Lady Tremaine

Granny (by Dizzy)

Bitch (By Fairy Godmother)

Owner of Curl Up & Dye

## Personal information

### Personality

Cold-hearted, cruel, selfish, evil, power-hungry, intelligent, wicked, rude, envious, greedy, spiteful, strict, mysterious, ruthless, abusive, contemptuous, regal, sophisticated, sinister, controlling, snobbish, cunning, uncaring, cynical

**Lady Tremaine** is one of the villains that was set to appear in *Descendants 2* (although only her voice is heard). She is the grandmother of Dizzy Tremaine and the mother of Anastasia and Drizella. She is the teacher of Evil Schemes and Nasty Plots at Dragon Hall and the owner of Curl Up & Dye.

## Character Information

### Personality

Unlike most other Disney Villains, Lady Tremaine doesn't possess any magical powers (until she finds Fairy Godmother's wand in *A Twist in Time*) or exert any physical force. She strongly believes in maintaining grace and self-control, reminding her daughters of this when the two fight during their music lesson. The only time she herself breaks this rule is, ironically, at the point when Cinderella interrupts the music lesson to bring Lady Tremaine the invitation to the royal ball (at which point she frustratingly slams her hands onto the keys of the piano). She has a sinister glare and is very cruel to Cinderella; an example is when she silences her harshly twice when ordering Cinderella to do chores in the château. She even does the same to Anastasia and Drizella occasionally, implying that she's not much better towards towards her two biological daughters than she is towards Cinderella.

Lady Tremaine holds great envy towards her stepdaughter simply for her beauty and wholesome charm, so she treats her stepdaughter like a servant in her own home. A tyrant who employs subtle methods, she is deviously manipulative in controlling Cinderella by maintaining a sham benevolence in her household authority; she never *physically* abuses Cinderella and instead encourages her daughters to do so, while Lady Tremaine herself opts for verbal and emotional abuse. For example, when she slyly noted that Cinderella fixed up her dress with the help of Drizella's beads and Anastasia's sash, her daughters took the initiative to rip Cinderella's dress to shreds. Lady Tremaine also makes sure she never has to keep her promises, especially those she makes to Cinderella since she wants to make sure Cinderella is never happy, while simultaneously remaining true to her words. This is done when she falsely promises Cinderella that she can attend the ball *if* she can find something suitable to wear, and once she manipulates her daughters into tearing up their stepsister's dress, Cinderella is reduced to rags, leaving her unable to attend the ball. Her stepmother then cruelly bids Cinderella "good night", ultimately maintaining her ostensible 'fairness' in her side of the bargain.

By *Cinderella III: A Twist in Time*, however, Lady Tremaine's personality and overall aura took a darker turn, as she herself was implied to have become much more openly abusive towards her two biological daughters, specifically towards Anastasia, when Drizella briefly suggested she and Lady Tremaine beat Anastasia with a stick the latter had found. Her newfound violent nature was unleashed during the climax when she tried to turn both Cinderella and Anastasia into toads when the latter refused to marry Prince Charming, having already turned some of the guards into animals, and would most likely have done the same to the King had she succeeded, as her aim to gain access to the palace may have also been fueled by a lust for power.

Almost all of Tremaine's actions are motivated by a selfish hunger for prestige, and possibly even a lust for power and domination, as she wants to marry her daughters off to those on the top of the social ladder, most likely as a means of gaining access to the Palace. Tremaine expects her daughters to be utterly obedient and is infuriated when they are not, as seen when Drizella almost divulged their plan, and more notably when Anastasia chose not to marry Prince Charming out of love.

In the *Kingdom Hearts* games, she is also shown to be quite reckless when she doesn't get her way, as evidenced by her summoning an Unversed to kill Cinderella and Aqua; apparently, neither being aware nor even caring if the Unversed in question harms her or her daughters in the crossfire.

## Appearences and Timeline

### Before The Isle of the Lost

#### Cinderella

Once she married an unknown man and had two daughters named Anastasia and Drizella, but when they were seven and eight they lost their father and she married again with a rich man with a daughter Ella. When he died she started abusing Ella as a maid, calling her Cinderella and spilled all the fortune to her ugly daughters.

On a day when the prince throws a ball and the fortune is all most fully spilled she wants her daughters to charm the prince so one of them can marry him and enrich the family. She promises Cinderella can go as long as she finishes all her chores. Surprised by Cinderella having a beautiful dress and finished all of her chores she smoothly orders her daughters to ruin the dress. Then they all go to the ball but the prince is charmed by another lady who suddenly leaves by twelve leaving a glass slipper. He let the Duke search in all the kingdom after the maiden who fits the slipper. She doesn't want Cinderella to have a chance and locks her up in the tower. After her daughters, both fail with fitting and marry the prince she says there is no other maiden in the house to fit the slipper. But then Cinderella comes, freed by the mice Jaq and Gus, and tries to fit the slipper. Lady Tremaine tries to ruin it again by breaking the glass slipper but then Cinderella reveals to be the girl by showing the other slipper that fits, later she marries the prince and they have a son named Chad Charming.

#### Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

Lady Tremaine made her second film appearance in the Direct-to-DVD sequel *Cinderella II: Dreams Come True*. In this film, she only appeared in the "*An Uncommon Romance*" segment. Lady Tremaine is shown to be cold towards her own biological daughters, implying she hasn't treated them much better than she treated Cinderella. When Anastasia falls for a common baker, Tremaine harshly forbids her to do so much as speak to him again or even enter his bakery again. (As before, Lady Tremaine's ambitions reflect her aristocratic narcissism, for she still wants her daughters to choose wealthy noblemen as husbands.) Thus, Anastasia must defy her mother's wishes for the first time, and the segment ends with her attending Cinderella's ball with the baker boy she presumably will soon marry.