Kerry Ringtail

Kerry Ringtail is a one of main characters from franchise, starting as the main protagonist of the 2020 Australian animated film, , a cameo character in Combat Wombat and a minor character in . She is an young adventurous opossum from Sanctuary City, dreaming of exploring the world beyond the utopian life that bores her. Kerry subsequently accidentally doomed her hometown with a blizzard by making a wish with the magic tree "Wishmas Tree" and to make amends for her mistake she sets out on a dangerous journey into the unknown, accompanied by the old dean of Sanctuary City, Yarra and her older sister Petra.
She is voiced by Miranda Tapsell who have also voiced Zoe in Back to the Outback.
==Personality==
Kerry is easily spirited, energetic, playful, enthusiastic, exuberant, adventurous, laid back, stubborn, reckless, and determined. Tired of her everyday life, Kerry dreams only of adventure and novelty, like seeing snow fallen for once to the point of making it a very personal wish. She can be mischievous at times, like her when she willfully irritated her sister by causing a race in the city. When she's too excited, Kerry has a nasty habit of talking too much. She is particularly heedless of danger, what can be seen when she moves on the roofs of the city more than a hundred meters above the ground or being almost never afraid during the trip. When she finally got out of town, the young opossum was more excited than ever to see so much novelty in the wild, though some was risky like when she met strangers on the road and wasn't afraid of them, even befriending a drop-bear despite an altercation with an entire tribe.
She can also be particularly cranky and angry, such as when she finally got tired of life in Sanctuary City and expressed how much she just wanted to go on an adventure, even considering television as stupid and boring and feeling stuck in the city, also because she had no friends. This state of mind would eventually push her to make a selfish wish that would condemn her city. After seeing that her wish was starting to go sour and Yarra found out it was her fault, Kerry was initially excited about having to go on an adventure for the first time as she always had desired but during the trip she admitted that she felt really ashamed for what she had done, so she decided to do what she could to correct her mistake, even risking her own life.
Her carefree personality contrasts perfectly with her more pragmatic, calm and mature older sister, which makes it very difficult for the two sisters to get along on everything and spends most of their time bickering. Kerry doesn't appreciate that Petra keeps covering her over and over and tries to get her to let go of her dreams, although her older sister only wants her best. As the quest progressed, the relationship between Kerry and Petra slowly changed from strained to a true brotherly love. Which was most evident when Kerry gives up all hope that Petra then encourages him to believe in her and that she doesn't have to face her problems on her own, the two sisters then hugged admitting how much they loved each other. Meanwhile, Kerry admitted that she always just wanted to be Petra's friend because being a sister didn't make her feel like that until her older sister convinces her otherwise.
==History==
===The Wishmas Tree===
She is first seen breaking the Fourth Wall to make it look like she's out of Sanctuary City limits, using her stuffed animals to make it look like they are real non-native animals. Arrived on a balcony overlooking the city, Kerry expresses how boring the city is. Petra then joins her after looking everywhere for her, as usual. Kerry begins to brag about her unreal adventures before advising her older sister to take risks from time to time despite her losing heights, much to the elder's boredom. Once Petra reminds her that the vowing ceremony is coming soon, Kerry provokes her sister to get there first, sparking a race between the two possums.
As Kerry gets ahead by using her tail like a zipline, she is closely followed by Petra on an ostrich cab. After a wacky distance sign language exchange, Kerry nearly collides with an obscure but cowardly in time and continues moving from roof to roof until she slips on a guardrail and crashes into a store. Without any injuries, she slips away before the business collapses then is about to start again but attracted by an advertisement on an exhibition on the wild, she takes a look and is quickly fascinated by the models therein. Petra finds her again just for Kerry to run back to the meeting place with a wish idea. The two sisters reunite with their father at the fountain and Kerry cannot help but reveal that his wish is to see real snow out of Sanctuary City in the wild, to the uncertainty of his father who assures him however that this year she will have something much better. The possums then join the Wishmas Tree and Kerry walks into the group of young people to listen to Yarra, a slightly disturbed old lizard serving as guardian of the tree, speaking on the importance of wishes, on the important fact of never making two and always left a last seed in the tree before he starts the wishing ceremony. Once the picking is done, the young people just have to think about their wish and then blow on the pappus which will then fly into the sky. While she is the last to not having blown yet, Kerry wishes more than anything that she could see the wild.
Coming home, Kerry becomes excited to see the huge gift their father brought for her and Petra but she is immediately disillusioned when the gift turns out to be a TV supposedly to have the world in their house. While the other two possums rave about the screen, Kerry is not happy and ends up furiously turning off the TV to say that she had wished to see the wild for real, deeming the TV to be cheating and call Wishmas a lie. In her nervous breakdown, she pulls on the antenna only to be electrocuted. Tired of her little sister's foolish stubbornness, Petra proceeds to berate her, telling her that instead of wanting to go into the wild to get eaten, she should learn to appreciate their home a little more. Kerry replies that Petra should let her get eaten so she could have TV as a replacement sister, to which Petra replies that TV would make a sister less boring than Kerry, just so the little possum would insinuate Petra only like TV because it's as boring as she is. Their father tries to stop their argument by offering them breads but Kerry doesn't want it and goes up to her room, with an angry Petra throwing one of the loaves at her in frustration. She then goes to bed, completely depressed. Petra joins her soon after and tries to put the pieces back together with her, which doesn't interest Kerry even after her sister is explained that she has no pleasure in always keeping an eye on her and that she does. because she doesn't deem Kerry responsible enough. Kerry expresses that she feels stuck in this town forever, a point of view that doesn't change even when Petra tells her that their home, family and friends are in Sanctuary City, which Kerry contradicts because she has no friends unlike her older sister.
Not getting to sleep, Kerry stares at the moon and a new idea in her head. Quietly sneaking out of the house and into the Wishmas Tree Sanctuary, Kerry begins to search for another seed. After finding the last one at the top of the tree, she asks as a wish that if she can't go to the wild then she wants the wild to come to her, despite the warnings never to make a second wish or take the last seed. No sooner has she blown the pappus than lightning suddenly takes shape and then gives way to a black fog in the shape of a monster. Frightened by the entity and by the continuously falling lightning, Kerry flees to her home where she returns to her bed and hugs her teddy bear while falling asleep although still fearful of what has just happened.
In the morning, a draft of cold air wakes up Kerry who discovers with joy that the snow has fallen during the night. Without wasting a moment, she throws herself into the snow, throws a snowball at her freshly woken sister and makes a snow angel, much to her delight. Satisfied with her wish, Kerry climbed the mountain of Sanctuary City to shout loudly that this White Wishmas was thanks to her. Unfortunately, her joy wanes when she sees that the snow does not only bring pleasure but also harm to the inhabitants, seeing it for herself. After taking refuge in the sanctuary when she could no longer bear to see so many ailing faces and the intensifying cold, Kerry is horrified to see the magic tree dying. Yarra pops up and starts talking strangely to his staff about what's happening, especially since he knows the young opossum is the one responsible for her unwise wish and that by stupidly plucking the last seed, she drew the forces demonic extinction threatening to destroy everything. Kerry tries to slip away only for Yarra to exhort her to fix what she's done, involving embarking on a danger-filled quest out of Sanctuary City, which leaves Kerry confused and uncertain before she leaves the places.
At night, Kerry wakes up from an Extinction nightmare. Glancing out the window, she sees Yarra waiting for her outside her house. The young opossum resigns herself to making amends for her selfish mistake to do the right thing and after packing her bag containing only her teddy bear, she hesitates to wake Petra up but chooses not to do so before joining Yarra. In the early hours of the morning, they left Sanctuary City, much to Kerry's delight who couldn't contain her excitement of finally being in the Wild while spending part of the ride asking the old lizard dozens of questions at a time. After Yarra briefly silences him, she asks him where they are going and then learns that on the way, they will have passed through Swamplands, Misty Muds and the Gorge of Near Black to find the only other wish tree in existence, the Sister. Wishmas Tree where it will be necessary to do the most caring and the most thoughtful wish to save their city, well this remains ambiguous because the existence of this tree comes only from legends but it is nevertheless their only alternative. Yarra takes the opportunity to admit that he is proud that Kerry has chosen to fix his mistakes, while telling him that it is the way they are corrected that defines the person. The duo then takes to the road again with the old lizard, this misleading direction at the start.
Arrived at the muddy and smelly Swamplands, Kerry inhales out of curiosity the putrid smell of the swamp and becomes ill. She inadvertently wakes up the Augustus toad who seems to have the idea of ​​eating the two visitors but Kerry isn't afraid of him for seeing toads in her book, so seeing one in real life is just so exciting for her. that she begins to talk about each of the characteristics of the amphibian which is confused. Augustus tries to scare them with it but when he talks about a bloodthirsty tribe called “Hua whaa nua!” who control the swamp, Kerry is only dancing and singing because she takes it to be rap. Kerry demands to meet this tribe, so Augustus shows the way behind the vegetation where Kerry quickly rushes. As the duo advance into the darkness, torches suddenly light up and reveal an entrance in the shape of a bear's mouth. Kerry walks towards the entrance until Petra arrives with the intention of bringing her home. The two sisters start to argue and at this point, a little creature called drop-bear by Yarra shows up, slightly scaring the old lizard and the teenage opossum while Kerry finds him cute. The drop-bear then begins to act hostile before being joined by his comrades, circling the trio. At the beginning, they managed to repel the ursids by crushing their toes so that they were detached from the ground because of the lianas hanging on their backs but the drop-bear reinforcements forced the sisters to flee through the tunnel in the stone mouth while Yarra holds back the little creatures.
Thrown to the other side in the jungle, Kerry expresses that she found it great and then Petra berates her for leaving like that in the middle of the Wild when Sanctuary City is frozen. She tries to explain the situation to her older sister who doesn't take her seriously because of her disbelief in magic. After Yarra is able to join them, Kerry prevents Petra from wrongly blaming him for this dangerous expedition and unprofessionally convinces her to join the quest as it is to freeze to death in town or just risky dying in the Wild.
At dusk, the trio arrive on a cliff where they will spend the night, although Kerry wanted to continue further. A little later, while they are around a campfire, Kerry asks Yarra if he has ever been to the Wild before. Faced with the pleas of the young opossum, the lizard begins to tell his life story when he lived in the Wild, when existence was miserable because of predators and the evil spirit Extinction. Similar to Kerry during this time, Yarra selfishly tried to find the Sister Wishmas Tree to make a difference but failed and her father lost his life. Feeling more ashamed for her actions after listening to the story, Kerry secludes herself on the edge of the cliff. Petra walks up to her and asks her if she's scared, which Kerry denies and pushes Petra to come up with a poor joke that doesn't make Kerry laugh. Seeing Petra's upset look, Kerry begged her not to get mad at her yet because Kerry just wanted her to stop seeing her as a kid. Petra then admits that she is not angry but just upset because Kerry left like that without warning her when she could have helped him. Kerry then admits that she mainly wants to right her mistake to prove to her sister that she was capable of being responsible and thus earn her affection so that they become like friends. Petra in turn admits that if she still worries about her little sister it's because she cares so much about her, while promising that she will always be there to help Kerry cope with her problems. Suddenly, wolves infected with extinction surround the trio. Yarra sacrifices himself so the sisters can escape down a path down the cliff while warning them to find the blue light.
Kerry suddenly wakes up alone in the desert and eventually finds the Magic Tree but when she approaches it, she only finds a dead tree and the foundlings who once banished the extinction many years ago. Much to her confusion, the children wish to be forgotten before their eyes turn red, terrifying and waking her up because it was just a nightmare. Kerry wakes Petra up to let her know that the snow is progressing and that they must continue even without Yarra when suddenly, the young drop-bear she met earlier emerges out of the snow, completely distraught. Petra tries to chase the little creature away but Kerry intervenes, seeing that he's just scared and then becomes fond of him to the point of naming him Bernard. Her older sister having no faith in wild creatures and refusing to take her with them, Kerry quietly hides Bernard in her backpack, forcing her to abandon her teddy bear.
Arrived at the Misty Muds, the sisters cross the stones floating on the fog before Augustus makes his entrance. Remembering him, Kerry begins to annoy and fiddle with the toad again, who would rather interrupt his scary speech than put up with it again. The famous blue light then shows up, guiding the possums to a huge central platform where a blue spirit appears in the appearance of the opossum foundling. Recalling her dream, Kerry realizes that the foundlings wished for the safety of all animals, including those living in the Wild, but the creation of Sanctuary City left wild animals left behind and that the only thing to do is to help them so that by working together they can overcome extinction. She reaches out her hand to the Spirit only for it to disappear and some sort of gigantic Spirit Wamba to climb onto the platform. Instead of running away, Kerry strokes the entity and tells it that she's sorry, causing her to dissipate into thin air. Blown away by what just happened, Kerry admits she wasn't sure it would work, much to Petra's shock, but at least now she knows what she wanted. Bernard gets out of the backpack right after and despite Petra's displeasure, Kerry manages to convince her to keep Bernard by using her words about friendship and begging her frantically before the trio hit the road.
Deep in the Gorge of Near Black, the Sister Wishmas Tree is finally in sight. Kerry rushes in with enthusiasm only to find a dead tree devoid of seeds. Falling into depression for having come so far for nothing, Kerry feels sorry for herself for the harm she has caused that she can never mend now. Refusing to leave her little sister abandoned, Petra reminds Kerry of all the dangers they are going through together and how it allowed her to finally believe what she never believed, while admitting that during the last ceremony Wishes, she wished Kerry could finally go on an adventure like she had always wanted, especially noting that now she is on a quest to save the world. Once her older sister reminds her that she wouldn't have to face her problems on her own anymore and that it's time to end this adventure, Kerry regains hope and the two sisters hug each other, confessing how much they love each other. Their brotherly love allows a wishful seed to grow on the tree, much to Kerry and Petra's joy but unfortunately Extinction comes at this point, followed by a corrupt Yarra. Bernard occupies the lizard for a moment before being knocked out, forcing the two sisters to take refuge at the top of the tree. As the seed is almost open, Petra encourages Kerry to make her wish when it is time to knock Yarra off the tree with her. Once the seed is finished, Kerry plucks it and makes a sincere wish that all the animals are saved just before the demonic entity hits her head-on. Extinction vanishes after that, as Kerry falls from the tree, apparently dead. As Petra mourns her little sister, Kerry's wish comes true, wiping out the dastardly Extinction, stopping the snow and restoring nature as well as Sister Wishmas Tree. Kerry turns out to be still alive, much to the joy of Petra who hugs her sister then tells her that she was able to defeat Extinction but Kerry rectifies that they both did.
The quest finally over, Kerry returns home with Petra, Yarra, Bernard and all their new friends from the Wild.
===Combat Wombat ===
Kerry makes a brief cameo appearance when she is spray painting a large poster of Combat Wombat.
===Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal ===
Kerry makes a few cameo appearances with her family as a Sanctuary City team supporter for the World's Scariest Animal. Her most notable appearance is when she is rescued from the fire by Frankie Scales.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*She is the only character in the film to break the fourth wall.
*She especially likes big and dangerous animals. Her favorite animal is the polar bear.
*Although she is a Ringtail Possum, Kerry is not nocturnal.
*Despite being the youngest and smallest in her family, Kerry has a longer tail than her father and sister. Also unlike them, the tip of her tail is not white.
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