General Yunan Longclaw[2] is a supporting character of Amphibia. She is a skilled and ruthless warrior, known for her many accomplishments, and for becoming the youngest newt commanding officer to achieve the rank of general in the Newtopian Army.
Appearance
Body
She is a tall pink newt with a slender build, and white-blonde hair that protrudes from the back of her head. She has a more lightly shaded underbelly, and a long tail featuring darker pink spots. Her eyes are yellow with black thin pupils when viewed up close.
Clothing
She wears Newtopian-issued armor made of silver, including two pauldrons patterned with intricate swirling designs, similar to the rest of her armor. Her cape depicts the symbol of the Newtopia flag. Pinned to her chest is her military insignia, boasting her rank as general. Her armor features two long switchblades in each gauntlet. She also wears high-heeled black boots with white fringes on the top.
In the epilogue, Yunan wears a white long-sleeved shirt with frilled ends, a violet pauldron strapped on her right shoulder, black pants, and high-heeled red-violet boots.
Personality
General Yunan is conceited and boasts about her past victories during the Sand Wars, especially her defeat of Ragnar the Wretched, whom she often quotes. She is insane and violent, as well as insightful, as shown by her ability to dupe Percy and Braddock into exposing Grime's location. Nonetheless, her egotistical nature is her hubris that often results in her own downfall, as she gets too invested in introducing herself rather than staying aware of potential threats.
Despite this, Yunan has a sense of honor, as she was conflicted when King Andrias revealed his true intentions, and refused to work for him by "Olivia & Yunan".
Background
Early life
When she was a child, a grubhog grabbed her left arm during a class in the school, almost "ripping it off", which caused her trauma and terror towards grubhogs.[3]
Years later, she joined the Newtopian military's land force, to regain her family's honor that was tarnished by her father, who had abandoned his comrades in a particularly fierce battle.[1] She achieved the rank of general among the army branch at the youngest age yet, working directly for King Andrias. She also fought in the Sand Wars and defeated a foe known as Ragnar the Wretched, whom little is known about.[4]
At some point, Yunan felt that the Newtopian army "slowed her down", so she abandoned them. Ironically like her father did to his comrades.
Meeting Marcy
One day, Yunan visited the Newtopian hospital, where she met a human named Marcy Wu, who had injured herself falling down the stairs. Yunan wasn't dissuaded by Marcy's existence, and even signed her cast.
Sometime later, Yunan was ordered to catch the toad warrior Captain Grime, who had abandoned his post after failing to stop a frog rebellion. She charted a ship called the Green Lady, where she was reunited with Marcy, who was on her own mission to catch a traitorous Captain. However, Yunan was hurt that Marcy didn't remember her, due to her being delirious from her painkillerpillar saliva, and proceeded to treat her coldly for most of the trip.
However, the ship was attacked by a group of pirates, led by Captain Greenbeard, and Yunan and Marcy teamed up to fight them. The two proceeded to wipe the floor with the pirates, until Greenbeard abruptly pleaded them to stop, revealing that he and his crew were actually method actors. Despite the fact that everyone else found this revelation amusing, Yunan proceeded to throw the "pirates" overboard, leaving them at the mercy of some Mantis Rays, which Marcy dealt with to allow them to swim back to their ship.
After a long voyage, Yunan dropped Marcy and her team off at the Dawnblood Islands, where their target was hiding, and told them she'll be back to pick them up once she captured Grime.[1]
Catching Captain Grime
Yunan looking for Captain Grime.
Looking for Grime everywhere, she arrived at Under the Old Log, where Grime's loyal aides Percy and Braddock are. When Yunan asks them if they know about Grime, they deny it, but when she notices them nervous she suspects they know something, so pretending to leave the place she hides on the roof and manages to discover from them that Grime is in the old mill on the edge of the town, so she goes there. When she arrives, she finds Grime and the human girl Sasha Waybright, who try to escape when they see how strong Yunan is. Sasha and Grime, however, decide to fight her, and although Sasha puts up a good fight, Yunan ends up cornering her, but as she gives Sasha her long introduction, Grime pushes her off a cliff and they manage to defeat her, much to Yunan's anger.[4]
Informing King Andrias
Yunan informs King Andrias about the current situation.
She returns to Newtopia and informs Andrias in his throne room of Amphibia's situation having persistent civil unrest, with the toad lords planning a meeting that would spill disaster. Before Yunan can tell Andrias about Sasha's whereabouts, the meeting is cut short when the king receives a letter from Marcy about her success in the First Temple, confusing Yunan once Andrias leaves the throne room.[5]
Toads control over Amphibia and King's true colors
After Sasha and Grime overthrew Andrias and took control of Amphibia, Yunan attacks the toads holding Anne's group captive, then tries to introduce herself to them, but quickly gets shut up by Lady Olivia due to the urgency of time. She helps fight off the rest of the toad invasion, and silences Sasha when she attempts to warn Anne of Andrias' intentions at the castle. When Andrias is "about to send the girls home", he reveals his true colors and intentions, leaving everyone in shock, including Yunan. When a battle begins against Andrias and an army of frobots he created, she protects Olivia from a Frobot flung her way by Grime, slicing it in half, before seemingly fleeing the battle with her.[6]
General Yunan and Lady Olivia trying to escape from Andrias.
When Andrias retrieved the Calamity Box after mortally injuring Marcy and inadvertently transporting Anne and the Plantars to Earth, Yunan and Olivia tried to use the opportunity to flee the scene but were quickly caught, with the king questioning them whether they were still "with him". Terrified of her liege's true nature and the power which he now commands, Yunan swears fealty to him alongside Olivia. Andrias then ordered the two of them to put Marcy into a rejuvenation tank to save the girl's life.[7]
Rescuing Marcy
Yunan and Olivia rescuing Marcy.
A week later, Yunan continues servicing Andrias out of fear, despite not wanting to be part of his plans. Andrias asks Yunan and Olivia to meet with him on an important matter, and when they open the door and see him seemingly talking to "himself" about how things are professing and about testing a device on someone. As they close the door, Andrias open it and invited them in, Andrias announced that both have been promoted; she round up some frogs to work in those Factories. and Olivia to see the constructions of the refineries and planned to drain all of Amphibia's natural resources. Neither of them wants to follow orders, but they are forced to do so. Olivia then decides to rescue Marcy as she is the only one who can help with Andrias, as she was even able to defeat Andrias in Flipwart, however, Yunan refuses because of her distrust of humans, but ends up agreeing. As they head to where Marcy is, they encounter a Moss Man in the garden in the basement of the castle, and before Yunan can attack him, Olivia tells her that Moss Men are friendly. The Moss Man gives Yunan a flower, and although she is skeptical to take it, Olivia tells her to do so as it's an offering of friendship, and Yunan does so, placing it in her hair. When arrive with Marcy, they found her inside the Healing Tank, and take her out of there, making her wake up from her comatose state.[3]
Yunan terrified by a grubhog.
As they head to take her out, they suddenly find themselves outside the castle, much to their surprise. There, Olivia ends up meeting "her mother", who is angry at her work protecting Amphibia and ends up transforming into a monster, which makes Yunan wonder what that "witchcraft" is, but Marcy realizes that it is a projection and informs her. When the room is about to take another form, Marcy tells Yunan not to get upset, and Yunan tells her that she doesn't get scared by anything, but that idea changes when she realizes that a grubhog appears. Marcy scoffs at her being scared by a small grubhog, and Yunan tells her about her experience with one as a child, but suddenly more grubhogs appear taking on monstrous forms, and start chasing her. While being terrorized by monstrous forms of Anne and Sasha, Marcy realizes that are some eyes that cause the simulation, so she tells Yunan and Olivia to destroy all of them. They manage to destroy them all, but suddenly they meet King Andrias, who was always watching them, and a creature emerges from the top of the room and grabs Marcy. When Olivia demands to know what they are doing to Marcy, Andrias tells them that the creature is The Core, an ancient entity that is a collection of Amphibia's greatest Minds preserved for eternity. He also tells them that the Core needs a host smart enough to be the best, with Marcy being the best choice; Andrias also tries to get the Core to choose someone other than Marcy, as he had developed a strong bond with Marcy, but the Core refuses. Olivia and Yunan are obligated to watch as Marcy begins to be possessed by the Core, and Andrias tells them that it is time for the Core to take Amphibia to its destiny.[3]
War in Amphibia
Olivia and Yunan being freed from the mind control by Anne and Sasha.
After Marcy's take by the Core, Lady Olivia and General Yunan are captured and then forced to wear Mind-controlling collars to serve both Andrias and the Core.[8]
When the Wartwood Resistance start the war against Andrias and its army, Anne, Sasha, the Plantars, and Grime board into the castle in order to get the Calamity Box and save Marcy; however, they find out with the mind-controlled Yunan and Olivia, who battle them. However, Anne and Sasha defeat the duo using dance moves back on Earth and free them by destroying the collars. After being freed, Yunan and Olivia try to warn them that Marcy was under the Core's control but failed, as they walk into Darcy's trap. While being held captured, Anne tricks the Core into sparing Anne by warning them that if they killed her the remaining powers of the gems will cease to exist. Olivia and the group were later brought to the dungeon as Andrias and the Core begin their invasion on Earth.[8]
The invasion and Amphibia in danger
Olivia and Yunan fighting the Cloak-bots.
Yunan is later held in the dungeon along Anne, the Plantars, Sasha, Grime, Olivia, Joe Sparrow, and Domino 2, but they later escape thanks to one of Frobo's new upgrades. After defeating some Frobots, they alongside Mr. X, Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy, head to Anne, Sasha, and Marcy's school to work on a plan on how to stop Andrias. Yunan, Olivia, Sasha, and Grime will go to the castle to shut down the Core, while Anne and the others will take care of Andrias and his army. While onboard, they were ambushed by a group of Cloak-Bots, and Yunan and Olivia decide to hold them off while Sasha and Grime go to shut the force field. Olivia tells Yunan that she's glad she is with her in the battle. After defeating the Cloak-bots, Yunan and Olivia arrive in the room where Sasha has free Marcy from the Core's control, but Marcy was still unconscious. When Marcy awakens, she and Olivia join in a group hug with the girls, the Plantars, Grime, and Frobot. After foiling the invasion and capturing Andrias, the group returns to Amphibia, and Lady Olivia then announces to all that both Darcy and Andrias have been defeated, declaring their victory. However, before they can celebrate, Amphibia's moon is coming down thanks to the Core, much to their shock.[9]
Subsequently, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy obtain full powers from the Calamity Box, and manage to defeat and destroy the Core. The girls finally can go home but leaving Amphibia forever, saying goodbye to all their friends there; Marcy has a goodbye to Yunan, Olivia, and even Andrias.[10]
New life with Lady Olivia
Yunan, Olivia, and Grime arriving to Wartwood for the ceremony of Anne's statue.
Sometime around nine months after the girls leave Amphibia,[11] Yunan and Olivia get married,[12] and alongside Grime, become dignitaries of Amphibia.[10]
Sometime ago, the three arrive at Wartwood to celebrate the reveal of Anne's statue. There, Olivia tells Yunan that she wouldn't mind living in Wartwood and starting a family, and Yunan likes the idea too, as it would be far away from all the enemies she made when she used to be a general.[10]
Relationships
Lady Olivia
Yunan and Olivia thinking about a life in Wartwood with children.
General Yunan and Lady Olivia team up to help out Anne and her friends against the toad invasion of Newtopia. However, when Andrias reveal his evil true nature as a Tyrant and sent his Frobots to attack, Yunan defended her when any debris. She and Olivia attempt to escape but were forced to remain loyal to Andrias out of fear. After Andrias begins destroying Amphibia, she caught her talking about committing treason against Andrias, she decided to join her and refused to serve to the angry king. Though she was reluctant to help her save Marcy, Olivia convinced her to help save Marcy because they might need her to work on a plan to stop Andrias.
When they free Marcy, Yunan started being rough her when the latter was out of state, Olivia told her to be gentle. After destroying the eyes projecting their fears, Yunan pick up Olivia and spin her around in victory and the latter called her "Goof". After Marcy was strapped and captured by both Andrias and the Core, she and Olivia were forced to watch in horror as the Core possessed Marcy, even shocking them both. While they were mind-controlled, the two battled Anne and her fights together. The would later fight together against the Frobots during the invasion, while fighting some Cloak-bots, Olivia was glad to have her by her side.
After Marcy was finally freed Yunan hug in relief that Marcy was okay and then Olivia put her into a group hug. Olivia and Yunan began at some point to feel romantic feelings for each other, even during their goodbye with Marcy holding hands and thanking Marcy for helping them find what was important to them. Those feelings grew to the point that they ended up marrying sometime after the defeat of Andrias and the Core, and started to consider settling down in Wartwood and having children.
King Andrias
General Yunan was loyal to King Andrias and even gave her the rank of general, she would report to him on situations in Amphibia. However, when King Andrias reveal his evil nature, Yunan was shocked to learned that her king was an evil tyrant who wanted to conquer other worlds starting with Earth. Though remain loyal to him out of fear, she later defect along with Lady Olivia and made it clear she never serve an evil King. When Andrias was getting ready to have Marcy Wu possessed by his Master: The Core, she called the latter maniac and demanded him to stop it, she even gave him a hateful glare after allowing the Core possessed Marcy as it will lead them and Amphibia to their destiny.
Powers and abilities
- Military training: Upon joining the Newtopian military's army, Yunan received specialized training, which gave her many military skills.
- Strength: Yunan has immeasurable strength, being able to face many opponents alone or even take down many trees with her claws, as seen in "Toadcatcher".
- Speed: Yunan is able to reach a high speed if she wants to, as she was able to catch up with Sasha and Grime several kilometers ahead when they were running away from her.
Sightings
| Season 3 | ||||||||||||
| Amphibia Main Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| Amphibia Credits Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "The New Normal": | Absent | 16. "Froggy Little Christmas": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "Hop 'Til You Drop": | Absent | 17. "Escape to Amphibia": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "Turning Point": | Appears | 18. "Commander Anne": | Absent | |||||||||
| 4. "Thai Feud": | Absent | 19. "Sprivy": | Absent | |||||||||
| 5. "Adventures in Catsitting": | Absent | 20. "Sasha's Angels": | Absent | |||||||||
| 6. "Fight at the Museum": | Absent | 21. "Olm Town Road": | Absent | |||||||||
| 7. "Temple Frogs": | Absent | 22. "Mother of Olms": | Absent | |||||||||
| 8. "Fixing Frobo": | Absent | 23. "Grime's Pupil": | Absent | |||||||||
| 9. "Anne-sterminator": | Absent | 24. "The Root of Evil": | Absent | |||||||||
| 10. "Mr. X": | Absent | 25. "The Core & The King": | Absent | |||||||||
| 11. "Sprig's Birthday": | Absent | 26. "Newts in Tights": | Absent | |||||||||
| 12. "Spider-Sprig": | Absent | 27. "Fight or Flight": | Absent | |||||||||
| 13. "Olivia & Yunan": | Appears | 28. "The Three Armies": | Absent | |||||||||
| 14. "Hollywood Hop Pop": | Absent | 29. "The Beginning of the End": | Appears | |||||||||
| 15. "If You Give a Frog a Cookie": | Absent | 30. "All In": | Appears | |||||||||
| 31. "The Hardest Thing": | Appears | |||||||||||
Behind the scenes
Name and basis
Given that she is a newt, her name might be a reference to the Yunnan lake newt, an extinct species of newt that was found in the Yunnan province of China.
Voice
General Yunan is voiced by Zehra Fazal. Fazal was announced as a guest star in the second season on June 23, 2020.[13]
Her voice was inspired by that of Darkwing Duck and Team Rocket from Pokémon.[14]
Debut
General Yunan debuted in "Toadcatcher".
Foreign voice actors
| Language version | Actors | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
Mariana de Iraola | |
 Portugese (Brazil)
|
Tatiane Keplmair | |
 Czech
|
Jitka Moučková | |
 German
|
Anja Taborsky | |
 Spanish (Castilian)
|
Ruth Pazo Olivares | She is the Amphibia's Castilian Spanish dub director, and also the voice actress for Maddie and sometimes Bessie. |
 Indonesian
|
Novie Burhan | |
 Italian
|
Benedetta Ponticelli | |
 Japanese
|
Ami Naito (内藤 有海) | |
 Korean
|
Jang Mi (장미) | She is also the voice actress for Polly and Marcy in Korean. |
 Malay
|
Suriani binti Samsudin | |
 Polish
|
Anna Sztejner | |
 Portuguese
|
Rita Ruaz | |
 Romanian
|
Isabela Neamțu | |
 Russian
|
Varvara Chaban (Варвара Чабан) | She is also the voice actress for Marcy in Russian. |
 Thai
|
Lakkana Naksiri | She is also the voice actress for Polly in Thai. |
 Turkish
|
Selen Öztürk |
Quotes
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| Click here to see the General Yunan's quotes. |
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Gallery
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Trivia
- Her name is usually confused to be "Yunnan", possibly due to it being spelled that was in the captions as well as the Yunnan lake newt.
- Although Yunan's retractable hooked claws are so sharp that they can slice down things such as plates, trees and regular Frobots like hot knife through butter, they are not as durable and more brittle than Sasha's pink heron sword when the 2 claws on Yunan's right gauntlet shattered in half after constant clashes against Sasha's pink sword as seen in "Toadcatcher".
- General Yunan is afraid of grubhogs as shown in "Olivia & Yunan", because one tried to bite her left hand off when she was a child.
- Matt Braly said during a Live Autograph Signing that Yunan and Olivia are married.[12]
- Despite real life military generals using their last name in their title, Yunan is her first name, meaning that Amphibia's military generals may use their first name in their title instead of their last name.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marcy's Journal: A Guide to Amphibia by Matt Braly and Adam Colás. December 6, 2022. Published by Disney Press. ISBN: 978-1484711392.
- ↑ Marcy's Journal: A Guide to Amphibia by Matt Braly and Adam Colás. December 6, 2022. Published by Disney Press. Entry(s) 34. ISBN: 978-1484711392.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jenava Mie (writer) and Jenn Strickland (director) (November 13, 2021). "Olivia & Yunan". Amphibia. Season 3. Episode 7B. Disney Channel.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michele Cavin (writer) and Joe Johnston (director) (August 1, 2020). "Toadcatcher". Amphibia. Season 2. Episode 4B. Disney Channel.
- ↑ Adam Colás, Todd McClintock (writers) and Kyler Spears, Jenn Strickland (directors) (March 20, 2021). "The First Temple". Amphibia. Season 2. Episode 14A. Disney Channel.
- ↑ Michele Cavin, Jenava Mie (writers) and Kyler Spears, Jenn Strickland (directors) (May 24, 2021). "True Colors". Amphibia. Season 2. Episode 20. Disney Channel.
- ↑ Jenava Mie (writer) and Joe Johnston (director) (October 9, 2021). "Turning Point". Amphibia. Season 3. Episode 2B. Disney Channel.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Adam Colás (writer) and Jenn Strickland (director) (April 30, 2022). "The Beginning of the End". Amphibia. Season 3. Episode 16B. Disney Channel.
- ↑ Gloria Shen, Jenava Mie, Michele Cavin (writers) and Roxann Cole, Joe Johnston, Jenn Strickland (directors) (May 7, 2022). "All In". Amphibia. Season 3. Episode 17. Disney Channel.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Adam Colás, Todd McClintock (writers) and Roxann Cole, Joe Johnston (directors) (May 14, 2022). "The Hardest Thing". Amphibia. Season 3. Episode 18. Disney Channel.
- ↑ Braly, Matt [@Radrappy] (May 17, 2022). "the first time skip (before the chyron) is about 9 months give or take - thank you for all your reaction vids btw...I worked really hard to get you and many others (@IAmZamber, @EdDaWiz, @HopeMullinax, etc) early screeners of The Hardest Thing but it never worked out" (Tweet). Twitter. Archived from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved on 2022-05-17.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedwife - ↑ "Disney Channel Renews ‘Amphibia’ For Season 3; Kermit The Frog, Jenifer Lewis, George Takei And More To Guest Star On Season 2". Deadline (June 23, 2020).
- ↑ AMPHIBIA PRE SHOW BABY (34:50) (May 21, 2021). Archived from the original on May 21, 2021.