Branch

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Branch
Background Information
Films	Trolls Trolls World Tour Trolls Band Together
Television	Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Trolls: TrollsTopia
Shorts	Trolls Holiday Trolls: Holiday in Harmony
Voice	Justin Timberlake (Films) Skylar Astin (TV Series) Liam Henry (young) Alan Kim (baby)
Character information
Other Names	Bitty B Baby Branch My Man Dumpy Diapers Boss Captain No-Slappy Mate
Gender	Male
Status	Active
Quote	"Happiness is inside all of us, right? Sometimes, you just need someone to help you find it." "We don't have to be perfect to be in harmony. We just have to be as we are, together."

“You don’t know anything, Poppy, and I can’t wait to see the look on your face when you realize the world isn’t all cupcakes and rainbows, because it isn’t. Bad things happen, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

―Branch to Poppy.

Branch is an overly-cautious Troll who lives in Troll Village. He is the male protagonist of the DreamWorks Trolls franchise and is voiced by Justin Timberlake. He is the current boyfriend of Poppy, and the younger brother of John Dory, Spruce, Clay, and Floyd.

Background

Official Description

Branch is the over-cautious paranoid survivalist in Troll Village, who lives in fear of invasion from the Bergens. The only Troll in the village who doesn't sing, dance or hug, Branch lives a disgruntled existence, constanly trying to prepare for the worst. He's constantly flummoxed by the over-the-top positivity of the other Trolls - is he the only sane one in this crowd of exuberantly happy Trolls?

Personality

Branch often wonders if he's the only sane individual in a town full of exuberantly happy Trolls. Reclusive and always prepared for danger, Branch must learn to embrace his inner Troll if he's ever going to let his true colors shine.

Physical Appearance

During most of the film, Branch has blue-grey skin with black hair shorter than most of the other Trolls. His nose is lavender, and his eyes are sky blue. He wears a vest made of dark green leaves and dark brown shorts that are very worn and clumsily stitched up. Like the other trolls, he has four fingers on each hand and four toes on each foot. He almost always shows a frown on his face. Branch's model has some unique details. For example, most of the Troll models have ears that point upwards and are against their head, while Branch's protrude and lay more downwards, sticking straight out. In his flashback, it was shown that his ears used to stand up straight like a normal Troll's, but lowered when he became sad, and have remained that way ever since resulting in a permanent physical deformity. The shape is also sharp, and has has less of a round hanging lobe. In addition, Branch's ears have a slight transparency to them; even though this is common in the other Troll models, it is very apparent in Branch's. Branch's head itself is wider than many other Troll models, his shoulders are slightly broader, and while he has the plump Troll shape, it's not as plump as some of the other Trolls. His outfit is unique to his model. One thing to note about his grey version of his 3D model is that it's not as grey as it looks. In the "True Colors" scene. when the other Trolls are all grey, it can be seen that he still has a slight blue tint to his model, whereas the other Trolls have none at all. This is the same for all of the movie, which is why blue can be seen on his left ear in Poppy's performance of The Sound of Silence.

His true colors consist of having cyan skin, long straight indigo hair, a bright green leaf vest, light brown shorts with light green stitches and patches, bright sky blue eyes, a light purple nose, and sparkly bright rosy cheeks with slight glitter freckles. His colors turned grey after he lost his grandmother years ago, due to his singing. When all the Trolls lost their hope and turned grey, Branch regained his original colors by singing their hopes up, including his own, too.

Appearances

Trolls

Years before the events of the film, Branch was a happy Troll who lived with his grandmother in the Troll Tree. When singing one day, he attracted the attention of a Bergen who tried to grab him to eat. However, his grandmother pushed him out of the way and was taken instead. A traumatized Branch blamed himself, refusing to sing after that, his color turning gray in the process. Sometime after that, about a year, he escaped with the rest of the Trolls from Bergen Town.

Twenty years later, a paranoid Branch is invited to a party held by Princess Poppy and her friends the Snack Pack. He refuses, telling them that their party will attract the Bergens. His warnings are ignored, and he remains in his survival bunker throughout the party. His fears are realized when a banished Chef finds the village and snatches a number of Trolls. Poppy asks for his help to save her friends, but he refuses and chooses to stay in his bunker. However, he soon chooses to travel to Bergen Town with her after the other Trolls came to his bunker to hide (which became unbearable for him after the third Hug Time).

Upon arriving in Bergen Town, Branch agrees to help the other Trolls with getting scullery maid Bridget a date with King Gristle Jr. At this point, he reveals to Poppy why he doesn't sing, to which Poppy comforts him. During the date, Branch feeds romantic lines to Bridget, presumably talking about Poppy at the same time. When the Trolls discover that one Troll named Creek (who was presumed to have been eaten by King Gristle) is alive, they steal the jewel that he is held in. However, they discover that it is empty, and are captured by Chef, where they discover that Creek has betrayed them to save himself. Creek returns to the village to lure the other Trolls out of hiding, where they are soon captured by Chef and her Bergen Cooks.

With all the Trolls captured and ready to be cooked, Branch watches as Poppy loses hope and turns gray along with the other Trolls. For the first time in twenty years, Branch sings "True Colors", revealing to Poppy through the song that he loves her, which she reciprocates. The song helps restore not only the color of Poppy and the other Trolls, but also Branch himself. The Trolls are then rescued by Bridget and reveal to King Gristle that Bridget was Lady Glitter Sparkles and say that Bergens don't have to eat Trolls to be happy. The King agrees to this and now the Trolls and the Bergens are no longer enemies. Branch, Poppy and the other Trolls lead them with a song called "Can't Stop the Feeling". Bergen Town turns colorful and the Troll Tree blooms once more.

At the end of the film, Branch shares a romantic hug with Poppy, who is crowned as the Trolls' new queen.

Trivia

• Trolls is the second DreamWorks Animation film to have Justin Timberlake voice a character, after King Arthur in Shrek the Third.
• Branch doesn't wear a Hug Time bracelet at any time in the Trolls film. But we can see that in the flashback of him as a kid he used to wear one. He must have gotten rid of it after he became gray to avoid Hug Time for himself. He later has one in Trolls World Tour though is still officially not a fan of "Hug Time".
• Branch is an exception in attitudes of his tribe, he enjoys sad songs and is not as huggable or friendly.
• Considering that he became gray when he was a child, (around five or six) Branch has been without his true colors for most of his life. It has been confirmed that Trolls change color depending on mood, when Branch being noted to by creators as "the moodiest Troll". Branch's colors in Trolls World Tour varied depending on lighting of the scene and his overall mood.
• Branch's hair was shorter than the other Trolls' for the majority of the film. When his true colors are restored, his hair grows longer and brighter.
• Poppy's age at the start of Trolls is unknown, the staff at DreamWorks were told both her and Branch are "20 something". In the actual movie, Branch is shown as a small child in the time spent at the Troll Tree, while she is a toddler when the Trolls escape, confirming Branch is older then Poppy.
• Despite being the youngest of his brothers, Branch's voice actor, Justin Timberlake, is actually the oldest of the five actors, being one year older than Daveed Diggs (Spruce), two years older than Eric André (John Dory), three years older than Kid Cudi (Clay), and fourteen years older than Troye Sivan (Floyd).

External Links

• Branch at Trolls Fandom

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