List of The Little Mermaid characters
Ariel (voiced by Jodi Benson and played by Auli'i Cravalho in The Little Mermaid Live!, Sierra Boggess in the Broadway musical and portrayed by Halle Bailey in the 2023 live-action film) is one of the main characters of the franchise.
Eric dives into the sea to help Ariel, and in the battle that follows, climbs onto a ship and plows it into Ursula impaling her on the prow.
Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian[4] is a red Jamaican-accented crab and a servant aka who is the advisor of King Triton, and also his main musical composer.
Sebastian appears in the Little Mermaid Broadway musical, where he was originally played by Tituss Burgess, and has also been performed by Alan Mingo Jr. and Rodgelio Douglas Jr.
Flounder scares easily, and is prone to panicking under stressful situations like a single shark breaching the sunken ship, but when Ariel is in trouble, he comes through for her without hesitation.
He beatboxes and initiates a reprise of "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)" when he, Ariel, Sebastian and the Catfish Club Band are on the run from Atlantica.
His biggest role in the series is in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, where Ursula kidnapped him to force Ariel to give her the trident.
He is also a remote-controlled playable character in the same game seen holding a big conch shell on his head with your help to catch the voice orbs.
[2] At the Disney theme parks, Flounder makes cameo appearances in the Mickey's Philharmagic 3D show and in the Hong Kong Disneyland version of "It's a Small World."
Scuttle appears in a small role in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, in which he helps Ariel find her daughter Melody, who has run away.
The episodes he appears in are "Scuttle", where Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian meet him for the first time (in which he claims his name was originally "Scuttlebutt" but he changed it "for obvious reasons"), and "Island of Fear."
Ursula (voiced by Pat Carroll, who also provides her vocals for all the canonical animated media until her death in 2022, played by Queen Latifah in The Little Mermaid Live!
In the 2008 direct-to-DVD prequel The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, Triton bans music from Atlantica after his wife Athena is crushed to death by a pirate ship.
King Triton also appears in the video game Disney Magic Kingdoms, as a playable character to unlock for a limited time.
King Triton plays a prominent role in Poor Unfortunate Souls: A Tale of the Sea Witch, the third volume in the Villains series by author Serena Valentino.
Hades mentions while reading the Book of Fairy Tales held by the Odd Sisters that Poseidon is going by the name Triton now and is residing in the realms of the Many Kingdoms under that alias.
In the 2023 live-action remake, Ariel's sisters have diverse ethnicities and renamed as Perla (played by Lorena Andrea), Indira (Simone Ashley), Karina (Kajsa Mohammar), Caspia (Nathalie Sorrell), Mala (Karolina Conchet) and Tamika (Sienna King).
He first appears where Ariel and Flounder are exploring the Sunken Ship are collecting human artifacts and pursues them trying to kill them, but somehow gets his head stuck in an anchor and was not seen again for the entire film afterwards.
[citation needed] During Eric's birthday celebration, Max catches Ariel's scent and tracks her down, licking her on the cheek in an apparent show of affection.
Max is the only character in the human world who can fully see Vanessa for who she really is and is seen growling furiously at her during her and Eric's wedding, and she kicks him directly in the face.
Chef Louis appears in The Little Mermaid Live!, played by John Stamos..[15] Carlotta (voiced by Edie McClurg) works in Eric's castle in a role suggested to be similar to a housekeeper, though it is not stated outright.
The Seahorse (voiced by Will Ryan in the film and Charlie Adler in the TV series) is King Triton's herald, master-of-ceremonies, and messenger.
Urchin (voiced by Danny Cooksey) is an orphaned merboy with an olive-green tail and is one of the main characters of the prequel television series, in which he is a close friend of Ariel, Sebastian and Flounder, and often goes on adventures with them.
Unbeknownst to either of them, Ursula has launched another scheme to take over Atlantica, this time casting a spell that causes Ariel's treasures to come to life and terrorize people.
Pearl (voiced by Cree Summer) is a fun-loving mermaid with a blue tail and matching shells who is familiar with Ariel and Alana.
In the episode called "Whale of a Tale", when the human poachers get nearby, he frightenedly swims away from his real family until Ariel encounters him with a little love.
Hans Christian Andersen (voiced by Mark Hamill), the author of the original Little Mermaid fairy tale, appears in the episode "Metal Fish".
Based on rumors he hears from other sailors about the existence of merfolk, he attempts to verify these claims by exploring the undersea world with the invention of his primitive submarine.
Although his exact age is unknown, he appears to be potentially ageless as an individual is referenced in a legend as nearly destroying Atlantica who was imprisoned in an undersea volcano many years before the time of the series.
She is briefly mentioned in The Little Mermaid II, though her role gets slightly expanded in the Special Edition, as Morgana elaborates on her motives and backstory through the song "Gonna Get My Wish".
