Persephone is a character in Disney's 2012 stop-motion film Frankenweenie.
Background[]
Personality[]
Persephone is curious and flirtatious with Sparky and fiercely loyal to Elsa, her owner. When Persephone and Sparky first meet in the backyard, the attraction is instantaneous and electrifying.
Physical appearance[]
Persephone is a perfectly slender groomed black poodle with an enormously large poof of hair on her head, a long snout with a black nose, and black eyes. When she got electrified by Sparky, her hair turned frizzy and gained a white lightning-shaped streak.
Role in the film[]
Persephone and Sparky first met when the latter's baseball rolled into her backyard. As he tried to get it out, he noticed Persephone trotting around inside the backyard. As Sparky sat down in his backyard, sad that he lost the ball, Persephone rolls the ball back into his yard. After giving Sparky his ball back, Sparky gets Persephone's attention to thank her for giving him back the ball. Later, Persephone and her owner Elsa arrive at the baseball field where she and her owner sit on the bleachers while staring at Sparky. However, after Persephone learns of Sparky's death, she mourns over Sparky's loss. After Sparky, who was revived by Victor, approaches Persephone, she attempts to touch Sparky's screw and attempts to kiss him like she did to him before he died being hit by a car, which electrocutes the poodle. The shock results her to have a Bride of Frankenstein streak on both sides of her hair.
Later, Sparky approaches Persephone while Elsa is reciting for Dutch Day and as Sparky tries to get her attention, Elsa overhears his barking and approaches Victor who tells him that he must really miss his dog just before Victor returns to bed. Furthermore, Persephone follows her owner into the Dutch Day carnival where she takes part in fighting against the Were-Rat in combat while Victor plans to help her just as Sparky takes on the mutated rat, which is suddenly electrocuted upon biting the screw on Sparky's left side of his head, reverting the rat into its original form - a rat carcass, as well as killing it. Persephone later approaches Elsa to know if she is all right which Mr. Whiskers, who was mutated into a bat-like cat, grabs Persephone just as Elsa attempts to retrieve her.
Meanwhile at the windmill, Victor encounters Elsa who is being attacked by Mr. Whiskers as a mutated bat-like cat to which Victor then uses a rope to rescue Elsa and Persephone which Elsa is suddenly reunited with her uncle. With Victor rescued from the burning windmill and Sparky retrieved from the remains of the windmill, Persephone stands next to her owner while seeing Victor trying to wake up Sparky which Victor's dog suddenly wakes up, happy to see his dog back to life while Persephone and Sparky happily share an embrace, ending the film.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Persephone's hairdo and appearance is an obvious reference to Universal's Bride of Frankenstein.
- Unlike the other animals in the film, Persephone does not classify as a monster.
- She is named after Persephone, the wife of Hades, the God of the Underworld, and the daughter of Demeter in Greek mythology.
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