Carol Reaper Hey king, watch this. [attempts to flip but hits tree] All right tree, we'll settle this later.
2nd most-quoted character in Where the Wild Things Are (2009): in 11 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Max (7), Douglas Boi (2), Ira (2)
You are now the king, and you will be a truly great king.
More lines from Carol Reaper
3 quotes Carol Reaper Carol Reaper That’s Douglas. I count on him for everything. If I was stranded on a desert island and could only take one thing, it'd be Douglas. We can share him if you want.
Carol Reaper Perhaps need is one thing; himself.
Scenes with Carol Reaper
7 scenesDid you make this?
Carol Yeah, yeah.
It's very good.
Carol We were gonna make a whole world like this. Now, everyone used to come here, but you know... you know what it feels like when all your teeth are falling out really slowly and you don't realize and then you notice that, well, they're really far apart. And then one day... you don't have any teeth anymore.
Yeah.
Carol Well it was like that.
Mom
[Max drags a chair to the counter. He sniffs the food in the kitchen. His mom takes the ovenmit off to tell him to be quiet.]
Hey. Ssh!
Mom
It's pâté.
Mom
Frozen corn is real. All right, now get off the chair, please. Go tell your sister to clear her stuff off the table.
[Max shouts real loud, more in his mom's face.]
CLAIRE, GET YER STUFF OFF THE DINING ROOM TABLE!
Mom
Max, don't ever pull that now.
Mom
[Max stands on the countertop.]
Um, Max? Get off the counter, please. Get off. I have a friend here. You're embarrasing me!
WOMAN, FEED ME!
Mom
[Mom covers her eyes, she is not happy.]
Max, get off the counter. Please get off the counter. Get off the damn counter, Max. Now! Now!
I'LL EAT YOU UP!
Mom
GET DOWN!
GRRRRR!
Mom
Get off from there!
[Steps off the counter]
Carol So you were their king and you made everything right?
Yeah.
Carol Well uh, you know... what about um... loneliness?
What he’s saying is, will you keep out all the sadness?
I have a sadness shield that keeps out all the sadness, and it's big enough for all of us.
Carol Wow.
And I do this to loneliness.
Carol [Max makes a gesture of a bomb dropping on loneliness. The Wild Things are astounded.]
I knew it! When he showed up, I saw it. Why don’t you guys ever listen to me?
You’re right, Carol, I didn’t see it.
Carol Oh, those? I don't know anything about that. Those were like that when we got here.
Carol [Max is waking up as Carol carries him]
I didn't wanna wake you up... but I really wanna show you something
Okay. [climbs onto Carol's shoulder]
Carol And on the way... I can show you your kingdom. This is all yours. You're the owner of this world. Everything you see is yours. Oh, except that hole over there, that's Ira's. The tree's yours, but the hole is Ira's. But everything else is yours. Except for that rock over there, that's not yours. That little rock next to the big rock. But everything else in the kingdom... except for that stick. That little stick right there, that's not yours. I want you to be king forever, Max.
Yeah, definitely.
Carol [Cut to Max and Carol wandering in a desert in the middle of the island.]
This part of your kingdom's not so good.
Why?
Carol Well, look: this used to be all rock, and now it's sand, and then, one day, it's going to be dust, and then the whole island will be dust, and then... well I don't even know what comes after dust.
Carol, did you know the sun was gonna die?
Carol What? I never heard that... Oh, come on. That can't happen. I mean you're the king, and look at me, I'm big! how can guys like us worry about a tiny little thing like the sun, hmm?
Carol Max, what’s wrong with the fort? I thought you said it’d be automatic.
What?
Carol I thought you said if anybody got in here we didn’t want, the fort would automatically cut their brains out.
KW
[The Wild Things are shocked and offended that Carol would say this in front of Bob and Terry.]
Carol...
Oh, well... I thought that then, but... I kinda decided that if we know them, they should keep their brains. Even if we don’t know them that well.
KW
[to Carol]
I think you should apologise to Bob and Terry.
Carol I don’t apologise to owls. Owls are stupid.
Carol, that’s hateful.
Carol Why did you bring them here? Huh? This place was supposed to be for us. They are not sleeping in our pile. [leaves]
Carol I can't even look at it.
What is it?
Carol The fort. We gotta tear the fort down.
What?
Carol It wasn't supposed to be like this!
No, Carol.
Carol You said we were all going to sleep together in a real pile, and now you want a secret room. and K.W. is gone for good. And now I have to worry if the sun is gonna die.
The sun?
Carol Look at it. It didn't come up! It's dead.
What?
It's dark.
Oh, my God!
Dead?
Carol. Stop!
Carol It's dead! It's dead.
You're scaring everybody.
Carol It's morning.
The sun's not dead. It's just nighttime.
Carol How do you know? I can't trust what you say. Everything keeps changing. Alright, come on, Douglas. We're ripping it down.
Carol, we're NOT rippin' the fort down!
Carol It was supposed to be a place where only things you wanted to have happen would happen. Come on, Douglas, do what I tell you.
No! We all live here, not just you. It's everybody's. It's Judith and Ira and everybody.
Oh, finally!?
Carol You were supposed to keep us safe. You were supposed to take care of us, and you didn't.
Carol?
I'm sorry!
Carol That's not (quite) good enough.
Carol?
Carol You're a terrible King!
CAROL?!
Carol What?!
He's not our King.
Carol What? Don't say that. How could you say that? Don't you dare say that.
There's no such thing as a king.
Carol Don't you say that!
He's just a boy pretending to be a wolf pretending to be a king.
Carol That's not true.
He's just like us.
Oh. Why don't I listen to myself?
Carol No! No! That's not true!
Look, I just went along with it because I knew you wanted it so much.
Carol DON'T SAY THAT!
Carol!
Don't Carol, stop it!
Ow!
Oh no!
Stop it! What are you doing!?
Carol!
Carol What?!
That was my favourite arm!
Carol Well, I was just holding onto it, you pulled away.
What?
Carol, stop it!
Carol You lied?
YOU'RE OUT OF CONTROL!
Carol I not out of control! You were supposed to take care of us. You promised. I'LL EAT YOU UP!!!!!
Go! Go!
Carol So, what ever happened with you and the Vikings?
Well, in the end I had to leave.
Carol Why?
I'm not a Viking or a king, or... or anything.
Carol So, what are you?
I'm Max.
Carol [sighs]
Well, that's not very much, is it?
