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Leena Klammer, better known as Esther Coleman, is the titular main antagonist of the 2009 live-action horror film Orphan.
She is under the guise of a 9-year-old Russian girl when she is in reality a 33-year old Estonian with a hypopituitary disorder. This disorder makes her look a lot younger than she really is—excluding certain traits such as her teeth, which she uses dentures to hide from the Colemans. She uses this to her advantage to trick families into thinking she is indeed a child, and wins over foster families using her charming and gentle facade. When adopted, Leena attempts to seduce the fathers of said foster families. When or if her sexual advances are shut down or rejected, she becomes enraged and as a result slaughters him. Most of the time, Leena often gets rid of other family members by murdering them or manipulating the situation to make her look innocent. Leena puts on the facade of a missing young girl named Esther Albright in order to avoid being caught by the Saarne Institute, which was the psychiatric ward she was put in after committing various crimes.
While the original script portrays her in a more sympathetic light and it's 2022 prequel Orphan: First Kill gave her some redeeming qualities, the near-finished script doesn't consider the prequel and the backstory as canon, so she has no tragic backstory nor redeeming qualities, and is just a vile as the film counterpart because of the alternate ending.
Like her final script version, she was intended to be portrayed by Isabelle Fuhrman.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
- After Daniel accidentally hurts a pigeon by shooting a pinball at it, not thinking that it would do anything to it, Esther arrives and tries to have him kill it with a stone to "put it out of its misery" only for Daniel to refuse, prompting Esther to kill it with a stone herself, much to Max's disgust.
- As revenge for harassing her in the school hall, Esther pushes Brenda from a high spot on the playground, causing her to break her ankle, though one could argue she deserved it.
- When Sister Abigail arrives at Kate and John's house to inform them of how Esther was always there when previous incidents had happened, after she drives on her way out, Esther pushes Max in front of the car, endangering her life and causing Sister Abigail to skid the car and stop and exit it to check on Max, allowing Esther to seize the opportunity to kill her by bludgeoning her with a hammer before getting rid of the body with Max's help.
- After spotting Daniel watching her and Max, she proceeds to force him to reveal to her what he saw under the threat of castrating him and after he tells her that he only saw her and Max in the treehouse, she threatens to castrate him if she finds out he's lying.
- She then proceeds to break her own arm in order to get Kate blamed for breaking it, causing a bit of a wedge in John and Kate's relationship.
- After tearing a hole in Daniel's backpack so that his books would fall out of it after he gets dropped off at school for Kate to come out of the car and help him, Esther has the car go in reverse with Max in it, not only endangering her life but also the lives of several other drivers as well. Afterwards, she threatens to Max to shoot Kate if she tells.
- She then goes into Kate's room and proceeds to mock her over the mistakes she has made, how she supposedly almost let Max drown in an ice pond, the whole incident she had with her baby being stuck inside her due to being dead, and telling her that she's been "taking her family for granted" before basically rubbing it in her face as to how she can't hit her due to the fact that she'll get in trouble after ticking her off.
- When she catches Daniel snooping about in the treehouse to find proof of Esther being behind Sister Abigail's murder, she proceeds to taunt him about how Max was involved in it and then burns the evidence with gasoline and sets the treehouse on fire while locking the exit in an attempt to get Daniel killed in it, smiling sadistically as she watches Daniel try to escape.
- When he escapes the house and holds onto some wood only to lose his grip and fall, she attempts to finish him off by ramming a stone into his head only to be stopped by Max who pushes her over.
- After going to the hospital where Daniel ended up being at, after tricking a woman looking after her into thinking she was going to a vending machine, she instead goes to the hospital room Daniel was at and proceeds to suffocate him to death with a pillow while no one was watching.
- It is mentioned by one of the doctors at the former institute she was at that she killed 7 people that they know of.
- She tricked a family in Estopia into adopting her and when she couldn't seduce the father, she killed him and his whole family and then burned the house down.
- Out of spite for rejecting her, she kills John by stabbing him to death.
- When Kate crashes into the house with her car and comes inside to save John and Max, Esther makes some attempts to kill her by shooting at her with a pistol.
- She then proceeds to search for Max with the intent of killing her and then attempts to kill Kate by shooting her upon spotting her on the roof.
- After the murder attempt failed, she puts on make-up, dons a white dress, and walks downstairs casually saying to the cops, “Hello, my name is Esther!”, though why she did it in the first place is up to one's speculation.
Trivia[]
- Only the near-finished script version of Esther Coleman can be considered Pure Evil, while her finished film version can't due to First Kill giving her some redeeming qualities such as caring for Allen (even having regret for pushing him off the roof to die) and having some standards against Gunner and Tricia for hiding the truth about what happened to the real Esther not just from her, but also from Allen and the police.
- Her original script version also cannot be considered Pure Evil because it gives her a tragic backstory of being constantly raped by her father the moment her mother died of AIDS until she killed him after being replaced by another partner the moment she became an adult and being told that she would never be considered a "real woman", as well as his new lover making fun of her condition, which explains why she always tries to seduce the men of the families that adopts her.
