Sandbox / The Bad Guys Diane Foxington

^{Click to see her Crimson Paw outfit.} 

"This is a chance to write your own story, to find a better life for you, and your friends."

Voiced by: Zazie Beetz

The governor, a red fox who takes personal interest in the Bad Guys' reformation. Formerly the Crimson Paw, she used to be a skilled and infamous thief who retired from a life of crime with the distinction of never having been caught or exposed.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: She joins the Bad Guys after their redemption kicks in at the climax.
• The Ace: As the Crimson Paw, she basically has all of the Bad Guys' skills rolled into one, though she appears to be just above being a Jack of All Stats without veering into Master of None. She also has so many useful gadgets at her lair that one might mistake her for an expert spy.
• Action Girl: As the Crimson Paw, she's a complete badass. She single-handedly breaks into a maximum security prison and fights off hordes of guards to rescue the Bad Guys.
• Action Politician: She's a governor with excellent hand-to-hand combat skills.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Her book counterpart isn't introduced until the third book, in a scene equivalent to her breaking the guys out of prison. In the movie, however, she is introduced early on, before the events that equate to the beginning of the first book.
• Adaptational Job Change: Her book counterpart is simply an independent secret agent leading a Distaff Counterpart team to the main characters. Here she is instead a reformed criminal turned governor.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Though of similar professional mindset, Diane loses her straight-faced demeanor more often than Agent Fox and is much more playful and flawed to broaden her chemistry with the main group, to the point where she can be just as goofy as them. Also, similar to the film's Wolf, while she is resentful of her past as a villain, she is still prideful about how competent she was as one.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her book counterpart has blonde fur to match her blonde ponytail, whereas Diane's fur is closer to natural red fox fur colors and she lacks the Furry Female Mane.
• Adaptation Name Change: Her book counterpart Agent Fox's name is later revealed to be Ellen. Curiously, the name Diane is in fact given to one of the chickens the Bad Guys saved in the second book, now turned Supreme Court Judge, thus the movie Diane is a Composite Character of Agent Fox and another political figure that would support the gang in the early parts of their Heel–Face Turn.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Due to appearing earlier than Agent Fox did in the books, Diane starts off a Hero Antagonist for the group pre-Heel–Face Turn, getting into playful banter with Wolf. Additionally, both flirt with each other with equal vigor, while Agent Fox only started reciprocating Wolf's crush on her in later books.
• Always Someone Better: As the Crimson Paw, she is a far better thief than the Bad Guys, even initially considering them sloppy before warming up to them. She managed to do heists on her own rather than rely on a team, has fighting skills superior to Piranha, as demonstrated when she effortlessly defeats the entire police force guarding the prison, has access to better equipment than the team, and could have effortlessly stolen the Golden Dolphin on her own before her change of heart, whereas the Bad Guys barely manage to do so and then get caught a few moments afterwards. As good guys and allies, the Bad Guys do even the scales a little better, with their on-the-fly craftiness and synergy helping Diane during several roadblocks, making them closer to Technician vs. Performer, though Diane remains the more seasoned and talented agent individually.
• Antagonistic Governor: Averted. She opposes the Bad Guys at first, but is shown to hold an interest in reforming them rather than the obsession with defeating them Misty has.
• The Atoner: After being revealed to have formerly been the Crimson Paw, she tells Mr. Wolf her move to politics was motivated by a desire to make up for her criminal career. She also sees reforming Wolf as a form of atonement, giving him a guiding light she wishes she had.
• Badass Driver: Through use of her transforming motorcycle, with which she demonstrates fluent stunt driver abilities during the big chase with Marmalade's heist.
• Badass in Distress: When they first attempt to steal the meteorite, due to Wolf's Sticky Fingers, she and him are captured by Marmalade and left to die in a death trap. Thankfully, Webs, Shark and Piranha arrive in time to save them.
• Batman Gambit: She attempts to lure the Bad Guys into a trap by mocking them on TV while announcing the Good Samaritan Awards, knowing it will provoke a revenge heist. It doesn't quite work as planned since not only were the Bad Guys more competent than she expected and ruined the ceremony by nearly walking off with the Dolphin, but Wolf (and secretly Marmalade) exploit the opportunity by goading her into a rehabiliation scheme.
• Big Damn Heroes: After the gang is arrested, she breaks into the prison and frees them.
• Big Good: The real one of the movie, as opposed to Marmalade, who only pretends to be. As Governor Diane Foxington, her understanding and empathy do more to encourage Wolf along the path to redemption than Marmalade's patronizing lessons ever could. As the Crimson Paw, she can kick ass with the best of them, it's her intervention that gets the Bad Guys out of wrongful imprisonment, and it's thanks to her help and her arsenal of gadgets that they're able to stop the cruel mastermind.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The Crimson Paw, that criminal briefly mentioned near the start of the film who was the only one to attempt to steal the Golden Dolphin without getting caught and vanished afterwards? It’s her.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: As the Crimson Paw, though fox-themed instead of cat-themed.
• Coin Walk Flexing: After revealing she stole her ring back from Mr. Wolf, she rolls it between her fingers twice before tossing it back to him.
• Condescending Compassion: Diane is a genuinely virtuous person, though in terms of dealing with the Bad Guys, especially Wolf, she is snarky and acerbic about giving a second chance to otherwise unrepentant Card Carrying Villains. However, as Diane and Wolf come to open up more around each other and she realises the gang's genuine camaraderie, her smugness fades and she becomes more sincerely empathetic.
• Cool Bike: She has a fast, sleek motorcycle that can be disguised as a briefcase.
• Commonality Connection: She's able to relate to Mr. Wolf, as wolves and foxes have a shared history of being villainized.
• Composite Character: In the absense of the rest of the International League of Heroes, Diane seems to take aspects from not just Agent Fox but other members as well, such as Agent Kitty Kat's sarcastic temper and Agent Hogwild's eccentric flirtatious energy and attachment to bikes. As mentioned above, Diane is also the name given to a chicken turned Supreme Court Judge in the books, making the name representative of a member of power who supports the Bad Guys in both takes.
• Consummate Professional: Part of her initial dislike for the Bad Guys is due to how brazen and open they are on their heists, seeing them as sloppy due to exposing their faces to the city. In contrast, she managed to keep her identity a secret, owns far better equipment, and has skills that equal or surpass the Bad Guys in each of their fields of expertise. She does loosen up and come to respect the Bad Guys as Smarter Than They Look later on, ultimately combining her methodical approach with their more spontaneous ones.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • During the Good Samaritan Awards, she makes conspicuously clear she knows the Bad Guys are going to try some revenge scheme for her earlier trash talk. It is revealed she has the Golden Dolphin guarded by the "Wolf Piranha Snake Shark Tarantula" (or "WPSST") Protection System, aided by multiple software securities that Webs just barely overrides in time.
  • While gearing up to steal the meteorite, she grabs the briefcase-motorcycle and the magnetic interceptors, both which come into play in stopping the heist later, even though there isn't any specific indication she would need them.
• Cunning Like a Fox: In her life as a criminal, she was an expert at sneaking and thinking on her feet. Invoked, as her guilt over playing into the Foul Fox stereotype pushed her to reform.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: She's the Idealist to Wolf's Cynic, having faith in the latter's ability to reform for real when even he has no hope of being able to. This is best shown in the different ways they look at a sculpture at the Golden Dolphin ceremony: while a disguised Wolf dismisses it as pretentious abstract garbage, Diane is able to look past surface appearances to see the real meaning of the statue, as from a certain angle, the grotesque "pile of garbage" casts the shadow of a beautiful swan. Eventually, Diane helps Wolf become an Idealist as well.
• Dark Secret: She was once the Crimson Paw, a notorious and successful criminal. She wants to keep her past buried, not just because the truth would land her in jail, but also because she enjoys her work as governor and wants to do good.
• Deadpan Snarker: She eventually warms up to Wolf and his gang, but even then, they're not safe from her endless sarcasm.
  Diane: Come on, what have you got to lose?
  Mr. Wolf: I dunno, my dignity?
  Diane: [raises her eyebrows at him and looks down at his sheep onesie] Yeah. Well, that ship has already sailed.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype. Of the Always Someone Better trope. She had a flawless streak as the Crimson Paw, mirrors nearly all the abilities of the Bad Guys plus with more concise equipment and strategies, and was even savvy enough to retire at the height of her career the first time she had a pang of doubt. Repurcussions of her being a lone One-Man Army who never lost are recurrently shown or at least implied however. In particular, she assumes the fact she was the most skilled in her field means she can easily defeat any other criminal as a hero, getting her outclassed by the Bad Guys and Marmalade on different occasions, and panicking from lack of a contagency plan that she never needed before (compared to the Bad Guys' more blundering but expert improvisational tactics). Also while her reformation is genuine, it starts off somewhat self-absorbed, mostly picking fights with other criminals to vent her own personal demons. It is only after connecting and accepting her similarities with supposed-inferior Wolf and finally having a real friend to confide in that she can genuinely start healing.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: At first, Diane Foxington is virulently contemptuous of the Bad Guys and opposed to the experiment to reform them. When Mr. Wolf shows the first signs that part of him wants to genuinely change, she starts becoming nicer with him and more supportive. She eventually becomes his main support in his redemption, his implied Love Interest, and the post-reformation gang's Sixth Ranger.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • While she's a former expert criminal, Diane's still new to being an authority figure whose job is to stop crime. When she badmouths the gang during a press conference and has the WPSST installed to protect the Golden Dolphin, she never anticipates they would succeed in shutting it down and stealing the trophy, nor does she make a contingency plan in case that happens. It is only because the gang's escape plan fails that her political career isn't destroyed.
  • She bonds with Mr. Wolf in their private conversation, showing she believes he can turn his life around for his and his friends' sakes. And when she's satisfied with what she sees, she's willing to pardon the whole group, and later breaks the gang out of jail. She doesn't anticipate that the rest of the gang wouldn't reform willingly along with Wolf, or that Snake could seemingly betray her and Wolf for Marmalade.
  • She's not only cocky enough to wear the stolen Zumpango Diamond as a ring during public outings, but even seems to keep it on her as the Crimson Paw. She likely should have guessed a fellow criminal like Marmalade would have recognised it and put two and two together.
• Distaff Counterpart: While Diane seemingly starts off a professional on the opposite side of the law from Wolf, following both their Character Development, it becomes apparent they share a lot of characteristics, being cocksure, smooth talking Loveable Rogues turned Magnetic Heroes. Diane being a fox even makes her close relation to Wolf's species, both being canidae.
• The Dreaded: As the Crimson Paw. She's a legend among criminals and, among the police and citizens, she's even more infamous than the Bad Guys. Despite Marmalade's years of being a beloved philanthropist who stopped wars, helped endangered species, and assisted in the recovery of the meteorite disaster, everyone turns on him and he's thrown into jail the second he's framed as the Crimson Paw.
• Elaborate Underground Base: She has a base set up under her home, with a path to it from the garage. It can also be entered via a hidden elevator in her fridge.
• Everyone Has Standards: She may have had a low tolerance for the Bad Guys' antics originally, but she understands how much they mean to each other, and is empathetic to the possibility of Wolf's reforming isolating him from the others, believing they should all aim for a better life together. This set a clear difference in behavior between her and Marmalade, who tempts Wolf into thinking the rest of the group are holding him back.
• Evil Feels Good: A very, very Downplayed example, but still there. While Diane helps Wolf see just how great it is to be a publicly-loved good guy, Wolf helps her enjoy a bit of the exciting rule-breaker life she gave up years earlier, first by letting her absolutely break loose on the dance floor and then by giving her the chance to feel the thrill of stealing one more time, even if for a good cause this time. She regrets her life as a criminal, yet it's clear in some scenes that she did somewhat miss it.
• Evil Is Angular: Her heroism compared to the dastardly Mr. Wolf is emphasized by her features (in particular her ears, muzzle, cheek fur, and figure) being much rounder and softer than his. Played with, as Diane and Wolf aren't as far away on the moral spectrum as it may seem at first.
• Evil Wears Black: As the infamous criminal Crimson Paw, she wears a black hooded full-body suit with yellow lines.
• Expressive Ears: Not to the same degree as Mr. Wolf's, but her ears do fold back based on her emotions.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She has a piercing on her left eyebrow, but not on her right one.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. It is downplayed since she can back up her bragging and, as the Crimson Paw, was the best thief in the world. However, even by her standards, she pushes her luck throughout the film. As shown with her conversation with "Mr Poodleton", due to her own experience, she initially doesn't see the Bad Guys as serious threats and tries to gambit them into their own arrest, unwittingly setting off the whole plot and nearly losing the Golden Dolphin during the Good Samaritan Awards. Marmalade also figures out her identity because she was brazen enough to wear the stolen Zumpango Diamond as her personal ring (and even traded it to Wolf on one occasion). The only things stopping her cockiness from catching up to her are Wolf interrupting her Heroic Sacrifice and Marmalade getting caught with the ring, implicating him as the Crimson Paw.
• Foil: To Marmalade, in multiple ways:
  • Both are well-known public figures monitoring the Bad Guys' reformation. Diane is a former criminal who, with some convincing, wants the Bad Guys to have a better life, while Marmalade is not only a Villain with Good Publicity, but also only pretending to reform the Bad Guys for his devious purposes while driving a wedge between them.
  • Both are later revealed to be villains, but in different ways. Diane is a Reformed Criminal driven by self reflection to make up for her past, while Marmalade is cruel, unrepentant, and arrogant in his master scheme. Both also team up with members of the gang in the third act. While Diane is humbled and comes to see the gang as friends and equals, earning their loyalty, Marmalade sees Snake as just another pawn to backstab, and gets Laser-Guided Karma for underestimating him.
  • Also to Wolf. As Diane herself notes, they aren't so different, both being cunning, smooth talking thieves who, in spite of their massive egos, had a change of heart. However, Diane worked alone and had to figure out how to be good on her own, while Wolf has her support in his reformation journey but is conflicted about his friends. Diane is concise, physically fluent professional that uses high tech gadgetry, but bad in the face of rare errors, while Wolf is a crafty manipulator with a relatively more clumsy and crude skillset, but can improvise well with whatever he has at the time. Diane offers moral support to Wolf, Wolf offers companionship and loyalty to Diane. As a result of Character Development on both ends, the two end up meeting in several areas characterisation wise by the end of the film.
• Foreshadowing: There are several hints early on that she's a former criminal:
  • On a news report, she gives an fairly in-depth psychoanalysis of the Bad Guys and their motivations.
  • During the Golden Dolphin ceremony, when talking to a disguised Mr. Wolf, she describes in great detail all the ways in which the Bad Guys flubbed their previous big heists. This shows that she has intricate in-depth knowledge of how heists work.
  • Mr. Wolf steals her diamond ring from her early in the heist, only for her to steal it back in turn, demonstrating her exceptional pickpocket skills.
  • When dancing with Wolf during the charity gala, she shows great dexterity and, at one point, even lifts Wolf over her head and spins him around, all effortlessly. This is an early hint that she has much more physical prowess than the average politician.
• For the Lulz: According to Wolf, after one of her old heists she returned the stolen object solely so she could steal it again 'for fun'.
• Foxy Vixen: She's a beautiful, feminine fox with curves and Hartman Hips, which are especially noticeable in her Crimson Paw outfit.
• Friendless Background: Implied. Despite being a Universally Beloved Leader as Governor, the public is oblivious to her real identity, and according to her flashback and creator notes, she reformed alone and with no emotional support to guide her. She also implies she suffered the same species discrimination the Bad Guys suffered before turning her life around. Her reward for supporting Wolf and the other Bad Guys during their own Heel–Face Turn is finally having True Companions and Secret Keepers she can confide and heal through.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Her secret lair and gadgets are far more elaborate and high tech than the Bad Guys, bordering more on super-spy material. Examples include a blow torch disguised as a lipstick and a suitcase that transforms into a motorbike.
• Genki Girl: She's normally quite controlled and no nonsense in public, though as Wolf slowly brings out her real self, it becomes evident that, similar to him, she's much more exuberant and even child-like when not playing to the crowd. Her mugshot after The Reveal she is the Crimson Paw is even a traditional big genki-ish smile.
• The Glasses Come Off: As the Crimson Paw she wears no glasses, and she takes them off deliberately when she confesses her identity.
• Good Animals, Evil Animals: She's a red fox, a species typically portrayed in media as thieving tricksters and vermin. Like the Bad Guys, she grew up under suspicion of being a "tricky fox", which led to her living up to the stereotype as the Crimson Paw.
• Good Is Not Soft: When rescuing the Bad Guys from their frame up, she beats up and knocks out every police officer in their prison, including at least two just trying to run away (likely so no one will overhear her conversation with the gang revealing her identity afterwards).
• Gun Twirling: She twirls a grappling hook gun this way at her hideout.
• Hartman Hips: She has a pear-shaped figure, giving her a more feminine appearance when she's next to Mr. Wolf.
• Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: She left the criminal life because she resented being a ruthless stereotypical villain and wanted to atone. Upon The Reveal however, she's still as much a braggart as the Bad Guys are in terms of her actual Villain Cred as the Crimson Paw.
• Heel–Face Turn: A former thief who loved every second of her criminal life, the shame of having conformed to the stereotype of the cunning fox made her abandon her evil ways and become an honest politician to make up for her past. She is noticeably the only character in the film to have redeemed herself all on her own, while Wolf partially needed her as a Positive Friend Influence and the rest of the Bad Guys had Wolf as theirs.
• Hero Antagonist: She's initially presented as this, being a savvy politician trying to stop the gang for good. This gradually fades away as she becomes one of their biggest supporters, even when Marmalade turns the rest of the city against them.
• Heroic Sacrifice: After stopping Marmalade's plot, the gang is accused of the theft of the meteor. Diane tries to explain that they're innocent for this, even though it'd mean confessing that she was the Crimson Paw, and thus completely and utterly destroying her new life. Thankfully, the Bad Guys refuse to let her make that sacrifice, and they find another way to prove their innocence.
• Hidden Depths: As shown in the "Good Tonight" number, she shares Wolf's fluency in dancing.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Initially, Diane comes off as an arrogant Hero Antagonist who sees the Bad Guys as has-beens and only grudgingly agrees to their redemption scheme after they're arrested. The first instance Wolf vents frustrations over his villain image and a sincere desire to be good however, Diane becomes more empathetic and begins to bond with Wolf (for guarded reasons that become clearer later in the movie). Given Wolf originally only plotted the Golden Dolphin heist to spite her, this curveball takes him aback to the point that he can't go through with it and pulls a Heel–Face Turn for real, unwilling to betray someone who supported and believed in him when no one else would.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: She wears the Zumpango Diamond, which she stole during her Crimson Paw years, on a ring. Because it doesn't have the same shine while in the ring, nobody suspects it's the legendary diamond. Marmalade is shocked at how brazen it is, but Mr. Wolf is amused.
  Mr. Wolf: You gotta be kidding me.
  Diane: What? I'm sentimental!
• Hypocrite:
  • Her behavior in the first act of the movie becomes this once her past as the Crimson Paw is revealed to the audience. She belittles the gang during the press briefing, and after they're caught attempting to steal the Golden Dolphin, she's vocally against giving them a second chance. This is despite her being a Reformed Criminal herself and having said earlier that "even trash can be recycled into something beautiful". Even though she correctly suspects their "desire to reform" is a lie, when Wolf sends her back her words right back at her, she concedes.
  • In an example leaning more towards Hypocritical Humor, she kept the Zumpango Diamond, one of the jewels she stole and was even cocky enough to wear it as a ring in public. After previously berating the Bad Guys for being not just unrepentant criminals, but careless and arrogant ones, in particular their "compulsive showboating", Wolf is particularly smug towards a flustered Diane when this gets her called out by Marmalade.

I - W

• Impossibly-Low Neckline: Neither of her dresses come with straps to hold them over her chest, seeming to stay up through tightness alone.
• Implied Love Interest: She and Mr. Wolf don't do anything explicitly romantic, but their interactions have a lot of flirtatious subtext behind them. This climaxes at the charity fundraiser, where the two dance together and end on a tile of the love crater meteorite, which happens to be shaped like a heart, but that's as far as it ever goes.
• Interspecies Romance: With Mr. Wolf. Light interspecies flirting, at least.
• In the Hood: Her Paw outfit comes with a hood and mask designed to hide her species, since it likely wouldn't be good to associate her with the (seemingly) only other fox in Los Angeles.
• Karma Houdini: She is the only criminal not arrested for her crimes by the end of the movie, having successfully retired from crime without ever getting apprehended, with Marmalade later framed for her tenure as the Crimson Paw. To her credit, she does try to turn herself in, though the Bad Guys stop her and take the fall for her instead. For a bit of balance, the cover-up costs her the one stolen item she kept for herself, forcing her to go fully legit just like the Bad Guys did.
• Kick Chick: As seen when she breaks into the prison, her fighting style relies heavily on kicks.
• Lady in a Power Suit: Her usual attire while doing her job as governor. Mr. Wolf even mocks it when he vents to her about being seen as a monster by a prejudiced world.
  Mr. Wolf: Of course you wouldn't know anything about that, with your Little Miss Perfect power suit!
• Laser-Guided Karma: Similar to the Bad Guys' example, Diane's run as Governor is constantly sabotaged by thieves. The Good Samaritan Award is ruined after the Golden Dolphin is nearly stolen (by the same criminals she trash talked on TV), while the Gala is ruined after the Love Crater Meteorite is successfully stolen by Marmalade, with him also performing a heist to steal the charity funds raised at the event. He later also mockingly pickpockets Diane of the Zumpango Diamond that she stole before. While most of these are retrieved, the Diamond is given back to authorities after Marmalade unwittingly frames himself with it.
• Leitmotif: She gains one after revealing herself as the Crimson Paw, a tune played on an Indian bansuri flute.
• Magnetic Hero: She is the larger reason Wolf turned good for real over Marmalade, breaking their conflict to show she could relate to him, and her support and friendship leaving Wolf unwilling to backstab her. Atoning the leader of the Bad Guys led to the rest of the group ultimately defecting as well.
• Memento MacGuffin: The diamond ring she wears is revealed to be this: the stone in it is actually the Zumpango Diamond, a priceless artifact she stole in her time as the Crimson Paw. Despite having given up her life of crime, she kept the diamond for sentimental reasons. Marmalade takes it from her, but when he's caught with it, he's mistaken for being the true identity of the Crimson Paw, leading to his arrest.
• Morality Pet: Along with being his Positive Friend Influence, Diane ends up the reason Wolf can't bring himself to commit crimes anymore, knowing that going forward with stealing the Golden Dolphin would mean betraying and abandoning her.
• Ms. Fanservice: A beautiful Foxy Vixen with Hartman Hips who wears nice dresses twice and is shown to be very flexible, even before the reveal that she’s the Crimson Paw.
• My Greatest Failure: She sees her time as the Crimson Paw as this for giving in to stereotypes about foxes being deceitful, thieving tricksters.
• Ms. Vice Girl: Diane, despite some hints of being Reformed, but Not Tamed, has adapted to a scrupulous lifestyle quite well, being a fairly competent politican and generally being a sincere Nice Girl and the Bad Guys' Positive Friend Influence in most circumstances. However she still struggles frequently with her pride over how successful she was as the Crimson Paw, which leads to several moments of her nearly blowing her cover by being overconfident, hypocritical, or just acting like a childish braggart. It is this side to her however that allows her and the equally cocky Wolf discover they are kindred spirits, both thriving on the playful banter and boasting in spite of their desire to change.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Despite her sarcasm, she's clearly charmed by Mr. Wolf even before he resolves to change. Most of their interactions come off as flirtatious on both sides.
  • She's fully reformed from her life as a criminal, but that doesn't mean she's above wearing a diamond she stole in her past life as a ring. After all, she's the sentimental type.
  • While she regrets her criminal life, she is still just as prideful of her Villain Cred as the Bad Guys are of their's. Her public announcement against the Bad Guys is practically in the style of a schoolyard Pretender Diss. That the Bad Guys still at least manage to get the Golden Dolphin from around her are an early warning sign that Diane is a bit too confident in her abilities.
  • While dancing with Wolf at the gala, she drops the serious politician attitude altogether, and her dances with Wolf come off as either provocative or even goofy — some of them she even laughs at while still doing them.
  • When she prepares to steal the meteorite from Marmalade with Wolf, her eagerness to feel the thrill of stealing once more is almost child-like.
  • She's giving Wolf a Death Glare after he gets them caught by Marmalade. After said diamond gets her identity discovered by Marmalade however, it quickly changes into an "Oh, Crap!" Smile. Maybe she's not one to complain about carelessness.
    • Just the fact that she walked around wearing the spoils of one of her most famous heists, the Zumpango Diamond, on her finger speaks to her own pride and arrogance, no matter how much truth there was to her claims of it being sentimental.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Mr. Wolf claims that she, a red fox, has no idea what it's like to always be seen as the bad guy. Diane reveals she's snagged her ring back from Mr. Wolf, and says wolves and foxes aren't so different as she tosses the ring back to him.
• Not So Stoic:
  • She's cool and collected for the majority of the film, but absolutely freaks out at Marmalade's death trap, especially when Shark and Piranha are too distracted by their "wag" to save her.
  • While not to the same ferocity as Wolf, she is also livid with Marmalade for playing her the whole time. Earlier in said scene when he gloats that he even knows she's the Crimson Paw, she growls and struggles furiously in her bonds.
  • Despite the importance of time in leaving Marmalade's house, she's amused with the rest of the team at Wolf snagging the cat and giving it its own sunglasses.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Just as Wolf is preparing the final steps of the heist at the Gala, he catches Diane smiling adoringly at him (in fact the character image above), the two having now become close. This is too much for Wolf, and he aborts the scheme to turn good for real rather than hurt Diane.
• One-Man Army: She takes on every police officer in S.U.C.M. by herself, and all she suffers is a slightly torn sleeve.
• One of the Guys: Post-Character Development, she is 100% in on the Bad Guys' goofy chemistry and banter.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Invoked. Her Crimson Paw outfit does a great job at masking all of her fox features (a hood to hide the ears, a mask to cover her muzzle, and her tail is hidden), but somehow, none of the guards see and make the connection that she's the governor after she removes her mask in plain sight when revealing herself to the gang.
• Positive Friend Influence: Her being able to relate to Mr. Wolf proves to be a huge influence on his reformation.
• Pretender Diss: A lot of her mockery of the Bad Guys as unoriginal comes from being an absolutely unstoppable Classy Cat-Burglar herself at one point.
• Psychological Projection: Following The Reveal, it becomes evident a lot of her earlier distain and insults towards the Bad Guys were venting her own emotional conflicts about being a former criminal. After Wolf revealed a similar level of insecurity however, she accepted their similarities and became more empathetic.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Implied; she wears a pair with her suit, but not with her formal dresses, nor does she wear them as the Crimson Paw. When she's about to confess to Chief Luggins about her being the Crimson Paw, she takes her glasses off.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She’s initially angry with Mr. Wolf for the gang's failure at Sunnyside, and is considering calling off the program and sending them to jail, but when Mr. Wolf vents his point of view of how the world sees him, she comforts him, showing him that she knows how he feels and even tells him that she genuinely wants him and his friends to have a better life.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: During an interview after the Bad Guys' latest robbery, she mercilessly annihilates their Evil Is Cool power fantasy and (correctly) mocks them as a bunch of insecure, frustrated, arrogant, predictable, and self-loathing has-beens. The gang isn't too happy, as Diane successfully delivered an armor-piercing blow: they're used to being seen as villains, but they want to be treated like cool villains.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: She has undergone genuine reformation and is a professional, beloved governor. However, she can still show arrogance about her life as the Crimson Paw, and is willing to break rules if she believes it's for the greater good. Her experiences with the Bad Guys and Marmalade make her relatively more humble, but she remains a cocksure anti-heroine, as she herself puts it:
  Diane: I'm still me, I'm just... Me on the right side.
• Reformed Criminal: She was previously the Crimson Paw, a(n in)famous criminal who was never identified or caught, and who suddenly disappeared after failing to steal the Golden Dolphin. She explains to Mr. Wolf that she got sick of being a criminal and turned her life around to do good in the world.
• Reverse Psychology: After their screw up with the guinea pig heist, Diane threatens to call Luggins on them and lashes out at Wolf for being too gutless and prideful to make use of their second chance, causing Wolf to angrily snap back at her, pointing out he's been "the villain of every story" his whole life and even if they did go legit, no one would give them a fair chance anyway. Diane merely reacts amused by this outburst and immediately softens, heavily implying she was bluffing and just wanted to coax some sign that Wolf legitimately wanted to change.
• The Rival: Due to her record as the Crimson Paw, she vocally views the Bad Guys as mere posers she'll easily vanquish, though after they successfully crash the Good Samaritan Awards and almost steal the Golden Dolphin from right behind her as payback, she becomes more wary of them, as is very skeptical towards their redemption scheme. After seeing sincere change however, Diane starts to genuinely care about Wolf and become a close ally, though the playful banter remains between them.
• Samus Is a Girl: The Crimson Paw was never captured or identified, and both the gang and the pokice believe the Paw is a man. They're shocked to find out it's actually Diane. However, Wolf's description of her includes the fact that one of her aliases was "the Queen of Cons", so maybe it was always known the Crimson Paw was a girl. This, however, is contradicted further by the fact that Marmalade, a man, is believed to be the Crimson Paw with no questions asked, so maybe her alias was "the King of Cons" or something similar, but Wolf changes it when describing her because now he knows for a fact that she's female.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: She wears a blue open-back dress during the gala.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She's a fox with red fur and green eyes who's invested in the Bad Guys reforming.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She's an elegant, classy governor who's also a former master criminal with impressive combat skills.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: She had very little prominence in the trailers and marketing, likely as to not give away her role in the film's third act. No official marketing materials mention the name "Crimson Paw" either.
• The Sixth Ranger: By the climax of the film, Diane has fully immersed herself into the Bad Guys' group dynamic and by the end of it is ready to join them in whatever adventure comes next.
• Smarter Than She Looks: Because she's an authority figure, the Bad Guys repeatedly underestimate her initially. She saw through Wolf's disguise at the Gala, stole her ring back from him after he initially plucked it off her, and immediately recognizes Wolf's attempt to charm her as 'The full Clooney'.
• So Proud of You: She says it to Wolf at the end when he stops her from doing her Heroic Sacrifice.
• Spanner in the Works: "Believe it or not, I'm rooting for you, Wolf." Unlike Marmalade, who's using the entire idea of reforming the Bad Guys as a cover, Diane actually believes they have a chance to turn their lives around following her heart-to-heart with Wolf. It's enough; Wolf's Heel–Face Turn takes effect because of her, and his last-ditch effort to show he's really changed helps her see through Marmalade's scheme and allows any of the third act — and Marmalade's downfall — to happen at all.
• Species Surname: Foxington.
• Still Got It: After breaking into the prison island and taking out all the guards to free the gang, she boasts that she's still the best bad guy, only to notice a tear in her sleeve and getting annoyed. Her confidence is restored moments later when they manage to escape.
  Diane: Nope, I'm still the best! Just like riding a stolen bicycle.
• Stop Being Stereotypical: She spent a lot of time and effort becoming a beloved governor so that she could atone for her past crimes and subvert the stereotype of foxes being sly thieves. Due to this, she initially resents the Bad Guys for fully indulging in villainy and proving their species' stereotypes right. When she takes this up to Wolf, he loses his patience and tells her off in return, saying that even if he and his friends did change their ways, she wouldn't believe them because of her "Miss Perfect" power suits.
  Diane: I gave you an opportunity! A chance to show the world that you're more that just a scary stereotype! But you're too proud or too gutless to take advantage of it!
  Wolf: Gutless?! I'm gutless?! I'm sorry, have we meet? I'm the villain of every story! Guilty until proven innocent, and even if by some miracle we did change, who's gonna believe us, huh?
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She's this to her book counterpart, Agent Fox, rather than being a straight adaptation like the rest of the cast. Both of them are the Love Interest of Mr. Wolf and provide him with a good, level-headed person to communicate with as he reforms. While Agent Fox is a former thug that became good and founded a top-secret hero organization, Diane is a former thief who became disgusted with her lifestyle and became governor to make up for her crimes, later doubling as The Sixth Ranger for the Bad Guys.
• A Taste of Defeat:
  • During the Golden Dolphin ceremony, Wolf manages to dupe her into giving them security access, then the gang makes it past her "WPSST" Protection System and steal the Golden Dolphin from right behind her. While Luggins' forces stop them, Diane acts lowkey petulant about them outsmarting her and ruining the ceremony.
  • Marmalade ends up the first person to capture her and discover her identity as the Crimson Paw against her will (the former was admitedly Wolf's fault, though the latter was down to her own cockiness with the Zumpango Diamond).
• Technician vs. Performer: The Technician to the Bad Guys' Performer. As the Crimson Paw, Diane is incredibly concise, physically fluent, relies on better gadgets, and is generally far more savvy and less clumsy in action than the Bad Guys, which left her in general a far more successful and unstoppable cat burgular. Due to this and her Consummate Professional approach however, she underestimates the Bad Guys' on-the-fly manipulations and improvising, viewing them as sloppy, leaving her shocked and in panic when they succeed in stealing the Golden Dolphin, lacking any sort of contingency plan should her plan actually get outdone. She ends up a perfect ally for the Bad Guys with her experience and Crazy-Prepared custom blending swiftly with their Indy Ploys.
• Tempting Fate: Diane knew her earlier undermining of the Bad Guys would earn a retaliation, though was fine letting them crash and burn by pulling a revenge scheme. This results in the Bad Guys actually outsmarting her security precautions and nearly running off with the Golden Dolphin, as well as giving Marmalade an opportunity to start his own heist.
• Too Clever by Half: As the Crimson Paw, Diane legitimately was one of if not the most competent thief out there, though because of this, she is shown unable to anticipate that other criminals might still be able to outsmart her early on. She humiliates herself in a game of cat and mouse against the Bad Guys due to underestimating them (and overestimating how well her experience would translate into a lawful role stopping criminals), and was arrogant enough about how inconspicuous she was to wear one of her stolen jewels in plain sight, which gets her discovered by Marmalade. Played with, since Diane is also one of the most self observant characters in the film, and quietly demonstrates she learns from her mistakes and applies her better judgement as the plot unfolds, particularly towards Wolf and Marmalade.
• Undying Loyalty: By the end of the film, she has become so close to Wolf and the other Bad Guys that they have to stop her from exposing herself as the Crimson Paw in her last desperate bid to clear their names.
• Universally Beloved Leader: She's so beloved by her constituents that even Webs, a career criminal, voted for her. The only people who don't like her are Mr. Wolf and his gang, though she did mock them and put down their skills on TV for all the city to see, and even they come around to her by the film's end. (Marmalade on the other hand might still hold a grudge.)
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her public dressing down of the Bad Guys kicks off the entire main plot, with the gang's revenge heist giving Marmalade the opportunity to unknowingly drag them into his own scheme via his reformation plan.
• Waif-Fu: Despite having zero muscle mass and being a slim Foxy Vixen, she's able to fight off multiple much larger guards with zero problem.

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