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Here me GENIE OF THE LAMP, I command you to appear! (Nega-Shantae appears) Do not hesitate! Destroy this brat! Don't stop until she's a stain on the floor!
~ Risky summoning Nega-Shantae to fight Shantae in Risky's Revenge.
I know...what you...can do...YOU CAN SUFFER! YOU CAN SQUIRM LIKE THE PATHETIC MAGGOTS THAT YOU ARE!! WALLOW IN PAIN AND TORMENT FOREVER IN OBLIVION!!! Now BEG!! BEG FOR YOUR VERY LIVES!!
~ Nega Shantae threatening Shantae's friends in Half-Genie Hero.

Nega-Shantae is a major antagonist in the Shantae series, serving as a major antagonist of Shantae: Risky's Revenge, the overarching antagonist of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, and a major antagonist in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, being a supporting antagonist in the main game and the main antagonist of the Friends to the End DLC.

She is an evil duplicate of Shantae that seeks to destroy her heroic counterpart and take control of her body. She was initially created by Risky Boots stealing and corrupting Shantae magic, and later returns again when the latter was infected by dark magic.

She was voiced by Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela, who also voiced both the real Shantae and Risky Boots in the series, as well as Nightmare Ladybug in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Dark Sakura in the Fate franchise, Mosquito Girl in One Punch Man, Swan in Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, Rei Hōōmaru in Kill la Kill, Nu-13 in BlazBlue, Lucy Maud Montgomery in Bungo Stray Dogs, Pandora in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, Elsa Granhiert in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World and Ren Yamai in Komi Can't Communicate.

Description[]

Appearance[]

As Shantae's opposite, Nega-Shantae fittingly has a complete pallet-swap design from Shantae. Instead of Shantae's blue eyes, purple hair, red clothing and darker skin tone, Nega Shantae has green eyes, red hair, purple clothing and light grey skin. In her animal forms, her opposite design mostly stays intact; her monkey form has red eyes, light purple fur on it's most of it's body and grey fur on it's face, tail, hands and feet, her Elephant form has much lighter grey skin and has a slightly pinkish saddle and jewelry instead of purple ones and her Mermaid form has red hair and light grey scales instead of green scales and purple hair. In her speech in Half Genie Hero, Nega Shantae takes on a much more sinister and demonic form, spouting a monstrous expression and summoning flames into her hands.

Personality[]

In contrast to Shantae's goodness, Nega-Shantae is completely evil in every sense of the word and seemingly has none of Shantae's good character traits. In Risky's Revenge, Nega-Shantae seemingly has no personality beyond her evil nature, likely due to how she is only a construct of Shantae's corrupted magic. However, when Shantae becomes Nega-Shantae due to her exposure to dark magic, Nega-Shantae fully becomes Shantae's opposite, as she showcases her personality in her short speech to Shantae's friends (see quote above). In her speech, Nega-Shantae states her utter distaste for Shantae's friends and otherwise any being she considers weak and pathetic (which could likely be every creature in Sequin Land) and shows sadistic tendencies when she orders them to beg for their lives. Nega-Shantae later gets pleasure from seeing the defeated and desperate Shantae beg her not to hurt her friends, to which she responds by reminding Shantae that she has absolutely no control of her actions and that she is completely helpless to stop her and has therefore failed her friends and family.

Powers and Abilities[]

As a full genie, Nega-Shantae possesses all of Shantae's transformations, but with much greater control than the original ever did:

  • Monkey: Nega-Shantae can crawl on walls faster and jump farther than Shantae could. In Half-Genie Hero, she can even jump around in the air.
  • Elephant: Nega-Shantae can charge into her opponents and also teleport into the air to drop down on her enemies with tremendous force, something Shantae couldn't.
  • Mermaid: Nega-Shantae can jump into the air and spin around to create a barrage of water bubbles, unlike Shantae who needed to be in a body of water.
  • Crab: Nega-Shantae creates two waterfalls to climb and jumps sideways to attack with her pincers.
  • Mouse: Nega-Shantae runs around the floor and repeatedly turns back and forth to damage her enemies.
  • Spider: Nega-Shantae spins a web to the ceiling and rains down venom onto her opponent.
  • Harpy: Nega-Shantae flies around the stage to scratch her prey with her sharp talons.

However, Nega-Shantae does not use her hair or magical items to fight, as those come from Shantae's human side.

History[]

Shantae: Risky's Revenge[]

In the beginning of the game, Shantae's uncle, Mimic unwittingly unearths the Genie Lamp, a mystical device with the ability to entrap Genies and enslave them to the user's will. Before he could dispose of it before anyone learns of its purpose, the pirate queen, Risky Boots swoops in and steals it. Despite her best efforts, Shantae was unable to stop her from escaping with the lamp, and the humiliating incident gets her fired by Mayor Scuttlebut as Scuttle Town's guardian genie. Determined to prove her worth and get her job back, Shantae vows to chase after Risky to reclaim the lamp, despite Mimic forbidding her from doing so without telling her of the lamp's nature. He does tell her that in order to use the lamp's power, one must collect the Three Magic Seals, which were in the possession of the Three Barons of Sequin Land (Squid Baron, Ammo Baron and Hypno Baron)

Shantae manages to collect all three seals after confronting the barons. However, Uncle Mimic was then kidnapped by Shantae's zombie friend, Rottytops and her brothers, Abner and Poe Cadaver, who were all tricked by Risky Boots. With no other choice, Shantae gives Risky the seals needed to unlock the lamp's power. Risky then uses the power of the Genie Lamp to remove Shantae's magic, making her purely human, and then compresses and corrupts the magic into a living form: Nega-Shantae, an evil doppelganger of the original Shantae. After summoning the abomination, Risky orders it to destroy the real Shantae. In the end, Shantae manages to destroy her dark copy using nothing but her own skills and items and Nega-Shantae explodes, seemingly destroying all of Shantae's magic and rendering her human forever in the process.

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse[]

In the third game, it is revealed that after Nega-Shantae was defeated, the dark magic she was composed of was scattered all across Sequin Land. The Pirate Master, Risky's former mentor, sensed this from beyond his grave and began using it to turn all of her Tinkerbats into Cacklebats to terrorize the land. However, Shantae and Risky teamed up and worked together to defeat all of them and then absorb the dark magic they had in them using the very same lamp that Risky used to steal Shantae's magic in the first place.

During the final battle, the Pirate Master holds Risky Boots hostage and makes a deal with Shantae to give him all the dark magic she had collected on her journey in exchange for Risky's life. Shantae reluctantly agreed to this, but by doing so, the dark magic was purified back into light magic, which Shantae absorbed back into her body, transforming her back into a half-genie and enabling her to defeat the Pirate Master once and for all.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero[]

In the fourth game, Uncle Mimic had discovered blueprints for a Dynamo which would've helped Shantae defend Scuttle Town, only to have it stolen by one of Risky Boots' Tinkerbats. Shantae was able to defeat Risky and seemingly recover the blueprints, and then go on a quest to recover more parts to complete the device. Towards the end of the game, Shantae gives Uncle Mimic the final components required to finish the Dynamo, but upon activating the machine, it began running rampant and blasts Shantae with dark magic, corrupting her into Nega-Shantae. Risky then appears and reveals she had actually swapped the real blueprints with her own plans for a device that can turn any light magic into dark, which she planned to use to take control of the Genie Realm and conquer Sequin Land. Risky then makes her exit with the Dynamo, leaving Shantae's friends and family to deal with Nega-Shantae.

After Risky's departure, Nega Shantae violently threatens to destroy Mimic, Sky, Bolo, and Rottytops, referring to them as maggots as she does so. However, Shantae's true personality conflicted with Nega-Shantae's, causing her to fall unconscious. A portal opens into Shantae's mind and Sky, Bolo, and Rottytops go into it to help their friend. Shantae uses the last of her strength to let her friends relive her memories of the day; her harrowing adventures throughout Sequin Land. To try and stop Shantae's friends from going further, Nega-Shantae recreates the other villains Shantae fought to destroy them. Ultimately this fails, and the trio track Shantae and Nega-Shantae into the darkest recesses of their shared mind, where Nega-Shantae separates them in order to weaken them. As the heroes reunite, Nega-Shantae then attempts to demoralize them by making Shantae vanish before them, claiming to have erased her completely. But this fails as the three friends face off against the evil genie in one last battle in honor of their fallen friend.

Nega-Shantae survives the battle, but Sky, Bolo, and Rottytops have bought enough time to find Shantae's fading consciousness. The three friends then reach out to Shantae and encourage her to regain control by reminding her of her greatest qualities; Sky reminds Shantae of her loyalty and honesty, Bolo of her strength and courage, and Rottytops of her kindness and compassion. With all her friends supporting her, Shantae's love was able to overpower Nega-Shantae's hatred and the dark magic dissipates from her body, seemingly destroying the evil inversion for good. Afterwards, Shantae travels to Risky's hideout and destroys the machine that corrupted her in the first place, thus releasing the Genie Realm from the pirate queen's control and erasing any chance of Nega-Shantae's return.

Trivia[]

  • Nega-Shantae is never referred to by her name until Half-Genie Hero.
  • Nega-Shantae has the same color scheme as her creator, Risky Boots.
  • In the Kickstarter for Half-Genie Hero, one of the stretch goals was to feature Nega Shantae in the A Dish Best Served Cold Chapter, in which she served as an enemy. However, the Kickstarter was left 50,000 dollars short, resulting in Nega-Shantae only appearing in the game briefly.
  • The speech from Nega Shantae to Shantae's friends cements Nega Shantae as quite possibly the darkest character in the entire series, as not even the likes of Risky, Hypno Baron and the Pirate Master show such a strong desire to hurt and destroy the lives of others.
  • Nega-Shantae shares her battle theme with the Dynamo when she is fought in Half-Genie Hero in the Friends to the End sub-game.
  • In the DLC episodes Pirate Queen's Quest and Friends to the End, Shantae and Nega-Shantae share the same boss battle AI and patterns.

Navigation[]

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Pirates
Risky Boots | Tinkerbats | Pirate Master

The Barons of Sequin Land
Squid Baron | Hypno Baron | Ammo Baron | Techno Baron | Armor Baron

The Seven Sirens
Empress Siren | Water Lily Siren | Coral Siren | Tubeworm Siren | Angler Fish Siren | Octo Siren

Other
Nega-Shantae | Twitch and Vinegar | Holly Lingerbean

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