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| Babydoll | |
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| Age | 20's |
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| Birthplace | Unknown,maybe Brattleboro |
| Hair Color | Blonde |
| Eyes | Blue-Green |
| Species | Human |
| Title | Dancer |
| Relatives | Mother (deceased), Sister (deceased), Stepfather (alive) |
| Status | Alive (Lobotomized) |
| Actor | Emily Browning |
Babydoll is the protagonist of Sucker Punch.
Even in her darkest moments of despair, the idealistic Babydoll never loses her perspective on right and wrong. She may seem like a fragile and naive little schoolgirl, but her enemies underestimate her at their own peril. This prized pupil quickly master her Japenese short sword and 45 automatic to become incredibly powerful - perhaps even invincible. Babydoll exudes just the right combination of quiet intensity and transcedent vulnerability.
Movie Story
Babydoll and her sister in the wake of their mother's death
After the death of Babydoll's mother, Babydoll's stepfather discovers from their mother's will that his wife left everything to her two daughters. Apparently enraged that he worked so hard to marry the woman (and perhaps engineered her death) only to be left nothing, he gets a bottle of Paradise rum and drinks. And drinks some more. He gets so drunk that he heads for the girls' rooms, and just as Babydoll is leaving her sister's room, he decides to attack Babydoll and possibly try to rape her. He doesn't succeed and then turns his sights on Babydoll's sister. He locks Babydoll in her room and then turns on his youngest stepdaughter.
Babydoll, in a panic-stricken state, escapes her temporary "holding cell" by climbing out her window and finds her stepfather's .45 caliber pistol. Babydoll stops her stepfather as he is trying to break into the closet where her sister has locked herself. Scared at seeing Babydoll with a gun, he tries to reason with her, but she fires one round that barely clips his left arm. However the bullet ricochets off his arm, hits a steam pipe, shatters a lightbulb, and then fatally strikes her little sister.
Babydoll cries over the body of her sister, horrified at what she had done. Scared and angry, she stalks over to her stepfather who was trying to call the police. She aims the gun at him, but is so upset at what just happened she drops the gun and flees the house. Her stepfather successfully calls the police, who arrest the distraught Babydoll at her mother's grave. She is then taken to the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane.
Her stepfather has framed Babydoll for the murder of her sister, and conspires with the corrupt head
Babydoll in Lennox House.
orderly, Blue Jones, to forge Dr. Gorski's signature in order to have Babydoll lobotomized so that she cannot reveal the truth about the circumstances leading up to her sister's demise.
There are five days before the doctor arrives to perform the surgery on her. During her time in the asylum, Babydoll retreats into a fantasy world in which she is newly arrived in a brothel owned by Blue, whom she envisions as a mobster. While there, she befriends four other dancers: sisters Sweet Pea and Rocket, Amber and Blondie.
Dr. Vera Gorski encourages Babydoll to perform an erotic dance like the other girls, during which Babydoll further fantasizes she is in feudal Japan, meeting the Wise Man. She tells him she wants to escape, so he presents her with weapons and five objects she needs to escape: a map, fire, a knife, a key, and an unrevealed item that will require "deep sacrifice" but bring a "perfect victory". He gives her one last piece of advice before he shoves her out the door into the waiting blades of three samurai; she must defend herself. Taking her newly acquired sword in hand, she fights. Once she bests all three warriors, her fantasy ends and she is brought back to the brothel, her dance impressing everyone including Blue.
Later she tells the girls she has a plan to escape, Rocket is all for it, but her sister flatly rejects Baby's plan,
Babydoll.
saying no one has ever managed to escape before. Blondie says the last three girls who tried died in the attempt. Nontheless, Babydoll tells them that they need to find a map, something to start a fire, a knife, and a key, all four of which she saw when she first walked into Lennox House. She tells them that when she dances, everyone will be so distracted that no one will notice the girls stealing the tools they need. After some convincing, the girls join her in her quest to acheive freedom. First they must get the map with all the exits marked on it, which Sweet Pea has volunteered to steal from Blue Jones's office. Baby begins to dance, transporting herself into another fantasy world mirroring Sweet Pea's theft. In her illusion, the Wise Man informs the girls that the map is in a German trench guarded by undead steampunk WWI soldiers. After some spectacular fighting and a timely rescue by Amber, the girls secure the map and Babydoll is brought back to the brothel once again.
Next, the girls must get a way to make fire in order to trigger the fire alarm and thus automatically open all the doors in Lennox House. The Mayor (Amber's client), has a cigar lighter that will suffice nicely. Unfortunately it is kept in the man's breast pocket, and he is not a handsome fellow by a long shot. Amber doesn't think she is brave enought to swipe it from him, but, as Blondie tells her, he is her client. Just kiss him on the neck and slip your hand down his chest into the pocket, is Blondie's advice to her. Gathering her courage, Amber agrees and Babydoll dances for the first time onstage. This time her fantasy is of an orc-infested castle guarding a young dragon. Inside the dragon's throat are two rocks that when struck will create the most awesome fire the girls will ever see. To Rocket's dismay, they'll have to slit the baby dragon's throat. The Wise Man warns them not to wake its mother and sends them on their mission. Rocket, Sweet Pea, and Babydoll storm the castle from the ground while Amber and Blondie take the sky. Once they find the little dragon and slay it, Babydoll strikes the stones together, producing a magnificent fire. Unfortunately that fire wakes up the mother dragon, and she is not happy to find her baby dead. The girls run for their lives as Amber leads the mother away with her plane. After a bit of chasing Big Momma Dragon bites off the part of the aircraft that held Blondie's gun, causing Amber to lead the dragon back to Babydoll, saying that the firebreathing lizard is all hers. Babydoll swiftly jumps the jet of flame the mother shot at her and stabs the dragon in the head, completing their mission.
Back in their dressing room, the girls celebrate Amber's bravery in getting the lighter and taking one more step closer to freedom. Blue breaks in on their little celebration, asking why they are so happy. Sweet Pea explains that they are glad Babydoll did so well on her first time onstage, which can be frightening. Blue is all smiles but is not convinced, instead lightly-but-threatingly accusing the girls, specifically Sweet Pea and Amber, of messing with his stuff and stealing little trinkets from clients. He advances towards Babydoll, saying that if she wasn't about to make him lots of money dancing for a man they call the High Roller (a rich man who will buy Babydoll's virginity in her fantasy, in reality the doctor who will perform the lobotomy)... Blue leaves the threat hanging.
Babydoll's dance scene
With only a few days left, Babydoll knows they must hurry. The next item up is the Cook's kitchen knife. Sweet Pea and Rocket agree to do this, even though the large, temperamental cook had previously harmed Rocket physically and threatened to rape her before Babydoll came to her rescue. Amber, Rocket, Sweet Pea, and Babydoll all work in the kitchen waiting for Blondie and Madame Gorski to set up the music. As the clock ticks and the two don't show, the girls start anyway. Rocket sits on the cook's lap to seduce him as the others tune his personal radio to more suitable music, spilling a drink near the radio wire in the process. Baby starts to dance once more, creating another illusion. This time the mission is to deactivate and capture a massive bomb set to go off when the train its on reaches city limits. Sweet Pea, Rocket, and Babydoll handle this mission, shooting every robot set to guard the bomb. They successfully manage to deactivate the bomb with four minutes to go, hook it up to Amber's helicopter, and are nearly ready to go when a robot that was blasted in half regains use of its arms and presses the big bad button overriding the deactivation procedure. Suddenly brought back to the kitchen, Babydoll sees that the radio wire had shorted out in the spilled liquid, messing with the radio, turning it off and back on in quick bursts. The Cook snaps back to attention just as Sweet Pea grabs the knife from his belt. He shoves Rocket off of him and angrily takes out another knife, intending to stab Sweet Pea, but before he can Rocket knocks her aside, taking the blade meant for her sister in the ribs. As the knife comes down Babydoll suddenly snaps back to the bomb on the train. She has managed to get on the helicopter's ladder, but Sweet Pea and Rocket are still down below. There is no more time to try to deactivate the bomb again, so Rocket presses a button on her elder sister's jacket, activating what looks like a jet pack to send her off into the sky and safety while Rocket stays behind to see if there is anything she can do. Sweet Pea screams her little sister's name as the huge bomb explodes. Back in the kitchen, Sweet Pea takes her mortally wounded sister in her arms as the others are frozen with shock. With her dying breath Rocket asks her sister that, when Sweet Pea gets home, to tell their mother that Rocket loves her. Sweet Pea promises, and Rocket dies somewhat peacefully. Blue Jones bursts in at that moment and, seeing one of his girls dead, angrily shouts at the "inbred" cook, snaps at his bodyguards to lock the hysterical Sweet Pea in a closet, and yells at the remaining girls to get ready for their show. Despite all this Amber manages to claim the knife.
Meanwhile Blondie is crying in the dance room. Madame Gorski finds her sobbing on the ground and tries to comfort her, asking Blondie to tell her what's wrong. Before she can, Blue interrupts. He interrogates the badly upset Blondie, and finds out about the the girls' plan to escape.
On the eve of Babydoll's last performance, Blue decides to make examples of what happens when people try to escape and "break the foundation of trust." In the dressing room he rants on how he tries to get all his girls the good life. And he does, so he says. It breaks his heart to have his girls conspire against him. Try to escape even. Vera Gorski attempts to calm him down but he strikes her instead. To her credit, she stands right back up and continues to try to soothe him. He presses a gun to her throat and asks her what is it she does, to which she viciously replies "I teach them...to survive...you." He very nearly shoots her, but to everyone else's relief doesn't. Amber starts stammering out excuses, terrified to her very bones, but Blue calmly says that it's okay. He nonchalantly walks behind Amber and shoots her in the back of the head to the horror of the other girls and Madame Gorski. A terribly guilty and scared Blondie tells the girls she is sorry as Blue informs them that Blondie told him what was up. He appreciates her tip off but says no one likes a snitch, and kills her too. He has the bodies disposed of and sends everyone out of the dressing room except Babydoll. He comes close to Baby, and compares his job to a sandbox: he is sitting at the edge of the sandbox while everyone else gets to play with his toys. But not this time. This time he's going to take his toys, and go home. He then tries to rape Babydoll, but she grabs the knife they had stolen earlier and stabs Blue on the left side of his neck. Stunned, he sinks to the floor. She strongly tells him that he will never get her, and yanks the master key from around his neck. She runs to free Sweet Pea from the utility closet, who asks where Amber and Blondie are. Sadly, Babydoll states that it's just her and Sweet Pea. They have all the items now, and so initiate the escape plan. They create a fire using a molotov cocktail using a Paradise Rum bottle, and wait for someone to pull the fire alarm, unlocking the doors. All is going according to plan until they see Blue's men at the front gate. Sweet Pea, visibly shaking, is distressed to find their way blocked and despairs, but Babydoll concludes that she is the fifth item. It is not her story after all-- it is Sweet Pea's. She tells her friend that she will walk out and create a distraction so Sweet Pea can escape. Babydoll tells her to tell her mother what Rocket said, and that Sweet Pea will have to live for all of them now-- after all, she is the only one who can fit in the outside world. She's the only one who still has a life. Quelling Sweet Pea's protests, Babydoll walks out into the open in full view of Blue's men. Sharing a final look with Sweet Pea as the latter sneaks out the front gate, Babydoll kicks one of the men very hard in the crotch.
The lobotomized version of Babydoll.
Soon after, Baby is lobotomized. The Doctor asks Dr. Vera Gorski, "What did she do to deserve this?" Saying that the look in Babydoll's eyes just as he did it... it was almost as if she wanted it to happen. Vera Gorski says that Babydoll caused a lot of problems in the one week that she was at Lennox House, including setting a fire and stabbing an orderly, but Vera wouldn't have done a lobotomy as a solution. Confused, the doctor says that she signed the order authorizing the procedure, but Vera says that's not true. The Doctor shows Vera the signature he was given, but Vera quickly recognizes it as a forgery. Meanwhile Blue Jones and his "bodyguards" lead Babydoll to cell where she will be kept. The bodyguards are uneasy, saying they don't like hurting girls and they won't do it any longer, but Blue screams at them to put Baby in the chair and to shut the door. Alone with Baby, Blue kneels close to her. He softly complains to Babydoll that she has lost herself, and that she's not allowed to lose herself until he says so. Leaning closer, he kisses her. The kiss is broken when police bust open the door, Vera Gorski at their side. They swiftly arrest a clearly insane Blue as he yells takes care of the girls and that nothing was done to Baby-- just look at her face! He struggles and shouts that he will use the bribe the Stepfather's gave him to lower his sentence. An officer shines a light on Baby, asking if she is okay. The camera turns to Babydoll's face for the first time since the lobotomy, revealing a blank expression. But she very slightly smiles, suggesting that Babydoll is not completely lost.
Weapons
Main Article: Babydoll's Weapons
Relationships
Babydoll has a younger sister she loves very much, an evil stepfather, and a deceased mother.
Babydoll's Sister
This dark haired younger sister is much beloved to Babydoll. She is almost raped or otherwise harmed by her Stepfather. Baby tries to save her, but accidentally kills her instead and is arrested.
Babydoll's Stepfather
Babydoll and her sister really hate their Stepfather. Becoming very drunk, he tries to rape Babydoll and then her sister. Baby threatens to shoot him twice, but fails both times. He gets the police to throw her into a mental house and bribes Blue Jones to secure a lobotomy for her so she will never tell anyone the true circumstances around her sister's death. He may also be responsible for their mother's death as well. In Baby's fantasy, he is a priest and she spits in his face.
Babydoll's Mother
She evidently loves both her daughters very much and left them everything when she died. She left her husband nothing, which causes this whole thing. She may have been killed by the stepfather.
Rocket
Baby's first friend in the Lennox House. Rocket welcomes Baby with open arms and gives her a few pointers about surviving the place. Babydoll saved Rocket from being raped by the Cook when he caught her stealing chocolate. Baby along with the other girls were horrified at Rocket's death.
Sweet Pea
Sweet Pea and Baby are on very uneasy terms until the end of the film. Sweet Pea views Babydoll as a danger to her sister, Rocket, with all this talk of escaping. She does not trust Babydoll, and only joins in on the plan in order to protect her sister. The two are seen as equals since Babydoll is the leader of the group and Sweet Pea is the oldest among them.
Amber
Baby and Amber get along quickly, due to Amber's great deal of empathy for Babydoll's tough position. Amber is the first to join the escape plan. Babydoll hugs Amber when the latter successfully stole the lighter, and Baby is upset when Amber is killed.
Blondie
Blondie is at first not too sympathetic towards Baby, but is impressed like the rest at her considerable dancing skills. When Baby presents her escape plan, Blondie readily joins in.
Personality
Babydoll is trying to hide from the pain and guilt caused by her evil stepfather and the deaths of her mother and sister. Imprisoned in a suspicious mental institution, she retreats into her mind and imagines a fantasy world where the lines between dream and reality begin to blur. She thinks up an escape plan, demonstrating leadership and quick-thinking qualities.
Physical Appearance
Babydoll has pale skin, blue-green eyes, and white-blonde hair. Although she is identified as being 20 years old, her small stature, large vulnerable eyes, slender frame, and long, wavy, girlish pigtails, she looks much younger. She is referred to as "Babydoll" in deference to Blue, such as when Sweet Pea tells him "your Babydoll is dancing" and when Madame Gorski introduces her onstage as "This little... Babydoll."
Costume
Babydoll's costume consists of a blue sailors top, though overall her outfit looks like a Japanese school girl (sailor fuku). Babydoll's costume features a midriff-bearing top with nautical collar and flap, and a miniskirt with a large slit. It comes in 3 forms: one is navy blue, another is a dull gray color, and the last one is her costume for the High Roller-- white, covered in sparkles and rhinestones. She also has a revealing dancing outfit consisting of a sleeveless, tight-fitting pink top and black bottoms that show off her legs. Even though she is seen without a headband from time to time, her platinum blond hair is always worn in two long pigtails.
Trailer
Film portrayal
Babydoll is portrayed by Emily Browning.
Trivia
- Babydoll's real name is never mentioned onscreen, but based on the information her stepfather writes on the commitment form at Lennox House, it is theorized that her name is "Mary Reaves" or "Mary Reese."