| “ | Isabel: Next time you want to smash a bloodline of knights, make sure you kill all of them! Leezar's Mothers: We did! Isabel: You forgot about their sister. |
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| ~ Isabel to Leezar's Mothers before killing them. |
Isabel is the tritagonist of the 2011 Medieval comedy Your Highness. She is a female warrior who joins Fabious and Thadeous on their quest to kill the evil sorcerer Leezar. She is the last living member of the Harshbarger order and a descent of the Golden Order of Knights. Isabel is also the love interest of Thadeous.
Isabel is portrayed by Natalie Portman, who portrayed Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and Jane Foster in the Thor films.
Biography[]
Death of Family[]
When Isabel was a child, her father was enslaved by Marteetee and slaughtered by his hand-like pet hydra in his arena. Since then, she vowed revenge on Marteetee. After their father's death, her brothers were killed by the evil sorcerer Leezar, and Isabel swore revenge on him as well. At some point, Isabel was cursed by an evil witch by a chastity belt, which could only be removed by killing her.
Joining the Princes[]
In adult years Isabel begins to avenge her father's death as she disguises herself and presumably lets herself be captured by Marteetee's people, along with two brothers, Prince Fabious and Prince Thadeous, Thadeous' squire Courtney and others. After Fabious, who killed Marteetee's finest warrior, is poisoned by Marteetee's pet hydra, she begins cutting the heads off the hydra, leaving Marteetee with only his middle finger. After Isabel reveals herself, she declares she would avenge her father today, first by killing his hydra and second by killing him. True to her word, she kills Marteetee, then escapes with Thadeous, Fabious and Courtney.
Going for a Swim[]
Isabel is later seen by Thadeous and Fabious from a distance as she undresses herself to go for a swim in the pond. When Isabel catches Thadeous and Fabious spying on her, the two keep their distance and freeze in their positions. She ignores them, dives into the water and swims.
Personality[]
Isabel is the exact opposite of a typical damsel in distress. She is tough, fearless and determined. She is a serious warrior who does to stop until she completes a quest. She also takes the rules of quests very seriously explaining to Thadeous when Fabious stopped him from telling her their quest. Despite being tough and brave, Isabel is also kind and helpful, when learn that Fabious was captured by Leezar's henchmen agrees to work together with Thadeous and Courtney to find the Blade of Unicorn and save Fabious. Isabel cared deeply about her father and brothers, promising to avenge them after their deaths by the hands of Leezar and Marteetee.
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Trivia[]
- In a deleted scene, after escaping Marteetee's people, she yells at Thadeous for almost getting her killed, then to cut off his penis and wear it as a trophy. Ironically when Thadeous finds the Blade of Unicorn and kills the Minotaur guarding it, he does just that, though he originally wanted to cut its horn.
- In the scene where she is diving in the lake, Portman had a stunt double. While this was officially due to an insurance issue, Danny McBride believed it was because she didn't want to bend over in a thong. In an interview sometime after, Portman revealed that she didn't wish to dive due to the fact that the water was simply "Too Cold".
- Portman only signed onto be in the film because she believed that her film Black Swan wouldn't be green-lit. She would plan to use her pay from Your Highness as a way to fund the movie if necessary, but the movie was green-lit. She was then stuck with being in the film due to having already signed on.
- Portman struggled with the scene where she said the line "burning in my beaver". Every time she said it, she couldn't keep a straight face and had to be re-shot 4 times.