Miss Hattie

“	We wouldn't want to spend the weekend in the Box of Shame, would we?	”
	— Miss Hattie

Miss Hattie
Information
Gender	Female
Age	Unknown
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Light Brown
Occupation	Owner of "Miss Hattie's Home for Girls"
Enemies	Agnes Edith Margo Gru
Appearances	Despicable Me
Voiced by	Kristen Wiig

Miss Hattie is the secondary antagonist of the film Despicable Me. She is a mean woman who runs an all-girl orphanage called Miss Hattie's Home for Girls.

Appearance

Miss Hattie is a fair-skinned short and chubby woman with green eyes who has anatomy that consists of having small hands and feet, very chubby arms and legs, and large breasts and bottom. Miss Hattie's style shows to have short brown hair in a bob cut curved in tight bangs, and often wears a knee-length red plaid pencil skirt and a button up light pink cardigan with a ruby red brooch and red ballet flats.

Personality

Miss Hattie is ironically different from the attitude of the cheerful and happy looks of the Orphanage. Unlike these traits, Miss Hattie appears as a gloomy, stern, and uncaring sociopath. She seems to not hire anyone to work at the orphanage and orders the girls to do some work in the orphanage, as Miss Hattie dismisses Margo Gru, Edith Gru, and Agnes Gru saying, "Go clean something of mine."

When Gru came to adopt the girls, Miss Hattie shows that she is snobbish and arrogant towards people as she looked online to Gru's profile in order to see if he is a good person. Due to being uncultured and politically incorrect, Miss Hattie fell for Gru's unwittingly harsh statement in Spanish on her face being "como un burro" (Spanish: "like a donkey"), to which she thought of as a compliment until discovering the meaning in a Spanish dictionary and kept it to eventually slap him across the face with it.

Plot

Despicable Me

The little girls are sent out to make money for Miss Hattie by selling cookies. She gets upset with the ones that do not meet their quota and puts them in the Box of Shame that is in her office, bringing out any additional boxes if necessary. Avoiding being placed in the box is how Miss Hattie "encourages" her girls to do better in their cookie sales. Miss Hattie also has a line of black and yellow caution tape in front of her desk that the girls have to stand behind when reporting how they did for the day. When Edith Gru put a mud pie on Miss Hattie's desk, she is momentarily angry, then tells Edith, "You're never going to get adopted, Edith, you know that, don't you?" A few minutes before, when Agnes Gru had asked if anyone stopped by to adopt them while she, Edith and Margo Gru are out, Miss Hattie's answer is a more emphatic "no".

When Felonius Gru came by to adopt Margo, Edith, and Agnes, Miss Hattie is not very impressed with his accomplishments. After the computer records became scrambled (due to the Minions getting into a fight while updating the records in real-time), Gru sweet-talked her by telling her, "You have a face como un burro", which, in Spanish, means "You have a face like a donkey." Since Miss Hattie did not speak Spanish, she is flattered by it and approved the adoption. Miss Hattie later bought a Spanish dictionary and learned what it really meant, letting Gru know that she did not like what he said by slapping him in the face with it when she came to pick up the girls. Miss Hattie then put them into boxes of shame because they had the oportunity to have a father, but they squandered it, although she didn't know that in reality Dr. Nefario was the one who had asked to take them, not Gru. Although she isn’t seen for the rest of the franchise after that with it being unknown, what happened to her. Although she is only mentioned one time in Home makeover.

Gallery

Miss. Hattie introducing Gru to the girls.

Miss Hattie being mad

Trivia

• Miss Hattie parodies Miss Hannigan from the musical Annie. They are both abusive orphanage owners whom the children are frightened of.
• Miss Hattie is also a parody of Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter (movie and books) series. They both wear pink, have short brown hair, and are passive-aggressive child abusers.
• Miss Hattie's voice actress also starred as Lucy Wilde.
• Miss Hattie may take or sponsor salsa lessons, as seen on a sticker on her computer.