Matangi

Matangi is a supporting character in Disney's 2024 animated feature film Moana 2. She is an eccentric, bat-themed demigoddess who serves as an enforcer for Nalo, the God of Storms.
==Background==
===Physical appearance===
Matangi is a tall woman with long hair, tied back by a yellow and orange hairpiece, and purple eyes. Her fangs are slightly pointy, resembling vampire bat fangs. Above her left knee, she has a tattoo that goes up her leg. Matangi wears a dark-colored dress with an orange, possibly feathered, collar and a long cape.
===Powers and abilities===
As a demigoddess, Matangi possesses supernatural abilities. Some of which are vampire-like. She can scale walls, move at superhuman speeds, and has quick agility and reflexes. She can also fly and levitate, and control a massive colony of bats to do her bidding.
==Trivia==
*The name of the character (Matangi or Matagi) is the generic term used throughout Oceania to designate the breeze and/or windhttps://pollex.eva.mpg.de/entry/matagi/. It is present in the majority of Polynesian languages, in different forms (ex: Reo tahiti: Mata'i, Gagana Samoa: Matagi, 'Ōlelo Hawai'i: Makani). Wind is one of the primordial elements in ocean navigation, but also in the cult of the first PolynesiansOliver, D. L. (2019). Ancient Tahitian Society. University of Hawaii Press.. According to Teuira Henry, in Tahiti Ratairi was the god and father of the wind, and Temuri was its mother and goddessHenry, T., & Orsmond, J. M. (1928). Ancient Tahiti (No. 48). Museum..
*Matangi's voice actress, Awhimai Fraser, also voiced Elsa and Dolores Madrigal in the Māori dubs of Disney's previous films, Frozen and Encanto. She also plays Maia on the New Zealand kids show Toi Time.
==Gallery==
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