Aunt Spiker is, alongside her sister, Aunt Sponge, one of the antagonists of the early portion of the book James and the Giant Peach, as well as one of the main antagonists of the film adaptation.
She was portrayed by Joanna Lumley, who also voiced Maudeline Everglot in Corpse Bride.
What makes her despicable?[]
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- She and Aunt Sponge are mentioned to beat James.
- She and Aunt Sponge never call James by his name, always referring to him by insults such as "You disgusting little beast", "You filthy nuisance", and "You miserable creature".
- She and Aunt Sponge force James to do chores while they laze about.
- She and Aunt Sponge are never given a reason for hating James, they are just awful because they are.
- She and Aunt Sponge constantly shout at James and hypocritically accuse him of being a lazy good for nothing who needs to work more.
- She and Aunt Sponge make it clear they aren't going to give James even a single bite of the peach.
- She and Aunt Sponge keep James locked in his room when people come to pay to see the peach, not allowing him to play with any of the children.
- She and Aunt Sponge force James to go outside and clean up the yard at night.
Book[]
- She and Aunt Sponge threaten to lock James up in the rat infested cellar for a week if he climbs over the fence.
- She is very narcissistic about her appearance, even though she's very ugly.
- When she sees James crying, she and Aunt Sponge snap at him to get back to work, and when he asks them if they can go to the shore to cool off, Spiker vows to beat him later.
- When Sponge suggests leaving James in the well all night, Spiker tells her it's a great idea.
- She and Sponge refuse to give James anything to eat before sending him out to clean the yard.
- She and Sponge don't bother to go looking for James when he fails to return throughout the night and are very apathetic about what may have happened to him, saying that hopefully he fell over and broke his leg or neck. Spiker says that when she sees him again, she will beat him.
- When the peach begins to fall, the prose states that Spiker and Sponge each think only about saving themself, showing they don't even care about saving each other.
- Overall, she and her sister were so despicable that their nephew and his insect friends cheer when they are killed by the peach.
Movie[]
- She and Sponge constantly tease James about the rhino that killed his parents, joking that it could come back for him.
- She kills a butterfly.
- When she and Sponge see James looking at his travel book that his father gave him, she and Sponge both insult his father, with Spiker in particular also insulting his mother. The two tell him that he will never leave them or go to New York City, saying that no one would tolerate a worthless little nothing like him.
- The only things she leaves James to eat for dinner are raw fish heads. When James is disgusted, she quips "What do you think this is, Buckingham palace?"
- When James goes to take Miss Spider outside and release her, Spiker instead orders James to kill Miss Spider.
- She tells Sponge to beat James, though Sponge is too tired to do so.
- When a family pays admission to see the peach and a little girl asks if she can touch it, Spiker and Sponge refuse to give her and her family admission and shoo them away without giving them their money back, effectively stealing from them.
- When she sees a priest, she charges him double for some reason. This is borderline blasphemy.
- At the end, she and Sponge try to murder James with fire axes but gets grabbed by a crane and taken away where they both got arrested.
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