Adella

Adella

Background information
Feature films	The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Television programs	The Little Mermaid
Video games
Park attractions
Portrayed by
Portrayed by	Michelle Lookadoo (Broadway Musical)
Animators
Voice	Sherry Lynn (series) Tara Strong (prequel film)
Performance model
Designer
Inspiration
Honors and awards
Character information
Full name
Other names	Princess Adella
Personality	Boy-crazy, sometimes vain and shallow
Appearance	Beautiful, varies in weight, fair skin, dark brown hair, teal eyes, chartreuse green seashell bra, chartreuse yellow tail
Birthday
Occupation	Princess of Atlantica
Affiliations
Goal	To live her life as royalty and have a boyfriend
Home	Atlantica
Relatives	King Triton (father) Queen Athena (mother, deceased) Attina, Andrina, Arista, Aquata, Alana, Ariel (sisters) Prince Eric (brother-in-law) Melody (niece)
Pets
Allies	Ariel, Sebastian, Flounder, Eric, King Triton, Queen Athena, Melody, Urchin, her sisters, Evil Manta, Stevie (presumed boyfriend)
Minions
Enemies	Ursula, Flotsam, Cloak and Dagger, Glut, Morgana, Marina Del Rey, Undertow, Evil Manta (formerly)
Likes	Music, boys
Dislikes	Not having a boyfriend
Powers and abilities	Can remove her father's trident from the stand
Weapons
Fate	Kisses a merboy she first fell in love with and called "Frumbleboo"
Quote	"Oh, I was dreaming about a boy."

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Adella is a minor character from The Little Mermaid. She is one of Ariel's sisters and one of Melody's aunts. Lynn in the related TV series and by Tara Strong in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning. In the broadway musical, she is portrayed by Michelle Lookadoo with mint green hair and a pink tail with a starfish bra.

Background

Adella is the daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena. She has a chartreuse yellow tail and wears a chartreuse green seashell bra. Her dark brown hair is tied in a ponytail with a pearly hairband and headpiece that both match the color of her tail. Her appearance varies slightly in the TV series, where she wears a gray hairband and animated to be somewhat heavier than her sisters. However in both the original (aside from one brief moment in the Daughters of Triton song) and prequel films and the coloring pages, she has the exact same figure as her sisters. The prequel film establishes that Adella is boy-crazy, often dreaming about boys and flirting with them. In the books, she tends to be shallow and vain and she has many dates with merboys.

In extended media released from 1989 onward, she is the fifth daughter of King Triton. Bonus features from the DVD release of the prequel, however, state that Adella is the third of Triton's daughters.

Appearances

The Little Mermaid

Adella appears at the beginning of the film, where she is performing the song "Daughters of Triton" alongside her other sisters. Afterwards, she only has cameo appearances alongside her other siblings.

The Little Mermaid (TV series)

Most of Adella's appearances are cameos alongside her other sisters. She is obviously chubby when sketched for the series. In the episode "Trident True", she is the victim of a practical joke courtesy of Urchin. When she tries to comb her hair, she ends up having a bad hair day. At the end of the episode, she presents Triton with a father's day present, and it is implied that she gives him the same thing every year.

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

Adella makes a small cameo appearance at the beginning of the film. She attends the christening of her niece, Melody, and is seen in a group shot with her other sisters.

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Adella first appearance in the film is as a young girl. She is relaxing in a cove alongside her sisters and parents, but is forced to flee when pirates attack. She, Aquata, Arista, and Ariel are carried to safety by Triton. Adella's mother, Athena, is killed in the attack, which devastates the family. As a result of his grief, Triton bans music (Athena was a noted lover of music), and has Adella and her sisters be strictly raised by their governess, Marina Del Rey.

As a teenager, Adella learns from Ariel about a secret underground club called The Catfish Club. She secretly attends alongside of them and start dancing with a fat male sea slug, but is caught by Marina and punished by Triton. At the end of the film, after music is restored to Atlantica, Adella is seen kissing a merboy.

Trivia

Her name is a feminine form of "Adam".
Adella is a renaissance era name.
In Little Mermaid 2, there are actually two versions of Adella. One version has a hefty Adella, drawn similarly to how she was in the TV series, but at a later time, that model was scrapped to resemble the one in the third film.
Adella explicitly states that she is two years older than Ariel, making her 17 in the third film and 18 in the first film. It could be that Adella's birthday is before Ariel's, so when she turns 18, Ariel will still be 15.
Adella is obssessed with boys; hoping to find the perfect one.
In the original movie, Adella was the heftiest of all the sisters, and since then her size has varied. During the TV series, her weight was exaggerated to make her quite chubby. Since then however, Adella's body was greatly reduced to resemble Ariel's.
The voice of Adella is also the voice of Ariel's daughter, Melody.