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| goals = To rule the oceans, to take over Atlantica, to return to the palace.
| goals = To rule the oceans, to take over Atlantica, to return to the palace.
|type of villain = Witch, Deal Maker, Usurper|hobby = Likes to be in power, destroying merpeople's happiness for her own gain.}}{{Quote|Triton's daughter will be ''mine'', and then I'll make him writhe. I'll see him wriggle like a worm on a HOOK, Hahahaha, Hahahahahaaaa!|Ursula}}
|type of villain = Witch, Deal Maker, Usurper|hobby = Likes to be in power, destroying merpeople's happiness for her own gain.}}{{Quote|Triton's daughter will be ''mine'', and then I'll make him writhe. I'll see him wriggle like a worm on a HOOK, Hahahaha, Hahahahahaaaa!|Ursula}}
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[[File:IMG_20140604_020756.jpg|thumb|378px|Ursula.]]
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'''Ursula''' the Sea Witch is the main antagonist of Disney's ''Little Mermaid'' franchise. Ursula is a female obese human who is also half octopus on her lower half. Thus making her a member of the underwater 'Seafolk'. She was once one of the most respected figures in the sea, but by the time the Little Mermaid, 'Princess Ariels' story takes place, she is an exiled subject of the King Triton's royal sea court. She was banned from his Kingdom 'Atlantica' after it was rumoured that she was trying to overthrow him. When Triton found this to be true, Ursula was forced to live on the abandoned outskirts of the ocean, away from the rest of the Seafolk and the Mer-Civilization. As a way to survive she took up the skills of dark magic and to secretly spy on Triton and his people. All in efforts to one day take over his Kingdom and become ruler of the ocean.
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'''Ursula''' '''the Sea Witch''' is the main antagonist of Disney's ''Little Mermaid'' franchise. Ursula is a female obese human who is also half octopus on her lower half. Thus making her a member of the underwater 'Seafolk'. She was once one of the most respected figures in the sea, but by the time the Little Mermaid, Princess Ariels' story takes place, she is an exiled subject of the King Triton's royal sea court. She was banned from his Kingdom 'Atlantica' after it was rumoured that she was trying to overthrow him. When Triton found this to be true, Ursula was forced to live on the abandoned outskirts of the ocean, away from the rest of the Seafolk and the Mer-Civilization. As a way to survive she took up the skills of dark magic and to secretly spy on Triton and his people. All in efforts to one day take over his Kingdom and become ruler of the ocean.
Ursula made her home in the [[Ursula's Grotto|belly of a giant dead leviathan]]. There Ursula delights in making deals with "poor unfortunate souls", Seafolk and Mer-people who are miserable, lonely, depressed and overall unhappy. She lures them to her underwater chambers and promises to give them their hearts desires if they succeed in the deal she makes with them. But Ursula also secretly sabatoges their efforts to do so. Thus giving her more power by all the souls she collects as she morphs them into disfigured sea creatures who are called Polyps and are forever glued to the ground in her underwater 'Garden' which is at the entrance of her chambers. There are hundreds of these distorted little creatures at the bottom of Ursula's lairs. Polyps are small plant-like animal hybrids that are anchored and grown into the floor while crying in agony, hoping others could avoid their fate, even wrapping themselves around the limbs of new visitors who are interested in making a deal with Ursula. Ocasionally they are fed dead fish by Ursula.
Ursula made her home in the [[Ursula's Grotto|belly of a giant dead leviathan]]. There Ursula delights in making deals with "poor unfortunate souls", Seafolk and Mer-people who are miserable, lonely, depressed and overall unhappy. She lures them to her underwater chambers and promises to give them their hearts desires if they succeed in the deal she makes with them. But Ursula also secretly sabatoges their efforts to do so. Thus giving her more power by all the souls she collects as she morphs them into disfigured sea creatures who are called Polyps and are forever glued to the ground in her underwater 'Garden' which is at the entrance of her chambers. There are hundreds of these distorted little creatures at the bottom of Ursula's lairs. Polyps are small plant-like animal hybrids that are anchored and grown into the floor while crying in agony, hoping others could avoid their fate, even wrapping themselves around the limbs of new visitors who are interested in making a deal with Ursula. Ocasionally they are fed dead fish by Ursula.
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Over the years, Ursula has become one of the most popular, and iconic of all the Disney villains and is one of the franchise's official members.Her appearance is of a plump light lavender-skinned, white-haired female human and from the waist down has black octopus-like tentacles. The character has been compared to Madame Medusa from the 1977 film The Rescuers, in terms of style, dramatics and choice of minions.
Over the years, Ursula has become one of the most popular, and iconic of all the Disney villains and is one of the franchise's official members.Her appearance is of a plump light lavender-skinned, white-haired female human and from the waist down has black octopus-like tentacles. The character has been compared to Madame Medusa from the 1977 film The Rescuers, in terms of style, dramatics and choice of minions.
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==The Sea Witch Of Hans Christian Andersen==
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Ursula the Sea Witch was originally invented from the source material of the classic Danish Fairytale titled "'''The Little Mermaid'''" also translated as "'''The Little Sea-Maid'''", written in 1837, by children's story teller Hans Christian Andersen. The Sea Witch in this story is a nameless character and is only called by the title of her position as the "'''Sea Witch'''", in older translated versions she is referred to as the "'''Sea Hag'''" or "'''Sea Sorceress'''".
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'''The Original Story...'''
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{{Quote |FAR out at Sea, the water is as blue as the petals of the most loveliest corn-flower, and as clear as the purest crystal. But it is very, very deep. So deep indeed that not even the longest man-made anchor could fathom it. Hundreds of Church steeples would have to be placed one on top of the other starting at the suface of the water above to reach down to the ground of the ocean. There, at the deepest spot, his Majesty the great Sea King dwells, along with all the rest of the Searfolk.|}}-Hans Christian Andersens' The Little Mermaid.
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[[File:IMG_20140604_035719.jpg|thumb|382px|Far out at Sea...]]
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The namless character only known as 'Little Mermaid' or 'Princess Mermaid', dwells in a beautiful underwater Kingdom with her widowed Father the Sea King or Mer-King, her Dowager Empress Grandmother, and her five pretty older sisters.
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Her five sisters are each born one year apart. The Mermaids favorite pastime is to listen to they're Grandmother's tales about the upper world when they are not attending they're sea gardens by the Palace. When a Mermaid turns fifteen, she is permitted to swim to the surface to watch the wonderful world above, and when the sisters become old enough, each of them visits the upper world every year. As each of them returns, the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their various descriptions of the surface and of human beings.
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[[File:IMG_20140604_035828.jpg|thumb|194px|Fifteenth Birthday.]]
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The Little Mermaid is described as being the most beautiful yet loneliest and reserved one out of all her sisters. And when her fifteenth Birthday finally arrives she is adorned by her Grandmother with a wreath of white lillies decorated with pearls and twelve large oyster clams are painfully attached to her fin. The Mermiad rises up to the surface, sees a ship aglow with a handsome Prince on deck. She falls in love with him from a distance and watches the human party celebrate the young lads birthday as fireworks are shot into the air, the Mermaid believes the stars are falling from the sky. Suddenly, a great storm of thunder amd lightning hits, and the Little Mermaid saves the unconscious Prince from nearly drowning like everyone else on board. She delivers him while still unconscious safely to the shore near a religious temple that sits on a rocky cliff above the shore. Here she waits until a young girl from the nearby temple who is accompanied by ladies in waiting, all find him. The Prince believes it is the temple girl who has rescued him and never meets nor sees the Little Mermaid, his true Savoir who was scared away and flead back into the ocean before being seen.
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'''The Sea Witch...'''
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A long time goes by, and the sad and suffering Mermaid cannot forget her Prince. She cannot stand it any longer and slips away into the night, sneaking off from her family during a royal ball, as the pinning over her Prince has become too painful. She dangerously journeys to the Sea Witch's layer to ask for the Sea Witch's help.
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{{Quote |And then the Little Mermaid went out from her garden, and took the road to the foaming whirlpools, behind which the Sea Sorceress lived. She had never been that way before: neither flowers nor grass grew there; nothing but bare, gray, sandy ground stretched out to the whirlpool, where the water, like foaming mill-wheels, whirled round everything that it seized, and cast it into the fathomless deep. Through the midst of these crushing whirlpools the Little Mermaid was obliged to pass, to reach the dominions of the sea witch; and also for a long distance the only road lay right across a quantity of warm, bubbling mire, called by the witch her turfmoor. Beyond this stood her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in which all the trees and flowers were polypi, half animals and half plants; they looked like serpents with a hundred heads growing out of the ground. The branches were long slimy arms, with fingers like flexible worms, moving limb after limb from the root to the top. All that could be reached in the sea they seized upon, and held fast, so that it never escaped from their clutches. The Little Mermaid was so alarmed at what she saw, that she stood still, and her heart beat with fear, and she was very nearly turning back; but she thought of the prince, and the immortal soul...|}}-Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
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Hans' Sea Witch is not necessarily evil, being not the antagonist nor Villain. She is however described as disgusting and unpleasant. She is a recluse, an outcast who is living in an abandoned part of the Ocean where all of the most terrifying sea monsters and other strange creatures of the abyss dwell. The Sea Witch's home is built from the various bones of dead sailors who have fatally shipwrecked and sunk to die at the bottom of the Witch's eerie turf.
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[[File:IMG_20140604_021030.jpg|thumb|157px|The Sea Witch in the Fairytale.]]
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{{Quote |There sat the Sea Witch, allowing a toad to eat from her mouth, just as people sometimes feed a canary with a piece of sugar. She called the ugly water-snakes her little jollies, and allowed them to crawl all over her bosom.|}}-Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
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[[File:IMG_20140604_043945.jpg|thumb|155px|Cut off my tongue?]]
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The Witch's character is placed in the middle of the plot to assist the protagonist Mermaid and help her dream of being human to win the love of a handsome human Prince she rescued and explians the price to be paid to be apart of the upper world.
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{{Quote |I know what you want,” said the sea witch; “it is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty Princess. You want to get rid of your fish’s tail, and to have two supports instead of it, like human beings on earth, so that the young Prince may fall in love with you, and that you may have an immortal soul.” And then the witch laughed so loud and disgustingly, that the toad and the snakes fell to the ground, and lay there wriggling about. “You are but just in time,” said the witch; “for after sunrise to-morrow I should not be able to help you till the end of another year|}}-Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
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To Witch even warns the Mermaid about the deadly price to be paid and the result of what will happen if the Prince does not fall in love with the Mermaid back. Thus, even telling her of her stupidity. The Witch's deal to take the Mermaids voice is much more gruesome and darker than the Disney film...
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{{Quote |But if you take away my voice,” said the Little Mermaid, “what is left for me?” "Your beautiful form, your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes; surely with these you can enchain a man’s heart. Well, have you lost your courage? Put out your little tongue that I may cut it off as my payment; then you shall have the powerful draught.” “It shall be,” said the Little Mermaid.|}}-Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
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The price is to cut off the Little Mermaids tongue to mute her, in exchange for a magic postion she must drink which will painfully split her tale into two and shrink into a pair of beautiful legs. And with every step the Mermaid takes in her new form will feel as if she is walking upon sharp knives. Her delicate feet will even bleed. Thus, allowing the Mermaid a chance at attaining a mortal soul by marrying the Prince and sharing his soul as one, which one day will allow the Mermaid to have a place in heaven with him. It is said that Mermaids are to live for three hundred years in the depths of the sea, but do not have souls and when they die they dissolve and become a part of the ocean. After death sea folk turn to seafoam and just simply no longer exist, not even in an afterlife.
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'''The Price of Beauty...'''
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The Little Mermaid drinks the potion the Witch gave her and she passes out and lays unconscious. When she awakens it is daylight and the Prince finds her laying on the white marble steps of his Palace. The Prince is mesmerised by her beauty and grace even though she is mute. Most of all he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him despite her suffering excruciating pain and the bleeding of her dainty feet it brungs at nightfall. Thus, the Mermaid sneaks away to the white marble steps at the shore and baths her burning feet in the cool sea water when everyone in the Prince's Castle is alseep and the torches are all burned out. One day the prince's father, the King, orders his son to marry the neighboring King's daughter. Despite the King's orders the prince tells the Little Mermaid he will not because he does not love the Princess. He goes on to say he can only love the young woman from the temple, who he believes rescued him. It turns out that the Princess is the temple girl, who had been sent to the temple to be educated before being able to wed. The prince loves her, and the wedding is announced immediately. The Mermaid is grief stricken as her fate is now sealed as she cannot tell him that she was and is his true Hero.
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'''The Original Ending...'''
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The Prince and Princess marry, and then a lavish celebration is held on a royal ship. But the Little Mermaid's heart is broken. She thinks of all that she has given up and of all the pain she has suffered. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her. Right before dawn, her older sisters arise from the waves, they're hair, no longer dancing in the wind. They all come bringing her a dagger and explain to they're little sister that the Sea Witch has given them this as a token in exchange for their long beautiful flowing hair.
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{{Quote |We have given our hair to the Sea Witch,” said they, “to obtain help for you, that you may not die to-night. She has given us a knife: here it is, see it is very sharp. Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the Prince; when the warm blood falls upon your feet they will grow together again, and form into a fish’s tail, and with your true form and fins, you will be once more a Mermaid, and return to us to live out your three hundred years before you die and change into the salt sea foam. Haste, then; he or you must die before sunrise. Our old Grandmother moans so for you, that her white hair is falling off from sorrow, as ours fell under the Sea Witch’s scissors. Kill the Prince and come back; hasten: do you not see the first bright streaks in the sky? In a few minutes the sun will rise, he or you must die." And then they sighed deeply and mournfully, and sank down beneath the waves.|}}-Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
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If the Little Mermaid slays the prince and stabs his heart with the knife and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a Mermaid again, all her suffering will end, and she will live out her full life of three hundred years with her family as a Mermaid.
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However, despite her fear of death, the Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his new bride, and she throws the dagger and then herself into the sea as dawn breaks and basically commits Suicides. Her body slowly dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the bright rays of the sun; she has turned into a spirit, a child of the air. The other children tell her she has become like them, an invisible and ethereal form because she strove with all her heart to obtain an immortal soul. She will earn her own soul one day by doing good deeds for three hundred years and she will eventually rise up into the kingdom of God and earn a place in Heaven.
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[[File:IMG_20140604_035754.jpg|thumb|146px|The little Mermaid says Goodbye.]]
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{{Quote |After three hundred years, thus shall we float into the Kingdom of Heaven,” said she. “And we may even get there sooner,” whispered one of her companions. “Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are children, and for every day on which we find a good child, who is the joy of his parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened. The child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile with joy at his good conduct, for we can count one year less of our three hundred years. But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of sorrow, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial!|}}Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
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==Disney's ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989)==
==Disney's ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989)==
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[[File:IMG_20140604_020943.jpg|thumb|174px|Walt Disney's Ursula the Sea Witch.]]
Ursula is the Sea Witch who makes deals with Seafolk and Mer-People. If they succeed, they get their hearts desire. If they fail, she adds them to "her garden", which is a collection of pitiful looking sea creatures who are attached to the floor. Via her song "''Poor Unfortunate Souls''", she offers Ariel the chance to be human for three days. If she can get the prince to give her "the kiss of true love" the condition would be permanent, but if not, she would be Ursula's property. Ariel accepts, and Ursula, true to her word, turns her human right then and there, at the cost of her beautiful singing voice.
Ursula is the Sea Witch who makes deals with Seafolk and Mer-People. If they succeed, they get their hearts desire. If they fail, she adds them to "her garden", which is a collection of pitiful looking sea creatures who are attached to the floor. Via her song "''Poor Unfortunate Souls''", she offers Ariel the chance to be human for three days. If she can get the prince to give her "the kiss of true love" the condition would be permanent, but if not, she would be Ursula's property. Ariel accepts, and Ursula, true to her word, turns her human right then and there, at the cost of her beautiful singing voice.
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