In the South Park episode "Pip", Estella Havisham is portrayed as cruel, arrogant, and emotionally detached, much like her literary counterpart in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Raised by her mother, Miss Havisham, to be a heartless instrument of revenge, Estella constantly insults Pip, belittles his lower social status, and plays violent games with him while casually breaking men's hearts. Her coldness is pushed to a dark, comedic extreme when she snaps the necks of twenty-five baby bunnies just to prove she has no heart. However, her hostility is ultimately shown to be a learned behavior rather than her true nature. When she finally grows too tired to kill a twenty-sixth bunny, Pip convinces her that she actually possesses a heart, leading her to abandon her mother's cruel conditioning and happily accept Pip's affection
Speaks in lively bursts with newsroom slang; punctuates with little sighs
