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| “ | The good people at Universal Dynamics have programmed us to put our targets at ease, so as to more efficiently facilitate their collection. But don't worry. Despite my cheery demeanor, I am unfeeling, inflexible, and morally neutral. | „ |
| ~ Vontra describes herself to Roz. |
| “ | Roz: Can I keep... just... one? Vontra: Hmmmmmmmm... no. |
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| ~ Vontra before beginning to wipe out Roz's memories despite her pleas. |
| “ | WE WILL JUST KEEP COMING UNTIL WE HAVE YOU!! | „ |
| ~ Vontra's repeating last sentences as she is crushed to death by the tractor beam. |
The Virtual Observational Neutralizing Troublesome Retrieval Authority, abbreviated to Vontra, is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 47th full-length animated feature film The Wild Robot, based on Peter Brown's novel trilogy of the same name.
She is the head RECO who was sent to archive Roz after the latter was trapped in the wilderness. After Roz's refusal to return home, Vontra begins taking drastic measures to ensure she brings back Roz, even if it means destroying the wilderness that she considers her true home.
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. She has a smaller section below her head that sports five black tentacle like appendages, each with two fingers.
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. Even when meeting her death by a tractor beam, Vontra proves to be defiant by pointing out that Universal Dynamics will still be tracking down Roz at all costs. These factior indicate of Vontra having a psychopathic mature.
Biography[]
Vontra arrives on the island in a large ship sent by Universal Dynamics towards the signal of Roz's return beacon. She faux-cheerfully introduces herself to Roz, and requests Roz board her ship so she can be repaired and studied back at the factory. While Roz initially follow reluctantly, Fink runs to the ship at the last minute to tell Roz that Brightbill wants to see her. Despite Vontra's insistence that they leave, Roz lies, saying she has forgotten something, and jumps out of the ship to follow Brightbill. Vontra sees through the deception and immediately sends out RECO drones to retrieve her.
The animals Roz has befriended destroy the drones, so Vontra triggers their self-destruct to create a forest fire, then takes advantage of the chaos to kidnap Roz with her ship's tractor beam. She takes Roz to a machine that will download and wipe her memories of the island. Roz pleads to keep "just one" memory, but Vontra is indifferent, and activates the machine just as the ship is attacked by Brightbill and his fellow geese. Despite Vontra's efforts to kill them, Brightbill makes it onboard and sees that Roz has been deactivated, and Vontra has seemingly succeeded 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. They try to escape, but Vontra appears and attempts to kill them both. However, Roz manages to distract her long enough to detach her hand and activate the same tractor beam, which crushes Vontra to pieces. As she gets killed, Vontra remains confident and warns Roz that Universal Dynamics will never stop looking for Roz until they catch her.
Roz and Brightbill escape the ship before it explodes and reunite with the animals. Remembering Vontra's threat, Roz decides to leave the island to protect her friends. After saying her goodbyes, she activates her beacon to summon another ship, and is taken away. Later, Brightbill reunites with Roz in a Universal Dynamics greenhouse, who has kept her memories in her restored body.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- To emphasize 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.
- Vontra is only present in the film adaptation. In the books, the RECOs' ship was automatically piloted.
External Links[]
- Vontra on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Vontra on the DreamWorks Wiki