Leader of a trio of witches in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door known as the Shadow Sirens, Beldam starts out a nasty streak by verbally insulting her younger sister Vivian throughout the game, to the point where Vivian jumps ship and joins Mario’s list of allies. But that’s nothing compared to the end of the game, where Beldam helps head baddie Grodus summon the ancient Shadow Queen to do his bidding, knowing well ahead of time that the Queen takes orders from no one and plans to wipe out civilization.
After Mario defeats the Shadow Queen, and Beldam’s plans for destruction have been found out, what is her final fate? She promises to never do anything bad again and returns to society. I know logic doesn’t have that much of a place in a series about stomping turtles and eating mushrooms, but this seems a bit of a stretch.
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