| Rhonda Truitt | |
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| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | 17-18 |
| Status: | Unknown but likely alive |
| Relatives: | Scott Braddock - Boyfriend |
| Actress: | Marieh Delfino |
| First appearance: | Jeepers Creepers 2 |
| Last appearance: | Jeepers Creepers 2 |
Rhonda Truitt is one of the teenage cheerleader and was on the bus that was attacked by The Creeper in Jeepers Creepers 2. She is the girlfriend of Scott Braddock. She was portrayed by Marieh Delfino.
Biography[]
Rhonda was first seen on the Bannon Bantams high school bus on the way home from winning the basketball championships, she was one of the three cheerleaders on the bus. She and Chelsea are annoyed with a headache as the guy continue to celebrate and sing the school song for winning. Minxie Hayes approaches them and asks why Rhonda is not sitting with her boyfriend, Scott Braddock. Scott is sitting by himself sulking and Rhonda answers that he is upset because he did not get to play enough and that he needs alone time with the guys. If the team lost, then Scotty would cling on her.
The bus gets a flat tire and while the adults investigate, everyone gets off the bus for bathroom breaks and a chance to sunbathe. Rhonda and the girls, however, were busted by Coach Charlie Hanna as they were smoking. He lectures them and orders them back on the bus, but as he walks away bus driver Betty Borman comes out of the trees smoking as well, likely the girls got a cigarette from her. After an hour or two, the adults decided to limp home, and everyone is called back to the bus.
As the night falls, Rhonda sits and consoles Scotty, who vents about not getting as much playtime the others, even making racist implications about the Coach Hanna allowing more play time to his black players. Rhonda questions his race-based assumption, hoping he does not think that's true and tries to tell him he played a really great and eventful 12 minutes. However, the bus hits another flat and the same rear tire gets torn, leaving the bus stranded.
Rhonda along with the rest of the students, witness in horror as each adult gets abducted one-by-one. After the last adult Coach Dwayne Barnes gets abducted and Scotty gets a bloody nose from trying to rescue Barnes, she tries to question Scotty on what got Barnes. Scotty was panicked and shocked to speak but finally yells he does not know but that it had "wings..big fricken wings!" Team Equipment Manager Andy "Bucky" Buck is trying to use the bus radio to get help and Rhonda is heard shouting "how is nobody's phone working?" Scotty starts causing an argument while trying to convince others that they can get off the bus and find a farm to get help. When Scotty and Deaundre "Double D" Davis start getting into an argument, Rhonda tries to break it up, but they stop as soon as they saw the Creeper sniffing them out. Rhonda witnesses as The Creeper starts making gestures and smiles towards specific people including Jake Spencer, Dante Belasco, Scotty, Minxie, Bucky, and Double D. Minxie faints and as soon as she wakes up, she tells everyone about her dream and what they are dealing with. She additionally tells them that the Creeper has "picked people out" as it wants parts from them to eat based on their fear. Scotty is initially dismissive and thinks she's crazy to which Rhonda shuts him up and makes him continue to listen. Bucky then continues to panic and try to radio for help.
Later, after Bucky finally reaches contact with the Taggarts, the Creeper tries to grab Bucky by the head out of the bus. Rhonda picks up a javelin, stabs it through the hole in the roof of the bus and manages to puncture the Creeper in the shoulder. When the Creeper tried to pull him through again, she shoves the javelin through the roof once more, putting it right through the Creeper's eye and across his head, dropping Bucky. The Creeper ended up ripping half of its head off to get it out. The Creeper flies up to the sky and moments later crashes back down to the bus, making a gaping hole on the roof and breaking all the windows (except the front windshield and back door windows).
After the Creeper used its wings to come through the roof and capture Dante, she witnesses in terror as the Creeper decapitated him leaving his headless body flailing around before collapsing. They all hear as the Creeper is devouring Dante's head and Rhonda screams and questions Minxie on what is happening before looking through the hole being terrified as the Creeper tear its own head off. The Creeper uses Dante's head as his new one then flies away. Scotty declares and tries to convince the others that they need to throw the people the Creeper has "picked out" off the bus for the safety of everyone else, including Bucky, Jake and Double D. Rhonda, along with everyone else, protests. Double D pins and challenges Scotty to stay on the bus as he knows Scotty was also picked by the Creeper and the roof is holed up. Everyone decides to follow Double D off the bus, including Rhonda to find the farm for help. Scotty gets off to call her back, but she yells at him and calls him out for his selfishness. She tells him off as to compare being afraid is like being drunk, as it shows a person's true self, showing Scott as a selfish person.
One of the students, Izzy Bohen notices and points out the Creeper watching them up in the sky, making everyone run back to the bus. However, Jonny Young was still on the bus and locks everyone out. Everyone was forced to run to the fields as the Creeper swoops in after them. Scotty gets pinned to a tree and she tries to free him along with D and Izzy, but the knife the Creeper pinned him with was welded tight. She tries to keep him still but when D is able to set Scotty loose, the Creeper takes Scotty and flies away into the night. Rhonda screams and cries out to him devastated as she is being held back and consoled by Izzy and D. Later, Rhonda and D sulk and were sitting wide open on the field but watching out for the Creeper but feeling hopeless at the same time. Izzy comes back to them and tells them he found a means of escape. They refused as they still feel hopeless and convinced what Minxie has previously said sets their fates. Izzy tries to assure them that the others may have gotten away or got help then yells that no one gets to say they die and Minxie's words are not a guarantee of their fate.
They decide to get up and follow as he leads them to the exterminator truck that passed them earlier in the morning, now abandoned but as if it hit the tree and with a hole on top of the roof, implying the Creeper abducting the driver earlier on. They jump in the truck as soon as they felt the Creeper's presence. Rhonda sits in the passenger seat while Izzy drives and D is on the truck bed. The Creeper was in hot pursuit of them and able to fly fast enough to catch up to the truck and trying to capture D. Izzy, realizing he cannot outrun the Creeper turns into the fields and pushes Rhonda out of the truck. She is last seen rolling around on the grassy field but was not seen gathered with the others to witness the Creeper going into hibernation. It is unknown if she actually survived jumping out of the truck as it was while on high speed but given that Double D survived flying off the truck bed a couple of yards after her and Izzy was seen crawling out of the truck after it flips over, she has likely survived with the least injuries of the three of them.
Personality[]
Rhonda seems to be the most caring person among the group on the bus. She is a very supportive girlfriend to Scott and allows him to vent his frustrations to her. It is not only limited to Scott, however, as she does not seem comfortable with Scotty's bigoted attitude when he tries to make racist assumptions towards the black Coach Hanna and teammate Double D, nor did she tolerate when Scotty made homophobic comments to Izzy. She also saved Bucky's life when the Creeper attempted to abduct him by attacking the Creeper with a javelin, forcing him to drop Bucky. Despite not being one of the picked out, she also protested against Scott when he tried to convince everyone to throw the Creeper's selections off the bus for his own and the other's safety and she calls him out for being selfish.