| “ | 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 was consisted by 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 justifying her crimes as she is perfectly capable to understand 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 even Liam, who also grew up in the same circumstances as her, 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 manner by teaching them the mistakes of their beliefs and allowing them to befriend and share the world with the mutes without having to undo their mutation, whereas Emilia has always refused to let go of those prejudiced and disproven concepts and insisted that they could not exist alongside humans, despite the many chances she was given to reflect upon her actions, despite seeing many proofs for herself for over 13 years that mutes aren't actually dangerous.
- Despite her claims that ridding the world of the mutes is for the sake of the salvation of humanity, she proves clearly that she wants nothing other than to satisfy her own egotistical need to prove to herself that she is right about her delusional beliefs that mutes are threatening and therefore cannot exist, which she is called out for by Lio, Kipo and Mulholland.
- To achieve that, she seeks to eliminate all kinds of existing proofs and witnesses that can leave clear that her ideals are wrong and unmatched with reality, thus why she has no problems in harming or outright killing any other human (like her own brother or even minors like Kipo and her friends) if that benefited her in this aspect, especially when it comes to eliminating those who have learned about the peaceful nature of the mutes and who rightfully begins trying to prove her views wrong so as to either make it easier to influence other people into defending her beliefs or just to be sure she has no obstacles in her way toward her main goal, proving she doesn't actually care about humans at all.
- This is further evidenced by various other instances, like Emilia herself demanding Kipo to lie to the others to make them see things her way, attempting to commit genocide on everyone as a mega-mute in a last attempt to make her ideals as the only one left prevailing and by both Lio and Song expressing their disgust over everything she has done as they explain she fights for nothing other than the prevalence of her own standards while being willing to do anything to achieve it.
- 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 start agreeing 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 Dr. Emilia didn't deserve.
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 suggests 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 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 do not affect most mutes, meaning that she intended to use them to keep the burrow's human residents under her control. The pheremones affect people while forcing their bodies to move agaisnt their will, 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 in her life to make sure her beliefs prevailed 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 is proud of herself and doesn't feel remorse for anything whatsoever.
- She founded the Human Resistance alongside other humans with which she could fight the mutes on the surface, having presumably convinced them to have the same prejudiced views on the mutes as her.
- Since Kipo's sole existence represents, as Lio puts it, the future of humans and mutes coexisting peacefully, which goes completely against Emilia's supremacist beliefs, Emilia devoted herself in killing Kipo ever since she was born, spending the last thirteen years of her life hunting her down before she could take care of the other mutes.
Season 1[]
- Though she doesn't make an appearance until Season 2, her actions are shown to have heavily impacted as well as kickstarted all events of seasons 1 and 2, as she is the one truly responsible for Hugo's fall to villainy, becoming Scarlemagne (subsequently molding him into the dreaded misanthropic tyrant he had been for most of the series), and Song relentlessly causing destruction around the surface world under the control of the pheromones, which affected the lives of people in Kipo's burrow and the other mutes such as the Timbercats and the Umlaut Snäkes.
Season 2[]
- Although she planned on stopping Scarlemagne's reign of terror to save the humans, it was only out of pragmatism so she could later on convince the saved humans to support her quest to rid the surface of 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 by telling them she was dangerous.
- After losing Song to Scarlemagne, she planned on using Kipo as her next weapon and killing her once she outlived her usefulness.
- Attempted to convince Kipo to fight and take down her 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 a big sentimental value to Wolf.
- Tried to take down Mandu by firing darts at her and later by turning on the Sonic Emitter.
- She manipulated the humans who were saved from Scarlemagne into joining the Human Resistance and helping her fight and cure the mutes.
Season 3[]
- She kidnapped various mutes to experiment on as test subjects to create the cure.
- Upon catching Kipo and her friends causing trouble on her boat, she feigned shock and disappointment so as to successfully manipulate the other humans, who are also Kipo's own people, into seeing Kipo as the villain/victim of the mutes and to make sure they stayed on her side.
- After developing the cure, she kidnaps Wolf's adoptive siblings and keeps one of them hostage while falsely promising to not cure them if the other one brought Wolf to use her as bait for Kipo.
- Eventually, she managed to keep Wolf, Benson and Dave hostages and use them as bait to lure Kipo over so she could cure her, and was ready to kill them with explosive nectar should Kipo try to fight her or not show up within her deadline.
- This also makes her indirectly responsible for Yumyan being accidentally cured after Wolf saved Kipo from the cure dart shot by Emilia herself.
- 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 whether or not Emilia was actually worth supporting, as the parents of Asher and Dahlia 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.
- 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 and expressed clear anger when the majority of the humans accepted the invitation.
- Though she accepts 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 intention to kill everyone in the world and start it over in her own image since she wasn't successful with the cure, later trying to kill Kipo, the mutes and the humans who sided with them while also endangering the rest of her 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.
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 Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Wiki
- Dr. Emilia on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
