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| “ | You are the bad guy, and I'll show you how this justice system deals with bad guys! | „ |
| ~ Mustache Girl before fighting Hat Kid. |
Mustache Girl is the main antagonist of Gears for Breakfast's indie platform video game, A Hat in Time.
Her goal is to defeat those who she considers a "bad guy" (a generic term for a villain), and to achieve all of the Time Pieces before her former best friend turned arch-nemesis, Hat Kid, can, so she can possess their power to fight "evil." She makes her first appearance as one of Hat Kid's apparent allies, but she undergoes an ultimate transformation into being the game's main antagonist when Hat Kid rightfully rejects Mustache Girl's request of making usage of the Time Pieces to defeat the Mafia of Cooks. However, she redeems herself and becomes Hat Kid's friend once again after the latter mercifully offers a Time Piece to fight against the Mafia before heading home. However, Mustache Girl has gone through a tragic past of the Mafia taking over her home, and their actions eventually drove her to rebel against them.
She was voiced by Eileen Montgomery, who also voices Queen Vanessa in the same franchise.
Physical appearance[]
As her name suggests, Mustache Girl is a little girl with golden orange eyes and a curly mustache with a blond coloration, and she possesses a British accent. Her blonde hair is tied up in braids with turquoise beads. She wears a pink dress, a red-hooded cape, a rose-pink tunic with a purple sash, turquoise shoes, green shoes, and a lavender sash tied around her waist. A medallion with the shape of a star engraved into it holds her cape closed. She has tawny eyes and blonde hair, stylized into loose pigtails with a purple ribbon and turquoise beads.
Personality[]
Mustache Girl is characterized as heavily rebellious, stubborn, unruly, snarky and obstinate individual. Her levels of morality borders on actions with extreme measures, such as giving those she deems tainted the comeuppance she thinks that it is deserved (via humiliation or even death). She has a trait of being fanatical and overzealous with her goals, finding whatever methods she can to achieve her goals. This is shown where she goes through a villainous breakdown because Hat Kid is not "going to make usage of [the Time Pieces] to fight evil." In the game's finale (after claiming one of the Time Pieces), Mustache Girl becomes tyrannical and oppressive by transforming the planet into a lava-ridden landscape and behaving as a judge to banish the "wicked one" into the lava, while the "innocent" are set free.
She believes that forgiving others is obsolete, and that vindictiveness and punishment are better. She is also shown to be a daredevil, proposing to time travel despite the danger. She is heavily lethal, however, as she believes that forgiving others is obsolete, and that vindictiveness and punishment is better. Additionally, Mustache Girl is not above breaking faith with those who underappreciate her plans to defeat the "bad guys," shown when she turns into Hat Kid's arch-rival after the latter rejects Mustache Girl's request to battle against the Mafia with the Time Pieces, not being aware of the consequences of messing with the Time Pieces.
Despite her actions and overall personality, this is all because Mustache Girl suffers through a tragic past of the Mafia overtaking her home, and this ties back to the implication that she has a fear of loneliness and/or isolation, when the people acquainted with Hat Kid start sacrificing themselves to offer her pons during the final battle, and Mustache Girl start to get fearful over the thought of being alone. Shown through the Storybook, titled The Hero, she was once heavily innocent, lighthearted, and welcoming, but the trauma of the Mafia of Cooks taking over her home has heavily impacted her personality.
Biography[]
Chapter 1[]
Act 1[]
Mustache Girl makes her first appearance fighting off some Mafia goons before running off when encountering Hat Kid. She takes in interest in the newcomer and asks Hat Kid if she desires to join her cause in rebelling against the Mafia of Cooks. Mustache Girl then tells Hat Kid if she was involved with the Time Pieces falling from the sky. When Hat Kid makes it up to her tower, she directs the alien to where her parasol has fallen.
Act 2[]
Mustache Girl was captured by the Mafia Goons. After Hat Kid rescues her, the two decide to team up together to bring the Mafia down.
Act 4[]
After being rescued once again, Mustache Girl and Hat Kid decide to infiltrate the Mafia's headquarters. In his battle, the Mafia Boss reveals that Mustache Girl was caught and declared that the two of them will die as soon as the fight's over. After Hat Kid's victory over the boss, Mustache Girl strives to make usage of the Time Pieces to take down the Mafia, but Hat Kid refuses (knowing that time-traveling for such ambitions can be dangerous) and Mustache Girl betrays Hat Kid out of spite in response.
Final Chapter[]
Mustache Girl infiltrates Hat Kid's spaceship and finds where the Time Pieces are located, so she then makes usage of their power to turn the planet into a lava-ridden landscape. Hat Kid eventually finds this out after she returns to the spaceship. Mustache Girl declares herself the leader of the world and promises to purge the "bad guys." She was confronted by Hat Kid and lets her off (due to not committing heinous and wicked actions). Hat Kid approaches her in an attempt to reconcile with Mustache Girl, but the latter abruptly smacks her off a distance without warning, prompting Mustache Girl to become even more hostile and leading into a brief fight. After the battle, Mustache Girl is defeated by Hat Kid with the assistance from the residents of the world, and Hat Kid makes usage of the Time Piece to restore the damage caused by Mustache Girl's actions, and revert the world back to its original incarnation.
Mustache Girl is transported back to the Mafia Town and lies defeated on the island. However, the player can choose whether or not for Hat Kid to offer Mustache Girl a Time Piece.
Battle[]
Mustache Girl is fought in three phases.
Phase 1[]
Mustache Girl makes usage of her throne location as the battle arena for Phase 1. She attacks by using teleportation close to Hat Kid, who must counterattack by smacking her off. If she is not countered, Mustache Girl will strike, dealing damage. Mustache Girl can, in fact, be hit at all times necessary, even though she does not turn blue. After five hits, Hat Kid and the enemies-turned-heroes band together and Phase 2 begins.
Phase 2[]
This Phase and future phases occur within a time rift Mustache Girl creates in her rage when she finds out that Hat Kid has started teaming up with their former enemies.
Mustache Girl begins her second phase by blackening the throne room as the rest of the crew is sucked into a new time rift, titled the Hyper Zone. Then, time pieces fall from the sky. After this, the predominate portion begins. During this phase, Mustache Girl can now launch a damaging line from the impact that the time pieces make, and she can now unleash a laser beam. After another series of six hits, the Conductor (from Chapter 2 of the game) forms a Mafia Ball, which Hat Kid can kick into Mustache Girl, dealing damage. After another series of four hits, Mustache Girl gets a barrier, but it can be popped if she gets hit by a fruit bomb that Hat Kid obtains from the Snatcher (from Chapter 3 of the game). Annihilating the barrier does not damage Mustache Girl, but she will be vulnerable. After another series of five hits, Mustache Girl enters Phase 3.
Phase 3[]
Right from the beginning of Phase 3, Mustache Girl will eventually lose her temper. She will then fire a laser beam (which does not deal damage to Hat Kid even if she gets caught), causing all of the former "bad guys" to die from it. Then, the redeemed "bad guys" make usage the Pons gained from their death to offer Hat Kid power so she can deal the final 8 blows to the traitor. As the "bad guys" throw Pons, Mustache Girl will realize that her powers are weakening, so she decides to turn up the heat by unleashing and throwing out a flurry of magical hourglasses at a much quicker and aggressive rate. However, Hat Kid will receive power from the Pons and can make usage of their energy to heal herself if she gets damaged.
Mustache Girl is eventually defeated and knocked flat on her face, skidding across the floor as the Hyper Zone disappears and the throne room re-materializes. Hat Kid promptly grabs the Time Pieces she lost to the traitorous mustache-bearing maniac, and restores the original timeline of the universe.
Seal The Deal[]
In the DLC pack, Seal the Deal, the player can unlock and fight a more powerful and formidable battle against Mustache Girl, dubbed "Mustache Girl EX," which is much more difficult, especially due to her final phase, where Pons do not appear. She retains her attacks from before, and her breakdown-based cutscenes have been abbreviated.
Trivia[]
- Mustache Girl's red-hooded cape gives her a strong resemblance to the Little Red Riding Hood, the titular character of the famous folktale of the same name.
- She is the only antagonist who does not turn blue at all in the game, but can still be damaged.
- Mustache Girl was originally planned to have a second playable section in the Subcon Forest. Thus, she would have had her own interaction with the Snatcher, like Hat Kid, albeit with different dialogue.
- Interestingly, Mustache Girl and the Mafia Boss have the same kind of a mustache.
- Mustache Girl and Queen Vanessa share the same voice actor: Eileen Montgomery.
- In the DLC, Nyakuza Metro, a dye option, titled, "The Justice," is available for purchase, coloring Hat Kid that matches Mustache Girl's pallet.
- During her playable section, Mustache Girl can go up the slide to the Mail Room without the requirement for the Ice Hat. Since the game never expects players to perform this, she T-Poses when the player collects the Rift Tokens (and the Time Rift's Time Piece) in there if the player has not done so since. This also happens when she bounces on the Earthling Sitting Device.
- Mustache Girl's reaction to her friend, Hat Kid, desiring to go home and refusing to make usage of the Time Pieces for Mustache Girl's request, can be considered a villainous breakdown. Additionally, this also shows Mustache Girl's unwillingness to forgive.
- How Mustache Girl got her mustache is unknown. It could be a fake mustache, since female entities tend to lack a mustache. Another reason is speculated to be a mutation. However, it does give off a clue to her true cunning nature.
- Mustache Girl was originally going to be called, Mou Girl, but that idea was scrapped.
- In the Beta, Mustache Girl made her home on an island approximately 1.25 miles from the Mafia Town, inside a small cave. In the final game, this cave was moved to the Mafia Town's mainland instead.
- If Hat Kid takes too long to hit the Mafia Boss during his attack, "Mafia Ball," Mustache Girl will yell out, "Hat Kid! Hit him already!" This is one of the only times someone directly refers to Hat Kid as such, and Mustache Girl is one of the few characters in the game to refer to Hat Kid as such.
- During her playable section, Mustache Girl cannot climb ladders. According to Hypo (the Animation Lead at Gears for Breakfast), the team lacked an animation for Mustache Girl climbing ladders, so it was decided that the team basically did not let her perform such.[1] This also occurs when bouncing on the Earthling Sitting Device.
- Oddly, Mustache Girl has animations for swimming, despite it being impossible to access Hat Kid's bedroom while playing as her.
- Mustache Girl has several scrapped lines that she would have said while inside Hat Kid's Spaceship, which imply that the cutscene where she breaks the Time Pieces would have been longer.[2] There are also lines for her mentioning that the doors being locked, where she theorizes that the doors are activated via facial recognition. Yet, the Wowl Band and the Mafia Boss are able to make it into the Machine Room in traditional circumstances, despite their unorthodox appearances.
- There would have originally been more playable segments for Mustache Girl, likely in-between each chapter, but were cut for time. In the launch edition of the game, there was unused text for a playable segment associated with Mustache Girl in the Subcon Forest. The opening cutscene for this could still be activated in-game, albeit unvoiced, and it was impossible to activate the encounter with the Snatcher.[3]
- While the decision to offer Mustache Girl a Time Piece in the ending cutscene notifies that Hat Kid will potentially not be able to get home if she does so, the decision lacks actual bearing on what happens overtime as the game only has a single ending. Originally, however, there would have been an alternate ending where offering her the Time Piece would prevent the spaceship from even being able to take off, forcing Hat Kid to walk home. During the end of this sequence, she and Mustache Girl would meet each other at a bookstore as adults, where she would return the Time Piece to her at last.
External links[]
- Mustache Girl on the Heroes Wiki
- Mustache Girl on the A Hat in Time Wiki
References[]
- ↑ A Hat in Time Developers React to 36 Minute Speedrun - YouTube, uploaded May 9, 2020.
- ↑ Unused Text/mustachegirl.int (2nd One) - The Cutting Room Floor
- ↑ A Hat in Time - Subcon Forest unused Mustache Girl Segment - YouTube, uploaded October 12, 2017
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