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Miyoko

  • Boyish Short Hair: Her hairstyle in all the adaptations (manga, original anime, remake) doesn't go past her ear.
  • Cute Bruiser: She can kick plenty of ass in animal form.
  • Defiant to the End: After the heroes' first confrontation against Demaon goes south, with all their flung darts hitting Demaon and harmlessly falling off, Demaon gloats at their efforts to kill him as everyone else starts going Mass "Oh, Crap!"... except Miyoko, who draws her sword and charges at Demaon.
    "Even if you're invincible, I'll still take you down!"
  • Dub Name Change: Some dubs refers to her as "Luna".
  • Forced Transformation: Was cursed by the forces of evil into becoming a cat (original manga, anime) or a mouse (remake).
  • Magical Accessory: Her necklace amplifies her powers, and she can create a sword in an instant from the gem in the middle.
  • Magical Girl: She could very well be the protagonist of an independent magical girl show instead of a supporting character in a Doraemon movie.
  • Magic Knight: Good with using her magic and her sword to kick ass and slaughter demons.
  • Missing Mom: Her mother seems to have died prior to the events of the film. The remake however added a new plot thread, that Demaon's henchwoman, Medusa, is actually Miyoko's mother who sold her soul to save Miyoko as a child, and was turned into a demoness for her troubles.
  • Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Miyoko Mangetsu, or "Beautiful Night Child of the Full Moon".
  • Related in the Adaptation: In the remake, at least, where Medusa is her mother.
  • Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: Only in the remake (the manga and original movie doesn't show), where Miyoko as a child is Delicate and Sickly, to the point where her mother sold her soul in exchange for nursing her health to normal. In the present Miyoko is a capable fighter, magician and powerful demon-slayer.
  • Strapped to an Operating Table: Variant, she's strapped to a long slab in the demons' kitchen as a demon chef prepares to slice her up for dinner. But Doraemon and Nobita arrives with gadgets intervening the preparations before saving everyone.

Mr. Mangetsu

  • Badass in Distress: When he gets captured alive by demons. He managed to save his daughter Miyoko, but not enough to prevent the transformation spell from affecting her.
  • Big Good: Miyoko's father and one of the leading authorities in the study of magical arts, and one of the most powerful wizards in the alternate-verse.
  • Papa Wolf: Having lost his wife in the past, he's adament to see to it that no harm comes to his daughter Miyoko.

Demaon

  • Achilles' Heel: His sole weakness is his heart, but trying to hit it is harder than it sounds - because it's NOT in his body!
  • Attack on the Heart: His sole weak spot. Which is located in outer space.
  • Big Bad: The powerful demon overlord who wants to enslave all of mankind, and leads his armies to invade the human world.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: The first confrontation between the heroes and Demaon have the demon inflicting a one-sided stomping on everyone, sending them over a balcony and scattered all over his palace.
  • Evil Is Bigger: He towers above all the heroes when they first confront him in his throne room. But then again, Nobita and gang are 12-years-old, and Miyako is a cat (or mouse, in the remake).
  • Evil Is Burning Hot: He's depicted as a demon shrouded in fire.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: The anime adaptations (both of them) give him a booming voice when he threatens the heroes.
  • Horns of Villainy: He have these in all incarnations, with the remake giving him burning horns.

Medusa

  • Adaptational Attractiveness: Went from a bone-thin, horrifying-looking abomination (complete with a skull-like face and permanent Ghostly Gape) in the original manga and anime, to a Gorgeous Gorgon in the remake.
  • Ascended Extra: She's in one scene in the earlier stories. The remake fleshes out more of Medusa's backstory and gives her additional scenes from beginning to the end.
  • Creepy Long Fingers: She have these in the manga and original anime, which makes her one of the spookiest-looking enemies in the Doraemon franchise. The remake removes these altogether besides making her more human-like to make her more tragic and relatable.
  • Dangerous Forbidden Technique: While searching for a spell to save Miyoko, she comes across a grimoire containing knowledge regarding the dark arts, which her husband, Mr. Mangetsu, forbids her to touch, saying it's too powerful and beyond her control. Unfortunately, she didn't listen.
  • Deal with the Devil: What she did in the past to save her daughter. It doesn't end well for her.
  • The Dragon: To Demaon in the remake, but not so much in the original manga and anime where she's just a slightly higher-ranked demon mook.
  • Gorgeous Gorgon: The remake gives her more human-like features and removes her skeletal appearance. Not the original however, she's hideous in the manga and earlier anime.
  • Related in the Adaptation: The remake added the twist that Medusa was Miyoko's biological mother, who was cursed into becoming a demoness after selling her soul to Demaon.
  • Taken for Granite: Befitting a villainess based on the Gorgon, she can petrify her targets, doing so to Doraemon and Nobita as they tried fleeing from her through time.
  • Tragic Villain: She used to be a human woman with a family that loves her, until her daughter Miyoko starts suffering from an illness which could only be cured by magic. With nothing to lose, she willingly allows herself to be cursed in order to save her daughter, and becomes a demoness serving Demaon.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: She just somehow dissappears in the manga and original anime after petrifying Nobita and Doraemon, and doesn't show up for the rest of the story. The remake averts it, however.


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