Gloria is the deuteragonist of Happy Feet and a major character of Happy Feet Two. She is a female emperor penguin who is known as one of the best female singers. She is the daughter of Maurice and Michelle, the wife of Mumble, and the mother of Erik. She was treated similarly to how Norma Jean was, as all of the males wanted to mate with her. Her heartsong is "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire.
Gloria is later seen as an adult at the graduation party. She sings "Somebody to Love" for everyone, but Mumble gets só caught up with the music, than he himself tries to sing. His out-of-tune singing causes the other penguins to chuck him out. Next day, Mumble get lost from Emperor-Land because of a leopard seal attack.
Gloria has a white underside with a yellow patch on her chest, like other female Emperor Land. The feathers on her head are black, and some feathers are colored indigo. She also has brown eyes.
Gloria is smart, independent, strong and confident. She is one of the most tallentest singers at Emperor Land, but she is kind of proud and gets very mad when her singing voice is insulted. This could significate a hint of vanity in her. However, she is still soft-spoken, patient and understanding. She is similarly kind and pleasant, and doesn't tolerate Mumble or anyone else being teased. For all her confidence though, it is hinted that she há insecurities which she covers by bossing others around. That can be seen in the sequel, after Mumble and Erik's disagreements, she orders Mumble to go fishing, in a rather angered tone.
After Mumble returned home from the aquarium, he reunites with Gloria. He at first mistaken Gloria for having children with Seymour, until she explained they were just assistant teachers. Mumble then tries to convence the other emperor penguins to dance to the humans, so they will give them their fishes back. All the penguins (except for Noah and the Elders) starts training Mumble's dancing. The humans then arrive in a helicopter, and all the penguins (even Noah and the Elders) dance for the humans, who take footage of them and the United Nations decide to protect the penguins' food supply.
Gloria is only seen again when Mumble returns to Emperor-Land with his new friends, Ramón, Nestor, Lombardo, Rinaldo and Raul. Mumble tries to impress Gloria, as it was mating season, but he knows he can't sing, so Ramón hides behind Mumble and sings to Gloria. She doesn't fall for it and at first, rejects Mumble, but when he dances to her heartsong, she ends up falling in love with him, and many other penguins dance with them. Unfortunately, Noah, the leader of the emperor penguins, see their antics and banishes Mumble for not changing his ways.
In the end, all is well. Mumble becomes a hero and gets married with Gloria. All the emperor penguins dance with Mumble, alongside Ramón, Nestor, Lombardo, Rinaldo, Raul and Lovelace.
Feeling Mumble's banishment was unfair (it actually was unfair, to tell the true), she decides to go with him. She then follows him, Ramón, Nestor, Lombardo, Rinaldo and Raul, and meet them no much time after they gained Lovelace's help. However, Mumble did not wanted Gloria to go with him, as he knew it could be dangerous, and Gloria could die. In order to protect her, Mumble jokingly insults her singing voice into driving her away, and then she leaves to home. After she returns, she and Seymour, a childhood friend of Mumble and Gloria, started to teach singing to children emperor penguins.
Gloria is generally soft-spoken, patient, understandable, and warmhearted. She is kind and pleasant and doesn't tolerate Mumble or anyone else being teased. This is just one more similarity to Norma Jean. Gloria isn't known to get upset, but she is kind of proud and got very mad when her singing was insulted. This could significate a hint of vanity in her.
When Mumble left after being exiled by the Elders to find out what happened to the fish, Gloria decided to join him. However, presumably to prevent her from being harmed, Mumble insulted her singing so she wouldn't come. While Mumble was gone, she and Seymour began to teach singing to young penguins.
Gloria seems to have a strong sense of justice, and is one of the few emperor penguins who never mocked Mumble for his differences, and she is completely without prejudice towards others. She is eager to help her friends and takes care of them all, and is somewhat a natural mother. That can seen when she sings "Bridge of Light" to conforts Erik after his disagreement with his father. Her sense of justice is seen when Noah banishes Mumble in the first film, and she judged it unfair, as Mumble was being blamed for the fish scarcity just do being different. This led her to follow Mumble on his journey, until he drive her away by insulting her singing voice in order to protect her from the dangers of his journey. Gloria is very charitable and is a refined and elegant female penguin.
As a chick, not much distinguished her from the other chicks in Emperor-Land. She was a light grey, fuzzy, with brown eyes, and a dark grey patch on her chest.
Gloria became a close friend to Mumble, and the two of them were also classmates at the school. Unbeknownst to Gloria, Mumble also had a secret crush on her. It's unknown if Gloria already returned his feelings from childhood or just developed a crush on him after adult. But she still remained good friends with Mumble, even defending him when the others laughed at his terrible singing voice.
At Graduation Day, she and Mumble slid off the ice and landed in the same spot, where they began to make shapes in the water. Mumble tries to express his feelings to her, before they spot a school of fish, he catches one, but she doesn’t. Feeling bad for her, Mumble offers Gloria his fish, but she tells him to keep it, before a skua came and stole it, prompting Mumble to get it back. She truly began to notice Mumble when he went through great difficulty fighting the skuas for the fish. After Mumble got it back, following a pretty hard landing, Gloria took the fish after he insisted. She thanked Mumble for that, which made him feel warm inside. That night, she was the lead singer in the graduation song, while everyone wanted to mate with her, the two main contenders being Mumble and Seymour. Although she didn't really show signs of minding Mumble's lack of singing capabilities, at their graduation (where she sang "Somebody to Love" by Queen) when Mumble was singing along, she kindly mentioned for him to stop, but despite his best efforts, Mumble was unable to resist, resulting in him being kicked out of the party.
The penguins are now free, Mumble makes pieces with Erik (they apologize each other), they reunites with Gloria, the penguins forgives Sven for his lies and Sven starts living with them. The film ends with the penguins and Sven looking for a new home.
Later when the Doomberg arrived blocking Emperor-Land, she was one of the trapped emperor penguins when Mumble arrived with his son Erik to see what's happening. When Erik was in distress of the disaster, she sends Mumble off to catch some more fish. Leaving Erik with his mother along with Atticus for some motherly love. She sings a song "Bridge of Light" to calm him down.
Despite her polite demeanor, she is not above raising her voice when she gets easily angered or when she faces something unfair. An example of this comes when her classmates at school laughed at Mumble's terrible singing voice, and she claimed that it was not funny. Her temper can also rises when one of her relatives or friends does something either stupid or something she does not like, such as when Noah banished Mumble or when Mumble yelled at Erik. She can also be stubborn, as seen when she followed Mumble on his banishment, and she refused to go home, forcing him to insult her singing into driving her away in order to protect her. She can also be brave, heroic and fearless, such as when the Boss Skua tried to kidnap one of her students for lunch, and she fearlessly hited him and challenged him to face someone on his own size. Despite her lack of prejudice towards others, she may mocks others, if she takes it as kidding. That can be seen when she and Mumble mocks Sven and she jokingly asks if Sven is not related to Mumble.
She is first seen when she and her father, Maurice come to see Memphis, whom is worried that his egg hasn’t hatched when the other penguin`s eggs have. Gloria spots the egg, taps on it and hears a response from inside. Two feet break from the egg and as they begin to walk off down a snow bank, Gloria playfully addresses the egg as "Mr. Mumble" thus naming him when he hatches. She later appears at the school where she defended Mumble when he was being mocked by the rest of the class for his inability to sing. Mumble also started to fall in love with her when he complemented her singing.