Sailor Galaxia (セーラーギャラクシア, Sērā Gyarakushia) is the main antagonist in the final season of the anime. She is the most powerful Sailor Guardian and the ruler of Shadow Galactica.
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Appearance[]
In her true form, Galaxia has long, wavy, hair that is golden orange which falls to her feet, and becomes a bright red; she also has red eyes. She wears a soft lime green dress that reaches down to her feet.
In her Sailor Guardian form, she wears a golden uniform that resembles armor more than the normal Sailor uniform. She has matching boots and a gold headdress that resembles a Russian kokoshnik. Her long hair has been rolled back to fit into the headdress, giving an overall crown-like resemblance. Her makeup consists of orange lipstick and light purple eye shadow and her accessories include bracelets, a gold choker, a gold belt, and a brooch.
In her Chaos form, her uniform turns black and so does her headdress and boots. Her skin turns light purple, her lipstick turns dark purple and her hair turns red.
Information[]
Sailor Galaxia was known as the legendary Sailor Guardian. She, along with many other planetary Sailor Guardians, fought in the Sailor Wars against the source of all malice, Chaos, whose very nature was to consume the galaxy and all of its inhabitants. To finally put an end to the bloody conflict that has been spanning for centuries and thereby guaranteeing the safety of the galaxy forever, she decides to seal Chaos in the only place where no one would be able to free it: inside herself. She uses her magical sword to pierce into the heart of Chaos, drawing it into her body and sealing it in.
However, the greatest battle for Sailor Galaxia has only begun; when Chaos begins tearing at her soul with each heartbeat, she finally realizes that her soul is slowly succumbing to its power. Instead of releasing Chaos, she releases her soul, her Star Seed, into space where it would be untainted by Chaos. She sends her Star Seed to the furthest edges of the galaxy, it being the only Light of Hope for the universe. Her Star Seed arrives on Earth and takes the form of Chibi Chibi, growing close to her in hopes that Usagi will be the Light of Hope that can save her.
Soulless, Galaxia finally fell under Chaos' control, where she becomes the greatest enemy of the galaxy, whereas once she was its guardian and savior. To become the most powerful being in the universe, she attacks and destroys worlds and civilizations across space to steal Star Seeds. After destroying a planet, she offers the planet's Sailor Guardian a choice: to either die defending their world, or to sacrifice their Star Seed and join her cause as a Sailor Animamate.
She remains alive through her golden bracelets, a symbol of her corruption by Chaos, which keeps her alive without her Star Seed. She uses these heavily to shred through living sentient beings and extract the Star Seeds, including those of Sailor Guardians of every planet in the universe.
To enter Earth, her final target, she broke the seal of Queen Nehelenia to force the awakening of the Guardian of Silence, Sailor Saturn, to have her ready for Galaxia to take all the star seeds of the solar system. After Nehelenia is healed by Sailor Moon, Galaxia begins her plan. As Mamoru Chiba is flying to America to begin his studies, Galaxia attacks the airplane he is traveling in and steals his Golden Star Seed, the Star Seed representing Earth, killing him.
However, before Mamoru dies, he inadvertently reveals that there are ten Sailor Guardians protecting the Earth, prompting Sailor Galaxia to target them for their Star Seeds. Once this is decided, she sends her Sailor Animamates to find true Star Seeds belonging to Sailor Guardians.
In the meantime, her Star Seed travels long and far before it finally reaches the Earth and finds Usagi Tsukino attracted to the planet by Usagi's pure power of love. It then takes the form of Chibi Chibi and masquerades as Usagi's sister. However, Chibi Chibi is the Light of Hope, the Star Seed of the "Legendary Guardian" that Princess Kakyu and the Sailor Starlights are searching for as it is the only power that can defeat Sailor Galaxia. The identity of the legendary guardian, however, remains unknown to them. After numerous failures, Galaxia kills most of her Animamates by force, and eventually confronts the Sailor Guardians. She kills Princess Kakyuu, the Inner and Outer Sailor Guardians (minus Pluto and Saturn) all by herself, stealing all their Star Seeds and becoming more powerful with each star seed she obtains. She finally reveals in episode 199 that she is the legendary Guardian who sealed Chaos, much to Eternal Sailor Moon's and the Sailor Starlights' shock, who believed the legendary Sailor Guardian to be a different person altogether.
During the final battle, Chibi Chibi transforms into the Sword of Sealing to assist Sailor Moon, who has now transformed into Princess Serenity. When Chaos feels overwhelmed by Princess Serenity's power, Chaos overtakes Galaxia's body and she undergoes a transformation and begins battling Princess Serenity. However, the Princess' reluctance to fight her angers Chaos Galaxia even more. During the heated battle, Princess Serenity stabs Chaos Galaxia's right wing. Galaxia shatters Serenity's sword, and Chibi Chibi disappears. Serenity continues to refuse to fight Sailor Galaxia, as she can see the goodness and bravery of the real Sailor Galaxia that has succumbed to the rule of Chaos long ago. She instead gives Galaxia the strength of love and purity, finally expelling Chaos from her body, an act which returns darkness to the minds of all life, where it belongs together with the Light of Hope. The battle finally ends: Sailor Galaxia regains her soul and releases the Star Seeds she has stolen. Galaxia, completely nude, then departs from Earth, leading all of the star seeds she has collected back to where they belong.
Personality[]
When she is good, Sailor Galaxia is a kind and caring person, willing to seal away Chaos within herself to save the entire galaxy. It is also heavily implied she is the defender of the entire galaxy, and sent the Light of Hope away in hopes that someone will replace her in her role. This implies that she is as caring and loving for life as Usagi herself, if not even more-so. After being healed, her kind nature is further exemplified, as she guides all of the Star Seeds in the galaxy back to their respective owners.
As a villain, Sailor Galaxia is a cruel and evil being. She carelessly wipes out planets in her quest to obtain Star Seeds, destroying large portions of the galaxy simply out of the fact that she considers it a need for her plans. She considers herself the strongest Sailor Guardian in the entire galaxy, or perhaps in all of existence; due to this, she is very arrogant and prideful. She is more than willing to take someone's Star Seed purely on the fact of them deceiving, attempting to manipulate, rationalize, or even empathizing with her. She sees herself as above the level of a literal god and demands respect. When she feels she is not respected, she is able to take their Star Seed outright or otherwise torture or even outright kill the person. In fact, Sailor Galaxia wanted to kill Usagi simply for trying to empathize with Galaxia that she (Galaxia) is not alone and could have made an alternate choice. This depicts her as a very nasty and ruthless person.
In her battle with Sailor Moon and the Starlights, Galaxia reveals that she has a temper when she cannot have what she wants.
Powers[]
As the strongest Sailor Guardian in the entire galaxy, Galaxia is capable of impossibly strong feats of power. Galaxia can fire blasts or beams of energy with her bracelets, release golden lightning from her hands, and control the dark lightning she gains from her aura. Like Sailor Saturn, she can destroy planets with ease and she is fast enough to battle the Starlights throughout the entire galaxy and the space around it in a few moments. She also destroys several planets and stars by accident during the clash, with explosions being seen destroying several star systems.
- Energy Beams and Blasts - Galaxia can fire out razor-edged energy blasts toward an enemy. When she simply wants to cause damage to them, she can also fire out several beams of her energy at them.
- Golden Lightning - Out of her hand, Galaxia can release streams of golden lighting at anybody who angers her.
- Dark Lightning - Galaxia can manipulate the dark lightning created by her aura, even being able to fire it out of her sword if she needed it.
- Barriers - In the war with the Starlights, Galaxia puts up an invisible barrier against their energy attacks.
- Energy Waves - Galaxia can launch waves of energy at an enemy just by swinging her sword at them.
- Repelling Force - She can send blasts of repelling force into enemies.
- Energy Balls - When Galaxia wants to simply damage an enemy, she can fire out a ball of pure energy into them.
Weapons[]
- Galactica Bracelets - Sailor Galaxia can fire blasts of pure energy from her bracelets that can remove a person's star seed; thus destroying them entirely.
- Energy Whip - Sailor Galaxia uses a glowing golden whip to strike down Super Sailor Uranus and Super Sailor Neptune in episode 197.
- Sword - When fully taken over by Chaos, Sailor Galaxia possesses a sword of evil power, which strongly resembles the mystical Sword of Sealing used by Princess Serenity. This sword is powerful enough to destroy the Sword of Sealing itself; however, this may have simply been because Usagi did not attempt to retaliate or defend herself.
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Trivia[]
- In the anime, Sailor Galaxia has one image song: Golden Queen Galaxia.
- Sailor Galaxia's civilian name is unknown.
- She is one of the few villains in the anime that are able to kill any of the Sailor Guardians, the others being the DD Girls.
- The design of her Chaos-infected form she takes for the primary part of the season may be inspired by Egyptian Pharaohs, who often decorated themselves in lavish and elaborate outfits. This may even be a reference to queens such as Cleopatra.
