List of Disenchantment characters explained

Disenchantment is an American adult animated television series starring Abbi Jacobson as Princess Bean, Eric André as Luci, and Nat Faxon as Elfo. The series' seasons are split into halves; the first season, consisting of twenty episodes, was released in two equal parts; the first ten episodes premiered on Netflix on August 17, 2018, and the second ten were released on September 20, 2019. The first half of season two, entitled Part 3, was released on January 15, 2021 and the second half of season two, entitled Part 4, was released on February 9, 2022. In August 2023, Netflix had announced that it would end production of Disenchantment after 5 years. The third and final season entitled Part 5 was released for the final time on September 1, 2023. The following is a list of characters featured in Disenchantment.[1]

Primary characters

Princess Bean

See main article: Princess Bean. Tiabeanie, or Bean (voiced by Abbi Jacobson[2]), is the drunk teenage princess of Dreamland. Bean, as the main character of the entire series, is the daughter of King Zøg and Queen Dagmar, but after Dagmar accidentally poisoned herself, Zøg married Queen Oona, who became Bean's stepmother. In the ninth episode, "To Thine Own Elf Be True", Bean must choose to either bring Dagmar or Elfo, both of whom previously died, back to life with the Eternity Pendant. Bean chooses Dagmar, which angers Elfo when he arrives in Hell and sees her decision. Dagmar orchestrates Dreamland's fall, and takes Bean on a boat to Maru, where Dagmar was from, to meet the entire family. Bean's full name is Princess Tiabeanie Mariabeanie de la Rochambeaux Grunkwitz.

Bean often sneaks away to the local bar, The Flying Scepter (later renamed Luci's Inferno after Luci wins the bar in an arm-wrestling contest), to get away from her royal duties, and returns to the castle drunk. Bean's full name is actually Tiabeanie Mariabeanie la Rochambeau Grunkowitz, but she calls herself "Drunkowitz" whenever she is drunk, as producer Josh Weinstein announced on Twitter after the first season was released.[3]

At the end of the first season, Tiabeanie falls through the ground into the Catacombs, the tunnels the run under Dreamland's castle, and is met by Dagmar. In the beginning of the second season, Bean is angered at Dagmar for trying to grow close to her. She is proposed to by Alva Gunderson in part three, as Alva wants to access her magic. Bean is crowned queen after Zøg is deemed too crazy and unfit to rule the kingdom. At the very end of part 3, Bean is taken by Dagmar down to hell to marry off what appears to be Alva.

In part 4, Dagmar attempts to marry off what is revealed to be the Devil himself. During the ceremony, Bean cuts open Dagmar's palm and placed it on the paper, thus marrying off Dagmar to the Devil instead. Bean then meets up with Luci and Jerry who escape Hell together. They take the elevator directly to Alva's office in Steamland. Alva gives them his airship to go back to Dreamland. Once they get there, it is revealed that Maru annexed the kingdom. They're able to regain control of the Kingdom. Subsequently, Bean and Zøg agree to split the royalty 50/50. Bean has nightmares about "Bad Bean" who conquered Dreamland and is practically devoid of any empathy. Bad Bean comes into the regular realm and calls Dagmar, under the guise that she's the real Bean. Eventually, the two fight and the real Bean comes out of the fight victorious. Bean disguises herself as Bad Bean while Dagmar and Satan arrive via an elevator from Hell. Dagmar sees through Bean's facade, knocks her out, and throws her in the ocean, but she is saved at the last minute by Mora.

In part five, she gets into a soul bond with Mora. She also finally manages to defeat her mother and her rule of Dreamland.

The second season of the series reveals Bean to be bisexual, as is her portrayer, Abbi Jacobson,[4] or pansexual.[5]

Elfo

Elfo (voiced by Nat Faxon[6]) is the socially awkward and shy elf companion and, for a while, love interest of Bean, and friend of Luci. At the beginning of season one, Elfo leaves his homeland of Elfwood in search of a better, sadder life, but near the end of the season, Elfo is killed by an unknown knight (which later is discovered to be his future self), after returning to Elfwood to plead with the elves for help. In part two, Bean and Luci are able to communicate with Elfo and tell him to go down to Hell, so they can find him and bring him back to life. Their attempts succeed, and Elfo's soul is returned to his body.

Later in the season, Elfo meets legendary elf Leavo, and almost kills him for his magical blood, which possessed the abilities to bring the residents of the kingdom of Dreamland back to life after Queen Dagmar turned them all to stone, but Elfo decides that it isn't right to kill Leavo and instead Leavo aids him in convincing the elves back at Elfwood to donate their blood. In the season two episode "The Electric Princess", Elfo becomes Luci's roommate. At the end of season two, Elfo is sentenced to death after being Bean's lawyer during her trial, but falls through the ground into the Catacombs right before he is about to be burned on the stake and is met by former Queen Dagmar. At the end of part 3, he gets kidnapped by an army of ogres.

In part 4, it is revealed that his mother is an ogre, thus making him half ogre. It is also revealed that he has a half-brother who's an ogre. He was forced to fight his brother but his brother refused to fight him.

Luci

Lucille (voiced by Eric André[7]), also known as Luci, is Bean's "personal demon" as he calls himself. He was sent from the mysterious kingdom of Maru, as it is revealed in part two, and he develops a close friendship with both Elfo and Bean, even going to the lengths of sacrificing his immortality to betray his fellow demons and save Elfo, who died in part one. Luci is often seen smoking, and makes witty remarks and insults in addition to eating dead birds whole.

Luci was sent from Maru by Emperor Cloyd and his sister Rebecca to spy on Bean and corrupt her to be willing to go with Dagmar and become the new queen of Maru, but Luci grows close to Bean and Elfo, developing a really deep friendship with them, and even leaves Maru for them.

At the end of part three, Luci is decapitated by a secret elevator in Dreamland and ends up in Heaven, where he is greeted by God and Jerry.

In part four, Luci manages to convince God to send Jerry back to Earth. When Jerry is sent back down to Earth, he sneaks out of Heaven through Jerry. Thanks to the trogs giving his body without a head trog juice, he gets wings.

King Zøg

Zøg (voiced by John DiMaggio[8]) is the overweight, hot-tempered king of Dreamland and the father of Bean and Derek. He first married Queen Dagmar, a "noble's daughter from a faraway kingdom" and had Bean, until Dagmar died of poison and Zøg remarried to Oona, a reptilian princess from Dankmire, and had Derek, Bean's half-brother. Zøg and Bean do not get along well, and he has gone so far as to try and attack her and her friends when he believes she has betrayed his kingdom. In spite of their fractured relationship, deep down they genuinely do care for each other.

At the end of part one, after Zøg is betrayed by Dagmar, the entire kingdom of Dreamland is turned to stone. When Bean returns to the kingdom, Zøg thinks that she was working with Dagmar, but Bean saves him and convinces him that she was also blindsided. In part two, Zøg also befriends Prince Merkimer. After he is divorced by Oona, Zøg dates a selkie who is half bear and half woman, gets robbed by a troupe of circus elves who turn out to be trolls, and even tries to get Gout to impress a king from a faraway kingdom. After being buried alive in season two, Zøg grows mentally insane, and after a series of mere temporary solutions, he is taken away to the Twinkletown Insane Asylum in the end of the part.

In part four, King Zøg becomes a monk and shaves his head as a result. Once Maru loses control over Dreamland, he agrees to share the throne with Bean 50/50. Zøg and Bean become closer as the show progresses.

Queen Oona

Oona (voiced by Tress MacNeille[9]) is Zøg's second wife and the queen of Dreamland during season one. Oona is Darkmirian, a race of humanoid reptiles, and doesn't know much about humans. In episode six, "Swamp and Circumstance", Bean, Elfo, Luci, and the rest of the team from Dreamland visit Oona's hometown of Dankmire, where Oona was class clown in school, and, in an attempt to be kind, end up being disrespectful and are chased out the city gates by the leaders of the country. Oona is also believed by Zøg to be the cause of Dreamland's fall in the end of part one instead of Dagmar.

In season two, Oona has a smaller part, and, after being thrown into the ocean by Dagmar who wants her dead, tries to warn Bean of Dagmar's betrayal. Bean does not hear her, and Oona is instead picked up by a band of pirates who are led by famed elf Leavo, who left Elfwood before Elfo and never came back. Oona convinces the pirates on the ship to be brave and actually raid other ships, and upon returning to Dreamland, she promptly divorces Zøg and sets off to captain the pirates in Leavo's absence when he decides to live in Elf Alley with the other elves. Oona returns in season two for Derek's wedding, which is eventually cancelled, and later helps Bean uncover the terrible secret about Odval's society.

Prince Derek

Derek (voiced by MacNeille) is the second child of Zøg and the first son of Oona. He is a 14-year-old mix Dankmirian and Dreamlander, and often looks up to his older half-sister Bean, who brushes him off, finding him annoying. Derek has a recurring nightmare about an increasingly large skillet due to having almost been cooked on one by hillbillies to be fed to the Swamp Monster in episode six, "Swamp and Circumstance". In the end of season one, fearing Oona's wrath, Zøg locks Derek up in the highest tower in the castle to keep him safe, but then forgets about him until a few episodes later in season, in "The Very Thing", after Oona and Zøg get a divorce, they then realize that Derek has been locked in the tower all this time. They rescue him and tell them of their divorce, and he takes it rather well.

Later, towards the end of the season, Derek is feeling especially blown off by Bean and when he asks if he can tag along with her to the pub, she says no. Derek scampers down to the beach and finds a small octopus which he names Slimy, and by the time he shows it to Elfo, who he has befriended, Slimy has grown into a giant creature. Slimy takes Derek captive, but Bean is able to save him, revealing that she does care about him. However, Bean's confession does not make it any harder to sentence Bean for death after shooting Zøg, Bean appearing to make an attempt to murder Zøg by removing the bullet that was lodged in his body with a knife and making Derek de facto King in his place, even though the shooting was an accident. When Derek is briefly king, he is influenced by Odval and the Arch Druidess into enacting a series of arbitrary edicts. Derek leaves with Oona to become a pirate.

In part four, Derek returns to Dreamland. Derek meets his half-brother Jasper, a human-bear mix. After Derek meets Freckles, he gets into a confrontation with a group of street bullies. He seems to kill one of the bullies, making him feel guilty. At the end of part four, Freckles convinces Derek, Jasper and Snarla the fairy run off to Steamland. When they arrive, Freckles sells Derek and Jasper to a freak show in Steamland.

Pendergast

Pendergast (voiced by André[10]) was the head knight of Dreamland. Pendergast appears in both seasons of the show and is one of the first Dreamlanders to be turned to stone by Dagmar at the end of part one, but is mistaken by Luci for a statue. Pendergast is portrayed as a wimpy knight who tries to be manly. In part three, Pendergast is tasked with guarding King Zøg by Odval and the Arch Druidess to make sure his bullet wound does not heal, and to kill him if it does, but Pendergast reveals that he looks up to Zøg like a father and betrays his employers to help Zøg escape the castle in a coffin. However, he is killed by the Arch Druidess and beheaded, with further worsens Zøg's condition as he slowly goes insane. He was later revived when the magic from the Crystal Cavern began to seep into Dreamland's water supply, and Sorcerio poured some of this magic-infused water into the jar that held Pendergast's head. However, it was never explained as to how he regained his body after he was brought back as a living head.

Odval

Odval (voiced by Maurice LaMarche[11]) was the three-eyed royal advisor to Zøg before he was dethroned for being too mentally incapacitated to rule. He is a Dreamlander who was constantly trying to undermine his rule and take control of the kingdom. This is, in fact, for good reason, as despite being later referred to by Zøg as a friend he was used, sometimes literally, as Zøg's personal punching bag, with Odval being helpless in the face of constant abuse due to Zøg's power as monarch being completely absolute. This constant mistreatment leads to Odval jumping at the chance to seize power, as soon as the very first opportunity presents itself. Odval is turned to stone by Dagmar in the end of part one, and is wheeled around by Zøg in a wagon, who takes comfort that his so-called friend is near him. After being brought back to life by the Eternity Pendant and the Elixir of life, Odval continues to run his secret society that operates in the shadows under the castle, first introduced in the part one episode "Castle Party Massacre".

After Zøg is accidentally shot by Bean, to Odval's glee, he and his partner in crime, the Arch Druidess, rigs Bean's trials and gets her sentenced to death by burning, as well as influencing the weak-minded de jure King Derek to do as they please. When Bean takes over as queen after Zøg is dethroned and committed to Twinkletown Insane Asylum, he remains an advisor but to Bean.

Odval is in a relationship with Sorcerio, the castle wizard.

Prince Merkimer

Merkimer (voiced by Matt Berry) is the youngest son of the king and queen of Bentwood. He is set to marry Bean after his older brother Guysbert is killed, but drinks what he thinks is elf's blood before the wedding to boost his courage. It is actually pig's blood, and transforms into a hog while walking down the aisle. After that, he stays in Dreamland and hangs around the kingdom. After everyone else is turned to stone, Merkimer finds Zøg and they befriend each other until he insults Zøg. Later, he encourages Bean to write an autobiographical play, but takes credit for it and stars as Zøg. In season two, Merkimer meets his own body, which houses a pig's brain, and has learned to speak and become sentient. He does not appear in part 4, however he does appear in part 5. At the very end of the series he’s appointed Ambassador of Dreamland by the new Queen of Dreamland Miri.

Queen Dagmar

Queen Dagmar (voiced by Sharon Horgan[12]) is Bean's mother and Zøg's first wife. She was turned to stone when Bean was just a little girl, because her wine was poisoned. However, in "Dreamland Falls", Luci makes an important discovery and realizes that it was actually Dagmar who poisoned the wine, which was meant for Zøg, but Bean accidentally switched their glasses. In the penultimate episode of part one, Bean chooses to bring Dagmar back to life with the Eternity Pendant instead of Elfo, not knowing Dagmar's true intentions. Bean boards a boat with Dagmar and they head to Maru, leaving most of Dreamland turned to stone.

In part two, Dagmar introduces Bean to the rest of her family (Cloyd, Rebecca, and Jerry) but then tries to nail a crown to her head to make her the queen of Maru.[13] Bean escapes and seemingly kills Dagmar, but she keeps appearing in her dreams, telling her she was meant for something bigger and even giving her a strange music box that Bean cannot get rid of. In the end of the season, Bean is about to be burned at the stake but instead falls through the ground and ends up in the Catacombs, a series of tunnels running under the Dreamland castle, and meets a still-alive Dagmar. In part three, Bean, Elfo, and Luci escape Dagmar, but she returns in the end to Dreamland and takes Bean to marry a mysterious man.

In part four, Dagmar attempted to marry off Bean to the Devil, who was revealed to be the "mysterious man" shown at the very end of part three. However, Bean cut open Dagmar's hand as part of the process to officiate the marriage and made her the one who married the Devil. Dagmar is invited by Bad Bean to the castle. Once Bean's ruse is discovered, she becomes livid and accidentally knocks out Bean. Dagmar then dumps an unconscious Bean into the ocean, all the while apathetic to what she did.

In part five, she becomes immortal, but is defeated by her daughter and imprisoned in a cage hanging from a cliff by Satan forever as punishment for what she did.

Secondary characters

Introduced in Part 1

Introduced in Part 2

Introduced in Part 3

Minor characters

Introduced in Part 1

Introduced in Part 2

Introduced in Part 4

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