Murido (ムリード, Murīdo) is a Yoma from the Dark Kingdom who works under Jadeite.
Appearance[]
In her human form, Murido has light pink, curly hair, and light blue eyes. She wears a gold tiara and pink, blue, and white dress trimmed in gold. In her yoma form, her hair remains the same, but everything else changes. She has the appearance of a ball-jointed doll, and her skin is a greenish-yellow. Her eyes are green, and she wears a black and red dress and her crown is red and claw-like.
She has the ability to trap her victims inside a dream, or illusion, after exposing them to some kind of mist. She also has a remote control that looks like an apple, alluding to fairy tales (and perhaps hinting at her evil nature, as the apple is most often associated with the witch), and she uses this to drain people’s energy.
She has the beauty and sweet disposition of Snow White, but the malicious intentions of the Evil Queen. She uses her apple to send her enemies into a deep dream where she can control them and steal their energy as if capturing their youth for herself.
Information[]
Queen Beryl becomes irritated at Jadeite after learning from him that Sailor Mars has joined the Sailor Guardians. In response, Jadeite hopes to trap the trio in an amusement park called Dream Land. The amusement park which recently opened is plagued by problems, with fifty people disappearing since it opened. Ami recommends that she, Usagi, and Rei go there, as they have grown bored staying indoors, which is made evident by the constant bickering between Rei and Usagi over a Sailor V manga. Ami also hypothesizes evil activity, and the three go to the amusement park to investigate.
As part of his trap, Jadeite summons his yoma, Murido, to gather energy from those who attend the amusement park so as to awaken Queen Metalia. Murido masquerades as the mascot of Dream Land. As the mascot, Murido keeps the visitors of the amusement park entertained with rides, and mechanical animals controlled by an apple she holds in her hand at all times. She also hosts a party at the park's Sweet Dream Factory, to which she invites all the park's guests. When guests arrive at the house, they are lured with various sweets. Once Murido questions the guests as to whether or not they are enjoying themselves, she blows from her mouth a red mist which causes the visitors to hallucinate and enter a dream state where the yoma steals their energy for Jadeite through her apple. Usagi is enthralled by the mascot, her mechanical animals and the amusements she offers, although Rei feels a strange aura surrounding her.
Whilst investigating the disappearances at the amusement park, Luna decides to split the trio up to investigate the amusement park more efficiently. Usagi and Rei pair off in one group while Ami and Luna pair off in another group. To the detriment of the latter group, Ami falls victim to Murido as she drains Ami's energy as well as some visitors during one of the mascot’s parties at the Sweet Dream Factory. Rei realizes something bad has happened inside the Sweet Dream Factory, and she and Usagi transform.
Sailor Mars blasts away the locked door of the factory with Fire Soul and pursues the mascot. Once inside, they are confronted by the mascot, who blows her red mist at Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars. Both of them begin to hallucinate, dreaming that they are in a field of flowers. The mascot tries to offer Sailor Moon a wreath of flowers but that wreath turns into a snake that bites Sailor Mars on the arm as she knocks it away from Sailor Moon. Although the snake turns into stone, the venom from that snake is also turning Sailor Mars to stone, although she frees herself from the effects of the venom by using her ofuda to perform Akuryo Taisan. The effects of the hallucination wear off once the mascot reveals to Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars her true yoma form.
Again, Murido causes Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars to hallucinate as they dream of being in the company of Tuxedo Mask. Completely off their guard, Murido is about to finish them off with her apple curse when the real Tuxedo Mask uses his rose to knock away the Yoma‘s apple, thus stopping Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars from further hallucinations. Both Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars retreat as they realize that she is too powerful for them to attack individually. By chance, they find Ami, who transforms into Sailor Mercury. Sailor Mercury uses Sabão Spray to create a fog and confuses the yoma. Sailor Mars then uses Akuryo Taisan to immobilize her and Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars combine Moon Tiara and Fire Soul to finally destroy her.
Jadeite becomes irritated at Murido‘s destruction as he has to inform Queen Beryl of his failure. Upon the yoma‘s defeat, the Sweet Dream Factory disappears as well as the apple which trapped the stolen energy from the amusement park guests.
Powers[]
Murido's main powers are thanks to her apple; in her disguise, she is able to use it to control (and possibly create) robotic animals in the park. She can also generate powerful illusions from her apple, which can drain energy.
She also has the ability to breath out pink gas which has the power to trap people in dreams. Some of the dreams she can generate include Tuxedo Mask on a white horse and giving Usagi a flower necklace; however, the necklace becomes a snake which threatens to petrify whoever it bites.
Her weakness is her apple, which holds her collected energy and generates her illusions.
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Trivia[]
- Murido's name, 無リード (mu rīdo), means lead-free in Japanese. When her name is reversed, it is ドリーム (dorimu), which is the Japanese spelling of the English word dream.
- She was the first enemy to be destroyed by a combination of Sailor Moon's and Sailor Mars' attacks.
- Murido appears as a boss in the Super Famicom video game Sailor Moon. She is the boss of Dreamland.
- Murido was one of the monster types that appeared in the video game Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story. Versions of her appeared during Chapter One of the game and were minor level bosses at Juban Public Middle School.
- Murido appears as a proctor in the Playdia video game Sailor Moon S: Quiz Taiketsu! Sailor Power Ketsushuu
- In the DiC dub, when Murido is in her Youma form, her voice sounds more robotic.
- She was the first Youma to be destroyed by Moon Tiara Action and Fire Soul combining, the next (and last) being the Plant Sisters.
