Thread:DrewPal/@comment-1682045-20190506075053/@comment-38785722-20190521024912

I look it up on tv tropes about her acted.

Alas, Poor Villain: She spends all of "Operation Ruthless" harassing Arnold and sabotaging his attempts to get close to Ruth, and though her plans succeed Arnold still remains undaunted and determined to win Ruth over someday. This only makes Helga angrier, but when she sees Phoebe and Gerald walking away holding hands and she starts to cry softly, as if realizing that her meanness is only isolating her. The episode then ends with the lights shutting off around a very lonely looking Helga and it's pretty hard not to feel for the girl.

Anti-Villain: Depending on the episode. In earlier episodes she tended to be an antagonist with sympathetic motives and goals, while later episodes mostly had her be an Anti-Hero.

Evil Laugh: Has a very impressive one. Not as psychotic as Curly's (but then, who could be?), but she gets points for once doing it in a theatre, with ominous music and everything.

Evil Plan: She explicitly refers to her schemes to get what she wants as such, and she has a ton of them. They nearly always fail in ways that harm her and help those she schemes against.

Helga: "Why are none of my evil schemes working?!"

Ironically, in "Summer Love", her schemes to sabotage Arnold and Summer's dates do work, but Arnold catches her gloating about it and won't listen to her when she tries to tell him Summer is just using him.