Minotauron

Minotauron's design splices the hulking build of a Minotaur onto a woman's shape. Her skin is blue and her eyes burn red, a jagged pair of horns juts from her head, and an orange dress hangs over the rest of her. The card carrying her image draws her bare-chested with her arms folded across herself, an element the DiC version oddly left uncensored.

The show gives Minotauron next to no inner life, painting her as raw predatory instinct: a savage brute that charges and gores without hesitation, her horns stretching out to great length to siphon energy from anyone they touch. In her original Japanese incarnation she manages only her own name and clipped versions of it, whereas the DiC dub handed her real speech. Convinced some human spark still lingered in the creature, Sailor Moon at first mistook her for a transformed person who might yet be saved.

Ail and An conjure the Cardian at a film audition, the very moment Rei, Minako, Makoto, Ami, and Naru have gathered to try out, ordering it to harvest their energy for the Makai Tree. Minotauron barrels into the young women, and though they resist, she manages to drain Naru. Luna rakes her claws across the beast's face, yet Minotauron keeps coming. Usagi shows up, becomes Sailor Moon, and joins the fight, only for the Cardian to seize the upper hand and start pulling away her energy. With no other choice, Luna reawakens the memories of the four remaining Guardians, who transform and hit back. Sailor Mercury's misting bubbles pull Minotauron's focus long enough to haul Sailor Moon clear, Sailor Jupiter's Supreme Thunder leaves the Cardian wounded, and a joined blast, Fire Soul from Sailor Mars paired with Crescent Beam from Sailor Venus, finishes her. Several of the cast liken the movie lot to a maze, a nod to the labyrinth that housed the original Minotaur.