La Sombrerona (character)

## La Sombrerona

* With Hats
* Without Hats

**La Sombrerona** is the antagonist of the *Hamster & Gretel* episode of the same name. She is a woman that is the subject of an old South American folk tale that describes her having been married five times, but each of her husbands preferred having fun over doing their chores and subsequently lost their lives from a tiger, resulting in the woman wearing all five of her husbands' hats. She vowed to make people miserable because of this.

## Physical appearance

La Sombrerona is a tall woman with pale skin and long, disheveled, black hair, of which a couple strands hang in the middle of her face. She also has ocher yellow eyes, pronounced cheekbones and a bump on her pink lips.

La Sombrerona also wears a white dress with many frills, and a turquoise band and collar. It is very similar to a wedding dress or night gown. Her most notable attribute, and the inspiration to her nickname, is the stack of hats she wears on her head, each derived from one of her five deceased husbands: the first hat on the bottom is a yellow straw hat with a red band and wide brim, the second is a grayish blue hat with a green band and short brim, the third is a yellow hat with a tall crown and a high-curved brim, the fourth is a brown stetson with a light red band, and the fifth hat is a blue bowler hat with holly berries and plumes as decoration. The five hats also conceal a radio tower antenna that has been permanently attached to her head, which she uses to remove happiness from her targets.

## Personality

Even before she lost any of her husbands, La Sombrerona is a woman who prioritizes chores and work over having fun, whereas all of her husbands did not. Their irresponsible behavior led each of them to their demise to a tiger, resulting in La Sombrerona's sorrow, and her despise of happiness in other people. This disposition led Hamster, Gretel, Fred and Abuelita to mistakenly believe that all they needed to do is to cheer her up, but while she's able to have a good time, she does not forget her traumatic experience that simply.

La Sombrerona was once a happy woman herself, but the demise of her five husbands made her primarily miserable. Now, she experiences happiness by taking happiness away from others and spreading misery. She's actually pretty perturbed when her targets already lack happiness, as seen when she attempts taking away happiness from Fred, but remains the exact same afterwards.

La Sombrerona hates the nickname the folk tales have given her, and blames the Internet for spreading it around, noting that it's impossible to get rid of it once it does. She also wonders why everyone is focused on her husbands in the story instead of her sucking away happiness.

La Sombrerona cares very much for the hats on her head; not only because each of them belong to her late husbands, but also because they conceal the radio tower antenna that is unable to be removed, which she states makes her look ridiculous.

## Skills and abilities

La Sombrerona has studied in the field of neuroscience and electrical engineering since the departure of her fifth husband, to the point she discovered a way to remove happiness from people, resulting in the radio tower on her head.

## Trivia

* La Sombrerona has a similar name to an actual South American folk tale character, named El Sombrerón. However, aside from both of them wearing hats as per their respective names, they are pretty much opposite in appearance: while La Sombrerona is tall, wears a white dress and five hats, El Sombrerón is short, wears a black dress and an overly large hat. Their backstories are also different.
* Without the hats or the radio tower, La Sombrerona also bears a passing resemblance to Sadako Yamamura from the *Ring* novels, a vengeful spirit. Much like with El Sombrerón, however, that is where their similarities end.