🌘 Lost in the Void: A Villain Case Study

:warning: DISCLAIMER

Figured this was fair game considering there’s already been mention of sailor scouts in another thread, but I ask that if you’re coming here to discuss that you be nice since this is basically a consideration of an instance of villainy more than anything, not to be considered a direct suggestion or outright demand.

This is also a late night forum post so it’s… well it’s not perfect :gem:

:warning: :radioactive: (Also, a personal warning… do yourself a favor and never watch the English dub of any Sailor Moon… stick with the subs for your sake and sanity. They just butcher it with the dubs. It’s really bad).

LOST IN THE VOID: The Story of Mimete

Quotes are from:
https://wikimoon.org/index.php/Mimete

Mimete was the second of the Witches 5 to appear in Sailor Moon S and the Infinity arc. Her powers were charm-based. In all versions of the Sailor Moon series, Mimete had some sort of rivalry with Minako Aino.

In the anime, from Mimete’s first appearance she was both disdainful of and cruel to Eudial, and she did everything she could to sabotage her superior’s efforts. Though this was at first limited to minor pranks, such as putting snails in Eudial’s locker, she eventually removed the brakes from Eudial’s station wagon, which caused her to drive off a cliff into the ocean. With the senior Witch out of the way, Mimete took over the operation, though she was less efficient than her predecessor: she was shown sleeping through meetings and paying more attention to current celebrities than her work. Often Mimete would struggle to find a target and pick whoever at the time was her favorite celebrity. Mimete used a Daimon [NOTE: essentially monsters in the sailor moon universe] meant to retrieve Pure Heart Crystals…

So here we have a lazy, cunning, manipulative, slothful, greedy, and above all… fun-loving witch (and a demon summoning one, at that) who would do anything to get to the top but who also seems to distract herself and ends up being the cause of a lot of her own woes.

I obviously recommend watching the series if you want to see her character unfold…

…but of course, eventually she ends up in the demise of her own making, which is ultimately the crux of this post:

She brought with her Eudial’s abandoned invention, the Witches Electric Warp, which she connected to a giant TV screen. While she was inside of the machine, however, Tellu pulled the plug, and Mimete was “shut off” forever.

Now… if you’re unfamiliar with what the Witches Electric Warp is:

The machine would transport a person inside of a television, which would increase that person’s power exponentially. It did, however, have one drawback: if the power to the television were disconnected while the user was still inside, the user would be trapped within it forever.

Mimete found the machine and tried to use it against the Sailor Senshi, either unaware of or not caring about the potential issues with it. Tellu, who was already angry with Mimete for stealing her job, pulled the plug on her fellow Death Buster despite her pleas, and essentially destroyed Mimete.

So essentially, our poor Mimete was lost to the void because she uploaded herself to the computer and then… lost her power.

Heavy.

The question I’ve always wondered though, with a sort of hopefulness (I’ve always been cheering for villains ever since I was a kid :wink:) is this:

…what if Mimete wasn’t lost forever?

What if she found her way back out?

Just something to consider. :brain: :cloud_with_lightning:

I read it. I think I understand but just in case tell me again.