Princess Odette (The Swan Princess)

Princess Odette, later Queen (simply known as Odette) is the titular main protagonist of The Swan Princess franchise. She is the love interest of Prince Derek in the first film (though not at first), and eventually his wife at the end of that film and the sequels. In the first movie, she was kidnapped by Sir Rothbart, an evil court warlock who assassinated her father, King William. She is taken by Rothbart to his castle lair at Swan Lake where he turns her into a swan. Odette dies and is revived twice, in the first and third films. 
She is voiced by the Michelle Nicastro in the first 3 films who also voiced Princess Priscilla from The Judy Show, then Laura Bailey in the middle four films, who also played the voice of Blaze the Cat, Lucina, Serah Farron, Black Widow, Mary Jane Watson, Catwoman, Chun Li, Dorothy Gale, Tohru Honda, and Supergirl, then Nina Herzog in the later films. and her singing voice is provided by Liz Callaway in the first film. In the sequels, Nicastro did her own singing. In the second film, when Rothbart's former partner who is the magician, Sir Clavius, has a ransom note to get Derek into a trap, this is where Odette takes on the hero role (such as by getting him out of a hole of quicksand)... at least until he saves her from being dropped into a pit of hot lava by Clavius' muscular conspirator, Sir Knuckles and cuts the cable to his gondola. Under Derek's orders, in the volcano, she takes part in the hero role again when she and the other animals free Derek's 50-year-old mother Uberta and get the others into the balloon while Derek fought with Clavius.
==Biography==
===The Swan Princess===
Odette is born to the aged King William and his queen, and was welcomed by the kingdom's people as the future queen of the kingdom.
Sir Rothbart, a former chancellor, is a warlock who plans on conquering William's kingdom with dark magic, but fails when the king sends a surprise party to attack Rothbart's tower. Rothbart is banished from the kingdom. Before he leaves, he vows that he will take everything that the king owns and cherishes.
Years later, Odette is brought together with Derek, a young prince and the only son of a queen named Uberta. William and Uberta hope that their children will fall in love and marry, when they are older, thus; joining the two. As adults, Odette is forced to meet again with Derek. She is reluctant to do so; until she sees him and falls in love with him. Derek is forced to meet again with Odette as well. He is reluctant to do so; until he sees her and falls in love with her. After they had their first dance together, Derek and Odette shared their first kiss.
During the ball, Derek announces to arrange their wedding immediately and tells Odette that he wants to marry her for her beauty. When Odette asks Derek what else matters to him besides beauty, he replies, "What else is there?". This makes Odette upset and she rejects him once again.
The next day, Odette and William make their return home, but are stopped by Rothbart, who got his powers back and turns himself into the great animal and attacks them. William's injured captain returns to Uberta's castle and informs Derek about the attack. Derek quickly rushes to the scene, only to find a dying William and Odette gone. Upon assassinating William, Rothbart takes Odette to his lair at Swan Lake and puts a transformation spell on her, which turns her into a white swan by day and a human once again by night in the lake under the moonlight. He mentions that the spell can only be broken when the man she loves made a vow of everlasting love and proves it to the world.
Rothbart asks Odette to marry him, so he can take control of the kingdom legally, but she refuses to do so as she is in love with Derek. She hopes that Derek will come to rescue her. During her imprisonment, she befriends a turtle named Speed and a French frog called Jean-Bob.
During the song "Far Longer Than Forever", Odette claims that her love for Derek was gentle, sweet and kind and Derek also claims that his love for Odette was "stronger than the earth" and he would make "a vow of everlasting love" to her. One day, an injured Scottish and Irish puffin bird named General Puffin crashes near them and is nursed back to health by Odette. Puffin soon devises a plan to reunite Odette with Derek. They would lure Derek to Swan Lake at night, where he could see Odette transform into a human.
Puffin and Odette find Derek in the woods, but he mistakes Odette for the Great Animal and tries to kill her using his bow and arrows. She quickly flies back to Swan Lake as the night gets closer, with Derek following her. When she transforms back into her normal self, the two share a short-lived reunion, with Derek telling Odette to come to the ball tomorrow night to meet him there. As he left, Sir Rothbart appeared from behind the tree, carrying Derek's bow, and finds out about the ball. Odette weeps when Rothbart tells that there will be no full moon the next night and she is unable to transform back to her normal self again.
The next night, she is imprisoned in the castle dungeon, together with Bromley, who is lost in the woods when hunting down the "Great Animal" together with Derek. Rothbart sends his old hag, Bridget, disguised as Odette under his spell, to the ball, to trick Derek by saying his vows of everlasting love to the wrong person.
Puffin, Jean-Bob, and Speed helps to free Odette from the dungeon and she quickly flies to the ball, hoping that she will get there in time to warn Derek but finds all the way into the castle was blocked, much to her disappointment. As Derek makes his vows to the fake Odette, she suddenly feels weaker due to Rothbart's spell that drains her life source, thus killing her.
Rothbart made an appearance after Derek made his vows and reveals his plan to him. Derek quickly rushes back to Swan Lake to meet Odette again for the last time. Odette weakly flies back to Swan Lake and was transformed back to her human form as she touches the ground. Before she dies, she tells Derek that she loves him and dies. Heartbroken and enraged, Derek angrily demanded Rothbart to bring Odette back to life but Rothbart refuses and only promises to bring her back if Derek succeeds to kill him. Derek engages in an intense fight against Sir Rothbart, who turns himself into the "Great Animal" once more and overpowers him, nearly killing Derek.
Puffin remembers the bow that Rothbart threw into the lake and sends Jean-Bob to fetch it. Bromley had already escaped from the dungeon through the hole Speed made and gives Derek an arrow to shoot Rothbart with. Derek fires the arrow at Rothbart's chest, which kills him and crashes into the lake.
The spell was broken and Odette comes back to life. Derek says that he truly loves her for her courage and kindness, and he always truly loved her for that. At the end of the film, Derek and Odette are married and they become future king and queen, thus; uniting their kingdoms as Derek and Odette's parents hoped. Before going to the moonlight bridge, Derek and Odette make a promise to love each other for the rest of their lives and romantically kiss as the credits start to roll.
===The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain===
Odette is very worried about her relationship when Derek could no longer spend his time with her after becoming King in the first movie. When an evil magician, Sir Clavius, locks her in the tower, she asks Puffin, Bridgett, Speed, and Jean-Bob to transform her back into a swan to warn Derek but she rescues him from the quicksand.
She was almost thrown into the lava pool by Clavius’ co conspirator, Sir Knuckles, while she was tied up, but was rescued by Derek. After defeating Clavius, she transforms back into a human when the moon's reflection touches her, even though the magical orb of the legendary Forbidden Arts was destroyed.
===The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure===
===The Swan Princess: Christmas===
===The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale===
===The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today!===
===The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover===
===The Swan Princess: A Royal MyZtery===
===The Swan Princess: Kingdom of Music===
===The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding===
===The Swan Princess: A Fairy Tale is Born===
===The Swan Princess: Far Longer Than Forever===
Odette will return in the final chapter of the Swan Princess film series.
==Personality==
==Physical appearance==
Odette is noted to be a truly lovely, fair, graceful, elegant and beautiful woman who has long, golden blonde wavy hair, light skin and amethyst eyes (her eye color may represent her as a very special and unique character) as a swan, her feathers are white with a golden stripe on the middle of her head (maybe to resemble the color of her hair in human form) and violet eyes. As a teenager and an adult she wears a gold heart shaped Swan Locket that Derek gave to her after she was born.
==Trivia==
*The only times Odette didn't turn into a white swan was in A Royal Family Tale; except in a brief flashback during the lullaby "Always With You". The others are Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today Royally Undercover, A Royal Mystery, and the Kingdom of Music and which could imply that she has indeed lost the magical, transformational ability to do so.
*In the second film, she does not play the role of a damsel-in-distress, as this role was taken by Queen Uberta.
*Odette and Derek's duet, "Far Longer Than Forever"; is very similar to Aladdin and Jasmine's duet, "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin as well as Kayley and Garrett's duet "Looking Through Your Eyes" from Quest for Camelot.
*Despite nearly ten years passing between the 2nd and ninth films, Odette and Derek do not have any children aside from their adopted daughter Alise. 
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