Empress Dowager (The Twins of Destiny)

The Empress Dowager is the main villain of the 1990s French cartoon The Twins of Destiny.
==Biography==
The Empress Dowager rules China with an iron fist. She lives in luxury while her subjects live in abject poverty. She hears about "twins" from her astrologer and seer and demands them killed. A pirate named Kung Lee simply fakes their deaths, and upon hearing about it, the Empress calls it music to her ears. She then turns the children's fathers to stone for fathering her "would-be usurpers", but leaves them alive to think about their children's deaths. Doctor Show Cow, who helped birth the twins, is imprisoned and tortured, but freed before he is executed.
Upon learning that the twins are still alive, the Empress orders Kung Lee's death, but the executioner, who owed Kung Lee a life debt, lets him go. The Empress gives her eunuchs free reign to cause destruction and kill anyone in their path to find the twins. 
When a general offers to have his soldiers locate the twins, the Empress states that putting Chinese soldiers on foreign soil would make the world wage war on her. She sends Ho Cheng instead, but he turns out to be treacherous.
When they reach China, the Empress tells her army to do whatever it take to flush the twins and their allies out. She demotes Po Dung for his inability to deal with the twins, but spares him because she believes spending the rest of his life haunted by disgrace will be a crueler punishment than death. In the end, she abdicates the throne and goes into hiding while the twins place the tablets in the Temple and her eunuchs and soldiers are overwhelmed by revolting peasants and turncoats.
== Appearances ==
* The Birth (debut appearance)
* Battle at Sea
* A New Life
* The Discovery
* The Net Tightens
* Reunion 
* Battle for the Tablets
* Attack on the Forbidden City 
* The Temple of Heavenly Harmony (final appearance)
== Trivia ==
* She is based on Empress Dowager Cixi who had reigned all of China for forty-seven years.
== Quotes ==
* "When will accursed twins be born?"
* "Now one one can challenge my power."
* "NO!!"
* "He lied you fool, and me lied to me!! The twins are alive- Alive in France!!"
* "I want them DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!!!"
Category:1990s
Category:Boss
Category:Freud Buster
Category:Long Skirts & Dresses
Category:Queen
Category:Tyrant
Category:Western Animation Villainess
Category:Would Hurt a Child
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