| “ | I'm not creepy, I'm quirky. |
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— Nora to Darcy in Pretty Little Choirs
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| “ | "Weee!" is also the size of his brain. |
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— Nora in Cape Fear
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Nora Thunderman is one of the main characters of The Thundermans.
She is the daughter of Hank and Barb Thunderman. She used to be the youngest child until her younger sister, Chloe Thunderman was born.
Like her siblings, Phoebe, Max, Billy and Chloe Thunderman, Nora has superpowers and is planning to become a superhero. Nora's superpower is Heat Vision (laser eyes) and is aspiring to become a superhero with superhero name Lasergirl.
Nora is portrayed by Addison Riecke.
Biography
Nora was born in Metroburg but later moved to Hiddenville along with the rest of the Thundermans family to live a normal life. She went to school at Hiddenville Elementary School with her brother, Billy. Nora is known for having nice ballet flats and being the toughest of the Thundermans and also for her bows that has to match what she wears all the time.
The Thundermans
  Nora in a prestigous school When not in school, Nora spends most of her free time playing with Billy or helping out with other tasks. In Paging Dr. Thunderman, Nora gets accepted to a prestigious girls' school but declines the offer so that she can have more time to play with Billy.   Nora and Billy hug In A Hero Is Born, Nora is worried that after Chloe is born, she won't be the cutest baby in the family anymore. She feels so insecure that she even forces her way into a baby competition to prove that she is better than the other babies. Billy comforts her by revealing that he felt the same when Nora was born and even "tried" to mail her to Abu Dhabi, but then Nora grew up to be his best friend in the entire world. This helps Nora accept Chloe. Since Chloe's birth, Nora has been trying to balance spending time with both Chloe and Billy equally. In Exit Stage Theft, Billy worries that Nora spends more time with Chloe but Nora apologizes and reminds him that he loves them both. Nora’s ambitions to become a superhero are tested in Patch Me If You Can when she almost zaps Chloe while practicing her laser eyes "trick shots." She gives up using superpowers because she doesn't want to hurt anybody else. However, thanks to advice from her mom, Nora learns that superheroes fall too but what makes them super is the ability to rise again. She resumes using her powers but promises to be more careful. She saves the day by using her trick shots to laser off the evil eye patch from Harris Evilman.   After seeing the success of Phoebe as ThunderGirl in Thundermans: Secret Revealed, Nora wants to start training to become a superhero. She takes the Hero League aptitude test and passes with a 97%. Unfortunately, her superpowers are taken by Max. When the powers are restored, Nora gets Teleportation and uses it to fight her first supervillain, Fairy Pinch-ess. After defeating the villain, with Billy's help, Nora helps to get some of the people to safety. |
  Nora and Billy vs Crime Buddy Nora starts superhero training at 21 Dump Street with Billy, citing their victory over Fairy Pinch-ess as proof of their readiness. However, her ego conflicts with Hank's choice to begin at the easiest level with the Crime Buddy. Pushing for a harder challenge, they encounter a rogue Crime Buddy until their parents rescue them, teaching Nora the importance of patience in training. |
In Z's All That, Nora is selected by Phoebe and Max to be their "Lil Z" for the Z-Force Lil Z Mentor Program so that they can help her to take her powers to the next level. She shows off her "laser loops" trick that she's learned from her training with Hank. She is very happy and excited about the opportunity. However, after seeing Billy's armnadoes skills, the twins ditch Nora and go with Billy. After being told that they don't want her as their Lil Z, Nora gets so sad that she drops a laser tear on the floor, scorching the carpet. Feeling bad for her, Max lies to Nora that they don't "want" her because they "NEED" her. He tricks her into taking a walk around Hiddenville during which she takes the wrong turn into the Skunk Park and arrives back stinking like a skunk.
After learning from Dr. Colosso that Max and Phoebe chose Billy as the Lil Z over her, she gets angry and determined to show off her powers. Dr. Colosso offers to help by giving her his eye visors/sunglasses which he had developed to cheat at Villain League poker games. The visors boost Nora's Laser Vision making them so powerful that she makes a major destruction in Max's Lair. She then goes off to face off her siblings at the junkyard and prove how powerful she is. Unfortunately, Colosso's visors turn out to be wonky and cause her to hit a lot of objects including a giant pizza sign which falls on Phoebe and Max. The twins then help her learn how to boost her lasers without using the visors. She uses their advice and gets her laser strong enough to melt the giant pizza sign, saving Max and Phoebe. After that, the twins agree to train both Billy and Nora as their Lil Z's.
In The Thunder Games, Nora wants her and Billy to become the new protectors of Hiddenville now that Phoebe and Max are joining Z-Force. She starts using "Lasergirl" as her superhero name. She officially becomes a superhero when the Thunder Twins hire her to join the T-Force (formally, Z-Force) along with the rest of the Thundermans.
The Thundermans Return
Billy and Nora before leaving to high school
3 years later in The Thundermans Return, Nora lasers She-Crab while on a mission which lead to the T-Force getting decommissioned for injuring a supe. The Thundermans return back to their home in Hiddenville with Nora and Billy excited to go to high school and get new clothes. Nora has also stopped wearing bows and wears a bow-shaped necklace instead.
Nora and Billy at Hiddenville High
At Hiddenville High, Principal Bradford introduced Nora and Billy to the school. He notices that their last name is "Thunderman" and gets trauma when he remembers about Phoebe and Max during their times at the school and instantly hates on Nora and Billy. Since everyone knows the Thundermans are superheroes, Nora and Billy try make friends. Nora uses her lasers for other students by lasering a Z on a locker, while Billy tried getting friends by giving beef jerky from his backpack. When that didn't work, he uses her super speed to get things from different places from places for students. Nora and Billy compete to make friends by using their powers, which lead to Nora lasering Principal Bradford's ponytail by accident.
After the V-Team put a dome-like structure over Hiddenville, Nora helps break the dome by lasering it with her family and the other people who received superpowers through eating the seed of the Power Plant. After breaking out of the dome, Chloe teleports with her family to the Mayhem Cafe and Hank punches the keypad and stops the sequence. Billy remembered he brought back a sign from Mt. Metroburg that it was the highest point so that was where the V-Team went to. At Mt. Metroburg, the family are teleported by Chloe where the V-Team with Dark Mayhem, Strongdor and King Crab were. Nora and Billy face Strongdor and Krondor and knock them out by Billy superspeeding him and Nora before they got hit by their hammers. After the Thundermans defeated all the villains, President Kickbutt gives the family their jobs back after the V-Team were exposed as villains. Their new headquarters is their home in Hiddenville so the family could hang out more by having family nights.
The Thundermans: Undercover
In Thundercover, Nora and Billy are mentioned that they are on a mission fighting Dr. Plutonium during the Thunder Twins' family meeting.
In The Parent Zap, Barb and Hank mention to Phoebe and Max that they were on a mission with Billy and Nora in the Hero League space base for three days.
Personality
Nora may be the smallest kid in the Thunderman bunch, but she knows more than what her tiny years let for. She gets her biggest thrills from getting in the way of Billy's shenanigans and has a spunky personality to boot.
- Nora is the most manipulative Thunderman and things have to go her way. She easily manipulates her parents, as well as her siblings.
- All the other Thundermans are scared of her. Both Max and Hank have said several times that they're afraid of her as seen in You Stole My Thunder, Man and Are You Afraid of the Park?
- When she gets angry, she activates her Laser eyes, ready to attack, even in front of non-supes. The others usually stop her before it's too late.
- She's very tough and strong-minded but her weakness is her bows. If you threaten her bows, she cracks easily even if she had promised someone else to keep a secret - You Stole My Thunder, Man.
- She is very smart, just like Max and Phoebe and she actually outsmarts them sometimes.
- At the beginning of the series, she was very intimidating and tough, but later on she becomes more friendly and thoughtful.
- Nora matures as seen in The Thundermans Return where she is more responsible when using her powers.
Relationships
- Main article: Billy and Nora
- Even though she lasers him and sometimes gets annoyed at Billy's antics, she thinks of Billy as her best friend. They both have a good relationship, and Billy thinks of Nora as his best friend.
- In Paging Dr. Thunderman, when Nora was accepted in a different school, she found out she won't have time to spend time with Billy.
- He is Nora's older brother. They are similar in that they are not very naturally nice (unlike Phoebe and Billy); they don't really respect either of their parents and are very good at keeping secrets. They can sometimes get along, and she hangs out with him and Billy quite a bit. Max is the only one in the family who knows where she hides her bows.
- Furthermore, Max wanted to help Nora with Owen because she wanted to show her, he is as good as Phoebe.
- She is Nora's older sister. They talk and hang out sometimes. Phoebe is slightly scared of her. Nora does turn to her when she needs help with Owen in I'm Gonna Forget You, Sucka. Also, when she and Billy had their biggest fight ever in Are You Afraid of the Park?, she turned to Phoebe as well.
- Barb is Nora's mother. Nora could be decisive and manipulative and could make her, and Hank do whatever she wants if she puts them in a competition like in Kiss Me Nate.
- Hank is Nora's father. Before Chloe was born, Nora could use her cuteness to manipulate Hank to make a dollhouse.
- In Back to School, she didn't like the chores she had to, so she decides to run for president (president of the home), to replace Hank. When Hank apologized, Nora gave her vote to Hank.
- Nora and Chloe play together a lot with Billy. They hang out together all the time.
- In A Hero Is Born, Nora was afraid that Chloe was going to be the new cutest baby in the family but after talking with Billy, she wasn't worried anymore.
Powers
- Heat Vision: Nora can shoot fire beams of heat from her eyes; she can also control the intensity of them. Her lasers can be reflected by objects making it possible for her to hit more than one target at once and allows her to do her "trick shots" (mentioned and demonstrated in Patch Me If You Can).
- Explosion Inducement: In Going Wonkers, Nora made Hank's 3D puzzle explode when she applied enough heat to it. In Z's All That she is able to super charge her lasers when closing her eyes.
- Laser Loops: In Z's All That she is able to shoot lasers in circular form as opposed to linear.
Power Swap
- Teleportation: Nora gets teleportation after the orb changed her powers in Thundermans: Secret Revealed. Nora gets her normal powers back in Thundermans: Banished!.
Trivia
- Nora was able to get what she wanted by her parents because she was the "little girl of the family". However, this ability changes when Chloe is born.
- Nora may be cute but the whole family is still scared of her.
- In a similar way, Daphne Diaz from Stuck in the Middle is considered to be scary by the Diaz family (the siblings) since she acts the toughest.
- She has a bow collection which she loves a lot and calls it her signature look.
- Nora is manipulative.
- Pink is her favorite color.
- Only Max knows where Nora's bow collection is.
- She can scream at a high frequency that humans can't hear and broke a vase with it in The Amazing Rat Race.
- She is fluent in French - Paging Dr. Thunderman, He Got Game Night
- In He Got Game Night, her brain was temporarily fixed to only speaking French
- Nora won an election against Hank in Back To School but let him be the president of the house.
- Nora's first supervillain to fight was Fairy Pinch-ess in Thundermans: Secret Revealed.
- She passed the Hero League aptitude test with a 97%.
- Nora's fandom is called #Noranators in Thundermans: Banished!.
- She is the only character other than Chloe Thunderman to never have been visualized as evil.
- She was absent in the episode Can't Hardly Date as she went to Super Camp.
- It was also the only episode where she didn't appear.
- She and Dr. Colosso are the only main characters to be absent in the series.
- She is the second main character to become absent at one point in the series after Dr. Colosso did a few times.
- She has only cried three times in the series: in Winter Thunderland during the future when evil Billy steals her last bow, in Z's All That when the twins decide to replace her with Billy, and in the series finale when holding hands with the family, crying with them
- In some episodes, she can be seen in a ponytail, in contrast to her having her hair down in practically every episode.
- She, Billy, Chloe and Dr. Colosso are the only main characters who didn't celebrate their birthday in an episode.
- In The Thundermans Return, Nora no longer wears bows in her teens but does have a bow shape necklace.
- Nora's voice is also deeper due to Addison Riecke being in her twenties, even though the movie takes place 3 years later.
- So far Nora is the only main character not to appear in The Thundermans: Undercover.
Quotes
| “ | If your dumb foot touches me again, I'm gonna laser it right off! |
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— Nora, Are You Afraid of the Park?
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| “ | I like it when my eyes fart fire! |
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— Nora, He Got Game Night
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| “ | Oh no, dad's fixing things! |
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— Nora, Pheebs Will Rock You
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| “ | I almost lasered Chloe. |
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— Nora, Patch Me If You Can
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Episode Appearances
The Thundermans
- appears in all episodes (excluding Can't Hardly Date)
The Thundermans: Undercover
Season 1
- Thundercover (mentioned)
- Faulty Powers (mentioned)
- The Parent Zap (mentioned)
- Not So Fast and Furious (mentioned)
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