List of Fantasia (franchise) characters

Notable and recurring characters

Mickey Mouse

Yen Sid

In other media

Donald Duck

Daisy Duck

Chernabog

In other media

''Fantasia'' (1940 film) characters

''Nutcracker Suite''

• The Fairies: The Fairies are tiny creatures that have control over nature. There are different types of them to control over each season. They appear in the form of tiny little women with a single color on them according to their abilities, with leathery wings. They are completely naked like the cupids in The Pastoral Symphony. They have different types. The first are the Dewdrop Fairies, who make dewdrops in flowers and webs and have different colors when they are dancing the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the first dance of the segment. The other types of fairies are the Summer Fairies, who are green and change spring to summer. After they have woken up and gone away another type, the Autumn Fairies, who are orange and grey and change summer to autumn, make the leaves fall and change color. Next are the ice blue coloured Frost Fairies who wake up, turning autumn to winter, icing the lakes and rivers. The last are the Snowflake Fairies who have pale color skin and wear crowns. Around their bodies they wear a snowflake and fall to earth, making snow. The fairies of summer, autumn and winter dance the Waltz of the Flowers, which is the last dance of this segment.
• Hop Low and the Dancing Mushrooms A dance sequence of six mushrooms plus a tiny mushroom named Hop Low who is out of step with the rest of the group and steals the show. They are dancing the Chinese Dance with Hop Low always missing steps. Hop Low's name is never mentioned in the film but mentioned in the theatrical trailer.
• The Dancing Flowers play a similar role to that of the Dancing Mushrooms, coming to life due to the fairies' magic. They are dancing the Dance of the Reed Flutes. These flowers dancing in a river leading by a white flower and make a circle around it. Finally all fall from a water fall and make bubbles.
• The Goldfish. They do not strictly dance, but swim around accompanied by the music. They are dancing the Arabian Dance. The goldfish in the beginning is alone but later many other different colored and in the end all together finish with tail moves by making bubbles.
• The Dancing Thistles and the Dancing Orchids perform the Russian Dance. The Dancing Thistles take the form of Cossacks and the Dancing Orchids take the form of peasant girls. In the beginning many thisles with different color series dancing and after dancing the orchids again with color series and finally the thistles and the orchids dancing in couples and turn in their normal form.

  ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''

• The Broomsticks appear because of Mickey's magic. When Mickey tries to do one of the wizard's spells by making a broomstick come to life and to get arms, the broomstick is supposed to do Mickey's job; however, Mickey's magic seems to get out of control. Mickey tries to stop it by smashing it with an axe. The remaining pieces of the broomstick all turn into additional broomsticks. They flood the house until the magic is stopped by Yen Sid. The Broomsticks also made cameo appearances in Disney's House of Mouse, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and the Kingdom Hearts video game series. They also appear followed by a giant one in Mickey's PhilharMagic. A blotling version of them, known as Sweepers, appeared in Epic Mickey and the broomsticks themselves make cameos, both in the transition levels based on Fantasia and in the credits of the game. The broomsticks also appeared in .

  ''The Rite of Spring''

• The Tyrannosaurus Rex is a large meat-eating dinosaur in The Rite of Spring. His appearance consists of him chasing other dinosaurs, a pursuit in which he succeeds as he subdues a Stegosaurus. Another Tyrannosaurus collapses in thirst while walking with the other dinosaurs in the drought. The creature makes an appearance in Disney's Bonkers TV series, attempting to eat Sergeant Grating but stops his effort in order to take a coffee break. The Tyrannosaurus rex's appearance was considered correct at the time of the film, as back then it was thought to have stood up straight. It is also depicted with three claws on each arm rather than two, as Disney felt that "he looked better that way".
• The Stegosaurus is a large plated plant-eating dinosaur. He is the victim of the Tyrannosaurus rex after a wild battle who is defeated and eaten. The Stegosaurus was one of the dinosaurs that flee with the herbivorous dinosaurs. More can be seen during the extinction.

  ''Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack''

• Soundtrack is said to be the film's soundtrack. The Soundtrack takes the appearance of a white string instrument-like being. Apparently it can make any sound in the world, changing its appearance to match the sound it makes. The instruments are a harp, a violin, a flute, a trumpet, a bassoon, and percussion. At the end is a triangle.

  ''The Pastoral Symphony''

• Bacchus is the god of wine. The mythological creatures in this segment gather for a bacchanal to honor him. He is followed by the Zebra Centaurettes and Bacchus goes in his throne and afterwards, starts to pine for the centaurettes. His celebrations stop when Zeus throws bolts at him and Jacchus but a bolt hits the wine tank and Bacchus happily starts to drink the wine.
• Jacchus is Bacchus's unicorn donkey. He is Bacchus's pet and is with him everywhere. He was, like Bacchus, attacked by Zeus's thunderbolts. His name is never mentioned in the program.
• The Centaurs are creatures that are half horse and half man. They are waiting for the Centaurettes and after they arrive, go out to find their fiancees
• Brudus is a black-haired blue centaur with purple horse legs. His name is never mentioned in the program.
• The Centaurettes are female centaurs and the lovers of the centaurs. They appear to have characteristics of the Disney Princesses and may even have inspired the designs of all the later Princesses.
• Melinda is a blonde-haired blue centaurette with pigtails decorated in pink bows. She also wears colorful flowers around her breasts and waist. Her legs are darker than her skin and her tail is a little darker than her hair from her head. Lured by the three cupids who play the horns, she first sees Brudus and begins to fall in love with him. Her name is never mentioned in the program.
• Sunflower and Otika are little black centaurettes with donkey bodies. Their appearance resembles a European American in blackface with exaggerated facial features and a stereotypical black female hair style, a common comic caricature of the time. By contemporary standards such depictions are considered racist and they have ultimately been edited out of the film since the 1969 re-release. Their names are also no longer mentioned in the program.
• The Zebra Centaurettes are centaurettes half zebra and half Nubian. They are followers of Bacchus. Despite the editing out of Sunflower and Otika, these characters have remained in the film even after the 1969 re-release
• The Cupids are winged baby-like creatures and followers of Aphrodite the goddess of love. They also assist the Centaurettes.
• The Fauns are horned creatures that are half goat and half man and love to play flute.
• Iris, Apollo, Morpheus and Diana are Olympian Gods. Iris is the goddess of the Rainbow, she has a cloak with the rainbow and covers the sky with it, Apollo is the god of the Sun and music, he carries the sun with his fiery sun chariot, Morpheus is the god of the Night and sleep who covers the sunset sky with his cloak of night, as Diana the goddess of the Moon and hunting uses the curve of the crescent moon as a bow and with her arrow of silver fire creates the stars all over the night sky.
• Pegasus and family are winged horses like Pegasus and have a family, the members have different colors. Along with them appeared a lot of other pegasi. The black Baby Pegasus makes a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
• Zeus is the king of all the gods. He is the controller of the weather and appears to throw thunderbolts at the bacchanal attendees just for fun, he eventually gets tired and bored near the end and goes to sleep.
• Vulcan, is the blacksmith of the gods, who creates Zeus' thunderbolts.
• The Unicorns are horse-like creatures with a horn on their head and are good friends with the fauns. One of the unicorns can be spotted during the final scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit with the other Toontown inhabitants.
• Boreas is a two-headed cloud that blows Bacchus and Jacchus. It also appears in So Dear to My Heart.

  ''Dance of the Hours''

• Madame Upanova is an anthropomorphic pink dressed Ostrich who is the leader of the Ostrich ballet dancing group and the first one to wake up. Her eyelids are purple in the animation and pink in the clip art. According to the old poster, her bow is green and her ballet slippers are yellow. As she feeds some Ostriches some fruit, she tries to eat the grapes she holds in her beak. Her name is never mentioned in the program. Madame Upanova makes two cameo appearances in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. First she walks to the Maroon Cartoons Studio door, giving Eddie Valiant the cold shoulder as she passes him, and finally, her second one is being one of the group of toons in the final scene. She also is featured in Disney World and Disneyland. She appears in the TV show called House of Mouse where she is voiced by Tress MacNeille. In episode 11, she is seen ducking her head in the three-layered cake with a cherry on top of it she has ordered when Pumbaa is about to fart. Her name is a pun on the phrase "up and over". Although she is a female, she has the appearance of a male ostrich.
• The Ostrich class wears blue bows that match their ballet slippers. There are officially ten of them and they dance in the morning and then in the night. They appear in the beginning of Dance of the Hours and then in the climax. In the beginning they wake up in the morning warming up while one of them ties her ballet slippers and dance until they fight for a bunch of purple grapes that Madame Upanova chooses for herself. They all are then scared by the waking up of the Hippopotamus. In the climax they're found by the alligators and are forced to dance by allowing them to ride on their backs. They have the same appearance just like Madame Upanova does.
• Hyacinth Hippo first appears coming out of a fountain and eats the grapes the Ostriches had been fighting over. She dries herself up by shaking. After she dances with her friends, she gets tired and falls asleep. She continues to sleep until she is woken by Ben Ali Gator. At first she is scared and bashful, but over the course of a minute of dancing she falls in love with him. She is the only hippo to wear yellow with a brown complexion. Voiced by Tress MacNeille, Hyacinth Hippo makes two cameo appearances in Who Framed Roger Rabbit as one of the toons. She also makes a cameo appearance in "Disney's Bonkers" in Season 2; Episode 32, "Cartoon Cornered", having a small dance with Sergeant Grating followed by his enemy who tears her tutu off his waist. She is featured in Disney World and Disneyland as a pink hippo with a tutu, a pair of ballet slippers and a bow colored blue. Her name is never mentioned in the program but is said by Minnie Mouse in House of Mouse.
• The Hippopotamus servants are Hyacinth Hippo's maids and all wear pink. They dance during the afternoon. After she wakes, they help her into her ballerina dress. When she falls asleep they help her get onto a bed, then they leave the stage. In the final scene they are found by the Alligators and forced to dance. The Hippopotami have a cameo appearance in Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, in which they try to help Daisy Duck be the champion in ice skating. At the climax they ice skate with the Alligators.
• Elephanchine is an anthropomorphic elephant. She looks just like the other elephants, so it is never known if it is Elephanchine doing something or it is just one of her elephants. An elephant, presumably Elephanchine, is once seen blowing a bubble with a fish inside, much to her own surprise. Similarly, another elephant gets a bubble stuck on her left foot. Her name is never mentioned in the program.
• The Elephant partners wear pink Mary Jane ballet slippers. They dance during the evening. They also play a similar role to that of the Ostriches, only that they dance making bubbles. They then get blown away by the wind and are later found by the Alligators. They have the ability to blow bubbles through their trunks.
• Ben Ali Gator is the prince of the Alligators who wears a feather on his hat. He is first seen taking his cape off, jumping off a column and scaring away the Alligators. When he sees the sleeping Hippo he falls in love with her on the spot. They playfully begin a chase which escalates to the final dance. He makes a cameo appearance in Disney's Bonkers in the season 2 episode "Cartoon Cornered", in which he scares Sergeant Grating away. His name is never mentioned in the program.
• The Alligator rivals, in the climax of Dance of the Hours, find all the other animals and force them to dance. When they appear for the first time during the night, they are seen with folded capes wrapped around them, similar to vampires. They keep themselves shrouded until Hyacinth tries to escape into the columns and they block her. They then partner up with the Hippopotami, Ostriches, and Elephants. Just like the Hippopotami, The Alligators have a cameo appearance in Disney's Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas. They try to help Minnie Mouse be the champion in ice skating. At the climax they ice skate with the Hippopotami.

  ''Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria''

• Chernabog's minions are evil creatures who gather on Walpurgis Night at Bald Mountain after being summoned by Chernabog, including vulture, ghosts, demons, spirits, walking skeletons, pig, wolf, goat, goblins, imps, satyrs, zombies, fire women, hags, harpies and werewolves.
• The Monks are the people with lighted tapers who move in procession while crossing the meadow, going over a bridge and through the woods until the crack of dawn arrives with a beautiful sunrise and the sun's rays appearing from behind a far away hill as the choir sings the last chords of the Ave Maria showing that good always conquers over evil.

  ''Fantasia 2000'' characters

''Symphony No. 5''

• The Butterflies and the Bats fly in a world half light and half darkness, until it is finally conquered by light. The orange butterfly had been bitten on the wing by a bat and is unable to fly faster, a purple one is chased by the bats until he reunites with the butterflies. The one billion butterflies themselves resemble two billion various colorful triangles in reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, pinks, and browns in shades, tints, tones, and hues while the bats are shaped as re-entrant polygons.

  ''Pines of Rome''

• The Humpback whale Calf is an excellent jumper. He is separated from his parents when he is trapped in an iceberg he dove into to get away from the angry flock of seagulls, later finding his way out with his mother's help. Just like his parents, the calf can fly. He is very scared of lightning.
• The Humpback Whales are normal whales in the beginning, but then they are able to fly due to a supernova.

  ''Rhapsody in Blue''

• Duke the Builder, is one of the characters who wishes for a better life. He wishes to be a jazz drummer. His job was to drive rivets into girders. In the end, he quits and makes his wish comes true, while in the process inadvertently making the wishes of the other characters who wish for better lives come true, he is now a drummer in a jazz band. His name is never mentioned in the program.
• Rachel the Little Girl, also wishes for a better life: to spend more time with her parents rather than going to her many lessons. In the end, when her ball falls onto the middle of a busy street and she tries to get it, Duke accidentally makes the ball get the attention of her parents; afraid that their daughter would get run over, they grab her just in time. After that, she gets her wish and gets to spend more time with her parents. Her name is never mentioned in the program.
• Flying John the Red-Haired Man With Glasses, also wishes for a better life: to be free from his overbearing and domineering wife. In the end, a hook controlled by Jobless Joe accidentally lifted up John's wife, and John gets his wish and is last seen enjoying himself at the jazz club where Duke works. His name is never mentioned in the program.
• Jobless Joe the Poor Man, also wishes for a better life: to have a job. Despite being poor, he is shown to be extremely honest and dependable. After he finished his morning coffee and found that was unable to pay for it, a nearby man who was also leaving dropped a coin from his jacket sleeve. Joe tried to get his attention, but failed and then left the coin as payment for his coffee. On another occasion he found an apple that fell off of its stand. Though hungry, he was about to put it back, but a policeman, thinking he was trying to steal it, chased him off. Then the policeman himself steals the apple. In the end, when Joe catches Duke's jackhammer, the foreman is lead to think that Joe works the night shift, and he becomes a construction worker. His name is never mentioned in the program.
• Killjoy Margaret the wife of Flying John, treats her husband harshly and only seems to care about her puppy Foo-Foo, in the end, she and her puppy are accidentally lifted up by a hook controlled by Jobless Joe. Her name is never mentioned in the program.
• The Nanny takes Rachel to her different lessons and goes after Rachel when she runs after her ball. When Rachel is saved by her parents from getting run over, the Nanny faints.
• George Gershwin has a cameo as a pianist playing in his apartment above the room where Rachel takes piano lessons. This portrayal is based on the Al Hirschfeld caricature of Gershwin.

  ''Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102''

• The Tin Soldier is based on Hans Christian Andersen's Tin Soldier. He is shown to be uncomfortable that he has only one leg while the other four soldiers have two. He spots the Ballerina standing on one leg and falls in love with her. He is then thrown out of the window and into a waste pipe by the jealous and manipulative Jack-in-the-Box. The waste pipe leads him into the sea, there he is swallowed by a fish. The fish is caught and coincidentally bought by the mother of the young boy. The soldier falls out of the fish's mouth in front of his owner, who brings him back to the toy room. In the end, the Soldier defeats the Jack in the Box, and he and the Ballerina are united.
• The Ballerina is based on Hans Christian Andersen's character, but is made of porcelain instead of paper, and she has two legs. In the film a Jack in the Box falls in love with her but she rejects him, instead favoring the Tin Soldier who is also in love with her. After the Jack in the Box throws the Soldier out of the window, she gets angry at him and refuses to have anything at all to do with him. She is finally saved by the Tin Soldier.
• The Jack-in-the-Box is first seen waking up at midnight and falling in love with the Ballerina. When she rejects him, he becomes angry. Then the Tin Soldier comes, also in love, and the Ballerina accepts him. In a fit of rage, the Jack in the Box attacks and uses a large toy boat to knock the Soldier out the window. Then, he tries to woo the Ballerina but fails dramatically and comically. When the Soldier comes back, the Jack in the Box fights him with a sword, but ends up being hurled into the fireplace where he is presumably destroyed.

  ''Carnival of the Animals, Finale''

• The Yo-Yo Flamingo, likes playing with a yo-yo, and knows a lot of tricks. This habit irritates the other flamingos who try to take away his yo-yo; they managed to do so, but the yo-yo flamingo kept spares. He is seen in the House of Mouse where he is accidentally tied up in his own yo-yo string on the table.
• The Snooty Flamingos pride themselves on uniformity and grace, wishing their other member to join the ranks and act the same. They are so frustrated by the yo-yo that they pecked the flamingo to the ground, took the yo-yo away, and tied it to a tree branch. Unfortunately for them, their nonconformist companion ties them up with one of his extras.

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

• Noah is based on the Biblical figure who built the Ark. He is first seen calling all the animal couples in the world to enter the ark and he puts Donald in charge of the ark and the animals. Then he is seen patting Donald Duck's head in the climax of the segment.
• The Animal couples are called by Noah to enter the ark and Donald Duck has to get them inside Noah's Ark before the land gets flooded. All their designs are recycled from past Disney animated films.

  ''Firebird Suite''

• The Spring Sprite is a green woman-like spirit that has control over growing things. Wherever she goes plants sprout... except the Firebird's mountain. When she curiously explores it, she upsets the firebird who attacks her and burns the forest. She is then brought back to life by the elk, but she is weakened and weeps over the destruction of the forest. Soon she discovers that her tears bring the spark of life back to the forest and she restores life to the land, including the mountain. Her appearance varies according to her surroundings. In the pool she is clear as glass, then as she goes about making things grow she is green, then she becomes pale, when she wakes from the ashes she is the same dull gray color as them, and she at last becomes blue when she sends a healing rain all over the earth.
• The Elk is first seen breathing into an icy pool where the Spring Sprite has weathered the winter. Then he finds her after the Firebird destroys the forest. But as the story goes on he befriends the spring sprite and saves her at the end after the Firebird attacks.
• The Firebird is woken up by the Spring Sprite in a volcano. Angry for being disturbed, he tries to destroy her. During his climax he spreads his fiery wings and descends on her while the forest burns to cinders all around.

  Orchestral instruments

Woodwinds

• Flutes
• Alto flute
• Piccolo
• Oboes
• Cor anglais or English horn
• Soprano clarinets
• Bass clarinet
• Bassoons
• Double bassoon or contrabassoon
• Sopranino saxophone
• Soprano saxophone
• Alto saxophone
• Tenor saxophone
• Baritone saxophone

  Brass

• French horns
• Trumpets
• Tenor trombones
• Bass trombones
• Tubas
• Sousaphone
• Cornets
• Wagner tuba
• Euphonium
• Flugelhorn

  Percussion

• Xylophone
• Vibraphone
• Marimba
• Glockenspiel
• Snare drum
• Bass drum
• Timpani
• Cymbals
• Triangle
• Castanets
• Maracas
• Tambourine
• Tubular bells
• Gong or Tam-tam
• Celesta

  [Piano]

Strings

• Violins
• Violas
• Cellos
• Double basses
• Harps
• Banjo

  ''Fantasia: Music Evolved'' characters

• Percy is a wisp-like being who serves as the player's guide in Music Evolved, teaching them the basics and guiding them throughout the game's realms. Percy is voiced by Greg Ellis.
• Scout is the former apprentice of Yen Sid in Music Evolved. She unintentionally releases the Noise into the realms of the game and tasks the player with ridding the realms of it. Her outfit is noticeably similar to that of Mickey's and she wears her own variation of the Sorcerer's Hat in the form of a cap. Scout is voiced by Jacqueline Emerson.