This article is about the live-action character. For the animated character, see Grand Pabbie.
Grand Pabbie is a character who appears in the ABC fantasy series, Once Upon a Time. He appears in the fourth season and is based on the character with the same name from the film Frozen.
Background[]
Just like the animated character, Pabbie is a troll who is immortal and has the power to heal those who are hurt in any way shape or form. He is very wise and is able to advise those who ask for it. This is shown when he helps Anna and Elsa when they want to know what exactly happened to their parents and why they went on their two week voyage. Grand Pabbie's expertise appears to be well known by the kingdom as even the king and queen of Arendelle went to him for advice on Elsa, as well as helping Belle French learn more about what happened to her mother.
Role in the series[]
Grand Pabbie listens to the plight of one of the royal princesses, Gerda, as she expresses sorrow at losing her sisters, Ingrid and Helga. He consoles her and asks how it happened, but she refuses to speak of it out of grief. Due to the unknown tragedy, Gerda requests a memory potion powerful enough to wipe everyone's memories of her sisters. Pabbie agrees to help her, but he warns the truth has a way of coming out one way or the other and that there will be a magical price extracted at her expense. Nonetheless, Gerda consents, and soon after, all of Arendelle forgets Ingrid and Helga.
Years later, Gerda becomes Queen of Arendelle and has two daughters, Elsa and Anna. When Elsa exhibits icy powers, she and her husband decide to visit Mist Haven to find a solution. They take the voyage under the guise of a diplomatic mission to the Northern Isles, but the royals reveal to Pabbie of where they are actually headed. On their homebound trip, Gerda and her husband die in a storm as Elsa becomes the next Queen. While planning Anna's wedding to Kristoff, the sisters discover their mother's diary ambiguously referencing their reason for traveling out of Arendelle was due to their eldest daughter's magic. Anna and Elsa then consult Pabbie for answers, and he admits their parents were going to Mist Haven, though their reason for it is not known to him.
When Anna visits Pabbie again, she brings a companion, Belle in, who wishes to reclaim lost memories of her mother's death. Using magic, he extracts them from Belle's mind and transforms it into a stone. Pabbie instructs her to return to the place where she lost her memories, boil the stone in a tea and drink it to remember what was lost. With Belle's matter settled, Anna privately asks him about a woman, Ingrid, claiming to be her deceased mother's sister. Anna is in disbelief, as she believes her mother has no sisters, but he reveals Ingrid is not lying. Pabbie explains that her mother, Gerda, is the youngest of her two other sisters, Ingrid and Helga, and the three often played together as children. To his knowledge, he doesn't know how Ingrid and Helga disappeared, but it was a tragedy that prompted the two sisters to be erased from everyone's memories. Pabbie informs Anna of this, but he obscures that it was Gerda who requested her sisters' existences to be wiped clean. Worried for Elsa's safety and suspecting Ingrid is up to no good, Anna abruptly leaves with Belle.
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Trivia[]
- Grand Pabbie is the only troll from the franchise to actually physically appear in the series. The other trolls only appear in the background in ball form.
- He is one of the several characters to not have a Storybrooke counterpart.
