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The Dark Queen is the ultimate enemy to the Battletoads, as she has repeatedly attempted to eliminate the 'Toads and Professor T. Bird in order to stop them from hindering her evil plans. Throughout the series she usually appears to taunt the 'Toads during the cutscenes, before being confronted as the game's final boss. Despite her royal stature, she prefers to be no more cultured than the Battletoads themselves, due to the crude nature of her speech which consists primarily of surfer slang and offensive puns (such as calling them "cattle-loads" and "wartfeatures").
The Dark Queen is introduced in the first Battletoads game, following her defeat by the Galactic Corporation at the battle of Canis Major, as she and her remaining forces escaped to hide in the planet Ragnarok's World "in dark spaces between the stars". As Professor T. Bird and the Battletoads - Rash, Zitz and Pimple - are escorting the Princess Angelica, daughter of the Terran Emperor, the Dark Queen strikes and captures the Princess along with Pimple. The other two Battletoads go to the Ragnarok's World and manage to rescue the captives and defeat the Dark Queen at her Tower of Shadows, but she escapes and plots revenge. In the Game Boy game, the Dark Queen pretends to be a Thallian Thorax Dancer to capture Rash and Pimple and take them away in the enormous spaceship Gargantua to the planet Armagedda.
In Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, she has partnered with the vengeful technician Silas Volkmire to kidnap Zitz and Michiko Tashoku, the daughter of the President of the Psicone Corporation, creators of the computer-generated portal Gamescape, intending to transform the entire world into Gamescape Kingdom over which they would rule together. The other two 'Toads defeat the Dark Queen again, this time at her Dark Tower, and the she flees again to "to the outer reaches of the Universe", vowing revenge. In the crossover game Battletoads & Double Dragon, the Dark Queen teams up with the Shadow Boss. Together, they use a mysterious energy beam from outer space to render Earth's military might powerless and use a giant spaceship called the Colossus to take over the Earth. The Battletoads join up with Billy and Jimmy Lee, otherwise known as the Double Dragons, and once again foil her plans.
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