Dona Álvara

""Conversa séria pra mim, Ladir, é só na horizontal!""

- Dona Álvara

"Dona" Álvara Miranda is the major antagonist of the 2007-2009 Brazillian sitcom "Toma Lá, Dá Cá". She is the crazy and corrupt superintendent of the Jambalaya Ocean Drive condominium in Rio de Janeiro, always seeking to financially destroy someone to benefit herself and her husband, Ladir. She was portrayed by Stella Miranda.

First season
Álvara is introduced as a crazy, but seriotypical villain, mugging and threatening the other residents, including the protagonists, to benefit herself in any way possible. She also shows constant affection towards her husband, Seu Ladir, also benefiting him and constantly refering to him as a "testosterone bomb". However, many other events she claims Ladir did, are all proof and stories involving homossexualism, usually by his actions. Her other "attacks" are not too damaging, but then things start to worsen.

Second season
During the 2nd season, Álvara becomes even more corrupt and obsessed than ever before. She begins to fund massive business ideas using the condo's money and structure to initiate her plans and bribe the local police force to let her go unharmed. Also, Ladir makes physical appearances in this season, and the whereabouts about "testosterone bomb" are finally proven wrong: Ladir is an assumed homossexual. Álvara is just to naïve too notice. Many attempts to prove her wrong were futile, as she only listens to money and her husband. Álvora becomes greedy beyond belief, trying to take down the nearby shrubs (an open-air jungle, also used as a open-air brothel) to acquire a rare mineral called "futestonium", but the mineral's side effect (it increases sexual desire) distracts her from her goal, and she leaves the shrubs without her money. But even after losing a chance, she becomes far more influential in the condo, gaining far more power and money.

Third season
Ladir was eventually kidnapped by a go-go dancer, leaving Álvara alone and deeply depressed. To make matters worse, she begins to gradually lose power and position, due to a slum community that occupied the shrubs called "Nova Jambalaya" that begins sending her threatening messages to leave her position as superintendent, otherwise the condominium will be invaded and taken over. She obviously ignores the messages, revealing that the reason they are becoming hostile is due to her ignoring previous requests from the community to give them food and a health plan. In the final episodes, the slum's leader, Elvanecir, invades the protagonists' apartments and traps everyone, including Álvara herself, in the living room of Celinha's apartment, due to a recent robbery of her penthouse apartment. The group watches in horror as the condo is destroyed block by block, until they force Celinha's husband, Mário Jorge, to write a happy ending for the series (as the actor that plays him, Miguel Falabella, is also the show's writer) in a "fourth wall" joke. He then decides to make them escape in a flying saucer piloted by Ladir. They leave the building just as the condominium is devastated, towards an unknown destination.

Personality
Álvara is crazy and completely corrupt, but also incredibly naïve and over-the-top. The only person to whom she demonstrates real love is her husband, Ladir, but even him can get annoyed at her to the point of slapping her in the face. Not only she is selfish and arrogant, but she is also incredibly greedy, can be easily bribed, and always tries to find a way to earn money on the protagonists' behalf. Her trademark is a steriotypical evil laugh that she does whenever she has the upper hand against someone.

Trivia

 * From the second season onwards, she can be "summoned" by the protagonists whenever one of them merely says her name.
 * There are rumors in the condo stating that Álvara was dumped the devil himself.
 * Her power hunger is so over-the-top that she hired Russian mediums to cast a spell to allow her to rule the condominium even after her death.

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