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The Energy Monster, or Maria as she prefers to be called, is a recurring villain from the series. She is a large, bipedal monster made entirely of static electricity, and expands each time she sucks energy from or touches something electronic (e.g. electric wires, a radio, or a computer). The Energy Monster was created by accident when a ball of static energy in an electric plant went haywire, forcing the employees to bombard it with radiation, thus creating the electric creature. She is equivalent to Zzzax from Incredible Hulk (and Kremzek from Transformers). In her first appearance she was whitish but the rest of the time she was yellow.

When the Energy Monster is low on energy, her size shrinks to a minuscule electric creature that is easier to contain than its larger, powered-up form. However, the only way of reducing her size is to "short-circuit" her by drenching her in water (or glass dust, as shown in "Oh, Holiday Cheese"), or if continuous electrical attacks drain most of her energy. It has also been shown that the Energy Monster is not only drawn to large sources of power (such as electronics stores or generators), but is also attracted to shiny things (such as Violet's shimmering hat or the disco ball in "Becky and the Bard").

In the two-part episode "Dinner or Consequences", Doctor Two-Brains made a helmet to harness the Energy Monster's power for his cheese ray. But when the Energy Monster put on the helmet, she started talking. It is at this point that the Energy Monster revealed that she is a girl and that her preferred name is Maria. In fact, she started talking about everything, savoring every bit of her ability.

When the helmet was confiscated later by WordGirl, the Energy Monster was disappointed, and yearned to find her voice helmet again. She followed the doctor as he traced the helmet to the Botsford home, and acquired it again to recover her abilities. Before she and WordGirl could battle again, however, Two-Brains became fed up with her over-talkativeness and sprayed Maria with water from a nearby hose, shrinking her and damaging the helmet so she couldn't talk again.

While able to talk, she told WordGirl she was stronger than all the other villains she faced. Maria is the only villain who has lost the ability to communicate words as a result of WordGirl's actions. She has not been given back the ability to talk since then, which might qualify as a cruel and unusual punishment. Although it was Two-Brains who did this, no attempts have been made to restore her ability to speak, and Becky did not seem concerned about helping her, casually depriving her of the helmet initially, and rushing home to try and get out of her mega-grounding instead of staying at the prison with the monster.

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The Energy Monster is a giant electrical yellow monster with lightning-like eyebrows, yellow eyes, and a crooked line mouth.

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Season 1 Tobey or Consequences High-Fat Robbery You Can't Crush City Hall Two-Brain Highway Coupon Madness When Life Gives You Potatoes... Jerky Jerk Becky's Birthday Chuck! Down With Word Up Book Ends Mr. Big Super-Grounded Mouse Army Tobey's Masterpiece Chuck the Nice Pencil Selling Guy The Birthday Girl Granny-Sitter Shrinkin' in the Ray Department Store Tobey Mr. Big's Big Plan Vocab Bee Chuck E. Sneeze Swap Meat Granny's Goodtime All-Cure Spritzer Mecha-Mouse Princess Triana and the Ogre of Castlebum Heat Wave, Crime Wave Meat with a Side of Cute Mr. Big Words Thorn in the Sidekick Crime Takes a Holiday Two Brains Forgets Banned on the Run Have You Seen the Remote? Sidekicked to the Curb Lady Redundant Woman A Game of Cat and Mouse The Masked Meat Marauder Sandwich World Violet Superhero Big Business The Handsome Panther The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker Mousezilla Villain School The Return of the Reprise of Lady Redundant Woman A Simple Plan Granny Mayor Tobey Goes Good Bongo Rock Dr. Three-Brains
Season 2 A Vote For Becky Class Act The Two Brains Boogie Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey Slumber Party Pooper Line Lessons with Lady Redundant Woman Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars Great Granny May Theme Park WHAMpage Chuck Makes a Buck Highway to Havarti Tiny Big I Think I'm a Clone Now Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff Bonkers for Bingo The Ballad of Steve McClean Pretty Princess Premiere Where's Huggy? Robo-Camping The Stew, The Proud Who Wants Candy? Chuck's Brother Becky and the Bard Monkey-Robot Showdown The Wrong Side of the Law Two Brains' Quartet Big's Big Bounce The Young and the Meatless Mr. Big's Mini-Golf Nocan the Contrarian Meat My Dad Tobey's Tricks and Treats Escape Wham Who is Ms. Question? Lunch Lady Chuck Oh, Holiday Cheese Ch-ch-ch-Change Day WordGirl Makes a Mistake Earth Day Girl A Hero, A Thief, A Store, and Its Owner Opposite Day Granny's Book Club Wham Up Seeds of Doubt Wishful Thinking Lady Redundant Woman Gets the Blues Win a Shiny New Car The People vs. Ms. Question Oh, What a Tangled Rope You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy Kids Action News
Season 3 Bummertime The Home Run King Granny and Clyde Too Loud Crew The Invisi-Bill Hand Birthday Town The Pretty Princess and Mr. Big Power Hour Clean Up in Aisle Eleven When Chuck's Mom Is Away... That's Entertainment Victoria Best Showdown at the Secret Spaceship Hideout Captain Tangent Chuck and Brent Ride Again Bend It Like Becky Questionable Behavior The Straw That Broke Two Brains' Back Nocan the Evil Ingredient Finding Guy Cherish is the Word Granny's Intuition Bampy Battles Bots Truth, Revision, and the Lexicon Way Meat-Life Crisis Mobot Knows Best A Better Mousetrap
Season 4 Sonny Days with a Chance of Showers Seymour... Right After This The Fill-In Word (Hicc)Up! Mouse Brain Take-Over Leslie Makes It Big Chuck with a Sidekick of Brent Yarn-4-Gold Whammer Anniversary Rat Trap WordGirl and Bobbleboy Crime in the Key of V Where Have All the Villains Gone? Captain Tangent Returns A World Without WordGirl Have Snob, Will Travel Tobey's Playground Calamity The Learnerer Mr. Big's Dinner and a Scam The Birthday Girl's Monstrous Gift Hal the Haggler Wordbot Mount Rushhere Road Rage, Anger, and Fury By Jove, You've Wrecked My Robot
Season 5 Seize the Cheese Ms. Question's Riddle Rampage The Meaty Dimension The Case of the Copied Mrs. Botsford The Good, The Bad, And The Chucky Granny's Pet Plan Hard-Learned Money Gift Pony Scary with a Side of Butter Talent Show Tobey Don't Mess with the Best Peanut Butter Battles Hello New Year, Goodbye Moon Art in the Park Plain Old Mischief Makers House Arrest Monkey Business Say it Again, Eileen Best Fan Club Meeting Ever Day at the Museum Who's Your Granny? Win a Day with WordGirl Dinner or Consequences Father's Day Dance-a-thon Big is Botsford's Boss
Season 6 Who Wants to Get Rid of WordGirl? The Talented Mr. Birg One Last Sandwich Caper or Plastic? Tell Her What She's Won! Victoria is the Best... WordGirl? High-Five Sandwich The Robot Problem Of Two Minds Yes Monkey The Rise of Miss Power Invasion of the Bunny Lovers Big and Brent Silence of the Whams Dr. Two Brains, Mr. Cheese Kitty Cat Criminals A Questionable Pair All That Chazz Fortune Crookie Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Crime Go Gadget Go Emergency Plan 999
Season 7 Kid Math A Few Words From WordGirl Ears To You El Queso Mysterioso Putt With Honor It's Your Party and I'll Cry if I Want To Becky's Bad-itude First One to Win Wins A Little Bigger WordGirl Guess Who's Coming To Thanksgiving Dinner Judging Butcher A Curious Case of Curiosity There's No V in Team Sparkling Clean The Smile Collector My Dad, My Teacher, My Dad, My Teacher The Power of Whamship Royally Framed WordGirl vs. Tobey vs. The Dentist Accordion Tradition Can't Touch This Backyard Camping Castle! Dungeon! Fortress! So? News Girl Diorama Drama: The Scene of the Crime
Season 8 Patch Game Girls Day Out Throws Chuck A Sticky Situation Eight Legs Vs. Two-Brains World's Best Dad The Good Old, Bad Old Days What Would WordGirl Do Granny's Corner Pineapple of My Eye Big Baby Staycation Dr. No-Voice Trustworthy Tobey The Tooth Hurts Time-Out with Two-Brains Dr. WordGirl-Brains Becky Knows Best As Something as Something The Ordinary, Extraordinary Botsfords The Penny, the Pony, and the Pirate Tim Botsford: Neighborhood Assistant Set Sail for the Bake Sale The Best of the Bests Art's Parts Rhyme and Reason

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Trivia[]

  • She was refered as a male by mistake on the website.
  • The Energy Monster is intelligent enough for speech, but cannot do so without Dr. Two-Brains' helmet.
  • She had a role in both episodes focusing on Becky's birthday: "Becky's Birthday" was her debut and gave her the role of antagonist, while her brief appearance in "A World Without WordGirl" directly resulted in the enchanted cake that created the alternate world.
  • She is very similar to Zzzax from Incredible Hulk.
  • She shares her name with her voice actress.


Villains
Ability Villains

The Birthday GirlThe ButcherMiss Power (Colonel Giggle Cheeks)Count CloudyEnergy MonsterLady Redundant Woman (DupeyEvil Malicious WordGirlRoyal Dandy)Victoria Best (General Smoochington)

Gadget Villains

Amazing Rope GuyCaptain Tangent (dogs)Chuck (Brent)Doctor Two-Brains (henchmenSqueaky)Glen Furlblam (cats)Granny May (Eugene)Tobey McCallister IIISeymour Orlando Smooth (ChipHarry)Mr. Big (Leslie)

Tobey's Robots

ArtsyCheckmate 3000

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