Cornelia Goth

Cornelia Goth (née Crumplebottom) is a pre-created, playable Sim in The Sims and The Sims 3. She first appeared in the Unleashed expansion pack along with her husband, Gunther Goth, and their two cats, Hecuba and Menelaus. She is the matriarch of the Goth Family and Pleasantview.

Cornelia was born in the Old Country, and then moved to Sunset Valley, which was renamed Old Town in The Sims: Unleashed, and renamed Pleasantview in The Sims 2. She is the mother of Mortimer Goth, husband to the now famous Bella Goth. Cornelia was the wife of Gunther Goth, and the daughter of Simon Crumplebottom and Prudence Crumplebottom, both of Pleasantview; she has one sibling, Agnes Crumplebottom.

Life leading up to The Sims 3
Since The Sims 3 is a prequel to The Sims, Cornelia and Gunther are adults. Her appearance is somewhat of a goth, with purple colored hair, though her natural hair color is black. She wears a long, dark purple/black dress. She is best friends with her sister Agnes Crumplebottom.

She is currently a stay-at-home mom, who is very skilled at painting (level 6). She doesn't have a very good relationship with her husband, Gunther Goth, as he is a workaholic and doesn't pay her much attention. Although friends, they do not have a high enough relationship to WooHoo.

Her parents, Prudence and Simon Crumplebottom, are both deceased and buried in the Goth graveyard. Cornelia is a friend of Vita Alto and an acquaintance of Nick Alto, Geoffrey and Nancy Landgraab.

Her lifetime wish to have a perfect garden is hard to fulfill, as she has not learned the gardening skill, has no seeds in her inventory or plants in her yard, and she does not have the trait "Green Thumb" or "Loves the Outdoors", which makes it difficult to achieve her lifetime wish.

Oddly Cornelia age does not quite fit with the story that they were first given in The Sims: Unleashed. Cornelia Goth's bio in the game says that she loves that her granddaughter Cassandra lives so close to her. Cassandra is a child in The Sims: Unleashed and Cornelia and her husband are elders. However, in The Sims 3 with story progression on and uninterrupted Gunther and Cornelia tend to die of old age when Mortimer reaches the first day or so of young adult. They often both die before he can have even one child, or before the child reaches the toddler stage

Life leading up to The Sims
Cornelia Goth and her husband Gunther Goth are introduced in The Sims: Unleashed, along with their two cats Hecuba and Menelaus. In her bio, she is glad that her granddaughter, Cassandra, is so nearby. She is the founder of the Sim City Bridge Society, and enjoys high tea and phrenology. She is perhaps a friend of Buffy Snooty Patooty, whom she may meet when having high tea in the club or playing bridge. Also we can see from her clothing (and the fact that Gunther has a job) that she is likely to be a housewife in this game.

Her relationship with her husband seems to have recovered, as she is fully in love with him by the time of this game. She wears a long and elegant black and silver dress. Unlike The Sims 2, her last name in The Sims is Goth Sr, but that is only to distinguish between the different families.

Oddly when first played in Neighborhood 1, she will have no relationships with Mortimer, Bella, and Cassandra.

Life leading up to The Sims 2
In The Sims 2, Cornelia and her husband had died in two separate fires. She died when her son Mortimer retired. Her husband had died much earlier, when her second grandchild, Alexander was born. She is buried in the new Goth home with Gunther, her father, sister, father-in-law and mother-in-law.

She wears a long black dress (although it wasn't as fancy as the one she wore in The Sims) and round glasses. Like Mama Lothario, she has an unused French Braid hairstyle. It looks a lot like a hairstyle that is available in Create-A-Sim, but the texture is different.

Cassandra Goth looks very similiar to Cornelia Goth as both have the same facial structure.

Homes
In The Sims Unleashed, Cornelia lived with Gunther and their cats Hecuba and Menelaus in a large mansion at 77 Maple Street in Old Town, a little further from Sim Lane. The home has a small graveyard (like all Goth homes) but there are no ghosts, so it is not known who is buried there. Perhaps, Gunther died in a fire in the mansion, then Cornelia died in the Goth home, which then was re-constructed into a new and improved house for Mortimer, Cassandra and Alexander Goth in The Sims 2. In The Sims 3, Cornelia, Gunther and Mortimer live in a big house with its own cemetery.

Trivia

 * Cornelia's appearance was likely based on real life actress Helen Mirren.
 * In The Sims 3, Cornelia bears a slight resemblance to Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon.
 * Cornelia has lilac eyes in The Sims 3, but brown eyes in The Sims 2.
 * Cornelia's natural hair color is black; her son, Mortimer, has black hair and his father, Gunther, has brown hair. Strangely, if Cornelia has further children, they will sometimes inherit violet hair anyway.
 * In The Sims 3, Cornelia has the same favorites as Victor Goth.
 * Since her and Gunther died in 2 seperate fires, it could be assumed that one of them died in the fire that burnt down 5 Sim Lane.

The Sims Unleashed

 * English: Cornelia Goth Sr.
 * Brazilian Portuguese: Cornélia Caixão
 * Dutch: Cornelia van de Kerkhof
 * Swedish: Cornelia Spökh d.ä
 * Russian: Korneliya Got (Корнелия Гот)
 * Polish: Kornelia Gotyccy
 * Thai: คอร์นีเลีย โกธ
 * German: Cornelia Biergans
 * Italian: Cornelia Alberghini

The Sims 2

 * English: Cornelia Goth
 * Spanish: Cornelia Lápida
 * European Portuguese: Cornélia Goth
 * Brazilian Portuguese: Cornélia Caixão
 * Norwegian: Kornelia Goth
 * Swedish: Cornelia Spökh
 * Russian: Korneliya Got (Корнелия Гот)
 * Polish: Kornelia Ćwir
 * Dutch: Cornelia van de Kerkhof (née: Cornelia Rimpelbil)
 * Thai: คอร์นีเลีย โกธ
 * Italian: Cornelia Alberghini

The Sims 3

 * English: Cornelia Goth
 * European Portuguese: Cornélia Goth
 * Brazilian Portuguese: Cornélia Caixão
 * Norwegian: Kornelia Goth
 * Swedish: Cornelia Spökh
 * Russian: Korneliya Got (Корнелия Гот)
 * Polish: Kornelia Ćwir
 * Dutch: Cornelia van de Kerkhof (née: Cornelia Rimpelbil)
 * French: Cornélia Gothik
 * Spanish: Cornelia Lápida
 * Danish: Cornelia Spøgh
 * Finnish: Kristiina Goottila
 * Italian: Cornelia Alberghini

Gallery
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