Prince Derek

In the first movie, Derek appears as a young boy with Queen Uberta, giving newborn Princess Odette a golden heart-shaped pendant with a swan on it. Watching the young children, Queen Uberta and King William thought that their children should see each other every summer in the hope that they would fall in love and marry merging the two kingdoms.

Later, Odette and Derek fall in love at first sight. They begin to dance and they even share their first romantic kiss together. The moment after the romantic kiss, Derek expresses his wish to marry Odette just for her beauty.

This reason upsets her because she wants someone to love her for a reason other than her beauty. Not that people can't love her for her beauty but that she does not want people to love her only for her beauty. So when Derek says this, she rejects him again. She leaves the next day with her father, but they are intercepted by an evil sorcerer, Rothbart, who transforms into a "great animal". He kidnaps Odette and fatally injures King William to his eventual death. His captain returns to Queen Uberta's castle and informs everyone present that they were attacked by the great animal. Derek arrives on the scene where King William tells him with his last dying breath that they were attacked by a great animal and that it is "not what it seems". Derek was left behind after to hear what King William has said. He refused to believe that Odette was gone and he goes back to the kingdom, training in the hope that he will find Odette and save her from the great animal.

Queen Uberta prepares a royal ball for him to find him a new bride, but he refuses to be king until he finds Odette. He and Bromley train for several days and they practice the catch and fire technique with the help of the castle valet, Lord Rogers. Odette's new-found friends Jean-Bob, Speed, and Puffin work together to find Derek and take him to Swan Lake.

One day, Derek and Bromley ride off to search for the great animal. As Odette and Puffin find him, he confuses her for the great animal and he tries to kill her, but she flies away just in time. Derek followed them back to Swan Lake. As they arrived at the lake, Odette was about to change back into a human when some clouds covered the moon.

Derek also arrives there and he tries to kill her, but before he could do it, Puffin stops him and Odette turns into a human in time. The happy couple embraces each other but for a short time because Odette hears Rothbart coming. After learning that Odette is under a spell, Derek invites her to go to the ball where he can break the spell with a vow of everlasting love.

Unfortunately, Rothbart finds Derek's bow, and tells Odette that there will be no moon the next night, and he has her, in swan form, imprisoned in the castle dungeon along with Bromley. He then plans to send his hag sidekick Bridget, disguised as Odette, to the ball instead so Derek will mistakenly make his vow of everlasting love to her.

Odette's friends free her, but when she reaches the ball, she sees that she has been replaced and she tries to warn Derek but she fails, partly due to Bridget's attempts to keep Derek from seeing her, and partly because Derek ends up unknowingly making the vow to Bridget. Rothbart arrives and reveals that Derek's vow, given to the wrong woman, will cause his spell to kill Odette. She flies back to Swan Lake as Rothbart's curse drains her life force. When Odette goes back to the lake, she transforms back into her human form. Derek arrives too late. Odette was still alive but not for long. Derek desperately shouts that the vow was made for her. She knows and she said the most beautiful words: "I love you, Derek".

She dies in his arms and she lies back on the ground and she doesn't move again. An enraged Derek confronts Sir Rothbart, demanding that he bring Odette back to life. To Derek's surprise, the sorcerer transforms into the great animal and an intense battle ensues with Rothbart overpowering Derek and nearly killing him. Fortunately, Odette's animal friends return Derek's longbow to him and Bromley, who escaped from the dungeon earlier, provided Derek with a single arrow. Derek catches it and fires the arrow into Rothbart's heart as he explodes upon crashing into the lake. After Rothbart's death, everyone becomes relieved that he's gone forever, but everyone becomes silent because Odette hasn't come back to life.

Derek takes Odette into his arms again saying that he really loves her for her courage and kindness, and he kisses her on her forehead and he buried his face in hers. Odette comes back to life, which overjoys Derek, and the two share a kiss. Derek and Odette are married and became the future king and queen. Then Odette asks Derek if he'll love her till the day she dies. He shakes his head and says, "No. Much longer than that Odette. Much longer." And they finally lived happily ever after.

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