Frankie Garcia Bravo is a main character in Goosebumps: The Vanishing. She is portrayed by Galilea La Salvia.
Frankie has a friendly, warm demeanor paired with the heart of an artist. Though ambitious, she hesitates to take risks, grappling with the loss of her father and the absence of her hardworking nurse mother.
History[]
Frankie met Devin and Cece Brewer when they were in eighth grade. Over the summer, she became especially close with Devin and they shared a kiss, Devin's first. Years later, Frankie was delighted when Devin and Cece returned to Gravesend to spend the summer with their father. Devin admitted he followed her on TikTok. While they were talking, Frankie's boyfriend, Trey, came up behind her and put his arm around her. Frankie introduced the two of them and Trey was immediately threatened by their friendship. Later, when C.J. Lewis asked Cece and Devin about their uncle, who had disappeared in 1994, Devin said he and some friend were sleeping over at Fort Jerome on a dare when they disappeared. Frankie asked if he was scared of the place and when he said no, Trey dared him to prove it.
They drove to Fort Jerome, where Trey cut the gate lock with bolt cutters, then sent Devin inside to take pictures. Trey revealed that he knew a lot of the place's history because his father was interviewed for a 20/20 episode about the disappearance. While Devin was inside, Trey got annoyed by Cece talking to Frankie about Frankie being Devin's first kiss and used the bolt cutters to damage a transformer, cutting the power to the building. Devin finally stumbled out with Cece's help and they rushed to leave.[1]
Frankie woke up a few days later and decided she was done with Trey. She took all the pictures of him in her room down and went to his father's garage, where she ended things despite him trying to persuade her not to. Then she went to work herself. Cece and Devin came in and while Cece left without ordering anything, Frankie promised Devin a coffee if he emptied the bucket of roof water for her, which he did.
Frankie later came to Devin's home in time to watch him fighting with Trey. She broke up the fight and sent Trey home. When Devin expressed surprise that she and Trey were ever together, she told him her life was not like his. She didn't have a safety net to fall back on like he did, with her mom working all the time and her dad gone. Then she admitted it actually was creepy that he followed her on TikTok and left.
That night, Frankie caught Trey sneaking around Anthony and Devin's house, preparing to break in. She tried to talk him out of it, but he broke a window and went inside anyway. She left, but came back later looking for him. She entered the basement and the window slammed shut behind her, trapping her. She looked around for Trey and didn't find him, but did find his phone. She screamed as a creature emerged from the chest freezer.
When Frankie came to, she was at the garage. The creature told her it was Trey and handed her a tool, which she used to try to scrape the goo off him. It didn't work, but she said they'd figure it out together. When Devin arrived, he and Trey fought again and Frankie broke it up by dropping a car on Trey, causing him to splat. Devin then led Frankie away.[2]
The next day, Frankie talked to Devin. She was scared, believing she'd killed Trey. She was surprised by how calm Devin was and Devin said that he thought he'd been dragged into the sewer, but only had spotty memories of it. Frankie's dad called her later and she told him she hadn't seen him since yesterday.
Devin took Frankie down into his dad's basement, despite her reluctance to be there. She showed him where she fell and said she wanted to leave. Before they could go, they heard Anthony coming, so they hid and watched him cut open a vine, which had the black goo inside. Then they watched him put it into a petri dish and follow it out of the basement.[3]
Frankie went to the hospital to sit with Trey, who had been found and was awake, but not responding to anyone or anything. Ramona Pamani came in, pretending to be Trey's doctor, and sent them out of the room so she could examine him. While they were getting snacks, Devin got a call from Cece, who said she was at their mom's apartment and couldn't remember going there. Frankie and Devin went to meet her there and arrived just in time to save her from an elevator, as a blob of black goo was following her and had trapped her there. They got on the subway, but the blob followed Cece onto the subway. After Cece was able to use the third rail to electrocute it, they got a Lyft to Fort Jerome, hoping to find answers there. They were shocked to see Anthony also walking around there and began to suspect he was behind everything.[4]
Cece and Devin spent the night in Frankie's room. She woke them the next morning so she could leave for work, saying she needed to go so she could save up money for art school. They went to the coffee shop with her and while talking to them, Cece realized Alex was telling the truth about Trey's car. They were about to leave to find her when Joe Jr. came in and said Trey was getting out of the hospital. He asked Frankie to be at the house when he got home and she agreed. They went to talk to Alex, but Alex pretended she'd been lying and said she didn't want any part of what they were doing. She advised them to stop as well. Then Frankie went to Trey's and made him a shake with extra protein powder. He apologized for how he'd acted and said he wanted to be better. She asked him about the last thing he remembered and he said he didn't know, but knew it had something to do with Anthony's freezer. Frankie called Devin, saying they wanted to get into the basement. They went over and arrived just in time to see Anthony trying to drip black goo into C.J.'s mouth. Trey stopped him by hitting him with a bat and they were all horrified when Anthony's head popped off. When Anthony said they could join them, they ran upstairs and barricaded the door. C.J. then noticed a tape on the table and said that's what Jen dropped off. Frankie recognized it as a VHS tape and Devin said they could play it at Grandma's. They left to go there and met up with Alex along the way. Just as she joined them, Devin broke off from the group, saying he needed to get back to Hannah because he believe she could help them. They continued on without him.[5]
When they got to Naomi's nursing home, C.J. hooked up the player and played the tape. The watched as Matty and his friends planned their trip. Alex was horrified to watch her mom steal a new student's clothes because she was jealous of the girl talking to Matty. They kept watching as the teens went to Fort Jerome and ended up doing a hole. The camera focused on Hannah, who woke up and found her friends encased in pods. As Hannah tried to escape, a monster dragged her back into the hole right before Anthony and Jen arrived. Anthony saw the clothes and went to call the police while Jen grabbed the camera. While the teens watched, Devin went to Camp Nightmare with Hannah. They connected the name to Hannah from the video and when Devin didn't answer their phone call, they went out to Fort Jerome, where they found Devin standing on the ledge. He believed Hannah was standing there, telling him he needed to go with her to find the others. Cece was able to get through to him and convince him Hannah wasn't real. Then they got him back away from the ledge and decided to go back to Cece and Devin's to talk to whatever was inhabiting their dad. On their way, Frankie and C.J. were surprised to see Trey and Devin speaking peacefully. When they got to the house, Cece and Devin left the others outside while they went in. After searching the house, they came back and said Anthony wasn't there. Devin pulled up the footage from the doorbell camera and they watched Ramona Pamani come into the house and leave with a suitcase. They wondered where she'd taken him.[6]
The teens met again at Cece and Devin's house. Trey brought the tape of the 20/20 episode his dad participated in, which showed Ramona talking about them getting swept out to sea by fast-moving currents. With her name, they looked her up. They found nothing, but found an Avi Pamani, who had written a book about global risk management. While Alex, Cece, and C.J. went to try to track down the book, Frankie, Devin and Trey went to the hospital to see if they could figure out anything about her from there. There, they learned that his chart said a pediatric dermatologist had treated him, but that doctor had had her badge stolen. They looked at security footage, which showed Ramona in Trey's room and then leaving the hospital and getting into a car. They got her license plate and Trey used it to get her address. They got there just as she was leaving and Trey used his bolt cutters to get them inside, where they found a book detailing 55 years of research dedicated to containing the threat at Fort Jerome. Ramona found them and told them to leave. They explained what they knew and she agreed to help them save Anthony, but said they had to leave quickly because they didn't have a lot of time.[7]
Ramona went with the teens to Fort Jerome, where she injected them all with the serum, which she said would last an hour and sent them down the hatch with an extra dose for Anthony. She opened the hatch and said she'd keep it open from outside. However, when they got down, she closed it behind them, trapping them. Despite this, they decided to stick to the plan. They found Anthony and injected his pod with the serum, freeing him and waking him up. Anthony looked at Matty's pod and wanted to take him as well, but the teens told him they only had one dose of the serum and they'd used it on him. They started to think about ways they could get out. Anthony realized that since a power outage had opened the hatch on the night Devin was first there, it would again. They made a plan to do the same again, using Trey's knowledge from his electrical engineering class. Since the serum had worn off for all of them, Anthony put on a protective suit and disabled the ship while they worked. Once it was done, Trey cut the power and they walked back through the room to get out. Anthony had to stay while they escaped because the connection had broken and he had to hold the cord himself. He said he'd come once they were safe. They got out and waited for Anthony. Trey noticed another backup generator was powering up. Just as it was about to power up, Anthony appeared with Sameer, Matty, Nicole, and Hannah, having decided he couldn't leave them behind. They got out just before the hatch closed, then took the teens back to Anthony's place, where Anthony told them to stay put. When the 1994 teens got stir crazy, the 2024 teens decided to let them go out individually with chaperones. Matty agreed to stay behind while the other three went out. Frankie and Trey took Nicole to the coffee shop for coffee. While they were there, Nicole coughed up a pod that encased her and turned her into a critter that then attacked Trey. Devin pulled Frankie out before the critter could get her. The critters continued to chase the teens and podded them. They were all freed when Jen and Anthony went back to Fort Jerome and let the ship go, which called all the critters back to the ship. The 1994 teens and the scientists who had worked in the facility all went back to space with the aliens. At the end of summer, the teens came together to say goodbye to Devin and Cece, who were going back to the city to meet their mom. While Cece was going to stay, Devin had arranged to come back to Gravesend to live with his dad.[8]
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- Stay Out of the Basement, Part I
- Stay Out of the Basement, Part II
- The Haunted Car
- Monster Blood
- The Boy Who Cried Monster
- The Girl Next Door
- Welcome to Camp Nightmare
- Invasion of the Body Squeezers
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