Corporal

**Corporal** is a Norwegian polar bear and a major character in the feature film *The North Pup* and in the *Enchanted Pup* franchise. He's a slightly obese polar bear who works as the muscle of the North Winds and is Classified and Hansel's best friend.

## Background

Corporal was born in a small town in northern Norway and lived with his parents and brothers. As a cub, Corporal adored physical education and signed himself up for numerous sports. His athletic abilities caught the attention of the North Winds agency. After a basketball tournament, Corporal was approached by a business tycoon who's affiliated with the North Winds, offers Corporal a job offer in the agency. Corporal accepts the offer and enrolls himself in the academy. He later graduates from the academy and becomes an official North Wind agent. He's placed on a team led by Agent Classified, the leader and head of the agency, Short Fuse, the demolitions expert and Eva, the intelligence analyst.

### Development

   Corporal is loosely based over the character with the same name from the 2014 DreamWorks feature film, the *Penguins of Madagascar.*

### Personality

Corporal is portrayed as a loving and huggable polar bear companion. Because of Corporal's playfulness, he is eternally optimistic and puts a lot of confidence in himself, his teammates and the family and friends. Corporal's way of greeting somebody new is with a big bear hug because when he met Hansel for the first time, he gave the latter, a bear hug and showered him with compliments. Despite being the muscles of the team, Corporal can be easily intimidated by villains who are shorter than him. However, when Corporal sees any injustice going on, he abandons his insecurities to help whoever is in need of help.

In the North Pup, Corporal posed as a strict but supportive conscience towards Classified when he was mistreating Hansel. However, along with Short Fuse and Eva, he felt deep sympathy for the death of his brother. He also felt sympathy for Hansel, when he discovered that his family went through a rough life. Before Classified's revival during the final scene of the film, Corporal cuddled Hansel, Robo, Short Fuse and Eva when they were crying over Classified's supposed death. Cuddling is Corporal's way of showing sympathy towards his friends and family.

In the cartoon series, Corporal is very reckless and has a tendency to cause destruction but not on purpose, like his other reckless friend, Short Fuse.

### Physical appearance

Corporal is a muscular but slightly obese polar bear.

### Powers and abilities

* **Polar Bear Physiology:** Corporal is an anthropomorphic polar bear
* **Superhuman Strength:** Corporal was born with a strong body, which was due to him being a polar bear. He increased his strength by working out and having a well-balanced diet.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Even Corporal might not look fit enough to run fast, he's still born with the natural speed of a polar bear.
* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Aside from Corporal's gullible and naïve nature, he's highly intelligent, cunning, clever and an expert on weaponry.
* **Immortality:** Corporal gained eternal youth after becoming an EverRealmian.

## Appearances

### The North Pup

Corporal is introduced when the thugs almost had the opportunity to capture Hansel and Cerberus. He grabbed three of the thugs and threw them into a dumpster. Aboard the ship back to the North Wind Lair, Hansel was introduced to the North Wind agents. Corporal greeted Hansel with a giant bear hug. Once they arrived back at the liar, the North Winds got more information on what Whiskers was planning to do until he called himself. He informed the North Winds that with the kidnapping in America being a success, he'll be able to kidnap the rest of the kids, outside of America. Hansel and Cerberus planned to get aboard the ship with the North Wind but Classified refused, since he saw it as dangerous. He ordered his workers to send the Enchanted Pup to Canada, where he'll be safe.

However, Hansel and Cerberus stowaway in the ship and offered to help when the North Winds failed to catch Whiskers in Germany. The next day, the North Winds stopped by Rita's workshop to get information on Whiskers' plan since she was able to hack into the computers. They learned that Whiskers' next target is a cooking contest in Paris, France. Classified was about to discuss his plan, not before Hansel offered to share his ideas with the North Winds but the wolf leader silenced Hansel. However, Corporal along with Short Fuse and Eva convinced Classified to let Hansel tell the gang, his plan.

Corporal was ordered to dump cooking grease on the floor so Whiskers would slip and trap him in an iced cage created by Hansel. The plan proved successful but when Whiskers was under the cage, he made an escape with the child chefs and Cerberus (who was in disguise). The North Winds quickly fled to the plane and tried to catch up to Whiskers' jet. Unfortunately, the mad scientist fired a nuclear missile at the North Winds. Luckily, they were able to escape before the missile destroyed the plane. While Hansel, Corporal, Short Fuse and Eva were knocked out by the blunt force, Classified successfully fixed the ship and they flew to Whiskers' remote island where they tried to decided on a plan to rescue Cerberus. Hansel and Classified began to argue over whose plan is better. The argument led Classified to coldly insulting Hansel's father, Robert Pup.

Deeply offended by that insult, Hansel ripped off his pendant and threw it on the ground while he ran to a log and silently cried over the thought that he might never see his dog or friends ever again. When Corporal opened the pendant and saw a picture of Hansel and his family. Feeling sympathy, Corporal, Short Fuse and Eva convinced Classified to go and talk to Hansel. After hearing Classified's backstory, he and Hansel reconciled and decided on a plan to distract Whiskers' men. The plan was to dress up Corporal and Short Fuse as women to distract the thugs, much to their dismay and brief humiliation.

However, the thugs discovered that they were tricked and they went back into the forest to take Hansel, Classified and Eva into custody. Hansel was sent to the experimentation room and the North Winds were sent to their painful deaths. Luckily, thanks to Cerberus (who managed to escape Whiskers' clutches) freed the North Winds and informed them about Whiskers' plans to turn the kids into mutant monsters and and kill them with a space laser. The North Winds tried to rescue Hansel and the kids from being turned into monsters but it was too late. Once the kids were released into the city, the North Wind stole Whiskers' ray and was hoping that Hansel could reverse the affects of it. The North Winds found the mutant Hansel and was able to snap him out of the monster trance. Back in the lab in the Pup Palace, Hansel successfully made an antidote to help change the kids back to normal.

Meanwhile, the North Winds are going to blast a laser which will transform all of the kids back to normal in one zap. However, Whiskers and his men fought the North Winds and were able to defeat them all, not before discovering that Whiskers is the murderer who killed Jett. During the final battle, Classified was fatally but the North Winds were able to revive Classified after Whiskers fell into a black hole. The kids were transformed back to normal and the North Winds safely returned to Earth where they were praised for their heroism. For his bravery, Hansel was made an honorary North Wind agent and was placed on Classified's team. As gratitude for protecting him and his family, Hansel welcomes the North Winds into the kingdom of EverRealm.

### The Enchanted Pup: The Series

Corporal appears in the cartoon series as a major character.