Stella/History and appearances

Angry Birds Seasons
Stella's debut was in the Back to School theme of Angry Birds Seasons. She, was the fourth bird "introduced" in the episode, as all characters were given tutorial levels in this episode, though she was the only actual new character. After this appearance, she becomes a recurring playable character in various levels afterward.

When Stella was released, many players regarded her an extremely useless character due to her bubble powers being unable to cause any significant level of damage. Because of this, Stella had to be used with much planning and strategy, as she was not nearly as versatile as the other birds (such as Bomb or Terence, whose powerful abilities enabled them to demolish structures with ease).

Angry Birds
After Stella's first introduction in Angry Birds Seasons, she was quickly added into the original Angry Birds game in the Birdday Party theme; being introduced in level 19-1. From then on, and throughout the games that followed, she was a playable character.

On her own, Stella will not be able to do much damage. She will only be able to shatter a single glass block, do slight damage to wood, and will merely bounce off stone blocks (making her physically the weakest bird in Red's entire flock). Stella is most useful when she is surrounded by bricks that are not covered, so the best way to take advantage of her ability is to shoot her in between structures, and then release her ability the minute she falls in between the blocks.

Angry Birds Rio
While Stella didn't appear in the Rio chapter of the game, she was prominently featured in the Rio 2 chapter of levels, starting with Rocket Rumble chapter. Stella not only shared the exact same powers as in other games, but she introduces the Toons design of the character in a game.

During boss fights (a feature which had been introduced in Rio, whereas before there were only boss levels), Stella's ability does little to the actual boss. Even if her ability is used and manages to trap the boss in a bubble, it will do absolutely nothing, nor affect the enemy in any way. Instead, she should be used as an extra bird, perhaps to trigger TNT or lift harmful debris if the boss is nearby.

Angry Birds Friends
In Angry Birds Friends, Stella formerly appeared as only a bird that can be chosen as an avatar in the Bird-O-Matic, but Stella later returns playable.

She appears playable first in Pink Friday Tournament level 1 on November 22, 2018. She appears in the game again, though infrequently, and can be found in both Facebook and mobile versions.

When her playable version was first introduced, she sported the Toons Design, even in the Facebook version. Her bubbles also had a different design and moved rather than staying still. In the PC version, when looking through the tutorials, there are extra sprites that are not used in-game, such as a more detailed launch sprite.

Gameplay
While there are no changes to Stella's size, ability, and basic principles, her ability is slightly more powerful, destroying other blocks. Using Power-Ups or Special Slingshots will increase her strength and ability.

Angry Birds Star Wars
See: Stella/Angry Birds Star Wars/Princess Leia

Stella appears as Princess Leia in this game.

Princess Leia
Stella is Princess Leia in the Star Wars game, using a gravity attractor as a tractor beam to pull out pig structures, blocks, and pigs themselves. Her power is upgraded in Cloud City allowing her to pull more blocks and heavier structures. Despite what her sprite sheet looks like she actually has a white tail. Name comes from the Angry Birds Online Shop. She becomes playable once the player has unlocked Hoth.

Angry Birds Star Wars II
See: Stella/Angry Birds Star Wars/Princess Leia and Padmé Amidala

Stella appears as Princess Leia and Padmé Amidala in this game.

Padmé Amidala
Padmé Amidala is the mother of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia and the lover and later wife of Anakin Skywalker. She has a similar ability as her daughter, except she pushes objects away from her with a tractor beam.

Angry Birds Go!
Stella appeared in Angry Birds Go! with the rest of her flock, along with the pigs. She is the second character introduced in the Seedway episode and is also the first character to be unlocked. She also appears in the cinematic trailer for Angry Birds Go! along with getting her own character video.

Strangely, she and Matilda never appeared in Jenga playsets as promotion for Angry Birds Go!, and were also the only female characters of the game. It is also strange considering that they had Telepods, which used similar/identical molding to the Jenga playsets.

Stella's default car is the Soda Pop Sedan, and in promotional art and on her Telepod she wears sunglasses and a bandana.

Gameplay
Stella's ability is bubble based, like in most of her slingshot-based games.

When there were boss battles in the game, you would have to beat Stella 3 times in a race in order to unlock her. (which was fairly easy, as she was the first character that players needed to unlock) In these boss battles, she would blow bubbles in order to divert the player. Once the battles were replaced, however, Stella would be unlockable once the player beat the Campaign Level 2 Race 5.

When you play as Stella, her ability is to incase herself in a large bubble, protecting herself from attacks by other birds, TNT laid on the track and other debris while catching fruit or coins. The bubble wasn't extremely powerful, and Stella's ability wasn't as useful as the other characters'. The bubble doesn't last for a very long period of time but is still effective when used.

Angry Birds Stella
Stella was the main character of her own series, she was 1st introduced bird in ''Angry Birds Stella. ''The game was introduced in early 2014, where Rovio began teasing newer birds until they revealed that Stella would receive her own game along with her friends. The game begins when Gale orders the pigs to break into Stella's house to steal her scrapbook, which causes Stella and her friends to fight through each level of pigs to chase after Gale.

Stella has a very close bond with her best friends, Poppy, Luca, Willow, and Dahlia, and they all live together on a big tree by the shore. Their former friend turned enemy, Gale, chose power over the flock, causing a separation to happen.

Unfortunately, the game was discontinued by Rovio as of July 13, 2015. Stella wasn't affected by this, as she was a main character in other Angry Birds installments and still is.

Gameplay
Stella has a different ability than the original games. Rather than blowing bubbles around her surroundings, she has a parkour ability (named "pink flash") where she can bounce off of one object and crash into another. This is much more effective than her previous ability and allows Stella to be a much stronger character.

The first object she flies to will be pushed with some force, so the player will be able to knock over moderate structures with great damage, perhaps toppling over stone ones with the right angle.

The second target after she bounces off the first one will have a much more powerful effect; once she hits the structure she will have a mini-explosion, and she herself can destroy bricks and pigs effectively, as she is launched at a very high speed.

If you use Stella without her ability, she won't be as strong, but can still break a few bricks and can pop pigs with ease. (however, it is notable that in this game, pigs are much tougher than in the originals)

Angry Birds POP!
Stella appeared as the main character of the game when it was first released, being titled Angry Birds Stella POP! before. However, the Stella characters were slowly taken out of the game and were replaced with the original Angry Birds flock members. Stella was not replaced, but had the "Drop the Pigs" and "Defeat Gale" portion given to Red. She is now only playable in the "Pop the Top" portion.

Red also replaced Stella as the main character of the game.

Stella appears in her newer series design.

Gameplay
Previously, Stella had 3 level types that the player could play with as her but is only available for the "Pop the Top" levels now. In these levels, the player must pop the bubbles all the way to the top, where they must pop 6 of the very top row bubbles, freeing the fireflies, in order to beat the level. It can be noted that the player must make groups of at least 3 of the same color bubbles to pop them, so the top row is often frustrating as bubble supply is often limited and colors that have no use are given.

Her boost ability is called "Power Pop", and it pops the surrounding bubbles in whichever area it hits. The color of the bubble does not matter, so the player can choose to fling the bubble wherever they choose. (however, shooting it on the very bottom row will not do much damage)

Angry Birds 2
When Angry Birds 2 first launched, it was stated by Rovio that Stella chose to "sit out" of the game, along with Hal and Bubbles. She could be used as a player icon in the tournament in her Stella animation form, but other than that she made no other appearances in the game.

She was, however, added in the game on October 17, 2018, and became available to use on October 19.

Gameplay
Stella is an Extra Bird in Angry Birds 2; she is usually sleeping but can be woken up to be usable for four hours and occupy an extra eighth spot in Red's flock. Once the four hours are up, Stella goes back to sleep, and the player must wait twelve hours before they can wake her up again. You can also do this with Hal, Bubbles, and Leonard, but you can only use one at a time.

As with older games, Stella once again has the ability to wrap things in bubbles and lift them away. This time around, though, the ability is actually pretty reliable, making her useful even though she's still physically the weakest bird in the flock. When using the ability, Stella encases herself in a bubble; in this state, anything she touches also gets encased in a bubble and is carried off for a short while before the bubbles pop, after which the items inside take heavy damage from falling. Since there's no limit as to how many items can be affected by the ability, Stella is particularly useful for clearing away structures with a lot of materials densely packed together. With this ability, Stella can even be used to one-shot some bosses; if used at the right time, Stella's ability can send a boss pig falling straight into a bottomless pit or floating up and away, killing him instantly (provided there is a bottomless pit in the room or a gap in the ceiling where the boss can float out of).

Angry Birds Transformers
Stella appears in the game as Arcee, Airachnid, and Chromia. When vehicle mode is turned on, she will form into a motorbike. Both characters belong to the Valkyries squad.

Stella appears as Arcee in the comic adaptions, which were released along with the game, and even appeared in the loading screen for the game but wasn't introduced until updates later on.

As described in the game,

''Don't let her pink color scheme distract you - Arcee is a fearsome warrior and an excellent shot. She leaves it to the clumsy Deceptihogs to blast away wildly - her skill is picking out the exact block that will bring a tower down.''

Arcee has always been a fierce fighter, and teaming up with Stella has just added to her headstrong, driven nature.

''Every TRANSFORMERS character has their reason for battling the EggBots, but Arcee is thinking about the bigger picture... she figures that if EggBots succeed in turning Piggy Island into metal they'll be free to turn their attention to other islands, and that's not happening on her watch!''

''Arcee's weapon is designed to bring down piggy towers with carefully placed precision shots. Blocks that she hits are shoved backward, meaning she can easily bring down towers that other characters struggle with.''

''The downside is that her shots do very little damage to armored enemies, so anything that can't be knocked down will give her trouble. Best to use her high speed to outrun danger!''

Airachnid's description reads,

''Remember how the EggBots created Nemesis Prime to battle the TRANSFORMERS character but he rebelled against them? Turns out EggBots don't learn too well because they tried it again!''

''Designed to be a sinister version of Arcee, the only flaw in the EggBot's plan is that they're idiots. Stella and Arcee are as heroic as Red and Optimus Prime, so of course, Airachnid immediately joined the battle to save Piggy Island!''

Airachnid may have joined the Autobird/Deceptihog alliance, but she still has a little to the EggBot's mischievous personality.

''Airachnid roams Piggy Island as a lone warrior, causing trouble for the EggBots by knocking down towers, poking pigs and searching for the Eggspark. But what will she do if she finds it?''

''Airachnid's weapon follows the same principles as Arcee's, just more extreme! Bring down towers by knocking away the right blocks, but don't expect to destroy tough enemies.''

''Instead, use Airachnid's speed to transform, not only out-running threats but also causing enemies to shoot too far ahead. Once they've fired at where they expect her to be, transform to slow down and watch the shots fly by!''

Gameplay
Arcee and Airachnid aren't very strong characters, but Airachnid is much more powerful than Arcee. Both will not be able to destroy very strong structures or armored targets, so their abilities rely on strategy rather than strength. However, they are very fast in their vehicle form so it can be used to flee when the player is overwhelmed with enemies.

Angry Birds Fight!
Stella was featured in Angry Birds Fight! as one of the 6 playable and customizable characters. Unlike other games, which based the character's design off the Toons animation but didn't take it directly from the series, Angry Birds Fight! took Angry Birds Toons animations and put them directly into the game. Stella never appeared in Angry Birds Toons, but still had a design for it and the design was used in animations before, like the Back to School animation.

This does not apply to her icon, which is a different design like all the other characters.

The game was discontinued as of June 27, 2017, and is no longer playable.

Gameplay
All the characters had unique abilities, and Stella's was, again, based on her bubble ability. She would blow bubbles and use them to cover up the opponent's board.

If you match 4 of Stella's panels, then instead of her audio like all the other birds, Bubbles' audio plays instead, even though he does not appear in the game.

Your level result is based on the number of points you make, which is based on your matching abilities, so matching quickly and often is very important to beat the battle. If you don't make enough points by matching the bird icons in groups of 3 or higher, the two birds will battle and Stella or any other birds that you use in the battle will be defeated by the opponent.

Angry Birds Ace Fighter
Stella appears in Angry Birds Ace Fighter as a non-playable character. Stella is the bird that showcases various tutorial boxes and mail inbox for the player.

Angry Birds Holiday
Stella appeared in the game, but it is unknown what role she had as the game was scrapped from development and was never released outside of soft-launch. It can be assumed that perhaps she had her own building that the player could purchase, or was a roaming character on the map.

Angry Birds POP Blast
Stella appears in the game as a playable character that is unlocked after obtaining 100 points. She has a new power-up.

Stella, like all of the characters, uses her movie design and outlined sprites that were made to look like a cartoon. Her animations are similar to the ones from the first game. Unlike other games, her pupils aren't blue in-game, and instead, black.

She is also introduced as an artwork character, which she often appears.

Gameplay
Stella is unlocked after obtaining 100 points in the piñata. Stella can appear at any level where the player uses her. Which the player has to assist her in popping bubbles once again, but this time, it's in any objective.

When her bar is full, she will active her ability, which a bubble appears on the launcher and if it's launched, it will bounce and encases bubbles with bubblegum, then any affected bubble can be popped with any color bubble.

She can be chosen along with any pig.

Angry Birds Journey
Stella appears in Angry Birds Journey as once again a main character. Like all of the characters in-game, she uses a classic toons and movie appearance and cartoonish sprites. She has her classic ability and a stronger ability.

Gameplay
The game is like the classic slingshot games but way easier. Stella is unlocked in level 7. Unlike the other games, he uses her ability on impact, which she creates a bubble around her that traps blocks in them and makes them fall. After some turns, she activates a stronger ability, which the bubble is bigger.

Angry Birds Reloaded
In Angry Birds Reloaded, Stella appears as a playable character.

She uses her Toons design like everyone else (except for the Mighty Eagle).

Gameplay
There are no changes to Stella's size, ability, and basic principles meaning it's the same as in previous games.

Angry Birds: Mayhem Simulator
She appeared as one of the three free character bundles that the player got in this game with Red and Chuck when it was Angry Birds: Bird Island.

Angry Birds Stella (TV Series)
Stella leads her own animation series in Stella Toons, which is based on the Angry Birds Stella game. The story revolves around her and her companions, Poppy, Luca, Willow, Dahlia and their former friend, Gale. (along with the pigs) The series explores her hidden story outside of the regular series and games, and her talents and interests.

To see Stella's involvement in the Stella Toons series, see the episode listings below:
 * List of Angry Birds Stella Animated Series Episodes
 * List of Angry Birds Stella Animated Series Episodes/Season 2

The Angry Birds Movie
Stella appears in the Angry Birds Movie as a supporting character and is voiced by Kate McKinnon. She often appears in scenes and serves as the main tour guide in general, but also tours the pigs. She is involved in the battle with the pigs and is slung on the slingshot. (though she was not successful in reaching the castle)

The Angry Birds Movie 2
Stella reappears in The Angry Birds Movie 2, but only as a minor character. She can be seen in the film from time to time, but unlike the first movie, she doesn't play a big role in any major story scenes. Apparently she is friends with Samantha, as she was seen with her at the end of the movie at Mighty Eagle 's marriage.

Angry Birds on the Run
She and Matilda debut in this series in Season 2 as main characters along with Red, Chuck, and Bomb.

Angry Birds Bubble Trouble
Stella is one of the main five protagonists of this series.

Angry Birds Summer Madness
Stella serves as one of the four main protagonists of this Netflix series.