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The Trident is a weapon that is featured in Disney's The Little Mermaid.
Triton inherited the Trident from his father, Poseidon. It is shown to have vast magical abilities, and serves as the personal weapon of King Triton. It's activated by the will of the user when its power is activated, it illuminates with a bright, shining golden glow and is heard to make a deep humming sound punctuated with high-pitched melodious tunes.
History[]
The trident is shown to have various applications, depending on the will of the user. When its power is activated, it illuminates with a bright, shining golden or blue glow (green in Morgana's case) and is heard to make a deep humming sound punctuated with high-pitched melodious tunes. Since whoever wields it has command over the oceans, it affords tremendous power.
Most commonly seen is its ability to fire destructive energy bolts. These energy bolts, however, must be fired immediately upon the ready, or they will cause the built up energy to backfire on the user. This is ultimately how Ursula was killed, as she attempted to fire an energy ray at Ariel, but was impaled seconds before she could fire by prince Eric and one of the ships, causing the energy to backfire on her. Though these energy bolts may destroy many things, the trident is intended to protect Atlantica and the ocean and as a result, its destructive power is incapable of violating any commitments. Such as Ariel's deal with Ursula which was willingly signed by a member of the royal bloodline, making the contract legal.
Triton has also used it to summon rain storms, and transform his daughter, Ariel, into a human. He is also seen creating a rainbow in the first film, and disintegrating the sea wall in the second film. Ariel uses it herself in one episode of the television show, to thaw dinosaurs that have been trapped in a glacier, and it is revealed that the trident is activated simply by the will of the user. When the trident is in Ursula's possession, she grows to gigantic size and creates a giant whirlpool in the ocean that has such force that it raises sunken ships from the ocean floor (which Eric uses to kill Ursula). In the television series, the trident can be mentally controlled at Triton's whim and called to him as well.
In The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, it is claims that only members of the royal bloodline can remove the trident from its resting place. However, this is contradictory to the rest of the franchise; for instance, Urchin in the TV series was able to lift the trident out of its resting place at one point despite him not being related to Triton at all.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Energy Manipulation: It can fire destructive energy bolts. They must be fired however immediately upon the ready, or they will cause an energy built up and backfire on the user. The Trident is not capable of destroying or undoing Ursula's deal with Ariel.
- Weather Control: Can summon rain storms.
- Transformation: The trident can transform its user or other merpeople into humans and vice versa.
- Disintegration: It can disintegrate things the sea wall in the second film.
- Aquakinesis: It can create a giant whirlpool with such force that it can raise sunken ships.
- Levitation: The trident can levitate other merpeople, objects, aquatic/marine creatures, etc.
- Corporikinesis: The trident can manipulate the bodies of other merpeople or aquatic/marine creatures; forcing them to do the user's bidding against their free will.
- Immobilization: The trident can temporarily incapacitate other merpeople, aquatic/marine creatures, etc.
- Atmokinesis: The trident can generate, create, and manipulate different aspects of the weather; such as rainstorms, thunderstorms, etc.
- Cryokinesis: The trident can generate, create, and manipulate ice.