Ursula is King Triton's sister. Ursula and Tritons parents are Poseidon and Amphitrite. When Poseidon died Ursula got Amphitrite's shell and half of the sea and Triton got the trident and half the sea.
In addition to being the god of the sea, Once's Poseidon is also the father of Merrin Dungey's Ursula, a concept omitted from Disney's The Little Mermaid in 1989, though later included in the Broadway musical.
Ursula is also the only daughter and child of King Poseidon, god of the seas. She was based on the character of the same name and partially based on Ariel from the Disney film, The Little Mermaid and the Sea witch from the fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Anderson.
Ursula is based on the sea witch from The Little Mermaid. She is the daughter of Poseidon from Greek Mythology.
In this novel, Ursula is King Triton's younger sister who was betrayed by him as a child for choosing a tentacled form instead of a mermaid's tail, and grew up as a human in the town of Ipswich with an adoptive human father.
Ursula, The Little Mermaid's villain, is confirmed to be King Triton's sister. Does that mean she was a mermaid, or was she always a tentacled figure? The Little Mermaid brings the animated film to live-action, and changes Ursula's connection with Ariel and Triton.
Ursula is King Triton's sister. Ursula and Tritons parents are Poseidon and Amphitrite. When Poseidon died Ursula got Amphitrite's shell and half of the sea and Triton got the trident and half the sea. Triton married Athena and Ursula recalls having feasts.
Ursula Is King Triton's Sister & Ariel's Aunt
Basically, all the original film shares about her history with the kingdom of Atlantica is that she once lived in the palace before being banished by the King of the Seven Seas.
Since Ariel in The Little Mermaid is Triton's daughter, and according to Greek mythology, Triton is the son of Poseidon, this makes Ariel the granddaughter of Poseidon.
During the battle with Ursula, King Triton was transformed into a polyp when he decided to take Ariel's place in the deal, but shortly after the battle, (when Ursula was killed by Eric), he and the rest of polyps in the garden were transformed back into the merpeople they were before and were free from her lair.
Her plan to seize power centers around Ariel's forbidden love for the human Prince Eric. Ursula hated Triton for being ruler of the sea and she wanted his reign and powers.
He would father four children by Amphitrite, including a son named Triton. Like Zeus, Poseidon also went on to sire children by various goddesses and mortal women. His most famous demigod children of all are Theseus and Bellerophon.
Poseidon is the father of King Triton, and therefore the paternal grandfather of Ariel and her sisters. He is, presumably, the son of Triton's Grandpa Neptune.
Andress, who played Honey Ryder in the 1962 Bond film, dated many big names, including Dennis Hopper and James Dean; she was married to John Derek from 1957 to 1966. The child she and Hamlin share, Dimitri, is now 40 and is her only offspring.
Conversation. Ursula is a cecaelia, or a half-woman half-octopus... She was always an octopus, even in the original... She was a squid.
Though Princess Ariel may be the most famous, The Little Mermaid's King Triton has seven daughters – one for each of the seven seas, of course!
As a refresher, Ariel has six sisters, and if you include her, that means King Triton has seven daughters. Their names (Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista, Ariel, and Andrina) all start and end with an “a,” except Ariel. Instead of trying to describe who's who, I'll just say that it doesn't really matter.
We already know Ariel is King Triton's favorite child. Right before his daughters perform at the very beginning of the movie, King Triton tells Sebastian that he's most excited about seeing his youngest daughter.
In the past, Ursula was a resident of King Triton's palace, before being banished and exiled by order of the king. Scorned, she has since vowed to exact vengeance by harnessing the power of the king's trident and installing herself as ruler of all the ocean.
Morgana is a villainess who appears in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. She is the younger sister of Ursula, but Ursula is worse than Morgana.
Poseidon also had three sisters: Hestia, Hera, and Demeter. When Zeus overthrew their father, and the three brothers divided the earth among them, Poseidon became the god of the sea and earthquakes and thunder.
King Triton and his wife, Queen Athena, rule over the underwater kingdom of Atlantica, filled with music and laughter. They have seven young daughters: Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista, Andrina, and the youngest of whom is Ariel.
King Triton had ONE WIFE!