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{{Quote|Mine, Mine, MINE!!!|Eileen, "[[The Birthday Girl (episode)|The Birthday Girl]]"}}
{{character
|name=Eileen
|aka=Birthday Girl
|image=[[File:Eileen(Birthday girl) promo.png|thumb|200px]]
|gender=Female
|age=11<ref>[[Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers]]</ref>
|job=Villain
|home=Fair City
|race=Human
|friends=[[Violet Heaslip]] (best friend, multiple episodes)<br>[[Exposition Guy]] (best friend, one episode)<br>Wordgirl/Becky Botsford (best friend, one episode)<br>
[[Energy Monster]] (best friend, multiple episodes)
|family=Unnamed mother
Unnamed father
|abilities=Greed-induced transformation<br>Super-strength<br>Size alteration<br>Enhanced leap
|va=[[Pamela Adlon]]}}
'''Eileen''', also known as the '''Birthday Girl''', is a recurring secondary villain in the show.

==Physical Appearance==
=== Normal===
Eileen is a 10-year-old girl with long curly red hair and wears a pink dress with pastel blue sleeves on the top portion of her dress. She also wears a pastel blue hair-bow, a purple and gold cat necklace around her neck, light pink frilly socks and white Mary Jane shoes.

=== Birthday Girl Form ===
When transforming into Birthday Girl, Eileen's skin becomes green. However, either because of the way the screen interprets it or because of a coloring error, her skin appears to be different shades of green skin at different times. In her promo images it is a light green, while at other times it may be dark, chartreuse or pear green.

==Personality==
Eileen can easily be described as greedy, aggressive, self-centered, immature, and sometimes cruel. Usually, she appears to be an innocent little girl to others. She does whatever it takes to get anything she may want by using an unreal polite manner, big eyes, and a lisping voice, along with the statement "Today is my birthday!". Whenever she is denied something she wants, she yells, "Mine, MINE, ''MINE!"'', growing in height and turning green with each yell until the owner of the coveted item hands it over in fear.

Eileen thinks that every day is her birthday (hence why she is nicknamed "The Birthday Girl") and such uses the excuse as a reason to get special treatment from anyone and everyone, usually to great effect. Because she thinks every day is her birthday, she thinks every party is her birthday party, every cake is her birthday cake, etc. She greatly annoys [[Becky Botsford|Becky]] because of her lisp, using the "w" sound in words instead of "l" or "r". e.g. "I wearned my wesson," "Today's my biwthday!", "What do bestest-westest fwiends do?".

In addition to using it to get what she wants, she also uses her cute charm to get herself out of trouble, as shown in "[[The Wrong Side of The Law]]." Not only does she think every day is her birthday, but Eileen believes that her philosophy is "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine too."

Despite this, though, there have been times where she shows a caring side to others when not getting convinced to be generous. In "[[Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers]]", when she finds how disappointed Captain Huggy Face was towards WordGirl after thinking she was going to have Sonny be her new three-legged race partner, she willingly offers to be his new partner for the race. In "[[Say It Again, Eileen]]", she generously saves the last crumpet for Becky without being convinced by someone to do so.

== Relationships==
===Becky===
In most of their appearances together, Eileen is generally antagonistic towards Becky, largely because Becky refuses to be pushed around by Eileen and often scolds her whenever she does something wrong. The relationship between them whenever Becky is WordGirl is even more hostile, particularly on the grounds that WordGirl has superpowers and can actually beat her in battle. There was even an instance where WordGirl nearly got imprisoned due to Eileen framing her to be the culprit of the Pretty Princess figurine theft.

Incredibly, the one episode where Eileen genuinely wanted to reach out to Becky and become her friend was in [[Say it Again, Eileen]]. Aspects of her brattiness remained, and she still threatened to turn into the Birthday Girl whenever Becky wanted Eileen to quit copying her, but she showed interest in actually bonding with Becky and being a good friend for her. She even expresses actual remorse to Becky over ruining her crumpets while handing her the last one, to which Becky responds by showing how touched she was over the gesture and forgave Eileen.

===Violet===
Eileen tends to claim Violet as her friend in the first few episodes she appears in. Violet gets too nervous to back down and lets Becky handle most of the situation. Later on, she becomes very aloof of Eileen's actions, relying on Becky to handle most of it.

===Exposition Guy===
Exposition Guy seems to do more in the friendship than Eileen does, to the point where he doesn't get phased by her transformation. He really likes the fact that she is his "bestest friend in the whole world" and makes sure to keep that friendship intact,

===Energy Monster/Maria===
Eileen seems to have the closest connection to this character. The first time Eileen was with the Energy Monster, they teamed up to beat Miss Power. The true bond began in "[[The Birthday Girl's Monstrous Gift]]", where she adopted the Energy Monster, fed her, played catch with her and styled her "hair" into pigtails. But when the need to consume electricity gets the better of The Energy Monster, she leaves Eileen behind. She was also seen chasing the Energy Monster in "[[Gift Pony]]".

==Appearances==
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==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Her powers are based on those of both Marvel superhero [[Wikipedia:Hulk (Comics)|The Incredible Hulk]] and DC supervillain [[wikipedia:Giganta|Giganta]]; however, unlike the Hulk or Giganta, her powers are based on greed rather than anger.
**She’s also similar to Laura Limpkin from [[Wikipedia:Codename: Kids Next Door|Codename: Kids Next Door]]. Unlike Laura, when turning into a monster, Eileen changes her skin color and her voice echoes.
**Interestingly, as Eileen transforms into Birthday Girl, her clothes seem to show no signs of tearing apart the bigger she gets (most likely due to ''WordGirl'' being a kids' show). On top of that, like Giganta, but unlike the Hulk, Eileen shows no signs of becoming overly muscular when she transforms. 
*The only way to reverse Eileen's transformation is to trick her into doing something generous instead of greed, although sometimes her greed alone can backfire on her (as seen in "[[Who Wants Candy?]]").
**In all of her appearances, the only episodes where she is defeated without her being generous are "[[Slumber Party Pooper]]" and "Who Wants Candy?" In "[[Putt With Honor]]" she was shrunk by given an award even though she was disqualified.
*It’s unknown what Eileen's last name is, if she even has one at all.
*In her debut episode and "[[Slumber Party Pooper]]", it is revealed that Eileen loves gold stars.
*[[Violet Heaslip|Violet]] was the first person ever to refer to Eileen as "Birthday Girl".
*While Eileen is usually defeated by shrinking, due to an act of kindness or generosity, in both "Slumber Party Pooper" and "Who Wants Candy?", she remains her giant size at the end of the episode.
*As seen in "[[The Rise of Miss Power]]," there is a possibility that Eileen can transform into Birthday Girl without having to do anything greedy.
*Eileen, [[Tobey McCallister III|Tobey McCallister lll]] and [[Victoria Best]] are the only villains to have never been arrested. This is justified, as they're children.
*Eileen's real birthday is the same as Violet's, as revealed in the episode "Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers". So, if she were 10 at the time, she would have been 11 by that episode.
*Although not officially confirmed, the cat necklace that Eileen wears is possibly the thing that gives her the power to grow. 
**In [[The Birthday Girl (episode)|her debut episode]], Eileen shrinks back to normal size after giving her kitty necklace to Violet, making this theory make some sense, though it is possible Eileen shrinks due to doing an act of generosity and not because of the necklace itself.
** It is also revealed that Eileen received the necklace from her mother, somewhat hinting she was the "original" Birthday Girl before Eileen was born.
*In "[[The Wrong Side of the Law]]", several pictures on the walls of Eileen's house is a clown with red hair, hinting this ''could'' be evidence that her father is a clown.
*It’s unknown when her real birthday is.
*It’s unknown how she got her name. It’s implied that her name was influenced by the Dexy's Midnight Runners 1982 song "Come on Eileen".

==External Links==
https://arabidbaby.tumblr.com/post/658600977285464064/lowkey-kinda-catchy

==References==
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