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| “ | If it's a war Aslan wants, it's a war he shall get. | „ |
| ~ Jadis plotting to make war with her archenemy King Aslan. |
Jadis the White Witch is the main antagonist of the Chronicles of Narnia franchise, serving as the main antagonist of The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and a posthumous antagonist for the rest of the series.
She was an alien of extradimensional origin. she is a cruel, cold, and calculating woman who destroyed all life in her own dimension, Charn, before putting a sleep spell upon herself until she was awoken by Digory and taken to Earth, and eventually Narnia upon its creation by Aslan. 900 years later in Narnia, Jadis enacted an endless winter for a century, becoming known as the White Witch. Jadis raised an army in her evil ways that are at odds against Aslan's creation and the four prophesied children who would have a major part in defeating her.
In the UK version of the 1979 animated film, she was voiced by Sheila Hancock, while in the US version, she was voiced by Beth Porter. In the BBC series, she was portrayed by Barbara Kellerman, who also played the Lady of the Green Kirtle in the same show. In the film series, she was portrayed by Tilda Swinton.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
In General/Background[]
- She paid "a terrible price" to learn the Deplorable Word and used it to destroy all life in her entire universe of Charn just cause she couldn't win the war over her sister (who ended up dying by Jadis' actions).
- She even blamed the destruction on her by claiming that she forced her to do it even though she did so herself by her own doing, meaning that she took no responsibility for it.
- In one of the hallways, there were images of Charn's royalty. At the beginning of the hallway, they were friendly rulers, but further, through the hallway, there were worse and worse rulers until it all came to Jadis, after which there were no more people. This indicates that her line of royalty ended with her and she was the sole person to use the Deplorable Word, as the rest of her family kept it a secret.
The Magician's Nephew[]
- She demanded that Digory and Polly take her to their world because she desired to take it over as well, going as far as to seize Polly by the top of her hair where it hurt the most.
- She threatens Uncle Andrew that if she finds any signs of disobedience in him, then she'll torture him by casting spells on him that anything he sits on will feel like hot metal and that he will feel invisible blocks of ice in his bed.
- She attempted to "blast" Aunt Letty (or turn her into dust) as she did with the palace gates of Charn because she wouldn't bow down to her; and when that failed, she threw her across the room.
- And since she said that turning people into dust is what happens to people and things that get in her way, this highly implies that she has done this to some of her subjects before.
- She caused chaos in London when Uncle Andrew took her out by robbing a jewelry store, stealing a hansom cab and whispering stuff in the horses ear to make it be a hazard to be around, and tearing off the lamppost rod and using it as a weapon.
- She assaulted or threatened people at least three times with the iron bar she tore off the lamp post:
- She assaulted two policemen by ramming it on their helmets, and would have done more if Digory hadn't interfered and sent her to the Wood Between the Worlds.
- She threatened to ram the iron bar at someone's head if they came within two paces of Digory and Polly for the rings.
- She assaulted Aslan by throwing it at his head between his eyes, although it did no good.
- She ate of the fruit that would eventually corrupt her; and tried to tempt Digory to do the same. And after he said he didn't want to, she tried to tempt him to take one to his mother, and possibly might have succeeded if she hadn't suggested leaving Polly behind.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe[]
- She led more lives to follow in her footsteps for many millennia.
- She tortures and murders Aslan's followers.
- She corrupts Edmund Pevensie in an attempt to kill him and his siblings to keep the prophecy of her defeat from coming true, by cursing food to make him crave a chance to pig away at it "until he killed himself".
- In the 2005 film, she eventually lies to Tumnus that he consciously betrayed him "for sweeties". In reality, he ignorantly brought him up because he did not want a random minion of hers to stab him with a knife.
- She turns Mr. Tumnus into stone when he refuses to bring Lucy Pevensie to her so she can kill her.
- Kidnapped Edmund and sent Maugrim to kill his siblings, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Beaver.
- She turns an innocent fox and his friends into stone because over the gifts they received from Father Christmas out of pure hatred for him and the holiday. She also dismisses them as insignificant trinkets compared to her own “gifts” based on her display.
- In the 2005 film adaption, she turns only a fox to stone for betraying her to save the Pevensies.
- She murders Aslan in a painful and humiliating ritual. Though their deal was for Aslan to die in Edmund's place, Jadis spitefully reveals to him that she was going to have Edmund killed anyway, and mocks him about losing his own life and not saving Edmund's.
- This particular deed hammers home her indifference to virtue-related concepts such as selfless sacrifice; she didn't bother to take a closer look at The Deep Magic (a set of laws placed into the World of Narnia at the time of its creation by the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea) during the ritual, particularly the part where the willing victim who had committed no treachery yet takes the traitor's place in their stead will be given a second chance — the exact thing that happens to Aslan himself. To add insult to injury, this blunder allows The Great Lion to sneak into White Witch's Courtyard in order to restore petrified Narnians there and bring them to assist army.
- Rages a war against Aslan's troops, turning several of them into stone. Edmund is also fatally wounded in the process.
- In the BBC series and 2005 film adaption, she stabs Edmund herself for destroying her wand.
- While her death in the 2005 film adaptation was gruesome, as she was mauled to death by Aslan, it isn't played for sympathy and rather played for stress relief and satisfaction for all of her horrible crimes (and isn't even on-screen anyway).
Prince Caspian (film adaptation only)[]
- It has been shown that her alliance with dwarves has fostered undeserved speciesist prejudice against them centuries after her death.
- She nearly succeeds in corrupting Peter to her side upon almost being resurrected.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film adaptation only)[]
- She tries to corrupt Edmund to her side again while appearing as a sprirt in the green midst haunting the eponymous boat, although Edmund rejects her with the reminder that she's dead.
Trivia[]
- In The Magician's Nephew fifth chapter "The Deplorable Word", the text reads that "if [Jadis the White Witch] was sorry for all the evil she had done in there, she certainly didn't show it". If it were confirmed that Jadis did come to feel remorse over destroying Charn, that would strip her from her Pure Evil status.
- Due to a film adaptation of The Magician's Nephew going unproduced, the film version of Jadis is considerably less heinous, as Charn's destruction is never mentioned to have happened in the film continuity.
External Links[]
- Jadis the White Witch on the Villains Wiki
- Jadis the White Witch on the Chronicles of Narnia Wiki
- Jadis the White Witch on the Disney Wiki
- Her film version on the Hate Sink Wiki
- Jadis the White Witch on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Jadis the White Witch on the Wikipedia
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