| “ | Husband. How could I have forgotten? You brought me back to life long ago. Now, come back for me | „ |
| ~ Haggar regaining her memories as Honerva. |
| “ | This is the beginning. And the end. I will end this once and for all! | „ |
| ~ Honerva destroying realities at the source of existence to end the multiverse. |
Haggar, also known by her real name Honerva, is the secondary antagonist of Voltron: Legendary Defender, serving as the secondary antagonist of the first six seasons, the overarching antagonist of Season 7, and the main antagonist of Season 8.
She is an incredibly powerful witch that served as the High Priestess and de-facto second-in-command of the Galra Empire who aided Emperor Zarkon in trying to harvest the living energy called quintessence of the universe. Unbeknownst to most including herself, she was once the kind-hearted Altean scientist and wife of Zarkon, Honerva, whose obsession with quintessence corrupted her and caused the events of the series. She is the most consistent threat in the series and the archenemy of Princess Allura.
Her Evil Ranking[]
Debated Validations[]
- While she started out with moral agency issues like her husband due to being reborn and corrupted from overexposure to pure quintessence and possible possession by the dark entities along with losing her memory, not only does she regain her memory but her trip to Oriande frees her of the corruption of quintessence and allows her to reclaim her identity as Honerva yet she decides to remain a villain regardless. In short, while she was initially amoral, she gained full moral agency and chose to continue being a villain and became even more heinous after gaining it.
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
- She murdered the original paladins excluding Alfor and had them all trapped and cursed within her mind to act as guardians for over 10,000 years.
- She murdered the doctor Zarkon sent to go check on her and adopted her name, Haggar.
- She used her magic to imbue Emperor Zarkon with quintessence for 10,000 years and assisted him in conquering nearly the entire universe, leading the mystical order of the Galra Empire called the Druids in harnessing quintessence, experimenting, and torturing captives.
- She sensed the return of the Blue Lion and Princess Allura’s awakening from stasis, informing Zarkon and contacting Sendak to go capture Allura and the Voltron lions.
- She turned living beings into horrific robeast abominations to send out to kill the paladins and capture Voltron.
- She created the dark magic superweapon called the komar and used it to drain the quintessence of an entire planet in seconds, destroying all life on the planet and turning it into a lifeless wasteland.
- She used the komar to send a burst of dark magic just as the heroes escaped Galra Central Command through a wormhole, causing the wormhole to collapse and the paladins to be separated and stranded while trapping Allura and Coran in a time loop.
- She made Prorok suffer in her own words, a fate worse than death, by turning him into a mindless robeast abomination even though she knew he was innocent of shutting down the perimeter that allowed Voltron to escape Galra Central Command and sent him to destroy the Galra resistance group called the Blade of Marmora outpost which would force Ulaz, the man who rescued Shiro from Galra captivity, to sacrifice himself to save Team Voltron.
- She used her dark magic to allow Zarkon to sense the Black Lion from galaxies away so they could relentlessly hunt down Team Voltron.
- She constructed Zarkon’s battle armor to counter Voltron and notably had test subjects to use the armor which by her own admission left no survivors.
- She set a trap for the Blade of Marmora spy within the Galra Empire and successfully discovered it was Lieutenant Thace and tortured him to try and pry out information. She would have the access codes and Galra protocol changed and went out to kill a freed Thace and Keith in the power station which would force Thace to sacrifice himself to shut down the power and save Keith.
- She used the komar to draw the quintessence out from Voltron, rendering Voltron lifeless during the climatic final battle between him and Zarkon.
- She recovered a comatose Zarkon and had Prince Lotor summoned to take control of the Galra Empire in Zarkon’s absence and eventually healed Zarkon.
- She created a clone of Shiro called Kuron following Shiro’s death to infiltrate Team Voltron and impersonate Shiro from Season 3 through 6. What’s worse is the clone was an unwitting pawn in the whole scheme and had no idea he was actually serving her.
- She seemingly possessed one of Lotor’s generals to learn of his obtainment of a trans-reality comet and inform Zarkon in order to hunt down and kill Lotor and brand him as an enemy of the state in a message to the universe to kill Lotor.
- She activated her planetary bomb Naxela which would not just wipe out Voltron and the entire resistance but also destroy all life within a 10 solar system radius, killing trillions.
- She used Sendak as her puppet to try to take control of the Galra Empire at the Kral Zera but abandoned Sendak to die once Team Voltron attacked the Kral Zera and the Galra Empire collapsed into chaos.
- She had Lotor’s former generals break into the Castle of Lions to steal the quintessence field traveling Sincline ships and brainwashed Kuron and drove him insane to knock out Team Voltron, plant a kill code to destroy the Castle of Lions and kidnap an unconscious Lotor. She would then have Kuron lead Keith away and have a really psychologically abusive battle with Keith and use Keith’s strong relationship with Shiro against him with the stress of the battle ultimately killing Kuron. Operation Kuron would traumatize and personally impact Team Voltron into thinking their leader was a spy who tried to kill them all with no remorse and especially scar Keith.
- Following Lotor’s escape, she would send Commander Mar to track his whereabouts and once she found a comatose Mar, she tortured the info that Lotor and (seemingly) Voltron had died out of Mar which killed him and called forth the Kral Zera to use a spell to kill nearly all of the remaining Galra warlords, blaming the Galra Empire for failing Lotor. She would then discover the Altean colony Lotor had built and manipulated them into fanatically worshiping her and lied about their sister’s colony death being from Voltron when that “colony” was just a harvesting farm of quintessence from Alteans by Lotor. She would then travel to Oriande with them and have them turn Oriande into their base of operations, and construct Komar like mechs to counter Voltron and absorb quintessence, sending one led by the most fanatical servant Luca to kill Voltron and attack Earth with a self-destruct sequence when Voltron beat her which would destroy half of Earth and repeatedly sending more to destroy numerous planets including the Voltron Coalition's capital Olkarion with her having dark entities possess the Alteans to kill them if they were captured. Ultimately, her goal as Allura figured out was to use the Olkari cubes to immensely magnify the quintessence drained from planets by her mech soldiers to construct a massive Komar powerful enough to not just drain the quintessence of (destroy) an entire galaxy but rip the fabric of reality and time itself to bring back Lotor’s dead body and mech from the quintessence field and defeat Voltron, and had no remorse when it killed one of her own Altean soldiers.
- She tried to corrupt Allura and forced her to retreat lest she would have Lotor’s mech kill the other paladins and launched her base out of Oriande in a process that caused Oriande to be destroyed.
- She drained much fo the Atlas mech and the Balmera’s quintessence to fuse her mech with Lotor’s mech in order to pierce through realities to find the perfect one even though this would destroy all realities she traveled through.
- In the finale, after she finds the reality she is looking for but her husband and son reject her, she decides to destroy the multiverse if there is no place for her, going to the void of beginning of time and space where all reality strands are to successfully destroy all of them except one, giving her the highest body count in the series. Even though this eventually gets reversed, it still has an immense impact especially since one of the main characters, Allura, had to sacrifice herself to undo the damage done.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She is too tragic to qualify as NPE.
- She was once an altruistic and kind-hearted scientist who dedicated her life to helping countless species across the universe but whose experiments with the mysterious quintessence energy caused her to start dying and eventually get reborn and corrupted from overexposure when Zarkon tried to save her with her losing all her memories of herself and family. However, she feels terrible after regaining her memory about her husband and her true identity as the Altean Honerva which is taken even further when she remembers she was the mother of Lotor (just as Lotor killed Zarkon no less) and that she missed out Lotor’s entire childhood which makes her feel terrible and become desperate in trying to reunite with him and reclaim her identity as Honerva.
- Once she reclaimed her identity and revealed to Lotor that she was his mother and felt sorry for not being there for him since she was amnesiac and corrupted, he rejected her as an abomination and had his generals betray her and try to kill her which caused her a lot of pain and forced her to retreat/escape. However, right after that she tried to find Lotor again and reconcile with him only to learn that Lotor died in a fight with Voltron.
- While she did want to avenge her son’s death and take down the Galra Empire for failing him, ultimately her true goal was to travel between realities (even though it would destroy the realities she traveled through) to find an alternate reality version of her family that she could be with and start over. Once she finally found the reality she was looking for though, those versions of her son and husband rejected her which caused her to snap and believe life was nothing but endless suffering and deserved to end.
- She has major insecurities as after regaining some of her memories, she would constantly look at her true form when she was alone before hiding away when others came and would become obsessed with regaining all her memories and reclaiming her identity as Honerva and reuniting with her family to start over and find her place in the universe.
- She showed genuine care for several people:
- She cares and loved her husband and son and even before she regained her memories, she was genuinely loyal to Zarkon and constantly worried about his well-being and ended up saving him after he was severely wounded by his climatic final battle with Voltron.
- She also had a pet the dog moment with a child Lotor prior to regaining her memories where she initially cold to Lotor when he asked what the name of her cat was but felt a little bad and upon remembering her cat was named Kova, she told him. Of course, her main motivation upon regaining full moral agency is to reunite with her family and have a life together and she admitted to Allura that Lotor was genuinely happy with Allura and that he deserved a much better life than she could give.
- She also cared about her pet cat Kova.
- She redeemed herself after Allura reminds her of the hero she was once and how Lotor had (albeit in a misguided way) wanted to preserve life which makes her have tears of remorse and apologise and after being convinced by Allura, she sacrifices herself with Allura in order to undo the destruction of the multiverse, being happily reunited with the spirits of her husband and son like she always wanted as they accompanied her to the afterlife.
Trivia[]
- She alongside her husband Emperor Zarkon are the only Voltron: Legendary Defender villains to be Inconsistently Heinous.
External Links[]
- Haggar on the Villains Wiki
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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