Matilda, better known as The Witch, is the main antagonist of the Cookie Run series. She is most known for the rival of GingerBrave, baking or capturing Cookies for the sake of consuming them, and the player must help GingerBrave escape her house to prevent him from being eaten.
Little information is given about her in the game. Her physical appearance in OvenBreak 2009 is the only design where she is seen in full. She lives a cabin in the middle of a spooky forest that has a kitchen, where she bakes Cookies in the oven.
History[]
In 2009, she appears again in OvenBreak. She resides in a home in a forest where she bakes sentient gingerbread people to eat. She was in possession of a Magical crystal that made her retain her youth, if kept within 30 centimeters from her. Sometime when baking GingerBrave, she breaks it, causing her to become old and have red skin. After this event, she attempts to track down GingerBrave.[1]
Dozer was one of the cookies made in a batch of Cookies that were already baked and eaten. Dozer attempts to run away, but finds a lollipop (which is presumed to be a trap set by The Witch) and passes out from the swirl on it hypnotising him. GingerBrave sets to avenge him and escapes the oven as well, this time triumphant.
The Witch comes up with a plan to counter GingerBrave. She creates her own army of Cookies wearing flaming skulls to find him.
The Witch later finds GingerBrave and eats him, where the Innerspace levels take place. GingerBrave travels through The Witch's stomach, where Cookies being digested are found in the background, and also travels through her heart, where an unknown figure with an axe chases you. It is assumed that GingerBrave escaped the innerspace and recovered Dozer.
In OvenBreak 2, the game linked the player to Facebook in order to have a competing score leaderboard. If the player had no friends who also played OvenBreak 2, fake friends would be provided, with The Witch, being named Matilda, being one of the fake friends. She was at level 10, had a high score of 1,000,000 points, and used NinjaBread and GingerGhost. A silhouette of the Witch can also be seen in the window of her hut in the gameplay intro cutscene.
In Cookie Run for LINE and Kakao, she also does not make a full physical appearance and is only mentioned. She makes an appearance as a shadow in a picture challenge photo, however. However, she does appear in a few trailers for the game.
Cookie Run: OvenBreak continues the trend of making the witch not physically appear and be mentioned, but she can be heard cackling and manically laughing during the introduction cutscene with GingerBrave in the oven. Her silhouette is also visible in Costume Gacha cutscene.
The Witch is absent in both text and physical form in CookieWars, but there is an unused sound effect with her laugh in it.
The Witch finally makes an on-screen appearance for the first time in 7 years in Hello! Brave Cookies, albiet as a shadow. After GingerBrave escapes the oven, a shadow of her appears in front of him and she eats a Cookie and laughs.
References to the Witch[]
Episode[]
- Escape from the Oven - Cookies start from the Witch's Oven, where the cookies are supposedly baked. They escaped the oven and the Witch's Kitchen, and ended up running through the Witch's Forest.
Cookies[]
- Brave Cookie - The cookie that started the rebellion, and encourage other cookies to follow and escape from the Witch.
- Dozer - GingerBrave's brother that was hypnotised by a red lollipop, eaten and supposedly recovered. It's unknown where he is now.
- Ginger Claus - A foreign Cookie that crawled into the oven through the Witch's chimney.
- Skating Queen Cookie - A cookie that performed so beautifully, even the Witch enjoys it.
- Wizard Cookie - The cookie that seemed to posses the Witch's Candy Wand.
- Cherry Cookie - Baked with decorative bright red cherry syrup.
- Vampire Cookie - A result of mixing the Witch's over-ripened grape juice and the cookies. He had risked his life to save Alchemist Cookie from the Witch's lair.
- Soda Cookie - His surfboard is a Soda Popsicle found in the Witch's freezer.
- Gumball Cookie - A cookie that angered the Witch by coloring her oven the day after he was born.
- Purple Yam Cookie - A cookie who baked in the Witch's oven for an extended period of time.
- Licorice Cookie - A cookie who was baked with a great portion of black licorice extract in his dough.
Pets[]
- Dust Unicorn - A pet that is treasured by the Witch.
- Enchanted Locket - The Witch used to make this pet back when she works in a royal family.
- Ginger Ghost - It could only escape the Witch in ghost form.
- Brown and Cony Balloon - The Witch took these two balloons from her relaxing island vacation.
- Flame Bat - It caught the Witch's attention when it was searching around for ice water.
- Cheeseberry - Picked from the Witch's Forest.
- Yule Log Cake - A tree with branches made of chocolate, found only in the Witch's Forest.
- Oak Barrel - The wooden barrel that contains the over-ripened grape juice in the Witch's kitchen.
- Pistachio Firefly - The firefly that illuminates the Pistachio Forest, just some parts away from the Witch's lair.
Treasures and Ingredients[]
- Witch's Spike - The spike that appears on the Witch's Oven for some reason.
- Halloween Witch's Hat - The Witch's Hat during the Halloween.
- Witch's Magical Kindling - Little is known about this ingredient.
- A Page from Book of Wizdom - A spell so powerful that someone needs to keep it away from the Witch.
- Macaron Burger - A food made by the Witch's recipe.
- Grilled Sausage - A food discovered from the Witch's grill.
- Roof Whirligig - A whirligig that is found in the Witch's roof.
- Big Head Mushroom - A mushroom that can be found in the Witch's forest.
- Pitted Pickled Olives - An olive that has been picked by the Witch's secret ingredient.
- Cookies' 1st Freedom Frame - The Witch would bake again after the Cookies have escaped.
Events[]
- Photo Challenge - The shadow of the Witch can be seen in one of the photos.
Trivia[]
- The Witch was created and portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor.
- Her face can be seen in the game's predecessor, OvenBreak.
- There could be more than one Witches. Royal Jelly Soft Cream's description mentions that there are "Witches".
- She is seen more than once with a red lollipop, which she uses to trap cookies (as seen with Dozer).
References[]
Playable characters | |
Supporting characters |
The Witch • Evil Gingerbreads |
Minor characters |
Astro Mice • Axe Man • Blazto • G.B. BooDoo • JellyBit • Joe Roe • Yolky Dokie |
Scrapped characters |