Queen Nehellenia

Character Information

Name:	Queen Nehellenia
Name (kanji/kana):	女王ネヘレニア
Alignment:	Dead Moon
Species:	Humanoid; aspect of Chaos (manga)
Gender:	Female
Lives:	In a mirror
Occupation:	Queen of the Dead Moon
Family:	Unknown
Associates:	Her subjects and underlings in the Dead Moon Circus
Aliases:
First Anime Appearance:	Shadows of Great Evil! The Trio is Cornered
First Manga Appearance:
First PGSM Appearance:	N/A
English Name:	Queen Nehelenia (anime), Queen Nephrenia (manga)
Actors:	Yoshiko Sakakibara (adult), Wakana Yamazaki (child)

Queen Nehellenia

Queen Nehellenia was one of the principal villains of Sailor Moon, appearing in Sailor Moon SuperS and the Dream arc of the manga. She also appeared in the opening arc of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars.

Anime

Queen Nehellenia in the anime

In the anime, Queen Nehellenia was the Queen of an ancient kingdom on an asteroid. She believed her beauty was eternal, but her mirror showed her the form of her future self as an ugly old woman. Shocked and horrified by this, Nehellenia consumed the dreams of her servants and subjects to keep herself young. She watched with envy the prosperity of the Silver Millennium and Queen Serenity, and wanted to make the kingdom her own. As time passed, she learned about the power of the mysterious Golden Crystal, and with it she thought she could replace the queen of the Moon and possibly control the entire universe.

Nehellenia went to Elysion to get the Golden Crystal, but found that she also wanted to have the boy who guarded it, Helios. She tried to convince him to use the Golden Crystal with her to rule together, but Helios told her the crystal chose its own bearer, and only those with a beautiful dream could use it. When Nehellenia tried to get the crystal, it was protected by golden flames. Then Queen Serenity sealed her away into the darkness of the new moon.

From this dark place, Nehellenia commanded Zirconia and the rest of the Dead Moon Circus from behind her mirror. They captured Helios, but his true spirit took refuge in Chibiusa's beautiful dream, leaving the Dead Moon Circus searching for the owner of the dream in which he was hiding. Eventually, Nehellenia captured Sailor Chibi Moon and forced Helios to return to his body, then took the crystal by force and with its power freed herself from her seal. After a fight with the Sailor Senshi, her true form as an ugly old woman was revealed, and she was drawn back into her seal in the new moon.

Nehellenia was reawakened by Sailor Galaxia in Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, and was eventually healed by Sailor Moon.

Manga

In the manga, she is the dark mirror image of Queen Serenity; the self-styled Queen of the dark center of the moon who first made herself known during the Silver Millennium. Queen Nehellenia arrived at the celebration of Princess Serenity's birth. Swirling with dark energy, she confronted the Queen, who used her wand, the Moon Stick, to seal Nehellenia inside a dark mirror world forever. As retaliation, Nehellenia cast a curse that the Moon Kingdom would fall and the princess would never inherit her throne. Her dark magic ultimately brought about the end of the Silver Millennium, but she lived on.

However, over one thousand years later, a solar eclipse allowed her to spread her curse to the earth by way of infectious nightmares aided by her minions, the Dead Moon Circus. Nehellenia still believed that she was the rightful owner and heir of the illusory Golden Crystal; and set out to steal it. After capturing Helios, her mirror was shattered and she fled to Elysion. There she confronted the Sailor Soldiers one last time, but the combination of the Golden Crystal of the Earth together with the Mystical Silver Crystal, bound by the love of Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask for one another, was too strong. Nehellenia shrivelled into a wizened old woman, and, after being sealed inside her mirror once more, vanished completely. In the manga it is revealed that she is an incarnation of the final arch-villain, Chaos.

Mythology

It has been theorized that Queen Nehellenia is named after a Frisian-Roman goddess, more commonly called Nehalennia, who is affiliated with ships and seafaring and has been linked to the "Nether Moon."

Trivia

• In the anime, Queen Nehellenia was the only main villain whose story began in one season and concluded in the next.

References

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