Tin Soldiers



The Tin Soldiers are the secondary antagonists of the 2018 Disney film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. They are life-sized toy soldiers created by the Sugar Plum Fairy in her plot to take over the Four Realms.

Creation
Following the departure of Queen Marie Stahlbaum as she wanted to be with her family, Sugarplum felt embittered and decided to take over the Four Realms. To do so, she creates a series of toy soldiers and found out that Marie had created a machine that can turn toys into living objects with the utilization of a key that can activate it. However, Mother Ginger learns of the plot and tried to stop Sugarplum, but the latter frames her, resulting Ginger to be banished within her own Realm (the Land of Amusements) and the other three realms to wage war. However, Sugarplum is upset to learn that the key is lost in the forest.

Role
It wasn't until the arrival of Marie's youngest daughter Clara, who found the key in a tree before it was stolen by a mouse (who's working for Ginger). After meeting up with Sugarplum and the other regents, Clara manages to steal back the key before reuniting with Sugarplum and the other regents. Delighted by this, Sugarplum then reveals her true colors by using the key to activate the machine into zapping the toy soldiers, turning them all into large Tin Soldiers. Sugarplum then confesses that she intends to use the Tin Soldiers to take over all Four Realms before imprisoning Clara and the other regents to ensure that they won't get in the way.

However, Clara and the others were able to escape and convince Ginger and her minions into helping them into foiling Sugarplum's plot. Clara successfully enters the machine's room and shuts down the machine while fighting off the Tin Soldiers, causing the palace's water wheels to cease rotating and catching Sugarplum's attention. When Ginger fights off more of the tin soldiers to their deaths, an angry Sugarplum traps Ginger and intends to turn her into a toy with the machine in revenge. However, Sugarplum realized too late that Ginger was only distracting her, which allowed Clara to reset the machine into zapping Sugarplum. As such, a horrified Sugarplum is turned back into a porcelain doll as punishment for her crimes.

With Sugarplum's plot foiled and all the Tin Soldiers destroyed, he Four Realms are finally at peace, and Clara is returned back to her family.