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Mabel Ego is a minor antagonist in Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille (2007). She's an elderly woman who lives in a countryside cottage away from Paris which was originally the home of Remy, his family and his friends. She was voiced by the late Sally Kellerman.
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Physical appearance:[]
Mabel appears to be an elderly woman who wears a pink robe, pink bedroom slippers, curlers covered by a pink hairnet, and noticeably big prescription eyeglasses which make her eyes seem big.
Personality:[]
Mabel is a huge fan of Auguste Gusteau, as she often watches him on TV. She also loves cooking, proven by her large collection of herbs and spices in the kitchen of her house. In addition, she has a big fear of rats and a trigger-happy personality rooted in her youth when she participated in the French Resistance against the Nazi Occupation in World War II (shown in pictures which can be seen in her house). Old age and a lack of any recent practice have numbed her aim, as she wrecks her house far more than the rats ever could, shooting at them and accidentally destroying the ceiling of her house in the process. She also owns a gas mask and rat poison spray, which she should've used in the first place instead of her gun.
Role in the film:[]
Mabel is an elderly woman who lives on the outskirts of Paris, France in a quaint village. Remy, along with the rat colony, lives there in the attic of Mabel's house. Mabel loves to cook, proven by her collection of many different foods, and is always seen watching Auguste Gusteau on TV. She also owns Gusteau's famous cookbook: "Anyone Can Cook", which is always left in the kitchen, causing Remy to visit her kitchen regularly. After Remy was dreaming while eating a cheese and a strawberry, Mabel wakes up as Remy escapes her in fear. Later, when Mabel sees Remy and Emile in her kitchen, she grabs out her gun and shoots at them while accidentally blowing numerous holes in the ceiling, causing it to crash down onto the floor along with hundreds of rats. The rats begin to escape from her home, but Mabel still doesn't leave her infestation to that. She puts on a gas mask and starts spraying a gaseous rat poison at the rats. Remy was her main target because he was the final rat to escape. She soon gives up after the rats escape from her in their "rescue boats", and after missing her final shot at Remy (who was floating on her stolen cookbook and being separated from the others), it's unknown what becomes of her after that, as she isn't seen again for the remainder of the film.
Video game:[]
She also appears in the movie's official video game for the PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii in two levels, Somewhere in France (using her gun to kill some rats) and The City Market (on a chase).
Trivia:[]
- She's possibly Anton Ego's mother, given the fact that in Ego's flashback, his house looks like a mirrored version of Mabel's.
- She is based on Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies, Nick Barkley from The Big Valley, Grandma Walton from The Waltons, and Carla Tortelli from Cheers.
- Mabel's shotgun strongly resembles a Winchester Model 1897 Pump Shotgun. However, in the comics, it's an over-under double barreled shotgun.
- The shotgun seems to hold up to 11 rounds (either 11 in the magazine, or 1 in the chamber and 10 in the magazine). However, the gun's real life counterpart could only hold up to 7 (1 in the chamber, 6 in the magazine).
- Although Mabel's name is never said in the movie, it's revealed in the official concept art book, The Art of Ratatouille, which was released one month before the film's release. This was also revealed in the Ratatouille Video Game for the PS3 and Xbox 360. If you replay the chase where Remy escapes from Mabel with her stolen cookbook. It's titled "Rat Race", and the game has a subtitle saying, "Run as fast as you can and don't let Mabel catch you."
- In the PS2/PC version of the Ratatouille video game, Mabel is shown working with Skinner (the film's main antagonist) trying to kill Remy during the City Market chase (even through the two characters never interacted with each other in the movie).