Leana

**Leana** is a hero in the *Warriors of Chronos* franchise. In the first season of the *Johnny and the Warriors of Chronos TV series*, she is the Princess of the Amazons, daughter of Queen Talitta. Since her coronation in the second season of the show, she also became the Queen of Camelot, married to her fellow Warrior and childhood friend King Marcus.

Leana was the main female protagonist of the show, and despite having little to no episodes focus around her, she attracted a lot of female viewers during the airing of the show. As a strong and independent female character, Leana is a popular character from the franchise, and gained a following in spin-off comic books based on her.

## Development

Along with Prince Marcus, Sergeant Cyborg, Shang-Tsei and Merlin, Princess Leana was one of the first 5 characters created by Zaid Campbell. With the male hero Prince Marcus, Campbell wanted an heroine:

> *"Back when I created the characters for Warriors of Chronos, Star Wars was a big thing, and what I loved the most about it was that not only did they have hero, Luke, they also had an heroine, Leia. I also wanted to add a strong and powerful female character, I thought little girls weren't told enough how much they were awesome and that they could do anything they wanted as long as they believed in themselves. I remember back then, while boys had shows about adventure most shows aimed at girls were about friendship and love and the importance of sharing and telling the truth, as though that's all girls go through. I grew up with four sisters, and they all kicked ass, that's why I wanted my own Princess Leia, and all I did was add a syllable."*
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While Campbell never referred to Leana as one of his favorite characters from the toyline, he often expressed how important she was to him, and how important she could have been. The character of Leana not having a lot of episodes centered around her in the show really disappointed Campbell, even if the character did bring young girls to watch the show. When he learned that a comic series about Leana was to be released, he volunteered to write a few issues for the series, but he ended writing every issues of the first volume.

## History

In the first season of Johnny and the Warriors of Chronos, Leana is the Princess of the Amazons and she resides in the Camelot Castle as an ambassador for the Amazons. She is part of the Warriors of Chronos and she is shown to be tough and independent, sometimes even more proud and brave than the other Warriors. As Princess, Leana was shown to take initiative and take the lead of the Warriors of Chronos when on certain missions even when Prince Marcus, their official leader, was present.

In the second season, Leana was married to Marcus, making her Queen of Camelot; as Queen, Leana was rarely seen in episodes, the only episode centered on Leana was the season 2 episode "The Queen's Guards", when forgetting that Leana was once a Warrior of Chronos, Johnny and his friends try protecting the Queen on an escort mission to Amazon Island, but in the end, it's Leana who ends up saving her guards' lives, showing that even though she's been a Queen for a while, she still knows how to defend herself.

Another quality of Leana is that she can pilot any vehicles, as mentioned in the episode "Colonel Android", where she pilots a giant robot to fight off a nemesis of Sergeant Cyborg, even though her piloting talents are never mentioned before and that she is rarely seen piloting after the episode.

In the alternate dimension Luna visits in the "Luna and the Warriors of Chronos" story arc, Leana was killed by the alliance of Shang-Tsei and Sinistra before the events of the episode.