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| “ | I hope Mrs. Kerr whipped your butt. | ” |
–Nancy to Percy after he returns from being scolded for ‘pushing’ her into the fountain in The Lighting Thief. | ||
Nancy Bobofit is a kleptomaniac mortal girl who attended Yancy Academy.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]
The Lightning Thief[]
When her class was on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she mercilessly picks on Percy Jackson and Grover Underwood. During lunch, she goes over to Grover and Percy and dumps her half eaten lunch on Grover and Percy confronts her for it. Not long after, she is pulled into a fountain and claims Percy pushed her, while some students claim they saw her water reach out and grab her. That was when Alecto's (who was posing as Mrs. Dodds) suspicions were confirmed that Percy was a half-blood or (more specifically) the demigod son of the sea god, Poseidon.
She is later mentioned by Percy remembering all the persons that ridiculed him in all his life, also including Clarisse La Rue and other classmates of the schools that Jackson attended.
Appearance[]
Nancy is a girl with curly red hair, orange freckles, which Percy describes "looks like they were sprayed on with liquid Cheetos" and crooked teeth. Percy said that Clarisse La Rue reminded him of Nancy, but Clarisse was stronger looking and much bigger.
Personality[]
She is described as being a kleptomaniac (someone who has an addiction to stealing). Percy hated her because she was always teasing Grover Underwood such as throwing pieces of food at him (like her peanut butter and ketchup sandwich). Percy couldn't resist trying to "fix her up," but was blamed in the graphic novel that he pushed her in a fountain of water. She was Mrs. Dodds' teacher's pet, allowing her to get away with anything, including her bullying and pick pocketing.
Trivia[]
- The part of her name "Bobo" is probably based on the same word in Portuguese which means "stupid" or "Silly" to fit her personality.
- In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, she is Asian and doesn't bully Percy. The closest she comes to bullying is calling Grover a perv for taking pictures of Aphrodite's bust (this is a deleted scene, however). She is played by Valerie Tian (credited as Cute Girl).
- However, in the original screenplay, a male character named Drew Bobofit appears, but the part was cut. Though another bully named Drew Tanaka appears in the follow-up book series The Heroes of Olympus.
- Percy was originally supposed to stumble upon Nancy Bobofit in The Last Olympian but the part was cut because the book was getting too long. The scene would have involved Annabeth, Grover, and Percy finding her and the rest of his class from Yancy asleep in the middle of the New York park. They would move them to a safe spot.[1]