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"Mine, Mine, MINE!!!"
Eileen, "The Birthday Girl"
Eileen
Eileen(Birthday girl) promo
Name Eileen
A/K/A Birthday Girl
Gender Female
Age 11[1]
Occupation Villain
Homeland Fair City
Race Human
Friends Violet Heaslip (best friend, multiple episodes)
Exposition Guy (best friend, one episode)
Wordgirl/Becky Botsford (best friend, one episode)

Energy Monster (best friend, multiple episodes)

Family Unnamed mother
Abilities Greed-induced transformation
Super-strength
Size alteration
Enhanced leap
Voice Actor Pamela Adlon

Eileen, also known as the Birthday Girl, is a recurring secondary villain in the show.

Physical Appearance[]

Normal[]

Eileen is a 10-year-old girl with red hair and wears a pink dress with pastel blue sleeves on the top portion of her dress. She also wears a pastel blue hair-bow, a purple and gold cat necklace around her neck, light pink frilly socks and white Mary Jane shoes.

Birthday Girl Form[]

When transforming into Birthday Girl, Eileen's skin becomes green. However, either because of the way the screen interprets it or because of a coloring error, her skin appears to be different shades of green skin at different times. In her promo images it is a light green, while at other times it may be dark, chartreuse, or pear green.

Personality[]

Eileen can easily be described as greedy, heartless, aggressive, self-centered, immature, and sometimes cruel. Usually, she appears to be an innocent little girl to others. She does whatever it takes to get anything she may want by using an unreal polite manner, big eyes, and a lisping voice, along with the statement "Today is my birthday!". Whenever she is denied something she wants, she yells, "Mine, MINE, MINE!", growing in height and turning green with each yell until the owner of the coveted item hands it over in fear.

Eileen thinks that every day is her birthday (hence why she is nicknamed "The Birthday Girl") and such uses the excuse as a reason to get special treatment from anyone and everyone, usually to great effect. Because she thinks every day is her birthday, she thinks every party is her birthday party, every cake is her birthday cake, etc. She greatly annoys Becky because of her lisp, using the "w" sound in words instead of "l" or "r". e.g. "I wearned my wesson," "Today's my biwthday!", "What do bestest-westest fwiends do?".

In addition to using it to get what she wants, she also uses her cute charm to get herself out of trouble, as shown in "The Wrong Side of The Law." Not only does she think every day is her birthday, but Eileen believes that her philosophy is "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine too."

Despite this, though, there have been times where she shows a caring side to others when not getting convinced to be generous. In "Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers", when she finds how disappointed Captain Huggy Face was towards WordGirl after thinking she was going to have Sonny be her new three-legged race partner, she willingly offers to be his new partner for the race. In "Say It Again, Eileen", she generously saves the last crumpet for Becky without being convinced by someone to do so.

Relationships[]

Becky[]

In most of their appearances together, Eileen is generally antagonistic towards Becky, largely because Becky refuses to be pushed around by Eileen and often scolds her whenever she does something wrong. The relationship between them whenever Becky is WordGirl is even more hostile, particularly on the grounds that WordGirl has superpowers and can actually best her in battle.

Violet[]

Eileen tends to claim Violet as her friend in the first few episodes she appears in. Violet gets too nervous to back down and lets Becky handle most of the situation. Eileen first met Violet when her kite was blowing a little too intensely in the wind, she was astounded by how pretty the kite looked and asked Violet if she could have it. When Violet asks her to give the kite back, she declines.

Exposition Guy[]

Eileen met him when she was selling some city scout granola bars, asking if he could buy some and mentioning that it is her birthday, to which he happily agrees. Eileen cheers in excitement when she is suddenly distracted by the Energy Monster. She asks if she can also have that, which he also accepts.

Energy Monster/Maria[]

Eileen seems to have the closest connection to this character. The first time Eileen was with the Energy Monster, they teamed up to beat Miss Power. The true bond began in "The Birthday Girl's Monstrous Gift", where she adopted the Energy Monster, fed her, played catch with her and styled her "hair" into pigtails. She was also seen chasing the Energy Monster in "Gift Pony".

Appearances[]


Gallery[]

Main article: Eileen (Birthday Girl)/Gallery

Trivia[]

  • Her powers are based on those of both Marvel superhero The Incredible Hulk and DC supervillain Giganta; however, unlike the Hulk or Gig-anta, her powers are based on greed rather than anger.
    • She is also similar to Laura Limpkin from Codename: Kids Next Door. Unlike Laura, when turning into a monster, Eileen changes her skin color and her voice echoes.
    • Interestingly, as Eileen transforms into Birthday Girl, her clothes seem to show no signs of tearing apart the bigger she gets (most likely due to WordGirl being a kids' show).
  • The only way to reverse Eileen's transformation is to trick her into doing something generous instead of greed, although sometimes her greed alone can backfire on her (as seen in "Who Wants Candy?").
  • It is unknown what Eileen's last name is, if she even has one at all.
  • In her debut episode and "Slumber Party Pooper", it is revealed that Eileen loves gold stars.
  • Violet was the first person ever to refer to Eileen as "Birthday Girl".
  • While Eileen is usually defeated by shrinking, due to an act of kindness or generosity, in both "Slumber Party Pooper" and "Who Wants Candy?", she remains her giant size at the end of the episode.
  • As seen in "The Rise of Miss Power," there is a possibility that Eileen can transform into Birthday Girl without having to do anything greedy.
  • Eileen and Victoria Best are the only villains to have never been arrested. This is justified, as they're children.
  • Eileen's real birthday is the same as Violet's, as revealed in the episode "Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers". So, if she were 10 at the time, she would have been 11 by that episode.
  • Although not officially confirmed, the cat necklace that Eileen wears is possibly the thing that gives her the power to grow.
    • In her debut episode, Eileen shrinks back to normal size after giving her kitty necklace to Violet, making this theory make some sense, though it is possible Eileen shrinks due to doing an act of generosity and not because of the necklace itself.
    • It is also revealed that Eileen received the necklace from her mother, somewhat hinting she was the "original" Birthday Girl before Eileen was born.
  • In "The Wrong Side of the Law", several pictures on the walls of Eileen's house is a clown with red hair, hinting this could be evidence that her father is a clown.

External Links[]

https://arabidbaby.tumblr.com/post/658600977285464064/lowkey-kinda-catchy

References[]


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