Rumble

**Rumble** is the main antagonist from the 2011 short film Pixie Hollow Games, a film from the Disney Fairies franchise.

## Background

Rumble participated in Pixie Hollow Games for many years. He and his partner Glimmer have won four wins together, which made them a favourite of the public and the most famous team in Pixie Hollow.

As a four time Pixie Hollow Games champion, Rumble is aiming for another victory. Going to for the fifth championship ring, he dedicated himself to training for the games year around. His intense training kept his from bringing seasons to the Mainland, but made him the most competitive player.

### Development

During on the early stage development of Pixie Hollow Games Rumble and his original vision was inspired and conceived as a sort of a Disney version of John Travolta's Danny Zuko from Grease. According to designer Chris Oatley, who worked on his early design, it was fun to be able to play and with some classic Disney Villain qualities while designing this character. Ultimately, the character was be and looked too villainous, but director Bradley Raymond, when seen this version of Rumble, said, that he don't want the character to telegraph “bad guy” too strongly.

Due to this, work began on a new design for the Rumble, during the creation of which already to reference different soccer players. Designer Zaruhi Galstyan created two more full sketches of Rumble, one of which depicted him with with short brown hair, a small beard of the same colour and stupid sight. The second was similar in overall appearance to his final design, but a more slender body. In the end, his body evolved into a more athletic David Beckham type by the final film and his costume was made of black and white irises, which was unusual, since a lot of the Fairies characters costumes that are made of flower petals. However, for Rumble in the first time was created a costume with an iridescent effect.

### Voice

Jeff Bennett, a well-known voice actor in the Disney, originally claimed on the role of Rumble and was even approved by casting director Jason Henkel. However, in the end it was decided to replace him, citing the fact that he should have already voiced two characters in Pixie Hollow Games, Fairy Gary and Clank. As a result, Jason Dolley, another actor in Disney, was invited on the role of Rumble, and Jason Henkel after casting was pleased with his new candidacy.

### Personality

Selfish and arrogant Rumble became a four time Pixie Hollow Games champion, which only inflates his ego. He adoring the attention that was came with he being the champion and constantly boast off his winning rings on his fingers. Wherein, he became pompous to the point that he caused Glimmer have to humiliated and feeding his ego, just to cheer up yourself, when they arrived second on the first round. He was also convinced that garden fairies not capable of anything and even was taunts the Rosetta and Chloe just to humiliate them, like fairies of this talent.

Rumble displays self-centred and narcissistic tendencies, his most obvious ones being his obsessive craving for victory and success, exaggerated feelings of self-importance and entitlement. However, his lust for win does not stem from a mere desire for win, but rather an a desire to preserve his fame as champion. Having adopted an fragile ego, Rumble craving admiration for him and reacts extremely painfully to failures, which negatively affects on his already instability emotional condition, as this seen, when he arrived second on the leapfrogging. Due to this he often praise himself as the best, which seems to give him moral comfort.

Rumble also detests being "second best" and always gets angry, when someone starts to surpass him, as it was, when Rosetta and Chloe pulled ahead during the teacup challenge. Therefore he will do anything, even to meanness and cheat, in order to win, if will begin lose. This is especially evident, when he was use Glimmer's lightning abilities to destroy one of the wheels of competitors Rosetta and Chloe's cart, while saying ("I'm winning") in such a tone, as if this is only it so should be. However, this ultimately led to Glimmer was seen his true self and turning against him, in the end leading to his lose and the disintegration of their team.

While rather muscular, he proves to have a small amount of intelligence. This is evident when he speaks in the third person. He also attracted on the games to the point that, sings the Pixie Hollow Games anthem in his sleep.

### Physical Appearance

Rumble is a slender and muscular sparrow men with fair skin and clear wings on his back and, like all fairies and sparrow men, is small and hand-sized. He has blue eyes, pointy ears and black long hair, among which you can see two short pigtails.

On the games, he wears an bicolour dark indigo and silver sports outfit, whose colour is typical of the storm fairies and the same bicolour shoes.

## Film Appearances

### Short Films

#### Pixie Hollow Games

Rumble is first seen at the night of the start games. He and his partner Glimmer represent the storm talent fairies and sparrow men in the games and make a impressive emergence, when Glimmer casts lightning and Rumble strikes it and creates thunderclaps. They are the heavy favourites to win the competition due to their winning streak and having winners rings for almost every finger and want to add another thumb ring.

When the first game called leapfrogging was begins, Rumble competes alongside everyone else, but storm fairies came in second after animal fairies, which made Rumble upset. To cheer up, he caused Glimmer to have to boast his ego, after which he flies away, is again determined to win. The next day, Rumble and Glimmer continue to compete in games such as dragonfly water skiing, twigspheres, and mouse polo, and always came in first during each game. But in the teacup challenge, they waste lead again, this time to Rosetta and Chloe, then try to catch up. Storm fairies end up taking first place again, when Chloe slides down into the slime but because Rosetta, afraid of getting dirty, is not with her, they are placed last. This was caused laugh Rumble and he begins to taunt Chloe and Rosetta, making fun of her fear of dirt, and then flies away.

When the last game called derby cart race was begins, storm fairies taking the lead, but Rosetta was, conquer her fear, announces she has a plan to win the games. The race starts with storm talents taking the lead, but Vidia and Zephyr take a shortcut and crash, then Terence and Fairy Gary try the pond but land in it, leaving just the garden and storm fairies. Rosetta and Chloe take the mud hill shortcut and successfully make it and get ahead of the storm fairies. However, Rumble cheated using Glimmer's lightning power to zap girls' cart wheels, which leads to the crash. Seeing their cart destroyed, Rosetta and Chloe push their cart over the finish line and finish together. While Rumble celebrates his victory, Queen Clarion announces that the garden fairies are the winners. Rumble protests, until she shows him that Glimmer abandoned him just before the finish line for cheating, giving the victory to the garden fairies, because both team members had to cross the finish line together in order to win. Rosetta and Chloe broke their losing streak and they celebrate with their friends. Later, Rosetta teases Rumble by putting the ring on her thumb and showing it to him.