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Aunt Sponge
Movies
James and the Giant Peach
Portrayed by
Miriam Margolyes
Inspiration
The character from the original book by Roald Dahl
Personality
Sadistic, cruel, mean, lazy, dimwitted, vain, selfish, unkind, uncaring, deranged, violent, malicious, greedy, abusive, narcissistic
Appearance
Short and obese woman, pale skin, red haired wig, wears a variety of different clothing
Occupation
James' aunt, Spiker's sister
Affiliations
Disney Villains
Goal
To be really beautiful, to make lots of money off the giant peach (failed)
Home
Little House on the Hill (formerly) New York City
Siblings
Spiker (sister) Craig Trotter † (brother)
Relatives
James (nephew) Rachel Trotter † (sister-in-law)
Likes
Being beautiful, making lots of money, making James' life miserable, enslaving James, food
Dislikes
James, bugs (especially spiders), James escaping with the peach
Powers and abilities
Strength
Fate
She and her sister are crushed to death by the giant peach when it flattens their car (In the book) She and her sister are tied up in Miss Spider's silk and taken away on a crane by the police (In the film)
Quote
"Get up,
you lazy little bug !"
"You lazy bug! Who told you to stop working?"
"Can you smell
it , Spikey? It smells delicious."
"You can't crawl away from us!"
Source
“How dare you disagree with us! ”
―Aunt Sponge to James
Aunt Sponge is James ' aunt, Spiker 's sister, and one of the two main antagonists of the 1996 live-action film, James and the Giant Peach . It is unknown whether Spiker and Sponge are the sisters of James ' father or mother, or possibly his great-aunts since they appear to be elderly in the book’s illustrations.
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