History Characters / PsychonautsTheMentalWorld

* AllegoricalCharacter: The Rainbow Squirts act as metaphorical agents of Oleander's plot and the brainwashing he inflicted upon Boyd, designed to keep the Milkman asleep until the right time.

* RomanticFalseLead: Dean/Dingo, the latter of whom is also in particular presented as a self-obsessed PrinceCharmless. [[spoiler: Ultimately [[InvertedTrope]], as Lampita/Lana was actually this to Edgar, having cheated on and dumped him to run off with Dingo/Dean. Part of helping Edgar recover is helping him acknowledge and come to terms with this.]]

* RomanticFalseLead: Dean/Dingo, the latter of whom is also in particular presented as a self-obsessed PrinceCharmless.

[[spoiler:For her new identity as Nona Aquato, see [[Characters/PsychonautsTheFlyingAquatos The Flying Aquatos]]. For her original identity as Lucrecia Mux, see [[Characters/PsychonautsPsychonauts Psychonauts]].]]

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* AccidentalMurder: A memory vault shows that [[spoiler:her drowning of her Sister Marona and the peaceful protest she was part of was this, as Lucrecia was actually attempting to drive the protest off by summoning heavy rainfall to disperse them, only for Valerno's dam to be so heavily flooded by the downpour that it broke, flooding the city and claiming Marona's life in the process, the guilt of which--alongside the guilt of having killed so many-- resulted in the Maligula personality becoming dominant inside Lucrecia's mind, from then on ''intentionally'' causing mass drownings out of a primal lust for violence and death]].
* AllegoricalCharacter: [[spoiler:The biggest one in the series. She is the "fight" of Lucrecia's fight-or-flight response, made through a combination of the Psychic Six's experiments and the trauma of killing both her countrymen and her family, sending her fully into ThenLetMeBeEvil. The FinalBoss fight against her is even a literal IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight, with the Maligula personality violently suppressing the Nona/Lucrecia personality into herself.]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin is purple. [[spoiler:Neither of her sane identities are similarly colored, however.]]

* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:She's actually Raz's Great-Aunt]].
* AttackAttackAttack:[[spoiler:She's basically a manifestation of the 'Fight' part of the 'fight or flight' complex given strength and sentience through Nona's fragile mental state from volunteering for Otto's experiments, further compounded from the deaths she was forced to cause quelling a Civil war in her home country. She can barely have a conversation for a few minutes before attempting to attack the other parties with lethal intent, and she's not interested in any grand plans beyond simply destroying everything around herself with her hydrokinesis powers. During her boss fight, she encases herself in a tornado of water and zooms all over the battlefield, damaging Raz if he comes in contact with her, and constantly summons snakes of water to launch themselves at him, but has zero means of blocking Raz's own attacks, and doesn't really alter her strategy unless forced to by the other interns' interference. To make up for this, she can take [[MadeofIron quite a beating]] from multiple parties without really slowing down. In other words, favouring brute force and simple power over fancy tricks or techniques]].
* BodyMotifs: As the origin of the Hand of Galochio curse, a lot of attention is drawn to the grandiose motions she makes with her own hands. [[spoiler: Her final attempt to regain control of the situation even involves her reenacting the curse's effects, reaching up from a maelstrom to try and drag Nona in.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:She was the Cain to her sister Marona's Abel. It ended in tragedy, when she killed her own sister. This only happened after her FaceHeelTurn, however. When she was still sane, Lucy and Marona loved each other, Maligula never intended to kill her, and was horrified when she found out.]]
* TheCaligula: Look at her name. [[spoiler:Ironically, her actual role as Grulovia's War Minister was more akin to TheDragon to the actual Caligula, Gzar Theodore, eventually morphing into PsychoForHire after the flooding of Valermo started to resonate badly with the mental experiments she volunteered for with Otto, eventually causing her to devolve into a violence and death-loving lunatic]].
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:She taunts Raz with this after losing the FinalBoss fight, pointing out that they cannot get rid of her as she is a part of Nona's own psyche, hence as long as she lives, so too will Maligula find a way to return. Raz just brushes her threats off, claiming that Maligula is just another bad thought that needs to be controlled and suppressed with aid and understanding before Nona seals her within the depths of her subconscious]].
* CardCarryingVillain: She regularly boasts of her ability to destroy things and revels in fear. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, in that she is ''literally'' an evil impulse - and more importantly, a defense mechanism for Lucrecia. In effect, she is the part of the larger person who wants to be evil largely because the guilt of accidentally killing her sister and brother-in-law would be otherwise overwhelming.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the Evil Augustus from the end of the first game. [[spoiler:Both are [[FinalBoss Final Bosses]] who are [[AllegoricalCharacter personal demon-representations]] of Raz's family members who's [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation skin-tones much colder]] than their real life counterparts, are alluded to throughout the game, use water as a weapon and are defeated when their real world counterparts turn Raz into a giant. Though whereas Evil Augustus hates psychics, Maligula an exceptionally powerful psychic. While Evil Augustus uses water merely as an environmental hazard, mainly using fire-lit juggling pins, Maligula fights entirely with water using her hydrokinesis. While Maligula is alluded to and [[TheDreaded feared]] by everyone in the cast throughout the story, the personal demon version of Augustus comes right out of nowhere.]]
* {{Curse}}: She is responsible for the curse on Raz's family that will make them perish in water. [[spoiler:But not directly; rather, it's a byproduct of an attempt to keep her sealed.]]
* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler:Her husband Gelsin died when Grulovia was invaded. This, along with fearing for her sister's life, is implied to be one of the main reasons she returned to the country and became it's war minister.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:She was originally the enforcer of Gzar Theodore who used her powers to help quell protests against him. Unfortunately, when she finally snapped she ended up becoming a threat to everyone, including the royal family who were forced into exile]].
* DeadToBeginWith: She's dead at the start of ''Psychonauts 2'', and TheMole at Psychonauts HQ is trying to bring her back to life. [[spoiler:Turns out that her 'death' was more DeathOfPersonality, which is why the mole is so confident he can 'resurrect' her once he finds her current location from Ford]].
* DisneyVillainDeath: Played with. [[spoiler:She doesn't actually die so much as fall back into the mental vault inside Nona in the first place - as she notes, she can't die as long as Lucrecia/Nona lives, as a part of Nona's id, but now that Nona is aware of her and has resolved her guilt, she's been reduced back to a bad thought that everyone has.]]

* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:She's one to Nona, Raz's grandmother- or rather Grand-Aunt as he discovers mid-way through the game]].
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:She was once Lucrecia "Lucy" Mux, one of the founders of the Psychic Six. The invasion of Grulovia that killed her first love Gelsin, Otto's experiments and the Valermo Dam disaster that killed her sister and brother-in-law turned her into Maligula. Ford had to wipe her memories after she went mad with grief and nearly killed Helmut, as the world would never be able to forgive her actions as the Deluge of Grulovia.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:She was the 7th member of what would become the Psychonauts, but getting involved in Grulovia's Civil War end up reacting badly with her mental state after she subjected herself to some of Otto's mental experiments, hitting its Zenith when she accidentally drowned her sister and the entire city of Valermo when trying to disperse a peaceful protest against the Gzar with heavy rainfall, resulting in her Maligula persona becoming dominant and lashing out with psychotic violence against the world. Ford and Raz's quest during the second half of the game is to separate the 'fallen' from the 'hero' inside Nona's mind, using the Astralathe to dig a hole straight to Nona's subconscious and bury Maligula inside it to prevent her returning for good]].
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:She's the last enemy Raz has to fight, [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind and does so in Nona's mind]]]].
* FlatCharacter: All we really learn about her is that she's evil, likes killing, and the Psychonauts had to be called in to put her down. [[spoiler:Justified, because she isn't the real personality of Lucrecia- she's the PTSD-induced mental breakdown of a woman pushed too far, and a Fight Or Flight reflex gone out of control, making her more of a personality ''trait'' than a person. Sure enough, in her boss battle all she speaks of is spreading more death and destruction without any meaningful motive.]]

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: She's less of a real person and more of a boogeyman for the Psychonauts, being an insane, incredibly powerful psychic that destroyed a country and killed countless people, her "death" leaving Ford Cruller the unstable mess he is today. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, in that it's revealed she isn't really a character in her own right to ''have'' a motivation. While the story fleshes out Lucrecia[=/=]Nona's personality, the FinalBoss incarnation of Maligula is a personal demon representing her PTSD, manifesting as a CardCarryingVillain who revels in the mayhem she causes ForTheEvulz. She's also really more of a sentient defense mechanism than a person.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: She was apparently [[spoiler:the Psychic that gave Ford Cruller his GameBreakingInjury in the fight that ultimately killed her, resulting in his currently shattered mind state]], and seemingly one of her followers was secretly behind the events of the first game, controlling Dr. Loboto, and threatening him with what seems to be a vision of Maligula. The Hand of Galochio appearing after Raz first sees her implies that it was either her or a follower of hers that 'cursed' his family to die in water, though again, it's left unclear how much of this is true and how much is in Raz's head.
** [[spoiler:The main game reveals towards the end that, technically, she was somewhat responsible for the plot of Psychonauts happening in the first place, as Nona, her amnesiac current identity, was the mysterious stranger who gave Raz the Whispering Rock pamphlet that inspired him to run away to the camp. Upon being questioned, she admits that she did so because she wanted either Raz or Frazie to follow their dreams, and Raz was the more enthusiastic between the two about having psychic powers. Ford notes that the real reason was likely a subconscious understanding that something was wrong with her, and need for psychic help stemming from her memories as Maligula struggling to resurface behind the psychic lock that Ford sealed her away behind inside Nona's mind, hence why she pushed her family members to become stronger psychics. A memory vault of the incident shows that Nona was confused and partially dazed throughout the whole thing, only recovering her senses afterwards, demonstrating how greatly she was influenced by her buried personality]].
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:She's not the BigBad, that's Gristol - however, his plots are all about reawakening and regaining control of her, and she is the FinalBoss.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:She's the one who nearly killed Helmut Fullbear, one of her former friends. Only Helmut and Ford's quick reactions allowed him to survive as a brain. She also killed Augustus' parents, Lazlo Aquato and her own sister Marona.]]

* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler:She says this in regards to shrugging off Marona's death once Nona separates from her, noting that she's a killer, and Marona is just one amongst many, so she feels no real guilt for her sister's passing. It's implied this perception of herself in Lucrecia's mind is what allowed the Maligula personality to become dominant in the first place, with Lucy's shattered mental state upon finding Marona's body deciding to embrace the public perception of her as a vicious monster to deal with the pain]].
* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler:When she finally understands that she's the one who killed Marona, she just dismisses her as one of the many she killed]].
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:Played with, because it wasn't intentional. She took her sister's place as the mother of Augustus and Raz's grandma, after she accidentally drowned her. This was helped by Ford wiping her memories with the Astralathe - she didn't do it of her own free will. Ford explains that she was the only family Augustus still had, and the only way he could keep them together was by altering their memories, locking away the trauma they both endured.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: To be expected from somebody known for causing a massive body count with mass flooding as her preferred tactic, Maligula doesn't care much for others, unless they're a target for her to drown. [[spoiler:This makes sense given she is literally the part of Lucrecia's mind that is devoid of empathy. This gets ''slightly'' subverted when Raz battles her inside Nona's mind, with Maligula reliving her discovery of her sister's body in one of the peaceful protests she drowned on the orders of the Ghzar. She's shown to be remorseful and claims that ItsAllMyFault, but this is only as long as Nona's spirit is in contact with her. Once Nona moves away from her, [[RedemptionRejection Maligula quickly brushes off any remorse she showed for her deceased Sibling's death,]] claiming that she kills lots of people, [[IgnoredEpiphany and she was just a number amongst thousands.]] As an overgrown aspect of the mind's desire for violence, Maligula literally doesn't have the ability to empathize with others so long as Nona is suppressed and unable to exert any influence over her darker half]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: She has a distinct and dark 14 note theme that pops up throughout the game. [[spoiler:A warmer and softer version of the theme plays when Nona is reunited with the Psychic Six. A much more dramatic and intense version is Maligula's final boss theme.]]

* ManOfKryptonite: She's famous for her Hydrokinesis powers. This would pose a massive threat to our protagonist, who's cursed to die in water. [[spoiler:Ironically, she's revealed to actually be Razputin's Great Aunt, and said 'curse' was actually a subconscious aversion to water that Ford planted in her and the young Augustus' minds in order to prevent any chance of her Maligula personality resurrecting. In fact, its hinted that the Hand of Galochio construct that Raz constantly sees near deep water is [[YourMindMakesItReal his own creation]], born from his learned fears of water and the family curse and manifesting in a subconscious control over nearby pools of deep water attacking him, implying that Raz may actually be a gifted Hydrokinetic accidentally using his abilities against himself. At the end of the game, after beating Maligula and resolving Nona's guilt over her past actions, the hand construct actually helps push Raz to shore and gives him a friendly wave, implying Raz may be exercising more control over water after facing his fears]].

* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:She accidentally destroyed the Grulovian city of Valermo with a flood, after overloading and breaking the city's dam with an intense rain, killing dozens of people. Once she snapped, she went on a murderous rampage across Grulovia and devastated her homeland. The Psychic Six had to stop her before she turned her rage against the whole world.]]
* PowerFloats: [[spoiler:When she reawakens inside Nona, Nona starts levitating, as a display of power]].
* PowerStereotypeFlip: [[spoiler:While Lucy/Nona's personality fits the common traits one would associate with MakingASplash (kind, patient, nurturing, etc.), Maligula's personality fits more into the kind of personality type you would find in PlayingWithFire or PowerOfTheVoid (power drunk and indiscriminantely destructive).]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The second half of the game turns into thus, as [[spoiler:once Raz helps piece together Ford's mind enough, he realizes that bringing Nona to the Motherlobe was a ''very bad idea'', as being in the area is starting to jog her suppressed memories of her prior life as part of what would become the Psychic 6, in turn also threatening to restore her Maligula personality from behind the psychic Lock Ford sealed her behind inside Nona's mind. With both of them unwilling to let her come to harm, Ford and Raz have to recover one of Otto's old experimental machines from the original meeting spot of the Psychic Six before Nona remembers too much, so they can use it on her and properly bury Maligula deep inside Nona's subconscious where she belongs]].

* RetiredMonster: [[spoiler:Due to the Maligula persona being sealed deep inside Nona, Nona herself now lives peacefully with the Aquatos]].
* SealedInAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:She was sealed deep within Nona's mind]].

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:She's basically this to Lucrecia/Nona.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:She was a psychic powerful enough to drown entire countries and strong enough to nearly defeat the Psychic Six on her own, though it's hinted they were holding back out of sympathy for the fallen friend until it was too late. It's revealed that Razputin is actually her Great-Nephew, and in addition to his own immensely powerful Psychic abilities for his age, the game implies that he inherited her natural gift for Hydrokinesis-- though thanks to Ford's psychic imprinting of a Fear of water into Nona that eventually got turned into the 'family curse', it's implied that Raz's natural control over deep enough pools of water results in him subconsciously manifesting the Hand of Galochio to attack him as a near-literal manifestation of his fears]].
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:At the end of "Cruller's Correspondence", she responds to Ford's letter with a postcard simply reading "Lucy is dead. She's never coming back. - M."]]
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:She had no choice in becoming a PersonOfMassDestruction, she was made that way by Gzar Theodore. When Nona is close enough to reactivate her conscience, she shows horror and remorse that she is not normally capable of doing, that capacity having long been removed from her.]]
* {{Unperson}}: [[spoiler:All records of her former identity as the hidden 7th member of the Psychic Six were removed due to Maligula's mass murders, with Raz being caught off-guard when he stumbled across her stump alongside the other six in Ford's mental recreation of the Whispering Rock Campfire. In addition, Ford also made her take the place of her sister Marona - Raz's real grandmother - in order to help fake her death, altering both her and her nephew Augustus' memories to make them both think she was his mother, and effectively forgetting her true identity in favour of becoming her sister]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Exaggerated. She's actually the ''embodiment'' of the impulse to repay pain with violence, who became sentient and the dominant personality when Lucrecia's AccidentalMurder of her sister and brother-in-law sent her over the DespairEventHorizon she was building to ever since the [[WarIsHell Grulovian War]].]]

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She killed her sister Marona and her brother-in-law Lazlo Aquato, Augustus' parents and Razputin's paternal grandparents. Raz is horrified when he finds out the truth and tries to tell his family, but Ford stops him to protect Nona.]]

* PunnyNames: All themed around the five senses.

* VisionQuest: Not only is that the name of the ''Sense'' of sight (Vision Quest, who is also Ford), the three shrines in which the band members' instruments are found are dreamlike psychedelic landscapes that are somehow inside the band members themselves.

* DeathByGluttony: Two of the four are killed [[spoiler:from eating too much of the food until they explode. Subverted by the last one, where it gets overfed to the point of bursting, but Compton regains control and simply removes the puppet from his hand]].

* RuleOfThree: In the boss fight, the Otto goat [[spoiler:[[DeathByGluttony bursts from eating too much]] and the puppeteer replaces him with a mixer]], and the Hollis goat also [[spoiler:bursts from overeating and is replaced with a spatula]]... but the Ford goat [[spoiler:looks like it's about to burst, then just goes limp, as Compton regains control and removes the puppet from his own hand]].

* AllegoricalCharacter: He is the ManchurianAgent within Boyd's mind, having been implanted there by Oleander to destroy all evidence of his and Loboto's EvilPlan. [[spoiler: More specifically, he's a manifestation of Boyd's destructive impulses towards things that frighten him, with Oleander brainwashing Boyd to create The Milkman from these impulses.]]

* AllegoricalCharacter: He is the ManchurianAgent within Boyd's mind, having been implanted there by Oleander to destroy all evidence of his and Loboto's EvilPlan.

* AllegoricalCharacter: They are a manifestation of Boyd's belief that everyone is a government spy, and their incompetence at disguising themselves shows that Boyd thinks this is obvious to nobody but him.

* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler:She says this in regards to shrugging off Marona's death once Nona separates from her, noting that she's a killer, and Marona is just one amongst many, so she feels no real guilt for her sister's passing.It's implied this perception of herself in Lucrecia's mind is what allowed the Maligula personality to become dominant in the first place, with Lucy's shattered mental state upon finding Marona's body deciding to embrace the public perception of her as a vicious monster to deal with the pain]].

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: As {{Allegorical Character}}s they are the direct embodiments of the five senses, with PSI-King himself as {{the Sixth|Sense}}.

PSI-King's bandmates, who split apart when the audience left (when he lost his original body) and need to be reunited to deal with sensory overload in his new body -- that is to say, they need to get back together and finally play the concert event, the Feast for the Senses, which their rabid fans have been waiting for for over twenty years. The group consists of Vision Quest, Dr. Touch, Audie O., Sniffles, and Tasty.

* BorrowingTheBeatles: Among other bands. Not so much their sound, but the bright cel-shaded art style of the characters, their shrines, and the MentalWorld as a whole are a loving homage to ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', while their marching band costumes are based on the uniforms from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''.
* DreamWithinADream: You're in Mote of Light's mind, but to find the instruments needed to put the band back together you'll have to venture into the sub-minds of each bandmate, the literal senses which have lain dormant during Light's isolation.

* VisionQuest: Not only is that the name of the Sense of sight (who is also Ford), the three shrines in which the band members' instruments are found are dreamlike psychedelic landscapes that are somehow inside the band members themselves.

* VisionQuest: Not only is that the name of the Sense of sight (who is also Ford), the three shrines in which the band members' instruments are formed are dreamlike psychedelic landscapes that are somehow inside the band members themselves.

[[folder:Feast of the Senses]]
PSI-King's bandmates, who split apart when the audience left (when he lost his original body) and need to be reunited to deal with sensory overload in his new body. The group consists of Vision Quest, Dr. Touch, Audie O., Sniffles, and Tasty.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Psi-King and his bandmates had been split for several years, and your job is to help them reunite by finding their instruments.
* TokenHeroicOrc: Unlike all of the other Mental Figures, the Feast are purely positive forces in Psi-King's mind, with the goal being to help them rather than oppose them. The only antagonistic force in the level comes from Psi-King's frequent panic attacks due to sensory overload, and a single bad memory that the Feast turn into a ZeroEffortBoss.

* RuleOfThree: In the boss fight, the Otto goat [[spoiler:[[DeathByGluttony bursts from eating too much]] and the puppeteer replaces him with a mixer]], and the Hollis goat also [[spoiler:bursts from overeating and is replaced with a spatula]]...but the Ford goat [[spoiler:looks like it's about to burst, then just goes limp, as Compton regains control and removes the puppet from his own hand]].

* SerialKiller: She was a mass murderer with psychic powers.

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!!Mental Enemies

[[folder:Doubts]]

Small purple BlobMonster creatures with brightly glowing eyes and mouths, representing the doubts in a person's conflicted mind.

[[folder:Final Boss]]
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/AudreyWasilewski
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[[caption-width-right:350:Maligula Galochio, The Deluge of Grulovia]]
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The chief antagonist of ''Psychonauts 2''. A hydrokineticist that brought ruin to Grulovia twenty years ago, but was killed by Ford Cruller... at the cost of Ford's mind. Despite her supposed death, she's connected to the kidnapping of Truman Zanotto, as well as being responsible for putting the curse on Raz and his family to die in water.
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* AccidentalMurder: A memory vault shows that [[spoiler:her drowning of her Sister Marona and the peaceful protest she was part of was this, as Lucrecia was actually attempting to drive the protest off by summoning heavy rainfall to disperse them, only for Valerno's dam to be so heavily flooded by the downpour that it broke, flooding the city and claiming Marona's life in the process, the guilt of which--alongside the guilt of having killed so many-- resulted in the Maligula personality becoming dominant inside Lucrecia's mind, from then on ''intentionally'' causing mass drownings out of a primal lust for violence and death]].
* AllegoricalCharacter: [[spoiler:The biggest one in the series. She is the "fight" of Lucrecia's fight-or-flight response, made through a combination of the Psychic Six's experiments and the trauma of killing both her countrymen and her family, sending her fully into ThenLetMeBeEvil. The FinalBoss fight against her is even a literal IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight, with the Maligula personality violently suppressing the Nona/Lucrecia personality into herself.]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin is purple. [[spoiler:Neither of her sane identities are similarly colored, however.]]
* AnimalMotifs: Snakes. She commonly manifests her hydrokinesis as snakes made of water (which are so life-like that they can be controlled by Sam as though they were real), her silhouette when she takes the form of a typhoon makes her look vaguely reptilian, she has yellow eyes with a head shape similar to a snake's, her hood looks like the hood of a cobra, etc.
* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:She's actually Raz's Great-Aunt]].
* AttackAttackAttack:[[spoiler:She's basically a manifestation of the 'Fight' part of the 'fight or flight' complex given strength and sentience through Nona's fragile mental state from volunteering for Otto's experiments, further compounded from the deaths she was forced to cause quelling a Civil war in her home country. She can barely have a conversation for a few minutes before attempting to attack the other parties with lethal intent, and she's not interested in any grand plans beyond simply destroying everything around herself with her hydrokinesis powers. During her boss fight, she encases herself in a tornado of water and zooms all over the battlefield, damaging Raz if he comes in contact with her, and constantly summons snakes of water to launch themselves at him, but has zero means of blocking Raz's own attacks, and doesn't really alter her strategy unless forced to by the other interns' interference. To make up for this, she can take [[MadeofIron quite a beating]] from multiple parties without really slowing down. In other words, favouring brute force and simple power over fancy tricks or techniques]].
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:She was the Cain to her sister Marona's Abel. It ended in tragedy, when she killed her own sister. This only happened after her FaceHeelTurn, however. When she was still sane, Lucy and Marona loved each other, Maligula never intended to kill her, and was horrified when she found out.]]
* TheCaligula: Look at her name. [[spoiler:Ironically, her actual role as Grulovia's War Minister was more akin to TheDragon to the actual Caligula, Gzar Theodore, eventually morphing into PsychoForHire after the flooding of Valermo started to resonate badly with the mental experiments she volunteered for with Otto, eventually causing her to devolve into a violence and death-loving lunatic]].
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:She taunts Raz with this after losing the FinalBoss fight, pointing out that they cannot get rid of her as she is a part of Nona's own psyche, hence as long as she lives, so too will Maligula find a way to return. Raz just brushes her threats off, claiming that Maligula is just another bad thought that needs to be controlled and suppressed with aid and understanding before Nona seals her within the depths of her subconscious]].
* CardCarryingVillain: She regularly boasts of her ability to destroy things and revels in fear. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, in that she is ''literally'' an evil impulse - and more importantly, a defense mechanism for Lucrecia. In effect, she is the part of the larger person who wants to be evil largely because the guilt of accidentally killing her sister and brother-in-law would be otherwise overwhelming.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the Evil Augustus from the end of the first game. [[spoiler:Both are [[FinalBoss Final Bosses]] who are [[AllegoricalCharacter personal demon-representations]] of Raz's family members who's [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation skin-tones much colder]] than their real life counterparts, are alluded to throughout the game, use water as a weapon and are defeated when their real world counterparts turn Raz into a giant. Though whereas Evil Augustus hates psychics, Maligula an exceptionally powerful psychic. While Evil Augustus uses water merely as an environmental hazard, mainly using fire-lit juggling pins, Maligula fights entirely with water using her hydrokinesis. While Maligula is alluded to and [[TheDreaded feared]] by everyone in the cast throughout the story, the personal demon version of Augustus comes right out of nowhere.]]
* {{Curse}}: She is responsible for the curse on Raz's family that will make them perish in water. [[spoiler:But not directly; rather, it's a byproduct of an attempt to keep her sealed.]]
* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler:Her husband Gelsin died when Grulovia was invaded. This, along with fearing for her sister's life, is implied to be one of the main reasons she returned to the country and became it's war minister.]]
* DeadToBeginWith: She's dead at the start of ''Psychonauts 2'', and TheMole at Psychonauts HQ is trying to bring her back to life. [[spoiler:Turns out that her 'death' was more DeathOfPersonality, which is why the mole is so confident he can 'resurrect' her once he finds her current location from Ford]].
* DisneyVillainDeath: Played with. [[spoiler:She doesn't actually die so much as fall back into the mental vault inside Nona in the first place - as she notes, she can't die as long as Lucrecia/Nona lives, as a part of Nona's id, but now that Nona is aware of her and has resolved her guilt, she's been reduced back to a bad thought that everyone has.]]
* TheDreaded: She was a psychic of unbelievable hyrdokinetic power who took the six strongest psychics in the world to kill originally, and was seen as a living force of nature with full capability of destroying the world. Even though true magic like necromancy is considered psuedoscience and fake, even just the possibility that the Delugionists could find a way to bring her back to life grips the Psychonauts with fear and paranoia.
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:She's one to Nona, Raz's grandmother- or rather Grand-Aunt as he discovers mid-way through the game]].
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:She was once Lucrecia "Lucy" Mux, one of the founders of the Psychic Six. The invasion of Grulovia that killed her first love Gelsin, Otto's experiments and the Valermo Dam disaster that killed her sister and brother-in-law turned her into Maligula. Ford had to wipe her memories after she went mad with grief and nearly killed Helmut, as the world would never be able to forgive her actions as the Deluge of Grulovia.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:She was the 7th member of what would become the Psychonauts, but getting involved in Grulovia's Civil War end up reacting badly with her mental state after she subjected herself to some of Otto's mental experiments, hitting its Zenith when she accidentally drowned her sister and the entire city of Valermo when trying to disperse a peaceful protest against the Gzar with heavy rainfall, resulting in her Maligula persona becoming dominant and lashing out with psychotic violence against the world. Ford and Raz's quest during the second half of the game is to separate the 'fallen' from the 'hero' inside Nona's mind, using the Astralathe to dig a hole straight to Nona's subconscious and bury Maligula inside it to prevent her returning for good]].
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:She's the last enemy Raz has to fight, [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind and does so in Nona's mind]]]].
* FlatCharacter: All we really learn about her is that she's evil, likes killing, and the Psychonauts had to be called in to put her down. [[spoiler:Justified, because she isn't the real personality of Lucrecia- she's the PTSD-induced mental breakdown of a woman pushed too far, and a Fight Or Flight reflex gone out of control, making her more of a personality ''trait'' than a person. Sure enough, in her boss battle all she speaks of is spreading more death and destruction without any meaningful motive.]]
* TheFlatwoodsMonster: Her outfit gives similarities to the Flatwoods Monster, particularly the elongated spade-like hood she wears and her glowing yellow eyes.
* FourFingeredHands: She's one of the rare aversions in the game, being one of the few five-fingered characters.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: She's less of a real person and more of a boogeyman for the Psychonauts, being an insane, incredibly powerful psychic that destroyed a country and killed countless people, her "death" leaving Ford Cruller the unstable mess he is today. [[spoiler:Deconstructed, in that it's revealed she isn't really a character in her own right to ''have'' a motivation. While the story fleshes out Lucrecia[=/=]Nona's personality, the FinalBoss incarnation of Maligula is a personal demon representing her PTSD, manifesting as a CardCarryingVillain who revels in the mayhem she causes ForTheEvulz. She's also really more of a sentient defense mechanism than a person.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: She was apparently [[spoiler:the Psychic that gave Ford Cruller his GameBreakingInjury in the fight that ultimately killed her, resulting in his currently shattered mind state]], and seemingly one of her followers was secretly behind the events of the first game, controlling Dr. Loboto, and threatening him with what seems to be a vision of Maligula. The Hand of Galochio appearing after Raz first sees her implies that it was either her or a follower of hers that 'cursed' his family to die in water, though again, it's left unclear how much of this is true and how much is in Raz's head.
** [[spoiler:The main game reveals towards the end that, technically, she was somewhat responsible for the plot of Psychonauts happening in the first place, as Nona, her amnesiac current identity, was the mysterious stranger who gave Raz the Whispering Rock pamphlet that inspired him to run away to the camp. Upon being questioned, she admits that she did so because she wanted either Raz or Frazie to follow their dreams, and Raz was the more enthusiastic between the two about having psychic powers. Ford notes that the real reason was likely a subconscious understanding that something was wrong with her, and need for psychic help stemming from her memories as Maligula struggling to resurface behind the psychic lock that Ford sealed her away behind inside Nona's mind, hence why she pushed her family members to become stronger psychics. A memory vault of the incident shows that Nona was confused and partially dazed throughout the whole thing, only recovering her senses afterwards, demonstrating how greatly she was influenced by her buried personality]].
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:She's not the BigBad, that's Gristol - however, his plots are all about reawakening and regaining control of her, and she is the FinalBoss.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:She's the one who nearly killed Helmut Fullbear, one of her former friends. Only Helmut and Ford's quick reactions allowed him to survive as a brain. She also killed Augustus' parents, Lazlo Aquato and her own sister Marona.]]
* HighCollarOfDoom: Her parka gives her a similar effect to this.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler:She says this in regards to shrugging off Marona's death once Nona separates from her, noting that she's a killer, and Marona is just one amongst many, so she feels no real guilt for her sister's passing.It's implied this perception of herself in Lucrecia's mind is what allowed the Maligula personality to become dominant in the first place, with Lucy's shattered mental state upon finding Marona's body deciding to embrace the public perception of her as a vicious monster to deal with the pain]].
* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler:When she finally understands that she's the one who killed Marona, she just dismisses her as one of the many she killed]].
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:Played with, because it wasn't intentional. She took her sister's place as the mother of Augustus and Raz's grandma, after she accidentally drowned her. This was helped by Ford wiping her memories with the Astralathe - she didn't do it of her own free will. Ford explains that she was the only family Augustus still had, and the only way he could keep them together was by altering their memories, locking away the trauma they both endured.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: To be expected from somebody known for causing a massive body count with mass flooding as her preferred tactic, Maligula doesn't care much for others, unless they're a target for her to drown. [[spoiler:This makes sense given she is literally the part of Lucrecia's mind that is devoid of empathy. This gets ''slightly'' subverted when Raz battles her inside Nona's mind, with Maligula reliving her discovery of her sister's body in one of the peaceful protests she drowned on the orders of the Ghzar. She's shown to be remorseful and claims that ItsAllMyFault, but this is only as long as Nona's spirit is in contact with her. Once Nona moves away from her, [[RedemptionRejection Maligula quickly brushes off any remorse she showed for her deceased Sibling's death,]] claiming that she kills lots of people, [[IgnoredEpiphany and she was just a number amongst thousands.]] As an overgrown aspect of the mind's desire for violence, Maligula literally doesn't have the ability to empathize with others so long as Nona is suppressed and unable to exert any influence over her darker half]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: She has a distinct and dark 14 note theme that pops up throughout the game. [[spoiler:A warmer and softer version of the theme plays when Nona is reunited with the Psychic Six. A much more dramatic and intense version is Maligula's final boss theme.]]
* MakingASplash: She's a Hydrokineticist who was capable of creating devastating floods.
* ManOfKryptonite: She's famous for her Hydrokinesis powers. This would pose a massive threat to our protagonist, who's cursed to die in water. [[spoiler:Ironically, she's revealed to actually be Razputin's Great Aunt, and said 'curse' was actually a subconscious aversion to water that Ford planted in her and the young Augustus' minds in order to prevent any chance of her Maligula personality resurrecting. In fact, its hinted that the Hand of Galochio construct that Raz constantly sees near deep water is [[YourMindMakesItReal his own creation]], born from his learned fears of water and the family curse and manifesting in a subconscious control over nearby pools of deep water attacking him, implying that Raz may actually be a gifted Hydrokinetic accidentally using his abilities against himself. At the end of the game, after beating Maligula and resolving Nona's guilt over her past actions, the hand construct actually helps push Raz to shore and gives him a friendly wave, implying Raz may be exercising more control over water after facing his fears]].
* MasterOfOneMagic: She's primarily known for being an incredibly powerful master of Hydrokinesis. Not necessarily a weakness, since that'd make her a PersonOfMassDestruction on a planet like Earth, which is mostly water.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:She accidentally destroyed the Grulovian city of Valermo with a flood, after overloading and breaking the city's dam with an intense rain, killing dozens of people. Once she snapped, she went on a murderous rampage across Grulovia and devastated her homeland. The Psychic Six had to stop her before she turned her rage against the whole world.]]
* PowerFloats: [[spoiler:When she reawakens inside Nona, Nona starts levitating, as a display of power]].
* PowerStereotypeFlip: [[spoiler:While Lucy/Nona's personality fits the common traits one would associate with MakingASplash (kind, patient, nurturing, etc.), Maligula's personality fits more into the kind of personality type you would find in PlayingWithFire or PowerOfTheVoid (power drunk and indiscriminantely destructive).]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The second half of the game turns into thus, as [[spoiler:once Raz helps piece together Ford's mind enough, he realizes that bringing Nona to the Motherlobe was a ''very bad idea'', as being in the area is starting to jog her suppressed memories of her prior life as part of what would become the Psychic 6, in turn also threatening to restore her Maligula personality from behind the psychic Lock Ford sealed her behind inside Nona's mind. With both of them unwilling to let her come to harm, Ford and Raz have to recover one of Otto's old experimental machines from the original meeting spot of the Psychic Six before Nona remembers too much, so they can use it on her and properly bury Maligula deep inside Nona's subconscious where she belongs]].
* RedBaron: She was known as "The Deluge of Grulovia".
* RetiredMonster: [[spoiler:Due to the Maligula persona being sealed deep inside Nona, Nona herself now lives peacefully with the Aquatos]].
* SealedInAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:She was sealed deep within Nona's mind]].
* SerialKiller: She was a mass murderer with psychic powers.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:She's basically this to Lucrecia/Nona.]]
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:She was a psychic powerful enough to drown entire countries and strong enough to nearly defeat the Psychic Six on her own, though it's hinted they were holding back out of sympathy for the fallen friend until it was too late. It's revealed that Razputin is actually her Great-Nephew, and in addition to his own immensely powerful Psychic abilities for his age, the game implies that he inherited her natural gift for Hydrokinesis-- though thanks to Ford's psychic imprinting of a Fear of water into Nona that eventually got turned into the 'family curse', it's implied that Raz's natural control over deep enough pools of water results in him subconsciously manifesting the Hand of Galochio to attack him as a near-literal manifestation of his fears]].
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:At the end of "Cruller's Correspondence", she responds to Ford's letter with a postcard simply reading "Lucy is dead. She's never coming back. - M."]]
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:She had no choice in becoming a PersonOfMassDestruction, she was made that way by Gzar Theodore. When Nona is close enough to reactivate her conscience, she shows horror and remorse that she is not normally capable of doing, that capacity having long been removed from her.]]
* {{Unperson}}: [[spoiler:All records of her former identity as the hidden 7th member of the Psychic Six were removed due to Maligula's mass murders, with Raz being caught off-guard when he stumbled across her stump alongside the other six in Ford's mental recreation of the Whispering Rock Campfire. In addition, Ford also made her take the place of her sister Marona - Raz's real grandmother - in order to help fake her death, altering both her and her nephew Augustus' memories to make them both think she was his mother, and effectively forgetting her true identity in favour of becoming her sister]].
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Exaggerated. She's actually the ''embodiment'' of the impulse to repay pain with violence, who became sentient and the dominant personality when Lucrecia's AccidentalMurder of her sister and brother-in-law sent her over the DespairEventHorizon she was building to ever since the [[WarIsHell Grulovian War]].]]
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: When they aren't [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She killed her sister Marona and her brother-in-law Lazlo Aquato, Augustus' parents and Razputin's paternal grandparents. Raz is horrified when he finds out the truth and tries to tell his family, but Ford stops him to protect Nona.]]
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[[folder:Censors]]
Returning from the first game, Censors and some of their variations like the Heavy Censors are back to oppose Raz's meddling in other mental worlds. For Tropes regarding them, please go [[Characters/{{Psychonauts}} here]].
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!Mental Enemies