Annabeth Chase/Disney+ (2024)

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This article is about the character in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Disney+ tv show. You may be looking for the Annabeth Chase from the books orthe film character of the same name.
It's easy to forget what's important when you're alone.

–Annabeth to Grover Underwood, "We Take a Zebra to Vegas".

Annabeth Chase is one of two secondary protagonists of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series. She is the Greek demigod daughter of Athena.

Contents

  • 1 History
  • 2 Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)
    • 2.1 Season One
      • 2.1.1 I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher
      • 2.1.2 I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom
      • 2.1.3 We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium
      • 2.1.4 I Plunge to My Death
      • 2.1.5 A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers
      • 2.1.6 We Take a Zebra to Vegas
      • 2.1.7 We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of
      • 2.1.8 The Prophecy Comes True
  • 3 Appearance
  • 4 Personality
  • 5 Abilities and Tools
  • 6 Relationships
    • 6.1 Percy Jackson
    • 6.2 Grover Underwood
    • 6.3 Luke Castellan
    • 6.4 Thalia Grace
    • 6.5 Athena
  • 7 Etymology
  • 8 Gallery
    • 8.1 Promotional
  • 9 References

History[]

Annabeth Chase is the daughter of the goddess Athena and a mortal man, her father. Children of Athena are born from a thought in her mind and then given to a partner she feels connected to. As a baby, Annabeth was sent by her mother as a gift for her father. For a while, she was treated like a gift. Her father cared for her and loved her. However, he eventually met a woman and they had their own kids. And to the woman, Annabeth wasn't a gift, but a problem. So Annabeth left when she was seven.[1]

One day, Annabeth was hiding in an alley and was found by two half-bloods, Luke and Thalia. When Luke and Thalia found Annabeth, Luke cared for her right away. But Thalia made her earn it.[1] The two were worried about taking her in and expose her to the monsters. However, they saw Annabeth fight and they eventually became a family ever since. When the three first arrived at Camp Half-Blood, they were being chased by Agents of Hades; the Furies. To buy her friends some time, Thalia turned back to fight. Grover, her satyr protector tried to stop her, but she wouldn’t listen. So, at the last moment, Zeus; her father, intervened to save her life and changed her form to a magical tree, which Annabeth describes as a hero's fate.

At some point, Grover also becomes Annabeth's satyr protector. As the strongest warrior in camp, Annabeth thinks the only way left to prove herself was to go on a quest. Chiron's been promising her for years that one day, a demigod would arrive who was fated to go on a quest that even Chiron couldn't prevent. And when that happened, she could join it. Every new arrival, Annabeth watches, looking for a sign they're the one. However, she gives up after a day or two.[2][3]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)[]

Season One[]

I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher[]

Annabeth Chase does not appear in this episode until the very last scene. Percy Jackson slowly wakes from being unconscious. Chiron in his true form, and a group of demigods including Annabeth, are surrounding him. At some point, Annabeth says, “he must be the one,” referring to the demigod who was fated to go on a quest even Chiron couldn't prevent.

I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom[]

Annabeth's shadowy silhouette is seen, in the infirmary, by an unconscious Percy Jackson who wakes up from his rest, still healing from his fight with the Minotaur. When questioned by the latter of his whereabouts, her only response was “you drool when you sleep.”

Later in the episode, it was revealed that she had been stalking Percy ever since he arrived during their conversation in the bathroom. This was after Clarisse La Rue and her equally mean-spirited siblings from Cabin #5, attempted to dunk the blond curly-haired demigod's head in toilet water; which caused him to unintentionally attack the bullies out of defense. As Percy examinedー still dumbfounded by what happenedー his surroundings, he notices Annabeth standing in the entry and recognizes her as the same mysterious girl from the night in the infirmary, marking their first official meeting. When asked why she was observing him, Annabeth simply says she has been "waiting for something like this to happen", so she'd know if he could help her team win Capture the Flag.

During the training for Capture the Flag, Annabeth watches over other demigods as they trained, most likely training them. Then she sees Percy Jackson walking with Luke Castellan, and her expression changes slightly, as if she is examining him. During this scene, Luke is also talking about Annabeth to Percy: Luke tells Percy that Annabeth is the head counselor of the Athena cabin, and that she has led their team to three straight wins in the previous Capture the Flag games. Percy then mentions his conversation with her in the bathroom. Luke tells him that Annabeth sees the world differently, and that she is always six steps ahead of everyone else.

Capture the Flag has begun. Annabeth Chase walks over to Luke and checks in to see if it's clear what his job is. Before Luke goes on, she asks him, "Today feel like a winning kinda day to you?"

Luke gives his company the signal to move, but as Percy is about to follow him, Annabeth tells him he is with her. Annabeth and Percy walk together to the position where she wants him. While on their way, Percy tells Annabeth about how he knows that she is better at this than he is (to which she responds with a nod), but that he needs everything to go well as he is planning to win his father's attention today. Annabeth then stops walking as they have reached the destination. She notices Percy's armor strap needed to be adjusted, and fixes it for him. She then says, "You still don't get where you fit into all this, do you?" Before Percy has the chance to respond, the signal that the game has started goes off. Annabeth says, "game on,” and puts on her Yankees Cap and disappears. Percy is confused, and Annabeth takes it off again to tell him that it was a gift from her mother. She also tells him to stop worrying and that he will do great, and then she turns invisible again.

Clarrise chased Percy to the lake, where Percy snapped her spear and defeated her goons. Clarrise grabbed Percy by his armor, but blues rushed out of the forest, holding the red flag. Clarrise shoved Percy and stormed away. Annabeth's voice spoke from nothingness. She then appeared by removing her baseball cap. Annabeth confirmed Percy's suspicions by saying she was there the whole time but didn't help Percy. Annabeth then apologized to Percy and pushed him into the lake. Immediately, Percy's cuts and scrapes began to heal. A glowing trident floated above his head. Percy looked at it, as did everybody else.

We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium[]

Chiron addressed the head counselors on the quest details at the choosing ceremony. He said Percy would have to go to the Underworld in Los Angeles to confront Hades and retrieve the master bolt. Chiron told Percy he could choose two to join him on the quest. Percy immediately chose Annabeth because he thought she would ensure the quest succeeded and Grover because Percy trusted him.

To be added

I Plunge to My Death[]

TBA

A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers[]

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We Take a Zebra to Vegas[]

TBA

We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of[]

TBA

The Prophecy Comes True[]

TBA

Appearance[]

Annabeth is a 12-year-old African-American girl. She has dark skin and intelligent-looking brown eyes with curly black hair styled in box braids and thick eyebrows usually worn in a serious/determined expression. She has a slim-average figure and is shorter than her friends Percy Jackson and Grover Underwood.

Personality[]

At first glance, Annabeth appears to be cold, calculating, and blunt. As a daughter of Athena, Annabeth is remarkably perceptive and analytical. According to Luke, she is always "six steps ahead" (the number six could be a reference to her cabin number) of her allies and enemies, and would frequently follow new campers around so she can determine if they are the right demigod to follow for a quest. While she normally gives up on following new demigods after a few days, she develops an interest in Percy, correctly assuming he is the son of Poseidon. Because she spent five years at Camp Half-Blood, Annabeth has not experienced things most kids her age do, such as movies and theme parks. This leaves her with little understanding of the modern world. For example, Annabeth has never been to see a movie which is shown through her saying it, and her not understanding Percy’s reference to Wizard of Oz when he says we’re not in Kansas anymore. She’s also never heard of Disney World and she’s never really gotten the opportunity to live like a normal kid. Throughout season one, Annabeth becomes more friendly towards Percy, and starts to connect more with her human side. She learns through Percy that the gods aren’t always what she was raised to believe they are. And by the end of the season, she is returning home to spend more time with her family, especially her father. After all of the years that she has spent at Camp Half Blood, learning how to be the best warrior or a great soldier, she gets to leave camp and learn how to just be a kid.

Abilities and Tools[]

  • Annabeth's Yankees Cap: Annabeth owns a Yankees cap gifted by her mother, Athena. It allows her to turn invisible and stealthily follow anyone she pleases.
  • Annabeth's Knife: Annabeth carries a Celestial Bronze knife with her on her quest.

Relationships[]

Percy Jackson[]

Ares is that way. Zeus is that way. My mother is that way. He isn't that way! He's better than that.

–Annabeth to Hephaestus about Percy, A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers

Annabeth Chase/Disney+ (2)

Percy and Annabeth are friends. When they first met, Annabeth had suspected Percy of being special and watched him. After Clarisse and her siblings were beat by Percy during Capture the Flag, she pushed him into the creek to test her theory. When Percy chose her for the quest, he claimed that it was because she would ensure the quest would succeed no matter what. He later admitted that he chose her to avoid the Oracle's warning about a friend betraying him because he couldn't see them as friends. As the quest went on and they got to know each other better, they started to become friends. Annabeth later hugs him after he is revealed to be alive after escaping the Chimera and Echidna. She refuses to leave Percy behind after he is trapped by Hephaestus's chair, even as the Blacksmith God tells her to leave him. By the time they contact Luke, he described their friendship as "an old married couple."

Grover Underwood[]

He was my protector first!

–Annabeth Chase to Percy Jackson, We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium

Annabeth has known Grover since she was very young. Grover was assigned as her, Thalia, and Luke's protector and tasked with bringing them to camp.

Luke Castellan[]

Hers [side] always. She's my little sister.

–Luke Castellan about Annabeth, I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom

Annabeth met Luke when she was only seven years old, and the have considered each other family ever since. Thalia, daughter of Zeus, Luke, and Annabeth fought monsters alone for a time before they were assigned protector Grover Underwood. When Thalia didn't make it to camp, Luke and Annabeth were reinforced in their relationships and have been close ever since. No one believes in or understands Annabeth more than Luke, and no one looks up to Luke more than Annabeth. She is greatly hurt by his betrayal.

Thalia Grace[]

When Annabeth first came across Thalia and Luke, Luke cared for her immediately, but Thalia made her earn it. They were on the road for a while, and they then met Grover. Thalia sacrificed herself at the top of what is know as Half-Blood Hill to save Annabeth, Luke, and Grover. Annabeth frequently visits her tree, and she misses Thalia a lot.

Athena[]

Athena is Annabeth's godly mother. Like all demigod children of Athena, Annabeth was conceived in Athena's brain before being delivered to her mortal father's doorstep. Athena also gifted Annabeth an invisibility Yankees cap. Annabeth has great respect for her mother, defending her actions from Percy and Medusa.

Once Annabeth allows Percy to ship Medusa's Head to Mount Olympus, an insulted Athena revokes sanctuary from the Gateway Arch. It is also implied Athena sent Echidna and the Chimera on Annabeth and her friends in retaliation. This and the time she spent with Percy causes Annabeth to realize Athena isn't perfect. During her talk with Hephaestus, Annabeth says that the Olympian's cold ideas of family are wrong and that she won't be like them anymore.

Etymology[]

  • Annabeth is an anagram of "Athena" with a few extra letters, N and B, added. Annabeth is a variant of the Hebrew name, Anna, and the name means "God has favored me." The third syllable of her name, Beth, is a common shortened form of another Hebrew name, Elizabeth, which means "my God is an oath" or perhaps "my God is abundance." Beth can also be a nickname for Bethany, a female name first used as the name of a town in the Christian Bible, which is believed to mean "house of figs."
  • Chase is a Middle English surname, the occupational name for a hunter. In Middle English, the word "chase" means "hunt."

Gallery[]

Promotional[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 I Plunge to My Death
  2. I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom
  3. We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Main Characters:Percy Jackson | Annabeth Chase | Grover Underwood
Secondary Characters:Sally Jackson | Chiron | Luke Castellan | Clarisse La Rue | Chris Rodriguez
Minor Characters:Nancy Bobofit | Gabe Ugliano | Headmaster | Eddie | Oracle of Delphi | Thalia Grace | Ferdinand Underwood | Nereid | Fates | Augustus | Charon | Elevator Security Guard
Greek Gods:Zeus | Poseidon | Hades | Dionysus | Hermes | Ares | Hephaestus
Titans:Kronos
Monsters:Alecto | Minotaur | Medusa | Echidna | Chimera | Procrustes | Cerberus
Season One:"I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher" | "I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom" | "We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium" | "I Plunge to My Death" | "A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers" | "We Take a Zebra to Vegas" | "We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of" | "The Prophecy Comes True"
Season Two:TBA
Related Content:Disney+ | Mythomagic, Inc | Percy Jackson: The Official Cookbook
Annabeth Chase/Disney+ (2024)

FAQs

Who plays Annabeth Chase in Disney plus? ›

Leah Sava Jeffries plays Annabeth Chase, Percy's shrewd best friend and daughter of Athena. Jeffries recently starred alongside Idris Elba and Iyana Halley in the 2022 film "Beast."

Why did they change Annabeth in Percy Jackson? ›

Novelist Rick Riordan, who also serves as an executive producer on the upcoming Disney+ live-action adaptation of his novel series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, recently claimed that race replacing Annabeth Chase is “a massive benefit to broaden the cast in terms of representation.”

Is Annabeth Chase a Disney character? ›

Annabeth Chase is the deuteragonist in the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. She is the intelligent half-blood daughter of Athena who helps her friend Percy Jackson.

Is Annabeth Percy Jackson's girlfriend? ›

She appears first in the first novel of the series, The Lightning Thief. In the series she becomes close friends with Percy Jackson, later becoming his main love interest and girlfriend. Annabeth is architect of Olympus and one of the leaders in Camp Half Blood for half bloods/demigods.

Who married Annabeth Chase? ›

Yes, Annabeth is married to Percy Jackson, and has three kids: Cast, Ethan, and Zoe. How was Annabeth Chase born? Annabeth Chase is the half-blood daughter of the goddess Athena and the mortal man Frederick Chase.

Will Percy have black hair in the show? ›

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)/Differences from the book. This is a comprehensive list of the differences between TV series and the book series. Percy Jackson has black hair and green eyes. Percy, played by Walker Scobell, is blonde with grayish blue eyes.

Do Percy and Annabeth break up? ›

Canonically, they never broke up. I know there are many fanfictions where they broke up, but that is all in the head of the person who wrote the fanfiction. Not once did they even think about breaking up.

Why did Disney cast Annabeth as black? ›

“Percy Jackson” author Rick Riordan explained to Entertainment Weekly that making his franchise more diverse by casting Leah Jeffries as Annabeth Chase in the upcoming Disney+ series was always staying true to the reason he wrote the “Percy Jackson” books in the first place.

Why did Annabeth kiss Percy? ›

We all know that the reason Annabeth kissed him to begin with was because she wasn't sure whether he would make it out alive or not and wanted to show him how she felt with what little time they had left. For two weeks, that ended up being Annabeth's reality.

Do Percy and Annabeth get married? ›

In Wedding Day, Annabeth gets married to Percy Jackson, with Piper McLean as her bridesmaid.

Who is Percy Jackson's wife? ›

FAQs: Who is the wife of Percy Jackson? Annabeth Jackson (formerly Chase) is the demigod daughter of Athena and Frederick Chase. She played the roles of girlfriend and later wife to Percy Jackson, and together, they are parents to four children: Cast, Ethan, Zoe, and Violet Jackson.

Why is Athena upset with Annabeth? ›

The fact that she disapproved of her daughter Annabeth's love for Percy was because of both his fatal flaw and (mostly) because he was the son of her rival, displays Athena as biased. Although, out of affection for Annabeth, she's given them her blessing, however reluctantly.

Did Percy ever kiss Annabeth? ›

Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her... long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart.

Do Percy and Annabeth say I love you? ›

While still falling in Tartarus, Annabeth tells Percy "I love you", thinking that if she dies, those should be her last words. Throughout the book, it is mentioned several times that Annabeth is deeply in love with Percy and that she cannot live without him.

Who is the cutest couple in Percy Jackson? ›

Blog dedicated to Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson, the cutest couple from Rick Riordan's book~1…

Who is Annabeth's new actor? ›

Leah Sava Jeffries had a feeling that her casting as Annabeth Chase in the new Disney+ series adaptation of Percy Jackson & the Olympians was going to elicit some racist backlash.

Who is being cast as Annabeth Chase? ›

Leah Sava Jeffries was also just a kid when she received backlash for her casting as Annabeth Chase, originally imagined as a white character in the books.

Who is playing Annabeth in the new Percy Jackson series? ›

Leah Jeffries stars as Annabeth Chase, the daughter of Athena. Jeffries is originally from Detroit and began her acting career in 2015 when she was just 5, appearing in Empire as Lola Lyon. In 2022, she starred in two films, Something from Tiffany's and the thriller Beast, alongside Idris Elba.

Who is Annabeth in Percy Jackson Disney? ›

Annabeth Chase is the daughter of the goddess Athena and a mortal man, her father. Children of Athena are born from a thought in her mind and then given to a partner she feels connected to. As a baby, Annabeth was sent by her mother as a gift for her father. For a while, she was treated like a gift.

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