| “ | Royal Pain wasn't my mother. Royal Pain is me! | „ |
| ~ Royal Pain to Will Stronghold, and her most famous quote. |
Gwen Grayson (originally Susan "Sue" Tenny), otherwise known by her supervillain alias Royal Pain, is the main antagonist of the 2005 superhero comedy film Sky High.
She was portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Patrick Warburton.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Even prior to the events of the movie, she was a supervillain, with one of her villainous acts having been attempting to use a pacifier on the Commander.
- Creating a giant robot to wreak havoc on the city with the intention of having Commander stop it, only to take its eye home and put it in his museum so that she could spy on it through that same eye.
- Agreeing to be Will's private tutor and befriending him for the sake of manipulating him, and not sticking up for Will's friends when Penny took the remaining seats on the table so none of them could sit there with them.
- Starting a party at Will's house as an excuse to sneak into the Commander's underground sanctuary and take back the Pacifier while preventing all the sidekicks from entering and finding out what she was doing. She proceeds to manipulate Layla into thinking that Will is purposely avoiding her and that Layla herself is embarrassing both of them, on top of lying to her by stating that Will was responsible for throwing the party.
- Once she revealed her true identity as Royal Pain, she turned everybody at Sky High into babies to have them be re-educated at the supervillain academy.
- Sabotaged the anti-gravity device responsible for keeping Sky High in the sky so that the school would crush the neighborhood below and cause the deaths of dozens of people, like an innocent recently married couple who had just bought a house.
- Punching Will out the window with the intention of having him fall to his death.
- The fact that she constantly strangles her own adoptive father every time he annoys her proves that she doesn't care about him. This is also true for her "friends" that aided in her plan, as she didn't care to evacuate them out of the falling school.
- While she does have a backstory of not having her intelligence recognized when she was a student, it is not played for sympathy. In her first life she was bullied and underestimated, but as Gwen Grayson she was popular and people respected her powers, meaning she decided to remain evil even after getting a better life.
- There is also the fact that it's unclear whether she completely remembers all her first life as Sue Tenny, so it's possible she doesn’t even have any memory of her tragic past. Not to mention that Gwen herself is a bully like the ones that picked on Sue, thus she became just like them.
What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?[]
- While she is doubtlessly dreaded and perceived as a serious evildoer, some of her means of doing such evil are still too outlandish for her to be completely taken seriously, such as her not using the joystick controlling the spy head correctly, her entire plan of turning the heroes and teachers into babies being pretty silly in it of itself and her trying to put the strap holding the babies together while Stitches doesn't read them properly.
External Links[]
- Royal Pain on the Villains Wiki
- Royal Pain on the Sky High Wiki
- Royal Pain on the Disney Wiki
