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Characters from ''[[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]'' include:
== The Good Guys ==
=== Ariel ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Action Girl]]: At least, in the water.
* [[Be Yourself]]
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* [[Curtain Clothing]]: In the first film.
* [[Cute Mute]]: After she loses her voice in the first film.
* [[Deal
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Disney Princess]]
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* [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]
* [[Graceful Ladies Like Purple]]: One of her dresses in the sequel.
* [[Hoist
* [[Hot Mom]]: In the sequel.
* [["I Want" Song]]: "Part Of Your World".
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* [[Red Headed Heroine]]
* [[Seashell Bra]]
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Tomboy to her sister Arista (Girly Girl) in [[The Little Mermaid (
=== Prince Eric ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Brainwashed]]: This happened to Eric by "Vanessa" in the first film.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: His piloting his ship through a hurricane in the first film.
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=== King Triton ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Arc Villain]]: He starts off as the antagonist, but since Ursula far surpasses him in depravity, Ursula ends up becoming the main villain.
* [[Badass Beard]]: He has a long beard that befits his status as the king of the ocean.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: His
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Loyalty.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Ken Mars at his best.
* [[Leitmotif]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvwa0s20mo&feature=related Has a] [[Fanfare]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In the first film, when he realizes that he was too hard on Ariel.
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: He fails to consider that humans might not be an inherently evil race, and that Eric is a good person and that Ariel wouldn't be wrong to marry him.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Deconstructed. He ends up making a mistake that causes Ariel to want to make a deal with Ursula.
* [[Physical God]]: Though he doesn't seem to be as strong as Ursula once she gets the trident.
* [[Prongs of Poseidon]]: Fitting, considering that [[Classical Mythology|it's implied Poseidon is his father.]]
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
=== Sebastian the Crab ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]]: In the second film.
* [[Butt Monkey]]
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=== Flounder the Fish ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]: At the beginning of the first film
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: In the second film, it's [[Cam Clarke]] voicing Flounder as an adult.
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=== Scuttle the Seagull ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: When he stalls the wedding to buy Ariel some time in the first film.
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* [[The Other Darrin]]: Scuttle is voiced by Maurice LaMarche in the TV series.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* [[Punctuated Pounding]]/[[Punctuated!
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: "You've got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over."
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=== Max the Sheepdog ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Big Friendly Dog]]
* [[Butt Biter]]: Max gets to bite Ursula/Vanessa in the butt near the end of the first film.
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=== Melody ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
* [[Deal With the Devil]]: When she trades Triton's trident to Morgana in the second movie in order to become a permanent mermaid.▼
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▲* [[Deal
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Kid Has a Point]]: She arguably has better reasons for running away than Ariel did
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=== Tip and Dash ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]: Dash.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Expy]]: Tip and Dash are basically sea creature versions of [[The Lion King|Timon and Pumbaa]].
* [[Fat and Skinny]]
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=== "Surfer" ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Queen Athena ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Significant Green-Eyed Redhead]]
* [[Hot Mom]]
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=== Ariel's Sisters ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Catfish Club Band ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Urchin ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Pearl ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Stormy the Seahorse ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Moody Mount]]
* [[Seahorse Steed]]
=== Spot the Baby Orca ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Herald the Seahorse ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Sea monster ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
== The Bad Guys ==
=== Ursula ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: In the fairy tale, the sea witch was a neutral character who in addition to warning the mermaid of the transformation's consequences, didn't go back on her deal with the mermaid until asked to, and never interferes directly.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: An unusual example for a Disney film. Subverted in the TV series, though.
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Her human alias, "Vanessa".
* [[Brainwashed]]: "Vanessa" does this to Eric.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: She clearly cares about Flotsam and Jetsam, and is ''outraged'' at their deaths.
* [[Evil Eyebrows]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: When Eric stabs her with the ship's bowline. Strangely enough, her death looks very similar to that of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jafar]]'s.
* [[Glamour Failure]]: When "Vanessa" looks in the mirror, her true identity is revealed.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Ursula is [[Garfield|Grandma Arbuckle]].
* [[Impaled
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Subversion; Ursula was actually based on the drag queen Divine, who was originally supposed to voice her, but died before he could even record the voice, so the role went to Pat Carroll instead.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: A literal example in her human form.
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=== Flotsam and Jetsam ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Animal Eye Spy]]: They serve as this to Ursula.
* [[Evil Minions]]
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=== Glut the Shark ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Carnivores Are Mean]]
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]/[[
* [[The Voiceless]]
=== Morgana ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]
* [[The Unfavorite]]
=== Undertow the Tiger Shark ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[The Dragon]]: To Morgana
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Undertow is voiced by [[
=== Cloak and Dagger ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Evil Minions]]
* Expy: To Flotsam and Jetsam from the first film.
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=== Marina del Ray ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Benjamin the Manatee ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== The Evil Manta ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Badass Cape]]: His manta wings double as an effective one.
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* [[Good Hurts Evil]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Implied to be heading in this direction in the last episode of the TV series after Ariel saves him from getting his brain drained.
* [[Hoist
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
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=== Lobster Mobster and Da Shrimp ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Brooklyn Rage]]: If Mobster's accent is anything to go by.
* [[The Mafia]]: Well, as close as you're gonna get to the mob on a children's show produced by Disney,
=== Octopins ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Two Alligators ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Little Evil ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Identical Grandson]]: Looks almost exactly like a miniature version of his father minus the mustache.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: His motivation for befriending Ariel.
* [[Missing Mom]]: No word on what happened to Mrs. Evil Manta.
* [[Overlord, Jr.]]
=== Howling Hairfish ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Justified, seeing as how they're underwater and all.
=== Brain Sponge ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Sea serpent ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
== Other Characters ==
=== Sir Grimsby ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: In the first film, Grimsby is voiced by [[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|Roger]], while in the second film, he is voiced by [[Petticoat Junction (TV)|Newt]] [[Green Acres|Kiley]].▼
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▲* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: In the first film, Grimsby is voiced by [[101 Dalmatians
* [[Only Sane Man]]
* [[The Renfield]]: To Eric.
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=== Carlotta ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Chef Louis ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[French Jerk]]
* [[Gratuitous French]]
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* [[Super-Persistent Predator]]: to Sebastian, though, to Louis, it may be more a matter of pride than simply to serve the little crab as an entrée.
=== Priest ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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