Chef

Character

Costumes

History

Merchandise

Gallery

Quotes

Chef
General information
Voice Actor	Christine Baranski
First Appearance	Trolls
Profile
Gender	Female
Home	Bergen Town
Species	Bergen
Occupation	Bergen Castle royal chef (formerly)
Relationships
Enemies	The Trolls The Bergens (everyone)

“

By this time tomorrow, I'll be queen, and all of Bergen Town will finally get exactly what they deserve: TRUE HAPPINESS!

”

Chef is the former royal chef of the Bergens, and the main antagonist of Trolls. She was the chef at the Bergen Town Castle during The Last Trollstice and was held responsible for the events.

Appearance

Normal

Chef is a light purple-skinned Bergen with short, light turquoise hair. On her large chin, some small-sized moles can be seen. She has red eyes with a yellow sclera, a large magenta nose, thin purple lips and crooked teeth. Chef's outfit consists of a tall, white chef hat, a white chef uniform with golden sleeve borders, brown stripped pants, and a leather brown fanny pack where she keeps Trolls in. She also has golden hoop earrings, being one of the few Bergens to actually have such thing. Unlike most Bergens, Chef is barefoot.

Official Bios

Trolls

“	Chef never was the same after the Trolls escaped Bergen Town. She had it all: a sterling reputation, throngs of admirers, and a coveted spot in the Royal Kitchen. But everything she had built crumbled in an instant the day the Trolls fled in tunnels under the Troll Tree. Chef was utterly humiliated. Now, after 20 years spent wandering the forest in exile, Chef hears something in the distance… A celebration! Could it be the thing she’s been vowing to find all these years? Will Chef finally discover the Trolls’ hiding spot, and put Troll Cuisine back on the menu in Bergen Town? She is ​impatient and gruff. Chef loves to whack underlings with her ladle. She has many Troll recipes, like Troll-loaf and Egg-Trolls. Chef secretly holds the power in Bergentown.	”
—DreamWorks, 2016

Personality

Chef was a celebrity who enjoyed all the luxury, praise and adulation that came with her status.

It was clear she held a grudge about being expelled due to the Trolls' escape, seeking control over the other Bergens later on. She saw her position as the keeper of the Bergens' happiness, believing that only she can deliver what they want. This led her to desperately crave power above her station. She had a superiority complex and viewed other Bergens as inferior to her, while manipulating and plotting against the only Bergen (King Gristle Jr.) with more power than herself in Bergen Town.

Chef would also sacrifice every Troll if possible, as well as give Trolls to the Bergens outside of Trollstice. She was desperate to regain her control and then to maintain it, especially when it was pointed out how unneeded her position was in reality in Trolls.

Relationships

Bergen Royal Family

Though she displayed no loathing against the Royal family in the beginning, due to her banishment from Bergen Town she came to resent them. The main reason for this was due to how cowardly King Gristle Sr. had stripped her of her title as royal chef of Bergen Castle and sent her away, using her as a scapegoat in the process. She began to resent the family for this.

Later when King Gristle Jr. is on the throne, Chef shows a desire to see him ousted and for herself to be on the throne, as she saw control of the Trolls as controlling all Bergens. While she talked politely to his face, this was just a manipulation to get what she wanted.

Trolls

Chef didn't care about the Trolls, despite being their caretaker. To her, they were simply a means to an end. She was willing to sacrifice them all and use them to control the other Bergens.

Bridget

Chef only saw Bridget as a mere worker and wanted to assure she'd always be like that.

Bridget was presumably a former assistant of Chef, who was implied to have been mean towards her in the past.

When Chef gets her job back as royal chef of Bergen Castle, she meets Bridget again. Straight away, she treats Bridget in a harsh way, throwing a pile of dishes on top of her and telling her to wash it while mispronouncing her name as "Idget." Throughout the way, Chef continues trying to make Bridget's life miserable, such as prohibiting her from assisting Trollstice. Fortunately, Bridget later manages to break free from Chef through the friendship she shares with the Trolls.

Skills & Abilities

She has most normal Bergen abilities.

Cooking

Chef showing her cookbook to the Snack Pack.

In source material, it's stated that her cooking skills were unmatched by any other Bergen; this is why she was able to become the head cook of Bergen Castle. She had a number of recipes for preparing Trolls, which were featured in a recipe book written by her titled "Cookin' With Trolls".

As a testament to her cruelty, it is now confirmed as of Trolls Band Togethers timeline that Trollstice only occurred for a few years, yet she was able to create and experiment on a large number of Trolls to create her book in a relatively short time.

Intelligence

Chef was quite intelligent and manipulative, but very narrow-sighted in that she focused on her single goal to regain the Trolls and was unable to see how the Bergens could be happy without her control over Trolls. She was easily fooled at times, with both the Trolls (using wooden replicas) and Bridget (dressing as "Lady Glittersparkles") having tricked her. She was very optimistic, would change her plans according to any new situation (sometimes without a moment's hesitation), and enjoyed watching Gristle fall for her manipulations.

Political Influence

Though her position as royal chef was mostly ritualistic, with it came great indirect power via control of the Trolls in the Troll Tree. With control of the Troll Tree, she also had power over the Bergens' happiness. "Controlling" their happiness allowed her to have as much power as King Gristle Sr. had; she could even choose which Trolls were fed to which Bergens. She enjoyed all the luxuries that came with her position, and it was clear that she was regarded in higher status compared to all other Bergens except the royal family itself. She was unaware of a downside to her role: should anything go wrong, she would take the blame before the royal family or anyone else.

Trivia

General

• No confirmation on her death has been made officially, despite her and Creek being last seen getting eaten.
  • Creek made a later appearance in Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, suggesting that she may have escaped as well. However, this should only be considered as filler-canon and may contradict with the movie canons.
  • Trolls: The Junior Novelization and Rock'N'Troll Collection book no.2 Branch and the Cooking Catastrophe state that a rumor claims she's now living deep inside the forest. There, she uses Creek to scrub dishes. The chapter book is a licensed material, but isn't considered official canon. However, the novelization had elements from Trolls that were later rewritten, meaning that this was likely the movie's original ending.
  • The Treasure Trove adaptation of Trolls has Chef and Creek banished to live together unhappily ever after.
  • She was banished from Bergen Town twice.
• Her cookbook for Troll recipes, Cookin' With Trolls, is completely unnecessary for the Bergen population in general, as Bergens can eat Trolls without preparation, and were going to do so for the Trollstice she sought to set up. Therefore, the book can be considered a testament to her cruelty rather than a practical necessity to achieve the desired result. In order to complete the book, she would have likely needed to use a large number of Trolls, not including experimentation as most of the recipes shown in the book require more than one Troll.

Specific To...

Trolls

• She was originally going to have a song to herself titled Bringing Back Happy. It was dropped as the film's developers realized the song wouldn't fit for a Bergen who didn't know what happiness was, though the full track had been recorded, and a scene was already made for it. It was also due to the lyrics being considered too dark for children, as Chef was revelling in joy on how to kill the Trolls for food.

Trolls Band Together

• In concept artworks of Clay retelling Viva's trauma, Chef was more obviously depicted as the mastermind behind the events of The Last Trollstice.