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“ | They can't just drop me. I'm light as a feather! I'm the Bake-O-Lite Girl! | „ |
~ Piella's catchphrase as well as her last words. |
“ | Get your hands off me! I hate flour, I hate bread, and I hate bakers, you utter and complete FRUITCAKE! | „ |
~ Piella Bakewell's tirade towards Wallace after she gets hit by the flour bag, foiling her first attempt to murder him. |
Piella Bakewell, formerly called the Bake-O-Lite Girl before her weight increased, is the main antagonist of the 2008 short film Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death and the postomous overarching antagonist of the video game Wallace and Gromit: The Big Fix Up due to her death setting off the events of that game in the first place.
She was voiced by Sally Lindsay.
Appearance[]
Piella was a morbidly obese woman with pale skin, red lips, blue eyeshadow and blonde hair tied in a chignon. She wears a pink dress, pink shoes, and pearl jewellery.
As the Bake-O-Lite Girl in the commercial before she was fired, Piella originally had a slim build and wore white clothing.
Personality[]
Piella initially appeared to be a very sweet, polite, kind and caring woman when she first met Wallace and Gromit, even to the point where the former fell in love with her. (She also appeared this way before being fired.) However, this was just to disguise her true nature; in reality, she was a cruel, sadistic, manipulative and hypocritical woman, obsessed with getting revenge by killing several innocent bakers. Piella was also very violent and strict towards her pet dog named Fluffles, as she would mistreat her poorly frequently, and will go to great lengths to achieve her goals.
Biography[]
Past[]
Piella was once famous as the Bake-O-Lite Girl, the star and pin-up model of commercials for Bake-O-Lite slimming bread who rode a balloon and always sang, "I'm light as a feather, I'm the Bake-O-Lite Girl" as she starred in said commercials. Piella's fame gave her a fortune to live in a luxurious mansion called 12a Pastry Rise with her dog, Fluffles, which houses many mementos of her former glory.
However, when Piella gained weight after eating too many bakery products and became too heavy to ride the Bake-O-Lite Balloon, she was fired. This made her snap and hate all bakers. She decided to eliminate all bakers in the vicinity to get her revenge and to complete a baker's dozen, 13. To do this, Piella pretends to fall in love with bakers and murders them.
A Matter of Loaf and Death[]
She had attempted to kill Wallace when he and Gromit opened a bakery service. Gromit tries to warn Wallace and stop Piella, but fails when Piella tricks Gromit by biting herself, and tells Wallace to punish Gromit by making him clean the dishes while chained with a muzzle and a collar. Piella tries to get Wallace to get her shoe, but gets hit with a bag of flour, and tumbles down the stairs. Piella finally snaps and reveals her true nature to Wallace.
The next day, Piella bakes a cake for Wallace, and inserts a bomb inside the cake in an attempt to kill him. She captures Gromit, who has been snooping in her room, but has no idea that Gromit and Fluffles have managed to escape in the Bake-O-Lite Balloon to save Wallace. As the latter lit the candle of the wake, Gromit bursts in, and tries to extinguish it to no avail, but is not strong enough. As a last resort, he tries to get rid of it by throwing it away, but is caught by Wallace, who stops him by pouncing on him. However, this also reveals that the cake is actually a bomb. In complete shock, Wallace eventually realizes that Piella is actually the Cereal killer, who has murdered the 12 bakers, and wants him to be the 13th. She attacks Gromit and Wallace with a wrench while the duo are trying to dispose of the the bomb, but Fluffles fights back. However, Gromit and Fluffles foil her evil attempt. She then tries to escape in the Bake-O-Lite Balloon, but fails, and is too heavy, and is not buff enough, and has landed in the zoo's crocodile exhibit, and is eaten by the crocodiles offscreen, and is killed when Fluffles is grossed out and scared as when she sees her once cruel mistress being eaten and cries, as Gromit hugs her.
But even after all she has done, Wallace, with a sad expression, mourns her death, and imagines a thinner young Piella Bakewell riding the Bake-O-Lite Balloon, ascending into the heavens. This may have also been her ghost when Wallace bids Piella farewell and promises that she'll always be his Bake-O-Lite girl. However, Wallace only mourns her death due to how disturbing it was, as he was actually glad she was dead since she tried killing him as he shrugged it off after it happened.
The Big Fix Up[]
In this game, it is revealed that she was really in love with a pie baker named Bernard Grubb, who blamed her death on Wallace and was driven to revenge. However, Piella does not appear in the game due to the events of A Matter of Loaf and Death, but is shown both as a portrait and through archive footage during a flashback. A secret room resembling the inside of her house appears to be hidden behind Grubb's office, filled with stuffed crocodile heads and a photo of her and Wallace in the fireplace.
Other appearances[]
Piella appears in a Christmas commercial for Google+ where she appears unwrapping a present of a rolling pin during a video call with Fluffles, Wallace, Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Trixie and Captain Cuddlepuss. it is unknown when it happened or whether it is canon.
Quotes[]
“ | At last, my thirteenth... my baker's dozen. | „ |
~ Piella Bakewell assuming her victory. |
“ | Wallace: Wait a minute. You don't think Piella could be... Piella: The Cereal Killer? Well done Wallace. Sharp as a brick. Now do exactly as I say, or Fluffles gets snuffled. |
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~ Wallace and Piella as the former realizes on who the latter really is. |
“ | You crossed me once too often, you treacherous little... | „ |
~ Piella before slapping Fluffles. |
“ | That has put a spanner in the works. | „ |
~ Piella before picking up a wrench to kill Wallace with. |
“ | Wallace: But Piella! You're the Bake-O-Lite Girl! Piella: Was... the Bake-O-Lite Girl. I ate too much, you see? Wallace: Oh really!? Piella: I couldn't ride the balloon anymore... Wallace: Oh dear! Piella: ...so they dropped me! Wallace: What a blow! (hits head) Ooh! Piella: ME--A curse on bakers and their loathsome confections! Wallace: GROMIT! |
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~ Wallace and Piella as the latter attempts to kill the former with a wrench. |
“ | Come to Mummy, Fluffy-Wuffy! | „ |
~ Piella preparing to fight Fluffles. |
“ | Bomb-voyage, Wallace. Your buns are as good as toasted. | „ |
~ Piella making her escape. |
“ | Piella: I will be back to get you, Wallace. I will have my baker's dozen. Wallace: But Piella! The balloon won't hold you! Piella: They can't just drop me! I'm as light as a feather. I'm the Bake-O-Lite Girl. Wallace: NOOO! (Piella is so distracted of talking nicely to be light as a feather and being The Bake-O-Lite girl again that she doesn't realize that she is not light enough to escape until it is too late. Fluffles watches in pure shock when her owners ends up landing in a pool and becomes eaten by the crocodiles) Farewell, my angel cake. You'll always be my Bake-O-Lite Girl. |
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~ Piella and Wallace's final conversation. |
Trivia[]
- Piella is the first (and currently only) Wallace and Gromit villain to die, excluding Preston who was rebuilt after his destruction.
- Piella was named after Pie Alah Mode, a pie with ice cream on top, and bakewell tart.
- Piella Bakewell is the second Aardman antagonist who gets killed off, since Mr. Hugh from Stage Fright.
- Piella makes a surprise return in an Aardman Google+ Christmas promo with Wallace, Gromit, Fluffles. and other Aardman characters since the last time we saw her getting eaten by crocodiles (although the Aardman Google+ Christmas promo can be considered non-canon). It is also possible that this took place sometime before Piella continues killing bakers as a serial killer.
- Piella is Wallace's third love interest, preceded by Wendolene Ramsbottom from A Close Shave and Lady Tottington from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Unlike Piella, Ramsbottom and Tottington were heroes while Bakewell is a villain.
- However, Piella Bakewell can be considered as a foil to Wendolene, as she is a malevolent woman with a dog who is not evil like she is while Wendolene is a naïve woman, who befriends Wallace, having a dog named Preston who turns out to be villainous before his redemption.
- In the earliest parts of the film before Gromit discovers about her true nature, Piella's role as the serial killer was foreshadowed at the beginning where she was explaining to Wallace that her brakes failed, Gromit tests the bikes and the brakes actually were working, foreshadowing that she was taking advantage of Wallace's care for others so that she can trick him into falling in love with her so she could kill him.
- Piella is Wallace's first love interest to be an antagonist.
- One of the baker victims who she murdered was Baker Bob, who she was likely engaged to as well. It is unknown whether she planned to kill Bernard Grubb or if he was her true love.
External Links[]
- Piella Bakewell on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Piella Bakewell on the Wallace & Gromit Wiki
- Piella Bakewell on the Aardman Wiki
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