Characters / Futari wa Pretty Cure

This is the character sheet for Futari wa Pretty Cure and its Sequel Series, Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart.

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Main Characters

Nagisa Misumi (Cure Black)

Voiced by: Yoko Honna (Japanese), Rocio Barahona (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Milagros Fernández (European Spanish), Romina Marroquín Payró (Latin-American Spanish), Tanya Kahana (German), Perla Liberatori (Italian), Lei Biwen (Taiwanese Mandarin, main series, Soaring Sky! PreCure episode 28, Pretty Cure All Stars F), Fu Qihui (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX1 & 2), Liu Ruping (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX3)

^{Click here to see her in Max Heart}

^{Click here to see her school uniform}

"Emissary of Light, (I am) Cure Black!"

An energetic athlete who's popular with the girls (although she wishes the love letters she got in her locker were from cute boys instead), Nagisa is a tomboyish middle-class girl who would rather have fun than study. When she makes a wish on a meteor shower for a boyfriend who will love her, she instead meets Mepple and gets the power to become Cure Black. Though she's completely reluctant at first, her compassion for Mepple and Mipple as well as her desire to protect her friends convince her to save the world after all.

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• Action Girl: Ever since Mepple chose her, she's whacking the daylights out of the Jaaku King's minions.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: Her first name is changed to "Sasa" (transcribed as 莎莎) in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
• Big Eater: Demonstrated numerous times, such as Honoka having to drag her away from food carts on the streets when searching for Porun. Ryouta even challenges her to a watermelon-eating contest and when he complains about Nagisa being perfectly fine where he became ill, their mother states "Nagisa has an iron stomach."
• Big Sister Bully: Puts Ryouta into various wrestling moves, like the "Cobra Twist", when he comes to pester her.
• Book Dumb: She is reasonably intelligent, but still not much of a student.
• Boyish Short Hair: A member of the lacrosse team and overall rough-and-tumble, also sporting a short pixie cut.
• Cannot Spit It Out: She can't bring herself to confess her love for "Fujipi-senpai".
• Character Catchphrase: "Arienai!"^note "I can't believe this!"
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: In spite of her "I just Want To Be Normal" traits, she by her own admission, just can't stop herself from acting, if someone is in danger.
• Club President: In Max Heart, she becomes the lacrosse team captain.
• Cross-Cast Role: In one episode, she gets the part of Romeo in her school's production of Romeo and Juliet. She also does this for a Japanese period play in episode 37 of Max Heart.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Nagisa is, so far, the only non-evil Cure to wear mostly black. Her half of the Marble Screw is also darkness-based.
• Determined Defeatist: No matter how many times she yells "Arienai!", to herself or to other people, she will see through her goal to the bitter end. A Dying Dream in the Max Heart finale shows that she already has it since she was a child, implied coming from her own stubborn pride as a sport ace.
• Dub Name Change:
  • She's named Natalie Blackstone in the English version.
  • In the Korean dub, her name is changed to Mukharam (묵하람).
• Even the Girls Want Her: Much to her chagrin, Nagisa is more popular with the girls than the boys.
• Fiery Redhead: Nagisa has red hair, a hot temper, and a lot of energy.
• Girls Love Chocolate: Nagisa really loves chocolate. Literally in the first episode of Max Heart she mentions that her goal for her new year is to "eat all the chocolate that comes her way."
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a large collection of stuffed animals.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: As a Cure, she naturally fights like this, but she takes it to Dragon Ball Z levels of physical violence with none of the Cures that came after her have managed to properly match.
• Head Desk: Whenever she thought of Fuji-P, one of the things that may happen is this, complete with her repeating "Arienai!" after every bang on her head.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She can be overly down on herself, if she feels she's screwed up or let people down. The first movie, being the biggest example.
• Hidden Depths: She's quite a bit more introspective and thoughtful than, she appears to be at a glance.
• Hot-Blooded: She's highly emotional and easily excitable.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Nagisa considers the business of being a Cure to be dangerous and quite a hassle.
• Informed Flaw: She supposedly has a selfish streak, yet she rarely if ever does anything truly selfish.
• It's All My Fault: In the first movie she blames herself for the group getting attacked.
• I Will Find You: To Honoka in episode 42.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Especially if it's about her brother. Every time he's being annoying, she'll practice a wrestling move on him. But harm him in anyway, and you can guarantee that Cure Black will turn you into a smear on the pavement. Although she is something of a downplayed example, her jerk side only really comes out towards people who actively antagonize her and push her buttons.
• Knight Templar Big Sister: Nagisa is the example of all Pretty Cures. Once Gekidrago hurt her Annoying Younger Sibling, she killed the villain in the same episode.
• Light Is Good: She wields the power of light as Honoka does as one of the heroines of the show.
• Love Letter Lunacy: From lots of female underclassmen.
• Malaproper: Often gets proverbs wrong, and seems to suffer from slight dyslexia.
• Meaningful Name: In the English dub, she's called Natalie Blackstone. In Japanese, her last name Misumi includes "sumi" (which means ink, referring to her color as a Cure).
• Modesty Shorts: Both in her lacrosse uniform and as Cure Black. Also the Trope Codifier for much of the series up until Doki Doki! PreCure.
• Nice Girl: While not without her faults, Nagisa is nevertheless a compassionate and considerate individual, who is always willing to stick her neck out for others.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When Gekidrago's attacks threaten Ryouta and knock him unconscious, Nagisa completely forgoes her teamwork with Honoka and attacks him with a flurry of furious punches and kicks at close range.
• Passionate Sports Girl: The ace of the school lacrosse team.
• Pink Heroine: Nagisa, despite her predomnantly black outfit, is considered the "pink" of the team. Her outfit does have pink accents, which varies in dominance depending on her form. Such a feat wouldn't be matched in a Pretty Cure heroine until Cure Summer, some eighteen years after Nagisa's debut.
• Plucky Girl: Very optimistic and a fierce Determinator. Bonus points for being a Determined Defeatist.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The loud athletic Red Oni to Honoka's calm studious Blue.
• Relative Button: As physical a sister as she is to her little brother Ryouta, you'd be wise never to harm him if you want to escape with your life. Gekidrago finds this out the hard way when he gets totally vaporized by her half of a Marble Screw.
• Smelly Feet: Or at least, smelly socks, as she writes on her Pretty Cure diary. This ends up being an important point later on.
• Spectacular Spinning: Lands a spinning kick on Juna in Episode 39.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: In Episode 9, she disguises herself as male twice—first as a ramen delivery boy, then as a mailman—in an attempt to reclaim Mepple, who had been confiscated.
• Super-Strength: She is noticeably physically stronger than Cure White but White is more agile and tactical.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Gekidrago nearly killing Ryouta causes Cure Black to burst into tears and swear she'll never forgive him for what he's done. She's so furious that she throws herself right at him and kicks the stuffing out of him.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Honoka's Girly Girl.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's tomboyish, headstrong and athletic, but she collects stuffed animals, is very image-conscious, and likes shopping.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Takoyakis and chocolates.
• Tsurime Eyes: Gains them as Cure Black, which helps highlight her determination and ferocity in that form.
• Ur-Example: As the first Pretty Cure character ever, Nagisa can be seen as a Super Prototype of what Toei wants from their Pink Heroine protagonists. Like her predecessors, she is a young Book Dumb Genki Girl with a loving heart of gold. Unlike those who came after her however, Nagisa is a Passionate Sports Girl, is not a Chaste Hero, has two Muggle Best Friends that are largely irrelevant to the main plot, has a family that actually receives focus and notable characterization and only has pink accents as opposed to having pink hair or a pink outfit.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Mepple. She constantly argues with her fairy and isn't too keen on being a Cure, but deep down, cares for Mepple like family.
• Wrestler in All of Us: She performs various wrestling moves on her brother when he annoys her.
• The Worf Effect: In the All Stars movies, her status as the franchise mascot and the films' tendency to frame her as one of the strongest Cure, means she occasionally gets subjected to this. If even Cure Black has been defeated or is in trouble, you know the situation is serous. Specifically in DX 2, DX 3, All Star Memories, and All Stars F.

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Honoka Yukishiro (Cure White)

Voiced by: Yukana (Japanese), Michelle Molineux (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Carmen Cervantes (European Spanish), Nallely Solís (Latin-American Spanish), Julia Meynen (German), Monica Vulcano (Italian), Lin Meixiu (Taiwanese Mandarin)

^{Click here to see her in Max Heart}

^{Click here to see her school uniform}

"Emissary of Light, (I am) Cure White!"

Nagisa's complete opposite, Honoka is a star student rumoured to be a super-genius and gets one or two love letters a month from boys. She rejects every one of them, though, because she wants an honest relationship built on mutual respect. Besides the members of the chemistry club, Honoka doesn't have very many friends; she hasn't had anyone over at her house in years and just studies instead, and even her parents are always overseas. When she went into the garden shed at her mansion, she met Mipple and gained the power to become Cure White. She loves the idea of being a Magical Girl, finding it "exciting".

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• Absentee Club Member: Though she is a member (and later the leader) of the science club, she was also technically a member of several other clubs. However, her presence at these clubs and at meetings was a rarity due to time constraints.
• Action Girl: Ever since Mipple chose her, she's been throwing kicks to the Dotsuku Zone's denizens.
• Badass in Distress: She's frequently cornered by the episode's Zakenna, needing Nagisa to come save her. The most obvious instance of this is episode 42, where she's trapped in a dark zone and about to be consumed by darkness, and Nagisa is frantically searching for her all over the city. However, when she's freed, she'll go back to whipping butt for real.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: Her first name is changed to "Noka" (transcribed as 乃香) in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The rare times she actually gets angry, even the fearless Nagisa is in awe of her...
• Big Fancy House: She lives in a traditional Japanese dwelling with a garden and walled yard, also located in the middle of a city; upon just seeing the gate Nagisa realizes that she's way out of her economic stratum, and she remarks that Honoka's room is twice the size of her own.
• Bleed 'Em and Weep: After she and Nagisa blast Pisard to kingdom come with a Marble Screw and he's Killed Off for Real, Honoka breaks down in horror that she'd just killed someone. Mepple is able to console her by saying Pisard simply returned to the darkness he came from, but it's obvious Never Say "Die" is in effect, so the trope still stands.
• Blue Means Smart One: Honoka's main color as a Cure is white, but her still quite prominent secondary color is blue. She's considered her school's science ace and spends a lot her time wearing a lab coat over her school uniform.
• Brutal Honesty: She's not afraid to mince words when she calls out others, be it villains, everyday people, or even Nagisa; none are immune to her sharp tongue and no-nonsense atttitude. Examples include when she shamed a group of jewelry store robbers down on their luck in why their actions would cause others harm for the sake of saving themselves.
• Character Catchphrase: "Oh, Nagisa!" when Nagisa gets excited about food.
• Childhood Friends: With Fujipi.
• Club President: In Max Heart, she becomes president of the science club.
• Cross-Cast Role: Gets one for a Japanese period play in episode 37 of Max Heart.
• Dance Battler: Her combat style, while shockingly brutal, often borders on the balletic.
• Dub Name Change:
  • She's named Hannah Whitehouse in the English version.
  • In the Korean dub, her name is Baek Si-yeon.
  • In the Taiwanese Mandarin dub, Her Cure Name becomes Cure Snow.
• Dude Magnet: As it has been said she is the most popular among boys.
• Friend to Bugs: After using Marble Screw on an earthworm and centipede Zakenna, Honoka gently apologizes to the critters once they're turned back to normal and even calls the worm "cute".
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Apparently appears to be quite girly but Honoka actually seems more gung-ho about punching evil in the face than Nagisa. It's really more of a jock/nerd dichotomy than anything else.
• Good Is Not Soft: Overlaps with Brutal Honesty.. Despite her friendly, feminine, polite demeanor, Honoka is sharp tongued and more than willing to call out those on her receiving ends BS and is more than willing to resort to dirty tactics to win battles, such as when struck the mutated ikubo in the legs or when was willing to discharge White Thunder through Poisony's hair in order to kill her. Even against Ikubo, she was shown alongside Nagisa, charging at him with an expression of blood lust that was fully intent on killing him no matter what.
• Heroes Love Dogs: She has a dog named Chuutaro.
• In-Series Nickname: She's so smart that her fellow students have called her "the Queen of Knowledge".
• Jumped at the Call: Honoka is much more excited and eager about being a Cure than Nagisa.
• The Lancer: Although she and Nagisa are billed as the two main characters, Nagisa takes on a bigger role in the narration and is more often the one taking charge, leaving Honoka as this, and the deuteragonist.
• Light Is Good: As a Cure, Honoka wears white and performs the light-based half of Marble Screw.
• Lonely Rich Kid: However, she is very accepting of her parents being away for long and hardly ever complains about it.
• Magic Skirt: Her skirt somehow doesn't flip over from gravity or wind.
• Meaningful Name: In the dub, she's called Hannah Whitehouse. (For reference, Yukishiro is "Snow-castle" — which is a Punny Name, as shiro also means "white".)
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Fujipi.
• Pungeon Master: Has a propensity to make puns in episode previews.
• Raised by Grandparents: Since her parents are frequently away, she's lived most of her young life with her grandmother.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm studious Blue Oni to Nagisa's loud athletic Red Oni.
• Say My Name: Honoka yells Kiriya's name in tears until she's hoarse as he chooses to return to the darkness of his own free will.
  Cure White: KIRIYA-KUUUN!!!!
• Shipper on Deck: Honoka really likes playing Cupid between Nagisa and Fujipi.
• Ship Tease: Gets a lot of it with Kiriya. While it's mostly on his side, she does briefly blush in episode 21 when he says she was willing to apologize to him, which nobody had ever done for him before, and they even briefly share an Umbrella of Togetherness. Unfortunately, their relationship isn't meant to be, as he ultimately returns to the darkness in the same episode.
  Cure White: Didn't we have so much fun because you and I have the same feelings?!
• Signature Move: Aside of her powers with Cure Black; Cure White is the only one who has a tendency to grab the enemy and then judo-throws it.
• Spock Speak: She often lapses into scientific talks and jargons when she finds something interesting to her. Many non-science club members can't understand what she's talking about but after awhile, Nagisa of all people can somehow apply her long-winded theories and advice into coherent, though laconic, actions.
• Tareme Eyes: Only in civilian mode. Her eyes become a bit more "normal"-looking as Cure White, and her personality becomes a bit less soft-spoken to match.
• Teen Genius: She's 14 (later 15) years old and is a genius in studies and knowledge.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the calm feminine Girly Girl to Nagisa's athletic Tomboy.
• True Blue Femininity: Honoka has blue hair and blue details on her Cure outfit. She is presented as more conventionally feminine than the tomboyish yet partially pink-themed Nagisa. In fact, if only the usual Cure colors are considered, then blue is her theme color.
• Umbrella of Togetherness: Offers one to Kiriya in episode 21.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Her parents are art dealers that travel the world for the entire year and only come home on her birthday. They seem to realize this, but can't just drop their job off; trying to make it up with her by pampering Honoka in those little time they have together.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Honoka is soft-spoken, gentle, and polite, with the iron backbone to match.

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Hikari Kujou (Shiny Luminous)

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese) ^{Foreign VAs}Virginia Carrera (European Spanish), Letizia Scifoni (Italian), Yang Kaikai (Taiwanese Mandarin)

^{Click here to see her school uniform}

"Shining life, Shiny Luminous! The light's heart and the light's will, for the sake of uniting all as one!"

A girl who appears after the Queen of Light splits herself. She joins Nagisa and Honoka in their fight against the Dotsuku Zone's Four Guardians to stop them from reviving the Dark King, gaining the power to become Shiny Luminous. She is revealed to represent the Queen's life.

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• Actual Pacifist: Tried to fight ineffectually when she first transformed. After that, she is purely in the defensive support role.
• All-Loving Hero: She represents life itself, after all. It's her nature, that's why she can't fight.
• Become a Real Girl: In the final episode, instead of remaining part of the queen as her duty on Earth was done, Hikari splits from the queen and stays on Earth to live as a normal human girl.
• Damsel in Distress: The only member of Pretty Cure not to be much of a fighter.
• Disney Death: After being sacrificed to restore the Queen (much to the chagrin of Cures Black and White), it turns out she became a separate entity from the Queen just as Hikaru would become a separate entity from the Jaaku King at the end of the series.
• Dub Name Change: In the Korean dub, her name is Lee Ye-bin.
• Empty Eyes: In earlier episodes, she will stare off to nowhere with empty eyes like she's in a daze. She grows out of it later.
• Forehead of Doom: Has a huge exposed forehead.
• Girlish Pigtails: When transformed, she has large blonde pigtails that highlight her femininity and support role.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blond, cute, sweet, and she's the only member of the team in a defensive and supporting combat role.
• The Heart: A sweet girl who's the spiritual aspect of the trio in Max Heart.
• Light 'em Up: Of course. Her attacks involve light and defence. Even her first name is translated to "light".
• MacGuffin Super-Person: She's a part of the Queen of Light, serving as her life and she can transform into Shiny Luminous.
• Magic Skirt: Just like the Cures in the series, her skirt stays in its place even when as Shiny Luminous.
• Meaningful Name: Hikari means Light. This should sound familiar.
• Messianic Archetype: Arrives on Earth as a mysterious, relatively unknown or liked person, disappears after the final battle and then suddenly appears again as the finale ends.
• Mysterious Waif: Her first appearance has Nagisa and Honoka wondering about her origins.
• Pillar of Light: Every time she transforms, she gets this.
• Pink Means Feminine: While Cure Black is considered the official "Pink Cure" of these season, while Shiny Luminous is classed as a yellow Cure, Shiny Luminous still wears a very frilly pink dress.
• Physical Goddess: She is the human form of a giant light goddess.
• Ret-Gone: Everybody who's Locked Out of the Loop forgets she ever existed when she's kidnapped by the Shiten'ou.
• Sixth Ranger: Third Ranger in this case. She's the newest member of the Max Heart team, joining them in 'Max Heart'' after bonding with Pollun.
• Stone Wall: Unlike Nagisa and Honoka, her abilities are for support rather than combat. All of her moves involve some form of defence.
• Support Party Member: Her powers revolve entirely around hampering enemies and enhancing Cure Black and Cure White's attacks.
• Tagalong Kid: Downplayed. She is two years younger than the other heroines, being a supportive member instead being a fighter and she appears everywhere where Nagisa and Honoka go, mostly later than them.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Like the other two Pretty Cures, Shiny Luminous has extreme physical raw power, but she doesn't know how to fight.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She's a proper and polite queen who takes on the identity of a Japanese teenage girl.

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Mepple

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Roger Rhodes (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Sara Vivas (European Spanish), Edson Matus (Latin-American Spanish), Diana Borgwardt (German), Paola Majano (Italian), Liu Ruping (Taiwanese Mandarin, original season & DX3), Yang Kaikai (Taiwanese Mandarin, Max Heart), Feng Jiade (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX), Song Yucong (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX2)

A mascot hailing from the Garden of Light as its chosen hero, searching for the legendary Pretty Cure to confront the Dotsuku Zone, and Mipple's guardian and boyfriend. He becomes Nagisa's companion.

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• Afraid of Needles: He panics in episode 9 when he has to get an injection, though to be fair to him, the doctor's holding a Giant Medical Syringe.
• Big Eater: He is gluttonous to the point of being Obsessed with Food.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Has the personality of a spoiled child, always demanding favors from Nagisa. Even when she swipes the Omupu card to get him food in episode 2, he berates the chef because he served Mepple a bacon and lettuce sandwich instead of miso soup. He gets a taste of his own medicine when he has to deal with Pollun later on in the series.
• Fairy Companion: Serves as Nagisa's personal fairy companion, although he's often more of a hindrance than he is a help thanks to his noisy, immature personality.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Played for Laughs. At one point, he tells Nagisa that he's going to be a domineering husband to Mipple in the future, though from what their interactions are usually like, Mipple tends to have more authority.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is often quite rude to Nagisa, and demanding and lazy in general. However, he is dedicated to his mission of restoring the Garden of Light, and shows that he does truly care for her, when he becomes distraught at the thought of having to say goodbye to her during the mid-season finale.
• Mentor Mascot: Like Mipple, he briefs Nagisa on how to transform and the situation at hand, advising his buddy on the course of action required.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Acts up when Mipple is near, or a villain has turned up.
• Non-Human Sidekick: He's a mascot from another world and isn't human at all.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Downplayed. Mepple has blue highlights on his body to Mipple's all-pink body and magenta highlights, but the rest of him is yellow.
• Red Baron: He's called the "Chosen Warrior".
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Mipple. He's always asking to see her, and whenever they're reunited, they embrace in a lovey-dovey manner.
• Verbal Tic: "~mepo"
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Nagisa.

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Mipple

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Angie Beers (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Elena Ruiz de Velasco (European Spanish), Rosalet Estrada (Latin-American Spanish), Greta Bonetti (Italian), Long Xianhui (Taiwanese Mandarin, main series), Yang Kaikai ( Taiwanese Mandarin, DX), Lin Meixiu (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX2), Zhao Hua (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX3)

A mascot also hailing from the Garden of Light as its Princess of Hope. She accompanies her boyfriend Mepple in searching for the Pretty Cure, and later becomes Honoka's partner.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Normally very kind and sweet, but when she learns that Mepple dropped the Prism Hopeish in Episode 6, she starts yelling at him. Justified, since it's vital to their mission.
• Fairy Companion: She's the personal fairy companion of Honoka, and their relationship is much less adversarial than Mepple's is with Nagisa.
• Mentor Mascot: Like Mepple, she briefs Nagisa on how to transform and the situation at hand, advising her pal on the course of action required.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Same as Mepple.
• Nice Girl: She's polite and understanding of Honoka, contrasting Mepple's relationship with Nagisa.
• Non-Human Sidekick: She's a mascot from another world and is a small cute fairy.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Downplayed. While Mipple's entire body is pink, Mepple only has blue markings on his body.
• Red Baron: "The Princess of Hope".
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Mepple. Whenever they're reunited, they embrace in a lovey-dovey manner.
• Verbal Tic: "~mipo"
• Women Are Wiser: Typically portrayed as more level-headed and less whiny than her boyfriend and counterpart, Mepple.

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Pollun & Lulun

Pollun is voiced by: Haruna Ikezawa (Japanese), Onalea Gilbertson (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Inés Blázquez (European Spanish), Abraham Vega (Latin-American Spanish), Ilaria Latini (Italian), Long Xianhui (Taiwanese Mandarin, main seires), Lin Meixiu (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX), Yang Kaikai (Taiwanese Mandarin,DX2&3)

Lulun is voiced by: Asuka Tanii (Japanese) ^{Foreign VAs}Gloria Armesto (European Spanish), Michela Alborghetti (Italian), Fu Qihui (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX), Lin Peiling (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX2&3)

Pollun

Lulun

The prince and princess of the Garden of Light who arrive later to assist Nagisa and Honoka in their battle against the Dotsuku Zone, providing them new powers. They later become Hikari Kujou's companions, assisting her when she becomes Shiny Luminous.

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• Annoying Younger Sibling: Lulun to Pollun.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Pollun in Futari wa is an immature Royal Brat who throws tantrums if he doesn't get his way. When he grows out of this in Max Heart, Lulun fills the shoes.
• Creepy Child: When the Seeds of Darkness are awakening, Pollun falls into an unsettling trance where he speaks in a Creepy Monotone about something "awakening", along with another occasional hint.
• Establishing Character Moment: Pollun's debut appearance in episode 24 of Futari wa has him ask the Cures to go to the Garden of Light with him. When they react with confusion, he does Puppy-Dog Eyes before throwing a full-on temper tantrum where he thrashes around on his back.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Pollun's name in Japanese is ポルン Porun, which is used for the English dub; other sources render it "Pollun".
• Non-Human Sidekick: They're furry non-human creatures who accompany the girls on their quest where they bash heads with the Jaaku King's generals.
• Red Baron: "The Prince of Light" and the "Princess who weaves the future".
• Royal Brat: Pollun, the so-called "prince of light", has the personality of a spoiled toddler (at least, at first).
• Seers: Has the ability to foretell the future, and he falls under a monotonic trance whenever the Seeds of Darkness awaken.
  Pollun: Beware the pillar of red, popo...
• Sixth Ranger: Pollun, for the mascots during the first series. Lulun fills this role during Max Heart.
• Took a Level in Badass: Pollun, especially in Max Heart when he stops being a crybaby.
• Verbal Tic: "~popo" for Pollun; "~lulu" for Lulun.

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Garden of Light

Wisdom, the Guardian

Voiced by: Taiki Matsuno (Japanese), Glenn Howard (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Miriam Valencia (European Spanish), Maura Cenciarelli (Italian), Lei Biwen (Taiwanese Mandarin)

A resident of the Garden of Light who is the guardian of the seven Prism Stones. He resides within the Prism Hopeish, the Stones' receptacle.

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• Closet Geek: In his first appearance in episode 6, he very nearly hands the Cures a manga called Futari mo Puripuri instead of the magical notebook he meant to give them.
• Deadpan Snarker: By far the most sarcastic in Futari wa, as he even sasses his captors when they stick him in a bird cage and doesn't hesitate expressing his sardonic disappointment when Porun is the one to come "rescue" him.
• Demoted to Extra: He's part of a number of important plot points in the first season, and gives Precure some useful items, whereas in MaX Heart he's always hanging around the Garden of Light and does nothing more than commenting on the happenings in the human world.
• Eyes Always Shut: Almost always.
• Informed Attractiveness: Mipple finds him attractive, but in the eyes of the audience he just looks slightly less cartoony and more human than the other denizens of the Light.

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Elder

Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka (Japanese), Johnathan Love (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Rafael Calvo (European Spanish)

A wise sage residing in the Garden of Light who tends to be forgetful.

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• Accidental Misnaming: He never gets Nagisa and Honoka's names right.
• Mr. Exposition: As the Garden of Light's sage, he explains the backstory behind the Prism Stones and Wisdom's actions regarding them.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Played for Laughs. He's constantly forgetting things, like Nagisa and Honoka's names and their title of "legendary warriors".

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Queen

Voiced by: Kaya Matsutani (Japanese), Elizabeth Ludwig (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Miriam Valencia (European Spanish), Carolina Tak (European Spanish, movies), Giò Giò Rapattoni (Italian), Long Xianhui (Taiwanese Mandarin)

The ruler of the Garden of Light.

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• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Unlike the other characters, the Queen is animated in 3D; everyone else in the series besides Jaaku King is animated in 2D.
• Big Damn Heroes: The Cures' showdown with Jaaku King seems completely hopeless until the Queen journeys into the Dotsuku Zone herself to save them, granting their Marble Screw the power it needs to destroy him.
• Big Good: She's the Garden of Light's ruler who sent Mepple and Mipple to find the Pretty Cure. She possesses all the power to help them, wherever she can, against the Dotsuku Zone and its denizens.
• Can't Live Without You: According to Jaaku King, she will die along with him if he is ever truly killed.
• Eyes Always Shut: She never opens her eyes once through out this season or its sequel.
• Giant Woman: Even while seated on her throne, the Queen is hundreds of feet tall.
• Good Counterpart: To Jaaku King. Both are the skyscraper-sized, CGI-rendered rulers of their respective realms (the Garden of Light and the Dotsuku Zone), and they send proxies (Pretty Cure and the Dark Five) to battle it out on their behalf for ownership of the Prism Stones. During the heroines' first battle against Jaaku King, she outright calls herself and Jaaku King "two sides of the same coin".
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has long blonde hair, and she's the benevolent monarch of the Garden of Light.
• The High Queen: Queen of the Garden of Light, and the series' Big Good.
• Perpetual Smiler: She always appears with a smile on her face.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's not just a pretty face — she bails the Cures out when they fight Jaaku King and even takes part in their Finishing Move.

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Friends and Family

Shiho Kubota

Voiced by: Eri Sendai (Japanese), Nikkita Bradette (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Miriam Valencia (European Spanish), Barbara Pitotti (Italian)

One of Nagisa and Honoka's classmates, a close friend of Nagisa's, and a member of the school's lacrosse team.

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• Boyish Short Hair: Like Nagisa, Shiho wears her hair very short, although in a slightly more feminine style than Nagisa's.
• Dub Name Change:
  • In the English version, her name is Shauna Knowles.
  • Her name is Han Chae-ryeong in the Korean dub.
• Fiery Redhead: Very sporty, emotional and determined, especially when it comes to teamplay in lacrosse.
• Genki Girl: Highly energetic though not as much as Nagisa.
• Prima Donna Director: In the School Play episode.
• Those Two Guys: With Rina Takashimizu.
• Verbal Tic: Will sometimes repeat a phrase three times in rapid succession.

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Rina Takashimizu

Voiced by: Yuka Tokumitsu (Japanese), Emily Bachynski (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Inés Blázquez (European Spanish), Monica Ward (Italian)

One of Nagisa's closest friends, and a member of the school's lacrosse team.

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• Dub Name Change: Her name is changed to Dahee Seo in the Korean dub.
• Girlish Pigtails: Unlike Nagisa and Shiho, Rina wears her hair in thin pigtails.
• Huge Schoolgirl: Compared to the others — she's at least half a head taller than the rest of the girls in the class, although it's never really remarked on.
• Those Two Guys: With Shiho Kubota.

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Yuriko

Voiced by: Kozue Kamada (Japanese), Katie Rowan, Lori Bachynski (Episode 40) (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Amalia Cantarero (European Spanish)

A member of the school's Chemistry Club.

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• Ambiguously Gay: Idolizes Honoka Yukishiro to the point of naming a science project after her, and isn't shown to be attracted to any of the boys. Rather than go meet Kiriya, the popular New Transfer Student, she'd rather spend her time working with Honoka and perfecting "Honoka #1". Her name being "Yuriko" only heightens this impression.
• Competition Freak: A competitive, hard-working student who has her eyes set on the grand prize at the local science fair.
• A Day in the Limelight: Her most notable appearance is during episode 13 of the original season. She also plays a prominent role in episode 17 of Max Heart, which is something of a sequel to the former.
• Dub Name Change: In the English version, her name is Lillian.
• I Call It "Vera": She insists on calling the model Earth project for the science fair "Honoka #1", after Honoka Yukishiro. When the time comes to unveil it at the end of the episode, the name reads "Yuriko #1" instead.
• No Full Name Given: Yuriko's surname is never specified in the series.
• Out of Focus: Outside of her limelight episodes, she's mostly relegated to cameos.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Her Establishing Character Moment has her glasses flash in this manner, insisting that her fellow members work their butts off so they win first prize at the science fair.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: She's the only prominent student who wears glasses, and she seems to be the smartest member of the science club after Honoka.
• Universally Beloved Leader: She's a prominent member of the Verona science club, and is respected so much for her hard work that the other club members named their project "Yuriko #1" after her.

Kyoko & Natsuko

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Kyoko), Ami Koshimizu (Natsuko)

Two of Honoka and Nagisa's classmates.

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• Boyish Short Hair: Like Nagisa, Natsuko has short hair and is the more tomboyish of the two.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In their debut episode, they fall under Poisony's Mind Control and are forced to attack the real Cures.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: Implied. They certainly seem to enjoy dressing up as Pretty Cure, and even claim to have made their Cure costumes in one all-nighter. Later on, they're in charge of dressing the leads for the class play in both the first and second seasons; when Honoka (remembering the episode 14 incident) says they have a gift for costuming, the pair react with embarrassment and frantically shush her. And in Max Heart, they dress up in period costumes — which they made themselves and smuggled in with their luggage — during the class trip to an Edo-era village.
• Costume Copycat: After catching a glimpse of Cure White and Cure Black, they start dressing up as them to entertain some local elementary school kids. Since the real Pretty Cure are unknown to the public, there is no real issue with mistaken identity, although Honoka and Nagisa worry that they might attract the villains' attention. They do — Poisony isn't actually fooled, but decides they'd be useful tools to try and get at the real Pretty Cures.
• A Day in the Limelight: Episode 14, where they start dressing up as Pretty Cure in public. This goes about as well as you'd expect.
• Dub Name Change: In the English version, their names are Christy (Kyoko) and Summer (Natsuko).
• Girlish Pigtails: Kyoko wears her hair in pigtails.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Under Poisony's control, their eyes become dull and lifeless.
• Those Two Girls: After their limelight episode, they sometimes show up as this (generally if Shiho and Rina aren't available or suitable for some reason).

Shougo "Fujipi" Fujimura

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio (Japanese), Will Wood (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Javier Balas (European Spanish), Eduardo Curiel (Latin-American Spanish), Flavio Aquilone (Italian)

A male student at Verone Academy whom Nagisa has a crush on. He's a member of the school's soccer team.

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• Childhood Friends: With Honoka, although Nagisa gets the wrong idea at first and assumes they're dating.
• Dub Name Change: To Shawn "Fergie" Ferguson.
• Embarrassing Nickname: He can get a little unnerved when others call him "Fujipi".
• Like Brother and Sister: Is revealed to be Childhood Friends with Honoka, who considers him like an older brother to her.
• Lovable Jock: Plays football.
• Nice Guy: Utterly compassionate to all.
• Oblivious to Love: He's unaware of Nagisa's feelings for him.
• Satellite Character: There's little to his character that doesn't tie back to Nagisa and Honoka.
• The Worf Effect: He gets defeated at soccer by Kiriya to show what an impressive Academic Athlete the younger boy is.

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Kimata

Voiced by: Satoshi Katougi (Japanese), Ian McMurray (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Jesús Barreda (European Spanish), Daniele Giuliani (Italian)

Another male student in Verone who has a crush on Honoka, though the latter is oblivious to it.

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• Dub Name Change: In the English version, his surname is Kossner.
• Nice Guy: He's very courteous to his friends, and is polite when trying to woo Honoka.
• No Full Name Given: He's only known by his surname.
• Satellite Character: His only role in the series is to have a crush on Honoka.

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Akane Fujita

Voiced by: Mikako Fujita (Japanese), Annika Odegard (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Elena Ruiz de Velasco (European Spanish), Maura Cenciarelli (Italian)

The young operator of the mobile takoyaki store, Tako Café.

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• Ascended Extra: In Max Heart she goes from a recurring character to appearing in almost every episode.
• Badasses Wear Bandanas: A bandana wearing gal who's very skilled at cooking with a ton of self-confidence to boot.
• Cool Big Sis: Very caring to her self-proclaimed cousin Hikari. Hikaru joins the mix later on.
• Dub Name Change: In the English version, her name is Alex.
• Parental Substitute: Oblivious one to Hikari and Hikaru.
• Signature Headgear: Through two seasons, you can count on one hand the number of times she's seen without her bandanna.
• Supreme Chef: Her Takoyaki is to die for. That may be one reason why Nagisa and Honoka frequent her store.
• Team Chef: She isn't aware that Nagisa and Honoka are the Pretty Cure, but she's giving them all the good food she can offer.

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Ryouta Misumi

Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi (Japanese), Leah Dubbin-Steckel (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Miriam Valencia (European Spanish), Ángel Rodríguez (Latin-American Spanish), Tatiana Dessi (Italian)

Nagisa's younger brother.

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• Annoying Younger Sibling: Constantly gets on Nagisa's nerves, especially when getting into arguments with her.
• Bratty Half-Pint: See Annoying Younger Sibling. If that's not enough, he has a crush on Honoka but unfavorably compares Nagisa to her.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": He's often shown wearing a shirt with a big "R" for Ryouta on its pocket.
• Dub Name Change: Ryan Blackstone in the English version.
• Everyone Has Standards: He might be a pain in the neck, but he's very concerned when he overhears what he thinks is Nagisa talking to herself (she's talking to Mepple) and tells their mother.
• Precocious Crush: On Honoka.

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Sanae Yukishiro

Voiced by: Masako Nozawa (Japanese, old), Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese, young), Michelle Armeneau (English, old), Onalea Gilbertson (English, young) ^{Foreign VAs}Milagros Fernández (European Spanish), Martha Rave (Latin-American Spanish), Paola Piccinato (Italian)

Honoka's grandmother.

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• The Bus Came Back: After a whopping 18 years since her last TV appearance, Sanae returns in Power of Hope ~PreCure Full Bloom~ in which she helps out Komachi with her research on her town's history. It's not until after Komachi, Nozomi and Coco leave when we find out that it's really her via her house's nameplate.
• Cool Old Lady: She's an old lady who is compassionate and always gives advice to Honoka, even when the latter hits her early teens.
• Despair Event Horizon: After surviving the WWII firebombing of Wakabadadi, Sanae nearly succumbed to despair upon seeing the destruction from a viewpoint on a hill until Mipple encourages her.
• Never Mess with Granny: She's old and sweet, yet she manages to talk down Poisony masquerading as an old lady, and later judo throws her for good measure.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: She already knows Mipple's existence, having encountered the little mascot in her younger days. However, she keeps that encounter to herself such that even Mipple doesn't know about it. She also knows her granddaughter and her best friend are Pretty Cure, but they also don't know she knows.

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Yoshimi Takenouchi

Voiced by: Ai Nagano (Japanese), Cheryl McMaster (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Elena Ruiz de Velasco (European Spanish), Erica Edwards (Latin-American Spanish), Raffaella Castelli (Italian)

Nagisa and Honoka's classroom teacher.

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• Brainwashed: In episode 3, she gets mind-controlled by Pisard into delivering Nagisa and Honoka right to him. Thankfully, she snaps out of it.
• Cool Teacher: Very kind and patient with her students, who clearly adore her.
• Dub Name Change: Her name is Yvette Woodgrove in the English version.
• First-Name Basis: Her students all call her "Yoshimi-sensei."
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With her husband... that said, she also clearly has the hots for a disguised Pisard in episode 3.
• Wingding Eyes: Her eyes turn into bright pink hearts when she catches sight of "Ryuuichi Kazama", Pisard's human disguise.

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Vice Principal Kometsuki

Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura (Japanese), Steve Olson (English)

The overbearing assistant principal of Verone Academy.

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• Brainwashed and Crazy: Subverted. In episode 7, he gets turned into a Zakenna, but instead of attacking the Cures, he mostly spends his short run as a Monster of the Week complaining about his job.
• Brutal Honesty: When Nagisa's jealousy of Honoka impacts her playing during a lacrosse tournament, he calls her performance "embarrassing". To her face.
• Child Hater: Downplayed. Part of his rant in episode 7 as a Zakenna is about how much he hates cleaning up after his students' messes, and the lack of respect he gets from them.
• Closet Geek: After he confiscates his students' manga, he secretly reads them himself.
• Dean Bitterman: Downplayed, he's merely the Vice Principal and is more strict and unpleasant than outright cruel.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: The crux of his rant as a Zakenna — he thinks he should have much more respect than he gets because of how hard he works and how much he puts up with from the students.
  Zakenna Kometsuki: (subtitled) I've always worked harder than everyone else! The one who gets to school first, the one who goes home last, that's me! Who always has to put away the cleaning supplies? Why it's me of course! You would think such simple things would be easy to remember but nooo! Can't you even take off your shoes and put them away properly?! Just yesterday, who was it who ran through the hallway wearing their outside shoes, eh? It took forever to clean up the mess! [...] People don't do what I say, and they talk to me sarcastically. I also... also... I also want to become a Principal!
• Fat and Skinny: The tall, high-strung Skinny to the Principal's Fat.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed. He wears glasses, and while he's not evil, he's definitely a Jerkass.
• Jaded Professional: He's been working as Vice Principal for so long that he's grown rather resentful, as shown when he becomes a Zakenna and starts complaining about how he's not a full principal yet.
• Jerkass: He's not a very pleasant person.
• Meaningful Name: His name sounds like kometsukibatta, which translates to "locust", "click beetle", or "sycophant". Fittingly, he often kisses up to the Principal, even though he secretly hates him.
• Pokémon Speak: One of the few Zakennas to avert this.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: Is often seen buttering up his boss, the Principal.
• The Resenter: Is revealed in episode 7 to resent the fact that he's not Principal yet, which only comes out when he becomes a Zakenna.
• Villainy-Free Villain: In episode 9, he confiscates Mepple under the belief that he's a cell phone, which isn't allowed in school. The main goal of the episode becomes getting Mepple back from him, even though he's not part of the Dark Five.
• Workaholic: Prides himself on being the first one to enter the school building and the last to leave.

Dotsuku Zone / Dark Zone

Monsters

Zakenna

Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (episodes 1 to 22), Satoshi Taki (episode 15 and from 28 onwards; all episodes of Max Heart) (Japanese), Tom Edwards (English)

The Dotsuku Zone's demonic underlings. Resembling ghost-like spirits, they are capable of possessing objects, transforming them into rampaging beasts that the heroines fight, defeat, and purify.

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• Animate Inanimate Object: Essentially what they resemble because they possess those objects.
• Art Initiates Life: The Zakenna in episode 4 possesses an art museum, bringing all of the paintings to life in the real world. A classmate of the Cures temporarily goes inside one of the paintings, but she thinks it was All Just a Dream.
• Attack of the Killer Whatever: Zakenna will possess any and all objects nearby them, resulting in various bizarre monsters. In the first three episodes alone, Zakenna take the form of a rollercoaster, a vacuum cleaner, a vaulting box, a series of basketballs, and a stage curtain.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: In episode 17, Poisony creates a worm and a centipede Zakenna. The excavator Zakenna she summons in episode 14 has insect-like "mandibles", too.
• Bears Are Bad News: In more ways than one. The Zakenna from Episode 6 possessed a literal Mama Bear whose cub Nagisa had saved earlier. The girls were unwilling to use their Marble Screw attack on it as they didn't want to hurt it. Fortunately they gained a new skill, Rainbow Therapy, that allowed them to expel the Zakenna without harming the animal.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Things possessed by Zakenna will become much more violent and try to kill the Cures, even if they never were before. Humorously subverted with the Vice Principal in episode 7; while in Zakenna form, he angrily lunges with his pointer a couple of times... and then he starts to rant about how much he hates his job. That's all he does.
• Cross-Popping Veins: Their normal forms always sport one, and so do the objects they possess.
• Evil Is Bigger: Many Zakenna-possessed items grow much larger than their original forms. An ordinary bear, for instance, becomes a roughly 15-foot-high Dire Beast under Zakenna influence.
• Eye Beams: Whenever they possess something with headlights (e.g. the rollercoaster in episode 1 or the cranes in episode 14), chances are they're going to fire deadly rays of light from their new "eyes".
• Ghastly Ghost: They're raging dark spirits called upon by the Dotsuku Zone to attack the Pretty Cures.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Their name is spelled ザケンナー zaken'naa, usually rendered "Zakenna" in English. But the official Toei website description for Futari wa Pretty Cure: Max Heart spells it "Zakennar".
• Kaiju: Episode 11 of Max Heart had Vivlis making a Zakenna of a nearby transmission tower. The resulting monster wouldn't look out of place in a Godzilla movie.
• Living Shadow: In episode 16, Poisony has Zakennas possess a girl's shadow, resulting in countless shadowy clones of her.
• Meaningful Name: Their name is derived from a rude Japanese shorthand, "fuzakeruna", which means "don't mess with me".
• Monster of the Week: The very first ones of the franchise as a whole who are summoned by the Dark Zone's generals to wreak havoc by possessing an object.
• Morphic Resonance: Any object possessed by a Zakenna will gain the ghost's Cross-Popping Veins, and oftentimes yellow eyes and sharp teeth to go with it.
• Pokémon Speak: Can only cry their own name. Subverted in certain cases, though; a Zakenna-possessed Vice Principal Kometsuki can still speak normally, since his original form was human.
• Star Power: Inverted. When they're defeated, Zakennas will dissipate into tiny, harmless dark stars that say "Gomen na" ("sorry") instead of "Zakenna". The Zakenna in episode 22, which possesses a planetarium and tries to kill the Cures with living constellations, plays it straight.
• Speak of the Devil: They're summoned when a Dotsuku Zone general recites the incantation 「怒れる天空の妖鬼、ザケンナーよ！邪悪な心、闇の恐ろしさを思い知らせてあれ！」("Angry phantoms of the heavens, Zakenna! Wicked heart, make them learn the terror of the darkness!")
• Troll: A group of seven Zakennas in episode 12 spell out the word バーカ (Baka) with their bodies to taunt Nagisa, who'd lost Mepple because of them.
• Vicious Vac: The Zakenna summoned in Episode 2 was a monstrous vacuum cleaner. It's currently the trope image.

The Dark Five

Pisard

Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (Japanese), David Belke (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Francisco Javier García (European Spanish), Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin-American Spanish), Alessio Cigliano (Italian), Wu Wenmin (Taiwanese Mandarin)

The very first villain to appear in the franchise, and the first and weakest member of the Dark Five. Resembling a kabuki actor, Pisard has the green Prism Stone contained in his necklace. A cunning foe with a variety of magical powers and an eagerness to prove his strength, Pisard's ego and cowardice make him unpopular among his teammates, which ultimately proves to be his undoing.

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• Big "WHY?!": His last words in episode 5 are this, immediately following a cry of "This Cannot Be!".
• Blood Knight: Enjoys toying with his prey, as well as fighting. In his last outing, once he's given away his shot at victory and allowed the Cures to transform, he gleefully laughs and yells, "now we're having fun!"
• Blow You Away: He's able to whip up tornadoes, as seen in Episode 4.
• Boring, but Practical: In early appearances, Pisard relies on various zany schemes to get his hands on the Prism Stones, like causing widespread blackouts to lure out the Cures, disguising himself as a student teacher so he can Mind Control the Cures' teacher into bringing them to him, and trying to turn everyone in the Cures' class to stone. The last plan he tries, and his most successful one, is simply lying in wait until Honoka is alone before chasing her into a corner. If he wasn't arrogant enough to let them transform anyway, he would have won.
• Breakout Character: While only a minor villain, Pisard is one of the only Pretty Cure antagonists to appear in other media, with a guest appearance in Granblue Fantasy. The other is Bunbee from Yes! Pretty Cure 5, who appears as a boss in a crossover with Puyo Puyo!! Quest.
• Bullet Catch: Exaggerated — he "catches" the Pretty Cure Marble Screw, the heroes' Yin-Yang Bomb, with his bare hands! At least, until the Cures hold their hands tighter, strengthening the beam. Then he gets vaporized.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: In his disguised form, Pisard has bright blue eyes with white rings in the center, which only serve to emphasize how unnatural he is in the human world.
• A Dick in Name: In the dub, he takes the alias "Richard Komodo", and he's one of Jaaku King's vilest minions.
• Dirty Coward: In episode 4, Pisard uses the petrified bodies of all the people in the art museum as a Human Shield, which Cure Black outright calls out as cowardly. It's also implied that part of the reason he's following Jaaku King's orders is to save his own skin, and he even offers in their final battle to spare whichever Cure is as cowardly as he is.
  Pisard: If you attack recklessly and smash the statues to pieces, there's no knowing what will happen to the original humans.
  Cure White: T-That's...!
  Cure Black: Coward!
  Pisard: Heh! Say whatever you please.
• Dub Name Change: He's called Pijard in the dub. His human form's name is changed to Richard Komodo.
• Evil Brit: In the dub, he's given a British accent, and he's the first villain the Cures encounter.
• Evil Teacher: He disguises himself as a student teacher named Ryuuichi Kazama to infiltrate Nagisa and Honoka's school.
• Facial Markings: Has red ones around his eyes that resemble a Domino Mask.
• Fair-Play Villain: Exaggerated. In his final episode, when he has the Cures cornered, he gives Mipple back to Honoka, allowing her to transform into Cure White, just so he can prove he's the strongest by fighting them at their full power. This directly proceeds to his death — if he hadn't done so, he would have won. This is justified not because Pisard is honorable, but because Pisard wants to regain his Villain Cred.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. Pisard is a powerful foe, but he hides a fragile ego and an eagerness to prove himself the strongest. So, rather than risk his Villain Cred even further by attacking the Cures when he's already stolen Mipple away from Honoka, Pisard decides to give Mipple back so he can defeat them and repair his bruised ego.
• Femme Fatalons: In episode 3, he threatens Yoshimi-sensei by extending his pointer finger out into a razor-sharp claw. Episode 5 shows that those claws can shred through a steamroller.
• Flash Step: Demonstrates this ability in episode 1, though it could also be short-range Villain Teleportation.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He's a member of the Dark Five, but none of its other members have much respect for him and tend to keep him at arm's length. Even Illkubo, the group's leader and voice of reason, acknowledges that it might be best to plan without him.
• Hostage for MacGuffin: Holds a brainwashed Yoshimi-sensei hostage in exchange for the Prism Stones in episode 3.
• Hot in Human Form: His human disguise, Ryuuichi Kazama, is portrayed as a very handsome man. Yoshimi-sensei becomes smitten with him, and even Rina and Shiho contemplate making themselves look nice for him when he visits their class. Episode 3, which features the disguise as evil student teacher Ryuuichi Kazama, is even entitled, "Beware the Handsome Student Teacher!"
• Human Hammer-Throw: Mostly attacks with kicks and telepathy, but he performs a hammer throw on the Cures when he fights directly.
• Hypnotic Eyes: He's able to hypnotize people with his eyes, which turn from blue to his true form's green. He uses this ability in episode 2 to steal a vacuum cleaner, and later in episode 3 to Mind Control the girls' teacher, Yoshimi Takenouchi.
• In a Single Bound: Like the transformed Pretty Cures, Pisard can jump several times his own height.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Pisard, Pissard, or Pijard?
• Kick the Dog: Frequently endangers civilians' lives in his schemes, such as causing an elevator loaded with people to plummet to the ground and holding a brainwashed Yoshimi-sensei hostage and then trying to make her walk off a ceiling beam while the Cures are distracted. In his nastiest action of all, Pisard turns the Cures' entire class and dozens of museum visitors into statues, then levitates the bodies into a tornado... all to use as a Human Shield, when he's more than a match for the Cures on his own.
• Kneel Before Zod: Commands the Cures to bow before Jaaku King in episode 5, as the human race only exists to be consumed by the Dotsuku Zone. This as he's enduring a Marble Screw, which only encourages the Cures to strengthen the attack more.
• Making a Splash: In his last battle in episode 5, he sends a large wave of water after the Cures.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Pisard" may come from "pisar", Portuguese for "to step on". It could also be a backwards spelling of "dosanpin", Japanese for "low-ranking samurai" (or, more colloquially, an insult meaning "underling" or "loser").
  • His human alias, Ryuuichi Kazama. "Kazama" seems to come from "kaze", meaning "wind", and "ma", meaning "demon".
• Mind over Matter: Throws random debris (trash cans, steel beams, etc.) as his typical attack.
• Motive Rant: In episode 5, he finally spells out why he wants the Prism Stones so badly — to keep himself alive.
  Honoka: Why would you try to steal something so precious to someone?! What gives you the right?!
  Pisard: My lord Jaaku King's immortality is the Dotsuku Zone's immortality. The Dotsuku Zone's immortality is my immortality.
  Honoka: As long as you and yours are OK, that's fine? That's... absolutely wrong!!
  Pisard: I don't understand the meaning of what you're saying. I only do what I must do. Hand over the Prism Stones!!
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: In the English dub, his human alias is named "Richard Komodo", as in the Komodo dragon.
• Near-Villain Victory: In episode 5, he successfully steals Mipple from Honoka, preventing her from transforming. He snatches defeat from the jaws of victory anyway when he gives Mipple back to prove he's the strongest.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: David Bowie, anyone? The dub strengthens this association by giving Pijard a British accent.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Remarks to the Cures that by fighting against him to protect their world from the Dotsuku Zone, they are little different from him, a Dirty Coward motivated by keeping himself alive, and outright says they're "acting like hypocrites".
• Offerings to the Gods: In episode 2, he uses a Vicious Vac to suck up the city's electricity as a gift for Jaaku King.
• Pointy Ears: As with all the other members of the Dark Five, Pisard has pointed ears to show he's from the Dotsuku Zone.
• Practically Joker: Downplayed in that he's not really a Monster Clown, but he's still a Faux Affably Evil villain whose distinctive kabuki-inspired appearance includes lots of garish reds and whites. He gets no respect from his teammates, who start openly planning to continue without him after a few mistakes, and his only loyalty is to himself. In his final appearance, he gets into a heated argument with the Cures over his worldview and cowardice, offering to spare whichever of them is willing to sell the other out for survival in as cowardly a move as Pisard himself.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: After the Pretty Cures rescue Yoshimi-sensei from her hostage situation and transform, Pisard distracts them with a Zakenna and has her climb up to a beam on the ceiling. It's heavily implied he would have made her fall from that height, killing herself, if she wasn't rescued in time.
• Sadist: Has shades of this. Pisard's methods are often cruel and cause unnecessary suffering, and even Poisony says he likes to "indulge himself" with his magical abilities rather than strategize or go in for the kill.
• Shoulders of Doom: Has an outfit with huge, pointed shoulders, which only emphasizes how evil he is.
• Slave to PR: A Villain Cred-oriented version that is deconstructed hard in Episode 5. It's Pisard's desire to prove his strength to the rest of the Dark Five that spells his defeat — he insists on fighting the Cures at full power even when he'd basically already won, which lets them turn the tables on him.
• Smug Snake: An arrogant, superficially cunning villain, Pisard's ego ultimately gets the better of him in episode 5 when he tries to prove himself the best by forcing a battle he didn't have to fight. This proceeds directly to his death.
• Smug Super: Even though he has a huge ego, Pisard has the power to back up his threats, and he actually comes close to winning in a couple of episodes.
• Starter Villain: The first general to confront the Pretty Cures.
• Taken for Granite: He's able to turn people into statues with his eyes. In Episode 4, he uses this to threaten the Cures, since they risk breaking the statues if they try to hit him.
• There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: "Every world is one of two: win, or lose!"
• This Cannot Be!: In episodes 4 and 5, this is his reaction when he takes the brunt of a Marble Screw attack.
• Too Dumb to Live: Giving Mipple back to Honoka was a phenomenally stupid move. He wanted to fight the Pretty Cures fairly and prove himself the strongest.
• Unfortunate Names: Some subtitles render his name as "Pissard". This even extends to Japanese — if "Pisard" (ピーサード piisaado) comes from "dosanpin", as in Meaningful Name above, then his name is essentially backwards for "mook".
• Villain Cred: Gradually loses his among the Dark Five as he goes on. By episodes 4 and 5, the rest of the Dark Five openly mock him and call him weak, and Jaaku King has threatened his head if he keeps screwing up.
• Villain Respect: Subverted. He calls Nagisa an "admirable girl" for stepping in to protect Honoka in episode 5, but as the ensuing battle continues, Pisard derides them both as hypocrites for calling him out and tries to break them. Just before he dies, he proclaims that they'd better just bow down to Jaaku King, as they only exist to be consumed by him and the Dotsuku Zone. It's safe to assume that whatever respect Pisard might have had no longer exists.
• Villainous Breakdown: By episode 5, Pisard's loss of Villain Cred among his peers grates on his ego to the point where he begins making suicidally stupid decisions to prove his strength.
• Virtue Is Weakness: As he's fighting in episode 5, Pisard lectures the Cures for "acting like hypocrites" because they fight to help others, implying he views anything but the basest selfishness and cowardice as a weakness.
  Pisard: What's the matter?! Is THIS your power?! See what happens when you act like hypocrites and care for others?! BEG FOR YOUR LIVES!! Tell me that you alone want to survive! I'll only spare the one who says it first!
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can disguise himself as a human.
• Walk on Water: In episode 5, he runs across the surface of a river to evade the Cures.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He only lasts five episodes, the swiftest defeat of any villain in the entire franchise until Daigan. And even Daigan manages to survive the entire season.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: Has white hair and a pale white face, red Facial Markings, cape, and clothing, and he's the very first villain the Cures face.
• White Hair, Black Heart: His true form features him in white hair, but he's working for Jaaku King and is after the last two Prism Stones for his master's nefarious schemes.
• Would Hurt a Child: Well, "would hurt a young teenager". In episode 1, Pisard doesn't hesitate to attack Nagisa and Honoka with his telekinesis when they don't hand Mepple and Mipple over to him. They don't transform — in fact, they don't even know they can transform yet — but he doesn't seem to care.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Episode 3 is all about this with Pisard. First, he brainwashes Yoshimi-sensei into bringing Nagisa to him in the gym, where he orders her to hand over the Prism Stones. When Honoka arrives, he decides to hold her hostage instead; once the girls are able to transform, he summons a Zakenna to distract them while he prepares to have Yoshimi-sensei commit Psychic-Assisted Suicide. And when the Cures get their teacher down from the ceiling, he has the Zakenna possess the stage curtains, which very nearly defeats them.
• You Will Be Spared: In his last battle, he offers to spare the lives of whichever of the two Cures begs to survive alone.

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Gekidrago

Voiced by: Kouji Ishii (Japanese), Kevin Gilese (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Juan Fernández (European Spanish), Ferso Velásquez (Latin-American Spanish), Paolo Marchese (Italian), Huang Tianyou (Taiwanese Mandarin)

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The second of the Dotsuku Zone's "Dark Five" fought by the Cures. Gekidrago is very much the stereotypical brute of the group, mainly relying on his raw strength instead of intelligence. However, he uses Zakennas in very creative ways despite his stupidity, forcing Nagisa and Honoka to rely on all-new techniques to save the day. He holds the blue Prism Stone.

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• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He's already enormous by human standards, but both of his One-Winged Angel forms are even larger, with his sea monster form in particular standing nearly as tall as a building.
• Bad Boss: A Zakenna-possessed Vice Principal gets Punched Across the Room when he gets too close to Gekidrago with his pointer.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: The first Zakenna that Gekidrago sics on the Cures is a possessed bear, specifically a mother bear. He uses her as a mount, and for extra cruelty, he keeps having her attack even when her cub tries to intervene. If not for Nagisa, she could easily have maimed or killed her own offspring. Later, in his last appearance, he has Zakenna take control of all the fish in the aquarium.
• Bald of Evil: Downplayed. Gekidrago still has a little white mohawk, but he's still mostly bald and, of course, very evil. His tree form has a completely bald head, unless you count the tree's leaves as his "hair".
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Unlike Pisard, Gekidrago doesn't have any magic or superpowers beyond his incredible strength and endurance, and his fighting style is pure melee. Subverted when he fuses together with Zakenna, which lets him use tree branches as Combat Tentacles and shoot huge cannons of water from his eel-hands, depending on the form.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Gekidrago might be dumber than a rock, which makes for several humorous moments, but that doesn't mean he can't be dangerous. Episode 11 shows how threatening he can truly be, especially once he combines himself with some of the most dangerous creatures in the aquarium.
• Big "NO!": His last words in the dub is one of these.
• The Brute: He's a hulking general of the Dotsuku Zone with all the muscle to engage the Cures.
• Combat Tentacles: In his second form, he can attack the Cures with tentacle-like tree branches.
• Delinquent Hair: Has what little hair is left on his head styled into a spiked-up mohawk.
• The Ditz: Nagisa may not be the brightest bulb in the series, but Gekidrago is way, way dumber. At one point, he is easily tricked into giving back a confiscated Mepple; it takes him a long time to realize his mistake. In a later episode, Honoka distracts him for quite some time by claiming the Prism Stone is hidden somewhere in a jewelry store.
• Dumb Muscle: The dumbest example in the whole franchise.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Refuses to deliver Mepple to Jaaku King while he is sick, as seen in episode 9, and considers the very idea unacceptable.
• Fusion Dance: Can combine himself with his Zakenna underlings to transform his own body. Defeating the Zakenna the usual way will undo the transformation.
• Hades Shaded: Gekidrago's second form, a fusion between himself and a Zakenna-possessed tree, has tanned, orangey skin rather than pale skin like his first form. His third and final form has ruddy, pinkish skin instead.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Gekidrago blows his top fairly easily. In episode 7, he demands Honoka "BRING [HIM] STONE", and screams in her face when he says no. When the Vice Principal's Zakenna form chews him out for not listening and touches his head with a pointer, Gekidrago punches him across the court.
• Hand Blast: His final form has eels for hands, which can act like water cannons and blast the Cures with water.
• Horrifying the Horror: In episode 10, three robbers break into a jewelry store and threaten everyone. Then Gekidrago shows up, frightening the criminals by lifting the steel door with his bare hands.
• Hulk Speak: Speaks in very simplistic, broken Japanese to emphasize his role as the Dark Five's Dumb Muscle. For bonus points, he tells Jaaku King he's going to "SMASH" the Cures. Averted in the dub where he has a pretty good vocabulary.
  Gekidrago: BRING ME... STONE!
• Kick the Dog: In his final episode, he attacks Nagisa's little brother Ryouta simply for showing up. Nagisa does not take kindly to this.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Has a very square jaw, though unlike most examples it's to characterize him as The Brute rather than a heroic figure.
• Laughably Evil: Unlike the more serious Pisard, Gekidrago's extreme stupidity lends itself to lots of comedic moments. He'll do things like keep charging at the Cures until he's completely out of sight, for example. Even when he fuses himself with a tree Zakenna in episode 8, the Cures' are too busy fighting to argue with him, much to his anger.
  Gekidrago: NO IGNORE ME!!
• Made of Iron: Gekidrago is a very physically sturdy character, so he can take a lot of punishment. A Marble Screw is enough to blow Pisard away (and later kill him outright), but Gekidrago can tank the same attack with no apparent injuries beyond getting Blown Across the Room. It's not enough to protect him when Nagisa cranks up the power, which he more than deserves after putting her little brother in danger.
• Making a Splash: Not usually, but his final form can fire huge streams of water from the eels that have replaced his hands.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: His third and last form is a hideous giant that's part shark, part manta, part humanoid, and part eel.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Gekidrago" comes from gekido, meaning "wrath" or "fury". Fitting, considering his Hair-Trigger Temper.
• Nobody Here but Us Statues: In episode 9, Gekidrago stands on Verone Academy's "Statue of Tomorrow" pedestal, posed like the statue, before revealing himself to the Cures.
• One-Winged Angel: In episode 8, he fuses himself with a Zakenna to transform himself into a monstrous tree. Then in his final episode, he fuses with a whole bunch of marine life and becomes a giant shark monster.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Doesn't really have any clearly defined plans beyond "smash the Pretty Cures" and "get the Prism Stones back". If he summons a Zakenna, it's to possess the first thing in front of him, and the rest of the time he's just winging it.
• Pet the Dog: If there's a nice bone in Gekidrago's body, he shows it when he returns a feverish Mepple to the Cures. He'd get a whooping from Jaaku King if he brought a sick fairy to the Dotsuku Zone, after all.
• Pointy Ears: His ears are pointed, which, along with his height and his all-white eyes, cement him as a being from another world.
• Primal Chest-Pound: When he's especially excited, Gekidrago likes to beat his chest like a gorilla.
• Prophet Eyes: His eyes are completely white with no visible pupils, showing that he's from another world.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Not normally, but his tree form has red eyes on top of his regular white ones, and both the shark and eel heads of his sea monster form have red eyes, too. Justified, as these are all the Zakenna's eyes, while Gekidrago's face peers out from inside of the tree and shark, respectively.
• Say My Name: As he's getting blown to kingdom come by a furious Marble Screw, he calls out to Jaaku King with his final words.
• Sinister Stingrays: When he appears in episode 11, he's shown riding on a manta ray's back to surreptitiously spy on the Cures from inside the aquarium. When he combines himself with the aquarium's marine life, he grows a stingray tail that he uses like a whip.
• Slippery as an Eel: Along with sharks, Gekidrago has Zakenna corrupt enough moray eels to make a venomous wall to block Nagisa and Honoka's pathway out of the aquarium. Then he combines himself with them, with two eels that can blast water from their mouths instead of hands.
• Slouch of Villainy: In episode 7, he relaxes and slouches in his seat, confident that the Zakenna-possessed Vice Principal Kometsuki will defeat the heroes. This only pisses Kometsuki off more, and he even angrily thrusts his hand-pointer in Gekidrago's face.
  Zakenna Kometsuki: (subtitled) Is that any way to listen when someone is speaking to you?!
• Smug Smiler: Prone to grinning smugly when he thinks he has the upper hand.
• Super-Strength: His enormous muscles aren't just for show. In episode 9, he lifts a Zakenna's Giant Foot of Stomping off of him and sends it stumbling back, even though the Zakenna's legs alone are the size of a school building.
• Tentacle Rope: His second form, a colossal, evil tree, can tie the Cures up in tentacle-like branches.
• Threatening Shark: In his final appearance, Gekidrago has Zakenna possess the sharks in the aquarium and later fuses with them to transform into an enormous shark-eel-stingray hybrid.
• Third-Person Person: Sometimes uses the pronoun ore, but other times...
  Gekidrago: GEKIDRAGO... NO LOSE!!
• Too Dumb to Live: Like Pisard before him, Gekidrago's final appearance has him make a fatal mistake out of stupidity — namely pushing Nagisa's Relative Button when her ten-year-old brother Ryouta gets hit by one of his attacks. The ensuing No-Holds-Barred Beatdown is well-earned.
• Verbal Tic: He says "uga, uga" a lot, which makes him sound like an ogre or an ape.
• When Trees Attack: In episode 8, he transforms himself into an enormous, sentient tree by combining his power with a tree possessed by a Zakenna.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He has a small greyish-white mohawk, and he's a villain just like the rest of the Dark Five.
• Wormsign: At one point in episode 6, he falls through a rickety bridge due to his immense size and weight. He's back not long after, but only because he dug his way back up, announcing his presence with one of these.
• Would Hurt a Child: Gekidrago may have taken pity on Mepple, but he doesn't extend that same pity to human children; his attacks in episode 11 hit Cure Black's younger Ryouta, which renders the ten-year-old totally unconscious for hours.

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Poisony

Voiced by: Sakiko Uran (Japanese), Onalea Gilbertson (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Elena Ruiz de Velasco (European Spanish), Laura Romano (Italian), Long Xianhui (Taiwanese Mandarin)

The only female member of the Dark Five, and Kiriya's older sister. A ruthless, manipulative woman, Poisony's intelligence makes her a far more dangerous enemy than Pisard and Gekidrago. She shapeshifts into a variety of disguises throughout her time in the spotlight, and because of this, it's often unclear who the Cures should trust until it's too late. She keeps the orange Prism Stone in her necklace.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: While not mourned by the Cures thanks to everything she's put them through, Poisony's death affects Kiriya deeply. He lets out a Death Wail as whatever's left of her "returns to the darkness".
• Anime Hair: In her final battle, episode 20, her hair stands up on its own like a Super Saiyan's. Justified, as Poisony has Prehensile Hair.
• Ax-Crazy: The last confrontation against Poisony has her turn downright unhinged, chewing the scenery left and right and mercilessly striking the Cures with attack after attack.
• Badass Boast: Gets a fairly impressive one in her final battle.
  Poisony: In this world, here's what's important — intelligence, strength, and above all, experience! Only after you've accumulated survival experience on the battlefield can you become an adult. With luck and courage alone, you definitely aren't gonna win against an adult. In other words, you two don't have a single basis or reason for why you can win against me, Poisony!
• Badass Fingersnap: Can summon Zakennas to do her bidding with a simple snap of her fingers, rather than Pisard and Gekidrago's dramatic summoning chants.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In her first appearance, Poisony uses her powers to pretend to be a friendly chocolate saleswoman and a kindly old lady so she can distract the Cures into giving away their Card Communes. Once exposed, she drops all pretenses of kindness.
• Blow You Away: Once her true nature is revealed in episode 12, she shows the ability to buffet people with gusts of wind from her hands. Her powers over wind return with a vengeance during her last face-off with the Cures, making her attacks hit with incredible force.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Is proud to fight on the villains' side.
  Poisony: Justice without power to go with it will fall to evil!
• Crazy-Prepared: Even before Kiriya becomes a Verona Academy student, Poisony demonstrates that she's been keeping tabs on the Cures' interests, hobbies, and desires from her debut episode. When she impersonates Honoka in episode 20, she goes as far as returning to the school building so she can spritz herself with the exact same perfume from the science club, and even fashions an identical copy of Honoka's Card Commune.
• Curtains Match the Window: Dark red hair, pale red eyes.
• Dance Battler: Her fighting style while in the Hall of Mirrors resembles a murderous ballet dance, complete with Spectacular Spinning pirouette attacks.
• Dub Name Change: To Pandora.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: One of her only sympathetic qualities is her familial relationship with her little brother Kiriya, whom she is initially reluctant to let battle with the Cures. While she warns Kiriya in episode 17 that she could easily kill him if she so desired, in context it was likely meant as a warning not to let his guard down rather than a genuine threat.
• Everyone Has Standards: She doesn't like Pisard because, as per her own description, he tends to "indulge" in his spellcasting rather than use strategy. And, while she does go back on this, she doesn't think it's a good idea for Kiriya to fight the Cures.
• Evil Is Hammy: While she's normally rather subdued, Poisony lets loose with scenery-chewing ham in her last battle with the Cures. Justified, as she's gotten desperate and is showing off everything she has.
• Evil Redhead: This villain has red hair and is working for the Jaaku King.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Not normally, but her "mysterious fortune teller" disguise wears much more eyeshadow than usual.
• Fangs Are Evil: As shown when she "gets serious" in the final battle against her, Poisony has long canine teeth like a vampire's.
• Femme Fatalons: Her "fortune teller" form in episode 16 has long, purple nails to really sell the "desert witch" aesthetic she's going for.
• Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. Poisony is normally fairly cool and collected... as long as things are going her way. When they're not, she has a rather short temper. Played straight when she "gets serious", as she starts to act much hammier and more menacing.
• Forcibly Formed Physique: In episode 15, Poisony is hiding inside a cupboard and comically morphs her body into a cube-like shape so the Cures won't notice her when they slide the door open.
• The Gadfly: Poisony's sibling bond with Kiriya is revealed when a large, talking dog walks up to him at the train station, then transforms into her; she seemingly transformed into one just for the hell of it. She later gives him an "If I Wanted You Dead..." sort of threat when he's sitting on a hill, but Kiriya's lack of reaction indicates it was more of a joking warning.
• Girlish Pigtails: Has her hair done up in a pair of these for her "chocolate saleswoman" disguise, making her look less threatening.
• Hand Blast: One of her abilities in combat, as shown in episode 12, is to shoot harsh winds from her palms.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Poisony is eventually defeated in episode 20 when she busts out her Prehensile Hair for the first time, which lets the Cures send their Marble Screw attack through her hair follicles and kill her. To her credit, she teleports the second she realizes what they're trying to do, but by then it's too late.
• Horrifying the Horror: As heartless as she is, Poisony is outright frightened when she sees the effects of Illkubo's light-sapping Crystal Ball in action.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Already a No-Nonsense Nemesis even while "left-handed", Poisony's final battle has her pushing her formidable powers to the absolute limit, with wind-boosted attacks that launch the Cures hundreds of feet, liberal use of Teleport Spam, and all-new abilities like Prehensile Hair.
  Poisony: Are you ready? Because today's the day I get serious. PREPARE YOURSELVES!!!
• If I Wanted You Dead...: Episode 17 has her giving a variation to Kiriya, who's sitting on a hill alone, as a rather threatening warning not to drop his guard.
  Poisony: That's not like you, is it Kiriya? Full of chances to strike... If I felt so inclined, you know, you would lose your life.
• Intangibility: In episode 13, she floats backwards and phases into a wall rather than fight the Cures one-on-one.
• Jerkass: Once her true nature is exposed, Poisony quickly establishes herself as a manipulative, cruel, and arrogant foe who's not above Trash Talk when she gains the upper hand in a fight. She has a low tolerance for frustration, too — when she has Mepple in her clutches and fails to interrogate him, she threatens to cook him, and later lashes out at a concerned Illkubo under the assumption that he thinks she'll fail.
  Illkubo: Will you be alright?
  Poisony: What do you mean by that...? You mean you think I'm going to fail? Surely you jest! Why me?!
• Kick the Dog: Like Pisard, she frequently endangers innocent civilians and sometimes goes as far as brainwashing or even having Zakenna possess them en masse. For example, in episode 14, Poisony uses her Mind Control on Kyouko and Natsuko, whom she forces to attack the Cures in a Mirror Match; during the fight, she employs several dirty tricks like having them attempt Psychic-Assisted Suicide as bait to lure the Cures to the edge, and once she has all four girls backed into a corner by construction-equipment Zakennas, she taunts them.
• Lack of Empathy: When called out on using Kyouko and Natsuko as brainwashed puppets, Poisony says the Cures shouldn't care if the girls really do have "nothing to do with" them.
  Cure Black: Enough of this! These girls have nothing to do with us!
  Poisony: They have "nothing to do with" you, so whatever becomes of them is fine, isn't it? But if the two of you hand me your Prism Stones, I'll rescue them for you, alright?
• Magic Mirror: In episode 18, Poisony transports the Cures to a magical Hall of Mirrors to confuse them while she fights them in hand-to-hand combat. When they actually land a hit, she seals them within one of the mirrors and prepares to shatter it, and they're only saved by Kiriya's intervention.
• Makeup Is Evil: The purple eyeliner she wears only emphasizes how villainous she is, since she's the only character on the show to visibly wear makeup.
• Manipulative Bitch: Poisony is far smarter than Pisard and Gekidrago before her, and it shows in her debut episode; there, she easily tricks Nagisa and Honoka into giving up the Prism Stones, with only a timely arrival from Sanae Yukishiro stopping her from winning right then and there. Before each encounter, she notes the girls' characteristics (e.g. Nagisa plays lacrosse and her favorite food is chocolate, Honoka is a member of the science club and idolizes Professor Breakstone) and proceeds to exploit them to get what she wants.
• Master of Illusion: One of Poisony's most dangerous abilities is the power to make her enemies see illusions. She uses this in episode 12 to make Honoka believe she is dreaming, dropping her guard and nearly convincing her to give up her Prism Stone.
• Mind Control: Like Pisard, she has the ability to control people's minds and make them do her bidding even without using Zakenna to possess them. In episode 14, she uses this to force a Mirror Match between the Cures and their Brainwashed and Crazy "impostors", Kyouko and Natsuko.
• Mysterious Veil: Wears one of these in episode 16 when she pretends to be a fortune teller.
• Near-Villain Victory: Her excellent planning nearly nets her several victories against the Cures, some of which she absolutely would have won were it not for Kiriya stepping in to save them at the last possible moment.
• Nightmare Face: In the final battle against Poisony, her facial expressions become rather impressively deranged thanks to her Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Poisony is an intelligent master manipulator who, in her debut appearance, sizes up the Cures from afar before weaponizing her shapeshifting abilities, which lets her easily trick them into giving the Prism Stones away. When questioned, she immediately reveals she'd used Zakennas to brainwash everyone in the town square, and the heroes are surrounded. Rather than risk a direct confrontation, Poisony simply disappears during the Transformation Sequence, vanishes into a nearby wall, or uses her Teleport Cloak to escape. It's very telling that the only reason she fails in episodes 17 and 18 is because Kiriya secretly intervenes on the Cures' behalf.
• Non-Indicative Name: Her name is Poisony, but none of her various abilities are poison-related.
• Pet the Dog: In her own way, she truly cares about her brother Kiriya. She's not above threatening him, but it's unlikely she would actually go through with this, as the "threat" was more of a half-joking warning in context.
• Pointy Ears: As with most members of the Dark Five, her ears are pointed like an elf's.
• Practically Different Generations: She's a full-grown woman who appears to be in her 20s or 30s, but her younger brother is Kiriya, a 13-year-old boy.
• Prehensile Hair: Is revealed to have this in her final episode when she decides to finally fight the Cures without using any tricks or Zakennas. Poisony can make her hair grow as long as she wishes, which ends up being far longer than her body.
• Projectile Webbing: In episode 15, she shoots a magical, glowing web at Nagisa's dad to stop him from climbing a cliffside.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Exploited of all things. In episode 14, Poisony uses her Mind Control to make Kyouko and Natsuko try to walk off the edge of a tall building, knowing the Cures will try to stop them from doing so. When they approach, she has the mind-controlled girls attack, having lured the Cures close to the same deadly fall.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her color scheme is predominantly red and black; she wears an outfit that's predominantly black leather with a black and red cape, and she's an Evil Redhead with red eyes.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Another sign of her villainy is her slanted, pale crimson eyes.
• Shapeshifting Seducer: Non-sexual example. Episode 12 has Poisony using her analysis of the girls to transform herself into a tailor-made disguise that will totally drop their guard and let her take the Prism Stones. In Nagisa's case, it's a young chocolate saleswoman; in Honoka's, it's an older woman similar to her grandmother Sanae.
• Shapeshifting Trickster: Poisony is a shapeshifter and a Manipulative Bitch par excellence. In episode 13, she even uses her shapeshifting to play a prank on Kiriya.
• Sibling Team: Forms one with her younger brother, Kiriya; she does most of the evil planning, while Kiriya poses as an ordinary seventh-grader and follows the Cures around as a sort of scout. In episode 17, they even end up fighting against the Cures together, but Kiriya ultimately can't go through with it at the end and allows Cure Black to save the day.
• Slasher Smile: As she lets down her Prehensile Hair for the first time, Poisony sports a fiendish grin.
• The Smurfette Principle: Of the Dark Five, she's the only woman.
• The Sociopath: Poisony is a cold-hearted, ruthless enemy who relies on manipulating whomever she can so she can get the Prism Stones, carries herself pridefully, and is surprisingly easy to frustrate when things go wrong for her. She does have a close sibling bond with Kiriya, but she frequently teases him for fun and says, albeit as a warning, that she wouldn't hesitate to kill him if she felt so inclined.
• Sphere of Destruction: Her Super-Scream attack resembles a white, spherical explosion that slowly expands outward around her.
• Spot the Imposter: Her last appearance features her impersonating Honoka Yukishiro herself, complete with a replica of Mipple's Card Commune and the very same perfume. Nagisa is only barely able to distinguish between the two.
• Suddenly Shouting: After eight episodes of being rather calm and reserved, Poisony "gets serious" and starts hamming it up for the final battle.
  Poisony: I recognize your luck and your courage. But there is one thing, you know? In this world, you can't survive on those alone... I'LL TEACH YOU THAT!!!
• Super-Scream: One application of her wind powers is a super-powered yell that takes the form of a Sphere of Destruction. She uses this to bust down a locked door and get to the Cures shortly before her last showdown with them.
• Taught by Experience: Poisony names experience as one of the most important things a person can have, and it shows in the cautious and pragmatic way she deals with her enemies. By episode 20, she has witnessed the Cures' Marble Screw enough times to counter it, either by teleporting away or restraining them with her Prehensile Hair so they can't hold hands.
• Teleport Cloak: When she sees the Cures preparing a Marble Screw at the end of episode 14, she retreats into her cape and teleports away. She doesn't need the cloak to do this, as shown to great effect in her final battle.
• Teleport Spam: During her last battle against the Cures, Poisony is constantly teleporting. She even dodges the Marble Screw by teleporting out of the way before it can hit her, although this doesn't work the second time.
• Tempting Fate: Her last words are pointing out the Cures cannot hit her with the Marble Screw while she's got them restrained. It ends up going through her hair and killing her.
• Traitor Shot: When she's disguised as a chocolate saleswoman, the first sign that she's anything more than a civilian is a brief shot of her giving the camera a Psychotic Smirk.
• Trash Talk: Taunts the Cures throughout Episode 14 once she gains the upper hand against them, though she's too cautious to bother with it most of the time and tends to stay in the background for her own safety.
  Cure White: We'll never forgive you!
  Poisony: In that case, what are you gonna do? You don't have a way out anymore.
• Villain Respect: Notes on one occasion that she recognizes the Cures' good luck and courage after having battled them so many times, but this might not be genuine, as she later calls them "fools who know no fear".
• Voice Changeling: She can perfectly imitate the voice of anybody she transforms into, which she weaponizes in her final episode when she transforms into Honoka.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can transform into anything she wants, from talking dogs to old men, and makes great use of this ability to trick people.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Poisony is much savvier than Pisard and Gekidrago, who were prone to making serious mistakes out of stupidity. She gives the Cures such a hard time that she nearly wins on a few occasions, and it takes eight episodes to bring her down (Pisard took five, and Gekidrago took six). After her, all that's left of the Dark Five is Illkubo, who's several orders of magnitude more terrifying and powerful.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: The "furious" variant. When Poisony "gets serious", she busts these out constantly for frightening effect.

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Kiriya

Voiced by: Reiko Kiuchi (Japanese), Scott Roberts (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Sara Vivas (European Spanish), Mirko Cannella (Italian)

The youngest member of the Dark Five, at just 13 years old. He holds the yellow Prism Stone on his necklace. To spy on the Cures, Kiriya transfers to their middle school and becomes one of the most popular students. A surprisingly mature and contemplative boy, his interactions with Honoka leave him questioning his upbringing in the Dotsuku Zone. Kiriya may have to battle not just the heroines, but his own convictions as well...

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• Academic Athlete: In his debut episode, he defeats Fujipi, a third-year, at soccer, and it's rumored that he got a perfect score on the entrance exam he took to attend Verona Academy.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: His name is spelled "Kirea" in the English dub.
• Big Jerk on Campus: Amasses quite the following when he scores against Fujipi, a third-year, as a first-year. The "Jerk" part comes in because he's secretly one of the Dark Five, although he appears to be the only one with any morals whatsoever.
• Blow You Away: Can use the same sonic Hand Blasts as his older sister, blowing the Cures away with a shockwave of air.
• Bratty Half-Pint: When interacting with Pisard and Gekidrago, Kiriya seems to get a kick out of taunting them both.
• Characterization Marches On: Kiriya's first two cameos make him out to be a Bratty Half-Pint who openly insults his teammates. Once he officially appears in the story, his personality is far calmer and more introspective.
• Chick Magnet: It's easier to list the girls at Verona Academy who don't have a crush on him.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He hasn't made any further appearances since coming back in the first season finale. He didn’t even show up in HuGtto! Pretty Cure despite every other ally of the Cures helping them in their ultimate attack in the crossover episode!
• Creepy Child: He's a sinister child working for the Jaaku King.
• Crush Blush: In episode 13, it's implied he's crushing on Honoka; he blushes and looks away with a sweet smile when introducing himself to her.
• Curiosity Causes Conversion: He fails to understand human values like hard work and caring for others, but once those concepts are explained to him, he begins displaying a conscience his older sister completely lacks.
• Curtains Match the Window: Has dark green-black hair, and as a human, his eyes are also dark green.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Kiriya might be a member of the Dark Five and a being formed from darkness, but he's the Token Good Teammate of the group and is only really a villain by association. His actual actions, like saving the Cures twice, are unambiguously good.
• A Death in the Limelight: Kiriya's first and only episode as the "main antagonist", if you can even call him that, ends with his Heel–Face Turn and his death.
• Death Wail: When Poisony dies, he lets out an agonized Skyward Scream.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: Episode 18 has him giving a girl an Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection because he doesn't know how to navigate social situations. Honoka comes to lecture him, at which point he raises his voice for the very first time.
  Kiriya: Even though I don't know a thing about people... don't call me some self-important kid!!
• Dishing Out Dirt: In episode 17, he uses his magic to create an impenetrable rock wall that prevents Cure Black from entering a cave. He drops the wall of his own free will once he sees his sister's cruel methods in action.
• Disney Death: He returns in the last episode as a normal human.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Human morality is utterly alien to him, as shown in episode 17. He's confused by rather basic concepts like effort, teamwork, and even compassion. He doesn't lack the latter, however — later in the same episode, he can't bear to see Cure White hurt and releases his barrier.
• Face Death with Dignity: Willingly surrenders his Prism Stone to the Cures and calmly accepts his punishment for it. He maintains his cool as he returns to darkness.
  Kiriya: I don't have the power to reverse my destiny. But it looks like... the two of you do. The power connecting you to each other is extraordinary. The strength to carve out a new destiny. I feel the power of the other Stones pulling against each other. The ones who've drawn out that power... might be you two. But I'm not going to turn away from my fate anymore. Goodbye.
• Foe Romance Subtext: He gets a lot of Ship Tease with Honoka Yukishiro, even though they're supposed to be enemies. Unfortunately for Kiriya, it doesn't pan out; he's forced to return to the darkness before she can reciprocate.
• Friendly Enemy: The Cures consider Kiriya a friend, unaware that he's a spy for the Dotsuku Zone. The feeling is eventually reciprocated to the point where Kiriya falls in love with Cure White, which makes his present job very, very complicated.
• Heel–Face Turn: Gives up his Prism Stone to the Pretty Cures willingly, knowing the Dotsuku Zone would force him to return to darkness as punishment. He accepts this penalty with utmost dignity.
• Hugh Mann: Downplayed. His disguise isn't the problem, but he says some rather strange things about humanity even while posing as a normal person. It's only easy to write off because he has No Social Skills in general.
  Kiriya: They're weak, eh? Humans, I mean.
• Humanity Is Infectious: Kiriya struggles to understand human emotions and values, but learning about them through Honoka eventually leads him to discover some of those qualities in himself, as shown when he spares her life by way of Villainous Rescue in episode 17. He later makes a full Heel–Face Turn.
• Icy Blue Eyes: He's a rather cold and stoical boy with pale blue eyes in his true form. When he gives a classmate an Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection, his eyes briefly turn back to blue to show how coldly he's treating her.
• I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: Played with. Kiriya gives up his Prism Stone, knowing full well he's betrayed Jaaku King and will need to return to the darkness as punishment. So, it's less "I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin" and more "Please Take My MacGuffin, Even If It Kills Me".
• Image Song: "Heart to Heart", an up-tempo but bittersweet tune with flamenco-like guitar instrumentation that illustrates his crush on Honoka. It plays in episode 21 as his Battle Theme Music.
• Inconsistent Coloring: While in human form, his eyes are usually dark green like his hair, but they're sometimes drawn as brown instead.
• Internal Reveal: In episode 21, he confesses to Honoka. Not the romantic kind of confession — he tells her that he's from the Dotsuku Zone and has to defeat them. The audience, however, has been well aware of this fact since Kiriya's debut.
• Long Last Look: As he's swallowed up by the darkness within Illkubo's robes, he takes one last glance at Cure Black and Cure White behind him before closing his eyes and accepting his fate.
• Meaningful Name: His false last name, "Irizawa", contains the kanji for "enter" and "swamp". Fittingly, his role is to "enter the swamp", metaphorically speaking, by infiltrating enemy territory as a student.
• New Transfer Student: Kiriya transfers to the Cures' school in episode 13 and quickly makes a name for himself among the student body for his soccer skills. He has oodles of female fans.
• No Social Skills: Best showcased in Episode 18, where he jumps in place a couple of times for no particular reason before playing soccer, dives under another player and gets fouled for unnecessary roughness, and gives a girl in the Cures' class an Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection because he has no idea what to do in that situation.
  Kiriya: How do I put this... What the people around me are thinking, I don't really get it. I wonder what I should do, you know? I guess not getting the people around you is a common thing, but...
• Nominal Villain: Kiriya might technically be on the villains' side in the fight to claim every single Prism Stone, but he's the most sympathetic among them, and his character arc leaves him totally baffled over his duty to Jaaku King. He cares so deeply for Cure White that when he tries to fight by his sister's side, he can't bring himself to actually do anything evil and ends up saving the Cures from certain doom twice over. He's only a "villain" by affiliation — his actions are otherwise heroic (well, mostly). The only time he fights them head-on, he can't bring himself to finish them off and renounces the dark side once and for all.
• Not So Stoic: He's normally cool and composed at all times, but as he's beginning to experience feelings he doesn't understand, he gives Honoka a surprisingly impassioned speech about how he really does have emotions.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Unlike Pisard and Poisony's displays of Voluntary Shapeshifting, Kiriya just changes his eye color and he looks like a normal boy, even using his Real Name as an Alias. However, because the girls don't know him before he entered their school, they believe he's human until he reveals himself.
• Pointy Ears: Normally covered by his long, shaggy hair, but his ears are pointed like the other Dark Five members.
• Real Name as an Alias: Kiriya, the member of the Dark Five, goes by the name "Kiriya Irizawa" when pretending to be a normal schoolboy.
• Redemption Equals Death: Kiriya gives the Cures his Prism Stone willingly and renounces the side of evil for good, but at the cost of his own life — Illkubo arrives to return him to the darkness, a fate he accepts with grace.
• Resignations Not Accepted: Kiriya is ordered to return to the darkness as punishment for his Heel–Face Turn and betrayal of Jaaku King. He accepts.
• Sad Battle Music: His Image Song, "Heart to Heart", starts playing during his fight against the Cures and continues right up to his death.
• Ship Tease: His Villainous Crush on Honoka is teased through many moments of the two of them together. In Kiriya's final episode, Honoka blushes at his words and shares an Umbrella of Togetherness with him, which implies it might not be as one-sided as he thinks... sadly, nothing comes of it, because he dies at the end of the episode.
• Sibling Team: Forms one with his older sister, Poisony. She's the brains of the operation, while Kiriya attends school as a first-year student and follows the Cures around when he can. In episode 17, they fight together for the first time, albeit Kiriya ultimately can't follow through on helping his sister and lets down his barrier.
• The Stoic: Most of the time he's shown with a cold look on his face.
• Token Good Teammate: Kiriya is the kindest member of the Dark Five, and of the Dotsuku Zone as a whole.
• Trapped in Villainy: Played for Drama in episode 21. It's obvious that he absolutely doesn't want to fight Pretty Cure, especially not Honoka, but he sees absolutely no way out of his situation, as his life is in Jaaku King's hands.
• Umbrella of Togetherness: Honoka offers him this in episode 21.
• Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection: Coldly dismisses a girl who tries to give him a love letter, then tears it in half when she tries again the next day. When Honoka hears about this, she goes to the boys' side of Verona Academy just to chew him out. He apologizes to the poor girl, but still!
• Villainous Breakdown: Kiriya is deeply shaken by Poisony's death and lets out a loud Death Wail. Now feeling completely Trapped in Villainy, he reveals his true identity to the Cures and tries desperately to defeat them, only to stay his hand and give up his Prism Stone willingly at the cost of his life.
• Villainous Crush: Is implied, and later all but stated, to have developed a crush on Honoka. But whether it's one-sided or not, it doesn't pan out for him, since he sacrifices himself to aid the Cures in their quest.
• Villainous Rescue: In episode 17, his first actual fight against the Cures alongside Poisony, he drops his guard and allows Cure Black to reunite with Cure White so his sister won't hurt Honoka. The next episode has him Deus ex Machina the girls out of certain doom.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Very much Downplayed. Kiriya's "human disguise" just changes his Icy Blue Eyes to more normal green ones and gives him slightly messier hair.
• Walking Spoiler: Kiriya's character arc, gradual Heel–Face Turn, and eventual death in episode 21 are all fairly massive spoilers.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: A defining part of his character is his struggle to understand human emotions, since he was born to serve Jaaku King like the rest of his kind.
  Kiriya: What is a heart?! What the heck is MY heart?!? Suppose it exists, what kind of heart is it?!
• Wise Beyond His Years: He's able to pass for a first-year middle school student, putting him at around 13 years old, but his musings on the nature of morality and humanity, as well as being the only member of the Dotsuku Zone to have a Heel–Face Turn, indicate he is among the wisest of the Dark Five.

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Illkubo

Voiced by: Issei Futamata (Japanese), Jonathan Love (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Juan Carlos Lozano (European Spanish), Alberto Angrisano (Italian), Huang Tianyou (Taiwanese Mandarin)

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The leader of the Dark Five, its most powerful member, and Jaaku King's second-in-command. Illkubo is a calm, yet forbidding presence. While he may step in to resolve disputes among his subordinates, he is dutiful and devoted to Jaaku King above all else, and he commands a dark Crystal Ball that can drain the life force out of entire cities with ease. His necklace holds the purple Prism Stone.

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• Affably Evil: While he may be leader of the Dark Five and the closest among them to Jaaku King, Illkubo is unfailingly polite and well-spoken, even to his subordinates. Even when he's saying things that would count as Trash Talk if said by Pisard or Poisony, he says them both calmly and completely honestly. Repeated clashes with Nagisa and Honoka reveal this is an act. His real personality is cold and unpleasant.
  Illkubo: I told you that I wouldn't go easy on you. [...] It is futile. There is too much of a difference in our strength.
• All Your Powers Combined: In episode 19, Illkubo uses the techniques of all the previous Dark Five members. He can drain energy like Pisard and his Zakenna, has Super-Strength like Gekidrago, uses the same wind attacks from his hands as Poisony, and can protect himself with barriers like Kiriya. Later fights show that he can use Pisard's telekinesis and Poisony's teleportation and illusory abilities.
• Ax-Crazy: Not normally, but his final form definitely qualifies. He spends most of the battle trying to brutally beat the Cures with his fists and feet, and is practically nonverbal aside from near-feral growling. Then, he tries to finish the job with a colossal explosion, spouting lines like "IT'S THE COUP DE GRACE!" and "VANISH AND DIE!" all the while. It's worth noting that Jaaku King feared he'd destroy the Prism Stones with this attack, so he killed Illkubo before his newfound Ax-Craziness could, quite literally, blow up his plans.
• Back from the Dead: After the Cures seemingly kill him in episode 24, he returns to the Garden of Light in the next episode in an even stronger, shadowy form that resembles a miniature Jaaku King or a large, bulky Zakenna.
• Bait the Dog: The initial impression Illkubo leaves on the viewer is that he's the Only Sane Man of the Dark Five, stepping in when the rest of them are squabbling and never once showing any of their smugness or cruelty. But once he starts taking matters into his own hands, he quickly proves he's nastier than the other four put together when he drains the entire city of its life energy. His personality is just as wicked as Pisard and Poisony deep down, too — his fights with Pretty Cure have him wavering between Faux Affably Evil politeness and sneering that humanity exists solely to be consumed.
• Bald of Evil: He's a bald general who's loyal to and working for Jaaku King.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: His name is changed to "Kubo" in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
• Barrier Warrior: In his first outing as the Cures' opponent, Illkubo blocks the Cures' Marble Screw with a force field.
• Battle Aura: His second form is perpetually shrouded in a purple, shadowy aura, showing how much stronger he is than before.
• Benevolent Boss: He always steps in to stop infighting among the rest of the Dark Five, and even asks Poisony if she'll be alright after she suffers a couple of defeats. (She still takes this personally, though.) His role in Kiriya's "return to the darkness" casts some doubt on this.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While seemingly polite and personable, Illkubo still considers all of humanity to be lesser life-forms that exist only to sate Jaaku King's energy, and hides his more elitist true colors until his time in the spotlight.
• Blow You Away: Like Pisard and Poisony, Illkubo has the power to stir up harsh winds, often from his hands. In several episodes, he descends to Earth in a dust storm. His transformation into his One-Winged Angel form has him absorb all the clouds in the Dotsuku Zone, forming a huge tornado, before he appears in a huge explosion.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: Illkubo's ultimate One-Winged Angel form comes very close to outright killing the Cures, but before he can deal the final blow, Jaaku King zaps him into oblivion to prevent the attack from damaging the Prism Stones.
• Bring It: When he fights Pretty Cure in episode 23, he beckons them to fight with this pose.
• Brought Down to Normal: One of the things that makes Illkubo so dangerous to face is his ability to undo the Cures' Transformation Sequence by sapping their life energy.
• Bullet Catch: Exaggerated. Just like Pisard, he can block the Cures' Marble Screw with his bare hands. But unlike Pisard, it actually works.
• Cool Gate: Illkubo has a portal to the Dotsuku Zone underneath his cloak. He uses it to return Kiriya to the darkness on behalf of Jaaku King.
• Cross-Popping Veins: When he's exerting his psychic powers to their limit, Illkubo has visible veins on his forehead. His second and third forms sport those veins constantly. Whether it's purely due to The Power of Hate, like he claims, or whether Zakenna had something to do with it is unknown.
• Crystal Ball: His debut outing as the main enemy, episode 19, shows him using a purple crystal ball to drain the life force of countless people and plants. Mepple shatters it towards the end of the episode, and all the energy returns to Earth in the form of a somber but rejuvenating rain. Too bad he has more than one — he's back to using one in episode 23.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Episode 19, Illkubo's debut as the main enemy, shows him utterly trouncing Nagisa and Honoka just by countering their attacks. They only narrowly manage to regain their transformations after getting their life energy drained, let alone fight back, but it's enough to take him by surprise. Illkubo disappears, and they live another day... barely.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: After Illkubo's One-Winged Angel form is reduced to nothing by Jaaku King and his lightning, what's left of him is blown to bits in a huge explosion. Fitting, since that form was created in an equally dramatic explosion and has explosion attacks added to his already-formidable arsenal.
• The Dragon: To Jaaku King. He's such a massive step-up from the Quirky Miniboss Squad that he pretty much ignores Pretty Cure during their first "battle", and utterly curb-stomps them when he decides to fight back in the second. At one point, he calls himself Jaaku King's "Number Two" in Gratuitous English.
• The Dreaded: His presence on Earth frightens Mepple and Mipple to the point where they can recognize he is no ordinary foe. Even Poisony, a merciless and cold-hearted Manipulative Bitch, is visibly frightened at the effects of Illkubo's Crystal Ball.
  Poisony: What... is this feeling...? The air is frozen still...! And this tension... It couldn't be...! Illkubo!
• Enemy to All Living Things: His Crystal Ball can drain the Power of Light from all living beings it's used on, which knocks people unconscious and wilts plants.
• Energy Absorption: His Crystal Ball lets him absorb life energy from the environment around him, and he can catch the Marble Screw and use its energy to bolster his own powers.
• Evil Laugh: When he gets his hands on all seven Prism Stones, he throws his head back and lets out a triumphant one. It's rather unlike his usual self.
• The Executioner: Sort of. Illkubo is tasked with transporting Kiriya back to the darkness to face his punishment, making him this in all but name.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. While very, very powerful, Illkubo consistently underestimates the power of Light to his detriment, which directly proceeds to his (admittedly very few) defeats.
  Jaaku King: Illkubo.
  Illkubo: Yes?
  Jaaku King: The light... you underestimate it...
• Fist of Rage: Illkubo shows little emotion, but after he is hit with a Marble Screw in episode 19, he's later seen clenching his fist and surprised at his loss.
• Forced Sleep: Illkubo's Crystal Ball sucks up living things' Power of Light, which renders its victims unconscious.
• Ground Punch: In his third form, Illkubo can punch the ground hard enough to cause a huge, rippling shockwave.
• Hand Blast: Can fire gusts of wind from his palms just like his fellow Dark Five member, Poisony. His final form can charge up dark power and release it in the form of an enormous explosion.
• Having a Blast: In his final confrontation with Pretty Cure, Illkubo transforms into his One-Winged Angel form in a dramatic explosion. This form has a new move where he charges up power to release a tiny twinkle of purple energy from his palm, which briefly flies through the air before blowing up with enough force to leave a huge crater behind. When Jaaku King kills him, he finally dies in, you guessed it, another explosion.
• Heroic Build: His third and last form is a grotesque giant with a bodybuilder's physique.
• High-Voltage Death: He is finally killed when he incurs Jaaku King's wrath by preparing an attack so indiscriminate that it could damage the Prism Stones as well as Pretty Cure. It gets him a Bolt of Divine Retribution for his trouble, which leaves him roaring in agony the entire time.
• Implacable Man: Nothing the Cures do seems to faze Illkubo whatsoever, and it's made clear that he cannot be defeated by conventional means whenever they fight him. Each time they survive, it's due to either taking him by surprise or a higher power intervening on their behalf. In his stronger forms, he's considered outright unstoppable, and only a Bolt of Divine Retribution from Jaaku King stops Illkubo from winning right then and there after it becomes apparent that he might destroy the Prism Stones.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His Japanese name is イルクーボ Irukuubo, which, depending on the source, has been spelled "Ilkubo", "Illkubo", or "Irukubo". For consistency, this page uses "Illkubo", as in "ill".
• Ironic Name: For a villain whose name contains the words for "madness" and "violence", as shown under Names to Run Away from Really Fast, Illkubo is always calm and outwardly polite. It's not so ironic once he goes One-Winged Angel, though.
• The Juggernaut: If Illkubo was an Implacable Man normally, his One-Winged Angel form is nearly invincible. Base Illkubo could get beaten back, however slightly, by a well-placed kick from the Cures; the transformed Illkubo shrugs off Cure Black's Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs like it's nothing and doesn't even flinch. The only thing that can harm him at all is Jaaku King's Bolt of Divine Retribution, which kills him outright.
• Kick the Dog: Illkubo's first act as the main villain is to use his Crystal Ball on the entire city, sucking out the entire population's life energy so that they fall unconscious. He later sees Kiriya to his fate, and, when he has Pretty Cure at his mercy, basically gloats that "equality" is a lie dreamed up by peasants and that humans only exist for Jaaku King to drain their life energy, all of which serves little purpose besides making him look like a total Jerkass.
• Knight of Cerebus: While the other members of the Dark Five were already major threats, Illkubo's first outing as the Cures' enemy is a very bleak one. He's introduced after using his Vampiric Draining orb to knock everyone in the city unconscious, with frightening speed and suddenness. Once they actually face off against him, he's able to counter or No-Sell everything they throw at him and temporarily undoes their transformations. Even when they can hit him with a Marble Screw, he blocks it and just disappears after taking the attack, surprised but totally unharmed. It's framed less like an actual victory against Illkubo and more like delaying the inevitable Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Master of Illusion: He makes a big show of summoning an enormous, ominous "city" around the summer camp Verone Academy is visiting. But when the Cures successfully land a hit on him, the entire thing dissipates, revealing that it was all just an elaborate illusion.
• Mind over Matter: He can use telekinetic attacks like Pisard, and even tries to steal the Prism Stones with his psychic powers.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is written イルクーボ Irukuubo in Japanese, which comes from "kurui" ("madness") and "bou" ("violence") spelled backwards. The effect would be similar to running into a villain whose name is "Yzarcxa".
• No-Sell: During his first battle with the Cures, he doesn't flinch at anything they do to him. He even takes the full brunt of the Cures' finisher and lives and later demonstrates that he can just catch the attack and have it dissipate harmlessly into his hand, taking the energy for his own use.
• Not So Stoic: Illkubo is The Stoic most of the time, but he gets an impressive Evil Laugh when he has all the Prism Stones. His second form is barely holding back rage and hate, and once he goes One-Winged Angel, he raises his voice to a furious roar.
• Nothing Is Scarier: The mass Forced Sleep Illkubo levels on the populace in episode 19 happens completely out of nowhere to instill a sense of total dread. One minute, the streets are lively and loud; the next, everyone in the area is lying unconscious on the sidewalk for no apparent reason.
• Offerings to the Gods: He drains the city's life force to gift the energy to Jaaku King, a much larger offering than Pisard's attempt in episode 2.
• One-Winged Angel: He comes Back from the Dead as a hulking, shadowy figure that looks like a miniature Jaaku King wearing his old robes, shredded to ribbons. Then, he absorbs more power from the Dotsuku Zone to transform into a huge, muscular monster.
• Phlebotinum Overdose: Illkubo collects all seven Prism Stones! The Bad Guy Wins! ...That is, until they all begin to shine together, and their combined light and power renders him vulnerable for the very first time.
• Pointy Ears: His ears are pointed, like all the other minions of the Dotsuku Zone.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: His Evil Gloating in episode 23 has some rather classist undertones to it.
  Illkubo: You... You believe that all things that live in this world are equal, yes? "Equality" is a word manufactured by those other people, who live for the sake of a small handful of superior rulers. In other words, the life energy of those people exists only for my master, Jaaku King.
• The Power of Hate: His second form, according to him, runs on this.
  Illkubo: Anger... Hatred... All of it lives within my body... and that has bolstered its Power of Darkness!
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Before his final showdown with the Cures.
  Cure Black: That's...
  Cure White: Jaaku King...?
  Illkubo: Indeed. And this place shall be your graves. Pretty Cure... I shall bury you here, before my lord Jaaku King!
• Raised Hand of Survival: Illkubo returns from his apparent death in episode 25 as a Zakenna-like figure. Fittingly, he's shown clawing his way out of a fissure in the ground, hands first.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Illkubo leads the Dark Five. Predictably, he is also the strongest of them, and can use all of their powers at once.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Both of his One-Winged Angel forms have red eyes, and they're even stronger than the normal Illkubo.
• Sanity Has Advantages: Illkubo's One-Winged Angel form is terrifyingly powerful, but his eagerness to finish the Cures off with his brand-new explosive attack means he's too focused on landing that final blow to realize he could blow up the Prism Stones with it. Jaaku King has him pay for that mistake with his life.
• Say My Name: As he's dying, clearly very painfully, by Jaaku King's lightning.
  Illkubo: Jaaku King, my looorrdggh... Pretty Cureee...! Pretty Cuuurrrreeee...!! Ggggghk... aaargh... ooogh... JAAKU KIIIING, MY LOOOOORD!!!
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Illkubo's second form is noticeably larger and stronger than his first, which leaves his old robes tattered and shredded. His even larger, bulkier third form has no clothes at all.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Illkubo never raises his voice, but that does little to conceal the force of incredible strength and terrifying villainy that he is beneath the surface.
• The Stoic: His demeanor is always calm, showing very little in the way of emotion. Even when he is caught off guard, he doesn't even raise his voice when he says "This Cannot Be!".
• Super-Scream: In episode 24, he uses a devastating screaming attack to send the Cures flying, like Poisony did in episode 20.
• Super-Strength: Just by thrusting his arm out to block the Cures' attacks, he can send them flying with enough force to leave holes in walls and break wire fences.
• Teleport Spam: When he's actually fighting back, Illkubo constantly teleports to make it impossible for Pretty Cure to hit him.
• Thinking Up Portals: If Illkubo absorbs enough energy, like, say, from the Cures' Marble Screw, he can rip open a portal, though it's clear this takes a tremendous amount of effort.
• This Cannot Be!: A rather quiet, subdued version, but when the Cures hit him with the Marble Screw in episode 19, he says as much.
  Illkubo: This can't be... To think I lost to the power of light...
• Undying Loyalty: If Illkubo has anything close to a redeeming quality, it's his fanatical loyalty to Jaaku King.
• What the Hell Are You?: Kiriya's Heel–Face Turn completely perplexes Illkubo, who proceeds to asks this of the Cures.
  Illkubo: Just what is this power of yours...? Are the legendary warriors of the Garden of Light not the strongest of individuals, who force all to surrender before their might? Incomprehensible.
• Vampiric Draining: Illkubo uses a Crystal Ball of darkness that can drain the Power of Light (that is, the life force) from living beings. It makes humans fall unconscious and wilts flowers. When he turns it on the Cures in his first appearance, he's able to reverse their transformation.
• Voice of the Legion: Illkubo's final form has this effect applied to his voice.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Says as much to Kiriya when Poisony finally returns to the darkness in episode 20.
  Illkubo: Those defeated shall vanish into the darkness. That is the destiny of those who live in the Dotsuku Zone. In order to survive, we have no choice but to win, to consume. We exist here in order to obtain an eternal darkness. To live in darkness, or decease in the light... Those are the only options we have.

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The King of Darkness

Jaaku King

Voiced by: Kenichi Ono (Japanese), Tom Edwards (English)

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The ultimate evil and the biggest threat in the entire series. He's the ruler of the Dotsuku Zone and owns its Power of Darkness. Ironically, it destroys himself, too, which is why he wants the Power of Creation to survive. He and his minions invade the Garden of Light and steal five of the seven Prism Stones that contain the Power of Creation. After being defeated twice in the first season, he stays "somehow" dead for almost the entire second season. The Shiten'ou try to resurrect him for the second time. Hikaru is his "life," while his other part is Baldez.

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• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The chains binding him to the Dotsuku Zone, as well as his shadowy body, are animated in CGI except for a brief shot in episode 26 of the chains breaking upon his defeat.
• Angrish: As the series goes on, he begins to punctuate his dialogue with angry growls and roars. Considering that he's slowly dying from his own powers, those are probably cries of pain as well as anger.
• Arch-Enemy: Chiefly towards the Queen of Light since he serves as her Evil Counterpart; and the Cures who see them as a threat to his goal.
• As You Know: He loves to remind his minions that the Prism Stones will make him immortal every time he appears, roughly Once per Episode.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He's a towering, hulking brute who is easily the size of a building.
• Back from the Dead: Twice. First when revived by the Seeds of Destruction, and second when Baldez turned into a new Dark King.
• Bad Boss: Jaaku King has little patience for his subordinates' failures, notably threatening to kill Pisard after one too many slip-ups. If you work under him, don't even think about leaving your post, as Kiriya does. You'll be ordered to return to the darkness as punishment. He later strikes Illkubo, who was nothing but loyal to him, with a Bolt of Divine Retribution purely because he was about to kill the Cures with an attack that could damage the Prism Stones.
• Beast of the Apocalypse: His mere existence releases the Power of Darkness, which will swallow everything around him and, eventually, even him unless he takes the power of creation.
• Big Bad: He's the being who opposes the Pretty Cure's efforts to save the world, wanting to obtain the power of creation to ensure immortality for himself and the rest of the Dotsuku Zone and plunge every world into darkness.
• Blessed with Suck: Jaaku King commands the Power of Darkness, a force with the potential to consume everything. Unfortunately for him, he's not immune to its effects, so the Power of Darkness is slowly and painfully eating away at his body.
• Body Horror: Implied. According to him and Illkubo, when he says the Power of Darkness will consume everything, he means it literally — the word mushibamu (literally "to be eaten through by bugs", but more figuratively "to eat away at", "to corrode", or "to cripple") is used to describe this process. And since he's not immune to his powers, that means Jaaku King is being slowly and painfully ravaged by his own darkness.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: That Dramatic Thunder of his isn't just for show. He's more than capable of using it, which Illkubo finds out the hard way.
• Break Them by Talking: Gives the Cures the following existentially horrifying speech in episode 26 to break their spirits. Predictably, it doesn't work.
  Jaaku King: PRETTY CURE... WHAT IS "DARKNESS"? WHAT, EXACTLY, IS "DARKNESS"? ABSOLUTE STILLNESS. ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS. ABSOLUTE DARKNESS. "DARKNESS" IS EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD. ONE DAY, THE GARDEN OF LIGHT, AND THE GARDEN OF RAINBOWS, MUST BOTH PERISH. AND IN THE END, WHAT REMAINS... IS DARKNESS. DARKNESS WILL RETURN EVERYTHING TO NOTHING. NO MATTER HOW YOU FIGHT, IT IS POINTLESS. EVERYTHING SHALL PERISH. FOR IT IS THEIR DESTINY TO BECOME DARKNESS. FALL INTO ETERNAL SLUMBER IN THE DARKNESS.
• Broken Record: If Jaaku King is on screen, chances are he's reminding the Dark Five that with the power of the Prism Stones, he and the Dotsuku Zone will reign eternal.
• Bullet Catch: Exaggerated. Just like Pisard and Illkubo before him, Jaaku King tries to block the Marble Screw with his hand. Since he's the Big Bad, it works.
• Can't Live Without You: He claims that if he is ever killed, then the Queen will die with him.
• Dark Is Evil: He's the Eldritch Abomination who rules over the Dotsuku Zone and commands the Power of Darkness, which he wants to use to blanket all of existence in darkness.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: Jaaku King presents a very threatening image, but he's slowly dying due to an inability to control his own powers over darkness. He's briefly seen at the end of episode 19, but he says nothing beyond a pained rasp, showing that he's affected even though he presents a strong facade.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: When he's defeated as the Disc-One Final Boss of the first season, Jaaku King is blown away in an enormous explosion that banishes all the storm clouds away from the Dotsuku Zone, leaving only an otherworldly, blue-black gradient.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Inverted. He scoffs at Pretty Cure saying Mepple and Mipple would be sad if he destroyed the Garden of Light.
  Jaaku King: HOW FOOLISH. ARE YOU SAYING YOU FIGHT FOR A REASON LIKE THAT...?
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's defeated and seemingly destroyed a little over halfway through the first season, but there are still more threats to come after he's taken down in the form of the three Seeds of Darkness, who each seemingly represent a small piece of his former self.
• Dramatic Thunder: When he's especially angry at a minion, or when he wants to emphasize a particular point, lightning flashes. It's not just for theatrics — he can strike his enemies down with the bolts.
• Dub Name Change: In the English dub, he's known as the "Dark King", as the Dotsuku Zone has been renamed the "Dark Zone".
• The Dreaded: Everyone in the Garden of Light fears him for being a literal entity of destruction, if laying waste to the Garden of Light isn't enough evidence. Even his minions fear him for his Bad Boss tendencies and ultimatums — Pisard in particular visibly breaks into a cold sweat when Jaaku King is angry with him.
• Eldritch Abomination: He's an unfathomably powerful being who commands the Power of Darkness, a force that consumes everything, including Jaaku King himself. The Dark Five all seem to house tiny parts of him inside them, as when they die, a blob of darkness floats back to the Dotsuku Zone and becomes a part of his body — making the phrase "return to the darkness" horrifyingly literal.
• Evil Counterpart: To the Queen of the Garden of Light. Both are the absolutely enormous and CGI-animated rulers of their respective domains, on opposite sides of a feud over the Prism Stones, and send loyal warriors to fight in their place. In the first season's Series Fauxnale, the Queen outright calls them "two sides of the same coin".
• Evil Is Bigger: Jaaku King is a colossal figure who utterly dwarfs all of the mostly human-sized Dark Five under him. He's the Big Bad for good reason.
• Evil Sounds Deep: As befits the enormous Big Bad, Jaaku King has a deep, booming voice courtesy of Kenichi Ono.
• The Faceless: Until Baldez "evolves" into Jaaku King.
• God of Darkness: As the supreme ruler of the Dotsuku Zone, a realm born from the Power of Darkness he commands, Jaaku King is essentially this.
• God of Evil: Darkness is synonymous with the villains in this series purely because of Jaaku King's control over the Power of Darkness, making him this by default.
• Hand Blast: He's able to No-Sell the Cures' Marble Screw simply by blocking the attack and shooting a burst of shadowy energy from his palm.
• Heel–Face Turn: Debatable; what's accepted among the fan community is that his life makes the turn when he splits from him in the final episode of Max Heart, becoming Hikaru Kujo.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Twice. First, he absorbs the fused Seeds of Darkness who each are intending to betray him. Then, Baldez turns into the new Jaaku King.
• Hope Crusher: Vows that he will "crush [the Queen's] hope" in his Beam-O-War with Pretty Cure, and even beforehand, he tries to break the Cures' will to fight with a speech about the futility of their actions in the face of absolute darkness.
• Immortality Seeker: Jaaku King wants his hands on the Prism Stones so he can achieve immortality, allowing him to shroud the entire universe in the Dotsuku Zone's darkness. It's also because without them, his own Power of Darkness will eventually kill him.
• It's All About Me: He doesn't understand how much the universe will suffer under the effects of the Power of Darkness, and seeks to blot out all light and control everything out of a hunger for power. The Reveal that he's slowly dying from those same powers makes it clear he knows full well what he's doing, he just doesn't care.
• Kick the Dog: Offs his fanatically loyal right-hand Illkubo without a second thought just because he could have risked the Prism Stones with one of his attacks. He later absorbs the Giant who is already suffering from the great Power of Creation.
• Knight of Cerebus: Any of the Dotsuku Zone's generals are this by necessity, but Jaaku King's larger-than-life presence and the menacing ambiance of the Dotsuku Zone will suck out any and all joy in the scenes where he appears.
• Large and in Charge: Most of his minions are human-sized. He's the size of a building.
• Mind over Matter: He can compel objects to him with telekinesis.
• Monster Lord: Looks like an absolutely enormous, more human-like version of a Zakenna, only with glaring red eyes instead of yellow ones. Fittingly, he rules the Dotsuku Zone, who commands the Zakenna.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: He's seemingly destroyed halfway through the first season, but he sows the three Seeds of Darkness in his final moments, ensuring that he'll have successors who can revive him.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Jaaku King" is the Japanese word for "wicked" or "evil", jaaku, and "king", rendered in katakana as one name.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Killing Illkubo is the most foolish idea he has got. If that has never happened, the Pretty Cures would be dead and he would gain the Power of Creation. It ultimately made no difference since they could only beat him with the Queen's help in that battle.
• The Night That Never Ends: His ultimate goal is to blanket all of existence in darkness, bring it under the Dotsuku Zone's thrall. This would, of course, mean everything returns to nothingness.
• "Not So Different" Remark: The Queen said that they have only one difference, to believe in the future or to control the future.
• Omnicidal Maniac: His only concern is making sure the Power of Darkness doesn't kill him. He's perfectly happy with letting it swallow everything else.
• Orcus on His Throne: He can't move his location in the Dotsuku Zone without the Power of Creation, though as the Seeds of Destruction found out, he call pull other things into the Dotsuku Zone.
• Ordered to Die: The punishment for betraying Jaaku King is an order to return to the darkness, a fate Kiriya knows full well is coming and accepts anyway.
• Power Incontinence: Jaaku King's almighty Power of Darkness will eventually consume him, too, which he has no control over. This is part of the reason why he wants the Prism Stones, as he could very well die without them.
• Purple Is Powerful: He resembles a giant with dark purple skin, and is the ultimate Big Bad of the anime.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His red eyes are another sign of his vileness.
• Shoot the Dangerous Minion: He kills Illkubo when it becomes clear that his dark explosion attack would blow up the Prism Stones along with Pretty Cure, which would have foiled Jaaku King's whole plan.
• Taking You with Me: After his second defeat from the Pretty Cures, he makes sure that the Queen dies with him.
• Too Dumb to Live: See Nice Job Fixing It, Villain. It eventually kills him for the first time.
• Vader Breath: His voice gets increasingly wheezy and raspy as the series goes on because his Power Incontinence is slowly killing him.
• Vocal Evolution: As the series goes on, Jaaku King's voice gradually goes from loud and booming to raspier and more prone to incoherent growls as a result of succumbing to his own powers, which gradually eat away at his body.
• We Have Reserves: Doesn't hesitate to remind Pisard that he has countless generals who can replace him if he can't handle the task of collecting the Prism Stones.
• You Have Failed Me: Threatens to kill Pisard for his repeated failures, although he doesn't get the chance because the Cures do it for him.

The Seeds of Darkness

A trio of villains who appear in the Garden of Rainbows after Jaaku King's apparent death. Considered his "other selves" by the Queen, the Seeds of Darkness are each born from dark plants as completely ordinary humans working completely ordinary jobs. However, the three Seeds soon "awaken", and they regain their powers and their duties to the Dotsuku Zone. They live in a mansion with their parrot and Zakenna butlers, seeking to resurrect their master.

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In General

• Battle Aura: Blue for Juna, red for Regine, and purple for Belzei.
• Big Bad Wannabe: They try to use the Power of Creation for themselves and leave Jaaku King to die. This prompts him to drag them and the Pretty Cures into the Dotsuku Zone to take the power for himself when they lose control of it fighting the Pretty Cures.
• Born as an Adult: They sprout up from ominous plants and become adult humans who work ordinary adult jobs. Exaggerated with Belzei, whose human form is an elderly hospital director.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: To the original five lieutenants of Jaaku King who replaced them after their defeats, the Seeds are different to them in some ways. Unlike their predecessors who appear in their usual forms when in battle against the Cures, the Seeds of Darkness have a proper human disguise of their own to blend into society. The Seeds were also the fragments of Jaaku King, unlike the original lieutenants who were a separate, independent entity.
• Fusion Dance: After absorbing the Power of Creation, they fuse together and become the Giant.
• I Just Want to Be Free: They intended to use the Power of Creation to break free from the Jaaku King and live their own lives. Unfortunately, they get stopped when Jaaku King returns.
• Plant Person: The name "Seeds of Darkness" is completely literal, as they sprout up in the form of mysterious, shadowy plants that kill all the plant life around them before taking human form.
• Residual Evil Entity: They were born from three "seeds" that Jaaku King sent to the Garden of Rainbows as he was defeated the first time, and may or may not be offshoots of Jaaku King himself.
• The Starscream: Their goal to overthrow Jaaku King is to steal the Power of Creation so that they want to be freed and want to live their lives as humans. That didn't end well for them when he instead absorbs them for attempting to betray him.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: All three Seeds of Darkness look and act like ordinary people to the outside world. Before their awakening, they don't even appear to have any knowledge of what they really are.
• Villains Out Shopping: They brush their teeth, have a perfectly not monster pet parrot, take photos in their human form and put them in frames and clocks, and sleep in pajamas and wear bunny slippers. Their life outside antagonizing the Cures is surprisingly normal.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to discuss the three of them, even their existence, without revealing that they only show up to fight Pretty Cure after Jaaku King's apparent death halfway through the season.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Like Jaaku King, they will eventually be consumed by the Power of Darkness.

Juna

Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese), Brendan Hunter (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Ángel Morón (European Spanish), Massimo Bitossi (Italian), Wu Wenmin (Taiwanese Mandarin)

^{Click here to see his human form}

Once a quiet, stoic office worker by the name of Ryuichiro Kakuzawa, Juna awakens to his role as a Seed of Darkness as a typhoon threatens to hit Japan. He absorbs the storm into his body, gaining fearsome powers over wind. He's the first of the three Seeds to awaken. His great physical strength lends itself well to his role as the group's muscle, and he often fights one-on-one against Cure Black.

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• Blow You Away: Even more so than the Dark Five, whose wind powers are more like brief sonic booms by comparison. Juna has all the power of a typhoon within him, and he uses this power in a variety of wind-based attacks.
• Body Horror: Before his first battle with the Cures, Juna's muscles pulsate all over, with him seemingly doubled over in pain, as a quiet heartbeat sound plays in the background.
• The Brute: He's the muscle of his villain group.
• Casting a Shadow: Juna can fire shadowy bursts of magic from his body in addition to his windy powers.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: His bright blue eyes are notable even in human form as a sign that there's something "off" about him. In his awakened form, Juna's eyes become purely blue.
• Dub Name Change: He's known as Edgedale in the English dub. This likely comes from his human alias, Ryuichiro Kakuzawa, as "kaku" can mean "angle" or "corner".
• Freak Out: Juna's awakening certainly looks like this. He watches the typhoon on a weather report, stands stock-still for a long time... then suddenly lets out a scream before throwing himself out the window.
• Growing Muscles Sequence: He's already fairly muscular, but absorbing a typhoon into his body causes his muscles to bulge out even farther.
• Hand Blast: His dark blast attacks sometimes fire from his palms, like many other Dotsuku Zone villains.
• Mark of the Beast: Juna has jagged black lines on his face post-awakening, which signifies his true self.
• Perpetual Frowner: He's rarely seen in any emotion other than a frown, even in human form. In a group photo with him and the rest of his coworkers, Kakuzawa is still frowning, which he gets teased about.
• Pointy Ears: Like all members of the Dotsuku Zone. Curiously, Kakuzawa doesn't have these, as they only become pointy when he awakens.
• Power Floats: He's able to float in midair after awakening. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have survived his Super Window Jump.
• Ret-Gone: After he awakens as a Seed of Darkness, he mysteriously vanishes from his company without a trace, including photographs.
• Screaming Warrior: Juna is rather quiet in human form, but in battle against the Cures, he lets out angry screams in place of dialogue.
• Super Window Jump: Juna awakens like this. In episode 27, Ryuichiro Kakuzawa awakens while watching a weather forecast and suddenly hurls himself out the window.
• Transformation Sequence: After he throws himself out the window, Juna's body as "Kakuzawa" disintegrates away, revealing his actual body underneath.
• Understatement: Juna's reaction to yet another Pretty Cure Marble Screw in episode 39: "This is an insult!"
• Villain Teleportation: Which he can use for fast travel, as well as a quick getaway in a pinch.
• Villainous Widow's Peak: Has a pronounced widow's peak as both Kakuzawa and Juna, and he's one of the villains.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Though encountered a little over halfway through the show's runtime, Juna establishes how tough the Seeds of Darkness are in combat. His dark energy projectiles are easily a match for the Marble Screw and force a Beam-O-War, something only Jaaku King and a few particularly tough Zakenna have been able to do prior.
• Would Hurt a Child: Thinks nothing of cornering Pollun in an alleyway (and, later, a parking garage) in his debut episode, nor attacking Cure Black when she's trying to hold onto him.

Regine

Voiced by: Rika Fukami (Japanese), Carol-Anne Day (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Virginia Carrera (European Spanish), Cinzia Villari (Italian), Liu Ruping (Taiwanese Mandarin)

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The second of the Seeds of Darkness to awaken, and their only female member. Initially a rather timid young lady named Shouko Koyama, Regine awakens to her true self during a heat wave, and, thanks to Juna's intervention, is imbued with the fiery powers of a volcanic eruption. While her human form is rather meek, her awakened form has a much more frightening and forceful personality.

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• Barely-Changed Dub Name: In English, her name is Regina.
• Dub Name Change: In contrast to her Barely-Changed Dub Name, her human alias, "Shouko Koyama", is changed to "Shyla".
• Evil Redhead: Downplayed. This villainess has coppery red hair in human form, but her usual hair color is pale pink instead.
• Playing with Fire: Regine has fire based powers.
• Psycho Pink: Regine has pale pink hair and is a villain.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In her awakened form, her eyes are a monochromatic red, and she's a major villain.
• Shrinking Violet: In her human form, she's shy and nervous, the polar opposite of her true nature.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of the Seeds of Darkness.
• Stubborn Hair: When Regine transforms for the very first time, her hair, which hung loose when she was human, immediately snaps into her usual curls with a comical "boing!" sound.
• Suddenly Shouting: Regine has a tendency to do so. Usually she will start repeating words quietly before she lets out a scream of the word that she had been repeating.

Belzei Gertrude

Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese), Paul Hudson (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Miguel Zúñiga (European Spanish), Paolo Marchese (Italian), Huang Tianyou (Taiwanese Mandarin)

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The de facto leader of the trio, and the last of the Seeds of Darkness to awaken. In his day-to-day life, Belzei's human identity is Genbu Yuuki, the elderly director of Wakabadai General Hospital. A thunderstorm appears over the hospital when Belzei officially awakens; he is struck by lightning and gains powers over electricity as a result.

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• Barely-Changed Dub Name: He's known as Beruzei in the English dub.
• The Dragon: Belzei acts as the Jaaku King's head minion.
• Evil Old Folks: He takes the form of a wizened old hospital director, but he's really the leader of the Seeds of Darkness. Ironically, he's actually the youngest of the three.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: Belzei has the appearance of an old man, and he is about a head shorter than the doctors and nurses all around him.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Belzei" comes from ベルゼブブ (beruzebubu), or Beelzebub.
• Purple Is Powerful: Belzei has purple as part of his color scheme, and he's the strongest of them.
• Shock and Awe: Belzei has lightning based powers.
• Villain Respect: In his first showdown with Pretty Cure, he commends them on their skill when fighting the hospital-equipment Zakenna he's summoned.
  Belzei: Very nice movements.
• Villainous Widow's Peak: It's not present in the above image due to the angle he's facing, but he has a very obvious widow's peak in human form and he's the most powerful of the Seeds of Darkness.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Belzei has white hair and is leading a villainous group.

The Boy in the Mansion

Hikaru

Voiced by: Haruhi Terada (Japanese) ^{Foreign VAs}Elena Ruiz de Velasco (European Spanish), Manuel Meli (Italian)

The mysterious boy in the mansion and the "life" of Jaaku King. The Shiten'ou keep him in the mansion and observe his growth and they protect him from the Pretty Cures and Shiny Luminous. Despite the fact he can become Jaaku King, he is an innocent boy and enjoys experiencing life; however, the Shiten'ou isolate him from the world, which is why he is often bored in the mansion. He has also a mysterious connection with Hikari aka Shiny Luminous, the "life" of the Queen of Light.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: He's an adorable little boy but is with the villains.
• Anti-Villain: It can be argued if he's a villain at all.
• Children Are Innocent: He's a young lad who's not very aware of or corrupted by the evil going on with Baldez and his crew.
• Creepy Child: Especially if you're the Dark King's life and part of the villains.
• Dark Messiah: Basically the Jaaku King's life, though he's not aware of it and is utterly innocent.
• Disney Death: After the Grand Finale, Hikaru becomes a separate entity from Jaaku King and he lives with Hikari as her younger brother.
• Heel–Face Turn: Subverted. He isn't evil from the beginning, but he is on the evil side until Jaaku King is ultimately defeated and he's separated from him, so he can live as a human and younger brother of Hikari.
• Living MacGuffin: He's the Dark King's life in the form of a young boy, but he doesn't know it...at all.
• Morality Pet: The Four Guardians are surprisingly nice to Hikaru despite being villains.
• No Name Given: The villains call him "the person" in a honorific way, and he's credited as "the mysterious boy in the mansion". He finally gets his name in the last episode.

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Four Guardians

The four new warriors of Jaaku King and the guardians of Hikaru, the boy in the mansion and Jaaku King's "life". They keep him from the world and observe his growth while they try to kill the Pretty Cures and Shiny Luminous. Their goal is the resurrection of Jaaku King. Unlike the other villains in this series, they last until the Grand Finale.

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In General

• Badass Cape: All of them, especially Circulas and Viblis. Circulas can even attack with his cape and Viblis uses her cape whenever taking Hikaru home.
• Battle Aura: Blue for Circulas, orange for Uraganos, red for Viblis, and purple for Baldez.
• The Comically Serious: They keep straight, frowny faces even as they argue over petty things or play with Hikaru.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the Seeds of Darkness. Both are the elite minions of the Dark King and have the same goal of reviving the Evil King after his defeat, but they are mostly contrasting in terms of how they do it. The Seeds of Darkness are at best Category Traitors and The Starscream, who intend to use the Power of Creation in order to break free from the Evil King's grasp by leaving him to die, while the Four Guardians actively want to revive the Evil King and are loyally devoted to him by continuing his plan in the shadows. To further highlight the contrast, the Seeds of Darkness are often depicted as serious and quiet, whereas the Four Guardians are The Comically Serious who keep a frowny face that doesn't stop them from their own antics. The Seeds of Darkness do not wear a cape, while the Four Guardians wear capes that can also serve as a weapon, in case of Circulas who used it in battle.
• Villains Out Shopping: In episode 16, when Circulas, Uraganos and Viblis argue about who will fight the heroines this time, Baldez proposes that they should decide this with Rock–Paper–Scissors. It's off-screen though, but the winner of the four is... Uraganos.
• Villainous Valor: The first three sacrifice themselves to bring down Pretty Cures.

Baldez

Voiced by: Kenichi Ono ^{Foreign VAs}Iñaki Alonso (European Spanish), Ambrogio Colombo (Italian), Huang Tianyou (Taiwanese Mandarin)

The strongest member of the Four Guardians and their leader.

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• Big Bad: After he becomes the true reincarnation of Jaaku King and his successor, he is later the threat to the world that the Cures finally face.
• Blow You Away: He uses wind-based attacks, which allows him to generate wind waves.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Belzei. Both are The Dragon to the Evil King and are also his strongest purple-themed right-hands. But while Belzei uses lightning-based powers, Baldez uses wind-based powers as well as raw strength. Belzei is an elderly man who wears a tight-fitting purple spandex suit, as well as having a white spiky hair. Baldez is a middle-aged man who wears a purple-and-red cape and has a purple straight hair. While Belzei's shapeshifted form is an old man under the human alias Yuuki Genbu, Baldez is the Evil King's successor who would become the new Evil King after he fuses with him. Unlike Belzei who was absorbed along with the fused Regine and Juna to the Evil King, Baldez instead outlives the Evil King after the Cures defeated him in the prequel, technically making him the Dragon Their Feet and the Big Bad of the sequel.
• The Dragon: Baldez is only the second in command for the Jaaku King.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: Though in MaX, Baldez is the one who mostly calls the shots since Jaaku King is conspicuously absent for most of the series.
  • Dragon Their Feet: Technically, he's also this in MaX as the Evil King was defeated by the Cures in the first season, with Baldez outliving him. If even counting Hikaru, since he's nothing more than the Evil King's life force and is mostly an Anti-Villain who is simply oblivious to his true nature.
• Dub Name Change: His name is changed to "Byron" in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
• One-Winged Angel: In the Grand Finale, Baldez transforms into a human sized version of Jaaku King (well, he's still taller than average people) and later he transform fully into Jaaku King.
• No-Sell: Baldez does this multiple times whenever he decides to seriously fight the Pretty Cures. To the point where would have defeated them by destroying the entire planet if it wasn't for the intervention of Queen.
• Significant Double Casting: His voice actor was a dead giveaway that he is the true reincarnation of the Jaaku King.
• Purple Is Powerful: Despite his brown suite, he is more associated with purple and he's the strongest dragon of the series.

Circulas

Voiced by: Hitoshi Bifu (Japanese) ^{Foreign VAs}Manuel Bellido (European Spanish), Alberto Angrisano (Italian), Wu Wenmin (Taiwanese Mandarin)

The apparent second-in-command, who often assumes the role of the group's "leader" when Baldez isn't around.

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• The Dragon: To the Dragon-in-Chief Baldez, but he also serves as the Guardian's leader temporarily when he is absent.
• Expy Coexistence: His appearance is very similar to Juna from the previous season, especially since both wear a blue spandex suit and pale blue eyes without pupils and pale white skin. Additionally, both are the first of there respective groups to appear, with their themes colours being blue, and also they both reside in the mansion.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He is the blue to Uraganos' red, acting more aloofly and calmly, but he often times clashes with Uraganos in many occasions.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Especially towards his other teammate Uraganos, who often spend most of their time bickering with each other.

Uraganos

Voiced by: Wataru Takagi (Japanese) ^{Foreign VAs}Rafael Azcárraga (European Spanish), Paolo Marchese (Italian), Huang Tianyou (Taiwanese Mandarin, main series), Wu Wenmin (Taiwanese Mandarin, DX2)

A large, dim-witted, and clumsy man, who tends to accidentally destroy things due to his size and strength.

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• Badasses Wear Bandanas: Uraganos wears a bandana over his head and is a super strong giant.
• Beard of Evil: Uraganos has a beard and is a villain.
• The Brute: Uraganos is the largest and physically strongest member of the Four Guardians.
• Dumb Muscle: Although he has a large and intimidating stature, Uraganos is extremely stupid. He is clumsy and tends to destroy things by accident due to his size and strength. He’s still far smarter than Gekidrago is.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Towards Circulas, Uraganos is the red to his blue, who is aggressive and more intimidating in physical appearance, but is very dim-witted and is reckless.

Viblis

Voiced by: Ai Kobayashi (Japanese) ^{Foreign VAs}Ana Plaza (European Spanish), Sabrina Duranti (Italian), Yang Kaikai (Taiwanese Mandarin)

The only female of the group, who is more serious and intimidating than the others.

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• Barely-Changed Dub Name: Her name is changed to "Villie" in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To her immediate predecessor Regine, who are both red-themed villains and are the only female member of their group. Regine has white curly hair who wears a tight-fitting red suit. Viblis has short yellow-orange hair and wears more clothing. While Regine, in her true form, is notably confident and sinister who is serious when she talks, Viblis is extremely short-tempered and can be triggered by anything, often causing trouble towards her team members.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Viblis is easily triggered by anything, especially her own team.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female of the Four Guardians.

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