Gloria

Gloria
Adult Teenager Chick
Gender	Female
Relatives	Maurice (father) Michelle (mother) Mumble (husband) Erik (son) Memphis (father-in-law) Norma-Jean (mother-in-law)
Appearance	Feathers: Black Eyes: Brown.
Voiced By	Brittany Murphy (Happy Feet) Pink (Happy Feet Two) Grey DeLise (Vídeos Games)
Appears In	Happy Feet Happy Feet Two

Gloria is the deuteragonist of Happy Feet and a major character of Happy Feet Two. She is a female emperor penguin who is known as one of the best female singers. She is the daughter of Maurice and Michelle, the wife of Mumble, and the mother of Erik. She was treated similarly to how Norma Jean was, as all of the males wanted to mate with her. Her heartsong is "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Happy Feet

She is first seen when she and her father, Maurice come to see Memphis, whom is worried that his egg hasn’t hatched when the other penguin`s eggs have. Gloria spots the egg, taps on it and hears a response from inside. Two feet break from the egg and as they begin to walk off down a snow bank, Gloria playfully addresses the egg as "Mr. Mumble" thus naming him when he hatches. She later appears at the school where she defended Mumble when he was being mocked by the rest of the class for his inability to sing. Mumble also started to fall in love with her when he complemented her singing.

At Graduation Day, she and Mumble slid off the ice and landed in the same spot, where they began to make shapes in the water. Mumble tries to express his feelings to her, before they spot a school of fish, he catches one, but she doesn’t. Feeling bad for her, Mumble offers Gloria his fish, but she tells him to keep it, before a skua came and stole it, prompting Mumble to get it back. She truly began to notice Mumble when he went through great difficulty fighting the skuas for the fish. After Mumble got it back, following a pretty hard landing, Gloria took the fish after he insisted. She thanked Mumble for that, which made him feel warm inside. That night, she was the lead singer in the graduation song, while everyone wanted to mate with her, the two main contenders being Mumble and Seymour. Although she didn't really show signs of minding Mumble's lack of singing capabilities, at their graduation (where she sang "Somebody to Love" by Queen) when Mumble was singing along, she kindly mentioned for him to stop, but despite his best efforts, Mumble was unable to resist, resulting in him being kicked out of the party.

At the start of mating season, Gloria was the center of attention, attracting dozens of male groupies, much like Norma Jean did in the beginning of the movie, who all tried to harmonize with Gloria while she sang her heartsong, "Boogie Wonderland." At one point, she could not figure out the rest of her heartsong, eventually stopping the groupies from following her. After Mumble attempted to serenade her with a Spanish version of My Way, she seemed very interested, but not completely convinced, and ended up completely devastated when she found out Ramón was the one actually singing. She returned to the groupies, with Mumble insisting she sing to the rhythm of his tapping feet. Eventually, she slowly began to sing to his tapping, which she realized synced perfectly with her heartsong, which slowly coaxed her back to his side to do the mating circle with him. With Mumble 'singing' Gloria's heartsong with his feet, the rest of her heartsong came to her, and since Mumble was the only penguin who helped her finish her heartsong, she knew he was the only one for her, and she chose him as her mate.

When Mumble left after being exiled by the Elders to find out what happened to the fish, Gloria decided to join him. However, presumably to prevent her from being harmed, Mumble insulted her singing so she wouldn't come. While Mumble was gone, she and Seymour began to teach singing to young penguins.

When Mumble returned, Gloria and Seymour were the first to welcome his return. He assumed they had mated, until she explained that they were working together to teach the kids to sing. When Mumble confirmed that aliens do exist (and soon arrive) the penguins decided to dance to explain to the aliens that they’re messing with their food chain, soon resulting in overfishing becoming illegal.

She joined into the final number, acting as one of the main vocalists. Afterwards, Mumble and Gloria mated and had a child named Erik.

Happy Feet Two

The movie starts out as when Gloria is singing, then Mumble comes, when Gloria and Mumble see Erik by himself not dancing, Gloria says she is going to talk to him but Mumble said he would. Mumble teaches his son to try to tap dance, and Erik almost does it when he falls into the ice. Bo says it isn't funny (just like Gloria did) and Atticus told them that it was not funny. Erik, Bo, and Atticus go to the hole and be by themselves. Then when Mumble was going to check on them that they were gone.

Later when the Doomberg arrived blocking Emperor-Land, she was one of the trapped emperor penguins when Mumble arrived with his son Erik to see what's happening. When Erik was in distress of the disaster, she sends Mumble off to catch some more fish. Leaving Erik with his mother along with Atticus for some motherly love. She sings a song "Bridge of Light" to calm him down.

The next morning, a huge flock of Skuas attacks Emperor Land. She tells Erik and Atticus to take cover. When the Boss Skua tries to take and fly off with one of her class students she smacks him away and exclaims him to pick on someone his own size.

As a Chick

As a chick, not much distinguished her from the other chicks in Emperor-Land. She was a light grey, fuzzy, with brown eyes, and a dark grey patch on her chest.

As an Adult

Gloria has a white underside with a yellow patch on her chest, like other female Emperor Penguins. The feathers on her head are black, and some feathers are colored indigo. She also has brown eyes.

In Happy Feet Two, her physical appearance is different than the first film. Her back and tail feathers are slightly brighter. As well, the yellow patch changed to gold, but her yellow color is still visible, only slightly.

Personality

Gloria is generally soft-spoken, patient, understandable, and warmhearted. She is kind and pleasant and doesn't tolerate Mumble or anyone else being teased. This is just one more similarity to Norma Jean. Gloria isn't known to get upset, but she is kind of proud and got very mad when her singing was insulted. This could significate a hint of vanity in her.

Relationships

• Relatives: Mumble (husband)
  Erik (son)
  Maurice (father)
  Michelle (mother)
  Memphis (father-in-law)
  Norma Jean (mother-in-law)
• Allies: Seymour, Miss Viola, Noah the Elder, Ramón, Nestor, Lombardo, Rinaldo, Raul, Atticus, Boadicea, Sven, Lovelace, Eggbert the Elder, Carmen, Bryan the Beach Master, Shane, Darren, The Elders, Wayne the Challenger, Humans
• Enemies: Noah the Elder (formerly), Eggbert the Elder (formerly), The Elders (formerly), Doomberg, Skuas, Brokebeak, Francesco

Songs

• Somebody to Love - Brittany Murphy
• Boogie Wonderland - Brittany Murphy
• I Wish (Reprise) - Brittany Murphy
• Happy Feet Two Opening Medley - Pink
• Bridge of Light - Pink
• Under Pressure - Pink

Voice Actors

• Happy Feet - (2006) - (film) - Alyssa Shafer (baby) E. G. Daliy (singing) Brittany Murphy (adult speaking and singing)
• Happy Feet Two - (2011) - (film) - Pink (speaking and singing)

Trivia

• In the draft, Gloria is called "Ella".
• In the original script for the first film, an egg rests on Mumble's feet while Gloria goes off with the other females to feed in the ocean, just like Memphis and Norma Jean did in the beginning.
• Her original heatsong was Lady Marmalade by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan in the draft.

Brittany Murphy recording her voice as Gloria.

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