| NOTE: Her book version was not proposed nor approved as a Pathetic Pinhead due to her simply being a mischievous kid in the original literation; therefore, only her 1971 and 2005 movie iterations should be put here. |
Veruca Salt is one of the four main antagonists (alongside Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee) of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory franchise. She is a spoiled little girl who thinks she is entitled to get anything she wants.
She was portrayed by Julie Dawn Cole in the 1971 film, and by Julia Winter in the 2005 film.
Her Actions and Characteristics[]
What Makes Her Pathetic?[]
1971 Film[]
- She refuses to go to school until she gets a golden ticket.
- She has her father overwork hundreds of girls just to find her a golden ticket and takes the credit.
- She plans to dishonor Wonka's deal of not giving the Gobstopper candy to Slugworth for even more money.
- She destroys much of the egg room in her "I Want It Now" song.
- Even though it was pretty brutal for her to get sent down the garbage chute, they probably rescued her offscreen, so she is not a scapegoat.
2005 Film[]
- Like her original counterpart, she’s a spoiled brat who’s completely ungrateful for all the things her family has.
- She’s so deplorable that one of Charlie’s family members even said that she’s worse than Augustus Gloop while she was on TV.
- She didn’t really win the golden ticket fairly as she had her father make hundreds of women open up packages of Wonka bars to find a golden ticket. When one of those women found the ticket, his father took it from the woman to give to Veruca. While this action is mostly done by her father, this proves how spoiled Veruca came out to be, as she impatiently demanded for her father to get her a golden ticket.
- Though minor, she repeatedly tells her father to do things that are mostly not possible, like asking him to make time go faster, or if she can have another pony.
- When the group enters the Nut Sorting Room, Veruca asks Willy Wonka if she can have one of the squirrels. When he refused, she complains to his dad over the fact that although she owns many other animals, she just wanted a squirrel, cementing her ungratefulness.
- Even after falling into the garbage chute and become dirty because of it, she still refuses to change her ways.
What Makes Her a Pinhead?[]
1971 Film[]
- She is completely lazy and doesn't understand hard work at all. All she does (until the end) is ask people for things that she doesn't need and are almost impossible for them to get.
- She ignores the fine writing on the bottom of Wonka's contract, which probably told her not to mess with anything, and grabs the pen to sign it.
- Wonka tries to warn her about her misbehavior several times, but she doesn't listen.
- She stands on the trapdoor and forgets that it drops bad eggs (like her) into the garbage chute.
2005 Film[]
- As said above, she demanded to her father to get her stuff that is impossible to even own.
- Like her original counterpart, she ignored Willy Wonka about the squirrels and proceeded to force her way pass the gate to steal one of the squirrels.
- When she grabbed the squirrel, she underestimated them as they proceeded to drag her down the garbage chute. And she would’ve gotten killed from it if the incinerator wasn’t broken.