NPCs · first: MEN E1
Madam Loathing
Madam Loathing is a stern matron who watches over the children at her Home for Wayward Interests MEN E1·01:32:02. She says "I do hate these children, and I hate taking care of them." MEN E1·01:39:13 and adds that she also hates everything else MEN E1·01:39:13. She grows taller when The Fix says "or else" MEN E1·01:37:14.
Madam Loathing is the Governess for Wayward Interests, a stern old woman who looks after the children and is not sure she likes her job MEN E5·01:31:38. In MEN_01 The Fix visits her Home and she grows taller at his "or else" MEN E1·01:37:14. In MEN_05 she greets the party with "Quite a few of you here, eh?" MEN E5·01:31:38, asks The Fix "Have you come back to deposit this wayward interest?" MEN E5·01:32:39, and takes the bass music MEN E5·01:31:38 MEN E5·01:32:39 MEN E5·01:34:03. In her room she is the towering shadow holding the white key, and Justin is changed by the key into Dark Justin MEN E5·01:45:30 MEN E5·01:44:08. She shouts "Where! Where is a keyhole! Where is a place to put the key!" MEN E5·01:47:16, is hit by Hunch with a copper pipe, and escapes through the window with "Catch me if you can!" MEN E5·01:48:42 MEN E5·01:47:16 MEN E5·01:46:55.
In MEN_06 she attacks Anastasia with the white key out of the mist and takes Ivana's key MEN E6·00:39:31 MEN E6·00:42:03. She duels The Fix, telling him "Do what you were meant to do, Fix, serve!" MEN E6·01:03:04, and tells the party their misery "comes from who we actually are." MEN E6·01:03:56 MEN E6·00:54:13 MEN E6·01:03:04. Justin leaps at her and is swatted away, and The Fix hits her long clawed hand so that the white key flies up MEN E6·01:03:36 MEN E6·01:03:47 MEN E6·01:05:34. Brennan refers to her as Self Loathing at the console MEN E6·01:22:26. When Conrad accepts her and asks for her help, the giant shadowy figure diminishes into "that old woman again" MEN E6·01:17:19, who asks "You think Elias Hodge needs me?" MEN E6·01:18:50 MEN E6·01:17:19. She takes the microphone and says over it "You invented a mind control ray." MEN E6·01:20:45 and later says "I might consider a change of name, I think." MEN E6·01:22:06 MEN E6·01:20:45. In the epilogue she tells The Fix and Pasha "Call me Guilta." MEN E6·01:52:25, gives The Fix her compass and a deed to the Home, and goes away for a long time MEN E6·01:51:33 MEN E6·01:52:25 MEN E6·01:52:33.
By episode
MEN E1: The Big Guy
- Madam Loathing — "stern matron" of a boarding school and refuge; frame card (Governess for Wayward Interests) — frame 01:32:02. "I do hate these children, and I hate taking care of them. But, if it makes you feel better, I also hate everything else." — 01:39:13. Grows taller when The Fix says "or else" — 01:37:14
MEN E5: Emergency Powers
- Madam Loathing (card No. 136, she/her, "Governess for Wayward Interests": "Stern old biddy", "Watches over the children", "Not sure if she likes her job") — "Fix, what do you wan... Oh. Quite a few of you here, eh?" — 01:31:38; "Damn dog!" — 01:32:06; "Have you come back to deposit this wayward interest?" — 01:32:39; takes the bass music — 01:34:03; in her room she is the towering shadow with the white key — 01:45:30; shouts "Where! Where is a keyhole! Where is a place to put the key!" — 01:47:16; escapes through the window: "Catch me if you can!" — 01:48:42
MEN E6: Case Closed
- Madam Loathing / Self Loathing (Loathing in MEN_05; here her old nicknames "Shame, guilt" are recalled) — attacks Anastasia with the white key out of the mist — 00:39:31; takes Ivana's key — 00:42:03; duels The Fix: "Oh, Fix, you didn't want this dance, I promise you. You know, you're something of a simple function, aren't you." — 00:54:13; "Do what you were meant to do, Fix, serve!" — 01:03:04; tells the party their misery "comes from who we actually are. This is our key out of being this person." — 01:03:56; Fix hits her long clawed hand and the white key flies up — 01:05:34; shrinks back to "that old woman again" when Conrad asks for her help: "You think… You think Elias Hodge needs me?" — 01:17:19, 01:18:50; takes the microphone: "Now listen to me, you little piece of shit. You invented a mind control ray." — 01:20:45; "I might consider a change of name, I think." — 01:22:06; later at her home: "Call me Guilta." and gives The Fix her compass and a deed — 01:52:25, 01:51:33, 01:52:33; at the table Brennan voices a joke "Holy shit, is my brother here?" — 00:08:01 (table talk)
- Madam Loathing, giant shadowy figure — "this giant shadowy figure… diminishes in size" and becomes "that old woman again" when Conrad invites her — 01:17:19