- "The passage is our only hope. The faithless are dead. The prophecy will come true, the passage will open, and we will be led into paradise."
- ―Elisabeth[src]
Elisabeth Doppler is the younger daughter of Charlotte and Peter Doppler. She is the sister of Franziska Doppler. She is deaf, so she communicates using sign language. A confident and extroverted child, she enjoys stealing her older sister Franziska's red lipstick and chatting in sign language with her "boyfriend" Yasin Friese (also deaf).
On November 6, 2019, Elisabeth meets Noah walking home from school, who gives her a pocket watch for her mother, bearing the inscription "For Charlotte."[3] Charlotte has her speak with a sketch artist, who produces a sketch of Noah, which Charlotte adds to her missing persons board as someone of interest.
Elisabeth survives the apocalypse, as Peter takes her to the bunker only hours before it occurs.[1] She learned to navigate the post-apocalyptic world, eventually becoming the leader of a band of survivors. She forbids anyone from entering the exclusion zone around the ruins of the former power plant, but at the last minute decides not to execute the teenage Jonas Kahnwald for doing so. [4]
As an adult, she has a child with her grandfather Noah in 2041. One night the child is kidnapped in the night but in actuality in was Elisabeth and her mother Charlotte traveling from the future to take the girl. They leave her under the protection of the clockmaker H.G. Tannhaus in the 1971. This child, never knowing who her true parents were, ends up becoming Charlotte Doppler herself, who in 2011 gives birth to her own mother.
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Elisabeth born in 2011, of Peter and Charlotte Doppler. Is the youngest of two daughters. She is deaf. She is confident and extroverted. She enjoys stealing her older sister Franziska's red lipstick and chatting in sign language with her "boyfriend" Yasin Friese, also deaf.
Things are tense in Winden following the disappearance of several childrens. Despite the warnings, Elisabeth walks home alone from school. Several hours later, she arrives and tell her parents that she meet a man: Noah -who gave her a gift to her mother, a golden pocket watch, engraded with the words "For Charlotte". The next day, Elisabeth becomes very upset when her boyfriend, Yasin Friese, goes missing. ("Double Lives, Truths")
Elisabeth happens to be with Franziska, Magnus and Martha when they run into Bartosz in the Winden Caves. Bartosz is caring a strange device that he claims is a Time machine. To prove it, Bartosz and the group travel back in time to 1987. ("Lost and Found")
Elisabeth survives the apocalypse in the Bunker with her father Peter Doppler. She meets young Noah there for the first time. ("Endings and Beginnings")
In Post-apocalyptic Winden, Elisabeth and her father are living in a old trailer. They spends months searching for Franziska and Charlotte, but never find them. They meet young Noah, who tells Elisabeth that he's living in the Caves. ("The Survivors")
After having an discussion with her father, Elisabeth returns to the trailer alone, and finds a burglar there. He attacks her, ties her up, and tries to rape her. Peter arrives and tries to save Elisabeth. A fight ensues, and Peter is killed by the burglar. Elisabeth manages to free herself, and kills the burglar, hitting him with a fire extinguisher. Utterly distraught, she goes to the Caves and Noah finds her. ("Life and Death)
Analysis[]
- The child Elisabeth is frequently seen wearing a fox beanie, and is seen sleeping with a stuffed animal toy fox; foxes are a recurring motif.
- The adult Elisabeth has a discolored left eye, possible from cataracts, as might develop after radiation exposure or infection. It is also possible to acquire heterochromia after the eye is damaged by certain injuries or tumors.
- Commentators on Reddit and elsewhere have theorized that Elisabeth has Waardenburg syndrome, a genetic condition which can manifest in congenital deafness, abnormal hair and eye pigmentation (e.g. a white forelock, heterochromia, premature graying), and facial abnormalities (e.g. abnormal smoothness or fullness of the lips, hence her fascination with Franziska's lipstick). The condition is usually autosomal dominant, i.e. only one copy of the altered gene is required to inherit it, although in some cases it is inherited from both parents. This might suggest Elisabeth is somehow related to Jana (who has a white forelock) and/or Claudia (who has heterochromia)—but it might simply be coincidence.
- Elisabeth time traveled as a youth with the other 2020 Teens using the apparatus to briefly go to 1987. [5] So she is aware that time travel is possible and likely knows the God Particle in the plant can be used as a time travel portal especially since she survives the apocalypse in the bunker with Claudia who is studying it. At some point, likely under Noah's influence, she begins the Sic Mundus rhetoric about the passage to paradise that will be the salvation of the survivors, including Silja, Elisabeth's mouth piece. [6] [1] In fact it is Elisabeth who opens the passage at the end of Season 2. Season 3 will likely show us any paradise or peril that follows. [1]
Appearances []
Season 1 []
- Episode 4 "Double Lives" (2019)
- Episode 5 "Truths" (2019)
- Episode 9 "Everything Is Now" (2019)
Season 2 []
- Episode 1 "Beginnings and Endings" (2020, 2053)
- Episode 2 "Dark Matter" (2020, 2053)
- Episode 4 "The Travelers" (2020, 2053)
- Episode 5 "Lost and Found" (2020)
- Episode 7 "The White Devil" (2020)
- Episode 8 "Endings and Beginnings" (2020, 2053)
Season 3 []
- Episode 1 "Deja-vu" (2019 alternate)
- Episode 2 "The Survivors" (2020, 2053)
- Episode 5 "Life and Death" (2020, 2053, 2019 alternate)
- Episode 6 "Light and Shadow" (2019 alternate)
- Episode 7 "Between the Time" (2020, 2021, 2040, 2041, 2053)
Gallery[]
- → See 25 images of Elisabeth Doppler at Images of Elisabeth Doppler.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://dark.netflix.io/en/event-timeline/elisabeth-doppler Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Dark Season 1 Episode 4: "Double Lives"
- ↑ Dark Season 2 Episode 2: "Dark Matter"
- ↑ Dark Season 2 Episode 5: "Lost and Found"
- ↑ Dark Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"
