Odette (The Swan Princess)

## Odette

* Adult
* Teen
* Pre-Teen
* Youngster
* Toddler
* Infant
* Swan

### Relatives

King William (father, deceased), Queen Aubri (mother, deceased), Queen Uberta (mother-in-law), King Maximilian (father-in-law, deceased), Alise (Foster daughter), Lucas (foster son in-law)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Unknown kingdom in Scotland, UK (formerly)
Chamberg, UK (current residence)

### Goals

Protect her Kingdom (ongoing).
Marry Prince Derek.
Become Queen
Save Christmas.
Defeat the Forbidden Arts.
Convince the Flying Squirrels that she is not evil
Protect her foster daughter, Alise, and help her become a true Princess (all succeeded).

## Physical description

### Species

Human
Swan

## Performers

### Voice

Michelle Nicastro
Laura Bailey
Nina Herzog
Liz Callaway
Adrian Zahiri

Will you love me, Derek, till the day I die?—Odette, *The Swan Princess* (1994).

**Odette** is the titular main protagonist of The Swan Princess film series.

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 enchanter, and is taken 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.

## Story

### 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 who is now a warlock, plots to conquer William's kingdom with dark magic, but fails when the king sends a surprise party to attack Rothbart's tower. He is banished from the kingdom. Before he leaves, he vows that he will take everything that the king owns and loves.

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. With his powers back, he 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. Following William’s assassination, 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 instantly 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 II: 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 and rescuing Uberta from her cell, 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 III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure

Derek and Odette are busy preparing for the Festival Days holiday for the kingdom when an evil sorceress named Zelda sneaks into the castle to find the notes of the all-powerful magical orb known as the Forbidden Arts.

Odette was later kidnapped by Zelda, and Derek must give the pieces of the notes to Zelda that he had stolen from the Forbidden Arts journal in order to release Odette. Zelda turns Odette into a swan and trapped her in a magical cage. Derek comes to the rescue, but before he is able to defeat Zelda, Odette tries to fly away from the magic orb that was meant to kill her. Puffin later informed Derek that Odette has been killed.

Devastated, Derek breaks down and cries for her loss. When the notes were burned, the flames taże shape of a swan and Odette herself materializes and returns back to life.

Derek and Odette oversee the festival and asks Derek how he feels about the kingdom since there is no more magic and in reply, he says "so long as you're here, Odette, there will always be magic". She and Derek share a romantic passionate kiss; which ends the third movie.

### The Swan Princess Christmas

Odette and Derek had a special celebration as it is their first Christmas together as husband and wife. When everybody is having another behavior, she notices that Rothbart, as a ghostly spirit, is behind all of this. Rothbart tries to destroy Christmas by using his powers to make everyone become angry. She tries to break the evil spell on Queen Uberta and Lord Rogers and succeeds.

The spell was broken, but Rothbart has other plans. On Christmas Eve, he appears and kidnaps Odette, changing her into a swan once again and traps her in a cage of vines. Derek, who fought him once in the first Swan Princess movie, comes to the rescue. Odette watches the fight and when it seems that everything is lost, she realizes the only way to save everything is to sing Season Of Love. Rothbart is defeated once more and Derek dies in her arms, but she begins to sing, leading the spirits of Christmas to revive him. The Christmas tree was restored and all are honoring towards Derek and Odette.

Chronologically, this movie takes place between the first and second films. Odette says it is their first Christmas together as husband and wife. However, in The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain, they had celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary.

### The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale

Odette and Derek are happy as always while a group of flying squirrels called Scullians think that Odette is evil due to an ancient prophecy. She helps the woodcutter along with Derek to chop wood. The two Scullions Cutter and Jojo attack Odette and leads her to a trap but failed as Derek rescues her.

The Evil Force is seeking for a glowing green stone to destroy the Swan Princess for centuries but failed. The Evil Force burns a house and a man with his daughter, Alyssa, is trapped inside. Derek helps Alyssa's father out from the burning house but before he dies, he asks Derek to take care of Alyssa. Derek promises with Odette to raise Alyssa as their daughter together.

Alyssa wakes up and realizes that she is in the palace. As Odette brushes Alyssa's hair, Alyssa starts to cry and Odette comforts her, remembering how she lost her own father, King William when Rothbart had abducted her several years ago. She promises Alyssa that she will always be there for her and Alise had confidence in her new family but refuses to speak.

Alyssa starts to like her new family but a nightmare troubles her and Odette sings her a lullaby to comfort her. The next morning, she and Derek decided to adopt her as their own child and Queen Uberta is happy to become a paternal grandmother.

Alyssa was abducted by some Scullions and Odette, together with Derek, is off to save her. The flying squirrels prepared some traps to eliminate the Swan Princess but fail. One of the flying squirrels nearly killed Derek by sending him a poison arrow. Another Scullion (whom Odette names Scuttle) helps cure Derek.

Later, Odette sees the metal box with the green glowing stone that can destroy the Swan Princess. Odette vows to find Alise and was nearly killed by Mangler, the leader of the Scullions. Scully saves her and Odette tries to free Alyssa but fails. Alyssa, speaks for the first time, tells Odette to break the orange-colored crystal orb. Odette tries to break it but the Forbidden Arts appear and is now capable of withstanding Odette's presence with the great power of the glowing stone. Scuttle sacrifices himself to save Odette. A worried Odette starts to find Alyssa and Alyssa cried out "Mommy". Odette is happy that she is all right.

The movie ends with Alyssa, the official princess of the royal family, together with Odette and Derek as a happy family.

### The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today

Odette and Derek leave their daughter Alyssa with Queen Uberta, Lord Rogers along with The Scullions, Speed, Puffin, and Jean-Bob. They spend the summer helping the people of the kingdom. After they completed a new bridge across a ravine they get alerted by Chamberlain that Alyssa has run off.

Sometime later as Odette and Derek ride to find Alyssa, Scuttle's ghost tells them that Alise is OK but needs helps, so he tells them to take the back road. Later, thanks to Scuttle's instructions, Odette and Derek meet up with Lucas' Parents. Shortly after hearing their sad story of their son's disappearance, Alyssa and Lucas, who was in the bushes listening nearby reunite with their families believing that they had help from Angels.

### The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover

Odette and Derek go to Trumbeau to make a trade agreement. While there the king talks about how her late father King William saved him in battle. Later the dam in Trumbeau breaks and the village is destroyed so Odette with help from everyone in her kingdom helps to donate as much money and supplies in order to restore Trumeau.

### The Swan Princess: A Royal Mystery

In the 8th movie, someone is leaving a mark everywhere like a Z. It's considered a mann in black. So Odette and Derek are going to Trumbeau to meet Alise and Lucas to make sure that their are ok. It's revealed, that the Mann in black is no one else than Niccollo and the Z are actually an N as he wanted to take revange on everyone. Niccollo has rats and their only obey him when he whistles. Odette notices when she follows the rats along with Number 9 into the Sweres that it is a trap for Derek. When Odette and Derek had to go someplace else somethings not ok. The children are trapped and Derek Helps them to escape with Odette but got himself trapped.

Niccollo ties Derek in a submarine and leaves a rat. Scully is with him. The rat tries to help Derek, but Derek's life is in danger. Inside the submarine, Derek is trying to get out for air as he is grasping for it. Odette tells her husband, to not giving up. Than she sings their song but Derek can't breath any longer The bogg appears just in time to help the rat and Derek is now free. Niccollo is underarrest. Everthing is going back to normal.

### The Swan Princess: Kingdom of Music

Odette is hosting a competition to celebrate her daughter's birthday making a Festival. 5 members have entered: Humelani, Anya Isabella, Shamar and Prince Li .All of them are singing with the inspirations of their country. The winner will sing at the bal at the coming of age for Alise. Odette and Derek meet Princess Mei Li of Noble Birth the daughter of the Emperor of Cathay and twin sister of Prince Li to seek for help on them, because her boyfriend Chen a peasant common artist is under a spell forcing him to leave as a dragon and the only way to break the spell is that a child must surrender true love.

Prince Li and Alise become good firends and even Alise had a crush on him and falling in love with him as well, both are explaining that their lost their mother of a young age and begin raised by their father, (The Emperor and Alise's father.) All 4 finalist trying the best with a good preformance. The judges are Queen Uberta Lord Rogers, and Jean-Bob. When Li is the last one of the finalist, he sings Goodbye in his Chinese Manadrin version so full os passion and love as he is singing specially to Alise. When he ended his performance everyone was thilled and Alise too. Odette announces the Winner: Prince Li much to his happiness and Alise embraces him. Later Alise takes Li to Lord Rogers Secret Chambers. When the ball comes Alise's first dance is fith her father Derek, but than Li asks Queen

Uberta to break a tradition just this one that Lucas should dance with Alise. Alise wasn't very pleased to dance with him but in the end she dances and Li surrenders his love to Alise. Unbeknonst to Li, he broke the Spell on Chen and Mei Li is very happy to have her boyfriend back in his human form. At the end of the movie, Alise and Li meet once more and both are saying that both won't forget eachother. At the very end it can be read: To be continued, making a sequel.

### The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding

In this movie, Odette and her husband Derek are traveling with Ru, Prince Li, Mei Li, and Chen to their wedding. At their arrival to the Cathay Empire Li introduces them to his Father the Emperor of Cathay. Odette recites a magical Swallow Poem a gift she made for the Emperor and she explains that Mei Li is like her as she was cast under Rothbart's spell forcing her to be a swan by day and a human by night and Chen, Mei Li's boyfriend a common artist is also forced to live as a fiery dragon and only has his human form for a couple of minutes during sunset and the spell was broken by Li surrendering his true love for Alise during her coming of age ball. The emperor realizes his big mistake and he plans to have Mei Li and Chen be wed and live in the castle. But soon they find out that there are not on the boat. Li and Derek are on their way to find them. They find them in the forest and Li brings them the news that their father gives his blessing which overjoys them happily. Li and Chen teach Derek a victory song (Home a Hero) and as he often mistakes the lyrics they smile and the 3 sing it in English. But Troubles begins when Mei Li runs into Fang who turns her into an old woman. No one recognizes her and Mei Li desperately calls for Odette saying:Believe me Odette. Haunting by her words Odette and Derek are sailing back home while Odette thinks of the words of the old woman that she felt the presence of knowing her. Scully appears scaring them. He tells Odette and Derek that Uberta is OK but hysteric. And they tell Scully that Uberta and Lord Rogers should come as soon as they can to Cathay. Odette and Derek inform Li what happened and Li is certain that Fang is an evil woman and he won't let that Fang hurt his sister again. Odette and Derek follow Li to another part of the Kingdom where they can see a flame. According to Li the sorcerer's flame gives Fang her powers and it was burning for many centuries. Only a member of the royal family can extinguish it if the sorcerer or sorceress uses the power for evil. Odette and Derek change into Chinese peasant clothes and enter into Fang's Lair to find something. Now Fang having the shape of Mei Li, gives Li the key to her lair and gives it to Derek the 2 entered and they read something in a spider web: You should not have come back. A giant Spider attacks Odette and Derek. Odette calls out for Li to help. Li enters and defeats the spider Monster with a stone. Using a sword Li frees Odette and Derek and all 3 escape from the horrible place.

With Uberta aka Madame La Quoix an Opera Singer and Lord Rogers aka CJ Pennypacker an inventor along with JeanBob, Puffin and Speed they all plan together how to defeat Fang. Li introduces Queen Uberta and Lord Rogers to his Father. Puffin, JeanBob and Speed are on they own Mission and go to Fang's Lair and they find something interesting a Holograph picture of Chen and Fang kissing. They deliver it to Derek and Odette and they meet Li to the Moonbridge. Li arrives quickly and he sees now that Fang and Chen are kissing each other on the Holograph picture. But Li informs them that his father has arranged the Wedding so that Mei Li and Chen get married as soon as possible. Li informs his father about it and he goes to the cave to take away Fang's Powers but Fang begs him not to do it and rotates the combination. Odette and Derek run into Fang and she imprisons them in the Royal Mural as a Picture frame unable to get out and no one can hear them but they can hear all. They witness Fang turning into Mei Li. Ru has taken the real Mei Li to the other part of the Empire and explaining to the old woman that Mei Li is a brave young Princess and everyone would be like her and he was her tutor and he witnessed how the spell on Chen was broken. A single tear was about to fall but it wouldn't come out from the portrait of Mei Li. While the wedding is about to start Queen Uberta sings a beautiful song with Mei Li was crying imagining her happy life with Chen. And then the tear falls and it freed Odette and Derek from the Mural interrupting the wedding. Ru also brings the real Mei Li outside while the fake Mei Li and Chen were about to wed as Chen almost lifted the Veil on Fang, which would've caused the real Mei Li's death, Odette tries to explain that the old woman is really Mei Li and she said: I believe you which frees Mei Li from Fang's evil spell and she and Chen are reunited again. Now Fang imprison almost everyone inside the Mural except Li, Mei Li, Odette and Yun Yan. Li runs into the cave trying to extinguish the sorcerer's flame, but he was unable. All witness Fang transforms into a giant Purple Fire breathing Fang Snake to kill Mei Li. Yun Yan a common girl helps Li defeat Fang by turning over a boiler and Odette wants to defeat Fang too but then Mei Li says: I'm the one you really want. Go ahead do your evil. Fang tries to attack Mei Li by burning her but Odette jumps into the flames to save Mei Li's life as a shock for Derek.

With Fang evilness gone forever The Cathay Empire is at peace again. Li and Yun Yan run outside but they fear everyone is gone. One by one come out from the Mural. Derek and Chen run to the palace where Odette and Mei Li are. Mei Li cries as she hold the unconscious body of Odette, and Derek fears the worst to lose his beloved wife once again. But shortly Odette opens her eyes and Derek is relieved that Odette is alive and Odette smiles to all the people who are surrounding her and all kneel down as the Emperor says: All Hail the Swan Princess. Odette soon recovers and all are heading back to Chamberg.

### The Swan Princess: A Fairy Tale is Born

In this movie, Uberta decides to give her leadership role to her son and daughter-in-law, Derek and Odette as King and Queen while they prepare for the coronation, the evil Queen Wixon wants revenge against Uberta for stealing the evil Queen's dogs. 25 years ago, Both Odette's parents and Derek's father were still alive, Maximilian taught Derek how to do Catch & Fire.

Meanwhile, Queen Aubri is pregnant with her firstborn child (which Uberta lied about Derek and unborn baby "boy" will be the best friends) and she gave birth to her and William's only child, Odette while she died when Uberta explained to William that the presentation of his newborn daughter which Derek "called" Odette "what a bummer".

25 years later, before Derek and Odette will be crowned King and Queen, the threat has arrived and Odette's animal friends will do anything to stop the threats from destroying Odette and Derek's coronation.

Once the threat has defeated, Uberta announced that her son and daughter-in-law, Derek and Odette as King and Queen, Derek and Odette's final dance together while they are now King and Queen then Alise will become the future Queen after she marries Lucas someday.

## Personality

Odette is kind, gentle and sweet to everyone she loves and cares about. She is also very brave and courageous when faced with dangerous situations and is not afraid to speak her mind. She is the only one who can change into a swan by day and regain her human form by night.

As future queen, Odette will do anything to protect her husband, Derek and her daughter, Alise. Odette is good at leadership (like her father did in the first movie) and it is her job to protect her kingdom from her enemies once Derek had defeated Sir Rothbart (who assassinated her father and placed a spell on her, wishes to marry her and rule her father's kingdom with her).

## 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

* She appears in every *Swan Princess* Movie.
* Her kingdom is unknown (resembles Germany or Scotland), later resides in Chamberg as queen.
* She is voiced by the late Michelle Nicastro in the first three films, then Laura Bailey in the middle four films, 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.
* 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.
* In the second film, Odette does not play the role of the Damsel in Distress as this role was actually taken by Queen Uberta.

## Quotes

Is beauty all that matters to you?—Odette, *The Swan Princess* (1994)

I can only kiss the man I love...—Odette on kissing Derek.

[giggles] No. Christmas saved us all.—A relived Odette to a revived Derek, after peace has been restored for Christmas.

That's strange.—Odette noticing a house burning on fire because of the forbidden arts trying to attack.

It's alright. I'm here, Alise. Everything is okay.—Odette comforting a frightened Alise, after she had a nightmare.

Oh, mother. It's so true.—Odette to Queen Aubri's ghost.

Change me into a swan!—Odette before she turns herself into a swan