Laala

"You should really be grateful to me. I saved your life by switching souls. Well now, Tetsuro. I'm going to continue on the 999 as Tetsuro Hoshino. And you can live here as Doctor Laala."

- Laala to Tetsuro.

"Yeah, so what? I just want to go to another planet as a real human."

- Laala to Maetel.

Laala is an antagonist in the television series Galaxy Express 999. She is a Machine-Woman and a doctor residing on the Dual Planets. At first she seems to be a good natured woman, but revealed to be an evil doctor who has grown tired of her body and decides to steal Tetsuro's body. She is the main antagonist in episode "Lala of the Dual Planets".

She was voiced by Minori Matsushima.

Appearance
She appears to have turquoise as her hair color and eye color. She has light green skin and wears an white rope.

Personality
She appears to be obsessed of getting a human body, possibly due to her being becoming a Machine Woman of being tired of it or was forced by her will to become one.

Biography
While killing and escaping from a angry mob of machine people, Tetsuro and Maetel are ran over by a vehicle. But luckily, the driver of the vehicle, Laala, is a doctor and helps Maetel and Tetsuro. In her lab, Laala switches bodies with Tetsuro against his will and tries to get Maetel to travelling with her on the Galaxy Express so she can finally leave the Dual Planet. After departing, as Laala and Maetel leaves the lab, the doctor set it on fire and traps Tetsuro in. But Maetel finds out and attacks Laala to rescue Tetsuro.

With the lab destroyed, Laala tells Maetel that she has no hope of giving back Tetsuro's body and that she should leave the planet with her. She is then attacked by Tetsuro and threatens to take her life if she finds a way to swap back their bodies. Laala agrees and takes the to a doctor named Mestol. When they arrive to the lab, the machine doctors tricked them as Doctor Mestol plans to take Maetel's body and board the Galaxy Express train. But Maetel uses Tetsuro's pistol and holds them at gun point to give Tetsuro's body back.

After Laala and Mestol gives back Tetsuro's body back, Maetel tells him to go back on the train while she finishes things up with the evil doctors. As Tetsuro and Maetel leaves and the planet destroyed, Laala and Mestol's fates are unknown, but it is presumed to be dead as they were still on the planet.