Bog Lady

The **Bog Lady** is the main antagonist of the first season of *I ♥ Arlo*. She's a power-hungry swamp goddess who secretly influenced Arlo's early life in the swamp before he left for New York City, and was livid that he left and hatched a plan to lure him back and force him to stay with her forever.

## Profile

### Appearance

The Bog Lady resembles a sasquatch-like creature, but has bark-like skin covered with mossy hair. Her antlers are shaped like tree branches, and has visible leaves and weeds sticking out.

### Personality

At first, the Bog Lady seemed to be a warm motherly figure to Arlo during his swamp years, but in reality, she's ruthless, power-hungry and extremely narcistic, to the point she only cares about what's living in the swamp to the point she refuses to let anyone leave. She can also get furious if someone does not listen to her and ignores her long enough.

### Abilities

* **Botany Manipulation:** The Bog Lady's main power is manipulating plant life. She can summon thorns, roots and vines, which she can use to entangle anything. She can also trap her victims and produce cages.
* **Size-shifting:** She can change her size, ranging from the size of a regular sasquatch, to about the size of a tree, to engulf an entire household.
* **Shapeshifting:** According to Ruff, she can shapeshift into various forms of plant life.
* **Hypnosis/Mind Control:** She can hypnotize others through eye contact, like how she did with Arlo to force him into never leaving the swamp. However, the spell can be broken if the affected victims hear the voices of someone they truly care about.

## History

### *I ♥ Arlo*

The Bog Lady was formed at an unknown time before the franchise; during Arlo's childhood in the swamp, she secretly influenced and protected Arlo all his life to let him have fun, which he didn't even know of until then. After his fifteenth birthday when he learned of his true heritage and left for New York, the Bog Lady was furious to lose the one thing she protected and hatched a scheme to get him to come back. Throughout the season, as Arlo and his new friends are preparing their new home of Seaside by the Seashore for its Uncondemning party, the Bog Lady had her plan put in action. She first casts a spell on the swamp, turning it into a dark, thorny vineyard, then manipulates Ruff and Stucky into holding Edmée hostage, followed by sending a distress call along with a ransom note to Arlo. She then traps Edmée in a thorn cage and imprisons her in her domain known as the Heart of the Swamp, as bait.

Arlo answers the distress call and arrives at the now-cursed swamp, where Ruff and Stucky reveal they've been tricked and warn he and his friends of the Bog Lady's dark magic. While Arlo follows the Bog Lady's voice back to the Heart, she tricks Bertie and Alia into following an Arlo imposter conjured by her moths, and destroys the yacht they used to arrive. Finally arriving at the Heart, the Bog Lady appears before Arlo and reveals her vengeance plan to him. She then demands he apologize for leaving the swamp, but Arlo refuses and tries to save Edmée, but to no avail.

Trapping Arlo in a spool of vines, the Bog Lady demands one last time Arlo apologize; when he refuses again, she hypnotizes him into not wanting to leave, so she has him all to herself. Fortunately, the sound of Bertie and Alia's voices breaks the spell, and Arlo fights his way out of her grasp and frees Edmée. Not wanting Arlo to leave, she chases him and his cavalcade back to the shack, which she takes over and holds them tight. Arlo realizes it was his fault for leaving the swamp that all this happened, but Edmée reminds him that despite that, he made the right choice, because even though he left for his true home, the swamp will always be a part of him.

Arlo stops the Bog Lady and gives her a full-fledged apology along with his lesson, and asks for forgiveness, but she rejects him and decides to eat them instead. However, Edmée reveals she rigged her shack with a self-destruct mechanism as a failsafe; once the group is swallowed whole, she activates the device and the entire shack explodes, freeing the group and maiming the Bog Lady along with it. Her powers gone, she sinks into the waters of the Heart and disintegrates in the explosion, never to be heard from again.

## Foreign voices

Main article: List of cast members in other languages