Melina

Melina is a minor villain of The Jungle Bunch to the Rescue.

## Personality

She used to be kind as Gilbert's girlfriend, but after she found a ruby she became evil. She is a sadistic and cold-hearted otter who shows no empathy for her vitcims, expect for Gilbert.

## Bio

### Origins

She, as revealed in "Rubies Are Forever", was a friend of Gilbert and a lover of science. But when a ruby ​​was found in the cave, Melina took possession of the mineral and over time assumed selfish and evil attitudes, so Gilbert left her.

### In "The Jungle Bunch to the Rescue"

in "Rubies Are Forever", Melina makes her first appearance.

She plays the jungle bunch, riding crabs and sitting on a throne. Melina greets Gilbert with the nickname Gilby and asks the sale of their volcano and their base, to appropriate it and make it its base. Maurice opposes a decisive refusal and Melina declares revenge for the wrong she suffered, destroying the volcano with his ruby, thanks to a mechanism of shells.

After Gilbert's flashback, Melina will reappear to complete her plan. But, first of all, it destroys the plain of daisies, the place where Gilbert and she have made numerous studies.

Later she manages to capture Maurice and hang him near the ruby, so that he also disintegrates. But Maurice broke free and then Melina continued to punctuate the beam, to try to get rid of him. But, after the intervention of the other members of the jungle team, the weapon was deactivated and Melina tried to escape through a sort of plane. Batecia, meanwhile, manages to detach a piece of the aircraft and Melina sank into the sea.

In "The Fan Club", Melina returns, in disguise, with other villains from past episodes. Like the others, Melina is also remembered in a flashback, which is linked to "Rubies Are Forever". Discovering their identity, she proclaims herself as the empress of the jungle and fights with the other villains.

She return, this time alone, in "Jungle Bells". This time she planned a new plan. Thanks to toy crabs, she manages to make the children do what I want, so that she can command the jungle. But the jungle team discovers Melina's intentions and they come to stop her. Melina, however, manages, thanks to two hyenas and two snails, to escape and try to complete the plan. the Jungle Bunch, thanks to new toys, stops Melina's plan, which ends up overwhelmed by the sled of the Jungle Bunch.

Melina is not missing in the second season. In "The Mini Jungle Bunch" he makes his first new appearance. We see her intent on destroying the beaver village together with her invention: a kind of robot with carnivorous plants. All from the point of view of the Mini Jungle Bunch, intent on seeing at a distance their idols, the Jungle Bunch, fighting it. But, on the verge of being defeated, she manages to see the Mini Jungle Bunch and attempts an attack on them, using them as a diversion to trap Maurice and win. We see her again immediately after, over the volcano, to try to incinerate the Jungle Bunch. But the Mini Jungle Bunch, together with Junior (the only one who saved himself from the attack) manage to free the Jungle Bunch and defeat Melina and her "Robot", given that the latter self-destructed as a desperate last attempt to retaliate.

Melina is one of the many villains featured in The Evil Faction of the episode The Tiger Hunt.

Like the others, enter the competition to determine who is the baddest in the jungle. She is the first to participate in the hunt for Maurice, together with a parrot, who acts as a locator, and a cannon very similar to that of Cannonball. She is immediately defeated. We will see her later, when Maurice is captured and Dhoom is called "the worst of the jungle". But Junior deipnotizes himself (he was hypnotized by Dhoom to defeat his father) and together with Maurice they beat everyone down, even Melina.

in "Tarsier in Danger" she kidnaps Gilbert and forces him to work for her, thanks to a cat with a cold (in fact Gilbert is afraid of germs and diseases). Jungle Bunch comes to find out and they come up with a plan to free him. So Batescia pretends to work for Melina and captures the Jungle Bunch In the next sequence we find out that he is making fireworks (not so different from Igor's explosive mushrooms) and he needs Gilbert to help production. Thanks to a stratagem the Jungle Bunch frees itself and comes to free Gilbert, still convinced that Batescia has gone to the side of evil. But Melina comes to discover Batescia's double game, even if the factory begins to explode and Melina is forced to flee. Eventually the Jungle Bunch manages to save itself.

Not missing in the episode "The Fake Fan", even if it appears only in Flashback. During the chatter between Mickey (obviously he doesn't let it be understood) and the fan, the latter refers to the episode "The Tiger Hunt", but never names her.

## Apparance

### Season 1

* Rubies Are Forever
* The Fan Club
* Jungle Bells

### Season 2

* The Mini Jungle Bunch
* Dance of the vultures
* The Tiger Hunt
* Tarsier in danger
* An Explosive Duel
* The Fake Fan (Flashback only)

### Season 3

* My Son, My Hero (Flashback only)
* Melina's Independence Day
* The Champions to the Rescue

## Trivia

* In the episode "Rubies are forever" Melina loses her ruby, which will no longer appear. Although from the episode "The Fan Club" she has an emerald (first in the scepter and from the episode "Jungle Bells"), which however will never be specified neither where nor when she took it.