Claudia (The Dragon Prince)

Claudia is the secondary antagonist in the Netflix TV Show, The Dragon Prince. She is the younger daughter of Lord Viren and the sister of Soren, who is a dark magic user who does her father's bidding so her family can stay together.
She is voiced by Racquel Belmonte.
== His Greatness and Evil Rankings ==
=== What Makes Her Great? ===
* She is a dark magic user, which drains the lives of creatures to do spells. Claudia sometimes does them for simple tasks, such as making pancakes.
* She convinces Soren not to kill Runaan to interrogate him in her father's dungeon.
* She put Rayla asleep and then tried to convince Soren to kill her. Even Soren was not bad enough at that point to try to kill Rayla in her sleep.
* She initially tried to manipulate Callum and Ezran into joining her and Soren to Katolis. She even tries to seduce the former by going on a date with him solely to convince him to go back to Katolis, although she does stop herself from kissing him because she felt she needed to tell him about Callum's father's death. After failing to convince Callum and Ezran to go with them, Claudia and Soren decide to kidnap them, although they failed thanks to the help of Rayla and Lujanne.
* She used a dark magic spell to stop Team Zym from escaping from her and Soren.
* She is very tragic, her mother left her at a young age and was forced to make a decision to stay with her mother or her father, the pet of Barius, Biscuts, who she was deeply attached to, died, and she was ignored by her brother for reviving it. She also suffered from gaslighting from her father, who, despite caring for her, served as a very negative influence and caused her to turn into full villainy. In the end, Claudia is portrayed as less of an evil person, but as someone who desires to keep her family together, no matter what. She is also incredibly insecure, and these insecurities is what lead her to be manipulated into villainy by her father. In Puzzle House, she questioned if she was a good person since she caused trouble doing dark magic and people were often mad with her because of it.
* She cares for all the members of her family:
** She loves her father greatly and is loyal to him, protects him on multiple occasions, obeys him at almost every single one of his orders, and spent two years trying to revive him.
** She cares for her brother deeply, as they had a great bond with each other, killed a dear and lost part of her sanity to bring him back to normal, was very saddened when she left him, and even at her worst, Claudia still showed moments of genuine care for him.
** She also loves her mother, as her leaving Claudia still deeply affects her in the present, and it's mentioned that when she left, Claudia cried for days in her room.
* She is extremely comedic, with the show playing her as an almost comic relief during the first three seasons, and even as she becomes more villainous in season 4, she still mantains several of her comedic traits.
* She loves Terry, who, despite being an elf, she is regularly kind towards and even comforts him after Terry was forced to kill Ibis to save her.
* She greatly respects Aaravos, thinking highly of him when talking to Soren about him.
* She shows multiple moments of genuine kindness:
** In Puzzle House, she freed a giant named Kruha from his chains. It's also shown that Claudia was a genuinely good person in the past, which made her capable of seeing the map Kruha was guarding, while Viren and Kpp'Ar were unable to do so.
** She ultimately refused to kiss Callum when trying to manipulate him about going back to Katolis, and told him about what had happened to his father.
** She helped in saving a village from being destroyed by Pyrrha.
** She told Ezran to go back to his brother when she was about to kill a dear for a dark magic spell, not wanting him to see it.
* She is shown to have some moral standards, as she was horrified when Viren turned Kasef and his army into sunfire monsters.
* She is very affable towards anyone who isn't against her or is her enemy, although this began to fade after the timeskip.
* She is shown to have honor on multiple occasions, such as when she woke up Rayla after Soren told Claudia that he couldn't kill someone in their sleep, and gave Rayla the coins of her loved ones after she was criticized by Terry for tricking her.
* She is capable of regret, as she felt guilty when she had to betray Callum and Ezran, apologized to the latter when she scared him, and is so tormented by the acts she was forced to commit to revive her father that she started crying when remembering them.
* In the past, she apologized to her father for causing trouble when trying to use magic, to the point she started crying and thought she was not a good person for it.
* She is played for sympathy at multiple points in the story, such as when she told Callum the truth about his father's death, her and Callum's relationship getting broken when she tried to kidnap them, her telling Ezran her past with her mother, Claudia and Soren parting ways, her telling her father what she had to do to revive him, and her losing a leg while fighting Callum, Ezran, and Rayla.
* During the battle of the Storm Spire, Claudia used a spell to blow up the defenses of the sunfire elves protecting the spire, leading to dozens of deaths.
* She made an illusion of Viren to distract Soren and Ezran while Viren went to capture Azymondias, which resulted in Soren thinking he had killed his father and caused him to suffer from PTSD from that event.
* She revived her father by committing atrocities that she deemed so terrible that she started crying when telling Viren about them.
* She put Team Zym and Rex Igenous asleep so she could steal a map of Aaravos' prison from the latter.
* She tricked Rayla into giving her Terry back by making her believe that she threw the cursed coins of her loved ones into lava, only to reveal that she never threw them and that she still had them.
* She tried to kill a dragon out of self-defence as said dragon attacked her, and took joy at taunting it while she was preparing to do so. She would later release the dragon as she wanted to prove her superiority over it since it was scared of her.
=== What Makes Her Heinous? ===
* At some point, she managed to capture a unicorn. She maimed and presumably killed the creature and brought its horn to Viren, who used it in a spell that transformed Sarai's spear into a weapon that Harrow would use to petrify and kill Avizandum, which in turn allowed Viren to steal the dragon kings egg. Claudia would then help hide the egg in her father's secret chamber to be used for dark magic.
* She tried to stop Rayla and later Callum and Ezran from getting the egg back to Xadia, despite knowing that doing it could stop a war between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms.
* She made smoke wolves with dark magic to attack Callum, Ezran and Rayla to stop them from escaping with the egg.
* She uses a dark magic spell to burn King Harrow's body even when Opeli ordered Viren not to and it was against the orders of how a king/queen should be mourned for seven days by their people before their bodies are burned.
* She was aware that Viren had Gren held in his dungeon and did nothing about it, causing Gren to stay trapped in the dungeon for weeks until Viren was temporarily arrested and Opeli found him while searching Viren's dungeon.
* She and Soren captured Corvus and tried to have him arrested for treason, even though all Corvus did was follow Amaya's orders to protect the princes.
* After finding an unconscious dragon named Pyrrha, Claudia tried to mutilate her by cutting her body in pieces so she could use Pyrrha's body parts for dark magic.
* She tried to kidnap Azymondias when she found him and Ezran, and only didn't because she decided to go help Soren after he broke his spine fighting Pyrrha.
* Being unable to accept that Soren would never be able to walk again, Claudia searched the room Soren was being taken care in and broke several items and threw a cabinet while searching for something to help Soren get better.
* She killed a dear to use it for a magic spell to take care of Soren's broken spine.
* She took joy at Viren humiliating the soldiers who refused to join his plan to wage war on Xadia.
* She gave Viren Pyrrha's horn, which allowed Viren to cross into Xadia with his army. Because of this, she is responsible for many of the actions both Viren and Aaravos did while in Xadia, such as the corruption of the Sunforge and the Battle of the Storm Spire, both of which caused hundreds of deaths.
* While in Xadia, Claudia captured an adoraburrs, which she likely killed for a magic spell.
* Even when given the chance to leave Viren and go with Soren, Claudia still stayed with her father despite having realized how bad she was becoming.
* Despite knowing how dangerous Aaravos was, Claudia still tried to free him in order for Aaravos to save her father's life.
* Even when her father tried to convince her to stop her plan to free Aaravos and instead enjoy his last days alive with him, Claudia refused and slapped him in the face, saying that she is not going to give up on him after all she did to bring him back.
* When Ibis tried to stop her from getting the staff of Ziard, Claudia tried to kill him.
* Even when Soren tried to convince her to change, Claudia refused and started to talk about how Soren was being manipulated by the elves and dragons in an attempt to convince Soren to turn on them.
* She threatened Ezran to force him to tell her where Aaravos' prison was.
* During her breakdown after Ezran had fish attack her, she yells that she would kill Callum, Ezran, and Rayla if she has to.
== Trivia ==
* She is currently the only villain from The Dragon Prince to be a Great Baddie.
* She is the first ever female Great Baddie to be proposed on this Wiki.
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