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[[Image:sailormoon_zirconia.jpg|thumb|200px|Zirconia in the Materials Collection artbook]]
'''Zirconia''' is a physically unattractive woman with lavender skin, who resembles [[Nehellenia]] (her superior) when Zirconia is in her old woman form. Zirconia controls the [[Amazoness Quartet]] and the [[Amazon Trio]]. She carries around a staff which holds the Winged Eyeball [[Zircon]]. In the English-language adaptation, Zirconia's gender was changed to make her male.
She is voiced by ''[[seiyuu]]'' [[Hisako Kyôda]] in the original anime.
== Anime Story ==
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Zirconia leads the Dead Moon Circus for their Queen, Nehellenia (who is still trapped inside her mirror). She appears first in episode 128. Zirconia looks the way Nehellenia would look if she was old, and thus she haunts the queen's dreams. Zirconia is the personification of Queen Nehellenia's nightmares, given form to lead the Dead Moon Circus to find Pegasus and carry out the Queen's revenge. She commands the Amazon Trio to go to earth and seek out those with beautiful dreams, who might have the Dream Mirror in which Pegasus is hiding. She uses Zircon, a flying eyeball that usually sits atop her staff, to gather images of those with beautiful dreams, which she gives to the Amazon Trio as their targets. She soon becomes impatient with the Amazon Trio, and allows the Amazones Quartetto to send a lemures to kill them. She then sends the Amazones Quartetto to do what the Trio failed to accomplish. They, too, failed to ind Pegasus, and Zirconia kidnaps ChibiUsa, sending the young girl into Queen Nehellenia's dimension. She goes into battle with the senshi, who almost defeat her. She asks the Amazones Quartetto for their help, but betrays them in order to use their energy to revive herself. When Nehellenia is released from her mirror, Zirconia disappears.
== Manga story ==
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Zircona first appears in Act 34, Volume 12. She leads the Dead Moon Circus under Queen Nehellenia. The Amazones Quartetto calls her "ba-san," meaning grandmother, and she acts as a mediator between them and Nehellenia. Like the other members of the Dead Moon Circus, she doesn't light, and feels comfortable only in darkness. She speaks to Nehellenia through the mirror, complimenting her often. Little is known about her motivations, but the most important thing to her is to figure out how to make Nehellenia's plans work. Her first mission for the Quartetto is to make sure that the circus is a success on Earth, and then taking over everything for the Dead Moon circus, little by little. She tells them to proceed cautiously when dealing with the senshi, and lets them know that she will not tolerate a failure. In order to conquer the Earth, she says, they must first destroy the senshi by filling them with nightmares. Sailor Saturn eventually manages to free the Quartetto from Zirconia's influence, but the old woman traps them in their Amazon Stones. She then traps Sailor Saturn and Sailor ChibiMoon inside two broken shards of mirror. She then sends the shards and the stones to the other side of the mirror to Nehellenia. Later, after Helios has used the last bit of his strength, Zirconia traps Sailor Moon and the senshi in nightmares. She makes the senshi believe that Sailor and Tuxedo have been killed, while she makes Sailor Moon believe that all of the other senshi are dead and she is dying as well. Tuxedo Kamen manages to awaken the senshi, who do a group attack on Zirconia, injuring her and forcing her to flee. She runs into the mirror, followed by Sailor Moon... but Sailor Moon only finds Nehellenia on the other side. Zirconia's last appearance is made after Nehellenia seems to be defeated, only to tell them that the evil Queen is not dead yet.
== Name Origin ==
Zirconia's name is derived from the mineral [[Zirconium dioxide]], which is often called ''Zirconia''.
== External Links ==
* [http://www.lizzard.net/SuperS/index.html In Defense of SuperS] Information on the SuperS season
* [http://www.soul-hunter.com/sailormoon/profiles/villains/zirconia.php Zirconia @ The Oracle]Images and extended information
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