Miss Nettle | |
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Name | Miss Nettle |
Shows | Sofia the First |
Gender | Female |
Occupation | Fairy, enchanted gardener |
Alignment | Bad, later good |
Race | Fairy |
Friends | Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, Princess Sofia, King Henrik, Princess Hildegard, Olaf, Princess Ivy, Roma |
Enemies | Princess Sofia (formerly), Prince James (formerly), Prince Desmond (formerly), Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather (formerly), Prof. Popov (formerly), Cedric the Sorcerer, Olaf (formerly) |
Likes | Being praised and applauded, showing off, getting what she wants, using her magic on others at their expense, credit, being appreciated |
Dislikes | Losing her magic, not getting her way |
Powers | Fairy magic, spellcasting, teleportation via magic, telekinesis via magic, flight, enchanted flowers |
Paraphernalia | Wand |
First Appeared | Make Way for Miss Nettle |
Voice | Megan Mullally (Seasons 1-3) Anna Vocino (Season 4) |
Miss Nettle is an ambitious, self-centered fairy who made her debut in Make Way for Miss Nettle. She was a villainess until she reforms in "The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle".
Role in the series
Her debut appearance was in "Make Way for Miss Nettle" as the new enchanted gardening teacher. As part of an after school program, Sofia, James, and Prince Desmond stay to learn how to grow magic plants. Miss Nettle then leaves the students alone so she can search for Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather's spellbook. Sofia runs after her to return her glove.
The fairies catch her looking for the spellbook in their office and confront her. She then traps them in a magic bubble and continues looking for the book, Sofia as seen her trap them and she, James, and Desmond found the spellbook before Nettle does.
The bad fairy then confronts them and demands the spellbook. She then offers a deal after they refuse; they give her the spellbook and she'll let the fairies go. The children agree, but Nettle then goes back on her word and decides to free the fairies after she's learned all their spells. Sofia, Desmond, and James get the book back from her by using a magic flower, the Laughing Lily.
The three free the fairies from their bubble. Then Flora, Fauna, Merryweather, and the children go back to the greenhouse and demand Miss Nettle to leave. She then refuses and threatens to put them all in another magic bubble, Desmond manages to take her wand from her but ends up in a bubble. Flora then frees him and tells Miss Nettle to leave now and never return.
Nettle returns disguised as Sascha the Sorceress in "The Enchanted Feast", claiming to show her respects for King Roland before the Tri-Kingdom Feast, and has a rose companion attached on her arm, called Rosey. She showers the royal family with gifts, but Sofia has suspicions about her, but everyone else dismisses her misgivings. Fortunately, after the Amulet summons Snow White, Sofia learns to trust her instincts and goes to Cedric, and they team up to defeat Nettle. In defeating her, Sofia shows her wits have grown and how much she has become in tune with the Amulet.
She seems to be a little cruel to other people's feelings, considering that she supposedly knew about Cedric's feelings about her (he was in love with her, disguised as Sascha), and yet she unnecessarily humiliated him during the enchanted feast (Taking into account that to complete her plan she only needed to sabotage his wand, not offer herself to the king to do the show in Cedric's place) and later offend him by saying that he wasn't a real sorcerer, just like her.
She returns in the episode "The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle". Sofia read in her Secret Library that Miss Nettle had been stealing all the Snowdrop Flowers in the Kingdom of Freezenburg and Sofia set out to stop her with help from Olaf the Snowman. Miss Nettle explained to the princess and the snowman that she is the creator of the Snowdrop and that the royal gardener of Freezenburg was the one who stole it from her in the first place. Sofia reported this to Princess Hildegard and King Henrik. After informing their subjects that Miss Nettle created the Snowdrop, they honored their winter festival to her, much to the fairy's delight.
Miss Nettle also returns in the episode "Ivy's True Colors", still doing good deeds. Sofia enlists her aid to find the cure for the Deep Sleeps: The Wake-Upsy Daisy. However, she needs the magic of Ivy's butterflies to make the Daisies grow.
Miss Nettle makes a final non-speaking appearance in the series finale "Forever Royal", where she can be seen in the audience behind Princess Vivian and Princess Clio, gathered to witness the graduation of Sofia and her friends, possibly indicating that she has made up with the three good fairies or they heard she had reformed. She smiles when the children sing a rendition of the song "Royal Prep" and applauds them.
Personality
Miss Nettle is very self-absorbed, and she believes that she should be the most powerful fairy (she even compares herself to Maleficent). This is her driving motivation for stealing the fairies' spellbook. She poses as a gardener who gives a lesson to Sofia, James, and Desmond in order to sneak into the school, where she really plans to steal the spellbook. After the fairies discover her plan, she puts them inside a magic bubble, showing her ruthlessness in obtaining her goal. When she transforms herself into Sascha the Sorceress to get Sofia's Amulet to increase her power, she proves to be very charismatic, persuading all except Sofia, who recognized her laugh, that she meant well. Sofia even doubts her intuition until the Amulet reassures her by summoning Snow White.
It wasn't until the episode 'The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle' that she finally became a kind and generous person. It was known that Miss Nettle has been stealing the snowdrops in Freezenburg, but it turned out to be a complete misunderstanding as she was the one who created them. After deserving the credit for the snowdrops with Sofia's help, Miss Nettle thanks Sofia and fixes her amulet in return. After that, she has been doing good deeds, such as creating wake-upsy daisies as a cure for the deep sleeps in the episode 'Ivy's True Colors'.
Physical Appearance
Miss Nettle is slender, and dresses similarly to the other fairies, although with a different color scheme. She wears a golden yellow dress and a pointy hat, with a brown-orange cape. She has orange puffy hair and light blue eyes. As Sascha, she has brown hair tied into a ponytail, a black cape with clover pins, and an ornate brown/orange gown.