Mother Ginger

Mother Ginger is a major character in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. She is portrayed by Helen Mirren.
She is the kind and wise ruler of the Fourth Realm, known as the Land of Amusement, who was manipulated into carrying out the evil schemes of the sinister and deranged Sugarplum. In the end, Clara Stahlbaum and Phillip the Nutcracker realize the kindness within Mother Ginger and help Mother Ginger defeat the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Mother Ginger is based on the character of the same name from the story by E.T.A. Hoffman and the ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
==Background==
Mother Ginger started off as a lifeless toy owned by Marie Stahlbaum when she was a child, but was later brought to life by a machine Marie created after she created the Four Realms as its first Queen. Ginger was assigned by Marie to rule over the Land of amusement while three others were assigned to rule the remaining realms: the Sugar Plum Fairy was given control of the Land of Sweets, Hawthorne was given the Land of Flowers, and Shivers was given the Land of Snowflakes. However, as the years went by, Marie decided to leave the Four Realms for her family, so she left the four regents in complete charge of the Four Realms. Though Ginger and the Male Regents accepted this new change in leadership and took control of their realms as agreed, Sugarplum was the only one who disapproved this as she felt betrayed and abandoned by Marie and decided that it was time to take over the Four Realms as its new Queen and rebuild them in her own image, something no ruler is ever meant to do.
The next day, at Sugar Plum’s behest, Clara leads an army along with Phillip to head to the Fourth Realm to retrieve the key. Once they arrive, the mice pull the soldiers underground until they get Clara too. She is brought to a tent full of creepy clown-like people that come out of each other like nesting dolls. Clara meets Mother Ginger, who also appears upset at hearing that Marie is gone. Phillip then arrives to rescue Clara, and they get the key from Mouserinks. Once they’ve gone far enough from Mother Ginger, Clara opens the egg to find that it is an ordinary music box, leaving her with no answers.
Clara brings the key to Sugar Plum, who activates the machine and uses it to turn a bunch of toy soldiers into larger living soldiers. Sugar Plum then reveals her true intentions to take over all the realms due to her anger over Marie leaving their world and devoting her life to her family. She also framed Mother Ginger for her own misdeeds and is planning to bring her soldiers to the Fourth Realm to do away with Mother Ginger.
Clara and Phillip head off to stop Sugar Plum. They are found by Mouserinks, who leads them outside. Clara sends Phillip and Mouserinks to warn Mother Ginger while Clara goes to find a way to prevent the army from making it to the Fourth Realm. Phillip heads there and aligns himself with Mother Ginger, and they use her giant robot to make their way toward the castle.
The heroes make it back to the castle to fight the toy soldiers. Meanwhile, Clara starts to mess with her mother’s machine. Mother Ginger is captured and placed on the platform for Sugar Plum to turn into a doll. Clara, held captive by the soldiers, pleads with Sugar Plum to do the right thing since Marie cared for her too, but Sugar Plum refuses and turns the machine on. However, thanks to Clara’s tinkering, the machine points at Sugar Plum and turns her into a doll, which also cuts off her control from the soldiers, turning them lifeless again.
Peace is restored in the Four Realms. Hawthorne and Shivers are released while Mother Ginger resumes her position as regent of the Land of Amusements. Phillip is also made captain of the guards with Mouserinks as his little sidekick. They say goodbye to Clara and lead her back home.
==Trivia==
*She was advertised as the main antagonist of the film in order to conceal the reveal that The Sugar Plum Fairy was the true villain.
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