Mistica (Maria Mercedes)

Mistica, played by Nicky Modellini, is the coquettish secondary antagonist in the early 90s telenovela Maria Mercedes. Mistica is a red-head who is nearly always wearing a sparkly black dress and pink opera gloves or her all-pink bike kit. She has the ‘magical’ ability to instantly shift from one outfit to another, a characteristic that seems not to be in tune with the otherwise realistic telenovela.
Mistica is a typical gold-digger who married a rich older man whom she clearly doesn’t love. She left her boyfriend Jorge heartbroken to go for the financially advantageous marriage; however she’s furious as she finds out that Jorge married Maria Mercedes, who hailed from a poor family. Mistica tries to seduce her former boyfriend to make him divorce, and for a time she seems to be succeeding. However, Maria Mercedes knows what’s going on and at one point confronts Mistica, throwing her to the floor and dragging her by the hair across her sitting room. Mistica is unable to defend herself and she just screams and shouts for help. Neither her dog nor her maid help out. The maid is actually happy to see her arrogant mistress punished.
Eventually Mistica, who is pregnant from her husband, claims that the child she’s carrying is Jorge’s. However, Mistica’s plot is foiled and in the end she can only cry as she loses Jorge once and for all. 
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Category:1990s
Category:Coward
Category:Failed Seduction
Category:Gold Digger
Category:Knee Length Skirts & Dresses
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Opera Gloves
Category:Redhead
Category:Spoiled
Category:Humiliated
Category:Fate: Humiliated
Category:Catfight