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| “ | What can I say? I like playing with my food. | „ |
| ~ Abigail's most famous quote. |
Abigail Lazar is the titular main antagonist of the 2024 supernatural horror comedy film of the same name.
She was portrayed by Alisha Weir in her first villainous role.
Biography[]
Past[]
Hundreds of years in the past, when Abigail was younger, she was bitten and turned by her father Kristof Lazar (who is heavily implied to be none other than Count Dracula himself) and became his top assassin. However, during the years for reasons unknown, Abigail had a falling out with her father and would come to believe that taking out as many opponents of his would get him to love her.
She would turn Lambert when he betrayed her father's organization and as punishment for his betrayal, Lambert would have to lure Kristof's rivals to a secluded mansion, where she would kill them.
Present[]
The film begins with a group of kidnappers being given the mission of kidnapping Abigail and holding her ransom with each receiving half the payment for the job. After attending a ballet recital, she gets abducted by the kidnappers and is sedated. Upon arriving at the mansion, Joey is tasked with ensuring that the child is doing fine. During the discussion, Joey lets it slip that she had a son back home to bond with Abigail. Before she left, Abigail cryptically apologizes to her for what was about to happen that night.
Abigail's vampire appearance.
After his attempts to woo Sammy fail, Dean is the first to be brutally killed by Abigail, his body being found later after Sammy witnesses his head falling off. Frank goes to interrogate the girl and horrifically learns her father's identity. He would attempt to leave, but the mansion's security system is activated, locking them inside. Rickles, a sniper, is quickly killed, and they start to believe that the job is not worth it. With Abigail being seen as a liability, the group tries to kill her only for Abigail to remove her hand from one of the handcuffs and reveal herself to be a vampire.
As they try to find ways to kill her, they learn that garlic and crucifixes are ineffective against Abigail with the vampire girl stabbing Peter repeatedly in the chest only to be stopped by Sammy. During the struggle, Sammy gets bitten, but Joey manages to drug Abigail again. Locked up, Abigail reveals the truth of the kidnapping and accurately lists information about each of the kidnappers and how they committed actions against her father and they were selectively chosen by her as a result. She makes a deal with them, after deciding that only one person would survive rather than two like she originally wagered, and Frank seemingly accepts it only to back out of the deal. However, Abigail simply kicks the cell door down and almost finishes him off until Joey intervenes to rescue him.
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Abigail controlling Sammy
Thereafter Abigail turns Sammy fully and controls her into killing Peter and going after the sole survivors. During the fight, Sammy is killed when Joey reflects light on the hacker who explodes into gory chunks. Frank himself voluntarily becomes a vampire but backstabs Lambert and decides that he will kill Abigail and Kristof himself and take over the organization. He battles with Abigail and comes short of killing her several times. He also tries to transform Joey with him saying that the first thing he would have her do is hunt down and kill her son.
However, Joey turns on him with Abigail joining in the fight explaining that it would take a long time for Frank to learn to use any vampiric powers. The two successfully drive a stake into Frank's heart killing him instantly.
Kristof arrives at the scene and initially tries to attack Joey for her action, but Abigail says to him that Joey saved Abigail's life, so he spares Joey's life and allows her to leave the mansion.
Personality[]
While Abigail initially appears to be an average 12-year-old girl, she is actually the centuries-old daughter of even older vampiric criminal overlord, Kristof Lazar. Despite her actual age, Abigail can convincingly act like a regular child, which she also uses to disguise her manipulative nature. Upon first discussing with one of the kidnappers, known as Joey, Abigail can play on Joey's sympathies to endear the young woman to her, which she exploits later at her second visit - which was after Frank - and can exploit the mistrust in the group of kidnappers to turn Joey against Frank, who as the most dominant personality, would turn the group against her. While it appears to be a tactical method to divide and conquer, Abigail's actual intent is merely to - as she says - "playing with [her] food," since she finds sadistic pleasure in psychologically breaking her victims before even openly hunting them.
Abigail displays sociopathy and psychopathy in the manner in which she murders her prey. After planting deception as the "innocent" child, she swiftly kills one or two of the group, to stoke paranoia and fear among them; when she reveals herself as a vampire, she could also quickly kill the rest but chooses to slowly and brutally torture them first. When confronted by Frank, Sammy, and Peter, she evades their attacks, and retaliates with painful but non-lethal blows, as to both prolong their pain and humiliate them as they are beaten by "just a little girl." When momentarily captured, she uses her mind-reading to psycho-analyze the current survivors, undermine their self-confidence, exploit their weaknesses, provoke guilt, and simply to just mock them. Similarly, when she converts and possesses Sammy, she puppeteers her body in a replication of her ballet dancing, simply for her amusement, because it was done after she had killed Peter, thus having no audience. It isn't clear if Abigail's frequent child-like affectations, such as giggling and dancing, are a part of a performance, or the remains of the little girl she was at one point; nevertheless, it serves to unsettle her targets and dissuade the more conscience-burdened of the group.
Despite her deceptive nature, she willingly or accidentally revealed a truth to Joey, in that she feels like her father doesn't care about her. The kidnappers weren't merely trapped in the manor to be food, rather they had each crossed Kristof Lazar, therefore he wished them dead; while Abigail appears to take malicious glee in murder, her reason is actually following her father's command to kill his enemies, and her motivation is a desperate search for his approval again. Abigail is terrified of her father, not merely for his superior power, but because of feeling like he never loved her. Abigail seems happy to flaunt her strength and dominance as a vampire, yet there is one hint that she laments her transformation, which is a remark about how she hates being in the library because it is the place where her father turned her into a vampire.
Even though Abigail appears to display a lack of empathy, there is some form of decency left in her; while manipulating Joey, Abigail genuinely felt affection for her, most likely due to Joey's kindness and desire to be a better, more present mother for her own child, which is an admirable goal, and one that Abigail wished her own parent would follow. During the fight against vampire Frank, Abigail and Joey cooperated well and were able to coordinate the final killing blow against him together. Showing that Abigail did feel affection and gratitude to Joey for her help, Abigail didn't attack her, rather choosing to let her leave alive. When Kristof arrived, Abigail finally stood up to him to convince him to spare Joey, which she accomplished, thus showing that there is some remnant of humanity in her as she managed to surpass her fear of her father for the sake of another's life, instead of only herself.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Nigh-Immortality: Abigail mentions Frank that if he wanted to kill her he had to drain her. Likely referring to vampires usually requiring blood in their system to keep their undead bodies active. That, as well as barring total exposure to sunlight or a stake through the heart, are the only confirmed methods of death. As she was converted at 12 years old, it is the age she remains in for as long as she lives and claims to be centuries old in that form.
- Regeneration: Can rapidly heal from any superficial or penetrating injury like bullet wounds and stabbings, as well as near-instantly recover from broken bones. She is able to regrow dismembered limbs, but it takes longer than normal wounds.
- Superhuman Strength: While it appears dependent upon how much blood she has recently consumed, she is able to overpower full-grown, muscular men, break bones with ease, destroy wooden doors, force a locked iron cage so that it flies away from its broken hinges, and rip bodies apart.
- Superhuman Durability: Her strength also increases her durability to withstand attacks of conventional means as bullets barely fazes her from moving but a needle is able to pierce her skin.
- Bursts of Super Speed: Her body is quickened with evasive motion and can run faster than ordinary humans, as she was able to react to incoming attackers armed with melee weaponry to deflect them off her and even chase a fully grown man across hallways.
- Siring/Power Granting: She has at least two versions of turning a human into a vampire.
- Method 1: Converting a human into another vampire like herself by biting him, and then feeding him with her blood.
- Method 2: Converting a human into a puppet vampire, which grants the new vampire the usual powers, however, their personality becomes subsumed by Abigail's will; it is unclear if the original mind is still present, since the only example is Sammy, whose movements and speech were directly controlled by her sire.
- Mind Control: An interesting element of at least method 2 is that Abigail's bite only converts the infected by her psychic command. Despite being bitten, Sammy wasn't harmed by sunlight, yet the infection was still present awaiting activation later, the evidence of which shown by the bite wound healing rapidly. This actually appears to be the default rule of conversion, as when newly vampiric Frank attempted to sire Joey, it failed to work, which suggests a vampire needs to understand and concentrate - perhaps taught how - to convert humans into either method 1 or 2. This is likely also the reason why Lambert has bitten Frank and then fed him with his blood as opposed to simply turning him through psychic command; probably why Lambert probably had not yet learned how to do it.
- Flight: She can levitate. Known among criminals as Valdez, Kristof Lazar's infamous assassin, the rumors had she eliminated targets on the top floor of a heavily guarded hotel. The only feasible entry to this location, bypassing the police detail, was through the window of the hotel room, suggesting that Abigail may have levitated to access the uppermost suite.
- Telepathy and Mind-Reading: It should be noted that while Abigail could potentially have gained her intel from investigating her victims, she showed to have according knowledge of each of her abductors past histories and personal lives since they were her father’s enemies without them even telling her.
- Immunity to certain vampire weaknesses: While not a "power," it is noteworthy that she suffers no ill-affect to some stereotypical vampire weaknesses, the least being garlic, and the most being crucifixes - Abigail showed no pain, no fear, and no regard for religious iconography, which she emphasises by using Peter's small cross to stab him multiple times across his chest.
Weaknesses[]
- Sunlight: Any part of her body exposed to sunlight will explode which she can survive to an extent. Should she be completely covered by sunlight, it would make her whole body explode, thus killing her.
- Desanguination: Should Abigail suffer significant blood loss - such as when vampire Frank drank most of her blood - her inherent powers are significantly diminished, with her strength becoming far lesser than even a recent sire, her healing delayed, her reaction time slowed, and apparent loss of flight.
- Stake through the heart: Although, her agility helps her avoid direct hits, should a wooden stake pierce her heart, it would kill her.
- Unknown Sedation: As part of the deception, Abigail is kidnapped, aided by knocking her unconscious with a syringe-delivered drug that is provided to the abductors (unknowingly to them given by her criminal allies). Perhaps for the illusion, it genuinely causes her to sleep, which, if an extra remains, can be used to sedate her once again, leaving her completely helpless.
Trivia[]
- Abigail's name is from the Biblical Hebrew "Ăvî-Ghayil," which means "My father's joy." A darkly appropriate name as she serves as her father's assassin to make him happy.
- The most used song Abigail ballet dances to are excerpts from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky.
- Abigail was born human, but then turned by her father, indicating vampires can have children; at least speaking for Kristof Lazar, as he is the world’s first vampire and has never died before; therefore is not sterile.
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