Lady Tremaine

• Character Name: Lady Tremaine
• Other names: Madame Tremaine, Madonna Tremaine, Evil Stepmother, Wicked Stepmother Stepmother, Mean Old Lady, Mother, Madam
• Occupation: Socialite (formerly), Scullery maid
• Home: Cinderella's château (formerly), King's castle
• Likes: Wealth and money, power, her daughters succeeding, making and seeing Cinderella miserable, punishing Cinderella (and later Anastasia), the upper class, tea, playing the piano, using her daughters, Lucifer, getting what she wants, eligible noblemen for her daughters
• Dislikes: Cinderella, Anastasia, her daughters' clumsiness, Cinderella succeeding or being happy, the idea of one of her daughters marrying a poor man, poverty, the lower class, work, being undermined, not getting what she wants, peasants, sweets, pasta
• Paraphernalia: Cane, Golden Key, broom
• Partner: Sir Francis Tremaine (deceased first husband)
• Children: Drizella Tremaine (daughter), Anastasia Tremaine (daughter; disowned), Cinderella (stepdaughter; disowned)
• Pet: Lucifer (Cat)
• Personality: Lady Tremaine doesn't possess any magical powers (until she finds Fairy Godmother's wand in A Twist in Time) or exert any physical force. She strongly believes in maintaining grace and self-control, reminding her daughters of this when the two fight during their music lesson. The only time she herself breaks this rule is, ironically, at the point when Cinderella interrupts the music lesson to bring Lady Tremaine the invitation to the royal ball (at which point she frustratingly slams her hands onto the keys of the piano). She has a sinister glare and is very cruel to Cinderella; an example is when she silences her harshly twice when ordering Cinderella to do chores in the château. She even does the same to Anastasia and Drizella occasionally, implying that she's not much better towards her two biological daughters than she is towards Cinderella. On the other hand, she treats her cat, Lucifer, like royalty, and acts as his mother figure.

Lady Tremaine holds great envy towards her stepdaughter simply for her beauty and wholesome charm, so she treats her stepdaughter like a servant in her own home. A tyrant who employs subtle methods, she is deviously manipulative in controlling Cinderella by maintaining a sham benevolence in her household authority; she never physically abuses Cinderella and instead encourages her daughters to do so, while Lady Tremaine herself opts for verbal and emotional abuse. For example, when she slyly noted that Cinderella fixed up her dress with the help of Drizella's beads and Anastasia's sash, her daughters took the initiative to rip Cinderella's dress to shreds. Lady Tremaine also makes sure she never has to keep her promises, especially those she makes to Cinderella since she wants to make sure Cinderella is never happy, while simultaneously remaining true to her words. This is done when she falsely promises Cinderella that she can attend the ball if she can find something suitable to wear, and once she manipulates her daughters into tearing up their stepsister's dress, Cinderella is reduced to rags, leaving her unable to attend the ball. Her stepmother then cruelly bids Cinderella "good night", ultimately maintaining her ostensible 'fairness' in her side of the bargain.

By Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, however, Lady Tremaine's personality and overall aura took a darker turn, as she herself was implied to have become far more openly abusive towards her two biological daughters, specifically towards Anastasia, when Drizella briefly suggested she and Lady Tremaine beat Anastasia with a stick the latter had found. Her newfound violent nature was unleashed during the climax when she tried to turn both Cinderella and Anastasia into toads when the latter refused to marry Prince Charming, having already turned some of the guards into animals, and would most likely have done the same to the King and everyone else if she succeeded, as her aim to seize the kingdom may have also been fuelled by a lust for power.

Almost all of Tremaine's actions are motivated by a selfish hunger for prestige, and potentially even a lust for power and domination, as she wants to marry her daughters off to those on the top of the social ladder, most likely as a means of gaining access to the palace. Tremaine expects her daughters to be utterly obedient and is infuriated when they are not, as seen when Drizella almost divulged their plan as Cinderella was being exiled, and more notably when Anastasia chose not to marry Prince Charming out of love.

• Physical Appearance: Lady Tremaine appears to have aged well, with sharp facial features, including a notably large, hooked nose with pronounced creases on both sides. She has gray hair (brown in her youth) worn in a high heart-shaped pompadour, with a small lighter gray streak in the middle. Her green eyes are fierce and evil-looking when she is either angered or harboring evil thoughts, and her green orb-shaped earrings contrast her eye color. Her casual and most commonly seen set of clothes consists of a large crimson gown with a golden brooch near her neck that has a green gem in it, and the gown has a high purple collar with extended purple sleeves (She wears a purple version of this outfit in the third film). She wears a large green ring on her right ring finger that matches her earrings and brooch, and in the finale, certain close-ups show her nails are painted a lavender hue to compliment her sleeves. When sleeping, she wears a long-sleeved blue nightgown with a light blue collar and a pink hairstrap with azure straps. Her formal attire (which she wears to the ball) is a long purple gown with short sleeves. She usually carries an ebony cane with an inlaid stone, more for aesthetics than physical support. During a mid-credits sequence in Cinderella III, she sports a maid gown that highly resembles Cinderella's.