The Chronicles of Narnia/Characters

Peter Pevensie

The oldest of the Pevensie siblings and the High King of Narnia. He tries his best to protect his other siblings and to act like a responsible young adult. In the book it is implied that he is more mature than his other siblings because, after their father was called out to fight in the war, it was left to Peter by his mother to support his three siblings though the ordeal of their father going away.

• Adaptation Dye Job: In the book, he is dark-haired, while in the movie he is fair-haired.
• Badass: Especially in the movie.
• Big Brother Instinct
• Blitz Evacuee
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: In the movie adaptation of Prince Caspian.
• Common Sense
• Determinator
• Genre Savvy: In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe his familiarity with fantasy stories serves him fairly well, prompting him to, for example, trust the robin which leads the Pevensies to Mr. Beaver, because robins in stories are always good creatures.
• The Hero
• I Call It Vera: His sword Rhindon.
• Killed Off for Real: In the Last Battle.
• The Magnificent
• Parental Substitute
• Red Oni To Edmund's Blue: In the movie. He's definitely the vibrant, determined, impulsive one of the two, and he is, to an extent, more sensitive than Edmund who is logical, stoic and snarky even after his Heel Face Turn.
• Red Baron: Peter Wolfsbane.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: For instance, he's absent from the Horse and His Boy because he's off beating up a bunch of troublemaking giants.
• Standardized Leader
• Team Dad
• Took a Level In Badass

Susan Pevensie

The elder sister and the second eldest Pevensie child. She is crowned to the Radiant Southern Sun as Queen of Narnia by Aslan, and shares the monarchy with her brothers Peter and Edmund and her sister Lucy. She later becomes known as Queen Susan the Gentle.

• Action Girl: In the movie.
• Adaptational Badass: In the movies.
• Agent Scully: In The Last Battle, where she's the only visitor to Narnia who now denies it ever happened. Some readers believe this and the ending indicate that she will not be allowed into Aslan's country when she dies; others say that this view misreads Lewis's intent.
• The Archer
• Blitz Evacuee
• Blue Oni to Lucy's Red: Susan is more calculated, calm and down-to-earth than the tomboyish Lucy.
• Brainy Brunette- Subverted. She may seem capable in 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' and 'Prince Caspian' (especially the movie adaptation). But by 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', it is stated that she is not a particularly good student and that she is regarded as the pretty one of the family.
• Common Sense- As compared to book smarts.
• The Conscience
• Demoted to Extra
• Deadpan Snarker: In the movie.

"He's a beaver. He shouldn't be saying anything!"

• Lady of War: In the movie. However, in the book, it is stated that Susan hates violence.
• The Ojou
• The Smart Girl- only in the 'Prince Caspian' movie. Certainly not in school, where she's said to be more of a Passionate Sports Girl.
• Sole Survivor - The only Pevensie not killed in the train station accident in The Last Battle.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Team Mom
• Tender Tears
• Xenafication: In the movie adaptation of Prince Caspian.

Edmund Pevensie

The second of the Pevensie children to go to Narnia. He betrays his siblings to the White Witch while under her influence, but as the story goes on he accepts the error of his ways. He is redeemed with the intervention of Aslan and joins the fight against the witch. Fulfilling an ancient prophecy, he becomes King Edmund the Just, King of Narnia and, with sisters Susan and Lucy, co-ruler under High King Peter.

• Adaptation Dye Job: In the book, he is blond. In the movie, he is black-haired. The fans preferred the black-haired version.
• Annoying Younger Sibling
• Anti-Hero: Type III verging on type IV.
• Badass
• Bad Liar / Consummate Liar
• Being Evil Sucks: He realizes this, after he is tricked by the White Witch.
• Berserk Button: Eustace constantly manages to piss him off in Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.
• Big Brother Bully
• Big Brother Instinct: He develops this later for Lucy.
• Black Sheep: In the first part.
• Blitz Evacuee
• Blue Oni to Peter's Red
• The Bully: Lucy's, in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
• Call My Name: He and Lucy constantly call each other's name in the movie adaptation of the third part, especially when they're separated from each other.
• Character Depth: Edmund stands out as being the most complex character from the siblings and from most protagonists, especially in the movie. Even though he redeems himself in the first part, he still has many traits that make him quite different from the typical hero. He's the only character who has a page dedicated to his personality.
• Character Development
• Dark Is Evil: Played straight just in the first movie. His appearance and attitude clearly anticipate that he's the bad one, even before he does anything suspicious. The director especially chose Skandar Keynes for this role.
  • Dark Is Not Evil for the rest of the series. That said, this is not brought up at all.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially in the movie.
• Foe Yay: With the White Witch, especially in the movie version of Voyage of the Dawn Treader. And this is not a case of YMMV.
  • Oh yes it is very much YMMV, unless it is one-sided. Edmund wants very little to do with the Witch in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. His repeatedly drawing his sword whenever he saw her ghost should be clue enough.
• Good Is Not Nice: Even after his Heel Face Turn, this can still be applied to him.
• Heel Face Turn
• Jerkass: In The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, especially when he betrays Lucy by lying that he never was in Narnia.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In the first book.
• Kids Are Cruel: To Lucy, in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
• Killed Off for Real: In The Last Battle.
• The Lancer
• Lovable Traitor
• The Mole: In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
• The Not Love Interest: Lucy's in Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
• Pet the Dog: In Prince Caspian, Edmund takes care to support Lucy's claims about seeing Aslan so he can make up for being mean to her in the previous book.
  • Also, in the third part, he gets into the protective, older brother mode.
• The Smart Guy: In the books.
  • He is definitely more level-headed and logical than Peter and Caspian.
• Sibling Rivalry: Between him and Lucy, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, due to the fact that Edmund torments her.
• The Stoic: Most of the time in Prince Caspian, but he has his moments too.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: In the movie.
• This Is Your Brain on Evil: The things he does after he eats Turkish Delight.
• Took a Level In Badass: In Prince Caspian The Movie and how.
• Troubled but Cute
• The Unfavorite: In the Pevensie family, in the first book, especially to Peter. This is due to his behavior, as well.
• Villain Protagonist: in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Lucy Pevensie

The youngest of the four Pevensie children, and the first to find the Wardrobe entrance to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Of all the Pevensie children, Lucy is the closest to Aslan. Also, of all the humans who have visited Narnia, Lucy is perhaps the one that believes in Narnia the most. She is ultimately crowned Queen Lucy the Valiant, co-ruler of Narnia along with her two brothers and her sister. Lucy is the central character of the four siblings in the novels.

• Adaptation Dye Job: She has Hair of Gold in the books but has light brown hair in the movies.
• Action Girl
• Annoying Younger Sibling: To Edmund in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
• The Archer
• Badass Adorable
• Badass Princess: More like badass queen.
• Blitz Evacuee
• Call My Name: She does this with Edmund many times in Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
• The Chick: Especially in Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.
• Combat Medic: She is skilled both with her bow and her healing cordial.
• Cool Big Sis: In the film version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, she becomes this to Gael.
• Cute Bruiser
• Determinator
• Does Not Like Shoes
• Hair of Gold
• I Just Want to Be Beautiful: It is revealed later that Lucy envies Susan's beauty.
• Killed Off for Real: In The Last Battle.
• Little Miss Badass
• The Not Love Interest: Edmund's in Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
• Plucky Girl
• The Pollyanna
• Red Oni To Susan's Blue
• Tender Tears
• Sibling Rivalry: Between her and Edmund in the first book, due to Edmund's tendency of tormenting her.
• Tomboy
• Youngest Child Wins

Caspian X

King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Emperor of the Lone Islands, also called Caspian the Seafarer and Caspian the Navigator (born 2290–died 2356, Narnian Time) was one of the greatest leaders of the Narnian Empire who took part in the successful Narnian Revolution and began the Age of Exploration. Caspian was descended from the Telmarine Dynasty and succeeded by his son Rilian

• Authority Equals Asskicking
• A Protagonist Shall Lead Them
• Badass: While in Prince Caspian he is still new to it, he does have his moments. By the time The Voyage Of The Dawn he is a self certified Badass.
• Badass Spaniard: In the Movie he comes off as this. Bonus points on Ben Barnes basing his characterization on Inigo Montoya, a Badass Spaniard himself.
• Character Development: From a hesitant but trustworthy ruler-to-be, to a skilled Father to His Men seafaring captain to a just and noble king. Not bad Caspian, not bad at all.
• Distracted by the Sexy: In the movie version of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by Lilliandil, Ramandu’s daughter.
• Mr. Fanservice: Especially in the movies.
• Hair of Gold: In the books. He has dark hair in the movies.
• The Hero
• Heroic Vow: Caspian made one at his coronation to search for the seven missing lords. Voyage Of The Dawn Treader takes place during that journey.
• It Has Been an Honor: Towards Edmund in Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.
• More Hero Than Thou
• Reluctant Ruler
• Secondary Character Title
• Sheathe Your Sword: Used in the movie version of Prince Caspian, when Caspian, after seeing an entire squadron of Telmarine assassins downed by something underfoot, is himself tripped and set upon by the unseen assailant... Reepicheep the Mouse. Reepicheep orders Caspian to retrieve his sword and face him in honorable combat, as he refuses to kill an unarmed man. Caspian's reply: "Then I'll live longer if I don't." Reepicheep doesn't have infinite patience, though, so this tactic doesn't last Caspian forever.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: In the movies.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Caspian in his pride wants to stay at the end of the world; the entire crew and even Aslan calls him out on abandoning his responsibilities and promises.
• The Wise Prince
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Towards Miraz.

Cor “Shasta”

Cor, also known as Shasta, was a Prince and later King of Archenland. The son of King Lune, Cor was kidnapped while still an infant and stolen away to Calormen. Years later Cor would return and save Archenland from the greatest danger it had ever faced. He eventually married his one-time travelling companion Aravis, and the two went on to rule together once King Lune died. Cor and Aravis would also have a son who would later go on to be King Ram the Great.

• A Boy and His X
• A Friend in Need: When Shasta tells the horse that he really needs someone who could tell him whether the nobleman is evil, Bree reveals his speech to tell him that he is. Which gives Bree the opening to suggest that they could run away together.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Aravis.
• Big Damn Heroes: He pulls this twice. The first time when he rushes to protect Aravis and Hwin from what he believed was a hungry lion chasing after them. The second one was when he ran non-stop, after having been through almost a whole book's worth of shit — most recently a potential suicide mission through a desert — to warn King Lune about the impending invasion.
• Changeling Fantasy: Shasta, a peasant orphan, turns out to be the long-lost prince of Archenland. Atypically for the trope, Shasta is kind of dismayed by the fact that this means he'll have to be king of Archenland one day, and his brother is only too happy to be relieved of the responsibility.
• Exact Eavesdropping
• Hair of Gold: At least in the official illustration he is portrayed as having blond hair and he had the wholesome and kind aspect down pat.
• Happily Married: To Aravis
• Made a Slave: What Shasta is fleeing.
• Moses in the Bulrushes: Shasta aka Prince Cor.
• Nakama: His devotion to his own is uncontested. Made all that much clearer when he jumps off Bree’s back to face down a freakin' lion, who's actually Aslan, chasing Aravis and Hwin out of sheer loyalty.
• Nice Guy
• Slap Slap Kiss: With Aravis, and canonically no less.

Aravis

• A Friend in Need: Hwin reveals she can talk just when Aravis needs her the most
• Badass Princess
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Shasta
• Break the Haughty
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Shasta
• Driven to Suicide: Aravis in her Back Story. Hwin stops her
• Gilded Cage: this trope was the fate that Aravis was running from
• Happily Married: With Shasta
• Infallible Narrator: Aravis recounts her entire backstory like this, and Bree explains that Calormenes are taught story-telling in school. She isn't entirely infallible, either; by the standards of her culture, she colors her narrative with painful amounts of Purple Prose, even when recounting what another character, who is present, said - causing the said character to comment that she didn't say it in nearly as fancy words
• Nice to the Waiter: Averted as part of Aravis's Character Development: she drugged one of her servants in order to escape. When Shasta asked what happened to the servant, Aravis casually speculated that she was whipped for it. Shasta pointed out that this was hardly fair to the servant, which Aravis coldly rebuffed. Aravis did get her just deserts when Aslan attacked the party as a lion and slashed her back, giving her the same wounds as the servant received
• Rebellious Princess
• Runaway Fiance
• Samus Is a Girl: Though the confusion happens at their first meeting, at night, and is cleared up quickly
• Slap Slap Kiss: With Shasta, and canonically no less
• Tomboy Princess
• Tsundere
• Two Girls to a Team: Aravis and Hwin
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!:
• Wicked Stepmother: Aravis had one

Eustace Scrubb

The Pevensie's annoying younger cousin. He first appears in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He fancies himself (not entirely without reason) to be rather intelligent, and considers this a valid reason for nurturing an arrogant attitude toward his cousins. He accompanies Lucy and Edmund on their third trip to Narnia. Upon learning that Narnia is real, his feelings toward it go from amused disdain to fear and outright hatred. It isn't until transforming into a dragon (long story) and having Aslan change him back by breaking the curse that his attitude towards Narnia and his cousins change for the better.

He later appears as the main character in The Silver Chair and as one of the main characters in The Last Battle. In these books, his adventuring companion is his friend, Jill Pole instead of his cousins.

• Anti-Hero: Type I or III in Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
• Ascended Extra
• Baleful Polymorph
• Beetle Maniac: "Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned on a card."
• The Bully: Pre-development, it's hard to find him having a nice word for anyone.
• Butt Monkey: Throughout most of Dawn Treader up till his Character Development.
• Character Development: Like Edmund before him, Eustace becomes a much better person as his adventures in Narnia make him aware of his failings.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong
• Diary
• Fantastic Racism: Towards the animals, but especially Reepicheep.
• Flat Earth Atheist: For the first half of the third book.
  • Amusingly quite literal in this case, since he's an (implied) atheist in a definitively flat world.
• Heel Face Turn
• Insufferable Genius: Except he's not as smart as he thinks he is.
• Jerkass: at his beginning, he was even worst than Edmund at this (though unlike him, he never betrayed the others, but since "Dawn Treader" had no actual villain...). Fortunately, he improves.
• Killed Off for Real: In the Last Battle.
• Narrator: In the Walden Media Adaptation.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist

Jill Pole

Eustace's companion throughout The Silver Chair. Is given by Aslan the task of remembering the Signs that lead them on their journey.

• Action Girl
• The Archer
• Character Development: Develops a much better sense of direction in the last book, whereas she had previously been known for having a poor sense of direction.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Eustace.
• Killed Off for Real: In the Last Battle.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Does it around the giants so they wont suspect anything.
• Took a Level In Badass: Between the Silver Chair and the Last Battle.

Reepicheep

Swashbuckling talking mouse devoted to honor and chivalry. Yet behind his ferocity is a Heart of Gold.

• Badass Adorable
• Blood Knight
• Boisterous Bruiser: A rather small one.
• Glory Seeker
• Heroic Vow: To find Aslan's country in Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• Mouse With A Soft Center
• Honor WAY Before Reason: For example, his first instinct when hearing of a dragon nearby is to challenge it to single combat. Later in the book, he jumps into the ocean because he thought a Mer-king was challenging him.
• Killer Mouse
• Knight in Shining Armor
• Master Swordsman
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse

Puddleglum

A Marshwiggle who lives in marshes and is perpetually gloomy. He guides Eustice and Jill in The Silver Chair.

• Common Sense
• Determinator
• Determined Defeatist
• The Eeyore
• Fish Person: More froglike than fishlike, but still.
• No Sense of Humor
• Sour Supporter

Aslan

The Great Lion, a talking lion, King of the Beasts, son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea; a wise, compassionate, magical authority (both temporal and spiritual); mysterious and benevolent guide to the human children who visit; guardian and savior of Narnia. The author, C. S. Lewis, described Aslan as an alternate version of Christ—that is, as the form in which Christ might have appeared in a fantasy world.

• Badass
• Back From the Dead
• Beware the Nice Ones: The most sure way of dealing with either a villain or a hero tempted to the dark side is for Aslan to give a show of force, which tends to terrify hero and villain alike...and He's more than willing to back it up with action if necessary (as the Witch found out).
• Big Damn Hero
• Big Good
• But Now I Must Go
• The Chessmaster: Even when things don't go perfectly according to his plan (e.g. when Jill forgets the signs he had given her in The Silver Chair, he still manages to accomplish his goals.
• Disney Death
• Face Death with Dignity
• God / Jesus
• Good Is Not Nice: To the villians, but also the protagonists.
• King of Beasts
• Kung Fu Jesus
• Messianic Archetype
• Sacrificial Lion: A literal example.
• Talking Animal
• Talking Lion Jesus
• This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself

Jadis, The White Witch

Jadis, commonly known as the White Witch, is the main villain of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Jadis also appears at length in The Magician's Nephew, which concerns her origins and the origins of Narnia. She is the Witch who froze Narnia in the Hundred Years Winter.

• Big Bad: In Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew, at least (arguably The Silver Chair, if the Lady of the Green Kirtle is indeed supposed to be a reincarnation of Jadis); after that, she is little more than a bad memory. However, the movies seem to be giving her a much greater presence post-mortem.
• Cain and Abel: Fought a long and bloody civil war against her sister for control of their kingdom that culminated in the destruction of their entire universe.
• Composite Character: She is based on four characters in fiction: Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Ayesha from She by Rhyder J. Haggard, the Snow Queen from Hans Christian Anderson's fantasy story of the same name and the Queen of Babylon from the Story of the Amulet by Nesbit. The mythological character of Lilith was also an inspiration for her character and Jadis is said to be descended from her in the stories.
• Dark Action Girl
• Dual-Wielding: A wand and a sword in The Movie.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: In the books, her hair is black and her skin is literally white "like snow, or paper, or icing sugar." Not true in the movies, in which she is blonde and has a more or less natural skin tone.
• Evil Is Deathly Cold
• Evil Overlord
• Evil Sorcerer
• Foe Yay: With Edmund.
• God Save Us From the Queen: Literally.
• Hoist By Her Own Petard: Her insistence on demanding Edmund's life, and her gleeful willingness to kill Aslan in Edmund's place, leads to her defeat thanks to her ignorance of the Deeper Magic beneath the Deep Magic she invokes.
• Ice Queen
• In the Blood: She mentions that one of her ancestors has single-handely slaughtered over seventy nobles, because some of them had rebelious thoughts. Apparently it was normal thing in her family.
• Last of Her Kind: The sole survivor of Charn, a third parallel universe that she herself destroyed.
• Light Is Not Good
• Mysterious Past
• Royal Blood
• Snowy Royal Satan
• The Sociopath
• Taken for Granite: Her main method of dealing with her enemies.
  • Wax Museum Morgue: Her entire castle courtyard, filled with statues. Take a wild guess where she got them.
• The Vamp: For Edmund and Digory.
• Winter Royal Lady
• Woman in White

Digory Kirke

Introduced in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe as an old man ("the Professor"), with whom the Pevensies have been billeted. Eventually turns out to have a Backstory connected with that of the wardrobe, as revealed in The Magician's Nephew.

• Killed Off for Real: In the Last Battle.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Responsible for awakening Jadis.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Asks if Lucy is the sort of girl who makes up stories and, if not, whether that might indicate she's telling the truth.