| “ | Humans on top! | „ |
| ~ Emilia's motto, also her most famous line. |
| “ | Greta: We got the collar away from Scarlemagne. Emilia: Good. Now get it on the monkey. |
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| ~ Emilia revealing her true colors. |
| “ | Kipo: We don’t want the world to go back to the way it was. We wanna move forward together. This could be a new age, an age of Wonderbeasts. And you could join us. Emilia: No! If I can’t restore the old world, I’ll just have to wipe this one clean and start over. |
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| ~ Emilia proving her desire to get her own way above all else. |
Dr. Emilia is the main antagonist of the 2020 Netflix original animated series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, serving as the unseen overarching antagonist of Season 1, the secondary antagonist of Season 2 and the main antagonist of Season 3.
She is a manipulative and remorseless scientist who wants to end the Mutes' existence, previously working with Song and Lio Oak. She is also the arch-nemesis of Kipo Oak.
She was voiced by Amy Landecker.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- While her current mindset was partly influenced by the environment she grew up in, which consisted of her abusive father constantly lashing out and putting pressure on her and her brother Liam to take initiative to undo the Great Mutant Outbreak and by her own people fearing the mutes at the time due to never having had proper contact with them and thus not knowing they could be friendly and peaceful, this is far from a justification of her crimes as she is perfectly capable of understanding she is wrong in her choices and is only driven by her own selfish desire to force the world to live according to her own standards.
- It's important noting that Liam also grew up in the same circumstances as her, yet he was able to realize they have been wrong for misjudging the mutes as dangerous monsters all along and was willing to bring the humans back to the surface in a more peaceful way by teaching them the mistakes of their beliefs and allowing them to befriend the mutes without having to undo their mutation, whereas Emilia has always refused to let go of those prejudiced concepts and insisted that they could not exist alongside humans, despite the many chances she was given to reflect upon her actions and despite seeing plenty of firsthand proof over 13 years that mutes aren't actually dangerous.
- Despite claiming she seeks the salvation of humanity with the elimination of the mutes, she proves clearly to want nothing other than to satisfy her own egotistical need to prove to herself that she is right that mutes cannot exist by forcing everyone to agree and live by her own worldviews, which she is called out for by Lio, Kipo and even Mulholland.
- She cares nothing about humans like she says she does, as she has no qualms about harming or outright killing all those who have witnessed or can prove that her views are wrong and unrealistic (like her own brother or even minors like Kipo and her friends), especially when it comes to those who have learned that mutes can be peaceful and rightfully begin opposing her, so as to either make it easier to influence others into supporting her beliefs or to make sure she has no obstacles in her way.
- This shows she is a huge narcissistic hypocrite, as she is willing to lie to people to make them see things her way only under the twisted belief that her lies and wrongdoings can be justified, and to kill everyone by becoming a mega-mute herself (the very thing she hates the most) in a ditch effort to make sure her ideals are the only ones prevailing and that all mutes are eradicated once and for all, even if she also has to take down her own kind with them. Song even tries to tell Kipo that her atrocities only emphasize that Emilia is never going to change her mind and will do what she can to have her own way regardless of the costs.
- She tends to be very verbally and even physically aggressive towards her own henchmen either when they fail a mission or even for questioning her, showing she doesn't care about them either.
- This is left clear by how she ridicules Greta various times, like calling her an "idiot" (which makes Greta want to follow all her orders correctly to prove Emilia she's not an idiot), and with her being furious with Zane when he begins to realize mutes aren't actually evil and agrees with Kipo in wanting humans and mutes to get along, as seen when she gaslights him by mentioning the time he was locked in a cage at the Timbercats' village and when she angrily throws him back onto her boat expecting him to be killed by Kipo.
- Being "cured" of mutation is a fate worse than death. The "cured" mutes end up losing their sapience and reverting to primal instinct, and can no longer connect with or possibly remember their loved ones. Kipo believed such a fate was one even Emilia didn't deserve.
- As Lio puts it, Kipo's sole existence as a human-mute hybrid represents the future of humans and mutes coexisting peacefully, which goes completely against her supremacist beliefs and is a huge obstacle in her quest to instill her ideals in all humans. Therefore, she devoted herself to spending over thirteen years searching for Kipo so she could get rid of her before finally going after the mutes. This makes her Kipo's most personal enemy, since she not only has always wanted to kill Kipo, but was also willing to turn Kipo's own people against her, or even kill them if they agree with her offer of peace between humans and mutes, specially her closest loved ones.
Background[]
- She killed her own brother Liam to prevent his positive ideals about the mutes from spreading throughout the burrow, later framing his death on the mutes to convince the other scientists that mutes were dangerous and needed to be eliminated.
- While her looking at a picture of her and Liam years later initially suggested she regrets killing him, she immediately proves otherwise by how she frowns while looking at it and immediately getting over it while going back at working on the cure, without any consideration of the positive things Liam told her about the mutes. This means that she ultimately no longer cares for her brother because of this.
- She forces Lio and Song to work nonstop on their adopted mandrill Hugo to find the formula of the mutation so they could "fix" it, making them exhausted after testing out 3.853 formulas.
- Upon witnessing Hugo's sapience as he played the piano, she tried to forcefully take him from Lio and Song to experiment on, which also led to her discovery of his mind-controlling pheromones.
- She locked Hugo in a cage and forced him to produce more pheromones, threatening to use Hugo's pheromones on Lio after he called her out for doing it while also belittling Hugo as nothing but an inferior animal despite his sentience.
- It's worth noting that the pheromones affect only primates, meaning she intended to use them to keep the burrow's human residents under her control. The pheromones make their bodies move against their will while forcing them to follow the orders of whoever is commanding them, making this a fate worse than death.
- When she found out about Lio and Song's half-mute experiments, she tried to seize Song and kill Kipo, who was just an infant at the time.
- After Song turned into the Mega Monkey, she built a collar that would often release Hugo's pheromones so she could mind-control her to use her as a weapon for 13 years, sending her out to kill her own daughter Kipo which also endangered many people by destroying the Clover Burrow in the process.
- To make this even worse, Song is shown to still be perfectly aware of her surroundings, as well as everything she did, from within her consciousness as the Mega Monkey, even while being mind-controlled. This means she could witness all the devastation she caused as well as her unwitting attempts to kill Kipo while not being able to do anything to stop herself.
- According to Song, Emilia told her many of the things she did for the sake of her beliefs while she was in her Mega Monkey form, with her murder of Liam standing out to Song as the worst of her actions and the true confirmation she was never going to redeem herself since Liam was her own brother. This means Emilia was purposefully exploiting Song's inability to speak to gloat over her atrocities while believing she would never be able to relay them to anyone, proving she doesn't feel remorse for anything she did whatsoever.
- She founded the Human Resistance alongside other humans with which she could fight the mutes, having convinced them to have the same prejudiced views on the mutes as her.
Season 1[]
- Despite not making an appearance until Season 2, she is shown to be solely responsible for all events of seasons 1 and 2 due to both her inhumane experiments and cruelty to Hugo making her the one truly responsible for his fall to villainy, essentially molding him into the dreaded misanthropic tyrant known as Scarlemagne he had been for most of the series, and her mind-controlling Song in her Mega-Monkey form using Hugo's pheromones causing her to relentlessly wreak havoc around the surface, which affected the lives of people in Kipo's burrow and of mutes such as the Timbercats and the Umlaut Snäkes.
Season 2[]
- Although she planned to stop Scarlemagne's reign of terror and save the humans, it was only out of pragmatism so she could later convince said humans to support her in curing the mutes.
- After she found Song, who was still in her Mega Monkey state, she attempted to get the retrieved mind-controlling collar back on her to use her as a weapon again, only failing because Song woke up in time to recognize Emilia and run away.
- She, alongside Greta and Zane, attempted to shoot Kipo in her Mega Jaguar form, with implications she wanted to kill her, while trying to manipulate Kipo's friends into thinking she was dangerous.
- She planned on using Kipo as her next weapon since she had lost Song to Scarlemagne, and then killing her once she outlived her usefulness.
- Attempted to convince Kipo to fight and take down the Mega-Monkey, whom she knew was Kipo's own mother, so she could use the Sonic Emitter on Scarlemagne.
- She locked Wolf, Dave and Benson in a cage and broke Wolf's weapon, Stalky, in front of her, much to her sorrow since Stalky had big sentimental value to Wolf.
- She tried to take down Mandu by firing darts at her and by attempting to activate the Sonic Emitter.
- She manipulated the humans who were saved from Scarlemagne into joining the Human Resistance and helping her cure the mutes.
Season 3[]
- She used a boat to hide away with the burrow people on the sea, using the Sonic Emitter to drive away any mute that inhabited it, causing the Mega Crabs to attack others on the surface and the Timbercats' village.
- She stealthily captured various mutes to experiment on as test subjects to create the cure, keeping them locked inside cages at her ship and testing many formulas on them.
- Upon catching Kipo and her friends causing trouble in her boat, she pretended to be shocked and worried about her so as to gaslight the humans into seeing Kipo as the villain/victim of the mutes and to make sure they stayed on her side. This caused the burrow people to start distrusting Kipo and become worried she had been manipulated by the mutes even though they had known her for a long time, showing Emilia has successfully manipulated them into seeing mutes as evil.
- This also led her to figure out Kipo's DNA was the only thing she needed left to make the cure, thus successfully creating it and bringing the mutes' biggest fear to reality.
- She kidnaps Wolf's adoptive siblings and keeps one of them hostage while falsely promising she wouldn't cure them if the other brought Wolf to use her as bait for Kipo.
- She captured Wolf, Benson and Dave and kept them hostage to use them as bait to lure Kipo to them so she could cure her, and was ready to kill them with explosive nectar if Kipo tried to fight back or didn't show up within her deadline.
- After supposedly curing Kipo, she demanded her to go to the ship with her and lie to her own people by telling them she went after Emilia for help because she wanted to be cured, scoffing at Kipo for believing they would be freed after curing her and arrogantly bragging about her "victory" over Kipo while sarcastically thanking her for it.
- During her self-praising speech, she directly admits to Dave she was going to cure him as soon as they arrived at her ship.
- When Kipo, Lio and Yumyan outsmarted her and got the upper hand of the situation, she allowed Greta to fire at the explosive nectar to kill Kipo's friends and started fighting Kipo in a desperate attempt to take the dart and cure her.
- This makes her indirectly responsible for Yumyan being accidentally cured after Wolf saved Kipo from the dart that Emilia shot at her.
- She pretended to keep her deal with the wolves by releasing them, only for her to immediately cure them while they ran off. This begins gradually making the rest of the humans start to question her methods, as Asher and Dahlia's parents recognize how heartless it was of her to cure the wolves without any hesitation.
- She led the Human Resistance into the Timbercats' village and successfully cured many of them, where she also repeatedly attempted to cure Kipo before retreating after discovering she was immune. Said attack traumatized the surviving mutes so greatly that they decided to quit HMUFA, although it was temporary.
- When Zane tries to tell Emilia that she was wrong about Kipo wanting to get rid of them and that what she wants is to simply set peace between humans and mutes, she furiously throws him back on the boat and tells him to wait for her, clearly expecting him to be killed by Kipo since they had heard she was going to sink their boat.
- Tried to make the humans see Kipo's invitation to her alliance party as a trap, expressing visible anger when the majority accepted the invitation.
- Though she also accepted the invitation to Prahm, it was only because she saw it as an opportunity to cure the mutes since there would be a large number of them gathered in one same place, not caring about the party's purpose of uniting humans and mutes into peace.
- She cures a Mega Walrus after extracting its blood for her plan to turn herself into a mega-mute to defeat Kipo as a last resort.
- She had Greta and Hoag create cure-induced fireworks and had her remaining followers release them onto the mutes who attended the party while sarcastically thanking Kipo for gathering them all together for her to cure, though succeeding with only one Humming Bomber while the other Mutes were protected by the humans.
- Turned herself into a mega-mute after revealing her intentions to "wipe the world clean" and start it over in her own image since she wasn't successful with the cure and with keeping the majority of the burrow people on her side, trying to kill Kipo, the mutes and the humans who sided with them while also endangering the rest of her remaining followers.
- She is responsible for the death of the fully-redeemed Hugo as the latter sacrificed himself to prevent her from brutally hurting Kipo.
- Angrily tried to kill Kipo one last time with a broken shard of glass, and would have succeeded had Mandu not stopped her, while also rejecting the last offer Kipo gave her to give the new world a chance despite the latter having just saved her from being trapped in the mind of her mega-mute form. This is the ultimate proof that Emilia is not just ungrateful but also utterly beyond redemption, since she ignored the fact Kipo had just saved her from a fate worse than death and still attempted to murder her just out of petty spite. In the end, she is eaten by a mute fungus named Fun Gus as punishment for her crimes.
Trivia[]
- Dr. Emilia is the second female villain from a Dreamworks TV show to be Pure Evil, the first being the White Bone Demon.
External Links[]
- Dr. Emilia on the Villains Wiki
- Dr. Emilia on the Hate Sink Wiki
- Dr. Emilia on the Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Wiki
- Dr. Emilia on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
