CHARACTER
Cinderella is beautiful and kind. She was made a
servant in her own home by her evil stepmother and stepsisters,
Anastasia and Drizella. However, she maintains hope through her dreams
of happiness and someday finding her true love.
PERSONALITY
Cinderella is a headstrong and independent young woman who is truly
beautiful because she doesn't let her anger and sorrow get the better of
her. She is kind to most and is in no way depicted as naive or
childish. She is extremely mature and has shown that she can overcome
her obstacles without the aid of magic. She has also been shown to have a
slight sarcastic side to her, as seen in her comments about her
step-family and Lucifer, but usually keeps such comments to herself.
Cinderella has shown to be rather intelligent and clever especially
considering how poorly raised she was after the absence of her parents.
She is also resourceful by using her mother's old fashioned dress and
imagining a beautiful ball gown. She has also shown that she is very
patient and calm.
While her love for Price Charming is
incredibly strong, prior to them meeting each other on the night of the
ball, marrying and/or finding her "prince" was not her main priority.
As opposed to earlier princess Snow White, Cinderella simply wanted to
live a better life and escape the harsh world of her wicked stepmother
and sisters.
APPEARANCES
CINDERELLA
Cinderella is shown as a mistreated
young girl (stepchild to Madame Tremaine)
who dreams of escaping the torturous lifestyle she has to endure
working as a maid for her stepfamily, which consists of her stepmother
Lady Tremaine, stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella, and their pet cat
Lucifer.
She is notable for being silenced repeatedly by Lady Tremaine, creating
the assumption that Cinderella's job as scullery maid requires her to
do chores without speaking out. Her only friends she have around the
chateau are the mice (especially Jaq and Gus), the birds, Bruno the dog and Major the horse.
One day, when Cinderella receives an invitation to a royal ball at the King's castle,
she delivers it to her stepmother, who tells her she can go, if she is
finished with all her chores and is able to find something suitable to
wear. After thanking her stepmother, she goes back to her room, where
she shows the mice and birds a dress that had belonged to her late
mother. She is about to get on to fixing the dress when she is
unexpectedly called downstairs by her impatient, infuriated stepsisters,
leaving the mice and the birds, feeling pity for her, up to themselves
to help prepare a dress for Cinderella. Jaq and Gus must fetch supplies
from old dresses that have belonged to Anastasia and Drizella, as well
as the beads.
Later that night, Cinderella knocks the door to inform her
stepmother that a carriage has arrived, which means that it is time to
go to the ball. When Lady Tremaine notes that Cinderella has not yet
dressed for the event, Cinderella replies that she is not going, to
which Lady Tremaine points out that there are other times Cinderella
will be able attend while smiling wickedly to her daughters about
Cinderella not going. Cinderella walks back to her room and looks out
the window toward the castle, wondering what a royal ball will look
like. Just then, her bird and mice friends reveal a surprise: a dress
for the ball that they have fixed for her. She thanks them for showing
how much they care for her, changes into the dress, and rushes
downstairs to join her stepfamily. However, when they see Cinderella,
Lady Tremaine compliments her dress and points it out to her daughters,
who then fly into a rage and furiously tear it apart, having realized
that Cinderella has used their discarded materials for the dress.
Cinderella is left with her dress ravaged as her stepfamily leaves
for the ball, wishing her good night. Realizing that now she is unable
to go to the ball, she bursts into tears and runs outside to the garden,
with the mice, Bruno and Major following her in sadness. She throws
herself onto a bench and begins sobbing at the apparent loss of her
dreams. Shortly thereafter, the magical Fairy Godmother appears to
comfort Cinderella. She insists that Cinderella attend the ball and
demonstrates her magical abilities as she transforms a pumpkin into a
coach, mice into horses, Major into a coachman, and Bruno into a footman
before transforming Cinderella's ragged dress into a beautiful,
sparkling ball gown, complete with glass slippers. The Fairy Godmother
warns Cinderella that all her magic will be broken at the stroke of
midnight. Cinderella thanks her, jumps into the coach and sets off for
the ball, waving goodbye to the Fairy Godmother.
Cinderella arrives at the castle while the ball is still in
procession. She walks upstairs to the castle's ballroom, where she
attracts the attention of Prince Charming, who is enchanted by her
sparkling appearance and walks over to her. He escourts her to the
middle of the ballroom, and, surrounded by other maidens in attendance,
the two begin to waltz. The duo have some private time together
(courtesy of The Grand Duke),
during which they fall in love with each other and are about to kiss,
but then the clock begins to strike midnight, prompting Cinderella, who
has lost track of time, to leave abruptly, realizing that the Fairy
Godmother's magic is about to end. As she runs down the stairs, she
inadvertently drops one of her two glass slippers; nevertheless, she
jumps into the coach and leaves the castle. At the clock's twelfth
strike, the spell breaks, reverting everything back to what it had been.
After running behind the bushes to hide from from the palace guards
(summoned by the Grand Duke) who gallop past the pumpkin (smashing it in
the process), Cinderella, once again in her ravaged dress, expresses
her sorriness to the mice, Major and Bruno for forgetting the time
before going over her wonderful experience at the ball, including the
best part—dancing with the Prince—that has filled her with indescribable
feelings. Just as she accepts that it has all ended, Jaq and Gus point
out a glass slipper, the only remaining object from the Fairy
Godmother's magic, on her foot. Cinderella thanks her friends and her
Fairy Godmother for everything as she takes off the slipper, which she
keeps as something useful later on.
Meanwhile, at the castle, the King has ordered the Grand Duke to
search all over the kingdom for whoever can fit the slipper, the only
clue of the mysterious maiden. Back at Cinderella's chateau, Cinderella
has resumed her mundane duties of a maid. As she walks upstairs,
carrying breakfast for them, she overhears Lady Tremaine telling
Anastasia and Drizella about the news of the Duke's search for the girl
who has lost a slipper at the ball last night and whom the prince is
madly in love with, causing Cinderella, who remembers her wonderful
times at the ball, to become distracted and drop their breakfast in the
process. As she cleans up the mess (ordered by Lady Tremaine), she
overhears Lady Tremaine continuing to tell her daughters that the girl
who can fit the slipper will be the prince's bride, making Cinderella
smile dreamily, even when her stepsisters stack clothings in her arms,
the sight of which makes the two suspicious of her peculiar facial
expression. Upon hearing that the two have to get dressed in preparation
for the Duke's arrival, Cinderella decides that she too must get ready.
She puts down the clothing and heads upstairs to her room, singing and
humming the tune she and the Prince had sung at the ball, unaware that
her sly stepmother, from spying on her dance-like movements, has made
the connection that Cinderella must have attended the ball and danced
with the Prince. Jaq and Gus see Lady Tremaine heading upstairs to the
tower and, sensing the danger, rush to Cinderella's room to warn her,
but Cinderella silences them, as she is busy preparing herself to meet
the Duke. By the time she catches sight of Lady Tremaine at the door
(through a mirror), it is too late, as the wicked stepmother has turned
the key to lock and slammed the door shut, locking Cinderella in her
room and leaving the situation up to Jaq and Gus to resolve.
A short time later, the Grand Duke arrives at the chateau. While
Cinderella sobs in front of the locked door, believing that her dreams
of being reunited with the Prince have been lost, Jaq and Gus steal the
key to her room from Lady Tremaine. Cinderella hears Jaq and Gus panting
up the stairs outside her room and looks through the keyhole to see
that the two mice have finally made it to the top, filling her once
again with relief and hope, but is again shocked when Lucifer traps Gus
inside a bowl, along with the key. She orders Lucifer to let Gus go, but
the stubborn cat refuses. When the mice and the birds' attempts to make
Lucifer release Gus fail, Cinderella, quickly realizing that Bruno can
be the one to get rid of Lucifer, tells the birds to fetch the dog.
After Bruno scares the cat into jumping out of the window, Jaq and Gus
wedge the key through an opening between the door and the floor,
allowing Cinderella to finally exit her room and head downstairs. Just
as the Duke is about to leave, Cinderella calls out to him, and he helps
her onto a chair so that she can try on the slipper. He calls for his
footman to deliver the slipper, but Lady Tremaine trips him with her
cane, causing the slipper to fly and shatter into pieces in front of the
Duke and Cinderella. As the Duke reacts in horror and terror about the
King's reaction, Cinderella reveals that she has the other slipper,
which she pulls out from her apron, horrifying her stepmother but
filling the Duke with joy. He slides the slipper onto Cinderella's foot,
and it fits perfectly.
Cinderella, along with the mice, Bruno and Major, is then taken
to the castle, where her dreams come true as she reunites with Prince
Charming and becomes his bride. The King and the Grand Duke happily
celebrate their marriage as the newlyweds head downstairs to a carriage
that will take them on their honeymoon. As Cinderella walks down the
stairs with the Prince, she drops her slipper once again, but the King
assists her in putting it back on, to which Cinderella gives him a kiss
on the head as a way of thanks. Cinderella and the Prince ride off in
the carriage, and Cinderella waves goodbye to her mice friends, who wave
back at her. As the carriage pulls away, Cinderella and the Prince
share another kiss, with the final words in the book, below the
illustration of the couple kissing, reading "and they lived happily ever
after."
CINDERELLA II : DREAMS COME TRUE
Jaq and Gus set off to make a new
book to narrate what happens after
the ending of the previous story, by stringing three segments of stories
together, making three stories: "Aim to Please", "Tall Tail" and "An
Uncommon Romance". In the first story, Cinderella and Prince Charming
return home and soon a party begins. In "Tall Tail", she works on
planning to build up a festival. The mouse named Jaq in the previous
film has transformed into a human named Sir Hugh. In the third story,
called "An Uncommon Romance", she helps her stepsister Anastasia
reconcile with the baker. Towards the end of the film, she reads a book
the mice have already made for her to them all.
CINDERELLA III : A TWIST IN TIME
Cinderella and Prince Charming are celebrating their anniversary when Fairy Godmother
accidentally loses her wand to Anastasia. She immediately takes it to
Lady Tremaine and Drizella who learn the power of the wand and how to
wield it properly. The villains reverse time to before Cinderella tried
on the slipper. By using magic, the slipper is able to fit Anastasia.
Cinderella tries to convince Lady Tremaine that the slipper belongs to
her by showing her the other. Instead, Lady Tremaine calls her night
with Prince Charming nothing more than a dream and destroys the other
slipper. Cinderella is left at the château while her stepmother, sister,
and Lucifer, make way to the castle to meet her prince. Devastated and
confused, Cinderella begins to attend to her normal duties but regains
her confidence and decides to meet with the prince herself knowing he
should recognize her when he sees her. Cinderella, Jaq, Gus and two
bluebirds, sneak into the palace and begin their search.
When she finally bumps into him however, he fails to recognize
her. Heartbroken, Cinderella tears at the loss of her love. Jaq and Gus
arrive to expose Lady Tremaine's villainy. Upon finding out that Lady
Tremaine used the wand to wipe Charming's memory of Cinderella and make
him believe Anastasia was the one he danced with, Cinderella forgets her
sorrows and jumps into action. At Lady Tremaine's room, Jaq and Gus
sneak in to grab the wand. They are almost exposed by Lucifer until
Cinderella enters disguised as a maid. Lady Tremaine discovers her
anyway and a chase follows. Jaq and Gus hand the wand to Cinderella but
before she could flip the spell, the guards arrest her. Lady Tremaine
regains the wand and orders the guards to send Cinderella to the next
ship leaving the kingdom to have her banished.
Jaq, Gus and the bluebirds meet up with Charming. He finds his
memory again and begins to remember Cinderella. He rushes off on his
horse to rescue her before the ship sets sail. He is too late, but
manages to find himself on board. The couple reunite and heads back to
the palace. There, the King orders the Grand Duke and the guards to
search the castle for the stepfamily to have them arrested. As
Cinderella is preparing for her wedding which is to occur that night,
Lady Tremaine and Lucifer appear out of the shadows. Tremaine transforms
Anastasia into a beautiful and exact copy of Cinderella and plans to
have her marry Charming in her place. Tremaine then sends Cinderella,
Jaq, and Gus to be killed by a human Lucifer.
Still, Cinderella manages to escape her death and uses her time
to make way to the castle. Charming and "Cinderella" are ready to marry
but Anastasia refuses and reveals herself. Enraged, Lady Tremaine
becomes mad with power as the guards prepare to arrest them. She turns
them into animals and decides to turn Anastasia into a toad. Cinderella
blocks her path making Tremaine much more comfortable with the process.
Using his sword, Charming blocks the magic and repels it to Tremaine and
Drizella. They are transformed into toads themselves and end up in the
palace's basement. Cinderella and Charming marry while Anastasia
transforms into her ordinary self. The King welcomes Anastasia into the
palace putting aside the past. Together, Cinderella and Anastasia return
the Fairy Godmother and the wedding continues.
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