“Jane smiled, and the girl shrieked again. I held my breath until the sound of her agony stopped.
‘She’ll tell you anything you want to know,’ Edward said through his teeth. ‘You don’t have to do that.’
Jane looked up, sudden humor in her usually dead eyes. ‘Oh, I know,’ she said to Edward, grinning at him before she turned back to the young vampire, Bree.” (Eclipse, 574)* Jane, a sadist in a little girl’s body, is the attack dog of the Volturi. Her initial entrance is one of the most striking of the saga, striking fear into the hearts of physically massive male vampires with her mere appearance. Jane is a distinctive character in the series as the most prominent female member of the Volturi guard, and as the possessor of an offensive (rather than defensive or passive) power that she utilizes unapologetically. The other female members of the guard who appear (Heidi, Renata, Chelsea) are interesting, but ultimately they exist more as concepts than characters, making Jane a standout. (Incidentally, this is true of most of the male members of the guard, too. Stephenie Meyer could write a great website extra from the POV of inside the Volturi guard.) New Moon is my least favorite of the four books (I find it depressing), but one of the reasons that I hope that Twilight does well enough to enable the filming of the other books is to see Jane embodied. It could be a great role for a child actress with just the right combination of precociousness and creepiness. Jane may be pure evil, to a degree that few other characters are in the saga, but she is also absolutely badass.
*Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.
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