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| “ | I'll make sure the yeti's out. (Holds a taser and activates it.) You are never going to escape again! |
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| ~ Dr. Zara to the tranquilized Everest after she revealed her true colors. |
Dr. Zara is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 37th full-length animated feature film Abominable.
She is an Irish-American zoologist-turned-poacher who, alongside Mr. Burnish, wants to capture the titular yeti named Everest to make a fortune out of their discovery.
She was voiced by Sarah Paulson, who also played Dr. Ellie Staple in Glass, Ally Mayfair-Richards, Bette and Dot Tattler, Sally McKenna, and Wilhemina Venable in American Horror Story, Anne Gillette in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Diane Sherman in Run, Mildred Ratched in Ratched, and Mary Epps in 12 Years a Slave.
Personality[]
Dr. Zara initially appears to be a calm, timid, sweet woman who is interested in studying animals and caring for their well-being. However, in truth, she is a manipulative and greedy woman and is able to make others believe that she is good. She also has an unhealthy obsession with capturing the Yeti.
She is also highly intelligent and is a very skilled poacher. All her kills are rare creatures, as she does not think normal animals are worth the effort. She is also a skilled zoologist and knows a lot about animals. She uses her knowledge to capture rare creatures, and then kill them.
Biography[]
A yeti escapes from a compound owned by Burnish in Shanghai, who wants to prove the Yeti's existence in the world. Yi, a young Chinese violinist, lives a hectic and busy life with her grandmother and widowed mother, which in turn neglects spending time with her family. She is friends with football fanatic Peng and tech savvy Jin.
One evening, Yi encounters the titular Yeti near her house on the roof of her apartment building, which she names "Everest." While hiding him from Burnish Industries' helicopters, Yi gains his trust by feeding him and treating his wounds. Yi learns that Everest wants to reunite with his family on Mount Everest while Everest learns about Yi's desire to travel across China. When Burnish Industries' private security forces closes in on Everest' hiding place, Everest flees with Yi. After narrowly escaping a Burnish helicopter at the Oriental Pearl Tower, Yi and Everest flee on a ship carrying red cola cans, followed by Peng and a reluctant Jin.
Yi, Everest, and the boys reach a port in southern China and travel on a truck. After their crate falls off the truck, they end up in a forest. There, Everest impresses the humans with his mystical powers of stimulating growth among blueberry plants.
Meanwhile, Burnish and Zara continue the hunt for Everest. Following Everest and his human friends' trail, they catch up with them in the Sichuan region but Everest uses his power to cause a plant to grow to a gigantic size. While Yi, Everest, and Peng manage to escape on the wind-blown shoot, Jin is left behind and captured by the Goon Leader.
Jin learns that she is planning to hunt down and kill the yeti for medical research. He also learns that the seemingly cold–hearted Mr. Burnish has a soft spot for animals including Zara's pet jerboa. She also reveals that once they captured the yeti, she is planning to kill the Yi and his friends as well. Meanwhile Yi, Everest and Peng reach the Gobi Desert where they befriend several tortoises, who gratefully accept their giant shoot. Later, they travel to a town on the banks of the Yellow River but Burnish Industries corners them. Peng helps them escape by unleashing a yak stampede. With the help of Jin, they escape across the Yellow River to a field of yellow flowers, which Everest causes to blossom to gargantuan sizes.
Continuing their journey, the humans and Everest eventually reach the Himalayas. While crossing a bridge, they are trapped on both sides by Burnish Industries' forces. However, Mr. Burnish experiences a change of heart after seeing Everest protecting Yi and his friends; causing him to experience a flashback to his first encounter with the yeti which was protecting its younglings. Seeking to exploit Everest for scientific research, Zara injects Mr. Burnish with a tranquilizer before tranquilizing Everest, as well. When Yi tries to protect Everest, Zara throws her over the bridge. Burnish Industries then departs the mountain with the captive Everest, Peng, and Jin in tow.
However, Yi manages to cling on to a rope. She then uses her violin, which Everest has magically repaired, to summon ice which reinvigorates Everest, who breaks free of his cage. Everest violently roars at Zara and her accomplices, jolting them to run away in terror. Zara, along with the goon leader, later attempt to run Everest over with a snowmobile. The goon leader told her to only keep the yeti alive, but Zara insists otherwise. When she thinks she has won, she soon realized her mistake as she accidentally started an avalanche after hitting on the mountain, where she and the goon leader look up in shock. The mountain ends up coming down on a landslide, leading both Zara and the goon leader to fall to their deaths.
Trivia[]
- Dr. Zara is the first animated role in Sarah Paulson's career.
- Interestingly, their names sound similar to each other.
- Despite being Irish-American, Dr. Zara oddly speaks with a fake British accent.
- Dr. Zara serves as a dark reflection to Mr. Burnish. Both have the mission to find and capture yetis, such as Everest, to which they also get to share the opportunity to reveal the species' existence to the entire world once it's done. However, Burnish later realized that their mission possessed more risks than he could imagine, where it includes affecting the lives of Everest's caretakers Yi, Jin, and Peng. Zara, on the other hand, completely ignores that since she cared more about making a fortune out of such findings of theirs. Had not Burnish grew a conscience sooner that's in relation to such mission of theirs, he could end up being like Zara.
- Dr. Zara's attempt to murder Yi (via pushing the latter of the bridge) ironically foreshadowed the former's ultimate demise, as her vengeance against Everest (through crashing him against the mountain with the Goon troops' snowmobile) has lead to her downfall, where she, alongside the Goon Leader, fell to their deaths by an avalanche she abruptly caused.
External Links[]
- Dr. Zara on the DreamWorks Wiki.