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Main Characters
Annika
Annika
"It's only hopeless if you give up."
Voiced by: Kelly Sheridan
The main protagonist, played by Barbie. Annika is a free-spirited princess who loves ice skating and sets out to build the Wand of Light to save her family and kingdom.
- The Atoner: When she finally realizes that her parents had a perfectly justifiably for being so protective of her, Annika feels terrible for her earlier behavior towards them and seeks to make things right.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter / Royal Brat: She acts like a bit of one at first, such as whining that her parents are "ruining her life". However, when she realises they were only trying to keep her safe, she snaps out of it pretty quickly.
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin': First she sneaks out to go ice skating and is permanently grounded by her parents. Then she sneaks out again and everyone in her kingdom gets turned to stone.
- Chekhov's Skill: Her talent for ice skating. In the climax, she uses it to skate down a crevasse to sneak into Wenlock's castle.
- Damsel out of Distress: She manages to rescue both herself and Shiver from the giant Olly and is ultimately the one who defeats Wenlock.
- Deadpan Snarker: Can be one at times.Aidan: Only fools come to the Forbidden Forest.Annika: And yet, you're here.
- Defiant to the End: When Wenlock is about to bury her under a small avalanche, she simply glares defiantly at him.
- Determinator: She goes to great lengths to save her family and their kingdom and refuses to give up hope. She's even willing to traverse mountains during a snowstorm to find the pieces of the Wand of Light.
- Good Is Not Soft: When Wenlock injures Brietta, she actually tries to use the Wand of Light to destroy him.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Most of her outfits are purple or lilac. Overlaps with Purple Is Powerful when she uses the Wand of the Light in the end.
- Guile Heroine: She uses trickery to escape from a giant's clutches.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and is very compassionate and loving.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: In regards to Aidan when Ferris asks if they're looking for an engagement ring.
- Nice Girl: Although she initially comes across as a Bratty Teenage Daughter and can be a bit standoffish at times, she's usually very kind and always tries to help others.
- Pimped-Out Dress: She magically gets one at the end, when she breaks all of Wenlock's spells with the Wand.
- Pink Means Feminine / Princesses Prefer Pink: A few of her outfits are pink, such as the dark pink sweater she wears in her first scene and her light pink party dress. She also owns pink ice skates, which she later trades for information on the gem of ice.
- Plucky Girl: She is almost always brave and determined, even when things look pretty bleak, and her motto is to never give up hope.
- Princess Classic: Played with—while Annika's beautiful, kind and has an animal companion, she's also a more active and rebellious example of this trope.
- Protectorate: For Brietta.
- Rebellious Princess: She disobeys her parents on several occasions and rarely does as she's told (which sometimes comes back to bite her in the ass).
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Brietta's blue. Annika is very passionate, in comparison to Brietta.
- Regal Ringlets: Gains this hairstyle when she uses the Wand to undo all Wenlock's spells.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She goes on a quest to find the Wand of Light to save her kingdom and family from Wenlock.
- Sadistic Choice: Wenlock says she must marry him in three days or her parents and people will remain petrified forever. She instead Takes a Third Option by trying to build the Wand of Light. It's only when the Wand seems to fail that she reluctantly agrees to marry him, but this is only temporary.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: A little bit with Aidan.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: One of Annika's biggest flaws is that she doesn't always think she before acts, leading her to do or say things she comes to regret. She gets better about this.
- Uptown Girl: For Aidan (it's heavily implied they become a couple in the end).
Brietta
Brietta
"Sometimes I forget what I used to be. Then my crown reminds me of all I once had."
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Voiced by: Lalainia Lindbjerg; Manjola Merlika (Albanian dub), Myrra Malmberg (Swedish dub), Beata Jankowska-Tzimas (Polish dub), Afrodita Androne (Romanian dub)
The secondary protagonist. She is a talking pegasus who was once human, but was cursed by Wenlock. She helps Annika on her quest to make the Wand of Light in the hopes of breaking her curse.
- Big Damn Heroes: When Wenlock tries to force Annika into marrying him immediately after turning everyone else to stone, she swoops down from the sky to recuse her.
- Big Sister Instinct: She's been secretly watching over Annika for most of her life and is very protective of her. It's eventually revealed that she and Annika are actually sisters.
- Broken Bird: Has shades of this due to having given up hope of ever breaking her curse.
- Cursed with Awesome: To an extent. As a pegasus, she can fly and is faster and stronger than a human. But, understandably, she'd still rather be human.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She was cursed by an evil wizard, on her birthday of all days, after she refused to marry him and, unable to bear her parents' sadness after they failed to break the curse, she ran (or rather flew) away, only returning to secretly watch over her younger sister who doesn't even know she exists.
- Forced Transformation: She was turned into a pegasus by Wenlock for refusing to marry him. She is turned human again by the end.
- Long-Lost Relative: As noted above, she's Annika's older sister—she left before she was born after being turned into a pegasus.
- Older Than They Look: After she's returned to her human form, Brietta doesn't look that much older than Annika (who's only 16), even though Brietta would (chronologically) be in her 30s by the time she and Annika are reunited with their parents. This could be Handwaved by magic.
- Pink Means Feminine / Princesses Prefer Pink: In the flashbacks to her as a human and when she's turned human again, she wears a pink dress. As a pegasus, she has a pink coat and mane.
- Princess Classic: After her curse is broken. She's beautiful, kind and an animal lover just like her younger sister.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Annika's red—Brietta's generally very organized, practical and nice.
- Took a Level in Idealism: Annika's optimism and Determinator attitude starts to rub off her and she becomes a lot more hopeful over the course of the film.
Aidan
Aidan
"Looks like you took a wrong turn, princess."
- Voiced by: Mark Hildreth
A wandering blacksmith who joins Annika on her quest for the Wand of the Light.
- The Atoner: He seeks to pay back the debt he owes to his parents, which he accidentally caused.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Annika.
- The Blacksmith: His occupation. Annika hires him specifically because he has the skills to forge the Wand of Light.
- Converse with the Unconscious: Does this to Annika when she’s been knocked unconscious, begging her to wake up.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He gambled away his parents' life-savings, causing him to leave home out of shame, believing they would never forgive him unless he paid them back.
- Deadpan Snarker: He can be pretty snarky at times. Possibly a bit of a Stepford Snarker.
- Disney Death: In the climax he is seemingly knocked from a ledge into the water and presumably drowns. However, a few moments later, he climbs back up, revealing he survived.
- Distressed Dude: During the final confrontation with Wenlock he gets pinned down by Wenlock's griffin, leaving only Annika to save the day.
- Easily Forgiven: His parents instantly forgive him when he finally returns home and apologises for gambling away their savings, assuring him they’ll always love him.
- The Gambler: Was one in the past, which caused him to lose all his parents' money.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Though he acts like a rude, cynical Jerkass at times, he's a good and selfless person at heart, with this becoming more prominent as the film goes on.
- My Greatest Failure: Gambling away his parents' money.
- My Greatest Second Chance: He regards getting a gem of ice for himself as one, as he can use it to pay off his parents’ debts.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In his backstory, he tried to earn more money for his parents by gambling. It backfired horribly and he lost everything.
- Only in It for the Money: At first, though his intentions are benevolent he needs it to pay back his parents after he lost their money gambling.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: Occasionally engages in this with Annika.
Shiver
Shiver
"Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle!"'
- Voiced by: Kathleen Barr
An orphaned polar bear cub who becomes Annika's companion.
- Affectionate Nickname: Aiden calls her stuff like "fuzzball" and "fuzzy."
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: She adores sparkly objects and gets distracted by them very easily. This becomes a bit of a problem when the heroes are trying to find the Gem of Ice for the Wand, and Shiver keeps trying to grab as many gems as she can.
- The Millstone: Her obsession with shiny objects causes mishaps for Annika and Aiden.
- Misplaced Wildlife: The film appears to take place in the Netherlands, and the real-life range of polar bears does not extend that far south.
- Non-Human Sidekick: She becomes this to Annika after she adopts her.
Allies
Queen Rayla
Queen Rayla
"A Wand of Light has the most powerful magic of all. Even more powerful than Wenlock's."
- Voiced by: Kathleen Barr (English), Yumi Fujimori (French)
The wise and regal ruler of the Cloud Kingdom. When Brietta was cursed and fled from home, Rayla offered her refuge in her castle.
- Ambiguously Brown: Has a significantly darker skin tone than any of the other main characters.
- Barely-Changed Dub Name: In the French dub, she is renamed Mayla.
- The High Queen: She's the noble ruler of Cloud Kingdom.
- Parental Substitute: She served as a motherly figure to Brietta during her time living in Cloud Kingdom. She's also implied to be the adoptive mother of the Cloud Princesses, Rose, Blush, and Lilac.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She gives Annika advice on how to assemble the Wand of Light, offers the heroes shelter when fleeing from Wenlock, and gifts Brietta a magic bell to ring if they need her help on their journey.
- True Blue Femininity: She wears a sky blue gown.
Princesses Rose, Blush, and Lilac
Rose, Blush, and Lilac
Lilac (top), Blush (middle), and Rose (bottom)
- Voiced by: Chantal Strand (Rose), Jessica Amlee (Blush), Andrea Libman (Lilac)
The three Cloud Princesses, responsible for painting the sunrises and sunsets with their magic paintbrushes.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Lilac wears a purple dress.
- Friend to All Living Things: The girls are extremely hospitable to Annika when she arrives in Cloud Kingdom and instantly take to her and Shiver.
- Painting the Frost on Windows: They use their magic paintbrushes to paint the sunrises and sunsets. On the third day of Wenlock's spell, they try to paint the sunset as slowly as possible to give Annika more time.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Rose wears a pink dress.
- Sleepyhead: Lilac is seen constantly yawning and dozing off.
The King and Queen
The King and Queen
"Your mother and I can't take this constant worrying about."
- Voiced by: Russel Roberts (King), Kathleen Barr (Queen)
Annika's extremely protective parents.
- Anger Born of Worry: They angrily reprimand Annika for constantly sneaking out to go ice skating, and the King ultimately forbids her from skating entirely, insisting that it's for her own safety. This later turns out to be perfectly justified, as their eldest daughter (Annika's long-lost older sister), Brietta, was cursed by Wenlock after she refused his marriage proposal and are terrified that the same thing will end up happening to Annika.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: The Queen wears a violet gown.
- Helicopter Parents: The King and Queen are both insanely protective of Annika, to the point where they forbid her from leaving the palace to go ice skating in order to keep her safe. Annika initially dismisses it as them being overly strict, but she eventually learns that her parents have a perfectly justifiable reason for their overprotectiveness: years before Annika was born, Wenlock arrived and tried forcing their oldest daughter (Annika's long-lost older sister), Brietta, to marry him, who, of course, refused—in retaliation, Wenlock cursed Brietta into assuming the form of pegasus, which ultimately led to Brietta fleeing to the Cloud Kingdom and her parents fleeing the northernmost corner of the Kingdom to keep her sister safe from Wenlock.
- No Name Given: They are only referred to as "the king and queen", or "Mother and Father" by Annika and Brietta.
- Taken for Granite: Wenlock turns them to stone with his magic to try and force Annika into marrying him, with the added threat that his spell will become permanent within three days.
Wenlock's Forces
Wenlock
Wenlock
"You'll be back, princess! I'll give you three days, before my spell becomes unbreakable. Marry me by then or they stay like this forever."
- Voiced by: Colin Murdock
A wicked and powerful warlock who plans to marry a princess. When Annika rejects his proposal, he freezes her parents and the entire kingdom with a powerful spell, a spell that will become permanent in three days if she doesn't agree to his terms.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: He tries to propose to Annika the second he arrives in her kingdom, and when she understandably refuses, he turns her parents and the rest of the citizens to stone in an attempt to force her into agreeing. He also tried this tactic with Brietta years ago, and retaliated by turning her into a pegasus when she refused.
- Defeat Means Menial Labor: The novelization confirms that his former wives, now restored to their human forms, intend to make Wenlock their servant in the same way he treated them as soon as they reach shore.
- Disproportionate Retribution: This is his bread and butter. Refuse him something he wants-or just have the misfortune of annoying him-and the consequences are NOT great.
- Faux Affably Evil: In. fucking. spades. He affects a chatty, friendly demeanor to his enemies.
- Glamour: When Annika uses the Wand of Light to break all his spells, Wenlock's real form is revealed to be a short, balding man swinging a paddle around, and his griffon is a scrawny cat.
- It's All About Me: Wenlock's only concerns are his own selfish desires, and completely dismisses the feelings of anyone else around him.
- Mark of the Supernatural: He has one gold eye and one blue eye.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Wenlock decides Annika is more trouble than she's worth when she tries to kill him with the Wand of Light, and decides to just bury her in an avalanche rather than marry her.
- Pungeon Master: He has a penchant for making puns after casting particular spells, most notably saying "You'll see I'm not horsing around." just before turning Brietta into a pegasus.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Wenlock is a G-rated sexual predator. He goes from kingdom to kingdom, forcing women to accept his hand in marriage or face awful consequences. He introduces himself by turning everyone in the kingdom to stone and giving Annika three days to accept his proposal before the spell becomes permanent. Before the film began, he transformed Brietta into the titular pegasus when her parents refused his proposal, and turned three women unlucky enough to actually marry him into mute, goblin-like slaves after getting bored with them. He nearly kills Brietta in front of her own sister, and buries Annika alive in an avalanche when she stands up for her family.
Wenlock's Wives (*Unmarked Spoilers*)
Esther, Miranda, and Jocelyn
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Jocelyn (red), Miranda (yellow), Esther (purple)
Wenlock's three former wives, transformed into trolls by him to act as servants in his castle.
- All There in the Script: Their names are never mentioned in the movie, but are revealed to be Esther, Miranda, and Jocelyn in supplementary materials.
- The Dog Bites Back: After years of being ordered around by Wenlock, the three women turn on him and throw the Wand of Light to Annika, allowing her to break his spells. And upon being restored to their true forms, Esther, Miranda, and Jocelyn all make it abundantly clear that they intend to pay Wenlock back for all the abuse he put them through, with Miranda even taunting him with the exact same lines he used against them earlier in the movie.Miranda: Now paddle! Double time!
- Forced Transformation: They were transformed into trolls by Wenlock when he got tired of them. Thankfully, Annika is able to use the Wand of Light to break the spell and restore them to their human forms.
- Trophy Wife: Wenlock only married them for their looks, then cruelly transformed them into trolls once he got bored of them.
