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Tsubomi Hanasaki/Cure Blossom
Tsubomi Hanasaki/Cure Blossom
Voiced by: Nana Mizuki
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A bookish, shy and introverted nerd who loves flowers. Upon transferring to a new school, she vows to change herself and become more outgoing.
- Actor Allusion: Well, more Artist Allusion to Umakoshi Yoshihiko, who also designed the characters for Ojamajo Doremi. There's a scene where the Cures gain the power of flight, and Tsubomi handles it about as poorly as a certain other pink-haired girl does.
- Ass Kicks You: Blossom Butt Punch, to the point of reaching memetic status.
- Badass Adorable: Despite being titled as the "Weakest Pretty Cure In History", Tsubomi has proven herself time and time again that she is worthy of being a Precure, even fighting some of the generals to a standstill and coming up with a lot of attacks.
- Breakout Character: Until they were replaced by a new movie series with a more compact cast, every Pretty Cure All Stars film since the second one has given speaking roles to Blossom and Marine even after the growing character roster made it difficult to get a
Role Reprise for everyone but a select few. - Breast Attack: Inverted with Double Body Punch, an attack in which she and Cure Marine slam chest-first into the opponent.
- Character Catchphrase: "I can't stand it anymore!"/"My bag of tolerance has just snapped!"note
- Character Development: One of the focal points in the series. She starts off as introverted then becomes more outgoing as the series continues. Eventually, she discovers that can find her own balance between being introverted and outgoing and accepts her flaws along with her own good points.
- Cherry Blossom Girl: Her Pretty Cure motif is cherry blossoms. Her inner world has a cherry blossom tree and lots of flying cherry blossom petals. Also, she has pink hair as Cure Blossom.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Towards past pink colored Pretty Cures. Lead Cures are often outgoing or passionate Genki Girls, while Tsubomi is shy and introverted.
- Curtains Match the Window: Her pink eyes match her hair when in and outside of Precure form.
- Ditzy Genius: In one episode, Tsubomi didn't know what a boss (bansho in Japanese) is and asked Erika to it, much to the latter's chagrin. She also was offended after Erika fainted. However, as far as studying goes, it's not known if Tsubomi is a top grader. At least she is capable to keep up with her studies unlike Erika.
- Fill It with Flowers: In the Grand Finale, she dreams of doing this for other planets! The Heartcatch novel reveals she's actually going through with it, studying English so she can attempt to join NASA.Tsubomi: If I can… If I can… I want to make flowers bloom in the desolate wastes of space…
- Girlish Pigtails: In civilian form, her hair are shaped in the form of pigtails.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: If Erika is anything to go by, though Tsubomi still wears them from time to time.
- The Heart: While she is the primary protagonist, Tsubomi is more kind and reclusive, along with the peacekeeper of the Cures.
- Heroic Lineage: Her grandmother Kaoruko was Cure Flower in her youth and the only Cure to have defeated Dune alone.
- The Heroine: Tsubomi is the primary protagonist of the season despite not feeling that way in the beginning of the series.
- Implied Love Interest: She finds one in the movie, in the person of Olivier.
- Innocent Flower Girl: She is the first ever shy Pretty Cure main character.
- Large Ham: Whenever she says "Ichirin no Hana", calls her attacks or just shouts when attacking with Heartcatch Orchestra.
- Meaningful Name: Her first name, which means "flower bud", is at least justified: there was a budding tree by the window of the hospital room where she was born — also making it a more serious variant of Line-of-Sight Name.
- Megaton Punch: Her sub attack, Blossom Screw Punch, has Blossom collecting her Flower energy into her fist and shoots it out, the energy forming like a cannon at the enemy.
- Nice Girl: She's very friendly and caring towards everyone, even people in her way. That being said, she grows to be more assertive towards her enemies though she'll go out of her way to help everyone.
- Opaque Lenses: When she gets nervous, her glasses get opaque. Given her timid nature, this occurs frequently across the season, especially when Erika’s antics flared up.
- Petal Power: While her attacks seem like they're Light 'em Up, her energy and her fighting abilities are physically harnessed from the power of the flowers and the Heart Tree.
- Pink Heroine: Like Cure Peach behind her and Cure Melody after her, Cure Blossom is the lead Cure and decked out head to toe in carnation pink.
- Pink Means Feminine: She wears pink and generally acts feminine: shy, weak, and reclusive, though through Character Development, she accepts that part of her as long as she gets stronger in her heart.
- Raised by Grandparents: Played with. During her early years, her parents would leave on long business trips which led to her being taken care of by her grandmother. But in her early teens, when her mom and dad saw her crying over them leaving, they decided to remodify their career plans so they can spend more time with Tsubomi.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The shy and reclusive blue to Erika's energetic and loud red, contrary to their color schemes.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She definitely fits the trope, except she's shy, but gradually grows more confident later on.
- Shrinking Violet: She's very shy and introverted, especially at the beginning of the series. This is in stark contrast to most other Pretty Cure leads, who are usually outgoing, passionate Genki Girls.
- Slipknot Ponytail: A first for the franchise. In The Movie, she takes a hit meant for Olivier, the blast removing her hairbow. Her loose hair helps pull Olivier out of his Superpowered Evil Side.
- Stepford Smiler: Throughout her childhood, her parents would often leave her to go overseas on work-related business. Though Tsubomi put up a brave face, she was secretly heartbroken at their absence. Eventually her parents found this out, and they immediately stopped travelling.
- Translation Convention: Concerning her catchphrase - the true translation is "My bag of tolerance has just snapped!", but because it seems so weird despite being in-character for her, many fansubs go with the easier "I have had enough!".
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: She considers love to be Serious Business and tends to be quite Genre Savvy and very melodramatically towards romance matters, as seen in her reactions to her "first love" towards Itsuki during episode 7, and especially in episode 12, in which she jumps aboard the Yuuto/Risa ship the moment she finds out Yuuto has a girlfriend, and even stages a plan to get them closer during the joint Hanasaki/Kurumi family barbecue, demonstrating it to Erika and her father by using Chypre and Coffret as puppets representing the couple."A heartbeat of fear could be easily mistaken for a heartbeat of love!"
- Took a Level in Badass: Losing her first battle in Episode 2 had given Tsubomi the title of "Weakest Pretty Cure In History" and that status admittedly held true in the first 4 episodes of the season since she struggled to hold her ground at first. However, starting with Episode 5, her victories start to outweigh her defeats by a far greater number (thanks to her progressing competence and helpfulness as a Pretty Cure), with or without help from her allies and even before Yuri regained her Pretty Cure powers in Episode 34 and Tsubomi gained the Super Silhouette Power-Up in Episode 38!
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Suffers from acrophobia, which is on full display when she first dons the Cure Mantle and only calms down enough to handle it when Itsuki takes her hand. As Cure Blossom, she doesn't show this, though it could be because she has more pressing concerns or her powers can handle it. In the 2015 novel, it's revealed she wants to join NASA to help with her phobia so she can go into space.
Erika Kurumi/Cure Marine
Erika Kurumi/Cure Marine
Voiced by: Fumie Mizusawa
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"The flower that flutters in the ocean winds, Cure Marine!"
A brash and extroverted fashionista. Though energetic and sincere, she often fails to consider the feelings of others.
- Action Girl: Combined with her Genki Girl attributes, Marine is a powerful and strong Precure, even fighting a barrage of Mooks on her own without her own and clashes with Kumojacky, the strongest of the General Apostles whenever they fight. Her first reaction to facing one of Dune's Messengers (who are 50 foot abombinations) was to face it head on!
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Erika always confident and acts like a gigantic wave of water that can mow down anything that gets in her way. Appropriately, her elemental power is water and she creates a lot of powerful sub attacks, and she has wavy blue hair in both her civilian form and as a Cure.
- Ass Kicks You: She would sometimes use Blossom's Butt Punch in tandem with her.
- Badass Adorable: She doesn't even think twice before punching men and monsters twice her size in the face. Her fight with Kumojacky in episode 46 practically solidifies her as this.
- Breakout Character: Erika is insanely popular for a non-Pink Cure, going so far as rank third place among all the heroines in the 2019 NHK mega-poll and only losing out to the original duo of Nagisa and Honoka. Tellingly, like Tsubomi, every Pretty Cure All Stars film gave her a speaking role, when most secondary Cure's ended up rendered The Voiceless.
- Breast Attack: Inverted with Double Body Punch, an attack in which she and Cure Blossom slam chest-first into the opponent.
- Character Catchphrase: Early on, she had trouble coming up with a limit phrase to match Tsubomi's, When she realizes that she must save her older sister Momoka, who was turned into a Monster of the Week due to her jealousy of Erika's normal life, Erika finally manages to figure out her own phrase: "Even if my heart is larger than the sea, this is over my limit!"
- Character Development: Started off as an abrasive and insensitive girl who was unpopular. Then after becoming friends with Tsubomi, she cools down and becomes more easygoing, flexible and less aggressive. This extends more to her being jealous towards her older sister, but eventually learns that her sister also envies her and lightens up towards her.
- Curtains Match the Window: In both civilian and Cure forms, she has bright blue hair and matching eyes.
- The Fashionista: As the leader of the Fashion Club and the creator of many outfits for the other clubs projects, this was a given.
- Forehead of Doom: While her forehead is usually hidden by her parted bangs, she has an attack that consists of a forehead equivalent to Cure Blossom's memetic Ass Kicks You move.
- Hot-Blooded: Yes, the water-elemental character is this.
- Genki Girl: Very much so. She is arguably the most energetic Precure in the series, and it shows.
- Genre Savvy: To the extent that she begins to think about what Cure name she would choose upon realizing that she might become a Cure herself. She remains the only Cure in the franchise who thought up a name for their Cure form before becoming a Cure themselves.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Her jealousy of Momoka's success as a model earns her Victim of the Week status in the first episode. Later, in episode 8, Momoka herself turns out to be jealous of the normal life Erika leads.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Her eccentric (and somewhat Jerkass) personality was a result of her trying to distance herself from her sister, since Erika was jealous of her overwhelming success as a modeler. While she soon grows out her vendetta, Erika still keeps her eccentric personality.
- Innocently Insensitive: Her biggest flaw is that while she's ultimately a good person, she usually doesn't consider other people's feelings and has a tendency to bulldoze her way into their lives whether they want her to or not. After becoming friends with Tsubomi, she starts to become more easygoing.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: More than often than not she acts like a Bratty Half-Pint, but is always there for her friends.
- The Lancer: The assertive, annoying, and energetic to Tsubomi's shy, kind, and doubtful. Despite starting out on shaky terms, she and Tsubomi end up on good terms and backs up her new best friend no matter what.
- Large Ham: Erika is very overactive and loves hamming it up.
- Making a Splash: Many of her sub-attacks are based on water.
- No Indoor Voice: In one episode she gets shushed 3 separate times for yelling in a library.
- No Sense of Personal Space: One of Erika's flaws is that she gets up in people's face regardless of this situation. At times she ends up too confrontational, which leads to her and Tsubomi's first interactions being less positive than what she imagined.
- Plucky Girl: When you're not the Dai-Gurren-dan, the proper reaction to seeing a giant Eldritch Abomination from outer space pummeling your planet with impunity is to tremble in despair. However, Erika instead decides that the Cures must fight it, what with being "14-year old beautiful superheroines".
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Tsubomi's blue.
- Use Your Head: Her Pretty Cure Forehead Punch is actually a headbutt.
- Water Is Blue: As Cure Marine, she has a lot of water attacks and like her outfit come out as blue streams.
- Water Is Womanly: Of the more temperamental ones, but she is Cure Marine and a sincere, girly fashionista.
Itsuki Myoudouin/Cure Sunshine
Itsuki Myoudouin/Cure Sunshine
Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima
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"The flower that bathes in the sunlight, Cure Sunshine!"
The androgynous Student Council President who acts masculine in order to continue the martial traditions of her family in place of her feeble older brother. Despite this, she adores cute things and wishes she could show her feminine side more freely.
- Badass Normal: She's quite the accomplished martial artist and even fought back against Cobraja and Kumojacky respectively in two episodes.
- Barrier Warrior: She has the ability to cast a sunflower-shaped barrier.
- Bifauxnen: Looks so androgynous that both Tsubomi and Cobraja are fooled into thinking she's a dude, and are shocked upon learning.
- The Big Girl: Thanks to her martial arts training, she's physically the strongest of the three and with her barriers, she serves as a fast moving, hard hitting, powerful defense that can do way more damage than the other Cures individually. Even Moonlight's arsenal isn't as much as Sunshine's despite being overall stronger than her.
- Bishie Sparkle: In episode 7 from Tsubomi's perspective, complete with Love Bubbles and a flowery background at one point.
- Character Catchphrase: "I will heal the darkness in your heart with my light!" And to a lesser extent, "How cute!"
- Custom Uniform: Her school uniform is different from the other boys, mostly due to her status as granddaughter of the principal.
- Cuteness Proximity: Normally quite reserved, but get her anywhere near dolls or cute clothing, and it's a different story, to the point where "How cute!" might as well be her other catchphrase.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Spends a while as a Badass Normal before becoming a Cure.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Tsubomi and a lot of other girls are in love with her since she looks like a boy. Even after Tsubomi finds out that he is a girl, she still shows signs of affection later on.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: After the brief Time Skip in episode 49, she grows her hair out somewhat and starts wearing the female uniform.
- Girliness Upgrade: As the series goes on, she becomes more open about her love of cute things, dolls up for the school fashion show and eventually grows her hair out a bit and starts wearing the female uniform. Still, she remains as athletic and interested in martial arts as ever.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Episode 15 reveals that she has a pretty good-sized collection of them, which she keeps hidden away.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Her Pretty Cure costume includes a gold lamé chest ribbon.
- Heir to the Dojo: Her sick brother wasn't expected to make it before his surgery in episode 23, so she was expected to carry on the family's martial arts tradition.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Her gender and Cure identity.
- Magic Missile Storm: Gold Forte Burst, her unique take on the Forte Wave
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: While this happens to almost all Cures, she takes it to the biggest extent, going from a very short bob haircut to waist-length Girlish Pigtails when transformed.
- The Power of the Sun: Literally. As Cure Sunshine, her attacks encapsulates the power and brightness of the sun in her strengths and attacks. Her debut even made the sun come out while in the rain.
- Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: She doesn't like dressing and acting like a boy, but thinks she can't be respected as a martial artist otherwise. Spending time as a superhero literally empowered by a super-girly outfit makes her realize it's a compromise she doesn't have to make.
- School Uniforms are the New Black: She's in her school uniform most of the time, even if she's out of school. That is, unless Erika forces her into the yellow tunic
◊... - She Cleans Up Nicely: Seeing her girled-up makes that much of a difference.
- Sixth Ranger: Suspected for a long while, confirmed in the most blatant way possible after episode 22.
- Student Council President: Itsuki is the student council president and she takes her job seriously. However, she's very supportive and help of each club and she is not as strict as her vice president, her escorts, or the traditional president stereotypes.
- Tomboy Angst: Itsuki doesn't enjoy coming off like a boy—not that she's incapable of appearing feminine, rather she feels obligated to act that way as the Heir to the Dojo, but it's still a burden to her.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Tsubomi and Erika's girly girls.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Despite her appearance, she still has a lot of girly hobbies. Ultimately, she turns out to be more of a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, as most (but not all) of her masculine traits are an affectation.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Tsubomi is pretty upset when she learns that Itsuki is actually a girl during episode 7. Cobraja, on the other hand, is flat-out shocked.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: That is, until the timeskip.
Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight
Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa
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"The flower that shines in the moon's light, Cure Moonlight!"
The former Cure Moonlight, who was defeated and Brought Down to Normal by Dark Pretty Cure before the events of the series. Though quiet, mature and intellectual, she harbours a deep sadness within her heart, unable to forgive herself for her past failures. She eventually regains her resolve to fight and becomes Cure Moonlight once more.
- Action Girl: Quite possibly the coolest Cure ever. Being unable to transform didn't stop her from jumping into danger, as seen in episode 13. Also shown in All Stars DX3 when everyone else ran off to make space for three monsters that just popped up to squish the cures, she just stood there and whacked the monsters into oblivion before they even touched the ground.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Has the darkest hair, tallest of the active Cures and is mostly serious and aloof.
- Badass Bookworm: She usually ranks at top of her class, and still wipes the floor with the Desertrians with utter ease. In fact, in the DX 3 'mini-game' situation, her mini-game is 'Studying'.
- Badass Creed: "Friendship... Love... A lot of emotions... Pain... Sadness... I will fight for them!!" When Yuri said this, she's ready to kick major ass. She said this quite frequently, but not enough to count as a catchphrase.
- Badass Longcoat: She's the first Cure to actually have a dress-like form.
- Barrier Warrior: Less so than Sunshine, but shows some inclinations.
- Broken Bird: She's a former magical girl who's introduced as somber, lonely, and cold. Over time, it's revealed she used to work solo even without the help of her Fairy just to carry all the burden of battle herself, doing all this with a smile in her face. Thanks to that, her Fairy died protecting her, in front of her, she lost a very important battle and ended up unable to transform into a Precure anymore. She gets better eventually, then temporarily down again, then better for good.
- Brought Down to Normal: Thanks to being defeated by Dark Precure, she loses her ability to transform. She gets better, of course.
- Cain and Abel: Turns out to be the Abel to Dark Cure's Cain, after the revelation that Dark Cure was created by her father.
- Cool Big Sis: At age 17, she's the oldest active Cure, and the third-oldest both in the Heartcatch continuity (behind Cure Flower and Cure Ange from the movie series) and the Pretty Cure franchise as a whole (behind 18 year old Cure Butterfly and 20 year old Cure Earth).
- Curb-Stomp Battle: In Episode 34, after defeating Dark Precure, she takes all three Desert Apostle Generals down by her own.
- Curtains Match the Window: Purple hair and purple eyes.
- Dark Magical Girl: While firmly being on the side of Good, she has some shades of this. She must deal with her loneliness and a great deal of bitterness in her life. If she's Fate, Tsubomi is Nanoha. (No irony intended.)
- Disappeared Dad: Her father has been missing ever since he began looking for the Heart Tree. She does find him again, but he turns out to be Sabaaku.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Subverted. Cologne calls her Cure Moonlight, even when she's just Yuri.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: As Cure Moonlight, her outfit is asymmmetrical, but by no means does she have trouble wearing it.
- Flower Motifs: Lilies, which are shown through her name and her Heart Flower.
- Forehead of Doom: Yuri has quite a huge forehead.
- Friend to All Children: One of the few hints that she's more than the cold fish she was presented as in the earlier parts of the story is that she really knows how to be friendly and caring towards children. One focus episode after she returns being Moonlight also has her actually getting along with the daycare children better than the daycare owner (although it caused frustration to the owner to the point she got turned into a Desertrian).
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She has purple hair in both forms and a violet-accented Cure outfit, and is a Lady of War admired by her teammates for her elegance.
- Heroic BSoD: She suffers one before the series after she is defeated by Dark Precure, and it takes her almost the entire series to get over it.
- He's Back!: Getting her ability to transform back and a pep talk from Cologne inspires her to rejoin the fight with her confidence restored.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Sometimes as Cure Moonlight her right eye is covered by her hair, fitting for her aloof and recluse nature.
- Ineffectual Loner: Her main character flaw, in the "I'll take on all the responsibility so no one else has to" sense. It indirectly leads to Cologne's death, after she overestimates her power against a two-on-one disadvantage and rejects his advice to find teammates to even the odds.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: She is in constant emotional grief after her Fatal Flaw gets Cologne killed. While part of her Character Development revolves around her accepting Cologne's death, the pain still lingers in her heart especially when episodes 47 and 48 reveals what really happened to her father.
- Lady of War: Keeps her cool and sense of gracefulness even when beating up enemies with Good Old Fisticuffs.
- Lunacy: Her powers are associated and are strengthened from moonlight.
- Meaningful Name: Her surname literally means "moon shadow" and her first name is also the Japanese name for the lily flower, which is also her Heart Flower.
- Purple Is Powerful: Purple is one of her two theme colors, alongside silver. She's also the strongest Cure of the group, due to being older and more experienced than the others.
- The Smart Girl: She subverts this trope as she's the strongest of the four, she has more power, but plays it straight because she's the most experienced, knowledgeable, and intelligent of the three.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She wears glasses and is experienced as well as having the highest grades in her class.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Acted like an Emotionless Girl at first, but was later shown to be more guarded than anything. She defrosts a bit after joining the team.
- When She Smiles: Seeing Yuri smile or laugh is very rare, but when she does, its is heartwarming.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: She thought she could get by being overly powerful and going solo. Unfortunately for her, in Pretty Cure series, you need to trust your friends a lot, thus she ended up utterly failing and losing her Fairy and ability to become Cure Moonlight, with the emotional baggage to go, at the beginning of the series.
Mirage Pretty Cure
Mirage Pretty Cure
Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Cure Blossom Mirage), Fumie Mizusawa (Cure Marine Mirage), Houko Kuwashima (Cure Sunshine Mirage), Aya Hisakawa (Cure Moonlight Mirage)
They are the Enemy Within of the Heartcatch Pretty Cures, summoned by the Heartcatch Mirage for their final test. Each of them represent their past shadow selves with their Angst.
- Anti-Villain: They are part of the Heartcatch Pretty Cure and are Secret Test of Character enemies, but they are not evil.
- Badass Crew: Averted. Since everyone of them is an Enemy Within, the four Mirage Pretty Cures never met each other.
- Badass Long Coat: Each of them wear white, long coats.
- Broken Bird: Each of them represents the inner conflicts of their original selves, that's why they are really depressed.
- Cain and Abel: Cure Marine Mirage represents Erika's envy to her older sister Momoka.
- Cherry Blossoms: Cure Blossom Mirage's world has flying cherry blossom petals everywhere.
- Cooldown Hug: Each of them fuse back to their original selves by being hugged by them.
- Curtains Match the Window: Similar like their original selves.
- Dark Is Not Evil: While they wear black clothes under their coats and have darker hair, they are not evil.
- Dark Magical Girl: Each of them represents the angsty self of the respective Cures.
- Enemy Within: Each of them are inner enemies.
- Evil Sounds Deep: They aren't actually evil, but they have deeper voices than their originals.
- Failure Knight: Cure Moonlight Mirage represents Yuri's sadness at Cologne's death, since Yuri feels responsible of that.
- Fusion Dance: In the end, they are accepted by their original selves and come back.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: They don't use much magical attacks.
- Mini Dress Of Power: Cure Blossom Mirage and Cure Marine Mirage.
- Secret Test of Character: To win the test, each Cure has to accept their past selves as their own parts.
- Shrinking Violet: Cure Blossom Mirage doesn't act like one, but she represents Tsubomi's shy side and unconfidence.
- Tomboy: The boy's school uniform-like wearing Cure Sunshine Mirage, who represents Itsuki's conflict of hiding her feminine side and as being the Heir to the Dojo.
- Voice of the Legion: How they sound.
Mugen Silhouette SPOILERS
Mugen Silhouette
Voiced by: Nana Mizuki
Mugen Silhouette (some people translate her name as Infinity Silhouette) is the fusion of the four Pretty Cures and their three fairies. A giantess who looks like an older version of Tsubomi, having even her voice. She's the strongest Pretty Cure (at least in that verse) and makes her appearance during the Grand Finale. She's the Cure who ultimately defeats Dune in outer space. Thanks to this experience, Tsubomi is now inspired to become an astronaut.
- Action Girl: She's called the "strongest Pretty Cure".
- All-Loving Hero: She gives love to everyone.
- Badass Adorable: She's an adorable Pretty Cure with enough strength to defeat Dune.
- Badass Cape: Probably a Pretty Cure Mantle, since the three fairies are also part of the fusion.
- Badass Creed: More so than other Cures' Transformation Name Announcement.The Grand Flower that blossoms throughout the Universe! Infinite Strength. Infinite Love. The Precure shining like the stars. Heartcatch Pretty Cure, Mugen Silhouette!
- Barrier Warrior: Has an automatic, invisible barrier that even blocks Dune's attack.
- Big Good: She's the most powerful of every single hero and heroine featured in the show, also being active in defeating Dune in his final form. Also really big in terms of size.
- Calling Your Attack: Like many other Pretty Cures, Blossom has one of her own: Kobushi Punch.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: To Dune, of all people, and Dune was already in his humongous final form with enough power to destroy the entire universe.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: She is this as the fusion of the Pretty Cures and their fairy companions in order for the team to stand a better chance at defeating Dune, who entered his One-Winged Angel form to destroy the entire universe.
- Forehead of Doom: She has a really big forehead. shown in between her hair.
- Fusion Dance: Of the four Pretty Cures and their three fairies.
- Girlish Pigtails: They are based on Tsubomi's.
- Heart Beat-Down: It works. She purifies Dune by punching on his heart.
- Last Episode, New Character: Appears at the very last episode and she's very important.
- Light Is Good: She shines, and her costume is mainly in white.
- Made of Explodium: Kobushi Punch causes an explosion when it hits the target. It's bigger than Earth.
- Megaton Punch: "Kobushi Punch" ("Fist Punch")! It's simple, but possibly the strongest Pretty Cure attack ever, besides Miracle Rainbow Burst.
- Only Six Faces: Justified. It's actually Tsubomi's face.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: As tall as the Earth.
- Physical God: She's a physical being with enough power to take on Dune in his final form.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Mostly because she is based on Cure Blossom.
- Shout-Out: Ultimate Madoka is thought to be based on Mugen Silhouette in both design and role.
- Sympathy for the Devil: She feels sorry for Dune and gives him love.
- Technicolor Eyes: You can see the universe is in her eyes.
- Tender Tears: She sheds tears after she purified Dune.
- Walking Spoiler: She is a major spoiler for the Grand Finale.
- World's Strongest Man: She's able to defeat Dune in his final form and Dune has enough power to destroy everything.
Allies
Chypre & Coffret
Chypre & Coffret
Voiced by: Taeko Kawata (Chypre) & Motoko Kumai (Coffret)
Chypre
Coffret
Chypre and Coffret are two fairies that act as partners to Tsubomi and Erika, respectively. They safeguard and summon the Heart Seeds that the Pretty Cure use to transform, and (uh) "create" new Heart Seeds after a Desertarian is defeated.
- Badass Adorable: Despite not being as powerful as their Precure partners, they have no qualms about jumping into danger to protect them.
- Badass Cape: They can transform into capes, with flight and some defensive functions.
- Cuddle Bug: They're both very cuddly fairies, especially Coffret.
- Flight: They can fly.
- Meaningful Name: Chypre is named after a floral perfume family. Coffret is named after the French for a jewellery box or casket.
- Non-Human Sidekick: Chypre is Blossom's partner and Coffret is Marine's partner.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Also fitting to their partners' theme colors.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: The two are very adorable and are confused for plushies a lot.
- Toy Disguise: They both pretend to be plushies whenever they're out in public.
- Verbal Tic: They end almost of their sentences with "~desu".
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Coffret with Erika. They argue a lot but are still true friends.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: To a lesser extent than Coupé. They can turn into Pretty Cure Mantles, capes that make the Cures fly.
Kaoruko Hanasaki/Cure Flower
Kaoruko Hanasaki/Cure Flower
Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto
Click here to see her as Cure Flower
"The flower that shines in the holy light, Cure Flower!"
Tsubomi's grandmother. In her youth, she was chosen by the Heart Tree to become Cure Flower, who single-handedly defeated the first invasion of the Desert Apostles. Having long retired her powers, she acts as a mentor to the current generation of Pretty Cure.
- Action Girl: Was one as Cure Flower. And she was a karate champion.
- Badass Longcoat: About as long as Cure Moonlight's.
- Brought Down to Normal: She reveals that her last confrontation with Dune resulted in her losing her ability to transform into Cure Flower.
- Cool Old Lady: A grandmother who's very wise and knows how to handle any given situation.
- Curtains Match the Windows: In her younger days and as Cure Flower.
- Day in the Limelight:
- Episode 27 focuses on Karou in her younger years when she met and fell in love with Sora.
- She regains her powers for one battle during the Christmas Episode, basically because it's Christmas.
- Glamorous Single Mother: She lost her husband Sora when her son Yoichi was just a boy. Despite her loss, she still made a successful living as a floral researcher and her son harbors no negative feelings about how he was raised.
- Her Heart Will Go On: While the sudden death of her husband still hurts her, Kaoruko keeps her head high and pushes forward in life knowing that Sora would want her to be happy. It also helps that her fairy partner Coppe takes the form of Sora as a way of easing her grief.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: One of the most elegant-looking Precures in the franchise (not counting the frilly upgrades ), along with Cure Moonlight.
- Meaningful Name: The 'Kaoru' in Kaoruko means "scent" or "fragrance".
- Older and Wiser: She's essential The Mentor of the group, so she gives advice and wisdom to all of the Cures.
- Retired Badass: A former Precure and former karate champion.
Potpourri
Potpourri
Voiced by: Kokoro Kikuchi
A baby fairy who is born from the Heart Tree after enough Heart Seeds have been collected. He becomes the partner to Itsuki and enables her transformation into Cure Sunshine. Being a newborn, Potpourri is the most childish and self-centred of the fairies.
- Baby Talk: "~deshu!"
- Badass Cape: See Chypre and Coffret's entry above.
- Barrier Warrior: Has the ability to independently create powerful barriers, an ability unique amongst the fairies.
- Cuddle Bug: She gets cuddled by Itsuki a lot.
- Fun Size: Even smaller than Chypre and Coffret.
- Non-Human Sidekick: As Itsuki's partner.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: He also has the same cuteness effect everyone else gets when they Chypre and Coffret.
- Sixth Ranger: Joins the fairies midway through the series.
- Toy Disguise: Much like Chypre and Coffret, Potpourri pretends to be a plush when out in public.
- Verbal Tic: "~deshu"
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Same as Chypre and Coffret.
Cologne
Cologne
Voiced by: Akira Ishida
The fairy partner of Cure Moonlight. He is shown to be the most mature and level-headed of the fairies. When Yuri ignored his advice and fought Dark Pretty Cure and Sabaaku by herself, he was forced to sacrifice himself to save her life. He later returns as a Spirit Advisor after the Heart Tree regains enough strength, but can only manifest long enough to set Yuri's heart at ease.
- Big Brother Mentor: Seems to be this to Chypre and Coffret; being their senior and all.
- Dead Partner: To Cure Moonlight.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Ends up dying in Yuri's arms.
- Disappears into Light: As part of his final goodbye when Cure Moonlight gets her powers back.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Like fairy, like Cure.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Dies to save Yuri during the attack of Sabaaku and Dark Pretty Cure.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike the other fairies, his eyes aren't nearly as rounded and wide, and his heart markings are sharper.
- Perpetual Frowner: Doesn't smile a whole lot.
- Posthumous Character: He died briefly before the start of the first episode.
- Undying Loyalty: Being dead doesn't stop him to support Cure Moonlight.
- Verbal Tic: Noticeably averted. Unlike most of the other mascots, he never ends his sentences with anything.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss him without mentioning his Heroic Sacrifice.
Coppe
Coppe
A senior fairy, and former partner to Cure Flower. Though silent, he is greatly respected by Chypre & Coffret as their role model. One of the powers of his advanced age is the ability to shapeshift. He often takes the form of Kaoruko's deceased husband, a blue-haired Bishōnen named Sora.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He is an imtimitating fighter, as the Snackeys can confirm.
- The Big Guy: This fairy is taller than average humans and stronger than the fairies and even the Precure at one point. Alongside Itsuki he specializes in brute force and additional muscle for the Precure or Cure Flower. Or as Sora.
- Chick Magnet: Despite his appearance, he is very charismatic and the Cures, even Yuri, love to cuddle him or sleep on his belly. The young fairies have great respect for him, too. Tsubomi has even a crush on him, when he transforms as Kaoruko's husband Sora (who is actually Tsubomi's grandfather). Sasorina likes his human form, too.
- Cuddle Bug: Doesn't seem to mind all the hugs and cuddles he gets.
- Gonk: Weirdest-looking fairy in the entire franchise.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Compared to the other fairies in the series.
- The Stoic: He only shows his emotions twice.
- Stoic Spectacles: Again, as Sora.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: His default expression.
- The Voiceless: Speaks only a single line as Sora.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can take a form that resembles Kaoruko's deceased husband Sora.
The Tree of Hearts
The Tree of Hearts
Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru
The Tree of Hearts is a magical tree that connects to all Heart Flowers. If a Heart Flower wilts completely, it will weaken the Tree of Hearts. The only way to restore the Tree now, is to collect Heart Seeds into the Heart Pot until it is all filled up. The goal of the Desert Apostles is to kill the Tree, so they the Heart Flowers of all humans would wilt completely and the world would turn eventually into a desert.
- Big Good: The Tree of Hearts plays a major part of the plot. During the story, it gives birth to Potpourri, and later it gives Yuri her Cure powers back.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: The flowers on the tree are in different colors, giving the Tree a rainbow-colored crown.
- Living MacGuffin: A tree is a life being. The Desert Apostles wants to kill it, so they can turn the world into a desert.
- Not Quite Dead: Dune is not able to kill it completely; it is still alive because the Pretty Cures and all the Victims of the Week they saved are still alive. The Tree of Hearts is eventually regrowing.
- Suddenly Voiced: In episode 33 and 34, when it talks to Yuri with a female voice.
- World Tree: It not only protects the world, it is connected with all Heart Flowers of all humans.
Kibōgahana
Precure Family Members
Momoka Kurumi
Momoka Kurumi
Voiced by: Shizuka Itō
Erika's older sister whom she constantly butts heads with. A charming and popular model who secretly longs for lasting friendships. Her Heart Flower is the Dahlia.
- Best Friend: To Yuri.
- Cool Big Sis: Tries very hard to be this for Erika by offering words of advice or assurance when possible.
- Follow in My Footsteps: One of the reasons for why she became a model is because her mother was a charismatic model in the past.
- The Gadfly: Likes to make light-hearted jokes at Erika knowing how she'd overreact.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She's jealous of her sister for being so popular among her school peers.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Sometimes she wishes that she wasn't a well-known model and was an average high school girl instead.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Her new dream is to have multiple friends with kids her own age.
- Lonely at the Top: She's accomplished her dream of being a model but everyone around her gives her special treatment and treat her as an untouchable idol without considering her true feelings.
Satsuki Myoudouin
Satsuki Myoudouin
Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno
Itsuki's older brother and the former heir of the Myoudouin Martial Arts school. Despite being crippled because of his sickness, he has a gentle heart and looks out for his little sister. His Heart Flower is Chamomile.
- Big Brother Mentor: Satsuki constantly reminds Itsuki that she doesn't have to worry about him so much and how she should craft her life in a way that makes her happy.
- Delicate and Sickly: His illness makes it hard for him to be physically active or move around on his own.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's a teenage boy who could pass for a girl with his long hair.
- Gender-Blender Name: His name is commonly used for Japanese girls.
- Heir to the Dojo: Was meant to inherit his family's martials arts school given his role as the firstborn. But his sick nature led to him passing the title to his little sister.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: One of his defining features is his long hair which adds to his charm.
Myoudou Academy
Professor Tsurusaki
Professor Tsurusaki
Voiced by: Hiroko Ushida
Tsubomi and Erika's homeroom teacher with a tough but caring personality. Her Heart Flower is rhododendron.
- Cool Teacher: She does a great job teaching and her classmates do enjoy having her as their teacher.
- Never Heard That One Before: Given her years as a teacher, she often overhears her students asking if "what they learn at school will actually be useful when they're adults". And for that, Professor Tsurusaki assures them that it is everytime.
- Stern Teacher: She's quick to reprimand her students if she believes the reason is justifiable and if they're causing disorder.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's terrified of ghosts.
Sayaka Ueshima
Sayaka Ueshima
Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe
A passionate tomboy who loves to play soccer. Her Heart Flower is the red poinsetta.
- Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. She's pretty chill but can be full of spirit when it comes to her favorite game.
- The Leader: The president and founder of the new Girls' Soccer Club.
- Passionate Sports Girl: She enjoys soccer and won't allow her sexist classmates to keep her from playing.
- Start My Own: She comes up with the idea to start her own soccer club where girls are allowed to play. By her second appearance, she's already recruited several members.
Akira Miura
Akira Miura
Voiced by: Reiko Kiuchi
A rising baseball player who has mixed emotions about his father's ramen business. His Heart Flower is a red salvia.
- Ambiguously Brown: He and his family have tan skin colors.
- Lovable Jock: He's a dedicated baseball player and is quite the friendly fellow.
- The Promise: At the end of his debut, he and his dad make a man's promise where they'll both give it their best with their respective careers while supporting one another.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He only wants the love and attention of his father like in the past. But after the opening of his second shop, he feels that he isn't getting the same level of approval.
Kanae Tada
Kanae Tada
Voiced by: Sachiko Kojima
The academy's ambitious photographer who's always on the lookout for hilarious moments to captivate. Her Heart Flower is Blackberry.
- Camera Fiend: Is never seen without her camera.
- Cat Smile: Her default expression which ties to her sly personality.
- Fangirl: She's a huge fan of Mr. Kurumi for being a professional photographer and is ecstatic to meet him in person.
- For Happiness: The reason she takes unflattering photos of her classmates is so she can make the whole school smile. The end of her debut has her deciding to take different photos that can inspire happiness in the people she takes them for.
- Intrepid Reporter: Has some shades of this as she does write juicy stories to go with the photos she takes.
- Nominal Hero: When she's scouted by Potpurri to be an official Precure, Kanae was invested if only so she could get inside information from the other Precure.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She takes embarrassing photos of other kids regardless of their approval so she can bring a smile to her other classmates and create a positive vibe in her school.
Nanami Shiku
Nanami Shiku
Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii
A kind and reliable big sister who looks out for others but has some personal sorrows of her own. She's also a member of the Fashion Club. Her Heart Flower is a carnation.
- Character Catchphrase: "Having a smile is the best!"
- Cool Big Sis: Nanami tries her best to be this for her friends and her own little sister Rumi.
- Do You Want to Haggle?: She's capable of bartering with shop owners to get great deals.
- Emotion Suppression: She's the first Victim of the Week to have caged her own Heart Flower to keep her emotions in check. Though she does get better after being saved by the Precure.
- Friendly Tickle Torture: Her methods to help her friends and sister feel better.
- In-Series Nickname: Known as "Nami-Nami" by Erika.
- Promotion to Parent: She has a loving dad who works to bring food on the table, but Nanami takes it on herself to take care of house chores and watch over her little sis.
- Stepford Smiler: Behind her warm smile lies a sad little girl who still misses her mother and hates how she has to sacrifice so much to support her family.
Azusa Takagishi
Azusa Takagishi
Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa
The Theater Club President known for her proud nature and for having a fashion-themed rivalry with Erika. Her Heart Flower is bougainvillea.
- Benevolent Boss: She turns into this after accepting that she was in the wrong while promising to listen to her club more.
- Foil: To Erika. Both of them are confident, energetic girls who pride themselves in their work and are the acting presidents of their clubs. But while Erika is more considerate of her team and asks for their thoughts on any given project, Azusa is quite harsh in directing her group without taking the feelings of her club members into consideration.
- Large Ham: Given her acting profession, it was a given for her to be this.
- Master Actor: Prides herself in being a professional actor and gives pointers to others on how to improve their acting skills.
- Mean Boss: At her worst, she's super tough and critical towards her actors.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She gets this when she realizes how miserable she made her team with her pushy attitude which led to them quitting.
- The Rival: To Erika in regards to which of their fashion teams is superior.
Kenji Ban
Kenji Ban
Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu
A reclusive boy who's rumored to be a legendary bancho. In truth, he's an insecure mangaka who loves to draw Precure. His Heart Flower is cornus florida.
- Affectionate Nickname: Known as "Ken-chan" by his mother.
- Death Glare: He manages to petrify people by giving them a chilling stare.
- Fanboy: Of the Heartcatch Precure.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Appropriately for a reclusive boy, his shaggy hair often covers his eyes.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Behind his gruff appearance lies a sweet boy who enjoys flowers and drawing manga of cute magical girls. In fact, when Potpourri declares him to be worthy of being the third Precure, he eagerly imagines himself wearing a pretty uniform.
- Mama's Boy: He truly loves his mother and was concerned that she wouldn't approve of his mangaka dream.
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Kenji was only seen as a scary bad boy with a delinquent background thus leaving him completely friendless. In truth, he's a sweet-hearted guy who admires magical girls and has a soft spot for flowers.
- Secretly Wealthy: Implied to be this given how fancy his house is and how his mom looks like a Proper Lady.
- Self-Insert Fic: His first doujinshi comic involve the Precure falling in love with "Ken", a cooler and handsome version of himself. As a refreshing twist, his original ending had the Precure giving up their crush on him, proclaiming that their friendship and duty was more valuable then him.
- Sequential Artist: He dreams of becoming a professional manga artist and has the skills to achieve his dream.
- Shrouded in Myth: Before meeting the girls, he was only recognized as a powerful boss who could take on the scariest of delinquents. He actually finds those rumors to be annoying.
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness: He becomes alot more cheerful and approachable after befriending Tsubomi and Erika.
Aya Mizushima
Aya Mizushima
Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi
A second year who's the president of the Garden Club and is also a clumsy crybaby. Her Heart Flower is sasanqua.
- Caring Gardener: Aya has an appreciation for plantlife and is the leader of a club that specializes in gardening. However, she admits that she sucks at taking care of flowers as they all tend to die by her hand.
- Fangirl: Of Dr. Kaoroku for her research in flower development.
- The Klutz: The poor girl can't walk two inches without having some type of accident.
- Mirror Character: To Tsubomi. She shares her clumsy, insecure nature, her love for flowers, and represents how she would have turned out if she didn't have her canon Character Development.
- Opaque Nerd Glasses: Aya's glasses tend to do this for comical moments.
- Prone to Tears: She cries super easily and her club members encourage her to keep it together.
Desert Apostles
The main antagonists of Heart Catch Pretty Cure. An alien organization who are driven to wilt everyone's Heart Flowers and destroy the Heart Tree which in turn would transform the Earth into a desert wasteland.Leaders
Professor Sabaaku
Professor Sabaaku
Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki
The masked leader of the Desert Apostles' invasion of Earth. He oversees operations from the Desert Palace, using his mastery of technology to create weapons such as Dark Pretty Cure and (later) the Dark Bracelets. He turns out to be Yuri's Disappeared Dad, who was brainwashed by Dune when he received the mask from Baron Salamander in France.
- Bad Boss: Averted. He never scolds or blames the generals for their failures or is angry about them, and instead tries to make the most of their quirks to motivate them. And he really cares for Dark Precure because she's his created daughter.
- Badass Longcoat: He can kick the ass and fight Dune to a standstill temporarily whereas the other Cures lost to him on their first try.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: His dark teal mask he received from Baron Salamander Brainwashed him into Dune's control. Once he jumps into Cure Moonlight's attack trying to save Dark Pretty Cure, the mask breaks, and he returns to being Yuri's father.
- Cool Mask: He was actually controlled by its power.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He is pulverized by Dune.
- Dark Is Evil: He's clad in dark clothes and is a major villain in the show.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dark Pretty Cure is more than just some super-powered, evil creation. He really does care about her. And as revealed in episode 47, he's Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight's father.
- Evil Genius: He's an intelligent master of technology and often uses this to craft new weapons for the villains, such as Dark Pretty Cure and the Dark Braclets the generals later receive.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He's one of the show's villains possessing a deep voice.
- Heel–Face Turn: After he's freed from the mask's power.
- Hero Killer: More like "Mascot Killer". He killed Yuri's fairy, Cologne.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrificed his life to save Yuri and Tsubomi from Dune's energy bomb.
- Lean and Mean: He's a lean man who's leading the Desert Apostles in invading Earth.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He is revealed to be Yuri's Disappeared Dad.
- Malevolent Masked Man: He's usually seen with a dark teal mask and he's a bad guy leading his team against the Pretty Cure. Also, his mask Brainwashed him into villainy.
- No Body Left Behind: He is pulverized by Dune.
- Redemption Equals Death: He gets redeemed after being freed from his brainwashing mask only to die protecting Yuri and Tsubomi from Dune's attack.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The eyes in his mask tend to glow a rather eerie red.
- Spell My Name With An S: Some fansubs had his name spelled as 'Sabark', while others spelled it as 'Sabaaku' or 'Sabaku'.
- The Stoic: He barely shows emotions.
- Taking the Bullet: During the Grand Finale, he takes an attack of Cure Moonlight that was aimed at Dark Precure. The blast destroys his mask, and he turns back to normal.
- White Hair, Black Heart: It is not original hair color. When he became Sabaaku, his hair turned white.
Dark Pretty Cure
Dark Pretty Cure
Voiced by: Minami Takayama
An Evil Knockoff created by Professor Sabaaku specifically to defeat Cure Moonlight. Even after doing so, she remains dangerously obsessed with Yuri Tsukikage. She is a powerful enemy to the Pretty Cure, and slavishly dedicated to Sabaaku.
- Alas, Poor Villain: She dies letting go of her hatred in the arms of her father Sabaku/Professor Tsukikage who lays her to rest after revealing her origins. Even Yuri/Cure Moonlight is shaken by her death.
- Arch-Enemy: To Cure Moonlight and vice-versa.
- Artificial Human: She was made by Sabaku/Professor Tsukikage who made her using a part of Yuri.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Cure Moonlight's Abel, after it's revealed that they share the same father.
- Casting a Shadow
- Dark Action Girl: The most outstanding example in the whole franchise.
- Dark Magical Girl
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Fatally wounded by her final clash with Cure Moonlight, she Disappears into Light in Professor Sabaaku/Tsukikage's arms.
- The Dragon: To Sabaaku.
- Evil Knockoff: She was created specifically to defeat Cure Moonlight.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Her voice sounds deeper than the ladies in the show, especially the Cures.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Mirroring Moonlight's, to boot.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Whenever she unleashes her powers.
- Go Out with a Smile: Seems to let go of her anger and hatred as she dies, tearfully smiling as she fades out in her father's arms.
- Kill and Replace: Her entire motivation for wanting to kill Yuri, so she can fully cement herself as Sabaaku's only daughter. It's telling when she refers to herself as "The only true Cure Moonlight" during her battles with her.
- Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: She was created specifically to defeat Cure Moonlight.
- One-Winged Angel: In the literal sense, she has one huge black wing.
- Replacement Goldfish: Sabaaku unconsciously patterned her off of Yuri/Moonlight, giving her a desire to destroy her counterpart and cement her position as the Professor's real daughter.
- The Stoic: Well...most of the time.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her right eye has a golden color. Since Episode 41, her left eye, too.
- Villainous Breakdown: She does not take the revelation that Sabaaku is really Yuri's father well at all.
Dune
Dune
Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa
Click here to see his older form
The leader of the Desert Apostles. He was defeated and sealed away by Cure Flower decades before, but is slowly reviving himself. No relation to Frank Herbert's science fiction epic.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: His final form.
- Big Bad: He's the true leader of the Desert Apostles who intends to destroy the universe. In terms of size, he's really, really, big, too... being bigger than all the Big Bads before. Only Pierrot (and Black Hole) are bigger than him.
- Cute Is Evil: His first form is one of a little boy. Unfortunately, he's the show's true Big Bad.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: He is not mentioned until the latter half of the series and doesn't even show up properly until the last few episodes. He's basically just there to act as a Final Boss to the heroes, especially since the main antagonists up to that point, Sabaaku and Dark Pretty Cure, are destined for Alas, Poor Villain endings.
- Dissonant Serenity: His default expression.
- Eye Color Change: He has gray eyes in his weakened form, Supernatural Gold Eyes in his regular and giant forms, and Innocent Blue Eyes after being purified.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: His innocent little boy exterior belies his evil destructive mastermind personality, being the Desert Apostles' true leader and the show's Big Bad.
- Faux Affably Evil: Don't let his cheerful smile fool you. He's actually a nefarious Omnicidal Maniac aiming to destroy the universe.
- Freudian Excuse: The Heartcatch novel revealed that his desire to destroy Earth was because his father wanted Earth... and said father was extremely abusive to him.
- High Collar of Doom: His coat is worn with its collar up and he's the show's main villain and leader of the Desert Apostles.
- Humanoid Abomination: He is a being created from the feelings of hatred passed down throughout mankind.
- Leitmotif: And a rather ominous one, at that.
- Knight of Cerebus: Once Dune gets involved, things go From Bad to Worse fast. He's easily one of the most twisted villains in the entire franchise.
- Lean and Mean: He's a lanky guy before going One-Winged Angel and he's the show's Big Bad.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His goal is to destroy the universe.
- One-Winged Angel: His final form is a bigger, hulking brute with longer hair decked out in a ragged white coat with a ragged pink stripe and all four Cures have to access Infinity Silhouette to defeat him for good.
- Monochromatic Eyes: His eyes do not have any pupils in any of his forms, just colours.
- Slasher Smile: There are only a few fleeting glimpses of it, and it's only worn occasionally when he fights, but when he wears it, he wears it well.
- Would Hit a Girl: He never pulls back his punches when taking on the Cures in combat.
The Three Generals
In General
A trio that leads the ground invasion of the Desert Apostles. Their main duty is to wilt the Heart Flowers of humans, which would hasten the death of the Heart Tree. To do this, they can extract wilting Heart Flowers from humans and transform them into berserking monsters known as Desertrians, catalysing the wilting process.
- Breaking Speech: They deliver hurtful speeches to break Heroic Spirit Once per Episode, always countered by the heroines Kirk Summation.
- Cast from Hit Points: The Dark Bracelets actually drain from their energy, but as long as they use one, it's not much of a problem. If a general uses three however…
- Fusion Dance: With the Dark Bracelets, they can fuse with the Monsters of the Week to accelerate the wilting process of the Heart Flowers, making the Desertrians stronger. Episode 44 proves there is no limitation for a Desertrian to fuse with only one general.
- Heel–Face Turn: After being purified, their Heart Flowers return to their original human bodies.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: In episode 31, they receive the Dark Bracelets from Professor Sabaaku, that not only allow them to fuse with the Monsters of the Week, the Dark Bracelets also empowers the generals.
- Obviously Evil: Double subverted; they do not wear dark clothes, but everyone immediately notices that they look suspicious.
- Terrible Trio: They consist of three generals.
- True Companions: They respect each other and they will go out of their way to save each other, unless it's too late.
- Was Once a Man: They are created from three Heart Flowers. The Heartcatch novel revealed that those Heart Flowers were from a man removed from his dojo because of his anger, a fashion designer kicked out of the industry because of his arrogance and a child caretaker who accidentally allowed one of her charges to be injured.
Kumojaki
Kumojaki
Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto
The red General. A boisterous Blood Knight obsessed with achieving martial perfection. Unlike the other two Generals, he regularly fights on the front lines alongside his summoned Desertrians.
- Barbarian Long Hair: His long hair is dishevelled and reaches to his chest level.
- Blood Knight: He likes fighting strong enemies, but that doesn't stop him from fighting fairly and honourably. It gets Deconstructed in episode 46.
- The Brute: He's a strong, muscular guy who often fights the Pretty Cure on the frontlines.
- Calling Your Attacks: He loves making up new techniques for this.
- Cool Sword: The only general to use a sword. In episode 43, he even turns it into a Monster of the Week.
- Curtains Match the Window: Both red.
- Evil Laugh: Breaks into one from time to time.
- Evil Redhead: He has dishevelled long red hair and is one of the Desert Apostles' general fighting the Pretty Cure.
- Fundoshi: Wears one during the Beach Episode. A reeeaaaaaaaally long one.
- Graceful Loser: In episode 46, when he is purified by Cure Marine.
- Hot-Blooded: Utterly boisterous and emotional about everything he does. Fighting the Pretty Cure is one of the things that excite him the most.
- Large Ham: Fitting his boisterous, Hot-Blooded personality, he goes all out big and loud, especially when battling the Cures.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Not as much as Cobraja, but long-haired and pretty, nonetheless.
- Meaningful Name: The 'kumo' in his name means 'spider'.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He constantly sports red eyes and is one of the villains in the show.
- Red Oni: To Cobraja's blue.
- Spell My Name With An S: Sometimes it's spelled 'Kumojakki', other times it's spelled 'Kumojacky'.
- Sword Beam: Can fires sword beams with his sword.
- Verbal Tic: "-jaki." And even "-jaki-jaki" in Erika's impression of him during the puppet show from episode 41. He also has a habit of saying "ze yo" at the end of some of his sentences.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Let's face it: if he was on a Giant Mecha Shōnen series, he'd be the good guy.
Cobraja
Cobraja
Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima
The blue General. A smarmy narcissist infatuated with his own beauty. He despises anything he considers "ugly", including Heart Flowers, which is why he transforms them into Desertrians.
- Agent Peacock: He's a handsome, stylish narcissist who occasionally peppers French into his speech and he constantly butts heads with the Pretty Cure.
- Ambiguously Gay: Mostly noticed in episode 7, where he licks Itsuki's Heart Flower and, after a while, getting notified that Itsuki's actually a girl. His reaction is quite funny, actually◊. However, he does find Itsuki attractive as Cure Sunshine.
- Beware the Silly Ones: His relentless self-obsession and tendency to shirk duties for the sake of his beauty regimen do nothing to stop him from being a dangerous opponent. He's also clever enough to see kids worrying about summer homework in episode 28 as a potential army of Desertrians.
- Blue Oni: To Kumojaki's red.
- Curtains Match the Window: Blue in his hair and eyes.
- Death Dealer: Yes, he uses photographs rather than cards, but still counts.
- The Fashionista: After returning to his normal life, he seems to have taken a job as a tailor.
- The Fighting Narcissist: And how!
- Got the Whole World in My Hand: Does this briefly in episode 28 while he's explaining the Desert Apostles' ultimate goal.
- Graceful Loser: In episode 46, when he is purified by Cure Sunshine.
- Gratuitous French: He occasionally litters French in his speech.
- High Collar of Doom: His shirt dons a high collar worn up and he's a villain in the story.
- Large Ham: He wastes no time in proudly and loudly declaring how amazing he looks, fitting his narcissistic personality.
- Laughably Evil: Along with Sasorina and the Snackeys.
- Lean and Mean: He's a lean man who's a general of the Desert Apostles.
- Licking the Blade: As mentioned above, he does this with Itsuki's.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair grows down to his waist and he's handsome.
- Made of Explodium: His photographs can be used as a projectile or an explosion!
- Meaningful Name: Take a wild guess.
- Nightmare Face: Does this more often than you would expect.
- Slouch of Villainy: Does this from time to time.
- Spell My Name With An S: He writes it as "Kobraj" on the photographs he carries around, but it's spelled as "Cobraja" in most other materials.
- Villainous Breakdown: In episode 46.
Sasorina
Sasorina
Voiced by: Urara Takano
The yellow General. A devious schemer who usually carries an air of smug self-confidence, but can become vicious and petty if provoked.
- A-Cup Angst: In the first episodes, she looks jealous when she meets Tsubomi, who seems to have a ridiculously large bust (actually Chypre and Coffret are hiding under Tsubomi's shirt).
- Ambiguously Brown: She's dark-skinned but also Japanese.
- Animal Motif: Scorpions.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Capable of turning her hair into a stinging scorpion's tail.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: 'Dies' in Kumojacky's arms, after thanking Kumojacky and Cobraja for being there for her
- Evil Redhead: Sasorina's red hair only emphasizes her wicked, evil and deceptive nature. This slowly starts to change, but she still is a General of the Desert Apostles.
- Fiery Redhead: Sasorina is a ginger and she is very quick to act and get angry, especially when Cure Blossom or Cure Sunshine are involved.
- Friend to All Children: Subverted at first as she finds them annoying and is always eager to target them. Played straight in the epilogue where her purified self is working as a preschool teacher and is having a wonderful time with her wards.
- Go Out with a Smile: She is purified with a smile at the end of episode 40, now filled with happiness and is reborn.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She's instantly jealous of Cure Sunshine for trying to outshine her with her cute appearance.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: She seemed to be tilting towards a change of heart after getting hit by Gold Forte Burst. It was promptly reverted after she received her Dark Bracelet. She is fully purified in episode 40 and returns to her human host, functionally completing a Heel–Face Turn.
- Informed Ability: Her scorpion-tail-hair is poisoned, but she never poisons someone.
- Laughably Evil: Her, Cobraja and the Snackeys are basically the comedy relief of the villain's side.
- Letting Her Hair Down: In episode 27, 40 and afterward.
- Magic Skirt: It doesn't help her combat wise though.
- Meaningful Name: 'Sasori' means 'scorpion'.
- Phrase Catcher: "Ah! A weird person!" from her victims.
- Poisonous Person: Her scorpion-tail-hair.
- Prehensile Hair: She uses her hair as her main weapon. Cutting her hair does not ruin her hairstyle, though.
- Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: The skimpy to the Precure's sensibility.
- The Smurfette Principle: Sasorina is the only woman within the Apostles if you don't count Dark Precure.
- Stripperific: Her outfit is very revealing and she invokes this a lot. Hence why she gets jealous when someone becomes more attractive than her.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her eyes are colored gold, but her actions do not represent her eyes. Initially.
- Villainous Widow's Peak: A rare female example.
Other
Snackeys
Snackeys
Voiced by: Ryo Iwasaki and Chado Hori
The footsoldiers serving the Desert Apostles.
- Adorable Evil Minions: The Snackeys act way more precocious than evil.
- Alien Blood: They leak sand when injured. They're probably made of it.
- Ambiguous Gender: It's quite possible they're genderless, judging from the fact that they're basically sentient sandbags.
- Cute Is Evil: The Snackeys are very cute, their antics and villainy are more hilarious than violent or effective, and they are mostly harmless. Their downfall was working for Dune.
- Dark Is Evil: Played straight, a purified Snackey is white.
- Henchmen Race: Arguably. It's never stated where they came from, or how they were created.
- King Mook: Super Snackeys.
- Laughably Evil: Most of the time they're very harmless and on both sides, they're seen as a joke or good for laughs.
- Meaningful Name: "Suna" means "sand", which they seem to be filled with (in addition to serving a desert-themed evil organization). The "cky" part of "Sunacky" could come from "lackey(s)", and it could also reference how "ki" is the only sound they can make.
- Mooks: The foot solider for this season, each coming in different forms and sizes.
- Mook Medic: A non-gaming example. They patch up other Snackeys (with tape) whenever they're leaking sand.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Living ninja-looking sandbags that also kinda look and act like monkeys.
- Sky Surfing: Their lack of mass helps them float and maneuver better in the air.
- The Unintelligible: Communicate entirely in monkey-like squeaking noises. The Apostles can understand them, though.
Desert Devils
Desert Devils
Voiced by: Takanori Hoshino
Extremely powerful and giant monsters sent by Dune which turn the planet into deserts.
- Attack Of The 50 Foot What Ever: They are gigantic and one most largest named Pretty Cure monsters who have ever appeared (not counting the Big Bads).
- Dark Is Evil: They are completely black.
- The Dreaded: The Mass "Oh, Crap!" the Precure have in response to seeing one is very much justified given their nature.
- Eldritch Abomination: Nasty, demonic EliteMooks with the power to kill an entire planet.
- Elite Mook: They're a much higher threat than the bog standard Desertian. It takes all four of the Precure with mantles to even take one down.
- Enemy to All Living Things: They turn planets into desert whenever they arrive there.
- Evil Sounds Deep: They're Dune's Elite Mooks and they sound deep thanks to Takanori Hoshino's voice.
- Giant Mook: Not that the Pretty Cures can't defeat them.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Their appearance has their eyes glowing red.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: They are shown in the first two versions of the opening despite the Desert Devil appearing in Episode 37.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Does "devil" sound like a good name to anyone?
- Obviously Evil: They're huge and menacing in appearances and are working for Dune.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Their eyes are devilish red and are more dangerous than the Monster of the Week.
- Sinister Silhouettes: Subverted. They really look like that.
- The Voiceless: They grunt, but they never speak. It's doubtful whether they could.
- Walking Wasteland: What they cause. Their debut episode shows Dune casually dropping one onto a planet and it gets terraformed into a desert almost instantly.
Movie-Exclusive
Olivier
Olivier
Voiced by: Ikue Otani
A mysterious boy who can turn into a werewolf and the foster son of Baron Salamander. He first meets Tsubomi when she is lost in Paris, and the two end up outrunning Snackeys (that are really after him).
- The Cameo: Appears in Sabaaku's flashback, along with Baron Salamander.
- Canon Immigrant: Along with Baron Salamander, he's the only movie-exclusive character that's counted as part of the main series' canon.
- Facial Markings: Red ones as a werewolf.
- Implied Love Interest: For Tsubomi.
- Mystical White Hair: Which turns blue when he's a werewolf.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He was called Loup-Garou (means "werewolf" in French) by Salamander, but Tsubomi decides to call him Olivier, the same name as the flower in his heart.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Thanks to the Baron's crystal, he has the ability to turn into a werewolf whenever the full moon's out. It looks very different from a traditional werewolf, having glowing blue hair, red Facial Markings, and more closely resembling a feral humanoid than a wolf.
- Perpetual Frowner: He has a hard time smiling.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Wears a white scarf.
Baron Salamander
Baron Salamander
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
A servant of Dune who was deployed to France to terrorise the country until Cure Ange defeated him and sealed him inside Mont Saint-Michel's abbey. In the present, he returns assisted by Olivier to resume his rampage.
- Big Bad: Of the movie.
- Breath Weapon: In his dragon form, he breaths fire.
- The Cameo: Appears in Sabaaku's flashback in episode 48, along with Olivier.
- Canon Immigrant: He is actually a canon character, and hands Professor Tsukikage the mask that turns him into Sabaaku.
- Cool Mask: Wears a half mask.
- The Dragon: To Dune. Even Literally.
- Evil Redhead: He's evil and has dark red hair. What more?
- Faux Affably Evil: He looks like a gentleman, but he's evil.
- French Jerk: Lives at least in Paris, apparently.
- Meaningful Name: Salamander is the name of a mythological dragon. Guess in what creature he can transform.
- One-Winged Angel: Eventually transforms into a dragon.
- Our Dragons Are Different: He can transform into a two-legged dragon.
- Playing with Fire: His Breath Weapon.
- Weredragon: Becomes much more powerful when he turns into a dragon.
