Victoria Van Gale (Hilda)

Victoria Van Gale is a villainess in the Netflix show Hilda. She is heard on radio in "The Lost Clan", and makes her in-person debut three episodes later, in "The Storm".
==Biography==
Up until the events of "Chapter 10", Victoria worked in the Trolberg Weather Station. From here, she would broadcast the daily weather forecasts, which was known to be accurate to the second.
Unsatisfied with simply predicting the weather, however, she turned her research towards finding ways to control it, believing humanity could greatly benefit from this. To this end, she build a weather control machine in the Trolberg Weather Station, and even abducted a baby Weather Spirit to lure more Weather Spirits to her.
Sadly, this plan worked too well and dozens of Weather Spirits showed up. They got into a heated argument above Trolberg, causing a severe snow storm. This was when Hilda, David and The Great Raven came to visit her, believing Victoria might be in trouble. Victoria gave the two kids a tour, during which they discovered her weather machine. Hilda convinced Victoria to try and use her machine to blow the storm away from Trolberg and Victoria agreed, but it failed and her machines overheated. Hilda was eventually able to solve the problem by talking to the Weather Spirits, moderating their discussion and getting them to calm down.
David meanwhile discovered the captured baby Weather Spirit, and when Hilda returned he told her about this. This shattered Hilda's image of her idol, and she proclaimed Victoria to be a mad scientist. When the baby's father attacked the weather station, Hilda freed the baby. Victoria fled from the building, which moments later collapsed and fell down the mountain due to the damage caused by the Weather Spirit. This greatly upset Victoria.
Victoria returns in "The Windmill", the eighteenth episode in the series (and the fifth episode of Season 2). She now lives in a windmill and is accompanied by a nisse she constructed.
Hilda, Frida and David encounter her during an assingment to photograph birds and she admits to have change and decided to redeem herself by creating a shelter of the animals in the windmill, though Hilda and company doesn't belive her. Despite this, Hilda decide to help her rebuild her new home in exchange of getting some photos from the animals in the shelter. David doubts her the most and his doubts are made real when after the repairs he founds some documents. Turns out that Victoria was working a way to enter the Nowhere Space and even summoned a Nisse to assist her in this work. After the repairs are done, she kindnaps Frida and activates a machine to open a portal to the Space, believing that since the city have been getting out of space to build maybe in the Nowhere the citizens can create new homes without destroying the forest. However, her machine gets destroyed when David tried to rescue Frida because of his fight with his assistant, creating another portal inside the Space that sends both Victoria and her asistant to an unknown location, apparently a deserted island.
==Trivia==
*Victoria Van Gale was created exclusively for the show, and has made no appearances in any of the graphic novels whereon the show is based. 
Category:2010s
Category:Bondage Used By Villainess
Category:Business Villainess
Category:Child Defeats Villainess
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Lab Coat
Category:Scientist
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Category:Western Animation Villainess
Category:Would Hurt a Child
Category:Fate: Inconclusive