Why did Cruella stick the Baroness?

Technically, Cruella didn't kill anyone at the end of the movie, but she framed the Baroness for her murder, sending the fashion diva to a future that is purely prison garbed black-and-white.
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Why did Cruella poke the Baroness?

To steal her mother's necklace, Estella (as Cruella) crashed Baroness' house party. At a chaotic moment, she noticed Baroness using a dog whistle to tame her Dalmatians. It was the same incident where the Dalmatians jumped on her mother and killed her. It was how Estella learned that Baroness killed her mother.
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What did Cruella do to the Baroness?

However, after learning that the Baroness murdered Estella's mother, Estella vows to exact revenge on her new employer. In her scheming, Estella creates an alter ego named Cruella to publicly embarrass the Baroness by night, while Estella internally sabotages the company by day.
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How did Cruella get the Baroness money?

Cruella has Estella's birth certificate, proving she was the Baroness' daughter, and with some new paperwork willing all of Estella's worldly possessions to Cruella, now Cruella becomes the beneficiary of everything that Baroness once owned.
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What is the relationship between Cruella and the Baroness?

The Baroness is a much more fleshed out character than Cruella De Vil's mother in the 101 Dalmatians TV series. The Baroness is implied to have killed multiple people in a similar fashion to how she did to Catherine throughout her life, given her response to Cruella's declaration that she killed her mother.
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Is the Baroness Cruella's mom?

Remember the Baroness is still alive when she's being dragged to prison. And the evil woman howls that she'll get revenge on Cruella one day. There could easily be another movie where the Baroness—Cruella's biological mother who passed down all the same vanities—is the actual villain in the 101 Dalmatians plot.
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Why did Cruella become evil?

She is an eccentric, fashion-obsessed heiress who wishes to use the skins of 99 Dalmatian puppies to create a spotted fur coat. Regarded as a "witch" and "devil woman", Cruella's infatuation with furs drives her to murderous insanity.
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Is the Baroness Cruella's grandmother?

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Baroness Von Hellman is the main antagonist of the 2021 film, Cruella, portrayed by Emma Thompson. She is the biological mother of Cruella De Vil and an esteemed fashion designer operating in London.
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Is Genghis pregnant Cruella?

Cruella, in short order, has established that Genghis is pregnant, and that Cruella has given away two of her puppies to people she considers friends. Roger, a former lawyer for Baroness von Hellman, and Anita, a reporter with whom Cruella was friends with in childhood, are both recipients of those puppies.
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Who killed Cruella's mom?

In the TV series Once Upon a Time, Cruella's mother appears in one episode ("Sympathy for the De Vil"). Her name is Madeline and she tries to stop Cruella from killing people (her step-fathers), but then she got killed by her own Dalmatians when Cruella obtained the power to control animals.
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Who did Cruella kidnap and why?

True to its source material The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, Cruella features a smaller-scale abduction in which Cruella's (Emma Stone) henchmen Jasper and Horace (Joey Fry and Paul Walter Hauser) steal the Baroness von Hellman's (Emma Thompson) three Dalmatians, but the dognapping is merely an accessory ...
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What did Estella want from the Baroness?

Estella plots her revenge on the Baroness for killing Catherine, even though Jasper warns her that her pain will not go away if she kills her nemesis. She sends gorgeous dresses to guests attending the Baroness's upcoming charity gala, allegedly from the Baroness herself.
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Why does Cruella De Vil hate dogs?

It is there the movie arbitrarily suggests Cruella de Vil's eventual obsession with Dalmatians is because that breed of dog was used as a literal murder weapon in the death of her mother.
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How did Cruella's mom get the necklace?

After this Catherine decided to drive the small family to London in order to start a new life. Catherine then gave Estella a valuable necklace that once belonged to the Baroness. After arriving at Hellman Hall, Catherine parked the car outside one the the large gala's of her former boss, the Baroness.
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What is the twist in Cruella?

In Cruella, it turns out that the woman who Estella thinks is her mother isn't at all. (A lie which also casts the goodness of this 'adoptive' mother into question – even dead mothers aren't allowed to slip from their pedestals without a price.)
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Why did Cruella give Roger and Anita puppies?

It does set up a clear motive behind her desire to kill Dalmatians in particular (they murdered her supposed mother), but then never suggests she would ever harm the animals. Instead, she adopts them as her own and cares for them, giving two puppies as gifts.
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Has Genghis put on a bit of weight?

No, Genghis hasn't put on weight, she's pregnant. In the post-credits scene we learn that Cruella has gifted two of Genghis's pups — one to Anita, and one to Roger. Each person gets a card, introducing them to Perdita and Pongo respectively.
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Why is it called 101 Dalmatians if there are only 15?

Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their puppies from Cruella, in the process of rescuing 84 additional ones that were bought in pet shops, bringing the total of Dalmatians to 101.
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Who is Cruella's dad?

In a new report from TheDisInsider, Mark Strong is rumored to play Cruella's father, The Baron. Additionally, the report claims the character is “said to have a kind heart and is a good person.” Previously, Emma Thompson joined the cast as The Baroness, Cruella's mother.
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Does Estella have a split personality?

The closest we come to is several mentions of her having two split selves (i.e., the nice, people-pleasing Estella and the dominant, vindictive Cruella), going all the way back to early childhood when her mother asked her to suppress all aspects of Cruella.
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Does Cruella have dissociative identity disorder?

From the outset, the film establishes Estella and Cruella as two different characters, and the script by Tony McNamara and Dana Fox treats them as such. Unfortunately, this means that Cruella has a dissociative personality disorder, which the film utilizes as a MacGuffin.
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Is Cruella actually evil?

Cruella would appear to be irredeemably evil in 101 Dalmatians, and yet Emma Stone's version of the character, while she's capable of extreme acts, really isn't bad. Unless you cross her, in which case she'll bring down a world of hurt.
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Is Cruella a true story?

Marc Davis, the animator behind iconic Disney characters like Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent, spoke about basing Cruella on a woman he met in real life as well as the actor Tallulah Bankhead.
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What happened to Estella's mother in Cruella?

In Cruella's climax, she gets the devastating news that changes everything. The Baroness and her dogs were the reason that Estella's mother was dead. That discovery caused Estella to permanently transform into Cruella. A good villain origin story adds depth and layers to the existing character.
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