List of Disney's Fantasia characters

The following are fictional characters from Disney's 1940 film Fantasia, its 1999 sequel Fantasia 2000 and the video game Fantasia: Music Evolved. Characters in this list are sorted by the film and segment in which they appear. The names of some characters including the original ones are never mentioned in the programs.

Notable and recurring characters

Notable recurring characters in Disney's Fantasia franchise.

Mickey Mouse

Main article: Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is Yen Sid's apprentice in the The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment. Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice has become such an iconic role for the character that he is regularly depicted as such in the Disney parks. Mickey is seen wearing his famous red wizard's robe and blue sorcerer's hat in numerous parades as well as in the nighttime spectacular they vanishedFantasmic! at both Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. The Sorcerer's Hat was also a former park icon of Disney's Hollywood Studios and also is involved heavily in the plot of Mickey's Philharmagic at the Magic Kingdom. A very large version of the hat is also seen at the entrance of the Walt Disney Animation Studios building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California (and can be easily seen from both Riverside Drive and the 134 Freeway). Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Disney's home video sales division featured "Sorcerer Mickey" on its covers starting from its inception in 1980. The 1986-2000 Walt Disney Home Video logo and the 1988–1994 Walt Disney Classics logos also featured Sorcerer Mickey. Furthermore, Sorcerer Mickey serves as the logo for Walt Disney Imagineering, the subsidiary of the company responsible for designing the Disney parks and resorts.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice was the only sequence from the original film carried over into Fantasia 2000.

A comic adaptation of The Sorcerer's Apprentice was featured in Mickey Mouse Adventures #9, published by Disney Comics at the time of the film's 50th anniversary.

Yen Sid

Yen Sid
First appearance Fantasia (1940)
Created by Fred Moore
Voiced by Michael Rye (The Wonderful World of Disney, "Disney on Parade")
Corey Burton (English)
Takashi Inagaki (Japanese)

Yen Sid is the powerful sorcerer in Fantasia, appearing as an old man with a long beard and robes that extended to the floor. The nickname ("Disney" spelled backwards) was given by Disney animators, as the sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia had no onscreen name, nor does the character in the original Goethe poem "Der Zauberlehrling", the inspiration for the music piece by Paul Dukas. Film historians believed Fred Moore added the same sized nose as Walt Disney's nose, and even added the same eyebrow length as Walt Disney's eyebrows; the animators used Disney's "dirty look" (which was the look that Walt gave his animators when he disapproved of their work) for the sorcerer by lifting his eyebrow.

Yen Sid serves as the sorcerer under whom Mickey Mouse is an apprentice. After executing a series of spells of summoning light out of a skull, changing its appearance as Mickey witnessed it while in the middle of his chores, Yen Sid decides to take a rest and he leaves his hat behind. From there, Mickey takes the hat and uses its magic to bring a broom to life to finish the chore of bringing water in from the well. However, Mickey does not know how to stop the magic now that it has been activated, and after he falls asleep, the entire basement is flooded. Thankfully, Yen Sid reappears, and uses his innate magical powers to recede the waters and undo the spell that caused the problem in the first place. From there, a disappointed (yet slightly amused) Yen Sid takes back his hat and broom and sends Mickey back to finish his chores after using the broom to send him off.

In other media

Though he was amongst the most obscure Disney characters of all time for over 65 years, Yen Sid has recently become a recurring character, making quite a few appearances in media raging from video games to the Disney theme parks, most notably after his introduction into the Kingdom Hearts series.

In the 1971 episode of The Wonderful World of Disney, known as "Disney on Parade", Yen Sid (incorrectly referred to as Merlin), makes a brief appearance chastisizing Mickey being the host of the show and tests his abilities. This leads to a reprise of the sequence with Mickey performing even greater feats of magic bestowed upon him. In this appearance, Yen Sid was voiced by Michael Rye.

Yen Sid is voiced by Corey Burton in Mickey and the Magical Map at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

Yen Sid appears in the Disney/Square Enix video game series Kingdom Hearts, maintaining his role as Mickey's magical mentor with Donald Duck and Goofy showing him tremendous respect. The game series marked Yen Sid's first consistent speaking role in his appearances prior, being voiced by Corey Burton in English, and Takashi Inagaki in Japanese.

Yen Sid also appears in the Epic Mickey games as both the narrator and as the creator of a pen-and-paper world for all of Disney's forgotten creations to reside in including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit before Mickey's unintentional actions turn it into the Wasteland. He also appears in Fantasia: Music Evolved where he employs the player as his new apprentice. Yen Sid appears in Disney Magical World as the creator of the primary world known as Castleton, which is the peaceful home of dozens of citizens and Disney characters. Aside from appearing in the opening cinematic for the game, Yen Sid also summons the player to seek help in defeating an army of ghosts that've been invading the tranquil realm.

In episode 4x12[1] of the Once Upon A Time TV series, Yen Sid is said to be the landlord of the house in Storybrooke where the Apprentice lives.

In the Descendants prequel novel called The Isle of the Lost, Yen Sid is shown living on the Isle of the Lost. He is positioned here by King Beast to work at the Isle of the Lost's school called Dragon Hall to help the students with formerly magical parents adapt to more modern methods since the Isle of the Lost's barrier negates all magic.

Donald Duck

Donald Duck
First appearance Fantasia 2000 (2000)
Created by Walt Disney Pictures
Voiced by Tony Anselmo

Donald Duck is Noah's assistant, whose job is that he's supposed to get the animals on board the ark before the land gets flooded.

Daisy Duck

Daisy Duck
First appearance Fantasia 2000 (2000)
Created by Walt Disney Pictures
Voiced by Tress MacNeille

Daisy Duck is Donald's girlfriend.

Chernabog

Chernabog
First appearance Fantasia (1940)
Created by Walt Disney Pictures
Voiced by Corey Burton

Chernabog is the massive nocturnal devil in Night on Bald Mountain, who can take peoples hearts and holds power over various restless souls. His name is taken from Chernobog, a deity of Slavic mythology; the name is Slavic for "black god".[2] While officially a pagan god, Chernabog might have originally been intended as a representation of Satan: when "Night on Bald Mountain" appeared on the original Wonderful World of Disney, Walt Disney referred to Chernabog as "Satan himself."[3] Deems Taylor also refers to Chernabog as "Satan" in the film.

Chernabog is first seen when he awakes on top of Bald Mountain, revealing himself to be the spire. It is Walpurgis Night and, using the powers of darkness, he raises ghosts, monsters, fire women, fleet of monstrous imps, blue satyrs, witches and demons from a nearby town with a cemetery. Ghosts of Criminals pass through the noose a second time, while others rise from a lake. He then also summons fire and makes the ghosts and the other creatures in his control dance and fly around, before he throws them into a volcanic pit and resurrects them as demons. He transforms the hellfire in his hand into various beings. Harpies fly around as the cavorting gets more chaotic, throwing unfortunate, deformed creatures into the multi-hued flames. Chernabog is at the height of his power, showing off in a display that sends a column of fire into the air, which returns to the chasm in a sheet of flame. An instant before continuing the demonic celebration, with the coming of the dawn Chernabog hears the tolling of the Angelus Bell; he is then forced to cover himself with his wings as the demons leap back down the pit, the ghosts return to their graves, and the dark ceremony ceases as morning arrives.

In other media

Chernabog appears as one of the Disney Villains in both versions of the Fantasmic! nighttime spectacular at Disneyland in Anaheim, California and the Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. Here he is summoned by the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to fight Mickey Mouse. In both versions of Fantasmic! his role is similar to that in Fantasia, with him summoning ghosts. He has no spoken dialogue, but growls, cackles, and screams during his appearances in the show. In the end, Mickey defeats Chernabog along with the other villains with his imagination. He also appears in parade floats in Disney amusement parks.

Chernabog appeared in the Disney/Square Enix crossover game Kingdom Hearts as a surprise boss who rules over the "End of the World", serving as the fight before Ansem. Chernabog attacks by breathing fire, invoking an eruption from the mountain he stands in, summoning spirits to attack Sora, Donald and Goofy and flinging balls of fire. "Night on Bald Mountain" serves as the music during this boss battle in the North American, PAL and Final Mix version of the game, making him the only Disney villain in the game to have his own unique boss music. He returns in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance as a boss fight in Riku's story in the Symphony of Sorcery world based upon Fantasia.

Chernabog is also seen as a guest in Disney's House of Mouse where he is voiced by Corey Burton. Here, we can see his legs. He is more than an actual villain. In one particular episode, he sheepishly admits to Clarabelle Cow that he is afraid of the dark and in another during a blackout, he admits that he is "kind of afraid of the dark". In one episode, he even reenacts a part of the Night on Bald Mountain segment before Pete tries to push him (and Bald Mountain) away with a bulldozer, which provokes the evil spirits that chase the selfish cat out of the club. In the Mickey's House of Villains direct-to-DVD film, he is shown to have some sort of relationship with Maleficent's dragon form, stating (during the song) that he loves her work. They are seen again together shortly before Mickey's fight with Jafar, during the sequence that parodies the The Rite of Spring segment.

Chernabog makes an appearance in Disney at Dawn, the second book of The Kingdom Keepers series. Though he is mentioned numerous times throughout, his major role is at the end of the book, where it is revealed that he has been trapped by Disney Imagineers in the form of the Yeti in the Disney's Animal Kingdom attraction Expedition Everest. He is freed by Maleficent, and flies out of the mountain, before escaping capture and escaping from the park. In a cliffhanger ending, it is reported he and Maleficent have most likely taken shelter in MGM Studios. In the fifth installment of the series.

During season 4 of Once Upon A Time the Chernbog is released in Storybrooke.

A painting of Chernabog can be seen in the Lonesome Manor Foyer in Epic Mickey and he also appears in the film reel segments based upon his segment in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.

Fantasia (1940 film) characters

This section excludes Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, as no characters actually appear in that segment.

Nutcracker Suite

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Rite of Spring

Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack

The Pastoral Symphony

Dance of the Hours

Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria

Fantasia 2000 characters

This section excludes The Sorcerer's Apprentice as it was carried-over from the original film.

Symphony No. 5

Pines of Rome

Rhapsody in Blue

Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102

Carnival of the Animals, Finale

Noah's Ark (Pomp and Circumstance – Marches 1, 2, 3 and 4)

Firebird Suite

The Orchestra's Instruments

Leopold Stokowski and James Levine are the conductors in the films with the four families of musical instruments.

Woodwinds

Brass

Percussion

Strings

Fantasia: Music Evolved characters

References

  1. http://41.media.tumblr.com/4531a6da2837449f63b3d9d93cbb0bfc/tumblr_nklj35u8BM1u63mrwo1_1280.jpg
  2. In some modern Slavic languages it can be reflected as: Bulgarian and Russian: Чернобог Chernobog, Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian: Crnobog, Црнобог, Polish: Czarnobóg, Czech: Černobůh.
  3. The Walt Disney Company (2009). "Disney Archives, Chernabog Villains History". Archived from the original on February 1, 2011.
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