Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)

Pinocchio is the titular main protagonist of the 2022 Netflix stop-motion animated musical fantasy film , which is based on Gris Grimly's designs from his 2002 edition of the late Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian novel .
He is a living wooden puppet who was created by a woodcarver named Geppetto, due to him grieving his late son, and was brought to life by the Wood Sprite. Throughout his adventures, Pinocchio discovers he is different to other people and comes to earn the love from Geppetto, who slowly but surely accepts him as a second son. 
He was voiced by Gregory Mann (who also voiced Carlo, Geppetto's late son in the same film). 
==History==
===Craved and Brought to Life===
In the 1930s Fascist Italy, a woodcarver named Geppetto is grieving over the loss of his son, Carlo, who was killed in a bombing during the First World War and is unable to move on. A talking cricket and aspiring novelist, Sebastian J. Cricket moved into a pine tree that had grown beside Carlo's gravestone after Geppetto planted a pinecone in the ground. Geppetto, in a fit of drunken rage and completely oblivious to Sebastian living in the tree, chopped the whole tree down and takes a pile of wood to make a wooden puppet. 
After leaving the puppet unfinished, Geppetto passed out drunk and a set of mysterious beings float around the puppet, with Sebastian trying to shoo them away, since the puppet was made from the tree he lived in. The beings form a magical being, the Wood Sprite appeared and decided to bring the puppet to life in order to give Geppetto company and christened him; Pinocchio. She also promised to grant Sebastian one wish in exchange for acting as Pinocchio's mentor and guide. Sebastian agreed, which he planned to use his one wish to improve his standing. 
===Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio===
After being brought to life, Pinocchio, overly hyperactive and curious, frightened Geppetto and caused a mess in the house when he messed around, breaking numerous objects. Initially terrified of Pinocchio's antics, Geppetto kept him locked in a cupboard and told him to stay while he goes to church to clear his mind off, believing he was seeing things. Pinocchio easily broke out of the cupboard and with his curiosity getting the better of him, followed Geppetto to church, where he frightened the townsfolk and Geppetto had to take him home, even when he told a lie, his nose grew long into a small branch. 
After Geppetto saw down Pinocchio's nose to its normal state, he told him that whenever he tells a lie, his nose will grow long (as he told to his late son, Carlo before). Geppetto is told by the strict Podesta to send Pinocchio to school, so he can learn his manners and mature (also secretly to sell Pinocchio to a child soldier camp, to be prepared for the Second World War). The Podesta's son, Candlewick tricked Pinocchio into putting his feet near the fire, which resulted them burning but Pinocchio didn't feel any pain and Geppetto had to put him out in a bucket of water. Geppetto promised Pinocchio to make him new feet as long as he behaves. 
The following day, Pinocchio (with new feet) is still utterly curious about the world he was living in and frequently annoyed Geppetto with so many questions. While helping Geppetto fix up a crucifix in the village's church, Pinocchio learned about Carlo's death and he decided to go to school so he can be like Carlo in order to please his father. While walking to school, Pinocchio was approached by a man and his monkey, Count Volpe and Spazzatura, who tricked him to signing a contract to join his circus, so Volpe can use him to make money. 
After a day visiting the circus and performing in front of children, Geppetto arrived to take Pinocchio home and reprimanded him of disobeying him. Pinocchio attempted to bluff, but it was making his nose grow longer as he tells lies. After throwing a tantrum: "I AM NOT LYING!!!", Pinocchio's nose grows even more long. After Volpe and Geppetto engage in a tug war to bring Pinocchio, Sebastian attempted to warn them of an upcoming truck, driven by the Podesta and his wife. Pinocchio is unintentionally thrown into the road and is struck by the truck. 
In limbo, a group of black rabbits carry Pinocchio's soul in a coffin, until Pinocchio came out and are astonished to see that Pinocchio was alive. Pinocchio entered through a large door where he met Death, the Wood Sprite's sister who told him he is immortal and he will be sent back when an hourglass runs out, warning him it will increase each time when he returned. 
Pinocchio was sent back to the world of living and surprised everyone when he revived himself. Geppetto, the Podesta, Volpe and Spazzatura realized the wooden boy was immortal. After much revelations with the troubles he had caused and being called a "burden" by Geppetto out of frustration, a hurt Pinocchio decided to make up for the mistakes he made and headed to the circus to perform in shows so he can send money to Geppetto to pay the debts and avoid being sent to fight in the war. He tricked Sebastian and trapped him in a cup with a hammer to weigh it so he wouldn't stop him. 
As time passed, Pinocchio enjoyed his time performing in the circus but he slowly started to grow exhausted and becoming homesick as he regretted leaving his father behind. Meanwhile, Geppetto (who regretted for his lash out on Pinocchio) and Sebastian are out looking for him, and Count Volpe was secretly keeping the money for himself, rather than sending it to Geppetto. Spazzatura gets jealous of Pinocchio becoming favored by Volpe and communicated him via puppets to inform him that Volpe was using him. Pinocchio refused to believe until he witnessed Volpe abusing Spazzatura when he eavesdropped on them. Pinocchio bravely stood up for Spazzatura until Volpe intimidated him to keep working or he'll be burned into firewood, even cutting a piece of Pinocchio's nose off, which frightened the wooden boy. 
After Pinocchio performed a mocking song in front of a crowd, as payback for Volpe's abuse, he was shot again and sent back to limbo where he encountered Death again. She informed him that since he was immortal, he will outlive his loved ones as they are mortal. Once the second hourglass times out, Pinocchio is once again revived and found himself in the back of a truck where the Podesta was taking him to a child soldier camp to train him to be the "perfect soldier", along with other boys, including Candlewick. When the boys are in bed, Candlewick explained to Pinocchio that he is secretly scared of disappointing his father, who wanted him to serve for Italy. Pinocchio reassured him that fathers say something harsh to their loved ones that would hurt them, but deep down fathers do love their children. 
After Pinocchio and Candlewick perform a training game that ended with two teams in a tie, the Podesta ordered Candlewick to shoot Pinocchio. Refusing to do so as the weapon was a real gun and not a paintball one, before a siren went off due to Allied planes flying overhead. Inspired by Pinocchio's speech earlier, Candlewick bravely stood up for his father while the camp was bombed by an Allied plane, killing the Podesta, sending Pinocchio flying out of the camp and the boys to flee, including Candlewick. 
When Pinocchio regained consciousness, he found himself strapped to a wooden crucifix where Count Volpe prepared to set him on fire as revenge for the loss of his money and circus from the mocking performance. A pleading Pinocchio begged Spazzatura to save him, who finally had enough of Volpe's abuse and saved Pinocchio. Count Volpe is knocked into the sea where he was killed upon impacting the rocks, while Pinocchio and Spazzatura were knocked into the sea. They are soon swallowed by a Terrible Dogfish and Pinocchio is soon reunited with Geppetto and Sebastian, who were also previously swallowed while sailing out to sea. 
Due to an idea by Sebastian where he saw a lighthouse that was swallowed as well, they can climb out of the Dogfish's blowhole in order to escape. Pinocchio tells lies again to make his nose grow long enough to make a bridge so they can escape. After escaping, the Terrible Dogfish attempted to devour them again when Pinocchio tricked it to swallowing an explosive mine that killed them both. Pinocchio was sent back to the mortal realm again after he broke an hourglass so he can save Geppetto from drowning but at the cost of his life when he drowned in the sea. 
As Geppetto mourned the loss of his second son when he realized Pinocchio was truly dead, the Wood Sprite appeared again and Sebastian wisely chose to use his wish to make Pinocchio alive again, which the Wood Sprite accepted. Geppetto said to Pinocchio he should be himself as he loved him the way he was, rather than be like Carlo, which a happy and revived Pinocchio accepted. The Wood Sprite disappeared and it was the last time they ever saw her. 
As years passed, Pinocchio did not age as he lived happily with Geppetto, Sebastian and Spazzatura until they eventually passed away. After giving his blessings to his father, Sebastian and Spazzatura's gravestones, Pinocchio departed for unknown new adventures until he is ready to return to his love ones in the afterlife. 
==Personality==
While his novel counterpart is a bratty and disobedient child, but with a big heart and learning the error of his ways, this version of Pinocchio is a happy, curious, naïve and overall hyperactive child similar in vain to Disney's 1940s adaptation. He displays this when after he was brought to life, he was utterly curious and hyperactive when he asks Geppetto several things he sees and what they do. His naïve and curious behavior sometimes annoyed Geppetto and gets him into trouble. When he learned that Geppetto's late son, Carlo died, Pinocchio wanted to become like him so he would obey his father, however he got carried away when he joined Count Volpe's circus, instead of going to school, after he was tricked into doing so, due to his naïve personality. 
Following being hurt when being called a "burden", Pinocchio wanted to make up for the mistakes he made by providing money for Geppetto by working for Count Volpe's carnival. Although he enjoyed the attention he was getting, Pinocchio started to become homesick and missed his father, who was looking for him. Throughout his adventures, Pinocchio became responsible, brave and selfless when he stood up against Count Volpe, the Podesta and even saving Candlewick and Spazzatura from the abuse they endured from. 
After he bravely saved his father from the Terrible Dogfish and being revived again, Pinocchio realized he didn't have to be like Carlo, nor behave like him, as he should be himself due to Geppetto saying he loved him just the way he is. This love was what made Geppetto accept Carlo's death and moves on with his new life with Pinocchio, which the young puppet gratefully accepted. 
==Powers and Abilities==
*Limited Shape-Shifting: Pinocchio's nose grows long whenever he tells a lie. His long nose will grow into a tree branch that will start off as a leafless branch, before changing into a branch with leaves and then pinecones. The pinecones is what the wood he is made out of. He will have to have his nose either cut back to his normal size. 
*Singing: He posses a big talent to sing. 
*Exceptional Intelligence: As he slowly gains independence throughout his adventures, Pinocchio is shown to be intelligent to think of a plan to help raise enough money for Geppetto, by heading to work for the carnival. He was also able to find a way to defeat the Terrible Dogfish by launching a mine into its mouth and killing it. 
*Bravery and Determination: Pinocchio is shown to be remarkably brave when he is able to convince Candlewick to stand up to his father, even bravely standing up for Candlewick when the Podesta attempted to shoot him. He even bravely stood up for Spazzatura when he attempted to defend him from Count Volpe (though he was intimidated by Volpe afterward). 
*High-Level Durability: Due to being made of wood, Pinocchio possesses a high degree of durability; he is able to survive from having his feet on fire without screaming in pain, withstand several hits on rocks after getting shot out from the child soldier camp, without suffering injuries. Pinocchio also survived after being hit by a truck. However, he does have his limits as he lost his first legs and one of his limbs during several fights, but he was able to have new limbs put on him. 
*Swimmer: Pinocchio is a good swimmer as he is able to swim down and save Geppetto from drowning, though he had difficulty trying to bring him to the surface due to Geppetto's weight. 
*Immortality: Due to being a living wooden puppet, Pinocchio has a form of immortality; whenever he dies, he is sent to limbo where Death holds several hourglasses to tell how long Pinocchio will wait until he returns to the mortal world. 
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Unlike the other versions of the character, Pinocchio in this film didn’t turned into a real boy and remained a puppet. In fact, he also was unable to age even if he was made of wood, which can often rot.
*This version of Pinocchio is based on his original counterpart from the Italian novel of the same name and the character from the 2002 novel by Gris Grimley. He is somewhat similar to his Disney counterpart, due to his nose growing leaves when he tells lies, but he does not make birds in a nest appear on his nose. 
*The character and the titular film is set in the 1930's Fascist Italy, while the novel was set in the 1800's.
*Physically, Pinocchio looks a bit similar to the Bob the Builder character Spud, a living scarecrow who is also a stop-motion character.
*He shares similitudes some with the Frankenstein's Monster,Both of them are artificial humanoid beings created by a human in a nightmarish sequence, only to be disowned by their creators for not living up their expectations (Geppetto for Pinocchio not being like his dead son Carlo, and Frankenstein for the creature having eyes with a strange color) and are both rejected by society for being different. But that’s where the similarities end. Unlike Frankenstein and the creature’s tragic ends, Geppetto eventually learns the error of his ways, and reconciles with Pinocchio, coming to see him as another son. 
*It is theorized that he is the reincarnation of Carlo, because he knew about the song that Geppetto sang and that Death claims that he had been in the beyond before and that the Wood Spirit said to him "Little wooden boy of borrowed soul." 
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