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NOTE: This article is about Voltes V: Legacy character. For the original character from the 1977 anime, see Katherine Rii.

Zandra is a major antagonist of the Filipino live-action series Voltes V: Legacy. She was portrayed by Leizel Lopez. who also currently plays Shaira in Asawa ng Asawa Ko (internationally known as My Husband's Wife in English).

She is based on Katherine Rii from the original 1977 anime. Like Zardoz with Heinel, Zandra's characterization would deviate from her 70s counterpart.

Personality[]

Like most Boazanians, Zandra views herself as superior to humans and takes pleasure in hurting them. She as a penchant for cruelty, such as ordering the death of Mary Ann Armstrong after correctly surmising that she must be important to Big Falcon and the human resistance. The only people she shows kindness and empathy to her are fellow Boazanians. Zandra is particularly kind, affectionate, endlessly fond of and devoted to Zardoz. She is in love with him and wants to protect him at any cost.

Biography[]

Zandra was assigned to Zardoz after his uncle, Zambojil, sent him on a mission to invade Earth as they were sheltering his disgraced brother Baron Hrothgar, who leaked Boazanian technology secrets to the Earthlings. She was one of the three aides assigned to him, the others being Draco and Zuhl.

Zardoz and Zandra fall in love and sleep together, and Zandra vows to always protect him. She foils an assassination plot against him by spying on a conversation between Zuhl and Zambojil.

Zardoz often sent beast fighters to terrorize earth and devastate the planet into submission, but they were repelled by a robot known as Voltes V. To weaken Voltes V, Zardoz sent a spy named Judalah to find out the names and identities of the pilots. While Judalah was initially loyal to Zardoz, as he had her sister held hostage and promised to free her if Judalah obeyed his orders, she changed sides when she fell in love with one of the pilots, Bert Armstrong. Judalah would then try to sabotage Zardoz's mission by feeding him fake information about the pilots.

Eventually Judalah rebels against Zardoz and attempts to assassinate him. However, Zandra protects Zardoz by generating deflective shields. Judalah uses Zuhl as a shield against Zandra's attacks, but Zandra shoots anyway and Zuhl ends up being shot in the groin. Zandra manages to wound Judalah, but Judalah uses her stolen blaster to shoot the door and temporarily lock it. Judalah has a wrist device that allows her to be teleported to the Boazanian base where she delivers her report to Prince Zardoz of her findings on Earth and uses this to get away from Zandra.

Zardoz and Zandra

Zuhl attempts to assassinate Zardoz but is caught in the act; to repent he leads the Voltes team into a trap that ends with them being sent to Skull Ship. Zardoz announces his desire to present the heroes as gifts to Zambojil and they duel against him, Draco and Zandra. Later, the Voltes team manage to escape.

Zardoz gives Zuhl the chance to redeem himself by killing himself with a dagger, but Zuhl tries to kill Zardoz. Zardoz then drives the dagger into Zuhl.

With the loss of Zuhl, Zambojil sends General Oslak in his stead. Oslak is introduced to Zardoz when he sends a meteor shower to Earth. He then belligerently appears at the Skull Ship. Draco is suspicous of him and the two duel, with Oslak winning. When Zardoz enters, Oslak pays respect to him and takes off his helmet, telling him he is sent by Zambojil to help him win against Voltes V. He introduces his special armour to Zardoz, Zandra and Draco and insists they can defeat Voltes V. He sends Beast Fighter Okozenia to prove this, but it ends with Voltes V winning thanks to the Mechanical Eagle's interference.

Oslak frequently insults Draco and Zandra because he has Zambojil's favour. Zandra is suspicious of him tells Zardoz that he could be a spy just like Zuhl but Zardoz is angered and tells her to be quiet, threatening her with his sword. Zandra is proven right and Oslak kneels and begs for forgiveness after confessing that he was sent to kill him and that Zambojil promised him his position if he did. Zardoz forgives him; Zandra and Draco do not. Oslak continues to belittle them while sucking up to Zardoz, while still scheming to dispose of the Prince.

Oslak at one point invents a mind-control device, a ring that controls anyine who possess it, and uses it to attempt to rape Zandra. However, the scientists of Skull Ship had been talking about this invention, which Zardoz overheard. He enters the room and shoots at Oslak, before telling him that if he ever tries to molest Zandra again, he will kill him himself. Oslak heeds this warning.

Zandra is hurt by the idea that Zardoz prefers Oslak to her and pilots a ship on her own, hoping to prove her worth to Zardoz. She discovers Steve, lands the ship, and tries to kill him. However, Steve has the upper hand in the fight and is about to kill her when Zardoz (who learned of Zandra's rogue behaviour) intervenes and challenges Steve to a fight. Steve and Zardoz duelled at a playground, and Steve proclaimed that he was going to kill him (while Kenichi told Heinel that he was carrying the will of millions of Earthlings) and stabbed him with the dagger Rozalia gifted him. Zardoz's guards then arrived and shot at Steve until he ran away. Back at the Skull Ship, Zardoz yells at Zandra for causing the situation.

Oslak uses his mind control device on Jamie Robinson by leaving the ring on the beach while she's collecting seashells. Jamie, under his control, steals a rover and attacks several Big Falcon guards, while killing the ones protecting her father, Commander Oscar Robinson. She tries to kill her father but he has her in lock and removes the ring. Once Oslak finds out his plan failed, he shoots Commander Oscar Robinson. Oslak then mysteriously disappears.

Zardoz is frustrated and desires a new strategy. Emperor Zambojil sends his chief researcher, Marquise Zaki, to help Zardoz. While introducing herself to him, Zaki gets touchy and flirtatious with Zardoz, which makes Zandra very jealous. However Zardoz rebuffs her advances and admonishes her for the unimpressiveness of her underlings Takeo and Arisa. Though she presented them as powerful warriors that could defeat Voltes V, he considers them an embarassment and walks out of the room in frustration.

Marquise Zaki dispatches Takeo and Arisa to kidnap Little Jon Armstrong, the youngest member of the Voltes team. Takeo and Arisa disguise themselves as humans and try to take Jon hostage, but other Camp Big Falcon personnel come to his aid. While Jon tries to use his invisibility device to hide himself, he is still discovered and then kidnapped. Dr. Hook then regretfully informs the Voltes team that Jon has been taken hostage.

Steve, Mark, Bert and Jamie look for Jon, and then fall into a trap set up by the Boazanians. The trap leads them to a stage constructed by Zaki. Bert realizes that the stage has a force field around it, meaning they can't escape. Feeling hopeless, Mark angrily insults Jon and blames him for being kidnapped. Steve angrily retorts that it isn't his fault, but Mark repeats his claim that the Armstrong brothers are magnets for misfortune. Steve then tries to hit Mark, but Jamie intervenes, only to get injured in the process by Steve, causing her to fall. Both boys are horrified and apologize to her, feeling ashamed. Jamie scolds them both, reminding them that she's just been discharged from the hospital and forced herself out of the ward to save Jon. The four then hear laughter, coming from none other than Marquise Zaki. She calls their fight entertaining.

The four begin attacking Zaki's guards, but when Steve turns a gun on Zaki, she threatens Jon by holding a knife to his neck. Steve, Bert and Jamie surrender and drop their weapons but Mark refuses. Mark loads his gun anyway, pointing it at Zaki despite her pressing the knife further, until Steve wrestles the gun out of his hands. Zaki then releases Jon and he reunites with the Voltes team.

Zaki and her guards then lead the four into another room, where they are observed by Horned Boazanian nobles. Zaki announces that they are to spar with Takeo and Arisa for their entertainment. The Voltes team underestimate the twins, with Bert saying they're not Beast Fighters so they don't stand a chance. Before the fight, Takeo and Arisa ask the Voltes team of the fate of General Watson. Steve tells them that he's dead and he gave his life for the good Boazanian rebels. Takeo is dumbstruck, whispering to Arisa "Our adoptive father is gone....". Arisa, however, is skeptic and calls Steve a liar. Marquise Zaki chides them for talking and says that they must send two fighters from their team to battle Takeo and Arisa one-on-one. Jamie says that she will fight Arisa, and Bert decides to fight Takeo.

Meanwhile, Prince Zardoz asks Zandra and Draco where Marquise Zaki has gone. They both say they have no idea. Zardoz expresses frustration at the fact that when his uncle sent him aides, both disappeared suddenly - first General Oslak, and now Marquise Zaki. However, Draco was suspicious of Zaki and had a soldier tail her before she left. The soldier reveals to Draco, Zandra and Zardoz that Marquise Zaki is having the Voltes team battle Takeo and Arisa, which is directly against what Zardoz ordered. Zardoz finally loses faith in his uncle and accuses him of trying to replace his position.

Relationships[]

Zardoz[]

Zandra and Zardoz love each other, and he gives her affectionate nicknames. Zandra is extremely protective of Zardoz, eavesdropping on the conversations of his associates to ensure they aren't plotting against Zardoz. After Zandra tells her he has all her loyalty they kiss.

When she learns that Zardoz has a spy in Camp Big Falcon (who happens to be female), she gets jealous and asks Zuhl about her.

Every time Zardoz fails a mission, his uncle Zambojil berates him and calls him weak, which hurts him as he greatly looks up to Zambojil. In actuality, Zambojil views him as a threat to the throne, and secretly sent Zuhl to sabotage him on purpose and ensure he loses all his battles against Voltes V to humiliate his name amongst the Boazanian Empire. However, Zandra uncovered this plot while eavesdropping in one of Zuhl's calls with Zambojil. When Zandra informs Zardoz of the truth, he is shaken and upset as he draws his sword at her even when she is willing to risk her life of standing by her word that it is true.

Zuhl, Zandra and Zardoz

Even though their relationship started off as sweet, as Zandra's Beast Fighters kept scoring nothing but losses against Voltes V, Zardoz became enraged and began to treat Zandra differently. He would often yell at her and Draco, threatening them with punishment over their losses and calling them "invalid". Zandra internalized the verbal abuse Zardoz gave her and wept to Draco that they were both indeed "invalids". Draco told her that they were not invalid and comforted her.

Zuhl[]

Zandra and Zuhl are close friends and constantly talk amongst each other. Zuhl ships her with Zardoz. However, Zandra was shocked when she spied on Zuhl and Zambojil's conversation and he admitted to wanting to harm Zardoz.

Before Zuhl died, he begged his comrades to stand up for him, physically grabbing them as he was on his knees. Both Zandra and Draco stared at him with disgust and didn't feel bad when he was executed by Zardoz himself.

Development[]

In "Armstrong Brothers", Zandra is wearing a white dress with large skirt and a veil when facing punishment from Zardos after Vaizanger's defeat by Voltes V. It is a nod to Katherine's default outfit.

Differences[]

  • Zandra and Zardoz are more affectionate. She asks him to nickname her "Najmi" (the Boazanian word for "Star"), and is implied to be in love with her from the start of the series. However in the original anime, Heinel doesn't realize his love for Katherine until she dies protecting him.
  • In Voltes V: Legacy, Zardoz and Zandra are shown to be cooperative. However in the original anime, they never piloted together, instead taking turns, and there were many instances Heinel forbidding Katherine from engaging in battle despite her asking him to let her.
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Zandra and Zardoz kiss

  • Katherine hints her love for Heinel but doesn't state it outright until the series finale, but here, Zardoz and Zandra are already in love and kiss.
  • Heinel had unwavering trust in Katherine and she was his closest confidant. In Voltes V: Legacy, Zardoz asks Zandra if he can trust her.
  • Zandra wears a headpiece, while Katherine never wore one.
    • Katherine's clothing was inspired by the aesthetics of 1700-1800s France, as Boazania in the original Voltes V anime took inspiration from France during the French revolution (and it's director, Tadao Nagahuma, also directed Rose of Versailles). However in Voltes V: Legacy, all the French influences on her clothing have been removed.
  • Zardoz refers to Zandra as "general", while Heinel never addressed Katherine as such in the original anime.
  • She views Zuhl as a close friend, but in the original anime, Katherine hated him.
  • Zandra has the ability to generate deflector shields, something Katherine doesn't have.
  • In her death in original anime Katherine was blocking Heinel for shoot him, but in live-action remake Zandra was shot by Zambojil.

Quotes[]

I offer you all my loyalty.
~ Zandra when Zardoz asks her if he can trust her

Skills[]

  • Espionage: She often spies on people and is skilled at hiding in plain sight.
  • Shields: Zandra can generate deflector shields.

Trivia[]

  • The change of making Zardoz and Zandra always in love was received negatively by some fans, who felt that Heinel and Katherine's tragic romance was more impactful.
    • The scene of Zardoz and Zandra revealed to be sleeping together in Episode 18 incited major controversy and caused memes to circulate online about how Voltes V: Legacy was a hentai/ecchi and how Zardoz and Zandra were horny. Even Christian Vasquez, the actor for Zambojil, weighed in on it by joking that "Zardoz used up his energy for a different battle, that's why he had no energy left for Voltes V.".[1][2]

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The Boazanian Empire (Voltes V: Legacy)
Emperor Zu Zambajil (Voltes V: Legacy)
Prince Zardoz (Voltes V: Legacy)
Zandra (Voltes V: Legacy)
Zuhl (Voltes V: Legacy)
Draco (Voltes V: Legacy)
Baron Zander (Voltes V: Legacy)
Judalah (Voltes V: Legacy)
General Oslak (Voltes V: Legacy)
Marquise Zaki (Voltes V: Legacy)
Takeo and Arisa (Voltes V: Legacy)

Human villains
Eva Sanchez (Voltes V: Legacy)

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