Medusa (Quest for Beasts)

Medusa is a monster from Greek mythology. She appears in The Quest for Beasts episode Eye of the Gorgon, which aired on March 6, 2001. She is voiced by Grey DeLisle, who reprised her role in the video game The Quest for Beasts: War for the Gods.

Biography
Medusa is the youngest of the three Gorgons; her two older sisters are Stheno and Euratye. All three used to be extremely beautiful women until Medusa engaged in a love affair with Poseidon, god of the sea in the temple of Athena; this was much to the goddess's anger however, she spared Poseidon and took her anger out on the three sisters and turned them into gorgons, serpent-haired monsters with the power to turn people to stone, and all three were banished to an island. The hero Perseus killed Medusa and later gave her head to Athena, as a symbol on her armour. Medusa's two sisters would later bring her back to life to get their revenge on the gods.

Appearance and personality
As a human, Medusa is an attractive young lady with creamy pink skin, long flowing strawberry-blond hair and blue eyes. She sports a white chiton which is open on the left side and Grecian-style sandals. As a gorgon, her skin is scaly, reptilian and cracked, her eyes have slit pupils like a cat's, and her hair has been replaced by snakes. In War for the Gods, she has a much more reptilian appearance; her top half, aside from the serpent hair and scaly skin, looks human but her bottom half is that of a snake. Medusa is a bitter, violent-minded individual. She hates humanity, and regards humans as "weak, filthy and selfish creatures".