Lord Dominator

Lord Dominator is the main antagonist of the Disney Channel/Disney XD animated TV series Wander Over Yonder. She is the former lead in the Galactic Villain Leaderboard who takes pride in her mayhem the same way a bully enjoys messing with nerdy kids - and according to herself, the whole galaxy is full of "nerdy kids".
==Background==
===Personality===
While in her masculine armor, Dominator is a silent, intimidating figure that is dreaded in the galaxy not only for her army and strength, but because she managed to become the greatest villain in the galaxy in record time. In the rare times, she speaks while wearing the armor, her voice is deep and coarse.
When not in her armor, however, Dominator seems to be a highly upbeat and energetic woman, getting overexcited about doing evil things and which destructive weapons to use. However, this should never be mistaken for anything less than evil and cruel. She is also manipulative, and will sometimes pretend to be interested in Lord Hater to trick him; however, she has no real interest in him and finds him highly obnoxious and weak in comparison to her.
In My Fair Hatey, it is revealed she does not want to take over the galaxy, but rather destroy it. She herself states her motives as being because she finds it thrilling to destroy planets and watch people suffer as she crushes their hopes and dreams. She also states she's "always had a weakness for barrenness and bleakness." In the same episode, she manages to force all of the villains except Hater to surrender to her, and then she takes them prisoner.
In The Night Out, it turns out that her understanding on friendship is actually a foreign concept to her, believing it to be another word for subservience, and that her own social skills are poorly developed. This carries to the extent that the closest beings she considers to be friends are her own robots, who are evidently not exciting company. This was also carried through the series finale "The End of the Galaxy" when Dominator successfully destroyed nearly all the planets in the galaxy only to fall into depression when there was nothing left to destroy. When Lord Hater manages to wound her, Wander is able to see that she is really lonely and lacks companionship because of her environment, thus making her cruel because destruction is the only thing that gives her thrill. Despite this insight, Dominator still denies friendship and goodness due to her views of it as weakness.
===Physical Appearance===
Lord Dominator's appearance is that of a tall, slender, humanoid and pale green-skinned alien with pointy ears and moderate-tangelo freckles/spots. Her white shoulder-length hair is kept freely and has been shaved into a mohawk, and her eyes are oval-shaped with sclera that is colored in a light, brilliant-crimson.
Her makeup is both simple-yet-meaningful to her appearance and status as a true villain, which consists of black mascara, black lipstick, and very distinctive black eyeliner which had been drawn to resemble running teardrops, as a nod to her bragging about how much misery she cause in the galaxy. 
===Into Battle===
In her full armor, Dominator sports a black power suit that takes the appearance of a giant, brawny suit of mech armor that covers her from head-to-toe similar to that of a cloak.
Her helmet has a very "menacing" view - having a small spike at the top, a pair of giant, spiked serrated-horns which looked like it was made out of molten lava, and a retractable skull-like mask with a green visor that covers the entirety of her face. Parts of her arms looked like they are own to that of muscular skeleton (similar to Lord Hater), while the entirety of her hands are large with sharp claw-like fingers - having a similar appearance to the horns on her helmet.
Her suit also includes a spinal cord design runs up the back of her suit, large spiked shoulder-pads and on the front, there is a dark red graphic which resembles a poorly-designed heart - to the point of looking like it was painted in blood.
Her voice becomes deep and masculine when wearing the mask over her face and she appears taller than Lord Hater. However, while wearing her power suit, there were times where she doesn't wear her mask in a few episodes, such as "The Battle Royale", "My Fair Hatey", and "The End of the Galaxy".
===Out Of Battle===
When out of battle, Dominator's power suit shrinks down to reveal her true appearance. Her helmet, while being average-sized, is almost exactly the same as its true form, only the horns are now a bright yellow.
Her suit/cloak takes the form of a two-piece black, floor-length dress - her crop-top sporting a high-collar which grips her neck, and the same spiked shoulder-pads and heart graphic, only now its appearance is more neatly-painted and it's colored in a shade of scarlet. Meanwhile, her floor-length skirt frames her fairly wide hips, and it also features a thigh-high slit on each side, revealing her legs. 
Dominator also wore gloves and shoes similar to the ones Lord Hater wears, and calf-high socks which bears a similar appearance to the ones Wander wears.
==Other appearances==
She made a cameo appearance in the "Broken Karaoke" short "Evil as Can Be". In the short, she in seen sitting on a beach chair and toasting a drink with Toffee.
==Relationships==
===Lord Hater===
Lord Hater became jealous over Lord Dominator's ship and all of her weapons, powers, and minions, and tried to defeat her, but was forced to escape with Wander, Sylvia and Peepers. He hoped to defeat her and reclaim the title of "Greatest in the Galaxy".
During an all-out battle royale of villains for a powerful "Ring of Invincibility", Hater faced Dominator again, not knowing that not only was the ring made of candy, but it was meant to be a plan to hook both villains up by Wander who discovers that the latter is a girl. Hater did not know of Dominator's true identity until he successfully knocked off her helmet. Despite being defeated a second time, he has been madly in love with her ever since. Unfortunately for Hater, this love is unrequited, as Dominator has absolutely no interest in him. Although Dominator lacks interest in Hater, she enjoys messing with him, using his crush on her to blindly manipulate him.
After the events of My Fair Hatey, he has a grudge against her for breaking his heart.
===Wander===
Wander tries to make friends with Lord Dominator in the episode, "The Greater Hater." However, he was constantly ignored or tossed aside while she continued her attack on a planet Lord Hater was planning to conquer. Wander was deeply upset by this and ended up telling her off for being rude and inconsiderate. He even went so far as to say that he doesn't think she deserves a fruit basket, and doesn't think that he wants to be her friend.
After Wander learned that Dominator is a woman, he made it his goal to matchmake Hater and Dominator, assuming that they had a lot in common and would like each other. He hoped that if they fell in love, their love would "cancel out all their evil," because Wander knows villains to be evil due to having hatred in their hearts. Pursuing this plan finally came to a head in My Fair Hatey, in which Dominator calls Wander and Hater idiots for thinking that she would ever be interested in dating Hater or that offers of love and friendship would even mean anything to her (because unlike other villains, she is evil out of a genuine love for evildoing). Through her villain song, Dominator makes Wander realize how cold and heartless she is, and that it's a terrible idea for anyone to want to romance her, but the song fails to convince him that she cannot change for the better.
===Emperor Awesome===
In "The Rival", Lord Dominator invited Awesome onto her ship so he could show her a secret weapon, without realizing Emperor Awesome's ulterior motive of trying to woo her. The secret weapon was really just Awesome's muscular body, of which he hoped would woo her. Unfortunately for Awesome, Dominator has no interest in him or any other guy. She only pretended to be interested, grabbing his leg and encasing him in lava while stating that he was pathetic, then trapped him in rock before kicking him away from her and blasting him. Initially, it was speculated as to whether or not Dominator killed him; however, as it turned out, she was holding Emperor Awesome prisoner along with all the other villains she defeated. In "The Bad Neighbors", it was proven that he had escaped her ship, but now shows signs of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) as he can't even say her name without getting freaked out.
===Sylvia===
Sylvia is an enemy of Dominator and usually has no qualms about fighting against her, perfectly willing to end her reign of terror in "My Fair Hatey". In "The Night Out", however, Dominator encountered Sylvia while visiting a karaoke bar in disguise and struck up a friendship with the Zbornak, starting a bar fight in the process. After a fun-filled chase throughout the city, however, their friendship ended when Dominator refused to apologize to the bar's owner, threw him into his own monster pit to be eaten, and attempted to seize control of his criminal empire. When Sylvia refused to join her and instead leapt in to save the bar owner, Dominator left Sylvia to fight it off herself as punishment for insubordination (believing friendship to be another word for obedience), reverting them back to being enemies once more. In "The Flower", despite all their history, Dominator was curiously unable to remember Sylvia's name before attempting to destroy her. In "The End of the Galaxy," Dominator destroyed an ice sculpture of Sylvia to lure Wander out of hiding, and then proceeded to mock him for it. Though she had established a bond with Sylvia during "The Night Out," this does not stop her from trying to kill her with her ship's drill in "The End of the Galaxy", had it not been for Hater's intervention.
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*She has been called "A better Hater than Hater", by series creator Craig McCracken.
*Her goal is to destroy all planets in the galaxy instead of ruling them.
*In "The Flower", she is revealed to have hay fever.
*During a charity livestream, writer Nate Stevenson stated that he coined the ship name between Lord Dominator and Sylvia, calling it "Sylava" because of Dominator's ties to lava. (For context, the Wander Over Yonder crew had taken it upon themselves to drunkenly brainstorm ship names for the show's second season.https://suspendersofdisbelief.tumblr.com/post/142666593431/how-did-the-crew-come-up-with-ship-names-for-the) While making it clear that he is not the "total authority" on the characters, he also shared that he considered both women to be lesbians.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOFJHXBGDoc&t=13415s
*Frank Angones, story editor on both Wander Over Yonder and the DuckTales reboot, has stated that had the producers allowed it, he would have been glad to feature Dominator in DuckTales.
**Interestingly, Noël Wells, who voices the unmasked Dominator, would later voice June in the DuckTales reboot's final episode "The Last Adventure!".
==References==
pt-br:Lorde Dominador
ru:Лорд Доминатор
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