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Thugs, Gentlemen, and Queers: Braveheart's English vs The Patriot's British

Another bewildering part of audiences seeing The Patriot as the spiritual, if not the literal, sequel to Braveheart is the idea that the first film already did all the work of making the English despicable. And they are indeed all English, even the one in the latter film whose surname could not be more Irish. The conflation of the English and British villains, and I use the term loosely regarding The Patriot, is even more egregious than the comparison of Scots and South Carolina Colonials. While the English in Braveheart are mostly on the same page throughout, there is a more sustained ideological conflict among the antagonists of The Patriot than among its heroes.

The English, in general, are brutal thugs who function as oppressors of the Scots on multiple levels. The main villain of the film is the King of England, but his edicts empower the lowest of English soldiers as well as lords to see the Scots as existing for their personal use. Not all the English characters are pure evil. Wallace's executioner beheads him rather than leaving him to suffer disembowelment and dismemberment alive even though he does not--and I cannot stress enough how much he does not--say the magic word! But enough of them are that the Scots' opinion of them feels warranted. Meanwhile, British officers in The Patriot, almost the only British characters who speak, are gentlemen by action as well as title, with one notable exception. The one who thanks Martin for helping wounded British soldiers is far more representative of the norm than Colonel Tavington, but once Tavington shoots his son, Martin's memory of that man is deleted. He's the first of many officers Martin has killed as proxies for Tavington while leaving Tavington alone to go through Colonial children like a smallpox epidemic. All the while, the remaining officers view Tavington as a pariah and are angrier with him for failing to stop the militia than with Martin until they discover how Martin has abused their trust.

All this aside, the single thing about The Patriot that justifies my watching it in part or whole every single year, as I unfortunately do, is its main British villain. Occasionally I do run across a commentor who describes Tavington and Longshanks as though there is no difference between them, and I can only assume that person watched both films with their Mel Gibson blinders firmly in place. Not only is Jason Isaacs significantly younger than Patrick McGoohan, but Tavington as a dragoon colonel has significantly less power than the fucking king. Longshanks is an old man nearing the end of a life spent accumulating as much power as possible by being as ruthless as possible to all his subjects. His fear is that his son will lose it all once he takes the throne, not by being kind but by being weak and gay, attributes Longshanks refuses to distinguish, and the film does nothing but back him up on this. Young Edward is a sniveling little nothing of a character, and I need to rewatch Derek Jarmon's Edward II (1991) with its joyously queer titular character to get that taste out of my mouth. Meanwhile, Tavington is a comparatively young man who actually has nothing but the opportunity to win lands for himself. There is a disapproving older man, but he is General Cornwallis, and his relationship with Tavington is far more interesting than that between the two Edwards in Braveheart.

While Longshanks fears what Young Edward will lose, Cornwallis fears what Tavington will take from him, namely his good reputation as a gentleman and a skilled field commander. Tavington's treatment of surrendering Colonial troops and Colonial civilians alike threatens that reputation, but so do his dramatic charges across the field of victory. While Longshanks verbally and physically abuses Edward, Cornwallis tries to reason with Tavington about the consequences of his brutal tactics. But then he changes his mind. Not only does he allow Tavington methods he originally condemned, but the fateful charge he orders at the end of the film is a product of his own vanity. His change from a man who values gentlemanly restraint to one who, like Tavington, values victory at any cost not only makes him more complex than Longshanks but more complex than Benjamin Martin.

The scene that most clearly underlines the differences between The Patriot's antagonists and Braveheart's is the final confrontation between Tavington and Martin. Wallace and Longshanks never meet, on the field of battle or elsewhere, and that is far more owing to Longshanks than Wallace. He pursues the king when he leaves the field at Falkirk only to be apprehended before he can reach him. At Cowpens, Tavington and Martin charge straight at each other. One part of this scene is clearly a call-back to Wallace's anti-cavalry strategy in Braveheart, but Martin unhorsing Tavington does not--and I cannot stress enough how much it does not--help him win that fight. Rather, Martin needs to be rescued from the outcome of that fight by plot contrivance like a damsel in a tower guarded by a dragon (with two "o"s this time).

Anyone who argues that Martin is more badass for stabbing a horse than Tavington for getting up from his fall, taking a bullet in the arm, and still beating Martin to his knees has put an additional pair of Mel Gibson blinders on over the first one. However, I'm going to suggest that there is another, less obvious nod to Braveheart at play here, and that is the contrast between Tavington and Young Edward. Throughout the film, the British are presented as effete, vain, loquacious aristocrats compared to the manly, plain-speaking Colonial "rustics." There is a heavy dose of queer-coding at play here, and Tavington is not exempt from it. Indeed, between his obsession with catching a man he first sees dressed only in his undershirt to his own seduction of his superior officer, I would say he has more than his fair share. The Tavington of Robert Rodat's 1999 script has far more in common with Braveheart's Edward II than he character who appears in director Roland Emmerich's The Patriot. Rodat's Tavington is a cowardly snob who throws his pistol aside when Martin confronts him at the film's end, hoping he will not shoot an unarmed man. Almost all the changes Jason Isaacs suggested and Emmerich implemented have the effect of making Tavington more physically imposing and courageous. He may be cruel, selfish, and greedy, but he is hardly weak. That he is the best fighter in the film while being no less refined and theatrical than his British brethren feels very pointed.

It's easy to see Braveheart as the better overall film of the two because its heroes are compelling, and we spend far more time with them. The English antagonists are serviceable, but Longshanks is the only one who is really memorable. The antagonists in The Patriot are inspired, largely because of excellent performances by Jason Isaacs and the late Tom Wilkinson. There is nuance in the antagonists' relationship that is largely absent from any the film's hero has because he is presented as infallible. It's as though Mel Gibson's performance in Braveheart is so powerful that The Patriot's filmmakers relied on him to carry their story in spite of a lackluster script. For Gibson, playing Benjamin Martin is a vanity project, a place to trot out his well-established fighting and emoting skills in an American setting. Tavington is Jason Isaacs' breakout role, and the difference that makes speaks for itself. That performance is the best thing about The Patriot, and considering it as a response to the worst part of Braveheart puts it a rung above the older film, at least in my ranking.

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Such sad news to hear today. An amazing, and enigmatic actor someone who deserved to be called a star.💫

British actor Tom Wilkinson, best known for his role in The Full Monty, has died aged 75 💔Wilkinson, who became an OBE for services to drama in 2005, was born in Leeds - Yorkshire in 1948 and grew up in Canada and Cornwall before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) in the 1970s.

In 1994, he appeared as Pecksniff in the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. He is pictured alongside Maggie Steed.

Across an illustrious career spanning nearly 50 years, Wilkinson won a host of acting awards, as well as two Oscar nominations. He won a BAFTA for 'The Full Monty,' and he also appeared in 'Shakespeare in Love,' 'In the Bedroom,' 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' and 'Batman Begins', He won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role as Benjamin Franklin in the 'John Adams' miniseries. A versatile actor won acclaim through decades of work in television and film and onstage. Recently he was reunited with his The Full Monty co-stars, Carlyle and Mark Addy, in a Disney+ series of the same name.

Who remembers this classic!

The original 1997 comedy about an unlikely group of male strippers in Sheffield won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or comedy score and was nominated for three others, including best picture and best director.

Wilkinson’s best roles. Here are his finest films, Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis was an officer of the British Army and one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.

Wilkinson played a British officer in The Patriot, a US film about the Revolutionary War co-starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger and Jason Isaacs. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards.

From The Full Monty to Michael Clayton: was a lawyer - Arthur Edens - in Michael Clayton film 🎥 co-starring George Clooney. Tom Wilkinson was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role for In The Bedroom in 2001, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Michael Clayton in 2007.

Wilkinson was winning acclaim again as a high-powered lawyer who has a breakdown in Tony Gilroy’s “Michael Clayton.” He was nominated for another Academy Award for his performance in that film.

In ‘Denial’, Confronting a Holocaust Revisionist in Court. Denial is a drama about a historian’s pursuit through the UK justice system by a Holocaust denier. It stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius and Alex Jennings.

On television, he played Benjamin Franklin in “John Adams,” James A. Baker in “Recount,” for which he was Emmy-nominated and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. in “The Kennedys.”

In Ava DuVernay's 2014 historical drama Selma, Wilkinson portrayed President Lyndon B Johnson. The film tells of the protest marches held in Alabama in 1965 over voting rights for African Americans.

RIP Tom Wilkinson 💔 1948-2023

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James Alex Wilkinson not on tv too!

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July 14 Zodiac - Full Horoscope Personality

They are keen on all that occurs on the planet, what others do, their thought process, all of which permit them to assemble data, grow their experience, and foster their internal identities. They reflect nature, they think and mirror a great deal. They have an extraordinary creative mind and like to stare off into space. They are removed, alterable, very held, fairly modest - they show little interest in succeeding throughout everyday life. Curiously delicate and frequently held - very figuring out in their way of behaving. They partake in their family climate and are astoundingly appended to their moms. They are close to home individuals, genuinely connected to others. They like the past, old traditions and, by and large, all old things; they frequently gather different things. They have a seriously heartfelt disposition. Economical and persisting - they don't leave their place of employment in any event, when every other person does. They are exceptionally terrified of being mocked, which frequently makes them veil their sentiments and cause mistaken assumptions. They are fit for enduring and profound love. Blemishes: They show a specific latency of character and absence of drive. After times of movement and work, there is a few latency and dormancy where they need to keep away from any work. They are excessively glad, excessively partial to shallow functions; nonetheless, they are very severe in connections. What compromises them? The center time of your life will be upbeat and blissful. Notwithstanding, in light of the fact that they express an excess of detachment when they ought to be making an honest effort, the finish of their life could be ominous. Sicknesses in which they may be in danger incorporate stomach related messes, gastric fever, and ailment.

July 14 Zodiac - Full Horoscope Personality 

 Assuming that your birthday is July 14, your zodiac sign is Malignant growth July 14 - character and character character: wary, unbiased, ready, anxious, impolite, little and limited receptive calling: rancher, musician, attorney tones: orange, dark, earthy colored stone: feline's eye animal: duck plant: Chives fortunate numbers: 21,23,44,46,51,53 very fortunate number: 5 Occasions and Observances - July 14 Iraq: Republic Day. Nicaragua: Public Banner Day. France: French Public Day. July 14 Big name Birthday. Who was conceived that very day as you? 1901 - Gerald Finzi, English author (d. 1956). 1903: Irving Stone, American author (d. 1989). 1904: Isaac Bashevis Vocalist, Clean essayist, Nobel Prize Champ for writing in 1978 (d. 1991). 1907: Annabella, French entertainer (f. 1996). 1910: Lucas Demare, Argentine movie producer (d. 1981). 1910: William Hanna, American illustrator, producer and maker (d. 2001). 1911: Terry-Thomas, English entertainer (d. 1990). 1911: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, American atomic physicist of German Jewish beginning (d. 1998). 1912: Northrop Frye, Canadian abstract and scholar (d. 1991). 1912: Woody Guthrie, American performer (d. 1967). 1913: Gerald Portage, 38th American president somewhere in the range of 1974 and 1977 (d. 2006). 1916: Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (d. 1991). 1916: Julio Watchman, Argentine screenwriter and movie producer (d. 1979). 1918: Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie producer (d. 2007). 1919: Lino Ventura, Italian entertainer (d. 1987). 1921: Geoffrey Wilkinson, English scientist, 1973 Nobel Prize victor for science (d. 1996). 1922: Julio Cozzi, Argentine soccer player (d. 2011). 1922: Mario Recordდ³n, Chilean competitor (f. 1994). 1923: Dale Robertson, American entertainer (d. 2013). 1923: Robert Zildjian, American financial specialist (d. 2013). 1924: James Whyte Dark, English doctor and pharmacologist, 1988 Nobel Prize Champ (d. 2010). 1925: Marდ­a Asunciდ³n Catala Poch, Catalan mathematician and cosmologist (d. 2009). 1926: Harry Dignitary Stanton, American entertainer. 1928: Nancy Olson, American entertainer. 1929: Julio de Grazia, Argentine entertainer (d. 1989). 1931: Luis Pდ©rcovich Roca, Peruvian drug physicist and legislator (b. 2017). 1932: Helga Linდ©, German entertainer got comfortable Spain. 1933: Robert Bourassa, Canadian government official and financial specialist (b. 1996). 1937: Yoshiro Mori, Japanese State leader. 1938: James Christy, American cosmologist. 1938: Jerry Rubin, American social dissident (b.1994). 1938: Richard Rust, American entertainer (d. 1994). 1939: Peter Duryea, American entertainer (d. 2013). 1939: Karel Gott, Czech artist. 1939: Sid Haig, American entertainer. 1941: Ron Karenga, American essayist and extremist. 1942: Javier Solana, Spanish government official. 1943: Christopher Minister, English writer. 1945: Jim Gordon, American artist. 1946: Vincent Pastore, American entertainer. 1947: Navinchandra Ramgoolam, State leader of the Mauritius Islands. 1948: Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Catholic strict and Ethiopian cardinal. 1949: Tommy Mottola, American music maker. 1953: Bebe Buell, American model and artist. 1955: L. 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Vincent invited Isaac to hang out at a private bar after work. After some darts and pool, the guys went to grab a drink. "You have some interesting tattoos Isaac, what do they mean?" Vincent questioned. "Justice and freedom," he replied, taken aback by his personal question. The atmosphere was more relaxed and it was clear they had bonded. With drinks in their hands maybe it was the right time to get to know Vincent better and then everything would be easier...

"Bro it's like I've known you all my life!" Isaac chuckled, amazed by their banter. "So you're calling me bro now, not boss," Vincent laughed. Isaac went all serious. Should he tell him now? Both were in high spirits. The longer it took, the more he dreaded a bad reaction. He had to tell him soon, "Vincent. I am your brother. Your half-brother."

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Male Homosociality and War Crimes in The Patriot

Of all the problems The Patriot as a story creates for itself, the most interesting for me has always been this: how do you craft a villain when the hero is also a war criminal? It appears to me the filmmakers had a simple answer to this question staring them right in their faces, so why does a story that leans so heavily on the rumor that Banastre Tarleton habitually ordered the execution of surrendering Continental soldiers do absolutely nothing with the rumor that he habitually raped and allowed his men to rape colonial women? Surely, that would have helped to make Colonel Tavington as despicable as we are clearly meant to find him, particularly since the Patriot soldiers do not engage in rape, at least not literally. Instead, both Benjamin Martin and Tavington are tried by juries of their peers with Martin being nearly universally adored and Tavington being as nearly universally despised. This approach creates two problems. First, it means the Patriots, who something tells me are the people the audience is meant to sympathize with, are okay with some very fucked up actions both past and present. It also makes it hard to justify the Patriots' hatred for the British as whole when the audience sees how little support Tavington has.

Somewhat ironically given the myths about Tarleton, the only characters to directly mention rape in the film are Patriots, a father and son. As the Martin family anticipates survivors of the battle being in near proximity to them, Nathan attempts to titillates his siblings with this dire prediction: "They'll probably kill us men and do lord knows what to you women." In addition to shock among some in the audience, this elicits the question that always arises when a child says something incredibly fucked up: where did you hear that? Judging from her disgusted reaction, I do not think it was his caregiver Abigale. We get an answer some months later when Benjamin describes the events leading up to the Fort Wilderness massacre. "[The French and Cherokess] had killed all the settlers. The men . . . with the women and some of the children they had . . . we buried them." In the moment, Martin's hesitancy to name the particular violence these settlers suffered seems to speak to respect for them, but if so, he failed to convey that to either the son who makes the prediction earlier on or the even younger boy who giggles at it. This is the first time violence is referenced as a means of male bonding; it is certainly not the last.

The conversation between Martin and his oldest son referenced above is bizarre for a couple of reasons. Not only does the narrative twist Martin's confession to war crimes against the French and Cherokees in reprisal into evidence of his morality (he feels so bad about it!), but Gabriel is thoroughly nonplussed by this confession. He shifts the topic to his murdered brother and his desire to avenge him, but not at the expense of "the cause." Why is Gabriel so eager to take his father's supposed contrition at face value when he has personally seen him both hack a man's back to shreds with a tomahawk and participate in the murder of surrendering British soldiers a hell of a lot more recently than the French and Indian War? By the end of his life, Gabriel does more than tolerate his father's violent past. He approaches Tavington's prone form, believing him to be mortally wounded, to repeat it.

Bonding with his son through discussion of war crimes is not an anomaly among Martin's relationships. When he and Major Villeneuve recruit in the tavern, two of the men who sign up are acquaintances of Martin's from the previous war. One of them inquires about bounties and Martin give the intriguing response of "No scalp bounty this time, Rollins, but I'll pay for the gear of any redcoat you kill." How Rollins is going to prove the gear belonged to redcoats he killed who were not wounded or surrendering after Martin issues his orders against such conduct is a mystery the movie never clears up . When the other acquaintance, Billings, asks Martin if he is one of "that sort--" the sort Gabriel believes should not serve in the militia because, well, they're war criminals--Martin jokingly tells him, "You're the sort that gives that sort a bad name." Just boys being boys!

My favorite use of war crimes to further male bonding is the bizarre relationship between Martin and his second in command, Major Villeneuve. Initially the two grate on each other: Martin tortured French soldiers to death, while Villeneuve is French. The two offenses are presented as carrying basically equal weight. Ultimately, though, Villeneuve's objection to Martin is less that he committed war crimes but that he forbids Villeneuve from doing the same. But over time, they come to see each other in a different light. When Martin greets Villeneuve after the militia's ill-fated furlough, Villeneuve responds with a tongue in cheek, "Where else can I kill a few redcoats? Perhaps a few wounded ones when you're not looking." That Martin laughs nervously at this joke should be surprising, but it really isn't. While we haven't seen any wounded or surrendering men killed since Martin's order, nor have we seen any in militia custody. Has Villeneuve had a change of heart, or is Martin simply skilled in looking the other way? Later, Martin asks Villeneuve what color his slain daughters' eyes were as they march into the final battle, psyching him up to go and do their favorite activity together: vengeance! This shared priority, the only thing they have in common, outweighs their shortcomings in each other's eyes. Liberté, fraternité, and all that jazz.

Most of Martin's screentime, and he is in almost every scene, is spent developing his homosocial bonds, but even British men seem to regard Tavington with varying degrees of contempt, disgust, and fear. This lack of fellowship even characterizes his scenes with his own Green Dragoons. There are only two opportunities for dragoon comradery depicted in the movie: one where Tavington interrupts his men at dinner and one where he is grooming himself in the creek while they eat around their campfires. Tavington being left out of eating and drinking in particular becomes a recurring theme. His first meeting with Cornwallis, in the extended cut, happens after the Battle of Camden when the British officers are celebrating their victory. Tavington arrives late, apparently hungry from the way he immediately reaches for the food on the table, withdrawing his hand when Cornwallis draws closer to scold him. As he's dressing down Tavington, Cornwallis takes food from the same table and feeds it to his Great Danes. The exchange ends with Cornwallis proposing a toast, turning his back on Tavington and his second, who do not have glasses. The scene establishes that his role in winning a battle in no way makes Tavington's treatment of the enemy or civilians less odious, and his fellow officers are so united in this that no one so much as blinks when their general is incredibly rude to him. Over the course of the movie, they all maintain this conviction, except for one.

Producer Dean Devlin's describes Tavington as "seduc[ing]" Cornwallis into allowing him his brutal tactics, and this seems especially apt given the way their relationship develops on screen. As they grow closer tactically, they also grow closer physically. In their scene after Cornwallis ices Tavington out of his tent, Cornwallis remains seated at his desk while demanding that Tavington, who is standing on the opposite side, cease his brutal methods. In the scene following Cornwallis's humiliation at Martin's hands during the prisoner exchange, he is again seated at a table, eating dinner, while Tavington stands on the other side. From this point forward, though, there is a marked shift in the two men's positions. Cornwallis motions Tavington forward, and Tavingon approaches, putting as much space between himself and Cornwallis as we see between the general and the servant waiting on him as Cornwallis says, "I want you to capture [Martin]." If he intends to remind Tavington of his own servile position, the message does not register. Tavington takes a little stroll, peeks at Cornwallis's map, and helps himself to a glass of his claret, a stand-in for the glass he was denied at their first meeting. He assures Cornwallis, "I alone will assume the full mantle of responsibility, rendering you blameless" for his future crimes in pursuit of Martin. In light of Devlin's description of this scene, it does sound a bit like, Don't worry, babe, no one is going to know about this but you and me.

It is a ridiculous claim. When the Green Dragoons go on a veritable murder and arson spree after months of abstinence, it does not take a genius to realize that maybe the general of the whole fucking British army might have something to do with that. Nonetheless, by the end of this scene Cornwallis and Tavington are standing side by side for the first time in the movie. Their last scene is even more elicit. Cornwallis walks in on Tavington having his wound dressed to warn him against an early charge, the very same thing he scolds him for in their first scene, but this time Tavington is only in his shirt and his hair is loose and . . . it's a little on the nose, to be honest. And they're all alone. As powerful as Cornwallis is, he is also the only person Tavington ever convinces to condone his actions, and he can only do so by offering assurances he could not possibly grant. What does not change is the conviction of everyone in the British Army, Tavington included, that they will live and be remembered in infamy until the end of time if they do Bad Things to the Patriots. Meanwhile, the Patriots are bonding with each other almost exclusively through planning and doing Bad Things to them.

There are double-standards, and then there's this bullshit. Martin commits a dizzying amount of fuckery ranging from sending the Cherokees pieces of their fighters in bags to terrorize them into compliance to ordering his young sons to kill soldiers to apparently talking about rape in front of those sons in a way that left them thinking it is something to laugh about, and he is seen as a hero and a loving father by everyone around him. Tavington walks into a tent full of his fellow officers after a battle he helped win, and they all look at him like "Who invited Murder Molly?" Martin's men are devoted to him not in spite of his past war crimes but because of them, and the movie's insistence that he has changed his ways is, in the most generous terms, feeble. The thinly veiled homoeroticism of Tavingtion and Cornwallis's relationship only serves to underscore how marginal their position that war crimes can be justified under the right circumstances is among the British. Among the Patriots, that position appears to be standard.

Representing Tarleton's dragoons as the rapists some people of the time believed they were would obviously not have been great from a historical perspective, but it would be a drop in the ocean of inaccuracies the movie is adrift in. And it would have at least made the redcoats as bad as the characters the audience is meant to support! Both sides ultimately do terrible things, but they are framed by the narrative very differently in ways that inadvertently present the British in a favorable light. While the Patriots treat the vilest of war's excesses with understanding and sometimes even levity, the British have a horror of the idea that war exceeds the limits of the battlefield that is hard to fathom in professional soldiers. In the homosocial world of The Patriot, the ultimate measure of virtue lies not in actions but in the approval of other men.

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Full Name: Oscar Erickson

Age: 25

Blood Type: E

Family Members Relatives: Mr. Erickson (his father), Mrs. Erickson (his mother)

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Friends: Mystery Inc. Team, Mystery Teams, Girls' Clues Club Team, Chris Klug, Nate Jacquet, Manager Theodore Shushman (Worker), Bruce Wilkinson, Manager Eda Jerryson (Worker)

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Species:  Human

Status: Alive/Active 

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Age: 22

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Family Members Relatives: Mr. Isaac (her father), Mrs. Isaac (her mother),

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Friends: Mystery Inc. Team, Mystery Teams, Girls' Clues Club Team, Chris Klug, Nate Jacquet, Manager Theodore Shushman, Bruce Wilkinson, Manager Eda Jerryson

Enemies: Avalanche Anderson (True Culprit), William Jacobson (True Culprit)

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Clothes: Business Clothes and Snow Clothes Shoes: Business Shoes and Snow Shoes

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Enemies: Avalanche Anderson (True Culprit), William Jacobson (True Culprit)

Species:  Human

Status: Alive/Active 

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Skills and Abilities: Snow Shovel skills, clean skills of snow

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Hair Colour: Navy Blue Colour

Clothes: Business Clothes and Snow Clothes

Shoes: Business Shoes and Snow Shoes

Hair Styles: Pushed Back Long

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Female News Reporter

Age:

Blood Type:

Family Members Relatives:

Other Family Members Relatives:

Friends: Mystery Inc. Team, Mystery Teams, Girls' Clues Club Team, Chris Klug, Nate Jacquet, Manager Theodore Shushman, Bruce Wilkinson, Manager Eda Jerryson

Enemies: Avalanche Anderson (True Culprit), William Jacobson (True Culprit)

Species:  Human

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🍿🎟 BMG UK's Lisa Wilkinson with the band at the ​AOTV Premiere London, 16 March 2023 via her IG story x

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Louis' band at the London Premiere via Lisa Wilkinson IG story [3.16.23]