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Name |
Poppy Moore |
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Nationality |
American |
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Hair Color |
Blonde Brown (Dyed) |
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Eye Color |
Brown |
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Enemies |
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Relationships |
Roddy (ex-boyfriend) Freddie Kingsley (boyfriend) |
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Family |
Mr. Moore (father) Sarah Hood (mother; deceased) Molly Moore (younger sister) |
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"But in my heart, I've discovered that I am an Abbey Mount girl."
-Poppy in the Honor Court
Poppy Moore is an American rich girl and Abbey Mount student as well as the main character in Wild Child. Although snobby and rude, she learns the values of friendship after her father sends her to Abbey Mount school for girls. She is portrayed by Emma Roberts.
History[]
Poppy Moore is the daughter of Mr. Gerry Moore and has a younger sister, Molly. In a wild prank with her friends, she ruins all her father's girlfriend's belongings. When her father angrily arrives, he tells her that he is sending her to boarding school in England. Arriving at the school, called Abbey Mount, Poppy meets the headmistress, Mrs. Kingsley, head girl, Harriet Bentley, and her 'big sister', Kate. She is miserable in her new life as she does not fit in, and has no friends. After two weeks, Poppy sneaks out after light.
Disgusted, Poppy walks back. As she is, however, there is a fire drill, and she sneaks out the window to avoid being caught in the halls without permission. She ends up in the bathroom of an unknown man, who she assumes is a teacher, and tells him her name and is directed on how to get out. Poppy's unaware that the boy was Freddie. During a fight that ensued with Harriet, she learns that the person was actually Freddie, and Harriet becomes embarrassed and angry when Poppy exposes her crush on Freddie.
After getting dirty water on her by Harriet's "maid" (really an intimidated Year 7), Poppy and Kate become semi-friends. Revealing that the girls' dinosaur cell phones were decoys meant to be confiscated, Kate lets Poppy use hers to call Ruby. When Ruby sees Poppy's message, she is disgusted at Poppy's appearance and it is revealed that Poppy's boyfriend, Roddy, has been cheating on her with Ruby. After Poppy reveals that her mother died several years ago, her roommates decide to help her get expelled. Together, they carry out several pranks which gradually brings them closer together. When none of their plans work, they decide to seduce the headmistress's son, Freddie, who is strictly forbidden to fraternize with any of the girls. After dancing with Freddie at the school dance, Poppy trips and hits her head, which leads Freddie to take the concussed Poppy outside for air, where he attempts to kiss her but is caught by Harriet's followers, Charlotte and Jane. But before she leaves, he asks her out on a date. The next day, after being scolded by Ms. Kingsley for her behavior and drinking the previous night, Poppy discovers her talent for lacrosse and whips the school's team into shape, getting them into the finals (to the annoyance of Harriet, who was the former captain of the team). On the date, Poppy finds herself falling for Freddie.
In her room, Poppy finds her roommates reading an email supposedly sent by Poppy, stating that she thought all of her new friends were losers. She then finds that Freddie has been given a similar email and is thereafter ignored by her friends. With no one else to turn to, Poppy sneaks down to the cook's room and calls Ruby, who accidentally reveals how much she dislikes Poppy, and that she is seeing Poppy's boyfriend.
Feeling even more alone, Poppy starts playing with her lighter and accidentally setting a curtain on fire. Hearing footsteps, she quickly puts out the fire and runs off. A few minutes later, she looks out her window to see a fire and wakes the school.
When they find that Drippy is missing, Poppy runs into the burning school to rescue her in the freezer (indulging her ice cream craving). After the fire is put out, Freddie finds her lighter, and gives it back to her, refusing to listen to what happened and assume that Poppy was the one who lit the building on fire.
While Poppy waits for the Honour Court who will decide if she should be expelled, Freddie finds her crying and becomes convinced that the fire was an accident. During the hearing, Poppy tells her story, while her roommates find out that Poppy did not send the emails. Going to the court, they stand up for Poppy, and Harriet accidentally confesses to restarting the fire after Poppy had put it out.
The movie is left off at the lacrosse finals. Poppy's father comes to the game and is shocked by Poppy's dramatic change in appearance and how much she looks like her mother, who was also captain of the lacrosse team at Abbey Mount. Abbey Mount wins the lacrosse finals, and Harriet is expelled.
Some months later, Poppy and her friends (including Freddie) are in the process of relaxing in Malibu. Poppy ignores Ruby's phone calls, now fully aware Ruby was not the friend Poppy thought she was. The film ends as they prepare to jump off the cliff that helped Poppy towards finding herself and making proper friends.
Personality[]
At the beginning, Poppy Moore is selfish...
Appearance[]
At the beginning of the film, Poppy's hair used to be blonde for the most part due to dying it after the death of her mother to hide the fact that she's insecure. After Mr. Christopher styles her hair at the salon, her hair is back to brown hair which she resembles her mother. Throughout the movie, Poppy's outfits are girly, preppy and fashionable due to her popular girl status. Then she wears an Abbey Mount outfit after she made friends and at the end of the movie.
Trivia[]
- She is known to be a dynamic character (From the beginning, a character who used to be rude and heartless, but changes after multiple experiences that showed about what happened in the past and becomes a different person). Poppy is known to have similarities with Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Both of them had cold and bitter personalities (Poppy being a self-centered rich girl while Ebenezer is greedy with money and had hatred towards Christmas). Both of them changed their ways after learning their experiences. (Poppy becomes more confident and sweeter while Ebenezer becomes good and loves Christmas as well as being a second father figure to Tiny Tim).
- Poppy is known to have similarities with Madison Montgomery from American Horror Story: Coven, and Chanel Oberlin from Scream Queens from the FOX Network due to their mean girl attitudes. Coincidentally, all of the characters are all portrayed by Emma Roberts.
- Emma wore a blonde wig for the majority of the film.