- “Come come, my little friend. Cheer up. You've learned your lesson, start anew. Do your best, be yourself, and light will smile on you.”
- ―Butterfly Fairy[src]
- Not to be confused with the Blue Fairy from "Pinocchio".
The Butterfly Fairy is a character from the 1934 Silly Symphony short The Flying Mouse.
Background[]
Personality[]
The Butterfly Fairy is kind, thoughtful, understanding, magical, wise, motherly, gracious, moral, smart, benevolent, and gentle. However, when it comes to the Flying Mouse's desire to fly, she warns him to use this wish carefully, as it could lead to consequences. In spite of this, she is also kind in helping the Mouse be himself just like the other mice in his family are.
When she was in her butterfly form, she became very fearful when a spider tried to eat her. When the Flying Mouse thought that she was a real butterfly, he then realizes that she is capable of transforming into a fairy - showing that she can appear in her butterfly form and fairy form throughout the story.
Physical appearance[]
In her butterfly form, the Butterfly Fairy has large wings with mostly yellow colorations on it with orange and blue colorations patterned on it. She is shown to have two antennae, a black head, a dark blue thorax, and a red abdomen.
In her fairy form, she is a beautiful, slender, full-figured woman with fair skin, pale pink lips, medium-length wavy blonde hair, eyeshadow, and the same large butterfly wings on her back. She wears a light blue dress with long as well a blue headband, and carries a wand with a white star at the top end of it.
Role in the short[]
The Butterfly Fairy is first seen in her butterfly form in the mercy of being eaten by a spider on his web. As she screams for help, the Flying Mouse defends her from the spider, repelling him back to his lair just as he rescues the butterfly in time. Just as he rescues her, the Flying Mouse feels sad that she must have been eaten by the spider, only for the butterfly to transform into a fairy. The Butterfly Fairy thanks the Mouse for his kindness in saving her from the spider. As she asks him of what wish she would grant him, the Mouse asks her that he wants to fly like the birds, which she replies to him to use the wish carefully, as mice are never meant to fly. As a result, she suddenly grants his wish into giving the Mouse a pair of bat wings, but later finds out that his wish has more consequences than he imagined.
Later after the Flying Mouse feels sad and cries that he was treated as an outcast by the bats, he lets a tear drop from his finger as the Butterfly Fairy appears again. The Flying Mouse tells her that he was treated as an outcast, only for the Butterfly Fairy to deny, telling him to cheer himself up. As a result, she tells the Mouse to be himself so that the light will smile on him, causing his wings to disappear just before the Mouse reunites with his family after he thanks the Fairy for his wish.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The Butterfly Fairy shares similarities with the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio, which came out six years after The Flying Mouse was released.
- A running gag in The Flying Mouse is when the titular character gets his wish granted, he kisses the Butterfly Fairy's arm before vanishing, just as he becomes satisfied that he received the wish she granted for him.