I was ''going'' to answer that question in a sidebar on the Viewtiful Monarch page itself, but trust me, [[:File:Too_many_words,_too_little_space.jpg|it made the page look really bloated and ugly]]. So I decided to move it over here. Anyways, the [[Viewtiful Monarch (3.5e Prestige Class)|Viewtiful Monarch]] is directly based on [http://viewtifuljoe.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_Heinderella Queen Heinderella], the main villain and final boss of <u>Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble</u> for the Nintendo DS. I took more liberties with the Viewtiful Monarch than I did with the [[Viewtiful Shogun (3.5e Prestige Class)|Viewtiful Shogun]] or [[Viewtiful Captain (3.5e Prestige Class)|Viewtiful Captain]] (namely, the spellcasting), because Queen Heinderella wasn't quite as challenging as the final bosses of the console entries of the series. However, I did make sure that the abilities Queen Heinderella does display over the course of the game (and not just the ones she actually uses in the boss fight) all got represented in the Viewtiful Monarch's abilities. [[Viewtiful Monarch (3.5e Prestige Class)#Steal Heroism|Steal Heroism]], for instance, is based on how Queen Heinderella mind-controls the first four bosses into fighting you, then manages to temporarily deprive Joe of his VFX abilities as the battle against her begins. Anyways, [[Viewtiful Monarch (3.5e Prestige Class)#VFX Mirage|VFX Mirage]] is directly based on Queen Heinderella's [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatOneAttack most annoying move]. Whenever you completely deplete one of her lifebars, Queen Heinderella vanishes and four clones of her appear in the background, wildly spinning their staffs and accurately launching magic orbs at you at an alarming rate (these magic orbs, which Queen Heinderella also periodically fires at you while on the field, are the basis of [[Viewtiful Monarch (3.5e Prestige Class)#VFX Shot|VFX Shot]] and [[Viewtiful Monarch (3.5e Prestige Class)#Spell Shot|Spell Shot]]). To destroy the clones, you have to activate VFX Slide (<u>VJ:DT</u>'s equivalent of [[Viewtiful Warrior (3.5e Class)#VFX Zoom|VFX Zoom]] from the console games) by dragging the stylus straight up along the touch screen. (Dragging the stylus in a diagonal direction tends to confuse the game and make it think you're trying to use [[VFX Split (3.5e Feat)|VFX Split]] instead.) Unfortunately, this often requires you to take your fingers away from the buttons, getting you hit. Then, once you're actually in VFX Slide mode, you have to somehow get yourself into position so that the touch screen focuses on one of the Heinderella clones, then tap it with the stylus to get rid of it. And all the clones are firing magic orbs at you while you try to do this, and the screen stays in place while VFX Slide is in use; move offscreen and VFX Slide ends! And Queen Heinderella doesn't reappear until all of the clones are destroyed! Yeah... that move is seriously annoying. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be able to last more than 30 seconds in-game, but I suspect this is [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiFrustrationFeatures more of a mercy rule ] than anything else. However, the <u>Viewtiful Joe</u> games, including <u>Double Trouble</u>, are all 2.5-D, and I suspect that VFX Mirage would be a ''lot'' less annoying to deal with in a 3-D plane playing field since you could close into melee range of the clones and beat the crap out of them with your fists (or whatever your weapon of choice is). Thus, I removed the time limit for the <u>D&D </u> version. But, yeah, that's where VFX Mirage comes from. It's deliberately designed to prolong the fight and annoy the heck out of the Viewtiful Monarch's enemies (as well as softening them up), because that's precisely what it does in the source material. --[[User:Luigifan18|Luigifan18]] ([[User talk:Luigifan18|talk]]) 16:08, 28 August 2013 (UTC)