Moody Margaret

Moody Margaret
'Horrid Henry' character
Moody Margaret, as she appears in the book series
First appearance	Horrid Henry (Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret)
Created by	Francesca Simon
Portrayed by	Scarlet Stitt (2011 film) Manpreet Kalsi (animated series)
Information
Nickname(s)	Moody Frogface
Aliases	"The Fangmangler"^[1]
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Occupation	Student
Family	Mother: Unnamed Father: Unnamed
Religion	European
Nationality	British

Moody Margaret is a main character in the Horrid Henry series created by British author Francesca Simon and British illustrator Tony Ross. As the primary antagonist of the series, she is the most prominent arch-enemy of the series' protagonist, Horrid Henry.

History

Margaret is depicted as being a self-absorbed, conceited, arrogant, and violently surly girl who shares an intense rivalry with Henry, and their opposing neighbourhood clubs continuously develop practical jokes or conspiracies against one another. They have resorted to each other's companionship when left with no other options, but nonetheless detest one another immensely and continuously plot against one another, especially in an attempt to sully each other's reputations. A contempted and infamous braggart, Margaret possesses a tendency to gloat about her various accomplishments in a ridiculously narcissistic fashion, looking down on others and domineering her acquaintances and friends. She is resented by her best friend Sour Susan because of her ill-tempered rudeness, but Susan seems to have no other choice than to reluctantly obey the irritable Margaret's constant commands. Margaret viciously domineers the Secret Club in various plots formulated against Henry's corresponding Purple Hang Gang, and the two opposing sides share a mutual animosity. She is used to having her own way and is capable of releasing violent, piercing screeches when her demands remain unfulfilled. Margaret is based upon a lady from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Rebecca Grocott

In other media

Live-action

Horrid Henry: The Movie

Movie poster for Horrid Henry: The Movie featuring Scarlet Stitt as Moody Margaret.

Scarlet Stitt portrays Moody Margaret in the 2011 movie, Horrid Henry: The Movie. At the beginning of the movie, She, Sour Susan and Singing Soroya are in the Secret Club treehouse eating biscuits and arguing. Henry disguises himself as a spy, steals the biscuits and runs away but Margaret has also stolen his mighty magnet yoyo. Later, on his way home from school, Henry dodges a water balloon thrown by Margaret. He ducks behind a lamppost, waits for Margaret to walk past, throws a balloon filled with water that hovers over her head and finally, flicks a yoyo at the balloon which bursts and soaks Margaret. Margaret shrieks and throws another balloon at Henry but he ducks and it hits Perfect Peter instead. The next day at school, Margaret hangs a pail filled with purple paint over the door, ties one end of a rope to it and the other end to the door's handle. Instead of Henry who gets painted, it is their teacher Miss Battle-Axe who falls for the trick! Battle-Axe blames it on Henry, giving Margaret a lucky escape. The next day, Miss Battle Axe's class is moved to Miss Lovely's class after the head sacks Miss Battle-Axe for not controlling the pupils. Margaret snatches Henry's bag and Henry tries to pull it back, resulting in a pot of "Exploding Gross-Glue" placed by the school inspectors to fly out. The glue bursts and hits Miss Lovely in the face. She too gets sacked and the head, Miss Oddbod bans Henry from entering the school's talent contest. As the school is going bankrupt, many children transfer to another school. Margaret and Henry both get transferred to a girls' school (Henry's Great-aunt-Greta transferred him there as she thinks he is a girl). The girls in the school attack Henry for being a boy and try to attack Margaret too for being with Henry. The two of them escape and form an alliance to save their school. They do this by making Henry sneak into the talent contest and win it so he'll be so famous and the school just can't get closed down but the plan fails. They try another plan which involves Henry going onto a game show to win the big cash prize so he can give it to Miss Oddbod so she can give it to the school inspectors to bribe them away as they were the ones trying to get the school closed down under the order of the head of a boys' school called Vic Van Wrinkle. However, although Henry wins, the Best Boy's Club, Miss Lovely and Miss Oddbod had got Vic and the inspectors arrested so she lets Henry keep the money. Right at the end, Margaret is seen in a fairy costume at Henry's party.

Animation

Horrid Henry

In 2010's Horrid Henry TV series, Moody Margaret is voiced by Tamsin Heatley and is the series' most recurring villain.

References

↑ Simon, Francesca (1997). Horrid Henry and the Fangmangler. UK: Orion Children's Books. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-85881-353-0.

External links

Moody Margaret at the Horrid Henry Official Website

Horrid Henry

Creators	Francesca Simon Tony Ross

Publishers	Orion Children's Books

Individual Books	Horrid Henry Horrid Henry and the Secret Club Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy Horrid Henry's Nits Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick Horrid Henry's Haunted House Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse Horrid Henry's Revenge Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb Horrid Henry's Underpants Horrid Henry Meets the Queen Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman Horrid Henry Robs the Bank Horrid Henry Wakes the Dead Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire Horrid Henry's Monster Movie Horrid Henry's Nightmare

Characters	Horrid Henry Perfect Peter Moody Margaret

Miscellaneous	Horrid Henry: Television Series Horrid Henry: The Movie

See also:List of Horrid Henry characters

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