Gladys Sharp

**Gladys Sharp** is the secondary antagonist of Dreamworks's twelfth full-length animated film Over the Hedge which is based on the comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T. Lewis.

She is the former president of Home Owners Association, Dwayne's leader, boss and love interest and Tiger's former owner.

She was voiced by Allison Janney.

## Over the Hedge

At the start film, Gladys is the president of the Home Owners Association ensuring that each house in El Camelot follow the strict H.O.A roles and also obsessed with the quality of every home in the neighborhood. She is first seen talking nicely on the phone while drinking a cup of coffee and driving her car to her home. After Gladys later talks on the phone, saying that she is the president of the Home Owners Association as well as saying that the grass is supposed to be 2 inches and according to her measuring stick, the grass is 2.5, she grabs her supermarket products and carries them to her home. Later when Gladys opens the door to check on her pet cat Tiger, she notices that RJ and the gang are making a mess in her backyard in which cause her to get frightened by them. Gladys then scares the animals away by using a broom while angrily states that she just cleaned up and calling them filthy vermin.

Meanwhile, after Hammy pretended to have rabies in front of Shelby and Mackenzie in order to get the cookies, Gladys talks to Janis, who is the mother of the girl scouts about what just happened and when Janis leaves, Gladys angrily tells her that she will be worried about the end of suburban peace and tranquility. Unfortunately, for Gladys, the animals return many times to steal food, which risks ruining the neighborhood. Because of this, Gladys calls and hire Dwayne Lafontant as her henchman to kill RJ and his friends. Gladys walks out of her home just to see some neighborhood people gathering around Ozzie (who is pretending to be dead). She then tells the others that she called Dwayne to kill the animals before they get hurt like this. When Dwayne arrives, Gladys asks him about where he has been given that she is having a party tomorrow and Debbie's car killed more animals than he is only for Dwayne to tell her to stand down. When Dwayne is preparing to grab Ozzie by using one of his tools, Gladys tells Janis that she hopes Ozzie is not in any pain but however Dwayne fails to catch Ozzie causing Gladys to demand someone to kill him and because of that, Ozzie escapes to safety.

Later, Gladys is preparing to drive her while saying that garbage cans are not allowed to be on the curb before 8pm, but a wagon and a Spuddies can (dropped by RJ) falls on Gladys' car causing to explode but Gladys escapes to safety. That night, Gladys got traps from Dwayne in order to prevent animals from sneaking into her backyard and house as well as also asking Dwayne to give her the Depelter Turbo just so she can purchase it (despite being aware that the Depelter Turbo is illegal in every state of the United States expect Texas and not caring if it's illegal). When RJ was about to talk to Verne about the list of food, he needs for Vincent. The raccoon sees that Gladys has bought a massive stockpile of food for her party tomorrow in which causes RJ to have another plan of getting the food by invading her house. The next morning, she wakes up in her room going to the kitchen drinking coffee before noticing that the animals are in her house and gets sprayed by Stella as well as calling Dwayne to catch them but all of them (expect RJ) are captured. Gladys then also blames Dwayne for letting animals into her house and orders him to kill the animals inhumanely.

Later on, when Gladys is cleaning her home by getting rid of Stella's smell with a clean sprayer, she saw the animals returning to her home in order to go to their home with Dwayne's van, only to destroy it. Enraged by the fact that her beautiful home is destroyed, and the animals came back and escaped, she attempts to kill them by using her weed hacker. She is then frozen in time after Hammy drinks an energy drink which cause him to defeat the three villains by activating the Depelter Turbo. Gladys ends up screaming in pain as it incinerates her. After getting incinerated from the Depelter Turbo, she lost her hair as well as clothes torn apart.

Gladys later gets fired and arrested by the police for having a Depelter Turbo and she tries to make the police officers to let her go by blaming Dwayne for the Depelter Turbo in her backyard, but the officer tells her that her name was on the contract, and she could tell it to the judge. Gladys angrily tries to tell them to let her go and she ended up fighting the police officers.

## Personality

Gladys is shown to be short-tempered, obnoxious, cruel, arrogant, abusive and xenophobic woman who has an intense hatred and disgust for wild animals; one of the reasons is because of how they keep sneaking into her house and stealing stuff. However, she seems to have no problem with domestic animals as she had a pet cat named Tiger.

Gladys is very strict with her H.O.A rules and is constantly worried about animals "lowering her property values as well as being obsessed with all of the homes in El Rancho Camelot being perfect. She has no regard for road safety as she talked on the phone, drank coffee and briefly closed her eyes. When Gladys was being arrested, she tried to put the blame on Dwayne for the Depelter Turbo being in her backyard despite the fact that the exterminator warned her about how illegal it is as well as the fact that she wanted the illegal animal trap in first place which shows Gladys is incapable of taking responsibility for her actions.

Despite these, Gladys is shown to have some redeeming qualities such as being affable towards other people, as shown in some scenes such as her talking on the phone in the scene she first appears, caring about her cat Tiger as shown when she checks on him saying "What it is, baby?". Despite showing to hate wild animals, she may appear to show some compassion towards them such as when she actually appears to be sad when Ozzie pretends to be dead, being shocked when Dwayne prepares to grab Ozzie with one of his tools as well as telling Janis that she hopes Ozzie is not in any pain which is before Ozzie jumps and runs away. She also appears to be shocked when she saws what happens if an animal gets caught by the animal trap. However, these do not justify her actions against RJ and other animals.