Tinker Bell (Disney)

Tinker Bell is the iconic tritagonist of Disney's Peter Pan franchise and the titular main protagonist of her own Disney Fairies series and movies. She is a fairy who was created by Sir James M. Barrie for the play, Peter Pan. She is Peter Pan's assistant or sidekick who helps him fly.
She is voiced by , who also voices Shanti, Katara, Batgirl, Little Suzy, Rose, Darma, Amity Blight, Heather, and April O'Neil. In the Robot Chicken series, she is voiced by Seth Green. In the TV show, she is voiced by Debi Derryberry, Katie Murray, Keira Knightley, Michelle Molineux, and Sarah Natochenny. In the Japanese dub, she is voiced by Ayari Fukamachi in the movie and Aiko Kusumi in the series.
In the 2023 film Peter Pan & Wendy, she is portrayed by , who also portrays Zoey Johnson in Black-ish and Grown-ish.
==History==
In her most widely known appearance in the 1953 animated Peter Pan film, the character was animated and had no dialogue. Tinker Bell has been one of Disney's most important branding icons for over half a century, and is generally known as "a symbol of 'the magic of Disney'." She has been featured in television commercials and program opening credits sprinkling pixie dust with a wand in order to shower a magical feeling over various other Disney personalities, though the 1953 animated version of Tinker Bell never actually used a wand. In the picture and the official Disney Character Archives, she is referred to as a pixie. She is also featured in the opening of all Disney films flying over the Magic Castle (in a counter-clockwise direction, right to left).
There is an urban legend that the original animated version of Tinker Bell was modelled after Marilyn Monroe. However, Disney animator Marc Davis's reference was actress Margaret Kerry. He illustrated Tinker Bell as a young, attractive, blonde haired, big blue eyed, white female, with an exaggerated hour-glass figure. She is clad in a short lime-green dress with a rigid trim, and green slippers with white puffs. She is trailed by small amounts of pixie dust when she moves, and this dust can help humans fly if they believe in happy thoughts. Some critics have complained that Disney's version of Tinker Bell is too sexually suggestive.
Since 1954, Tinker Bell has featured as a hostess for much of Disney's live-action television programming and in every Disney movie advertisements flying over Disneyland with her magic wand and her fairy dust, beginning with Disneyland (which first introduced the theme park to the public while it was still under construction), to Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and The Wonderful World of Disney. In 1988, the same year The Wonderful World of Disney moved from ABC to NBC as The Magical World of Disney. That year, she also appeared in the final shot of the ending scene of Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, along with Porky Pig; sprinkling fairy dust on the screen after Porky's trademark farewell as it goes black prior to the closing credits. She also starred alongside other Disney characters, such as Chip 'n Dale, in many Disney comics, where she was also able to speak. Tinker Bell also appears as a summon in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games.
At Disneyland, Tinker Bell is prominently featured in Peter Pan's Flight, a suspended dark ride based on the artwork from the animated film. Beginning in 1961, she was also featured as a live performer who flew through the sky at the climax of some of the nightly fireworks displays. She was originally played by 71-year-old former circus performer Tiny Kline, up until her retirement three years later.
On the 2008 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special on ABC, Disney announced that a Tinker Bell float would be added to the classic Disney's Electrical Parade at Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort, the first new float to be added since even long before the parade ended its original run at Disneyland in 1996.
Tinker Bell was part of the Disney Princess franchise, from which she was later extracted and converted into the central character of the new Disney Fairies franchise in 2005. In addition to an extensive line of merchandise, 2008's Tinker Bell film is the first of five direct-to-DVD features set in Pixie Hollow. Tinker Bell is voiced by Mae Whitman in these digitally animated DVD features. In addition, Disney announced in 2010 that Tinker Bell will have her own live-action comedy movie and actress Elizabeth Banks is cast as Tinker Bell. The movie will explore Tinker Bell's nature, and Elizabeth Wright Shapiro and McG are the screenwriters in this movie.
At Disneyland, a Pixie Hollow meet-and-greet area opened on October 28, 2008, near the Matterhorn, where guests are able to interact with Tinker Bell and her companions. A similar area called "Tinker Bell's Magical Nook" is in Adventureland at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Florida.
In November 2009, Tinker Bell became the smallest waxwork ever to be made at Madame Tussauds, measuring only five and a half inches.
On September 21, 2010, Tinker Bell was presented with the 2,418th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, becoming the thirteenth fictional character and the sixth Disney character to receive this honor. Tinker Bell's star celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame's 50th anniversary.
In the film Secret of the Wings, Tinker Bell was revealed to not be an only child and had a twin by the name of Periwinkle.
==Personality==
Tinkerbell show exceedingly generous affection towards Peter Pan; while she can become frustrated by his whims, she eventually relents. She does show reluctance to grant the Darling children her pixie dust to give them the ability to fly, however, Peter grabs her, making her share her dust to her chagrin, but is more annoyed at the children than Peter.
She has a lot of self-confidence, however, has moments of vanity; when she couldn't fit through a drawer keyhole, she became bothered by the thought her hips were too wide.
Her attachment to Peter makes her extremely prone to jealousy. Feeling indifferent to the Darling boys, but when Peter finds interest in Wendy, Tink becomes antagonistic and resentful against the girl; despite being generally kind, her jealousy provokes her into deceiving the Lost Boys into shooting down Wendy. While the threat was potentially fatal, Peter's aloof nature caused him to mildly chastise Tink, forcing her to apologise, which she did insincerely.
She is protective of the Lost Boys and especially Peter, but her jealousy of Wendy, plus sense of being unappreciated by Peter, caused her to become exploitable by Captain Hook, who preys on her jealousy, claiming that his pirates will be leaving Neverland, yet will kidnap Wendy, thus she shares the secret hideout of the Lost Boys. Hook traps her in a lantern, ceasing his deception, which causes her great distress, not for herself, but for Peter and the Boys.
She manages to escape, and frantically flies to the hideout to warn Peter, regardless of the danger to herself; he doesn't take the warning seriously, until Hook's bomb detonates, destroying the hideout, burying it under rubble. They manage to escape, confronting and defeating Hook and his crew, during which she showed no fear during the fight and joy upon their triumph.
Eventually, Tinkerbell realises that Wendy is a good person, who never intended to "steal" Peter, so she relinquishes her grudge. The nature of her jealousy is ambiguous, as it is plausible that Tink found Wendy a romantic rival or just a threat to own maternal position for the Lost Boys, the latter supported by Peter's claim that he would like Wendy to be their "mother." Whether it is related to a romantic interest, however, Tink's worries are aggravated by awareness of Peter's immaturity.
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==Trivia== 
*Contrary to popular belief, Tinker Bell was not modeled after the late actress Marilyn Monroe, but after another actress named Margaret Kerry.
*Tinker Bell was voiced by Mae Whitman in her self-titled Disney Fairies franchise, which includes the Tinker Bell movie and her self-titled sequels.
*When Tinker Bell appeared in Peter Pan, Return to Never Land, and a majortiy of other Disney productions where she and other classic Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Dumbo, and even Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio are in, she never had a speaking voice of her own nor does she ever speak or make any vocal noises, because her voice is too tiny to be heard; therefore, her voice sounded almost exactly like jingles which are tinkling bells.
==External Links==
*Bell - Disney Wiki
*Tinker Bell - The Keyhole
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