interest.
- Second Love: She becomes Caspian's new love interest after Susan.
- Shout-Out: The name Lilliandil seems like one to C. S. Lewis's friend J. R. R. Tolkien, given its similarity in form to names from his legendarium.
- Voluntary Shape Shifting: Implied in the movies, as she suggests she can change her supernaturally beautiful appearance when she realizes it's distracting Caspian and Edmund. She was also, apparently, the Blue Star guiding the Dawn Treader throughout its voyage.


- Voiced by: Warwick Davis (BBC miniseries), Derek Nimo (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre)
- Giant Flyer: While not explicitly kaiju-sized, he's a lot bigger than owls are in real-life, which is what allows Jill to ride on his back. The other owls are this as well.
- Hidden Depths: He turns out to be a very good judge of character, as well as a quick thinker.
- Non-Human Sidekick: Fills this role until Puddleglum takes over.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Albeit not intentionally. While he passes himself off as a bit stupid when Eustace and Jill first encounter him, he knows enough about the situation to sneak them out of the castle while Trumpkin isn't looking, since he knows the Lord Regent wouldn't just let them escape the castle.
- Ominous Owl: Averted, as Glimfeather is a reliable companion to Eustace and Jill on their arrival in Narnia.
- The Owl-Knowing One: Subverted at first, but played straight during the escape from Cair Paravel.
- Owls Ask "Who?": And they find ways to rhyme it with whatever else they're saying.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Whenever he's in the mood, his dialogue sometimes sounds like this; ordinarily, it's done to rhyme with "Who?" (i.e. an owl's hooting)
- Sapient Steed: While he's carrying Jill on his back, he is this trope.
- Talking Animal: He's a talking owl.
Prince Rilian

- Played by: Richard Henders (BBC miniseries)
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Subverted; he's drawn with blond hair in the book's illustrations but the BBC miniseries gives him brown hair. Like various other characters, however, the text doesn't actually specify his hair color.
- Affably Evil: For all that he's planning to invade Narnia and finds the idea of slaughtering them amusing, he's a friendly host to Eustace, Jill, and Puddleglum while they're waiting for the Lady to return. This hints at his true personality once the brainwashing is removed.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Part of her plot after kidnapping Prince Rilian, brainwashing him into following along with her plot.
- Beast and Beauty: Subverted. The Lady implies there's something awful behind his mask when he travels with her outside to dissuade the main characters from inquiring about his helm. In truth when he's unmasked he's a normal man.
- Black Knight: A fearsome-looking knight in all black armor who never speaks or takes off his helmet above ground.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He has been brainwashed into becoming The Lady of the Green Kirtle's knight.
- Cassandra Truth: He's never believed when he claims he's sane when tied to the Silver Chair until Eustace, Jill, and Puddleglum find him.
- Curse: The Black Knight is seemingly under a curse that drives him mad for an hour every night, with the only cure being to have the Lady coronate him with the crown of Narnia. The real curse is the Lady's brainwashing, which only wears off for one hour every night.
- Distressed Dude: His disappearance sets off the plot to The Silver Chair.
- The Dragon: To the Lady as her right-hand General and intended husband.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has golden hair and is kind and reasonable once his brainwashing is removed.
- Henpecked Husband: He is utterly submissive to the Lady of the Green Kirtle and doesn't question her orders, seemingly not even putting thought into the morality of them. Eustace and Jill both have a low opinion of him as a result, while Puddleglum correctly assumes he's nothing but a pawn in a much bigger plot.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Despite the Lady appearing in the very place his mother died clad in the very same green, Rilian falls for her instantly and doesn't ask any questions. She takes the opportunity to abduct him the second he invites his close kin to meet her.
- Lady and Knight: The knight to the Lady of the Green Kirtle, who remains by her side at nearly all times.
- Love at First Sight: He falls head over heels for the Lady of the Green Kirtle the first time he meets her.
- Madwoman in the Attic: Every night, the Black Knight ties himself to the Silver Chair for an hour and becomes raving mad, usually accompanied by the Lady to comfort him. Or at least she makes him believe he goes mad: actually, he temporarily comes back to his right mind and remembers his identity as Prince Rilian.
- Muggle in Mage Custody: He's been brainwashed and kidnapped by the Lady of the Green Kirtle to serve as her husband and stepping stone to take over Narnia.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Downplayed, but he has somewhat of this attitude under brainwashing, finding the idea of conquering Narnia with a brainwashed army amusing and barely registering how this will negatively affect the populace. Eustace, Puddleglum, and Jill all find him foolish.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He goes nearly mad with grief when his mother is killed and rides off by himself to find the snake that killed her. The Lady was banking on this to ensnare and ensorcell him.
- Something Only They Would Say: A variant. The Black Knight invokes Aslan's name while seemingly raving mad under a curse, alerting Jill that they're meant to free him.
- Unholy Matrimony: He is betrothed to the Lady of the Green Kirtle and is her enforcer and knight. This changes once he's freed from brainwashing.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He confesses that he would have had a very hard time killing the Lady had she not Scaled Up to fight him since as evil as she was, she was still an attractive woman.
- You Have to Believe Me!: He comes off as a complete raving madman when he's tied to the Silver Chair for a hour every night, but in truth freeing him is the way to undo his brainwashing.
- You Killed My Father: He vowed revenge against the snake who killed his mother, disappearing for long periods of time to try to find and slay it.
- Played by: Nick Brimble (porter); Stephen Reynolds (king); Lesley Nicol (queen); Patsy Byrne (nurse) (BBC miniseries)
- Affably Evil: At first seeming to be friendly and nice, it turns out that they like eating people as much as the next giant and have no problem whatsoever with killing and eating talking stags.
- Batman Gambit: While it's not certain whether or not they are allied to the Lady of the Green Kirtle, it is implied that she deliberately sent the heroes to Harfang, knowing that the giants would probably eat them, and knowing that their reputation as gentle giants would not lead the heroes to suspect anything was wrong.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Given that they're giants, while being eaten by a giant is a pretty horrifying thought to us, to a giant eating a person is actually quite normal.
- Gentle Giant: Played straight at first but ultimately subverted. While they're far more genteel and civilized than the brutish giants of Ettinsmoor, they eat humans, talking animals and Marsh-wiggles.
- Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: "Hot" might be stretching it for the king of Harfang, but it's mentioned that he's a lot better looking than the obese, double-chinned queen.
- I'm a Humanitarian: They're not above killing and eating humanoids, since they have a cookbook about how to cook and prepare humans and Marsh-wiggles.
- Reclining Reigner: The Queen of Harfang reclines on a litter whenever she needs to travel anywhere.

- The Antichrist: He is the real Narnian equivalent of the Antichrist, as the whole conspiracy was his idea and Puzzle, who plays the role of the false Aslan, was merely tricked into it as the figurehead.
- Bad Liar: In spite of his success at convincing the Narnians that Aslan has returned and made him his spokesperson, Shift isn't a particularly good liar. He frequently makes slip ups and all but admits to being only out for himself, yet the talking animals of Narnia still take him at his word, even after he sells them all into slavery.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He's the initial cause of the problems in The Last Battle, but by the time Tirian finds him he's been demoted to flunky and done in by his own hedonism.
- Blatant Lies: His only mode of speech, but only on the talking animals of Narnia, who are gullible enough to believe him.
- False Friend: For Puzzle, who he uses as a servant, gaslighting and manipulating the poor donkey at every turn, and then turning him into an actual slave for the Calormenes.
- False Prophet: Claims to bring the message of Aslan, but is just building a following for himself.
- Fantastic Racism: Looks down on every other kind of animal.
- The Hedonist: After setting up a cult of Aslan, he spends his time stuffing his gob.
- It's All About Me: Shift sells out the entirety of Narnia, and every living being in it, to the Calormenes for a few minor collaborator perks, plus alcohol to drink and nuts to eat.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Shift's plan has everyone claim Aslan and Tash are the same. This summons the actual Tash, who then proceeds to eat Shift.
- Maniac Monkeys: He's a greedy and selfish ape who looks down on every other type of animal, and a compulsive liar and cheater, going as far as selling out Narnia to the Calormenes.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Shift as in he is "shifty" which means dishonest or untrustworthy.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Since any acts of evil are considered services to Tash, and Shift does nothing but evil acts throughout the book, and Tash "rewards" his evil followers with punishments, Shift ultimately gets Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.
- Slimeball: Shift is a self-serving and manipulative primate who doesn't think twice about committing treason and selling his fellow Narnians into slavery as long as he benefits from it.
- The Sociopath: Meets a lot of the criteria — he's a reflexive liar, and has a layer of superficial charm hiding a complete Lack of Empathy.
- Wicked Pretentious: He tries to convince the other Narnians that he's not even a talking ape, but actually a very elderly son of Adam and thus a rightful ruler of Narnia in order to give himself legitimacy, hence he puts on human clothes and a crown which only serve to make him look ridiculous.

- The Antichrist: Subverted. Despite playing the role of the false Aslan, Puzzle is not a willing participant in the plan and is merely a figurehead for the 'real' Narnian Antichrist, Shift the Ape.
- Butt-Monkey: Played for Drama. Poor, gullible, stupid Puzzle goes through a lot of abuse in the story, including outright physical abuse at the Calormene hands, none of which he really deserves.
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Easily Forgiven: While Tirian and Eustace are less willing to forgive him for being duped, with Tirian outright wanting to execute Puzzle on the spot, Jill is more tolerant. Aslan himself mercifully doesn't seem to hold any grudge, though it helps Puzzle was genuinely sorry (and also not intelligent or willful enough to have had much agency in the wrongdoing). - Fat Idiot: Mentioned as being pretty chubby, even after his treatment at the hands of the Calormenes, and not very smart at all, falling for every one of Shift's Blatant Lies.
- Horrible Judge of Character: He's easily tricked by Shift's emotional and verbal abuse into doing whatever the ape wants, and never once holds it against him even when what he's talked into doing nearly kills him.
- Meaningful Name: As mentioned on the The Last Battle page, Puzzle's name is probably a nod to the Book of Revelation figure of the Whore of Babylon, also known as "Mystery Babylon", who is believed to represent the Antichrist's demonic religion. Doubles as an Ironic Name as unlike his biblical inspiration, Puzzle eventually switches sides and is forgiven by Aslan.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: A donkey in a badly stitched together lion skin would be a hard sell, even without Puzzle's very obvious donkey-ness shining through, but it helps that Shift and the Calormenes make sure the talking animals only see him very briefly, at night, and make sure Puzzle doesn't say anything. Animals who are smart enough to notice "disappear" (or in the case of Ginger, don't care). Any human looking at him can instantly see through it.
- Stereotype Flip: Unlike most depictions of donkeys in fiction, Puzzle is almost completely subservient to Shift and does whatever he asks with minimal argument.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Puzzle agreeing to Shift's latest plan helps set in motion the conquest of Narnia.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Once he joins in the scheme, it's pretty clear this cat's got the brains Shift doesn't.
- Cats Are Mean: A cat who sells out his country apparently just 'cuz.
- Establishing Character Moment: Is notably the only Talking Beast who isn't completely despondent after Shift announces that Aslan and Tash are simply two different names of the same being — instead, he expresses clinical interest in the notion and politely asks a few clarifying questions, demonstrating his preference for intellectualism instead of faith.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: One look at Tash scares the sapience right out of him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He spends all of his pagetime coolly curious or smugly self-assured of how he's In the Know about what's really going on in Narnia, all the way until he casually saunters into the stable — and encounters Tash, whom he was very much not expecting, and who causes him to Go Mad from the Revelation.
- The Quisling: Sides with the Calormenes once he figures out what's going on with the fake Aslan, and it's suggested he's managed to find or turn some other Narnians over to his way of thinking.
- Smug Snake: He is a cat, after all, and he oozes smugness in every one of his appearances. Except the very last one.
- Tom the Dark Lord: Ginger is not exactly the sort of name you'd normally expect for someone so vile.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The last anyone sees of him, Ginger's running up a tree, literally terrified out of his mind, and the narrator notes that no-one ever saw him again.
- Token Heroic Orc: When Tirian and his companions free the other dwarves, they are all ungrateful, but Poggin is the only one who remains faithful to Aslan.
- Mr. Exposition: Similarly to a messenger speech from a Classical play, his main function is to inform the other characters what happened to Cair Paravel.
Calormenes
- Voiced by: Robin Meredith (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), George Parsons (BBC radio adaptation)
- Adipose Rex: He's obese and he wears ill-fitting robes which look ridiculous on him.
- The Emperor: As the leader of the Calormene Empire, he is this trope.
- Expy: He has a few things in common with the King of Babylon in E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet — namely the fact that he's the head of an empire, and is believed to be descended from a god, with his soldiers saying "May he live forever" whenever he is mentioned. Lewis was an avid fan of Nesbit growing up and thus took many of her ideas for his own.
- Foil: He is one to King Lune. Whereas Lune is a good king who loves his sons, the Tisroc doesn't really care about Rabadash or his other sons at all, treating them like expendable commodities. Where Lune only has two sons (one having been stolen away from him at birth), the Tisroc has eighteen, with Rabadash being the eldest of the bunch.
- God-Emperor: As the emperor of Calormen, he and the rest of his lineage are believed to have descended from the god Tash. As a result of this, his subjects have to say "may-he-live-forever" whenever his name is mentioned. Bree scoffs at such pretensions, since he knows that the Tisroc will not live forever, whether any of his subjects wish him to or not.
- Good Parents: He seemingly tries to be one to Rabadash, but the prince's impetuous, hot-blooded nature makes this difficult. Where his father tries to appease him with various Calormene maxims and poems, Rabadash merely scoffs at him for trying to appease him this way. Eventually, the Tisroc is forced to concede to his son and let him go off on his military expedition; but there's a catch: he is not to expect any help or approval from him. However, this is subverted, as he doesn't really care about Rabadash enough to avenge him if he dies or something, but is relieved that he will likely get killed because he has eighteen other sons, and knows about that, should Rabadash had stayed, he would likely have assassinated him because he got too bored to wait until he took over.
- The Hedonist: He apparently enjoys himself quite a bit, beyond the implied "getting around". When he retires to his room, he commands the grand vizier to bring the musicians to his chamber and to apologise to the cooks, implying that he enjoys eating as well, to a certain extent.
- How They Treat the Help: In contrast to Rabadash, who has no problem with abusing Ahoshta, the Tisroc does not approve of his son abusing him in this manner.
- No Name Given: His name is never given; he's only referred to as the Tisroc (may-he-live-forever).
- Really Gets Around: Possibly. He has eighteen sons in addition to Rabadash. Busy guy. It's possible that he has an entire Royal Harem, which may be how he was able to sire all these sons.
- Reflexive Remark of Reverence: Whenever anyone mentions his name they always add "may he live forever" afterwards.

- Voiced by: Russell Boulter (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Jonathan Tafler (BBC radio adaptation)
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Plans to kidnap Queen Susan and force her to marry him.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Is this to the Tisroc, who lets him chase after Susan to prevent him from attempting a coup. The reason the Tisroc allowed him to go on his military campaign is because, as the emperor confesses, he felt Rabadash was becoming a threat to himself, so he decided it would be good for him to blow off some steam fighting abroad.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He was quite gallant while a guest in Narnia, hence why Susan considered marrying him in the first place, but seeing his behavior towards others in his home country was enough to convince her otherwise.
- Game Face: Subverted — Rabadash rolls his eyes, sticks out his tongue, and wiggles his ears. It terrifies his underlings (who know he can have them boiled in oil at any minute), but it has no effect on the free Narnians; Lucy just worries for a moment that he's going to be sick.
- God-Emperor: He becomes the new Tisroc after the events of The Horse and His Boy.
- The Good King: It's mentioned in the epilogue of The Horse and His Boy that Rabadash, being unable to wage war due to Aslan's curse, actually did wonderful things for Calormen while he was ruler - even if they didn't appreciate it and mocked him for it after his death.
- Hot-Blooded: Possibly the best example in the series.
- Humiliation Conga: A very good example that went on for the rest of his life. During the battle for Archenland, he gets stuck on a hook on a wall. He demands to be released in order to duel King Edmund, but is denounced as a traitor, due to attacking during peacetime. After this, he is put on trial for his treachery and given multiple opportunities to redeem himself, but keeps threatening his captors. As punishment, Aslan temporarily turns him into a donkey and tells him that he'll be healed in the temple of Tash in Calormen but if he goes more than 10 miles from the temple, he will be permanently transformed. Since this prevents him from waging war, he is known as Rabadash the Peacemaker during his rule as Tisroc. But after his death, he is known to history as Rabadash the Ridiculous and the expression 'Second Rabadash' is also used for students who act incredibly stupid.
- Karmic Transformation: He was being an ass to the Narnians as well as how he tried to wage war in peace times, so Aslan naturally made him into a donkey, aka a "jackass".
- Meaningful Name: In the Swabian dialect of German, a "Rappltasch" (pronounced Rabaldash) is a gossip, mindless chatterbox, or slanderer.
- Memetic Loser: An In-Universe example, Due to his Humiliation Conga, Rabadash is remembered by his people as "Rabadash the Ridiculous" rather than his preferred title "Rabadash the Peacemaker." It is also stated that if a Calormene student were to do something stupid, they would be labeled a "Second Rabadash."
- Royal Brat: Textbook definition, given his attitude and his actions. The story indicates that Aslan's punishment did knock some sense into him and he became a good ruler, but it wasn't enough to prevent him from being remembered as "Rabadash the Ridiculous".
- Smug Snake: Keeps insulting the Archenlanders and Narnians despite being their prisoner, and goes so far as to yell in Aslan's face. Aslan still only warns him about it - until Rabadash starts insulting and threatening Susan, which brings out Aslan's Papa Wolf towards her.
- Villainous Valour: For all his many, many deficiencies as a person, Rabadash has Evil Virtues aplenty, and he's a brave and skilled swordsman. The text outright says that he could've endured torture well.
- Yandere: Wants to conquer Archenland and raid Narnia just to force Susan to marry him.
- Abusive Parents: He is this to Cor, since he's all too happy to beat him up whenever a sale of his fish doesn't really go over well. He also has the tendency to treat him like a slave, making him do all the cooking. He also attempts to subtly influence Cor by using a poem about how curiosity kills the cat to curb his curiosity about what lies to the north. He's also perfectly willing to sell the boy into slavery.
- As the Good Book Says...: He's not above doing this, albeit quoting from Calormen's famous poets rather than any specific holy text (since it is never specified which holy text, if any, Tashism follows).
- Lower-Class Lout: He's a fisherman, on the very bottom rung of Calormen's social hierarchy, and he's quite horrible. However, he's very down-to-earth and neither knows nor cares about the wider world.
- Non-Answer: Once, when Shasta asks about the lands to the North, Arsheesh attempts to dismiss the question with a poem whose meaning is, in essence, "Stick to your business and don't ask too many questions."
- Parental Neglect: He's not above doing this to Cor whenever a sale goes well.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Whatever happened to him remains unclear.

- Played by: Katherine Kellgren (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Maria Miles (BBC radio adaptation)
- Ambiguous Innocence: While she's supportive towards Aravis, she's also completely loyal to the Tisroc. She doesn't understand why he'd act so dishonourably but tells herself there must be some good reason.
- The Ditz: Lasraleen enjoys parties, gossip, fashion, and socialising. She and Aravis meet when she's being carried around the city by slaves and she's gone out just to show off her new dress. It's also said that she's a terrible giggler.
- ...In That Order: She casually says that any of her servants who reveal Aravis's presence will be "beaten to death, burned alive, and kept on bread and water for six weeks" so she's probably not that serious about punishment.
- Nice Girl: Lasaraleen means well, and she helps Aravis escape even if she doesn't understand why Aravis doesn't want to be married off.
- Spoiled Sweet: She's wealthy, sheltered, and spoiled - however she stays true to her promise and helps Aravis escape her arranged marriage, with them parting tearfully and on good terms.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Aravis's tomboy, being very fashion-conscious and a bit ditzy.

- Voiced by: Charlie Burnell (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Kim Wall (BBC radio adaptation)
- Determinator: Downplayed. By his own admission, he's pissing his pants in terror when witnessing Ginger being driven to madness, having correctly surmised that the Cat met Tash in the stable — but that simply strengthens his resolve to enter the stable and see Tash himself. And he refuses to take "no" for an answer.
- Irony: The devout follower of Tash risks death to see his god...and apparently never does, even when said god is present in the same area. Of course, it's only ironic in the most literal sense; what Emeth does get to see is the real object of his devotion.
- Meaningful Name: "Emeth" (אמת) is Hebrew for "truth".
- Noble Demon: Despite being a follower of Tash, he earns a place in Aslan's country as Aslan puts more value on good character and noble deeds than on worshiping the "correct" god.
- Oh, Crap!: Suffers a wordless version upon meeting Aslan, as he (a self-professed lifelong Aslan hater) immediately realizes that a) he should have been worshiping Aslan instead of Tash all along and b) Aslan is fully aware of his allegiance. Fortunately, it turns out that Aslan is more aware of Emeth's allegiance than even Emeth himself is.
- The Only Believer: Downplayed as there are possibly other true believers in the Calormene army, but Emeth is the only one whom the story focuses on. He's wholeheartedly devoted to Tash and has to hide his rage when he discovers that his commander isn't.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: By his own admission, he was eager to meet Narnians in battle, and he was sorely disappointed when he learned that his expeditionary force was to disguise themselves as merchants ("which is a shameful dress for a warrior and the son of a Tarkaan") and operate under deceitful pretenses.
- Purple Prose: Tells his story in the grand Calormene fashion, just like Aravis.
- Token Good Teammate: He's the most good-natured Calormene in the whole series.
- Worthy Opponent: Jewel views him as one for his honesty and devotion. Emeth himself cites a poet who wrote "A noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best," indicating that he sees Peter as such.
Telmarines

- Adaptation Dye-Job: Miraz's physical description isn't touched on at all in the book, but the BBC and Walden adaptations give him different hair colors, so in at least one case he's likely this.
- Adaptational Personality Change: He suffers from this to an extent in the film adaptation. While his Hair-Trigger Temper from the original book is shown at times and like in the book, he's still proud and arrogant enough to be tricked into doing the duel with Peter, only to be killed, Miraz in that version of the story is overall portrayed as a mostly subdued Cold Ham.
- Adaptation Expansion: His movie counterpart has much more screentime compared to his book one.
- Berserk Button: NEVER bring up tales of Old Narnia in his presence. Caspian foolishly blabbering about the stories his nurse told him led to her expulsion from the castle. Although this ties into the cultural norms of Telmarine society, such as their extreme fear of the woods and the sea (ironic, considering their pirate origins).
- Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of the second book and all of it's adaptations.
- Cain and Abel: He's the Cain to his brother's Abel.
- The Caligula: In the novel, he behaves like a despot towards his people, which includes taxing them heavily and enacting several harsh laws. Judging by Cornelius' terror of having his head cut off, he's not above beheading subjects if they step out of line.
- Cold Ham: In the Walden Media films he is this trope. For the most part, he remains collected and aloof, except occasionally.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the White Witch. Whereas the Witch was some sort of fantastical creature, Miraz is a perfectly ordinary human being who just happens to be in control of an entire country. While the Witch actively pursues the protagonists in the second half of the novel, Miraz remains largely off-page, save for one scene during a four-chapter-long-backstory, and towards the end of the book.
- Eskimos Aren't Real: He appears to believe that lions don't exist, presumably because of his fear of Aslan. Apparently this extends to the rest of the Telmarines as well, as the niece of Caspian's nurse has never even seen a lion before.
- Evil Uncle: He's the younger brother of Caspian's deceased father.
- Expy: He's obviously based on Claudius from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, since he is a usurper who killed his own brother and even plans to have his own nephew killed simply for being an obstacle to the throne. He also appears to have some things in common with how Herod is portrayed in passion plays, such as his short temper and cruel persecution of minorities.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Even though he's not Caspian's biological father, he forbids Caspian from mentioning the tales of Old Narnia, firmly believing them to be absurd. Dr Cornelius even points out that, if Miraz were somehow to overhear them discussing Old Narnia, Caspian would likely be whipped, while Cornelius would likely be beheaded.
- Fatal Flaw: His Pride, which means that he won't allow himself to refuse the duel with Peter, for fear that Lords Glozelle and Sopespian will ruin his reputation by passing word of his cowardice to the rest of the civilian population. This indirectly leads to his death at the hands of said lords.
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: He does this when Caspian starts crying, having confessed that his nurse was the one who told him stories of Old Narnia. This establishes that he possesses a lack of empathy.
- Get Out!: He hollers this to Glozelle and Sopespian in the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He has a very short temper in the novel, and this is carried over into the BBC miniseries, where he is often depicted as hollering at Glozelle and Sopespian.
- Hated by All: He's near-universally despised by all his subjects. Lampshaded by Trumpkin in the film adaptation:Trumpkin: And you wonder why we don't like you.
- Large Ham: As with the Witch before him, he is this in the BBC miniseries. During his Villainous Breakdown, he all but hollers at both Glozelle and Sopespian that he's intent on accepting the challenge:Miraz: I had intended to refuse BUT I SHALL ACCEPT! DO YOU HEAR! ACCEPT!
- Orcus on His Throne: He doesn't directly oppose the Pevensies until his duel with Peter, with the threats they encounter largely being from his soldiers. He lampshades this in the BBC miniseries:Miraz: Why should I fight? I have an army to fight for me.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: In the novel, he has shades of this, since he insults Glozelle by comparing his style of speech to that of an old woman.
- Pragmatic Villainy: When he killed his brother to take the throne, he kept Caspian alive because he and Prunaprismia were childless and he'd rather his nephew succeed him than make some stranger his heir or have a Succession Crisis. Of course, this changed once he and his wife finally conceived.
- The Unfought: Zigzagged. On one hand, there's his one-on-one duel with Peter. On the other, he gets betrayed and killed by his own subordinate after his loss who then becomes Dragon Ascendant and takes over as the Big Bad for the actual army battle portion of the story's climax.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Glozelle and Sopespian conspired to put Miraz on the throne, and they certainly perceive him as this trope since he does not acknowledge their efforts.
- The Usurper: He usurped the throne from his older brother, King Caspian IX. He wasn't even given a right to the throne then, instead being styled Lord Protector until he declared himself King.
- Villain Has a Point: He does point out the absurdity of the Siblings Share the Throne trope, believing that there can't possibly be more than one king at the same time.




- Played by: Christopher Snell (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Rory Edwards (BBC miniseries), Damian Alcazar (Walden Media films) (Sopespian)Played by: Joe McGann (BBC miniseries), Pierfrancesco Favino (Walden Media films), Frank Lazarus (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre) (Glozelle)
- Adaptation Expansion: Sopespian and Glozelle have a lot more to do in the BBC miniseries and the Walden Media films, in contrast to the novel, where he's introduced towards the very end.
- Adaptational Job Change: Glozelle is given the title of General in the Walden Media films, in contrast to the novel and earlier adaptations where he's a lord. However, this isn't quite as much of a change, as the novel makes clear that he and Sopespian were already serving in Miraz's army at the time the letter from Peter was dispatched.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Sopespian bears the title of "Lord" and he's a callous backstabber in league with Glozelle.
- Dragon Ascendant: Before stabbing Miraz in the back, Sopespian and Glozelle declare full-scale war against the Narnians, which sparks off the novel's climactic battle, with Glozelle taking the opportunity to assassinate him during the chaos. They and the Telmarine army are defeated because they can't cross a bridge that Aslan had already destroyed during a Bacchanalian revel in order to free the river god from his "chains".
- The Dog Bites Back: Glozelle stabs Miraz in the back for an insult he'd given him earlier.
- Manipulative Bastard: Sopespian and Glozelle manipulate Miraz into accepting the duel, by using reverse psychology and appeals to his ego.
- The Man Behind the Man: Sopespian and Glozelle conspired to assist Miraz in helping him ascend the throne. However, they feel unappreciated for their efforts.
- Meaningful Name: Glozelle's name is derived from the Old English verb gloze, meaning "to deceive".
- Related in the Adaptation: They're apparently cousins in the Walden Media films, but this is never confirmed in either the novels or the BBC miniseries, nor, indeed, any other adaptations for that matter.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Sopespian gets decapitated by Peter during the battle.
- Those Two Guys: This is their dynamic in the novels.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Unlike Sopespian, the novel makes no mention of what fate befell Glozelle. The BBC miniseries makes it clear that he was killed by Peter, while Sopespian's fate goes unmentioned. However, in the Walden Media films, he takes the place of the unnamed Telmarine soldier from the book who walked through the portal to our world and in the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre adaptation, he and Sopespian are the ones who read out the king's decrees that Narnia should be returned to the Narnians.


- Played by: Angela Barlow (BBC miniseries), Alicia Borracherro (Walden Media films)
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the BBC miniseries, she behaves like a cold bitch towards Caspian, presumably to make the Telmarines less sympathetic. Although the novel does say she dislikes him, it just doesn't show them interacting.
- Adaptational Badass: While she's not really developed in the novel, only being mentioned, the Walden Media films depict her as being handy with a crossbow.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: She has red hair in the novels, but black hair in the live-action film.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the Walden Media films, by contrast, she is portrayed much more sympathetically, since she is absolutely devastated on learning that Miraz killed Caspian's father. In addition, she's allowed to return to our world with her infant son.
- Fiery Redhead: Possibly, since it's mentioned that she has red hair.
- The Ghost: She's only mentioned by name in the novel and receives no lines of dialogue or scenes of her own. However, the adaptations of the novels give her more to do and say. All that's mentioned of her in the novel beyond her name is that she hates Caspian.
Witches




- Played by: Tilda Swinton (films), Samantha Womack (West End), Barbara Kellerman (BBC miniseries), Elizabeth Counsell (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Rosemary Martin (BBC radio adaptation)Voiced in European French by: Françoise CadolVoiced in Latin-American Spanish by: Patricia PalestinoVoiced in European Spanish by: Conchi LópezVoiced in Japanese by: Mao Daichi
The prequel revealed that she is of extradimensional origin, and singlehandedly exterminated all life in her home world except for herself through a secret ceremony.
- 0% Approval Rating: As the traditional Evil Sorceress, Jadis runs Narnia as she wishes. Downplayed in that it does win her a few friends - Talking Wolves, Hags, some of the Dryads, and the People of the Toadstools, for example. Dwarves (especially Black Dwarves) also seem to have done alright under her rule, though there were plenty of dwarves loyal to Narnia as well.
- Above Good and Evil: Jadis thinks she's exempt from morality just because she's magical and special. "Ours is a high and lonely destiny."
- Adaptation Dye-Job: The original design for Jadis describes her with snow white skin and (courtesy of Pauline Baynes's art) dark hair, a look which she retains in the BBC miniseries and the manga, and other adaptations save the 1978 film, where she instead has light icy-blue hair. However, in the Walden Media film she has blond hair (her actor has natural red hair but went with a deliberately eerie Nordic look for this role). Everything else about her (the red lips, the pale skin, and her outfit save the appearance of her crown) is the same.
- A Dog Named "Perro": "Jadis" means "witch" in Farsi.
- Ambiguously Human: This is commented through the books, mostly coming from the fact that, while she and the Charnite race look exactly like just tall humans, there is something on them that hints that they are not. Jadis herself is said to claim to be human in order to justify her place on the Narnian throne, but Mrs. Beaver believes she is actually of djinn and giant blood, as well as a descendant of Lilith of all people. The Magician's Nephew reveals she's a Charnite, a race of human-looking but supernaturally powerful people from Charn, and also claims their royal family has giant blood.
- Back from the Dead:
- Jadis is killed in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but in Prince Caspian, the possibility of reanimating her and using her as a weapon against an oppressive tyrant is discussed, but eventually averted. Apparently, witches of this power never truly die and can always be brought back with a dark ritual, which is quite mercifully interrupted partway in.
- The Silver Chair features another witch of great power as its Big Bad, and it is the subject of much debate whether she is a reincarnation or some sort of figment/avatar of Jadis, or just another unrelated witch.
- Big Bad: In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew, at least (arguably The Silver Chair, if the Lady of the Green Kirtle is indeed supposed to be a reincarnation of Jadis); after that, she is little more than a bad memory. However, the movies seem to be giving her a much greater presence post-mortem particularly in Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which the scriptwriters insisted had to have a villain. Apparently it's not a spiritual journey without a Boss Battle.
- Blessed with Suck: After biting the Silver Apple, gains immortality but intensifies her misery.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In The Magician's Nephew, as she and the children are escaping her collapsing home world of Charn, she points out torture chambers, dungeons, and massacre sites with the casual, flippant air of a bored tour guide.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Jadis ceremonially slaughters Aslan on the Stone Table, seemingly securing her tyrannical reign over Narnia. But Aslan, who is explicitly Narnia's Jesus, comes Back from the Dead and destroys her in turn - freeing Narnia from her grasp once and for all. Aslan specifically mentions that the "Deep Magic" which predates them both (and was carved onto that table) brought him back to life:note thus the Witch's own actions triggered this event.
- Brought Down to Badass: In Charn, the Witch is an unstoppable force that annihilated all life aside from herself with a single spell and can effortlessly blast apart large structures with nary a word. In our world, however, she is incapable of using magic altogether, but is still a titan of a woman with Super-Strength due to her bloodline. In Narnia, she is somewhere in between, she is a powerful spellcaster but requires a wand and her selection of spells may be a bit more limited.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: In the manga, she's certainly drawn this way.
◊ - Cain and Abel: Fought a long and bloody civil war against her sister for control of their kingdom that culminated in the destruction of their entire universe. She says she was the one with the rightful claim to the throne, and that her sister was the first to break their mutual agreement not to use magic, but given who's talking it's just as likely to be a case of Unreliable Expositor. Though her sister may have been no angel either, given that the royal house of Charn is described as having gotten worse with each generation and her sister is explicitly said to have slaughtered Jadis' supporters down to the last man. But at least her sister didn't use the Deplorable Word.
- Card-Carrying Villain: She doesn't even try to pretend she isn't bad news. This is especially prominent in The Magician's Nephew, where she has an extreme Might Makes Right attitude.
- Charm Person: In the movies, where merely seeing her nearly causes both Caspian, and then Peter to finish the magic ritual that would bring her back to life despite both knowing how malevolent she is.
- Cleavage Window: In the manga she is depicted with one, in stark contrast to Pauline Baynes' original illustrations.
- Compelling Voice: In the movies, where she nearly sways Caspian, and then even Peter to finish the ritual to bring her back to life despite Peter knowing just how bad she was.
- Composite Character: She is based on four characters in fiction: Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Ayesha from She by H. Rider Haggard, the Snow Queen from Hans Christian Andersen's fantasy story of the same name, and the Queen of Babylon from The Story of the Amulet by Nesbit. The mythological character of Lilith was also an inspiration for her character and Jadis is said to be descended from her in the stories.
- Creepy Souvenir: She displays her victims in a Wax Museum Morgue as statues in her garden rather than destroying them once they're vulnerable. This bites her in the rear when Aslan returns and breathes them back to normal, causing a large force to join the battle between her forces and the Narnians.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Satan version of this. In The Last Battle Tash sort of competes with her for that role, but Tash is more of The Anti-God in being an equal and opposite force to Aslan.
- Dark Action Girl: In the movies, where she's shown to be just as good a fighter as a mage and schemer. She's no slouch in the books either, able to pick people up and hurl them, and snaps an iron bar off a lamp post with ease and uses as an Improvised Weapon it to fend off policemen, as well as fighting off Peter with nothing but a knife while he wielded a sword.
- The Dreaded: Jadis ruled Narnia with an iron fist for a hundred years not only through the icy grip of magic, but sheer terror. Tumnus, the Beavers and others relate how utterly terrified all Narnians are at the prospect of arousing her wrath.
- Dual Wielding: A wand and a sword in The Movie. She switches to two swords once her wand breaks.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: In the books, her skin is literally white "like snow, or paper, or icing sugar," clearly intended to look creepy and unhealthy; and Pauline Baynes's illustrations give her dark hair. Averted in the Walden Media movies, in which she is blonde and has a more or less natural skin tone but played more or less straight in the BBC miniseries.
- Endless Winter: Her shtick, and the main reason why she's known as the White Witch.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, her given name, Jadis, is only mentioned once in a letter. Otherwise, she's just called either "the White Witch" (by the heroes and the narrator) or "the Queen of Narnia" (by herself and her allies). Her name is used more often in The Magician's Nephew, but even there the narrator mainly calls her "the Witch."
- Evil Is Deathly Cold: Plunges Narnia into an infinite winter in which Christmas never occurs.
- Evil Is Petty: Wiped out all other life on Charn just to "win" the war with her sister when she was on the edge of defeat.
- Evil Overlord: First of Charn, although all rulers of Charn in her era were wicked. Then of Narnia.
- Evil Sorcerer: Magic comes naturally to her species, namely her royal family. Stranded in Narnia, where magical knowledge from her homeworld was useless, she eventually became adept in the local magic.
- Evil Versus Evil: She describes the sister she warred against in Charn as bloodthirsty and tyrannical and claims her sister broke their pact not to use magic in their war first. Jadis herself is no saint and pulled an Eviler than Thou on her by using the Deplorable Word to destroy Charn entirely rather than surrender. In addition, we only have her word on how bad her sister really was. Though given that all the rulers of Charn of the era were exactly like Jadis, it's likely that their families were no exception and she may well be telling the truth about her sister.
- Expy:
- Her design in the 1979 animated adaptation bears some resemblance to Queen Grimhilde from Disney's take on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- She is also similar to The Snow Queen in how she lures one of the main characters to her snowy wicked world.
- Fantastic Nuke: An understatement. The Deplorable Word, a spell that kills absolutely everything in the world aside from the caster, makes nukes look like party poppers.
- Faux Affably Evil: She's very good at appearing to be trustworthy, telling people exactly what they want to sway them to her side, but it doesn't take much to for her to drop the act and reveal the callous monster within.
- Fur and Loathing: She is drawn wearing a fur coat in the books and is a cruel, merciless villain.
- Genocide from the Inside: When she ruled Charn, she learned a spell known as the Deplorable Word that would kill every living thing in the world except the speaker. When she lost the civil war, she used it.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Both as the Queen of Charn, where she used the Deplorable Word against her sister and ended all life on the planet, and as the Queen of Narnia, where she's incredibly evil by virtue of plunging the whole land into eternal winter and violently disposing of anyone who opposes her. Fittingly enough, she gets disposed of thanks to a divine intervention.
- Godzilla Threshold:
- Her use of the Deplorable Word, at least according to her, was because her sister was even worse than her and had just finished slaughtering her supporters down to the last man.
- Invoked in Prince Caspian, where the Black Dwarf Nikabrik, a hag and a werewolf attempt to perform a ritual to bring Jadis Back from the Dead to fight against Miraz. It is worth noting that all three of these are on the eviler end of magical creatures, and therefore had not particularly suffered under the reign of the White Witch. On the other hand, when the heroes realize what their plan entails, they refuse to even entertain the possibility and kill the three of them - summoning a force as uncontrollable and powerful as Jadis to deal with a relatively mundane tyrant would be akin to dropping a nuke on a city to get rid of a rat infestation. In the film version, Caspian agrees with Nikabrik's arguments and goes through with the ritual, though he wasn't fully aware of how evil Jadis was and how dangerous her presence would be until the Pevensieve siblings interrupt it.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her insistence on demanding Edmund's life, and her gleeful willingness to kill Aslan in Edmund's place, leads to her defeat thanks to her ignorance of the Deeper Magic beneath the Deep Magic she invokes.
- Humanoid Abomination: She's an immortal monster who's destroyed an entire universe, turned Narnia into a frozen wasteland, appears human until you take a good look, and became Narnia's very own Satan in the end.
- Hypocrite: She holds a deep disdain for magicians who use tools to cast magic rather than being part of the ruling Mage Species. On Charn they apparently wiped out all magicians who used this type of magic long ago. On Narnia, she herself is reduced to needing a magic wand to cast spells.
- Ice Queen: About as literal as you can get without a Queen actually being made of ice. The movie has her wearing a crown made of ice as well — please note that she does not have an ice crown in the novel and earlier adaptations, instead simply going for a golden but otherwise normal-looking crown.
- Inhumanly Beautiful Race: The Charnites Polly and Digory see were all inhumanly beautiful, but also more and more terrible in that beauty as the generations passed.
- In the Blood: She mentions that one of her ancestors single-handedly slaughtered over seven hundred nobles, because some of them had rebellious thoughts. Apparently it was a normal thing in her family. She also claims her sister was more evil than she was and killed her supporters down to the last man, though we only have her word to go on for it.
- It's All About Me: In her mind, the whole Universe pretty much revolves around her.
- Karmic Death: Oh so very much, especially in the film, falling at the hands of her victim Aslan via Deep Magic law.
- Knight of Cerebus: The most powerful and longest lived villain in the series, who appears in not one but two books, is almost never played for comedy and is more sociopathic than any other villain in the series. Jadis destroys the entire universe of Charn with the Deplorable Word, rules Narnia with an iron fist, plunges the entire realm into an endless winter, and manipulates Edmund Pevensie into betraying his siblings. She attempts to get Edmund sacrificed for his betrayal in order to appease the Deep Magic, and takes great pleasure in taking Aslan's life instead. She is essentially one of the two versions of the devil that Narnia has, with the other Satanic Archetype villain, Tash, being the only villain in the entire series who's even darker than her. Yeah, this woman was bad news.
- Lady of Black Magic: Elegant and merciless, she is an incredibly powerful sorceress who put Narnia in an eternal winter and could turn beings into stone with her wand.
- Lady of War: In the film, she wields her swords with considerable grace.
- Large Ham: In the BBC adaptation in the 80s.
- Last of Her Kind: The sole survivor of the entire population of Charn, her home universe. She killed all the rest herself.
- It came as something of a jar to her when she realized that her magic didn't work elsewhere. Apparently it took her centuries after arriving in Narnia to learn how to manipulate magic there.
- Light Is Not Good: Despite being the White Witch, she's very evil. Though, in her case, the white is associated more with ice and cold than light. Given her religious motifs, it might be both, seeing as Lucifer is "the bringer of light", meanwhile in The Divine Comedy Satan lives in a frozen lake.
- Mage in Manhattan: Ends up on Earth for a few hours in the prequel. Her magic doesn't work here but she still works up some chaos.
- Mage Species: The House of Charn, of which she is the sole survivor. If Mr Beaver is to be believed, this lineage included both Jinns and Giants. Magicians like Uncle Andrew that went by-the-book did exist in Charn, but were "inferior", and were wiped out long ago.
- Magical Barefooter: The Magician's Nephew's illustration shows her barefoot
◊, which may be because she doesn't care about cold or injuries due to her magical powers and/or heritage. - Magic Knight: In the film of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she went into battle with a sword and a wand of petrification. A pretty nasty combination by anyone's standards, and she put both to pretty good use. Additionally, she has Super-Strength due to being part giant, so even when her magic is unavailable (such as in our world), she is still a monstrously powerful foe.
- In the book itself, she mostly uses her wand, but when Edmund shatters it, she switches to her ritual knife as a backup weapon and is still a deadly force with it.
- Meaningful Name: "Jadis" is French for "in the days of yore", fitting her nature as an unfathomable Time Abyss from a world long destroyed.
- Might Makes Right: She believes she has a right to conquer the Earth after seeing how poor the magic in it is and how weak individual humans are. She also rules Narnia through the use of terror, turning all dissidents into stone and casting an endless winter over the land. In The Magician's Nephew, the only person to terrify her is Aslan, the most powerful being of all except for the unmet Emperor Across the Sea.
- Mythology Gag: Her dress in the start of the 2005 movie has a strong resemblance to the dress in her 1979 incarnation. Both are white gowns that have a tall thin silhouette with bits of blue to them and a large fur collar.
- Mysterious Past: The Beavers tell the Pevensies that she's some kind of djinn-giantess something, without explaining where she came from (presumably they don't know). The Magician's Nephew fleshes out her origin and past.
- Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Half Jinn and half Giant, if Mr Beaver is correct. This would presumably also apply to her sister.
- Non-Indicative Name: The name "White Witch" refers to her attire, complexion and association with wintry themes, not to folklore in which a "white witch" is one who practices White Magic (that is, good and harmless magic) — she does the opposite.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Just what was the "terrible price" for learning the Deplorable Word?
- Omnicidal Maniac: Via Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum, which she survived. She REALLY doesn't take defeat well. Charn is so utterly depopulated that when she, the last living being, is removed, the whole universe collapses into an existential hole."That world is over now."
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Throughout The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, she is only referred to by her actual name, Jadis, once (in the proclamation of treason Peter reads out that Maugrim left behind in the ruins of Tumnus's house), and otherwise always as the White Witch. Some readers actually missed the mention and thought that C.S. Lewis didn't name her Jadis until he wrote the prequel The Magician's Nephew (where her name is used often); one article even referred to the White Witch as "a descendant" of Jadis, not realizing it was the very same witch.
- Red Baron: "The Queen of Queens and the Terror of Charn".
- Retcon: By order of publication, The Magician's Nephew came out after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and it fleshes out her backstory as one of the rulers of a world that she ended up destroying via Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum. This makes it ambiguous just how much her backstory given in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (where she is supposedly a descendent of the djinn Lilith, with some giant blood mixed in) still applies. Reading the books in chronological order makes it even weirder when you realize that on her second appearance, she doesn't mention Charn, or her extradimensional origins, at all. Although it's certainly possible that the human-looking people of Charn were djinn, and The Magician's Nephew does mention there being giantish blood in Charn's royal family.
- Royal Blood: In her homeworld of Charn, she was a royal. She claims to be a Daughter of Eve in Narnia to justify her rule, but everyone knows she isn't.
- Russian Reversal: Played for Drama. Her sister declared her victory to Jadis' face after slaughtering Jadis' forces down to the last man. Jadis' response? "Victory, yes, but not for you." Cue the Deplorable Word.
- Satanic Archetype: She is a representation of the Devil just like Aslan represents God/Jesus. Interestingly enough, however, she doesn't seem to have any connection with Tash, the other representation of the Devil in the Narnia universe.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Her response to seeing Aslan No-Sell her throwing an iron beam at him is to run away in terror. She only returns hundreds of years later.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: In The Magician's Nephew she put herself into suspended animation after destroying her world, and left a way for any visitors to wake her up, so that they’d take her to a new world.
- Schmuck Bait: An appreciator of this, given the inscription left on the bell used to wake her up in a World of Silence: "Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, or wonder, till it drives you mad, what would have followed if you had." Jadis is apparently Genre Savvy enough to not even attempt denying that waking her is super bad news, instead choosing to appeal to a traveler's curiosity. It works.
- Signature Move: Her petrification spell, which she tosses out like cookies during her reign over Narnia. This may be a matter of necessity, since magic in Narnia does not seem to work the same way it did in her homeworld. While she can obviously cast other spells (as proven by the whole "everlasting winter" thing), this may be the only one she can cast without an elaborate ritual, or at least the most efficient one. Given that it both gets any target out of her way with one wave of her wand and gets her a nice statue for her gardens, it may just be the only spell she really ever needs.
- The Deplorable Word could be considered another one, as she may be the only one to have ever learned it and is definitely the only one to have used it, if only once. Once was more than enough.
- The Sociopath: She has zero empathy, a sense of grandiosy, and believes the entire universe should revolve around her. What else could she possibly be?
- Statuesque Stunner: She's what, eight feet tall? Nine? (Her family is part giant) And gorgeous, especially before eating that apple and turning paper-white.
- Super-Strength: Even without magic, she's quite unnaturally strong, able to rip part of a lamp-post off with her bare hands and little apparent effort. This hints at her nonhuman nature, given that not even a tall woman like her could do such feats of strength and make them look easy.
- Taken for Granite: Her main method of dealing with her enemies, using her magic wand. She even did it to herself in the film.
- Tempting Apple: Offers one to Digory after eating one herself, trying to tempt him first into receiving knowledge and then into saving his mother with the stolen apple.
- The Vamp: For Edmund and Digory. Uncle Andrew has just as strong an infatuation with her, though in his case the reason is not that Jadis is deliberately seducing him like a Vamp; he's attracted to her just because he finds evil sexy, without any deliberate effort on Jadis's part.
- Vain Sorceress: While she doesn't do the "who's the fairest of them all" shtick, she still feels like this archetype, being as unearthily beautiful as she is unspeakably arrogant. The fact that she uses the petrified bodies of those who stand in her way as statues to decorate her garden also feeds into this impression.
- Villain Ball: In her first appearance. Rather than killing Edmund outright when she first met him (something that came to her mind), she devises a plot in which he'll bring his siblings to her castle so she can kill them all- Ignoring that that would initially make her problem worse, since it requires all four children to be in Narnia. This lapse in judgment makes her have to react on the fly and cite Ancient Magic giving her the right to kill Edmund later.
- Villainous Legacy: The villain in The Silver Chair is described as one of Jadis's sort, and aims to conquer Narnia like Jadis did. But since that later villain is a Diabolus ex Nihilo outside that vague hint, we don't know what the nature of this connection would be.
- Wax Museum Morgue: Her entire castle courtyard, filled with statues. Take a wild guess where she got them. Her hall in Charn resembles this, but the statues are actually just statues in this case — except Jadis herself.
- Where I Was Born and Razed: Destroyed all life in not just the city she lived in, but her entire home universe before the events of The Magician's Nephew.
- Winter Royal Lady: "The White Witch" who casts eternal winter. Ironically, she was real royalty before her reign in Narnia.
- Would Hurt a Child: She has no qualms whatsoever about fighting and killing children to get what she wants.
- Wrong Context Magic: Her magic is unique to Charn and normally unusable outside of it, but she can remedy this through a Magic Wand. It's definitely alien to Narnia, where magic naturally permeates everything, but actual spellcasting seems to be rare, and usually treated as evil just like the Witch's magic.
- Your Magic's No Good Here: She can casually blast buildings to pieces in Charn, but seems to be unable to cast in Narnia without a special Magic Wand, or at all in the human world, though it's unclear whether she might have been able to remedy that with a similar wand if given the time to develop one, or whether our world is too poor in magic altogether to allow her to cast anything in any way. Though her Super-Strength still works on Earth.


- Played by: Barbara Kellerman (BBC miniseries), Joanna Myers (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre)
- All Witches Have Cats: Although she's not seen with a cat, she claims to love them.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Her ultimate goal is to have a brainwashed Rilian conquer Narnia and then marry him, making her the legal queen of the realm.
- Animorphism: She can transform into a giant green serpent.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Unlike the White Witch, this woman initially seems like anything but a villain (other than her outfit, which is what the owls tell the heroes that Rilian's captor wore).
- Compelling Voice: One of her abilities, courtesy of some enchanted incense and Mind-Control Music.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: Our only lead on her backstory is that she might have something to do with the White Witch.
- Evil Redhead: In the full color illustrated versions of the book she has auburn hair and she is an evil witch.
- Femme Fatale: Jadis may have been beautiful, which was a major factor in why Edmund Pevensie and especially Andrew Ketterley tried to join her, but she was always obviously intimidating and traded on that too. This woman relies primarily on her bewitching beauty (combined with her literally bewitching powers of Mind Manipulation), and she's far more outwardly nonthreatening than Jadis was. All in all, this makes her Narnia's closest equivalent of Brigid O'Shaughnessy or Catherine Tramell.
- The Fair Folk: She's a witch dressed in an eerie shade of green who kidnaps the Prince of Narnia for over a decade, spiriting him away to her realm and intending to make him her lover.
- Faux Affably Evil: She appears to be a kind and fair Lady looking out for travelers. In truth, she sends those travelers to the Giants to be eaten and has kidnapped and brainwashed Prince Rilian.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Exploited. She pretends to be an atheist and makes magically augmented arguments about Aslan and the land above being nothing but stories in an attempt to brainwash the protagonists, although she knows perfectly well that isn't true. It nearly works.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: She is the Queen of the Underlands and has brainwashed all her subjects into following her and assembling to invade Narnia.
- Green and Mean: She is associated with an otherworldly bright green and is the antagonist of The Silver Chair.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Her turning into a snake removes Rilian's concerns about finishing her off, as he admits after the fact that he doesn't think he would have been able to strike down a lady no matter how evil.
- Lady and Knight: A dark version. She travels around Narnia with her loyal Black Knight, who is actually the brainwashed Prince Rilian.
- Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Both she and Jadis (the only witches in the series) are described as otherworldly beautiful. Rilian fell in love with her at first sight. At one point he states that she is "of divine race" and therefore won't age or die of natural causes.
- Mind-Control Music: The Lady carries a magical mandolin that enhances her brainwashing abilities.
- Mind Manipulation: One of her abilities is to hypnotize others. She has done this to both Rilian and the entire race of gnomes.
- Reptilian Conspiracy: From within her Elaborate Underground Base, she subtly acquires power through governmental infiltration and mind control, and she alternates between a regular human form and a Scaled Up form. Of course, since this largely remained an Unbuilt Trope back in The '50s, the Lady bears many differences from this trope as we know it today. For example, her reptilian form isn't humanoid like most examples today, but rather a massive venomous snake. Also, instead of being a whole species of invaders, the Lady is the only example that we see. Lewis never reveals her origins beyond vaguely hinting that she could be somehow connected to the White Witch from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, nor does he specify whether her original form is humanoid, reptilian, or something else entirely.
- Scaled Up: She possesses the power to transform into a giant snake.
- Snakes Are Sinister: In her green serpent form, she isn't any nicer than in her human form.
- The Spook: Nothing is known about her past or about where she came from, except the possible Villainous Legacy mentioned below. Fans have also theorized a connection to the fin de siècle "Green Fairy" imagery associated with absinthe
(which would be appropriate, given her mind-bending powers). - Technicolor Toxin: She is associated with incredibly bright green and in snake form, her bites are fatally venemous.
- The Vamp: She effortlessly seduces Rilian and takes him away from the rest of the world.
- Villainous Breakdown: When the group of Narnians reject her attempts at brainwashing and declare their intent to return to the surface, the Lady snaps and transforms into a snake to kill them all rather than letting them go.
- Villainous Legacy: The owls describe her as a "Northern Witch" and postulate some kind of link to Jadis the White Witch. The fact that both witches were coincidentally played by the same actor in the BBC miniseries only seems to raise further questions.
- Would Hurt a Child: She has no issues sending Eustace and Jill to die at the hands of the Giants of Harfang, nor with brainwashing them.
Cosmic Entities




- Voiced by: Liam Neeson (films), Chris Jared (West End), Ronald Pickup (BBC miniseries), David Suchet (Focus on the Family Radio Theatre), Stephen Thorne (1978 film)Voiced in Latin-American Spanish by: José LavatVoiced in European Spanish by: Luis PorcarVoiced in Japanese by: Masane Tsukayama
The Great Lion, King of the Beasts; the Son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea; a wise, compassionate, magical authority (both temporal and spiritual); a mysterious and benevolent guide to the human children protagonists; the creator, guardian, and savior of Narnia. The author described Aslan as an alternate version of Christ — that is, as the incarnate form in which Christ might have appeared in a fantasy world full of talking animals.
- A Dog Named "Perro": "Aslan" means "lion" in Turkish.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: He plays a much more active role in the story than the historical Jesus did during life, who was content to bring salvation largely by teaching.
- Authority Sounds Deep: Given that he's voiced by Liam Neeson, a deep, commanding voice goes hand in hand with Aslan's status as the greatest force of good in the story. To an extent, the 1978 animated film and the Focus on the Family adaptation do this as well, albeit in different ways - Thorne's rendition being more loud and booming and Suchet's performance being more distinctly quiet and soothing when it needs to be.
- Back from the Dead: After a Heroic Sacrifice. Considering who Aslan's supposed to be, this was just inevitable.
- Beautiful Tears: Digory comments in The Magician's Nephew that Aslan's tears look beautiful when they shine in the light.
- Beware the Nice Ones: The most sure way of dealing with either a villain or a hero tempted to the dark side is for Aslan to give a show of force, which terrifies hero and villain alike... He's also more than willing to back it up with action if necessary (as the Witch found out).
- Big Damn Heroes: He comes roaring (literally) to the rescue in the battle at the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, together with Lucy, Susan, and everybody they rescued from the Witch's castle. Lucy is very disappointed in Prince Caspian when Aslan doesn't do the same.Aslan: Nothing happens the same way twice.
- Big Good: The biggest force for good seen in the series, though there is stated to be an even higher power behind the scenes (The Emperor Beyond the Sea).
- But Now I Must Go: It's noted that once what needed to be done has been accomplished, Aslan tends to disappear without warning. The characters say Aslan has other lands and other worlds he must attend to.
- The Chessmaster: Aslan still manages to accomplish goals even when things don't go perfectly according to plan (e.g. when Jill forgets the signs given to her in The Silver Chair).
- The Chooser of the One: Aslan chooses who enters Narnia (and would be the kings and queens), and picked the children.
- Cruel to Be Kind: When it's necessary. This can range from roaring at Lucy when she's tempted to try black magic, or giving uncharacteristically aspiring-to-tyranny Caspian such a telling-off that the later is visibly shaken and borderline traumatized; over not providing a meal (in the form of letting a fruit tree grow overnight) for the questing Digory until asked; over having to hurt Eustace rather badly while undoing the self-transformation Eustace inadverently managed by tapping into ambient magic - all the way to where it's even a plot point that teaching Aravis to put herself in another's place is exactly equivalent to her being flogged.
That being said: in the majority of appearances where the reader would expect this from an inscrutable eldritch power and stern judge of the living and the dead, Aslan subverts it by acting not cruel-to-be-kind but just overwhelmingly kind - even when the protagonists have done something He does not agree with:Then, after an awful pause, the deep voice said, "Susan." Susan made no answer but the others thought she was crying.
"You have listened to fears, child", said Aslan. "Come, let me breathe on you. Forget them. Are you brave again?"
"A little, Aslan", said Susan. - Crystal Dragon Jesus: Subverted. Aslan is not merely a vague knockoff of Jesus, he is literally "Jesus, but as a huge sodding lion". It is strongly implied the two are quite literally the same entity, with Aslan explicitly stating that he goes by a different name on Earth. The form of a lion is simply a more appropriate incarnation for a world of Talking Animals.
- Deus ex Machina: He spends the entire series behind the scenes, spinning the adventure and coming onscreen only when the heroes need him most. He comes in during the last battle in Prince Caspian to help the Narnians win after they began to lose hope.
- A Dog Named "Dog": His name means 'lion' in Turkish.
- Face Death with Dignity: Aslan remains full of dignity even while being humiliated, mocked, and ultimately killed by the White Witch,.
- Fantastic Religious Weirdness: Aslan's entire concept as a character is what Jesus would be like and what He would do if He created and incarnated in a magical world full of Talking Animals and other fantastic creatures.
- Fertile Feet:
- This becomes an impressive World-Healing Wave in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. His mere presence lets Narnia go from the endless January of the One Hundred Years' Winter to the May of a new spring in a few hours or so.
- In the The Magician's Nephew, it's an even more impressive "World-Creating Wave", since first grass and then other growing things spread out from the Lion like ripples and waves of water from a wellspring during the creation song.
- In Prince Caspian, an entire forest is woken into sapience by Aslan's roar.
- In The Horse and His Boy, the wellspring of a stream of water comes into existence out of Aslan's paw print.
- Flat Character: Lewis couldn't intentionally write Aslan to have any personality flaws or weaknesses, lose a fight, make any mistakes, or change - as in keeping with his orthodox Christian beliefs about the nature of God. However, Lewis still managed to make Aslan an interesting and likeable character to many people while working with these major constraints, with Christian philosopher Peter Kraft calling Aslan the greatest literary representative of Christ in all of fiction.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Son of Man has taken many different forms across the countless worlds that make up the Narnia universe, but only two of them have been confirmed by C. S. Lewis. He took the form of Jesus Christ on Earth, due to humans being the dominant inhabitants of that world. In Narnia, which is mostly populated by talking animals and other magical creatures, it's the form of Aslan the Lion. What the true form looks like is currently unknown.
- Friend to All Children: Despite being essentially an eldritch power; Aslan is a warm, welcoming protector and insuperably gentle, kind caregiver (at times bordering on a Parental Substitute) to the books' child protagonists.
- God: He's implied very heavily to be Jesus in the books, which is outright confirmed by the author.
- God Was My Co-Pilot: While most of the time, Aslan appears clearly as himself, there are at least a couple of occasions of sneakily appearing to other characters incognito as a way of guiding them or teaching them a lesson:
- He appears in The Horse and His Boy, to Shasta as a small house cat to comfort him, though Shasta is scratched at one point for having been pointlessly cruel (to a stray cat).
- In the same book, Aslan chases Bree and Hwin to make sure they make it to their destination on time. He has the form of a lion, but a normal lion; because of this, they don't recognize Aslan and think a normal wild lion is hunting them.
- In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Aslan appears as an albatross - telling only Lucy (whose call for help this is answering) explicitly who it is - to guide the ship out of the darkness surrounding the island where nightmares come true.
- He appears as a lamb near the end of the same book to give the three children a hint about the "other name" in their own world. There are serious hints Aslan does this again in The Last Battle, appearing as the lamb who asks more or less the same Armor-Piercing Question later more thoroughly explained to Emeth - nearly toppling Shift's reign of terror before it even really got going.
- Good Is Not Nice:
- "Not safe, but good" is a frequent and accurate description of Aslan, who ranges from a warm, welcoming protector and insuperably gentle, kind caregiver (at times bordering on a Parental Substitute to the books' child protagonists); to being deft, almost abrasive, and definitely prone to Cruel to Be Kind and Brutal Honesty where He deems it necessary; over at other times an aloof, stern, and inscrutable, but Reasonable Authority Figure; or on occasion even an unknowable eldritch power which is outright threatening (at times borderline traumatising) to allies and antagonists alike - to outright trolling charactersnote - sometimes all within the same book. As a Biblical allegory, this is actually incredibly spot on. Including the part where God likes to troll the self-righteous.
Mr. Beaver: "Safe"? Who said anything about "safe"? Of course he isn't safe! But he's good.- He scratches Aravis very badly across her back to punish her for letting her servant get whipped. The amount of pain is specified to be exactly equal to her servant's pain.
- In the end of The Last Battle, all of the people who reject Him are not allowed into the Narnian heaven, instead disappearing into the outer darkness of Aslan's shadow for an ambiguous fate. However, this judgement of rejection or acceptance is made in and for the exact moment in which He personally looks at them - if they love Him right then and there (no matter if they're terrified as well, no matter anything else past or present), they're in.
- There are multiple occasions where Aslan punishes Talking Animals to become ordinary animals.
- He delivers the final blow to the White Witch, which in the film version consists of biting off her face.
- Guile Hero: He offers to Jadis to die in place of Edmund knowing full well the Deeper Magic will bring such a Heroic Sacrifice back to life afterward - meaning the witch does not get what she thinks she agreed for (Aslan dead), does not get her original claim (Edmund dead) either, and gets set up for a lovely surprise attack later.
- The High King: He is the High King Above All High Kings, and frequently referred to as such (after all, Aslan is meant to be Jesus-as-a-huge-sodding-lion).The High King above all kings stooped toward him. Its mane, and some strange and solemn perfume that hung about the mane, was all round him. It touched his forehead with its tongue. He lifted his face and their eyes met. Then instantly the pale brightness of the mist and the fiery brightness of the Lion rolled themselves together into a swirling glory and gathered themselves up and disappeared. He was alone with the horse on a grassy hillside under a blue sky. And there were birds singing.
- Holy Is Not Safe: He's the Trope Namer: while definitely good, Aslan is an unknowable eldritch power that is outright threatening (at times borderline traumatizing) to allies and antagonists alike - and if someone's idea of "good" doesn't align with the real thing, they find out very quickly just what the real thing is like.
- Incorrect Animal Noise:
- Downplayed. While Aslan certainly isn't spared the traditional use of leopards, tigers and other non-leonine vocalizations on lions that plagues so many Hollywood films, he does emit the occasional lion snarl or roar in several scenes throughout the first film.
- Averted in the BBC miniseries, where recordings of an actual lion's roar were used.
- Judgement of the Dead: He fully assumes the role of Judge of the Living and the Dead in The Last Battle.
- King of All Cosmos: He's literally Jesus himself, but in a form that's more suitable for Narnia. He took the form of a man on Earth, which is dominated by humans. In Narnia, which is mostly populated by Talking Animals and mythical creatures, it's the form of a giant talking lion. Children are allowed to ride and stroke the Great Lion, too.
- King of Beasts: He's a huge sodding lion.
- Kung-Fu Jesus: He plays more of a direct fighting role in the plot than you would expect for a deity, such as personally killing the White Witch.
- Lack of Empathy: Averted. Similar to Lewis' positive use of this trope in The Great Divorce, Aslan has immense compassion for others, but cannot be manipulated or emotionally blackmailed. This compassion can and will not be misguided: Aslan does whatever needs to be done, with neither favor nor false consideration. However inexorable the Lion is about that the needful is going to be done, though: how it's done is quite another matter - and one Aslan can be insuperably gentle about when it's not necessary to be Cruel to Be Kind.
- Large Ham: Not so much in the 80s BBC miniseries or even the 2000s film series, but in the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production, he certainly comes across as this. Of course, this being radio, they clearly needed a manner in which to properly display his power while being confined to the medium, and hamming it up appears to have been the appropriate method of conveying it.
- Lighter and Softer: His death compared to Jesus's death. He's sheared, mocked, and then killed quickly by being stabbed once; and while that's all awful enough, it's all that happens. Jesus was tortured much more painfully for hours before finally dying. It's obvious there would have been a similarly brutal death if the book didn't have to be family friendly, given that the scene is based on this, and the type of person Jadis is.
- Magic Music: Aslan created Narnia, the animals, and the rest of the world by singing them into existence.
- Meaningful Name: His name means "Lion" in Turkish.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: He gets executed by the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Unlike most examples of the trope, however, it doesn't stick.
- Messianic Archetype: The man himself, in fact. He says at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader that He is known by a 'different name' on Earth.
- The Omniscient: Heavily implied to be the case, although in the film version of Prince Caspian the dialogue was altered in such a way it made it ambiguous. He answers Lucy's question, specifically, with "We can never know what would have happened" when they meet. He says "we," not "you". Also, in the BBC miniseries of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, after Aslan comes back from the dead, Lucy says that they cried their heads off when he knew all along he would be alright. He replies that knowing of the old incantation, but also knowing it had never been put to the test until now, it wasn't nearly as certain as it appeared in hindsight.
- Panthera Awesome: He's a huge sodding lion.
- Reality Warper: Creates Narnia and can teleport people to places at will. He chooses not to abuse his power.
- Sacrificial Lion: Quite literally. He chooses to die in place of Edmund when Jadis demands Edmund’s death.
- Stern Old Judge: Frequently.
- Most notably as Judge Of The Living And The Dead in The Last Battle.
- In the Horse and His Boy, just as everyone rises when the judge enters the courtroom; a room full of kings, queens, and princes immediately stand at attention when Aslan makes his presence known. He's there to judge Rabadash for what are essentially war crimes.
- In the Magician's Nephew, Aslan fulfills this role to both Digory (for bringing Jadis into Narnia) and Uncle Andrew (for attempting to exploit Narnia's creation energy) - though both are downplayed.
- Super-Breath: He sometimes lays on a paw or says something for additional emphasis, but most of the time Aslan's supernatural power is conveyed through breathing on people or things. His breath restores those who have been turned into stone (and it's hinted generally undoes enchantment and evil), breathes courage into the protagonists (and the narration implies it turns them into better versions of themselves) and sapience into ordinary animals (turning them into talking beasts), and carries Jill and Eustace on an intercontinental flight. As a roar, it wakes rivers and whole woods into sapience, teaches a whole people the fear of God, and absolutely terrifies the Big Bad. And as a song it brings whole worlds into existence.
- Talking Animal: He's a huge sodding lion. Who talks.
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: He says this of Peter when Peter faces down the wolf, allowing Peter to prove himself in battle and earn his first kill.
- The Ghost: He has not made any physical appearances in any of the books or adaptations and is mainly talked about with Aslan being the one who mentions his power.
- God: Just as Aslan is Narnia's incarnation of God the Son (known in our world as Jesus), the Emperor represents God the Father.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: The Emperor is the even greater good behind Aslan's Big Good.

- The Antichrist: Subverted. He's established as the Evil Counterpart of Aslan, and since Aslan is another form of Jesus, this would make Tash the Antichrist, especially since his summoning helps bring about The End of the World as We Know It. However, Tash is portrayed more as The Anti-God (see below) than as an Antichrist: whereas your typical Antichrist is a human or at least partly human Dark Messiah, Tash is a full-on God of Evil, and whereas the Antichrist is usually born around the time of Armageddon, Tash has apparently been around long before that — he may even be as old as Aslan, since he's described as an equal opposite. (That said, since Christian theology traditionally views God and Jesus—and the Holy Spirit—as one and the same, the Antichrist/Anti-God distinction might be muddled there the same way the Christ/God distinction is.)
- The Anti-God: He makes an interesting departure from Narnia's Anglican Christian eschatology, because although his role is similar to the Antichrist, his true nature is actually Aslan's direct, equal counterpart, the yin to Aslan's (and presumably his father's) yang. This makes him actually more similar to either Catharism's conception of Satan or to the Zoroastrian god Ahriman, both of whom are regarded as twin, mirror-image deities to God who do only evil just as God does only good.Aslan: "...we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him, for I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath's sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted."
- Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of the final book and arguably of the entire series, thanks to his Greater-Scope Villain status.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Tash is so villainous by nature that he inadvertently ends up helping the heroes in the end just by committing evil acts against those who opposed the main characters.
- Death Glare: Gives an unsettling one to Tirian, his next target.
- Eldritch Abomination: A shadowy bird-man appearing to be made of smoke.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Before he stepped up to the plate, many of the characters doubted his existence, even some of his supposed followers- Rishda, Shift, and Ginger- the former two being killed by it and the latter being driven to insanity by seeing it.
- For the Evulz: Everything Tash does is for the spreading of evil, misery, hatred, suffering, and all other ills, in defiance of all that is good. Aslan states that he could be no other way.
- God of Evil: This is Tash's role, whose cult even includes idols and sacrifices in the vein of the ancient Mesopotamian gods, which were considered devils by Biblical authors for good reasons. Tash's appearance is more in line with Hindu goddess Kali, who's not evil but not the most gentle deity.
- Greater-Scope Villain: As revealed in The Last Battle, he serves as this for the whole series, being an even more malign and powerful force than even Jadis.
- Knight of Cerebus: He's easily the darkest villain in the whole series, being the true Satanic Archetype of Narnia.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has multiple arms, which makes him resemble a multi-armed god of Hinduism, fitting Calormen's Mystical India theme.
- Offstage Villainy: Tash doesn't actually harm anyone "on page" except for the villain who summoned him serving as karma for the lack of faith in it and for using it for his own agenda in spite of that. Justified, as he's not there for a long time besides in that scene, and it's implied that if King Peter hadn't stopped him, he would have gone after the heroes. Even so, it's mentioned that he requires Human Sacrifice.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: He kills Rishda, eats Shift, and drives Ginger insane to the point he reverts to being a normal cat. While horrific, the former had done horrible things in his name without truly believing in him, and the latter two sold out their kind to gain favor with the enemy. As Aslan states, any evil acts are considered services to Tash who "rewards" them in kind, the same way that Aslan rewards kindness with kindness.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: See above: Tash reveals in his appearance that any approval he may have to those who do evil in his name is far exceeded by the cruelty he enacts specifically on such individuals, because that's the most evil thing to do.
- Satanic Archetype: Seems like it at first, but Tash is more of a yin-yang God of Evil than a subordinate Fallen Angel, an Evil Counterpart to Aslan who is implied to exist outside of the latter's creation.
- She's a Man in Japan: In the Russian translation of Narnia, Tash was made into a female goddess.
- Speak of the Devil: Rishda and Ginger were in for a nasty surprise that literally left them speechless.Tash: "Thou hast called me into Narnia, Rishda Tarkaan. Here I am. What hast thou to say?"
- Touch of Death: He seems to represent death and decay, and everything that comes near him suffers for it.
- Vile Vulture: Is described with the head of a vulture, and not particularly pleasant.
- Walking Wasteland: When he walks through Narnia everything around him dies and decays.
- You Will Be Spared: Curiously, he attacked everyone who encountered him in the stable but left the kowtowing sentry alone.
- Adapted Out: He is absent from all the major adaptations of the novels made thus far.
- Age Lift: Dionysus/Bacchus was usually depicted as an adult in the myths. This version of him is implied to be a child or at least teenager, as Lucy refers to him as a "boy".
- Beware the Silly Ones: He seems to be all about having fun and partying, but is actually one of the most powerful and dangerous characters in the series.Susan: I wouldn’t have felt safe with Bacchus and all his wild girls if we’d met them without Aslan.
- Good Is Not Soft: He is firmly on the side of good, allying himself with Aslan to overthrow the oppressive regime of King Miraz, but he doesn't hesitate to use Forced Transformation as punishment; he turns a man who was beating a child into a tree and is even implied to turn a group of stuck-up schoolboys into pigs.
- Green Thumb: Just like his mythical counterpart Dionysus, he displays the ability to make vines, leaves, and other vegetation sprout from thin air in any location, and can even use them to ensnare and move objects.
- The Hedonist: Like his myth counterpart, you can bet that him showing up means a party is on the horizon with music, dance and delicious food and drink, including grapes and wine.
- I Have Many Names:Narrator: He seemed to have a great many names – Bromios, Bassareus, and the Ram were three of them.
- Interspecies Friendship: He is a humanoid god who is an ally and friend of the talking lion Aslan, as well as the faun Mr. Tumnus.
- Physical God: While the books feature many beings from Greek Mythology, Bacchus is notably the only Olympian god to make an appearance.
- Pretty Boy: His face is described as being "almost too pretty for a boy’s, if it had not looked so extremely wild". The mythical Dionysus was similarly known for his androgyny.
- Quirky Curls: Just as wild and fun-loving as you'd expect, and is described as having curly hair.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: When he teams up with Aslan, he's the wild and unpredictable Red Oni to Aslan's restrained and wise Blue.
- Riddle for the Ages: Just what the Greco-Roman god Bacchus is doing in Narnia is never explained, as no one questions his presence.
- Unseen No More: Appears in Prince Caspian after having been The Ghost in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
- Would Hurt a Child: If he really did turn those schoolboys into pigs, (as the narrator claims it may be just a legend).
