Madame X is a character of Lupin the 3rd Part 2.
History[]
Madame X was a wax modeller where her hobby was to turn celebrities into wax figures and has a doctor and a butler working for her. According to Goemon Ishikawa XIII, she has the power of telepathy that she uses however it turned out not to be true as a boy was controlling the illusions and she was using him to get what she wants. While her powers are little known, she has the power to heal herself from bullet holes.
After Koichi Zenigata had failed to capture Lupin III and was stuck in some glue, she was watching from inside her car. She was impressed with Lupin and the doctor smiles knowing that it is going to be another fun job then laughed, she then told him to start with the preparations for their plan and asked a child about the candy that the butler gave a quick lick. The plan was to get Lupin via a giant Fujiko Mine and had taken Lupin to a bed in the castle, she told her butler that she is waiting in the main hall.
In the main hall, Lupin was eating a steak while she was looking suspiciously as she was putting cards on the table. After thanking her for the meal, Lupin asked her what was going on but she just says "what you see, is what it is" as she passed the Joker card towards him. He had figured that the giant Fujiko wasn't a dream and passed the card back to Madame X who confirmed his suspicions. Lupin was annoyed thinking that it was a trick but she blankly wondered and after Lupin got angry, she laughed and with the lights off stood up causing Lupin to get scared as her head flew towards him and laughed. After Lupin collapsed, she says that it was not a magic trick as there are many things in the world that are hard to believe then as Lupin wondered, her head went back into her body. Madame X wants Lupin's life and asked to have a look as the wall behind her revealed some wax statues of various celebrities who claims it to be her hobby. Lupin was impressed thinking that they looked so real but she tells him that she poured wax over the real celebrities. As the doctor called for Lupin, she saw him run towards the lab.
Lupin had managed to see Fujiko trapped in a capsule and Madame X tells him behind his back that she was just sleeping, he shook his fists thinking that he was trying to kill himself and Fujiko. She turned his back on him knowing that he's the only thing that she was missing from her collection then turned towards him by saying that it was Lupin and his gang, she turned away with her eyes closed happy that her collection would be complete then laughed. Lupin called her "a freaky old woman" but wondered whether she was going to succeed easily and vowed to rescue Fujiko, he fired from his Walther P38 at her shoulders however they healed and turned her head towards him causing Lupin to be shocked and fired at the capsule with no result. She claimed that Lupin was too optimistic telling him that her castle was different than what he would think and claims that he will never leave alive.
She called Mars who was her creature to attack Lupin but he avoided his attacks by a panic. Lupin fired his Walther P38 at Mars' face however he just blinked as Lupin ran away but was stopped by a wall after opening the door knocking him out. Thanks to Mars making a hole in the wall, Lupin fell down the stairs. As Lupin was trapped by a red ribbon, she told him to give up then laughed as Lupin fell into the abyss. She then laughed as Mars caught Lupin as he fainted.
At a hideout, Madame X had sent a note to Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII saying that "we" have Lupin and if they want to save him they need to come to the cemetery at midnight. The child lured Jigen, Goemon and Zenigata into a trap and was caught by the grass taking them to the castle locked up with Lupin. As Lupin, Jigen, Goemon and Zenigata had escaped from the cell, Madame X smiles as she wonders when Lupin was going to give up despite his attempts and asked the doctor whether it was ready. He confirmed it to be almost ready and told her to bring them in. She then deviously laughed to herself.
As they arrived back in the hall, Madame X laughed as Goemon stared at her. She managed to have all of the members of the Lupin gang and asked Lupin to take a look at Fujiko causing him to panic. Goemon had figured out that someone else was telepathic and she laughed telling them to give up, she faced them wanting to turn all of them into wax figures and walked with the doctor . Zenigata says that he has nothing to do with Lupin and his gang however she pointed at him saying that he was just a footnote causing him to get angry attempting to leave but was caught in a capsule. Madame X then decided that Zenigata would be the first wax figure and ordered the doctor to pull the lever, the doctor reckons that he will look quite good due to his irregular face and pulled the lever.
Zenigata then had the mixture poured onto him causing Lupin to at first get worried then looked at Madame X shouting that if he was going to die then who would care what happens and ordered Jigen as he fired from his magnum at her shoulders that healed straight away as she laughed. Lupin told him to shoot the machines as they both fired without any luck as she continued laughing. She then went towards a switch, pressed it and a capsule came down that Lupin avoided however the second capsule trapped him and the third caught Goemon. She laughed as they had no use trying to escape and ordered the doctor to hurry up as she rubbed his head ready to connect the wire while laughing. Despite Lupin saying not to, the mixture went into the capsule causing Jigen to get panicky at Goemon who was meditating. She laughed knowing that Lupin will become a wax figure that she loves with her hand on her heart. Goemon had freed himself from the capsule with the Zantetsuken and destroyed the mirror that had the image of the demon child. The machine exploded causing her to gasp as the castle was collapsing.
As Lupin, Jigen, Goemon and Fujiko escaped from the crumbling castle with Zenigata, Madame X went towards her wax figures not wanting anyone to have them. She grabbed one of the figures claiming that they were "mine" and then manically laughed with her arms out, her last known action was laughing to herself. It is unknown whether she survived the collapse of the castle, Lupin himself wondered whether she's alive or dead.
Notes[]
- Despite the name, she is no relation to Mister X.
- She was most likely influenced by Marie Tussaud who created wax figures of celebrities and has a museum in London.