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“ | You're the only one without a revenge drawing from Luis. But you of all people are the one who deserved it the most! | „ |
~ Alex revealing herself as the Avenger while threatening Gerry. |
Alejandra Salomone, also known by everyone as Alex, is a major character of the Netflix series Control Z.
She serves as one of the two tritagonists (alongside Isabela de la Fuente) in the first season, one of the two main antagonists (alongside Pablo García) and one of the tritagonists in the third season.
Alex is an openly, yet socially distant, lesbian student who is an expert with computers, but nevertheless shares a close friendship with the lonely Luis and a forbidden relationship with Gabriela, the National School's Biology teacher, being among those students whose secrets are leaked by the hacker, who at some points threatened to reveal her secret. After Luis is murdered by Gerry, she initiates a vendetta against him and those students who tormented him and did nothing to help.
She is portrayed by Samantha Acuña in her acting debut.
Biography[]
Season 1[]
Alex is not a villain in the first season. Instead, she serves as one of the students, whose secrets are at risk of being exposed, targeted by the hacker. Alex's secret happens to be that she is dating her Biology teacher, Gabriela. She is shown to be friends with Luis, a lonely student who seeks solace through his drawings. At one point, when he falsely admits to being the hacker, Alex stands up for him: she blames his tormentor Gerry, for pushing him so far to said boiling point and rubs it in his face saying that she is not ashamed of her sexual orientation. She also defends Isabela when it is known to the school she is a trans woman and most students judge her. Initially resisting, Isabela rejects Alex's help, although she later apologizes for being so rude and the two start bonding. At one point, during Raúl's party, the hacker threatens to reveal Alex's secret unless she tells Sofia to jump off the roof into the pool. Despite Javier's objections, Sofia eventually obliges. She also released Gerry from the auditorium, on the hacker's orders, to save her secret from coming out, but also causing Gerry to almost beat Luis death, leaving him hospitalized. However, Alex's secret does end up coming out after Raúl is exposed as the hacker, resulting in him revealing her and the other students's secrets, causing Alex to walk out in sadness and shame, before witnessing Javier's accident caused by Gerry when he was threatening Raúl at gunpoint after finding out he was the hacker.
Season 2[]
Alex gains a more pivotal throughout the second season, as she is determined to make everyone, including Gerry, pay for her friend Luis's death, wanting them to feel guilty as she was when they did nothing about it. She targets most of the student body, including the principal (locking him inside the men's restroom and using a nest of bees to sting him), submitting them to such humiliating punishments, even setting Luis's house on fire, pretending to be held hostage half-naked inside a classroom to aovid any suspicion on her and trying to hold Sofia back, predicting that she will not stop investigating the Avenger's identity, by tampering with one of her pills and having her hospitalized, a trap that she avoids when she stages her accident and makes it look like she has fallen for the trap. In addition, she turns to Raúl, her former blackmailer, stealing all of his money in order to start a new life with Gabriela, now unemployed after their relationship is exposed and accepting a job offer at Spain.
Eventually, Alex lures Gerry to the school, forcing him at gunpoint to record a story apologizing to Luis for killing him and jump off the roof as a way to make him pay with his life, after Raúl posts an inquest in which everyone decides against sparing Gerry's life. They try to calm her down, to no avail: When Alex says what she is doing is justice, Raúl responds that she doesn't get to make that decision and she calls him out for his hypocrisy in the situation (when he thought of no one while being the hacker). Raúl threatens Alex as well, that if Gerry is gonna jump it will be over his dead body because the minute Raúl leaves, he will tell everyone about Alex being the Avenger, but Alex insists no one is gonna believe him even after everything he did. However, before Gerry can make a choice, Sofia and Javier arrive on time and stop Gerry from trying to commit suicide. Sofia understands that Alex has the right to be angry at everyone for Luis's death, but convinces her that this is not the solution and none of the things she does would bring Luis back. Alex is not a killer and she knows it. Realizing the monster she has become, the repented Alex drops the gun as she tearfully apologizes to Sofia. She ultimately looks on in horror with Gerry as Sofia, Javier, Raúl, Maria, Claudia and Susana wrestle over Raúl's money (which Alex previously stole from him and Javier, Maria and Claudia need in order to save Natalia's life, having been kidnapped by drug dealers for failing to fulfill their deadline over the large sums she owes), turning to a dramatic ending that results in Susana falling off the roof to her death, much to their shock.
Known Victims[]
Names in bold are villains.
- Darío & Ernesto. Buried alive in a cemetery coffin.
- Alex. Held hostage inside a classroom, gagged and tied up in her underwear. However, she is revealed to be the real Avenger.
- Martha. Nearly killed in a fire that has a started at her house through the use of a molotov cocktail.
- María Alexander. Overdosed and got hospitalized after drinking from a spiked bottle of wine.
- Natalia Alexander. Assaulted and held hostage inside a van.
- *Raúl León. Tasered, resulting in the theft of his money.
- Miguel Quintanilla. Locked up in the men's restroom and stung by bees.
- *Sofía Herrera. Fainted after her pills were switched.
*Aside from Gerry, Raúl and Sofía are the only ones who don't have a revenge drawing of their own. Raúl's money was stolen while Sofía had actually staged her accident to mislead the Avenger.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Unnamed parents
Allies[]
- Sofía Herrera - Friend, Attempted Victim
- Luis Navarro † - Former Close Friend
- Javier Williams
- Isabela de la Fuente - Close Friend (possible crush)
- Gabriela - Former Girlfriend
Enemies[]
- Raúl León - Blackmailer and Attempted Victim; assaulted and stole money
- Gerry Granda - Archenemy and Attempted Victim
- Darío & Ernesto - Attempted Victims; tried to bury alive
- Rosita Restrepo - Intended Victim
- Natalia Alexander - Kidnapee
- María Alexander - Attempted Victim
- Miguel Quintanilla - Attempted Victim
Trivia[]
- Alex's previous actions are what led to Gerry becoming hostile towards Luis in the first place, since she had encouraged him to show Gerry a drawing he made of him, yet Gerry's homophobic father mistakenly assumed he was gay. Thus, Gerry masked his true feelings through this personality as to not be made fun of at school.
- She is the second main character to become a hacker after Raúl León.
- She is also the first female main character to become a hacker.
- However, her secret identity as The Avenger is not publicly revealed, nor is it caught on camera like Raúl's to Sofía.
- As of the end of the second season, only Sofía, Javier, Gerry and Raúl are aware that Alex is the Avenger and she is considered unsuspicious and innocent to everyone else because they didn't know she was friends with Luis.
- Alex isn't truly evil per se, but Luis' murder committed by Gerry is what pushes her to become the avenger in the first place and use his violent fantasies as bloody ways to get back at those people who have supposedly wronged him. Most fans were disappointed about this reveal since Alex's profile did not actually match that of the mysterious perpetrator and even her scared face clearly says it all, so it's no wonder why Alex made Gerry jump off the school's roof and Sofía told her that she wasn't capable of killing anyone.
- She is the third LGBTQ+ character to be revealed in the series.