| “ | Call me captain! | „ |
| ~ Captain Dola's typical response. |
Captain Dola is the deuteragonist of the 1986 Studio Ghibli adventure film Castle in the Sky.
She is the leader of her namesake crew of pirates called the Dola Gang, who fights against the army while in search of the fabled land of Laputa.
She is voiced by the late voice actresses, Kotoe Hatsui in the original Japanese version and Cloris Leachman in the 1998 English dub.
History[]
Early in the film, viewers find that Dola is a pirate and in search of the crystal that Sheeta owns. At the start, she and her pirates board the airship and attempt to capture Sheeta. Instead, the latter slips and falls off the airship, enabling Pazu to find her floating down.
The next day, Dola and the pirates disguise themselves and search for Sheeta; after a wild chase across railroad tracks, Pazu and Sheeta falls into an abandoned mine, saved again by the crystal. Dola is seen again after Pazu returns from the army's fortress, having been told by Sheeta to "forget about Laputa". Dola then accepts Pazu into her team after he learns that Sheeta just saved his life. After the rescue of Sheeta, Dola and her pirates, along with Sheeta and Pazu, return to the "Tiger Moth" (Dola's airship) and set off for Laputa. Along the way, however, they get attacked by the army in the Airship Goliath and take heavy damage. Pazu and Sheeta later find her and the rest of the crew captured by the army after arriving in Laputa, with the intention of having them hanged. However, Pazu manages to get underneath where they're being kept and cuts Dola's ropes, as well as gives her a knife to free the others. She, in turn, gives him a weapon to defend himself with.
In the end, the Tiger Moth is demolished, but Dola and her gang somehow manage to loot some of Laputa's treasures just before the castle's artificial black dome is destroyed. However, they also have a happy reunion with Pazu and Sheeta upon finding out they're okay, due to having grown very fond of them. They then say goodbye to them as Pazu and Sheeta head off to visit Sheeta's homeland.
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