Brigitte Fitzgerald

Brigitte Fitzgerald is the main protagonist of the Ginger Snaps, film series. The events of the films revolve heavilly with her struggle with werewolves alongside her sister Ginger. In all three films she is protrayed by Emily Perkins.

Past life
The Brigitte of the first and second film is either the reincarnation or decendant of a girl of the same name as seen in the prequel. Coincidently, that Brigitte also has a sister named Ginger.

In the winter of 1815, the two sisters found themselves lost in the wildreness after the deaths of their parents. They unknowingly travel into a area that is constantly ravaged by a werewolf infestation. They find a seemingy abandond hut and meet an old native american woman who gives them two bird necklesses warning them to "Kill the boy, or one sister kills the other".

Later on Brigitte is caught in a trap, but she is relased by an unnamed hunter, who takes them to Fort Bailey, which is constantly attacked by werewolves. Ginger and Brigitte are treated with suspicion by the few inhabitants, espically the parinoid Reverend Gilbert. Nontherless they are invited into the house of Wallace Rowlands, the Forts leader who's wife was killed by the werewolves and his son, was assumed so to. But that night, Ginger hears crying within the walls, so she goes to check, but she finds out that Wallace's son, Geoffry, is still alive and turning into a werewolf himself. Ginger is bitten, so she and Brigitte attempt to leave, but they are cornered by James, the seargent of the Fort. James and Ginger nearly fight before a pack of werewolves attack. During the ensueing fight between the men in the Fort and the werewolves, Reverend Gilbert comes to the sisters showing them to a seemingly safe house, which turns out to have a werewolf loose in it. The sisters are saved by the hunter who found them in the first place. When the sisters accuse the Reverend (who doesn't even deny it) he goes unpunished and the sisters are sent back to bed, where they are kept awake by the fight outside.

The next day, it becomes aparent Geoffry is now loose, and when he kills a man in the fort, Ginger is suspected and dragged away. Brigitte tries to help her sister before James pins her down, but he is called off by Wallace, Brigitte bribes Wallace, pointing out that his son is as cursed as his sister. The two rescue Ginger and the Reverend backs down.

Ginger and Brigitte become determined to find a cure, and become convinced that killing the sire werewolf will cure Ginger. When they eventually find Geoffry, but they hesitate to kill him as he is a child. Geoffry is captured by James and killed by Wallace in a mercy kill. The depressed Wallace has Ginger exiled by Brigitte insists on joining her.

They are guided out by a man named Milo who reveals that the old woman they met before is a seer, who can explain their situation. Brigitte and Ginger follow Milo through the woods, but Milo is killed but they nontherless find their way to the seer's camp with the help of the hunter. The seer explains it's to late to cure Ginger and she must kill Ginger, or Ginger will kill her. It is also explianed that it's part of a werewolf legend that says the red and the black will choose the fate of the bloodline; Brigitte dies, the land suffers forever, Ginger dies, and the bloodline dies with her. Not willing to kill Brigitte, Ginger flees. The Hunter takes Brigitte back to the Fort, convinced  that Ginger will eventually follow.

At the Fort, Brigitte is taken prisoner, and told by the Reverend that her sister is already lost; offened  Brigitte spits in the Reverends eye. The reverend calls her a witch and starts a bon fire, whilist Ginger heads to the fort, with a pack of werewolves following. The Reverend's execution attempt is caught by the Hunter and Wallace, who kill the Reverend and free Brigitte. Ginger manages to get in and fights James and his men, eventually ushering in the werewolves. The Hunter and Brigitte hold their own, while Wallace is killed. When Brigitte gets the oprotunity to kill Ginger, she instead kills the hunter, thus disproving the red and the black legend. The sisters flee the Fort together as the only survivors.

The next morning, Ginger and Brigitte sit under a tree, Ginger cuts her hand and Brigitte's and they mingle eachothers blood.