Machiavelli is a minor character in the 2021 Disney•Pixar animated feature film, Luca. He's the pet cat of Giulia's dad, Massimo, and who's the first of the Marcovaldo-family to learn that Luca and Alberto are sea monsters.
Background[]
Machiavelli is Giulia’s sweet-natured pet cat—sweet natured to humans, that is. When Machiavelli meets Luca and Alberto, he immediately senses there’s something fishy about them. And he loves the taste of fish.
Personality[]
Machiavelli comes off as hostile towards Luca and Alberto after discovering their sea monster identities. He gives them angry glares and proceeds to attack them as he saw them as a threat towards his human owners. However, after accidentally being thrown into the sea and being fed a fish by Luca as a way to apologize, Machiavelli lost any hostility towards him and Alberto and began treating the two sea monsters with as much affection as he gives to Giulia and her dad.
Physical Appearance[]
Machiavelli is a burly cat with black and white fur (white fur for front half and black fur for back half). He has black ears, a black muzzle, and a black patch of fur on his front left leg, and the entire back half of his body white.
Trivia[]
- His name was revealed on the Funko Pop! box for Giulia.[1]
- He is named after Italian philosopher and writer Niccolò Machiavelli.
- As seen in the credits, Machiavelli met a female cat and had eight kittens with her.
