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| Name | Miss Nettle |
| Shows | Sofia the First Sofia the First: Royal Magic |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Fairy, enchanted gardener |
| Alignment | Bad, later good |
| Race | Fairy |
| Friends | Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, Princess Sofia, King Henrik, Princess Hildegard, Olaf, Princess Ivy, Roma |
| Enemies | Princess Sofia (formerly), Prince James (formerly), Prince Desmond (formerly), Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather (formerly), Prof. Popov (formerly), Cedric the Sorcerer (formerly), Olaf (formerly) |
| Likes | Being praised and applauded, showing off, getting what she wants, using her magic on others at their expense, credit, being appreciated, flowers, Nettledrops, staring into the mirror |
| Dislikes | Losing her magic, not getting her way |
| Powers | Fairy magic, spellcasting, teleportation via magic, telekinesis via magic, flight, enchanted flowers |
| Paraphernalia | Wand |
| First Appeared | Make Way for Miss Nettle |
| Voice | Megan Mullally (Seasons 1-3) Anna Vocino (Season 4) Julie Nathanson (Royal Magic) |
Miss Nettle is an ambitious, self-centered fairy who appears in the Disney Jr. series Sofia the First and Sofia the First: Royal Magic. She was Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather's apprentice and serves as one of the antagonists in the series until she reforms in "The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle". In Royal Magic, Miss Nettle becomes the Headmistress of Charmswell School.
Background
Personality
Miss Nettle is very self-absorbed, and she believes that she should be the most powerful fairy (she even compares herself to Maleficent). This is her driving motivation for stealing the fairies' spellbook She poses as a gardener who gives a lesson to Sofia, James, and Desmond in order to sneak into the school, where she really plans to steal the spellbook. After the fairies discover her plan, she puts them inside a magic bubble, showing her ruthlessness in obtaining her goal. When she transforms herself into Sascha the Sorceress to get Sofia's Amulet to increase her power, she proves to be very charismatic, persuading all except Sofia, who recognized her laugh, that she meant well. Sofia even doubts her intuition until the Amulet reassures her by summoning Snow White.
It wasn't until the episode "The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle" that she finally became a kind and generous person. It was known that Miss Nettle has been stealing the snowdrops in Freezenburg, but it turned out to be a complete misunderstanding as she was the one who created them. After deserving the credit for the snowdrops with Sofia's help, Miss Nettle thanks Sofia and fixes her amulet in return. After that, she has been doing good deeds, such as creating wake-upsy daisies as a cure for the deep sleeps in the episode "Ivy's True Colors".
Physical Appearance
Miss Nettle is slender, and dresses similarly to the other fairies, although with a different color scheme. She wears a golden yellow dress and a pointy hat, with a brown-orange cape. She has orange puffy hair and light blue eyes. As Sascha, she has brown hair tied into a ponytail, a black cape with clover pins, and an ornate brown/orange gown.
In Sofia the First: Royal Magic, Miss Nettle has her hair tied up in a low bun. She wears a pale yellow long sleeved shirt, a golden yellow vest, matching pants and brown boots. She also has a red locket brooch.
Appearances
Sofia the First
Her debut appearance was in "Make Way for Miss Nettle" as the new enchanted gardening teacher. As part of an after school program, Sofia, James, and Desmond stay to learn how to grow magic plants. Miss Nettle then leaves the students alone so she can search for Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather's spellbook. Sofia runs after her to return her glove.
The fairies catch her looking for the spellbook in their office and confront her. She then traps them in a magic bubble and continues looking for the book, Sofia as seen her trap them and she, James, and Desmond found the spellbook before Nettle does.
The bad fairy then confronts them and demands the spellbook. She then offers a deal after they refuse; they give her the spellbook and she'll let the fairies go. The children agree, but Nettle then goes back on her word and decides to free the fairies after she's learned all their spells. Sofia, Desmond, and James get the book back from her by using a magic flower, the Laughing Lily.
The three free the fairies from their bubble. Then Flora, Fauna, Merryweather, and the children go back to the greenhouse and demand Miss Nettle to leave. She then refuses and threatens to put them all in another magic bubble, Desmond manages to take her wand from her but ends up in a bubble. Flora then frees him and tells Miss Nettle to leave now and never return.
Nettle returns disguised as Sascha the Sorceress in "The Enchanted Feast", claiming to show her respects for King Roland before the Tri-Kingdom Feast, and has a rose companion attached on her arm, called Rosey. She showers the royal family with gifts, but Sofia has suspicions about her, but everyone else dismisses her misgivings. Fortunately, after the Amulet summons Snow White, Sofia learns to trust her instincts and goes to Cedric, and they team up to defeat Nettle. In defeating her, Sofia shows her wits have grown and how much she has become in tune with the Amulet.
She seems to be a little cruel to other people's feelings, considering that she supposedly knew about Cedric's feelings about her (he was in love with her, disguised as Sascha), and yet she unnecessarily humiliated him during the enchanted feast (Taking into account that to complete her plan she only needed to sabotage his wand, not offer herself to the king to do the show in Cedric's place) and later offend him by saying that he wasn't a real sorcerer, just like her.
She returns in the episode "The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle". Sofia read in her Secret Library that Miss Nettle had been stealing all the Snowdrop Flowers in the Kingdom of Freezenburg and Sofia set out to stop her with help from Olaf the Snowman. Miss Nettle explained to the princess and the snowman that she is the creator of the Snowdrop and that the royal gardener of Freezenburg was the one who stole it from her in the first place. Sofia reported this to Princess Hildegard and King Henrik. After informing their subjects that Miss Nettle created the Snowdrop, they honored their winter festival to her, much to the fairy's delight.
Miss Nettle also returns in the episode "Ivy's True Colors", still doing good deeds. Sofia enlists her aid to find the cure for the Deep Sleeps: The Wake-Upsy Daisy. However, she needs the magic of Ivy's butterflies to make the Daisies grow. Sofia and Miss Nettle head to Ivy's castle to release the butterflies and lead them to the other side of Ivy's island. When Ivy finds them all missing, she recaptures them and apologizes to Roma just as he falls victim to the Deep Sleeps. After Ivy frees the butterflies, they make the Wake-Upsy Daisies grow, waking up the animals, and afterwards, Ivy and Miss Nettle become friends and decide to keep making the Wake-Upsy Daisies to cure all Deep Sleeps.
Miss Nettle makes a final non-speaking appearance in the series finale Sofia the First: Forever Royal, where she can be seen in the audience behind Princess Vivian and Princess Clio, gathered to witness the graduation of Sofia and her friends, possibly indicating that she has made up with the three good fairies or they heard she had reformed. She smiles when the children sing a rendition of the song "Royal Prep" and applauds them.
Sofia the First: Royal Magic
Miss Nettle is a headmistress at Sofia's new Charmswell School for Royal Magic. Not much is known about her in the new series yet, though she still sometimes still likes to annoy others (Zane the Hero), looking at herself in the mirror (Give it a Twirl)
Episode Appearances
Sofia the First
- Make Way for Miss Nettle
- The Enchanted Feast
- Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle
- Ivy's True Colors
- Forever Royal (cameo)
Sofia the First: Royal Magic
- Sofia the First: Royal Magic Main Title Theme
- Welcome to Charmswell
- Give it a Twirl
- Zane the Hero
Gallery
Trivia
- Miss Nettle is the first villain of the series to mention a major Disney Villain (Maleficent).
- She is the second fairy who is evil, the first being Maleficent.
- Like Maleficent, she also has a past history with Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. However, unlike Maleficent, she has wings and the appearance of a regular fairy.
- In her first three appearances, she sings a self-centered theme song. However, her song "My Finest Flower" is her first non-villain song.
- Miss Nettle is the first magic-user to a duel, her opponent being Cedric, though she had already revealed her skill in combative magic during her first appearance.
- Nettle means to annoy or irritate, and it also pertains to plants with stinging hairs, both of which fit her perfectly.
- Both Nettle and Cedric have instrumental themes and familiars, as well as a desire to take the Amulet.
- Miss Nettle appears to have been inspired by the concept art of Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, one of whom was apparently going to be yellow in an early concept for Sleeping Beauty.
- In the official teaser for Sofia the First: Royal Magic, when Sofia and her friends slide down the banister, a picture of her is shown on a pennant-banner (viewer's right). It is later revealed in other trailers that Nettle is in fact the Headmistress of Charmswell School.