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Dark Queen inFirst appearance(1991)Created byGuy MillerDesigned byKevin BaylissVoiced byLouise Stamper (games)(cartoon)The Dark Queen is the of the video game series by introduced in the original in 1991. Dark Queen is the nemesis of the protagonistic.

She is a mysterious master of evil magic and the supreme commander of a space army bent on galactic conquest. The character has received considerable attention due to her as well as for being one of the first major female villains in video games. Contents.Appearances The immortal Dark Queen is the ultimate enemy to the, as she attempts to eliminate the 'Toads and Professor T. Bird in order to stop them from hindering her plans to rule the universe.

She is depicted as a sinisterily beautiful woman with raven who shows off a voluptuous body clad in a -style black leotard with thigh boots. Throughout the games there have been several inconsistencies regarding her actual size.

Even though her height is stated to be 6 feet (182 cm) tall on her profile screen in the arcade game (which would mean she is actually smaller than the Battletoads), she normally appears to be of a tremendous size in the games, usually roughly four times the height of the 'Toads. Her shifting size may however be an effect of her magic. Throughout the series she usually appears to taunt the 'Toads during the cutscenes; despite her royal stature, she prefers to be no more cultured than the Battletoads themselves, due to the crude nature of her speech which consists primarily of and offensive puns (such as calling them 'cattle-loads' and 'wartfeatures'). She leads a renegade army consisting primarily of anthropomorphic pigs and rats is usually fought as the end of the game. Her main sidekicks are initially Big Blag, General Vermin and Robo-Manus, later joined by General Slaughter, Karnath and Admiral Oink.

In Battletoads games. She has an unquenchable thirst for power and is a highly dangerous megalomaniacal psychopath. She uses her magical talents and her dark and terrible beauty to her advantage. Many a man has fallen foul of their combined effects. Her 'life quest' (as she calls her vicious lust for power) is to claim what she has deluded herself into believing is her rightful place on the Terran Corporate throne. She will stop at nothing lo achieve this end and has destroyed entire solar systems - millions of lives - in her relentless drive for galactic, and ultimately universal domination.user manualThe Dark Queen is introduced in the first game.

In it, following her defeat by the Galactic Corporation at the Battle of, she and her remaining forces have escaped to hide in the planet Ragnarok's World 'in dark spaces between the stars.' As Professor T. Bird and the Battletoads Rash, Zitz and Pimple are escorting the Princess Angelica, daughter of the Terran Emperor, the Dark Queen (disguised as a belly dancer) suddenly strikes and kidnaps the Princess along with Pimple (or Rash and Pimple in the Game Boy version ), taking them away in the enormous spaceship Gargantua to the planet Armagedda (Ragnarok's World). The other two Battletoads go after her to rescue the captives and eventually confront the Dark Queen at her Tower of Shadows. During the final boss fight, she only has one special move besides basic kicks, spinning until turning into a tornado and then attempting to hit the player (how much damage is done to the player is based on how fast she is spinning). After her defeat, the Dark Queen flees into space, 'retreating into the shadowy margins of the galaxy to recoup her losses.' In, the returning Dark Queen has partnered with the vengeful computer engineer Silas Volkmire to kidnap Zitz and Michiko Tashoku, the daughter of the President of the Psicone Corporation, creators of the computer-generated portal Gamescape, intending to transform the entire world into Gamescape Kingdom over which they would rule together.

In this game, she is wearing a red cape and wielding a snake-themed staff. The other two 'Toads showdown with the Dark Queen again, this time at her Dark Tower, During the boss fight, she teleports and attacks the players with magical projectiles from staff. After her defeat, she flees again 'to the outer reaches of the Universe,' vowing revenge.In the game, the Dark Queen teams up with the Shadow Boss, a universe character created specially for this game. Together, they use a mysterious energy beam from outer space to render Earth's military might powerless and use a giant spaceship called the Colossus to take over the Earth. The Battletoads join up with Billy and Jimmy Lee, otherwise known as the Double Dragons, to once again foil her plans. In this game, she is capable of transforming into a flame and moving across the floor, remaining untouchable by doing so, and can also attack by emerging from the flame and tossing fireballs. Once 'beaten and humbled,' she makes her escape into space, promising to return.The Dark Queen comes back to antagonize the Battletoads in the largely plot-less arcade game.

In it, she was 'sexed up a bit for the allegedly more mature arcade crowd,' having her erect nipples visible through her outfit and a breast bounce effect. An in-game portrait also shows her hair spread out in a fashion much like 's. During the gameplay parts, she only appears as a holographic projection in the third stage, where she is watching the boss fight between the 'Toads and Scuzz's Robo-Rat.Her design was inspired by 's character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. The Dark Queen was planned to be also featured in a planned Battletoads fighting game, but Rare ended up creating instead. At, she has been teased to return in the upcoming Battletoads reboot, albeit in a radically redesigned, desexualized appearance. Other appearances The Dark Queen also appears in the Battletoads tie-in comic printed in, and in the games' abortive cartoon adaptation of which only the pilot episode was produced.

The version of hints at possibility that this game's villain the Enchantress might be actually a form of the Dark Queen. A 2015-exclusive Battletoads compilation vinyl soundtrack with music by features a Dark Queen artwork drawn by art editor Nick Gazin and she was also featured in the musical trailer ' Opening Number'. Reception The Dark Queen was well received by critics upon her introduction, having been twice nominated by for the Nintendo Power Awards in the category villain of the year for 1991 and 1993. Dark Queen was included on 's 2008 list of the top 50 evil women in all media, and on Geek World's list of the greatest villains of the era.

In 2011, ranked her as tenth on the list of 'most diabolical video game she-villains' while ranked her ninth on the list of ten most beautiful and deadly game villainesses. Ryan Bates of placed her fourth on his 2014 list of top 'mean girls in gaming', stating that 'though the Dark Queen is often noted for her sex appeal, she was one of the first antagonists to set the bar for villainesses in video games,' having 'showcased she can be as cruel and calculating as the men.' The Dark Queen particularly contrasted with 's, as, according to 64 Magazine, 'in this game, the token female wasn't some bland princess pleading for rescue, but instead a leather clad dominatrix embarked on world domination.' Alex Langley of Arcade Sushi called the Dark Queen the 'breakdown character', noting that 'in a time where princesses and queens were there to be kidnapped, the Dark Queen turned the depiction of video game on its head and boldly declared that shed be the one doing the kidnapping.' UGO similarly also commented how 'female villains were quite rare in the early days of video games, with the fairer sex usually reserved as kidnapped princesses in another castle.' According to UGO, 'not only was the Dark Queen revolutionary, she was also dead sexy possibly the hottest babe of the.' UGO editors commented that the Battletoads series is 'notorious for its insanely high difficulty, juvenile sense of humor and big-boobed antagonist' and adding that 'the anger we felt at losing was only compounded by how hot and unattainable the Dark Queen was.'

Both and Geek World declared her the sexiest game character. 's featured her in a 2011 retrospective article featuring the sexy video game women of the era.described the Dark Queen as a 'sexed-up, dominatrix version of from.' Others compared her to and Scylla the witch from, in addition to Elvira. Clarke of stated she 'rivals 's and 's for sheer cleavage' and Hardcore Gaming 101 described her as 'basically a sexy '. Commented on the short-lived Battletoads cartoon how 'Shredder had nothing on the Toads' sexy nemesis, The Dark Queen' and Meristation similarly stated that if they would have to choose between her and the Shredder there would be no contest.

Complex noted that 'where the had to flirt with, the most bodacious chick in the Battletoads universe is ironically the final boss who wants them all dead.' Previewing Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, praised the series' 'cartoony, bizarre, radical style' and how the 'gorgeous character sprites endow the 'Toads and their foes with personality and attitude,' noting 'the Dark Queen definitely has more hex appeal than ever.' According to Charmaine Williams of WhatCulture, actually 'the only thing the cartoon had going for it was the sexy Dark Queen. I guess if you think your show wont live to see a full season, might has well have a character with big boobs that lives in a penis shaped castle.'

Rare Gamer included the Dark Queen in their lists of Top 5 Reasons We Still Love Battletoads, Top 5 Classic Rare Villains Who Just Didn't Know When To Quit, and Top 5 Rare Femme Fatales (That Would Have Us Switching Sides). Luke McKinney and Matthew Moffitt of wrote she has 'helped the young gamers manipulate themselves, and was just as physically mutated as the giant talking animals.' Described her as 'one who deserves to die' and the original game's ending where the Battletoads 'simply just allow her to escape' was included on the 2010 list of ten biggest ending letdowns in video game history by Danny Gallagher of. Requesting an 'awesome remake' of Battletoads, Brian Cullen of wrote that 'we would rain hot, repressed justice all over our consoles, just for a chance to hate-fight the foxy, infuriating Dark Queen;' Sean Velasco, lead designer of 2012's remake, said: 'I wanna high five Zitz and punch the Dark Queen in the gut!' Alternatively, Gaming Nexus' Cyril Lachel stated: 'Forget reviving the Battletoads, all I want is a game based on the Dark Queen!' References.

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For detailed information about this series, see:Battletoads is a series of beat'em up videogames created by Rare and published by Tradewest, starring three anthropomorphic toads named after skin conditions: Rash, Zitz, and Pimple.Video GamesThe seires consists in six games:. Battletoads (June 1991) for NES, Amiga, SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Gear, Amiga CD32. A port for the Game Boy was also released in 1994, titled Battletoads in Ragnarok's World not to be confused with the original Game Boy game Battletoads. Battletoads (1991), Tiger LCD game. Battletoads & Double Dragon (June 1993) for NES, SNES, SEGA Genesis, Game Boy. Also known as Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team.

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Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (June 1993) for SNES. A Sega Master System version was only released in a barely finished state only in Brazil simply as Battlemaniacs in 1996. It features some characters and plot elements originally from the comic. Battletoads (September 1993) for Game Boy.

Despite featuring the same title, it's a different game than the NES one. Battletoads (1994), Arcade. Also known as Super Battletoads. Battletoads (2019) for Xbox One.A Game Boy Advance game was also planned, but never finished. 1The cancelled Battletoads Game Boy Advance game was going to feature elements from the cancelled Diddy Kong Pilot.5 September 03, 2008The fifty-fifth episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd is a review of the NES version of Battletoads. November 11, 2008Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts features a reference to the Battletoads series. February 28, 2011Zitz has been a subject for Death Battle!

April 29, 2015The Battletoads appear in the Xbox One version of Shovel Knight. August 04, 2015Rare Replay includes the original Battletoads and the arcade Battletoads as playable games.25201603 March 2016Rash from Battletoads is a DLC character in Season 3 of Killer Instinct.