Evil Diva: Difference between revisions

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[[The Hero]] may or may not be immune to the effects of her music. His/Her [[Sidekick]]s or [[True Companions]] are usually not. Her fighting style usually incorporates [[The Power of Rock]], and her appearance usually signals a [[Musical Episode]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[Virtual Celebrity|Sharon Apple]] from ''[[Macross Plus]]''

* Utau Hoshina from ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' rips out the Egg of Dreams from the hearts of her fans. {{spoiler|Until she has her [[Heel Face Turn]], that is.}}

** In the [[Manga]] of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Mimete of the Witches 5 is an idol and uses her music as a method of brainwashing. It's pretty apt that her counterpart Senshi is wannabe idol Sailor Venus.

*** In the anime, Mimete's a wannabe idol instead of an actual one. She eventually ends up on television. [[Fate Worse Than Death|Forever]].

** The term is ''Chiropteran''; a chiropteran is created by a human ingesting a chemical substance made by the series' ''[[Nebulous Evil Organisation]]''. This is almost a subversion, as Diva's voice is "merely" used to ''activate'' the evil component in people who ingested it (ice cream bars handed out at an air force base during a tour segment of Diva, as a test case, followed by a '''world-wide''' distribution of the chemical, it being included in dozens of popular and generic food items).

* Aya Asia from ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]''. She's not exactly evil, but she can blow your brain with her song.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[The Escapist]],'' the eponymous jazz saxophonist in "The Siren Song of Circe O'Shaughnessy" makes her listeners commit burglaries for her.

* [[Spider-Man]] has the D-List villain, The Hypno-Hustler.

* ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' has Envy Adams, one of Scott's exes who found massive success in the music world and has transitioned from cute geek girl into full on [[Alpha Bitch]]. That said she isn't so much evil as a [[Jerkass]] with hints of [[Jerkass Woobie]].

 

== Film ==

* The titular characters in the ''[[Josie and the Pussycats (film)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'' movie become like this, albeit unwittingly. Josie herself winds up getting [[Brainwashed]] with [[Subliminal Seduction|subliminal messages]] in order to turn her into a bitchy diva who will break up the band and pursue a solo career (the record company was getting annoyed with Melody and Valerie, and felt that Josie could sell more records on her own). A more conventionally evil example would be Fiona, the diva-ish CEO of MegaRecords, who, while not a singer herself, was the one responsible for putting subliminal messages into her label's music in order to [[Subliminal Advertising|sell consumer products to teenagers]]. {{spoiler|Her ''real'' goal, however, was to use the messages to get people to like her and look up to her as a fashion idol, having never gotten over the brutal humiliation she suffered in high school for her bad teeth and her lisp.}}

* [[Hot Witch]] Alisa in the movie adaptation of ''[[Night Watch]]''. She's played by Russian pop star Zhanna Friske, by the way.

 

* The would-be assassin in the first episode of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. The singer was a disguise, a glamor, but she still put everyone into a coma-type thing so she could kill Uther and Arthur and only failed due to Merlin's intervention.

 

== Music ==

* Judging by [[Lady Gaga/WMG|her WMG page]], this wiki seems to have come to the conclusion that [[Lady Gaga]] is a [[Real Life]] version of this trope.

** Although [[Ke$ha]] gives her a run for her money. She really does try to at least make evil sexy! Or, more like using empty temptations of sexiness to get people to abandon [[The Beatles (band)|perfectly]] [[Elton John|good]] [[Kanye West|musicians]] [[Money, Dear Boy|just so she can make money is evil.]] Same difference.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* One of the many suggested plots in ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]''.

* Also a common occurrence among Abyssals in ''[[Exalted]]''. Or [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Solars]].

 

== Video Games ==

* Lord Raptor from ''[[Darkstalkers]]'', at least in the backstory, was a male instance of this. The OVA series even includes a scene where he delivers another performance merely to suck up everyone's souls.

* Courtney Gears from ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' could mind control fellow robots with her songs, though the [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]] theming was fairly obvious.

 

== Western Animation ==

* As seen in the picture above, we have Ember from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.

** [[Say My Name|EMBER MCLAIN]], to be precise.

* Tiffany Javelins, a.k.a. the Sinister Songstress, was this in her first appearance (before her [[Heel Face Turn]]) in ''[[Teamo Supremo]]''.

* Ricky Mathis from ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' is an unwitting male example, being manipulated by someone who has world conquest as his goal.

* Pizzazz from ''[[Jem]]'' qualifies. Vain and egotistical, she wants the whole world to know who she is and half the songs the Misfits sing are either about how great she is or what a bitch she is. Arguably, though, Pizzazz is something of a deconstruction, as her desire for fame stems from a largely loveless childhood and a father who spoiled her rotten.

 

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[[Category:Evil Is Sexy]]

[[Category:Magic and Powers]]

[[Category:This Index Is a Bitch]]