Queen Elinor is the deuteragonist of Pixar's 13th animated feature film, Brave.
She is the queen of DunBroc, ruling it alongside her husband, Fergus, and is mother of four heirs, Merida, the eldest, and her younger, toddler brothers, triplets, Harris, Hubert and Hamish. Although she desires what is best for the kingdom, her way of acting on it gets her in conflict with her free spirited daughter, who frequently acts in ways Elinor doesn't think suit a princess well. When Merida, wanting to change her mother's way of seeing things, accidentally transforms her mother into a bear, the two start a quest to find a way to turn Elinor back, and end up resolving their multiple disagreements along the way.
She was voiced by Emma Thompson.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Good?[]
- While her tensions with Merida indirectly led Merida to seek a witch to change her destiny by cursing Elinor, making the deal with the witch was pretty much Merida’s decision.
- Even if not perfect, something she acknowledges and works upon at the end of the film, her methods of raising Merida and conducting the kingdom are done out of pure care. As shown in the very first scene, Elinor cares and protects Merida, and even joked and played with her as a child, showing a more strict side when she grew up.
- She also genuinely worries about her kingdom, with her constantly repeated story about the Ancient Kingdom shows what she believes will happen if order isn't uphold constantly, at all costs.
- She tries to better her dialogue with Merida, by using Fergus as an actor, showing she wants their relationship to improve, and not Merida for simply obey her orders.
- Stopped the reckless fighting the four clans had gotten into, stepping in-between their leaders in the middle of their childish struggle.
- When Merida tears the family tapestry, Elinor burns her bow in the fireplace, which causes Merida to run off in tears. This causes Elinor to regret her controlling nature, and even breaks down herself.
- After Merida came back home, she attempted to approach her in a more passive way, trying to mend their interaction since last time they saw each other when Elinor burned Merida's bow and Merida trashed her tapestry, though Merida, with her enchanted cake, doesn't give her the chance to.
- She tries to help Merida escape a dungeon while confronting Mor'du, dragging her up.
- When Merida has to distract the lords while Elinor gets to her room, Elinor silently helps Merida give a speech to the lords in the throne room, not only allowing Elinor to get to her room, but also making the clans stop fighting.
- As the speech used both arguments from Merida and Elinor herself, it shows her actions weren't fully wrong, and she did have a point in the disagreements with her daughter, even if so had Merida.
- She ran away when it became clear she was losing her humanity each time faster, and despite what she and Merida did, the spell wasn't being broken, in order to not hurt anyone.
- She tried to not use violence when resisting Fergus and the other clans, who attempted to capture and kill her when Fergus mistakenly thought Mor'du had killed his wife, not realizing that the bear he thought was his archenemy is actually Elinor.
- When Mor'du appears at the stone circle and tries to kill Merida, as well as presumably the most humans he could, she sacrifices her own life to defend her daughter from the demon bear, even if it meant for her to get herself injured when fighting Mor'du, eventually managing to send him to his demise by beating and slamming him against a pillar, cracking it, breaking it, and causing it to fall on him.
- However, not only Mor'du is killed, but this also caused the prince's spirit to be released after his death and move on peacefully into the afterlife upon learning from his past mistakes, thus redeeming himself in the process.
- She mends her relationship with Merida by the end, showing the two of them now understand each other, and is shown to have accepted Merida's decision against the traditional marriages.
What Prevents Her From Being Pure Good?[]
- When she was acting her husband as Merida, who had negative thoughts on her betrothal, Elinor literally said that she also had bad thoughts on her arranged marriage right in front of her husband, briefly shocking him, but this is a minor prevention since she does ultimately genuinely love him.
- She is still a bit of a stubborn person, adamantly sticking to rules and being a tad too strict. However, as she starts to listen to Merida and their relation is much better at the end of the film, she seems to be shedding this quality a little, making it a minor prevention.
External Links[]
- Queen Elinor on the Heroes Wiki
- Queen Elinor on the Pixar Wiki
- Queen Elinor on the Disney Wiki
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