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Her Royal Duchess Diamond Persnickety, the First, Last and Only, or simply Duchess (referred to by her full name in the pilot movie), is a supporting antagonist of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. She speaks with a German accent and is voiced by Grey DeLisle.
Personality[]
This imaginary friend is a scheming, snobby, pompous, stuck-up, vain, conceited, negative, extremely rude, short-tempered, arrogant, selfish, self-centered, mean Picasso-like pain-in-the-neck who is literally two-dimensional when she turns her head or body (however, she is not two-dimensional in the pilot movie, "House of Bloo's"). She's considered a "high-maintenance" friend, not wanting to do anything for herself, and is so lazy that she needs somebody to open her eyelids when she wakes up. The residents seem to follow her commands because she is both able and willing to scream incredibly loud for an indefinite period of time without rest unless she gets what she wants, as was seen when she lived next door to Mac and was able to yell nonstop from him going to bed to him waking up, revealing a rather spoiled and annoying side to her personality. In a few episodes, she has helped someone, but only so that she could help herself, thus for selfish reasons. For example, in "Affair Weather Friends", she told Mac about Bloo hanging out with "Barry Bling" (aka Berry in disguise) behind his back. Duchess is considered one of the worst imaginary friends due to her ugliness and evilness.
In the pilot, she and Terrence conspire to get rid of Bloo after the millionaire's spoiled daughter wanted to adopt him instead of Duchess, who was chosen by her mother and father. As punishment for trying to get rid of Bloo, she was not kicked out of the house, but rather was forced to stay as she desires to leave.
Despite her desire to leave, Duchess insults almost everyone who tries to adopt her except for the rich family in the pilot and Barry Bling in "Affair Weather Friends", showing that while she badly wants to leave, she doesn't want to live in any less pampered lifestyle she would be forced to give up if she went home with a normal family (In other words, she wants to be adopted by a rich family). Everyone else desires her to leave very badly, however, so much so that Mr. Herriman spends the entire budget for advertising adoption on her, even saying that they will pay a family to take her.
Appearance[]
Duchess has yellow skin, a long neck, a beauty mark, a trunk-like nose, a mouth that is turned sideways and two eyes, one of which appears to be upside down.
She wears a white turban with a ruby in it, light blue and purple eyeshadow, pink blush, red lipstick, green and black striped earrings, a blue and red pearl necklace and bracelet, a white dress with black triangles on it, two black bracelets, red nail polish, black and green striped leggings, and black high heels. Her appearance is based off of Picasso's artwork.
Episode Appearances[]
Season 1[]
- ”House of Bloo's”
- ”Dinner Is Swerved”
- ”World Wide Wabbit” (non-speaking cameo)
Season 2[]
- ”Partying is Such Sweet Soiree”
- ”Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way” (non-speaking cameo)
- ”Bloo's Brothers” (non-speaking cameo)
- ”Beat With a Schtick” (non-speaking cameo)
- ”Bloo Done It”
- ”My So Called Wife”
Season 3[]
- ”Duchess of Wails”
- ”Land of the Flea” (non-speaking cameo)
Season 4[]
- ”The Big Picture”
- ”The Big Cheese” (non-speaking cameo)
Season 5[]
- ”The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power!” (non-speaking cameo)
- ”The Bride to Beat”
- ”Affair Weather Friends”
- ”Better Off Ed” (non-speaking cameo)
Season 6[]
- ”Destination Imagination” (non-speaking cameo)
- ”The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To”
Trivia[]
- There is a running gag where she believes she is the most beautiful in the world, only for everyone else to consider her extremely ugly.
- Her skin appears to be a paler shade of yellow in both "Affair Weather Friends" and "The Bride to Beat". However, in the widescreen HD versions of the episodes as seen on HBO Max, her skin color has been changed to better match her appearance in the rest of the series.
- She can control Extremosaurs, as seen in "House of Bloo's".
- Among the main characters, Duchess is one of the characters that never was arrested and jailed during the series. The others are Frankie Foster, Goo, Cheese and Terrence.
- Duchess's golden trading card statistics in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Leapster game are:
- Is disliked by everyone at Foster's. (even Wilt, but he's sorry)
- Demands that Madame Foster make her a new dress every day.
- Doesn't like anyone at Foster's.
- Loves being waited on hand and foot.
- Despite what her golden trading card says, Duchess surprisingly bears no animosity towards Uncle Pockets, considering him "tolerable", though she doesn't necessarily like him either.
- It is possible that Duchess has a very good sense of smell, considering that she is able to smell money.
- Duchess doesn't appear in the series finale "Goodbye to Bloo", unlike all the other main characters on the show. Her final appearance was in "The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To".