Mayor Bumblelion

**Mayor Bumblelion** is a supporting character in the episode, *Once Upon a Time* and in the *Enchanted Pup* franchise. He's the mayor of Storybook Town and a close friend to the Big Good Wolf and his sons. He's a honeybee-lion hybrid, a character originating from a fictional fairytale.

## Background

Bumblelion is a fairytale character from an English story titled *The Missing Honeycombs,* a story where Stinger and a group of Bumblelions would find ten honeycombs and return them to the hive. When the story was published in 1992, Stinger became a resident of Storybook Town. At some point in his life, he ran for and was eventually elected mayor, a job that not only allowed him to help the story characters but allowed to work closely with the royalties that ruled the kingdom. When Big Good's parents died, Stinger became his foster parent and raised him until he was old enough to take care of himself. He later became Big Good's royal advisor and the Three Good Wolves' babysitter since their mother abandoned the family shortly after they were born.

### Development

Mayor Bumblelion's appearance and name came from Bumblelion from the 80s' TV show, *the Wuzzles.* Just by simply looking at the character and his gallery, Elkwood knew what to use his new character for.

### Personality

Despite his size, Bumblelion is shown to be a passionate and brave individual. He strongly looks out for the safety of his people and to keep them in the town at all hours in order to avoid being kidnapped and nearly eaten by the Big Bad Wolf and his devilish sons. Whenever he feels that there's something wrong in the town, he quickly and breathlessly reports the situation to Big Good and he takes it from there. Aside from Bumblelion's protective nature and desire to keep the story characters in the town at all times, he is shown to have a kind and benevolent personality as his protective desires out of love and care for his subjects.

Bumblelion is shown to have a temper on him and its mostly triggered by the Three Bad Wolves and their harmful pranks. He refers to them as delinquents and often has trouble imprisoning them for their crimes across the town. Also, Bumblelion is shown to be Big Good's second-in-command as he has power over the police and government.

### Physical appearance

Mayor Bumblelion is a hybrid. He’s the combination of a lion and a bumblebee. He is a short, squat orange fur hybrid. He has a pink mane. Like any insect he has furry antenna and has insect wings. He has horizontal brown stripes on his underbelly.

## Appearances

### Once Upon a Time

Bumblelion is first seen in the Town Square enjoying the Reading Day party with the story characters. As the holiday comes to an end, Bumblelion thanks Big Good for the preparations as usual. He and the story characters spend the next day, cleaning up Town Square.

Later in the episode, Bumblelion later befriends Hansel, the Enchanted Pup and his family who are unexpected visitors in the town. With their creativity, they come up with brand new preparations for Reading Day. By tonight, Bumblelion is shown to be enjoying the new food and the music. Afterwards, Bumblelion bids a farewell to the Pups as they travel back home. Unbeknownst to Bumblelion and Big Good, they are kidnapped by the Three Bad Wolves and are planned to be devoured by Big Bad.

Bumblelion mounts a search party, hoping to find Hansel and the gang before it's too late. Luckily for Big Good, he smells his brother's Pig, Pork Stew and rushes over to his brother's lair to defeat him. Bumblelion smells the stew and orders two policemen to follow him over to Big Bad's lair. After the villain is defeated, Bumblelion has him arrested for his crimes. Bumblelion is relived that Hugo and the gang are safe. In the ending, Bumblelion visits EverRealm for a party hosted by Hansel.