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“ | You see, this is exactly why I called the exterminator, to kill them before they get hurt like this. | „ |
~ Gladys explaining why she had called Dwayne LaFontant. |
“ | SHOW YOUR LITTLE RAT FACES, YOU FILTHY CREATURES! STAY IN THE WOODS WHERE YOU BELONG! | „ |
~ Gladys during the final battle. |
President Gladys Sharp is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Dwayne LaFontant) of DreamWorks' twelfth full-length animated feature film Over the Hedge, which is based on the 1995 syndicated comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T. Lewis.
She is the former xenophobic and short-tempered president of the Home Owners Association, Dwayne's boss, and Tiger's former owner, and RJ and the gang’s second arch nemesis.
In the film, Gladys is disgusted by animals and is very strict on her rules. She hires Dwayne to exterminate the animals, to no avail. In the end, Gladys gets fired from her job, her house is destroyed, she loses all her hair, and is arrested and sent to prison for illegal traps after trying to kill RJ and the gang with her weed hacker along with resisting arrest and assaulting two cops.
She was voiced by Allison Janney, who also played Prudy Pingleton in Hairspray, 2nd 2nd Dimension Charlene Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb, LaVona Golden in I, Tonya, Ms. Grunion in Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Madge Nelson in Minions, Mr. Barron's Dr. Golan form in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Margaux Needler in Addams Family, and Colonel Howell in The Creator. In the film's video game adaptation, she was voiced by Susan Boyd.
Biography[]
At the start of the film, Gladys is the chairwoman of the Home Owners Association, obsessed with the quality of every home in the neighborhood. Gladys is seen talking on the phone while drinking a cup of coffee and driving her car to her home. After Gladys later talks on the phone, saying that she is the president of the Home Owners Association, she grabs the rest of her supermarket products and carries them to her home. Gladys then makes contact with RJ and the rest of the gang on her porch and while she opens the door to check on her pet cat Tiger, she sees RJ and the animals frightening him and promptly scares them away while angrily stating that she had just cleaned up. Meanwhile, Gladys talks to Jannis, who has two daughters, and when Jannis leaves, she angrily tells her that she will be worried about the end of suburban peace and tranquility.
Unfortunately for Gladys, the animals return many more times to steal food, which risks ruining the neighborhood. She then calls and hires Dwayne LaFontant as her henchman to kill RJ and his friends. Gladys walks out of her home only to find an unconscious Ozzie laying on the floor. She announces that she has called Dwayne to kill the innocent animals before they can get hurt like this. When Dwayne arrives, she orders him to kill the animals, but Dwayne fails at catching them once Ozzie suddenly springs up and escapes to safety, while she yells at him to kill him. Later, Gladys says that nobody throws garbage cans on the street, but the Spuddies can (dropped by RJ) falls on her car, causing her to escape to her house to safety. The food cache, with the fuel grill tied to it, lands on Gladys' car, destroying it in an explosion. That night, Gladys asks Dwayne to give her the Depelter Turbo she purchased it. He pointed it out that it is illegal in every state (except Texas, the film takes place in Indiana), but he also knew that Gladys didn't care. The next morning, she wakes up and walks up to her room only to find Heather on her staircase. When she kicks Heather with her foot, apparently killing her, she calls Dwayne. Gladys is horrified when she discovers all of the animals roaming her house for food and she gets sprayed by Stella the skunk. After Dwayne captures the animals, except RJ, she orders him to deal with them very inhumanely.
Later on, the animals return to Gladys' home with Dwayne's van, only to destroy it. Enraged by the fact that her beautiful home is in shambles, Gladys charges the hedge that the animals are hiding in with her weed whacker. She is then frozen in time after Hammy consumes an energy drink, which allows him to move faster than the speed of light. He reactivates the Depelter Turbo, and Gladys (with Vincent and Dwayne) ends up activating the trap and screams in pain as it burns her. As a result, she lost all her hair, and her pajamas were torn.
Afterward, both Gladys and Dwayne are arrested by police officers. She is last seen flying into a rage and putting up a fight against the officers arresting her for possessing the Depelter, which she knew was illegal to own in the state the story is set in, while Dwayne quietly escapes from the police. It is likely that the officers eventually restrained her, and added resisting arrest and multiple counts of assaulting two officers to the charges against her, ensuring that she will almost certainly be facing a lengthy prison sentence, and will most likely be dismissed from the Home Owners Association for her crimes.
Background[]
Personality[]
Gladys is shown to be an extremely short-tempered, obnoxious, cruel, arrogant, abusive and xenophobic woman, She is a neat freak who is absolutely determined to have a clean and orderly house, and becomes furious when RJ and his friends mess it up. She is a wild animal hater who hires Dwayne to take out RJ and his friends.
Gladys is greedily obsessed with all of the homes in the area being perfect and wants to get rid of the animals because she is not only disgusted and horrified by them, but she also thinks they are lowering the property values. She also has no regard for road safety as she talked on phone, drank coffee, and closed her eyes all while driving.
Physical appearance[]
Gladys appears to be a tall, slender Caucasian woman with black neck-length hair, green eyes, and red lipstick. She wears a black blazer suit over a red tank top, black dress pants, black high-heels, and lavender earrings. Her nighttime attire consists of silk red pajamas with gold linings and the letter "G". She also wears white bunny slippers.
After she was hit by the Depelter Turbo, she lost almost all of her hair and became practically bald.
Other Appearances[]
Over the Hedge: The Video Game[]
In the events of the video game, she gets released and her hair grows back, but the game is not considered canon to the movie since the first few levels are loosely based off the movie's second half and climax with minor differences.
After firing Dwayne, she hires a construction crew to take down the forest and another exterminator to get the animals. The crew starts at her house so she could build a pool in her backyard where the forest once was. However, the gang stops this by bringing endangered animals to the forest so the crew stops before they take down the forest.
Quotes[]
“ | No, I can talk. I'm just driving. | „ |
~ Glady's first words. |
“ | GET OUT OF HERE! SHOO! SHOO! I just mopped this patio! FILTHY VERMIN! | „ |
~ Gladys chasing the animals out of her yard. |
“ | Hello? I need every business listing you have under "exterminator". | „ |
~ Gladys calling the Exterminator. |
“ | You see, this is exactly why I called the exterminator, to kill them before they get hurt like this. | „ |
~ Gladys explaining why she had called Dwayne LaFontant. |
“ | I don't care if this thing's against the Geneva Conventions. I want it. | „ |
~ Gladys demanding the Depelter Turbo. |
“ | No! Not humanely. As inhumanely as possible! | „ |
~ Gladys ordering Dwayne to get rid of the animals inhumanely |
“ | No! It's not my fault! Let me go of me! I CAN'T BE ARRESTED! I'M PRESIDENT OF THE HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION! | „ |
~ Gladys' last words as she's resisting arrest for something the exterminator warned her was illegal, and seems to be extremely surprised that she's being arrested at all. |
External Links[]
- Gladys Sharp on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Gladys Sharp on the Over the Hedge Wiki