Gwendolyn Zapp is the secondary antagonist of the Disney Channel animated series Big City Greens, and the main antagonist of its 2024 television film Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation.
She is the CEO of Big Tech Corporations, a company known for making hundreds of high tech technology. She first appeared in Season 2 in the episode "Car Trouble".
However, in the movie, she is revealed to have a petty, everlasting vendetta against her Kindergarten teacher, Ms. Kay, for making fun of her dreams when she was a child.
She is voiced by Cheri Oteri, who also voiced Mayor in the DreamWorks Animation film Dog Man.
History[]
Car Trouble[]
In Season 2, Episode "Car Trouble," Gwendolyn Zapp makes her first appearance as the owner of Big Tech. She witnesses the Green family's Kludge when vegetables are delivered to her.
Gwendolyn offers the Greens a deal: they can try out her new car, called the Vrum (which Cricket humorously names Dr. Bubblebutt), in exchange for the Kludge. The Greens accept the deal, and Gwendolyn takes the Kludge with her. However, when the Greens later ask to have their old car back, they discover that Gwendolyn plans to take the Kludge with her on vacation to Mars.
However, she is stopped by the Greens and Dr. Bubblebutt and she goes off to Mars without the Kludge.
I, Farmbot[]
Gwendolyn appears in a hardware store as a hologram introducing the Farmbot named F.R.A.N.K (Farm Robot Assistant Network K), a robot who promises to do all of the farm's work for them.
Cricket suggested his father Bill to get the Farmbot and he agrees, only to find out later the farmbot had made Bill completely relaxed and unable to move. Eventually, the Farmbot gets destroyed and they take it back to the overhaul hardware store to get their refunds.
Green Mirror[]
In this episode, Gwendolyn reveals her more villainous side when she creates a program called Flawless You!, designed to make people completely flawless and to build the perfect family. When she presents the idea of Flawless You! to her employees, she notices the Greens (excluding Tilly) breaking in with various products, such as sleep pods, golden eggs, and mech suits. Tilly apologizes, hoping that Gwendolyn isn't too upset. Gwendolyn admits she is mad, but specifies that it's more of a "crazy mad" rather than "angry mad." She then decides that the Greens would make perfect beta testers for Flawless You!.
After learning about the program's effects, Tilly convinces her family to try it out, and they agree. However, Tilly later realizes that her family was better off with their flaws than without them, as they aren't themselves when they are flawless. She then decides not to be flawless with them and frees her backup family from the backup folder. A conflict ensues between the two families, with the real Greens using their imperfections to defeat the flawless version of the Greens.
As Gwendolyn attempts to shoot Tilly with a gun, the system begins to reset itself, erasing Gwendolyn and forcing the Greens to make their way to the download door. Once they exit cyberspace, Tilly apologizes to her family, acknowledging that they are indeed better as they are. Meanwhile, at the console, it's revealed that Gwendolyn didn't actually die in the computer; she had a backup file. The Greens then back away as Gwendolyn laughs maniacally.
Squashed[]
Squashed starts with the greens decorating for Halloween. Meanwhile, on the planet Mars, a lonely survivor of an alien attack inside her space station on the Mars surface is running before finding shelter in the control room. Gwendolyn then asked herself who made this dangerous invention and then saying that she made the invention. Looking outside the control window as she looks at the employees she endangered getting murdered horrifically because of her. She then takes off the rocket back to Big Tech HQ.
Later, Tilly visits Big Tech headquarters to find Gwendolyn in her lab, as she introduces an experiment she made called Compound 415-C. She tries to offer it to Tilly promising it will make her father Bill Green's pumpkins grow larger, not knowing that later the pumpkins will turn into evil creatures.
She appears at the end of the episode going to stop the massacre and terrorism she caused and the lives she took, only to find out Tilly resolved the whole situation and returns back to Mars without even apologizing for everything she caused.
Big City Greens The Movie: Spacecation[]
Gwendolyn's latest major appearance is in the sci-fi musical movie, Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation. She orders fresh vegetables from Green Family Farms, coincidentally the last delivery before their vacation. The Greens walk in during her presentation about her new space projects: the Space Crops Initiative and her space hotel. However, the farm bots she sent to an asteroid to farm crops malfunction. As a result, she turns to the only people she can rely on for her mission—the Greens. When Bill declines her offer, Cricket secretly accepts the mission behind his back in exchange for a free stay at the space hotel. She then launches them into space to complete the mission before they meet her employee, Commander Voyd.
Nancy Green then arrives at BigTech to confront Gwendolyn about what's going on while she says the family is safe. In reality, they're not. Nancy continues to talk to Gwendolyn when she tries to call the Commander, who was frozen in the cryochamber by Cricket and Gramma Alice before they left to harvest vegetables in the asteroid's crop silos. The farm bots begin malfunctioning, and she realizes that she made a typo in the bots' code ("harm" instead of "farm"). However, the Commander is released by Tilly after the Greens return to the ship. Commander Voyd sends the veggies back to Earth, completing the mission and almost sacrificing their own lives. This worries Nancy and Gloria before she begins singing a classic-style villain song to explain her tragic backstory ("Gwendolyn's Lament"). She tells the two that in her early life she was someone people looked up to due to her superhuman intelligence, and when she drew a picture of the future (the movie) in kindergarten, her teacher said that it was a "cute little fantasy". She then reveals she has the teacher held hostage for her to see what she called a fantasy.
After switching back to the Greens, Gwendolyn informs them that they must get to the power core on the other side of the asteroid to activate the kill code that turns off the malfunctioning bots. The family (and Voyd) reaches the core and deactivates the bots. Unfortunately, the Kludge chasing into the power core fried the energy supply, causing the silos to short out and explode one by one. She tells the Greens that each explosion will cause the asteroid's orbit to change bit by bit, and if the power core (where they are) blows up, the asteroid will be put on a collision course set straight for Big City's Times Circle. She also says that if they cut the maroon wire, the explosions stop, and if they cut the burgundy wire, all contact with Earth ceases. Cricket accidentally cuts the burgundy wire, cutting contact. Bill and Cricket begin to fight, and their quarreling causes the power core to explode because they took too long to cut the correct wire, which Tilly found. The station explodes, separating everyone.
Meanwhile, the space vegetables arrive at BigTech via the escape pod, and the teacher awards Gwendolyn a “gold star ⭐️.” However, it is revealed that this is just one of many revenge plots Gwendolyn hopes to execute, and that this conclusion is completely unsatisfactory since she cannot see beyond her own eccentricities. She then double-crosses everyone, skedaddling back to Mars in a spaceship shaped like her own head, leaving Earth—especially Big City—to face a catastrophic fate. Afterward, the Greens utilize the space hotel’s tractor beam to attempt to stop an incoming asteroid. Unfortunately, inertia causes the asteroid to hurtle toward the hotel. With Remy’s help, the Greens and Commander Voyd manage to evacuate the hotel just before it explodes. Gwendolyn witnesses the explosion and collapses in defeat. In the aftermath, everyone in Big City hates her for abandoning them in their time of need, and she escapes from the angry crowd.
Personality[]
Gwendolyn Zapp is a rich and smart woman who is also creepy, psychopathic, insane and very eccentric.
Zapp was also very vindictive, as she dedicated her life to getting revenge on her kindergarten teacher, Miss Kay, for mocking her drawing of the future.
Trivia[]
- Gwendolyn also serves as a dark parallel to Cricket like Chip Whistler, as they both have crazy ideas which leads to disaster and they both try to prove their authority figures (Cricket to his dad Bill and Gwendolyn to her former kindergarten teacher Ms. Kay) that their ideas are better.
- However, Cricket knows that sometimes his ideas can cause disaster and managed to fix his mistake by saving Big City from the asteroid while Gwendolyn refuses to take responsibility for her actions and leaves Big City to perish which leads to her downfall as the asteroid destroyed her Space Hotel. Cricket makes up with his dad for his antics and despite their differences they team up to stop the asteroid from destroying Big City while Gwendolyn finds out that her victory to grow vegetables in space was not what it was cracked up to be and decides to leave Ms. Kay on Earth and live on Mars.
- If Cricket didn't learn to take responsibility for his antics and make up with his dad, he would've ended up like Gwendolyn.
- Miss Kay most likely didnt mean to mock her dream, and simply thought it was the result of an overactive imagination. Gwendolyn likey overreacted.