Queen Metalia (クイン メタリア, Kuin Metaria) is a malignant, amorphous energy being, and is the true mastermind and leader of the Dark Kingdom, having been the one who gave Queen Beryl her power.
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Appearance[]
Queen Metalia first appeared during the invasion at the Moon Kingdom as a giant shadowy entity with yellow glowing eyes and a blue mouth.
After being partially awakened in the modern day, she seemed to take on a new appearance; she appeared to be inside an orange cocoon, with her essence (shown as black mist) swirling and moving inside it similar to the patterns of radio waves. In the season finale, she broke out of this form and fully possessed Queen Beryl, forming Super Beryl.
As Super Beryl, she wore a scarlet dress and had light teal skin with dark-blue hair; their form was approximately 50-100 feet tall in this form.
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During Silver Millennium, it was stated that unnatural sunspots began appearing on the sun; Queen Metalia was born from these and sensed conflict within Beryl, a human on Earth. Taking advantage of Beryl's jealousy of the love between Prince Endymion and Princess Serenity, she corrupted Beryl into starting a war between the Earth and Moon Kingdom.
She also used her power to assist in the assault, which led to the Moon Kingdom being destroyed; the Inner Senshi (as well as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion) all suffered casualties in this fight. Queen Serenity as well as the moon cats witnessed this as well as the birth of the Dark Kingdom by Beryl.
Queen Serenity used the Moon Stick with the Silver Crystal to seal away the Dark Kingdom (including Metalia) and reincarnate all of the Sailor Senshi.
In the present day, Queen Beryl and the Dark Kingdom somehow reawakened, sans Metalia; Beryl ordered Jadeite and Nephrite to collect energy to re-awaken her, which eventually succeeded. After doing so, Metalia told Beryl to find the Rainbow Crystals and revive the Seven Great Youma to locate the Silver Crystal, which she believed necessary to complete her awakening.
Later, after Princess Serenity re-awakened, Tuxedo Mask was brought to her; she recognized him as the reincarnation of Prince Endymion and flooded him with dark energy, brainwashing him into becoming evil.
Later, it was revealed to the Sailor Senshi that once the sunspots cover the sun's surface once again, Metalia's revival would be complete; they'd also begun to align in the same patterns as when the Moon Kingdom was destroyed, implying the same thing would happen to the Earth.
In the season finale, Beryl begged Metalia for power, who agreed and possessed Beryl, turning them into a creature called Super Beryl. They fought Princess Serenity in the Arctic, but with the power of her friends' spirits, Princess Serenity used the Silver Crystal to unleash its ultimate attack, Moon Prism Power. This attack completely obliterated both of them but also cost Princess Serenity her life.
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Trivia[]
- Queen Metalia is the only "greater antagonist" destroyed at the same time as the main antagonist (as they were combined together at the time). Most of the other ones kill the true main antagonist, except the case of Pharaoh 90 and Professor Tomoe, as Tomoe survives (though the one possessing him is killed).
- In the manga, she looked like a humanoid shadowy figure, but in the anime, she looked like a black cloud.
- In the DiC English dub, she was called The Negaforce and in that dub, she had no gender. In the Viz Media English dub, she is properly called "Queen Metalia".
- Interestingly, unlike other main antagonists, Queen Metalia does not seem to exhibit many powers of her own; aside from the obvious ability to destroy Earth, the only other power she was seen was giving Mamoru (and Beryl) her dark energy to serve them.
- She has a unique relationship with Beryl, in that Beryl is lower than her in command, although she needs to use Beryl to carry out her orders, rather than giving orders directly.
