The Octopus (The City of Lost Children)

The Octopus are the secondary antagonists of the 1995 French-German-Spanish Steampunk science fantasy drama film The City of Lost Children.

They are portrayed by twin sisters Geneviève Brunet and Odile Mallet.

The Octopus are two conjoined twins who are united by one foot, they are the owners of an orphanage where they use the children as thieves, the guild of the film's heroin Miette hires One to help them steal a large safe. The theft is successful but the safe is lost in the harbor when One is distracted by seeing the kidnappers of his little brother Denree.

After this, The Octopus orders circus performer Marcello (and former boss at the Circus's Freak Show) to return One to them, Marcello allows Miette to fall in the harbor and drown while rescuing One from Krank's cyclops.

After Miette is rescued by The Diver, she finds One and Marcello both drowning their sorrows in a bar. Upon seeing Miette alive, the remorseful Marcello lets One leave with her, but The Octopus angered by this uses Marcello's stolen mind control system to turn One against Miette; the smallest of actions has the largest of results in a spectacular chain of events leading to a huge oil to crash against the harbor, stopping One from killing Miette, but also throws them to the sea, the boat stops right before crushing the Octopus, they both laugh at their luck and start looking for Miette and One in the rubble, then they try to burn them by leaking the boat's oil into the sea, Marcello manages to get his mind control device back and uses it against the Octopus, they start fighting each other but as they are united they end up falling onto the sea, while marcello rescues One and Miette, then he throws his cigarette at the sea which set the oil on fire quickly and kills the Octopus only leaving behind their siamese boot.