Brave/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Compressed Hair]]: Merida wears a tight-fit headdress as part of her royal attire, which must be a bother given the untamed mass of her hair.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Merida's main motivation is based upon this trope. This is medieval Scotland, after all.

* [[Disney Princess]]: Merida is set to join the line-up.

* [[Femininity Failure]]: This seems to be the core of her relationship with her mother Elinor. Elinor wants her daughter to act like a lady. Merida either ignores her mother or fails miserably at being a lady when she tries.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: She's stubborn, rebellious, sarcastic, and rather self-centered...but underneath it all, she has a kind and heroic heart.

* [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]: Merida goes adventuring while wearing a dress and doesn't seem to mind it, except for that one dress at the archery contest.

* [[Of Corset Hurts]]

* [[Passionate Sports Girl]]

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|Merida Is About to Shoot You]]: The first released image was of [http://www.geekforcefive.com/images/uploads/pixar-brave_610.jpg Merida aiming a bow right at the camera.] She does the same against a bear in the trailer.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: Merida tries to do this, but [[It Got Worse|it doesn't go well]].

* [[Splitting the Arrow]]: Merida does this when she wins the archery contest.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The Tomboy to Elinor's Girly Girl.

* [[The High Queen]]: She has "the weight of the kingdom on her shoulders."

* [[Hot Mom]]: Elinor looks well off for a mother of a teenage daughter and triplet boys. Although to be fair, the shape of her dress disguises much of her figure.

* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]

* {{spoiler|[[Mama Bear]]: She becomes a literal one in the climax.}}

* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Most likely a sign of her age than anything supernatural... maybe.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The Girly Girl to Merida's Tomboy.

* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Elinor walks very calmly through the massive fight scene going on in the throne room, presumably with the intent of putting a stop to it.

** She also does this when Merida crashes the archery contest, though she's much less calm this time. Also note that, while everyone else is clearly stunned by Merida's actions, Elinor is the ''only'' person in the scene who tries to stop her.

* [[Happily Married]]: To Elinor.

* [[Heroes Love Dogs]]: Owns at least two of them.

* [[Large and In Charge]]

* [[Large Ham]]: When he does an impression of Merida for Elinor.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[Ruling Couple]]: King Fergus and Queen Elinor are both involved in the welfare of the kingdom.

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=== The Triplets ===

* [[Beard of Barbarism]]

* [[Face Palm]]: Does this after his son's arrow misses the bull's-eye.

* [[Tribal Face Paint]]: As a possible [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Braveheart (Film)|Braveheart]]''. He has matching [[Body Paint]] on both arms, too, as does his son. By the way, blue tattoos were a tradition of the Picts, who were some the first people living in Scotland.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]

* [[Cool Horse]]: He's a Clydesdale.

* [[Empathy Pet]]: He is Merida's best friend and "her most trusted [[The Confidant|confidant]]".

* [[Horsing Around]]

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=== Mor'du ===

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* [[Animal Nemesis]]: For Fergus, and most likely for Merida later on.

* [[The Dreaded]]

* [[Evil Is Bigger]]: "It stands 12 feet tall!"

* [[Hero Killer]]: "His hide littered with the weapons of fallen warriors!"

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mor'du means "Death".

* {{spoiler|[[Was Once a Man]]}}

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