Glendale

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“*Sorry. It's just. Taking that which does not belong to me makes me feel so alive!*”
―Glendale, from Hello Rainbow Road
**Glendale** is one of the main characters in the Netflix series, *Centaurworld*. She is a gerenuktaur and is a member of Wammawink's herd.

Glendale herself is voiced by series creator Megan Nicole Dong. In Season 2, "Young Glendale" is portrayed by Isabella Russo.

## Physical Description

Glendale is a centaur who resembles a combination of a human and a gerenuk, a type of antelope. She has a very tall, slender body with a long neck, large floppy ears, and huge eyes. She has a light brown complexion while her body from the chest down is salmon pink with a dark magenta patch on the rump. She has a tufted tail and cloven hooves. She also has short, light blue hair placed to the side.

According to series creator Megan Nicole Dong, Glendale's large eyes were directly inspired by the white patch of fur surrounding actual gerenuks' eyes. This is why her pupils are able to squash and contract to express emotion without using actual eyelids. Glendale's tendency to stand straight up on her hind legs while stealing items was also inspired by the gerenuk's ability to do the same thing in order to eat foliage that is otherwise out of reach.

## Personality

Glendale is a high-strung, eccentric individual (even more so than the rest of the Herd) who suffers from severe anxiety. This causes her to overreact and imagine the worst possibilities in every situation, sometimes sharing her paranoia with her companions as well. When very nervous, she tends to rapidly wave and flap her hands or tug her ears down while whimpering and shaking. In My Tummy, Your Hurts, Glendale admits that pretty much everything gives her anxiety and that she has very few coping mechanisms, one of which is her kleptomania.

She is a kleptomaniac and takes every opportunity to steal things and put them in her portal tummy. She loves shiny objects the most, but will steal just about anything including living creatures. She often steals without realizing it, but does so gleefully when she is aware of it.

She has darkness to her as well; for example, discovering that glue was made from collagens, bones and boiled hooves only made her like glue more. She is also one of the more violent members of The Herd, going as far as wielding a knife when she feels threatened. Despite this, she is able to sympathize with others' struggles when they don't conflict with her own, often sharing her collection of hoarded items to help them out when she can.

In Bunch O' Scrunch, Glendale's flashback revealed that stealing does cause her to feel guilt. However, the act of stealing also makes her, in her own words, "feel free" or "feel alive". This essentially traps her in a cycle of using a coping mechanism that ends up causing her more anxiety.

## Abilities

* **Magic**: Like all centaurs, Glendale possesses magical abilities.
	+ Portal Tummy: She can open a glowing blue portal on her belly, which can consume and store a seemingly impossible number of things, including things larger than her own body. This magic has been with her since childhood.
	+ I Can Shoot Tiny Versions of Myself from My Hoof: Glendale can generate miniaturized versions of herself out of her hooves. However, once they're made, the tiny Glendales run off.
	+ Stretchy Neck Times: She can stretch her neck to abnormally long lengths.
	+ Prehensile eyes: Glendale can stretch her eyes out and use them to grab or touch things.
	+ Teleportation: While extremely rare, Glendale has been observed using her own portal tummy to teleport herself to a different location. When used, she appears to emerge out from thin air.
* **Stealing:** Glendale is a master thief. She was able to steal the Key back from the mysterious Woman while the latter didn't even notice.
* **Persuasion:** Glendale is able to motivate the Coldtaurs to join her side when they originally wanted to fight for the Nowhere King.
* **Hiding:** Glendale is able to go undetected by hiding in the earth.
* Digging: She is able to quickly dig tunnels through the earth like the holetaurs, but likely lacks the ability to tunnel into different dimensions
* Guitar playing

## History

### Season 1

#### Hello Rainbow Road

The first time we see Glendale, she flinches as Horse very narrowly tramples her during a desperate run through Centaur Valley to find some answers. The near-death experience causes Glendale to hyperventilate and enter a state of panic that persists for quite awhile. She is shown to regularly have severe anxiety and uses a paper bag to breathe into in order to calm down.

We soon learn that Glendale is easily overwhelmed by her kleptomania (her most prominent coping mechanism) and loves stealing just about anything, including the "artifact" from Horse.

Like the rest of the herd, she has grown bored and complacent after many long years of being stuck inside Wammawink's protective magical dome.

#### Fragile Things

In this episode, she gets excited following Horse down the rainbow road. She also steps in someone's poop which Wammawink specifically warned her about. When the herd considers turning back, Glendale's rebuttal is that she still has so many new things out there to steal. Later on, she gets sucked into a taurnado while getting distracted by and drawn toward the shininess of Horse's key piece. The traumatic event had shaken her enough for her to agreed with Wammawink in turning back. She left a flower for Horse as a parting gift.

#### The Key

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#### What You Need

When Wammawink slipped in and out of consciousness, Glendale was the most visibly upset and became uncharacteristically pushy and aggressive in getting Horse to use the Tree Shamans' wishes to help Wammawink.

When Glendale considers what to wish for, she states she "wants" to help Wammawink, but also acknowledges that she "needs" to stop stealing. She eventually chose not to make a wish because she enjoys stealing too much.

#### It's Hidin' Time

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#### Holes: Part 2

In the song Baby's First Spell, Glendale suggests that her portal tummy power is a unique spell that centaurs normally don't have, and that it was caused by "ancient rites and hormones".

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#### Johnny Teatime's Be Best Competition: A Quest for the Sash

She and the herd arrived in Cataur Valley and learned Johnny Teatime would only give them the sash if they won the competition. She helped Wammawink cheer for Horse during the show. When Comfortable Doug crashed the competition, Glendale's first reaction was to pull out a switchblade. She also got excited when Horse turned into a more Centaurworld-looking version of herself. She also was very vocal about her support of Zulius and Horse stealing the sash.

#### Ride the Whaletaur Shaman!

It is revealed that Wammawink forced Glendale to help her make many magazines about merdudes, possibly under threat of starvation. She also freaked out when the local shaman swallows Horse and called Sunfish Merguy a psychopath for caring more about the sunset.

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#### The Rift: Part 1

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#### The Rift: Part 2

Glendale stole the key from the mysterious woman during her song. After she and Wammawink had a brief yet emotional fallout, her possession of the key is accidentally revealed. Glendale tries to cover up the fact that she didn't notice it was the key that she had stolen.

She helped in the fight against the Nowhere King by absorbing the black goo to prevent it from trapping the others. The minotaur that Rider had incapacitated was also accidentally swallowed up by her portal.

After the herd survives the battle, Glendale helps celebrate by breaking out a pitcher of toilet raisin punch. Not long after, her portal tummy involuntarily ejects the minotaur she trapped during the battle, who is soon revealed to still be alive.

### Season 2

#### Horsatia Wighair Beansz?

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#### All Herd All the Terd

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#### My Tummy, Your Hurts

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#### Holes: Part 3

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#### Bunch O' Scrunch

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#### The Hootenanny

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#### The Last Lullaby

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## Relationships

### Horse

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### Wammawink

Out of all the herd members, Glendale seems to cling to her and depend on her the most. When Wammawink slipped in and out of consciousness in What You Need, Glendale was the most visibly upset and became uncharacteristically pushy and aggressive in getting Horse to use the Tree Shamans' wishes to help Wammawink. When Wammawink was revived, she was the only one other than Horse to hug her and expressed how much she missed her, nearly strangling Wammawink with her affection.

Glendale is frequently seen showing concern for Wammawink's wellbeing and often tries to physically comfort her, such as when Wammawink experiences PTSD flashbacks from being in the Tree Shamans' presence, becoming traumatized at seeing Horse jump into the Whaletaur Shaman's mouth, or distraught about Horse possibly not making it back to the human world in The Rift: Part 2. In the latter, she even uses a puffy jacket she stole to console her. When she had to transport Wammawink out of the Beartaur's cave in It's Hidin' Time using her portal tummy magic, she hesitated and was clearly uncomfortable with it ("I don't like it!") despite having no issue with "stealing" other living centaurs or absorbing objects far heavier and larger than Wammawink.

Her relationship with Wammawink is not without complications. She was very distressed about Wammawink forcing her to help make her racy Mansplash magazine, including making her create content she didn't like, such as horoscopes. Glendale is occasionally passive aggressive toward Wammawink, such as when she rubbed in how painful it must be for Wammawink to see her "BFFF" Horse leave her forever and never to return in The Rift: Part 1. Glendale and Wammawink also have a heated argument in The Rift: Part 2 brought on by Wammawink's distress over seeing Horse gone and potentially in danger, which she unexpectedly takes out on Glendale. This is the first time we see Wammawink openly yell at and blame any member of her herd. Even the other herd members and Waterbaby find it hard to watch.

### Zulius

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### Durpleton

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### Ched

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### Coldtaurs

Sympathizing with how the Coldtaurs had trapped themselves in a prison of their own anxiety, Glendale managed to push aside her own anxieties to help and recruit them for Horse's army by using her own skills as a con artist.

The Coldtaurs attend the herd's Hootenanny event on behalf of Glendale, who they consider their leader after the events of My Tummy, Your Hurts. They also come to Glendale's aid and fight alongside her and the herd in the final battle against the Nowhere King.

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## Appearances

### Appearances Outside of *Centaurworld*

Glendale makes a guest cameo appearance in the Netflix interactive special *We Lost Our Human*. The special is about a dog and cat on a quest to find their owner after every human has mysteriously vanished. Durpleton and Wammawink also make an appearance, but have no voice roles.

*Centaurworld* creator Megan Nicole Dong reprises her voice role of Glendale for a song, followed by a chase scene through different dimensions.

*We Lost Our Human* was released on March 21st, 2023.

## Trivia

* Glendale is named after a city in Los Angeles county, California.
* In Holes: Part 3 there is a Glendale lookalike named West Covina, who is also named after a city in Los Angeles county. Series creator Megan Nicole Dong noted in a tweet that the name was also a nod to the musical comedy series *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.* Notably, Zulius' voice actor Parvesh Cheena was a member of its cast.
* Glendale's tummy portal swirls with blue energy that looks extremely similar to the blue energy of Centaurworld's Rift portal before it changed its color to yellow after the events of The Rift: Part 2. It is unknown if there is some connection or a mere coincidence.
* Glendale knows what murder sounds like, as implied in The Key.
* Glendale has been to prison before, as implied by her making "toilet raisin punch" in Holes: Part 2.
* Creator Megan Nicole Dong confirmed in a tweet that the large safe seen in Glendale's array of portal tummy stuff in The Rift: Part 1 contains personal valuables such as Wammawink's knapsack contents from when she left the ruins of her original village at a young age.
* Glendale's flashback also implied through her song that Glendale may have absorbed her parents into her portal tummy, as she belches right after mentioning them.
	+ This was later confirmed by series creator Megan Nicole Dong in an interview Q&A. She added that there was a scene cut from The Last Lullaby that shows Glendale's parents waiting for their daughter while still inside the portal tummy. Her parents may not remember how they got there, nor realize that they are in another dimension entirely.
* In Horsatia Wighair Beansz?, Glendale can be seen using her own portal tummy to instantly teleport herself behind the Horsetaur buffet table in order to steal a teapot.
* The scene in My Tummy, Your Hurts where Comfortable Doug talks about Glendale slowly falling into hypothermia madness was inspired by a Werner Herzog nature documentary about penguins (link) where he narrates about a penguin separated from its herd as it unknowingly gets itself more and more stranded and towards death. This was confirmed by series creator Megan Nicole Dong.
* One of Glendale's prison tattoos in Holes: Part 2 is a production room doodle by series producer Louis J. Cuck; the design is meant to be Glendale herself.
* In the show's Brazilian localization, Glendale is referred to as "Gazelda" as a reference to her gerenuk side. Gerenuks are a kind of antelope that are also known as the "giraffe gazelle".
* Glendale's portal can contain objects much larger than her portal or even her entire body. She has several massive statues as well as an entire ship named The S.S. Stolet. She supposedly has a helicopter (and a license) in there as well, of which we see only the ladder.
* According to lead character designer Evan Palmer, Glendale is the only member of the herd who consistently has wrists.

## Gallery

### Production art

Glendale model sheet by Evan Palmer, Lead Character DesignerYoung Glendale color turns by Leigh Luna, Color Designer"Dumpies ditch" prop by Bill Cleveland, Prop designerEarly concepts by Megan Nicole Dong, Creator of CentaurworldEarly concept of Stretch Neck Times spell by Megan Nicole DongGlendale's prison tattoo by Louis J. Cuck, series producer
### Screenshots

Glendale accepts her fateIs it wrong that I love it even more now?So hungry...Ancient rites and hormonesUntil you die?Glendale steals the KeyIt's deliciousGIMME MY ICE CHIPSGlendale uses her portal tummy to teleport herselfThe klepto has become the klepted!How many snowmen can she fit in there?Like all of you, her anxieties are manyWave this anxious flagWe're breathing into our bags!Glendale's newest bookYoung Glendale is never aloneNot West CovinaYeaahhh!Portal tummy limit break
### Screenshots (*We Lost Our Human*)

What do you mean the universe is falling apart?Glendale's stealing songNothing's going wrong*I SAID NOTHING'S GOING WRONG*It's adoptin' timelocal centaur cryptidAAAAAAAAAGlendale the desktop helper

## References

1. ↑ Comicbook.com - Interview with Megan Nicole Dong
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/1469008730540765192?s=20
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/1431366111140868096
4. ↑ https://youtube.com/watch?v=0sbnV6JMH4g&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE&t=616
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbnV6JMH4g
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/1430312274590195713
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/evantickles/status/1421303681710915587