The Neverending Story (novel)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Bastian attempts to wield Sikanda without its permission.

* [[The Hero]]: Shared with Atreyu.

* [[Jerkass]]: In the second half of the book, and notably in the second film.

* [[Jumped Off the Slippery Slope]]: Averted, eventually.

* [[Save Both Worlds]]

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]

 

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Artax somewhat does this in the Swamps of Sadness.}}

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Atreyu is absent in the third film. That might be a good thing to some people though, regarding the film's poor quality.

* [[The Hero]] / [[The Lancer]]

* [[Hidden Elf Village]]

* [[Magical Native American]]: A green-skinned Native American who hunts purple buffalo.

* [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]]: Atreyu sees Bastian through the Magic Mirror Gate, and is freaked out by it. The same happens to Bastian.

* [[Sapient Steed]]: Artax.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]

=== The Childlike Empress (Moon Child) ===

 

 

* [[Above Good and Evil]]: She is completely [[True Neutral]] and draws no distinctions between anything, never judges anyone, and almost never actually uses her power. In her view, good and evil are ''both'' important parts of Fantastica's existence. She also doesn't warn Bastian about the fact that wishing will make him lose memories, and several of her past saviors have ended up in [[Fate Worse Than Death|the City of Old Emperors]].

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Fisher King]]: Without her, Fantastica cannot live. Her illness and the destruction of Fantastica are one and the same.

* [[Omniscient Morality License]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: She takes the form of a ten-year-old girl, but is much older than even Morla or any other of the ancient inhabitants of Fantastica. Her appearance may be [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]], especially since both Atreyu and Bastian are also young children of about the same age that she appears as.

* [[Say My Name]]: Forces Bastian to shout out a new name for her to save her kingdom: Moon Child.

* [[Sliding Scale of Beauty]]: She is a Divine Level beauty.

* [[Time Abyss]]: The Empress and the Old Man are some of the oldest residents in Fantastica.

* [[Woman in White]]

 

* [[Ancient Keeper]]: Subverted; when Bastian tries to apologize to him at the end for losing his book, it turns out that he has never seen or heard of it, and it presented itself to Bastian in Coreander's store of its own accord. When Coreander got to Fantastica, it was by a different route.

** Played straight in the film, where he is reading the book when Bastian comes in.

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]

* [[Magic Librarian]]: Although he actually isn't a librarian, but a bookstore owner.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "With luck!" or variations thereof

* [[Giant Flyer]]

* [[The Lancer]]: To Atreyu.

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|After he dies, his body springs to life and wounds Atreyu.}}

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]

* [[The Dragon]]

* [[Envy]]: His reason for wanting to destroy Fantastica. Werewolves can travel between Earth and Fantastica, but have no world of their own.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Creatures that appear human on Earth and appear like Fantastican monsters in Fantastica.

 

=== Xayide ===

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the second film. In the book, she's closest thing to an antagonist in the second half, but since she's killed off before the climax and never comes to blows with Bastian, she's not really big enough to be a [[Big Bad]].

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Or so she'd like the heroes to believe

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: She acts this way in order to manipulate Bastian.

* [[Heterochromia]]: One of her eyes is red, the other green.

* [[Hot Witch]]

* [[Manipulative Bitch]]

* [[Made of Air]]: Her body is a living construct of pure sound; her body ''is'' the melody that she sings.

* [[The Omniscient]]: She is borderline this, as people from all over Fantastica travel to speak to her and she can give answers to just about anything.

 

=== The Old Man of Wandering Mountain ===

* [[Break the Haughty]]: Both Hynreck and Oglamar. Bastian doesn't think too much of Hynreck's boasting and deriding of how saving Fantastica "didn't require much of a hero," and soundly defeats him. Oglamar, who is only interested in the best, leaves Hynreck because of this. To remedy the situation, Bastian then invents a story about Oglamar getting kidnapped by a dragon, getting her into a situation for Hynreck to rescue her from. In both cases, Bastian realizes afterwards that what he did was [[Disproportionate Retribution]].

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Oglamar.

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Hynreck views himself as a [[Failure Hero]] after Bastian defeats him and gives up on his relationship with Oglamar, but when she is kidnapped, he rescues her anyway.

* [[Knight Errant]]: Hykrion, Hysbald, and Hydorn become this. At one point, however, after getting lost several times, they declare that they are absolute failures at it.

* [[The Swordmaster]]: All of them, but especially Hysbald and Hynreck.

 

=== Yikka ===

* [[The Eeyore]]: The Acharis to the extreme.

* [[Ocular Gushers]]: The Archaris constantly cry an endless amount of acidic tears.

 

=== Ilwan ===

 

* [[The Eeyore]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]

* [[Unnamed Parent]]