Eris is the main antagonist in Barbie in A Mermaid Tale series. She is a former queen of Oceana who is the aunt of Merliah Summers and the younger sister of Queen Calissa.
She is voiced by Kathleen Barr, who also voiced Queen Chrysalis and Trixie Lulamoon in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Laverna in Barbie: Fairytopia series, Lydia in Barbie & the Diamond Castle, and Gwyllion in Barbie: Mariposa series.
History[]
As sister to Queen Calissa, Eris was extremely jealous of Calissa, especially after Calissa performed the Changing of the Tides ceremony to be granted the power to make Merillia, the life force of the ocean, to keep her kingdom of Oceana healthy. When Calissa fell in love with a human surfer, she later became pregnant and gave birth to Merliah. However, knowing Eris' lust for the throne, Calissa left Merliah in the care of her grandfather Break in case anything happened to her. After Calissa left Merliah in Break's care, she returned to Oceana, where Eris overthrew her, locked her in the dungeon, and took over the kingdom. As a result, the Merillia that Calissa made was not as strong due to her imprisonment and state of sorrow, and the kingdom suffered as a result, yet Eris didn't care as, with her queen now, she made sure everyone obeyed her to the letter, or be banished by being trapped in one of her whirlpools if they showed the slightest disrespect to her.
16 years later, Merliah has grown up into an expert surfer in Malibu, but soon notices several changes to her happening, such as pink streaks in her hair, and her ability to talk to sea life like Zuma the dolphin and Snouts the seal. When Break tells her the truth, Merliah doesn't believe him until she sees for herself that her mother is indeed a mermaid, and is imprisoned by her aunt. Merliah decides to rescue her, and travels to Oceana to do so. However, meeting up with two mermaids who run a clothing boutique, they quickly help Merliah blend in with a fake mermaid tail to avoid raising Eris' suspicion, and Merliah bears witness firsthand to her aunt's cruelty when a merman who disrespected her is banished in one of her whirlpools for it. She later learns of what she'll need to save Calissa and overthrow Eris. After acquiring the first two objects with help from both her friends back on land and the mermaids who helped her blend in, Merliah then attempts to get the last item from Eris: her necklace.
Attempting to shower her aunt with praise by leading everyone in singing "Queen of the Waves", Merliah gets Eris' necklace, but incensed at the deception, Eris sends her manta sharks after Merliah. When one of them manages to pull off Merliah's fake tail, everyone is shocked to see Merliah is human, while Eris is impressed that she finally found her niece and can do away with her, sending her to the deepest trench in the ocean with one of her whirlpools. After Merliah is sucked in, Eris believes no one can overthrow her now, before Merliah escapes from the whirlpool, but now as a full-fledged mermaid, to Eris' shock and disbelief. Merliah then reveals that Calissa is imprisoned and Eris overthrew her, and realizes that because Eris can't make Merillia, she overthrew Merliah's mom out of jealousy and spite. Eris tries to deny it, but when Merliah keeps prodding her for the truth, Eris snaps and tries to go after her niece in retaliation. However, Merliah dupes Eris into getting stuck in her own whirlpool, and Eris is taken away to be imprisoned in the deepest trench in the ocean, freeing Oceana from her tyranny.
However, while she was imprisoned, Eris made plans to escape and seek revenge. To that end, she has a fish named Alistair who pledged loyalty to her travel to Australia, where Merliah was competing in a surf invitational, and convince Merliah's Australian surfing rival, Kylie Morgan, to steal her necklace that allows Merliah to transform between her mermaid and human forms at will. After Kylie takes it, puts it on, and uses its magic to become a mermaid herself, she follows Alistair to the whirlpool where Eris was trapped, and Kylie ends up being trapped herself while Eris is freed. No longer imprisoned in her own whirlpool, Eris sets out to seek revenge on Calissa and Merliah, gaining the support of the Stargazers after she uses her new power to trap one in their worst nightmare. From there, Eris travels to the ruins of Aquellia where the Changing of the Tides ceremony was to take place. Confronting her sister and the ambassadors attending the ceremony, Eris traps them in their worst nightmares so she can perform the ceremony and gain the power to make Merillia herself.
When Merliah and Kylie arrive later, they fight Eris and her minions until Merliah decides to do the ceremony to prevent Eris from gaining the power to make Merillia. However, when she sits on the throne, she finds it won't work while she's human. Kylie risks drowning to throw Merliah her necklace so she can become a mermaid again, and when the ceremony starts to imbue Merliah with the power to make Merillia, Eris overpowers Kylie and attempts to stop Merliah by trapping her in her own worst nightmare, but Merliah blocks the attack and reflects it back at her aunt, sending Eris flying out of the ruins and landing in a garden of seaweed, dazed and stunned. This also breaks the spells on the Stargazers, the ambassadors, and Calissa, who returns to hug Merliah after saving the ceremony and stopping Eris. When everyone goes to see what became of Eris, they are shocked to find that Eris' reflected spell caused her to become trapped in her own worst nightmare: human legs in place of a tail. Worse still, her being trapped in that nightmare has rendered her magic permanently useless. The ambassadors then see to taking Eris away to lock her up in a place far more secure than a whirlpool so she won't threaten anyone ever again.
Relationship[]
Allies[]
- Kylie Morgan (formerly)
- Remo (formerly)
- Stargazers
- Alistair (formerly)
Enemies[]
- Alistair
- Merliah Summers
- Kylie Morgan
- Queen Calissa
- Fallon Casey
- Hadley
- Kayla
- Xylie
- Dreamfish
- Remo
- Ambassador Selena
- Ambassador Kattrin
- Ambassador Renata
- Ambassador Mirabella
- Snouts
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- She is one of the Barbie villains who defeating all the times, the other being Laverna from Barbie: Fairytopia. Unexpectedly on this, they both voiced by Kathleen Barr.
- She is the first main Barbie villain to be an merfolk, the second being Caligo from Barbie: The Pearl Princess.
- Eris also appearing in the bloopers from the second movie.
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