List of Monster High characters
Monster High, a fashion doll and media franchise created by Garrett Sander and released by American toy company Mattel on June 11, 2010, features a variety of fictional characters, many of whom are students at the titular high school. The female characters are classified as Ghouls and the male characters are classified as Mansters. The characters are generally the sons and daughters, or related to monsters that have been popularized in fiction. The now-defunct official website identified six of the characters as Original Ghouls, although a seventh member was often added in films, episodes, and promotional images. In addition to the listed Ghouls and Mansters, there are other characters who have been introduced in the franchise's related media including the web/video and book series. In 2016, Natali Germanotta, sister of singer Lady Gaga, designed [|Zomby Gaga] for the franchise as a partnership with the Born This Way Foundation.
Main characters
Six of the Monster High characters have been classified as Original Ghouls according to the official website. On certain occasions a seventh member is added to the main group.Frankie Stein
Frankie Stein She first appeared as the daughter of Frankenstein's monster and his bride. She debuted in 2010 along with the other Original Ghouls. Frankie is styled after the popular image of Frankenstein's monster, with pale green skin, stitched limbs and neck bolts. She is characterised as kind and optimistic, but is also naive due to being only 15 days old at the beginning of the web series. She is shown to have some power to control electricity.Many of Frankie's outfits have a preppy-inspired style, including her classic outfit which consists of a short tartan patterned dress and polkadot tie. Her designs also sometimes feature a lightning-bolt motif. She sometimes has a pet called Watzit
In the 2022 reboot, Frankie is the child of mad scientists Dr. Mary and Dr. Victor Stein, created using "the best and brightest minds in monster history". Unlike previous iterations, this Frankie is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. Frankie also has a default cybernetic left leg and several customizable prosthetics that they use in the TV series, in which they are dating Cleo de Nile. This iteration of Frankie also has blue skin instead of green and lacks neck bolts, as this reboot is not produced in partnership with Universal Pictures, who owns the rights to the popular appearance of Frankenstein's monster.
In the first live-action movie, Frankie identifies the following people as part of their composition:
- Albert Einstein
- Marie Curie
- Plato
- Elizabeth J. Feinler
- Alan Turing
- William Shakespeare
- Frida Kahlo
- And their late uncle Phil
Draculaura
The character is portrayed as friendly and excitable is one of the friendliest and among the most popular ghouls at Monster High. In the original run, she is in a relationship with Clawd Wolf, older brother to Clawdeen Wolf, and has a pet bat named Count Fabulous.
Draculaura's original appearance featured look black and pink streaked ponytails and outfits inspired by gothic, romantic and Lolita fashion.
In the franchise's first reboot, Draculaura originally lived with her father Dracula in a mansion on a hill overlooking "normie town", and, wanting to have friends like her, she talked her father into turning the mansion into Monster High, as seen in the first film Welcome to Monster High. She and her friends often go on adventures to find more monsters to enroll.
The 2022 reboot portrays Draculaura as having Taiwanese heritage on her mother's side. Her father remains Dracula. She faces pressure to be an excellent student like her father and relatives. She is still a vegan, however now sustains off of energy from success and feeling good about herself, and tracks this energy through a "vamp-ness meter" app on her phone. She holds a secret passion for witchcraft, a practice strictly forbidden in the monster world due to the threat it poses to monsterkind. Draculaura aims to become a full-fledged witch, all the while fighting for witches to be more accepted in monster society.
In the live-action films, Draculaura is initially a private person before befriending Clawdeen and Frankie after who accept her praciticing witchcraft. Her veganism is not mentioned, and she threatens Clawdeen and Frankie with drinking their blood, but otherwise is not suggested to drink blood.
Clawdeen Wolf
Clawdeen Wolf is the Brooklyn-accented African-American 15-year-old daughter of a werewolf. In the live-action film, she is the daughter of a human named Apollo and a werewolf named Selena, but only her father is still around. She is portrayed as a brown-skinned werewolf with brown curly hair and pierced ears. Two of her siblings, Clawd and Howleen, study alongside her at Monster High, while her older sister Clawdia has graduated.Clawdeen aspires to become a fashion designer in Scaris. She primarily dresses in purples and yellows. Her classic outfit consists of a leopard-print top, a leather jacket, and a purple miniskirt paired with matching stockings and grey platform boots.
Being a werewolf, she possesses immense strength and speed, especially during the full moon, but this also makes her prone to bad moods and fiery tempers. She also has a purple pet kitten named Crescent.
In the 2022 reboot, Clawdeen is the Afro-Latina daughter of a werewolf mother and a human father. Before learning her werewolf heritage, she spent most of her life in the human world, where she always had an interest in monsters. On her fifteenth birthday, she was gifted a necklace by her father, and with its guidance, she stumbled upon Monster High. Clawdeen later discovers that her necklace is the magical moonclaw talisman which gives her incredible strength, speed, and the ability to transform from a werewolf to a human and vice versa at will. Throughout the first season, she aims to find her mother Selena, who had disappeared many years ago into another dimension called Beheme; she eventually achieves this in the season finale, and becomes the new leader of the werebeasts.
In the live-action films, Clawdeen spent her life hiding in the human world but is forced to flee after being exposed as half-werewolf. and spends much of the first film in fear of being discovered as half human, as they are unwelcome at Monster High, which accepts only those with "true monster hearts". In the sequel, Clawdeen is more confident and popular, and becomes student representative, beating her opponent Toralei Stripe.
Lagoona Blue
Lagoona Blue is originally the daughter of the gill-man Wade Blue and a sea nymph. She is portrayed as a blue-skinned monster with golden curls with blue highlights. She typically has an athletic and tomboyish style with ocean-related motifs. She is also described on the Monster High website as laid back and very active.Due to her childhood in the Great Scarrier Reef and her heritage, she is a skilled swimmer on the Monster High swim team. Despite sharing mutual feelings with another monster, Gillington "Gil" Webber, his parents disapprove of their relationship due to her sea-monster heritage. She briefly became a freshwater monster in 13 Wishes.
In the 2022 reboot, Lagoona is a pink-skinned Honduran sea monster described as having grown up in a sunken Castillo with little knowledge of the outside world. Lagoona is fierce and savage, but also sweet and bubbly; she loves romance and telenovelas.
Cleo de Nile
Cleo de Nile is the second daughter of an Egyptian mummy named Ramses de Nile. In the original Monster high canon, she is Monster High's "queen bee" – the most popular girl in school – as well as the student council president and captain of the Fearleading Squad. Her boyfriend is the popular Deuce Gorgon and they share a close relationship.Being a mummy who was preserved for many years, her appearance is that of a 16-year-old girl, but she is actually over 3,000 years old. While her online profile lists her as being 3,357 years old, other iterations place her age at 5,842 years old. Cleo has golden brown skin and dark hair. Her top and bottoms are the residues of her Egyptian mummy bandages, which she adds style to with glittery blue stripes and bandage ribbons.
Cleo is portrayed as somewhat prideful and standoffish, flaunting her family's wealth and royal status. However, she is a loyal friend. Cleo has the ability to shatter glass by screaming
In the 2022 reboot, Cleo maintains her position as the school's queen bee. She and Deuce are no longer romantically involved, with the first live-action movie specifying that her egocentric behavior led to Deuce breaking up with her. Cleo initially antagonizes Frankie and Clawdeen but has a change of heart after Clawdeen pushes her out of the way of a falling gargoyle, saving her life. In the TV series, Cleo is kinder than her live-action and original versions, but she still has a desire to be number one. Having broken up with Deuce, she now dates Frankie Stein.