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| “ | I don't care what my mother says. I am ready to become a full god. And if she won't do it, I'll do it myself. | „ |
| ~ Punguari defying her mother's order before donning herself with the Mask of Many Faces into a full god, upon becoming a villain. |
| “ | I, Punguari, Demigoddess of the Moon, summon the power of the mask! Mask of Many Faces, I beseech you! Give me your magic! Make me A God! | „ |
| ~ Punguari summoning the power of the Mask of Many Faces to transform herself into a full god. |
Punguari is the secondary antagonist of Nickelodeon's 50th full-length animated film, The Casagrandes Movie.
She is a 12,800 year-old demigoddess and the daughter of Sisiki and Chipiri, who believes she’s ready to become a full-fledged god. However, she’s denied from being given such a title due to her lack of responsibility, being warned that there will be disastrous repercussions.
When she defied her parents' direct order, Punguari transformed into a god with the Mask of Many Faces, and her actions inadvertently caused the earth below her to start cracking, releasing Ucumu from his imprisonment, until Sisiki sacrificed her own daughter to be petrified as a mountain to protect her.
She was voiced by Paulina Chávez.
Personality
Although a preteen demigod, Punguari has the mannerisms of a 12-year-old girl. Unlike her benevolent parents, she’s depicted as an ancient evil spirit full of menace and malice, but is shown to be free-spirited, rebellious, and irresponsible. She’s willing to deceive people to get a chance to become a true goddess, as shown how she stole from her father and lied to Ronnie Anne to get her to help her.
She’s also mischievous in her personality as she loves to cause trouble like drawing a bunny on the moon during her duty.
Despite her terrible actions, Punguari shows genuine remorse when she has gone too far, as she tears up upon realizing that her petrification was for her protection, not just as a punishment. Upon learning the tragic truth about her parents, Punguari reforms her rebellious personality and became a better person with full responsibility.
Appearance
In her demigoddess form, Punguari has longer hair and blue face paint around her eyes and on her chin. She wears a crown on her head, crescent-shaped earrings, gold wristbands, a short lilac top with round shoulders and indigo skirts, and a long dress. She also has a purple aura around her.
In her human form as Shara, she bears the appearance of an average-sized, dark-skinned preteen girl. She has black hair, thick eyebrows, thick mascara and two eyelashes on each eye. She’s also shown with a chipped tooth. For attire, she wears a pink hairband with indigo butterflies, gold earrings, a white tube top with a pink collar, indigo shorts with white stripes, a beaded bracelet on her wrist and brown Franco Ruth sandals.
In her goddess form, she dons the Mask of Many Faces. Her hair is now tied with several indigo hairbands, she gains disconnected sleeves on her arms, she wears a golden waistband, and she has straps around her lower legs.
Biography
Past
| “ | Ronnie Anne: Check it out. Almost look like a halfpipe. Carlos: That's Mt. Punguari. Named after the doomed demigod of Purépecha legend. The history of this time is a little sketchy because most- Frida: Fast forward, Honey. Carlos: Oh, right. Punguari was obsessed, would be becoming a full god, but her parent forbade it. She snuck away and performed the ritual herself. Then, she lost control of the magic and caused the earth to crack open. Ronnie Anne: Woah! Carlos: "Woah!" Exactly! But at the last minute, Punguari's mother, Sisiki, was able to close the earth by turning her daughter into that mountain. Carl: Harsh... Don Tacho: But fair. Mama Lupe: It is said: If Punguari escapes the mountain and transforms herself into a full god, an evil cursed death will rain down upon this valley. Ronnie Anne: (gulp) |
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| ~ Carlos and Mama Lupe explaining to everyone about Punguari's dreadful backstory, foreshadowing Ucumu's second arrival. |
800 years ago, Punguari was born in Mexico to the two gods named Chipiri and Sisiki. During the time in her life, Punguari was originally assigned to take in charge on the moon to raise it every night when came of the age 12,000 (later 12,800 in the present). Unlike her parents who are benevolent and selfless, Punguari grew to become egotistical, mischievous, and secretly malevolent as she will be ready to be a full god when she's mature enough, if it means causing potential disasters. Even as she was desired for, Punguari was very impatient and jealous because the humans honor her parents in every festival more than herself, and she kept annoying her parents that she wants to be a full-fledged god immediately. However, she was denied from being given such a title due to her mischievous nature and lack of responsibility, and there will be disastrous repercussions, foreshadowing the tragic mistake of her whole desire to being a full god.
One day, during the New Fire ceremony for the former, Punguari congratulated her father for the festival. Unbeknownst to her parents, Punguari had stolen her father's staff from behind his back while hugging him, and proceeded to use it to access a realm holding an artifact called the Mask of Many Faces, which has the power to transform demigods into full gods. Upon putting on the mask on, Punguari used voodoo magic to command the mask that makes her a full-fledged god. However, this results in mass hysteria, as her actions inadvertently caused the earth below her to start cracking, putting the lives of the Mexican people in jeopardy.
As Chipiri went to protect the people, Sisiki pleaded with Punguari to stop, but Punguari refused to listen as she's laughing wickedly. To make matters worse, Ucumu, the God of the Underworld, emerged from the depths to the surface and prepared to attack the gods. To protect her daughter from Ucumu, Sisiki had no choice, but to petrify Punguari into a mountain, mourning the loss of her fallen daughter after trying to change Punguari's heart until it was too late. With Punguari safely imprisoned, Chipiri and Sisiki fought together to seal Ucumu back into the underworld, but at the cost of their godly lives in becoming gems under Ucumu's clutches. After the chaos, Mexico was saved from Ucumu's brief tyranny, and the mountain was officially named after the young, doomed demigoddess.
The Casagrandes Movie
| “ | Punguari: Thanks, Ronnie Anne. Ronnie Anne: Shara? Punguari: You've been a big help. Finally! After all of these centuries, I'm me again. Ronnie Anne: Punguari? Punguari: Surprise. Ronnie Anne: Wait. so you were Shara this whole time? Punguari: I took the form of someone you trust so you would do what I need when you released me from the mountain. Thanks for that by the way. I was just a spirit. I needed a human to get me into this room to reclaim my true form. Ronnie Anne: So you lied to me? Punguari: Eh, some people sneak out to go skateboarding. Others trick a human into helping them find an ancient magic mask. I did what I had to do just like you. If it makes you feel any better, you are pretty cool for a human. Well, time's a wasting. This goddess to be has a ceremony to finish. Ronnie Anne: Wait! No! Punguari: Toodles! |
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| ~ Punguari revealing her true colors to Ronnie Anne, before imprisoning her in the artifact room. |
800 years later, the Casagrandes family decided to take a trip to Mexico to celebrate Ronnie Anne's 12th birthday. During their stay, Ronnie Anne, after defying her mother, Maria, decided to skateboard down the mountain Punguari transformed into. However, a necklace she bought earlier causes Punguari to wake up from her petrified state (as it contained a gem that was part of the Mask of Many Faces).
Now as the ghost without her physical form, Punguari disguises herself as a 12-year-old girl named Shara, and manages to convince Ronnie Anne to help her find the Mask of Many Faces. After finding the mask in a concealed artifact room at a museum, Punguari reveals her true form, and proceeds to trap, Ronnie Anne, heartbroken over the fact that her new best friend was a liar that just used her, in the artifact room.
With the Mask of Many Faces, Punguari transforms herself into a god, and uses her new powers to create her own palace so she can party, causing the ocean to recede and the Earth to start cracking. Meanwhile, after being freed by Maria, her grandmother Rosa, and great-grandmother Lupe, Ronnie Anne discovers a scroll that tells the story of Punguari, where she discovers that due to Punguari's reckless actions, she inadvertently unleashes Ucumu into the world, prompting her to state that they have to warn her.
Arriving to Punguari's palace, Ronnie Anne reveals to Punguari that her story is all wrong: at first, she thought her petrification by Sisiki was out of punishment, but in reality, it was to protect her, as her actions caused Ucumu to rise and start attacking everyone. Upon learning the truth, Punguari becomes filled with guilt, as her parents sacrificed themselves for her. At that moment, Ucumu rises from the cracks in the ground, ready to cause mayhem once more.
Banding together, Ronnie Anne, Punguari, and the Casagrandes work on trying to defeat Ucumu. Remembering that Ucumu was defeating with a giant flaming chancla, Maria, Rosa, and Lupe go and get the stone chancla at the top of the town, Ronnie Anne and Punguari work to keep Ucumu distracted, while the other try to find the sacred flame to light the chancla.
During their fight with Ucumu, Punguari discovers that the two gemstones on Ucumu's headpiece contain her parents. However, this revelation causes Punguari to become distracted, allowing Ucumu to strike her and Ronnie Anne. As Ucumu is about to suck up Punguari so he can trap her alongside her parents, the Casagrandes manage to launch the giant chancla at Ucumu's face, causing the skin on his body to burn off, revealing his skeletal structure in a weakened state. Ronnie Anne uses Punguari's magic staff to disintegrate Ucumu, reducing his body to ashes that fall into the very cracks he emerged from. Afterwards, Punguari proceeds to use her magic to destroy her temple, to which she uses the pieces to seal the cracks permanently, ensuring that Ucumu will never rise again.
Following the final battle, Chipiri and Sisiki are finally freed in their physical forms, and Punguari, with much genuine remorse, embraces her parents, apologizing them for her reckless actions with the mask and nearly getting innocent people in danger. With Mexico safe from Ucumu once again, Punguari has now become a better person when protecting the land alongside her parents and admires herself as a true friend to Ronnie Anne.
Trivia
- Punguari has demonstrated similar characteristics to Morag from The Loud House Movie:
- Both have ancient relatives from centuries ago shown within the movie.
- Both pretend to be friends with the main protagonist, then deceiving said protagonist to accomplish their goals.
- Both aim to use an ancient artifact of magical powers: Morag uses the Dragon Stone, whereas Punguari uses the Mask of Many Faces.
- Both end up within a high position of power: Morag as duchess, and Punguari as a full god.
- Both serve as dark counterparts to their respective protagonists, representing what they would've become if their negative emotions overcome them.
- But unlike Morag, Punguari learns the errors of her ways and redeems herself by the end, making her more of an anti-villain than truly villainous. And if she didn't possess remorse, she would've ended up like Morag, and become even more worse than before. Especially had she succeeded in using the Mask of Many Faces to make her a goddess.
- Even though she redeemed herself, Punguari acted as a dark parallel to Ronnie Anne and Maria. She represented what Ronnie Anne would've become if she focused too much on having fun all the time (including in her summer of 12), tried to do her own thing on many occasions, and refused to listen to her mother. And if Maria let all of her plans for the summer, resentment she feels towards her daughter's behavior, and spending time with Ronnie Anne consume her, she also would've ended up like Punguari too.
External links
- Punguari on the The Loud House Wiki
- Punguari on the Nickelodeon Wiki
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