Fairy Godmother (Disney)

The Fairy Godmother is the overarching protagonist of Disney's Cinderella franchise. She is Cinderella's Fairy Godmother who helped her go to the royal ball. 
In the original film, she was voiced by the late , who also voiced Mrs. Jumbo and the Elephant Matriarch in Dumbo, Flora and Queen Leah in Sleeping Beauty, and Winifred in The Jungle Book. In the sequels of Cinderella, she was voiced by the late , who also voiced Drizella in those same sequels, as well as Minnie Mouse, Fauna, and Widow Tweed in The Fox and the Hound 2. In the Japanese dub from the movie, she was voiced by Hisako Kyōda.
==Personality==
The Fairy Godmother is a motherly, kind, and genuine character with an optimistically pure heart. She serves as a physical symbol of hope in Cinderella's life and speaks with a gentle tone. Though wise to a degree, the Fairy Godmother tends to be comedically absent-minded, and continuously loses sight of the obvious, and has a habit of both losing her wand and forgetting her magic words of "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". Even so, she can piece together her mind quickly enough and enjoys her ability to ensure dreams come true, and treats Cinderella as her own daughter, in a sense by giving her freedom away from her abusive step-family.
==History==
===Cinderella===
After her wicked stepsisters cruelly destroy the dress she plans on wearing to the ball when they recognize the beads and sash that they threw out earlier, Cinderella runs out to the backyard of her stepmother Lady Tremaine's château near her father's fountain. There, she breaks down in sorrow as she has no way of getting to the ball now, beginning to lose her faith in dreams. However, her faith is still strong enough to summon her Fairy Godmother. Fairy Godmother explains that she has arrived to help Cinderella in her time of distress. To get her to the ball, she transforms an ordinary pumpkin into a carriage and four of Cinderella's mice into horses for the carriage. The last of them, Gus, is transformed right before Lucifer could eat him, and scares Lucifer off by whinnying at him, getting some payback against the evil cat for trying to make a meal out of him.
She then turns Cinderella's horse, Major, into a coachman, and her dog Bruno into a footman. Finally, after Cinderella points out her tattered gown, Fairy Godmother measures Cinderella with her wand and bestows a beautiful white dress upon Cinderella, complete with two enchanted glass slippers that only Cinderella can wear due to their small size. Before she departs, the Fairy Godmother gives Cinderella a word of caution: at the stroke of twelve, the spell will be broken, and everything will return to normal. Grateful for the gifts anyway, Cinderella thanks her Fairy Godmother and happily rides off to the ball as Fairy Godmother bids her farewell.
===Cinderella II: Dreams Come True===
In the second installment of the Cinderella series, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, the Fairy Godmother is shown at the very beginning telling the story of Cinderella to the mice. Jaq, Gus, and the other mice then decide to create a storybook of their own, reflecting on various events that occurred since they first arrived at the castle.
The Fairy Godmother happily assists the mice in creating the book and actually appears in the second story: Tall Tail. Here, Jaq desperately wants to help Cinderella with her daily duties around the castle, but because of his small size, he cannot. Soon enough, Fairy Godmother appears and offers to help Jaq by turning him into a human - Sir Hugh - which he accepts. However, he causes more trouble as a human than he ever did as a mouse.
In the end of the segment, Fairy Godmother returns again, changing Jaq back into a mouse. Though he learns a great lesson from his human adventure, Jaq apparently grows a disliking of magic. In the end of the film, Fairy Godmother helps the mice take their completed book to Cinderella who gladly reads her new book together with the mice.
===Cinderella III: A Twist in Time===
In the third installment of the Cinderella film series, Cinderella and Prince Charming are celebrating an entire year together filled with magic and romance. Unfortunately, during the festivities, the Fairy Godmother accidentally loses her wand, which falls into the hands of Anastasia, one of Cinderella's stepsisters, who quickly takes it to her mother and sister Drizella.
As she witnessed Fairy Godmother's magic doings with the wand, she tries to convince her mother that it is magical. Lady Tremaine and Drizella find the conversation to be absurd until Fairy Godmother arrives, requesting the return of her wand. Anastasia fights her back, accidentally turning their cat Lucifer, into a half goose, half-cat hybrid. The astonishing sight convinces Tremaine, and Anastasia accidentally transforms the distracted Fairy Godmother into a stone statue (much to Anastasia's horror).
With the magic of the wand in her hands and no one to stop her, Lady Tremaine alters time and history, so that Anastasia was the one to fit the slipper. Fortunately, Cinderella, Jaq, and Gus catch on to her plans, and battle against Lady Tremaine for the wand, win the battle, retrieve the wand and restore the Fairy Godmother. After the Fairy Godmother retrieves her wand, and she lastly uses it to restore Cinderella's wedding dress, which was destroyed by Lady Tremaine. Before the film ends, Fairy Godmother asks if Cinderella and Prince Charming would like to return to their normal lives with her restoring the timeline to its original arrangement, but the couple seems happy enough as it is.
===Descendants===
In the television movie, the Fairy Godmother is played by Melanie Paxson. She is the headmistress of Auradon Prep and has a daughter named Jane who is shy and insecure but fascinated with magic, even if she doesn't let her daughter use it. When the descendants of the heroes' sworn enemies come to Auradon, they have been tasked by their parents to steal her magic wand.
While most of the kingdom is against the idea of villain kids coming to Auradon, Fairy Godmother attempts to be a mentor figure to the kids and tries to teach them how to be good in her new Remedial Goodness class.
During Prince Ben's Coronation, it is the Fairy Godmother's role to knight him using her wand. However, the wand is stolen by Jane, who had been manipulated by Mal, and the barrier to the Isle of the Lost is broken, allowing Maleficent to escape. When she appears at the Coronation, the Fairy Godmother confronts her with her wand, but is swiftly defeated and frozen. When Maleficent is defeated, the Fairy Godmother reveals that she has shrunk down to the size of the love in her heart (she is now a tiny lizard instead of a dragon) and uses her magic to unfreeze everyone else.
Despite her younger appearance in the film, Cruella refers to her as an "old bat".
==Video games==
===Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep===
In her home world of Castle of Dreams, the Fairy Godmother appears to Cinderella shortly after Terra fights off several Unversed that were attracted to Cinderella by her heartbreak of losing her dreams thanks to her stepfamily. After conjuring Cinderella's trademark gown, pumpkin carriage, and glass slippers, the Fairy Godmother wishes her good luck as she and Terra head to the King's castle for the ball, with Terra serving as Cinderella's bodyguard against the Unversed. Later, when Aqua arrives at Cinderella's home and senses the darkness in Lady Tremaine, Anastasia, and Drizella, she prepares to deal with it, only to be stopped by the Fairy Godmother, who warns her of the balance between light and darkness that must be preserved, before telling Aqua of someone who could use her help. Using her magic, the Fairy Godmother shrinks Aqua to mouse size to aid Jaq with getting the key to Cinderella's room to her, defending Jaq from the Unversed that blocked his way. Once Jaq was safe, Aqua then goes to check on the Tremaines, just in time to see the Grand Duke preparing to leave after Anastasia and Drizella both failed to get Cinderella's glass slipper to fit on their feet. Desperate to save Cinderella's dreams, Aqua moves to try and find some way to stall him, but the Fairy Godmother's magic wears off at that moment, restoring Aqua to her original human size, causing her to comically fall to the floor below, but doing what she wanted with stalling the Grand Duke until Cinderella showed up.
===Kingdom Hearts===
After her home world fell to the Heartless and was casted into darkness, while Cinderella was kidnapped as being one of the Princesses of Heart, the Fairy Godmother was able to escape and take refuge in Traverse Town, staying in the home of her fellow magic user, Merlin. When Sora visits her with a summon gem, she'll use her magic to revive them as a summon for Sora to use in battle. Among the summons are Simba, Dumbo, Bambi, and Mushu. She'll reward Donald with a magic staff once Sora acquires all of his summons available in the game, including Genie and Tinker Bell.
===Kingdom Hearts III===
After Sora vanishes to parts unknown for misusing his power of waking and violating the Master of Masters' prophecy of the Second Keyblade War, the Fairy Godmother aids Riku and Kairi with finding out where he went, taking them to the Final World to meet the Nameless Star to learn of the world where Sora has gone: Quadratum.
==Trivia==
*In the episode House of Magic of House of Mouse, Daisy Duck steals her Magic Wand with the intention of performing a magic act but accidentally makes the audience disappear. However, Mickey tricked Jafar and Iago by performing her song to undo Daisy's accidental act.
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