Diane Szalinski

Diane Szalinski (née Murdock) is a character in the 1989 Disney live-action film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, its 1992-1997 sequels, and its 1997-2000 television series. She was the wife of Wayne and the mother of Amy, Nick, and Adam.
She was portrayed by the late Marcia Strassman in the first two films, Eve Gordon in the third film and Shrunk and by the late Barbara Alyn Woods in the TV series.
== Biography ==
Diane Szalinski is a character from the 1989 Disney film “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and its sequel “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid”. She is the wife of Wayne Szalinski, the inventor who accidentally shrinks his children and their friends with his shrinking machine. Diane is portrayed as a loving and supportive wife, who tries to keep the family together despite her husband's frequent mishaps with his inventions. She is also the mother of Amy, Adam and Nick Szalinski.
== Personality ==
Diane is intelligent, resourceful, level-headed and she has a good sense of humor. She has a witty, sarcastic quip to bring Wayne back down to Earth when he unveils his absurd inventions. She is well-educated, and very bright. She is a wonderful mother to Amy, Adam and Nick, and a supportive, forgiving wife to Wayne. She is stubborn and determined-- she ran for school board president when she heard about problems at Amy's school.
== Trivia ==
* Diane's death in Shrunk is very likely out of respect of Marcia Strassman, who originally played the character in the first two films, who had died in 2014 due to breast cancer.
* It is confirmed Diane will still be alive in this film, even though Eve Gordon will reprise the role because Marcia Strassman died, according to IMDb, and will be an antagonist of this film.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11399224/
** Her evil acts in Shrunk include eating shrunken people, even including Nick's children who are shrunk which Diane acts evil, she starts to devour them, Nick has to save them from his evil mother.
* A running gag throughout the films was that Diane would faint upon realizing the current situation.
** A giant version of Diane's iconic faint was also included in her appearance in the theme park attraction Honey, I Shrunk the Audience. It showed the most destructive faint in entertainment history, as Diane nearly crushed a shrunken Nick under her heavy body as she fainted onto him and collapsed just beside him, which caused the ground to shake violently under the impact of her fall. It was the only time Diane's faint was used in a manner of an dangerous obstacle against a shrunken person and not as a running gag due to her being giant sized and the risk of crushing someone under her was high if she faints as a giant.
* In Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, the point of view from a shrunken Nick and the audience of his mother Diane Szalinski's height to be at least 50 feet tall, 25 feet wide and her body weighs a very hefty 45 tons (90,000 pounds). In Honey, I Blew Up the Kid when Diane became a giant, she grew up to a colossal 250 feet tall and weighed a whooping 5600 tons (11 million pounds).
* She is always good and a protagonist and she at times can be an antagonist.
* The platform in Honey, I Shrunk the Audience were installed with vibrations to simulate loud and violent ground shakes (When Diane Szalinski's fainting heavy body collapsed on the floor).
* It is why she as a giant never decided to attack Dr. Charles Hendrickson in the first place by eating him, because she is rarely evil, such as when she chose not to eat him as a giant.
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