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The Big Bads of Queen's Blade:

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    The Continent Saga 

Delmore

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Click here to see Delmore in Unlimited with Aldra 
Voiced by: Akira Ishida
Artist: Kantaka
Title: The Fallen Angel
A mysterious demon possessing Aldra.
  • Affectionate Nickname: He constantly refers to Aldra as his "darling."
  • Back for the Dead: He is resurrected in the last Beautiful Warriors OVA, only to be killed for real by Tomoe.
  • Big Bad: Delmore is the one who possessed Aldra and made her commit so many crimes in the series. He is also the final enemy Leina and the other girls must face after she defeats Aldra in the final match of the Queen's Blade Tournament, where he reveals his true form.
  • Casualty in the Ring: Subverted: While technically he can't participate in the tournament on the grounds he's male, since the final battle takes place in the same colosseum after the final dual against Aldra, it technically counts as one, as Leina finishes him on it. This gives him the dubious honor of being the only named character to be killed in the tournament.
  • Demoted to Extra: In the Rurou no Senshi manga, he's only mentioned in Aldra's backstory, but he never appears in person, and his only role in the manga is to lend Aldra his powers, as she's authentically evil in that adaptation.
  • Depending on the Writer: He's portrayed in different ways in many media. In the original gamebooks and the video games, he has a physical body, while in the anime, his physical body is long gone and he exists only as a soul. The original gamebook also describes Delmore as being in love with Aldra, and his sweet words to her are genuine (if corny and annoying to Aldra herself), while in the anime he is just manipulating her as a pawn. And in the Rurou no Senshi manga he is Demoted to Extra by having him give power to Aldra without possessing her, implying he is a more neutral being in that version of the story.
  • Domestic Abuser: Played With. In the animated adaptation, he's only manipulating Aldra for his own plans. This is averted in the gamebook continuity, as he's in love with Aldra instead.
  • Eldritch Abomination: At least in the anime. In the game books, he looks more like a stereotypical humanoid demon.
  • Expy: In the gamebook continuity, from The Joker. In the animated continuity, he looks something between the Angels and a Festum.
  • The Faceless: In many manga adaptations, his face isn't shown.
  • Fallen Angel: A literal example.
  • Gender Flip: "He" is a female demon in the Unlimited reboot.
  • The Man Behind the Man: He is controlling Aldra, since he doesn't have a body of his own, at least in the anime series.
  • Mythology Gag: In the videogames, the way he is summoned by Aldra resembles the way Stands are summoned, since he was intended at first to look like a Stand in his first drafts.
  • Not Quite Dead: In the last OVA... only for Tomoe to finish him off for good this time.
  • Psycho Lesbian: Only in the English Version, thanks to She's a Man in Japan. Played brutally straight in the Unlimited reboot, ironically enough.
  • Revenge: His main motivation in the animated adaptation as he wants to get revenge on Cattleya's family for destroying his physical body in the past. With Aldra's help, he succeeds in turning Owen into a crystal statue and they later do the same with Cattleya.
  • She's a Man in Japan: In the English dub, possibly due of how his Japanese voice actor sounds, he was turned into a female. The fact he's an Eldritch Abomination in the anime series does help.
  • Unwitting Pawn: It turns out that the Swamp Witch was using him for her ends during the last Beautiful Warriors OVA.
  • The Voiceless: He doesn't speak at all in the videogames.

Werbellia

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Click here to see how she appeared in the original series 
Voiced by: Junko Minagawa
Artist: Matsuryuu
Title: The Swamp Witch

"All of you over there, sacrifice yourselves. I'm creating a world without the living."

An enigmatic and powerful witch, as well as master of Melona, Menace and Airi. It's later revealed she is a wicked entity who controls Werbellia, the princess of the netherworld, who is also Aldra and Annelotte's mother.


  • Art Shift: A minor one, but the animated version of her in the Vanquished Queens OVAs looks younger than her gamebook counterpart, who looks more or less (in human terms) like Cattleya and Melpha regarding age.
  • Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Orders Airi to do this to Aldra and Annelotte in the Illustrated Stories, albeit her interest in them isn't sexual. Rather, she is trying to get them to become her servants.
  • Big Bad: She's behind all the events in Rebellion and retroactively of some in the original series. Made all the more notable by manipulating Delmore, the demon behind Aldra, as well as manipulating Claudette and cursing almost all the returning characters from the prequel in Rebellion.
  • But Now I Must Go: After The Swamp Witch is defeated for good, she finds herself unable to live in the mortal world without the Witch's help for too long, so she must return to the Demon Realm. But she promises both Aldra and Annelotte to return for the next tournament, this time as a fighter.
  • The Cake Is a Lie: The spirit of the The Swamp Witch summoned Werbellia from the Netherworld, promising her to help conquer the Continent, but her real intentions were to take over her body.
  • Casting Gag: It's not the first time Junko Minagawa voices a demon overlord.
  • Dark Lord on Life Support: While she doesn't looks like, the "life support" part is The Swamp Witch herself, as she needs her for being able to survive in the mortal realm.
  • The Dreaded: Easily the most feared being of the whole Continent.
  • Evil Matriarch: But not by her own will. Werbellia isn't in control of her actions since The Swamp Witch possessed her.
  • Evil Plan: Her real plans include turning the Continent into a livingless wasteland, not to mention destroying the Queen's Blade tournament, since it's the only thing that keeps the world's status quo in check.
  • Expy: Background-wise, both Werbellia and the Swamp Witch are expies of both Leyla and Karla The Gray Witch respectively from Record of Lodoss War.
    • In her ghostly persona, she resembles Sosai X.
  • Forced into Evil: Despite being a demoness and technically being evil, Werbellia did really care about her family and her people, but the Swamp Witch (the evil spirit) manipulated her body, so she could use her immense powers.
  • Grand Theft Me: The real Swamp Witch doesn't have a body of her own and needs a real body to use her full powers. For that, she uses the body of Werbellia, since she's the princess of the Netherworld.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: She's the biggest threat (excluding in the Spiral Chaos games) of all the Continent Saga, but outside of Rebellion she rarely interferes directly with the main characters.
  • He Who Must Not Be Seen: In the original series we do get to see her (ghostly) face, but it's not her real form. Her Rebellion's gamebook reveals she is currently possessing a humanoid demoness, but her real form would be the Controlling Treasure, which is where her soul resides.
  • Horned Humanoid: To emphasize the fact that she is a demoness.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite being being defeated for good in the Illustrated Stories, she was NOT Killed Off for Real. Annelotte and Aldra took out the Controlling Treasure (that spider-like thing in her crotch where the soul of the real Swamp Witch resides) from their mother Werbellia and managed to free her mother from her influence. At the end of the story, Airi carries the Controlling Treasure, trying to find another host for her mistress.
    • This also overlaps with Ontological Inertia, since if she dies, Menace, Captain Liliana, and possibly Airi will die along her.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Wants to turn the entire Continent into a wasteland, even though such a thing would kill pretty much every non-angelic or demonic creature alive there.
  • Psycho Lesbian: Only in the Vanquished Queens OVAs. More specifically, in the non-canon alternative ending of the third episode, where it's heavily implied she and her servants raped Leina.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Not her real name, but her battle name instead: Technically, her nickname should be translated literally as The Marshland Witch since in Japanese it's written as Numachi no Majou (沼地の魔女). This also overlaps with another Swamp Witch, named Metallia, since Metallia's nickname in Japanese is Numa no Majou (沼の魔女) who is translated literally as The Swamp Witch. The difference here is one single kanji in Werbellia's nickname over Metallia's one.
  • Unholy Matrimony: Werbellia was married with the highest religious authority in the Continent, The Pope Stephan, despite being a demoness. This was subverted, however, as despise their respective origins, they really loved each other until The Swamp Witch (the evil spirit) sent Stephan literally to hell for all eternity, driving her to despair.
  • The Voiceless: She never speaks onscreen, but her minions can understand her in some way or another. She finally speaks in the Rebellion's Drama CDs and the Vanquished Queens OVAs.

Helosium

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The only original villain from the Vanquished Queens OVAs, Helosium is a giant monster made with solidified Holy Milk created by Nanael and Laila when trying to find a way to destroy the Swamp Witch. The experiment went haywire and it started destroying anything on its path.
  • Canon Foreigner: The only character who doesn't come from the original Vanquished Queens books and was created especifically for the animated adaptation.
  • Captain Ersatz: Helosium is basically the Evangelion Unit 01, except in white and being stripped of its restraining armor. It also shares the same weakness of the Angels and EVAs from the same series: The core needs to be destroyed to stop it for good.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: Nanael and Laila created it to destroy the Swamp Witch for good, but the creature goes into a destructive rampage and both girls, with the help of Airi, have to destroy it.
  • Homage: The entire episode where Helosium is created is a big, wacky, homage towards Neon Genesis Evangelion, with the whole thing going berserk, just like the EVA-01 does many times, and it serving the same purpose for what the Evangelions were created, except replace the enemy they have to destroy from Angelsnote  with The Swamp Witch. Not to mention the way Helosium is destroyed resembles the way the Fifth Angel was destroyed during Operation Yashima in the same series. With extra stuff from Attack on Titan as well.
  • Humanoid Abomination: Just like the EVAs and the Titans.
  • Shout-Out: As if being a giant Neon Genesis Evangelion homage isn't enough, some of Helosium's attack methods resembles the ones used by the Titans including trying to eat Laila alive.
    • Not to mention the way how Helosium is destroyed for good: Being destroyed using Laila's Holy Milk cannon like a sniper rifle towards its core, just like the EVA-01's Positron Rifle used against Ramiel the Fifth Angel during Operation Yashima.

    Spiral Chaos Games 

Ramshel and Sushel

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Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki (both)
Title: The Priestesses of Chaos

"Fall down..."
"Into the maelstrom of chaos..."

Priestesses living in the shrine of the imaginary world. In the first game, they are villains trying to destroy the world, but in the second one, they try to save it from the impending chaos.


  • Back from the Dead: After you thought you killed them for good in Queen's Blade Spiral Chaos, they return again in the sequel, but this time as your allies, and you have to help them.
  • Big Bad: Of Queen's Blade Spiral Chaos, but they return in the sequel as your allies.
  • Creepy Twins: They are twins who are trying to destroy the world.
  • Fusion Dance: When trying to defeat Weiss, they invoke this trope, along with their sister Cute/Mishel, and transform into a giant dragon.
  • Heel–Face Turn: They are allies in the sequel.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: Ramshel uses fire and Sushel uses ice-based attacks.

Weiss

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Click here to see Gate Conqueror 
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
Title: The Conqueror of Darkness
The final boss of Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos, Weiss is a dimension-traveling being who intends to restore her native star. She used Aine, Luna, and Hyumina to bring the dimensional portal known as The Queen's Gate to her, so that she could consume it.

    Queen's Blade Grimoire 

Cinderella

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Artist: Saburou
Title: The Winter Demon

"Now then, whatever shall I cast? A spell of ice perhaps? One that promises never ever to break, even as the clock strikes 12?"

The Big Bad in Grimoire, who is the culprit behind Mel Fair Land's eternal winter and the one everyone must destroy with the Queen's Blade sword.


  • Adaptational Villainy: Yes, Cinderella as a villain. To be fair, she is a Composite Character with a genuine villain.
  • Big Bad: The main antagonist of Queen's Blade Grimoire.
  • Chainmail Bikini: Wears one that barely covers her chest and crotch.
  • Combat Stilettos: She wears a pair of high-heeled slippers. Fittingly for Cinderella, they are made of crystal.
  • Composite Character: She's actually a combination of The Snow Queen (her ice powers) and Cinderella (her backstory).
  • Endless Winter: Plans to replace Mel Fair Land endless summer with this.
  • He Who Must Not Be Seen: For a good chunk of the story, we don't know much about the entity behind the whole mess, and unlike the Swamp Witch and other villains, we initially don't even know even his or her gender. It's later revealed she is no one else than Cinderella.

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