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| “ | Jean-Claude, take these wretched dust mops away! I WILL NOT HAVE THEM RUINING MY WEDDING DAY! And don't forget the big mouth, too! | „ |
| ~ Coco LaBouche's villainous breakdown as she orders Jean-Claude to lock up Angelica Pickles and the babies during her wedding with Chas Finster. |
Coco LaBouche is the main antagonist of Nickelodeon's 5th animated feature film Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.
She is the child-hating, vituperative and opprobrious ex-head of EuroReptarland who wishes to be head of Yamaguchi Industries by any means necessary. In an attempt to accomplish this, she tries to get Chas Finster to fall in love and marry her just so she can get promoted, which leads her to become Chuckie's arch-enemy.
She was voiced by Susan Sarandon, who also played Queen Narissa in Enchanted, Victoria Kord in Blue Beetle, and Vera Moray/Granny Rags in Dishonored. In the namesake Rugrats in Paris: The Movie video game for Windows PCs, she was voiced by Katherine Movius.
Personality[]
| “ | Dismissed? But... no one fires Coco LaBouche! Coco LaBouche fires OTHERS! Coco LaBouche is EUROREPTAR! | „ |
| ~ Coco showing her temper after being fired for her cruel actions while also unsuccessfully trying to become the owner of EuroReptarland. |
Coco LaBouche is best described as a cruel, selfish, arrogant, diabolical, greedy, manipulative, cold-hearted and extremely snobby woman. She despises children and constantly lies and threatens others to get what she wants. Coco is extremely abusive and snobbish to employees she considers "below" her, such as to her right-hand man Jean-Claude and her assistant Kira. She constantly insults Jean-Claude and treats Kira like a servant, such as demanding her to throw away Chuckie's precious teddy bear that his mother, Melinda made for him when he was a baby. She's also extremely seductive, coquettish and provocative, since she was able to seduce Chas quite easily, but quickly shows her true disgusting colors when Chas' back is turned. She's also backstabbing in nature, as shown when she offered Angelica a ton of promises in exchange of her help to win Chas, only to double-cross Angelica by having her locked up with the babies in the warehouse as well. All and all, Coco's supreme confidence and huge ego eventually leads straight to her well-deserved comeuppance.
Appearance[]
Coco LaBouche has short brownish-red hair, She has eyeshadow in different colors in scenes (brown, pink or dark green). In her first appearance, she wore a purple suit, in her second appearance, she wears an orange cardigan and green dress, in the third one, in a sushi restaurant, she wears a pink dress and hat, fourthly, she wears a pink dress and hat, in her fifth appearance, she wears a green dress. During her sixth appearance, she disguises herself as the princess of Japan from the Reptar musical while wearing a yellow kimono and a wig. Before her wedding and seventh appearance, she wears a pink bathrobe and a pink towel on her head. And finally, she wears a white wedding dress with peacock feathers and her hair is dyed purple during her last appearance. When Angelica steps on Coco's train to her wedding dress it rips, revealing underneath she wore purple underwear with yellow polka dots, fishnet stockings and garters.
Biography[]
At some point, before the events of the movie, when EuroReptarland, a Japanese theme park located in Paris, France opened, Coco LaBouche runs the amusement park. One day, while preparing for a Reptar show, she screams and yells at her workers to start the Reptar show. After Reptar's robotic head falls off after causing him to short-circuit unexpectedly, Coco furiously yells at Kira Watanabe to bring Stu Pickles (as he was the one who provided the schematics to create the mecha) in EuroReptarland within 24 hours. As Coco arrives with her assistant Jean-Claude, she finds the Rugrats playing in her office and is angry that Tommy ruined her collection of koi fishes, so she orders Jean-Claude to call in Kira, who calmly escorts the children away from the office. Coco sits in her office and watches Stu arrive before demanding him to fix the Reptar mecha.
Later on, Coco has a video call with her boss Mr. Yamaguchi, who plans to step down as President of Yamaguchi Industries (the main sponsor of EuroReptarland). A delighted Coco decides to step in as Yamaguchi's successor, but he tells her that she's one of the many people being considered for the job and that his true successor has to love children since they're the target audience for the Reptar franchise. Not wanting to lose her chance, Coco lies to him by claiming to be engaged to a man with a child of his own, but Mr. Yamaguchi tells her that they'll talk about the promotion after the wedding occurs, much to Coco's dismay. Unknown to Yamaguchi, Coco hates children (as pointed out by Jean-Claude) just as she discovers Stu's niece Angelica Pickles hiding in her office under her desk eating all of her chocolates. An angry Coco attempts to have Angelica locked up in prison, but Angelica, having overheard the conference call and wanting to avoid Coco's wrath, admits that Stu's best friend Chas Finster is looking for a woman to date in hopes of getting a loving stepmother for his son Chuckie. Upon hearing this, Coco is delighted and offers a deal to Angelica: in return for helping Coco with impressing Chas and getting him to marry her, Angelica will become the flower girl for the wedding and have her very own float and matching ponies in the parade; even providing ice cream for Angelica to make sure she holds up her end of the bargain.
Meeting up with Chas during dinner with the Pickles and their closest friends, Coco (with the help of a reluctant Kira) woos him for the next several days. However, she has trouble trying to earn the affection from Chuckie as he doesn't like her, but later learns from Angelica that Chuckie is obsessed with the princess character of the Reptar franchise and that he wishes her to be his new mother. Taking delight in this, Coco happily performs the role of the princess when Chas and Chuckie attended the show before revealing herself to them, earning an outstanding ovation from the audience. Although Chuckie is upset that Coco is playing the princess, Chas is extremely thrilled by this and decides to marry Coco. The other families are quite surprised by this, but Coco happily takes this as a sign of fortune, knowing now that she's close to earning her promotion.
Several days later, the wedding is being prepared at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. As Coco is getting ready for the wedding, she's disgusted to see the babies who are eating the leftover foods under a cart in the hallway. Noticing Chuckie holding his teddy bear Wawa, Coco grabs it out of his hands, causing the babies to collide the stand which accidentally break a vase before it nearly falls on top of Dil, which Tommy saves his brother from getting hurt. Being fed up with the babies' antics, Coco orders Jean-Claude to imprison them inside the warehouse until the wedding is over; even betraying Angelica by having her locked up with them, revealing that she never intended to uphold her deal with her. This act was witnessed by a horrified Kira, who's then ordered by Coco to destroy Wawa after Jean-Claude escorted the babies to the warehouse. Kira feels sorry for the children and sadly hugs Wawa. On their way to the church, Kira confronts Coco for deceiving Chas and vows to tell him the truth for what she have done to the innocent children. However, Coco fires her on the spot and kicks her out of the limo before driving away. Once arriving at Notre Dame, Coco marches forward, but signals the singer to stop and starts the wedding ceremony, basically ruining it.
Inside the warehouse where the babies are being held captive by Jean-Claude, a depressed Chuckie cries over the fact that Coco is about to become his stepmother who doesn’t like him and his friends. which drove an remorseful Angelica to comfort Chuckie by admitting that she helped Coco meet Chas and apologizing for it. Deciding to take matters into their own hands, Chuckie gets his friends to help him stop the wedding. The babies sneak inside the giant robotic Reptar and use it to escape the warehouse and rush to the cathedral. Unfortunately, Jean Claude sees them and boards Robosnail to stop the babies.
During the wedding, Chuckie has enough time to arrive because Chas spends a long time reciting what his favorite poem until Coco intercepts a phone call for Jean-Claude that the babies had escaped and they're on their way to the Notre Dame. Coco berates Jean-Claude for this, but inadvertently nearly revealing her plans out loud in front of everyone, who are bewildered by this before she makes a pathetic excuse and continues the wedding.
The pandemonium breaks out in Paris as Reptar (controlled by the babies) make his way to the cathedral, including being swung around mid-air by Robosnail and rocketing up the side of the Eiffel Tower. Eventually, Reptar manages to defeat Robosnail by pulling on Robosnail's right eye stalk then letting go of him, causing Robosnail to swerve out of control and sending him into the Seine River.
Meanwhile, Coco is being impatient with the archdeacon who doesn't pronounce marriages, which she furiously throws the Bible at him. The wedding is about to finish with the archdeacon asking anyone if Chas and Coco shouldn't be married, but only for Chuckie to barge in through the door and yells out a loud "NO!" at his very first word to stop the wedding, much to the adults' surprise. Chas is thrilled to see Chuckie finally talking for the first time and hugs him as he comforts him. Coco pretends to be happy to see Chuckie and beguilingly tries to hug and kiss him, but Chuckie refuses and continues to embrace Chas instead. A moment later, Jean-Claude bursts in and accidentally reveals that Coco's kidnapping plan has failed out loud in fear and tears. Coco tries to tell everyone to ignore Jean-Claude by calling him an "unemployed fool", but Chas (having heard exactly what Jean-Claude said) angrily calls off the wedding before telling Coco that she’s not the woman he thought she was.
Just then, Kira and the kids (along with the Pickles' dog Spike and a stray poodle named Fifi) arrive to the church. Angelica attempts to tell everyone the truth about Coco's plot, but Coco promptly hushes her by claiming that flower girls should be "seen, not heard". However, Mr. Yamaguchi appears, revealing he had decided to come to the wedding himself in person and demanding to know what Angelica has to say. Realizing now that she's in big trouble, Coco smiles nervously as Angelica bluntly (yet rightfully) reveals about Coco's hatred of children and her scheme of marrying Chas was just so that she could become the new president of Yamaguchi Industries, which left the families horrified and outraged at this deception. An enraged Coco is about to lash out at Angelica for exposing her plan, but Yamaguchi stops this by coldly berating Coco before telling her that he wants to speak in his office on Monday. As Yamaguchi leaves the church, Coco complains about her failed plan and attempts to storm out of Notre Dame, but she notices that Tommy, Phil and Lil are standing on her gown. An enraged Coco yanks her gown, causing the three babies to fall on the floor, much to their families' shock; even Angelica herself is horrified by this.
Declaring that she won't let anyone but herself to pick on the babies, Angelica furiously retaliates by stepping on Coco's gown, ripping it off and revealing Coco's purple lingerie in front of everyone with Jean-Claude mockingly singing about it. As Coco leaves and criticizes everyone to take pictures, several spectators started taking pictures of her lingerie with their cameras, much to her anger and humiliation. As Coco runs off and crying in defeat, Spike chases Jean-Claude for trying to hurt the babies. Kira then returns Wawa to Chuckie before falling in love with Chas, and they eventually get married back home in North America, allowing Chuckie to finally get a loving stepmother and for Kira's daughter Kimi to earn a loving stepfather.
Quotes[]
| “ | What are you waiting for? Get off your derrieres and get this show on the road! Tout de suite! I love the sound of panicked scurrying feet in the morning. Don't you, Jean-Claude? | „ |
| ~ Coco's first words before Reptar's robotic head falls off. |
| “ | That Stu Pickles! I want that nincompoop here within 24 hours, or another head will roll! | „ |
| ~ Coco orders Jean-Claude that she wants Stu Pickles to work in EuroReptarland. |
| “ | Where did those filthy little bookends come from!? | „ |
| ~ Coco finds the Rugrats playing in her office. |
| “ | See this face? I NEVER WANT TO MAKE THIS FACE AGAIN!! Now, get to work! | „ |
| ~ Coco screaming at Stu to not make her angry. |
| “ | Why am I not some child's TENDER MOTHER?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! | „ |
| ~ Coco demanding in frustration about why she is not a tender mother to children. |
| “ | Which is which again? | „ |
| ~ Coco when Kira confronts her for locking Chuckie and the others away by pointing out the obvious; Coco doesn't really love Chaz or his son, Chuckie. |
| “ | YOU BUMBLING IDIOT!! YOU DISGUST ME!! | „ |
| ~ Coco berates Jean-Claude for disgusting her and for letting the Rugrats escape to Notre Dame. |
| “ | ENOUGH POETRY! MARRY US NOW!!! | „ |
| ~ Coco angrily tells the Archbishop to marry both her and Chas now. |
| “ | Ignore that unemployed fool! (Chas: Coco, the wedding is OFF!! You are not the woman I thought you were!) | „ |
| ~ Coco unsuccessfully trying to ignore Jean-Claude after the latter accidentally revealed her plot. |
| “ | Pretty flower girls should be SEEN, not HEARD!! | „ |
| ~ Coco attempting to silence Angelica from exposing the truth about her kidnapping plot. |
| “ | Listen, YOU TRAITOR!! | „ |
| ~ Coco lashing out at Angelica for exposing her plot to everyone, despite the fact that she betrayed Angelica earlier in the first place. |
| “ | OFF THE GOWN, YOU REVOLTING CARPET MICE!!! | „ |
| ~ Coco yanking her gown to make Tommy, Phil and Lil fall on the floor out of spite against them for foiling her plot. |
| “ | Well, take a picture! THIS IS THE LAST TIME YOU WILL SEE COCO OR HER UNDERPANTS!!! (runs off crying) | „ |
| ~ Coco LaBouche's last words as her lingerie is exposed to several tourists taking pictures of it. |
Trivia[]
- Coco LaBouche is similar to Angelica but is shown to be a far more horrible villain than her because Angelica has shown some honorable moments and has sometimes teamed up with the babies, while Coco doesn't have any heroic moments and is mean to the babies the whole time.
- Coco's design and characteristics resemble Cruella De Vil from Disney's 101 Dalmatians.
- Coco's last name "LaBouche" is French for "the mouth"
- She is currently the only main antagonist in the Rugrats film trilogy to be human, as the first and third film main antagonists, Scar Snout and Siri are animals. In fact, they are both predators and inhabited in rainforests.
- It's revealed that Coco knows about Stu Pickles at the beginning of the movie
- It’s unknown what happened to Coco and Jean-Claude following the movie's events, but according to the movie's DVD features, there are two alternative scenes relating to their punishment.
- In the first one, both Coco and Jean-Claude are reduced to working as cosplayers in Ooey Gooey World, where Coco (wearing a pig costume) falls into the goo after she got pushed off by several running children, an act witnessed by both Jean-Claude (wearing a chicken costume) and the children.
- In the second one, both Coco and Jean-Claude are reduced to working at Parfum de P.U., where Coco is forced to test deodorizers on people with stinky armpits (much to her disgust), and she would later fall unconscious when Jean-Claude informs that she has to test the deodorizer with people who have stinky feet.
- Her work attire consisted of seven watches.
- To date, Coco LaBouche is Susan Sarandon's only G-rated role, villain or not. Any other role of hers is from a movie that is rated anywhere from PG to R.
- Coco is the first Nickelodeon Movies character to be a female antagonist.
- Coco LaBouche is named after a popular French dessert which is considered to be very sweet, unlike the character who's very sour.
- Coco LaBouche also appears in the namesake Rugrats in Paris: The Movie game for the PC. Here, she reprises her role as the main threat. In addition, she also appears in the Game Boy Color port, along with Jean-Claude, albeit at the very end, despite being mentioned by Angelica throughout the game. She also appears in the N64 port where she and Jean-Claude kidnaps the Princess and both are seen controlling Robosnail together.
- Coco is the second villain to have two versions of her demise revealed the first is Audrey II from the 1986 movie, Little Shop of Horrors.
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