Ben

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## Background information

### Feature films

*Descendants
Descendants 2
Descendants 3
Descendants: The Royal Wedding*

### Shows

*Descendants: Wicked World
Chibi Tiny Tales
Chibiverse*

### Video games

*Club Penguin
Just Dance: Disney Party 2*

## Character information

### Other names

Ben (primary nickname)
King Benjamin/King Ben
Bennyboo (by Mal and Audrey)
Benny Bear (by Audrey)
King Obvious (by Freddie)
King Obviously Cute (by Mal)
Benny (by CJ Hook)
Beasty Boy (by Uma)
King Benny (by Harry Hook)

### Occupation

King of the United States of Auradon and the Isle of the Lost
Prince of the United States of Auradon (formerly)
Student at Auradon Prep (formerly)
Captain of Auradon Prep's Tourney Team (formerly)

### Likes

Mal, giving second chances, his vespa, jelly donuts, swimming, picnics with Mal by the Enchanted Lake, his friends and family, PB & J sandwiches

### Dislikes

Mal or his friends and family in danger, unfairness, Mal's misuse of magic, hurting people's feelings

## Family information

### Parents

Belle (mother)
Adam (father)

### Other relatives

Maurice (maternal grandfather)
Unnamed maternal grandmother †
Maleficent (mother-in-law)
Hades (father-in-law)
Hadie (half-brother-in-law)
Kronos (grandfather-in-law)
Poseidon (uncle-in-law)
Zeus (uncle-in-law)
Hera (aunt-in-law)
Triton (cousin-in-law)
Otus (cousin-in-law)
Hercules (cousin-in-law)
Megara (cousin-in-law)
Herkie (cousin-in-law, once removed)

### Partner(s)

Mal (wife)
Audrey (ex-girlfriend)

 ―Ben in Descendants

***King Benjamin (Ben) Florian*** is a major character who appears in the *Descendants* franchise. Ben is the son of Belle and Adam (who are now King and Queen) from *Beauty and the Beast*. He is then the husband of Mal, daughter of Maleficent, and the King of the United States of Auradon and the Isle of the Lost.

## Appearances

### Descendants

A month before Ben is coronated as King of Auradon, the future king informs his mother and father of his first royal decree: to give the children of the Isle of the Lost a chance of redemption and to attend Auradon Prep. To ensure everybody's safety, he wanted to start small with the children who need help the most. Carlos, Jay, Evie, and Mal, much to his parents' surprise.

Ben tries to befriend them and help, but his girlfriend, Aurora and Prince Phillip's daughter, Audrey, is completely unwelcoming and takes him away, forcing Doug to take care of the four VKs.

Having been told of Maleficent's terrible deeds, Ben attempts to reach out to Mal, Maleficent's daughter, the most. Because of this, he begins to feel some affection for her. Ben also tries to get both Jay, Jafar's son, and Carlos, Cruella De Vil's son, on the Tourney Team. He is unaware of their mission to steal the wand of Fairy Godmother. Ben is then tricked by Mal into eating a love potioned cookie, which proves helpful as this allows him to break up with Audrey and date Mal instead, seeing they have more in common.

On their date, Ben jumps into the enchanted lake which removes the potion from him. After Mal tries to save him, thinking he had drowned, he tells her that he can see some inner goodness in Mal that is stronger than the evil of her mother. Ben continues to fake being under the spell but genuinely shows love for her as the coronation nears.

On the day he is to be crowned the new King, Ben rides in a carriage with his girlfriend, Mal, who gives him a cupcake with the antidote. He eats it too early, then reveals that he has been free from the spell, and forgives her as he believed she did not believe they could be together when dating Audrey. When she questions if he had been faking his affections, he reveals he has been truly in love and gives a signet ring. In the middle of the ceremony, Jane, Fairy Godmother's daughter, steals the wand to use the magic to improve her looks.

Unfortunately, the wand blasts magic that undoes the barrier around the Isle allowing Maleficent to escape and want to steal the wand. Ben talks Mal to listen to her heart, which makes others do the same thing. They then decide to be good people of Auradon before Maleficent arrives and freezes everybody.

Ben is left happily surprise when the spell is undone because of the VKs who used their power of goodness to shrink the dragon (Maleficent) to the size of a gecko, They then proceed to happily celebrate (Set it Off).

### Descendants 2

In the 2017 sequel, where Ben goes to the Isle of the Lost to find Mal after he realizes she has left Auradon. Mal's friends, Carlos, Evie, and Jay, decide to go with him to help, but first, they have to teach him their wicked ways so he can sneak around the Island without being recognized.

But when he is recognized by one of Uma's friends, he was captured, causing Mal to choose between him or to give the pirates Fairy Godmother's wand. When Mal tricks Uma, they are all able to escape, but Uma finds out the fake wand causing a sword fight. They were able to make it out alive, but Mal forgets her spellbook and is now in the hands of Uma.

At the party, Uma hypnotizes Ben to fall in love with her to make Mal jealous, but due to true love's kiss, Ben breaks free from her evil spell. When Uma and Mal are about to combat, Ben stops Uma and tries to tell her that he will give her and the rest of the VKs a chance, but Uma just leaves.

### *Descendants 3*

Ben proposes to Mal, much to Audrey's dismay and everyone else's glee. Audrey is seduced by the power of Maleficent's scepter and casts a sleeping curse and a petrification curse upon the kingdom while turning Ben into a beast. Ben runs into Carlos, Harry, Jay and Gil in the forest in a wild state before Jane sprinkles him with water from the enchanted lake, which reverses Audrey's spell except for his beard and fangs. They try to find Audrey at the Fairy Cottage where Aurora grew up, but they only find Chad. Ben is then turned to stone along with Dude, Carlos, Evie and Jay until Mal defeats Audrey with Uma's help. After saving Audrey, Mal and Ben celebrate their engagement before Mal makes a speech about unbarring the Isle of the Lost and put the past behind them, saying that everyone is capable of good and bad no matter which side of the barrier they came from, and if it wasn't for Uma and her crew, Auradon would have been lost, and Audrey would have been lost had it not been Hades's help.

The Isle is officially freed and everyone is allowed to enter Auradon. The whole kingdom celebrates together.

### *Descendants: The Royal Wedding*

He marries Mal in this short, is told by her dad not to break his heart and then they sing the song Feeling the Love.

## Printed material

### *The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel*

In the prelude novel, Ben is holding a council meeting in his father's stead. He is extremely anxious because it is his first time to hold a meeting. Despite encouragement from both Belle and Beast, the meeting goes horribly wrong and Ben loses his temper. In the end, Ben manages to find a solution to the problems and invites Grumpy to a one-on-one meeting, believing that it would be better that way and solves the situation peacefully. He then comes to believe in himself as the King that he is instead of the King everyone expects him to be.

Like Mal, he has a mystical dream. In his case, he finds himself the Isle of the Lost where he meets a strange girl with mischievous eyes and purple hair. While singing *Once Upon a Dream* on his date with Audrey, Aurora's daughter, Ben realizes the relevance between the song and his dream.

The novel also explains the reason why he feels pity for the children on the Isle of the Lost. Like them, he was born into his life, where everything was taken care of for him. Though he is proud to be his parents' son and the future king of Auradon, he also felt trapped and started imagining how it would feel like for those children, who even had lesser choices than him. This prompts him to make the decision he does in the movie.

### *Return to the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel*

In the sequel novel, Ben is now in charge of everything in Auradon as its new king. Reports come in from various regions of the kingdom where unusual earthquakes and storms are hitting, and more disturbingly, a dragon has been spotted in Camelot Heights. Worried that they are in danger, the wizard Merlin asks for a petition to use magic. Worried that it would cause consequences, Ben instead decides to visit Camelot and observe the situation. He eventually finds out the monster is indeed a dragon, and many suspect it to be Maleficent's doing despite her incarceration.

Ben returns to Auradon just as Mal and her friends are leaving for the Isle of the Lost to investigate matters of their own. Ben allows them to leave, putting faith in his girlfriend. After much investigation, Ben finds out that the dragon is not Maleficent, but from something else. He and Grumpy then investigate the Dwarf Mines, where he accidentally meets up with Mal's team and the true culprit, Madam Mim. After a hard battle, Ben saves the day by pointing Excalibur (the sword borrowed from Camelot) at Madam Mim, forcing her to surrender. Merlin then sends everyone back to where they belong and seals the underground tunnel to keep the inhabitants of the Isle of the Lost from escaping.

### *Rise of the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel*

Ben helps the four VKs out of a jam when they get caught by Fairy Godmother while trying to steal a vehicle to sneak out to the ocean. He then drives the boat to the coast of the Isle of the Lost to help them look for King Triton's trident. Mal and Uma start a tug-o-war for the scepter until Mal casts a spell to reverse time.

### *Escape from the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel*

Ben and Mal participate in senior secret activities. At the end of the novel, they head off to graduation.

## Relationships

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## Trivia

* According to the film, his middle name is Florian, named after Snow White's Prince. At the time of the first film, he was captain of the Tourney Team and was sixteen years old.
* Ben's Tourney number is 7.
* In the prequel book, Mal's dream of Ben was set near the Enchanted Lake and being "on the stone floor of an ancient temple ruin". This was the place Ben took Mal on their date.
	+ The prelude also confirms that while Ben takes after his father in looks, he takes after his mother in personality; he shares her interests in books and reading and is more of a gentle soul in comparison to his father.
* Since Mal was sixteen years old and Ben was "turning sixteen" by the time he made his proclamation in the first film, this would make Ben younger than Mal by a few to several months.
* Near the end of the first film, Ben reveals that he didn't fake his affection for Mal after the love spell was washed away in the Enchanted Lake.
* In the *Disney Descendants Yearbook*, Ben's "Secret Wish" is to live happily ever after while his "Not-so-secret Wish" is to see everyone in Auradon treated the same, regardless of what their parents have done in the past.
* Similar to names of Maleficent and Mal using the root word "mal-" based off the word "malevolent" meaning "bad" and/or "evil", Ben's name serves as a contrast using the root word "ben-" from the word "benevolent" which means "kind and generous" like how the character is portrayed and reinforcing the idea of good and evil.
* Most of Ben's singing roles were dubbed by Jeff Lewis in the first film, but Mitchell Hope did sing in the sequels.
* During the song "Chillin' Like a Villain" in the second film, Ben shows a rather quick-learning streak. After learning how to act like a bad guy, he was immediately able to steal Jay, Carlos, and Evie's things before giving them their stuff back.
* Despite his father's spell being broken, Ben seems to have retained some of his father's beastly characteristics: for example, shaking himself dry after exiting the lake and his animalistic bursts of rage, such as when rushing to protect Mal from Maleficent and vicious snapping at his parents and Fairy Godmother when under Uma's spell. He had also let out a great roar like his father's beast form during a battle between dragon Mal and Uma.

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