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| Coco LaBouche | |
| Gender | Female ♀ |
| Birth Date | Unknown |
| Age | Unknown |
| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Owner of EuroReptarland (formerly) |
| Interests | Ruining the special day Kidnapping the babies (including Angelica Pickles (1991)) Seducing Chas Finster (1991) Being president |
| Friends | Jean-Claude Mr. Yamaguchi (formerly) |
| Enemies | Tommy Chuckie Angelica Phil Lil Dil Kimi Kira Didi Stu Chas Howard Betty Spike Fifi Charlotte Drew Mr. Yamaguchi |
| Voice Actor | Susan Sarandon |
| Only Appearance | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie |
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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. Coco decides to be 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, his true successor has to love children since they're the main audience target 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, they discover Angelica Pickles (1991) hiding in Coco's office, eating all of her chocolates.
An angry Coco attempts to have Angelica locked up in jail, but Angelica, having overheard everything and wanting to avoid Coco's wrath, admits to her that Chas is looking for a woman to date in hopes of Chuckie finally getting a loving step-mother. Coco is delighted by this information. Angelica attempts to blackmail Coco, by requesting her very own float and ponies in the parade, and being made 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 and provides her with ice cream as a bribe 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. During the family dinner with the Pickles and DeVilles, Coco uses the opportunity to pretend to fall in love with Chas while continuously impressing 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 affection from Chuckie, who doesn't like her at all. She learns from Angelica that Chuckie is enchanted by the princess character who befriends Reptar of the Reptar franchise, and wishes that the princess could be his new mommy. Coco takes to resolve this 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 attend 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, who earns her an ovation from the audience as the crowd cheers. Though Chuckie is dismayed that Coco was the princess and tried to steal his teddy bear, Chas officially decides to marry Coco, much to the other families' shock. Coco happily takes this as her sign of fortune, knowing now that she's close to earning the promotion.
Later, while Coco is getting ready for the wedding with Chas on the following day, she is 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 Wawa out of his hands, causing the babies to collide with a stand, which knocks a vase off. The vase nearly falls on top of Dil, but Tommy saves his brother from it.
Having had enough of the babies' antics, Coco orders Jean-Claude to lock the babies away inside the warehouse storing the robotic Reptar, as she doesn't want them to ruin the wedding until the finale. Coco even betrays Angelica by having her locked up along with the babies, revealing that she never intended to give Angelica a parade float or ponies for that matter at all. This act is 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 throw out Wawa before slamming the door, revealing her true colors. Kira feels sympathetic for the children and sadly hugs Chuckie's teddy bear in pity. On their way to Notre Dame Cathedral, Kira furiously confronts Coco about deceiving Chas and vows to tell him the truth about what Coco has 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 the others about the journey to find the princess to become his mother. Ignoring Tommy's reassurance about "Reptar mecha" as their companion, Chuckie laments the fact that Coco is about to become his step-mother, who will mistreat him and his friends, and cries in misery, much to his friends' concern. This makes an ashamed Angelica try to comfort Chuckie and she confesses Coco's plan to him and others. The babies are quite confused at first until she admits her involvement in 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. Angelica regretfully apologizes to the babies 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. Once arriving at Notre Dame, Coco marches forward, but signals the singer to stop and starts the wedding ceremony. Meanwhile, the babies sneak inside the giant robotic Reptar, using it to escape the warehouse and head 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 spent a long entire hour reciting what he believes to be his favorite poem. That was, until Coco receives a phone call from Jean-Claude reporting that the babies had escaped and they were on their way to Notre Dame. Coco berates Jean-Claude for this, and 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 the babies make their way to the cathedral, including being swung around mid-air by Robosnail and rocketing up the side of the Eiffel Tower. Eventually, Chuckie manages to defeat Robosnail by pulling on the antennas then letting go, causing Robosnail to swerve out of control and sending both it and Jean-Claude into the Seine River at the bridge.
Meanwhile, Coco loses her patience and forces the ceremony forward by rushing the Archbishop, until she completely loses her temper and furiously throws the Bible at him. Just before the wedding is about to be finished with the Archdeacon asking anyone if Chas and Coco shouldn't be married, Chuckie barges in through the door and screams out "No!" loudly as his very first word, 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 him, but he refuses and embraces his father instead.
But moments later, Jean-Claude bursts in and accidentally reveals that their kidnapping plot has failed out loud. Coco tries to tell everyone to ignore Jean-Claude by calling him an "unemployed fool". But Chas, now finally realizing an evil liar Coco truly is, angrily calls off the wedding. Just then, Kira, the kids, Spike and Fifi arrive at the Church and Angelica attempts to tell everyone the truth about Coco's plan, but Coco promptly hushes Angelica. Suddenly, Mr. Yamaguchi appears in attendance, revealing he had decided to come to the wedding in person and that he's been witnessing the entire ceremony and demands to hear what Angelica has to say about what Coco is trying to do. Realizing now that she was in trouble, Coco smiles nervously as Angelica rightfully reveals Coco's hatred of children, having the heart of one in a jar, and finally her scheme to marry Chas just so she could take control of Yamaguchi Industries and abuse innocent children as the new president of the company. The families are left shocked and horrified at this revelation. Just as Coco is about to attack Angelica for exposing her plan, Yamaguchi, enraged at Coco's deceit, immediately dismisses on the spot 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 in front of everyone, much to their families' shock and Angelica's horror.
An outraged Angelica furiously declares that only she is allowed to pick on the babies and would not allow anybody else to do so. Before Coco leaves Notre Dame in a huff, Angelica retaliates by stepping on and rips Coco's gown 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 tourists with their cameras start taking pictures of her lingerie, much to her anger and humiliation. As Coco runs off and sobs in defeat, Jean-Claude follows her while Spike attacks and chases him off for trying to hurt the babies.
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.