Lady Gretchen (Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night)

Lady Gretchen is one of the main antagonists of the 1998 direct-to-video Christmas film Buster and Chauncey's Silent Night. She accompanies her partner, the Duke of Roache, in trying to steal treasury from the Oberndorf church.
== Biography ==
On Christmas Eve, the day before the Queen is due to arrive to visit the church, Lady Gretchen and her partner, the Duke of Roache, arrive claiming to be inspecting the church for her arrival. They are greeted by the Mayor of Oberndorf and ask if this exact church is the one possessing the church from the Wise Men of the Nativity, which the Mayor confirms to be so but says no one is allowed to see. He relents when Gretchen and the Duke begin to grow impatient after "inspecting" the church, and she charms him long enough to sneak out the key to the room where the treasure is kept. Their beliefs confirmed, Gretchen and the Duke plan to sneak into the church that night and rob the treasure.
After being shown the treasure, Chauncey the mouse is spotted being chased by the local cat and Gretchen takes advantage of the distraction to drop some gold pieces that she had snuck out of the poor box when the Mayor was not looking. She accuses the orphaned girl Christina of being a thief, deflecting the Mayor into dragging her away and allowing the thieves to continue their work. That night, after most of the planned Christmas decorations are destroyed by Buster and Chauncey's attempts to escape the cat and Christina is blamed, Gretchen and the Duke retrieve the treasure and are accidentally tripped by Christina. Gretchen takes Christina's locket and throws it into the treasure room with the key to make it look as if Christina had stolen it, while the Duke gags Christina and the thieves flee with her in the back of a sleigh. They jump off to hide in an abandoned barn where the Duke ties Christina to a pole and Gretchen suggests donning disguises and passing off as peasants in order to sneak out of the country successfully. However, the two are foiled when Christina escapes her bindings thanks to Chauncey, who had witnessed the kidnapping and followed them, and the untimely arrival of Buster. Christina flees back to town with one of the treasures as proof of the theft, but Gretchen tells the Duke to forget about her because the Mayor still thinks she's a thief and no one will belief her claims otherwise. As Christina arrives and prepared to be arrested, the pair ride past being very discreet. But Buster taunts the cat into chasing him one last time, ducking and weaving between the legs of the horse pulling the thieves' carriage. The carriage topples over, spilling the stolen treasure over the street. Gretchen and the Duke, having been exposed, are promptly arrested.Category:1990s
Category:Brunette
Category:Conspirator
Category:Greedy
Category:Kidnapper
Category:Thief
Category:Western Animation Villainess
Category:Fate: Arrested