Clara Stahlbaum

Clara Stahlbaum is the main protagonist of Nutcracker and the Four Realms.
She is portrayed by Mackenzie Foy, who also played Renesmee Cullen in the Twilight Saga.
==Role in the film==
Clara is the middle child who was born into a very wealthy family. Unfortunately, her mother soon died at an unknown age, but it must've been long after she had left the Four Realms. While conversating on Christmas Eve, she is given a gift by her mother, which happens to be a golden egg locked with a Pentumbler's lock (a lock that cannot be opened without a specific key.)
Drosselmeyer sends the other children out to find their presents, which he set up using strings to guide the kids to their gifts. Clara’s father finds her and scolds her for wandering off, saying she only thinks about herself, but Clara says one could say the same for him. Clara finds the string with her name and goes off to look for her gift. The string then takes her through a hall that leads to a different world. Clara then spots the key, but it is swiped by a little rodent called Mouserinks. Clara chases Mouserinks up to an icy lake, and she spots the bridge she needs to cross. Clara then meets Captain Phillip Hoffman, the Nutcracker. When she tells him who she is and who her mother was, Phillip addresses Clara as “Your Majesty” and he helps her go after Mouserinks.
Clara and Phillip ride his horse into the forest of the Fourth Realm where they are found by a massive pack of mice. They take Clara until Phillip goes after her. Their leader, Mother Ginger, rises and calls to Clara, but Phillip takes her away without getting the key back.
Phillip takes Clara to a castle where the soldiers also know of her and Marie. There, Clara meets the regents of the other realms. There is Hawthorne, regent of the Land of Flowers; Shivers, regent of the Land of Snowflakes; and the Sugar Plum Fairy, regent of the Land of Sweets. They are eager to meet Clara but are devastated to learn that Marie is dead. They also refuse to call the Fourth Realm by its original name, the Land of Amusements, due to Mother Ginger allegedly corrupting the land.
Clara joins Sugar Plum as she guides her through their world. She takes Clara through a clock, showing the outside world moving slowly. Clara sees her siblings enjoying themselves, but her father sits alone looking sad. Sugar Plum then takes Clara to watch a ballet where a Ballerina acts out the story of how their world came to be when Marie arrived. She also shows Clara a machine that her mother invented, and it is unlocked using the same key that opens the egg.
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.
Sugar Plum imprisons Clara and Phillip, along with Hawthorne and Shivers. Clara blames herself for letting this happen. She opens the music box again and flips it around to reveal a mirror. This leads her to realize that what Marie meant by “everything you need is inside” means that Clara has what it takes to make things right. With Phillip’s help, Clara escapes from the tower.
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. While held captive by the soldiers, she 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.
Clara makes her way back to the party to find Drosselmeyer. He sees that she figured out what to do, and he tells her that Marie told him her favorite invention was Clara. She then goes to find her father outside and apologizes for not dancing with him. They start to do so after Clara opens the music box, and Mr. Stahlbaum recognizes it as the first song he and Marie danced to. Louise and Fritz come outside to join Clara and their father for a dance.
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