- "Und vhy is zis candy so important to you?"
– Heinrich
- "Ach, Liebchen, I say so many zings I do not mean, Like, 'Oh, No more gumdrops for me.' Or 'Who vould like some uf mein lollipops?'"
– Heinrich
- "Who must now go to help undo ze wrongs I haff done, Zanks for not giving up on me, Abigail. Until ve meet again, Auf Wiedersehen!"
– Henrietta, after returning to normal.
Henrietta Von Marzipan, known as Heinrich Von Marzipan for most of her appearances, was a recurring antagonist on Codename: Kids Next Door. She is a German girl who is Numbuh 5's former candy hunting rival and best friend.
She and Abigail have known each other for many years and share a largely unexplained history. The two apparently became enemies after a mysterious incident in Guatemala five years ago that culminated in her being caught red-handed with a bag of sacred golden caramels and being grounded for a month.
History
Early life
Henrietta Von Marzipan became interested in hunting for candy treasures at an early age and became friends with a fellow candy hunter, Abigail Lincoln.
Trip to Guatemala
At around the age of 7, Henrietta and Abigail traveled all the way to Guatemala to hunt for the mystical Sacred Golden Caramels; candy said to be the most delicious sweets to ever exist. They arrived at an old, ruined temple where they drew lines of sugar on the ground. In order to create the caramels, a magic ritual was performed that took away the most valued quality of the person in question and turned their quality into delicious caramels with flavor depending on the quality taken. When Henrietta did this to herself, she lost her femininity which resulted in her transforming into a portly boy who would from then on be called "Heinrich". Abigail was forced to leave Heinrich behind when some urgent business came up, but secretly took one of his caramels for safekeeping, knowing he now could not control his greed. Heinrich then selfishly ate the rest, realizing too late that eating all of them made the curse permanent. Believing his sacrificed quality was lost forever, Heinrich blamed Abigail for what had happened. (Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L.). The authorities arrived shortly after to apprehend Heinrich red-handed with the caramels. This led to him being grounded for a month and swearing revenge on Abigail (Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S.).
Stickybeard's cabin boy
Heinrich continued his candy hunting and eventually met the candy pirate Stickybeard, under whom he would serve as cabin boy on the Sweet Revenge. A couple of months passed and the Sweet Revenge ran into a Great White Asparagus; a huge sentient asparagus roaming the Asparagus Sea. The great monster proved too strong to defeat, and the entire crew of the Sweet Revenge were lost to the asparagus, except for Heinrich and captain Stickybeard. They barely managed to escape from the beast when they came upon the Red Stalk Isle and Heinrich wished to board immediately. Heinrich led the way up to the top where he and Stickybeard found black licorice remains scattered on the ground around a red candy seed. But when he grabbed the seed, the black licorice turned into Black John Licorice and his crew of Licorice Pirates. Stickybeard grabbed Heinrich and pulled him back to the ship before sailing off.Heinrich left his position of cabin boy to return to his solo candy hunting. He got at some point into trouble with the Marshmallow Mayans, either before or after leaving Stickybeard's crew (Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E.).
Curse of King Two-Tons-of-Candy
Years after the events in Guatemala, Heinrich ran into Abigail in the Sugar Deserts while searching for the Blurpleberry Supreme. He confronted Abigail about leaving him behind all those years ago in Guatemala, but refused to return to her the Blurpleberry candy. Heinrich was undergoing an expedition to the Tomb of King Two-Tons-of-Candy and had hired a group of mercenary Candy Bandits to aid him. Abigail reminded him of the curse said to protect the tomb, but Heinrich brushed it off as superstition and threw to her a bag of gum balls as payment for the Blurpleberry candy. But Abigail used the bag to create a distraction and hid in the back of Heinrich's Candy Tank in order to follow him to the tomb. Heinrich put on the pharaoh's headpiece and was about to place the Blurpleberry onto it when Abigail interrupted him and warned him about the Curse of King Two-Tons-of-Candy. Heinrich brushed this off as well and placed the jewel, which activated the candy in the sarcophagus to engulf him and turn him into a candy-mummy. He went on to taunt Abigail about his new powers and swore not to share any of his candy with anyone. But when he ate some of the candy, he found it to taste like asparagus. Enraged, Heinrich attacked Abigail and chased her out of the treasure room, but Abigail managed to get a large column to fall on Henrich's head. This made the Blurpleberry jewel fall out of the headpiece and return Heinrich back to normal. Heinrich was again left behind as Abigail grabbed the candy jewel and returned to her treehouse (Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S.).
The chocolate volcano
In "Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T.", Heinrich finds a volcano containing chocolate lava that turns anything that touches it to chocolate in the jungle within the jungle gym at Gallagher Elementary School and steals the first grade's pet rabbit Mr. Fluffleupagus, intending to turn it into a real chocolate bunny. Heinrich is thwarted by Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 2, as well as a girl by the name Jessica, and ends up falling into the crater of the volcano to his apparent death. At the end of the episode, however, he is seen emerging from the volcano as a chocolate monster.
Heinrich's return
He returns in "Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E.", which directly continues this storyline, to enact his revenge on Numbuh 5. He explains that after being turned to chocolate, everything he touched was turned into chocolate as well, which intiallly worked out well for him. After a time, however, Heinrich grew tired of chocolate and begin craving a cheeseburger. When he tried to eat one, it turned into chocolate, and soon realized that he could not eat anything but chocolate, sending him into despair and to seek his revenge on Abigail. He is defeated when Abigail melts him and covers him in marshmallows found on Mars, and is taken to the KND Arctic Prison, Where the Kids Next Door scientists return him to normal. While incarcerated, Heinrich receives a package from Numbuh 5 containing a cheeseburger. Unfortunately for him it has pickles on it, which he hates.
The Lost Temple of the Choco-Logs
At some point, Heinrich seems to have temporarily escaped from the Arctic Prison. In the comic "Operation: C.H.O.C.O.-L.O.G.", he encountered Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 3 at an abandoned building he was convinced was the Lost Temple of the Choco-Logs. Though Numbuh 5 repeatedly told him it wasn't, he refused to believe her and tied she and Numbuh 3 up, demanding that they give him the secret code to unlock the treasure chamber. Making the situation even more dire, a trap had been set off, causing a beam of fiery hot light to travel across the room towards the slab where Numbuhs 5 and 3 were bound.
Numbuh 3 unwittingly let the secret code slip, allowing Heinrich to open the chamber, revealing dozens of giant, oblong chocolate snacks. When Numbuh 5 asked that he now release she and Numbuh 3 since he had what he wanted, he still refused. Getting an idea, Numbuh 5 told him his monocle was dirty. The insulted Heinrich took it off to inspect it. At that moment the light struck the monocle, redirecting the beam so it burned off Numbuh 5's rope bonds. While Numbuh 5 was distracted freeing Numbuh 3, Heinrich rushed into the treasure chamber. The doors then sealed as he laughed maniacally.
When Heinrich tried the choco-logs, he was horrified and disgusted to realize they were actually chocolate-covered pickles. What he thought was the Lost Temple of the Choco-Logs was, in reality, an abandoned store called Myer's Chocolate Covered Pickles. It turned out that Numbuh 5 was just trying to get one for her father, who actually liked them. Heinrich was left trapped in the so-called treasure chamber, screaming to be let out.
Black John Licorice's revenge
In "Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E.", Heinrich had been kidnapped from prison by Black John Licorice and his band of evil Licorice Pirates, Who need a candy seed that Heinrich selfishly ate in order to break a curse bestowed on them for cutting down licorice trees. Numbuh 5 joins forces with Stickybeard and his Candy Pirates in order to track down Black John and rescue Heinrich. Together, Stickybeard and Abby succeed, and Heinrich is once again sent to Arctic Prison. It is also revealed here that Heinrich was at one point Stickybeard's cabin boy.
Returning to Guatemala
In "Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L.", his final appearance, he is shown to have either escaped the Arctic Prison or finished serving time there. The incident in Guatemala 5 years ago is explained, in order to create pieces of ancient golden caramel, a magic ritual was performed that took away the most valued quality of the human in question and turned their quality into five pieces of delicious caramel with flavor depending on the quality taken. When Heinrich did this to himself, he selfishly ate all of his caramels, causing him to lose the quality he sacrificed forever. Knowing that Heinrich could not control of his greed, Abigail left him behind, and Heinrich blamed her for bringing this curse upon him/her.Five years later, he tricks Abigail into a truce and uses the ritual to connect all the KND within half the continent and perform the same ritual using the massive amounts of candy contained inside them, affecting all the operatives in the treehouses, Heinrich taunts the now nerdy and pathetic Numbuh 5 as he eats all her caramels. But before he eats her last one, Numbuh 5 reveals that she has been keeping Heinrich's last piece of caramel from five years ago, and thus his last chance to break the curse, waiting for him to learn how to share his candy. In a fit of blind fury Heinrich pushes her aside and takes the caramel, and when he is about to eat it, Abigail reminds him of how he used to be and how much she cares about him. Thus, Heinrich is driven to tears and gives her back the caramel, thus breaking the curse.
Everyone affected by the ritual is returned to normal, and it is revealed that Heinrich is really a beautiful young girl named Henrietta Von Marzipan who is Abigail's best friend and former candy hunting partner. Their friendship is restored and they bid each other farewell, but the other members of Sector V are understandably confused and grossed out by this revelation, except for Numbuh 4, who still insists on looking for Heinrich. When Numbuh 1 explains, Numbuh 4 freaked out too.Personality
As Heinrich, Henrietta was bitter, prideful, arrogant, overconfident, selfish and greedy, all stereotypical characteristics of rival treasure hunters. She held a deep animosity towards Numbuh 5, due to the latter's "betrayal" in Guatemala. Unlike Numbuh 5, she had no respect or regard for ancient superstition or curses, such as when she brushed off the warning in the tomb of King Two-Tons-of-Candy, or kidnapped the first grade class' pet rabbit to make an actual chocolate bunny, not knowing its absence would devastate the entire classroom. This disregard, coupled with her arrogant nature and resentment of Numbuh 5 would repeatedly prove to be her undoing.
Once free of the curse, however, Henrietta reverted to her original personality of a sweet, compassionate girl, having rediscovered the value of sharing with the help of her former friend. It is heavily implied that the caramels took not only her outer beauty, but also her kind nature.
Appearance
Henrietta is a slim girl with light-blonde hair in braided pigtails, tied with red ribbons. She has blue eyes and wears a monocle over her left one. She wears a brown, round explorer's pith helmet and light-brown button-up shirt with a dark-brown vest over it, a red neckerchief, and large brown gloves. She wears dark-green pants tied with a belt and huge brown boots.
When in the form of Heinrich, she is much chubbier, and her nose sticks up enough to see the nostrils. She also has a bowl cut and is a bit taller than she is usually.
In her chocolate monster form in "Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E.", she is much larger and taller than usual. She is completely made out of endlessly regenerating bitter chocolate due to fusing with the choco-lava, except for her eyes which are a bright yellow. She also has claw-like feet in this form, and retains only her gloves, hair, and monocle from her previous form.
Gallery
See Henrietta Von Marzipan/Gallery
Trivia
- Heinrich was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, and Henrietta was voiced by Candi Milo. Both were last heard as the voices of Mom and Dad from Cow and Chicken, another classic Cartoon Network show.
- Marzipan is a candy made up of ground almonds and sugar.
- This character was an only German child, who wears a monocle.
- This character's prized quality is a combination of femininity and beauty, becoming an ugly boy after it was taken away.
- Numbuh 5 often refers to this character by the nickname Heiny.
- In Operation L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E., Henrietta (as Heinrich) did not act as an antagonist, but rather had to be saved from the villains. She was still transported back to the Arctic Base at the end, though.
- Henrietta hates pickles, as shown in Operation C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E. and the comic Operation C.H.O.C.O.-L.O.G.
- The character is probably intended to parody the archetypal German villains of the Indiana Jones films.
- This character is likely also a parody of Augustus Gloop from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. This is because Heinrich fell over into the chocolate lava, just like Augustus fell over into the chocolate river, and both were chubby, blonde German children with an obsession for sweets.
- She often calls Numbuh Five "Liebchen", which is a German term of endearment meaning "dear".
- Henrietta is approximately the same age as Numbuh 5.[1]
- She finances her dealings with her various candy thievery and the like.[2]
- While explaining the caramel ritual, she (as Heinrich) says that the KND treehouses contain "enough candy to feed all of Frankfurt," which is a city in Germany. Henrietta mentioning it specifically could indicate that she is from there.