Katrina Moonshade/Tropes

## Characterization and background

* **Brainwashed:** She isn't truly evil, but is brainwashed into being a villain.
* **Card-Carrying Villain**: Event Horizon loves to constantly tell everyone how evil she is.
* **Alpha \*bleep\***: She's an evil teenage girl who's arrogant, prideful, and a girly-girl.
* **Evil Laugh**: Often laughs this way, but it's more of a cackle than the stereotypical "MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
* **Face-Monster Turn**: Katrina didn't become a villain by choice. She was brainwashed into becoming evil.
* **Teens are Monsters**: Is a sadistic villain who's only 15 years old in her debut.
* **Fake Memories**: Queen Vera locked up her actual memories and gave her fake ones of always having worked for her.
* **All-Loving Heroine**: Katrina is very kind and cares for everycreature, though she is sometimes lazy and a procrastinator.
* **Jerk\*bleep\***: Event Horizon is arrogant, selfish, ruthless, cruel, and sadistic, willing to harm innocent people and Pokémon if it means accomplishing Queen Vera's goals. This isn't her real personality, as her real self is a Nice Girl.
* **Enfant Terrible**: Downplayed. She's 15 years old, and is an arrogant, prideful, sadistic Card-Carrying Villain.
* **Alternate Identity Amnesia**: After being returned to normal when Elizabeth grabs her hand with the others on standby ready to help her immediately if something goes wrong, she has no memory of anything she did as a villain - after she is de-brainwashed, she expresses confusion, asking "Huh? Where am I? What am I doing?"
* **Nice Girl**: This is Katrina's real personality.
* **The Perfectionist**: Katrina is sometimes stressed by the responsibility of being both a Physical Goddess and a normal teenager with her parents and believes she shouldn't make any mistakes.
* **Brilliant, but Lazy**: She's a bit lazy.
* **Girly-Girl**: Katrina is this, but it's evident as Event Horizon as well, as she can often be seen painting her nails or applying makeup in her free time.
* **Hidden Depths**: Despite being evil, it is shown that Event Horizon is a Girly-Girl who likes painting her nails, putting on makeup, and getting coffee from Moby Wailord's Coffee.
* **Big Eater**: Both normally and as a villain - after all, she needs plenty of food to fuel those godike powers of hers. This is also shown at the beginning of the very next episode after she is freed, where she and Comet are shown gleefully pigging out at breakfast, much to the other Guardians' exasperation.
* **Politically Incorrect Villain**: Event Horizon often makes racist remarks, which are fantasy-oriented, such as making fun of Necrosis for being a mechanical slave or hypocritically telling Nanette that "purplenettes are fat, stupid, and ugly" *when she's a "purplenette" herself*.
* **Take My Hand**: She's freed when Elizabeth grabs her hand and uses the Light of Hope.
* **Code Name**: Queen Vera gives her the alias "Event Horizon," but that's not her real name - Event Horizon's real name is actually Katrina Moonshade.
* **Troubling Unchildlike Behavior**: It's not usually normal for a 15 year-old to swear a lot, harm innocent people and Pokémon, dress like a dominatrix, act racist, and happily serve an evil queen. However, she doesn't act like this by choice, as she's brainwashed.
* **Stellar Name**: Her last name "Moonshade" refers to the Moon and her villain identity Event Horizon refers to an event horizon, the point of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape.
* **Awesome Music**: "Sailor Star Song" plays during the battle between her and Elizabeth.
* **Expy**:
	+ Her characterization is primarily based off Sailor Galaxia from *Sailor Moon.* Both of them are brainwashed Physical Goddesses who are saved by a naked angel grabbing their hand.
	+ Her pink skin is based on the Krylorians from *Guardians of the Galaxy.*
	+ She shares some similarities to the Dark Fairies from *Winx Club*, such as having a black outfit and being a corrupted magical being, and to Akumatized villains from *Miraculous Ladybug*.

* **Villains Out Shopping**: Often applies cosmetics or goes to Moby Wailord's Coffee in a shapeshifting disguise in her free time.
* **Present** **Absence**: Katrina mysteriously went missing some time prior to the start of the series, and her disappearance drives the plot of the entire series: without her, Queen Vera has a much easier time coming to power, she isn't there to help out the main Guardians when they sure could use her help at the moment, and the citizens of the Multiverse, as well as her parents, are devastated by her disappearance.
* **Fighting from the Inside**: In the flashback shown when Queen Vera explains to the Guardians that she's just using Event Horizon and that she's actually under her mind control with fake memories, Katrina tries extremely hard to resist after Queen Vera tricks her into transforming and says she won't ever succumb to a villain like her, but is too exhausted and doesn't have the willpower to resist any longer.
* **Vile Villain, Saccharine Show**: Let's see... A sadistic, cruel, ruthless Card-Carrying Villain who's only 15 years old? Dark powers and the ability to instantly induce decomposition and death in any organic living thing? Hanging out with a guy made of dark energy, a bone-chillingly creepy robot, and a woman with lizard traits who's named after a mental disorder? Invading people or Pokémon's privacy, such as when they're *in labor and are extremely vulnerable?* And turning out to be doing all of this *because she's actually brainwashed against her will?* All this is awfully dark for a show intended for children.
* **The Reveal**: Event Horizon's true identity is kept hidden from both the heroes and the audience until the last few episodes of Season 13, where it's revealed that she's none other than the goddess-like Guardian herself who's corrupted.
* **Dramatic Unmasking**: The reveal of her true identity is made even more dramatic to the audience when Event Horizon falls to her knees, still holding Elizabeth's hand, and then a purple ether washes over her and returns her to normal from the Light of Hope. It then focuses on Katrina for several seconds, as if the camera is shocked as well.
* **Secret Identity Vocal Shift**: She has a different voice actress as Event Horizon than as her real self, in order to hide her true identity. The former sounds deeper and more adult-like, while the latter is higher-pitched and more softspoken.
* **Malicious Misnaming**: After she defects to the heroes' side, Event Horizon often deliberately refers to Nicole as her old name, Necrosis.
* **Hypocrite**: She once said that people with purple hair are fat, stupid, and ugly and that she hates teenagers, despite her being a teenager with purple hair.
* **Hiding in Plain Sight**: Katrina is stated to have gone missing, but it turns out she has actually been hidden in plain sight the entire time: she is brainwashed as Event Horizon.
* **Easily Forgiven**: Once she's returned to normal, Elizabeth immediately forgives her for her henious actions as Event Horizon (which include attempted murder of innocent civilians including children, destruction of property, mass destruction, blackmail, invasion of privacy, torture, identity theft, assault and battery, kidnapping, and trespassing) since Queen Vera brainwashed her and her behavior isn't her fault, and due to her very forgiving and optimistic nature.
* **Little Miss Almighty**: Sort of. She is the most powerful Guardian in the present-day, and is only 15 years old. However, this is downplayed eventually, as she is 23 by the time she is returned to normal. After the Law of Cycles retcon, she, Angela, and Anabelle each only have a spark of the Divinity's power despite still having the full force sometimes, but it still makes them the most powerful Guardians.
* **You Said You Would Let Them Go**: Near the end of "A Devastating Revelation," still blissfully unaware that Queen Vera doesn't actually care about her and the Guardians know who she is, she threatens to *kill* the students of the Viridian City school unless Elizabeth OR Serena agree to give her their soul. When the former agrees and lets her have it, guess what happens? Thought she would keep her promise? ***WRONG.*** She attacks the students anyways as Queen Vera gets closer to her dream of conquering and ruling the Multiverse, and Serena even gets angry and yells at her that she promised she'd spare them.
* **Does This Remind You of Anything?**: After the Law of Cycles council votes in favor of something such as a royal decision made by one of the rulers, Katrina can then either approve the decision or reject it. However, even if she rejects the decision, the council can override her rejection by a two-thirds vote. *Hmmm...*
* **A Minor Kidtroduction**: A weird variation. Not counting flashbacks and fantasies that appear from time to time throughout Season 4-13, and unlike the *Shining Bonds* franchise where SBALM takes place within the span of about a year so she is still a teenager when freed, and obviously not counting Event Horizon being a minor, Katrina has never been seen in-person as her normal self as a teenager. Both after she is freed and in the series finale, she is only shown as an adult.
* **Captured Super-Entity**: To help her with her plans to conquer the Multiverse, Queen Vera brainwashes the most powerful Guardian in the Multiverse against her will and makes her into her servant. Despite pretending to be a nice and caring boss, it is clear that Queen Vera doesn't really care about her and her other minions and only wants her strong magic.
* **Cheaters Never Prosper**: In the side-episode "Battling at Full Friendship!", Event Horizon steals a Raichu from a Trainer and disguises herself as a shy, lime green-haired Trainer named "Rebecca Paulson" who mentions she has the power to manipulate acids (complete with a skull and crossbones Harmony Mark). She then challenges Aurea to a battle using the stolen Raichu, and just as "Rebecca" is winning fair and square and Aurea buys the disguise, she reveals her disguise. If it weren't for Fennel's intervening, Aurea would have been kidnapped.
* **Clark Kenting**: Downplayed, as her disguise as Event Horizon is very good. Her hairstyle, skin color, and eye shape are enough to fool most people and prevent them from recognizing her, although her bangs do resemble her true self's bangs.
* **A Wizard Did It**: Where the *heck* do Katrina's Power Necklace, Harmony Gem, and weapons go as Event Horizon, and how do they inexplicably reappear when she is de-brainwashed? Answer: ***Magic***. It doesn't need a further explanation.
* **Immortality Begins at Twenty**: Is physically 23 in the series finale despite being over a thousand years old due to all Chosen Ones being semi-immortal regardless of stage.
* **Actually Pretty Funny**: In "The Magic of Friendship Grows," she does a comedic impression of her brainwashed self despite usually preferring not to talk about that topic.

## Appearance

* **Amazing Technicolor Population**: Event Horizon has pink skin.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Has purple hair, but it's mulberry purple as a civilian, a dark violet as Event Horizon, and pastel lavender with pink and blue highlights as a Guardian of Harmony.
* **Purple is Powerful**: She wears purple as a civilian and has a purple outfit when transformed, has purple hair in all of her forms, and is the most powerful magical being in the Multiverse in the present-day.
* **Pink Means Feminine**: Has pink skin as Event Horizon and pink eyes in all of her forms, and is a girly-girl.
* **Evil is Sexy**/**Ms. Fanservice**: Played straight for both tropes. As a villain, she wears a leotard showing off her thighs, high-heeled boots, and wears eyeshadow. *And she's only 15 years old in her debut.* Her true form, however, averts this trope as she dresses much more appropriate for her age.
* **Tsurime Eyes**: Event Horizon has these eyes, but as her true self, they're round.
* **Power Makes Your Hair Grow**: While most characters have their hair grow longer to varying degrees when transformed, Katrina's really takes the cake. As a civilian, her hair just barely reaches her shoulders, but in Guardian form, it grows down past her knees.
* **Naked On Revival**: Not exactly revival, but after she is freed and detransforms from her Guardian form, she is completely naked. Nanette lampshades this, and Ella points out, "would *your* clothes still fit if you aged 8 years?"
* **Sweet Lolita**: Her Stage 5 form has a "sweet Lolita" motif.
* **Combat Stilettos**:
	+ Normal: Played *straight* in her Guardian form, which includes boots with thick six-inch wedge heels.
	+ Evil: Her attire as Event Horizon has boots with fairly thin, stiletto-like heels.

## Abilities

* **Physical Goddess**: Is the Divinity's successor and is an extremely powerful Guardian, but is fully human.
* **The Ace**: She's extremely powerful, being even more powerful than Nanette and the other powerful Guardians even in their strongest forms. She retains this as Event Horizon.
* **Light 'Em Up**: Katrina posesses light-based abilities.
* **Casting a Shadow**: Event Horizon posesses darkness-based abilities.
* **Power Floats**: Can freely levitate in the air and fly without wings in her Guardian form and as Event Horizon.
* **Story-Breaker Power**: The writers made Katrina go missing and turn out to be brainwashed as an excuse for why the main Guardians can't just go to her for help, since then the series would be two episodes long. When she joins the Guardians in time for the final battle, she has to get used to using her powers again and has to remember how to use them.
* **World-Healing Wave**: She can repair damage caused by villains, even her own actions after she was de-brainwashed.
* **Healing Hands**: Katrina can heal injuries.
* **Back From the Dead**: She has the power to revive the dead.
* **Make Them Rot**: Event Horizon can fire black rays that instantly rot and wither any living being they touch.
* **Voluntary Shapeshifting**: This is one of Event Horizon's most used powers as she can perfectly shapeshift into anything she desires, and combined with her extremely thick cloaking spells, causes the heroes to always fall for her disguises only for her to then reveal herself. This isn't one of Katrina's's real powers, however.
* **Achille's Heel**: Despite how powerful she is, she does have a few major weaknesses.
	+ To fuel her extremely strong powers, she requires sufficient food, and if she isn't well-fed, her powers will be weaker. Because of this, every day, she eats about one and a half times the food that most people eat, which makes her parents' grocery bill skyrocket.
	+ She isn't immune to brainwashing or mind control at all, considering that she spent 9 seasons as a villain working for Queen Vera with her memories locked up until the last few episodes of Season 13.
	+ Using large amounts of power can leave her extremely exhausted and she is not immune to sanging.

* **Deus Exit Machina**: Since she is so powerful and would be a huge help against the villains, the writers made her suddenly go missing some time prior to the first episode, when in reality she's brainwashed into being on the villains' side instead of the heroes' side. This is to prevent the series from being two episodes long.
	+ Besides the obvious fact that she herself is under Queen Vera's control at that point, her descendants also are absent without explanation in "The Multiversal Crisis!," even though they would logically be expected to appear, in order to prevent the movie from being 5 minutes long.
* **The Juggernaut**: Event Horizon is so powerful that attempting to confront her directly is almost a suicide mission. Elizabeth eventually defies this, confronting her directly and talking to her kindly while refusing to attack her or harm her.
* **Apocalypse Maiden**: Her witch form (who is only mentioned and is fought offscreen) from her guilt of being a villain is so enormous and so powerful she almost destroyed the Multiverse before Abigail convinced her to purify herself.

## Relationships

* **Co-Dragons**: With Necrosis, Demencia, and Black Hat.
* **The Dragon**: To Queen Vera.
* **11th-Hour Ranger**: She joins the main Guardians for the final battle after being freed.
* **Villainous Friendship**: She's close friends with Necrosis, Demencia, and Black Hat, but is furious after the Necrosis sides with the heroes and renames herself Nicole. However, they become friends for real after Katrina herself is freed.
* **Bad Boss**: Event Horizon can't seem to comprehend the fact that Queen Vera doesn't really care about her and just wants her powers for her own gain.
* **Happiness in Slavery**: More of a servant than a slave, but close enough. She prides herself in working for Queen Vera and thinks she's the best boss ever.
* **Token Human**: Of the main villains. Black Hat is darkness in a humanoid form, Necrosis is a robot, and Demencia is mostly human but has some lizard-like traits. However, Event Horizon is a human who was brainwashed while in her transformed state, with her light powers corrupted into darkness-based powers.
* **Shipper on Deck**: Event Horizon is a huge shipper of Nanette and Mikey.
* **The Leader**: It seems like she is the head of the Law of Cycles council as of the series finale.
* **Forced Into Evil**: As revealed in "A Devastating Revelation," Queen Vera brainwashed her against her will and sealed her real memories in order to make her into her minion, as she would *never* willingly work for her. She is completely unaware that she does not care about her and only wants her powers to fulfill her goal. As a result, the Guardians realize that she is not their real enemy - she is a victim of Queen Vera, who *is* their real enemy.
* **Syncophantic Servant**: She would do anything to please Queen Vera, but is unaware she doesn't actually care about her.
* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: Katrina and Nicole are this as of the Law of Cycles retcon.