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{{character infobox | {{character infobox | ||
|image=[[File:LM3 Hellen Gravely artwork.png|300px]]<br>Artwork of Hellen Gravely with her GheistPaint applied | |image=[[File:LM3 Hellen Gravely artwork.png|300px]]<br>Artwork of Hellen Gravely with her GheistPaint applied | ||
|species=Ghost | |species=[[Ghost (Luigi's Mansion series)|Ghost]] | ||
|first_appearance=''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]]) | |first_appearance=''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]]) | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Hellen Gravely''' is the owner of [[The Last Resort]] and the one of the two main antagonists of ''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'', the other being [[King Boo]]. Her name is likely a reference to "{{wp|Hell}}" and "graves." She owns a ghost cat named [[Polterkitty]], who is similar to [[Polterpup]]. Her actual appearance is hag-like and disheveled, which is revealed when she is under pressure. She is greatly embarrassed about it and suppresses it using her GheistPaint makeup. | |||
'''Hellen Gravely''' is the owner of [[The Last Resort]] and one of the two main antagonists | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Prior to the events of the game, Hellen tricked Professor E. Gadd into coming to her hotel and managed to release his collection of ghosts (including King Boo, whom she is infatuated with), leaving the professor to be captured inside a painting. She later invites [[Luigi]], [[Mario]], [[Princess Peach]] | ===Early life=== | ||
Prior to the events of the game, Hellen tricked Professor E. Gadd into coming to her hotel and managed to release his collection of ghosts (including King Boo, whom she is infatuated with), leaving the professor to be captured inside a painting. She later invites [[Luigi]], [[Mario]], [[Princess Peach]] and her entourage of [[Toad (species)|Toad]]s to the hotel, with the intention of having them captured as well. When meeting Luigi’s vacation party while wearing sunglasses to hide her ghostly self, just like her employees, Hellen welcomes the group to her hotel and escorts them to their rooms at the RIP Suites, planning to have King Boo ambush and trap them in portraits during the night. | |||
After Hellen successfully captures Mario, Peach | ===''Luigi's Mansion 3''=== | ||
After Hellen successfully captures Mario, Peach and the Toads, she returns to the RIP Suites to bring Luigi to King Boo; she watches with admiration as King Boo tries to imprison Luigi in a painting, only for him to narrowly escape down a laundry chute leading to the [[Basement (Luigi's Mansion 3)|basement]], where he finds the [[Poltergust G-00]]. Throughout Luigi's adventure, Hellen watches his progress from the [[Main Observation Room]] at the Master Suite, growing increasingly frustrated with her staff's inability to capture Luigi. By the time Luigi defeats [[Captain Fishook]] in [[The Spectral Catch]] and rescues the third and final Toad, an aggravated Hellen finds herself confronted by a disappointed King Boo; despite her efforts to placate him, she is quickly brushed off as King Boo takes Peach's portrait to the [[Rooftop (Luigi's Mansion 3)|hotel's roof]] without saying a word. | |||
When Luigi reaches the Master Suite, Hellen confronts him over a large monitor, revealing that she has Mario's painting in her private office. While clearly baffled with Luigi's progress, she comments that his presence here gives her the chance to personally defeat him and present him to King Boo, hopefully regaining his trust. She then continued monitoring Luigi from her office, leaving him to contend with her remaining ghost minions and her high-tech security measures as he sought the keys to open the path to her. | When Luigi reaches the Master Suite, Hellen confronts him over a large monitor, revealing that she has Mario's painting in her private office. While clearly baffled with Luigi's progress, she comments that his presence here gives her the chance to personally defeat him and present him to King Boo, hopefully regaining his trust. She then continued monitoring Luigi from her office, leaving him to contend with her remaining ghost minions and her high-tech security measures as he sought the keys to open the path to her. | ||
When Luigi finally reaches her, she angrily blames him for her losing everything after he fled from King Boo, unintentionally exposing her true | When Luigi finally reaches her, she angrily blames him for her losing everything after he fled from King Boo, unintentionally exposing her true appearance in the process and smashing her desk. After hastily reapplying her GheistPaint, she turns her office into an arena and battles Luigi personally, intending to defeat him and get back on King Boo's good side. She is ultimately defeated and captured in the Poltergust G-00 (although just before she's sucked in, she briefly exposes her true form one last time and reapplies her GheistPaint prior to allowing herself to be sucked in), sharing her capsule with Polterkitty. She is last seen during the credits, admiring a recaptured and frustrated King Boo from her own capsule. | ||
==Battle== | ==Battle== | ||
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When her HP is fully depleted, Hellen will struggle against the Poltergust's suction before abruptly stopping and signalling Luigi to wait a moment. She then reapplies her GheistPaint one last time before being sucked into the vacuum. Luigi can then use the [[Dark-Light Device]] on Mario's portrait to free his brother and access the [[Rooftop (Luigi's Mansion 3)|Rooftop]] where King Boo is. | When her HP is fully depleted, Hellen will struggle against the Poltergust's suction before abruptly stopping and signalling Luigi to wait a moment. She then reapplies her GheistPaint one last time before being sucked into the vacuum. Luigi can then use the [[Dark-Light Device]] on Mario's portrait to free his brother and access the [[Rooftop (Luigi's Mansion 3)|Rooftop]] where King Boo is. | ||
==General information== | |||
===Physical appearance=== | |||
[[File:Hellen Gravely true face.jpg|thumb|left|Hellen without make-up]] | |||
Hellen Gravely is a tall and slender female ghost with purple skin, blue hair in a beehive style, and yellow eyes. Being a ghost, she is transparent and glows. She has the face of a somewhat aging woman, with visible creases near her lips and thin, dark blue eyebrows, though she does wear makeup, notably red lipstick, purple eyeshadow and black eyelashes, as well as a good deal of jewellery, namely her necklace with a silver and hexagonal charm and a similarly shaped purple glowing jewel embedded in it. She also wears two circular earrings that are also silver with jewels in them, as well as a pearl bracelet on her left wrist. She has a sleeveless white dress with a long and blue fur boa and no upper back that tapers near the bottom, before flaring out into a circle shape as it rests on the ground. It has a window on the chest shaped like the jewel in [[Crown (King Boo)|King Boo's crown]], as well as a diagonal dark blue stripe below the waist, beneath which the dress becomes a paler blue. Hellen's hairstyle, along with the white streak in her hair, may be a reference to ''{{wp|The Bride of Frankenstein}}'', while the tapering of her dress may be a reference to {{wp|Morticia Addams}} from ''{{wp|The Addams Family}}''. | |||
In the beginning of the game, she, like the [[Steward (Luigi's Mansion 3)|Steward]], [[Chambrea]] and the [[Goob]]s, does not glow and has opaque skin; however, instead of wearing a mask like the others, she instead wears black-framed shades with gold reflective lenses to hide her eyes. When revealing her true colors and alliance with King Boo at the [[RIP Suites]], she additionally wears an open magenta cape attached to her arms and covering her back with a large collar, which ties together just above the gem on her necklace. | |||
In the prelude to her boss battle at the [[Master Suite]], she reveals that her makeup, referred to as GheistPaint brand in the Guide, is actually a powder that masks her true appearance, which tends to be revealed when she is under pressure. It resembles an elderly woman that is much more bony, as she has very defined cheekbones, a larger and sharper chin that sticks forward more, a furrowed brow that has a more defined "socket" as her eyes are set in more, showing shadows underneath them, as well as having a larger and crooked nose. Her eyes turn red and her hair gets messy, with the once solid and flowing shapes being replaced by smaller bangs the flay out in random directions and have blocky spirals at the end instead of being straightened. Her dress is also messier, with more visible wrinkles, and the bottom of the dress being torn into somewhat neat triangles, showing some of her ghostly tail underneath. | |||
===Personality=== | |||
[[File:LM3 King Boo Hellen Polterkitty Captured.png|thumb|Hellen Gravely has an admiration for King Boo]] | |||
Hellen Gravely is a fervent fangirl and somewhat obsessive admirer of King Boo, going so far as to trick and capture [[Professor E. Gadd]] in order to free the king from his custody; her primary motive for trapping Luigi and his group was just to impress him and prove that she could be a useful ally. She also adores her ghost pet, Polterkitty, and treats her with care. Though she does not treat her employees as well and has no tolerance for their failure, she still cares for them to some degree; she reacts to their capture with evident dismay and capturing the remaining staff will have her lament that there is no one left to actually keep the hotel running. | |||
Hellen is portrayed as vain, disguising her true appearance with a more attractive one by constantly applying her GheistPaint to maintain it. Though presenting herself as a classy and smooth speaker with a calm demeanor, Hellen can be enthusiastic or wrathful. As Luigi progresses through the hotel and rescues his captured friends, she becomes more and more infuriated as each of her employees are captured, and is especially enraged when Polterkitty is captured. This, along with King Boo's disappointment in her incapability and lack of care for her, culminates in her flying into a rage and having a breakdown, ranting at Luigi for ruining her plans before reverting to her serene disposition upon realizing that she accidentally showed her true appearance. Her vanity was strong enough that she temporarily halted the sucking in solely to reapply her GheistPaint and only after restoring her attractive appearance does she allow Luigi to suck her in. | |||
==Profiles== | ==Profiles== | ||
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LM3NewGhost1.jpg|Artwork from ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' | LM3NewGhost1.jpg|Artwork from ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' | ||
Hellen Gravely concept art LM3.png|Concept art | Hellen Gravely concept art LM3.png|Concept art | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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|Jap=パウダネス・コナー<ref>@NE_Brian (August 21, 2019). [https://nintendoeverything.com/scans-roundup-monster-rancher-zelda-links-awakening-luigis-mansion-3-more/nggallery/image/scan_8-107 Scans roundup – Monster Rancher, Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Luigi’s Mansion 3, more]. ''Nintendo Everything''. Retrieved October 27, 2019.</ref> | |Jap=パウダネス・コナー<ref>@NE_Brian (August 21, 2019). [https://nintendoeverything.com/scans-roundup-monster-rancher-zelda-links-awakening-luigis-mansion-3-more/nggallery/image/scan_8-107 Scans roundup – Monster Rancher, Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Luigi’s Mansion 3, more]. ''Nintendo Everything''. Retrieved October 27, 2019.</ref> | ||
|JapR=Paudanesu Konā | |JapR=Paudanesu Konā | ||
|JapM= | |JapM=From "powder" and possibly the noun-deriving suffix "-ness" + an agentive form of「粉」(''kona'', powder), referencing her use of makeup to hide her true appearance | ||
|Dut=Cassie Weyle | |Dut=Cassie Weyle | ||
|DutM=Pun on "kassiewijle" (a slang word for "dead" or "gone") | |DutM=Pun on "kassiewijle" (a slang word for "dead" or "gone") | ||
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|FreM=Pun on "embuscade" (ambush) and "brusque" (abrupt) | |FreM=Pun on "embuscade" (ambush) and "brusque" (abrupt) | ||
|SpaA=Ceres Panteau | |SpaA=Ceres Panteau | ||
|SpaAM=Possibly a play on " | |SpaAM=Possibly a play on "ser espantoso" (hideous being) | ||
|SpaE=Vilma du Tel | |SpaE=Vilma du Tel | ||
|SpaEM="Vil" means "vile" in Spanish, and "Du Tel" sounds similar to "Hotel". It might also be a reference to {{wp|Velma Dinkley}} from ''{{wp|Scooby Doo}}'', who is called Vilma in the Spanish translations, and to {{wp|Cruella de Vil}} from ''{{wp|101 Dalmatians}}'', to whom she bears a physical resemblance | |SpaEM="Vil" means "vile" in Spanish, and "Du Tel" sounds similar to "Hotel". It might also be a reference to {{wp|Velma Dinkley}} from ''{{wp|Scooby Doo}}'', who is called Vilma in the Spanish translations, and to {{wp|Cruella de Vil}} from ''{{wp|101 Dalmatians}}'', to whom she bears a physical resemblance | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Multiple sources misspell her name: | *Multiple sources misspell her name: | ||
**The file name for Hellen's image on the official website for ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' misspells her name as "'''Hallen Gravely'''".<ref>[https://luigismansion.nintendo.com/assets/img/home/hallen_gravely.png Hellen Gravely image file from the official ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' website]</ref> | **The file name for Hellen's image on the official website for ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' misspells her name as "'''Hallen Gravely'''".<ref>[https://luigismansion.nintendo.com/assets/img/home/hallen_gravely.png Hellen Gravely image file from the official ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' website]</ref> | ||