- “Nerdtron!!”
- ―Cindy Vortex
Cynthia Aurora Vortex is a major character in the Jimmy Neutron franchise. She is Jimmy's female counterpart, arch-rival, and girlfriend. She is cute and beautiful girlfriend, but she is also considered one of the main characters and she helps her friends out on their adventures many times. She is a mixture of a semi-protagonist and antagonist.
Biography[]
Cindy Vortex is a blonde-haired girl with green eyes, wears a fading-green shirt with stripes and wears her hair in a ponytail with her trademark bangs. In her debut, she wore a salmon-pink shirt with black pants and salmon-pink shoes and wore her hair in pigtails. She is a practitioner of tai chi along with her father. Libby is her closest friend and compatriot. She has a dog named Humphrey, who is seen in many episodes, usually accompanying her. She is Jimmy Neutron's female counterpart and arch-rival yet love interest but in the 2006 episode, "Lady Sings the News", Jimmy and Cindy officially start dating, which was predicted in earlier episodes like "Win Lose and Kaboom!". In "The Tomorrow Boys", Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl traveled to the future, where future Jimmy revealed he and Cindy were married. It is unclear whether this is the true future since the gang changed the past by the end of the episode. In The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour trilogy, Cindy has a relationship with Timmy Turner. Cindy's mother, who was born in France and loves French food, has high standards for Cindy and expects her to follow in her footsteps. Her father is an accountant who makes an appearance in the episode "Make Room for Daddy-O."
Personality[]
Cindy is very smart, kind, loving, caring and good-hearted, but she’s also spoiled, bossy, sarcastic, prideful, independent, competitive, and strong-willed. Increasingly, she’s forced to an authentic admission that Jimmy can indeed do some cool things and take them on very fun adventures. Throughout the course of the franchise, they began to become closer and closer as friends, eventually not fighting as much. It‘s also shown that Cindy secretly looks up to Jimmy, and wants to be as smart as him. Sometimes, Cindy's desire to be number one can cause her to believe false flattery from the villains, so they can trick her into helping them with their evil schemes, only for her to realize the error of her ways too late.
Cindy is very spoiled and has a large ego. She likes being the center of attention and will do anything for fame and money, even if it means constantly annoying people by reminding them how talented and beautiful she is. This only ever works to draw attention away from her talent and beauty, and instead towards her vanity. Sometimes, when things don't go Cindy’s way, she tries to make excuses to justify her actions in order to maintain the image she wants people to have of her.
Libby and Britney are Cindy's best friends, and two of the only characters that she has shown very little anger or aggression towards in the franchise. Their friendship is very strong and they are clearly very close, though it is made apparent that Libby is a closer friend to Cindy than Britney is. Libby and Britney are also two of the only characters that Cindy has been seen frequently confiding in.
Even though Cindy teases Jimmy, she does care about him a lot and doesn't like it when Jimmy is sad, always attempting to comfort him when he is at his lowest. Some perfect examples would be in the movie when she goes to comfort Jimmy after he began crying, and in Billion Dollar Boy when she finds out that Eustace was just using her to hurt Jimmy to then have Jimmy watch Goddard die. Generally, Cindy's physical, mental, and emotional abuse towards Jimmy is illustrated in a very teasing and secretly romantic way.
While Cindy constantly makes fun of Jimmy's rumored nerdiness, she is a genius like him and loves science just as much as he does. Her IQ just isn't as big as his. Also, while her condescending attitude would suggest otherwise, she isn't any more popular with other kids than Jimmy is, and she has no close friends aside from Libby and Britney.
Cindy frequently talks about her gender in a surprised way. She will act like it's a big surprise when boys ask her for help and explains that he actually values her opinion, as shown in Jimmy Timmy Power Hour: Part 1 when Timmy asks Cindy if she will help him with his science fair project. A similar example can be found in Jimmy on Ice when Cindy forces Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen to admit that girls are superior in all aspects of life if they want to swim in her pool. She appears to believe that girls are not "important" the way boys are.
In Stranded, it’s revealed that she actually can be more open about herself when she's away from pressure, friends and competition, and that she also may hold some bitterness toward her mother from pushing her so hard all the time and from her father not being around all the time.
In the (non-canon) Jimmy Timmy Power Hour trilogy, she‘s shown to have an unrealistic side, as she easily believed everything Timmy said, even though he was clearly lying and let Jimmy and Timmy fight over her, even though it was causing a lot of trouble. Later, Cindy began to realize that Timmy is not a genius, but she still liked him because she knew he really did care about her. However, it is implied she was just trying to make Jimmy jealous.
Relationships[]
In the first season, she crushes on Nick Dean. In the third season, nicknamed "The Relationship Season", their relationship begins to show through much more, and they start dating. In the series finale of "Jimmy Neutron", she and Jimmy kiss, and they become a couple.
Behind the scenes[]
- Her voice actor, Carolyn Lawrence, is also the voice of Sandy Cheeks.
- Her Planet Sheen counterpart (who is also Brittany's) is Princess Oom.
- Cindy's mother is French while her father is American.
- Cindy is the only main character from the franchise not to have a Planet Sheen counterpart.
- Cindy has had the most outfit changes out of all the characters.
- Sometimes, Cindy's middle initial is stated to be "J".
- Her blood type is A+, as mentioned in Nightmare in Retroville.
- According to a 2005 Nickelodeon equinox card, Cindy was born on June 5th in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Since Cindy doesn't have any resemblance or physical features her parents have, there is a fan theory that she is adopted. Jimmy actually lampshaded the likelihood of this possibility in the show, observing that she doesn't have the same hair nor eye color as her parents. However, Cindy and her mother have green eyes or that could be a coincidence or her blonde hair, but maybe dyed.
- Cindy's birthday being June 5th means she's a Gemini.
- In the franchise, Cindy has green eyes, but in the Fairly OddParents universe, she has blue eyes, possibly an oversight.
- During the beach party sequence in Beach Party Mummy, the dance she does is The Swim.
- In The League of Villains, when Cindy is looking at the picture of Betty, she's smiling and giggling at it. So this scene hints that she may be secretly fond of Betty.
- She has a dog named Humphrey.
- In the film, she wears a pink shirt and navy jeans (with pigtails), and in the series, she wears a green top and khakis.
- Aside from Judy, Cindy is the one only two girls to call Jimmy "James". The other is Betty, where she said "Oh James..." in Jimmy's daydream sequence in Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion.
- She is an excellent jet-ski rider.
- The episode Stranded reveals that she takes piano lessons.
External Links[]
- Nickipedia
- Jimmy Neutron Wiki
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jimmy_Neutron_characters#Cindy_Vortex
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