Clarice | |
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Gender |
Female |
Species |
Doe |
Eye Color |
Black |
Fur Color |
Beige |
Home |
The North Pole |
Family |
Unnamed buck (father) |
Friends |
Rudolph, Fireball |
Enemies |
Bumble (formerly), Mr. Cuddles/Toy Taker (formerly) |
Voiced By |
Janis Orenstein (1964) |
Appears In |
'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Island Of Misfit Toys |
Clarice is the love interest and later mate of Rudolph (Rankin/Bass) and one of the tritagonists of the 1964 Rankin/Bass TV film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the deuteragonist in it's 2001 sequel Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Island Of Misfit Toys as well as the 2016 film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 4D Attraction.
Biography[]
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer[]
Clarice is a yearling (likely an adolescent that is around the equivalent of 13/14 in reindeer years) who, along with several other young does, watches the young bucks taking part in The Reindeer Games, where she takes an interest to one of the bucks, Rudolph. After being encouraged by another young buck named Fireball to go over and talk to her, Rudolph goes over and talks with Clarice and they make an agreement to walk home together later. Clarice then tells Rudolph that she thinks he's cute, this causes Rudolph to leap in the air with joy which impresses Rudolph's parents, Santa Claus and the game's coach Comet. However during a playful tussle with Fireball, Rudolph's fake nose falls off, revealing his real red one and is laughed at by Fireball and the other young bucks, before being banned from the rest of the games by Comet.
Rudolph runs off, but Clarice catches up with him and reminds him that they agreed to walk home together and says that she doesn't mind his nose, and even likes it better than the fake one he was wearing. She then sings "There's Always Tomorrow" to him before her father arrives and tells her to come home at once as he doesn't want her to be seen with "a red-nosed reindeer" which she reluctantly does. Later, Clarice learns that Rudolph has run away. So, against her father's previous advice, she goes with his mother Mrs. Donner to help Rudolph's father Donner look for him.
A few months later, Clarice, along with Donner and Mrs. Donner, are captured by the snow monster named Bumble, but Rudolph arrives and tries to battle him, only to be knocked unconscious by him. Luckily, Rudolph's friends Hermey and Yukon arrive and knock out the Bumble. After waking up, the Bumble finds his teeth gone but still tries to attack the others, so Yukon sacrifices himself to save the others by pushing the Bumble off a cliff, taking himself and his dogs with him, which saddens the others. After returning home, Clarice reunites with her father on Christmas Eve. During the song "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas", she stands under the mistletoe and Rudolph kisses her on the cheek. Later, along with Donner and Mrs. Donner, she watches Rudolph guide Santa's sleigh through the storm with his nose's light.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Island Of Misfit Toys[]
She appears again in this film.
Description[]
Clarice has a beige coat with white fur on her chest and muzzle. The insides of her ears are a dull pink, and her eyes are black with long eyelashes.
Clarice's most notable feature is the red polka dot bow on her head, often believed to hold some sentimental value to her.
Clarice has the same features as Mrs. Donner.
Relationships[]
- Romantic - Rudolph and Clarice.
- Friendly - Mrs. Donner and Clarice.
Songs sung by Clarice[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Clarice makes a small cameo in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July.
- A character similar to Clarice named Zoey appears in the 1998 film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie.
- Both don't bully Rudolph and both are his love interest.
- In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Island Of Misfit Toys, Clarice appears as a teenager, as she was near the end of the original film.
- Personality: Kind, sweet, caring, sincere, polite, understanding, mature, good natured, loving, devoted, levelheaded, and gentle.
- Likes: Her mate Rudolph (Rankin/Bass), Mrs. Donner.
- Dislikes: Bumble (formerly), being trapped in a cave.