Diane Foxington

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'''Diane Foxington''' is the former Governor of California, and is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside [[Mr. Snake]]) of the [[The Bad Guys (film)|''The Bad Guys'' film]]. Her character is loosely based on [[Agent Fox]].

==Biography== ===[[The Bad Guys (film)|The Bad Guys]]=== Diane Foxington is first seen on TV, making very cynical remarks about the Bad Guys and calling them "second-rate has-beens." When she meets Mr. Wolf, they debate the artistic value of a sculpture. Later on, Diane makes a speech about the meteorite that crashed into the city. She then is about to present the golden dolphin to Marmalade but is shocked to see it missing. After the Bad Guys are caught, Mr. Wolf asks Diane and Marmalade to give them a chance to be more than second rate criminals. Diane is reluctant at first but agrees once the professor convinces her otherwise.

After the guinea pig incident, she expressed great displeasure in their performance and threatened to call the police chief. However, she changed her mind when Wolf expressed his own displeasure at his plight at always being a bad guy. With this gesture, she realizes that there are seeds of goodness deep down, and while returning the Zumpango diamond ring (which Wolf stole earlier), she wished him and his friends luck in their mission of goodness.

At the Gala, she noticed Mr. Wolf avoiding her and later asked him to dance, displaying some flirtatious signs while doing so. While dancing. Wolf returns the ring to her, and she shows surprise. While attempting to pardon the Bad Guys and have them present the meteorite to the professor, it suddenly goes missing and the Bad Guys are blamed. Marmalade privately reveals himself to be the culprit to them, and his facade of innocence fools everyone else except for Diane, who uses the map Wolf gave her before being captured to locate their lair and all of the missing loot there, which he was giving back.

After her touched affection leads her to break them out of jail, only Wolf ends up accompanying her because Snake and the others feel betrayed by Wolf's actions. To help Wolf feel better, she tells him her backstory of how she changed from criminal to politician. She takes him to her hideout where they track the professor's movements and realize they have to give it back to the police. After gearing up, they arrive at Marmalade's mansion but fail to steal the meteorite when Wolf gets them both caught by a trap. They almost get murdered by spinning blades but are rescued by Piranha, Webs, and Shark, having come to their own realizations about being good deep down.

The five steal back the meteorite and commandeer the stolen trucks. Although Diane arrives at the police station, the other Bad Guys drive off to get Mr. Snake back. Upon returning the meteorite, Diane tries to explain they were bringing it back rather than stealing it. She almost confesses to the chief that she used to be the Crimson Paw, but Wolf interrupts her by telling the chief that they were turning themselves in, ready to turn over a new leaf. Marmalade appears, initially attempting to take credit for returning the meteorite, but Snake reveals that his newfound partnership with him was merely a ruse to swap the real meteorite for the lamp replica, which implodes at the mansion. In the process, the Zumpango diamond falls out of Marmalade's pocket (since he took it from Diane earlier) and he is imprisoned as the Crimson Paw, shifting the attention away from Diane in the process. As the Bad Guys are also taken to jail, Diane bades them a thankful farewell.

A year later, they are released for good behavior and Diane picks them up to get to work in their new life.

===[[The Bad Guys 2]]=== Following their release from prison, Wolf, Shark, Piranha, and Webs struggle to fit into society, unsuccessfully trying to find jobs while Snake is usually away from home. Wolf spends his time Diane, doing training to help him get stronger but always win, Diane and Wolf have been getting closer but can’t start due to her being the governor and Wolf being a ex-criminal, not wanting to make it look weird to the public. Diane inspires Wolf to give people a reason to accept him and his friends, which leads him helping Commissioner Misty Luggins track down the Phantom Bandit, a new criminal, who turns out to being Snake, who is with his new girlfriend, Susan. Just then, the Bad Guys are ultimately framed for the Phantom Bandit's work. Wolf calls Diane to maintain their innocence and she agrees to help them. [[File:Diane vs the Bad Girls.gif|thumb|270x270px|Diane fights against the Bad Girls in the MOON-X space station.|left]] The Bad Guys are later kidnapped by a group of female criminals—Kitty, Pigtail, and Doom, the latter of whom used the name "Susan" as an alias and was using Snake to lure the Bad Guys. Kitty recruits them to help steal the experimental MOON-X rocket, using video footage revealing Diane as the Crimson Paw—her former criminal identity—as blackmail. Meanwhile, Diane visits their previous foe, Professor Marmalade, in prison. He reveals that Kitty plans to use the MOON-X space station, which has a magnet that, attached with a metal known as MacGuffinite, can steal all of the world's gold. With this new information, Diane tracks down the Bad Girls' location and heads to the MOON-X base to stop them. Later, Diane confronts the girls before they board the rocket, but Kitty reveals that the footage is now live and her career and reputation as governor is completely destroyed and Professor Marmalade is released from prison. As a devastated Diane reads the confirmed news, she is tranquilized by Kitty while she was distracted, but manages to sneak on board while half-conscious.

Wolf manages to outsmart Kitty by pickpocketing the watch, which allows him to maneuver the rocket into the space station, destroying the magnet and returning the gold to Earth. Enraged, Kitty attempts to kill Wolf, but a very livid Diane recovers, beats Kitty to a pulp and defeats her. Wolf and Diane reunite and share their first kiss. The Bad Guys regroup as the space station plummets towards Earth, while Pigtail and Doom escape with Kitty in an escape pod. After crash-landing, Kitty is sent to prison, Doom and Pigtail are sentenced to community service, and Luggins fakes the deaths of the Bad Guys and Diane so they can be employed as secret agents. Wolf and Diane finally become a couple and it’s unknown who became the new governor after Diane's exposure and fake death.

==Appearance== Diane is a slender, anthropomorphic red fox with pear shaped hips/thighs and the basic fox traits - such as pointed-ears, a pointed muzzle with black inner lip-liner and a dusty-pink nose (instead of black), paws with dark auburn claws, and a bushy tail.

Diane wears a variety of outfits throughout the films. During her daily job as governor, she wears a grey pansuit over a white collared shirt and black tie along with a pair of black framed glasses. This is also the main outfit she is seen wearing in the second movie, although she removes the jacket and heels in order to fight The Bad Girls and she wears a pair of dark grey flats.

During the Golden Dolphin award ceremony, she wears a strapless runched silk cerise dress and a golden necklace.

During the charity function, she wears a blue open-back dress with a split skirt over pant legs.

As the Crimson Paw, she dons attire resembling that of a ninja; a tight-fitting black hooded stealth-suit, which features yellow stripes on the sides and a small yellow "X" stitched in the middle of the hood, followed by a black neck balaclava. She also wore black arm-wrap bracers with matching over-the-knee black wrap-like boots, with her boots itself containing a yellow stripe above the soles. She completes her stealthy-look with a black utility belt around her waist, which has a noticeable, thin black buckle. Her suit was also meant to hide all of her fox features, as her tail is completely hidden.

In ''The Bad Guys 2'', while sparring with Wolf, she wears a grey boxing helmet with a paw print motif, a grey spandex sports bra and high-waisted fur-tight gym shorts with a yellow stripe running down the left and ride sides, white tennis shoes, and yellow and grey finger-less boxing gloves.

After becoming an agent of ISGLOP, she wears a pantsuit comprised of a black jacket over a white dress shirt with a black tie, high heels, and sunglasses.

==Personality== Throughout the film, Diane displays many interesting personality characteristics. To the public eye, she has assumed her role as a charismatic government official determined on maintaining the peace with great pride and enthusiasm, true to her change of heart toward her past life of crime. On the other hand, she is highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, stealth, agility, gadgetry, and much more, all of which she has retained without noticeable flaw throughout the years as showcased in her jailbreak stunt. With these attributes combined, Diane is undoubtedly one the most clever characters in the entire franchise.

However, even she is not without flaws. Although it can be strongly assumed that her view toward crime has indeed changed as advertised, it seems Diane maintained a hint of pride over her prior status as the world's best bad guy, to the point where she seems confident that she has the Bad Guys 100% figured out and that they will fail in their heist for the Golden Dolphin, over which she herself has overseen security. While many of her critiques about the Bad Guys were correct, including how they would "make it personal" by going after the coveted award, she still displayed genuine shock and disappointment over the Golden Dolphin's disappearance, which served as a blow to her self-confidence, especially since the only reason they were eventually caught was Wolf unwittingly drawing attention to himself rather than her security team preventing the theft in the first place. This is further hinted at by her animosity toward Wolf's ruse and her initial skepticism for Marmalade's plan.

Despite her frustrations, she still expresses hope in reformation, and gives the Bad Guys a chance when Wolf shows he truly was listening to her earlier that night. At first, the incident with the guinea pigs makes it look like a hopeless venture much to her frustration, but her hope is restored when Wolf has a moment of genuine lamentation over his own circumstances, proving to her that there is hope for them yet, whereupon she give them another chance. Being a former thief with an eye for criminal schemes, she detects something fishy about Marmalade at the gala and is further blown away by Wolf's act of redemption by returning the stolen loot, showing that even she can be impressed. Throughout much of the film's third act, she demonstrates that she is still very much in-tune with her old clever thinking but has no issues with joining forces with others as she and Wolf put their minds together as work as a team to defeat Marmalade, all the while partaking in some flirting (which could suggest that Wolf's reformation serves as an opportunity for her to finally act on some secret feelings she may have had for him deep down, given how fast she warmed up to him after his private confession, including wanting to dance at the gala).

Even though she is presented as being a role model to the Bad Guys during their reformation, it's also likely that they returned some positive influence at the same time. Despite having a change of heart in the past, she continued to hold onto a precious stolen diamond hidden in her ring which was never returned while the Bad Guys ended up returning everything thanks to Wolf. This may have played a part in Diane's attempted confession at the end over her criminal past, but the new bond she had formed with the Bad Guys came through and they sacrificed their own freedom to keep her secret and new life safe, further earning her respect. All in all, Diane shows throughout the film that even those who have already experienced a major change of heart in the past still have room for growth of character.

==Info== Diane Foxington, also known as the Crimson Paw, is seriously one of the most interesting characters in the Bad Guys universe. At first glance, she's the cool and collected governor of California. She's super smart, charismatic, and everyone seems to love her. But, plot twist, she has a secret past that makes her way more complex than just a politician. Before becoming governor, Diane was actually a legendary master thief called the Crimson Paw. She was known for pulling off these incredibly daring heists, always managing to outsmart the cops and leave everyone totally amazed. I'm talking Mission Impossible level stuff. She was basically a criminal mastermind, but also kind of a celebrity, if that makes sense. Think Robin Hood, but with a lot more breaking and entering.

Diane's got this internal struggle going on because she's trying to leave her criminal past behind her. She's genuinely trying to do good as governor and make a real difference in the world. But, her old skills and instincts keep creeping back in, especially when she’s faced with tough situations. It's like she's constantly battling between who she was and who she wants to be. This makes her a really relatable character, because who doesn't have stuff from their past they're trying to overcome?

Her relationship with Mr. Wolf is one of the best parts of the Bad Guys storyline. At first, they're kind of rivals, but then they develop this really interesting connection. They challenge each other, and Diane helps Mr. Wolf see that there’s more to life than just being "bad". Plus, there's definitely some romantic tension going on there. You can tell they have a lot of respect and affection for each other, even if they don't always show it.

As the Crimson Paw, Diane is super skilled in all sorts of criminal activities. She's a master of disguise, a tech whiz, and an amazing martial artist. Even without her thief skills, she is still an excellent leader and knows how to inspire people. She uses her skills to help the bad guys become good guys.

Overall, Diane Foxington is a complicated and awesome character. She's a former criminal trying to make amends, a strong and intelligent leader, and a loyal friend. She's a reminder that people can change and that everyone deserves a second chance. Plus, her backstory as the Crimson Paw is just plain cool!

==Behind the Scenes== Diane Foxington is voiced by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zazie_Beetz Zazie Beetz].

==Quotes== ===The Bad Guys=== {{Quote|(on TV; to the crowd) Okay. Yeah. I hear you. I hear you. Listen, listen. We all know how dastardly the Bad Guys are.|20px|4=Diane's first line in the movie.}} {{Quote|(angrily while holding the newspaper; to the Bad Guys) Trespassing, burglary, mayhem, assault with a deadly reptile? As if those poor rodents haven’t been through enough already.|20px|4=Diane after learning of The Bad Guys' worst attempt for redemption.}} {{Quote|A wolf and a fox are ''not'' so different. (flicks the ring to Wolf) Maybe they will believe you, maybe they won’t, but it doesn’t matter. Don’t do it for them. Do it for ''you''. This is a chance to write your own story. To find a better life for you and your friends. Come on, what have you got to lose?|20px|4=Diane motivating Wolf to redeem himself.}} {{Quote|(smiles; to Wolf) So, now, instead of hurting people, I’m ''helping'' them. (sighs; softly) I’m still me. (chuckles, looks to Wolf and smiles warmly) I’m just me on the right side. You’re doing the right thing. And someday your friends, if they’re ''real'' friends, I think they’ll understand. Now, come on, let’s get inside. You look like you just busted out of a prison.|20px|4=Diane restoring Wolf's confidence.}} {{Quote|Hey, guys. Ready to get to work?|20px|4=Diane's last line in the movie.}}

===The Bad Guys 2=== {{Quote|Don't tell me you guys are bad again!|20px|4=Diane while boxing with Mr. Wolf.}} {{Quote|Crimson... What? (sees bad comments about her) No. No. No. No.|20px|4=Diane finding out that The Bad Girls have exposed her secret.}}

==Trivia== *Although loosely based on Ellen from the books, Diane shares many differences with her: **Diane is a politician whereas Ellen isn't. **Diane worked solo as Crimson Paw while Ellen works alongside other members of 'The International League of Heroes'. **Ellen has a blonde ponytail while Diane doesn't. **Ellen was a former thug turned good while Diane was disgusted at herself for being a thief and became governor to make up for her crimes. **Diane stopped being the Crimson Paw before deciding to be governor, while Ellen is still working with the members of [[Shadow Squad G|Shadow Squad G.]] **Ellen is known as "The One" during the second story arc of the books while Diane has yet to be chosen for a quest of her own. *Diane, along with Marmalade, is one of two major characters to not appear in any shorts or holiday specials.

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