Background
Medusa (冥界女王メデューサ Meikai Joō Medyūsa, "Underworld Queen Medusa") is the Goddess of Darkness, and former co-ruler of Angel Land. After her constant torment to humanity, she was banished by Palutena to the depths of the Underworld where she was left to suffer. However, she had managed to take control over the Underworld Army and began to plot her revenge against the world, leading to events of the Original Kid Icarus game.
During her first attack on Skyworld, she had successfully defeated Palutena's army and locked away Pit, not knowing that Palutena still had a telepathic connection to Pit. After Pit's escape, successful acquisition of the Three Sacred Treasures, and the defeat of Medusa, she was nothing more than a disembodied consciousness left untouched for 25 years.
After her unexpected return, Medusa once again plotted to defeat Palutena with an unsuccessful invasion, only this time it was revealed who was truly pulling the strings behind the Underworld invasion after Medusa's defeat. Through willpower, Medusa managed to reform her body and save Pit after her rebellion against the true master of the Underworld, which resulted in her destruction once again, and is currently deceased in the Kid Icarus universe.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At least 6-B | At least 6-B, possibly higher
Origin: Kid Icarus
Gender: Female
Age: Physically a young adult, chronologically unknown (Gods consider centuries to be a short time)
Classification: Goddess, Goddess of Darkness, Co-Leader of the Underworld Army and originally Skyworld
Attack Potency: At least Country level (Superior to Poseidon, who sank an entire country) | At least Country level, likely higher (Destroyed Hades' head with a punch even while weakened, who threatened to decimate a country or two)
Dimensionality: 3-D
Travel Speed At least MFTL+, likely Extra-Temporal (Being one of the most powerful beings in the series, she should be comparable to the Lightning Chariot) | At least MFTL+, likely Extra-Temporal (Faster than before, Blitzed Hades who can keep up with the Great Sacred Treasure while in pursuit mode)
Combat Speed: Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal
Reaction Speed: Extra-Temporal | Extra-Temporal
Lifting Strength: Unknown, at least Class 50, likely Class K to Class M (Should be stronger than Pit and on par with Palutena in this regard) | Unknown, at least Class 50, likely Class K to Class M (Stronger than before)
Striking Strength: At least Country Class | At least Country Class, likely Higher
Durability: At least Country level (Endured and overpowered Palutena's attacks and should be relative to other gods) | At least Country level, likely Higher (Tanked an attack from Hades while weakened)
Stamina: At least Very High, likely Limitless (Scales to lesser characters and should be on par with other gods)
Range: At least Tens of Kilometers, likely Hundreds of Kilometers (Her sheer size alone easily surpassed the clouds and took up most of Pit's viewpoint with her head alone), Galactic to Low Macroversal with more potent powers and magic (Should be on par with Hades)
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Divine Magic, Darkness Manipulation, Power Bestowal (Can grant various characters different powers, weapons, blessings, and tools), Petrification, Transmutation, and Durability Negation (Can petrify opponents and objects making them fragile and turn others into statues), Curse Manipulation and Corruption (The cursed Armor donned by Gaol was supposedly made by Medusa), Spatial Manipulation and Reality Warping (Can bend and warp her castle how she pleases), Possible Limited Omnipresence (Should be like Hades who is who is anywhere and everywhere in the Underworld), Self-Sustenance (Can breathe in space and scales to Palutena), Weapon Usage (While not shown, she should be on par with Palutena who appears to know how to use Pit's weapons in combat), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Is aware of The Player and their world), Vehicular Mastery (Like Pandora, she can pilot various vehicles), Telekinesis (Can telekinetically push people and objects back. Can use Guardian Orbitars which are telekinetically operated), Astral Projection (More powerful gods can create a noncorporeal projections of themselves that can fight in the place of the physical body), Passive Power Nullification (All gods have the power to cancel out the magical abilities of other gods even if they're stronger [granted some gods can still overrule this and use their magic regardless]), Danmaku, Immortality (Type 1, 3, 4, 6. Medusa doesn't age and views one-hundred years as a short time. Can detach her head from her body. Will be revived by Hades), Transformation and Size Manipulation (Gods such as Palutena and Viridi are implied to have true forms incomprehensible to the human imagination and are only acting in a humanoid form. Medusa can shapeshift into a massive serpent), Regeneration (Low-Godly, possibly higher. Medusa was able to regenerate her physical body from her soul. Should be similar to gods like Pandora, who have shown the ability to regenerate from more than just her soul or consciousness), Sheer Will & Possession (Scales to Pit who can possess beings through willpower. Used her own will to regenerate her body and fight back Hades), Telepathy (All Kid Icarus characters, besides humans, can speak, sense, and track others through telepathy), Possible Memory Manipulation (Palutena implies she, and the gods, can restore Link's memory if they want to), Resurrection (Can resurrect her army like Palutena, who can do so even while she's completely drained of her strength and petrified. Medusa also resurrected herself after death), Clairvoyance and Cosmic Awareness (Can see her army in the Underworld with a power like clairvoyance. Should scale to Viridi who can see into the Chaos Vortex, which is another dimension governed by irregular laws), Immortality Negation and Soul Manipulation (Type 3, 6, and 7. Scales to Palutena whose death laser obliterated one of the Hewdraw heads and prevented it from regenerating), Extrasensory Perception, Non-Physical Interaction, and Lower Dimensional Manipulation (Can create Grind Rails which only specific people can see. Can interact and create Sinistews, which are beings who reside in a one-dimensional universe), Link Manipulation (She can create a weakpoint outside her opponent that links to an eternal source such as the heart or mind. Should be comparable to Pit and Dark Pit in this regard), Forcefield Creation (Created a barrier around her fortress similarly to Palutena), BFR and Teleportation (Should be comparable to Palutena in this regard who originally banished Medusa to the Underworld. She can teleport characters to different locations and teleport herself), Summoning and Creation (She can summon a variety of troops, vehicles, rails, food, and weapons), Death Inducement (Her powers, albeit able to grant abilities and blessings to characters, are too strong to be used for long periods of time and will kill the user after long periods of exposure. Can use the Instant Death power), Possible Wish Granting (Although not stated how, gods are said to grant wishes), Statistics Amplification (Can amplify her stats with several powers. Powers can be further amplified in potency the greater rarity they are), Transformation (Can turn into an missile that explodes on impact with the Angelic Missile power), Transmutation (Can fire a shot that transforms enemies into idols. Medusa can turn opponents into Eggplants or Tempuras through their respective bombs or by modifying his attacks), Fire and Explosion Manipulation (Can summon a sphere of explosive flames with the Explosive Flame power), Black Hole Creation (Creates a miniature black hole that pulls foes in with the Black Hole power), Attack Reflection (The Reflective Barrier power creates a wall that bounces back any projectiles that hit it) Self-Destruction (The Spite power allows Medusa and others to explode and damage any nearby opponents), Power Modification (Palutena can enhance her base attacks in several ways), Power Nullification and Power Stealing (Medusa can steal one's power rendering them powerless for a short time and can plant a beacon that disrupts opponent's powers when they get near), Life Manipulation (Can make it to where any incoming damage heals herself instead with the Libra Sponge power), Vacuum Manipulation (Can use Item Vacuum to pull in items similarly to the Black Hole power), Perception Nullification (Can render an opponent completely blind for a short while with the Darkness power), Invulnerability (Can temporarily stay invulnerable with the Brief Invincibility power), Invisibility (Can turn completely invisible in the middle of combat), Resistance to Status Effect Inducement, Poison Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Electricity Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Petrification, Mind Manipulation, Size Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, and Limited Velocity Manipulation (The Aries Armor power boosts Medusa's durability a small amount and makes her completely immune to Status Effects. Being superior to angels, she should naturally resists these status ailments), Magic, Extreme Heats (Can fight and dwells in the Underworld), Extreme Colds, Transmutation and Petrification (Should be superior to Pit. Medusa should scale to Palutena, who can petrify her body when in danger on her own, furthering that she scales to Pit), Life Force Absorption and Paralysis Inducement (Is too divine to have her life force absorbed and is not paralyzed when hit by Monoeyes), Void Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Superior to Pit whose soul can’t be stolen by Reapers and her soul can be willed back into existence. Hades can render a soul nonexistent when he eats it, which had no effect on Dark Pit, who Viridi is superior to in this regard. Palutena survived and resisted three years of having her soul eaten away which Viridi should be comparable to), Mind Manipulation (Foe's such as Cacaws attack with a piercing noise that damages the brain, which does minor damage to Medusa. The Aurum Brain was unable to take control over Medusa’s troops despite their close range to it, which hacked and mind controlled Pyrrhon), BFR (Type 2 and 3. Can escape the Sinistew's pot, which is a one-dimensional universe), Law Manipulation and Physics Manipulation (Despite the Chaos Vortex not being governed by the physical laws of the regular universe, Those Medusa scales to are unaffected by the lack of those laws), Space-Time Manipulation and Immense Pain Tolerance (The Chomp Trap bends both space and time which everyone tanks like regular attacks), One Hit Kill (Before ever dying, Medusa, along with all other divine beings, can enter Crisis Mode, preventing them from being one-shot in the first place), and Black Hole Creation (Can survive inside a black hole with no negative effects)All previous abilities. Healing (Medusa can create and eat/drink food and other healables), Duplication (The Mirror of Truth replicates whatever reflects it, which is under Medusa's control) Poison Manipulation (The [https://kidicarus.fandom.com/wiki/Viper_Blade Viper Blade and Scorpio Staff can inflict poisonous debuffs), Danmaku, Fire Manipulation (Through weapons such as the Wolf Claws), Water Manipulation and Ice Manipulation (Weapons such as the Aquarius Blade, she can mold water into sharp blades and freeze her opponents), Petrification (With the Stone Card, she can apply petrification through any of her weapons), Electricity Manipulation and Paralysis Inducement (The Electroshock Arm and Phosphora Bow have electrical properties that paralysis struck opponents), Can cause foes to shake uncontrollably with the Bluster, Mind Manipulation (The Fairy Orbitars confuse foe's when hit), Attack Nullification (Various weapons nullify incoming attacks from damaged foes), Light Manipulation (The Optical Blade has the uncanny ability to glow within the dark), Animal Manipulation (Can summon bats with the Thanatos Staff), Enhanced Movement (Weapons such as the Brawler Claws slightly boost the wearer's movement speed), Barrier Creation (Viridi can backflip with the Pandora Claws to create a protective barrier), Durability Negation and Lifeforce Drain (The Great Reaper Palm cuts an opponent's life in half), Weather Manipulation and Air Manipulation (The Babel Club creates a violent storm to continuously hit enemies), Earth Manipulation (Can fire massive destructive rocks with the Cragalanche Cannon), Plant Manipulation (Throwing a Demon Vine bomb causes a small area of thorny vines to grow and trap the opponent), Pain Manipulation, and BFR (The Chomp Trap traps the opponent in a dimension of pain that warps space and time)
Standard Equipment: None Notable
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (While her knowledge isn't as vast as Palutena or Viridi's, she's shown to be a very capable warrior and rule entire armies into war. Next to Hades, she successfully ruled all of the realms)
Weaknesses: None Notable
Key: Pre-Uprising Resurrection | Post-Uprising Resurrection
Note: Due to Sakurai being the prime developer for both Kid Icarus Uprising and Super Smash Bros., we can take Pit and co's abilities and dialogue as a secondary canon for Kid Icarus's lore since Palutena's guidance stays relative to Kid Icarus's story and even further fleshed it out.
Note 2: Palutena notes in her smash reveal trailer that anything an angel can do, a goddess can do better. This is further proven by her being responsible for most of Pit's powers and abilities and regularly granting him new and unique powers.
Note 3: Although Viridi hasn't shown the full extent of her capabilities, she states that she can do everything Palutena can and better. While the full claim can be seen as hyperbole, she does show to have a lot of the same capabilities of Palutena and provides Pit and Dark Pit with the same equipment as Palutena, so their powers and blessings shouldn't be any different.
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