Reception
| “ | Female villains were quite rare in the early days of video games, with the fairer sex usually reserved as kidnapped princesses in another castle. Not only was the Dark Queen revolutionary, she was also dead sexy - possibly the hottest babe of the 8-bit era, with her Veronica Lake hair and huge bazooms. | ” |
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—K. Thor Jensen, UGO.com |
The Dark Queen was well received by critics upon her introduction, having been twice nominated by Nintendo Power for the Nintendo Power Awards in the category villain of the year for 1991 and 1993.
In 2008, UGO.com included her on their list of the top 50 evil women in all media, also commenting that the Battletoads series is "notorious for its insanely high difficulty, juvenile sense of humor and big-boobed antagonist" and adding that "the anger we felt at losing was only compounded by how hot and unattainable the Dark Queen was." In 2011, Complex ranked her as 10th on the list of "most diabolical video game she-villains", calling her "as hot as Jessica Rabbit" and commenting that "where the TMNT had April O'Neil to flirt with, the most bodacious chick in the Battletoad universe is ironically the final boss who wants them all dead." That same year, Universo Online ranked her ninth on the list of ten most beautiful and deadly game villainesses.
| “ | There’s no shortage of leather-clad bad girls in videogames these days, but they all owe a little something to this enterprising villainess. She paved the way for the women of the future. Like a suffragette... except that comparison is grossly inappropriate. | ” |
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—Jim Sterling, GamesRadar |
In addition, Seanbaby called her the sexiest NES game character, Gawker commented on the short-lived Battletoads cartoon how "Shredder had nothing on the Toads' sexy nemesis, The Dark Queen," and Jason F.C. Clarke of Topless Robot said the Dark Queen "rivals Sin's Elexis Sinclaire and Soulcalibur's Ivy for sheer cleavage." GamesRadar featured her in a 2011 retrosective article featuring the sexy video game women of the sprite era, also noting her to be "hot looking for a 2D sprite." Gaming Nexus' Cyril Lachel wrote, "Forget reviving the Battletoads, all I want is a game based on the Dark Queen!" Sean Velasco from WayForward Technologies, lead designer of Double Dragon Neon, said: "I wanna high five Zitz and punch the Dark Queen in the gut!"
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