Katrina Moonshade (Shining Bonds)/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Katrina Moonshade/Glitter Starburst (aka Event Horizon), written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## 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 Jerk**: 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.
* **Fake Memories**: Queen Vera locked up her actual memories and gave her fake ones of always having worked for her.

* **Jerkface**: 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 Angel Wing grabs her hand with Shining Joestar and the Ultra-Powered team leads on standby ready to help her immediately if something goes wrong, she has no memory of anything she did as a villain - after she was de-brainwashed, she expressed 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.
* **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 Faith Idol that "purplenettes are fat, stupid, and ugly" *when she's a "purplenette" herself*.
* **Take My Hand**: She's freed when Angel Wing grabs her hand and uses the Light of Hope flowing through their connected hands to break her out of Queen Vera's brainwashing.
* **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, her alter ego Glitter Starburst refers to the stars, 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 Angel Wing.
* **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**: Glitter Starburst 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 heroes when they sure could use her help at the moment, and while trying in vain to resist Queen Vera's mind control while knowing she doesn't have the will to fight it, she grabbed a piece of paper from her bedroom desk and desperately wrote a letter to Queen Cosmica telling her to find heroes to protect the Multiverse from Queen Vera ASAP and used the spell Tele-Mail to teleport it to her (and that was her last desperate action just before she succumbed to the brainwashing).
* **Fighting from the Inside**: In the flashback shown when Queen Vera explains to the heroes that she's just using Event Horizon and that she's actually under her mind control with fake memories, Starburst 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.
* **Fling a Light into the Future**: Before succumbing to being brainwashed, Starburst grabbed a piece of paper from her bedroom desk, wrote a letter urging Queen Cosmica that she needs to quickly find Magic Warriors to defeat Queen Vera, and used the spell Tele-Mail to send it to her.
* **The Reveal**: Event Horizon's true identity is kept hidden from both the heroes and the audience until the last few episodes of the series, where it's revealed that she's none other than the goddess-like Glitter Warrior 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 Angel Wing's hand, and then a purple ether washes over her and returns her to normal from AW's Light of Hope powers. It then focuses on Glitter Starburst 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**: Glitter Starburst 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, Angel Wing 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.

## Appearance

* **Amazing Technicolor Population**: Event Horizon has pink skin.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Has purple hair, but it's mulberry purple as Katrina, a dark violet as Event Horizon, and pastel lavender with pink and blue highlights as Glitter Starburst.
* **Purple is Powerful**: She wears purple as a civilian and has a purple outfit as Glitter Starburst, has purple hair in all of her forms, and is the most powerful magical being in the Multiverse.
* **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.* Her true form, however, despire wearing a tank top dress, averts this trope as she dresses much more appropriate for her age.
* **Hell-Bent for Leather**: Her leotard as Event Horizon is made of leather.
* **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 as Glitter Starburst, it grows down past her knees.

## Abilities

* **Physical Goddess**: Is the Divinity's successor and is extremely powerful, but is fully human.
* **The Ace**: She's extremely powerful, being even more powerful than Nanette and Jim even in their strongest forms. She retains this as Event Horizon.
* **Light 'Em Up**: Glitter Starburst posesses light-based abilities.
* **Casting a Shadow**: Event Horizon posesses darkness-based abilities.
* **Power Floats**: Can freely levitate in the air as Glitter Starburst and as Event Horizon.
* **Story-Breaker Power**: The writers made Starburst go missing and turn out to be brainwashed as an excuse for why the heroes can't just go to her for help, since then the series would be two episodes long. When she joins the heroes 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**: Glitter Starburst 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 Glitter Starburst'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 4 seasons as a villain working for Queen Vera with her memories locked up.
	+ While she'll never die from using her powers, using them can leave her extremely exhausted and she will have to rest and eat something after large uses of her power.

* **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.

## Relationships

* **Co-Dragons**: With Necrosis, Demencia, and Black Hat.
* **The Dragon**: To Queen Vera.
* **11th-Hour Ranger**: Glitter Starburst joins the heroes for the final battle.
* **Villainous Friendship**: She's close friends with Necrosis, Demencia, and Black Hat, but is furious after the Necrosis sides with the heroes. 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.