Aninha (pronounced: ahn-NEEN-ah) is a teacher who lives in the city of Oróz. Aninha is portrayed by Xuxa Meneghel.
History[]
The teacher Aninha was watching the trial where Delegate Lion, as a punishment to two criminals who invaded Colonel Ferreira’s farm and stole his water, ordered one of them to look at the Sun until he have counted a thousand stars, and the other to have his head down looking at the ground and spinning eight hundred times like a turkey. Aninha disapproved the delegate’s behavior, stating that she didn’t know how she came to like someone as cowardly as him. Lion retorted that he was just doing his duty, to which Aninha asked him which duty he was doing: that of a delegate or that of Colonel Ferreira’s henchmen. Lion said that he would not be against the colonel, because even the judge was on his side and everyone in the city respected him, to which Aninha replied that it was everyone but her.
When greeted by Colonel Ferreira himself, Aninha shouted at him, saying that he was a monster and that the punishments for these two thieves were unfair and inhumane. Colonel Ferreira proposed an agreement: if she agreed to marry him, he would order the suspension of the punishments and the provision of water in her school for her and her children. Aninha denied it, saying that she would rather go thirsty and close the school. The colonel insisted, saying that she would have enough water to take her baths, but she still denied it, saying that she really liked Lion and that she only took a bath on Saturdays. Colonel Ferreira was outraged to learn that Aninha liked Lion, because for him a beautiful woman needed to have a brave man like him and unlike Lion. Aninha said that a man surrounded by his henchmen was not brave, he was a coward in disguise. Humiliated, Colonel Ferreira left.
At her school, Aninha witnessed Passoura and Tonel being taken by a group of children with the intention of setting them on fire. Aninha interfered, telling the children to leave them alone. Later, Aninha, Passoura, Tonel, and the children were watching Didi, Soró, and Tatu being chased by the police behind the bars of the school wall. When the police started shooting, she ordered everyone into the school building. After Tatu and Soró separated from Didi and hid behind the school wall, Aninha saw from the window one of the police officers coming up behind them and pointing a gun at them. Thinking quickly, Aninha took a frying pan and hit the police officer's head with it, making him faint.
After Delegate Lion arrived with a troop surrounding the school, he threatened Didi and his friends by saying that he would count to five and if they didn’t leave by the end of the count, he would shoot them. Aninha left the building saying that none of those police officers would enter her school. Lion started counting, stopping at three because he didn’t know how to count more than that. Aninha then started making fun of him for dropping out of school to become a delegate. Upon seeing one of the police officers loading his gun, Didi and his friends surrendered.
Off-screen, Aninha requested to Delegate Lion to go against the city’s customs of immediately starting the trial in a public square, to which he agreed and challenged Didi to fight with him, if Didi won he could take his gang and leave the city, but if he lost they they would be judged in the public square. (Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz (film))