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7 is the deuteragonist in the 2009 animated feature film 9. She is the seventh creation of The Scientist and the sole female stitchpunk. She is a brave and self-sufficient warrior and adventuress, rebellious and shunning 1's cowardice and authoritarian attitude.

She is voiced by Jennifer Connelly.

Background[]

Personality[]

7 is a spit-fire. She is strong-willed, rebellious, independent, and defiant. However, she is calm and confident in battle. She is frustrated with the others for not being willing to go out and fend for themselves like she has, and she especially has abhorrence to 1 by his ego regarding leadership mannerisms. She is also specially protective of 3 & 4, having a maternal role over them. At the beginning of the film, she had more of a hardened nature— but at 9's arrival, she began to develop a more sensitive and emotional side.

Physical Appearance[]

7 appears to be made from a small weave of corduroy. The primeval color of her fabric skin when precedingly created became bleached from long amounts of exposure to the sun due to her long intervals of exploration. She wears a bird skull from a crow as a helmet, and the quadrate bones of the animal hang down from the sides of her helmet acting sort of as earrings. Two long natural color-striped feathers are strap-tied to the back of her helmet which visually shield her backside, which covers a previous injury where a patch of striped fabric now obscures most of the number inked on her back.

Role in the film[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • In the Russian adaptation, 7 represents The Scientist's wife.
  • It is possible that both 9 and 7 have romantic affections/feelings with each other ever since 9 met her, but because of the ongoing tragedies, they were unable to show much affection until the end of the film.
    • This was confirmed by director Shane Acker that 9 and 7 are somewhat a couple.
  • It is mentioned in the Commentary that the scene in which 7 shadows her face with her bird skull helmet in The Library is a reference to how hockey players in Canada put their helmets down, as that shot was animated by one of the remote animators in Canada.
    • The Commentary also mentions that 7's fighting skills are based on both parkour and skateboarding moves.
  • 7's battle helmet is consisted of a dead bird's skull, some little teeth bones, and two bird feathers attached to the back of her helmet. It remains on 7's head until the explosion caused by the Fabrication Machine near the end of the film, which it flew off and she never picked up.
  • During some shots of the film, one can see 7 has a patch on her back covering up most of her number. It is explained in the commentary that she received it in a fight with the Cat Beast.
  • Some assume 7 to be ambidextrous, as she frequently uses both her right hand and her left hand while fighting/handling things with no visible difficulties. Whether this was an animator oversight, or purposeful is unknown.
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