Terabithia is a magical land from Katherine Paterson's Newbery Medal winning novel Bridge to Terabithia. The land has many magical creatures living inside the kingdom, ranging from soldiers, fairies and giants - but all are only the products of Leslie Burke and Jesse Aarons's imaginations.
In the novel, only the giant troll is directly referenced. The Dark Master, Squogers and Hairy Vultures are all products of the 2007 motion picture adaptation. The Terabithian Fairies (soldiers) who have a strong part in the 2007 motion picture are also shown on the cover art to the 1985 PBS TV Movie.
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The Terabithians were briefly mentioned in the novel but play a big part in the 2007 movie adaptation. They are the creatures that live inside Terabithia, they are nice and peaceful beings. The 'Bird Woman' and 'Soldier Fairies' are two examples. It isn't clear who invented each Terabithian, but in the 2007 movie, it is Leslie that created the soldiers from dragon flies. One could assume that Jesse created the rest of the entire civilization by the fact that when they are shown, Leslie is already dead.
The Dark Master began with Leslie's atmosphere building when she and Jesse first went into the woods, but then developed into Jesse's way of dealing with his own father. His father is sometimes hard on him but it isn't revealed until the end of the movie that he was based on the Dark Master. Once Jesse and his father reconciled in the ending, The Dark Master vanished forever.
The Dark Master is rarely seen and only briefly mentioned between the battles in Terabithia.
The Sqouger was named, like the Dark Master, by Leslie inside the treehouse in Terabithia. It is depicted as a creature that's half-squirrel half-ogre. After Jesse told her its Scott Hoager, she replies with "a Squogre". The Squoger is an enemy Jesse and Leslie use to combat Scott Hoager, a bully from the Lark Creek Elementary school. Once Jesse punched him in the face, the Squoger vanished.
The Squoger mimics the beep of Scott Hoager's 'loser detecter'.
The origin of the creatures name comes from a bully at Lark Creek Elementary School named Gary Fulcher who always picks on Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke. It is depicted as a vulture with fur instead of feathers. As time goes on at School, he keeps picking on Jesse, who develops anger toward Gary for bullying him. Jesse and Leslie's imagination created the Hairy Vulture out of anger toward Gary. This was their way of battling their anger without releasing it on Gary and leading to trouble. Once Janice Avery gave him a bloody nose, the Hairy Vulture vanished.
The Hairy Vulture mimics a quote from Gary Fulcher at the start of the film, where Gary tells Jesse that he is 'dead meat'. This was said after Jesse ignored Scott Hoager.
Leslie also invented the giant troll based on Janice Avery, the bully from the school bus. Jesse initially found the footprint of the troll. Soon after Jesse buys Prince Terrien (P.T.) for Leslie, they make plans to track it down. P.T. discovers that its weakness is ticklish feet. At first, the appearance of the troll is a large collection of leaves in the shape of a human body. Later, it is revealed that the giant troll is based on Janice.
Towards the end of the movie, the troll, along with Janice, experiences a large change in heart and befriends Jesse.
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