Dark Queen

“	Still fancy your chances? Come to me now, if you dare! Ha ha ha ha!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	I'll soon rule your precious Earth, Battle-Jerks! Ha ha ha ha!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
The Dark Queen also known by her real name Evelyn Volkmire, is a power-hungry space fearing sorceress and the main antagonist in the Battletoads beat 'em up videogame series.
She is the leader of the Mutant Ratpack and the Psyko-Pigs, and she is the sworn enemy of Rash, Zitz, and Pimple, the Battletoads. According to the Battletoads Arcade game (which she strangely did not appear in as the lead villain, minus a small cameo), she is six feet tall and weighs 126 lbs. She is wickedly beautiful, having black, big hair and a voluptuous body clad in a black, dominatrix-style, and a skimpy, tight, black bathing suit with high boots.
She was voiced by Kathleen Barr in the DiC promotion cartoon, Louise Stamper in Super Battletoads (Arcade version of the franchise) and by Siobhan Hewlett in the 2020 reboot.
== Biography ==
=== Backstory ===
The story of The Dark Queen varies. In the short-lived cartoon, The Dark Queen would stop at nothing to get the mystical amulet around Princess Angelica's neck, even if it meant executing her. In the Nintendo Power comic book based on the first Battletoads game, the Dark Queen was made as the main villain in a video game made by Technicians David Shar, Morgan Ziegler and George Pie. She somehow snuck out of the game and changed the technicians into Toads. We also learn from this comic that The Toads' Mentor, Professor T. Bird, used to accompany the Dark Queen on her quest for universal domination as he was once madly in love with her. Why he rebelled against her is still a mystery.
=== Kidnapping Pimple and Princess Angelica ===
In the very first Battletoad game, The Dark Queen was responsible for kidnapping Princess Angelica and Battletoad Pimple. This leads into an epic rescue mission for the remaining Battletoads Zitz and Rash. To make sure the Toads do not make it, The Dark Queen sends Big Blag and Robo-Manus to terminate the two. For every level beaten, The Dark Queen would grow more and more annoyed and irritated by the players' success. When the player reaches the Dark Queen, she will attack from above by spinning in a violent massive powerful tornado formation. Once stopped, the player will have a chance to attack her. If the Dark Queen is standing still, a mere touch will deal three hit points. If the player defeats the Dark Queen, she will find a way to escape as Zitz and Rash leave with Angelica and Pimple.
=== Gameboy Adventure ===
On the Battletoads Gameboy game, it is said that the Toads Rash and Pimple get distracted by an exotic thorax dancer, secretly the Dark Queen in disguise. Kidnapping both Toads, remaining Toad Zitz goes off to rescue his friends. Despite mocking the players success (much like in the NES/Genesis/Amiga Game), you never actually fight The Dark Queen in this game. However, when the game is beaten, she promises to return with a great vengeance.
=== Teaming Up with the Shadow Boss ===
A year after her crushing defeat by the Battletoads, the Dark Queen allied herself with the Double Dragon villain known as the Shadow Boss in the Sega Genesis and Super NES game "Battletoads and Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team". In the game, she provides the role as the last boss in the game once the Shadow Boss is defeated. Her attacks include teleportation through rings of fire.
=== The Gamescape ===
In the Super NES game Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, The Dark Queen once again appears as the role of the lead villain. She teams up with Silas Volkmire to take care of Rash and Pimple after sending her army of Psyko-Pigs to kidnap Zitz and Machiko, the daughter of Mr. Yuriko Tashoku, the President of Psicone Corporation. Like in the NES/Genesis/Amiga game, she grows annoyed for each advancement the player makes. When fighting The Dark Queen, she attacks with Skull Heads beaming out her staff and teleports from place to place. The player only as a limited amount of time to attack the Dark Queen before she teleports again.
=== Imprisonment and Escape ===
After her last defeat, the Queen ended locked away inside of a vault and stripped of her powers by godlike beings known as Uto and Pia, who also locked away the Battletoads and proceeded to conquer the galaxy, ruling unchallenged for decades. During her imprisonment, the Dark Queen attempted to create new inventions to both escape and exact her revenge, but all she was able to do was create two sentient toys she named Holidays and Bratty.
Twenty-six years later, the Queen was freed by the Battletoads, who wanted to fight her to regain their lost fame only to discover she had been in a similar predicament as them. She proposes an alliance to defeat the Topians, so they all escape after defeating the Guardian which watched over her. The Dark Queen suggests to meet and old acquaintance called Jeff, who could give them directions to find the Topians, but the toads inadvertently knock him out during an argument.
After traveling around with the unconscious Jeff, he chastises both the Queen and the Toads, prompting them to hang him out outside of their ship to force him to cooperate, so he gives them a map before being tossed away by the Queen. After fighting various enemies in space their ship ends crash-landing and they are all promptly captured and taken to the Topians' presence.
Upon meeting with Uto and Pia, the Queen immediately threatens them, only to be quickly disintegrated and swallowed away by Uto. She recovers her form inside of Uto's stomach and rallies all of those who had been swallowed by him to fight their way out, giving him a stomachache. Uto ends up vomiting her, but they immediately restrain her and force the Toads to kill her. Rash, however, convinces them to restore her powers so they could have an actual fight, after which they immediately turn on them with the restored Queen by their side.
Upon being defeated, Uto and Pia attempt to vaporize the Toads, but the Dark Queen blocks their beam with her own beam, and with the Toads help manages to overpower and destroy them. With the Topians defeated, the Queen immediately decides to wreak havoc upon everyone, but Rash convinces Topians that the Queen saved them, so the Queen becomes Topians' new ruler. After Battletoads go off to deal with another cosmic threat, Dark Queen is content with how things are turned out and would reign benevolent... For now.
== Quotes ==
“	Don't get too cocky, snotskins - there's plenty more where that came from!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	Watch out for the breakers, Battlebarf! Because they're going to break you into little green pieces!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	You're good, I'll give you that - good enough to burn!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	Now, that makes me mad, and when I get mad, I get nasty, and when I get nasty, I usually end up maiming something - like you, for instance!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	What?! I lost! This can't be! I'm the Dark Queen! Wrong is better than right, dark is stronger than light! Grrrr! I hate you, Battletoads! I'm outta here!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	Do you really think a clucking fool and his slimy snot snafflers can beat us? Prepare to meet my Saturn Toadtraps!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	This is where the action gets fast an' your slime backs come last, you flappin' fool!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	Feeling weary yet, swamp dwellers? I hope so, 'cuz I'm sendin' in scuzz to blow up the tower with you still inside it!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	Pah! If you want a job done properly, never trust a useless bunch of pigs and rats! C'mon 'toadies, let's fight!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
“	It's just not fair, I'm fed up being beaten by a scrawny beak and his slimy swamp swimmers!! I'll get you next time, all of you!!	„
 	~ The Dark Queen 	
== Trivia ==
* The character has received considerable attention due to her sex appeal as well as for being one of the first major female villains in video game history.
* She has a British accent. In the 2020 reboot game, her accent is especially noticeable since she is voiced by an Irish actress.
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