Val

Val Thundershock is a character from Trolls: TrollsTopia. According to "Follicle Fitness", her full name is Valentina Dangerskull Thundershock. She is the ambassador and local leader of the Rock Troll Tribe in TrollsTopia. Along with Demo and Blaze Powerchord, she is one of the main Rock Troll characters in the series.

She later appeared in the 3D animation Trolls: Holiday in Harmony alongside Holly Darlin', the first time characters from the 2D canon have appeared in the 3D canon.

Normal

Val is a light blue-skinned Rock Troll with purple hair with several white streaks and red eyes. Her hair is styled into two pigtails with red skull-shaped hairbands, and she has purple lipstick. She has a purple hoop earring on her left ear, and two of red and blue colors on her right, as well as a purple stud. She wears a purple skirt, a black tank top with a red heart and crossbones motif that exposes her belly button, and a black studded belt. She also has black studded bracelets, blue fingerless gloves, a black armband on her left upper arm, and a purple and red leg warmer on her left leg.

Like most Rock Trolls, she doesn't like to show any other sides of herself. She wants everything to "rock" and enjoys reckless behavior. She often acts on impulse and without thinking. She is difficult to impress, but likes to be impressed. She likes to be who she is and dislikes those who interfere with her being herself.

Val likes to maintain her edgy, rocky girl image and is reluctant to give any of it up. She doesn't like anything girly compared to some of the other female Trolls, but on rare moments can show her more open side. She will try to get out of things from time to time if she doesn't like what she's being asked to take part in. She especially struggles with anything mushy. She is finding that her time in TrollsTopia is slowly changing her, making her more open to new things, though she doesn't want to stop these changes herself as she feels it is making her a better person.

She enjoys pranking and finds it fun to throw people off by messing with them. Although she is a skilled musician and good at other talents, she does refrain from showing off at times, but likes all her stage performances to be edgy and goes to lengths to give her best. Despite being talented, she is very clumsy when it comes to hopscotch. Like her friend Petra, she is a fan of Bad Hair Day. One area she has a problem with as displayed by "The Fabyrinth" and "Flyer's Ed" is that Val sometimes cuts corners when she looses patience with something. This is because she doesn't like boring stuff.

In "The Snug-a-lug Situation", she is noted for her ability to resist hugging the most, alongside Branch, Gust Tumbleweed and Laguna Tidepool (even though it turns out that they all each hugged the Snug-a-lug after all). Like the other three Trolls, she can display arrogance (originating from her rocker-girl attitude), and thus can be overconfident.

In "Journey to the Center of TrollsTopia", Val Thundershock, Demo and Blaze Powerchord were shown to be just as unresponsible and disorganized as any other Rock Troll when they neglected to tell the other Rock Trolls to stop putting broken guitars in a pit of lava. Val has passed on the responsibility of doing so herself to Demo.

In "Be My Val In Time", Val had noted how different she was that when she met herself in the past, her past self was not impressed and believed staying in TrollsTopia would make her "soft". This almost caused Val to return to Volcano Rock City, but Val decided to give TrollsTopia a chance after she saw her future self and Poppy hugging. In the present, Val regrets that she was the Troll she had been in the past and prefers the Troll she is now.

In "Hide & Go Hug", it's stated that Val is a Troll who does take charge, and does so by showing strength with no weaknesses.

Her story arc ends in "Gal Pal Getawaycation" where it is explained that her time in TrollsTopia has resulted in permanent changes to her character.


She has most normal Troll abilities, as well as the abilities of her Tribe.
Psyche

Like many Rock Trolls, Val has moments of ignorance and misunderstanding. For example, in "Classical Rock", she couldn't work out why Demo was acting strange, even though Poppy was able to figure out what he was doing in seconds. It wasn't until Demo lifted his pinky finger, an act which Poppy missed; she figured out that he was spending time with the Classical Trolls. In "Cheery Glo-mato", she confuses the word "empathy" with "empanada", and due to what Poppy said about her consciousness making her imagine a Glo-mato coming after her.

This isn't always the case. Val is overall one of the most intelligent Trolls seen from her Tribe, displaying epiphany, wisdom and whit higher than most shown so far. In "Extra Tootering", her belief was that Tiny Diamond would fart glitter when the time comes, and she was accurate with her predictions. She has a high intolerance to process anything "boring", and yet is able to get in the head of others and mess with them, making them uncertain over how to deal or approach her.
Music

Val has her own band, which is managed by Demo. She is a talented lead vocalist, guitarist, and a musician of overall high status within the Rock Troll Tribe as a result of her talent and the habit of other Rock Trolls viewing such talent in high regards.

She is also a skilled "mouth guitarist", rivalling Blaze Powerchord but not matching his level, as no Rock Troll can. However, she doesn't like showing off her skills compared to him and was never shown with the ability to smash a guitar like he can. She is willing to teach others, as she was Minuet Sonata's instructor. While she could teach her techniques, Minuet had to learn the "instrument's" passion by herself, though Val managed to teach her this in the end.

Val struggles with being quiet, since like most Rock Trolls, she plays and sings loudly.

Val expressed a dislike of musicals in "Hair-aldine: The Musical", as she prefers performances with edge.
Valanouncervoice

Val's announcer voice is suggested to be a form of "magic"

When Val makes an introduction, her announcer's voice is heard and the words appear. In "Stop the Presses", this is suggested as a form of magic.

She, along with Holly Darlin', is the first known Trolls 2D animation series character to be transferred to 3D canon.

This further reinforces that she exists in both timelines.

Due to errors caused by Val's animations being mirrored, her earrings sometimes switch ears.

Val and Demo are opposites. Val is a wild rocker girl who's very reserved in her nature and hates boring stuff, while Demo is a professional Troll with a softer side who enjoys boring details. Val is also edgy and reserved while Demo is more emotional and epic.

Due to the fact that Poppy transformed temporarily into her father during the wormhole scene, a glimpse of Val's own father likely resembles was seen in "Flyer's Ed", alongside Lownote Jones' mother. However, because Poppy's colors were not the same as her own father's and instead were her own colors, it's likely the pairs' own parents aren't in the correct color.