Coco LaBouche is the main antagonist of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. She is the cold hearted, child hating ex-owner of EuroReptarland who wishes to be the new CEO of Yamaguchi Industries (the parent company for the Reptar franchise).
Her employer tells her that she must learn to love children first, to which she lies by saying she's engaged to a man with a child of his own. She tries to get Chas Finster (1991) to love and marry her just so she can get promoted to president. This sets the climax of the movie.
Description[]
Coco LaBouche runs the amusement park EuroReptarland, a Japanese theme park located in Paris, France. Coco's first seen screaming at several of her workers to start the Reptar show. After the massive robotic Reptar's head falls off and damages the audience seats from a short-circuit, Coco angrily orders her secretary, Kira Watanabe, to bring the designer, Stu Pickles (1991), out to Paris for their massive robotic Reptar to be repaired within 24 hours immediately.
Not long after the arrival of Stu with his family and friends at EuroReptarland in Paris, Coco arrives with her assistant, Jean-Claude at her office to find the Rugrats playing around with her collections of Koi fish and fountain, and she sends out Jean-Claude to call in Kira, who calmly escorts the children away from the office. Coco sits in her office and awaits to watch Stu arrive before demanding him to repair the Reptar robot.
Later on when Stu leaves her office, Coco has a video call with her boss, Mr. Yamaguchi, who plans to retire as President of Yamaguchi Industries (the main sponsor of EuroReptarland). A delighted Coco decides to be step in as Yamaguchi's successor for his company, but he tells her that she's one of the many people being considered for the job and most importantly that his true successor has to love children since they're the main target audience for the Reptar franchise. Not wanting to lose her chance, Coco lies to him by claiming to be engaged to a man with a child of his own, but rather than name Coco as his successor immediately, Mr. Yamaguchi tells her that they'll talk about the promotion after the wedding occurs, much to Coco's dismay. Unbeknownst to Yamaguchi, Coco hates kids in general. As Jean-Claude tries to quickly figure out how and where they're going to find a single man with a child, Coco discovers Stu's niece, Angelica Pickles (1991) hiding in her office under her desk eating all of her chocolates.
An angry Coco attempts to have Angelica locked up in prison, but Angelica, having overheard everything and wanting to avoid Coco's wrath, admits that Stu's best friend, Chas is looking for a woman to date in hopes of finally getting a loving stepmother for his son, Chuckie. Upon hearing this, Coco is delighted by this information and offers her deal to Angelica: in return for helping Coco in impressing Chas and getting him to marry her, Angelica attempts to blackmail Coco by requesting to have her very own float and ponies in the parade and become the flower girl for the wedding in exchange for not telling Chas the real reason Coco wants to marry him. Coco is impressed by Angelica's "cunning" methods; even providing ice cream for Angelica as a brie to make sure she holds up her end of the deal.
Coco seducing Chas
Coco forces a reluctant Kira (who has a crush on Chas, although unaware of Coco's real motives) to help her with her plan. Meeting Chas during the family dinner with the Pickles and their closet friends DeVilles, Coco uses the opportunity to pretend to fall in love with Chas while continuously impresses and woos him as much as possible for the next several days. However, Coco learns that Chas is very much smitten with her until she has trouble trying to earn the affection from Chuckie, who doesn't like her at all, but she later learns from Angelica that Chuckie is obsessed with the princess character who befriends Reptar of the Reptar franchise wishes that the princess to be his new mother. Taking delight in this, Coco takes to resolve by swiftly sneaking onto the stage to snatch the original actress playing the princess from the set and stealing her role when Chas and Chuckie attended the show. While Coco happily performs the role of the princess by singing "Reptar I Love You", she hides her face behind a hand fan and sings directly to Chuckie as he approaches her, thinking she's the princess and kindly shares his Teddy bear Wawa with her.
However, when Chuckie reaches Coco, she throws the hand fan aside, revealing her face to him and tries to steal Wawa. Chuckie, Chas, Dil and Kira are shocked as apparently the only ones who recognize Coco, earning her an outstanding ovation from the audience as the crowd cheers. Although Chuckie is dismayed that Coco is playing the princess and tried to steal his teddy bear, Chas is extremely thrilled by this and officially decides to marry Coco, much to the other families shock. Coco happily takes this as a sign of fortune, knowing now that she's close to earning her promotion.
Several days later, the wedding is being prepared at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. While Coco is getting ready for the wedding with Chas on the following day, she's disgusted to see the babies who are eating the leftover foods under a cart in the hallway. Noticing Chuckie holding his teddy bear Wawa, Coco forcefully grabs and yanks it out of his hands, causing the babies to collide with a stand, which accidentally knocks a vase off before it nearly falls on top of Dil and Tommy saves his brother from getting hurt. Having had enough of the babies' antics, Coco orders Jean-Claude to lock and imprisons the babies inside the warehouse storing the robotic Reptar until the wedding is over as she doesn't want them to ruin it; even betraying Angelica by having her locked up with the babies, revealing that she never intended to upheld her deal with Angelica for that matter at all. This act was witnessed by a horrified Kira as Jean-Claude escorts the babies to the warehouse.
Coco ordering the babies to be locked away during her wedding with Chas
Coco then orders a still horrified Kira to destroy Wawa before slamming the door, revealing her true colors. Kira feels sympathetic for the children and sadly hugs Wawa in pity. On their way to Notre Dame Cathedral, Kira furiously confronts Coco for deceiving Chas and vows to tell him the truth about what Coco have done to the innocent children. However, Coco fires her on the spot and kicks Kira out of the limo before driving away and going to Notre Dame alone.
Inside the warehouse where the babies are being held captive by Jean-Claude, a depressed Chuckie apologizes to his friends about their journey to find the princess becoming his mother. Ignoring Tommy's reassurance about the robotic Reptar as their companion, Chuckie laments over the fact that Coco is about to become his stepmother who'll mistreat him and his friends and cries in misery, much to his friends' concern. This droves an ashamed and remorseful Angelica to comfort Chuckie and confesses about Coco's plans to them. The babies are quite confused at first until she admits her involvement behind Coco's plan, much to their shock.
Chuckie is stunned at her revelations and an outraged Dil starts to call out Angelica for her actions, to which Tommy agrees with Dil and angrily criticizes her before Angelica regretfully apologizing them for it. Deciding to take matters into their own hands, Chuckie grows tired of being afraid and rallies up his friends to help him stop the wedding. Tommy and Chuckie both didn't know where they could get a ride to Notre Dame on time until they remember the giant robotic Reptar with them. Once arriving at Notre Dame, Coco marches forward, but signals the singer to stop and starts the wedding ceremony, basically ruining it. Meanwhile, the babies sneak inside the giant robotic Reptar, uses it to escape the warehouse and rushes to the cathedral. Unfortunately, Jean-Claude spots them and boards the giant Robosnail to stop the babies.
During the wedding, Chuckie has enough time to arrive because Chas spends a long entire time reciting what he believes his favorite poem until Coco intercepts a phone call from Jean-Claude reporting that the babies had escaped and they're on their way to the Notre Dame. Coco berates Jean-Claude for this, but inadvertently nearly reveals her plans out loud in front of everyone, who are bewildered by this before she makes a pathetic excuse and continues the wedding.
The pandemonium breaks out in Paris as Reptar (controlled by the babies) make his way to the cathedral, including being swung around mid-air by Robosnail and rocketing up the side of the Eiffel Tower. Eventually, Reptar manages to defeat Robosnail by pulling on Robosnail's right eye antenna then letting go of it, causing Robosnail to swerve out of control and sending both him and Jean-Claude into the Seine River at the bridge.
Meanwhile, Coco is becoming impatient where loses her patience and forces the ceremony forward by rushing the Archbishop who doesn't pronounce marriages until she completely loses her temper and furiously throws the Bible at him. Just before the wedding is about to be finish with the Archdeacon asking anyone if Chas and Coco shouldn't be married, Chuckie barge in through the door and screams out a loud "No!" at his very first word to stop the wedding ceremony, much to the adults' surprise and astonishment. Chas is thrilled to see Chuckie finally talking for the first time and hugs him as he comforts him. Coco pretends to be happy to see Chuckie and tries to beguilingly hug and kiss him, but Chuckie refuses and embraces on Chas instead.
But a moments later, Jean-Claude bursts in and accidentally reveals that Coco's kidnapping plot has failed out loud in fear and tears. Coco tries to tell everyone to ignore Jean-Claude by calling him an "unemployed fool", but Chas (having heard exactly what Jean-Claude said and now finally realizing an evil liar Coco truly is) angrily calls off the wedding before berating Coco for fooling him. Just then, Kira and the kids (along with the Pickles' dog Spike and a poodle named Fifi) arrive at the Church. Angelica attempts to tell everyone the truth about Coco's plan, but Coco promptly hushes her by claiming that flower girls should be "seen, not heard". Suddenly, Mr. Yamaguchi appears in attendance, revealing he had decided to come to the wedding himself in person, witnessing the entire ceremony and demanding to hear what Angelica has to say. Realizing now that she's in trouble, Coco smiles nervously as Angelica bluntly and rightfully reveals Coco's hatred of children and finally her scheme of marrying Chas just so she could become the new president of Yamaguchi Industries. The families are left shocked, horrified and outraged at this revelation. Just as an enraged Coco is about to lash out Angelica for exposing her plan, Yamaguchi, disgusted at Coco's deceit, stops this by coldly berating Coco before immediately dismisses her on the spot for her actions and leaves the church.
Coco complains about her dismissal and attempts to storm out of Notre Dame, but she is stopped and notices that Tommy, Phil and Lil are standing on her dress gown. Furious, Coco yanks her gown and knocks them downward, causing the three babies to fall onto the floor in front of everyone, much to their families' shock and Angelica's horror.
An outraged Angelica furiously declares that she wouldn't allow anybody else but herself to pick on the babies since she is allowed to pick on the babies. Before Coco leaves Notre Dame in a huff, Angelica retaliates by stepping on Coco's gown and ripping it off as she's walking out, revealing her purple lingerie in front of everyone with Jean-Claude mockingly singing about it. As Coco leaves and criticizes everyone to take pictures, several spectators with their cameras started taking pictures of her lingerie, much to her anger and humiliation. As Coco runs off and sobbing in defeat, Jean-Claude follows her whilst Spike attacks and chases him off for trying to hurt the babies. In the meantime, Kira then returns Wawa to Chuckie before begins falling in love with Chas after realizing their favorite poems and they eventually get married back home in North America, allowing Chuckie to finally get a loving stepmother and for Kira's daughter Kimi to earn a loving stepfather prospectively.
Coco's dress ripped off by Angelica
It is unknown what happens to Coco after her defeat. She and Jean-Claude apparently didn't get arrested for their crimes, as they should have, though they may have but was't shown. Either she was working at Ooey Gooey World in EuroReptarland, working at the Perfume P.U. (Parfum de P.U.) where she tests deodorizers on people with smelly armpits and smelly feet or she is doing both. Both are unlikely, as she was fired by Mr. Yamaguchi, which would mean she wouldn't be able to get a job through all of EuroReptarland, which is more likely than she working at the Parfum de P.U.
Looks[]
Coco has almond skin and a pair of white eyes with black pupils. She always wears a pair of triangle-shaped earrings (somewhat similar to the pair that Didi usually wears) that double as a communicator and wears a purplish lipstick with purple eyeshadow. She has brown hair but sometimes wears a purple wig.
She is often seen wearing extremely extravagant and flamboyant outfits, regardless of the situation. When she speaks with Stu and Mr. Yamaguchi, her dress is red with a big green zipper on the front, and she wears a pair of big green platform heels with clocks on them. Another time, during her date with Mr. Finster, she wears a strange purple turban and a dress with pointed shoulders, flared sleeves, and a pair of purple platform shoes.
Personality[]
Coco LaBouche is a very wicked, cruel, heartless, child-hating, arrogant, cold-hearted, hateful, selfish, greedy, diabolical, manipulative and extremely shorted and ill-tempered woman. She despises children and constantly lies and screams to get whatever she wants. She is also extremely abusive and cruel towards her employees, like her right-hand man Jean-Claude and her assistant Kira. She constantly insults Jean-Claude and treats Kira even worse, such as demanding her to throw away Chuckie's precious teddy bear. She's also extremely seductive, coquettish, deceptive and provocative, like when she was able to seduce Chas quite easily, but quickly shows her true colors when Chas' back is turned away. She is also backstabbing in nature, as shown when she offered Angelica a ton of promises in exchange for her help to win Chas' heart, but then double-crosses Angelica by having her locked up with the babies as well.
Appearances[]
Coco has only appeared in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and hasn't appeared in the Rugrats TV series ever since, mostly due to the fact that she lives in Paris, France and that Rugrats in Paris: The Movie was the only time the babies and their parents are seen traveling to Paris.
However, Coco was briefly mentioned by Kira twice in the episode "Finsterella" by her while she was rehearsing her lines as Cinderella's stepmother. She has been mentioned again in "Back to School," where Chuckie refers to her as the "smelly French woman."
Trivia[]
- On Greek dub of Finsterella there is a mistake saying that coco is "Male".
- Coco LaBouche is voiced by Susan Sarandon. Rugrats in Paris is Sarandon's first and only G-rated film she has ever starred in.
- The scene where Angelica steps on Coco's wedding dress, revealing her panties, stockings, and garter belt in front of everybody (including people with cameras) is similar to the scene in It Takes Two, where the real Alyssa Calloway (having been pretending to be Amanda Lemmon) steps on Clarice Kensington's wedding dress (as she is storming out of the church, embarrassed). Clarice Kensington, the main antagonist of It Takes Two, shares several similarities with Coco, including being a child-hater and a gold-digger.
- Her characterization is similar to Cruella de Vil from Disney's 1961 animated movie, 101 Dalmatians.
- Coco's last name comes from "la bouche", meaning "the mouth" in French.
- Lou and Susie are the only main characters of the series not to have met Coco.
- It's unknown if the gang ever told them about Coco.
- She doesn't appear in any episodes of Rugrats (mostly due to living in Paris/France) she is however mentioned by Kira and Chuckie in the episodes Finsterella and Back to School.