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Her Royal Duchess Diamond Persnickety, the First, Last and Only (almost always called
Duchess for short; only referred to by her full name in the TV movie, voiced by Grey DeLisle), this imaginary friend
is a scheming, arrogant Picasso-like pain in the neck, who is actually two-dimensional when she turns in certain directions.
She's considered a "high-maintenance" friend, not wanting to do anything for herself, and is so lazy that she needs somebody
to open her eyelids when she wakes up. She is the only one who lives in the house who has been able to control the extremasaurs
as shown in the TV movie.
In the pilot, she and Terrence conspire to get rid of Bloo after a spoiled, bratty daughter wants
him (and, in the process, rename him "Tiffany") instead of Duchess, who was chosen by her mother and father. As punishment
for trying to get rid of Bloo, she has to stay at the house and is no longer eligible for adoption. She has no liking for
unauthorized parties as shown during "Partying Is Such Sweet Soireé" because it disturbs her twenty-three hours of beauty
sleep (and Bloo would like to see her make it twenty-four). During that party, she tried to bribe a sugar-crazed Mac into
calling Madame Foster by offering Mac "stupid gourmet chocolates."
Despite supposedly being uneligible for adoption, she was adopted by the Applebee family in "Duchess
of Wails", and needless to say, she was not happy about it. Neither was Mac, who lives next door to the Applebees. The noise
almost drove Mac's mother to move, which Terrence used to scare Mac into thinking that they'd be moving to Singapore which Terrance and Bloo believed to be in Wisconsin. During this we learn
what will happen if Duchess does not have a humidifier or a dehumidifier, her skin gets wrinkly. Mac and Bloo returned her to Foster's to prevent this, after an unsuccessful attempt to sabotage
everything in the Applebee's apartment in an attempt to have them do it for them. This attempt to bring her did not go unopposed,
as the Foster's friends didn't want her back, and took up arms (consisting of fruits and vegetables) to prevent Mac and Bloo
from returning her. Duchess sees herself as beautiful and everyone else (even Frankie) as ugly. In "The Big Picture", she
gave Eduardo an "extreme makeover" that made Eduardo look more like Duchess. The snooty, Hungarian voice of Duchess is done
as a tribute to June Foray's Natasha Fatale from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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