Sandbox / Skylanders - Golden Queen

The Golden Queen

Element: Earth

Encountered in: Lair of the Golden Queen

As good as gold and a lot more evil.

^{Click here to see her as a Sensei} "I reign supreme!"

^{Click here to see her Dark Sensei Variant} 

Voiced by: C.C.H. Pounder

Don't think us ungrateful for what you've done, Kaos. You and the troll may stay. If only to bear witness to my plan to bring Skylands to its knees! And believe me, this one's solid gold!

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Villain Moveset

Primary Attack: Gold Dust

Secondary Attack: Golden Touch

Tertiary Attack: Butterfly Device

Sensei Moveset

Primary Attack: Winged Scarabs

Secondary Attack: Golden Shockwave

Tertiary Attack: Royal Guard

Soul Gem Ability: Royal Treatment

Wow Pow Ability: Scarab Swarm

A living gold statue and the leader of the Doom Raiders. The Golden Queen grew up in a luxurious life of gold and riches, resulting in an unhealthy obsession with it, to the point where what she had wasn't enough for her, and so she stole all that she could and it still wasn't enough to satisfy her, not even learning how to turn people and objects into gold. To get even more of it, the Queen realized that she couldn't do it alone, so she formed the Doom Raiders, a group of some of the most notorious villains Skylands has ever seen.

As their leader, she led them to terrorize Skylands until no place was safe. Skylands remained under Doom Raiders control until one day when they were defeated by a special team of Skylanders called The Trap Team. She and her group were then locked up in Cloudcracker Prison, the most fortified prison in all of Skylands. There they remained until one day when the prison was blown up, setting the villains on free foot once again.

She is playable in SuperChargers as the main Big Bad of the Sea villains after she is defeated in Villain Pursuit.

She was among the Doom Raiders who agreed to become Senseis at Skylanders Academy, but first had to re-arrange all the books in the Academy's library. Much to the Queen’s dismay, this task had nothing to do with gold. But it gave her an opportunity to rethink her insatiable desire for treasure and that maybe there is more to life than stealing. She now trains the Sorcerer Class and considers herself mostly reformed.

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• Advancing Boss of Doom: The final phase of her boss battle in Trap Team is basically her third and final Villainous Breakdown, which has her chase the Skylander and Cali down the stairs to her throne room. At the bottom of the stairs, she gets stuck between two pillars. After the Skylander breaks one of them, they fall down on her, dealing the final blow and ending the fight.
• Ancient Egypt: Her motif. She dresses like a pharaoh and acts like one too. Her sea vehicle in SuperChargers, the Glitter Glider, is also designed like a boat from that time period.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: It’s unclear on whether she’s an actual queen who has her own kingdom or if it’s her actual name, but she still has the characteristics of someone in nobility and is the leader of a group of villains.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Halfway through her fight in Trap Team, she jumps into her molten gold river to grow to giant size, and stays like that for the rest of the fight. She retains this ability as her Soul Gem ability after becoming a Sensei, without having to immerse herself in gold to do so, even. This form of her makes another reappearances in Ring of Heroes, where it is the final obstacle in the Cave of Gold mode.
• Bad Boss: Pretty evident, as when Dr. Krankcase announces that they've run out of goo to use as a power source for their weapon due to the Skylanders shutting down the goo factory where they get it from, she takes the failure out on him and Krankcase is also rather desperate to show her his back-up plan. She also doesn't seem to care that much that the other Doom Raiders are being captured by the Skylanders and potentially turned over to their side, seeing them as acceptable losses, which is something Wolfgang takes issue with. When he suggests a change in management, the reactions of Golden Queen and other Doom Raiders shows that she is not so keen on the idea. However, after the Ultimate Weapon is completed, one of the Golden Queen's rules for Skylands is to release the captured Doom Raiders, which is her first real act of caring for them.
• Be the Ball: During her boss battle, she can turn herself into a ball of gold dust and break the floor of the arena.
• Big Bad: As the leader of the Doom Raiders, she becomes this in Trap Team. Since she is much more vile and has several other great villains following her, she steals Kaos' role until her defeat and capture towards the end when Kaos betrays the Skylanders and takes control of Golden Queen's Ultimate Weapon.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Once the Ultimate Weapon is finally completed, she doesn't think that the Skylanders can do much to thwart her and when they do, she neither does anything to stop them besides threatening them with the weapon.
• Bullet Hell: When in her One-Winged Angel form, she sprays her sawblade projectiles across the battlefield and creates shockwaves that become more and more frequent.
• Climax Boss: Is built up as the final boss throughout Trap Team, only to become this instead when Kaos takes over as the Big Bad in the final level.
• Combat Pragmatist: After accepting Kaos' Evil-Off for the command of the Doom Raiders, Golden Queen wins it in seconds by just turning him into gold. After this, she and the remaining Doom Raiders laugh in his face over how pathetically easy it was to win over him.
• Cool Boat: As one of the playable sea villains in the racing mode of SuperChargers, her vehicle is the Glitter Glider, which is designed like a felucca.
• Cool Crown: Of course, given that her name is Golden Queen, she wears a crown and has never been shown without it. But even then, the crown she wears looks really impressive. It's also her Imaginite gift to Imaginators when her Sensei figure is summoned to the game for the first time.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Her evil-off with Kaos ends after a few seconds as she just turns him into a gold statue.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She is one of three Senseis to get a Dark Version in Imaginators alongside King Pen and Wolfgang. And since she has undergone a Heel–Face Turn for real by then, she more than fits this.
• Disc-One Final Boss: She is the last of the Doom Raiders to be defeated and captured before Kaos reclaims his place as the Big Bad.
• Evil Is Hammy: She starts rivaling Kaos in this regard by chewing the scenery more and more as Trap Team goes on.
• Evil Is Petty: Her only motivation is gold. That's it. This ticks Kaos off enough to challenge the Queen to an Evil-Off, believing that he at least has greater ambitions and a Freudian Excuse (however light it is).
• Evil Sorcerer: Uses a Midas Touch-esque touch to her powers.
  • Averted in Imaginators, where she is now a Skylander.
• Evil Versus Evil: She's eventually challenged to an Evil-Off by Kaos because he was so unsatisfied with her motive for taking over Skylands. It's pretty one-sided though.
• Eviler than Thou: Downplayed, given that she defeats Kaos in an “evil-off” (that was invoked by Kaos, by the way) just by turning him into gold.
• Eye Beams: She gains this ability when she uses her giant form in Imaginators, which was something she didn't have in Trap Team.
• Faux Affably Evil: Throughout the Golden Desert and the Lair of the Golden Queen, she meets the Skylanders a couple of times and when she does, she greets them with the grace and style of a queen, all while boasting of the terrible things she’s going to do to them.
• Glowing Eyes: As she has rubies for eyes, they have a sinister glow to them.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: As she is the leader of the Doom Raiders, she is the main threat you need to defeat, especially after her Ultimate Weapon has been built.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: She's a living golden statue and she's the leader of the Doom Raiders.
• Greed: She's doing every single thing she does leading the Doom Raiders for extorting gold out of her subjects. She says that with the Ultimate Weapon, they are going to steal all the gold that exists in the entire Skylands, and sure enough, when the Ultimate Weapon is complete, one of the rules she bestows upon the citizens of Skylands is to deliver all the gold to her "as fitting tribute".
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Her temper gets shorter and shorter the more Trap Team goes on and the more the Skylanders start derailing her plans to take over Skylands.
• Heel–Face Return: Goes from the leader of the most notorious gang of evil-doers in Skylands to a Sorcerer Sensei in Imaginators.
• Irony: In her “Meet the Villains” video, she says that she hates silver and only wants gold. If her villain quest in Trap Team is completed, her more powerful upgraded appearance has her in silver.
• It's All About Me: Even after she’s been captured, she holds her high opinion of gold intact. She talks a lot about how much better Skylander Academy would be if it was made of gold, which is something only she cares about.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: In the "Graduation" story of the IDW comics, she has Gulper as a giant capture all of the minis (the only heroes available to deal with her and the Doom Raiders) except for Pet-Vac, who also holds her Golden Egg. She tries to get him to surrender and give her the egg, and he does just that, only to then use his vacuum to take the egg back and use it on Gulper. With her fellow Doom Raiders taken out and having no other weapons on her, Golden Queen gives in and surrenders.
• Lack of Empathy: She doesn’t seem to care at all that her fellow Doom Raiders are getting captured one by one by the hands of the Skylanders and turned over to their side, viewing them as sacrifices in the progress of building and powering the Ultimate Weapon. But when said weapon is complete, one of her rules for Skylands is for the Skylanders to release them, showing that deep down, she may have at least an iota of care for them.
• Large and in Charge: The tallest Doom Raider and the leader.
• Large Ham: She's more soft-spoken at first, and only raises her voice sparingly. But after the moment where Dr. Krankcase announces that they’ve run out of goo for the Ultimate Weapon, she slips into shouting more and more. There is also a certain depth to her voice that makes her voice even more bombastic.
• Leitmotif: "Bedouin Feast", an active Egyptian theme.
• Loves Only Gold: She doesn’t want objects made of silver or bronze or any other valuable metal. She only wants gold.
• The Magic Touch: She can turn anything into gold by touching it which would be enough for anyone obssessed with it, but that's not enough for this Queen. She still wants more so she resorts to also stealing gold.
• Make My Monster Grow: She grows into a giant for the final phase of her boss battle and becomes a Stationary Boss in Trap Team.
• Mama Bear: In The Golden Desert level, she gets furious when the Skylanders turn her Chompy Worm guards into butterflies who fly away when they grow their wings.
• Mask of Sanity: In general, she spends the first half of Trap Team being very calm and collected and knowing when to raise her voice. But that changes the moment Dr. Krankcase announces that their green goo plan has been foiled by the Skylanders. After that, she starts screaming everytime she gets angry, which mostly happens when things don't go as she wants them to, whether that be bumps on the road to her goal or when people don't follow what she lays out for them.
• Money Fetish: She just loooooves gold. It even heals her in her fight.
• Money Spider: She fits this to a tee as she is made of gold. This also carries over to some of the mobile spin-offs.
  • In Trap Team, she can only become this after her villain quest has been completed. Throughout the final chapter, various mechanical piggy banks can be found, and when Golden Queen interacts with them, she makes them spew out gold.
  • In Lost Islands, if she is captured, she increases the amount of gold gotten from Sanctuaries.
  • In a Downplayed example from Ring of Heroes, she is the final boss of the Cave of Gold mode, which is the mode the player would want to take when they want to farm more gold.
• Near-Villain Victory: After Wolfgang sends her the 10,000 year old cheese from the future for the Ultimate Weapon, she manages to have the chance to rule Skylands by bestowing rules upon the inhabitants and trapping them in snow globes with the weapon if anyone breaks them. The reason she didn't win is because the Skylanders and their allies wouldn't give up and she didn't do much to actually stop them.
• Never My Fault: “Was it too much to ask for all Skylands to follow a few simple rules?!”, when her rules for Skylands were: for all Skylanders to surrender and release the captured Doom Raiders, all gold to be delivered to her and giving her the permit to create as many rules as she wants.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In the intro of Trap Team, when Gulper has grown into a giant ready to take on the Trap Masters, she joins in and shoots a golden beam at them. This allows Wildfire to use his shield to reflect the light from said beam to Gulper, blinding him and knocking him down, making him fall on the other Doom Raiders.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Sounds like Pat Carroll (Disney's Ursula), particularly when she does an Evil Laugh. This is because she's voiced by C.C.H. Pounder, best known for playing Amanda Waller in Justice League Unlimited.
• One-Hit KO: Her ability “The Queen’s Decree” in Battlecast allows her to KO an enemy. As expected, to use it, she needs 10 crystals which is the cap for how many that can be used each round.
• One-Winged Angel: The two final phases of her battle have her growing into a giant.
• Orcus on His Throne: She lets the other Doom Raiders do her bidding of constructing the Ultimate Weapon while she safely stays behind in whatever lair they have (Chompy Mage mentions that he is gathering Traptanium that they use to power it, Dreamcatcher was sent to collect information about the material and Dr. Krankcase is the genius behind the Ultimate Weapon). Even when the Doom Raiders squared off against the Trap Team in the opening cutscene, everyone else was fighting while Golden Queen was sitting all the way up on her throne and only acted once The Gulper had grown into a giant. This leads to a bit of a deconstruction in regards to Wolfgang, as he doesn't like how the other Doom Raider members have to put themselves in danger, leading to them getting captured by the Skylanders, all for the ultimate plan they have while Golden Queen can stay behind in safety. So when enough members have been captured and reformed, Wolfgang betrays her and uses the plan to get a stinky cheese from the future to send himself there so he can conquer Skylands in that time period. He does send the ten-thousand year old cheese to her via future post delivery so she can put the finishing touches on the Ultimate Weapon.
• Power Floats: During her boss battle, she moves around the arena via levitation.
• Power Glows: Whenever she gets really angry, her entire body lights up. Makes sense, given that she’s made of gold. Only in the CGI cutscenes and not in-game though, but that could be because there aren't a lot of times where she gets angry in gameplay or during cutscenes that use the in-game engine.
• Pre-Final Boss: In terms of fighting the big villains in Trap Team. After getting built up throughout the game as the new Big Bad, she then gets downgraded to this as Kaos takes the chance to hijack the Ultimate Weapon while the Skylanders are busy with her.
  • She is also this in Battlecast, as the Earth Realm is the world right before Kaos' Realm.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: She isn't anything like this at first, especially compared to Kaos. But as the Skylanders get further and further along in stopping her ultimate plan, she starts slipping into becoming more and more immature and unstable, as she starts screaming in anger and throwing tantrums. As described below, she goes through a Villainous Breakdown not once, not twice, but thrice in the second half of Trap Team.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Going nicely along with her gold and valuables motifs, she has rubies for eyes. And the opening of Trap Team has a part where they are shown across dark clouds.
• Scarab Power: She attacks with scarabs in various ways.
  • In Imaginators, her primary attack is to shoot scarabs. When upgraded, they can release gold dust on enemies to slow them down and give Golden Queen the ability to summon an even larger one. And finally, her Sky-Chi power is to unleash a swarm of scarabs.
  • In Battlecast, she has two abilities relating to scarabs. The first is simply titled “Scarab”, which allows her to snare an enemy and draw a new card at the expense of giving both her team and the opposing team one crystal each. The other is “Scarab Swarm” which shuffles three Scarabs into the enemy deck.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: She presents three rules for the people of Skylands to follow, otherwise she will use the Ultimate Weapon on them. The third rule is that she has permission to add as many rules as she wants. And she believes that this is her being fair.
• Shockwave Stomp: In Trap Team, she can slam her staff on the ground to create a golden shockwave.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: When Kaos speaks up about how he thinks the Doom Raiders should beat the Skylanders, she creates a gold pacifier and puts it in Kaos’ mouth to shut him up. Kaos may not be good enough to be a Kirk, but given that he later joins the Skylanders to beat her, it’s close enough.
• Starter Mon: She is one of the two Senseis included in the normal Starter Pack for Imaginators, and her Dark variant is included in the Dark Edition Starter Pack.
• Stationary Boss: She becomes this in the second half of her boss battle after she grows into a giant.
• Status Infliction Attack: As a Sensei, her first upgrade upgrades her scarabs to release gold dust that slows down enemies.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Said almost word for word. After getting sucked in by the Traptanium vortex, she admits that being trapped in a Traptanium Crystal is similar to what she does when she turns people into gold.
• Touché: After she has been defeated and trapped in the Traptanium Crystal, her first instinct is to react in anger to her fate, but she then calms down when she realizes that this is her getting a taste of her own medicine, as explained above.
• Tranquil Fury: After Wolfgang suggests a change in management, she simply says “Is that so?” in a calm voice and turns the chicken leg he’s about to eat into gold.
• Viler New Villain: She gets portrayed as being more dangerous and more evil than Kaos.
• Villainous Breakdown: This is one queen who hates it when things don’t go her way.
  • When Dr. Krankcase announces that they’ve lost their supply of green goo for the Ultimate Weapon, she raises her voice in anger as she believes this means that their hopes of building the Ultimate Weapon is over. Luckily for them, it’s not.
  • When the Skylanders have found her temple in the Golden Desert (and headed back to Skylander Academy due to Cali being turned into gold by the Queen), she goes crazy over how they would attack her, thinking she was fair with her demands for Skylands and aims the Ultimate Weapon at the academy.
  How dare they attack me? I've tried to be fair about this! Was it too much to ask for all of Skylands to follow a few simple rules?!
  • She gets her last one during her boss fight when she is almost beaten in her giant form and chases the Skylander and Cali down the stairs to her throne.
  Now you're really gonna pay! Enough! Enough with your insolence, insubordination and about ten other things! ATTAAAAACK!!!
• You Have Failed Me: When Dr. Krankcase announces that they don't have enough green goo to fully power the Ultimate Weapon, she takes the failure out on him. She doesn't come close to killing him though, as Krankcase immediately presents to her his solution.