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Maria is a one-off character, who appears only, yet prominently in the El Pollo Jumanji episode of the animated seires.

Personality[]

Maria is a very good natured girl, wearing a red beanie and matching heart shaped necklace. She essentially behaves like Peter initially did in the 1995 film, a very shy and soft, spoken child. She likes playing games normally, but she was terrified of Jumanji's realm and it's power to turn people like Peter into demoralised animal transformations, thinking it would also happen to her. Rock liked Maria but having noticed that Peter fancied Maria too, and stepped in to bully him into thinking that she was his girlfriend. Maria's shyness meant that she was originally seemingly too afraid of Rock to deny this or stand up for Peter, but after Jumanji erased her memory of her ordeal in the realm, something may have stuck to make her finally tell Rock to back off, admitting she wasn't even his girlfriend at all.

Role[]

Maria School

Maria at school.

In El Pollo Jumanji, in the middle of reading after school, Maria was approached by Peter but Rock instantly showed up to beat him up, hang him up by his pants and walked away with Maria against her will. While playing Jumanji, Peter was complimented by Alan for his cleverness, giving him an idea that if Maria saw how brave and clever he can be, she might like him.

El Pollo Jumanji

Maria with Alan, Judy and Warthog Peter.

At Brantford School the next day, Peter brought Jumanji with him to play with Maria, thinking that bringing her into Jumanji might encourage her to like him if she observed how cool he is when playing. However, his plan was momentarily thwarted when Judy and Rock arrived and were brought into the turn too. Maria was terrified of what was going on, fainting when scared of Peter being turned into a Warthog, thinking she would turn into an animal too.

Maria Van Pelt

Van Pelt threatens Maria.

Peter's plan started to work when Maria began observing Peter and Alan stop attacking Butterflies, a Giant Chicken, and Van Pelt, complimenting him on his cleverness. Maria also liked how good a person Peter really was, down to helping save Rock from the Manji Tribe, even after always being beaten up by him.

After Jumanji was won, Judy and Peter feared that Jumanji kept Maria and Rock, but their fears were resolved when she was back in Brantford School, having forgotten everything she saw in Jumanji. Something, however, may have lingered, as she now admitted Rock was not his girlfriend anyway, insulting his intelligence and accepted Peter's invite to hang out, leaving Rock dumbfounded in the hall with his pants still torn by a Pod.

Maria did not appear in the series again, suggesting that she may have moved out of Brantford.

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