The Howling Hairfish is a monstrous fish that happens when a normal fish becomes cursed in The Little Mermaid, featured only in the episode "The Beast Within".
Background[]
According to the Fortune Teller, the Hairfish is a cursed, monstrous fish whose curse was cast long ago by an unknown sea witch and only a school of silver fish will turn a Howling Hairfish back into a normal fish. The only Howling Hairfish that is able to speak is Flounder.
Physical appearance[]
Howling Hairfish are gigantic lycanthropic fish with a purple or red scaly bodies, dark purple or light red stripes on top, blue border lines on their fins, thick black bushy eyebrows, blue bags in their eyes, whiskers on their head and chin, a black dog-like nose, big yellow eyes and enormous and deadly sharp teeth.
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
- Howling Hairfish Physiology: Howling Hairfish possess advanced physical attributes, such as strength, durability and speed.
- Advanced Strength: Howling Hairfish are much stronger than normal humans and certain aquatic creatures. They were able to overpower three great white sharks with relative ease despite being smaller than great white sharks.
- Advanced Durability: Howling Hairfish are far more durable than normal humans and certain aquatic creatures, being able to withstand the immense underwater pressures.
- Advanced Speed: Howling Hairfish are much faster than normal humans and certain aquatic creatures. They can move at blur-like speeds while underwater.
- Aquatic Breathing: Howling Hairfish are capable of breathing underwater indefinitely.
- Lycanthropic: Howling Hairfish are able to turn fish into howling hairfish by biting them. However, it is unknown if this curse only affects pure-blooded fish or if it can also affect half-fish species, such as merpeople.
Abilities[]
- Expert Swimmer: Howling Hairfish are highly skilled swimmers.
Weaknesses[]
- Lack of Control: When Howling Hairfish transform into their lycanthropic fish form, they are extremely feral. Although they have awareness, they do not have any control over their actions or transformation.
- Silver Fish: Silver fish can break the Howling Hairfish curse.
Role in the series[]
A regular Hairfish appeared where Sebastian would never be forgiven by Urchin once it ate the trophy. Urchin got mad at him that he would never forgive it. Later, when the gang arrived at the Fortune Teller's place to find out how to break the curse, the orb she showed them featured a school of silver fish turning it into normal.
Another version of the species was a blood-red colored Howling Hairfish and is actually Flounder, who was cursed after feeling a "little hairy". He started to attack the village and the villagers formed an angry mob to capture him for the destruction. Flounder started to repel himself from the great white sharks, then he reverted back into his normal self and the mob captured him, putting Flounder in a cage inside a sunken ship.
In the cage, Flounder turned into a Howling Hairfish again and went on a rampage. Ariel used a school of silver fish to enter the sunken ship as the mob tumbled down the ship, as the silver fish turned the Howling Hairfish back into Flounder, as the villagers cheered, breaking the curse. As a result, Flounder no longer transformed back into the monster he frequently transformed into, thanks to the silver fish that helped break the curse.
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