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“ | Hello, Vic! | „ |
~ Jinx to Garfield's father Vic, surprising him, Garfield and Odie. |
“ | You two… ARE… WORTHLESS!!! | „ |
~ Jinx's villainous breakdown as she pushes Garfield, Vic, Nolan and Roland off the train. |
“ | I repeat, there will be an attempt to rob one of your dairy trucks tomorrow. I suggest you take appropriate measures to prevent this brazen thievery from occurring. Okay, I'm done. Hang up the phone. Ha, ha. What an evil genius I am. | „ |
~ Jinx |
Jinx is the main antagonist of the 2024 animated feature film The Garfield Movie, a film adaptation of Jim Davis' comic strip Garfield.
Depicted as a nefarious Persian cat, she displays a huge vendetta against her old acquaintance Vic due to their past association. By the time of the film's events, Jinx manages to track down Vic and targets him and his loved ones so she can make him pay for wronging her just as Vic enlists his son and Odie for a heist. She is the former boss of Barry, Nolan and Roland as well as Vic's former friend turned arch-nemesis, thus becoming sworn enemies with Vic's son Garfield the Cat in the process.
She was voiced by Hannah Waddingham, who also played the Wicked Witch of the West in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz, Septa Unella in Game of Thrones, the Mother Witch in Hocus Pocus 2 and Gail Meyer in The Fall Guy.
Appearance[]
Jinx is a overweight Persian cat with straight white fur, gray paws and light blue eyes. She has a small cut on her right ear, probably from one of her previous attempts to escape from the pound. During the sequences of her flashback story, she was much younger and smaller in size but remains round in shape.
Around her neck, she wears a fancy necklace with her personality stones that change color according to her mood: red for anger/hatred, purple for excitement, green whenever she feels vengeful. At the end of the film, after being captured and forced to do community service, she wears a yellow construction helmet and an orange vest.
Personality[]
Jinx is an evil, malicious and vengeful cat that normally harm anyone who comes in her way, she seems to having a scheming wall with all of her plans which she makes joyously, she has a love for milk like most cats. Being seen repeatedly drinking wine glasses full of milk, she also seems to have anger issues.
Jinx demonstrated herself to be vile and spiteful, for she wanted to get revenge upon Vic, not to get even, blaming him for her five years of incarceration and intending for him to get caught after she blackmailed him into stealing for her. Even after Vic succeeded in stealing the milk she wanted, Jinx had no intentions of honoring the bargain and decided to simply kill him, and would have harmed Garfield and Odie as well.
Jinx also showed she has no appreciation or gratitude for her henchdogs, mocking them when they chose not to kill Garfield and Vic and even trying to kill them as well, declaring them worthless. As such, Jinx is irredeemably wicked and cruel, without consciensce or remorse for the things she does.
Biography[]
Past[]
Way long before the movie, Jinx went to the big city to try to break into fame by going to the animal show America's Next Top Feline. Unfortunately, things didn't go well for her due to her stage fright and was rejected. As she is tragically drowned into her sorrow on the streets in disgrace, a big tabby stray cat named Vic approached her. Jinx accepted Vic's help and they both joined a gang of stray cats, who robbed food from different parts of the city to survive, getting along with each other as a family. Jinx and Vic used to be affable friends since early life.
However one night, as they robbed milk from a small business called Lactose Farms, Jinx was caught by the security. Though she plead Vic and the others to come back for her, Vic and the rest of the cats were unable to do so and the pound guards successfully captured Jinx, sending her to the pound. Once there, Jinx met two dogs named Nolan and Roland, with whom she eventually escaped from the pound. The experience however, left her embittered with Vic and corrupts her into villainy. She then was wishing to exact complete perfect revenge on him for years.
Eventually, Jinx formed a criminal gang of her own with Nolan, Roland and an American robin named Barry, settling themselves in an abandoned mall, though made her henchmen behave like if they were dumb to feel better with herself.
After when the present came around, Jinx somehow learned that Vic's son Garfield lived with a man named Jon Arbuckle in the big city, so she sent her henchmen after him in a way to incite Vic into coming to her hideout.
The Garfield Movie[]
One night, Nolan and Roland break into Jon Arbuckle's home to kidnap Garfield and his fellow dog Odie, Jon's other pet, abducting them in a sack. They are taken to the mall, where Vic appears to free his son and his friend, but Jinx surprises them and introduces herself, happy to see Vic again for her revenge. After explaining about her reasons for wishing to get back at Vic, Jinx offers Vic, Garfield and Odie to let them go if they steal milk letters from Lactose Farms, which has expanded into a factory/theme park, one litter for every day she spent in the pound. They are forced to accept due to having no other options, especially after Jinx swallows Barry for annoying her, but to make sure they fulfill their promise, Jinx dispatches Nolan and Roland to check on them from behind.
As Garfield, Odie and Vic devise a plan to infiltrate Lactose Farms with the help of its former mascot Otto, Nolan and Roland return to inform Jinx about their progress, but Jinx reveals to them that she actually doesn't care for the milk but at her revenge on Vic. As such, Jinx calls to the Animal Control offices and reports on the planned robbery, leading Animal Control officer Marge Malone to go to Lactose Farm to stop the heist. Once there, Malone manages to capture Garfield and Odie, who are left behind by Vic, as he escapes with the milk truck due to knowing that Garfield's license tag can allow Jon to bail him and Odie from the pound, but once he reaches Jinx at a tunnel, Jinx reveals her true plans, which were to let them perform the heist just to have Vic captured as revenge, with a personalized execution as a backup for the occasion he escaped.
Once Garfield returns to his home and realizes thanks to the cats from the pound that Vic did look up for him every day as he claimed, he and Odie return to the abandoned mall only to find out that no one is there and discover what Jinx has been planning for Vic, which is to throw him off a train into a ravine with pointy rocks. With no time to lose, Garfield and Odie go to the rescue with Otto's help, with Garfield using several delivery drones to reach the train to save Vic. Eager to finally get rid of Vic, Jinx tries to strike father and son with an axe, but they get out to the top of the wagons. With the duo at her mercy, Jinx orders Nolan and Roland to grab Garfield and Vic and drop them off to their deaths as they cross the ravine's bridge. But however as father and son emotionally reconcile, Nolan and Roland consumed a change of heart/redemption as they refuse to kill them, also denouncing Jinx for always abusing them.
Unable to let her resentment on Vic and vengeful plans go, Jinx simply knocks Garfield, Vic, Nolan and Roland off the train to their deaths, seemingly completing her revenge against Vic. However, she karmically gets knocked off too into the ravine by a signal. Fortunately, Otto saves them all with a rope and Jinx gets tangled in a safety net they had placed to rescue them.
Eventually they later locked Jinx into a cat cage and deliver her to Malone under a disguise as a dealer. Confirming her crimes and villainy, they informing to Malone about Jinx's villainous involvement in the Lactose Farms' robbery. Garfield, Odie, Vic were actually the ones that went into the farm in robbery but unwillingly did so by Jinx's deceptive proxy that she had manipulated them to do it all. So as they informed Malone before taking Jinx away, thus Malone surrenders Otto's girlfriend Ethel in exchange of Jinx. After being taken away for good as her well-deserved defeat, Jinx angrily can't stand seeing Nolan and Roland happy at her capture as they were the ones who ratted her out.
At the end of the film, Vic is welcomed into the Arbuckle since he became a family member. They all have fun as they enjoy life together forever like early life all over again but Vic is included. While they went on a bonding drive together, Jinx can be seen doing community service as supervised by Malone as defeat and angrily disappointed as she oversees them.
Upon her defeat, Jinx has her villainous revenge against Victor to end in failure and she has been ditched once again in defeat as she is forcefully stuck in her imprisoned life as Malone's hostage pet cat while she does community service as punishment. It also made her whole entire life end up worse forever as her karma since her revenge against Vic fails to succeed and all her offensive crimes are revealed. All the incriminated cats that Jinx tricks Malone to lock away were all even set free from their imprisonment from Malone as well as they were all seen attending Garfield's birthday party. Jinx incriminates the cats so it backfired and went all back to her since she became imprisoned hostage as Malone's pet cat.
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
“ | Hello, Vic! | „ |
~ Jinx to Garfield's father Vic, surprising him, Garfield and Odie. |
“ | As a matter of fact, I do... | „ |
~ Jinx to Vic about what she has planned for him. |
“ | No, no! Don’t throw them over just yet. No! I want to find the perfect place for them to make THE BIGGEST SPLAT! | „ |
~ Jinx getting ready to throw Vic and Garfield off the bridge. |
“ | Get ready! Almost there! | „ |
~ Jinx about to order her henchmen to drop the two cats. |
“ | NOW, NOW! DROP THEM NOW!!! Huh? What are you waiting for? | „ |
~ Jinx confused on why Vic and Garfield aren't dead yet. |
“ | You two are still as weak as you were when I found you sniveling in the pound! "Ooh, no one will adopt us. I never grew into my folds. I hide behind them because I’m socially awkward. Please, somebody love me even though I can’t sit still for more than ten seconds and have the attention span of A BLOODY GOLDFISH!” | „ |
~ Jinx condescendingly scolding her henchman for hesitating with her plans and, additionally, exploding at Nolan in frustration. |
Trivia[]
- Much like her henchmen and Vic, Jinx has never appeared in any official Garfield comics or miscellaneous material, making her debut in the film itself.
- Coincidentally, both The Fall Guy and Garfield came out on the same year and had Hannah Waddingham play the roles of their respective villains, Jinx and Gail Meyer.
- Jinx had a Villain Song called "I'm Back," however, it wasn't used until the credits. Although, it is also available on the film's official soundtrack.
- Jinx could be considered/represents as a dark counterpart to both Garfield and Vic:
- In Garfield's case, both were tragically betrayed when they were abandoned by Vic since their early lives and had a resentment towards him because of it. However, due to Vic's plan to let Garfield get captured so Jon can find and bring them back home, in addition to finding out Vic was always there to watch him grow up and indeed loves him, and because Vic is his father that gave him life to exist as the feline which he ever was, Garfield was eventually able to overcome his hatred and forgive Vic while Jinx never did. She represents as Garfield's example of what it would ever be like if he never forgave his father for abandoning him and thus Vic wouldn't be welcomed to the family either.
- In Vic's case, both of them lived a large portion of their lives as thieves. However due to becoming Garfield's father, Vic redeemed himself and started a new path in his life to take care of him and watch him grow up, while Jinx regressed further into her psychopathy after being separated from him. He changed his life better when welcomed to the Arbuckles while Jinx purely maintains being resentful and staying in the past. She became an example for Vic if he didn't change his life for the better.
External Links[]
- Jinx on the Garfield Wiki
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