Ava Paige

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Chancellor Ava Paige is the enigmatic highest-ranking official of WICKED. All epilogues of the three books either end with a type of note or an e-mail written by Chancellor Paige. She is one of the main antagonists in the Maze Runner Trilogy.

Biography

She initially opposed the use of Immunes for the Trials and also was one of the two people to oppose Thomas' death. In The Death Cure, when Thomas, Minho, Brenda, and Jorge enter a city to find a scientist named Hans, Thomas notices some posters saying "Chancellor Paige loves you". She also created a type of escape route for Group B, Jorge, Brenda, and The Remaining Gladers to the last remaining paradise on Earth. Towards the end of the film she faked her own death to falsely lead the Gladers to think everything was over.

Personality

Ava Paige's personality in the book is very different from that in the film.

Although she does not make a personal appearance in the books, she is still revealed to be exceptionally intelligent, charismatic and resourceful. She's also extremely adaptive, and is capable of manipulating any change in plans to the advantage of her goals, to such an extent where they benefit her plans directly. She is a utilitarian, and when WICKED's attempts at finding a cure fail, she abandons them to put into place a backdoor to save the human race (alternatively, one could say that it's the rest of the WICKED employees who abandoned her and WICKED's original goals of saving the world, so as to keep their organisation alive).

In the film, Paige was involved in the release of the Flare, and is revealed to be so fanatically devoted to WICKED that she is willing to fake her own death to support its aims. She is somewhat delusional, and does not believe that the things she and her organisation are doing are completely necessary, and any negative results are inevitable or necessary. In spite of the genocidal results of her experiments, Paige believes that her conscience is clean.

She has virtually no remorse or guilt in the cruelty of her experiments, or horrors she puts her test subjects through, and believes everything she and her cohorts do is for the greater good, justifying her depravities that her methods are merely a means to an end. She believes that no cost is too great to successfully manufacture a cure for the Flare Virus, and will allow for nothing and no one to stand in the way of that, as she allowed for Janson to execute her former colleague Mary right after claiming her conscience to be clear.

Perhaps a small art of Paige does regret her actions as she wanted for the children Janson to harvest from to feel no pain. Even so, it's small enough not to stop her from her hypocrisies.

Physical Appearance

Chancellor Paige is described as "a tight round-faced woman with her hair pulled back."

Pictures

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