Written by Old Bluffer 23rd Jul 2006
In a film with a more than ample share of quirky characters, the wonderful Missi Pyle turns in another memorable performance as Nadia Vole, the severely attractive German henchwoman of Darrius Sayle (q.v.).
She already has a nasty injury from a previous encounter with Jack Starbright (Alicia Silverstone), where her hand received numerous punctures from a Japanese puffer fish and has now swelled up to a nasty degree.
She is therefore perhaps feeling even more sadistic as she throws Alex into a tank containing a gigantic Portugese Man o'War. Not content with simply watching him thrash about in panic, desperately trying to avoid the deadly stinging tentacles, she takes photos of his terrified face to record the moment for posterity.
Photo-journalism can be dangerous sometimes though, and she fails to realise the significance when Alex dives down and squeezes a tube of special agent "zit cream" along the join of the aquarium. The cream melts the metal join and Nadia is swept away by thousands of gallons of seawater and jagged glass, closely followed by the monster jellyfish, which ends up on top of her.
Alex has secured himself on the cage at the top of the tank, and barely gives her corpse a second glance as he makes good his escape.
There is also an argument to be made for "electricity" to be added to this death, as the special effect used to show the small fish being stung earlier in the film is a little over the top, but this isn't shown for Nadia.
I haven't read the books, so there is an outside chance she isn't in fact dead, but in this film the assumption has to be that she died from a massive dose of poison.
By the way, I'm aware a Portugese Man o'War isn't technically a jellyfish, but in the words of Dr. Hibbert, "...hillbillies prefer to be called "sons of the soil," but it ain't gonna happen!"
Drowned, perhaps? Sometimes havinga wall of water come at you is pretty fatal by itself.
>Drowned, perhaps? Sometimes havinga wall of water
>come at you is pretty fatal by itself.
Nah, I've been swept a lot further back than she was without any damage. She in no way had enough time to drown before the water spread out. The fish tank wasn't much bigger than the one that gets shot out in Lethal Weapon, and is definitely smaller than the crocodile tank in Eraser.
no!! she died by having a huge man'o war on top of her,ive read the book,the jellyfish stings her to death
Technically, she is being stung when it falls on top of her, causing her camera (which she was using to photograph Alex's execution) to go off madly.