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“ | Oh, kitten, you didn't drink your milk. How are you ever gonna grow big enough to make me a coat? | „ |
~ Bree mocking Tally. |
“ | Take your hands off me! We were trying to help the elephants! | „ |
~ Bree's last words as she is being arrested. |
Breeanna "Bree" Blackburn is the secondary antagonist of Nickelodeon's 9th feature film The Wild Thornberrys Movie. She is an infamous poacher serving as the wife and partner in crime of Sloan Blackburn, the leader of the poachers.
She was voiced by Marisa Tomei, who also played Dr. May Updale in The First Purge.
Personality[]
Bree initially appeared as a friendly, polite, generous, kindhearted, and animal-loving zoologist, but this was just to disguise her true nature as a cruel, greedy, murderous, sadistic and ruthless poacher.
Like Sloan, Bree is an unspeakably ruthless sociopath, willing to hurt anybody that gets in the way of their poaching operation. She also takes sadistic glee in tormenting and mocking the animals she hunts, more so than her husband. Her sadistic nature was shown when she restrained Eliza while Sloan threatened Debbie's life. While Sloan wanted to use Debbie in order to coerce Eliza into revealing how she knew about the poachers' plan, Bree just told him to him, implying that she would have just tortured Eliza into revealing what she knew. Bree's only positive trait is her relationship with her husband Sloan, whom she genuinely loves and respects.
Biography[]
When travelling across the Kenyan savannah via helicopter, they come across a cheetah cub named Tally and Sloan captures him. Eliza tries to stop Sloan from taking Tally, but Sloan cuts the rope ladder, despite Bree's orders not to do so, sending Eliza falling, though her family manages to catch her in time.
During Eliza's stay at a boarding school in London, she has a vision of Shaman Mnyambo telling her to rescue Tally, so she and Darwin head back to Africa. After taking a train from Nairobi, Eliza unknowingly encounters a rhinoceros whom the poachers had shot his horn, and Sloan and Bree arrive to the scene posing as concerned zoologists. Eliza, Darwin, and Donnie later run into Bree and Sloan yet again at their camp, and the two allow the group to stay with them for the night.
However, when Eliza discovered the Blackburns' equipment in their RV along with a captive Tally, Bree and Sloan's evil true colors were soon revealed, and they took Eliza and her friends captive. Sloan was fearful about Eliza's mysterious pre-knowledge of the poachers' "fence" in Tembo Valley and what else she could know that could threaten Sloan's poaching operation. Before Sloan could interrogate Eliza on what else she knew, Eliza's sister Debbie arrived looking for Eliza. While Bree takes Eliza hostage, Sloan threatens to kill Debbie if Eliza refuses to reveal her source of information. As such, Eliza is forced to admit that she has the power to talk to animals, and that the animals living in the valley gave her the information in the first place. A storm arises, taking away Eliza's powers, and forcing the horrified Blackburns to flee in their helicopter.
Later that day, as the poachers prepare at Tembo Valley in Congo to use bombs to drive the arriving elephants to stampede into their electrified fence, Sloan oversaw and the operation and gave the orders, while Bree pilots the helicopter. They succeeded in almost killing all the elephants, but their plot was foiled when Eliza manages to stop the elephants and turn them around just before they reached the fence. Enraged at Eliza's heroic interference, Sloan forcefully picks her up on the chopper's ladder and hurled her into a raging river. Bree and Sloan then try to shoot the elephants down from in the air as a backup plan, but the elephants pull their chopper down out of the air by its ladder and destroyed it. Once the eclipse ended, Bree and Sloan falls on the ground and are cornered by the vengeful elephants before they were arrested by the Congolese rangers for their crimes.
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- A minor instance of foreshadowing was shown during the movie when Bree and Sloan insisted on Eliza, Darwin and Donnie staying for the night, they were forbidden from going inside the camper, thus hiding evidence of their true occupation.
- Bree's maiden last name is unknown.
- She is the third Nickelodeon Movie character to be a female antagonist.
- Both Bree and her husband Sloan are meant to serve as villainous foils to Eliza’s parents, Marianne and Nigel Thornberry.
- Like Marianne, Bree is an American woman married to a British man with whom she travels the world with in search of wildlife. However, while Marianne is a committed wildlife documentarian who videotapes and photographs animals for conservation and research, Bree is an immoral poacher who hunts and kills animals for profit and pleasure.
- Both genuinely love their husbands and serve as both their assistants and confidants. However, while Marianne is a caring mother who deeply loves her children, Bree doesn’t have children and cares for no one other than herself and Sloan.
- Both serve as the primary operators of a vehicle that they and their spouses use in their differing lines of work: Marianne is the principle driver of the Thornberrys’ ComVee, while Bree pilots the Blackburns’ helicopter.
- Both base their activities out of mobile trailers filled with advanced equipment to aid them in their expeditions. However, while Marianne sees the ComVee as her family’s home, Bree lacked any care for her and Sloan’s RV and callously discarded it when it suited their means.
- Like how Marianne often wears a scarf over her head, Bree is usually seen wearing a hairband to be her hair braided. However, unlike Marianne, it’s implied that Bree’s hairband and and earrings were made from the body parts of animals she had killed.
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