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| “ | You were not easy to find. | „ |
| ~ Vontra meets Roz for the first time. |
| “ | We will just keep coming until we have you. | „ |
| ~ Vontra's last words before being crushed to death. |
Vontra is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 47th full-length animated feature film The Wild Robot, which is based on Peter Brown‘s book series of the same name. She is the head RECO who was sent to archive Rozzum after the latter was trapped in the wilderness.
She was voiced by Stephanie Hsu, who also played Jobu Tupaki in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Karen Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical and voices Golden Glider in Kite Man: Hell Yeah!.
Appearance[]
She appears as a floating grayish spike ball, with a red circle around and a bright blue eye in the middle. Vontra has a second red eye on top with red stripes through, with two grey sticks below her. She has the unit number "01" on her.
Personality[]
When first appearing, Vontra is seemingly a bubbly and good-natured robot, showing concern for Roz since she was marooned on the island for over a year and treating her as an equal. In truth however, Vontra's intention is to separate Roz from the forest animals and bring her back to the factory who made her, seeing the animals as meaningless beings and Roz's compassion for them as her disobeying her programming. Vontra best describes herself 'unfeeling, inflexible, and morally neutral', three words she proudly lives up to for all the actions she takes, like destroying an innocent forest with the upmost callousness and putting innocent animals in danger, all just to collect Roz against the latter's wishes to be left alone.
Biography[]
Vontra first appears at the beginning of the film's third act, where she comes to the island via a giant ship in order to collect Roz and bring her back to Universal Dynamics when Roz earlier activated a returning beacon that's inside programmed of her. Roz, feeling like her mission to be a parent to the gosling Brightbill is complete and that she isn't needed anymore, is about to willfully join her, but her fox friend Fink comes just in time to tell her that Brightbill wants to see her. Despite Vontra's instance that they leave, Roz lies and says that she has almost forgotten to bring something with her. Vontra sees through the deception and immediately sends out RECO drones to retrieve her.
When the drones end up being bested by the animals that Roz has befriended, Vontra makes them self-destruct to set the forest on fire to distract the animals from helping Roz when she decides to take action personally and kidnaps her via a tractor beam. She then takes a weakened Roz to a machine that will take away her memories of the place. Roz tries to make her reconsider, to no avail and Vontra activates the machine just as her ship is under attack by Brightbill and his fellow geese. Despite Vontra's efforts to kill them, Brightbill makes it onto the ship and sees that Roz has deactivated, with Vontra seemingly succeeding in stealing her memories.
Tearfully, Brightbill apologizes for an earlier argument they had that made him question her identity as his parent. This affection reawakens Roz, who returns the sentiment and they try to escape, Before they can, Vontra appears and attempts to kill them both for foiling her plot. However, Roz manages to distract her long enough to dethatch her hand and activate a giant magnet that soon crushes her. Despite this, Vontra remains confident and makes it clear that Universal Dynamics will keep sending more robots after Roz since they know where she is.
After escaping the ship before it explodes, Roz nonetheless takes Vontra's warning into account and believes that the animals are in danger if she remains on the island, so with great reluctance, she says goodbye to everyone, Brightbill and Fink especially, and sends out her beacon once more for another ship to come and bring her back to Universal Dynamics.
Trivia[]
- Despite being the film's main antagonist, she doesn't appear until the film’s climax.
- To make the physical and moral differences between Roz and Vontra, the movie made Roz look more human-like and grow out of her programming while Vontra looks more like a flying octopus and is intent on seeing her goals through to the end regardless of what she has to do.