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| 6 | !The Traville Family |
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| 8 | [[folder:General]] |
| 9 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: The family consists of domineering RichBitch Beatrice, HenpeckedHusband Richard who usually struggles to rein her in, and their eldest daughter Stella, a BrainlessBeauty who messed up her own family. Thankfully, after Stella finally stands up to her mother and Richard promises to no longer enable his wife's antics, things seem to get better for the family (sans Beatrice). |
| 10 | * BlueBlood: According to Stella, her family immigrated to New York from France generations ago, and is one of the richest in the state. It's later revealed Richard comes from a generations-wealthy oil family while Beatrice is descended from nobility. |
| 11 | * HeirClubForMen: Liam is the only son and is the one running the family business now that Richard is retired. |
| 12 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: When it comes to romantic partners, Richard and his sister Simone don't have the best track record as he married the HateSink Beatrice while Simone dated the criminal Sergio. |
| 13 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: Beatrice and Richard have 5 children in total: Liam, Stella, Jocelyn, Chasity, and Genevieve. |
| 14 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: Richard is the Nice for being a charitable and kindhearted man who doesn't care about money or status, Beatrice is the Mean since she's a HateSink RichBitch who treats even her own family like dirt due to her warped obsession with privilege and wealth, and Stella is the In-Between as she was once a sweet girl who was raised to become a spoiled snob, but still possesses redeeming qualities and is capable of change. |
| 15 | * NobilityMarriesMoney: Beatrice and Richard's marriage was essentially this. Beatrice's family was descended from a count but [[ImpoverishedPatrician fell into massive debts by her teen years]]. The reason she married Richard was largely to avoid bankruptcy. |
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| 18 | [[folder:Richard Traville]] |
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| 20 | Star's maternal grandfather. He makes his debut in "Visited". |
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| 22 | * AnticsEnablingWife: GenderInverted and deconstructed. By the end of "Visited", Richard admits he only made things worse by going along with Beatrice's awful behavior and promises to be much less lenient from now on. |
| 23 | * BenevolentBoss: His servants like him enough to pity him for marrying a crazy harpy like Beatrice. |
| 24 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's shown to be a downright NiceGuy who's browbeaten by his wife into going along with her every whim. But his PapaWolf moment below shows that no one, not even his domineering wife, gets away with hurting his granddaughter. |
| 25 | * BroodingBoyGentleGirl: GenderInverted. He’s a gentle, levelheaded NiceGuy while his wife Beatrice is a domineering and unpleasant RichBitch ControlFreak. |
| 26 | * BrutalHonesty: Richard, as loving as he is to Stella, admits to his daughter he hates her second husband and stepdaughter, thinking she should've stayed with Johnathan and never met them. |
| 27 | * CanonForeigner: It’s likely Star has a maternal grandfather in canon, though he was never shown or mentioned. |
| 28 | * CarFu: In "Traveled", he drives a limo into Power Surge and jumps out before it crashes into the electric ghost and explodes. |
| 29 | * CharacterDevelopment: As of the end of “Visited”, he has decided to stop being a HenpeckedHusband to Beatrice after finally acknowledging all the damage her awful behavior was causing everyone. He promises to be much more firm with his wife from now on and will make an effort to spend more time with his family since he feels guilty for putting work over being around for his daughter Stella while she was growing up. |
| 30 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He becomes this to Beatrice after “Visited” as Richard wants to stop his wife from ruining their family’s lives further with her elitist ControlFreak attitude and make sure she stays away from Star according to the restraining order against her, along with holding onto some misplaced hope that she can be redeemed. |
| 31 | * CoolOldGuy: He is much kinder and open-minded than his wife, and he is also supportive of Danny and Star's relationship. |
| 32 | * CowardlyLion: In “Visited”, Richard knows Beatrice’s plan to arrange a marriage between Star and Donovan is a bad idea from the start but is too timid to stop her until he finally changes his mind after seeing the Loadman brat harass his granddaughter. Richard not only supports Stella getting restraining orders against Beatrice and Donovan, but promises that he’ll stop tolerating his wife’s domineering behavior and will be much more firm with her from now on. |
| 33 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: Stella is surprised to learn that Richard hates Jean-Luc, and despite his love for his grandson Pierre, he wishes that Stella had never met him. |
| 34 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the HenpeckedHusband. His inability to stand up to his domineering, RichBitch wife only enables Beatrice's horrible behavior, had a negative effect on their children's psyches, and severely strains his relationship with his family since they dread the couple's visits. By the end of "Visited", he realizes how much he made things worse by being this and promises to be more firm with Beatrice from now on. |
| 35 | * DotingParent: Unlike Beatrice, Richard, is very loving and caring towards Stella, but he could do little to help her or spend as much time as he would have liked with his children due to both being very busy running his company and being a HenpeckedHusband to his wife. However, after standing up to Beatrice and promising to put his foot down more, Richard apologizes to Stella and promises to try and spend more time with her. |
| 36 | * DotingGrandparent: Similarly, Richard is very loving towards his granddaughter Star and also deeply loves Pierre, despite hating whom his father and other half-sister is. He makes it clear to Stella that Pierre is the only person from her second marriage he cares for. By the end of "Visited", he even gives Danny his blessing to be with Star, to the point he considers him family. |
| 37 | * EasilyForgiven: Neither Stella nor Star seem to hold it against him for not initially opposing Beatrice's plot to set Star up with Donovan or generally standing up to his shrew of a wife until the near end of "Visited". |
| 38 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 39 | ** It's implied that Richard disapproves of the way his wife treats non-upper-class people (such as Danny and even Johnathan) but chose not to defend them because of how overbearing Beatrice is. However, when Donovan Loadman (a boy Beatrice wanted to set up with their granddaughter Star) tries to forcefully kiss Star and then hurts her for rejecting him, Richard deems it unforgivable. He also finally calls out his wife when she takes Donovan's side over their granddaughter's and blames Danny. Richard furiously refuses to let Beatrice silence him and tells everyone what REALLY happened. |
| 40 | ** He does have limits with Beatrice's nasty attitude as when she insults him by calling him an "old goat", Richard reminds her that he knows [[spoiler:her secret origins from a bankrupt noble family]] that she doesn't want anyone to know about. He eventually makes good on this by revealing it to his family, Team Phantom and their loved ones when they ask why he married an old harpy like Beatrice. |
| 41 | ** He has a deep hatred of the Beviers but makes an exception for Pierre since he's just an innocent baby. Although he still wishes Stella never met Jean-Luc. |
| 42 | * ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: He might be in denial about Beatrice being an irredeemable bitch, but he is spot on when he tells Stella that the Beviers (except for Pierre) are rotten to the core. |
| 43 | * {{Expy}}: He was inspired by Ursula's father Arthur Stanhope from the 1997 movie ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', being a wealthy man who's far more understanding and accepting of his daughter's (granddaughter in Richard's case) relationship with the main character and just wishes for her to marry for love instead of wealth, unlike his snobby, domineering, classist, egotistical, and unpleasant harpy of a wife. Coincidentally, both Arthur and Richard are married to a woman named Beatrice. |
| 44 | * ExtremeDoormat: He usually has trouble standing up to his dominating shrew of a wife or saying "no" to her. [[spoiler: It's not until near the end of "Visited" where he finally stands up to Beatrice and refuses to go along with her antics any longer.]] |
| 45 | * FatalFlaw: Passiveness. He’s far too much of a pushover when it comes to his overbearing wife Beatrice and him being a HenpeckedHusband only enables her despicable behavior to the point she turned their daughter Stella into a shallow, flighty, insecure BrainlessBeauty from years of emotional abuse and almost ruined Star’s life by trying to force their granddaughter into an unwanted ArrangedMarriage with her most troublesome AbhorrentAdmirer, Donovan, regardless of how much Star hates him or how much of a violent jerk Loadman is to her. It takes seeing Loadman attacking Star for Richard to finally wise up that his wife has gone too far. Not only does he tell everyone about Loadman abusing Star, but he firmly supports her relationship with Danny after accepting that he’s a much better man and agrees with Stella’s decision to get restraining orders against Toadman and Beatrice to protect Star. He promises to stop turning a blind eye to Beatrice’s horrendous behavior and be much stricter with her from now on. |
| 46 | * GenerationXerox: He is married to a RichBitch like Beatrice, while his eldest daughter Stella left Johnathan and remarried RichBastard Jean-Luc Bevier. |
| 47 | * TheGhost: He has yet to appear in the series. [[spoiler:He makes his debut in "Visited"]]. |
| 48 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: While he is aware of his wife's selfishness and sociopathy, he remains with her partially out of some naive belief that she can become a better person. |
| 49 | * GoodIsNotDumb: While he naively believes Beatrice is capable of redemption, he fully sees Colette and Jean-Luc for the horrible people they are and knows Stella is deluding herself into believing they have good in them. |
| 50 | * GoodIsOldFashioned: Admits to being this because he refuses to divorce Beatrice despite knowing how awful she is, partly since he believes in the sanctity of marriage. |
| 51 | * GoodParents: He genuinely loves his daughter Stella and the feeling is mutual, as she's fine with him visiting her anytime while Beatrice is kept away with a restraining order. Liam is also shown to love and respect Richard. |
| 52 | * GuiltByAssociation: The news that he's coming to visit with his wife is met with dread by everyone but Richard's efforts at being friendly make it clear that he's largely just lumped in with Beatrice in being despised; on a personal level, he makes a very sincere effort to be polite and courteous to others. |
| 53 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He's a gentle, good-hearted man who has gray hair now but was blonde in his youth like Stella. |
| 54 | * HenpeckedHusband: It's clearly established in "Visited" that he's as dominated by his wife as his daughter is. |
| 55 | * HiddenDepths: The final chapter of "Visited" reveals that he had served in the army in his younger years. |
| 56 | * HiddenDisdainReveal: Richard Traville's opinion on his daughter Stella's second husband was unknown, although his wife Beatrice greatly approved of Jean-Luc Bevier and hated Stella's first husband, Johnathan Strong. Richard admits to Stella he has no love for Jean-Luc or Colette, finding both of them very unpleasant. He admits to Stella he wishes she had never met them and stayed with Johnathan. |
| 57 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: Although he is retired at this point, he ran his family's oil business for 42 years and he is a NiceGuy. |
| 58 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He thinks Beatrice can be redeemed out of a belief that deep down, she's still the sweet girl she was when they got married but everyone else, especially Star and Danny, knows Beatrice is a lost cause because of how completely unrepentant she is about everything she did. They only accept his decision to stay with Beatrice because they're just glad to have her out of their lives forever and Richard agreed to keep an eye on her so it stays that way. |
| 59 | * HumbleParentSpoiledKids: He's a perfectly genial man who couldn't care less about wealth or status, in contrast to his spoiled, social-climbing daughter Stella. Justified as Richard was busy with work and Stella was mainly raised by her RichBitch mother Beatrice, who drilled into her that money and privilege are all that matter, much to his regret. It becomes downplayed over time as Stella works on improving her attitude and breaking away from Beatrice's influence. |
| 60 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He hates Jean-Luc and Colette for being unpleasant and materialistic snobs but loves Beatrice despite her being even worse than both of them. Granted, Richard doesn't approve of Beatrice's rotten behavior and has vowed to be much less lenient with her by the end of "Visited". |
| 61 | * HypocriteHasAPoint: Even if his love for Beatrice makes him a hypocrite, his analysis of Jean-Luc and Colette being awful people is spot on. |
| 62 | * ICanChangeMyBeloved: He feels Beatrice's horrible attitude is partly his fault for being a HenpeckedHusband toward her and vows to stop being so submissive in the hopes that he can make her a better person. Nobody else actually believes that'll happen but accept his decision out of respect and the need for someone to keep Beatrice out of their lives. |
| 63 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: He was nicknamed "Colonel Bullseye" in the army. Despite his age, he's still able to effectively use a Fenton blaster on the Forces of Nature. |
| 64 | * InformedFlaw: Star describes her grandfather as picky and a lot like Stella when Danny first met her since he comes from OldMoney. However, Richard has been shown from the beginning to be a very warm and open-minded NiceGuy who doesn't care about others' background or financial status, completely unlike his stuck-up wife. It's possible his past history of being an ExtremeDoormat HenpeckedHusband just led to Star lumping him in with Beatrice. |
| 65 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: He seems to develop one with Danny. |
| 66 | * ItsAllMyFault: He admits his passive attitude only enabled Beatrice’s horrible behavior and strives to make up for it by refusing to continue putting up with her antics and being much more firm with her from now on. |
| 67 | * JerkassHasAPoint: More blunt than jerkass, but he flat-out tells Stella she's delusional for believing Jean-Luc and Colette have any good in them. |
| 68 | * LikeASonToMe: Well, more like grandson but Richard does consider Danny family after witnessing his good character when he protected his granddaughter Star from her violently possessive AbhorrentAdmirer, Donovan Loadman, and the ghost bat at the country club. He's fine with Danny calling him "Grandpa" even if he doesn't marry Star. |
| 69 | * LikeParentLikeChild: One thing he has in common with his spoiled daughter Stella is that neither of them will let anyone, including Beatrice, get away with hurting Star since he vehemently refuses to let Beatrice force Star into an ArrangedMarriage with her AbhorrentAdmirer Donovan Loadman, also he he’s fine with Stella getting a restraining order against his wife and promises to make sure she stays away from Stella’s family. |
| 70 | * LikeParentUnlikeChild: He's a generous and down-to-earth NiceGuy while his daughter Stella is a snobby BrainlessBeauty. Downplayed as Stella undergoes CharacterDevelopment and begins fixing her negative qualities. |
| 71 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: Everyone sees this as the reason why he won't leave Beatrice despite everything she's done and believes [[LikeParentLikeChild Stella inherited this quality from him]] given her refusal to accept that the Beviers are bad people. |
| 72 | * LovingAShadow: It's clear that at least part of the reason Richard stays with Beatrice is because he hopes that the same woman he fell in love with years ago is still there, not understanding that Beatrice is an irredeemable monster who likely married him only for his money. |
| 73 | * LovingParentCruelParent: He is the Loving Parent to Beatrice's Cruel Parent. Despite being a pushover, he truly loves his children and grandchildren and is fiercely protective of them, while Beatrice seems to regard their family as pawns to use(at best) to further her own status. |
| 74 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: He’s warm, kind, polite, caring, calm, passive, humble, selfless, and generous while his wife Beatrice is cold, cruel, rude, ruthless, temperamental, aggressive, arrogant, selfish, and greedy. |
| 75 | * MustMakeAmends: He feels guilty for not spending a lot time with his children when they were growing up, which caused Stella to be negatively influenced by Beatrice, and promises his daughter that he will try harder to be there for them from now on. |
| 76 | * MyGreatestFailure: He admits he wishes he spent more time with his children while they were growing up instead of focusing on running his company. |
| 77 | * NiceGuy: He has high-class tastes like his wife but he tries to be personable and respectful to people and even makes an effort to talk down his wife when she starts going over the line. |
| 78 | * NiceToTheWaiter: Unlike his wife, he doesn't look down on people of lower social classes and tries to be friendly to everyone. |
| 79 | * NoAccountingForTaste: Despite the fact that Beatrice is a RichBitch and a total HateSink, Richard still loves her at the end of the fic and refuses to divorce her, though he does plan on being more firm with her from now on. |
| 80 | * OldMoney: He's from from a wealthy family of oil barons. |
| 81 | * OpenMindedParent: Unlike the rest of his family, he couldn't care less that Johnathan and Danny are middle-class as he respects them for being good men (unlike rich snobs such as Jean-Luc Bevier and Donovan Loadman) and gladly welcomes them into his family. |
| 82 | * PapaWolf: |
| 83 | ** He stops being a HenpeckedHusband when Donovan hits Star and Beatrice tries to blame Danny for the fight that follows and force Star to apologize for it. |
| 84 | ** He [[CarFu rams Power Surge with a limousine]] to protect Stella and Star. |
| 85 | * ParentsAsPeople: Despite being a HenpeckedHusband, he is a very loving father to his children and admits that he wished that he could have spent more time with them when they were younger since he was often away due to working so much, running his family's company. |
| 86 | * ParentPreferredSuitor: As a stark contrast to Beatrice, Richard admits that he actually likes Johnathan and wishes that Stella never divorced him in the first place; he also admits that to hating Jean-Luc and Colette, viewing them as the biggest mistakes of his daughter's life. |
| 87 | ** Richard also expresses nothing but fondness and approval of Danny, as well as despising Donovan for his horrible treatment of his granddaughter. |
| 88 | * PreppyName: His full name is Richard Jacob Hockley Traville III. |
| 89 | * PetTheDog: |
| 90 | ** In “Visited”, Richard proves that he ultimately loves his family more than he fears his overbearing wife since he not only staunchly opposes Beatrice's plan to force Star into a miserable ArrangedMarriage with Donovan, but supports Stella’s decision to get restraining orders against both of them for Star’s safety. Finally, he promises to stop tolerating Beatrice's horrible behavior anymore and be much stricter with her after seeing all the damage she was causing. |
| 91 | ** Unlike his wife, he shows concern for his family after the ghost bat’s attack at the country club and hugs his daughter Stella in relief, which she returns. |
| 92 | ** His grandson Pierre is the only Bevier he likes due to being an innocent baby who lacks the negative qualities of his family. As far as Richard's concerned, Pierre is the only good thing that ever came out of Stella's second marriage but he otherwise still wishes she never met Jean-Luc. |
| 93 | ** He thanks Danny for protecting Star from the Ghost Bat and Donovan Loadman, and even gives him his blessing to marry Star one day. Richard goes far as to offer Danny to call him "Grandpa". |
| 94 | * PostSupportRegret: Richard was initially too {{henpecked|Husband}} to oppose Beatrice’s plan to marry Star off to Donovan despite knowing it’s a bad idea. However, after witnessing Toadman’s abusive treatment of Star and Beatrice’s lack of concern for their granddaughter, Richard is angered and disgusted enough to realize his wife has crossed the line and works up the nerve to stand up to her. |
| 95 | * RetiredBadass: He was a respected army colonel and is still a good shot, joining the fight against the Forces of Nature. |
| 96 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Comes from one of the richest families in New York and can be almost as naive as his air-headed daughter Stella, given his refusal to accept that his wife Beatrice is BeyondRedemption. |
| 97 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 98 | ** After seeing Danny defend Star from Donovan and the ghost bat, Richard happily gives Danny his blessing to one day marry her. |
| 99 | ** He reveals to Stella that Johnathan was the only one of her suitors that he actually liked because he was a good man who never gave in to Beatrice. |
| 100 | * ShippingTorpedo: |
| 101 | ** Downplayed as while he respects his daughter enough not to interfere in her life, he makes it clear to Stella that he considers her marriage to the pompous FrenchJerk Jean-Luc Bevier to be the biggest mistake she ever made and that she was better off with the NiceGuy Johnathan Strong. As far as Richard's concerned, Pierre was the only good thing to ever come out of Stella's second marriage. |
| 102 | ** He opposed Beatrice's decision to set up an ArrangedMarriage between Star and Donovan from the start but was too afraid to stop her until he saw Donovan hurt Star. Then, no amount of his wife's nagging was able to keep him from telling everyone the truth about the Loadman brat harassing his granddaughter. |
| 103 | * SpoiledSweet: Despite hailing from one of the richest families in New York, he's a friendly, generous, and humble man who doesn't judge people by their wealth or status. |
| 104 | * SympathyForTheDevil: Despite Richard being disgusted with his wife's actions during "Visited" and seeing how much Beatrice acted like an AbusiveParent to both their daughter and granddaughter. This includes Beatrice trying to forcefully set their granddaughter Star with Donovan Loadman, a Jerkass who was willing to hit her and take Donovan's side over they are granddaughters' side Star. As well as Beatrice mistreats Danny, Star's ACTUAL boyfriend, due to him being middle-class, going so far as to take Donovan's side when he hits Star and Danny tries to defend Star. And how Beatrice also previously abused their former son-in-law, Johnathan, and refuses to believe that she did anything wrong, Richard still refuses to divorce his wife. |
| 105 | ** Richard admits that he feels some responsibility for Beatrice because he believes that his being a HenpeckedHusband is what led her to run wild as she did. He refuses to divorce her because he believes he holds partial responsibility for her actions and has old-fashioned views on marriage. However, he does admit that he pities his wife, noting that for all her talk and obsession over wealth, class, and status, Beatrice never seemed to be truly happy or satisfied with what she had. Even with the many luxuries she had and his giving her anything she asked for, she was rarely happy, and even to this day, she is still not content or happy. |
| 106 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed as the Travilles aren't evil with the exception of Beatrice, but he's a very likable man who lacks any of the negative qualities of his snobby PsychopathicWomanchild wife or spoiled children. |
| 107 | * TurnedOffByTheJerkass: Downplayed. While he doesn't divorce her, Richard makes it clear that he will no longer tolerate Beatrice's selfish behavior and will be much more firm with her for now on. |
| 108 | * UnclePennybags: Unlike his RichBitch wife, he is a very friendly man who has no problem with Star dating Danny (who is middle-class) and doesn't use his status to look down on others. |
| 109 | * UselessBystanderParent: In “Visited”, Stella and Star don’t bother asking him to get Beatrice to call off her ArrangedMarriage plan between Star and Donovan since they know how much of a pushover he is with his wife. Deconstructed as Richard admits in the end that his submissiveness toward his wife has caused nothing but disaster for his family since he wasn't able to stop all the damage she was causing them. He strives to fix it by no longer putting up with Beatrice’s awful attitude and spending more quality time with his daughter Stella so she has a positive parental figure in her life that he couldn’t give her growing up because he was always too busy running his company. |
| 110 | * WealthyPhilanthropist: He uses his wealth to support charities for the less misfortunate. |
| 111 | * WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: You have to wonder what was going through his head to make him think marrying [[HateSink Beatrice]] was a good idea. He claims that she was actually quite nice when they first met though it's unclear if that's true or she was just putting on an act. |
| 112 | * WhiteSheep: Richard is the first relative of Stella's shown who lacks the snobbishness, entitlement, and elitism of the rest of their family and is a nice guy from the start. |
| 113 | * WomenAreWiser: GenderInverted. He is much more mature and rational than his PsychopathicWomanchild wife. |
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| 117 | [[folder:Beatrice Traville]] |
| 118 | Star's snobbish, elitist and critical maternal grandmother. She makes her debut in "Visited". |
| 119 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beatrice_55.png]] |
| 120 | [[caption-width-right:350:Used with permission of the artist]] |
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| 122 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: With the exception of Richard, nobody likes or can stand her, not even her own family. Even before "Visited", Star always hated her grandmother's visits because of her overbearing and critical attitude, to the point that she had nothing nice to say about Beatrice while Johnathan and his family insult her every chance they get. Her servants only tolerate her entitled attitude for the high pay, Donovan is just using her to make Star his, and Colette and Jean-Luc only act nice to Beatrice to stay on her good side in hopes of being included in her and Richard's will. By the end, Star uses a restraining order to get Beatrice out of her life after her grandmother tried to force her into a relationship with a boy she completely hated, Stella slaps her mother twice for her horrendous attitude and cuts Beatrice out of her and her family's lives permanently (and in "Traveled" has arranged for Johnathan to dance on her grave), and Danny becomes so enraged by her callous, selfish behavior that he [[spoiler:uses his ghost powers to scare her away from Amity Park]]. |
| 123 | * AbusiveParents: She's emotionally abusive to Stella, making her unable to say no to her and allow Beatrice to walk all over her. It's implied she treats her other children the same way. This warped Stella's self-esteem and left her with some deep-seated trauma and anger toward her mother that has persisted into adulthood and helped shape her into an air-headed snob. |
| 124 | ** "Traveled" also implies Beatrice cared less about Stella as a person and more as a TrophyChild, since she constantly disregarded what Stella wanted growing up if it didn't fit her image of who her daughter should be. |
| 125 | * AintTooProudToBeg: She's pretty much reduced to begging when dealing with someone who can't be bribed or intimidated into submission like the Ghost Bat and Danny Phantom. None that it helps her in the slightest since they're too angry to care about what she has to say. |
| 126 | * AlasPoorVillain: Heavily subverted. Everyone just ends up hating her even more after hearing her backstory from Richard because her horrible actions and toxic behavior are THAT unforgivable. |
| 127 | * AllegoricalCharacter: She represents all the worst stereotypes associated with rich people by being an elitist snob who doesn't care about anything but herself and her classist views. |
| 128 | * AllTakeAndNoGive: She is best described as a "parasite who bleeds others dry". |
| 129 | * AmbitiousButLazy: |
| 130 | ** She wants Star to have a BlueBlood husband but would rather settle for Donovan Loadman because he’s the first “gentleman” she can find who agrees with her views than look for a suitor that’s actually compatible with her granddaughter. |
| 131 | ** She desperately wants to keep her family wealthy to avoid poverty, but would much rather [[GoldDigger marry into wealth than actually earn a living.]] Likewise, she doesn't care of her daughter or granddaughter's ambitions outside of their family name and dismisses Star's artistry. |
| 132 | * AntiRoleModel: She is NOT someone whom you should emulate. |
| 133 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: She refuses to believe in ghosts, even after a giant bat monster attacks the country club. It takes [[spoiler:pissing off Danny Phantom]] to make her do a 180. |
| 134 | * ArchEnemy: She becomes this to Star after "Visited" because Star hates her grandmother the most for all the trouble Beatrice caused her and her loved ones. |
| 135 | * AristocratsAreEvil: She's more asocial and uncaring than outright evil, but her willingness to set Star up with someone who she despises and is willing to physically hurt her, while also showing more concern for him than Star, makes it clear she's not an ideal grandmother. |
| 136 | * ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:Deconstructed as she was made to marry Richard Traville to keep her bankrupt noble family from ending up in poverty and resents it no matter how much of a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage it was. Hypocritically, she tries to do the same thing to her own granddaughter Star by forcing her into an abusive relationship with her most obnoxious AbhorrentAdmirer, Donovan Loadman, because he meets her elitist standards by being a BlueBlood, while not caring about how much Star hates Toadman, is already in a happy relationship with Danny, or how much of a violent brat Toadman is towards her. This only earns Beatrice the undying hatred of Star and Stella, who cut her out of their lives with a restraining order to get away from her toxic influence, and makes her dangerous enemies of Team Phantom and her loved ones, who have no problem getting back at her for everything she put them through.]] |
| 137 | * AssholeVictim: Whenever things go wrong for her, it's because she completely deserves it. The ghost bat humiliates her at the country club, Star and Stella get a restraining order against her, [[spoiler:Danny scares her into leaving Amity Park forever]], and her plan to [[spoiler:use a mystical box to capture Danny Phantom completely fails]] and leads to Puck punishing her by forcing her to live out her greatest fear of being poor for a whole month, courtesy of Soul Shredder. |
| 138 | * AuthorityInNameOnly: Her husband Richard is the ''real'' head of the family, and he plans to remind everyone of this after “Visited” since he’s finally outgrown being a HenpeckedHusband after realizing that Beatrice’s out of control behavior is ruining their descendants' lives. |
| 139 | * BadBoss: She rules over the Traville estate with an iron fist and her servants are terrified of her due to her explosive temper and tendency to fire people over the most trivial things. |
| 140 | * BarefootPoverty: It's noted in Chapter 12 of "Entranced" that Beatrice's Puck-imposed poverty reached a level where she no longer has shoes. |
| 141 | * BegoneBribe: Twice and both failed: |
| 142 | ** When Star was eight, Beatrice offered to pay Johnathan a million dollars to leave Stella. Naturally, he refused. |
| 143 | ** In "Visited", she offers [[spoiler:an enraged Danny Phantom $5 million, a new house, and a new car if he leaves her alone and breaks up with Star. It doesn't work and just makes him angrier.]] |
| 144 | * BeingEvilSucks: To say her classism and callous selfishness have only made her life worse is an understatement. Her whole family (except for Richard) doesn't want anything to do with her after getting fed up with her ControlFreak nature, she’s stuck living as a shut-in after she pushes Danny too far that he uses her powers to scare her into leaving Star alone forever, and Team Phantom hate her so much they get Puck to torment her on a regular basis as payback. |
| 145 | * BelievingTheirOwnLies: She deludes herself into believing that everything she does is for her family, but they’re having none of that since they and their loved ones point out that Beatrice is only motivated by improving her family’s reputation and her own standing in high society. She treats her own family horribly by emotionally abusing her husband Richard and daughter Stella into acting like her servants along with trying to push her granddaughter Star into an abusive ArrangedMarriage with a BlueBlood while not caring about Star’s feelings or opinion on the matter. |
| 146 | * BeyondRedemption: After telling Danny she's willing to separate him from his family if it means keeping him away from Star, he decides Beatrice is incapable of seeing the error of her ways and [[spoiler:decides to show her how she's made an enemy she can't handle.]] |
| 147 | * BigBad: While Vlad does appear in the story, ''SHE'' is the main antagonist and obstacle in "Visited". |
| 148 | * BigBadWannabe: She fancies herself a brilliant schemer and unstoppable because of her money and status but once she loses control of a situation, she proves to be no threat, nor is she half as smart as she thinks she is. |
| 149 | * BirdsOfAFeather: She gets along well with Jean-Luc and Colette, who are arrogant aristocrats too. In fact, both Johnathan and Danny point out that Beatrice and Colette are so alike in their horrible personalities, it's a surprise they're ''not'' blood-related. |
| 150 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: To Beatrice, you are either a servant to blindly follow her without question or a tool to be used to her advantage, and if you fail to be either, you are an enemy she needs to crush. |
| 151 | * BlackSheep: She becomes this to her family after “Visited” when they finally grow tired of her overbearing RichBitch personality. Richard is the only one who is willing to stand her presence but even he has lost his tolerance for her attitude. Star utterly despises Beatrice for being a sociopathic ControlFreak so she considers Joy Strong her only grandma, Stella gets a restraining order against her mother after accepting she’s a toxic influence her family is better off without, and even her favorite child Liam cuts ties after threatening her to stay away from him due to Beatrice constantly pestering him into helping her get out of the mess she made. |
| 152 | * BoisterousWeakling: She loves to act like her wealth makes her untouchable but put her in a situation that can't be solved by money or yelling and she shows how much of a pathetic DirtyCoward she is. |
| 153 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: Team Phantom and Star's parents feel that she's living in the Dark Ages for acting like it's okay to force her teenaged granddaughter into an unwanted ArrangedMarriage with Donovan Loadman just because he's rich. |
| 154 | * BreakTheHaughty: At the start, Beatrice is an arrogant woman who lets nothing stop her from getting what she wants. After one encounter with [[spoiler: a pissed off Danny Phantom]], she's become a NervousWreck who makes sure she stays out of people's lives, living in paranoia that she could risk her life angering him again. |
| 155 | * BribeBackfire: Twice in "Visited": |
| 156 | ** At the country club, she tries and fails to save herself from the ghost bat by telling it to eat Danny instead and even offering to pay the ghost. |
| 157 | ** She tries to offer [[spoiler:an angry Danny Phantom $5 million, a new house, and a new car if he leaves her alone and dumps Star. Predictably, it just makes him angrier.]] |
| 158 | * BroodingBoyGentleGirl: GenderInverted. She’s a bitter and temperamental PsychopathicWomanchild while her husband Richard is a pleasant and kind UnclePennybags. |
| 159 | * TheBully: She loves to throw her weight around and bully everyone near her but when her money and status fail to save her, like when dealing with the ghost bat and Danny Phantom, it's obvious she's full of nothing but empty bravado that she can't back up. |
| 160 | * BullyingADragon: |
| 161 | ** Her abusive treatment of Star and her loved ones only earns her the girl’s undying hatred. Star ends up getting a restraining order against her to keep her grandmother from messing with her life anymore and plans to make sure Beatrice is left completely penniless if she ever divorces Richard. Later, she makes Beatrice Puck’s new favorite pranking target. |
| 162 | ** When she spitefully tells Danny that she's planning to have child services separate him from his family as payback for getting in her way, [[spoiler:he snaps and uses his ghost powers to leave her too traumatized to ever return to Amity Park.]] |
| 163 | * CanonForeigner: It’s likely Star has a maternal grandmother in canon, though she was never shown or mentioned. |
| 164 | * CantTakeCriticism: She never wants to hear when she’s wrong or if her ideas are bad as Johnathan knows, since he remembers the violent tantrum Beatrice threw where she flung a vase at him when he told her how awful her screenplay of her life was. |
| 165 | * ChildrenAsPawns: She sees nothing wrong in making her granddaughter enter an unwanted ArrangedMarriage with her AbhorrentAdmirer Donovan Loadman, just so Beatrice could enjoy the perks and elevated status it would bring her. |
| 166 | * ControlFreak: She is possibly an even bigger one than Vlad and Colette. It's especially apparent with Stella, as Beatrice micromanaged her life and would criticize everything she did. She went a step further with Star, wanting to take control of her granddaughter's entire future. |
| 167 | * TheCorrupter: Her abusive, toxic parenting is why Stella became a spoiled socialite and neglectful mother. |
| 168 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: She is this to Victoria Everglot from ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', as they're both from [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished noble families]] who were arranged to marry a wealthy, yet kind bachelor out of financial desperation. However, Victoria was a [[NiceGirl sweet and kind lady]] who genuinely fell in love with her fiancé Victor after getting to know him, whereas Beatrice was a SpoiledBrat, GoldDigger, and SocialClimber who only married Richard for his money and treated him terribly. |
| 169 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: A rare case where a person's tragic past actually makes them LESS sympathetic. Star points out that despite everything working out for Beatrice in the end, with her getting a loving husband and lavish lifestyle [[spoiler:which saved her and her family from ending up on the streets]], she still chooses to be a horrible person and thus is completely undeserving of anything but utter scorn for her naturally toxic personality. |
| 170 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: |
| 171 | ** Of MyBelovedSmother and GruesomeGrandparent. Her controlling and overbearing nature has severely strained and eventually destroyed her relationship with her own children; her daughter Stella completely cuts ties with Beatrice in "Visited" after accepting what a horrible person she is and even her favorite child Liam doesn't want anything to do with his mother after she kept badgering him to help her get out of the mess she got herself into with Stella. Her flat-out abusive treatment of her granddaughter Star forces the latter and her parents to get a restraining order against Beatrice just to keep her away. |
| 172 | ** Of the ImpoverishedPatrician and RichBitch. [[spoiler:Coming from a bankrupt noble family has left her with a deep-seated fear of being poor and was a factor in her obsession with money and status, causing her to put more value on reputation and privilege than her own family.]] |
| 173 | * DelusionsOfBeauty: Graceful aging and {{Perpetual Frown|er}}ing aside, she's firmly convinced that she's still young and beautiful. Puck asks her if she even owns a mirror. |
| 174 | * DetrimentalDetermination: She cannot take “no” for an answer. When she makes it clear to Danny that she’s still going to try to force Star into an ArrangedMarriage with a wealthy suitor and ruin the lives of his loved ones out of petty for getting in her way, [[spoiler:he gives up on trying to reason with her and just uses his ghost powers to scare Beatrice into staying away from Star, their families, and Amity Park forever.]] Still not learning her lesson from “Visited”, she tries again in “Traveled” to put her family under her thumb by purchasing a magic box to imprison Danny, but instead releases three evil ghosts trapped inside who proceed to wreak havoc New York. Team Phantom is furious when they find out so with Puck’s help, Danny punishes her by using Soul Shredder to force her live out her worst fear of being poor for a whole month. |
| 175 | * DirtyCoward: She tries to save herself from the ghost bat first by running for her life, willing to leave her family behind, then tells it to take Danny instead of her and Star, proclaiming him to be useless for anything else and even offering to pay the ghost, but this all falls on deaf ears as the ghost bat attacks her anyway. Danny, of course, doesn't appreciate this and gets payback by refusing to save her. |
| 176 | * DisownedParent: At the end of ''Visited'', she is cut out of Stella and Star's lives due to her horrible actions. |
| 177 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Pretty much her MO. She is known for vicious retaliation against the slightest offence against her. The biggest example in the story is threatening to separate Danny from his family just to get him out of Star's life. Not that it ends well for her. |
| 178 | * DomesticAbuser: While she tried being a good wife to Richard in the beginning, years of obsessing over wealth and status have turned her into a bitter, domineering ControlFreak that emotionally abuses him whenever he displeases her. Somewhat downplayed after [[spoiler:her encounter with Danny Phantom left her too traumatized to act like her usual haughty self.]] |
| 179 | * TheDreaded: She is this to her family and their friends, especially Star and Johnathan, because of her obnoxious, overbearing, judgmental, and critical attitude. Even before the series started, Star had little love for her maternal grandmother and never looked forward to her visits because of Beatrice's tendency to criticize every aspect of her life. While describing her to Danny, Star doesn't have a single nice thing to say about her grandmother and outright calls her an elitist snob. Johnathan and Beatrice have hated each other since they first met and were glad that Stella divorcing him meant they'd never have to see each other again. |
| 180 | * EmptyShell: [[spoiler:By the end of "Visited", Beatrice has become a timid wreck and shut-in who ives in fear of Danny's return.]] |
| 181 | * EntitledBitch: Her personality in a nutshell. She expects everyone to meet her needs but refuses to do the same in return. |
| 182 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Instead of warmly embracing Star as her husband and Stella did, Beatrice's first reaction is to criticize her granddaughter's clothes and expect her to be more proper, as well as display a distaste for the environment. [[BitchAlert Already, her rudeness and spoiled attitude are apparent to readers]]. |
| 183 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: PlayedWith. Despite her atrocious actions, Richard still loves her and refuses to get a divorce in the hopes that she can change her ways. However, nobody else believes this and just writes her off as a lost cause that they're better off without in their lives. |
| 184 | * EveryManHasHisPrice: She seems to think so. |
| 185 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: |
| 186 | ** It never occurred to her that Richard and Stella would oppose her plan to force Star into being Donovan Loadman’s TrophyWife because they love Star more than they fear her. |
| 187 | ** She's actually surprised and outraged that Star and Stella would side with Danny instead of her during their final confrontation in "Visited". It apparently never crossed her mind that all her heinous actions throughout the story (and over the decades) gave them every reason to hate her guts. Beatrice continues to delude herself that everything she did was for her family and Stella and Star are ungrateful for disowning her, when she actually treated them like puppets and they're refusing to put up with it anymore. |
| 188 | ** She also thought she could ruin Star and Danny's relationship by trying to sabotage it with Donovan's help, but it utterly fails and even if it did succeed, Star still wouldn't have anything to do with Donovan because she hates the pampered creep too much. She even [[spoiler:resorts to trying to bribe an angry Danny Phantom into breaking up with Star but it just enrages him further.]] It never clicks in Beatrice's head that a couple truly in love would have higher priorities than money and petty grudges. |
| 189 | ** In “Visited”, she honestly expects Star to be grateful to her for going behind her granddaughter's back to set up an unwanted Arranged Marriage between her and her most obnoxious AbhorrentAdmirer, Donovan Loadman. She doesn't understand why Star is justifiably outraged by Beatrice's blatant ControlFreak behavior, utter lack of regard for her feelings, refusal to respect her decisions, and inability to grasp that she loves her boyfriend Danny too much to ever leave him and despises Donovan for his spoiled, entitled attitude towards her. |
| 190 | ** Just like Donovan Loadman, wealth and status are all that matter to her so she can’t fathom that rich people can MarryForLove, which causes her to completely underestimate the strength of Star and Danny’s bond since her granddaughter refuses to leave her boyfriend out of genuine loyalty and despises Donovan too much to care about his family’s fortune while Danny is determined to stay with Star regardless of any threats or bribes from Beatrice. |
| 191 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 192 | ** She's basically an older, uglier, grumpier, angrier, crueler, snobbier, and less mature version of her daughter Stella. |
| 193 | ** She's this to Ida Manson since both women married into rich families, don't approve of their child's first spouse, and have a strained relationship with their children but otherwise are as different as night and day, which Pamela Manson lampshades when telling Donovan Loadman not to waste time trying to convince Ida to force Sam into an ArrangedMarriage with him like Beatrice once tried to force Star. Ida is a CoolOldLady who gets along great with Team Phantom, loves her family, encourages her granddaughter Sam to embrace her individuality, and was HappilyMarried to her deceased husband Mordecai. Beatrice is an {{Evil Old Folk|s}} who is bitter enemies with Team Phantom, treats her family like tools that only benefit her, wants to turn her granddaughter into her idea of a ProperLady regardless of Star's personal feelings, and largely married Richard for his wealth. |
| 194 | * EvilIsNotAToy: In "Traveled," she buys an ancient magic box, the Băowēn xiāng, in the hopes of using it to trap Danny, but instead she accidentally frees three evil ghosts that were sealed inside. |
| 195 | * EvilIsPetty: She was willing to use her connections to have social services take Danny away from his parents if he even tried to get in her way of controlling Star's life. |
| 196 | * EvilMatriarch: While her husband is technically the head of the family, Beatrice is the dominating one. She runs their estate with an iron fist and is not above using her descendants in order to move ahead in high society. |
| 197 | * EvilOldFolks: Beatrice is a RichBitch and spends the entire story becoming almost HatedByAll. She reaches her lowest point when, even after Stella and Star say that they are cutting ties with her and plan to issue a restraining order against her, she goes on a mental rampage and declares to Danny (who came to talk to her) that she plans to pay to get the order lifted by bribing the court system in her favor and buy out Johnathan's workplace to fire him, as well as blackmail him into handing over custody of Star, whom she STILL plans to turn into her idea of a ProperLady and arrange to marry either Donovan or another man that meets her ludicrously high standards. She also threatened to get child services to separate Danny from his family if he tries to stop her. It's at that point Danny declares [[spoiler: he's done playing nice and shows her what happens [[BewareTheNiceOnes when you push someone too far]].]] |
| 198 | * EvilerThanThou: |
| 199 | ** Is about the only person Star hates even more than Colette, which is really saying something. |
| 200 | ** Even Vlad can't stand this bitter old cow. |
| 201 | * {{Expy}}: She's based visually on Lady Tremaine from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. |
| 202 | * FantasyForbiddingMother: It is heavily implied that she was this to Stella during her youth. |
| 203 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 204 | ** Her greed, classism, elitism and obsession with {{Social Climb|er}}ing have caused her to value wealth and status over everything, including her own family, due to her deep fear of becoming poor. This destroys her relationship with her family when they realize she only regards them as tools for her own benefit and refuse to tolerate it any longer. Wealth and status are all that are important to Beatrice, which leads her to grossly overestimate herself and underestimate anyone she sees as beneath her, causing her to make dangerous enemies of Team Phantom and Star’s loved ones as they have no problem retaliating when she goes too far with her selfishness and snobbishness. Star’s parents get a restraining order against her to keep her away from their daughter, Danny [[spoiler:uses his ghost powers to traumatize her into staying out of Amity Park forever]], and Star makes her Puck’s new favorite pranking victim. |
| 205 | ** Pride. She believes that being born a blue blood makes her superior to others. Even among other wealthy people and her own family, she has an arrogant and prideful disposition. Her refusal to back down no matter how angry her family or others get when she's crossed the line only results in her facing more humiliation and trauma. |
| 206 | * FatBitch: She is stated to be "plump" and is a complete HateSink. |
| 207 | * FemaleMisogynist: She disapproves of Stella helping fend off a ghost attack because it's "unladylike" to fight. "Traveled" further reveals Beatrice only let her daughter partake in traditionally feminine, upper-class activities and believed it was beneath women of their standing to even play sports (e.g. soccer). |
| 208 | * {{Foil}}: To her daughter Stella. Both women are obnoxious because of their wealth and elitist in how they look down on others who don't meet their standards. But they differ in how these views manifest. Stella is InnocentlyInsensitive and genuinely doesn't realize how disparaging her behavior really is to others, eventually starting to change her ways after she got a wake-up call. Beatrice is fully aware how she comes across to others and [[LackOfEmpathy simply doesn't care]], believing that her higher status puts her above everybody else. |
| 209 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The main characters, and especially Star and Danny, don't hate her any less after Richard tells them her backstory, [[spoiler:where he married Beatrice when her family was facing bankruptcy and needed her to find a well-off husband to preserve their wealth,]] because of her utterly awful personality. If anything, this just makes Star and Danny hate Beatrice even more due to her [[spoiler:using the same practice on her descendants while not caring they might go through what she did and threatening to take away all Richard's money despite him being the one who saved her family from falling into poverty in the first place]]. Our favorite couple comes to the conclusion Beatrice is just pure evil and make it clear that her sob story doesn't excuse or justify the terrible person she became. Star warns Beatrice she'll be in big trouble if she [[spoiler:tells anyone Danny's secret]] or tries to meddle in their lives again before permanently cutting ties with her. |
| 210 | * TheGhost: She has yet to appear in the series. [[spoiler:She makes her debut in "Visited"]]. |
| 211 | * GoldDigger: She largely married Richard for his wealth. |
| 212 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: Her plan to use a magic box to trap Danny in "Traveled" fails because she accidentally frees more ghosts, the Forces of Nature, who later destroy the box. |
| 213 | * GoodOldWays: Deconstructed as she has extremely outdated ideas of how people should behave, notably with {{Arranged Marriage}}s and NobilityMarriesMoney, that lead her to ruin her relationship with her family, who don't appreciate her trying to force her antiquated beliefs on them. |
| 214 | * GrandeDame: Star describes her as one. |
| 215 | * {{Greed}}: All that matters to her is money and status. |
| 216 | * GruesomeGrandparent: She's even more controlling and disparaging with Star than she is with her daughter Stella, since she has no problem trying to force Star into an ArrangedMarriage with Donovan Loadman simply because he meets her standards by being from a respected, OldMoney family. |
| 217 | * HairTriggerTemper: She has an explosive temper and it doesn't take much to set it off. |
| 218 | * HateSink: She's a controlling and emotionally abusive mother to her adult daughter, extremely elitist and has a lack of interest in the well-being of others, including her granddaughter. She's never given a positive element. |
| 219 | * HatedByAll: Nobody but [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Richard]] likes her because of how much of a domineering ControlFreak and insufferable elitist snob she is. Johnathan, his family, Richard's family, Eleanor, the Fentons, Team Phantom, Georgia, and Beatrice's servants all hate her because of her nasty, entitled attitude. The Beviers and Donovan only suck up to her out of self-interest, wanting her to convince Stella to leave Amity Park and claiming Star's hand in marriage respectively. By the end of "Visited", Star and Stella have decided to [[DisownedParent disown]] and slap her with a restraining order after she showed just how little she cared about Star. Even her "favorite child", Liam, refused to participate in her vendetta against Danny. After she puts more physical distance between herself and her family in "Traveled", they are all relieved; Stella is glad to spend quality time with her father without her mother's presence looming over them while Liam and his wife are happy to no longer have anything to do with Beatrice, even threatening to issue a cease and desist if she doesn't stop calling them. |
| 220 | * HerOwnWorstEnemy: Beatrice refuses to see how her uncompromising attitude and lack of respect for others have done more damage to her than anything. Had she seen her granddaughter as more than just an extension of her family, her daughter not as a fool to have ever married someone who wasn't as wealthy as they were, and that Donovan was a terrible person who was wrong for Star, she would not have ended up in the position she did. By the end, only her husband seem to have any concern for her while everyone else is just happy to be free of her. |
| 221 | * HiddenDepths: For a brief moment, Beatrice seemed shocked and possibly a little hurt when Stella told her she hates her. |
| 222 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: You're this if you think Donovan Loadman is a good choice to pair your granddaughter with. |
| 223 | * HotBlooded: Beatrice is always quick to resort to shouting. She is always in a foul mood and it takes very little to get on her bad side. |
| 224 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Her experience [[spoiler: with a ticked off Danny Phantom has transformed her into a paranoid mess that's so terrified of ghosts and spirits, she has her servants put salt and blood blossoms around her manor to keep them away.]] |
| 225 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: She’s a controlling, emotionally abusive mother and grandmother, DomesticAbuser, and classist snob of the highest caliber. She’s even referred to as a narcissistic sociopath by her own granddaughter Star, and rightly so. It really says something that Star hates her more than she ever did Colette, who’s been tormenting her since they were both kids. |
| 226 | * {{Hypocrite}}: According to Beatrice Traville's bio, [[spoiler:her obsession with money and status is partly because when she was just 18, she was pushed into an ArrangedMarriage that she did not want to be in in order to restore her family fortune. [[FreudianExcuse Having been, in her mind, sold off to the Traville family made her bitter and determined not to let that happen again]].]] This makes her desire to marry off her granddaughter Star to someone like Donovan Loadman completely hypocritical. |
| 227 | ** For one thing, [[spoiler:there is no need to do so because Beatrice's family is now more than financially secure. It's also implied that while Beatrice encouraged (and even pressured) her children to only marry {{Blue Blood}}s, she had never forced a relationship before.]] |
| 228 | ** For another, [[spoiler:Beatrice at least had a number of suitors she could choose from in her situation. However, she dictates who Star should marry, regardless of her feelings on the matter, without at least seeing if there's someone else who her granddaughter would be more of a match to.]] |
| 229 | ** Finally, [[spoiler:Beatrice ''chose'' to marry Richard and at least tried to be a good wife to him in the beginning of their marriage, indicating she did have real feelings for him.]] Meanwhile, she is trying to ensure Star settles down with someone she clearly hates; even when Beatrice's preferred suitor Donovan hit her granddaughter, she refuses to admit that she was wrong and takes his side, as she cannot stand Star's actual boyfriend, Danny Fenton, for being middle-class and didn't want to take his side even for defending Star. Beatrice shows what a selfish and despicable hypocrite she is by trying set up an outright abusive marriage for her granddaughter with someone who does not love her at all, whereas [[spoiler:Beatrice still had options in her arranged marriage and got a good husband that genuinely loved and treated her well.]] |
| 230 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: In her final confrontation with Star and Danny in "Visited", she tries to justify all her horrible actions by claiming she was just trying to secure her family's financial future. However, they're having none of that and point out Beatrice was driven only by her greed and classism because she has no problem abusing others and ruining lives to avoid her deep-seated fear of being poor. |
| 231 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: This is what Beatrice feared being. [[spoiler:While her family had a "good name" and were even descendants of a count, they began to run low on money during her teen years and she was eventually married off to the Traville family in order to save them from bankruptcy.]] |
| 232 | * InformedKindness: Richard claims that Beatrice was more kind and loving when they first met, but it doesn't matter to everyone whether any kindness she had was real or fake because it's clear that it's been completely gone for decades now. |
| 233 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Deludes herself into thinking she can put her family under her thumb again by imprisoning Danny. Not only does this idea fail, but wouldn't have succeeded anyway because Star would've still had a restraining order against her and Beatrice's family hates her for her horrible actions toward Star. If anything, her plan would've just magnified their hatred and motivated them to free Danny (whose friends and family have a ''lot'' more experience with ghosts). |
| 234 | * InsultBackfire: In "Visited", she says Danny is just like Johnathan. Star, however, takes it as a compliment and remarks that it's the nicest thing Beatrice has ever said about either of them. |
| 235 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Basically sums up her personality entirely. She has a ''very'' bad case of only caring about herself and how others make her look, and is determined to get what she wants regardless of who she has to step on to get it. |
| 236 | * IWasQuiteALooker: She is an old hag now, but Richard claims she was much more beautiful in her youth. |
| 237 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: She claims that she wants to ensure Star has a good future in high society by pairing her with a rich husband like Donovan Loadman, but as pointed out by everyone, mainly Danny, Star, and Star's parents, Beatrice is only doing this to benefit herself as a means of acquiring more wealth and connections; the fact she doesn't care about Star's consent, that she is already in a happy relationship with Danny, hates Loadman with every fiber of her being, or that Loadman is a violent SpoiledBrat willing to hurt Star if she goes against him, proves their point that Beatrice doesn't care about her granddaughter as anything other than a tool to advance her own position in high society. |
| 238 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Beatrice spent all of Stella's life and most of "Visited" getting away with being a HateSink, RichBitch, abusive mother & grandmother, and all-around despicable excuse for a human being. Near the end of the story, she finally pays the price for this: she's humiliated by a ghost bat, loses control of her family when Star and Stella stand up to her and permanently cut her out of their lives with a restraining order, [[spoiler:turned into a paranoid wreck after being terrified by a pissed off Danny Phantom]], and made into Puck's new favorite pranking victim by Star. |
| 239 | * KnightOfCerebus: Unlike everyone else in the series, NOTHING about her is really played for laughs. She does have a few moments that could be considered amusing, but they also further drive home just what a heartless bitch she is. |
| 240 | * LaughablyEvil: Downplayed. She has some moments of humor thanks to her immaturity and cowardice, but she's still an irredeemable harpy. |
| 241 | * LackOfEmpathy: She's more concerned that Star hit the boy Beatrice is setting her up with than the fact that Donovan backhanded Star and tried to forcefully kiss her. |
| 242 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Puck punishes her for her reckless actions regarding the Forces of Natures' box by trapping her in her worst fear of being poor for an entire month. |
| 243 | * LastDisrespects: Stella arranged for Johnathan to dance on Beatrice's grave to celebrate her death. He, Star, and Danny are happy to do so. |
| 244 | * LikeMotherUnlikeDaughter: While both could be spoiled and snobbish, Beatrice is a cold-hearted RichBitch ControlFreak who doesn't care about her family as anything but tools in high society for her own ends, while Stella is at her worst InnocentlyInsensitive but genuinely loves her family even if she's not the best parent, and is [[CharacterDevelopment trying to become a better person]]. |
| 245 | * TheLoad: Stella admits her mother has always been useless in situations that can't be solved with yelling or bribes since her first instinct is to run away and hide like a frightened child. |
| 246 | * LovingParentCruelParent: She is the Cruel Parent to Richard's Loving Parent. Her husband truly loves his children and grandchildren and is fiercely protective of them, while she seems to regard their family as pawns to use(at best) to further her own status. |
| 247 | * ManipulativeBitch: Subverted. She tries to ruin Star and Danny's relationship in "Visited" with Donovan Loadman's help but it fails because they severely underestimate the strength of the couple's bond and their plan was poorly thought out from the beginning. |
| 248 | * MaskOfSanity: She's WAY more unstable than her cold and haughty demeanor would indicate, as she's quick to throw a violent temper tantrum whenever she's denied what she wants. |
| 249 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: She’s cold, cruel, rude, ruthless, temperamental, aggressive, arrogant, selfish, and greedy while her husband Richard is warm, kind, polite, caring, calm, passive, humble, selfless, and generous. |
| 250 | * MatchmakerFailure: She tries to set Star up with Donovan of all people. Needless to say, it does not end well. |
| 251 | * MoneyIsNotPower: She learns this the hard way when Danny and the ghost bat show her you can't bribe your way out of trouble with someone who's too angry to care about money. |
| 252 | * MoralMyopia: |
| 253 | ** She always demands respect but refuses to show any to people she considers beneath her elitist standards. |
| 254 | ** She expects others to meet her needs but stubbornly refuses to do the same. |
| 255 | ** Johnathan points out that for all her preaching about wanting to restore her family’s name, she’s nothing but horrible to her own relatives, showing she only cares about their reputation rather than the people. |
| 256 | ** She’s outraged that Star and Stella would turn against her but ignores that she spent years treating them like dirt and they’re rightly sick of it. |
| 257 | ** She resents [[spoiler:having been set up in an ArrangedMarriage with [[NiceGuy Richard Traville]] to save her family from poverty but sees nothing wrong with trying to force her granddaughter Star into dating and eventually marrying [[DomesticAbuser Donovan Loadman]] just because he's a BlueBlood that comes from OldMoney, purely for her own benefit to gain more wealth, status, prestige, and connections. Her sheer unapologetic hypocrisy only makes everyone, especially Star and Danny, hate her even more.]] |
| 258 | * MoreHateableMinorVillain: She's no physical threat to Team Phantom and is overshadowed by both Vlad and his ghost bat in her debut during "Visited", but she stands out as a DirtyCoward elitist bitch and AbusiveMom to her daughter Stella as well as a GruesomeGrandparent to Star. She bullies Stella into obeying her through verbal and emotional abuse, and tries to force Star into an ArrangedMarriage with her most hated wannabe-suitor, Donovan Loadman, just for her own personal benefit regardless of Star's feelings and genuinely happy relationship with Danny, or the fact that Donovan is willing to hit her for opposing him. Beatrice's utter lack of positive traits makes us cheer when Star cuts her grandmother out of her life with a restraining order, and [[spoiler:Danny scares her into leaving Amity Park forever]] after she spent all of "Visited" treating them and their loved ones like dirt. |
| 259 | * MyBelovedSmother: A parent and grandparent variety, as she is very controlling and stifling towards both Stella and Star. She dismisses Star's refusal to marry Donovan as her granddaughter not knowing any better and still treats Stella as little more than a naive child in "Visited"--whenever her daughter tries to protest against or reason with her, Beatrice simply raises a hand to silence her or tells her "[[NotNowKiddo Mummy is talking]]". |
| 260 | * {{Narcissist}}: Sees herself as above the rules and has a complete lack of any empathy or remorse for the pain she causes; she abuses her wealth, treats "lower-class" as only good for serving her, and is determined to have her family live by her standards alone so they'll reflect well on her. |
| 261 | ** She actually has the gall to think that the Traville family has remained successful because Richard married ''her'' and ''she'' ran things, ignoring the fact that [[spoiler:it was her marriage to Richard that kept ''HER'' from becoming bankrupt in the first place.]] |
| 262 | * NeverASelfMadeWoman: [[spoiler:Star and Danny mock her for this by pointing out Beatrice never would've gotten where she is today if it weren't for Richard taking pity on her.]] |
| 263 | * NeverendingTerror: As a nod to the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?", [[spoiler:after having been scared out of her wits by Danny Phantom, Beatrice agrees to stay out of Star's life and leave Amity Park for good. At the end of the story, the formerly arrogant GrandeDame has installed various locks, a greenhouse for blood blossoms, and pours salt around the manor (which has been historically used to ward off ghosts and demons) while finding herself too terrified to sleep out of fear Phantom will return for her.]] |
| 264 | * NeverMyFault: She completely refuses to accept that it was her own reprehensible actions that made Star and Stella hate her and blames everything on Danny by believing he corrupted her family so they'd turn against her. |
| 265 | * NobilityMarriesMoney: [[spoiler:Beatrice's family was descended from a count but was going through financial problems, so they married her off to Richard when she was 18.]] Now, she wants to do the same thing to Star with Donovan, but Star vehemently rejects this idea. |
| 266 | * NoLoveForTheWicked: It’s unknown if she ever truly loved Richard since she was always an elitist SpoiledBrat who clearly married him for his wealth. In the beginning, she apparently did care enough about him to try to be a good wife (in her own way). However, years of obsessing over wealth, prestige, and status have turned her into the bitter old RichBitch she is now and whatever feelings she had for Richard are long gone now since she barely pays him any real, let alone positive attention and only seems to regard him as her personal attendant at best. At worst, she verbally abuses him whenever he displeases her, as well as threatening to take all his money in a divorce. She doesn’t treat the rest of her family any better as she emotionally and psychologically abused Stella for years to make her blindly obedient and tries to plan Star’s entire life for her without any regard for her opinion or feelings. |
| 267 | * NonActionBigBad: She's no physical threat to Danny and relies on her money to get her out of problems. |
| 268 | * NotNowKiddo: Her typical way of shutting Stella up is "Not now, Stella. Mummy is talking." |
| 269 | * NoSympathy: A victim of this. [[spoiler:Nobody in Team Phantom or any of their family and allies feel the slightest bit sorry for Beatrice when Richard tells them she was pushed into an ArrangedMarriage to help out her ImpoverishedPatrician family. As Star points out, it doesn't excuse or justify the horrible person she's chosen to become and if anything, it just makes them realize Beatrice is even worse than they thought for trying to force her granddaughter into a similar situation purely for her own benefit and threatening to leave her husband penniless in a divorce despite him saving her family from poverty.]] |
| 270 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: She tries to justify her heinous actions by claiming they're meant to give her family a good future. However, nobody buys it as they point out it doesn't excuse her horrible treatment of others and she's only interested in securing her own social standing to avoid her greatest fear of becoming an ImpoverishedPatrician. |
| 271 | * OldMoney: Money that isn't even hers, yet she doesn't mind using it. |
| 272 | * ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: She seems to be even worse than Stella used to be. |
| 273 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: |
| 274 | ** It's stated that she and Johnathan did not get along when the latter was married to Stella. "Visited" even shows Beatrice verbally abused him whenever he was in the vicinity. |
| 275 | ** Richard also reveals in "Traveled" that she never got along with his sister, Simone. |
| 276 | * PaperTiger: She's a [[SmugSnake smug]], EntitledBitch who hides behind her wealth and status but as soon as she encounters someone who can't be bought or bullied into submission, she proves herself to be a pathetic coward that's all bark and no bite. |
| 277 | * ParentalFavoritism: |
| 278 | ** "Traveled" reveals she considers her only son Liam her favorite child. |
| 279 | ** Ironically, Beatrice seems to get along much better with Jean-Luc than she does with her own daughter Stella. |
| 280 | * ParentPreferredSuitor: She makes it clear she prefers the BlueBlood Jean-Luc Bevier being married to Stella over the SelfMadeMan Johnathan. |
| 281 | * ParentsSuckAtMatchmaking: She tried to set up her granddaughter Star in an ArrangedMarriage to [[AbhorrentAdmirer Donovan Loadman]], a RichBastard who only sees her as a {{trophy|Wife}}. This is despite the fact that Beatrice knows that Star is already dating Danny and utterly hates Donovan. |
| 282 | * PerpetualFrowner: She rarely seems to smile or be in a good mood. |
| 283 | * PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Deconstructed. While she liked Richard in the beginning for being a Nice Guy who genuinely loved her, she always resented being forced into an ArrangedMarriage for money to save her ImpoverishedPatrician family from debt regardless of how much of a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage it was. That resentment combined with her own domineering personality, character flaws, and twisted views turned her into the bitter, RichBitch ControlFreak she is now who emotionally abused her daughter Stella for years into never questioning her and trying to hypocritically force her own granddaughter Star into the same situation she was once in by forcing her into a miserable ArrangedMarriage with a suitor of HER own choosing in the form of Star’s most hated AbhorrentAdmirer Donovan Loadman just because he’s a BlueBlood for her own selfish benefit for the sake of advancing in high society regardless of how much Star opposes the idea, is already in a happy relationship with Danny, and utterly despises Donovan Loadman for being a violent entitled brat who doesn’t care about her in the slightest as he only regards her as his property then hits her for rejecting him. |
| 284 | * PlayingTheVictimCard: She's too narcissistic and immature to grasp that she made her family hate her by being a RichBitch ControlFreak and just deluded herself into thinking they're being ungrateful. |
| 285 | * PrivilegeMakesYouEvil: She's been spoiled rotten her whole life and is so vile that Team Phantom only consider Dark Danny worse than her. |
| 286 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: Having been waited on hand and foot her entire life, she is extremely spoiled and entitled, and expects everyone to bend over to her whims. It's to the point that she is less of a snobby rich woman and more of a {{hypocrit|e}}ical {{sociopath}} with the temper and emotional maturity of a SpoiledBrat, who is willing to work around the law and ruin people's lives in order to get what she wants. |
| 287 | * PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Inverted. She's the rude, spoiled, and demanding Villain to Danny's polite, humble, and understanding Hero. |
| 288 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She looks down on middle and working-class individuals, referring to them as "peasants" or "riff-raffs", and is disgusted that Richard would use his fortune to help them. "Entranced" notes that she despises charity and believes it will only encourage these people to seek "handouts". |
| 289 | * PreppyName: Her full name is Beatrice Margaux Gloria Richelieu-Traville. |
| 290 | * TheProudElite: She is ''very'' proud of her wealth and status, and holds nothing but contempt for those of a lower class, such as the Fentons and Johnathan. |
| 291 | * RacistGrandma: Well, "classist" is more accurate, but she has a deep hatred of non-rich folks. |
| 292 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Red to her husband Richard's Blue, being the more impatient and quick to anger of the two. |
| 293 | * RichBitch: And how! |
| 294 | * RichesToRags: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted during her teen years when her family was low on money so it led to them marrying her off to Richard.]] Since then, Beatrice does everything she can to avoid this trope. |
| 295 | ** She does become this in "Traveled" when Puck forces her to live out her greatest fear of being poor for a month using Soul Shredder as punishment for her actions involving the Forces of Nature. |
| 296 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: She basically goes around doing whatever she wants with no thought of the consequences, and thinks forcing her granddaughter into an unwanted ArrangedMarriage is perfectly rational. |
| 297 | * TheRichWantToBeRicher: Despite already being very wealthy, she is eager for her children and grandchildren to marry affluent partners. The main reason she wanted to set Star up with Donovan is because he is a BlueBlood. |
| 298 | * SanitySlippage: Not exactly the most stable person to begin with but her experiences with ghosts, like the ghost bat [[spoiler:and Danny, have left her a paranoid wreck who makes her servants put blood blossoms and salt around her home in case Danny ever makes good on his threat to her.]] |
| 299 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Her answer for everything. |
| 300 | * ScrewPolitenessImASenior: She's an ill-tempered and irritable old hag with no respect for anyone who doesn't meet her ridiculously high standards. |
| 301 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After accidentally unleashing the Forces of Nature and getting further traumatized by them, she decides to move all the way to Switzerland in a bid to get away from any ghost, even if it means living by herself. |
| 302 | * SevenDeadlySins: She has demonstrated all of the seven deadly sins in just her first appearance: |
| 303 | ** Envy: It's implied Beatrice can’t stand that she was forced into an ArrangedMarriage just to save her [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished noble family]] but Star can choose to MarryForLove by going out with Danny. |
| 304 | ** Gluttony: She’s a FatBitch obsessed with eating gourmet food, but she also has a hunger for the finer aspects of life like the latest fashions and expensive jewelry. |
| 305 | ** Greed: She’s very materialistic and demanding towards everyone around her. She tries to force Star to marry [[SpoiledBrat Donovan Loadman]] just because he comes from OldMoney. |
| 306 | ** Lust: A non-romantic variant as she is fixated on getting what she wants and won’t let anyone stop her. |
| 307 | ** Pride: She comes from a noble family and raised her daughter Stella to believe she’s more important than the “commoners”. |
| 308 | ** Sloth: She’s a socialite who’s never worked a day in her life and just lives off her husband's fortune. |
| 309 | ** Wrath: She’s a SpoiledBrat and ControlFreak with a HairTriggerTemper that flies off the handle whenever things don’t go her way. |
| 310 | * ShabbyHeroesWellDressedVillains: She's a HateSink RichBitch who only wears the finest fabrics while Team Phantom are comfortable with common clothing. |
| 311 | * ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove: Money, status, and connections are all that matter to her so she's incapable of grasping why Stella ever married the middle-class Johnathan Strong or how strong Danny and Star's bond is, and that trying to set her granddaughter up with Donovan of all people is a stupid idea. |
| 312 | * ShelteredAristocrat: She’s been pampered her whole life and is incapable of grasping that the world and its people don’t bend to her whims. |
| 313 | * ShipperWithAnAgenda: |
| 314 | ** She approves of her youngest daughter Genevieve's fiancé because he is a successful neurosurgeon who's also descended from a British lord, which will further elevate her family's pedigree. |
| 315 | ** She plans to make sure Star marries Donovan once they're of legal age to ensure her family's status, not caring one bit that not only is Star already in a relationship, she hates Donovan, who is willing to hurt her to get what he wants. |
| 316 | * ShippingTorpedo: |
| 317 | ** She strongly opposes Star's relationship with Danny, due to thinking he is beneath her. |
| 318 | ** She was also against Stella's marriage to Johnathan and was happy when they got divorced. |
| 319 | * SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids: She doesn't care in the slightest that Star loves Danny and hates Donovan because all that matters to her making sure her granddaughter marries into a BlueBlood family. She's outraged at Star declaring she will only MarryForLove. |
| 320 | * SkewedPriorities: |
| 321 | ** PlayedForDrama. Beatrice Traville wanted to set up her granddaughter Star with Donovan Loadman because he's from an OldMoney family like her. She spent the entire time at dinner insulting Danny (Star's boyfriend) and Johnathan (her former son-in-law) because they were middle-class. When Danny got into a fight with Donovan because the latter tried to kiss and hit Star, Beatrice took Donovan's side and demanded that Star apologize to him and Danny be kicked out of the club, caring more about her plan than her granddaughter's well-being. Beatrice's husband Richard, daughter Stella, and even Donovan's father Reginald took Danny's side, and were outraged about her lack of concern for Star. |
| 322 | ** When Stella grabs a weapon to fight the ghost bat, her mother is more concerned that she's setting a bad example for Star by being unladylike. |
| 323 | * SlobsVersusSnobs: She's a spoiled and entitled socialite from a noble family who's bitter enemies with the hard-working and modest middle-class Johnathan Strong, the Fentons, and Team Phantom (Sam is also rich but much nicer and more levelheaded). |
| 324 | * SmallNameBigEgo: She believes marrying into the Traville family makes her untouchable because of the money and status it brings, but it does nothing to stop Danny, Puck, and a ghost bat from humiliating her if they feel like it since her wealth and name mean squat to them. |
| 325 | * SmugSnake: Acts full of herself when she feels in control of a situation but crumples like paper when she finds herself in over her head. Stella lampshades this in "Traveled" to Joy Strong by noting that while Beatrice was always good at yelling and trying to take control, she'd run away like a terrified child when dealing with something that can't be bought or scared into submission. |
| 326 | * SocialClimber: She cares a lot of status and class, even at the expense of her family. |
| 327 | * {{Socialite}}: She is an elderly and negative example of this trope. |
| 328 | * TheSociopath: She displays many qualities related to real life people with sociopathy. She lacks any empathy for others (shown by tossing away things of sentimental value or showing blatant favoritism to people who meet her criteria), frequently manipulates her daughter through emotional abuse, constantly demands that others meet her needs yet gives nothing in return except for criticism, and believes herself above others. |
| 329 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Implied. She is a bitter and hateful old woman, but Richard acknowledges that even when she gets what she wants, she is never happy. |
| 330 | * SpoiledBrat: Yet another defining trait of Beatrice is how she expects everything to go her way and will not take no for an answer. This is the nicest thing Johnathan has ever called her. |
| 331 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks like an older, shorter, fatter and grumpier version of her daughter Stella. |
| 332 | * StupidEvil: |
| 333 | ** Her horrible actions in "Visited" only make her enemies in Team Phantom and cause her family to cut ties after realizing what a terrible person she is. |
| 334 | ** Her shortsighted revenge plan against Danny in "Traveled" not only fails because she didn't bother learning the full history of the magic box and ends up accidentally releasing three evils ghosts trapped inside that endanger her home and her family, it backfires as it causes Danny and Puck to pay her back by trapping her in her worst nightmare with Soul Shredder for a month. |
| 335 | * TantrumThrowing: |
| 336 | ** Johnathan reveals that while he was married to Stella, Beatrice once threw a vase at him that almost hit his head when he criticized a screenplay of her life as awful. |
| 337 | ** Towards the end of "Visited", Beatrice rampages through her hotel room when her phone call with Stella ends with her daughter refusing to lift the restraining order Star got against her and making it clear Beatrice doesn't deserve to be a grandmother because of her horrible actions, so she's permanently kicked out of Stella and Star's lives. |
| 338 | * TautologicalTemplar: She mistakenly believes that, without a doubt, everything she does is for the sake of her family and that she can do anything she wants for her own sake because she's rich. |
| 339 | * TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: Played with. While Stella is also a feminine socialite, she has been shown to be willing to get her hands dirty to protect her kids and even becomes a markswomen over time. Beatrice remains a RichBitch and old-fashioned woman who has a VERY strict view on how women of high society should act. This was more apparent when Stella was younger, as she used to be more athletic and kindhearted until Beatrice forced her to only engage in stereotypically feminine pursuits and her mother's arrogance and selfishness began rubbing off on her. |
| 340 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: She is possibly an even bigger HateSink than Vlad but she is not a ghost nor a supervillain, just an elderly woman, albeit a wealthy one. |
| 341 | * ThinSkinnedBully: She does not hesitate in insulting and criticizing anyone she deems beneath her but becomes furious when others begin doing the same to her. |
| 342 | * TokenEvilTeammate: So far, she's the only member of the Traville family who is a genuinely malicious person in contrast to her NiceGuy husband Richard and stuck-up but redeemable daughter Stella. |
| 343 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Assuming her backstory is true, while Beatrice was always a RichBitch, she at least tried to be a good wife to Richard at first. Over the years though, her obsession with money and status turned her into the HateSink she is now. |
| 344 | * TooProudForLowlyWork: She has never worked a day in her life, preferring to live off her husband's fortune. |
| 345 | * ToxicFamilyInfluence: It was her horrible parenting that turned Stella into a flighty RichBitch in the first place. That in turn made Stella a neglectful parent towards Star and an oblivious {{Pushover Parent|s}} towards Colette. |
| 346 | * TheUnapologetic: She never once apologizes for any of the deplorable things she does. |
| 347 | * TheUnfettered: All that matters to her is getting her own way and anyone who gets stepped on in the process is irrelevant. Deconstructed as this just destroys her relationship with her family, who eventually get sick of her stubborn, self-serving attitude, and makes her dangerous enemies in Team Phantom who utterly despise her for the petty, sociopathic monster she is. |
| 348 | * UngratefulBitch: |
| 349 | ** [[spoiler:Near the end of "Visited", it's revealed that her side of the family became {{Impoverished Patrician}}s when she was a young adult and it's only thanks to her marriage with Richard that she didn't wind up in the poorhouse. And how does Beatrice repay the man who genuinely loved her and provided her family with financial security all these years? ...By dominating and bossing him around, taking practically all control over the family estate, and pretty much acting like an unreasonable, domineering crab to non-upper-class individuals and even some of their family members. Not to mention, she threatened to take away ''ALL'' of Richard's money if they ended up divorcing.]] |
| 350 | ** In that same story, [[spoiler:she still acts like a total snob to Danny and his parents despite him protecting Star from [[AbhorrentAdmirer Donovan Loadman]]'s abuse and the Fentons risking their own lives to protect everyone at the country club from the ghost bat.]] |
| 351 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Traveled", she purchases a mystical box in an attempt to get rid of Danny because she believes it'll let her take back control over her family. Not only does this fail, but she ends up releasing three dangerous ghost criminals called the Forces of Nature onto New York, which also puts her family in danger. |
| 352 | * UpperClassTwit: She is not as smart as she thinks she is. |
| 353 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Richard claims that she was a rather sweet young woman when they first met and became worse throughout the years. Johnathan doubts this though and believes she was simply putting on an act and just dropped it as the years went by. |
| 354 | * VicariousGoldDigger: She wants all her children and especially her granddaughter to marry wealthy and affluent partners. |
| 355 | ** She makes it no secret she was glad that Stella left Jonathan and married a fellow BlueBlood like Jean-Luc. |
| 356 | ** She wants Star to be with Donovan Loadman (another BlueBlood), not caring that she is already in love with Danny. |
| 357 | * VillainousUnderdog: Despite being the BigBad, she is much weaker than Danny and only has her husband's resources. While Danny has ghost powers, Beatrice is just a normal human with no supernatural abilities and can easily be torn to shreds by him. |
| 358 | * VillainsWantMercy: First, she begs the ghost bat to eat Danny instead of her and Star, even offering to pay it. Then she begs [[spoiler:Danny himself, after he reveals his ghosts powers and terrorizes her, to leave her and Star alone by offering to pay him $5 million along with a new house and car of his choosing.]] Neither attempt works and they just continue their attack. |
| 359 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: |
| 360 | ** She’s a PsychopathicWomanchild that’s a FAR worse elitist SpoiledBrat than her daughter Stella ever was. |
| 361 | ** Played straighter with Liam, who seems to be more hardworking and down-to-Earth than his shrew of a mother, based on their mentioned interactions. |
| 362 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: All that matters to her is getting her own way since she feels being in an OldMoney family entitles her to whatever she wants. |
| 363 | * WouldHurtAChild: She was willing to let Danny be attacked by the ghost bat to spare herself and Star. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder: Liam Traville]] |
| 367 | Stella's older brother, and Richard and Beatrice's only son. He is the one who currently runs the family business. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being Beatrice's favorite child, even Liam is exasperated with her antics and is glad when his mother moves out of the country. |
| 370 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Implied. Star mentions that her maternal relatives can be snobs at times, even when they mean well, but are nowhere near as bad as Beatrice. |
| 371 | [[/folder]] |
| 372 | |
| 373 | [[folder: Jocelyn, Chasity, and Genevieve]] |
| 374 | Stella's younger sisters. |
| 375 | ---- |
| 376 | * TheGhost: They have yet to appear in the series. |
| 377 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 378 | ** Despite not appearing in the series (yet), Richard has mentioned several details about their lives in "Visited": |
| 379 | *** Jocelyn is an author who lives in Italy. She is also married and expecting another child. |
| 380 | *** Chasity runs a charity in Beverly Hills. |
| 381 | *** Genevieve lives in Boston and is currently engaged to a neurosurgeon. |
| 382 | ** In "Blackmailed", Star mentions attending Jocelyn's second wedding, indicating her aunt has been divorced or widowed. |
| 383 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Implied. Star mentions that her maternal relatives can be snobs at times, even when they mean well, but are nowhere near as bad as Beatrice. |
| 384 | * NonIdleRich: Jocelyn and Chasity, at least, have their own work outside the family business. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder: Simone Traville]] |
| 388 | Richard's late sister, Stella's late aunt, and Star's great-aunt. She was once romantically involved with Sergio Ricci-Salvatore, who would eventually become Power Surge. |
| 389 | ---- |
| 390 | * CoolAunt: Both Stella and Star (despite the latter having few memories of her great-aunt) seemed to like her. |
| 391 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Once she learned that Sergio was a crook who was trying to rob her family, she didn't hesitate to dump him and call the cops on him. |
| 392 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: What was she thinking to think that Sergio was good boyfriend material? |
| 393 | * PosthumousCharacter: She has already been dead, long before the events "Traveled". |
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