Ursula agrees, only to have Poseidon catch her, and in return for Hook betraying him, takes away his only chance to seek revenge on Rumplestiltskin. Hook then counters by stealing Ursula's singing voice to hurt Poseidon.
See, Ursula's happy ending is getting her voice back, and Hook's got her voice stashed away on the Jolly Roger. In order for Hook to get her voice, which is trapped in a seashell, Ursula has to bring the Jolly Roger to Storybrooke. In doing that, she accidentally brings Ariel along, too.
Princess Ursula is one of the main antagonists (alongside the other members of the Queens of Darkness) of the second half of Season 4 of the ABC TV series Once Upon a Time.
One of the biggest attributes he lambastes Rumpelstiltskin for displaying is his cowardice: his refusal to fight for his wife, for his family, for his life when Hook runs away with Rumple's unhappy wife, Milah, is the conflict that leads to their centuries-old rivalry.
So we learn exactly what happened in the past between them. Hook befriends the young Ursula [Tiffany Boone], and he agrees to help her because her father, Poseidon [Ernie Hudson], uses her voice to ruin pirate ships and run them into rocks, and she doesn't want to do that.
Triton confronts Ursula and agrees to give up himself and his magical trident in return for Ariel's freedom. Ursula then uses the trident to expand into monstrous proportions and attempts to kill Ariel and Eric, but Eric manages to impale Ursula with the splintered bowsprit of a wrecked ship, and she dies.
her friends are eels.” Ursula is completely cut off from her family as a result of Triton banishing her, and her anger at her circumstances only grows over time. She has no one to talk to or confide in other than her minions.
The sea-witch octopus, originally voiced by Pat Carroll and modeled after drag queen Divine, is the epitome of a classic Disney baddie: unabashedly evil and self-serving, with a campy anthem to boot.
But in a desire to re-market these ladies to a chic clientele, it appears that they decided to shave more than a few pounds off of Ursula the Sea Witch and Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts. Because in order to be fashionable, you must be thin. The fact is, Ursula was fashionable.
Lizzo showcased her audition for The Little Mermaid's Ursula in a since-privated viral video. She didn't get the part, but she "was down to make Ursula a THOT, shaking ass." The role went to Melissa McCarthy, whom Lizzo met during a taping of Adele's "One Night Only" concert.
In the episode, "Swan Song," Captain Hook sacrificed himself by having Emma pierce him with Excalibur in order to save Emma and the residents of Storybrooke.
In this episode, Zelena redeems after finding out that Hades tricked her. Meanwhile, in the Underworld, King Arthur shows up and helps Hook find out about Hades' weakness. In the end, Hook comes back to life.
Lettie is finally able to do away with Ursula when she learns the monster's real name—Skarthatch of the Keep—and what Ursula is afraid of: the hunger birds. Ursula reappears briefly after the hunger birds eat her to torment the narrator, making him feel friendless and alone.
While it is known that her mother perished, there is no story attached to the event. However, much later, in 2008, an animated The Little Mermaid prequel revealed that Ariel's mother was crushed by a pirate ship during an altercation between humans and merpeople.
Ursula, from the feminist perspective represents a character that exposes the realities behind society's expectations of women and as well as a more truthful relationship between men and women.
Rather, Ursula's appearance is radically different from her family, and she sports tentacles that look like a permanent black dress. It's possible Ursula is not a mermaid in appearance because she and Triton did not have the same mother or father. If they're half siblings, Ursula's tentacles make more sense.
While Ariel is 16 years old in Disney animated The Little Mermaid film, her love interest is not the same age. The character's voice actor, Christopher Daniel Barnes, was just 16 years old at the time of recording the film, leading to the assumption that the character was intended to be the same age.
In addition to being the god of the sea, Once's Poseidon is also the father of Merrin Dungey's Ursula, a concept omitted from Disney's The Little Mermaid in 1989, though later included in the Broadway musical.
In the Disney animated film "The Little Mermaid," Ursula is portrayed as an evil sea witch rather than a vengeful sea goddess. Her motivations for being evil stem from her desire for power, control, and revenge. Ursula's main goal is to gain control over the underwater kingdom ruled by King Triton, Ariel's father.
“There's so much you can do with tentacles. They give a creepy feeling,” supervising animator Ruben Aquino told Premiere magazine in 1989, adding the team ultimately decided to make her look like an octopus.
