Selina Pereira-Matias

Selina Pereira-Matias is an iconic villainess during the 90's era from the filipino television series'' Mula Sa Puso ( From The Heart ) created by ABS-CBN Network and portrayed by filipino actress Princess Punzalan. ''She was known as the most violent and almost demon like antagonist ever in the Philippine Television during her time. The series also had a movie version titled Mula Sa Puso The Movie.

Character Synopsis

She is the half-sister of Don Fernando Pereira. She'll do everything to have the wealth of Pereira Family to the extent of killing her own niece Via, the only daughter and heiress of Pereira Clan. She also seeks for vegeance after Don Fernando's mother mistreat her mother as well as herself. Throughout the story, she spreads her terror on Via and her family. Her character was given the moniker terminator because she repeatedly cheated death throughout the TV series.

Her Famous And Highlighted Evil Doings

1. Perpetrating an acid attack which left a scar on Magda's face ( Via's mother.)

2. She sends her henchmen to rape a prosecutor lawyer whose against her. Eventually putting the poor lawyer under a mental case.

3. Once again, she sends her henchmen to rape a housemaid who she had a fight with over a Leche Flan ( Caramel Custard ).

4. Killing her own henchmen with a timed bomb who accidentally killed her daughter, Nicole. ( Only in the movie )

5. The famous and evil of all, the bus explosion scene. She instructed her henchmen to plant a bomb inside a bus, mistakenly thought that Via was inside it, killing all the innocent passengers. The scene was made more famous because of her demonic like laugh in front of the exploded bus.

Her Famous Demonic Laugh

Selina was the one who started the traditional evil laugh of female antagonist in most of the filipino tv series. You can hear a clip of her laugh during the bus explosion scene from the Mula Sa Puso The Movie below:



Her Bloody Death

Finally, after cheating death several times she had a bloody death while a glimpse of her evil doings was being shown. You can watch it below:



Selina in 2011 Mula Sa Puso Remake

In 2011, Mula Sa Puso had a tv series remake with filipino actress Eula Valdez as Selina. Although her evil ways and evil laugh was remained, this remake actually shown a different kind of Selina, making her character less fierce.

Also from being a half-sister, she's now an adopted sister of Don Fernando. Her evil deeds from the original series and the movie version was combined in this one except for the rape related ones. There was also a changed with the bus explosion scene, her daughter Nicole died inside of the bus instead and her evil laugh was removed. And her death was made less bloody too.

'''TRIVIA: ABS-CBN Network created a text promo with her Evil Laugh as a downloadable mobile ringtone when the 2011 series was still on air. '''