VOICE ACTOR: Grey Delisle ("Parental Bonding"), Susanne Blakeslee ("Beauty Marked")
AGE: Unknown, either late teen to early 20’s physically
EYES: Red
HAIR: Blonde and braided
STATUS: Princess of a Stuck-in-the Dark Ages Kingdom
LIKES: The feeling of independence that her brother doesn’t give her, swinging from chandeliers
DISLIKES: Her imprisonment, the strict rules of being a princess, her asshole brother and her "horrid mommy"
PERSONALITY: Whiny, resentful, melancholy, weak-willed, desperate--by the end of "Beauty Marked", confident, assured, powerful
POWER: Her amulet turns her into a powerful dragon, standard ghost powers
STRENGTH: She turns into a GODDAMN dragon. What more do you need to know?!
WEAKNESS: She lives under her brother’s shadow…and abuse
FIRST APPEARANCE: "Parental Bonding"
GOAL: To be the type of princess she can be happy with.
HISTORY: "Whiny" should be her middle name. Since her first appearance, it’s all she’s been doing. She makes a short appearance at the beginning of, caught in Danny’s Fenton Fisher unintentionally. Already in Dragon mode, she declares her desires to go to the ball, something her ma wouldn’t let her go to. Danny knocks her a new one, causing the amulet to fall and revert her to her human form. She leaves and doesn’t return until the last scene of the same episode, this time in the Casper High school dance, awaiting for Tucker to dance with him, much to his bemusement.
She makes a short cameo where she accidentally bumps into Sam and Tucker who are on their way to rescue Danny upon their first trip in the Ghost Zone. For some reason she gets pissed at them and goes dragon, chasing after them for a certain amount before giving up. She then reappeared as one of the oodles of ghosts escaping Pariah Dark, Sidney on tow. She helps combat Pariah’s army during the end.
She makes her only prominent role in "Beauty Marked". Her mother is missing, but I wouldn’t put it past it if her brother killed her or...banished her or however ghosts...expire? She’s still got family oppression, this time from Aragon's end. Forced to do his every bidding for 1600 years, his latest task sends Dora to fetch him the impossible: a human bride. Hosting a beauty pageant in Casper High, Dora (disguised as a human: Dora Mattingly) gets Danny to judge the pageant, knowing a half ghost boy will choose well. He unintentionally chooses Sam and she’s whisked to the still Dark Ages portion of the Ghost Zone.
There Sam declares her 21st century attitude and with it, gives Dora gain the gump she needed to go dragon and turn against her brother—getting out much needed aggressive she’s been building up for years. With Aragon defeated, Dora restores time to his kingdom. Her people cheer in what we can assume to be a brighter, better nation. All is right in Dora’s world.
She later returns to help save the world from an asteroid. ("Phantom Planet")
PERSONALITY: Despite her glamorous appearance, Dora remains happy only on principle. Inside, she’s miserable. Stuck in the shadow of her jerk brother, Dora spent the 1600 years as his personal slave and her attitude reflects that. She’s hopeless, weak, and resentful. She desperately clings to a false hope that someday she will be free to become her own woman. Seeing the world change before her eyes - the 21st century views of an equal gender - Dora remains a wishful, but tired individual.
It is through Sam’s inspired actions of rebellious and thoroughly brave personality that Dora declares, "enough is enough". She gains confidence and a sense of power she never realized she had until now. With it, she practically dethrones Aragon and we can only assume the kingdom will be happier now that she is happier.
OPINION: I really hate her voice in "Beauty Marked". Oh, the woman can act, no doubt, but the voice choice is so deadly wrong. Keyword: deadly. The tone is so annoying. I shouldn’t have expected less then the same lady who voiced Wanda from Fairly Oddparents; that voice is nails on a chalkboard scratched repeatedly...over and over...for the next 1600 years.
Other then that, she’s fine. Nothing to get me worked over. There's one brief scene in "Parental Bonding" that shows her as a human (pic above), so we know or have clues that she once lived or hinted that she was once mortal. OR she spent her ghostly existence disguised as a human.
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