Estella Havisham is a character from the Season Four episode, "Pip". She is a based on the character of the same name from Charles Dickens's classic tale, Great Expectations. She is the daughter of Miss Havisham, a woman who raised her to break men's hearts for her.
Background[]
Estella first meets Pip after he answers a job offer in a metal newspaper. Pip is later hired by Miss Havisham to be a playmate with Estella, which she had to play along with to break his heart. She is very surprised to find that her game of "whack the blond-haired boy over the head with a log" is one that Pip and his sister play often. Estella treats Pip cruelly, calling him many nasty names. Although she is cruel, Pip still falls in love with her.
After being sent away to become a gentleman, Pip reunites with Estella at a grand ballroom. As they both danced, Pip tells Estella that he believes that he is in love with her, but Estella replies to his confession that she has no heart in being with him. This was sustained when Pip is suddenly heartbroken to find that she has a seventeen-year-old boyfriend who already owns a car. Pip soon discovers that Estella was raised to break men's hearts so that the tears from all of her ex-boyfriends could be used to fuel a machine that would combine Miss Havisham's soul with Estella's body for a new generation.
Pip goes up to save Estella and tries to convince her that she's not cold-hearted by giving her a baby bunny. Estella goes and breaks the bunny's neck, and Pip offers another (which she also kills). Estella continues to kill the bunnies offered by Pip but stops after the twenty-fifth. Pip claims that she has a heart due to her inability to kill the twenty-sixth baby bunny and unhooks her from Miss Havisham's machine. Miss Havisham dies in a fire resulting from the machine malfunctioning, having the manor burnt down, and Estella accepts Pip's love from her "small-testicled love".
It is not stated whether Pip and Estella's relationship continued after the episode, though it is highly unlikely ever since Pip has moved to South Park.
A possible second appearance for her as a boss, named "Blooderella," was about to take place during the cut version of South Park: The Stick of Truth in the Cemetary Quest Line, with her having to side with the Vamp Kids.
Criminal Record[]
- Animal cruelty: In "Pip", Estella kills twenty-five baby bunnies all by breaking their necks.
Appearance[]
Estella is described as Pip as pretty, referring to her as "pretty and insulting", she is a Caucasian girl with long, wavy blond hair. She has rosy cheeks and dresses very wealthy. She wears a green robe with dark-green trims, a small cravat inside, velvet pants, and a dark pink hat with a dark pink rose and a small veil wrapped on it at the beginning of "Pip". Toward the end of the episode, she wears an amount of make-up, an off-the-shoulder white corset dress with a ribbon on the chest with a tiered ruffle pink skirt, a teal necklace with a pearl, and a pink lei with pearls on her head.
In the cut version of South Park: The Stick of Truth, her appearance was changed as a Vampire. Her hair is dyed black with red highlights, wears a red umbrella dress with fishnet neckline and sleeves, gray shoes, a black cape, vampire fangs, and dark make-up.
Personality[]
She seems to believe that her personality needs to be heartless by her mother's standards and she takes this to heart, set on breaking men's hearts, and Pip even refers to her as "insulting", particularly "pretty and insulting". This statement seems to be accurate as she constantly insults Pip every chance she gets, being mean and rude to him, seeming kind of hostile. Her personality mostly seems to be under her mother's influence, and Estella's goal is perceived as her mother wanting her to break men's hearts for her, as Miss Havisham can no longer do it herself, and so she has her daughter due it for her so that the men's broken hearts can belong to Estella's mother. Estella's personality seems to be more on belief rather than her true personality or she feels that she doesn't have a choice. However, Pip shows her the way, even though these takes several rabbits for her to realize this, even though in short, Pip probably could've just told her she could choose who she wanted to be. She changes her mind while getting too tired to kill the last baby rabbit, but Pip takes this as to Estella having a heart rather than just fatigue anyway. She agrees with Pip and says maybe she does have a heart and she goes off with him and the "Pip" episode has a happy ending.
Trivia[]
- She comments on Pip's hair color as if it's an insult even though she has the same hair color, this is not dissimilar to how Helga Pataki talks about Arnold Shortman in Hey Arnold!, who are also both blonds.
- Even while speaking warmly or using terms of endearments, she still calls Pip names, as saying "Yes, my small-testicled love" instead of "my love" to Pip, by saying that he has small testicles.
- She, like Pip and her mother, is named after a character of the same name in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In Great Expectations, Miss Havisham also has a daughter named Estella. In the original Charles Dickens story, Estella was an orphan like Pip, who was adopted by Miss Havisham as her daughter.
References[]
- ↑ South Park" Pip (TV episode 2000). IMDb.com.