Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon
| Name: | Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon |
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| Name (kanji/kana): | セーラー・ヘヴィ・メタル・パピヨン |
| Alignment: | Shadow Galactica |
| Species: | Humanoid alien |
| Gender: | Female |
| Lives: | Planet Cocoon |
| Occupation: | Sailor Animamates |
| Family: | One child (unnamed) |
| Associates: | The Sailor Animamates, Sailor Galaxia (leader) |
| Aliases: | N/A |
| First Anime Appearance: | N/A |
| First Manga Appearance: | Stars 7 |
| First PGSM Appearance: | N/A |
| English Name: | N/A |
| Actors: | N/A |
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| Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon |
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon was the fifth and last Animamate to appear in Sailor Moon. She appeared very briefly in Stars 7, and also appeared in a couple of the musicals.
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Background
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon was known as the Soul Hunter. Like the other Animamates, she sought out Star Seeds, but she also buried them in her graveyard. Whatever essences escaped them then transformed into butterflies, fluttering off into oblivion.
Sailor Moon, Princess Kakyuu, and Sailor Chibi Chibi encountered her just after the deaths of the Sailor Starlights. As they watched the butterflies overhead, a mysterious Sailor Senshi with wings explained that the butterflies were what remained of the Sailor Senshi captured by Sailor Galaxia, and that it was her job to help extinguish the remains. Behind her was a graveyard where a funeral procession was going on. To everyone's shock, they discovered that the Sailor Starlights' graves had appeared there.
Before the group could properly mourn, the mysterious Sailor Senshi pointed them to another set of graves being dug - their own. She then summoned forth vines to trap Sailor Moon, Princess Kakyuu and Sailor Chibi Chibi, introduced herself as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon, and attacked them with fire to extract their Sailor Crystals. Before they were burned to death, however, Sailor Chibi Chibi summoned Sailor Chibi Moon and the Sailor Quartet from Earth. With Sailor Chibi Moon's Pink Ladies Freezing Kiss and the Quartet's Amazoness Jungle Arrow, Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon was obliterated.
Powers
- Galactica Scales - A powerful fire-based attack. She used this to melt the bodies of her victims in order to scatter their remains or perform their funerals. (The name of this attack was given in the Materials Collection; it was unnamed in the manga.)
Appearance
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon wore a purple bikini top with a stone-like pattern that had black lining in the interior. Her bottoms were purple and black with a translucent pink skirt. Her collar and neckband were both purple. She wore purple gloves that started at her upper arms and ended at her wrists, showing off her purple manicure. She also wore her golden bracelets. Her boots were thigh-high and black with purple tops. She had wings made to resemble a butterfly in five colors; blue, black, yellow, pink, and purple. She had purple wavy hair and her tiara was pink with a gold star.
Musicals
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| Keiko Endou as Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon |
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon was a character in the musicals Starlights - Ryuusei Densetsu and Kakyuu-Ouhi Kourin - The Second Stage Final, the 2003 Summer and 2004 Winter Specials respectively. Like the other Sailor Animamates, she posed as a member of the Dancing Animamates, an "International Dancing Team." She went by the name "Miss Butterfly" and was described as being "in charge of the opera." She was played by Keiko Endou.
Costume
Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon's costume was mostly identical to the manga, the only differences being that her skirt was a solid pink and was lengthened. Plus all the portions that were purple were slightly darker.
Notes
Materials Collection
While Heavy Metal Papillon's appearance in the manga was brief, the publication of the Materials Collection gave readers more information about her than had previously been known. Amongst other things, it was revealed that the character's name was originally just "Sailor Metal Papillon."
Unlike the other Animamates, no planet of origin or attack name had been given for Papillon, but the Collection states that Heavy Metal Papillon came from the planet Cocoon (and it is generally assumed that she also usurped the power of Sailor Cocoon). The name given to her attack was "Galactica Scales."
The Collection also gives several other, more personal facts about Papillon that were not revealed for the other Animamates. It is stated that she was very emotional, was very sexual, was a samba dancer, and even had one (unnamed) child, thus making her the only Sailor Senshi known to have a child in canon besides Sailor Moon.
Name Symbolism
In keeping with the Animamate tradition of being named after metals, the reference in Papillon's name is "heavy metal," an old and now deprecated term in chemistry referring to a large group of metallic elements.
"Papillon" is the French word for butterfly. Butterflies are indicative of the soul in many cultures, and are particularly abundant in Sailor Moon canon.
