Sedusa is a beautiful mistress supervillain of disguise and seductress who uses her feminine wiles and quick wits to influence men to do her bidding and one of the worst enemies of the Powerpuff Girls. When her identity is revealed, she often fights with her whip-like hair, which she can lengthen and control in various offensive ways on her opponents. Her name and snake-like hair are obviously inspired by Medusa. For a brief period, she was Professor Utonium's girlfriend under the alias Ima Goodelady.
Background[]
Personality[]
Sedusa is a young, pretty mistress of disguise and seductress who uses her feminine wiles to influence men to do her bidding. When her identity is revealed, she often fights with her whip-like hair which she can control.
Physical appearance[]
Sedusa has paste-white skin and black hair with red-maroon highlights that writhe in all directions and wears an almost completely dark red outfit: long gloves-mittens and thigh-high boots, leotard, red fishnet stockings, and black pantyhose, which she wears under the fishnets. She speaks in a harsh, angry voice when the girls reveal her true form and in a soft, maternalistic voice when around the Professor.
While disguised as Ima Goodelady, she wears a hot pink suit with a pink hat. Pale, almost white, blond hair with pink streaks of highlights and pale pink pumps. Green eyes and a white pearl necklace.
Powers and abilities[]
- Seduction: Sedusa is highly skilled in using her beauty to seduce and manipulate people into doing what she wants.
- Hair Manipulation: Sedusa can use her hair to attack people.
- Disguise: Sedusa is a master of disguise and she will constantly go in disguise as other people so nobody will be able to tell who she is. In "Mommy Fearest", she disguised herself as a woman named Ima Goodlady (a pun on "I'm a good lady") and was able to trick the Professor for a while.
Weaknesses[]
- Hair Loss: In the episodes "Something's a Ms." and "Aspirations", Sedusa can no longer fight once her hair got removed and she was completely weak and powerless. Her only two powers are her hair and her seduction, But her hair is her main power source for it is the only one that works on the girls and without her hair her seduction is nothing.
- Water: When her hair gets wet, Sedusa loses control over her hair and her sticky hair gel loses its solidity, as seen in "Something's a Ms.".
History[]
Television[]
The Powerpuff Girls[]
She was first introduced in the episode "Mommy Fearest", where she posed as a regular woman called "Ima Goodlady" (The words 'I'm a good lady' put together to make a full name).
She infiltrated into the Powerpuffs' house and tried to manipulate Professor Utonium against the girls. When she left at night straight to the Mayor's office to rob him of his precious jewels, Mayor called the Powerpuff Girls and announced them about the situation.
Then Blossom planned that when they will catch Ima Goodlady, they will expose her true identity when she returns: Sedusa. After a short fight, the Professor returned and caught Sedusa, sending her to jail.
In the next episode of Sedusa's appearance, "Something's a Ms.", Ms. Bellum was missing from work, and the Mayor painfully "fired" her.
He called the Powerpuff Girls and as they arrived, he gave them a letter made of newspaper articles, "I have Bellum. Bring $100,000,000 in un-marked non-consecutive bills to Ms. Bellum's house. No funny stuff! Love Sedusa", written by Sedusa.
The girls then fled with a bag to Ms. Bellum's house. Buttercup used her X-ray vision, and saw Ms. Bellum and Sedusa inside. They then crashed into her house, and caught a sight of "Ms. Bellum", having "Sedusa" tied up against a chair. Bubbles then pulls out the wig off of "Ms. Bellum's" head and saw the face of Sedusa. She, then captured all of the girls and used her sticky globs of hair gel to adhere them against the window.
"Sedusa" then escapes the chair and argues with the real Sedusa. She pulls off her wig and then, Ms. Bellum defeats Sedusa, getting her hair wet and cutting every last piece of it to prevent her from using any more hair gel.
In Sedusa's final appearance, "Aspirations", she appears completely bald. She has recruited The Gangreen Gang to bring her wanted crown, candy cane and necklace of tiara, which she grew to an enormous size and had snakes for hair, using her weapons to destroy almost all of Townsville and exact revenge on The Powerpuff Girls.
Finally, The Powerpuff Girls get the crown off of her head, and she shrinks back to her regular size before getting kicked into the mud (courtesy of Ace after he and the rest of the gang were betrayed by her) and whining angrily above her second defeat, and is sent to jail once again. In the episode "Equal Fights", Femme Fatale nicknamed Sedusa as "that chick in the underwear".
Sedusa appeared in the rock musical episode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey", where, like other villains, she is seen causing chaos and terrorizing people in Townsville. Yet, when it comes the Gnome, he is responsible for eliminating all the villains, but later, when all them are revived, the Gnome loses power. She does not sing any of the lines.
Powerpuff Girls Z[]
In Powerpuff Girls Z, Sedusa was originally Sakurako (Annie in the English dub), a quiet and sweet girl, friend of the Powerpuff Girls who got struck by a black Chemical Z ray while she was holding Miss Bellum's lipstick and turned into Sedusa. As with Princess Morbucks, the effects of the black rays are not permanent in Sakurako and she can revert back to her sweet normal self. However, the curse causes her to transform into Sedusa whenever she wears lipstick.
Most of her transformations are simulated by her love problems with Souichirou (Jason in the English dub), a boy that she likes who likes her back although she `doesn't always see that.
Sakurako/Sedusa first appears in episode 8 of the series. She also appears in episodes 28. She plays minor roles as Sakurako in other episodes as well.
As Sedusa, Sakurako can wear makeup to make herself look like anyone, as well as use her hair like tentacles, traits shared with her American counterpart.
Other appearances[]
Video games[]
Sedusa is a playable character in the 2001 videogame Chemical X-traction and a minor boss in the second level of the 2002 videogame Relish Rampage.
Relationships[]
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Trivia[]
- Sedusa is very similar to Queen Chrysalis from MLP:FIM when Chrysalis impersonates Princess Cadence.
- Sedusa's alias "Ima Goodelady" in her debut appearance "Mommy Fearest" is a pun on the phrase, "I'm a good lady".
- Sedusa is the first female supervillain to be introduced on The Powerpuff Girls.
- Sedusa is a parody of Medusa, the Gorgon from Greek Mythology who could turn people into solid stone just by looking at her and also both have living hair.
- Her name "Sedusa" also promotes the fact that she romantically charms, captivates and seduces people; especially men, just like sirens and mermaids.
- She’s also a reference to the Marvel Comics' character Medusa, who also has prehensile hair.
- Sedusa's character is also similar to the Batman villainess Poison Ivy. Both characters are beautiful women who use their wiles to "charm" men into doing her bidding.
- Her design is also very similar to Jessica Rabbit, a character from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, as both of them have long hair, have curvaceous body figures, and wear red.
- Sedusa is the least recurring villain on the show, appearing in only ten episodes, most of which were cameos and only three episodes with her as the main villain, the third one being "Aspirations", in which she shares the spotlight with the Gangreen Gang.
- Sedusa serves as a side gag on the show because Craig McCracken, the creator, had a hard time thinking of plots with her as the main villain. Even The Amoeba Boys, who were actually intended to be lame villains, had more major appearances than Sedusa.
- Sedusa has taken the least amount of beatings from The Powerpuff Girls. She took her one and only full beating in the episode "Mommy Fearest" and in the episode "Something's a Ms.", she was thrown by Blossom once while disguised as Ms. Bellum, and in the episode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" she was punched by Buttercup only once.
- Sedusa and The Rowdyruff Boys are the only villains to disappear after their defeat and reappear much later in the fifth or sixth seasons as major villains once more.
- Femme Fatale, the villain from the third season episode, "Equal Fights", makes a reference to Sedusa as "the chick in the underwear."
- She is the only villain in the episode "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!" to have only shown up in half the episode. For some reason in the part where all the villains were racing to City Hall, it had everyone except for Sedusa. This was probably because the creators didn't have an idea of what they wanted her car to look like.
- In "Divide and Conquer", a picture of her was seen on a wanted poster along with many other villains such as The Amoeba Boys when they were chatting about their plan to steal an orange from a fruit stand. She was being referred to as a 'Jezebel' on her wanted poster.
- In "Bought and Scold", she was being referred to as the Narrator as naughty. This was a pun on the fact that she was both evil and a wanton strumpet girl.
- In "Second Chances", HIM lists her sin as Envy.
- Sedusa's debut episode is parallel to Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.
- Despite not being in the 2016 series, she does appear in the app game KleptoCats Cartoon Network.
- Sedusa and HIM don’t appear in the parade of criminals in "Daylight Savings".
- In "Live & Let Dynamo", Sedusa was the one of the major villains that weren’t suspects in control of the Dynamo, along with Princess Morbucks.
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