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QUEEN BERYL: 1000 years ago, Beryl invaded a kingdom known as the Moon Kingdom. At that time, it was ruled by Queen Serenity and Princess Serena. She invaded because she wanted something that Queen Serenity had: the Imperium Silver Crystal. In a mad rage, Beryl sent her Shadow Warriors and Generals to fight the forces of the Moon Kingdom. She crashed, destroyed, and totalled everything on the Moon Kingdom! But Queen Serenity wasn't through yet! She then used what little power she had left within her body and the Imperium Silver Crystal and sealed away Queen Beryl and her evil accomplaces. She also secured the future of her daughter, Princess Serena, and her court (the Sailor Senshi, along with Prince Darien).
1000 years later (in present times), Queen Beryl returns to Earth, this time, making sure that she kills off Princess Serena, the Sailor Senshi, and steals the Imperium Silver Crystal from Serena! Beryl is cool, calm, and collective when she wants to be. Her powers are mighty. She is definetly a force to be wreckoned with! (*NOTE: Beryl ends up leading the Sailor Senshi to her base on Earth towards the end of this part of the series. She sends the Doom and Gloom girls to kill of the Senshi, leaving Sailor Moon to be dealt with by Beryl herself. One by one, the Senshi fall to Queen Beryl's deadly tactics. All except Sailor Moon. Once realizing that Sailor Moon is all by herself, Beryl teleports Sailor Moon to her Dark Palace. She then has Prince Darien try to kill her and take the Silver Crystal. But, by using her more developed powers, Sailor Moon is able to give back Darien's real memories, thus wearing off the brainwashing he received from Beryl earier. Queen Beryl then gets very angry and hurls a gigantic crystal at Darien and Sailor Moon. By using his rose powers, Darien sends a rose straight for Beryl, striking her in the heart and breaking the crystal into little pieces. Beryl then sinks through the floor, realizing that she needs help from her superior, Queen Metallia. Queen Metallia then possesses the body of Queen Beryl, making it possible for her to get rid of Princess Serena and take the Imperium Silver Crystal!).
Dark Crystal Factoid(s):
*In the manga, Beryl's true past is revealed (unlike the anime). Beryl was a jealous woman of Earth with some kind of "special" powers. She fell in love with Prince Darien (Endymion) of Earth, but turned bitter and evil when she found out that Princess Serena of the Moon Kingdom had the key to the Prince's heart. While wandering around Earth's northern hemisphere, Beryl stumbled upon the resting place of Queen Metallia, TRUE leader of the NegaVerse (Dark Kingdom). Under an agreement made between the 2 of them, Metallia agreed to give Berly the power to have revenge on Princess Serena and the Moon Kingdom in exchange for Beryl bringing Queen Metallia into her ultimate form (to be able to take over Earth with the powers of the Silver Crystal).
Jadeite(Jedite): Jadeite was Queen Beryl's 1st General to go to Earth to steal energy for the NegaVerse. He did so by taking energy from big masses, all at once. He was very successful in collecting energy, but not in defeating the Sailor Senshi. It was while he was in charge of stealing energy that Sailors Mars and Mercury were revitalized. Jadeite was later defeated at an airport (jets were coming at him from all sides). He had only enough strength to return to Beryl with very important info: THE IDENTITIES OF THE SAILOR SCOUTS! But, since Queen Beryl was angered by Jadeite's latest defeat, she incased him in crystal, never to live again. Of all of Beryl's Generals, he has to be the most experienced.
Dark Crystal Factoid(s):
*In the manga, Jadeite's past-self is revealed; he was a former general for Earth's forces and Prince Darien.
*Jadeite (along with his 3 other co-generals), in the manga, watch over Darien (in sprirt) with little or no recognition.
Nephlyte(Nephrite): Nephlyte was Queen Beryl's 2nd General. His mission was the same as Jadeite's, but he went about it in a different way. By calculating the movements of the stars and constellations, he pinpointed the location of a single person that could give him more energy than a whole crowd! This sounds easy, but Nephlyte had a few foes to worry about. Of course, there were the Sailor Scouts (Moon, Mercury, Mars), but there was also another foe for him to worry about. It was Queen Beryl's 3rd General, Zoisite. Zoisite wanted to kill off Nephlyte so she could get all of the glory and honor from Queen Beyl on a job well done (she was JEALOUS, in other words). Lucky for Nephlyte, Serena's friend, Molly, falls in love with him. In the end, Zoisite uses Molly as bait to get Nephlyte to surrender to her and hand the mision over to her. He refuses, and puts his own life in danger to save Molly's. Nephlyte ends up getting killed by Zoisite's henchmen (actcually, henchwomen). In the episode where Nephlyte dies, Molly is seen holding the dying body of Nephlyte, crying, pleaing with him not to leave her.
Dark Crystal Factoid(s):
*Nephlyte's name (along with the 3 other generals) in Japanese derives from the name of a rock, mineral, or alloy (in this case, his name comes from the mineral "nephrite").
Zoisite(Zoicyte): Zoisite was Queen Beryl's 3rd General. Her mission was different from the Generals before her. Her assignment was to collect items known as Rainbow Crystals. there were 7 of them. Once these 7 Rainbow Crystals were combined, the Imperium Silver Crystal would be formed, giving the NegaVerse enough power to not only destroy Earth, but conquer the Universe! Unfortunately for her, the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask were on the look-out for them, also. Using her cunning ability to escape out of the most difficult of situatons, along with her own powers, she was able to get 4 of the 7 Rainbow Crystals. The Sailor Scouts (at this time, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus) had 1. Tuxedo Mask had 2. Zoisite ends up sneaking a Rainbow Crystal from the Sailor Scouts adn is then determined to get the ones Tuxedo Mask has. In order for her to do this, she lures Tuxedo Mask into the Star Tower for a showdown--whoever wins gets all of the Crystals. Serena finds her way into Darien's (Tuxedo Mask) business and is in the middle of the showdown between Tuxedo Mask and Zoisite. Zoisite attempts to kill Sailor Moon (who had changed from Serena) with a piece of crystal, but Tuxedo Mask saves her, using his own life. Anyway, Sailor Moon ends up being the one to unite the Rianbow Crystals to form the Imperium Silver Crystal while Zoisite gets killed by Queen Beryl for not following orders the way she wanted them to be followed.
Dark Crystal Factoid(s):
*Zoisite was a MAN in the original manga series!! DiC was opposed to the idea of having Zoisite as a male in love with Malachite (a gay couple), so DiC changed the gender of Zoisite to a male.
Malachite(Kunzite): Malachite was Queen Beryl's 4th and final General. He was also Zoisite's lover (before she died). His mission was to find out the identities of the Sailor Scouts (Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus), while Prince Darien attempted to take the Imperium Silver Crystal from Sailor Moon. Why would Prince Darien be helping the NegaVerse? He was brainwashed into doing so after his battle with Zoisite, which made him very weak and vulnerable to NegaVerse manipulation. Anyway, back to Malachite. Malachite basically ordered Prince Darien around and told him what to do. When Prince Darien got too willful and decidied to not listen to Malachite, Malachite made himself not associated with prince Darien anymore. When the Sailor Scouts near the NegaVerse base on Earth, Malachite is there to greet them. He then tells the Sailors the story of how the NegaVerse destroyed the Moon Kingdom 1000 years ago and how the NegaVerse was going to rule once again. He then hurles his power blade-boomerang at Sailor Moon, to kill her. Sailor Moon then reflects the weapon back at Malachite, who is then killed by his own device. His last words are, "Zoisite! I'm coming to meet you!"
Dark Crystal Factoid(s):
*In the manga, Malachite is witness to the "resurrection" of all his co-generals, sealed in mysterious coffins (after they were killed off). He was retracing all of his thoughts on how he got to where he was (by submitting to the Dark Power).
Queen Metallia(The NegaForce) Queen Metallia was Queen Beryl's superior. She told Beryl everything that she should do. In the dub, she is simply referred to as the NegaForce. Anyhow, Queen Metallia makes her true presence known when she possesses Queen Beyl's body and takes on Princess Serena (formerly Sailor Moon) and the Silver Imperium Crystal. Metallia seems to have the upper hand most of the time, when out of nowhere, the spirits of the Sailor Scouts (they were killed off before they reached Beryl) appear at the Princess's side! Together, they combine their powers into the Silver Imperium Crystal and defeat Queen Metalia once and for all.
Dark Crystal Factoid(s):
*In the manga, Queen Metallia is the TRUE leader of the NegaVerse. She controls queen Beryls every move.
*Queen metallia's equivalent to the anime's NegaForce.
*In the manga, Metallia DOES gain the powers of the Silver Crystal and wreaks havoc on the citizens of Tokyo (unlike the NegaForce possessing Beryl's body in the anime). (I won't spoil the end for some of you out there ^_^). |