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- “♫ I've been stuck a thousand years just fading, wading through the fears. This giant clam gets real old, my dear. So come real close I'll let you know how you can get out of here. ♫”
- ―Matangi singing "Get Lost"[src]
Matangi is the secondary antagonist in the Disney's upcoming 2024 animated feature film Moana 2. She is an eccentric, bat-themed demigoddess and Nalo's enforcer.
Background[]
Physical appearance[]
Matangi is a tall woman with long hair, tied back by a yellow and orange hairpiece, and purple eyes. Her fang teeth are slightly pointy, resembling bat fangs. Above her left knee, she has a tattoo that goes up her leg. Matangi wears a dark-colored dress with an orange, possibly feathered, collar and a long cape
Powers and abilities[]
As a demigoddess, Matangi possesses supernatural abilities. Some of which are vampire-like. She can scale walls and has quick agility and reflexes. She can also fly and levitate.
Role in the Film[]
Moana 2[]
Quotes[]
- " If you try to to reconnect the people of the ocean, you will be destroyed! "
Trivia[]
- The name of the character (Matangi or Matagi) is the generic term used throughout Oceania to designate the breeze and/or wind. It is present in the majority of Polynesian languages, in different forms (ex: Reo tahiti: Mata'i, Gagana Samoa: Matagi, 'Ōlelo Hawai'i: Makani). Wind is one of the primordial elements in ocean navigation, but also in the cult of the first Polynesians. According to Teuira Henry, in Tahiti Ratairi was the god and father of the wind, and Temuri was its mother and goddess.
- Matangi's voice actress, Awhimai Fraser, also voiced Elsa and Dolores Madrigal in the Māori dubs of Disney's previous films, Frozen and Encanto.
- The visual differences between Matangi’s appearance in the promo art and the film’s trailer suggest that she is capable of altering her form.
- Matangi is the second secondary antagonist in the Moana franchise who speaks after Tamatoa.